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GENERAL    AND    HERALDIC 


DICTIONARY 


OP 


THE    PEERAGES 


OF 


ENGLAND,  IRELAND,  AND  SCOTLAND, 

&xtittttt  normality  anlf  in  iX'bttimtt. 


Loqulmur  de  tntiquitate  Generia,  et  glorift  Majorum. 


By  JOHN  BURKE,  Esq., 

AUTHOR  OF  A  GENERAL  AND  HERALDIC  DICTIONARY  OF  THE  PEERAGE 

AND  BARONETAGE,  dtc  &c 


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LONDON : 
HENRY  COLBURN  AND   RICHARD  BENTLEY, 

NEW  BURLINGTON  STREET. 
M.DCCC.XXXI. 


PREFACE. 


Whbn  I  farmed  the  resolution  of  writing  upon  Titles  of  Honour, 
it  was  my  intention  to  begin  with  Extinct,  Dormant,  and  Suspended 
Dignities ;  for  out  of  these,  I  knew,  had  arisen  the  most  eminent  names 
in  the  modem  roll  of  nobility,  and  I  felt  the  great  difficulty  of  rendering 
any  thing  like  justice  to  the  illustrious  living,  without  the  previous 
opportunity  of  commemorating  the  illustrious  dead.     I  discovered,  too, 
that  much  of  the  obscurity  and  unintelligibility  of  similar  works  could 
be  traced  to  the  absence  of  what  might  be  termed  an  Introductory 
Volume— to  the  total  want  of  the  slightest  information  as  to  the  origin 
of  the  subject.     I  had  resolved  therefore  to  commence  with  an  Extinct 
and  Dormant  Peerage :  but  from  such  a  course  I  was  eventually  diverted 
by  those  better  versed  in  the  doctrine  of  chances  than  myself.     I  was 
assured  that  the  probabilities  of  success  would  become  greatly  aug- 
mented, could  I  first  make  my  way  in  public  favour  by  the  production 
of  a  work  wherein  the  great  mass  of  the  public  were  more  immediately 
interested — ^by  postponing  the  heroes  of  Cressy  and  Agincourt  to  those 
of  Trafalgar  and  Waterloo.     To  that  opinion,  after  8<Hne  deliberation, 
but  not  without  reluctance,  I  acceded — and  my  Dictionary  of  the  Exist- 
ing Peerage  and  Baronetage,  now  for  the  fourth  time  in  the  press,  was 
the  result 

From  the  admirable  scheme  of  amalgamating  the  younger  children 


vi  PREFACE. 

of  our  nobility  with  the  community  at  large,  a  obade  in  society  has 
arisen  amongst  as,  not  to  be  found  in  any  other  country  of  Europe-— 
a  GRADE  inferior  to  the  noble  in  nought  beside  the  artificial  importance 
attached  to  rank.  In  the  antiquity  of  his  family — ^in  his  education — his 
habits — his  influence,  the  English  gentleman  stands  hardly  one  step, 
if  at  all,  below  the  English  nobleman.  Nay,  there  are  few  of  his  order 
that  cannot  boast  an  alliance  with,  or  descent  from,  some  ancient 
ennobled  house ;  and  it  is  in  this  point  of  view-— in  shewing  the  con- 
necting link  between  the  existing  gentry  of  England,  and  her  ancient 
nobility — that  a  work  upon  Extinct,  Dormant,  and  Suspended  Dignities, 
may  be  rendered  in  the  highest  degree  interesting  and  valuable*  How 
hr  I  have  succeeded,  must  rest  entirely  upon  the  judgment  of  my 
readers.  I  shall  feel,  however,  greatly  obliged  by  suggestions  in  exten« 
sion  or  amendment  of  the  design. 

The  Second  Volume,  comprising  the  Extinct  and  Dormant  Peers 
of  Scotland  and  Ireland,  is  in  progress^  and  any  information  regarding 
their  representatives  will  be  most  acceptable. 

In  conclusion,  I  have  only  to  intreat  forbearance  towards  the  inac- 
curacies, which,  despite  of  every  effort,  are  inseparable  from  the  First 
Edition  of  a  work  of  this  description. 

J.  B. 

November,  1831.  . 


NOTES  EXPLANATORY. 


Abbtancb.  On  the  death  of  a  baroD«  whose  dignity  originated  in  a  Writ  of 
Sammons,  without  issue  male«  the  barony  becomes  vested  in  his  daughters ; 
if  he  leave  an  only  daughter*  she  succeeds  to  the  dignity*  but  if  there  l^  more 
daughters  than  one,  the  title  falls  into  abbtancb  amongst  them*  and  continues 
in  that  state  until  all  but  one  of  the  daughters,  or  the  sole  heir  of  only  one 
daughter  survives ;  in  which  case,  the  barony  devolves  on  the  surviving  daugh- 
ter, or  on  the  heir  of  her  body.  The  cbown  can*  however*  at  any  time* 
terminate  an  abbyancb  in  favor  of  one  of  the  heirs. 

Aids  patablb  to  thb  king.  Among  the  ancient  aids  payable  to  the  king, 
from  the  immediate  tenants  of  the  crown*  (and  likewise  to  mferior  lords  from 
their  immediate  tenants,)  were  these  three,  namely,  to  make  his  eldest  son  a 
knight ;  to  marry  his  eldest  daughter ;  and  to  ransom  his  person  when  made 
prisoner  In  war. 

BtTLLfi  AND  Bribps.  ApostoUcal  letters  were  of  two  description^^one  deno- 
minated Brief»,  because  comprised  in  a  compendious  way  of  writing,  and 
sealed  on  wax  only  0mm  atmuUopiacaiorU,  that  is,  with  the  impression  of  a  signet 
ring.  The  other  called  Bulls,  from  the  leaden  BvUa  hanging  thereto.  BmUa, 
amongst  the  antients,  is  supposed  to  have  been  a  golden  badge,  which  persons 
that  triumphed  over  their  enemies  wore  on  their  breasts  like  a  medal ;  and  it 
came  afterwards  to  signify  a  deed,  instrument,  or  writing,  described  on  parch- 
ment* or  vellum,  with  a  piece  of  lead  suspended  thereto  by  a  string.  On  this 
piece  of  lead,  the  heads  of  the  two  Apostles*  St.  Peter  imd  St.  Paul,  were 
impressed  from  the  papal  seal,  which  being  affixed  to  the  pope's  letters,  iht 
Bull  was  considered  then  to  be  complete. 

Crown  lands  and  rbvbnub.  These  anciently  comprised  1422  manors  or 
lordships*  in  several  counties^  besides  farms  and  lands  in  Middlesex,  Shropshire, 
and  Rutland,  in  the  last  of  which*  the  king  had  also  £160  of  rent  in  white  money 
-—to  which  may  be  added  the  escheats  and  forfeitures.  In  short,  the  revenue  of 
the  king  was  so  great*  that  Odbricus  Vitalis,  says  it  was  reported  to  be  one 
thousand  and  sixty  pounds  sterling,  thirty  shillings*  and  one  penny  halfpenny* 
of  the  just  rents  and  profits  of  Kngland*  every  day  of  the  year— besides  gifts  and 
pecuniary  punishments. 

Dictum  of  Kbnilwortb.  An  edict  or  award  between  Henry  III.  and  those 
barons  who  had  been  in  arms  against  him.  It  was  so  called  because  made  at 
Kcnilworth  Castle*  in  Warwickshire,  (in  the  61st  year  of  that  monarch).  It 
provided  that  those  involved  in  the  rebellion  should  pay  a  compensation  of  five 
years'  rent  for  the  recovery  of  their  estates.  This  celebrated  statute  is  to  be  seen 
at  large  in  a  MS.  copy  in  the  Cottonian  Library.  It  was  proclaimed  in  the  camp 
before  Kenil worth*  3  Ist  October. 

Gbnbral  Survby.  The  survey  was  begun  in  the  year  1080,  and  finished  in 
1086.  It  was  made  by  verdict  or  presentment  of  juries,  or  certain  persons 
sworn  ki  every  hundred,  wapentake,  or  county,  before  commissioners  consisting 
of  the  greatest  earls  or  bishops,  who  inquired  into,  and  described,  as  well  the 
possessions  and  customs  of  the  king,  as  of  his  great  men.    They  noted  what  and 


viii  NOTES  EXPLANATORY. 

how  much  arable  land,  pasture,  meadow,  and  wood  every  man  had,  with  the 
extent  and  value  in  the  time  of  Edward  the  Coitfessor,  and  at  Uie  period  of 
makmg  the  survey.  They  also  noted  the  mills  and  fisheries,  and,  in  some 
counties,  the  number  of  nreemen,  socmen,  villains,  borders,  servants,  young 
cattle,  sheep,  hogs,  working  horses,  &c.  in  every  town  and  manor,  and  the 
name  of  the  proprietor.  Always  setting  down  the  king's  name  first,  then  the 
bishops,  abbots,  and  all  the  great  men  that  held  of  &e  king  in  capite.  This 
survey  was  chiefly  intended  to  afford  the  monarch  a  true  statement  of  his  own 
lands  and  demesnes,  and  also  what  were  held  by  his  tenants.  All  England,  ex- 
cept Westmorland,  Cumberland,  and  Northumberland,  was  described,  with  part  of 
Wales,  and  the  description  or  survey  written  in  two  books  called  the  Great  and 
LiTTLB  Doomsday  Books,  which  were  deposited  in  the  Exchequer.  The  smaller 
book  contains  only  Norfolk,  Suffolk,  and  Essex.  This  survey  being  the  highest 
record  in  the  kingdom,  was  then,  and  is  to  this  day,  a  decisive  evidence  in  any 
controversy  on  which  there  may  be  occasion  to  consult  it. 

HoMAGB  and  Livert.  When  the  king's  tenant  in  capite  died,  his  lands  were 
in  the  king's  hands  until  the  heir  had  done  homage,  and  was  of  age.  When  the 
heir  sued  to  have  his  estate  out  of  the  possession  of  the  crown,  his  obtaining 
it  was  called  livery,  and  the  profits  received  in  the  mean  time  by  the 
king  were  denominated  primer  »eisin.  For  this  livery  or  relief  the  heir 
paid  certain  fees.  By  the  laws  of  the  Conqueror,  the  relief  of  an  earl  was 
eight  horses  saddled  and  bridled,  four  helmets,  four  coats  of  mail,  four  shields, 
four  spears,  four  swords,  four  chasers,  and  one  palfrey  saddled  and  bridled. 
That  of  a  baron,  half  as  much,  with  a  palfrey.  That  of  a  vavasor  to  his 
lord,  his  best  horse,  helmet,  coat  of  mail,  shield,  spear,  sword,  or,  in  lieu  of 
these,  a  hundred  shillings.  That  of  the  countryman,  his  best  beast ;  and  of 
him  tiiat  farmed  his  lands,  a  year's  rent.  These  were  afterwards  turned  into 
money. 

Knights'  Fee.  An  ancient  law  term,  signifying  so  much  land  of  inheritance 
as  was  esteemed  sufiicient  to  maintain  a  knight  with  suitable  retinue,  which  in 
the  time  of  Henry  III.  was  k^ckoned  at  £15  per  annum ;  and,  by  stat.  1  Ed.  II., 
such  as  had  £20  per  annum  in  fee,  or  for  life,  might  be  compelled  to  accept  of 
knighthood.  But  this  statute  was  repealed  by  the  I6th  Charles  I.  Stow  says, 
that  in  the  time  of  the  Conqueror  there  were  in  England  60,211  knights'  fees. 

ScuTAGE.  Escuaee  or  Scutage,  was  a  duty  or  service  arising  out  of  baronies 
and  knights'  fees.  It  denoted  Sermtium  Scuti,  the  service  of  the  shield ;  and 
was  wont  to  be  rendered  thus  *.  for  every  knight's  fee,  the  service  of  one  knight ; 
for  every  half  fee,  the  service  of^half  a  knight ;  and  so  in  proportion.  Baronies 
were  charged  in  a  similar  manner,  according  to  the  number  of  knights'  fees, 
whereof  the  barony  by  its  original  enfeoffment,  consisted.  The  service  of  scutage 
was  performed,  either  personally,  in  the  king's  army,  or  else  by  pecuniary 
commutation. 

Vavasors.  The  Vavasors  in  Lombardy,  whence  they  appear  originally  to 
have  come,  were  inferior  to  the  capitanei,  which  comprehended  dukes,  mar- 
quisses,  counts,  &c. ;  but  they  were  invested,  either  by  the  sovereign  or  lord, 
with  some  territory  of  feudal  command,  without  an^  of  these  designations 
of  nobility.     So  that  vavasor  meant  a  powerful  description  of  vassal ;  validue 


abbreviations. 
b.  bom.    m,  married,    d.  died.    «.  p.  sine  prole,    a,  succeeded. 


CONTENTS. 


DicTioxAB r— Peerages  Alphabetically,  by  the  tumaxne  of  each  Peer. 1 

PEBRA6EB  omitted  in  their  proper  plaoea..,. •••••••••.  688 

vUf. 
Bacon,  Viaoonnt  St.  Albana 
B&AOSE,  Baron  Braoie,  of  (Tower 
Braosg,  Baron  Braose 
Detereux,  EaxlofEaBex 
Dudley,  Earl  of  Leicester 

FiTZ-RoT,  Duke  of  Northumberland 
F0RTIRU8,  Earl  of  Albemarle 
Grznyille,  Banm  Glastonbury 
Ipre,  Bad  of  Kent 
Lave-Fox,  Baron  Bingley 
N0RRI8,  Earl  of  Berkshire 
Scot  (FiTZ-Ror),  Ihike  of  Monmouth 
Sondes,  Earl  of  Feversham 
Whitworth,  Earl  Whitworth 
Tarle— Peerages  Alphabetically,  according  to  the  Titles 599 

617 

ForesU 626 

Roll  of  Battel  Arbet > • •..••..  629 


^  «  <  Magna  Charta. 

Charters  op  Freedom,  \  _.  ^  _ 

)  Charter  of  Fon 


£  JKlvA.  jT  A. 


Awhmr,  Banm  Audley,  of  Hdeifh,  was  mimmoned  to  parttatmoitlii  the  8th  Edward  II.,  8tb  Januarj, 

1313,  Instead  of  the  Mth  Edward  II.,  15th  May,  1381. 
Cars,  Viscount  Rochester— fbr  Rochdale,  at  the  conclusion  of  the  artide,  read  tioeheiter, 
HohLMB  (PeDiam)  Duke  of  Newcastle.    His  grace  d.  In  1768. 
MUX.TOK,  Barons 'kulum,  of  Gillesland.    In  the  note  to  this  article,  the  father  of  Maud  de  Vaux  should 

be  Hubert,  not  Thomas  de  Vanz. 


•  IN  THE  PRESS, 

The  Fourth  Edition,  revised  and  much  enlarged,  of 

A  GENERAL  AND  HERALDIC  DICTIONARY 

OF   THE 

PEERAGE  AND  BARONETAGE 

or    THE 

BRITISH    EMPIRE. 

Dedicated,  by  Permitsion,  to  Hts  Most  Oracxous  Majestt, 

Bt  JOHN  BURKE,  Esq. 

This  Woik,  which  has  undergone  another  very  laborioutTCvisal,  will  be  found  to  com- 
prise a  great  mass  of  new  matter,  and  sevezal  curious  documents  long  out  of  print,  or  neyer 
printed  befirae. 

The  armorial  bearings  have  been  newly  and  splendidly  engraved. 

This  popular  work  justly  deserves  to  be  considered  as  a  History  of  the  British  Nobility. 
It  is  enridied  by  a  variety  of  personal  anecdotes,  never  before  published,  relative  to  mai)y 
illustrious  houses,  in  addition  to  numerous  authentic  details  connected  with  their  lineage, 
and  oommunicated  to  the  audior  by  the  noble  inheritors  of  the  titles.  The  Editor's  atten- 
tion having  also  been  directed  to  collaterals,  he  has  introduced  all  those  who  come  within 
the  most  remote  remaindeiship  of  fiunily  honours ;  and  he  has  used  more  than  ordinary 
care  in  tracing  presumptive  heirs.  To  the  Baronetcies  of  Scotland  and  Ireland,  apper- 
taining to  more  than  200  ancient  families,  whose  lineage  is  given  ezduaivdy  in  this  Work, 
the  utmost  attention  has  also  been  paid. 

«•  The  work  which  Mr.  Burke  has  Just  given  to  the  public  is  equally  well  planned  and  well 
executed.  The  author  Justly  ohserves  in  the  preface,  that  the  grand  object  in  a  work  of  reference  Is 
the  ftdlity  allbrded  to  the  reader,  of  finding  any  infbnnation  he  may  want.  Mr.  Burke's  airangement 
is  excellently  adapted  to  this  purpose.  Great  ability  is  also  shewn  in  the  condensation  ct  all  the  requi- 
site matter,  which,  owing  to  the  clear  and  beautiful  mode  of  printing  and  engraving,  is  justly  entitled 
to  be  called  a  cheap  one,  not  only  in  comparison  with  the  tedious  and  expensive  works  on  the  same 
subject,  but  in  reference  to  the  quantity  of  reading  it  contains,  and  the  superior  style  of  iu  execu- 
tlao.'*-^JfiHiiii<fMr. 


Also  preparing  for  publication, 

A  DICTIONARY  OP  THE  COMMONERS  OF  ENGLAND, 

QUALIFIED  BY  LANDED  PROPERTY 

TO 

BECOME  COUNTY  MEMBERS  OF  PARLIAMENT, 

BUT  UNDISTINGUISHED  BY  AN  HEREDITARY  TITLE  OF  HONOUR. 

Bt  JOHN  BURKE,  Esq. 

Author  of  the  *'  Oeneial  and  Heraldic  Dictionary  of  the  Peerage  and  Baronetage." 

This  original  work  has  been  undertaken  by  Mr.  Burke  as  a  sequel  to  his  very  popular  Dictionsnr  of 
the  Peerage  and  Baronetage  of  the  United  Kingdom,  and  upon  an  exactly  similar  plan ;  so  that  when 
completed,  the  two  pubUcatione  will  embrace  the  entire  of  the  Peerage,  Baronetage,  and  Gentry  of  Um 
empire. 

Communications  for  the  Author,  in  answer  to  the  circular  letters  transmitted  .to  the  parties  intemtsd, 
are  requested  to  be  addressed,  free  of  expense,  to  the  Publishers. 


PEERAGES   OF   ENGLAND, 


EXTINCT,  DORMANT,  AND  IN  ABEYANCE. . 


ABR 

ABRINCIS_EARLS  OF  CHESTER. 

Created  by  William  the  Conqueror,  Anno  1070* 

3Cineage. 

Upon  the  detention,  s  prisoner  in  in«nder»»  of 
GHsasoj),  ft  Fleming  who  first  held  the  Earldom  of 
Chester,  that  dignity  was  conferred  by  the  Coir- 
guKROB,  upon  (his  sister's  son) 

HUGH  DE  ABRINCIS,  sumamed  Lupvs,  and 
called  by  the  Welch,  Fnw,  or  ••  the  Fat."  *«  Which 
Hugh,**  says  Dogdale,  '•  being  a  person  of  great 
note  at  that  time  amongst  the  Norman  nobility, 
and  an  expert  soldier,  was,  for  that  respect,  chiefly 
placed  so  near   those  unoonquered  Britaitu,  the 
better  to  restraki  their  bold  incunions :  for  it  was, 
'  coDsilio  prudentum,'  by  the  advice  of  his  coun- 
cil, that  King  William  thus  advanced  him  to  that 
government;  his  power  being,  also,  not  ordinary; 
having  royal  jurisdiction  within  the  precincts  of  his 
earldom — which  honor  he  received  to  fuM  tu/re^tf 
by  Ote  noord  aa  the  King  hinuei/heU  England  hy  the 
crown.    But,    though  the  time  of  his  advance- 
ment was  not  till  the  year  1070,  cerUin  it  is,  that  he 
came  into  England  with  the  conqueror,  and  there- 
upon had  a  grant  of  Whitby,  in  Yorkshire,  which 
Imdshlp  he  soon  afterwards  disposed  of  to  William 
de  Percy,  his  associate  in  that  fiunous  expedition." 
In  the  contest  between  William  Rurus,  and  his 
brother  Robbrt  CuRTHoax,  this  powerful  noble- 
man tided  with  the  former,  and  remained  faithful 
to  him  during  the  whole  of  his  reign.    )ie  was  sub- 
•equcntly  in  the  confidence  of  Henry  the  First,  and 
ooe  of  that  monarch's  chief  councillors.    "In  hii 
youth  and  flourishing  age,"  continueth  the  author 
*bove  quoted,  **  he  was  a  great  lover  of  worldly 
ptessures  and  iccular  pomp ;  profuse  in  giving,  and 
much  delighted  with  interludes,  Jesters,    horses, 
dopt  and  other  like  vanities ;  having  a  large  at- 
tendance of  such  penonSf  of  all  sorts,  as  were  dis- 
powd  to  those  sports:  but  he  had  also  in  his  family 
^b  clerks  and  soldiers,  who  were  men  of  great 
^*ooor,  the  venerable  Ansdme  (Abbot  of  Bee,  and 
■''Qrwards  AxchUshop  of   Canterbury)  being  his 
confessor ;  nay,  so  devout  he  grew  before  his  death. 


ABR 

that  sickness  hanging  long  upon  him,  he  caused 
himself  to  be  shorn  a  monk  in  the  abbey  of  St.  Wer- 
burge,  where,  within  three  days  after,  he  died. 
Anno  1101."  His  lordship  m.  Ermentrude,  daugh- 
ter of  Hugh  de  Claremont,  Earl  of  Bevois,  in 
France,  by  whom  he  had  an  only  son« 

RicHARn,  his  successor. 

Of  his  iU^timate  issue,  were  OttiweU,  tutor  to 
those  children  of  King  Henry  the  First,  who 
perished  at  sea.  Robert,  originaUy  a  Mcmk  in  the 
Abbey  of  SL  Ebrulf  in  Normandy,  and  afterwards 
Abbot  of  SL  Edmundsbury  in  Suflblk,  and  Geva.* 
the  wife  of  Oeflbry  Riddell,  to  whom  the  Earl 
gave  Drayton  Basset,  in  Staflbrdshire. 

That  this  powerful  nobleman  enjoyed  immense 
wealth  in  England  is  evident,  Arom  the  many 
lordships  he  held  at  the  general  survey ;  for,  be- 
sides the  whole  of  Cheshire,  excepting  the  small 
part  which  at  that  time  belonged  to  the  bishop, 
he  had  nine  lordships  in  Berkshire,  two  in  Devon- 
shire, seven  in  Yorkshire,  six  in  Wiltshire,  ten  in 
Dorsetshire,  four  in  Somersetshire,  thirty-two  in 
Suflblk,  twelve  in  Norfolk,  one  in  Hampshire, 
five  in  Oxfordshire,  three  in  Buckinghamshire, 
four  in  Gloucestershire,  two  in  Huntingdonshire, 
four  in  Nottinghamshire,  one  in  Warwickshire, 
and  twenty-two  in  Leicesteishire.  1 1  appears  too,  by 
the  charter  of  foundation  to  the  Abbey  ot  St.  Wer- 
burge,  at  Chester,  that  several  eminent  persons 
held  the  rank  of  Baron  under  him.  The  charter 
runs  thus:—*'  Hsdc  sunt  itaque  dona  data  Ab< 
batic  S.  Werburge,  quK  omnia  ^go  Comes  Huoo  et 
RicHARDUS  filius  mens  et  Ermentrudis  Comi< 
tissa,  et  mei  Barones,  et  mei  homines  dedimut. 
Arc,"  which  Baronet  et  Hom<fie«' mentioned  therein, 
were  the  following:— 

L^ 

•  The  legitimacy  of  this  lady  is  maintained  flrom 
the  circumstance  of  her  father  having  bestowed 
upon  her  the  Manor  of  Draytcm,  in  Aree  marriage* 
which  the  lawyers  say  could  not  be  granted  to  a 
bastard;  but  had  she  been  legitimate,  she  would 
surely  have  succeeded  to  the  earldom  before  her 
aunt. 

B  1 


ABR 


ALB 


1.  WilUAm  Malbanc. 

2.  Uobert,  son  of  Hugo. 

3.  Hugo,  son  of  Norman. 

4.  Richard  de  Vemun. 

5.  Richard  de  Rullos. 

6.  Ranvlph  Venator. 
7>  Hugo  de  Mara. 

8.  Ranulph.  son  of  Ermiwin. 

9.  Robert  de  Fremouz. 

10.  Walkdinus,  nephew  of  Walter  de  Vernon. 

11.  Seward. 

12.  Gislebert  de  Venables. 

13.  Gaufridus  de  Sartes. 

14.  Richard  de  Memilwarin. 
U.  Walter  de  Vemun. 

The  charter  concludes— "  Et  ut  haec  omnia  enent 
rata  et  stabilia  inperpetuum,  ego  Comes  Hugo  et 
mei  Barones  conflnna^imus,  (&:c )  ita  quod  singuli 
nostrum  propriA  manu*  in  testimonium  posteris 
signum  in  modum  Cruds  facerent :"— <and  is  signed 
by  the  Earl  himself, 

Richard — ^his  son. 

Her%'eyt  Bishop  of  Bangor. 

Ranulph  de  Meschines,  his  nephew,  who  eTen- 
tually  inherited  the  earldom. 

Roger  Bigod. 

Alan  de  Perd. 

William  Constabular. 

Ranulph  Dapifer. 

WiUiam  Malbanc 

Robert  Fits-Hugh. 

Hugh  Fitz-Norman. 

Hamo  de  Masci. 

Blgod  de  Loges. 
Those  barons,  be  it  remembered',  were  eadi  of 
them  men  of  great  indiyidual  power,  and  large 
territorial  possessions.  Hugh  Lupus,  Earl  of  Ches- 
ter, was  succeeded  by  his  only  son  (then  but  seven 
years  of  age), 

RICHARD  DE  ABRINCIS,  as  second  earl.  This 
nobleman,  after  he  had  attained  maturity,  attached 
himself  faithfully  to  King  Henry  I.,  and  never 
subsequently  swerved  in  his  allegiance.  His  lord- 
ship espoused  Maud,  daughter  of  Stephen,  Earl  of 
Blois,  by  Adela,  daughter  of  William  the  Con- 
queror, but  had  no  issue-^imsdf  and  his  countess 
being  soon  afterwards  amongst  the  victims  of  the 
memorable  shipwreck,  (Dec,  1119,)  wherein  the 
king's  two  sons,  William  and  Richard,  with 
their  tutor  Ottiwell,  the  earPs  bastard  brother, 
Gefllny  Riddell.  his  sister  Geva's  liusband,  and 
many  others  of  the  nobility  perished.  This  melan- 
choly event  is  thus  recorded  by  Ordericiu. 

**  The  master  of  the  ship  was  Thomas,  son  of 
Stephen,  who  came  to  King  Henry  the  First,  then  in 
Normandy,  and  ready  to  take  shipping  for  England, 
and  offered  him  a  mark  of  gold,  desiring  that  as 
Stephen,  his  father,  had  transported  the  conqueror 
when  he  fought  against  King  Harold,  and  was  his 
constant  mariner  in  all  his  passages  between  Eng- 
land and  Normandy,  so  that  he  himself  likewise 
might  now  have  the  transportation  of  King  Henry 
and  an  his  attendants,  as  it  were,  in  flM  {  fw  he  had 
a  very  good  vessel,  called  '  Candida  Navis,*  or 
« the  White  Ship,*  well  famished  fat  that  purpose. 
The  king  thanked  him :  but  withal  told  him,  he 


had  already  made  choice  of  another  ship,  which  he 
would  not  change;  yet,  he  would  commend  him  to 
his  two  sons,  William  and  Richard,  with  many 
oihen  of  his  nobility ;  whereat  the  mariners  much 
rejoiced,  and  desired  the  prince  to  bestow  some 
wine  upon  them  to  drink.  He  gave  them  *tres 
modioB  vini,*  three  hogsheads  of  wine,  wherewith 
they  made  themselves  sufficiently  drunk.  There 
were  almost  three  hundred  in  this  unfortunate  ship, 
besides  the  young  gaDants  who  were  to  be  trans- 
ported :  as  well  as  fifty  skilful  oars  or  galleymen, 
who,  had  they  not  been  Intoxicated,  would  have 
been  fully  able  to  manage  her ;  but  having  neither 
the  power  to  govern  themadves  nor  the  vessel,  they 
sufibred  her  to  split  upon  a  rock,  and  so  all  were 
drowned,  except  oneBerolde,  a  butcher  of  Roan, 
who  was  taken  up  the  next  morning  by  some  fisher- 
men, after  a  cold  ftosty  night's  shipwreck;  and 
with  much  ado  recovered,  and  lived  twenty  years 
after."  *  • 

Upon  the  demise  thus  of  Richard  dr  Abrincis, 
second  Earl  of  Chester,  the  male  line  of  the 
family  becoming  extinct,  the  earldom  passed  to  the 
deceased  nobleman's  first  cousin,  r!ahvlpr  db 
Mrschiitis,  son  of  Ralph  de  Meschines,  by  Maud 
de  Abrinds,  sister  of  Earl  Hugh  Lupus — (see  Mes- 
chines, EarU  of  Chester). 

Arms— as.  a  wolf's  head  erased,  ar. 

AIR£MIN£— BARONESS  BELASYSB 

OF  OSOODBY. 

Created  by  Letters  Patent,  85th  of  March,  1674. 

Xincagc. 

SIR  WILLIAM  AIREMINE,  Bart.,  of  Osgodby, 
in  the  county  of  Lincoln,  m.  Arme,  daughtorand 
co-heiress  of  Sir  Robert  Crane,  Baronet,  of  Chilling- 
ton,  in  the  county  of  Suflblk*  and  left  two  daugh- 
ters, his  co-heirs,  of  whom  the  elder, 

SUSAN  AIREMINE,  m. 'first,  the  Honorable  Sir 
Henry  Belasyse,  son  and  heir  of  John,  Baron 
Belasyae,  of  Warlaby,  and  had  a  son, 

HxifRY  Brlahybr,  who«.  to  the  title  of  Bela- 
syse of  Warlaby,  upon  the  decease  of  his 
grandfather,  his  father.  Sir  Henry,  dying 
previously — (see  Belasyae  of  Warlaby). 

Lady  Bblabysr  m.  seo(»dly, Fortrey,  Esq., 

of  Chequers,  but  had  no  issue.  Her  ladysihip  was 
created  a  peeress  for  life,  by  King  Charles  II.  by 
letters  patent  dated  25th  of  Mardi,  1674,  as  Baro- 
NR88  Bblasysb  OP  Osoooby.  She  d.  6th  Msscfa* 
1712-13,  when  the  dignity  bxpirro. 

ALAN,  surnamed  FERGAUNT,  Earl 

OF  Richmond. 

(See  De  Dreauz,  Earls  of  Richmond.) 

ALBINI-EARLS  OF  ARUNDEL. 

By  feudal  tenure  of  Arunobl  Castlb,  in  the 
County  of  Sussex,  A.  D.  liaO. 

ICincafif. 

WILLIAM  DE  ALBINI,  surnamed  Pfneermt, 
son  of  Roger  de  Albinl,  and  dder  brother  of  Nigel 
de  Albinl,  whose  posterity  assumed,  and  attained 
such  eminence  under  the  name  of  Mowbrat,  ac- 
companied the  conqueror  into  England,  and  acquired 


ALB 


ALB 


•KtMsire  tanrltnial  powMiioM  bjr  royal  snnts  in 
tbecoiiBtyo/NotfoUL  and  other  •him.  Of  which 
fnals  was  tba  lordahlp  of  Bokcnham,  to  behold«D  by 
theierriceof  bciiig  Butlxr  totha  Kings  of  Engtand 
cm  tha  day  of  their  coronation,  and  in  conaaqucoca 
wa  find  tliis  William  atylad  in  diver*  diartan, 
**  Pinetrtta  Hmuriei  AflSgri*  Anglomm.'*  Anfeoogat 
tlw  numennia  pcnona  deipaUed  of  their  huidi  by 
thoae  grants,  was  one  ED%ryj«n»  a  Dana»  who  ap- 
pealing to  the  Cooquerar,  told  him,  that  neither 
before  nor  altar  the  conquest,  had  himself  or  the 
other  elected  Danes,  acted  or  conspired  against 
him ;  which  complaint  induced  the  king  to  institute 
an  immediate  inquiry  throughout  the  realm,  and  to 
Vider  that  all  those  who  had  lived  peaceably,  should 
hvrt  restitution  of  their  lands,  to  ei^}oy  as  fteely  as 
they  had  done  before,  and  thencetoward  to  be 
called  Oranges.  Edwyne  could  however  recover 
only  a  portion  of  his  property,  but  he  was  soon 
alterwasds  sent  into  Normandy  for  the  king's  ille- 
gitimate daughter,  whom  the  mcaiarch  bestowed 
upon  his  (Edw3rne's)  son  Aaetwr;  and  thus  the 
protection  of  the  Dane  was  aecuied  during  the 
semainder  of  his  lift^ 

William  da  Albini  founded  the  Abbey  of  Wy- 
mundham  in  Norfolk,  and  gave  to  the  monks  of 
Homester,  the  tithes  v€  his  manor  of  Elham  \  as 
also  one  carucata  of  land  in  Achastede,  with  a  wood 
called  Acholte.     He  likewise  bestowed  upon  the 
Abbey  of  St.  Stei^en  at  Caen,  in  Normandie,  all 
his  lands  lying  in  Stavdl,  which  grant  he  made  in 
the  presemoeof  King  Henry  and  his  barons.    He  m. 
Maude,  daughter  of  Roger  Bigot,  with  whom  he  ob- 
tained ten  knl^ta*  fees  in  Norfolk— and  had  issue, 
William. 
NigaL 
Oliver. 

Oliva,  m.  to  Raphe de  Haya,  afeudal  baron  of 
great  power. 

At  the  obsequies  of  Maude,  WiUlam  de  Albini 
gave  to  the  monks  of  Wymundham,  the  manor  of 
Hapesburg,  in  pure  alms,  and  made  livery  thereof 
to  the  said  monks  by  a  cross  of  silver,  in  which, 
(says  Dugdale,)  was  placed  certain  venerable  re- 
liques,  via. "  part  of  the  wood  of  the  Cross  whereon 
onr  Lord  was  crudfledt  part  of  the  manger  wherein 
he  was  laid  at  hlsUrth;  and  part  of  the  sepulchre 
of  the  Idessed  Virgin ;  as  also  a  gold  ring,  and 
a  silver  chalice,  for  retaining  tite  holy  eudiarist, 
admirably  wrought  in  form  of  a  sphere :  unto 
which  pious  donation  his  three  sons  were  wit- 
nesses, with  several  other  penons.**  The  exact 
%me  of  the  itecessn  of  this  great  feudal  baron  is  not 
ascertained,  but  it  Is  known  that  he  was  buried 
before  the  high  altar  in  the  Abbey  of  Wymundham. 
and  that  the  monks  were  in  the  constant  habit  of 
pra3ring  for  his  soul,  by  the  name  of  **  William  de 
Albini  the  king's  butler."  He  was  «.  by  his  eldest 
son, 

WILLIAM  DE  ALBINI,  sumamed  «'  William 
with  the  strong  hand,"  from  the  following  circum- 
stance, as  related  by  Dugdale— 

«•  It  happened  that  the  Queen  of  France,  being 
then  a  widow,  and  a  very  beautiful  woman,  became 
much  in  love  with  a  knight  of  that  country,  who 
waa  a  comdy  p«san,  and  in  the  flower  of  Us  youth : 


and  because  she  thought  that  no  man  excelled  him 
in  valour,  she  caused  a  tournament  to  be  proclaimed 
throughout  her  dominions,  promising  to  reward 
those  who  should  exercise  themselves  therein,  ac- 
cording to  their  respective  demerits ;  and  conclud- 
ing that  if  the  person  whom  she  so  weU  allbctad, 
should  act  his  part  better  than  others  in  those  mili- 
tary exercises,  she  might  marry  him  without  any 
dishonour  to  herself.  Hereupon  divers  gallant  men, 
from  forrain  parts  hasting  to  Paris,  amongst  others 
came  this  our  William  de  Albini,  bravely  accou- 
tred i  and  in  the  tournament  exodled  all  others, 
overooming  many,  and  wounding  one  mortally 
with  hb  lance,  wUch  being  obeerved  by  the  queen 
shee  became  exceedingly  snamoured  (MT  him,  and 
forthwith  invited  him  to  a  costly  banquet,  and 
afterwards  bestowing  certain  jewels  upon  Mm,  of- 
fered him  marriage  I  but  having  plighted  Us  troth 
to  the  Queen  of  England,  then  a  widow,  he  refused 
her,  whereat  she  grew  so  much  discontented,  that 
she  consulted  with  her  maids  how  she  might  take 
away  his  Mfe;  and  in  pursuance  of  that  designe, 
inticed  him  into  a  garden,  where  there  was  a  secret 
cave,  and  in  it  a  fierce  lion,  unto  which  she  de- 
scended by  divers  steps,  under  colour  of  shewing 
Urn  the  beast ;  and  when  Ae  told  Um  of  Yom  fierce- 
ness, he  answered,  that  it  was  a  womanish  and  not 
a  manly  quality  to  be  afraid  thereof.  But  having 
him  there,  by  the  advantage  of  a  folding  door, 
thrust  Um  in  to  the  lion }  being  therefore  in  this 
danger,  he  rolled  his  mantle  about  his  arm,  and 
putting  Us  hand  into  the  mouth  of  the  beest, 
pulled  out  his  tongue  by  the  roott  wUch  done*  he 
fallowed  the  queen  to  her  palace,  and  gave  it  to  one 
of  her  maids  to  present  her.  Returning  thereupon 
to  Englahd,  with  the  fame  of  tUs  glorious  exploit ; 
he  was  forthwith  advanced  to  the  EARJuanoMa 
OP  AnuiTonL,  and  for  his  arms  the  LroN  given 
him."  He  subsequently  obtained  the  hand  of 
the  Queen  Adelisa,  relict  of  King  Henry  1.,  and 
daughter  of  OonraaY,  Dukb  of  LoitnAiNS, 
wUdi  Addita,  had  the  CAaTLi  or  Arunojh*  in 
dowry  from  the  deceased  monardi,  and  thus  her 
new  lord  became  its  feudal  earL  His  lordsUp  was 
one  of  those  who  solicited  the  Empress  Maude 
to  come  into  England,  and  received  her  and  her 
brother  RonanT,  EAni<  op  Glovckbtbr,  at  the 
Port  of  Arundel,  in  August  1138,  and  in  three 
years  afrerwards  (1149),  in  the  report  made  of 
King  Stephen's  takfaig  William  de  Mandevil  at 
St.  Albans,  it  is  stated—'*  that  before  he  could  be 
laid  hold  on,  he  underwent  a  sharp  skirmish  with 
the  king's  party,  wherein  the  Earl  of  Arundell, 
though  a  stout  and  expert  souldier,  was  unhorsed 
in  the  midst  of  the  water  by  Walkeline  de  Oxeai, 
and  almost  drowned."  In  1100,  Yom  lordsUp  wrote 
himself  Earl  op  Chichx8TRR,  but  we  find  him 
styled  again  Earl  op  Aruwdbl,  upon  a  very  me- 
morable occasion— namely,  the  reconcUiation  of 
Hoary  Duke  of  Normandy,  (afterwards  Henry  II.) 
and  King  Stephen  at  the  siege  of  Wallingford 
Castte  in  11«.  ••  It  was  scarce  possible,"  says 
Rapin,  *«  for  the  armies  to  part  without  fighting. 
Accordingly  the  two  leaden  were  preparing  for 
batae  with  equal  ardour,  when  by  the  prudent 
advice  of  the  Earl  op  Arundrl,  who  was  on  the 

3 


ALB 


ALD 


king's  tide,  they  were  prevented  fVom  coming  to 
blows."  A  truce  and  peace  followed  this  interfer- 
ence of  the  earl's,  which  led  to  the  subsequent 
accession  of  Henry  after  Stephen's  decease,  in  whose 
favour  the  earl  stood  so  high,  that  he  not  only 
obtained  for  himself  and  his  heirs,  the  castle  and 
honour  of  Arundel,  but  a  oonflrmation  of  the 
Earldom  of  Sussbz,  of  which  county  he  was  really 
Earl,  by  a  grant  of  the  Tmiium  DenoHMm  of  the 
pleas  of  that  shire.  In  1164,  we  find  the  Earl  of 
Arundel  deputed  with  Gilbert  Foliot,  Bishop  of 
London,  to  remonstrate  with  Lewis,  King  of 
France,  upon  affording  an  asylum  to  Thomas  A 
Becket  within  his  dominions,  and  on  the  failure  of 
that  mission,  dispatched  with  the  Archbishop  of 
York,  the  Bishops  of  Winchester,  London,  Chi- 
chester, and  Exeter— Wido  Rufiu,  Ridiard  de 
Invecestre,  John  de  Oxford  (Priests)— Hugh  de 
Gundevile,  Bernard  de  St.  Valery,  and  Henry  Fits- 
gerald.  to  lay  the  whole  aflOdr  of  Becket  at  the  foot 
of  the  pontifical  thron&  Upon  this  occasion  the 
Earl  of  Arundel  is  said  thus  to  have  addressed  the 
Pope—*'  Sir,  we  being  illiterate,  are  Ignorant  what 
the  bishops  have  expressed ;  but  we  are  not  to  be 
instructed  to  what  purpose  we  are  sent.  We  come 
not  to  do  any  thing  contumeliously  in  the  pre- 
sence of  so  great  a  person,  to  whose  authority  the 
whole  world  doth  stoop ;  but  we  are  to  declare,  in 
the  presence  of  this  whole  court,  how  great  a  devo- 
tion our  king  hath  borne,  and  doth  bear  to  your 
holyness  t  and  that  if  he  could  have  found  out  any 
persons  more  great  and  noble  to  have  signified  the 
same,  than  these  now  sent,  he  would  have  em- 
ployed them  on  this  errand."  Upon  levying  the 
aid  for  the  marriage  of  the  king's  daughter— 12th 
of  Henry  IL,  the  knights*  fees  of  the  honour  of 
Arundel  were  certified  to  be  ninety-seven,  and  those 
in  Norfolk  belonging  to  the  earl,  forty-two.  In 
1173,  we  find  the  Earl  of  Arundel  commanding  in 
conjunction  with  William  Earl  of  Mandeville, 
the  king's  army  in  Normandy,  and  compelling  the 
French  monarch  to  abandon  Vemeuil  softer  a  long 
siege,  and  in  the  next  year,  with  Richard  de  Lucy, 
Justice  of  England,  defcating  Robert  Earl  of  Lei- 
cester, then  in  rebellion  at  St.  Edmundsbury.  This 
potent  nobleman,  after  founding  and  endowing 
several  rdigious  houses,  departed  this  life  at 
Waverley,  in  Surrey,  on  the  3d  of  October  U^S, 
and  was  buried  in  the  Abbey  of  Wymundham. 
His  lordship  left  four  sons  and  three  daughters, 
vis.—* 

1.  William.     •  1     . 

2.  Godfrey. 

a 

4. 

1.  Alice,  m.  to  John  Earl  of  Ewe. 
9.  Oliva. 

3.  Agatha. 

He  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  ALBINI,  second  earl,  who  had  a 
grant  fkom  the  crown,  23rd  Henry  IL,  of  the  earldom 
of  Sussex,  and  in  the  1st  of  Richard  I.,  had  a  con- 
firmation from  that  prince,  of  the  castle  and  honour 
of  Arundel,  as  also  of  the  Ttrtium  DeiMviwm  of  the 
county  of  Sussex.  In  five  years  afterwards  we  find 
this  nobleman  paying  eighty-four  pounds*  ten  ihil- 
4 


lingi,  for  his  scutage  for  King  Richard's  redemp- 
tion, and  the  next  year  one  hundred  pounds,  for  his 
relief  for  his  lands  in  Norfolk.  His  lordship  was  at 
Rutfnimede  at  the  signing  of  the  great  charters,  but 
upon  the  king's  side;  he  subsequently,  however, 
swore  to  obey  the  determination  of  the  twenty-five 
barons,  chosen  to  enforce  the  execution  of  those 
charters.  In  1218,  the  earl  embarked  in  the  Cru- 
sade, and  was  at  the  celebrated  siege  of  DamieU, 
but  died  in  returning,  anno  1222.  His  lordship  m. 
Maude,  daughter  and  heiress  of  James  de  Sancto 
Sitfonio,  and  widow  of  Roger,  Earl  of  Clare,  by 
whom  he  left  issue. 

William,  \  .uceeseors  to  the  earldom. 
Hugh,         j 

Isabd,  m.  to  John  FiTSALAir»  Baron  of  CIuo 

and  Oswestry. 
Mabel,  m.  to  Robert  de  Tateshall. 
Nicolaa*  m.  to  Roger  de  Somery. 
Cecilia,  m.  to  Roger  de  Montalt. 
Colet,  m.  to 
The  earl  was  «.  by  his  elder  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  ALBINI,  third  earl,  whom.  Mabel, 
second  of  the  four  sisters  and  co-heiresses  of  Ranulph, 
Earl  of  Chester,  with  whom  he  obtained  landed  pro- 
perty to  the  amount  of  £500.  per  annum.  Dying, 
however,  issueless  In  the  eighteenth  year  of  Henry 
HI.,  his  honours  devolved  upon  his  only  brother 
(then  in  minority), 

HUGH  DE  ALBINI,  fourth  earl.  This  nobleman 
gave  two  thousand  and  five  hundred  marks  fine  to 
the  king  for  the  possession  of  all  the  lands  and  castles 
which  descended  to  him  ftom  his  brother,  and  those 
which  he  inherited  from  his  uncle,  Hbcmuifht  Earl 
or  Chbstsr.  .  At  the  nuptials  of  King  Henry  III. 
we  find  the  Earl  of  Warren  serving  the  king  with  the 
royal  cup  in  the  place  of  this  earl,  by  reason  he  was 
then  but  a  youth,  and  not  knighted.  His  lordship 
m.  Isabel,  daughter  of  William,  Earl  of  Warren  and 
Surrey,  but  dying  in  1943,  ».  p.,  this  branch  of  the 
great  house  of  Albini  expired,  while  its  large  pos- 
sessions devolved  upon  the  earl's  sisters  as  co- 
heiresses—^hus, 
Mabell  Tateshall,  had  the  castle  and  manor  of 

Buckenham. 
Isabel  Fitaallan,  had  the   castle  and  manor  of 
Arundel,  Jcc.,  which  conveyed  the  earldom  to 
her  husband. 
Nichola  de  -Somery,  had  the  manor  of  Barwe, 

in  the  county  of  Leicester. 
Cecilie  de  Montalt,  had  the  castle  of  Rising,  in 

the  cotmty  of  Norfolk. 
The  earl  l^ul  another  sister,  Colet,  to  whom  her 
uncle,  Ranulph,  Earl  of  Chester,  gave  thirty  pounds 
towards  her  marriage  portion,  which  gift  was  con- 
firmed by  King  Henry  III. 

Aaica— Gu.  a  lion  rampant  or,  armed  and  lan- 
gued 


ALDEBUROH  —  BARONS   ALD£. 

BURGH. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  8th  January,  1371, 
44  Edward  IIL 

WILLIAM  DE  ALDEBURGH  was  summoned 


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to  parliamait  m  •  babow ,  from  8th  Janiury,  1371, 
to  8th  August.  IMS,  in  which  Istter  jeax  hit  lord- 
ship died,  and  was  «.  by  hit  only  won, 

WILLIAM  DE  ALD.EBURGH,  leeond  baron, 
but  nerer  gummoiMd  to  parliamenL  Thia  noble- 
man dying  without  iaaue,  the  Babony  or  Aldb- 
BUBOB  hil  into  ABBYAircB,Bt  hja  lordahip't  deoeaae, 
bcCweeu  his  two  aiatcrs. 

ALLINGTON  —  BARONS   ALLING- 
TON  OF  WYMONDLEY. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  6th  Dec.,  IdBS. 

lUneage. 

WILLIAM  ALLINGTON,  Esq.,  high  sherilT  of 
the  counties  of  Cambridge  and  Huntington,  In  the 
nign  of  Edward  IV.,  said  to  derive  flrom  Sir  Hilda- 
brand  de  Alington,  under-maishal  to  William  the 
Conqueror,  at  Hastings,  m.  Elisabeth,  only  daugh- 
ter and  heiress  of  John  de  Argentine,  fifth  Baron 
Argentine,  and  acquired  by  her  the  manor  of  Wy- 
monddcy,  in  the  county  of  Hertford,  held  in  grand 
seijeanty,  by  aerriceof  presenting  the  first  cup  at  the 
coronation  of  the  kings  of  England ;  which  service 
was  claimed  and  allowed  at  the  coronation  of  King 
James  II.,  and  has  ever  since  been  performed  by 
the  lords  of  that  numor.    From  this  William  Al- 
^^  Ungton  and  Elisabeth  his  wife  lineally  descended 
SIR  GILES  ALLINGTON,  who  m.  Mary,  only 
daughter  and  hdrcss  of  Sir  Richard  Gardiner,  Knt., 
and  had  several  children,  of  whom  three  of  the 
younger  sons,  George,  John,  and  Richard,  were  the 
founders  of  Cunilies.    Sir  Giles  was  «.  by  his  ddest 
ton, 

GILES  ALLINGTON,  Esq..  of  Honeheath,  in 
the  county  of  Cambridge;  high  sherilT  of  that 
shire  in  the  S2d  of  Henry  VIIL,  and  of  Huntingdon 
in  the  37th  of  the  same  monarch.  Mr.  Allington 
appears  to  have  attended  King  Henry  VIIL  as  mas- 
ter of  the  ordnance  at  the  siege  ot  Bullolgne,  by 
the  Inscription  of  a  clock  which  he  brought  from 
that  siege,  and  afllxed  over  the  offices  at  Horsdieath 
Han,  in  which  was  the  alarum-bdl  of  the  garrison 
of  BttUoigne.  He  died  in  1566,  and  from  him  U^ 
neally  descended 

WILLIAM  ALLINGTON,  Esq.,  of  Horseheath 
Hall,  who  was  elevated  to  the  peerage  of  Ireland, 
as  Babob  Allin otob,  of  KiUard,  on  the  S8th  July, 
1042.  His  lordship  m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Sir 
Lionel  Tallemarhe,  Bart.,  ot  Helminftham,  in  the 
county  of  Norfolk,  by  whmn  he  had,  with  five  sons, 
three  daughters ;  vis. 

Elisabeth  m.  to  Charles  Lord  Seymour,  of 

Troubridge. 
Catherine  m.   to  Sir  John   Jacob,  Bart.,   of 

Gamlinghay,  in  the  county  of  Cambridge. 
Diana  d.  unmarried. 
Lord  Allington  was  s.  by  his  second,  but  eldest 
surviving  son, 

WILLIAM  ALLINGTON,  second  baron,  who  was 
created  a  peer  cf  England  on  the  5th  of  December, 
1683,  by  the  titleof  Babon  Allibotob,  t^Wpmond- 
lep,  in  the  eountff  «if  HerU,  His  lordship  st.,  first, 
Catherine,  second  daughter  of  Henry  Lord  Stanhope, 
son  of  Philip,  second  earl  of  Chesterfield,  by  whom 


he  had  no  issue.  He  m.,  secondly,  Joanna,  daughter 
of  Baptist,  Lord  Campdeu,  and  had  a  daughter, 
Joanna,  who  m.  Scroope,  Lord  Howe.  Lord  Al- 
lington, m.,  thirdly,  Diana,  daughter  of  William 
RusseU,  first  duke  of  Bedford,  by  whom  he  had  one 
surviving  son,  Giles,  and  two  daughters  t  vis. 

Diana  m.  to  Sir  George  Warburton,  Bart.,  of 
Arley,  in  the  county  of  Chester,  and  d.  In 
17U9. 
Catherine m.  to  Sir  Nathaniel  Napier,  Bart.,  of 
Middlemersh  Hall,  in  the  county  of  Dorset. 
His  lordship  d.  In    1684,  and  was  succeeded   by 
his  son, 

GILES  ALLINGTON,  third  baron  of  the  Irish 
creation,  and  second  of  the  English.  This  nobleman 
dying  in  his  tenth  year,  anno  16DI,  the  English 
peerage  expired,  while  that  of  Irdand  reverted  to  his 
imde. 

The  Hob.  Hilobbbawd  Allibotob,  sob  of  the 
first  lord,  as  fourth  baron ;  but  his  lordship  did  not 
inherit  the  fortune.  William,  the  second  lord,  hav> 
ing  devised  his  estates,  the  most  extensive  in  the 
county  of  Cambridge,  to  his  widow  during  the  mi- 
nority of  his  children,  with  a  power  of  granting 
leases  to  raise  portions  for  his  daughters,  that  lady, 
in  consequence  of  an  error  In  the  will,  found  her- 
self possessed  of  the  power  of  leasing  ad  infinitum, 
and  she  accordingly  made  a  lease  of  the  whole  to 
Henry  Bromley,  Esq.,  afterwards  Lord  Montford, 
ancestor  of  the  present  lord,  for  909  yearn ;  to  whom, 
subsequently,  Hildebrand,  Lord  Allington,  also  die. 
posed  of  the  small  interest  then  remaining  to  him 
in  the  estates.  His  lordship  dying  s.  p,  in  1799,  the 
Irish  barony  of  Allibotob  or  Killabo,  likewise 
became  bxtibct. 

Abji B-^a.  a  bend  ingrailed  betw.  six  billets  as. 

AMORIE^BARONS  D*AMORIE. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  90th  Nov.«  1317. 
9  Edward  II. 

ICincagc. 

GILBERT  DE  AUMARI.  in  the  15th  Henry  II., 
gave  fiiteen  marks  for  livery  of  his  lands  at  Win- 
ford,  in  the  county  of  Someiset }  after  this  Gilbert 
came  another, 

GILBERT  D'AMORIE,  who  in  the  99nd  Ed.  I. 
was  in  the  expedition  made  Into  Gascony.     This 
Gilbert  had  three  sons,  vis  :— 
1.  RooBB  (Sir),  of  whom  presently. 
9.  Nicholas,  who  in  the  6th  Ed.  II.  obtained 
a  charter  of  Free  Warren,  in  all  his  demesne 
lands  within  the  manors  of  Bokenhall,  and 
Blechesdon,  in  the  county  of   Oxford,  end 
Thomebergh  in  the  county  of  Bucks.    He  was 
«.  by  his  son. 

Sib  Richabd  D'Amobib,  who  was  sum- 
moned to  Parliament  as  a  Babob,  from 
90th  Edw.  II.  to  4th  Edw.  III.  This 
nobleman  was  in  the  wars  of  Scotland  in 
1S90,  and  In  three  years  afterwards,  being 
at  the  time  steward  of  the  king's  house- 
hold, had  command  to  besiege  the  Castle 
of  Walingford,  then  In  possession  of  the 
rebellious  lords.     His  lordship  died  in 

1330,  leaving  Issue 

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ANN 


RicHARDt  second  banm,  but  n«T«r 
summoned  to  parliament.  His  lord- 
ship who  was  engaged  in  the  Flemish 
and  French  wars,  from  1911  to  Id47, 
d.  without  issue  in  1376,  when  this 
BAaoNY  BXPiRsn.  but  the  estates 
derolved  upon  his  sisters, 
Elisabsth,  m.  to  Sir  John  Chandos, 

K.G. 
Elbanok,  m.  to  Roger  Colyng. 
Maroarbt,  whose  only  child,  Isabel, 
m.  Sir  John  Annesley,  KnighL 
3.  Richard  (Sir),  continued  the  male  line,  after 
the  extincti<»i  of  his  elder  brothers,  and  from 
him  sprang  the  family  of  Damkr,  Earls  or 
DoRCHBSTRR,  ROW  represented  by  the  Earl 
oi  Portarlington  and  his  brothers. 
The  eldest  son, 

SIR  ROGER  DfAMORIE,  was  summoned  to 
parliament  as  a  Baroit,  from  SOth  Nov.,  1317,  to 
I5th  Hay,  1321.  This  nobleman  obtained  in  13th 
Edward  II.,  from  the  crown,  confirmed  by  the 
parliament  then  held  at  York,  the  Manors  of 
Sandall,  in  Yorkshire,  Halghton,  in  the  county 
of  Oxford,  and  Faukeshall,  in  Surrey,  as  likewise 
<me  hundred  marks  per  annum  to  be  paid  out  of 
the  exchequer.  His  lordship  was  engaged  In  the 
wars  of  Scotland,  and  was  governor  at  different 
times  of  Knaresborough  Castle,  the  Castle  of 
Gloucester,  and  St.  Briavel's  Castle.  He  was  also 
warden  of  the  forest  of  Dene.  He  joined,  however, 
in  the  confederacy  against  the  Spencers,  and  en- 
rolling Jiimaelf  under  the  banner  of  Thomas,  Earl 
of  Lancaster,  marched  on  Burton-upon-Trent,  and 
Chence  to  Tutbury  Castle,  in  the  county  of  Stafford, 
where  falling  ill,  he  died  in  13SB;  and  was  buried 
in  the  priory  at  Ware,  in  Hertfordshire.  His  lord- 
ship m.  Elisabeth,  third  sister  and  co-heir  of  Gilbert 
de  Clare,  Earl  of  Gloucester,  (who  had  been  pre- 
viously twice  a  widow,  first  of  John  de  Burgh, 
Earl  of  Ulster,  and  secondly,  of  Theobald  de 
Yerdon,  she  was  also  niece  of  King  Edward  II.). 
By  this  lady  he  had  issue,  two  daughters,  his  co- 
heirs, vis. 

Elisabeth,  m.   to  John,  Lord  Bardolph,  by 
whom  she  had 

William,  Lord  Bardolph,  whose  son 
Thomas,  Lord  Bardolph,  being  attaint- 
ed, the  Babonibs  or  Bardolph  and 
D'Amorib,  fell  under  the  attainder  and 
BXPiBBO  In  1404. 
Eleanor,  m.  to  John  de  Raleigh,  progenitor  of 
the  celebrated  Sir  Walter  Raleigh. 
Upon  the  decease  of  Lord  D' Amorie,  orders  were 
given  to  seise  all  his  lands  as  an  enemy  and  rebel, 
and   to  make  livery  of    them   to   Elizabeth   de 
Burgh,  bis  widow.    This  lady  died   in    the  34th 
Edward  III.,  leaving,    Dugdale  says,  Elisabeth- 
Lady  Bardolph,  then  above  thirty  years  of  age ; 
Nicolaa  calls    thb   Elisabeth    the  only  daughter 
and  heir  of  Roger,  Lord  D' Amorie;  as  such,  she 
of  course  inherited  the  Barony  of  Damorie,  and 
It  BXPiRBD  as  stated  above,  with  that  of  Bar- 
dolph;   but  Banks  mentions  the   other  daugh- 
ter,   who   if  Sir   Walter    Raleigh   sprang  from 
her,    left  descendants,  amongst   some  of  whom 

a 


the  Barony  or  D'Amorib,  may  yet  be  in  abby- 

ANCB. 

Arms.  Barry  of  six,  nebulte,  as.  and  gu.,  abend 


ANNESLEY—EARLS  OF  ANGLESEY. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  aoth  April,  1001. 

^incagt. 

The  ancient  fkmily  of  Annbslby,  derived  their 
surname  flrom  the  town  of  Annesley,  in  the  county 
of  Nottingham,  which  was  possessed  in  1079,  by 

RICHARD  DE  ANNESLEY,  txom  whom  line- 
ally descended 

SIR  JOHN  ANNESLEY,  Knight  of  Hedynton, 
in  the  county  of  Oxfbrd,  member  of  parliament  for 
the  county  of  Nottingham,  temp.  Edward  III.  and 
Richard  II.  This  gentleman  m.  Isabel,  daughter 
and  heir  of  Margeret,  third  sister  and  co-heir  of 
Sir  John  Chandos,  K.G.,  Baron  of  SL  Saviour  le 
Viscotmt,  in  Normandy,  whereby  becoming  inter- 
ested in  that  barony,  he  cited  Thomas  de  Caterton, 
who  had  been  governor  of  the  castle  of  St.  Saviour 
le  Viscount,  into  the  Court  of  Chivalry,  to  appesr 
before  the  Lord  High  Constable  of  England  and 
others,  at  Westminster,  on  7th  May,  1380,  to  answer 
his  delivering  up  to  the  French  the  said  castle  of 
St.  Saviour's,  a  third  part  whereof  being  Sir  John's 
property,  in  right  of  his  wife.  And  the  said  Thomas, 
endeavouring  to  avoid  the  challenge  by  frivcdous 
exceptions,  John,  Duke  of  Lancaster,  third  son  of 
King  Edward  III.,  swore,  that  if  he  did  not  perform 
what  he  ought  to  do  therein,  according  to  the  law 
of  arms,  he  should  be  drawn  to  the  gallows  as  a 
traitor.  The  combat  took  place  in  the  March  fol- 
lowing, in  the  Palace  Yard  of  Westminster,  and 
"  Caterton,"  says  Barnes,  in  his  History  of  Ed- 
ward III.,  "  was  a  mighty  man  of  valour,  of  a. 
large  stature,  and  tax  overtopped  the  knight,  being 
also  of  great  expectation  in  such  matters.  But, 
however,  whether  Justice,  or  chance,  or  valour, 
only  decided  the  business,  the  knight  prevailed,  and 
Caterton,  the  day  after  the  combat  (as  some  say,) 
died  of  his  wouxids,  though,  considering  the  laws 
attending  duels  in  such  cases,  I  rather  incline  to 
Fabian,  who  affirms  he  was  drawn  to  Tyburn,  and 
there  hanged  for  the  treason,  whereof  being  van- 
quished he  was  proved  guilty."  The  king  uking 
into  consideration  the  damage  done  to  this  Sir  John 
Annesley,  was  pleased,  SOth  May,  1385,  to  grant  to 
him,  and  Isabel  his  wife,  for  their  lives,  an  annuity 
of  £aq.  per  annum  out  of  the  exchequer.  He  was 
9.  by  his  son, 

THOMAS  ANNESLEY.  of  Annesley,  in  the 
county  of  Nottingham,  member  of  parliament  for 
that  Shiie,  temp.  Richard  II.,  firom  whom  de- 
scended, 

ROBERT  ANNESLEY,  of  Newport-Pagnel,  in 
the  county  of  Bucks,  who  died  in  the  first  year  of 
Queen  Mary.  And  we  pass  to  his  great  grand- 
son, 

SIR  FRANCIS  ANNESLEY,  Knight,  of  New- 
port-Pagnel, who  was  created  a  Baronbt  or  Irb- 
land,  upon  the  institution  of  that  order  by  King 
James  I.  And  filling  the  ofllces  in  the  Irish  go- 
vernment of  Pice  Troaturtr  and  Seeretanf  (^  State* 


ANN 


ANN 


he  was  elerated  to  th«  peerafie  of  that  kingdom,  tyy 
l«tten  patent,  dated  8th  Fetmiary,  lAK,  as  Baron 
MousTT  Noams,  of  Mount  Norrls,  In  the  county 
of  Annagh,   having  been  created  the  year  pre- 
Tiottsly  ViscocivT  VALswTia,  in  the  county  <)€ 
Kerry,  to  hold  immediately  after  the  death  of 
Henry  Power,  the  then  Viscount  Yalentia,  In  case 
the  said  Henry  died  without  male  issue,  whkh 
dignity  he  accordingly  enjoyed  upon  the  decease 
of  that  nobleman.    In  the  19th  of  James  I.  Sir 
Franda,  then  one  of  the  principal  Secretaries  of 
State,  was  in  oommiasion  with  the  Lord  Deputy, 
the  Lord  Chancellor,  and  the  Archbishop  <k  Ar- 
magh; to  inquire  into  the  clerical  aflhirs  of  Ire- 
land.    During   the   lieutenancy    of  the  Earl   of 
Straflbfd,  hia  kyrdshipwas,  however,  eommitted  to 
prison,  and  aentenced  to  lose  his  head,  by  a  most 
extraordinary  stietdi  of  power,  which  proceeding 
altei  wards  constituted  die  flth  article  of  the  im- 
peachment of  Lord  StraflTord.    The  diarge  against 
Lord  Mountnonls,  upon  which  he  was  tried  and 
condemned  toy  a  council  of  war,  was  thus  set  forth 
by   the    Lord   Deputy    himself  :—*<  That  within 
three  or  four  days,  or  thereabouts,  after  the  end  of 
the  parliament,    it   being  mentioned  at  the  Lord 
ChanoeDox's  Uble,  that  after  we,  the  Lord  Deputy, 
had  dissolved  the  parliament,  being  sitting  doim  in 
the  presence-chamber,   one  of  our   servants,  in 
moving  a  stool,  happened  to  hurt  our  foot,  then 
indispoaed  through  an  acceauon  of  gout ;  that  one 
then  present  «t  the  Lord  Chancellor's  table,  said  to  the 
Lord  Mountnorrfs,  being  there  likewise,  that  it  was 
Anneslay,  hia  lordship's  kinsman,  and  one  of  our, 
the  Lord  Deputy  and  gcncnl^  gentlemen  ushers, 
had  done  It;  whereupon  the  Lord  Mountnorris 
than  pabUdy,  and  in  a  soomftil,  contemptuous 
manner,  answered,  '  Fwhapt  U  tpa»  dons  in  revenge 
a/  that  pmbUc  ^fiyma  acAfc*  mif  hard  Deputy  had 
done  himformertp  g  hut  he  hat  a  brother  ^kat  would 
net  take  aueh  a  revenge  /"*  which  public  aftont  the 
Lord  Deputy  thus  explains :— «« That  his  said  kins- 
man, (being  one  of  the  horse  troop  commanded  by 
na,  the  Lord  Deputy,)  in  the  time  of  exercising  the 
aaid  troop,  waa  out  of  order  on  horseback,  to  the 
disturbaaoe  of  the  rest,  then  in  exercising;  for 
which  we,  the  Lord  Deputy,  in  a  mild  manner,  re- 
proving, as  soon  as  we  tuned  aaide  from  him,  we 
observed  him  to  laugh  and  Jeer  us  for  our  just  re- 
proof of  him  {  whidi  tse  disliking,  returned  to  him, 
and  laying  a  small  cane  (which  we  then  carried)  on 
his  shouldcn  (yet  without  any  blow  or  stroke  then 
given  him  therewith),   told  Mm.  that,  if  he  did 
serve  ua  ao  any  more,  we  would  lay  him  over  the 
pate.**    And  the  Lord  Deputy  draws  his  infinrence 
thua  against  Lord  Monntnonis :— *<  We  conceive 
oflbnee  to  contain  an  incitement  to  revenge  in 
these  words,  '  but  he  hae  a  brother  ^at  wouU  net 
take  eueh  a  reeenge  .*'  whidi  incitement  might  have 
given  encouragement  to  that  brother,  being  then 
and  now  In  thia  kingdom,  and  lieutenant  of  the 
aaid  Lord  Mountnorris's  foot   company."     Upon 
this  fHvolone  'accusation  Lord  Mountnorris  waa 
found  guilty,  and  a^ludged  "  to  be  imprisoned,  to 
atttid  from  henoelbrth  deprived  ftom  all  the  places, 
with  the  entertainments  due  thereunto,  which  he 
holds  now  in  the  army,  to  be.  disarmedi  to  be  ba- 


nished the  army,  and  disabled  ftnm  ever  bearing 
office  therein  hereafter ;  and,  lastly,  to  be  shot  to 
death,  or  to  lose  his  head,  at  the  pleasure  of  the 
general.    Given  at  his  Majesty's  Castle  of  Dublin, 
I9th  day  of  December,  l6Sft."    Although  the  extre- 
mity of  this  iniquitous  sentence  was  not  put  into 
execution,  his  lordship  was  deprived,  in  confor- 
mity with  it,  of  all  his  offices,  and  oonflned  in  the 
Castle  of  Dublin  for  nearly  a  year  and  a  Half.    He 
Uved,  however,  to  witness  the  disgrace  and  public 
execution  of  hie  persecutor,  the  Earl  of  Strafford 
Lord  Mountnorris,  who  became  Viscount  Yalentia, 
m.,  first,  Dorothy,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Philips,  of 
Picton  Castle,  in  the  county  of  Pembroke,  by  whom 
he  had,  with  other  issue, 
AuTHua,  his  suoosaaor. 
John,  m.  Charity,  daughter  of  Henry  Warren, 
Esq.,  of  Grange  Begg,  in  the  county  of  Kil- 
dare. 
Anne,  m.  to  George  Cook,  Esq.*  of  PebmJursh, 
in  the  county  of  Essex. 
His  lordship  espoused,  secondly,  Jane,  daughter 
of  Sir  John  Stanhope,  Knt.,  sister  of  Philip,  Earl  of 
Chesterfield,  and   widow  of  Sir   Peter  Courteue, 
Bart,  of  Adlington,  in  the  county  of  Woroeater,  by 
whom  he  had  surviving  issue : 

Francis,  of  Cloghmaghertcalt,  afterwards  Cas- 
tle Wdlan,  In  the  oounty  of  Down,  who  m. 
Debora,  daughter  of  Doctor  Henry  Jones, 
BUhop  of  Meath,  and  widow  of  John  Boud- 
«        ler,  Esq.,  of  Dublin,  and  was  «.  by  his  son. 
Frauds,  member  of  the  Irish  parliament 
for  Downpatrick,  and  of  the  E^Ush- 
for  Westbury,  m.  EUaabeth,  daughter  of 
Sir  John  Martin  of  London,  by  whom, 
with  several  other  children,  he  had 
William,  who  was  elevated  to  the 
peerage    of    Ireland,   as    Baron 
Annealeir*  of  Castle  Wdlan,  and 
Viscount  OLSRAWLnv. 
Catharine,  m.  to  Sir  Randolph  Beresford,  Bart, 
of  Colerain. 
The  Viscount  d.  in  1060,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 
ARTHUR  ANNESLEY,  second  Yicount  Yalen- 
tia.   This  nobleman  was  appointed  in  the  life-time 
of  his  father  (anno  164S),  first  of  the  three  com- 
missioners then  nominated  by  parliament,  to  govern 
the  kingdom  of  Ireland.    And  a  little  belbre  the 
restoration,  in  the  year  1060,  being  President  of  the 
Coimdl,  he  evinced,  according  to  Lord  Clarendon, 
a  strong  disposition  towarda  the  exiled  monarch, 
for  which,  and  his  subsequent  adhesion  to  the  re- 
stored government,  he  was  sworn -of  the  Privy 
Council,  and  created,  90th  April,  IMl,  a  peer  of 
England,  by  the  titles  of  Baron  Anneeleif  of  Newport- 
Pagnel  in  the  County  of  Bucks,  and  Earl  or 

ANOLBSnY. 

His  lordship  subsequently  held  the  ofllce  of  Privy 
SeaL  He  was  a  person  of  learning— a  distinguished 
statesman,  and  an  able  political  writer.  The  earl 
m.  Eliaabeth,  one  of  the  daughter*  andcoheiTs  of 
Sh:  Jamea  Altham,  Knight  of  Oxey,  in  the  county 
of  Herts,  one  of  the  Barons  of  the  Exchequer,  by 
whom  he  had  five  sons  and  five  daughten,  viSk 

1.  Jambb,  Lord  Annesley. 

2.  Altram,  who  was  created  an  Irish  Peer, 

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14th  February,  1680.  by  the  title  of  Baeow 
Altham*  with  limitation  to  his  younger 
brothers.  His  lordship,  m.  first,  Alice, 
daughter  and  sole  heiress  of  Charles  Leigh, 
Esq.,  of  Leighton  Buxzard,  in  the  county 
of  Bedford,  and  grand-daughter  of  Thomas, 
first  Lord  Leigh,  but  had  no  Issue.  He 
espoused,  secondly,  ,  and  dying  in 

1(98,  was  ;  by  his  only  son. 
Jambs  Gborgb,  second  Lord  Altham,  at 
whose  decease,  in  infimcy,  the  dignity 
reverted  to  his  uncle. 
The  Hon.  and  very  Rev. 

RicHABD  Annbblby,  (3)  Dean  of  Exe- 
ter, as  third  Lord  Altham,  who  d,  in 
1701,  the  year  in  which  he  succeeded 
to  the  peerage,  and  was  *.  by  his  son, 
Arthur*  fourth   Lord  Altham, 
who    m.     Mary,    iUagitimate 
daughter  of  John    Sheffield, 
Duke  of  Buckingham,  but  dy- 
ing, as  supposed,  issueless,  in 
1727,  the  title  devolved  upon 
his  brother, 
Richard,  fifth  Lord  Altham,  of 
whom  hereafter,  as  sixth  Eabt 

or  ANOI.X8BY. 

3.  Richard,  in  holy  orders.  Dean  of  Exeter, 

who  inherited,  as  stated  above,  the  Ba- 
ROH V  or  AI.THAM,  upon  the  dcceaseof  his 
nephew. 

4.  Arthur, 
ft.  Charles. 

1.  Dbrothy,  m.  ta  Richard  Power,  Earl  of  Ty- 
rone. 

5.  Elisabeth,    m.  to   the   Honorable  Alexan- 

der Macdonnell,  second  son  of  the  Earl 
of  Antrim. 

3.  Frances,  m.  first,  to  Francis  Windham, 
Esq.,  of-  Felbridge,  and  secondly,  to  Sir 
John  Thompson,  of  Haveisham,  Bucks, 
Bart.,  afterwards  Lord  Haversham. 

4k  Philippe,  m.  first,  to  Charles,  Lord  Mobun, 
and  secondly,  to  Thomas  Coward,  Esq.,  of 
the  county  of  Somerset,  serJeant  at  law. 

6.  Anne,  m.  to  —  Baker,  Esq. 

Ills  lordship  d,  6th  April,  1686,  and  was  §.  by  his 
eldest  son, 

JAMES  ANNESLEY,  second  Earl  of  Anglesey, 
who  m.  Lady  Eliaabeth  Manners,  daughter  of  John, 
Earl  of  Rutland,  and  had  issue, 

JAMBS,  Lord  Annesley, )  successively  Earls  of 

Arthur,  )  A»«^-^' 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  Robert  Gayer,  Esq.,  of  Stoke 
Poges,  in  the  county  of  Bucks. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1690,  and  was  *.  by  his  eldest  son, 
JAMES  ANNESLEY,  third  Earl  of  Anglesey. 
This  nobleman    m.  98th    October,    1699,    Lady 
Catherine   Damley,  natural    daughter    of    King 
James  II.,  by  Catherine,  daughter  of  Sir  Charles 
^   Sedley,  Bart.,  by  whom  he  had  an  only  daughter 
•ad  heiress, 

Catherine,  who  m.  William  Phipps,  Esq.,  son 
of  Sir  Constantine  Phipps,  Knight,  Lord 
Chancellor  of  Ireland,  and  had  issue,  | 

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CoHSTAKTiHB  Phipps,  Created  Barcn 
Mulgrave,  in  the  peerage  of  Irdand. 
A  dignity  inherited  by  his  lordship's 
son  Hbnrt,  present  Earl  of  Mulgrave. 

His  lordship  d,  18th  January,  1701-8,  and  having 
no  male  issue,  the  honours  devolved  upon  his 
brother, 

JOHN  ANNESLEY,  fourth  Earl  of  Anglesey, 
who,  in  the  year  1710,  was  constituted  Vice  Trea- 
surer, Receiver  General,  and  Paymaster  of  the 
Forces  in  Ireland,  and  sworn  of  the  privy  counciL 
His  lordship  m.  in  1706,  Lady  HenrieCU  Stanley, 
eldest  daughter  and  co-heir  of  William,  Earl  of 
Derby,  by  whom  he  had  an  only  daughter,  Elisa- 
beth, who  d.  in  infkncy.  The  earl  d,  18th  SepL, 
1710,  and  was  «.  by  his  only  surviving  brother, 

ARTHUR  ANNESLEY,  fifth  Earl  of  Anglesey. 
Upon  the  death  ot  Queen  Anne,  this  nobleman  was 
chosen  by  King  George  I.  to  be  one  of  the  lords 
justices,  until  his  Mi^esty's  arrival  ftom  Hanover  t 
after  which  he  was  sworn  of  the  privy  oounciL  He 
was  afterwards  joint  treasurer  of  Ireland,  and  trea- 
surer at  war.  His  lordship  was  also  high  steward 
of  the  University  of  Cambridge,  which  scat  of 
learning  he  represented  in  three  successive  parlia- 
ments while  a  commoner.  He  m.  Mary,  daughter 
of  John  Thompson,  Lord  Haversham,  but  dying 
without  issue,  the  honours  were  wsumed  by  hie 
kinsman, 

RICHARD  ANNESLEY,  fifth  Lord  Altham,  as 
sixth  Earl  of  Anglesey  (revert  to  issi^  of  Arthur, 
second  Viscotmt  Valentia  and  first  Earl  of  Angle- 
sey). Soon  after  the  assumption  of  the  dignity  by 
this  Earl  Richard,  a  claimant  to  the  honours  arose 
in  Mr.  James  Annesley,  who  asserted  himself  to  be 
the  son  of  Arthur,  fourth  Lord  Altham,  by  Mary, 
his  wife,  and  a  publication  entitled,  **  The  Adven- 
tures of  an  Unfortunate  Young  Nobleman,**  sets 
forth  his  case  in  a  very  curious  and  interesting 
narrative.  In  that  statement  it  is  alleged  that  Mr. 
Annesley  is  the  true  and  lawful  son  and  heir  of 
Arthur,  Lord  Altham,  and  that  he  had  been  kid- 
napped and  transported  by  his  uncle  Richard,  to 
make  room  for  his  own  accession  to  the  honours 
and  estates  of  the  family.  Mr.  Annesley  did  more, 
however,  to  establish  his  legitimacy.  He  commenced 
a  suit  at  law  for  the  recovery  of  his  property  ftom 
his  uncle,  and  after  a  trial  in  the  Court  of  Exche- 
quer in  Ireland,  James  Annesley,  against  Richard, 
called  Earl  of  Anglesey,  commenced  11th  November, 
1743,  and  continued  by  a4)oumment  daily  to  the 
Sftth  of  the  same  month,  he  obtained  a  Vbrdict. 
But  he  docs  not  appear  to  have  made  any  effort  for 
the  peerage,  for  Richard  survived  the  issue  of 
the  suit  eighteen  years,  and  was  always  esteemed 
Eu\  of  Anglesey.  The  conduct  of  this  nobleman 
to  Miss  Simpson,  a  lady  whom  he  married,  was 
quite  as  atrocious,  as  the  alleged  expatriation  of  his 
nephew. 

"  In  the  year  17S7f  (Myi  Jacob,  in  his  peerage,) 
the  Honourable  Richard  Annesley,  the  youngest 
son  of  Richard,  Lord  Altham,  Dean  of  Exeter, 
who  had  been  an  ensign  in  the  army,  but  struck  off 
the  half-pay  in  the  year  17I&,  and  then  destitute  of 
any  fortune  or  subsistence  whatever,  being  at 
Dublin,  and  passing  as  a  bachelor,  made  his  ad- 


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I  to  Milt  AHMSImpMB*  the  only  daaifiKtm  of 
Mr.  John  Shupaam,  •  weitthy  abd  nputaUe  cltiaai» 
■ha  at  that  time  Mng  no  man  Uum  ftnurtMtt  or 
flllMD  yaon  of  afa    Afker  maoy  aoUdtatioM  (h«r 

auMt  careful  guardian  havinf  diad 
befoie)  ha  at  length  prerallad  on  har 
to  be  peiTatdy  nmriad  to  him,  without  the  know- 
ladgaoruBwmtof  her  fitther.  who  was  highly  die- 
pieeeed  with  har  on  that  aoeouat.  But  Aithur* 
Lord  Althaas.  eider  brodier  of  the  eaid  Richaid, 
ha^teg  ittterpoMd  hie  good  oOoei  lior  a  remnrtHa. 
tion.  they  were  e«iiB.  at  tha  raquirition  of  her 
r,  and  of  tha  Mid  Lord  Altham,  who  taaisted 
it*  maniad  in  a  jnihilc  menner,  by  tha  Rar. 
Henry  Daniel,  then  Curate  of  St  CatharinePe,  by 
a  licence  taken  out  of  the  Consietorial  Court  of  the 
dUooeM  at  DaMin.  Mr.  Slmpeon,  her  ftither,  thera- 
upon  wae  noi  only  reconciled  to  thenif  and  took 
hie  laid  daughter  and  her  husbend  Into  hia  favour 
and  family,  but  gave  the  said  Ridiard  a  concider- 
able  portiaii  with  her,  and  supported  them  for 
aome  years  alter  their  marriage,  suitaUe  to  their 
TBdi»  which  was  attended  with  an  extraordinary 
nrpenrr,  osi  aoooont  of  the  said  Rlcherd's  having 
by  tha  death  of  his  alder  brother,  which  happened 
soon  after  liia  marriage^  aasumed  tha  title  of  Lord 
Akham.  and  from  the  time  of  tha  said  marriage, 
they  Hved  publicly  together  as  man  and  wife,  under 
tha  dmmninatfrm  of  Lord  and  Lady  Althara.  and 
ae  SiMli  wave  aniverseHy  deemed,  reputed,  and  ra> 
oelved,  and  Ueated  by  all  their  arqnahnlances.  In 
the  year  170^  Nicholas  Simpson,  a  rriation  of  her 
fSsther,  filed  his  Mil  In  Chimcery  agalnat  the  said 
RidiBrd  Lord  Altham,  and  Anne,  Lady  Altham,  his 
wife,  to  be  reeved  egalnet  a  promisaory  note,  per- 
fected by  the  said  Nicholas  to  them  or  one  of  them ; 
to  whidi  bin  they  put  ina  joint  answer,  taken  upon 
honor,  by  tha  name  and  style  of  Richard,  Lord 
Altham,  and  Anne,  Baroness  Altham,  his  wlfes 
wherein  tha  said  Richard  admowledgad  his  mar- 
lii^  with  the  said  Anna,  which  bill  and  answer 
are  opon  reoovd  in  that  Court. 

»  On  tha  death  of  Mr.  Simpeon,  Lady  Altham's 
fether,  in  thayeer  1730^  he  bequeathed  legacies  to 
her  ladyahip  and  Lord  Altham,  as  his  daughter  and 
son-in-law,  and  Lord  Altham  received  the  property 
so  devised,  in  seven  years  afterwards  Arthur,  Eari 
of  Anglesey,  dying  without  issue,  Richard,  Lord 
Altham,  Msumed  Otat  dignity,  and  as  such,  with 
his  lady,  was  presented  to  the  Puke  of  Devonshire, 
then  lord  lieutenant  of  Irdand,  and  both  were 
acknowledged  at  the  Irish  court  aa  Earl  and  Coun- 
tess of  Anglesey.  Up  to  this  period  liis  lordship 
appeara  to  have  lived  in  great  harmony  with  his 
countess,  and  to  have  taken  great  care  of  the  educa- 
tion of  his  three  daughters  i  but  having  soon  after 
Itemed  a  criminal  connection  with  one  Julian  Do- 
novan, the  daugltter  of  Richard  Donovan,  a  penon 
who  kept  an  rniHrtnif^  ale-house  in  the  village  of 

r  his  lordaUp'B  residence,  he  thenoa- 
bsgan  to  treat  thacountem  and  her  children 
with  great  indifferenoe  and  neglect,  and  was  at 
length,  by  the  contrivance  of  the  said  Julian  Dono- 
van, and  the  wicked  arts  of  one  John  Jans,  a  sur- 
geon, her  confederate,  prevailed  upon,  not  only  to 
treat  them  with  great  cnieity»  and  totally  to  aban- 


don her  and  his  hapless  diiMiaa  to  abaahite  want, 
but  to  break  open  her  escrutoire,  and  rob  her  of  all 
her  writinffi,  partioalarly  of  a  deed  of  provision  fSor 
her  and  her  said  daughter,  wUch  had  been  deUverad 
into  her  own  custody  some  time  befcre  by  her 
brather,  John  Simpson.  But  happily  fbr  her  and 
her  wafer iunatediildrsn,  the  original  draft  of  the 
deed,  ae  settled  by  Sir  Simon  Bradatraet,  hath  been 
since  acknowledged,  and  due  exacutian  of  the  said 
deed  proved  by  the  witnesses.  In  the  year  1741  the 
couBtaas  Institntad  a  suit  in  the  Bfrrleslastiral  court, 
for  cmehy  asid  adukery  egainat  the  eari,  and  she 
then  obtained  en  order  against  his  terdaMp  far  an 
interim  alimony  of  four  pounds  a  week,  until  a  Mi 
sentence  should  be  pronounced;  and  further,  that 
tha  said  earl  should  pay  her  costs  to  that  time,  end 
her  futuro  costs  in  the  cause.  The  said  earl  having 
been  served  with  a  monition  to  obey  the  said  order, 
and  having  derlined  to  peitoim  the  same,  sentence 
of  cKOonunnnicatian  was  pronounced  egainat  him ; 
and  having  adU  continued  in  ohatinacy,  he  wae, 
after  all  due  forms  had  been  used,  dechoed  on 
excommunicated  person,  end  so  remained  till  hie 
death.  Application  was  made  to  the  lord  chan- 
cellor for  a  writ  <!«  ercomrntmltfoto  caplsmto,  to  take 
the  said  earl  into  custody,  but  the  chancdlor  refitt- 
ing to  gnat  it  on  aceount  of  the  privilege  of  peer 
ageb  the  luunless  eventually  gained  nothing  by  the 
suit  I  andhersolesupport,  and  that  of  her  children, 
flpom  thenceforward  to  her  death,  whidi  happened 
in  August,  .17U,  was  derived  fWmi  a  pension  of 
£flOOL  a  yeer  upon  the  Irish  establishment.  Here  it 
is  to  be  observed,  tliat  the  Earl  of  An^esey  having 
tried  in  vain  to  get  up  a  case  of  adultery  against 
the  oountem,  at  length  attempted  to  deflsnd  him- 
sdf  in  the  Consistorial  court,  by  alleging  that,  at  the 
period  of  his  union  with  the  countess,  he  had  then 
a  wife  living  in  England,  named  Anne  Phrust. 

"  From  this  period  the  earl  lived  entirely  with 
Juliana  Donovan,  to  whom  he  wae  married  in  17W, 
at  Camolin  Park,  by  the  Rev.  Laurence  Neale. 
althoui^  it  appears  that  the  oouatais  was  then 
alive,  and  lived  for  thirteen  years  after,  being  four 
years  longer  then  his  lordship.'* 
By  his  unhappy  lady  the  earl  had  surviving  iaaue, 
Dorothea,  la.  to  —  Dubois,  Esq. 
Carottne,  m.U>^  Oreen,     \  k,.  .  .^ 
Elliabeth,m.  to -Green,    ;«wothei». 

By  Juliana  Donovan  he  had  AnrHua,  and  other 
children. 

His  loidahip  d.  on  the  4th  February,  1761,  when 
the  legitimacy  of  his  son  was  contested  by  the  heir 
at  law,  John  Annesley,  Esq.,  of  Ballysack,  who 
petitioned  the  Irish  parliament  to  be  admitted  to 
the  honours  of  the  fkmily.  The  matter  excited  great 
pubUc  interest,  and  was  pending  in  the  Irish  House 
of  Lords  nearly  four  years,  when  their  kmlshlps 
came  to  a  deciskm  esUMishing  the  marriage  with 
Miss  Donovan,  and  confirming  the  righto  of  her  son, 
AmTHua,  as  Baron  Mountnonis.  Baron  Altham, 
and  Viacount  Valcntia,  and  as  a  Baronet 
of  Irehmd-«nd  hiskwdshlp  took  his  seat  ac- 
cordingly when  he  came  of  age,  anno  17VS*  in 
the  House  of  Lords.  He  then  applied  for  his 
writ  to  the  English  House  of  Peers,  as  Earl  of 
Angleeey,  but  then  the  decision  as  to  his  legl- 


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tinufecy  and  th«  marrUige  of  hto  mother,  wm 
against  him,  and  the  writ  was  denied.    He 
oootlnued  to  tit  in  the  Irish  parlianunt  how- 
ever as  Visooimt  Valentia  (his  case  being 
again inTestigated»and  his  right  conflnned), 
and  was  created,  in  1793,  Eael  or  liocNT- 
iroiiRia.  in  the  peerage  of  Irehmd— dignities 
now  borne  by  his  lordship's  son  and  successor, 
George,  present  Earl  or  MouwrivoBRia. 
Upon  the  decease  of  Richard,  Ear]<  or  Am OLa- 
8BV,  therefore,  in  1701*  the  bartdom  or  Aholb- 
BBY  is  deemed  to  have  expired— and  the  dignity  has 
since  been  conftrred  upon  another  funiiy. 
ARMa.— Paly  of  six  ar.  and  aa.  a  band  gules. 

ANSON  — BARON   ANSON,  OF  SO- 
BERTON,  IN  THE  COUNTY 
OF  SOUTHAMPTON. 
By  Letters  Patent,  dated  Uth  June,  1747* 
The  AK801V8  have  been  leated  in  the  county  of 
Staflbrd  for  several  gen^^rations :  formerly  at  Dun- 
ston  t   but  stn^  the  time  of  James  I.  at  Shug- 
borough,   a  manor  purchased  in   that  monarch's 
leign,  by  William  AiraoN,  Esq.,  whose  descen- 
dant, 

WILLIAM  ANSON,  E^.,  of  Shugborough,  m. 
Isabella,  daughter  and  co-hdress  of  Charles  Car- 
rier, Esq.,  of  Wirksworth,  in  the  oouAty  of  Derby, 
and  had  issue, 

Thomas,  who  dying  s.  p.,  left  his  estates  to  his 
nephew,  George  Adams,  Esq.,  with  an  In- 
junction that  he  should  assume  the  name 
and  arms  of  Anson. 
Gborob,  of  whom  presently. 
,<Janetta,  m.  to  Sambroke  Adams,  Esq.,  of  Sam- 
broke,  in  the  county  of  Salop,  and  had  issue, 
Oborob,  who  succeeded  to  the  estates  of 
both  his  unclas,  and  assumed  by  sign 
manual,  30th  April,  1773,  the  surname 
•and  arms  of  Anbon.    Mr.  Anson  m.  In 
1763,  the  Hon.  Mary  Vernon,  daughter 
of  George,  first  Lord  Vernon,  and  was 
jt.  by  his  eldest  son. 

Thomas  Anbon,  Esq.,  who  was  cra> 
ated,  on  17th  February,  1806,  Baron 
-fiBftsrtofiandVxacouNT  Anbon.  His 
lordship  m.  in  17M,  Anne  Marga- 
ret, daughter  of  Thomas  Wenman 
Coke,  Esq.,  of  Holkham.  and  dy- 
ing In  1818,  was  «.  by  his  ddest  son, 
Thomas  William,  present  Via- 
oouNT  Anbon. 
Mr.  Anson's  younger  scm, 

GEORGE  ANSON,  Esq.,  so  celebrated  as  a 
naval  commander,  and  immortalised  as  a  dreum- 
navigator,  was  eleviued  to  the  peerage  as  a  reward 
for  his  useful  and  gallant  services,  on  13th  June, 
1747,  in  the  dignity  of  Baron  Anson,  of  Soberton, 
in  the  county  of  Southampton.  The  achievements 
of  this  great  captain  are  too  ample  for  detail  in  a 
work  of  this  description,  and  in  reelity  belong  to 
another  branch  of  literature^  His  voyage  to  the 
South  Seas  his  perlla— Us  capture  of  the  rich 
ManlHa  ship,  and  his  eventual  arrival  at  home, 
have  been  published  by  authority.  The  month 
preceding  his  advanocaoent  to  the  peenge*  Vice 
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Admiral  Anscin,  then  in  commaiidof  a  squadron, 
captured  a  large  'fleet  of  French  merchantmen, 
bound  to  the  West  Indies,  with  almost  the  entire 
convoy  of  men  of  war  that  conducted  iL  Lord 
Anson,  alter  passing  through  the  usual  gradations, 
was  made  Vice  Admiral  of  England.  He  was  also  a 
lord  of  the  Admiralty.  His  lordship  m.  Lady  Elisa- 
beth York,  daughter  of  Philip«  first  Earl  of  Hard- 
wick,  but  dying  with«»ut  issue,  in  1768,  the  Barony 
or  Anbon  became  bxtinct,  while  his  estates  de- 
volved upon  hisliephew,  Gborob  Adams,  Esq. 
(refer  to  children  of  William  Anson,  Esq.). 

Arms. — Quarterly,  first  and  fourth  ar.,  three  bends 
ingrailed  gules.,  leoond  and  third  sa.,  a  bend  be- 
tween three  half  spears,  ar.    "cc^^ot/ 


AP-ADAM— BARONS  DE  AP-ADAM. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  6th  February,  1999, 
87  Edward  I. 

Xtncagc. 

JOHN  DE  AP-ADAM  having  married,  in  the 
19th  year  of  king  Edward  I.,  Elisabeth,  daughter 
and  heireM  of  John  de  Gumai,  Lord  of  Beverstan,  in 
the  county  of  Gloucester,  obtained  considerable 
landed  property  in  that  shire  by  the  alliance,  and, 
in  five  years  afterwards,  an  accession  of  estates  in 
Somersetshire,  upon  the  decease  of  the  lady's  mo- 
ther, Olivia.  This  John  had  a  royal  charter,  in  the 
91st  of  Edward  I.,  for  a  weddy  market  and  a  yearly 
fair  to  be  holden  at  Beverstan,  and  another  charter, 
in  the  96th  of  the  same  monarch,  for  a  weekly 
market  and  annual  fkir  to  be  holden  at  his  manor 
of  Netherwere.  In  this  latter  year  he  was  engaged 
in  the  Scottish  wan ;  and  again,  in  eight  yean  sub- 
sequently. He  was  summoned  to  parliament  ftom 
the  9ftth  of  Edward  I.  to  the  9d  of  Edward  II.  inclu- 
sive. His  lordship  died  about  the  year  1300,  leaving 
in  minority  a  son  and  heir, 

THOMAS  AP-ADAM,  whose  wardship  Ralph 
de  MoKthtrmer  obtained,  in  consideration  of  six 
thousand  marks.  This  Thomas  arrived  at  matu- 
rity in  the  18th  of  Edward  II.,  and  had  livery  of  his 
lands  upon  doing  homage  i  but  of  this  gentleman 
and  family  nothing  farther  is  recorded  than  the 
sale,  by  his  lordship,  of  his  castle  of  Beverstan  and 
manor  of  Overe,  in  the  county  of  Gloucester,  In 
the  4th  year  of  Edward  HI.,  to  Thomas  de  Berk- 
ley and  Margaret  his  wife. 

Arms    Ar.  on  a  cross  gu.,  five  mullets  or. 

ARCHDEKNE  —  BARONS   ARCH- 

DEKNE. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  15th  May,  1321. 

Xincagf. 

THOMAS  LE  ARCHDEKNE,  of  Shepestall, 
in  the  county  of  Cornwall,  petitioned  the  king,  in 
parliament,  35th  Edward  I.,  soliciting  that  an  in- 
vestigation might  be  instituted  touching  the  selxure 
of  his  lands  for  nq^lect  of  service  in  the  wars  of 
Scotland,  whereas  neither  himself  lunr  his  ancestors 
had  ever  been  bound  to  peilUm  such  service,  and 
praying  Ibr  the  restitution  of  the  said  lands.  In 
the  0th  of  Edward  II.  this  Thomas  Le  Ardiddme 
was  governor  of  Tintaget  Castle,  in  the  county  of 


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Cornwall,  and.  In  twdtne  yaan  aftcnrafdi,  a  eom- 
miHioner  with  Ralph  Lord  Baatet,  of  Drayton,  and 
Arnold  de  Durefort,  to  raoelTe  all  loch  pcnons.  In 
the  duchy  of  Aqultaine,  into  protaetlon  aa  ■hould 
mbmit  to  the  Uni^s  authority..  He  was  wtmmonad 
to  parWamant,  aa  Baboh  AncnDSKirB,  fhNn  the 
Uth  May,  1981,  to  13th  Sept.,  UM ;  and,  dyteg,  was 
9»  by  hia  aott, 

JOHN  LE  ARCHDEKNE,  teoond  baroD-ram- 
mooed  to  parliinMit  on  the  S5th  February,  laM; 
Imt  not  mbiequently.  Thla  nobleman  dltdngulahed 
himaelf  hi  the  expedition  to  Flanden,  in  the  13th 
of  Edward  III.,  and,  two  yeert  afterwarda,  was  In 
Soodand,  in  the  train  of  William  de  Many.    In  the 
nest  year  we  And  him  Mrring  under  Oliver  de 
Ingham  in  the  wan  of  Oaaoony ;  and.  In  the  19th 
of  Edward  III.,  upon  the  great  expedition  then 
made  into  France,  he  had  lummona  to  fit  himadf 
with  hone   and  arma,  lo  ~that  he   might  be  in 
rcadinoM  agalnat  the  Feaat  of  St.  Lawrence  to  at- 
tend tlie  king  upon  that  aiterprita.    Again,  in  the 
fiSth  ai  the  aame  mooarch.  Lord  Ardtdeime  at- 
tended Henry  Duke  of  Lancmter  upon  another  ex- 
pedition againet  France.    Hit  lordship  m.  CedUe, 
dangfater  aod  heireM  of  Sir  John  Fllmtephen,  Knt, 
of  Haccombe,  and  was  succeeded  by  hb  son, 

WARINE  LE  ARCHDEKNE,  third  baron,  who 
m.  Elisabeth,  one  of  thf  sisters  and  coheiresses  of 
John  Talbot,  of  Richard's  Castle,  and  had  lasue— 
Alianore,  m,  to  Walter  de  Lude,  by  frtiom  she 
had, 

William,  who  d.  #.  p. 
Alianore,  m.  to  Thomas  Hopton. 
Maud,  m.  to  Thomas  Vaux. 
Philippa,  m.  to  Hugh  Courtenay. 
Margaret,  m.  to  Thomas  ArundeL 
At  the  decease  of  Lord  Axchddme,  the  barony 
lidl  into  ABBYAirca,  and  so  continues  amongst  the 
representatives  of  his  daughters. 
Arma— Ar.  three  dievrondls  sa. 


ARCHER-.  BARONS    ARCHER,    OF 
UMBERSLADE,    IN     THE 
COUNTY  OF  WARWICK. 
Created  by  Letters  Patent,  dated  14th  July,  1747. 

mniagc. 

ROBERT  L'ARCHER,  son  of  Fulbert  L*Archer, 
who  came  into  England  with  the  Conqueror,  ob- 
tained considerable  grants  trom  king  Henry  I., 
whose  tutor  he  had  been,  and  acquired  the  lands  of 
Omberslade,  in  the  county  of  Warwick,  as  a  mar- 
riage portion  with  his  wife  SeUt,  daughter  of 
Henry  de  Villiers,  sewer  to  WllUam  de  Newburgh, 
Earl  of  Warwick,  all  which  possessions  were  con- 
firmed by  Henry  II.  to  his  son, 
WILLIAM  L' ARCHER,  whose  son, 
JOHN  L'ARCHER,  betaig  champion  to  Tho- 
mas Earl  of  Warwick,  obtained  special  charter 
from  that  nobleman,  granting  to  himaelf  and  his 
heirs  the  privilege  of  hunting  and  hawking  every 
where  within  the  territory  of  Taneworth,  except  the 
perk,  and  of  exerdshig  aU  other  Ubertles  belonging 
to  the  earl  within  Monkspath  and  Omberslade, 
paying  to  the  said  Earl  and  his  heirs  twelve  bioad- 
anow  heads  and  a  couple  of  capons  yearly,  at 


Whitsuatide,  as  an  acknowledgment.  This  John 
d.  in  the  3ftth  Henry  III.,  leaving;  Ibur  sons  and  two 
daughters.  The  three  younger  sons  appear  to 
have  been  churdunen.  Thomas,  the  seooBd,  waa 
prior  of  St.  John's  of  Jerusalem,  in  England^  tamp. 
Edward  IL    The  eldsat  son, 

JOHN  ARCHER,  purchased  of  WilUam  de 
Olenhale  the  manor  txt  Monkspath,  adjoining  Om- 
benlade.  This  John  m.  Margery,  daughter  of  Sir 
WUltam  Traoey,  of  Todington,  in  the  county  of 
Olottceeter,  and  was  «.  by  his  ddast  son, 

JOHN  ARCHER,  who  m.  Isabel,  daughter  of 
Ralph  Erscote,  Esq.,  of  Ersoote,  in  the  county  of 
Warwick,  by  whom  he  had  two  sons  and  two 
daughters  i  and,  dying  In  the  S9d  of  Edward  III., 
was  succeeded  by  the  elder  scm, 

THOMAS  ARCHER.    This  gentleman  m.  Mar- 
gaiet,  daugter  and  co-heiress  of  John  Malley,  Esq., 
of  Malley,  in  the  county  ct  Salop,  and  had  issu^* 
Thomas,  his  successor. 

OUbert,  who,  writing  himaelf  of  Taneworth,  had 
license  from  thecrown,  in  the  Idth  Ridu  IL, 
to  givetothepriorandoonventof  Kenilworth 
one  messuage,  with  diven  lands  at  Hitchan- 
den,  in  the  county  of  Bu^inghem. 
Joene,  m.  to  William  Shelly,  Esq. 
This  Thomas  Archer's  will  is  dated  **  Thuiaday 
next  alter  the  Feast  of  SL  Thomas  the  Mertyr, 
1372,**  and  he  was  sucoseded  in  that  year  by  hia 
dderson, 

THOMAS  ARCHER,  one  of  the  gallant  soldiers 
of  the  martial  reign  of  Edward  III.    In  1373  he  had 
a  command  in  the  army  of  Jtrfm  of  Gaunt,  and  Ml 
into  the  hands  of  the  French  and  Burgundians  in 
a  rencounter  at  Ouchy  le  Chaateau,  near  Solssons, 
on  the  90th  October,  in  that  year,  belqg  surprised 
when   fbraglng  with  Sir  Matthew  Redmayn,  Sir 
Thomas  Spencer,  Sir  Hugh  Brudend,  Sir  John 
Bourchier,  and  several  other  knights  and  esquires. 
Inthe48th  of  Edward  IIL  we  again  find  him  in 
France  under  Thomas  Beauchamp,  Earl  ofWarwick, 
from  whom  he  reodved  a  pendon  tm  his  services, 
datedatWoroester  "flOMartil,  1  RlduII.;**  in  theSlst 
of  which  latter  reign  he  reodved  a  spedal  pardon 
dated  8th  Junef  tor  all  manner  of  transgrsarions,  and 
for  whatever  he  had  acted  contrary  to  his  allegiance, 
^c  In  bdialf  of  Thomas,  late  Duke  of  Gloucester, 
Richard,  late  Earl  of  Arundd,  and  Thomas,  Earl  of 
Warwick  i   alter  which,  in  the  same  year,  he  was 
in  commission  tor  assessing  and  collecting  a  fif- 
teenth and  tenth,  then  granted  to  the  king  in  par- 
liament   This  Thomas  Archer  m.  Agnes,  daughter 
of  Sir  Walter  Cokesey,  of  Cokesey,  in  the  oouQty 
of  Worcester,  and  grand-dau^ter  of  Hugh  Coke- 
sey and  of  Dionis  his  wilb,  one  of  the  Ibur  slaters 
and  co-hdresses  of  Edmund  le  Bolsler,  by  whom 
he  had  three  sons.    He  died,  alter  being  bedridden 
tor  three  years,  in  the  84th  year  of  his  age,  on  the 
Feast  of  Pentecost,  in  1488,  end  was  «.  by  his  second 
but  ddest  surviving  son, 

RICHARD  ARCHER,  who  was  one  of  the  per- 
sons  of  note  in  the  county  of  Warwidi  summoned 
in  the  7th  of  Henry  V.  to  serve  the  king  in  person 
for  the  deteice  of  the  reafan,  being,  according  to 
the  writ,  '*  one  that  did  bear  ancient  arms  firom  his 
This  gentleman  m.  first,  Alice,  daogb- 

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Cer  <d  WUHam  Hugford,  Biq.,  of  Hugford  and  Mid- 
dleioo»  in  the  county  of  Salop,  •later  and  hdraH  of 
her  brother,  William  Hugford,  and  widow  of  Sir 
Tbomat  Lucy,  KnL,  of  Charleoote,  by  whom  he 
had  one  ion, 

John,  who  m.  in  the  Sfith  Henry  VI.,  Chrbh 
tlaa,  widow  of  Henry  Sewal,  of  London, 
and  only  daughter  and  heireei  of   Ralph 
Blacklow,  of  the  tame  city,  and  of  hit  wife 
Joan,  only  daughter  and  heirev  of  Thomae 
Coke,  aliae  Mailing,  <a  Weet  llalUng,  Kent, 
by  whom  he  had  an  only  eon,  Jonir.    King 
Henry  VL  by  hie  letten  patent  dated  Uth 
May,  in  the  oghth  year  of  hie  reign,  retained 
this  John  Archer,  Eeq.,  by  his  fiactoes  or  at- 
tomeyi,  to  convey  in  shipe  all  manner  of 
prorlsions  for  yictualling  the  town  and  for- 
treM  of  Calais.  Mr.  Archer  fell  in  battle  in 
14<23»  on  the  tide  of  the  Earl  of  Warwick, 
against  King  Edward  IV.     His  widow  re- 
married in  the  3rd  Of  Edward  IV.,  Henry 
Beech,  Esq. 
RicBAUD  Abcuxb,  m.  secondly,  Margaret,  relict  of 
Thomas  Newport,  Esq.,  of  Ercall,  in  Shropshire, 
ancestor  of  the  Earls  of  Bradford,  and  thirdly, 
Joane,  daughter  and  heirees  of  William  Ley,  of 
Stotford*  in  the  county  of  Staflbrd.    In  the  7th  of 
Henry  VL  Mr.  Ardier  had  summons  to  attend  the 
king  in  France,  to  be  present  at  his  coronation 
there;  Sir  Ralph  Bruce,  Knt.,  Sir  Edward  Doding- 
feil,  and  Nicholas  Burdett,   with  others  of  the 
county  of  Warwick,  being  also  summoned.    In  the 
19th  of  the  same  monarch,  he  served  the  office  of 
sheriff  for  the  county  of  Salop,  and  the  next  year, 
that  of  sheriff  for  the  county  of  Staflbrd,  in  which 
shire  he  resided  at  StotfonL    He  d.  in  the  6Mh  year 
of  his  age,-anno  1471,  when  his  large  estates  in  the 
counties  of  Sak>p,  Staflbrd  and  Bedford,,  devolved 
upon  his  grandson, 

JOHN  ARCHER,  Esq.,  b.  in  1440,  m.  AUoe^ 
daughter  of  Sir  Baldwin  Mountfort,  Knt.,  of  Colts- 
hill,  in  the  county  of  Warwidc,  and  dying  at  Om- 
bexslade,  4th  December,  1610,  was  «.  by  his  only  son, 
JOHN  ARCHER,  Esq..  whom.  Margaret,  daugb- 
ter  of  Humphrey  Strallbrd,  Esq.,  of  Blethcrwick  in 
the  county  of  Northampton,  by  wluMn  he  had  four 
sons  and  a  daughter.  He  d.  in  a  year  after  his 
fother,  and  was  s.  by  his  eldest  son, 

RICHARD  ARCHER,  Esq.,  Escheator  of  the 
county  of  Warwick,  in  the  SSnd  of  Henry  VIII.  and 
Justice  of  the  peace  for  that  shire.  This  gentleman 
m.  Maud,  second  daughter  of  Nicholas  Delamere, 
Esq.,  of  Little  Hereford,  in  the  county  of  Hereford, 
and  oo-heirsM  with  her  sister  Susan,  wife  of  John 
Dansey,  Esq.,  of  her  brother  Edmund  Ddamere, 
Esq.,  and  had  Inue, 

Humphrey,  ft.  in  15iS7* 
Miles,  h.  In  1530. 
Edward,  ft.  in  IA33,  d.  unm. 
Francis,  ft.  in  1534^ 
Anne,  ft,  in  UOfi. 
WiDiAede»  ft.  in  \S35, 
In  the  send  erf  Henry  VIII.  Mr.  Archer  was  ap- 
pointed steward  of  the  manor  of  Knole,  in  the 
county  of  Warwick,  being  then,  as  recited  in  the 
letten  patent,  one  of  the  esquires  of  the  lung's 
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body,  and  In  two  years  afterwards,  he  was  com- 
mended to  take  the  muster  of  aU  atite  men,  as  well 
horsemen  as  foot,  that  he  could  Aiznish  both  of  the 
king's  tenants,  inhabiting  upon  Arms  whereof  he 
had  the  stewardship;  as  also  his  own  servants  and 
tenants  dwdling  on  his  own  lands,  dec.  He  d.  Ath 
October,  1A44,  and  was  s.  by  his  ddest  eon, 

HUMPHREY  ARCHER,  Esq.,  who  married  in 
the  4th  of  Edward  VL  (Oth  October)  Anne,  daugh- 
ter of  Sir  Robert  Townshend,  Knt.,  chief  Justice 
of  the  marches  of  Wales  and  Chester,  and  grand- 
daughter of  Sir  Roger  Townshend,  of  Reynham,  in 
the  county  of  Norfolk,  one  of  the  Justices  of  the 
court  of  common  pleas,  ancestor  of  the  Viscounts 
Townshend,  by  whom  he  had  surviving  issue, 
AiTDRsw,  his  successor. 
John,  iM.  Eleanor,  daughter  and  heiress  of 
Richard  Frewin,  Esq.,  of  Handley,  in  the 
county  of  Worcester, 
Bridget,  m.  to  John  Bsncroft,  Esq.,  of  Han- 
bury,  in  the  county  of  Worcester. 
Margery,  im.  to  J<4m  CoUes,  Esq.,  of  Hatfield, 

in  the  county  of  Hertford. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  John  Hereford,  Esq.,  of  Suf- 
ton,  in  the  coimty  of  Hertford. 
Mr.  Archer  d.  at  Omberslade,  94th  October,   1MB* 
and  was  «.  by  his  ddest  son, 

ANDREW  ARCHER,  Esq.,  who  extended  his 
territorial  possessions  by  'the  purchase  of  large 
estates  in  the  reigns  of  Queen  Elisabeth,  and  King 
James  I.  In  the  7th  year  of  which  latter  reign,  he 
was  sheriff  of  the  county  of  Warwick.  He  m.  in 
1680,  Margaret,  daughter  of  Simon  Raleigh,  Esq., 
of  Famborough,  in  the  cotmty  of  Warwick,  and 
had  issue, 

Thomas,  who  d.  in  his  S4th  year,  before  his 

fisther,  unmarried. 
SiMOir,  succostor  to  the  estates. 
Richard,  m.  Mary,  daughter  and  sole  heireie 
of  Rowland  Bull,  Esq.,  of  Neithropp,  in 
the  county  of  Oxford  (with  whom  he  ac- 
quired that  estate),  and  had  a  ion,  Rowland. 
Mr.  Archer  d.  23rd  of  April,  1689,  and  was  «.  by  his 
eldest  surviving  son, 

SIR  SIMON  ARCHER,  Knt.,  sheriff  of  War- 
wickshire, In  the  3rd  year  of  King  Charles  I.  and 
member  for  Tamworth,  in  the  parliament  which 
assembled  on  the  30th  April,  1640.  This  gentleman 
was  distinguished  as  a  man  of  letters  and  an  anti« 
quary,  and  Sir  William  Dugdale  acknowledges  him- 
self greatly  indebted  to  him  in  compiling  his  anti- 
quities of  Warwickshire.  Sir  Simon  m.  Anne, 
daughter  of  Sir  John  Ferreis,  KnL,  of  Tamworth 
Castle,  in  the  county  of  Warwick,  by  whom  he  had 
surviving  issue, 

Thomas,  his  succeesor. 

Anne,  m.  to  Philip  Young,  Esq.,  of  Keneton, 

in  the  county  cnF  Salop. 
Elisabeth. 

Penelope,  m.  to  Erasmus  da  Ligne,  Esq.,  of 
Harlaxton,  In  the  county  of  Lincoln. 
Sir  Simon  Archer  was  «.  at  his  decease,  by  his  son, 

THOMAS  ARCHER,  Esq.,  who,  at  the  com- 
mencement ct  the  civil  wan,  was  a  colonel  In  the 
parliament  army,  and  raised  a  troop  of  hone  at  his 
own  expense ;  but,  so  soon  as  ha  discovered  the  de- 


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lOftlMiMrUaaicntariaiM,  h*  tbnw  «p  hii  oam- 
mlMiao*  and  anignitiiig*  lemained  alBoad  oacil  tte 
Teftondoin  oi  the  monarcfay  whoi  he  ie|iieiemed 
tbe  city  of  WanHck  in  perilanMnt.  He  m.  Anne, 
daughter  of  Radianl  Leigh,  Esq.*  of  London,  and 
had  teue, 

AxDiunr,  hie  moooior. 

Thomas,  groom-porter  to  Quean  Anne,  and  to 

Kiagi  George  L  and  IL  d.  a.  p.  in  174& 
LcAgh,  d.  imm. 
Slixabetfa,m.  to  Sir  Herbert  Ciolt,  Bart^  of 

Cioft  C^aatl^  In  the  county  of  Hereford. 
FnmoM,  m.  to  Sir  Franom  Rous,  Bart.,  of 
Roos-L«ndi.  la  the  county  of  Woromter. 
Mr.  Archer  dlin  1685,  and  was  «.  by  his  ddaet  son, 

ANDREW  ARCHER,  Esq.,  M.P.  for  the  county 
of  Warwicfc  in  the  xcigns  of  William  and  Mary, 
Quean  Anne,  and  King  Geoive  L,  and  one  of  tbe 
commimionen  appointed  in  1711  to  taiquire  into  the 
numbers  and  quality  of  the  forces  in  Her  lii^osty*s 
pay  in  POTtttgal,  and  to  esamioe  the  accounts  t»> 
lating  to  the  said  forces,  and  to  tlie  garrisons  of 
Portmahon  and  Gibraltar.    Mr.  Ardier  m.  Eliaa- 
beth,  daughter  of  Sir  Samuel  Dashwood,  Lord 
Mayor  of  London  in  1708,  and  had  issue* 
TnoMAa,  hjs  successor. 
Henry,  M.P.  for  Warwidc,  m.  Lady  Elisabeth 
Montagu,  sister  of  George,  Earl  of  Haiifiuc, 
and  d,  in  1768. 


Eliaabeth. 


Diana,  m.  to  Thomas  Chaplin,  Esq.,  of  Blank- 
ney  Hall*  in  the  county  of  Lincoln. 
Mr.  Archer  d.  at  Umberslade,  whidi  he  had  rebuilt, 
on  the  Slst  of  December,  1741,  and  was  «.  by  his 


THOMAS  ARCHER,  Esq.,  M.P.  for  Warwick, 
sufaaequcntly  for  Bamber,  who  was  derated  to 
the  peerage  on  the  Uth  July,  1747.  by  the  title  of 
BAEoif  Abchbb,  or  UMBnBai.Ann,  in  trbcouktt 
OF  Wabwick.  His  lordship  m.  Catharine,  daugh- 
ter and  co-helress  of  Sir  Thomas  Tipping,  Baronet, 
of  Wheetiidd,  in  the  county  of  Oxford,  and  Anne, 
^b  wifo,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Thomas  Cheke, 
Esq.,  by  his  wife,  Letitia,  daughter  and  eyentually 
sole  heiress  of  Edward  Russell  (brother  of  William, 
first  Duke  of  Bedford)  and  sister  and  hdms  of  Ed* 
ward  Russril,  Earl  of  Oiford,  by  whom  he  had  Issue, 
AwDBBW,  his  succeesor,  H.P.  for  Corentry. 
Catharine,  m.  Uth  August,  17W,  to  Other, 

4th  Earl  of  Plymouth. 
Anne,  m.  15th  March,  1756,  to  Edward  Garth 
Toumour,  Esq.,  of  Shilingley  Park,  in  the 
county   of  Sussex;    created  subsequently 
Earl  oi  Winterton,  in  Ireland. 
His  kirdahip  d.  in  1768,  and  was*,  by  his  only  son, 

ANDREW  ARCHER,  second  baron.  This  noble- 
man IN.  in  1761,  Sarah,  elder  daughter  of  James 
West,  Esq.,  M.P.  for  Alsoot  in  the  county  of  War- 
wide,  by  whom  he  had  three  daughters*  hia  coJieirs, 
▼is. 

Catharine*  m.  first,  to  Other-Lewis,  4th  Earlof 
Plymoutb,by  whom  shehad,  with  odier  issue, 
Other-Hicfcman,  fth  EarL 
She  eepooaed*  secondly,  William  Pitt,  first 


Earl  Amherst,  by  whom  she  was  mother  of 
the  present  earL 
Catharine,  m.  to  ^—  MvsgraTe*  Esq. 

,  flk  to  —— '  Howard,  Esq.,  of  Corby. 
His  kirdship  d.  in  1778,  when  tihe  title  bxpibbd 
in  deCsuU  of  an  heir  mala^ 
Abbco— Am.  three  arrows  or. 

ARGENTINE— BARONS  D£  AROEN- 

TINE. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  M  January,  li97* 
8ft  Ed.  1. 

REGINALD  DE  ARGENTEON,  left  a  widow, 
Maud,  who  had  license  to  marry  again  in  the  ftth 
year  of  Stephen,  upon  giving  a  composition  to  the 
king  for  her  dowry.  This  Reginald  d.  before  the 
year  1139,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

REGINALD  DB  ARGENTEON,  who  was 
sherlir  of  the  counties  of  Cambridge  and  Hunting* 
don,  ftom  the  5th  to  the  8th  years  of  Ridiard  1., 
and  in  the  next  year  executed  the  duties  of  the 
same  office  for  the  counties  of  Hertford  and  Essex, 
for  one  half  of  the  year.  This  fcudal  lord  adhering 
to  the  insurrectionary  barons,  had  letters  of  safo 
conduct  in  the  17th  year  of  John,  to  come  to  the 
king  in  order  to  treat  for  peace  i  nothing  eflbetual 
however  resulted  ftom  the  mission :  but  in  the  1st 
of  Henry  III.,  making  his  own  composition,  orders 
were  givoi  to  tlie  sheriff  of  Cambridgeshire,  to  re- 
store to  him  all  his  lands  in  that  county.  Hed. 
about  the  year  1983,  and  was  «.  by  his  sen, 

RICHARD  DE  ARGENTINE,  who  being 
sheriff  for  the  counties  of  Essex  and  Hertford,  in 
the  8th  of  Henry  IIL,  was  constituted  govcnior  of 
the  Castle  of  Hertford.  He  was  likewise  sheriff  of 
the  counties  of  Cambridge  and  Huntingdon,  and 
subsequently  (11th  Henry  III.)  one  of  the  stewards 
of  th«  king's  household.  In  the  Uth  of  Henry  III., 
this  Richard  being,  (in  the  words  of  M.  Puis,)  • 
noble  knight  and  valiaat  in  arms,  went  on  a  pil^- 
mago  to  the  holy  land,  and  dying  there  in  the  year 
U46,  was  •.  by  his  son, 

GILES  DE  ARGENTINE,  a  knight  also  of 
great  valour,  who,  in  the  10th  of  Henry  III.,  being 
with  the  king  in  an  expedition  made  that  year  into 
Wales,  foil  into  the  hands  of  the  enemy  in  a  sharp 
conflict  near  Montgomerie.  In  ten  years  after- 
wards this  foudal  lord  had  summons  with  other 
Important  personages  to  attend  the  king  with  horse 
and  arms  into  Gascony,  and  the  next  year  he  was 
appointed  governor  of  Windsor  Castle  i  but  soon 
alter  we  find  him  Joining  the  rebel  berans,  at  the 
battle  of  Lewes  (wherrin  tlie  king  was  taken  pri« 
soner),  and  elected  by  them  one  of  the  nine  coun* 
sdlors  to  assume  the  government  ot  the  kingdom. 
The  barons  being  however  defeated  at  thesubse* 
quent  battle  of  Evesham,  his  tordship's  lands  and 
those  of  his  son  Reginald  were  sequestered.  He  d. 
in  the  11th  of  Edward  I.,  seised  of  the  manor  of 

Great  Wymondeley  in  the  county  of  Cambridge, 
hoMen  by  grand  Seijeantle*  via.— "  to  serve  the 
king  upon  the  dey  of  his  coronation  with  a  silver 
cup,"  and  was  «.  by  his  son  (then  In  minority), 

REGINALD    DE    ARGENTINE,  who   doing 
homage,  had  livery  of  aU  hia  fstheifs  lands  in  the 

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countiM  of  CambiMge,  Norfolk,  Sufblk,  and  Hert- 
ford. This  nobleman  ww  summooed  to  parliament 
in  the  25th  Edward  I.,  fl6th  January,  1S97>  His 
lordship  m.  Lora,  daughter  of  Robert  de  Vere,  Earl 
of  Oxford,  and  dying  in  1307*  waa  «.  by  hit  son, 

JOHN  DE  ARGENTINE,  second  baron,  who 
had  livery  of  his  tether's  lands,  but  was  never 
summoned  to  parliament.    This  nobleman  m.  first 

Joane ,  and  had  Issue, 

Joane,  who  m.  John  le  Botiller. 

<    Elisabeth,  m.  William  le  Botiller. 
Dionyse. 
which  ladies  inherited  as  oo-heiresses  the  property 
of  their  mother.     His  lordship  m.  secondly  •-^~, 
and  dying  in  the  19th  jeax  of  Edward  II.,  was  «. 
by  his  only  son,  then  but  six  months  old, 

JOHN  DE  ARGENTINE,  third  baron,  whore- 
c^ved  the  honour  of  knighthood  in  the  4th  of 
Edward  III.,  but  was  never  summoned  to  parlia- 

menL    He  m.  Margaret ,  and  had  issue, 

William,  his  successor. 
Maud,  m.  to  Eudo  or  Ivo  Fiti-Warran. 
Joane,  m.  to  Sir  Berth  Naunton. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Sir  Baldwhi  SL  George. 
He  was  «.  at  his  decease  by  his  only  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  ARGENTINE,  4th  baron,  but 
never  summoned  to  .parliament ;  who  was  «.  by  his 
only  son, 

JOHN  DE  ARGENTINE,  5th  baron,  but  not 
summoned  to  parliamenL  With  this  nobleman  the 
male  line  of  the  Argentines  ceased,  and  the  manor 
of  Wymonislfy  was  carried  by  his  only  daughter 
and  heiress  Elisabeth  into  the  funily  of  AUington, 
upon  her  marriage  with  William  AUington,  Esq,, 
ancestor  of  the  Lords  AUington.  This  manor  of 
Wimley  or  Wymondeley,  is  said  to  have  fkUen  to 
the  Argentines  by  marriage,  with  the  heiress  of 
Fits  Tees,  who  derived  themselves  ttom  David 
D'Argenton,  a  Norman,  who  came  over  with  WU- 
liam  the  Conqueror. 

Abmb— Gu.  three  covered  cups,  Ar. 

Note :  *■  Of  this  fsmily,"  says  Dugdale,  "  was 
Reginald  de  Argentine,  who  in  21  Henry  III., 
being  a  knight-templar,  was  standard  bearer  of  thtf 
Christian  army,  in  a  great  battel  against  the  Turks 
near  Antioch,  in  the  holy  land,  and  carried  it  tiU 
his  hands  and  legs  being  Inoken,  he  waa  there  slain. 
So  Ukewiae  was  Sir  Giles  Argentine,  KnL,  slain  in 
Scotland  at  the  battel  ot  Bannoksbume,  near 
Strivelln,  in  7th  of  Edward  II.  It  is  said,  that  the 
king  himself  being  in  that  fatal  battel,  and  seeing 
the  danger,  by  the  advice  of  this  Sir  Giles  (who 
being  then  lately  come  flrom  tlie  wars  of  Henry  de 
Lusemburgh,  the  Emperour,  and  reputed  a  stout 
warriour)  fled  to  Dunbar  i  and  that  this  Sir  Giles 
saying  he  wes  not  wont  to  fly,  returned  to  the 
English  host,  and  was  shun." 

ARUNDEI^—BARONS  ARUNDEL  OF 
TRERICE. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  83rd  March,  1064. 

RANDELL  ARUNDEL,  m.  Elisabeth,  daughter 
and  heiress  ot  John  Steward,  and  left  a  son, 

RALPH  ARUNDEL,  Uving  in  the  31st  of 
Edward  III.,  who  mi.  Jane,  daughter  and  heiress  of 
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Michael  Trerlce,  by  whom  he  had  two  sons,  Nicholas 
and  Thomas,  and  a  daughter  Jane,  m.  to  Robert 
Trevanion.    The  elder  son, 

NICHOLAS  ARUNDEL,  m.  EUsabeth,  daughter 
of  John  PeUooer,  and  sister  and  co-heiress  of 
Martin  Pellocer,  and  was  <.  by  his  son, 

SIR  JOHN  ARUNDEL,  of  Trerlce,  in  the  county 
of  ComwaU,  who  m.  Joan,  daughter  and  heliess  of 
Jolm  Durant,  and  was  <.  by  his  elder  son, 

NICHOLAS  ARUNDEL,  who  m.  Jane,  daughter 
of  Edward  St.  John,  Esq.,  by  whom  he  had  four 
sons  and  four  daughters.  He  was  «.  by  his  ddest  son, 
SIR  JOHN  ARUNDEL,  Knt.,  SherilT  of  Com- 
wall  in  1471.  •*  This  gentleman  being  forewarned," 
says  Carew  in  his  survey  of  ComwaU,  •*  that  be 
should  be  shdn  on  the  sands,  forsook  his  house  at 
Elford,  as  too  maritime,  and  removed  to  Trerice, 
his  more  inland  habitation  in  the  same  county ; 
but  he  did  not  escape  his  fate,  for  being  sheriff  of 
ComwaU  in  that  year,  and  the  Earl  of  Oxford 
surprising  Mount  Michael,  for  the  house  of  Lan- 
caster, he  had  the  king's  commands,  by  his  office, 
to  endeavour  the  reducing  of  it,  and  lost  his  Ufe  in 
a  skirmish  on  the  sands  thereabouts.  Sir  John 
Arundel,  m.  first,  Margaret,  dau^ter  of  Sir  Hugh 
Courtcnay,  Knt.,  by  whom  he  had  two  sons,  who  d. 
young  I  and  secondly,  Anne,  daughter  of  Sir  Walter 
Moyle,  Knt,  by  whom  he  had  also  two  sons,  and 
was  <.  by  the  elder, 

SIR  JOHN  ARUNDEL,  Sheriff  of  COrawaU, 
anno  1524.  This  gentleman,  m.  Joan,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Greenvil,  Esq.,  and  was  <.  by  his  only  son, 

JOHN  ARUNDEL,  Esq.,  who  received  the 
honour  of  knighthood  at  the  battle  of  Spurs.  This 
gallant  person,  who  was  Vice  Admind  to  Kings 
Henry  VII.  and  VFII.,  acquired  great  renown  by 
the  defiBat  and  capture  of  Duncan  CampbeU,  the 
Scottish  pirate,  in  a  sea  fight.  Sir  John  Arundel,  m. 
first,  Mary,  daughter  and  co-heiress  of  John  BevU, 
of  Gamache,  in  the  county  of  ComwaU,  by  whom 
he  had  a  son  Roger,  and  three  daughters :  namely, 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  Robert  Tridenham,  Esq. 

Catherine,  m.  to  Richard  Prideux,  Esq.,  of 
Thewborough. 

Jane,  m.  to  William  WaU,  Esq. 
Sir  John,  m.  sec(»dly,  Julian,  daughter  of  James 

Engly,  and  widow  of Ourlyn,  by  whom  he 

had  7ssue, 

phn,  who  became  his  heir. 

garet,  m.  to  Robert  Breket,  Esq. 

Gi^Ke,  m.  to  John  Nance,  Esq. 

Margery,  m.  to  Jtrfm  Dunham,  Esq. 

Mary. 

Jane. 
He  was  «.  by  his  only  surviving  son, 

JOHN  ARUNDEL,  Esq.,  who  m.  first  Catherine, 
daughter  and  co-helress  of  John  Cosworth,  Esq., 
by  whom  he  had  four  daughters ;  vis. 

Mary,  m.  to  OUver  Dynham,  Esq. 

Dorothy,  m.  to  Edward  Cosworth,  Esq. 

Julian,  m.  to  Richard  Carew,  Esq.,  of  Anthony, 
in  the  county  of  Cornwall. 

Alice,  m.  to  Henry  SoAester,  Esq.,  (tf  Painsford. 
Mr.  Arundel,  m.  secondly,  Gertrade,  daughter  of 
Robert  Dennis,  Esq.,  of  Holoomb,  by  whom  he  had 
two  sons,  John  and  Thonua,  and  two  daughters. 


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Anne,  m.  to  William  C«n^|iBw,  Esq.,  of  BuocUdy, 
and  Catlieriiie,  nu  to  John  St.  Aubyn,  Ea^.  He  d, 
in  15W,  and  was  s.  by  his  elder  sgd, 

JOHN  ARUNDEL,  Esq.,  of  Trerice,  M.P.  for 
the  oounty  of  Comw^,  temp.  Queen  Elisabeth 
and  King  James  I.«  and  for  Tngoay  in  the  reign 
of  King  Charles  I.  At  the  breaking  out  of  the 
civil  war*  this  eminent  person,  with  his  four  sons, 
eqioused  the  cause  of  royalty,  and  took  up  arms  for 
the  king.  Of  theM  sons,  two,  John  and  William, 
lost  their  Ures  in  the  serrice  of  their  unfortunate 
master,  while  their  gallant  fiifher  hurled  defiance 
to  the  rebeb  from  the  battlements  of  Pendennis, 
and  maintainod  his  position  there,  to  the  very  end 
of  those  unhappy  conflicts,  although  besieged  both 
by  sea  and  land,  being  as  Lord  Clarendon  relates, 
then  nearly  founoore  yean  of  age,  and  of  one  of 
the  best  estates  and  interests  in  the  County  of 
ComwalL  VHiitlock  sUtes,  that  on  the  31st  of  Au- 
gust, 1640,  letters  came  to  the  parliament,  of  the 
sunrender  of  Pendennis  Castle,  and  in  it  were  Colo- 
nel Arundd,  the  governor,  four  knights,  Ave  colo- 
nels, and  dUvers  others  of  quality.  That  they  had 
store  of  arms,  but  little  provision.  Colonel  Arun- 
del m.  Mary,  daughter  of  George  Carey,  Esq.,  of 
CloTelley,  in  the  county  of  Devon,  by  whom  he 
had  four  sons  and  two  daughters;  vis.  Richard, 
John,  William,  Prands,  Agnes,  and  Mary.     The 

latter  was  nu  first,  to Trevanion,  Esq.,  and  le- 

condly,toSir  John  Arundd  of  Langhemeu  He  was 
«.  at  his  decease  by  his  eldest  son, 

RICHARD  ARUNDEL,  Esq.,  member  in  the 
two  last  parliaments  of  King  Charles  L,  fw  Lest- 
withld,  and  in  his  military  capacity,  attached  to 
the  personal  staff  of  that  unhappy  prince.  This 
gallant  ofllcer  had  a  command  in  the  battle  oi  Kine- 
lon,  in  the  County  of  Warwick,  where  he  displayed 
the  hereditary  valour  of  his  fomily,  and  he  was 
subsequently  activdy  engaged  during  the  whole  of 
the  dvil  wars,  in  which  disastrous  contest  he  was 
despoiled  at  the  entire  of  his  landed  property.  On 
the  re-establishment  of  the  numarchy,  however, 
that  was  restored  to  him,  and  in  consideration  &[ 
the  devotedneM  of  his  fkther,  his  brothers,  and 
himself,  to  the  royal  cause,  he  was  devated  to  the 
peerage  by  letters  patent,  dated  83rd  March,  1064, 
as  Barom  Abundbl  or  Trbricc  in  the  county 
of  ComwalL  His  lordship  m.  Gertrude,  daughter 
of  Sir  James  Ba0,  Knt.,  of  Saltham,  in  the  county 
of  Devon,  and  widow  of  Sir  Nicholas  Slanning, 
Knt.,  of  Bidiley,  and  was  «.,  at  his  deceaie  in  1088, 
by  his  only  surviving  child, 

JOHN  ARUNDEL,  second  baron ;   this  poMo- 
man  m.  first,  Margaret,  daughter  and  sole  heireis 
of  Sir  John  Adand,  Knt.,  of  ColumhJohn  in  the 
oounty  of  Devon,  by  whom  he  had  issu^ 
JoBW,  his  snccesior. 

Gertrude,  m.  ibst,  to  Sir  Peter  Whitcomb  of 
Essex ;  and  secondly,  to  Sir  Bemiet  Hoskins. 

His  lordship  in.  secondly,  Barbara,  daughter  of 
Sir  Henry  Slingsby  of  Scriven,  in  tVe  county  of 
York,  Baronet— and  rdict  of  Sir  Richard  Maleverer 
of  Aleston-Maleverer  in  the  tame  shire,  by  whom 
he  had  an  only  son, 

Richard,  M.P.,  im.  2nd  Septanber,l732,  Frances, 
daughter  of  John,  secoad  Duke  of  Rutland. 


Lord  Arundel  d.  S7th  of  September,  1007,  md  was 
«.  by  his  elder  son, 

JOHN  ARUNDEL,  third  Baron,  who  m.  EUsa- 
beth,  daughter  of  the  Right  Rev.  William  Beaw^^ 
D.D.,  Lord  Bishop  of  Landaff,  and  dying  Mth  of 
September,  1706,  was  «.  by  his  only  surviving  child, 

JOHN  ARUNDEL,  fourth  B^ion.  This  noble- 
man  m.  in  17S9,  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  William 
Wentworth,  of  Ashby  Puerorum  in  the  county  of 
Litacoln,  and  sister  of  Thoouw,  Earl  of  Straflbrd, 
by  whom,  who  d,  in  17dO,  he  had  no  issuOb  His 
lordship  d.  in  1768,  when  the  barony  Bxpiann. 

AaMa— Quarterly ;.  first  and  fourth,  sa.  six  swal- 
lows close,  three,  two,  and  one  arg.  second  and  third 
sa.  three  Chevnmds  of  the  second.     Jft/lc^ 

ASTLEY—BARONS  ASTLEY. 

■ 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  89rd  June.  U96, 
S3  Edward  L 

ICiRcagc. 

This  noble  fiunily  derived  its  surname  ftom  the 
Manor  of  AaTLBV  (or  Estley,  as  formerly  written), 
in  the  county  of  Warwick^  which  with  other  estates 
in  that  shire,  bekmged  to  the  Astleys  so  &r  back 
as  the  reign  of  Henry  L 

PHILIP  DE  ESTLEY— grandson  of  the  first 
possessor,  was  certified,  upon  the  assessment  of  the 
aid  towards  the  marriage  portion  of  King  Henry 
the  Second's  daughter,  to  hold  three  knights'  fees  of 
William  Earl  of  Warwick,  d»  vsfsH  F(M)^bnMit«o— 
by  the  secvice  <'  (tf  laying  bands  on  the  eart*  sHr- 
rop  when  he  did  get  upon,  or  alight  from  hone- 
back."    This  feudal  baron  was  «.  by  his  son, 

THOMAS  DE  ASTLEY,  who  holding  certain 
lands  of  the  Honour  of  Leicester,  became  a  kind  ot 
bsiliff  to  Simon  de  Mcmtfort,  Earl  of  Leicester, 
*<  as  may  be  seen,"  says  Dugdale,  <*  by  a  fine  of 
fourscore  marks  and  a  palfrey,  to  the  king,  in  9th 
John,  to  be  discharged  of  the  profits  required  of 
him  for  that  earl's  lands,  during  the  time  he  had  to 
dp  with  them."  In  the  19th  of  King  John,  this 
Thomas  Astley  payed  a  hxmdred  marks  to  t)ie 
crown,  to  be  excused  going  beyond  the  sea :  Dug- 
dale supposes,  in  an  expedition  to  Ireland.  In  the 
17th  of  the  same  reign,  he  was  committed  prisoner  to 
Bedford  Castle,  and  had  his  lands  seised  for  his  par- 
tidpation  in  the  rebdlion  of  the  barons ;  but  return- 
ing to  his  allegiance,  he  was  reinstated  in  his  ter- 
ritorial possessions,  in  the  1st  year  of  Henry  III.  i 
and  in  t«ro  years  afterwards,  he  was  constituted 
a  commissioner  for  restoring  to  the  crown  all 
the  demesnes  of  which  King  John  was  possessed 
at  the  beginning  of  his  wars  with  the  barons.  Ice. 
This  feudal  lord  m.  Maud,  one  of  the  sisters  and 
coheirs  of  Roger  de  Cam  vlll  of  Creeke  in  the  county 
of  Northampton,  and  was  «.  by  his  ^on, 

WALTER  DE  ASTLEY.  This  nobleman  had 
been  concerned  in  the  rebellion  of  the  barons 
against  John.    He  was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR  THOMAS  DE  ASTLEY,  Knt,  who  waa 
constituted  in  the  S6th  of  Henry  III.,  one  of  the 
king's  Justicss  for  the  gaol  delivery  at  Warwick, 
and  again  in  the  next  year,  when  he  paid  to  the 
king  £l&  for  Us  relief.    In  the  3tad  of  Henry  III., 

15 


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this  Sir  Thomat  de  Asttey  wm  teat  with 
other  penoiu  of  raak  and  power,  into  Gteicol^oe  t 
but  we  afterward*  find  him,  47th  Henry  Ul„  a  leader 
amongst  the  rebelUotu  baroot,  who  lelaad  upon 
the  ravenuet  of  the  crown  la  the  oountiei  ot  War- 
wick and  Leicester  i  and  when  the  king  submitted 
to  the  PaoTiaioira  or  Ozroan,  the  foUowlng  year, 
he  was  nominated  Cuaroa  PAcia  for  Lelcesterdilie. 
Sir  Thomas  fell,  however,  soon  after  (40th  Henry 
III.,  1964,)  with  Montford  Earl  of  Leicester,  and 
other  insurrectionary  nobles,  at  the  battle  of  Eve- 
sham, when  his  estates,  valued  at  £Ul.  18.  11. 
per  annum,  being  ocmllscated,  were  conferred  upon 
Warlne  de  Bessingbume,  but  the  king 
slonating  his  widow  and  dilldren,  reserved  to 
out  of  those  estates,  certain  lands,  valued  at 
£34. 18. 1.  per  annum,  suUlect  to  one  mark  yearly 
to  the  said  Warine  and  his  heirs.  Sir  Thomas  de 
Astley,  m.  first,  Joane,  daughter  of  Eraald  de  B<^, 
a  perKm  of  great  power  In  the  county  of  Leicester 
-Hmd  had  issue, 

Akdrbw— his  successor. 
Isabel,  m.  to  William  de  Bermln^ham,  (son 
and  heir  of  Robert  de  Bermlngham,  one  of 
the  oompeakms  in  arms  of  Strongbow,  Earl 
of  Pembroke,  In  hia  expedition  Into  Ireland, 
temp.  Henry  IL)  and  left  a  son,  Pstbr  na 
BBBMiwaHAK,  who  was  sumaumed  to  Par- 
liament, In  Ireland,  as  Babon  ATHBirnT,  In 
the  reigns  of  John  and  Henry  III.,  andflrom 
his  lordship  descendeil  twenty<one  successive 
Barons  of  Athanry,  when  the  dignity  me^ged 
in  the  extinct  EarkUan  of  Louth. 
Thomas  m.  secondly,  Bditha,  daughter  of 
Constable,  Esq.,  of   Mriton    Constabla,  In 
the  county  of  Norfolk,  and  sister  of  Sir  Ralph 
Coaatable,  Knt.,  by  whom  he  had  three  sons  and  a 
daughter,  of  whom, 

TaoMAa,  settled  at  HIU  Morton,  but  dying 

s.  p.  his  estates  devolved  upon  his  brother, 
Ralpb    Abtlbt,  from  whom    the  extinct 
Barons  Astley  of  Reading  derived,  and  Sir 
Jacob  Astley,  Bart.,  of  Hill  Morton,  in 
the  county  of  Warwick,  and  of  Melton 
Constable  la  the  county  of  Norfolk,  de- 
scends.    (See  Burlu^s   Dictionary  of  the 
Peerage  and  Baronetage.) 
After  the  decease  of  Sir  Thomas  de  Astley,  his 
eldest  son, 

THOMAS  DE  ASTLEY,  by  vlrtne  of  the  decree 
called,  Dletum  ds  KemUwertk,  was  put  into  pos- 
session of  his  Ihther's  estates  paying  as  a  compen- 
sation to  Warlne  de  Bassingboume,  three  hundred 
and  twenty  marks,  sterling,  to  raise  whidi  sum  he 
sold  his  manor  of  Little  Co|Mton,  to  the  monks  of 
Comber  He  was  subsequently  engaged  in  the  Scot- 
tish wars  of  King  Edward  I.,  and  participated 
in  the  Victory  of  Falkirk.  Thomas  de  Astley  was 
snauaoned  to  parliament  as  Babob  Abtlby,  from 
13rd  of  Juae,  1296,  to  3rd  November,  1306,  and  was 
s.  at  liis  decease  liy  his  son, 

NICHOLAS  DE  ASTLEV,  second  Lsrtl  iittfay, 
■ammwMid  to  parliameat,  from  4th  July,  130S,  to 
11th  July,  ISOOL  His  lordship  and  his  brother  Sir 
Olles  de  Astley  atteadlBg  King  Edward  II.  into 
Soollaad,  were  taken  ptisonam  at  Baaaocksbum. 
M 


Sir 
Peter 


The  period  of  this  noUeaiant  decease  is 
tained,  bat  having  outlived  his  brother  above  men- 
tioned, an4  dying  iseueless,  the  title  and  esutes 
devolved  upon  his  nephew  (Sir  Giles  de  Astley's 
son  and  heir  liy  Alice,  second  daughter  and  co- 
heiress of  Sir  Thomas  Wolvey,  Knt.), 

THOMAS  DE  ASTLEV,  third  Lord  Aatle^,  sum- 
moned  to  parliament,  from  86th  February,  IMS,  to 
10th  March,  1348.  This  nobleman  founded  a  chantry 
in  the  parish  church  of  Astley,  In  the  11th  year  of 
Edward  III.,  and  aftsrwards  obtaining  permission  to 
change  his  chantry  priests  into  a  dean  and  secular 
canons,  he  erected  a  fUr  and  beautifVU  collegiate 
dmrch  in  the  form  of  a  croas,  with  a  tall  spire, 
covered  with  lead,  and  dedicated  it  to  the  assump- 
tion of  the  blessed  Vlxgia.  His  lotdahipm.  Eliaa- 
both,  daughter  of  Ouy  da  Beaocfaamp,  Earl  of 
Warwick,  and  left  issue, 

William,  (Sir)  his  sueoasaor. 
Thomas,  (Sir)  M.P.  for  the  county  ot  War- 
wick, m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  oi  Richard, 
son  of  Sir  William  Harecourt,  Knt.,  from 
-  whidi  union  the  AaTLBTa  ot  PatstruU,  in 
the  county  of  StaJford,  lineally  deriveb  Of 
which  fomily  was  Jobb  db  Aitlbv,  me- 
morable for  flghtiag  a  duel  on  horssAack, 
upon  the  99th  August,  1438,  with  Pater  da 
Massri,  a  Frendunan,  In  the  street  St.  An- 
tolne^  at  Paris,  before  Charles  VII.  King 
of  France,  where  having  pierced  his  antago- 
nist throui^  the  head,  he  had  the  helmet, 
by  agreement  of  the  vanquished,  to  present 
to  his  lady.  He  subsequently  fought  Sir 
Philip  Boyle,  an  Arragonian  knight,  in 
Smithflald,  in  the  City  of  London,  in  the 
presence  of  King  Henry  VI.,  and  his  court, 
whidi  combat,  we  are  told,  was  gallantly 
performed  on  foot,  with  battle  axes,  spears, 
swords,  and  daggers,  and  at  its  conclusion, 
that  John  de  Astley  was  knighted  by  the 
king,  and  rewarded  with  a  pensjon  of  one 
hundred  marks  for  his  Ufoi  ««  Yea,"  (says 
Dugdala»)  "so  fionoua  did  Sir  John  da 
Astley  grow  for  his  valour,  that  he  waa 
elected  a  knight  of  the  garter,  and  bore  for 
hisarms  the  coats  of  >Mlay  and  Haraesarr, 
quarterly,  with    a    laM  qf  Ihree  p»ltu» 


Giles,  ancestor  of  the  Astleys  of  Wolvay. 
Thomas,  third  Lord  Astley,  was  «.  at  his  dacaaia  by. 
his  eldest  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  ASTLEV,  fourth  Loni  AtUeg, 
but  never  summoned  to  parliament.  This  nobleman 
waa  induded  in  several  commimlons  during  the 
reigns  of  Henry  IV.  and  Henry  VL  His  lordship 
m.  CatherinOkdau^terof  William,  Lord  Willougfaby 
de  Eresby,  by  whom  he  left  an  only  daughter, 

JoABB,  m.  first,  to  Thomas  Raleigh,  Esq.,  of 

Famtaoiottgh,  In  the  county  of  Warwick,  by 

whom  she  had  no  issue,  aad  secondly,  to 

Raglaald,  Lord  Grey  de  Ruthyn  (being  his 

lordsUp's  second  wifo),  by  whom  she  had 

three  sons,  end  a  daughter :  vIl 

Edward,  of  whom  pressntly, 

John  de  Grey,  of  Barwdl,  in  the  oounty 

of] 


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ATO 


Robert  <to  Grey,  of  Enrille  and  Whitttag. 

tcm«  in  the  county  of  StafRml. 
Elesnor,  m.  to   William    Lucy,  Esq.,    of 

Charleoote,  in  the  county  of  Warwick. 
Edward  db  Gkby,  the  eldest  ton,  marry- 
log  Eliabethf  only  daughter  and  heireM 
oi  Henry,  son  and  heir  of  William,  Lord 
Perran,  of  Groby,  by  Isabel,  second  daugh- 
ter and  oo-beiress  of  Thomas  Mowbray, 
Duke  gf  Norfolk,  was  summoned  to  par- 
liament in   1446,   as  Lord  Prrrars,   t^f 
Groiy,  which  berooy,  and  tfuu  ot  Abtlby, 
descended  regularly  to  Henry  Grey,  third 
marquess  of  Dorset,  K.G.  who  was  created 
DuKR  or  SvrroLK,   10th  October,   iJfM, 
and  became  forfeited  upon  the  decapita- 
tion and  attainder  of  his  grace  in  1W4. 
Arm*— Ax.  a  dnquefoil  ennine. 

ASTLEY  —  BARONS    ASTLEY,   OF 
READING. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  4th  Noramber,  1664, 
SO  Charles  L  " 

Xincagt. 

THE  HON.  RALPH  DE  ASTLEY,  a  younger 
son  of  Thomas,  Lord  Astley,  of  Astley,  in  the 
county  of  Warwick,  by  his  second  wife,  Editha, 
daughter  of  Peter  Constable,  Esq.,  of  Melton-Con- 
stable, in  the  county  of  Norfolk,  and  sister  and  co- 
heiress of  Sir  Robert  Constable,  Knt.,  of  the  same 
place,  was  lineal  ancestor  of 

JOHN  ASTLEY,  Esq.,  of  HiU-Morfon  and 
Melton-Constable,  who  m.  Frances,  daughter  and 
heiress  of  John  Cheyney,  Esq.,  of  Sittingbome,  in 
the  county  of  Kent,  and  was  «•  by  his  only  surriv- 
ingson, 

ISAAC  ASTLEY,  Esq.  This  gentleman  m. 
Mary,  daughter  of  Edward  Wald^grave,  Esq.,  of 
Borley,  in  the  county  of  Essex,  and  had  two  son^— 

Thomas,  aneestor  of  the  Astkys  (BaraneCs)  of 
Hill-MortOD,  in  the  county  of  Warwick,  and 

SIR  JACOB  ASTLEY,  Knt.,  a  distinguished 
captain  under  the  royal  banner  during  the  dvil 
wars ;  govenior  ot  Oxford  and  Reading,  and  pre- 
eminently ooospicttous  at  the  battles  of  Edgehill, 
Brentford,  and  Newbury;  who  for  his  gallant  and 
fidthAal  senrioes  was  raised  to  the  peerage  by  letters 
patent,  dated  4th  Nov.,  1664,  as  Lord  AarLsr,  of 
Rradiro,  in  the  covifTT  of  Bucxa.  His  lordship 
m.  Agnes  Imple,  a  Oenmrn  lady,  and  had 
laAAc,  his  successor. 


Thomas,^ 
Hanry,     f^ 
Bcnmrd,  ( 
Edward,  ) 


<f.  issueless. 
•  i 

Edward, 

Elisabeth,  JN.  to  (her  cousin)  Sir  Edward  Astley, 

Knt.,  and  left  Sir  Jacob  Abtlby,  Knt.,  who 

inherited,  upon  the  decease  of  his  uncle.  Sir 

Isaac  Astley,  Bart., «.  p.,  in  1689,  the  estates 

of  Hill-Morton  and  Melton-Constable,  and 

succeeded  to  the  entailed  property  of  Lord 

Aatley. 

Of  Jacob  Lord  Astley,  Clarendon  says—"  He  was 

an  honest,  brsre,  plain  man ;  as  fit  for  the  military 

posts  he  held  as  Chriatcndom  yieldedf  and  was  ge- 


nanlly  esteemed  very  diseemiiig,  and  pronpt  in 
giving  orders,  as  occasion  required  {  and  moat  cheer- 
Atl  and  prennt  in  action.  An  enemy  to  kmg 
speeches,  as  usually  madb  In  council;  he  him- 
self using  only  fow,  but  very  perthient  words."  His 
lordship  died  in  1651,  and  waa  succeeded  by  hia 
eldest  son, 

ISAAC  ASTLEY,  second  lord,  who  m.  Anne, 
fourth  daughter  of  Sir  Francis  Stydolfe,  Knt.,  o 
Norbury,  in  the  county  of  Surray,  and  had  issue— • 

Jacob,  his  successor, 

Francis  died  *,p. 
His  lordship  d,  in  1688,  and  was «.  by  Ms  elder 


JACOB  ASTLEY,  third  lord.  His  kttdship  m. 
Frances,  daughter  and  co-heiress  o'f  Shr  Richard  Sty- 
dolfe, of  Norbury,  son  of  Sir  Francis,  but  had  no 
issue.  Lord  Astley  &  in  1688,  when  the  barony  of 
Astley  of  Reading  bxfirbd. 

Akub^Az.  a  dnquefoil  erm.  within  a  bocdure 
engrailed  or. 

ATON— BARONS  DE  AXON. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  aoth  December,  1394. 
18  Edward  II. 

ICiiuagt. 

The  paternal  surname  of  this  fhmtly  arose  ftoro 
the  feudal  barony  of  Aton,  in  the  county  of  York, 
of  which  its  members  were  lords  from  the  conquest ; 
for  we  And  that 

GILBERT,  Son  or  Laoi,  assumed  the  surname 
of  Atom  so  far  back  as  the  reign  of  king  Henry  I. 
from  those  lands  i  but  the  importance  of  the  family 
was  founded  by  the  marriage  of  this  Gilbert  de 
Aton's  great-grandson, 

GILBERT  DE  ATON,  with  Maigerie,  daugh- 
ter  and  heiress  of  Wariitb  dm  Vb8CI,  a  younger 
son  of  William  de  Yesd,  Lord  of  Alnwick,  te  the 
county  of  Northumberland,  through  which  alliance 
the  Atohb  inherited,  eventually,  the  extenslTe  pos- 
sessions of  the  great  barons  de  Vesci :  thua^ 

EusTAcx  DB  YBaci,  one  of  the  twenty-flve  ba- 
rons appointed  to  enforce  the  observance  of 
Magna  Cbarta,  dder  brother  of  the  above 
Warinb,  succeeded  hislkther,  m.  Margaret, 
daughter  of  WiUiam  and  sister  of  Alexander, 
kings  of  Scotland  i  and,  dying  about  1916, 
was  «.  himself  by  his  son, 

WiiiifiAM  nm  Vbsoi,  to  whom  a.,  in  U63, 
his  son, 
John  db  Ybbci,  who  had  sommona 
to  parliament,  as  a  baron,  in  U64, 
but  dying«.p.,  was  «.  by  his  brother, 
William  ob  Yxaci,  summoned  to  parliament 
in  the  reign  of  Edward  I.,  and  one  ot  the  com- 
petitors for  the  Scottish  throne  in  the  same 
era.  He<i.  about  the  year  1S97>  without  legiti- 
mate issue,  whentheBARONY  bxpirbd;  but 
the  estates  devolved  upon  his  natural  son, 
William  db  VBaci,  who  waa  summoned 
to  parliament  In  1813;  but  dying  in  two 
years  afterwards,  «.p.,  that  barony  also 
BZPiRBD,  while  the  estates  reverted  to 
the  great-grandson  of  the  above  Gilbert 
de  Aton  and  Margevie  de  Vesel,  his  wifo. 
D  17 


ALD 


ALD 


Gilbert  de  Aton  d.  in  the  19th  of  Henry  III.,  md 
was  «.  by  bU  aon, 

WILLIAM  DE  ATON,  who  was  succeeded  by 
bUson, 

SIR  GILBERT  DE  ATON,  one  of  the  KnighU 
of  the  Bath,  created  by  PaiircB  Bowa&d,  in  the 
34th  of  Edward  I.  Sir  Gilbert  dying  «.  p.,  was  «.  by 
his  brother, 
WILLIAM  DE  ATON,  whose  son  and  heir, 
GILERT  DE  ATON,  inherited,  in  the  9th  of 
Edward  II.,  thresutes  of  the  Barons  db  Vbsci, 
as  deduced  above.  This  Gilbert  had  oninmand,  the 
year  before,  to  fit  himself  with  horse  and  arms,  and 
tobeatNxwcABTZiC-upoN-TYNB  on  the  feast-day 
at  the  Blessed  Virgin,  to  restrain  the  hostilities  of 
the  Scots.  In  the  ISth  of  Edward  II.,  he  was  in  the 
expedition  to  Scotland ;  and  in  the  I7th  of  the  same 
monarch,  he  confirmed  (in  consideration  of  receiv- 
ing 700  marks  sterling)  as  heir  of  William  de  Vesci, 
to  Henry  Lord  Perde,  the  castle  and  lands  of  Aln- 
wlck,  which  Anthony  Beke,  Bishop  of  Durham  and 
Patriarch  of  Jerusalem,  has  sold  to  the  said  Henry, 
although  but  confided  to  the  bishop  by  William 
Lord  de  Vesci  in  trust  for  his  bastard  son,  the  last 
William  de  Vesci.  In  the  following  year  (dOth 
Dec.  UB4)  Gilbert  de  Aton  wa»«ummoncd  to  par- 
liament as  a  banm  of  the  realm,  and  he  was  so  sum- 
moned during  the  remainder  of  his  life.  His  lord- 
diip  died  in  134S,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  ATON,  second  BARON  ATON, 
who  had  summons  to  parliament  on  the  8th  of  Ja- 
nuary, 1871*  His  lordship  married  Isabel,  daughter 
of  William  Lord  Percy,  by  whom  he  had  an  only 
son,  who  predeceased  him,  and  three  daughters,  his 
co-heiresses,  namely^ 

Anastasia,  m.  to  Sir  Edward  de  St.  John,  and 
left  a  daughter  and  heiress,  Margaret  de  St. 
John,  who  m.  Thomas  de  Bromflete,  king's 
Butler,  temp.  Richard  1 1.  (See  Bromflete.) 
Katharine,  m.  to  Sir  Ralph  de  Eure. 
Eliiabeth,  m.  first,  to  William  Playtx,  and, 
secondly,  to  John  Cony^ta,  Esq.,  of  Stock- 
bume,  in  the  county  of  Durham. 
William  Lord  Aton  was  engaged  in  the  French 
wars  of  king  Edward  HI.    He  was  sheriff  of  York- 
shire in  the  4Sd  of  that  monarch,  and  governor  of 
the  Castle  of  York,  and  again  In  the  43d  and  46th 

of  the  same  vrign.    His  lordship  d. when  his 

estates  were  divided  amongst  his  daughters,  and  the 
BAaoK T  fell  into  abctancs,  as  it  still  continues. 
AftMa^-Or,  three  bars  as.  on  a  canton  gu.,  a  cross 
patonoear. 

ALDITHELEY,  OR  AUDLEY  — BA- 
RONS AUDLEY,  OF  HE- 
I£IGH. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  15th  May,  1381, 
14th  Edward  11. 

ICiiuagc. 

•*  That  this  flonily  of  JMUMUg,  vulgarly  called 
AuOeM*'  says  Dugdale,  «  came  to  be  great  and 
eminent,  the  ensuing  disooune  will  sufficiently 
manifest:  but  that  the  rise  thereof  was  no  higher 
than  King  John's  time;  and  that  the  first  who 
asfttttid  this  surname  was  a  branch  of  that  ancient 
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and  noble  femily  of  Ynnnoir,  whoee  cUef  seat  was 
at  Alton  Cmtile»  in  the  northern  part  of  Staflbrd- 
shire,  I  am  very  inclinable  to  brieve;  partly  by 
reason  that  Henry  had  the  inheritance  of  Aldithelejf 
given  him  by  Nicholas  de  Verdon,  who  died  in  the 
I6th  Henry  III.,  or  near  that  time;  and  partly  for 
that  he  bore  for  his  arms  the  same  ordinary  as 
Verdon  did,  vis.  Frett^,  but  distinguished  with  a 
large  canton  in  the  dexter  part  of  the  shield,  and 
thereon  a  «roM  pai^  t  so  that  probably  the  ancestor 
of  this  Henry  first  seated  himself  at  AldUKOew :  for 
that  there  hath  besn  an  antient  mansion  there,  the 
large  moat,  northwards  from,  the  parish-church 
there  (somewhat  leas  than  a  ftirlong,  and  upon  the 
chief  part  of  a  fair  ascent),  do  sufficiently  manifest.*' 
HENRY  DE  ALDITHELEY,  to  whom  Dug- 
dale alludes  above,  being  in  great  favour  with 
Ranulph,  Earl  of  Chester  and  Lincoln,  (the  most 
powerful  subject  of  England  in  his  time,)  obtained 
ttottx  that  nobleman  a  grant  of  Newhall  in  Cheshire, 
with  manon  in  Staflbrdshire,  and  other  parts—and 
for  his  adhesion  to  King  John,  in  that  monarch's 
struggle  with  the  insurrectionary  barons,  a  royal 
grant  of  the  lordship  of  Storton,  in  Warwickshire, 
part  of  the  possessions  of  Roger  de  Summerville. 
In  the  four  first  years  of  King  Henry  III.,  he  exe- 
cuted the  office  of  sherifl"  for  the  counties  t^  Salop 
and  Staflbrd,  as  deputy  for  his  patron,  the  great 
Earl  Ranulph— in  the  fourth  year  of  which  service 
the  men  of  Staflbrdshire  were  required  to  aid  him 
in  fortifying  the  king's  castle  of  Shrewardine,  in  the 
county  of  Salop.  In  the  10th  of  Henry  III.  this 
Henry  de  Alditheley  was  appointed  governor  of  the 
castles  of  Carmarthen  and  Cardigan,  and  made 
sheriff  the  next  year  of  the  counties  of  Salop  and 
Staflbrd  and  constable  of  the  castles  of  Salop  and 
Bridgenorth,  which  sheriflUty  he  held  for  five 
years.  Upon  his  retirement  fkom  office  he  had 
special  license  to  build  a  castle  upon  his  own  land, 
called  Radcliir,  in  Shropshire,  afterwards  desig- 
nated RancASTLB,  fkom  the  colour  of  the  high 
rode  upon  which  it  was  founded  :  and  in  the  same 
year  he  had  a  confirmation  of  all  such  lands, 
whereof  he  was  then  possessed,  as  well  those  granted 
to  him  by  Ranulph,  Earl  at  Chester,  and  Nicholas 
de  Verdon,  as  those  in  Ireland,  given  him  by  Hugh 
de  Lad,  Eau.  or  Ulbtcr,  whose  constable  he  waa 
In  that  province.  He  subsequently  obtahked  diven 
other  territorial  grants  trota  the  crown,  but,  not- 
withstanding, when  Rithard  Mmretcftmi,  Eam.  or 
Pkmbrokb,  rebdled,  and  made  an  incursion  into 
Wales,  the  king,  Henry  III.,  thought  it  prudent  to 
secure  the  persons  of  this  Henry,  and  all  the  other 
barons-marcherk  He  was  afterwards,  however, 
constituted  governor  ot  Shrewsbury,  in  place  of 
John  de  Lad,  Earl  of  Lincoln,  and  on  the  death  of 
John,  Earl  of  Chester,  goveinor  of  the  castle  of 
Chester,  and  alsO  of  that  of  Beeston,  then  called 
the  «'  Castle  on  the  Rock,"  and  soon  after  made 
governor  of  Newcastle-under-Lyne.  This  powerftil 
feudal  baron  m.  Bertred,  daughter  of  Ralph  de 
Meisnilwarin  of  Cheshire,  and  had  a  son  Jambb, 
and  a  daughter  Emme,  who  m.  Griflln  «p  Madoc, 
Lord  of  Bromefldd,  a  person  of  great  power  in 
Wales.  He  d.  in  1838,  having  founded  and  endowed 
the  Abbey  of  Hilton,  near  to  his  castle  at  Heleigh, 


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in  SCaflbrddiiK,  for  Cistercian  monki,  and  wm  «. 
kjrhiason. 

JAMES  DE  ALDITHELEY,  a  great  fkTorite  of 
Richard,  Eari  of  Cornwall,  at  whow  coronation  aa 
king  of  Almaigne  heaaisted.  Tlil«  noMcman  had 
Urerj  of  hia  land*  in  the  Slst  of  Henry  III.,  and  waa 
constituted  in  two  yean  afterwards  constable  of 
NowaMtfa-under-Lyne.  Being  one  of  tlie  lotds- 
mardieta  he  was  actirely  employed  for  some  years 
againat  the  Webb,  and  was  appointed  governor  of 
the  castles  of  Salop  and  Bridgenorth,  and  sheriiT 
for  the  ooimties  of  Salop  and  StafRmL  In  the  47th 
of  Henry  IIL  hewasmade  Justice  of  Ireland ;  and 
in  the  same  year,  upon  the  misnndetstanding  be- 
tween the  king  and  the  banms,  regarding  the  pro- 
sMofw  ^O^Md,  being  referred  to  the  arbitration  of 
the  monardi  of  France,  he  was  one  of  the  noblemen 
who  undertook  for  the  king  therein.  The  next 
year  we  And  him  with  Roger  de  Mortimer  and  the 
other  barone-marchcri,  giving  battle  to  LeweUm, 
Prince  cf  Wales,  and  afterwards  Joining  the  Earl 
of  Gloucester  at  Evesham  in  rncuing  the  king,  who 
had  become  captive  to  the  Earl  of  Leicester  at  the 
battle  of  Lewes.  In  the  fiSnd  of  Henry  IIL  his 
lordship  perfonned  a  pilgrimage  to  the  shrine  of 
St.  James  in  Oallcia,  and  the  following  year  em- 
barked in  the  Crusade.  His  death,  occasioned  by 
bicaking  his  neck,  oceajmi  aoon  afterwards  (1271). 
He  had  a  daughter,  Joan,  who  m.  John,  son  of 
Robert  de  Beauchamp,  to  whoae  child,  prior  to  its 
birth,  the  laid  John  bebig  then  deceased,  his  lord- 
sldp  was  appointed  guardian.  He  had  also  Ave 
sons,  the  yo<ungeBt  of  whom,  Hu^,  is  supposed  to 
have  been  tlie  Hugh  Aldithdey,  who  had  summons 
to  parliament  15th  May,  1321,  and  whose  son 
became  Earl  of  Gloucester.  His  lordship  was  «. 
by  his  eldest  son, 

JAMES  DE  ALDITHELEY,  who  d.  s.  p.  in 
UTS,  and  was  #.  by  his  brother, 

HENRY  DE  ALDITHELEY,  between  whom 
and  John  D'Eivill,  who  had  m.  Maud,  widow  of  his 
dwsaaed  brother,  a  covenant  was  made  in  the  %d  of 
Edward  L,  conveying  on  the  part  of  Henry  a  consi- 
derable landed  dowry  to  the  said  Maud.  He  d, 
iasudess  in  1275,  and  was  «.  by  his  brother, 

WILLIAM  DE  ALDITHELEY,  who,  attainhig 
m^ority  In  a  year  after  his  accession,  "had  livery  of 
all  his  famde,  save  a  reasonable  dowry  to  Dulcia,  the 
widow  of  his  deceased  brother  Henry.  In  the  10th 
of  Edward  I.  the  king,  by  his  precept  to  the  barons 
of  hte  exchequer,  acknowledging  that  he  was  in- 
debted to  James  de  Aldithdey,  fether  of  this 
William,  in  the  sum  of  one  thouaand  two  hundred 
and  eighty-eight  pounds,  Hve  shillings,  and  ten 
pence*  upon  the  surpluasage  of  his  account  since  he 
was  Justice  of  Ireland,  commanded  them  to  dis- 
diarge  the  said  WlUlam  of  two  hundred  and  thirty 
pounds,  fdurteen  shillings,  and  ten  pence,  a  debt 
due  by  James  to  the  exchequer  upon  another  ac- 
count. In  this  year  (1275)  WiUiam  de  Alditheley 
fidl  in  an  engagement  with  the  Welsh,  wherein 
several  other  brave  wairhirs  were  slain,  and  the 
king  lost  fourteen  banners.  Dying  without  issue, 
he  was  «.  by  his  brother, 

NICHOLAS  DE  ALDITHLEY,  who  doing  ho- 
mage, bad  Uvery  of  his  lands,  and  then  paid  jClO 


for  hia  relief  ot  the  tenth  part  ^f  the  Barany 
of  Wiche-Malbanc  In  the  82nd  of  Edward  I. 
this  feudal  lo(d  received  command  to  attend  the 
king  at  Portsmouth,  upon  the  1st  of  Sept«mbar» 
wdl  fitted  with  horse  and  arms,  and  thence  to  ac- 
company the  monarch  into  Oasooignet  which  ser- 
vice he  performed.  In  three  years  afterwards,  26th 
January,  1297,  he  had  sununans  to  parliament 
amongst  the  other  barons  of  the  reabn,  and  was 
likewise  in  the  expedition  to  Scotland,  with  the 
Earls  of  Warren  and  Warwick,  and  participated  in 
the  victory  obtained  at  Dunbar.  His  lordship  m, 
Catherine,  daughter  and  ooheireM  of  John  Giflhid 
of  Brimefield,  by  Maud,  widow  of  William  de 
Longespe,  and  daughter  of  Walter  de  CUflbrd  i  and 
dying  in  1299,  was  s.  by  his  eldest  son,  then  in  his 
tenth  year, 

THOMAS  DE  ALDITHELEY.  who  m.  Eve, 
daughter  and  heiress  of  John,  Lord  Clavering,  but 
dying  «.  j».  in  ia07,  the  inheritance  devolved  upon 
his  brother, 

NICHOLAS  DE  ALDITHELEY,  who  had  sum- 
mons to  parliament  ttom  8th  January,  1913,  («th 
Edward  II.)  to  2ftth  August,  1318,  (12th  Edward  IL) 
His  lordship  m.  Joane,  widow  of  Henry  Lacy,  Earl 
of  Lincoln,  and  sister  and  coheireis  of  William 
Martin— Baron  Martin,  (by  writ,  23rd  June,  1296 : 
which  barony  fell  into  abeyance  between  the  de- 
scendants of  the  laid  Joane  and  her  sister,  Eleanore, 
the  other  coheireis,  wife  of  Philip  de  Columbers,) 
and  was  «.  at  his  decease,  in  1319,  by  his  son, 

JAMES  DE  AUDLEY-— LORD  AUDLEY— one 
of  the  most  criebrated  warriors  ot  the  nuurtial  reign 
of  King  Edward  the  IIL  His  lordship  was  but 
three  years  of  age  at  the  decease  of  his  father,  when 
his  castle  of  Heleigh,  and  divers  other  estates  were 
committed  to  the  guardianship  of  Ralph  de  Camoys, 
while  he  was  himself  confided  in  ward  to  Roger 
Mortimer,  Earl  of  March.  At  the  early  age  of 
twenty-three,  we  find  him  governor  of  Berwick- 
upon-Tweed,  and  receiving  orders  to  attend  King 
Edward  the  III.  in  his  expedition  into  France,  with 
twenty  men  at  arms,  and  twenty  archers.  In  the 
next  year  (17th  Edward  IIL),  his  lordship  did  ho- 
mage for  lands  inherited  through  his  aunt  Eleanore 
de  Columbers,  and  then  served  the  king  with 
twenty  men  at  arms  and  twenty  archers,  in  his 
wars  in  France.  In  the  19th  of  Edward  the  III., 
he  had  command  to  attend  the  monarch  in  person, 
and  to  serve  him  with  all  his  retinue,  for  the  de. 
fence  of  the  realm  against  the  French,  at  the  king's 
proper  cost.  In  two  yean  afterwards,  he  was  again 
in  France,  and  his  lordship  had  the  honour  of  being 
one  of  the  Original  Knighu  of  the  Garter,*  upon 

•  OaioiNAX.  Knights  of  thb  Gaktcr.  Camb- 
den  gives  the  following  list  of  those  noUe  persons, 
who  are  designated  founders  of  the  order.  En- 
WARD  III.,  KiKo  or  Enolano,  Edward,  Princb 
or  Walks,  Henry,  Duke  of  Lancaster,  Thomas, 
Earl  of  Warwick,  Ralph,  Earl  of  Staflbrd,  William 
Montacute,  Earl  of  Salisbury,  Roger  Mortimer, 
Earl  of  March,  Capdall  de  Buche,  John  L'Isle, 
Bartholomew  Burghwash,  John  Beauchamp,  John 
de  Mohun,  Hugh  Courtenay,  Thomas  Holland, 
John  Grey,  Robert  Fits-Simon,  Miles  Stapleton, 

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the  inititution  of  that  illuttrious  order.  From  this 
period,  Lord  Audley  was  pre-eminently  distin- 
guished as  a  soldier  upon  the  Prenclusoil,  until  the 
glorious  conflict  of  Poictiers  placed  his  military 
renown  upon  the  highest  elevation.  Of  his  lord- 
ship's conduct  in  this  oriebrated  battle,  FroUtard 
gives  the  following  aooount. 

«'  The  Lord  Jamaa  Audley,  went  not  ftrom  the 
Prince  ot  a  great  season,  but  when  he  saw  that  they 
should  needs  fight,  he  said  to  the  prince,  '  Sir,  I 
have  served  always  truly  my  lord,  your  father, 
and  you  also,  and  shall  do  as  long  as  1  live.  I  say 
this,  because  I  made  onoe  a  vow.  that  the  first  bat- 
tel that  either  the  king  your  father,  or  any  of  his 
children  should  be  at,  how  that  I  would  be  one  of 
the  first  setters  on,  or  dse  to  die  In  the  pain ;  there- 
of I  require  your  grace,  as  in  reward  for  my  service 
that  ever  I  did  to  the  king  your  fisther,  or  to  you, 
that  you  would  give  me  license  to  depart  IWnn  you, 
and  to  set  myself  there,  as  I  may  accomplish  my 
vow.'  The  prince  accorded  to  his  desire,  and  said, 
•Sir  Jamst,  God  give  you  tModaymat  graeoto  be 
Oto  bo9t  knight  of  oUotktrf  and  so  took  him  by  the 
hand.  Then  the  knight  departed  fVom  the  prince, 
and  went  to  the  foremost  firont  <^  all  the  battel, 
allonely  accompanied  with  four  esquires,  who  pro- 
mised not  to  fail  him.  This  lord  James  was  a  -right 
sage  and  a  valiant  knight ;  and  by  him  was  mudi 
of  the  hoet  ordained  and  governed  the  day  befot«. 
'  «*  The  Lord  James  Audley,  with  his  four  esquires, 
was  hi  the  front  of  the  battel,  and  there  did  marvels 
In  armsi  and,  by  great  prowess,  he  came  and 
fought  with  Sit  Arnold  Damdrahor,  \mder  his  own 
banner,  and  there  they  fought  long  together,  and 
Sir  Arnold  was  there  sore  handled."  Froissard  goes 
on  to  say,  «« that  his  lordship  continuing  to  combat 
in  his  advanced  position,  he  was  sore  hurt  in  the 
body,  and  in  the  visage;  as  long  as  his  breath 
served  him,  he  fought.  At  last,  at  the  end  of  the 
battel,  his  four  esquires  took  and  brought  him  out 
of  the  fidd,  and  laid  him  under  a  hedge  to  refresh 
him,  and  they  unarmed  him,  and  bound  up  his 
wounds  as  well  as  they  could. 

«'  As  soon  as  the  Earl  of  Warwick  (continues  the 
same  authority,)  and  Lord  Cobham  were  departed, 
the  prince  demanded  rsgardingthe  Lord  Audley; 
some  andswered,  *  He  Is  sore  hurt,  and  lieth  in  a 
litter  here  beside.*-—'  By  my  JMth,  (said  the  prince,) 
q^  his  hurts  I  am  right  sorry ;  go,  ostd  know  if  he 
may  be  brought  hither,  Ose  I  witi  go  and  see  him 
Mere  as  he  is.'  Then  two  knights  came  to  the  Lord 
Audley,  and  said,  *  Sir,  the  prince  desireth  greatly 
to  see  you.*  « Ah,  Sir,'  (said  Lord  Audley,)  *  I 
thank  the  prince  when  he  thought  on  so  poor  a' 
a  knight  as  I  am.'  Then  he  called  eight  of  his 
servants,  and  caused  them  to  bear  him  in  his  litter, 
to  the  place  were  the  prince  was. 

"  Then  the  prince  took  him  in  his  arms  and 
kissed  him,  and  made  him  great  cheer,  and  said, 
•Sir  James,  loMghtgreatly  to  honor  you,  Jbr  by  your 


Thomas  Walle,  Hugh  Wristhesley.  Niel  Lorlng. 
John  Chandos,  Jambs  dk  Auolby,  Olho  Holland, 
Henry  Ewe,  Zanchet  Dabridgecourt,  William  Pay- 
nd. 

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ealUtnee,  you  have  thie  day  oeMeved  the  grace  and 
renown  qf  us  all ;  and  ye  are  reputed  for  the  most 
valiant  tfall  otAer.*  *  Ah,  Sir,'  (said  the  knight,)  *  ye 
say  as  it  pleaseth  you ;  I  would  it  were  so:  and  if 
I  have  this  day  any  thing  avanced  myself,  to  serve 
you  and  accomplish  the  vow  that  I  made,  it  ought 
not  to  be  reputed  to  my  own  prowess.'  *  Sir  James, 
(said  the  prince,)  I,  and  all  ours  take  you  in  Oiis 
Journey  for  the  beet  doer  in  arme/  and  to  the  intent 
to  furnish  you  the  better  to  pursue  Me  wars  ;  I  retain 
you  for  ever  to  be  my  knight,  with  five  hundred  marks 
<tf  yearly  revenues,  the  whidi  I  shall  assign  you  f^my 
heritage  in  England.'  'Sir,'  (said  the  knight,) 
*  God  grant  me  to  deserve  the  great  goodness  that  ye 
shew  me.'  And  so  he  took  his  leave  of  the  prince, 
for  he  was  right  feeble ;  and  so  his  servants  brought 
him  to  his  lodging. 

**  The  Lord  James  Audley  gave  to  his  four  es- 
quires the  five  hundred  marks  revenue  that  the 
prince  had  given  him. 

**  When  the  prince  heard  of  this  gift  made  by 
Sir  James  Audley  to  his  four  esquires,  he  thanked 
him  for  so  doing,  and  gave  him  six  hundred  marks 
per  annum  more." 

In  confirmation  of  Froissard,  it  appears  by  the 
public  records,  that  this  eminent  soldier  had  for 
his  singular  services  at  the'  battleof  Polctien,  a  grant 
fhnn  Edward  the  Black  Prince,  of  an  annuity  of 
£400  during  his  life,  and  for  one  year  after,  to  be  re- 
ceived out  of  the  coinage  of  the  Stanneries  in  Corn- 
wall, and  the  king's  lands  in  that  county.    After 
this  period,  he  continued  to  serve  in  the  wars,  with 
equal  renown  to  himself  and  glory  to  his  country. 
His  lordship  m.,  first,  Joane,  daughter  of  Roger 
Mortimer,  Earl  of  March,  and  had  issue, 
fiicMQLAB,  hie  successor. 
Joane,  m.  to  Sir  John  Tuchet,  grandaonof  whidi 
marriage.  Sir  John  Tuchet,  was.sununoned 
to  parliament  as  Baron  Audley,  upon  the 
extinction  of  the  male  line  of  the  fkmily. 
(See  Tuchet,  Barons  Audley.) 
Margaret,  in.  to  Sir  Roger  Hillary. 

The  baron  in.,  secondly,  Isabel,  daughter  and  co- 
heireis  of  William  Malbank,  Banm  of  Wich-Mal- 
bank,  by  whom  he  had, 

2f*>"«*.  \  i^yj  of  whom  d.  s.  p. 

Thomas,  j  . 

Margaret,  m.  to  Fouke,  won  ot  Sir  Fouke 
Fits-Warine,  Knt. 
His  lordship  made  his  will  in  the9th  of  Richard  II., 
at  Heleigh  qastle,  by  which  he  bequeathed  his 
body  to  be  buried  in  the  Quire  of  his  AMiey  at 
Hilum,  before  the  high  altar.  In  case  he  should  de- 
part this  life  in  the  marches ;  but  if  in  Devon  or 
Somersetshire,  then  in  the  Quire  of  the  Fryers 
Preachers  at  Exeter,  before  the  high  altar  there; 
and  appointed  that  there  should  be  about  his 
corpse,  five  great  tapers,  and  five  morters  of  wax, 
bummg  on  the  day  of  his  funeral,  as  also  £40 
sterling,  then  distributed  to  poor  people,  to  pray 
for  his  souL  To  Nicholas,  his  son,  he  gave 
£100  in  money,  and  one  doien  of  silver  vessels,  with 
all  the  armour  for  his  own  body.  To  Fouke  Fits- 
Wariuc  and  Philip  liis  uncle,  aU  his  other  armour 
of  plate  and  malL  To  Margaret  Hillary,  his  daugh- 
ter, £I0  in  money;  and  to  the  monks  of  Hilton 


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Abbey,  to  pny  ftv  h<*  ■ou)»  ^I<)^  Tb^  g^^^  *ol* 
dier  (L  at  HeWgh,  od  tbe  Itt  of  April,  1380,  and  was 
«.  by  bis  eldest  son, 

NICHOLAS  AUDLBY,  Lord  Audley,  wbo  was 
wimmoBcd  to  pariiamaot  from  the  17th  December, 
1387.  to  ISth  SeptWBber,  190a  His  lonlship.  m. 
Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Addioe  de  Beaumont,  by 
whom  Iw  bad  no  issue;  he  d.  in  ISIS,  and  his  half- 
brothers  luiTlng  predeceased  him,  issuelen,  the 
mala  line  of  this  branch  of  the  tenily  of  Aldithb- 
I.KY  on  AuDLBT,  cxplred,  while  the  «*  Barony  of 
Audley"  devf^Ted  upon  the  grandson  of  his  lord- 
ahip's  sister,  Joane  Tuchet,  his  other  sister.  Mar- 
fsret  Hillary,  haTing  also  died  without  issua. 

Arm»— Gules,  a  fret,  or. 

AUDLEY,  OR  DE  ALDITHELEY— 
BARONS  AUDLEY,  AND 
SUJBSEQUENTLY  EARL 
OF  GLOUCESTER. 

Barony  by  Writ  of  Summons,  15th  May,  1321, 
14th  Edward  II. 

HUGH  DE  ALDITHELEY,  OR  AUDLEY, 
taother  it  is  presumed  of  Nicholas,  Lord  Audley,  of 
Hdei^,  was  summoned  to  pariiament  as  *«  Hugh 
de  Audley,  Seniori,"  on  the  IMh  May.  1321, 14th 
Edward  II.  His  lordship  had  been  engaged  during 
the  reign  of  Edward  I.  in  the  king's  serrioe,  and 
>  called  •«  Senior,**  to  distinguish  him  from  his 
Being  concerned  in  the  insurrection  of  Thomas, 
Earl  of  Lancaster,  Iftth  of  Edward  IL,  the  baron 
was  cgmmitteda  dose  prisoner  to  Wallingford  Cas- 
tle, but  making  his  peace  with  the  king  he  obtained 
bis  rdease,  and  suflined  nothing  fruther.  His  lord- 
ship sate  bft  the  parliament  of  the  11th  and  14th  of 
Edward  IL  He  m.  Isokla,  widow  of  Walter  Balim, 
and  left  two  sons,  by  tba  dder  of  whom  he 


HUGH  DE  AUDLEY.  who  had  been  summoned 
to  parliament  in  the  Ulb-time  of  his  flMher  as 
««  Hugh  db  Awlmy,  Jditiori,'*  from  80th  No- 
vember, 1317,  to  lAth  May,  1321,  and  after  that 
nobleman's  decease  as  **  Huoh  dm  Audlis,"  from 
3rd  December*  1386,  90th  Edward  IL,  to  10th 
Edward  IIL  His  lordship  m.  Margaret,  sister  and 
co-hcircas  cf  Gilbevt  de  Clare,  Earl  of  Gloucester, 
and  widow  of  Piers  Gayestone,  by  whom  he  left  an 
only  dau^ter  and  heiress, 

Mazvuret,  wbo  m.  Ralph,  Lord  Staflbrd,  and 
carried  the  barony  of  Aud^y  into  that  Ik- 
mily:  it  expired  upon  the  attainder  of 
^  Edward,  Duke  of  Buckingham,  with  that 
*  nobieman's  other  honours,  in  1081. 
Hugh,  Lord  Audley,  was  created  Earl  of  Glou- 
cester, 83kd  April,  1317,  and  under  that  title  a 
further  account  of  his  lordship  will  be  found.    He 
tf.  in  1347. 

AUDLEY— BARON  AUDLEY,  OF 
WALDEN. 

Created  by  Letters  Patent,  89th  November,  1538, 
90th  Henry  VIIL 

ICincagc. 

THOMAS  AUDLEY,  an  eminent  lawyer  in  the 


reign  of  Henry  VIIL,  but  of  what  family  neither 
Dugdale  nor  the  other  genealogists  have  been  al>lo 
to  ascertain,  having  attracted  royal  fSivor  by  his 
seal  in  the  spoliation  of  religious  houses,  as  speaker 
of  the  parliament  #hicfa  originated  that  measure, 
attained  within  a  short  period  the  highest  honon 
which  royalty  could  bestow.  In  the  8and  at 
Henry  VIIL  he  was  nominated  attorney  for  the 
dudiy  of  Lancaster,  raised  to  the  degree  of  ser- 
geant-al-tew,  and  appointed  king's  sergeant.  In 
two  years  afterwards  Mr.  Sergeant  Audley  suc- 
ceeded Sir  Thomas  More  in  the  custody  of  the 
great  seal,  as  lord  keeper,  when  he  received  the 
honor  of  knighthood,  and  before  the  close  of  the 
year  he  was  elevated  to  the  dignity  of  i.ord  chan- 
cBLi/OR  or  Eboland.  In  addition  to  those  lucra- 
tive honors.  Sir  Thomas  had  a  grant  of  the  icite 
and  precinct,  with  all  the  lands  and  plate  thereunto 
belonging  of  the  suppressed  priory  of  CArbteAwrdk, 
**  near  Aldgate,  in  the  dty  of  London,"  where  he 
erected  a  mansion-house  for  his  residence.  In  the 
30th  of  the  same  reign  his  lordship  sate  as  high 
steward  upon  the  trial  oi  Henry  Courtenay,  Mar- 
quess of  Exeter,  for  conspiring  to.  raise  Reginald 
Pole  (the  subsequently  eminent  Cardinal  Pole)  to 
the  throne.  And  in  that  year  he  obtained  a  grant 
of  the  great  ./I660y  <^  FTaJdm,  in  Essex,  in  compen- 
sation, as  he  alleged,  **  for  having  in  this  world 
sustained  great  damage  and  inflsmy  in  serving  the 
king."  Having  acquired  this  last  possession  he  was 
raised  to  the  peerage  by  letters  patent,  dated  8Dtb 
November,  1538,  as  Baron  Avdlky  or  Walobiv, 
and  installed  a  knight  of  the  meet  noUe  order  of 
the  garter.  His  lordship  m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Grey,  Marquea  of  Dorset,  and  had  two 
daughters,  vIl 

Margaret,  la.  first  to  Lord  Henry  Dudley,  son 
of  John,  Duke  of  NorthumberUmd,  who 
fell  at  SL  Quintan  hi  lAfl7*  dybig  §.p,,-  and 
secondly  to  Thomas  Howard,  Duke  of  Nor- 
folk, who  was  beheaded  Sad  July,  1078,  by 
whom  her  grace  had  iuue— 

Thomas,  summoned  to  parliament  as 
Lord  Howard  or  Wai.dbn,  and 
afterwards  created  Earx.  of  SurvoLK, 
lord  high  treasurer  temp.  Jemes  I. 
and  K.G.  From  this  nobleman  de- 
scend the  Earls  of  Suflblk  and  Berk- 
shire. 
Henry,  died  young. 

William,  ancestor  of  the  Earls  of  Car- 
lisle. 
Elizabeth,  died  unmarried. 
Margaret,  m.  to  Robert  Seckville,  second 
Earl  of  Dorset,  ancestor  of  the  Dukes 
of  Dorset. 
The  DucheM  of  Norfolk  inherited  the  entire 
property  of  her  fother  upon  the  decease 
of  her  sister. 
Mary,  who  died  unmarried. 
Lord  Audley  died  19th  April,  1A44,  when  the  title 
egpired  in  defiuilt  of  a  male  heir.    He  was  succeed- 
ed in  the  custody  of  the   seals  by  Sir  Thomas 
Wriothesley.    His  lordship  bequeathed  by  his  last 
testament,  his  body  to  be  buried    in   the  tomb 
of  his  new  chapel  at  WaUen  t  and  appointed  that 

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his  ezecuton  should,  upon  the  next  new  yeti's  day 
after  his  decease,  ddlver  a  legacy  of  one  hundred 
pounds  to  the  kfaig,  **firom  whom  he  had  received 
all  his  reputations  and  benefits.**  Of  this  nobleman 
Rapin  says,  **  Chancellor  Audley  was  a  person  of 
good  sensck  He  served  the  reformers  when  he  could 
without  danger :  but  he  was  too  much  a  courtier  to 
insist  upon  what  he  Judged  reasonable,  if  the  king 
was  against  it** 

Armb>— Quarterly  per  pale  indented  or,  and  as. 
In  the  second  and  third  an  eagle  displayed  of  the 
first,  on  a  bend  at  the  second  a  tnt  between  two 
martlets  of  gold. 

AVESNES— EARL  OF  CAMBRIDGE. 

Creation  of  King  Edward  III. 

ICiiuagt. 

In  the  year  1340, 

JOHN  DE  AVESNES,  of  Hainault,  uncle  oir 
brother  of  Philippa,  King  Edward  the  Third's  con- 
sort, was  created  Earx.  or  Cambridok,  but  engag- 
ing afterwards  in  the  interest  of  France  he  was 
deprived  of  the  dignity.  His  lordship  never  bad 
summons  to  parliament. 

BADLESMERE— BARONS  BADLES- 

MERE. 

By  Writ  ot  Summons,  dated  86th  October,  13Q9, 
3rd  Edward  II. 

ICincagc. 

The  first  mention  of  this  fiunily  occurs  in  the 
Itfth  year  of  the  reign  of  Henry  II,,  when 

BARTHOLOMEW  DE  BADLESMERE,  had  a 
law-suit  with  William  de  Cheney  oonoeming  a 
landed  property  in  the  county  of  Kent  {  and  in  the 
S2nd  of  the  same  king,  we  find  this  Bartholomew 
amerced  twenty  marlcs  for  trespassing  in  the  royal 
forests.    To  Barthokwuew  succeeded, 

WILLIAM  DE  BADLESMERE,  who  adhering 
to  the  cause  of  the  barons  was  taken  prisoner,  with 
several  others,  in  the  castle  of  Rochester,  towards 
the  close  of  King  John's  reign,  and  did  not  obtain 
his  freedom  until  the  sixth  year  of  Henry  III. 
After  this  William,  came 

GILES  DE  BADLESMERE,  who  lost  his  life  in 
a  skirmish  with  the  Welsh,  in  the  32nd  year  of 
Henry  IIL,  and  after  him, 

GUNCELINE  DE  BADLESMERE,  known  first 
as  a  great  rebel  to  Henry  III.,  for  which  he  was  ex- 
communicated by  the  ArdiUshop  of  Canterbury ; 
but  subsequently,  returning  to  his  allegiance,  as 
Justice  of  Chester,  in  which  oflloe  he  continued 
until  the  9th  of  Edward  I.  In  the  next  year  he  was 
in  the  expedition  made  into  Wales,  and  in  the 
Sftth  of  the  same  monarch,  in  that  into  Gasoony. 
He  d.  in  four  years  afterwards,  nised  of  the  manor 
of  Badlesmere,  which  he  hdd  in  capite  of  the 
crown,  as  of  the  barony  of  Cxevequer,  by  the  ser- 
vice of  one  knight's  fee.  He  was  «.  by  his  son,  then 
twoity-six  years  of  age, 

BARTHOLOMEW  DE  BADLESMERE,  who 
in  the  life-time  of  his  fisther,  (SSnd  Edward  IL) 
received  command  to  attend  the  king  at  Ports- 
mouth, upon  the  1st  day  of  September,  with  horse 
and  arms  to  embark  wiUi  him  for  Gaacooy,  and  in 


the  year  that  he  succeeded  to  his  paternal  property 
was  in  the  wars  of  Scotland.  He  was  afterwards  in 
the  retinue  of  Robert  de  Cliflbrd  in  the  Webb  wars, 
and  in  the  1st  year  of  Edward  1 1.,  was  iq>pointed 
governor  of  the  castle  of  BristoL  In  two  years 
afterwards  he  was  summoned  to  parliament  as  Bad- 
lesmere, and  had  a  grant  from  the  king,  through  the 
especial  influence  of  Gilbert  de  Clare,  Earl  of  Glou- 
cester and  Hertford,  and  Henry  de  Lad,  Earl  of 
Lincoln,  of  the  castle  and  manor  of  Chelham  in 
Kent,  for  his  own  and  his  wife^s  life,  which  castle 
had  been  poasesaed  by  Alexander  de  Baliol  in  right 
of  his  wife  Isabel,  and  ought  to  have  eadieated  to 
the  crown  upon  the  decease  of  the  said  Alexander, 
by  reason  of  the  felony  ot  Jcrim  de  Strabolgi,  Earl 
of  Athol,  (Isabd's  son  and  heir,)  who  was  lumged. 
In  the  Sth  ot  Edward  II.,  Lord  Badlesmere  was 
constituted  governor  ot  the  castle  of  Ledes,  and 
obtained  at  the  same  time  grants  of  divers  exten- 
sive manors.  In  the  next  year  but  one,  his  lord- 
ship was  deputed,  with  Otto  de  Giandison  and 
others,  ambassador  to  the  court  of  Rome,  and  the 
next  year,  upon  the  death  of  Robert  de  Clifford,  he 
obtained  a  grant  of  the  custody  of  the  castle  of 
Skypton  in  Yorkshire,  as  of  all  other  castles  in 
that  county,  and  Westmerdand,  whereof  the  said 
Robert  died  possessed,  to  hold  during  the  minority 
of  Roger  de  Cliflbrd,  his  son  and  heir. 

His  lordship  was  further  indebted  to  the  crown 
for  numerous  charters  for  fsizs  and  marts  through- 
out his  extensive  manors;  and  he  held  the  high 
office  of  steward  of  the  household  for  a  great  num- 
ber of  years  i  but  notwithstanding  his  thus  .basking 
in  the  sunshine  of  royal  favour,  his  allegiance  was 
not  trustworthy,  for  joining  the  banner  of  Thomas 
Earl  of  Lancaster,  and  other  discontented  nobles  of 
that  period,  he  went  into  Kent  without  the  king's 
permission:  where  being  well  received,  he  put 
himself  at  the  head  of  some  soldiers  ftom  his  castle 
at  Ledes,  and  thence  proceeded  to  Canterbury, 
with  nineteen  knights,  having  linen  Jackets  under 
their  surcoats,  all  his  esquires  being  in  plate 
armour,  and  thus  repaired  to  the  shrine  of  St 
Thcnnas,  to  the  great  amasement  of  the  good  dti- 
lens.  While  Lord  Badlesmere  remained  at  Canter- 
bury, John  de  Crumwell  and  his  wife  sought  his 
lordship's  aid,  and  pledging  himself  to  aflbrd  it,  he 
hasted  to  Oxford,  where  the  barons  of  his  party 
bad  been  then  assembled.  In  the  mean  time  the 
king  being  apprised  of  the  baron's  proceedings  de- 
spatdied  the  queen  to  Ledes,  and  upon  admisdon 
being  denied  to  her,  the  castle  was  reguhvly  in- 
vested by  Adomere  de  Valence,  Earl  of  Pembroke, 
and  John  de  Britannia,  Earl  of  Ridunond,  to 
whom  it  eventually  surrendered,  when  Lord  Bad- 
lesmereTs  wife,  young  son,  and  daughters,  all  falling 
into  the  hands  of  the  besiegers,  were  sent  prisoners 
to  the  Tower  of  London.  The  baron  and  his  ac- 
complices afterwards  were  pursued  by  Edmund, 
Earl  of  Kent,  and  John  de  WarrQi,  Earl  of  Surrey, 
and  bdng  defeated  and  taken  prisoners  at  the 
battle  of  Borough-bridge,  his  lordship  was  hanged, 
drawn,  and  quartered,  at  Canterbury,  and  his  head 
set  upon  a  pole  at  Burgate.  At  the  time  of  the 
baron's  execution,  upwards  of  ninety  lords,  knights, 
and  others  ooncenied  in  the  same  insurrection,  suf- 


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fered  A  ■fanHw  flite  In  Tsrious  pnti  ctf  the  klag- 
dam,  Ibrgvtt,  Mi  lordihip'a  widow,  (one  of  the 
danghten  and  oo-hdrenes  of  Tliomaa,  third  loa 
of  Thomee,  wcond  ion  of  Ridiardde  ClMf,  Earl  of 
Glouccaterp)  contiaaed  prlMmer  In  the  Tower,  until, 
thraeigh  the  influence  of  WHMam  Lord  Rooa,  ot 
Hamlake,  and  othen,  ahe  ohtalned  her  fireedom. 
Whereupon  betaking  hevwif  to  the  nunnery  of 
Minmnwett  without  Aldgate,  In  tiie  tuburbt  of 
London,  ahe  had  two  ahillinga  a  day  for  her  main- 
tenance, to  be  paid  by  the  ■herilf  of  Emck  ;  alie 
cnbaequently,  however,  obtained  a  large  proportion 
of  the  dfireiwed  lord*!  manors  for  her  dowry.  By 
this  lady.  Lord  Badleamere  left  issue* 

GiLBS. 

Maud,  Di.  to  John  de  Vera,  Earl  of  Oxfbrd. 

EUaabeth,  m.  first  to  Edmund  Mortimer,  and 
aeeondly,  to  William  Bohun,  Earl  of 
Northampton. 

Maxgaret,  m.  to  Sir  John  Tibetot. 

Margery,  m.  to  William,  Lord  Roos,  of  Ham- 
lake. 
His  lordship  had  been  summoned  to  parliament, 
ftom  the  90tb  October,  iaO0.  to  5th  August,  laSO. 
His  unhappy  fiite  occurred  in  1388;  but  notwith- 
standing (ftof,  his  son, 

CHLE8  DS  BADLBSMERE,  second  baron, 
finnidcucfa  &TOur  ftom  the  kia^,  that  he  had  a 
■pedal  precept  to  the  keeper  of  the  wardrobe,  in 
tlie  Tower,  to  deliTer  unto  him  all  his  Other's  bar- 
neys, as  well  ooflft-annouie  as  others.  This  noble- 
man doing  homage  In  the  7ih  of  Edward  IIL,  al- 
thou|^  not  dien  at  minority,  had  Uvery  of  his 
lands,  and  the  next  year  attended  the  king  In  an  ex- 
pedition into  Scotland,  in  which  service  he  was  en- 
gaged the  tliree  ensuing  years.  His  lordship  had 
summons  to  parliament  from  S8d  January,  1336,  to 
IBth  August,  1337.  He  m.  EUxabeth,  daughter  of 
William  de  Montacute.  Earl  of  Salisbury ;  but  dying 
without  iaane,  in  1338,  the  bakory  or  Badlbs- 
MXBB  fell  Into  eABBTAwcB  hot  wean  his  sisters  and 
eo-hdresse»»  and  it  so  continues  amongst  their  de- 


Akmb— Ag.  a  ftase  betw.  two   bars  gamelles. 


BALIOD— BARONS  BALIOL. 

Feudal. 

In  the  reign  of  William  Rurva, 

GUY  DE  BALIOL  had  a  grant  firom  the  crown 
of  the  BABOWY  of  BiWBLO,  in  the  county  of 
Notthnmberlend,  and  thus  became  Its  teidal  lord. 
This  Guy,  although  a  benefactor  to  the  churdi,  and 


•  The  faarooy  of  Badlesmere  waaaaaumed  without 
any  legal  right  by  the  deoeeaed  lord's  aUaet  sister, 
Maud,  Connteaaof  Ozfoed,  and  the  Earl,  her  hus- 
band, and  was  retained  in  thAt  Hunily  until  the  de- 
mise of  John  de  Vere,  Ibnxteenth  earl*  without  male 
israe,  in  the  reign  <^  Henry  VIIL,  when  it  was  oar- 
tiled,  Bth  April*  1688*  to  have  fhllan  into  abeyance 
between  that  nobleman'a  four  sisters. 


within  the  see  of  Durfaim,  waa  nevertheleBS  Inter- 
dicted hnnting  in  any  of  the  bishop's  forests.  He 
was  a.  by  his  son, 

BARNARD  DE  BALIOL,  a  military  com- 
mender  of  reputation,  who  participated  in  the  vic- 
tory achieved  over  the  Soots,  in  1138,  at  NortBaler- 
ton,  known  in  history  as  the  *«  Battle  of  the  Stand- 
ard," but  was  afterwards  taken  prisoner,  at  Linootn, 
wiUi  KLing  Stephen.  Upon  the  incurelon  of  the 
ScoU,  ta  the  20th  Henry  IL*  Barnard  de  Baliol 
again  took  up  arras,  and  joining  Robert  de  Stute- 
vile,  proceeded  to  the  relief  of  Afaiwick  CMtle, 
and  having  surprised  the  besiegers,  seised  the  king  of 
Soots  with  his  own  hand*  and  sent  him  prisoner  to 
the  Ceatle  of  Richmond.  In  the  course  of  this 
liotoed  mardi  to  Alnwick,  when,  in  consequence  of 
a  dense  fbg,  a  halt  was  reooaomended,  Baliol  ex- 
claimed, •«  Let  those  stay  that  will,  I  am  resolved 
to  go  forward*  aldMogh  none  follow  me,  rather 
than  dishonour  mya^  by  tarrying  here."  This 
feudeldiief  is  supposed  to  have  been  the  ftrander 
of  the  fortreaa  upon  the  benka  of  the  Telse,  called 
"  Banard  Castle."  H«  was  a  nmnifloant  benefiKtor 
to  the  church,  having,  among  other  grants,  be> 
stowed  lands  upon  the  Abbey  of  St.  Mary  at  York, 
and  upon  the  monks  at  RiebauJt*  for  the  health  of 
his  own  soul*  and  that  of  his  wift,  Aohbs  ob  Pik- 
CBBKi.    He  was  «.  by  his  son, 

EUSTACE   DE  BALIOL,  who  gave  £lOO  for 
Uoense  to  marry  the  widow  of  Robert  Fitspiers. 
This  feudal  k)rd  had  issue— 
Huoji,  his  succcaaor. 

Henry,  m.  Lore,  oneoftheco-heiraeBea  of  Chris- 
tian, wife  of  William  de  Mandeville,  Earl  of 
Essex ;  and  dying  in  the  30th  of  Henry  IIL, 
his  widow,  the  Lfuly  LauretU  (as  termed  in 
the  record),  had  livery  of  all  the  lands  in  Es- 
sex, Hertford,  and  Norfolk,  which  he  held 
of  her  inheritance. 
Eustace,  in.  Helewise,  daughter  and  heiieaa  of 
Ralph  de  Levyngton,  a  baron  of  Northum- 
berland, and  hia  wifs,  Ada,  who  had  been 
the  widow  of  William  de  FumlvaU.  In  the 
tfth  Henry  IIL  thb  Eustace  was  aherilf  of 
Cumberland  and  governor  of  the  caatle  of 
Caxlisle.  In  nine  years  afterwards,  assum- 
ing the  croaa,  he  attended  Prince  Edward 
to  the  Holy  Land.  Upon  the  decease  of  Us 
wife,  Eustace  de  Baliol  m»peen  to  have  had 
a  great  contest  with  her  heirs-at-law  re> 
garding  her  inheritance  in  a  moiety  of  the 
barony  of  BuBOH  I  theheirsclaimingimmo* 
diate  poeaeeslon,  while  Eustace  held,  that, 
having  had  a  chUd  bom  alive  by  thedeoeaaed* 
he  waa  entitled  by  the  courtesy  of  England 
to  a  life-interest  in  the  eatatew  The  heirs 
seeno,  however,  to  haveeventually  previdled. 
Eustace  espoused,  for  his  second  wife,  Agnes, 
aeoonddau^terof  JoanedePerd,  andgrand- 
dau^iter  (maternally)  of  William  de  Bruere, 
a  powcrftil  feudal  baron  of  that  period. 
Euetaee  de  Baliol,  Sen.,  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 
HUGH  DE  BALIOL,  who  was  certified  to  hold 
the  barony  of  BlweU  of  the  crown  by  the  service  of 
five  knights^  fees,  and  to  find  thirty  aoldlers  for  the 
guard  of  Newcastle-upon-Tyne*  as  his  progeniton 

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had  done  from  the  time  of  Ruftu.  He  held  likewiae 
the  lordship  of  Hiche,  in  Knex,  in  capUe,  as  an 
augmentation  of  his  barony,  by  the  gift  of  Henry  1 1. 
Prom  King  Joim  he  obtained  the  lands  of  Richard 
de  Uniranville,  and  of  Robert  de  MeiineU,  in  the 
county  of  York,  in  consideration  of  his  aervices  in 
the  Baronial  War.  In  the  18th  of  that  monarch's 
reign,  he  was  Joined  with  Philip  de  Hulcotes  in  de- 
fence of  the  northern  border  towards  Scotland; 
and  when  the  king  of  Scots  had  subjjugated  the 
whole  of  Northumberland  for  Lewis  of  France, 
those  generals  held  out  stoutly  all  the  fortresses  upon 
the  line  of  the  Tetse,  particularly  rAii«  of  Barnard 
Castle,  where  Eustace  de  Vesci  (who  had  married 
the  Scottish  monarch's  sister),  coming  with  his 
royal  brother-in-law  to  the  siege,  was  slain.  Hugh 
de  Baliol  was  succeeded  by  his  son, 

JOHN  DE  BALIOL.  This  feudal  lord  m.  De- 
Torguill,  one  of  the  three  daughters  and  co-heirs 
of  Alan  of  Galloway,  a  great  baron  of  Scotland,  by 
Margaret,  eldest  sister  of  John  le  Soot,  the  last 
Earl  of  Chester,  and  one  of  the  heirs  of  David,  some* 
time  earl  of  Huntingdon,  from  which  alliance  arose 
the  claim  of  the  Baliois  to  the  crown  of  Scotland. 
By  this  illustrious  lady  he  acquired  the  Scottish 
barony  of  Galloway.  In  the  88th  Henry  III.,  when 
ways  and  means  were  required  to  discharge  the 
debt  incurred  by  the  war  in  Gascony,  John  de 
Baliol  was  one  of  the  committee  of  twelve  chosen 
to  report  to  parliament  upon  the  sutjeet ;  and  the 
next  year  he  paid  thirty  pounds  for  thirty  knights' 
fees,  wluch  he  held  towards  the  levy  in  aid,  for 
marrying  the  king's  daughter.  He  was  afterwards 
sheriff  of  Cumberland  for  six  successive  years,  and 
governor  of  the  castle  of  Carlisle.  Subsequently 
he  had  a  military  summons  to  attend  the  king  at 
Chester,  to  oppose  the  Welsh,  and  was  sheriff  of 
the  counties  of  Nottingham  and  Derby  for  three 
years  s  at  which  time  he  had  the  honour  qfPeverai 
committed  to  his  custody.  In  the  baronial  contest 
he  adhered  faithfully  to  the  king,  and  fell  into  the 
hands  of  the  Earl  of  Leicester,  with  his  royal  mas- 
ter, at  the  taM.tle  of  Lewes,  in  1S64 ;  but  he  appears 
to  have  effected  his  escape,  and  to  have  Joined  the 
other  loyal  barons  in  raising  fresh  troops  for  the 
captive  monarch's  redemption.  This  John  Baliol 
was  founder  of  the  college  that  bears  his  name  at 
Oxford.  He  d.  in  1268,  and  was  «.  by  Us  son  (then 
twenty-eight  years  of  age), 

HUGH  DE  BALIOL,  who  m.  Anne,  daughter  of 
William  de  Valence,  Earl  of  Pembroke,  but  dying 
the  next  year  without  issue,  was  «.  by  his  brother, 

ALEXANDER  DE  BALIOL.  The  barony  in- 
herited by  this  feudal  lord  consisted  of  more  than 
flve-and-twenty  extensive  lordships.  He  A  in  U78, 
and  was  «.  by  bis  son, 

JOHN  DE  BALIOL,  who  m.  Isabel,  daughter  of 
John  de  Warren,  Earl  of  Surrey.  This  feudal  no- 
bleman was  one  of  the  chief  competitors  for  the 
crown  of  Scotland,  in  the  reign  of  Edward  I.,  and 
was  eventually  declared  king,  by  the  decision  of 
that  monarch,  to  whose  arbitration  the  claimants 
submitted  their  pretensions. 

To  elucidate  Baliol's  right  to  the  Caledonian 
sceptre,  it  will  be  neceisary  to  digress  somewhat 
into  the  genealogy  of  the  SootUsb  prinoea. 
94 


David,  KUtg  qf  Scotland,  had  an  only  son, 
HxNRY,  who  pre-deoeased  him,  leaving  three  sons, 
via. — 

1.  Malcolm,  who  ascended  the  throne  as  Mal- 
colm IV.,  and  was  «.  by  hia.brother, 
8.  William  the  Lion,  who  was  «.  by  his  son, 
Alszandcr    the  Third.     This  pHnoe 
espoused  Margaret,  daughter  of  Henry 
III.   King  of  England,  and  sister  of 
King  Edward  1.  and  had  three  chil- 
dren.  via.— 
Alexander,  1  bothdied  in  thelife-tlme 
David,        J     of  their  fether,  ».  p. 
Margaret,  m.  in  1281,  Eric,  Kino  or 
Norway,  and  left  an  only  daugh- 
ter, 

Maroarbt,  who  was  acknow- 
l«ged  QuBxx  or  Scots,  but 
died    in    her  passage   fiam 
Norway,  and  with  her  ter- 
minated the  Unes  of  David's 
two  sons,  Malcolm  and  Wil- 
liam. 
3.  David,  Earl  of  Huntingdon,  In  England, 
espoused  Maud,  daughter  of  Hugh,  and  sister 
and  co-heiress  of  Ranulph,  Earl  of  Chester, 
by  whom  he  left  issue  at  his  decease  in  181S, 
John,  sumamed  Le  Scot,  a.  to  the  Earldom 
of  Huntingdon,  and  became  Earl  of 
Chester,  died  «.  p. 
Margaret,  m.  to  Alan,  of  Galloway*  and 
had  two  daughters,  via.—- 

Dervorguill,  m.  to  John  de  Baliol, 
grandfether  of  John  de  Baliol,  of 
whom  we  are  now  Immediately 
treating. 
Marjory,  m.  to  John  Casaja,  and  died 
».p. 
Isabella,  m.  Robert  Bruce,  and  had  a  son, 
RoBSRT  Brucb,  the  celebrated  claim- 
ant for  the  Scottish  crown. 
Ada,  m.  Henry  de  Hastinge*  Lord  Hast- 
ings, and  left  issue, 

Hbnrt,  Lord  Hastings,  also  a  com- 
petitor for  the  Scottish  throne. 
Margaret. 

Hillarie,  m.  to  Sir  William  Haroourt, 
ancestor  of  the  Earls  or  Har- 
couRT,  recently  extinct. 
By  this  taUe,  the  daim  of  Baliol  seems  indispu- 
table, his  mother,  who  was  then  alive,  having 
abdicated  her  right  in  his  flavour,  but  Bruce  con- 
tended that  he  was  himself  one  step  of  kindred 
nearer  to  David,  Earl  of  Huntingdon,  than  Baliol, 
being  that  nobleman's  grandsons  and  he  met  the 
question  of  seniority,  by  alleging,  that  he  had  to 
contest  that  point  in  reality  with  Baliol's  mother, 
and  that  being  a  male,  he  ought  to  be  preferred  to 
a  female,  aoeording  to  the  law  and  usage  of  nations, 
ot  which  he  adduced  divers  precedents.  EUlward, 
decided,  however,  in  fevour  of  Baliol,  and  the 
new  king  swore  fealty  to  the  English  monarch,  on 
30th  November,  1298,  as  his  supeHor  lord.  In  the  oath 
he  acknowledged  the  sovereignty  of  the  King  of  Eng- 
land over  Scotland,  in  very  express  and  submissive 
terms ;  and  he  caused  an  authentic  act  of  Allcgianae 


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to  be  dfami  up.  BaIiol*k  ImtallAtioii  foDowed,  $nd 
WW  pflrfbrmed  at  Scone»  with  the  omul  ooremoDlet, 
all  the  Scottiih  lords  swearing  fealty  to  him,  MTe 
RoBSRT  Bbuck,  who  ahMuted  himsd^  Thus  the 
Bngliah  fbvsai.  Bakowy  or  Baiaoi,,  rnvged  ia 
the  nigral  dignity  of  Sootlaad. 
Asm*— Gu.  aa  orle  ar. 

BALIOI>— BARONS  BALIOL. 

By  Wiit  of  SwimnoM,  dated  fl8th  September,  1300, 

88Edi|anlL 

ALEXANDER  BALIOL,  brother  of  JoBH  na  Ba- 
LioL.  Kino  or  Sooti^utd,  being  in  the  retinue  of 
that  magnffleeoft  pvdate,  Anthony  Beke,  Bishop  of 
Dntham,  and  Patriardi  of  JcniiMpin ;  in  the  ex- 
pedition made  by  King  Edward  I.  into  Flanders, 
was  restated  to  all  hie  lands  in  Scotland,  in  the  SSth 
of  that  manardi*s  reAgn— and  was  summoned  to 
parliament  as  a  Babox,  from  the  96th  September, 
I30O,  to  theard  Norember,  ldO&  His  lordship  m. 
IsabeO,  daughter  and  hdreis  of  Richard  de  Chil- 
ham,  and  widow  of  David  de  Strabolgi,  Earl  of 
Athol,  by  whom  he  obtained  for  life,  the  castle  and 
manor  of  Chilham,  in  the  county  of  Kent.  Dying, 
however,  without  issue,  the  Babomv  of  Baliol 
became  bxtibct. 

BARDOLF— BARONS  BARDOLF. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  6th  February,  UB9, 
27  Edward  L 

ICituagc. 

Thb  first  ci  this  family  upon  record, 
WILLIAM  BARDULF,  was  sheriff  of  Norfolk 
and  SuflUk,  from  the  16th  to  Slst  of  Henry  II., 
IndusiTe,  and  after  him  came 

THOMAS  BARDULF,  who,  upon  the  scutage 
being  levied  of  sudi  barons  as  did  not  attend  King 
Henry  IL  foto  Ireland,  in  the  18th  of  that  mo- 
nardi's  reign,  nor  contribute  men  or  money  to  that 
scnrice,  paid  £25.  Cor  the  Kutage  of  those  knights' 
fees  wUdi  formerly  bdonged  to  Ralph  Hanselyn, 
Baron  of  Schdford  in  the  county  of  Nottingham, 
whose  daughter  and  heiress,  Rosa,  he  had  married. 
This  Thomas  obtained  fh>m  William,  brother  of 
Kfaig  Henry  IL,  the  Lordship  of  Bradewell,  to  hold 
to  himsdf  and  his  heirs,  by  the  serrioe  of  one 
knight's  fee.  Three  parti  of  which  he  bestowed 
upon  his  three  daughters ;  vis.  ,  wife  of  Ro- 
bert de  St.  Remigio  i ,  wifeof  William  Bacun  { 

and f  wife  of  Baldwin  de  Thoni.     Thomas 


Bardttlf  was  a.  by  his  son, 

DOUN  BARDOLF,  who  marrying  Beatrix,  daugh- 
ter andheiressofWilliamdeWerrsn,  acquired  by  her 
the  Barony  of  Wirmegay,  in  the  county  of  Norfolk. 
He  (f.  in  1900,  leaTlng  his  widow  Beatrix  surviving, 
who  gave  3100  marks  to  the  king,  for  livery  of  her 
fethcr's  lands,  and  a  reaionable  dowry  from  the 
lands  bdooging  to  her  husband;  as  also  that  she 
might  not  be  compdkd  to  marry  again,  contrary  to 
her  iadination.    Doun  Bardolf  was  «.  by  his  ton, 

WILLIAM  BARDOLF,  who  in  the  96th  of  Henry 
III.,  attended  that  monarch  in  person,  in  the  expe- 
dition which  be  then  made  into  Fiance.  In  the 
next  year,  he  had  livery  of  the  honor  of  Wirmegay, 


wMch  during  Us  minority  had  beta  in  the  hands  of 
Hubert  de  Burgh,  Earl  of  Kent}  and  he 
quently  obtataied  royal  charters  fer  ourkets 
free  warrsn  throo^iout  his  difllrcnt  lordshipe 
and  manors.  In  the  41st  of  the  nnne  monarch,  he 
attended  the  king  ia  his  expedition  into  Wales,  and 
was  soon  after  constituted  governor  of  Nottin^iem 
CesUa  He  was  at  the  fetal  battleof  Lewes,  under 
the  royal  banner,  in  1964,  and  waa  there  taken  pri- 
soner akag  with  the  king.  He  d.  in  the  4th  of 
Edward  I.,  anno  197A,  and  was  s.  by  his  ion, 

WILLIAM  BARDOLF,  who  doing  homage,  had 
livery  of  his  lands,  lying  in  the  counties  of  Leices- 
ter, Lincoln,  Nottingham,  Norfolk,  and  Suieexi 
and  Kxm  after  obtained  charters  for  felrs  and  mar- 
kets to  be  hoMen  at  his  diflbmt  mnors.  He  m. 
Julian,  daughter  of  Hugh  de  Gumay,  end  dying  in 
U99,  wes  «.  by  his  son, 

HUGH  BARDOLF,  who  te  the  9Sd  of  Edward  L. 
had  summons  with  other  eminent  persons,  to  attend 
the  king,  to  advise  upon  the  aflkirs  of  the  realm, 
and  was  subsequently  summoned  to  parliataent,  as 
Babob  BAB]>oLr,  from  the  6th  of  February,  1999, 
to  the  2nd  of  June^  1308.  He  m.  Isabel,  daughter 
and  heireii  of  Robert  Aguillon.e  by  whom  he  had 
two  ions,  Thomas  and  William.  His  lordship, 
who  was  employed  in  the  French  and  Scottish  wan 
of  this  reign,  d.  in  1303,  and  was«.  by  his  elder  son, 

SIR  THOMAS  BARDOLF,  K.B.,  es  second  Ba- 
aoM  Babdolv.  TUs  nobleman  was  summoned  to 
parliament,  flrom  96th  August,  1307,  to  Sard  Octo- 
ber, 130a  In  the  latter  of  which  yeers  his  lordship 
d.,  sad  was  «.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  BARDOLF,  third  Babob  Babdolf, 
summoned  to  parliament,  from  99nd  January,  1336, 
to  the  1st  June,  1363.  His  kirdship  in.  Eliasbeth, 
daughter  and  ooheireis  of  Sir  Roger  I^Amorie,  and, 
as  Dugdale  calls  her,  «<  that  great  woman,"  his  wife, 
Elisabeth,  by  whom  he  acquired  a  considerable 
accession  of  landed  property.  This  noUeman  par- 
ticipated in  the  glories  of  the  martial  reign  of  Ed- 
ward III.,  and  attained  the  high  dignity  of  Ban- 
NBBXT.    He  d.  in  1371,  and  was  s.  by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  BARDOLF,  fourth  Babow  Bab- 
noLF— summoned  to  parliament,  from  90Ch  Janu- 
ary, 1376,  to  3rd  September,  138ft,  as  «•  William 
Bardolf  of  Wormegay."  His  lordship  m.  Agnes, 
daughter  of  Sir  Michad  Poynings,  Knt.  He  served 
in  the  French  and  Irish  wars :  Utterly  under  John 
of  Oaimt,  Duke  of  Lancaster,  and  dying  in  13BS, 
was  «.  by  his  son, 

THOMAS  BARDOLF,  fifth  Babon  Babdolf— 
iummoned  to  parliament,  from  19th  September, 
13B0,  to  9Sth  August,  1404.  This  nobleman  joining 
Henry,  Earl  of  Northumberland,  Thomas,   Earl 

*  In  Gibson's  Camden's  Britannia,  it  is  stated, 
that  Sir  Robert  Aguillon  had  a  castle  at  the  manor 
of  Addington  in  Surrey,  which  was  hoUcn  in  fee, 
by  the  lerjeantcy,  to  find  in  the  king's  kitdicn,  on 
the  coronation  day,  a  penon  to  make  a  dainty  dish, 
called,  '*  Mapigernoun,  or  DiUegrout,"  and  serve 
the  same  up  to  the  king's  table.  This  lerviee  hfs 
been  regularly  claimed  by  the  lords  of  the  seld 
manor,  and  flowed  at  the  respective  ccmmatioas  of 
the  kings  of  England.— Ban^y  Rrtitwt  Pwreffv. 
E  99 


BAS- 


BAS 


Marshal '  and  Nottlngh«iA«  and  Richard  Scroope, 
Archbishop  of  York,  in  their  rebellion,  temp. 
Henry  IV..  (for  which  the  earl  marshal  and  arch- 
Uahop  were  breaded  at  York.)  he  was  forced, 
with  tlie  earl  of  Northumberland,  to  fly  to  France, 
but  those  lords  returning  in  about  three  years 
afterwards,  and  again  raising  the  standard  of  insur- 
rection in  Yorkshire,  they  were  attacked  by  the 
sheriff  and  the  power  of  the  county  at  Bramham 
Moor,  where  sustaining  a  total  defeat,  the  earl  fell 
in  the  field,  and  Lord  Bardolf  died  soon  afterwards 
of  his  wounds.  His  lordship  had  married  Avicia. 
daughter  of  Ralph.  Lord  Cromwell,  and  left  two 
daughters,  via. 

Aime,  m.  first,  to  Sir  William  Cliflbrd,  Knt, 

and  secondly,  to  Reginald  Lord  Cobham. 
Joane,  m..to  Sir  William  Phelip.  K.G.,  (son 
of  Sir  John  Phelip,  Knt.,  of  Donynton,  in 
the  county  of  Suflblk,)  a  valiant  soldier  in 
the  French  wars  of  King  Henry  V.,  to  which 
monarch  he  was  treasurer  of  the  household, 
and  at  his  decease  had  the  chief  direction  of 
his  funeral.  Sir  William  is  said  to  have 
been  raised  to  the  peerage  by  letters  patent, 
as  Lord  BARDOLr,  in  the  reign  at  Henry 
VI..  but  he  was  never  summoned  to  par- 
liament. By  Joane  Bardolf  he  left  an  only 
daughter  and  heiress, 

Elisabeth,  who  m.  John,  Viscount  Beau- 
mont. (See  that  dignity.) 
•  Thomas,  the  fifth  and  unfortunate  Lord  Bar- 
dolf. dying  thus,  and  bdng  afterwards  att^nted, 
his  Barony  and  large  possessions  became  forfeited. 
The  estates  were  divided  between  Thomas  Beau- 
fort, Duke  of  Exeter,  the  king's  brother.  Sir  George 
Dunbar,  Knt.,  and  the  queen;  but  the  latter  pro- 
portion, upon  the  petition  of  Sir  William  CUflbrd 
and  his  wife,  and  Sir  William  Phelip  and  his  wife, 
to  the  king,  was  granted  in  reversion  after  the 
queen's  decease,  to  those  representatives  of  the 
attainted  nobleman.  Dugdale  states,  "that  Lord 
Bardolf 's  remains  were  quartered,  and  the  quarters 
disposed  of,  by  being  set  upon  the  gates  of  London, 
York,  Lenne,  and  Shrewsbury,  while  the  head  was 
placed  upon  one  of  the  gates  of  Lincoln.  His  wi- 
dow obtained  permission,  however,  in  a  short  time 
to  remove  and  bury  them." 
A]Uf»— As.  three  cinque  folia,  or. 

BASSET  —  BARONS     BASSET     OF 
WELDEN. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  eth  February,  U99, 
S7th  Edward  L 

ICincagc. 

Few  flsmilies  in  the  early  annals  of  England  can 
boast  of  a  more  eminent  progenitor,  than  the  Bas- 
sets, and  the  descendants  of  few  of  the  Anglo- 
Norman  nobles  attidned  a  higher  degree  of  power 
tlian  those  of, 

RALPH  BASSET,  who*  is  said  to  have  been 
raised  by  Henry  I  .,  Arom  a  lowly  condition,  to 

■  Li  I.I  II  I  II 

•  De  ignoUli  stirpe  illustravit  ac  de  pulvere  (ut 
Ita  dicam,)  extuliti  datAque  multi^Uci  Auultate 
super  ooDsules  et  illustres  oppidanos  exaltavlt. 
— <Orderlcus  Viulis. 


large  possessions,  and  to  have  been  "  exalted  above 
earls  and  other  eminent  men,"  by -that  monarch. 
'Tis  true  he  was  constituted  JuaTiCK  of  England, 
and  invested  with  the  power  of  sitting  in  whatever 
court  he  pleased  and  where  he  might  list  for  the 
administration  of  Justice ;  but  it  is  not  equally  cer- 
tain that  he  was  of  so  humble  an  origin,  for  we  find 
his  son  Ralph,  in  the  reign  of  Stephen,  "  abound- 
ing in  wealth,  and  erecting  a  strong  castle  upon 
some  part  of  his  inheritance  in  Normandy.**  The 
son  having  such  an  heritable  property  would  oer- 
tunly  indicate  that  the  family  was  of  importance 
in  the  dukedom,  prior  to  the  conquest  of  E^ngIand ; 
it  is  not  of  any  consequence,  however,  for  Ralph 
BAasKT  required  none  of  the  artificial  aids  of 
ancestry  to  attain  distinction ;  he  had  within  him- 
self powers  sufficient  at  any  period  to  reach  the 
goal  of  honour,  but  particularly  in  the  rude  age  in 
which  he  lived.  To  his  wisdom  we  are  said  to  be 
indebted  for  many  salutary  laws,  and  among  others 
for  that  of  fhmk  pledge.  Like  all  the  great  men  of 
his  day,  he  was  a  most  liberal  benefactor  to  the 
church.    He  d,  in  1120,  leaving  issue, 

Thurstins,  who  «.  to  the  manor  of  Colston. 
Thomas,  ancestor  of  the  Bassets  of  Hadding- 
ton, from  whom  diverged  the  Wycombe 
Bassets. 
Richard,  of  whom  presently.    This  Richard 
is  called  the  eldest  son  by  Dugdale,  and  by 
others,  the  second. 
Nicholas,   who  was    overthrown   under  the 
banner  of  Stephen,  fighting  against  the  Em- 
press Maud;  and  his  son  forfeited  all  the 
estates  to  Henry  II. 
Gilbert,  of  Little  Rissington.  in  the  county  of 
Gloucester,  ancestor  of  the  Bassets  of  that 
place. 
The  third  son, 

RICHARD  BASSET,  succeeded  his  fkther  as 
JusTicc  of  England,  which  high  office  he  filled 
in  the  latter  part  of  King  Henry  I.'s  reign,  and 
through  the  whole  of  King  Stephen's.  In  the  Ath 
year  of  the  latter  monardi,  he  was  sheriff  of  Surrey, 
Cambridge,  and  Huntingdonshire,  with  Alerlc  de 
Vere;  and  he  served  the  same  office  for  Essex, 
Hertford,  Buckingham,  Bedlbrd,  Norfolk.  Suflblk, 
Ncnrthampton,  and  Leicestershires.  His  lordship 
m.  Maud,  only  daughter  and  heirea  of  GeofArey 
Ridel,  Lord  of  Witheringe,  by  Geva,  daughter  of 
Hugh  Lupus,  Earl  of  Chester,  and  had  issue, 

Geoflnrey,  who,  flrom  his  mother,  assumed  the 

surname  of  **  BideL" 
Ralph,  of  Drayton,  in  the  county  of  Staffiard 
(a  lordship  bestowed  upon  his  mother  by 
the  Earl  of  Chester). 
William,  of  Sapcoate. 
He  d,  — —  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 
GEOFFREY  RIDEL.    This  ffradal  lord  married 
twice,  and  had  issue  by  both  wives,  by  the  first,  two 
sods:  via. 

Gbopfrby,  who  obtained  the  principality  of 

Blaye,  in  Franoei 
Richard,  of  whom  presently. 
By  the  secxnd,  one  son, 

Hugh,   from    whom    the    present    baronets 
RiDBLL  derive. 


BA8 


HAS 


Geoflkey  Ridd  wm  «b  at  his  deeeMe  by  hk  eldest 
MUTiTing  son,  who  n  ■turning  hit  patemal  tur- 
■ame,  aod  iwting  hinuelf  at  WeUen,  in  North- 
ampUaahire,  became 

RICHARD  BASSET*  V  WMm,  and  was «.  by 
hiaion, 

RALPH  BASKET,  who.  in  the  Sod  of  Henry  III., 
paid  thirty  marks  for  the  fifteen  knighta*  fees  he 
tb«t  held,  upon  the  levy  of  the  first  scutage  for  the 
king.  He  d.  sometime  before  the  year  lSft7»  and 
was  a.  by  his  son, 

RALPH  BASSET,  who  had  Uvery  of  his  lands, 
npoBi  doing  homage  in  the  49nd  Henry  III.  He 
was  «.  by  his  son. 

RICHARD  BASSET,  who  A  in  U7«,  aad  was  s. 
by  his  son. 

RALPH  BASSET,  who  d.  \n  UM,  and  was  «.  by 
his  son. 

RICHARD  BASSET,  who  was  summoned  to 
parliament,  on  the  6th  of  February,  1189,  as 
«•  Ri€hard»  Batmt  ds  fFdU^"  la  the  34th  Edward 
I.,  his  lordship  was  in  the  expedition  made  against 
die  Scots,  in  the  retinue  of  Almare  de  Valence, 
Earl  of  Pembroke,  and  being  subsequently  engaged 
in  the  same  serrice,  he  was  slain  at  the  battle 
of  Strevriyn.  He  was  «.  by  his  son.  (then  in  mi> 
nority,  whose  wardship  was  granted  to  Richard  de 
Grey,) 

RALPH  BASSET,  second  baron,  who  oudUng 
proof  of  his  age.  had  livery  of  his  lands  in  the 
15th  Edward  II.  His  kirdship  «.  Joane,  daughter 
of  John  de  la  Pole,  dtissn  of  London,  and  had 


Ralph,  his  successor. 

Elesnor.  m.  to  Sir  John  Knyvett*  Lord  Chao< 

cellor  of  England. 
Joane,  m.  to  Sir  Thomas  Ayleslmry.  Knt. 
His  lordship  was  a.  at  his  deoesse  by  his  son. 
RALPH  BASSET,  third  banm.  but  never  sum- 
moned to  parliament     This  nobleman  becoming 
a  canon  regular  in  the  priory  of  Laund.  his  son 
and  heir, 

RALPH  BASSET,  ddng  his  homage,  had  livery 
of  all  his  fither's  lands,  and  dylqg  in  the  8th  of 
Richard  IL.  was  «.  by  his  son. 

RICHARD  BASSET,  jiho  died  «.  p.  in  the  lOth 
of  Henry  IV*.  leaving  his  cousins. 


sal 

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«S    8    i 


Sir  John  Aylesbury 

and 

John  KnyvetL 


Heirs  to  his  ex- 
tensive estates, 
but  the  barony 
appears  to  have 
existed  with  the 
baron  who  had 
been  summoned 
to  parliament 
only.  Wherefore, 
though,  is  not 
very  inteiligiUe^ 

The  male  line  of  Sir  John  Aylesbury  failed  with 
son  Sir  Thomas,  who  left  two  daughters,  oo- 

luunely, 

Isabel*  wifie  of  Sir  Thomas  Chaworth,  KnL 
Elaaaor,  m.  to  Humphrey  StaAnd,  of  Oraflon. 
Anns    Of,  three  piles«  gu.  within  a  bordure.  Sa. 


I 


BASSET  —  BARONS     BASSET,     OF 
DRAYTON. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  14th  December,  li64, 
48th  Henry  II L 

In  the  4and  year  ot  King  Henry  IlL 

RALPH  BASSET,  Lord  of  Drayton,  in  the 
county  of  Stallbrd,  great  grandson  of  Richard 
Basset,  Justice  of  England,  and  his  wife  Maud 
Ridel,  had  summons,  (amongst  other  great  men.) 
to  attend  the  king  at  Chester,  well  Aimished  with 
horse  and  arms,  to  oppoae  the  incursions  of  the 
Welsh.  But  in  the  4Bth  of  the  same  monarch, 
having  Joined  Simon  Montlbrd.  Earl  of  Leicester, 
and  thr  other  rebelUous  barons,  he  was  appointed 
the  next  year,  after  tlae  defeat  of  the  king's  anw 
at  Lewes,  and  capture  of  the  king,  governor  for 
those  lords  of  the  castles  of  Salop  and  Bruges.  He 
fell,  however,  before  the  close  of  the  same  year,  at 
the  battle  of  Evesham.  It  Is  said,  that  when  the 
Earl  of  Leicester  pefceived  the  great  force  and 
order  of  the  royal  army,  calculating  upon  defeat, 
he  conjured  Ralph  Basset  and  Hugh  Dispenser  to 
retire,  and  reserve  themselves  for  better  times;  but 
they  bravely  answered,  *•  that  if  he  perished,  they 
would  not  desire  to  Uva"  Lord  Basset  m.  Mar- 
garet, daughter  of  Roger  de  Someri,  Baron  of 
Dudley,  and  widow  of  Urian  SL  Pierre,  and  had 


Ralph,  his  successor. 
Maud,  m.  to  John  Lord  Grey  de  Wilton. 
Notwithstanding  the  death  of  Lord  Basset,  thus 
in  arms  against  the  king,  his  widow  was  so  Csvoured 
by  the  monarch,  as  to  have  the  chief  of  his  estates 
settled  upon  her  for  lifie,  but  soon  afterwards  taking 
the  veil,  she  passed  her  title  in  those  lands  to  her 
son, 

RALPH  BASSET,  second  baron,  who  had  sum- 
mons to  parliament,  £3d  June.  U95,  as  '*  BmUtlphtu 
Bastet  de  Dit^fUm,"  This  nobleman  was  engaged  in 
the  French  and  Scottish  wars  of  King  Edward  I. 
In  the  latter,  as  one  of  the  retinue  of  Edmund, 
Earl  of  Lancaster,  the  king's  brother.  His  lordship 
m.  Joan,*  daughter  of  John  Grey.  Justice  of  Chester, 
and  had  Issue. 

Rajuph,  his  successor. 

Margaret,  m,  Edmund,  baron  of  Stafford,  the 
great-grandson  of  which  marriage,  Thomab, 
Eau.  op  Stappobo,  was  one  of  the  heirs  to 
Ralph,  last  Lord  Basset  of  Drayton.  ' 
Maud,  m,  to  William  de  Herei,  the  great-great- 
grand-daughter  of  which  marriage.  Alic^ 
wife  of  Sir  William  Chaworth,  Knt,  was  one 
of  the  heirs  to  Ralph,  last  Lord  Basset  of 
Drayton,  of  whom  at  conclusion. 
His  lordship  d,  in  UHQ,  and  was  «.  by  his  son. 

RALPH  BASSET,  third  Lord  Battet  qf  Drayton, 
summoned  to  parliament  firom  89th  December,  liW. 
to  25th  February,  134S.  This  nobleman  was  one  of 
the  eminent  persons  made  knights  of  the  bath  with 

e  Dugdale.  under  Basset  of  Drayton,  makes  this 
huly  as  above,  but  under  Grey,  of  Wilton,  he  calls 
her  the  daughter  of  RcginaU  Grey,  the  son  of 
John.  1 


BAS 


BA8 


Prince  Edward,  in  the  34th  of  Edward  I,  and  who 
attended  the  Idng  that  year  into  Scotland,  but  re- 
turning thence  without  leave,  order*  were  iwued  to 
the  aheriA  of  Stafford,  Nottingham,  and  Derby- 
ahire.  to  lelse  his  lands :  he  received,  however,  his 
pardon  in  the  following  year.    His  lordship  was,  for 
several  years  afterwards,  in  constant  service  in  Scot- 
land.   In  the  15th  Edward  II.  he  was  joined  in  com- 
mission with  John  de  Somerl.  to  seise  the  castle  of 
Kenilworth  for  the  king,  by  reason  ot  the  forfeiture 
of  Thomas,  Earl  of  Lancaster,  and  in  the  same  year 
was  oonstitttted  steward  of  the  Duchy  of  Aqquitane. 
During  his  government  there.  Lord  Basset  was  em- 
broiled in  a  contest  with  the  king  of  France,  but 
being  supported  by  his  royal  roaster,  he  bade  defi- 
ance to  the  wrath  of  the  French  monarch.    He  did 
not  remain  long,  however,  in  that  government,  but 
returning  to  England  in  the  year  but  oneafterwards. 
he  waa  made  constable  of  Dover  Castle,  and  warden 
of  the  Cinque  Ports.    In  the  1st  and  7th  of  Edward 
III.  he  was  again  in  the  Scottish  wars,  and  in  the 
8th  of  the  same  reign,  he  was  appointed  Justice  of 
North  Wales.    His  lordship  m.  Joane.  daughter  of 
Thomas  Beaachamp,  Earl  of  Warwick,  and  had 
issue. 

Ralph,  who  m.  Alice,  daughter  of  Nicholas. 
Lord  Audley.  and  dying  before  his  father, 
anno  1323,  left  issue, 

Ralph,  successor  to  his  grandfather. 
Isabd.*  m.  to  Sir  Thomas  Shirley,  ances- 
tor of  the  present  Eari.  FKaitARa. 
Ralph.  Lord  Bassett.  of  Drayton,  d.  85th  February. 
1343.  and  was  «.  by  his  grandson. 

RALPH  BASSET,  Ath  Lord  Baatet  qf  Drayton » 
tammoned  to  parliament  from  35th  December. 
1357,  to  6th  December.  1389.  This  nobleman  was 
distinguished  in  arms  during  the  reigns  of  Edward 
III.  and  Richard  11.,  and  was  honoured  with  the 
garter,  in  consequence  of  which,  his  achievement  is 
stUl  to  be  seen  in  one  of  the  stalls  of  4he  chapel  at 
WindMV.  His  lordship  m.  Joane.  sister  of  John, 
Duke  of  Britanny,  but  had  no  issue.  He  d.  10th 
May,  1300,  directhig  by  his  wiU.  that  his  body 
should  be  buried  at  Lichfield,  near  the  altar  of  St 
Nicholas,  and  devising  his  estates,  according  to 
aome  authOTities,  to  Sir  Hugh  Shirley,  his  nephew, 
son  of  his  sister  Isabel  (see  above),  upon  condition 
that  he  should  assume  the  surname  and  arms  of 
Basset,  In  failure  of  which  proviso,  those  estates 
were  then  to  pass  to  his  courin,  Edmund,  Lord  Staf- 
ford. But  the  matter  is  diflferently  represented  by 
other  authorities ;  it  is  certain,  however,  that  great 
disputes  arose  after  the  decease  of  Lord  Basset,  be- 
tween Humphrey,  Earl  of  Stafford,  and  Sir  Thomas 
Chaworth,  Knt,  regarding  the  lordship  of  Cotaton- 
Basset,  in  the  county  of  Nottingham,  but  it  does 
not  appear  that  the  Shirleys  were  engaged  in  it,  nor 
did  they  take  the  name  of  Basset.  Amongst  other 
directions.  Lord  Basset  orders  in  his  will,  that  the 
person,  whomsoever  it  should  be,  that  should  first 
adopt  his  surname  and  arms,  should  have  the  use  of 
Us  great  velvet  bed  during  his  life;  and  to  the 
same  person  he  also  bequeathed  four  silver  basons, 

•  It  U  doubtftU  whetfaor  this  lady  was  legitimate 
ornoc 
8B 


with  two  ewers,  whereon  his  arms  were  gimven.  six 
silver  dishes,  two  silver  pots,  and  four  chargers, 
all  marked  with  his  arms;  as  also  a  cup.  with  cover 
gilt,  having  one  ring  on  the  side  thereof.  His  lord- 
ship constituted  Walter  Skydaw,  Bishop  of  Dur> 
ham,  Richard  Scrope.  Bishop  of  Cliester,  and  Sir 
Ridiard  Scrope,  Knt.,  his  executors.  The  Babom  v 
OP  BAaasT  has  remained  in  abeyance  since  the  de- 
cease of  this  nobleman,  which  can  only  be  accounted 
for  by  the  presumption,  that  Isabd.  Lady  Shirley, 
was  not  the  legitimate  daughter  of  his  lordship's 
father,  and  the  supposition  becomes  almost  a .  cer- 
tainty by  the  inquisitions  taken  after  the  baron's 
decease:  according  to  the  first,  Thomas,  Earl  of 
Staffbrd,  was  found  to  be  his  cousin  and  next  heir ; 
and  by  the  second,  the  same  Thomas.  Earl  of  Staf- 
ford, and  Alice,  the  wife  of  Sir  John  Chaworth, 
were  found  his  cousins  and  next  heirs,  without  any 
mention  whatever  of  his  next  rdative,  were  she . 
legitimate,  laaM,  Ladjf  Shiriey. 
Auc»— or,  three  plies  gu.  a  canton  erm. 

BA8SET  —  BARONS    BASSET    OF 
SAPCOATE. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  14th  December, 
IflU,  49  Henry  IIL 

ICiiuagc. 

This  branch  of  the  BAsasTs  was  founded  by 

WILLIAM  BASSET,  one  of  the  itinerant  Jus- 
tices for  Yorkshire,  in  the  21st  Henry  II.,  who 
settled  at  Sapcoate  in  Leicestershire,  and  was 
younger  brother  of  Ralph  Basset,  Lord  of  Drayton, 
in  the  county  of  Stafford :  as  deputy  to  whom  he 
executed  the  office  of  sheriiT  of  Warwick  and  Lei- 
cestershire, in  the  9th  of  the  same  monarch's  reign. 
In  the  10th  he  was  sheriff  of  L^cestershire  himself : 
from  the  nth  to  half  of  the  16th  years,  inclusive, 
sheriff  of  both  shires,  and  from  the  S3rd  to  the  30th, 
sheriff  of  Lincolnshire  To  this  William  Basset 
succeeded  his  son, 

SIMON  BASSET,  who  m.  in  the  6th  of 
Richard  I.,  one  of  the  daughters  and  co-heiresses 
of  William  Avenel.  of  Haddon,  in  the  county  of 
Derby,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

RALPH  BASSET.  This  feudal  tord  held  the 
sherifiUty  of  Lincolnshire  tnm  the  85th  to  the  89th 
of  Henry  III.,  inclusive,  and  in  four  years  after 
performed  a  pilgrimage  to  St.  James  in  Oallida. 
In  the  4Snd  of  the  same  monarch  he  received  com- 
mand to  attend  the  king  at  Chester,  to  repd  the 
incursions  of  the  Wdsh.  and  he  was  oonstituted  in 
that  year  governor  of  Northampton  Castle.  But 
after  the  battle  of  Lewes,  being  summoned  to  the 
parliament,  which  the  barons  held  in  the  king's 
name  (49  Henry  III.),  he  subsequently  sided  with 
Simon  Montford,  Earl  of  Ldcester,  and  fdl  with 
that  ambitious  noble  at  the  battle  ot  Evesham  on 
the  4th  August,  1865.  His  lordship  espoused  Mill- 
sent,  one  of  the  daughters  and  co-heiresses  of  Robert 
de  Chaucombe,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIMON  BASSET,  second  baron,  who  had  sum- 
mons in  the  S8nd  of  Edward  I.  to  attend  the  king, 
wheresoever  he  should  be,  to  advise  touching  the 
important  afBurs  of  the  realm,   and  waa  shortly 


BAY 


BAY 


to  come  to  PHtnuottth  oo  the 
let  of  September,  well  equipped  wtth  hotw  emu, 
mad  to  ecoompeny  the  king  into  Geieaiiy.^  His  lord- 
ehip  wee  «.  by  his  soo, 

RALPH  BASSET,  third  Beron  Besset  of  Sep- 
coete,  who  hed  suounons  to  perlisment  from  the 
8th  Jsauery,  ia71,  to  8th  October,  1372.  HU  lord- 
ehip  was  one  of  the  gallant  soldiers  of  the  nuurtial 
reifB  of  Edward  III.,  and  shared  in  the  Tories  of 
CBJsaaT.  We  find  him,  however,  subsequently  ex- 
pcricndng  some  of  the  vidasitudes  of  a  soldier's 
fintune;  for  being  again  in  France  in  the  46th  of 
Bdward  IILf  under  the  commend  of  the  Duke  of 
Tjmraster,  end  sustaining  great  losses  at  Douchy 
and  Rabjrmont,  he  was  reproved  by  the  Ung  upon 
his  return,  which  preceded  that  of  the  duket  His 
lordship  «k  Ibst,  SybU,  dau^ter  of  Sir  Giles  Astley, 


AUce,  who  «•.  Sir  Robert  Moton,  Knt,  and 
carried  into  thet  fiunily  the  estates  of  Sap- 
ooate  and  Castle  Bythmn,  (the  latter  came 
to  the  BasseU  through  the  ColviUes.)  which 
subsequently  denied  upon  the  ISuaily  of 
Pide,  by  themarriege  of  Eliariieth,  daughter 
end  oo-helreasof  Reginald  Moton,  with  Ralph 
Pole  of  Radbome,  and  continued  in  that 
Ikmily  until  the  beginning  of  the  last  cen- 
tury, when  the  greater  pert  of  them  were 
aUamted  by  sele. 
Lord  nssset,  of  Sepcoete,  in.  secondly,  Alice*  daugh- 
ter of  John  Diiby,  end  had  another  daughter, 

Elisabeth,  who  m.   Richard,  Lord  Grey,  of 
Codnor,  of  which  line  Henry,  lest  Lord 
Grey  of  Codnor,  who  d.  in  1406,  without 
legitimate  male  issue,  bequeathed  to  his 
bastard  son,  Rkftorri  Ore^,   the  manor  of 
'  RatdMb-upon-Trent,  in  the  county  of  Not- 
tingheak— and  Elisabeth,  the  dau^ter  and 
heirass    of    the    said    Richard,   marrying 
Rlcfaaid,  third  son  of  Sir  Richard  Sache- 
▼erd,    that  estate  came  in  the  course  of 
descent  also  to  the  Pole  fiunily,  now  repre- 
sented by  Sacherercl  Pole,  Esq.,  of  Radbome 
Hall,  in  the  county  of  Derby. 
Hie  lordship  d.   in  1^,  and  the  Baeont  or 
BAaarr  ov  Sapooats,    Ml  inro  abstancb  b^ 
tweenhis  two  deuf^teis,  and  so  oonlinues  amongst 


AajUb^-^Ar.  two  bars  undto  sa. 

NoCe->Dugdale  disposesof  Alice,  the  elder  daugh- 
ter and  oo-hctaess  of  the  last  Lord  Basset,  of  Sap- 
ooate,  dUhrently.  He  manles  her  to  Sir  Laurence 
Dutton,  Knt. )  but  the  statement  above,  from 
Banks,  appeers  the  more  probaMa 

BAVBNT  —  BARONS  BAVENT. 

By  Wilt  of  Summons,  dated  8th  Jenuary  J 
I31S,  6  Edward  IL 

ICiiuagc. 

In  theiSth  of  Bdward  L 

ROBERT  BAVENT  was  in  the  expedition  made 
then  Into  Oaaeony,  and  in  the  30th  of  the  aeme 
monardi  he  obtained  a  charter  for  a  weekly  market 
at  Marom,  in  the  county  of  Lincoln.  In  Uie  6th  of 
Edward  IL  he  was  summoned  to  pailfameot  as 


BAaoN  Batsnt.    His  lordship  was  «.  at  his  decease 
by  his  son, 

THOMAS  BAVENT,  second  baron,  but  never 
summoned  to  parliament,  who.  In  the  4th  of 
Edward  IIL,  obtained  license  for  a  weekly  market 
at  Eston-Bavent,  In  the  coimty  of  Suflblk.  His 
lordship  was  «.  by  his  son, 

PETER  BAVENT,  third  baron,  but  not  sum- 
moned  to  parliament.  This  nobleman  d.  in  1370, 
leaving  two  daughters  and  co-heiresses,  vis. 

/"between  whom  the    BAaoifv  or 
Eleanor,J  BAvnifT  fell  into  abbyancb,  and 
Cecily,    J  it  so  continues  amongst  their  de- 
i^scendants,  if  there  be  any. 
Ami 8.^Ar.  a  diief  indented  sa. 

BAYNINO— VISCOUNTS  BAYNINO, 
OF  SUDBURY. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  8th  Mardi,   lfl87» 
3  Charles  IL 

SIR  PAUL  BAVNING.  Babt.,  (so  crested  t4th 
September,  l61S,)of  Bentley-Parva,  in  the  county  of 
Essex,  (son  of  Paul  Bayning,  Esq.,  one  of  the  sh»> 
riA  of  London,  in  the  rdgn  of  Elisabeth,  anno 
IfiOS,)  was  devated  to  the  peerage  on  the  87th  Fe- 
bruary, 1897,  in  the  dignity  of  Bauow  Batnino, 
^  Hoirk9d«if-BenH«if,  in  the  eounip  <^f  Ernes,  and 
advanced  to  the  rank  of  Viacouirr  Batnino,  t^f 
Stidbwrp,  in  the  eountp  ^f  Si^ffhlk,  on  the  8th  of 
March,  in  the  same  year.  His  lordship  m.  Anne, 
daughter  of  Sir  Henry  Glemham,  of  Olemham,  In 
the  county  of  Suffolk,  Knt.,  and  had  Issue-^ 
Paul,  his  succenor. 

Cecilia,  m,  Henry  Viscount  Newark,  who  suc- 
ceeded his  Csther,  in  1643,  in  the  earldom  of 
Kingston,  and  was  created  MARguxes  of 
DoncHBSTBn  in   the  following  year,   by 
whom  she  had  twosurviving  daughters  i  via.— 
Ajme,  m.  to  John,  Lord  Ros,  afterwards 
carl  of  Rutland,  a  marriage  dissolved  by 
parliament  in  1608. 
Grace  died  unmarried  in  1703. 
Anne,  m.  to  Henry  Murray,  Esq.,  one  ot  the 
grooms  of  the  bedchamber  to  King  Charles  L 
This  lady  was  created  ViecouNTsaa  Bav- 
Hiico,ofFoxley.    (See  that  dignity.) 
Mary.  m.  first,  to  William  Viscount  Orandl- 
son,  and  secondly,  to  Christopher,  Earl  of 
Anglesey. 
Elisabeth,  m,  to  Francis  Leonard,  Lord  Dacre. 
The  Viscount  died  ««  at  his  own  house,  te  Mark- 
lane,  within  the  city  of  London,"  on  the  a8th  July, 
18S9,  and  was  sucoseded  by  his  son, 

PAUL  BAVNING,  second  viscount,  who   m. 
Pendope,  only  daughter  and  heiress  of  Sir  Robert 
Naunton,  Knt.,  master  of  the  court  of  ward  and 
liveries,  by  whom  he  left  two  daughters  i  vis.— 
Anne,  m,  to  Aubrey  de  Vere,  Eerl  of  Oxford. 
Penelope,  m.  to  the  Hon.  John  Herbert,  young- 
est son  of  Philip,  fourth  earl  of  Pembroke, 
aild  first  earl  of  Montgomery. 
His  lordship  dying  thus  without  male  issue,  all 
his  honours  bxfibbd,  while  his  estates  passed  to 
daughters,  as  co-beireBMs. 

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BEAUCHAMP— EARLS  OP  WAR- 

WICK. 

Cxctttion  of  William  the  Conqueror,  and  conveyed 
to  the  family  of  Beauchamp  hy  Isabel  de  Mauduit, 
wife  of  William  de  Beauchamp,  foudal  Baron  of 
Elmley. 

Amongst  the  moat  eminent  Norman  fkmtUet  in 
the  train  of  the  Conqueror,  was  that  of  Bbauchamp, 
and  amongst  thoie  that  shared  most  liberally  in  the 
spoils  of  the  conquest. 

HUGH  DE  BEAUCHAMP,  the  companion  in 
arms  of  the  victorious  Norman,  whoobtained  grants 
to  a  very  great  extent  from  his  triumphant  chief, 
as  he  appears,  at  the  general  survey,  to  be  possessed 
of  large  estates  in  Hertford,  Buckingham,  and  Bed- 
fordshires,  was  the  founder  of  this  illustrious  house 
in  England.  This  Hugh  had  issue- 
Simon,  who  died  «.|i. 

Payne,  ancestor  of  the  Beaachamps,  of  Bed- 
ford. 
Walter,  of  whom  presently. 
Milo,  of  Eaton,  in  the  county  of  Bedford. 
AdeUne,  m.  to  Walter  Espee,  Lord  of  Kirk- 
ham  and  Hdmesley,  in    the    county   of 
York. 
The  third  son, 

WALTER  DE  BEAUCHAMP,  of  Elmley  Cas- 
tle, In  the  eonnty  of  GkNioeater,  having  married 
EmeUne,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Urso  de  Abitot, 
constable  of  the  Castle  of  Worcester,  and  hereditary 
dieriiT  of  Worcestershire,  (who  was  brother  of  Ro- 
bert le  Despenaer,  steward  to  the  conqueror,)  was 
invested  with  that  sheriHUty  by  King  Henry  L,  and 
obtained  a  grant  from  the  same  monarch  (to  whom 
he  was  steward)  of  all  the  lands  beionging  to  Roger 
de  Worcester,  with  a  confirmation  of  certain  lands 
given  to  him  by  Adelise,  widow  of  his  fkther-in-law, 
the  said  Ursow  Walter  de  Beauchamp  was  «.,  as 
well  in  his  estates  as  in  the  royal  stewardship,  by  his 


WILLIAM  DE  BEAUCHAMP,  who,  for  his 
seal  in  the  caose  of  the  Empress  Maud,  was  dispos- 
sessed of  the  Castle  of  Worcester  by  King  Stephen, 
to  which,  and  aU  his  other  honours  and  estates, 
however,  he  was  restored  by  King  Henry  II. ;  and 
in  that  monarch's  reign,  besides  the  sherlflUty  of 
Worcestershire,  whidi  he  enjoyed  by  inherftanoe, 
he  was'  sheriff  of  Warwickshire  (Sd  Henry  IL), 
sheriff  of  Gloucestershire  (trom  the  3d  to  the  9th 
Henry  II.  inclusive),  and  sheriff  of  Herefordshire 
(from  the  fith  to  the  16th  Henry  IL  indusive).  Upon 
the  levy  of  the  assessment  towards  the  manisge 
portion  of  one  of  King  Henry's  daughters,  this 
powerfril  fondal  k>rd  certified  his  knight's  foes  to 
amount  to  fifteen.  He  m.  Maud,  daughter  of 
William  Lord  Braoae,  of  Oowar,  and  was  «.,  at  his 
decease,  by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  BEAUCHAMP,  who  m.  Joane, 
dau^ter  of  Sfar  Thomas  Walerie;  and  dying  before 
the  13th  of  King  iohn**  reign,  was  «.  by  Us  son  (a 
minor,  whose  wardship  and  marriage  Roger  de 
Mortimer  and  Isabri,  his  wife,  obtained  for  3000 
marks), 

WALTER  DE  BEAUCHAMP.    ThU  foudal 
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lord  was  appointed  governor  of  Hanley  Castle,  In 
the  county  of  Worcester,  in  the  17th  of  King  John, 
and  entrusted  with  the  custody  of  the  same  shire  in 
that  turbulent  year ;  but  proving  fiuthkss  to  the 
king,  and  Joimng  the  insunectionary  barons,  all  his 
lands  were  sdxed  by  the  crown,  and  hinuielf  e»- 
communicated,  a  course  of  proceeding  which  ezi- 
torted  immediate  submiasion  to  his  temporal  and 
spiritual  lords;  tm  we  find  him  soon  after  making 
his  peace  with  the  king,  and  soliciting  absolution 
fhmi  Oualo,  the  legate,  which  absolution  he  seems 
to  have  obtained,  for,  upon  giving  security  to 
Henry  IIL,  who  had  Just  then  succeeded  to  the 
throne,  he  had  restitution  of  his  castle  at  Worcester, 
with  his  hereditary  sherMUty.  Walter  de  Beau- 
champ  IN.  Bertha,  daughter  of  William  Lord  Braoee, 
by  whom  he  had  two  sons,  Walcherine  and  James. 
Of  this  nobleman  we  find  frirther,  that,  being  one 
of  the  ftgiwis  mmnhan,  he  gave  aeoirity  to  the 
king  for  his  fUthfrU  services  (with  the  other  lords- 
marchers),  until  peace  should  be  ftilly  settled  in  the 
realmi  and  for  the  better  performance  thereof,  gave 
up  James,  his  younger  son,  as  a  hostagOi  He  A  in 
IS35,  and  was  «.  by  his  dder  son, 

WALCHELINE  DE  BEAUCHAMP,  who  m. 
Joane,  dau^ter  of  Roger,  Lord  Mortimer,  and 
dying  in  the  same  year  as  his  fother,  was  «.  by  an 
only  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  BEAUCHAMP,  feudal  Lord  of 
Elmley.    This  nobleman  attended  King  Henry  IIL, 
in  the  87th  year  of  his  reign,  into  Oascoigne,  and  in 
two  yean  afterwards  mardied  imdcr  the  banner  of 
Robert  de  Clare,  Earl  of  Gloucester,  against  the 
Scots.    In  the  41st  of  the  same  rogn  he  had  sum- 
mons (with  other  illustrious  persons)  to  meet  the 
king  at  Chester  on  the  feest  day  of  St.  Peter,  at 
Fineuls,  wdl  fitted  with  horse  and  arms  to  oppose 
the  incursions  of  Lewdine,  Prince  of  Wales.    In 
conaideration  of  which  services  the  king,  at  the 
request  of  the  said  Earl  of  Gloucester,  respited  the 
payment  of  certain  moneys,  due  by  him  to  the 
exchequer,  until  a  further  time.    His  lordship  had 
several  similar  summonses  in  the  same  reign,  the 
highest  proof  at  that  period  of  power,  proweu,  and 
loyalty.    Lord  Beaaduunp  m.  Isabd,  dau^ter  of 
William  Mauduit,  of  Hanslape,  in  the  county  of 
Bucks,  heritable  chamberlain  of  the  exchequer,  and 
sister  and  heiress  of  William  Maudcit,  Earl  or 
Warwick,  (who  inherited  that  dignity  from  his 
cousin,  Mscgery  de  Newburgh,  Counteu  of  War- 
wick, in  the  year  1S83,)  which  lady  had,  in  /HuOr- 
marHage,  tU  her  father's  lands  at  Ledecumbe,  with 
a  proviso,  that  shouU  those  lands  not  amount  to 
£90k  a  year,  that  sum  should  be  made  up  els^ 
whera     His  lordship  made  his  will  in  1968,  the 
year  in  which  he  died,  and  bequeathed  **  to  Walter, 
his  Ion,  signed  with  the  cross,  for  a  pilgrimage  to 
the  Holy  Land,  on  the  behalf  of  the  tesutor  (his 
fother),  and  Isabel,  his  mother,  two  hundred  marks. 
To  Joane,  his  daughter,  (who  m.  Bartholomew  de 
Sudley,)  a  canopy  sometime  bdongiug  to  SL  Wol- 
Stan,  and  abook  of  Lancelot,  which  he  (tbetestator) 
lent  them.    To  Isabel,  his  daui^ter,  a  silver  cup. 
To  SibiU,  his  daughter,  towards  ber  marriage,  all 
the  money  due  to  him  from  his  son  William ;  and 
forty  macka  more*  with  thelaad  wlfich  pa  boughr 


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in  firitlamton;  to  cnjof  ttntil  tke  UmniU  be  mar- 
ried, and  no  longa*.    To  San^,  Ua  daughtar.  (who 
m.  Richard  Talbot,)  a  hundred  marka  for  her  mar- 
riage portion.    To  William*  his  ddert  sod,  the  cup 
and  homes  of  SL  Hugh ;  and  to  the  oounteaa,  his 
wife,  a  ring,  with  a  robf  in  it.  To  Sir  Roger  de  Mor- 
timer.aring;  toSir  BarthokMneirdaSadky,aring. 
To  the  friera-minon  of  Wocceatcr,  Ibrty  shillings. 
To  the  fHera-minors  of  Gloncester,  one  mark.    To 
the  hoepital  of  St.  Wolatan,  at  Woroetter,  one 
mark.    To  the  hoapital  of  St.  Oswald  there,  ten 
shillings,  &C.,  &C.    To  the  church  of  Salewark,  a 
house  and  garden  near  the  parsonage,  to  find  a  lamp 
oontinually  burning  therein,  to  the  honor  of  God, 
the  blessed  Virgin,  St.  Katherine,   and  St.  Mar- 
garet."  Besidea  tlie  daughters  msntioned  above, 
l<ord  Beaochamp  left  four  sons,  via. 
William,  of  whom  presently. 
John,  of  Holt,  in  the  county  of  Woroester. 
Walter,  of  Powyke  and  Alceater. 
Thomas,  died  «.  p. 
The  eldest  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  BEAUCHAMP,  inherited  not 
only  the  feudal  barony  of  Elmley  from  his  father, 
but  had  previously  derived  from  his  mother  the 
■ARLDOM  ow  Warwick,  (originally  possessed  by 
the  Newburgfas,)  and  the  barony  of  Hanslape 
(which  had  belonged  to  the  Mauduits).  This  emi- 
nent nobleman  was  a  distinguished  captain  in  the 
Welsh  and  Scottish  wars  of  King  Edward  L  '<  In 
the  iSrd  year  of  which  reign,  being  in  Wales  with 
the  king,**  aa  Du^lala  relates,  *•  he  performed  a 
notable  exploit;  namely,  hearing  that  a  great  body 
of  the  Welah  were  got  U^^ether  in  a  pbdn,  betwixt 
two  woods,  and  to  secure  themsdves,  had  fastened 
their  pikes  to  the  ground,  slopping  towards  their 
assaihrnts,  he  marched  thither  with  a  choice  com- 
pany of  croaa-bow-men  and  archers,  and  in  the 
night  time  encompassing  them  about,  put  betwixt 
every  two  hoxaemen,  one  cross-bow-man,  which 
cross-bow-man,  killing  many  of  them  that  held  the 
pikes,  the  horse  charged  in  suddenly,  and  made  a 
'^^'7  great  alau^ter.  Thb  was  done  near  Mont' 
gomery."  His  lordship  m.  Maud,  widow  of  Girard 
de  Fnniival,  and  one  of  the  four  daughters  and  co- 
heircsaes  of  Richard  Fits-John,  son  of  John  Fita- 
Gefl^,  chief  justioe  of  Ireland,  by  whom  ha  had 
surviving  ianie— 

Ginr,  his  successor. 

Isabel,  nu  to  Peter  Chaworth. 

Maud,  m.  to Rithcow 

Margaret,  m.  to  John  Sudley. 

/'nuns  at  Shouldhain,  in  the  county 

Anne,  J  of  Norfolk,  a  monastery  founded  by 

Amy^  J  his  lordship's  maternal  great  grand- 

i^&ther. 

William  de  Beauchamp,  first  Earl  of  Warwick  of 

that  fiunily,  d.  in  1296,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest 


GUV  DE  BEAUCHAMP,  secondaer/,  so  called  in 
memory  of  his  celebrated  predecessor,  the  Saxon, 
Gmr,  Earl  OF  Warwick.  This. nobleman  acquired 
hs^  military  renown  in  the  martial  reign  of  Ed- 
ward L,  distinguishing  himself  at  the  battle  of  Fal- 
kirk, for  irhich  he  was  rewarded  with  extensive  granu 
of  lands  in  Scotland,  at  the  fi«^  of  Caerlaveiock, 


upbndiftwptoccasioaa  beside  hayond  the  aa^ 
In  the  reign  of  Edward  IL  he  likewise  played  a  very 
prominent  pert.  In  1310  his  lordship  was  in  the 
fnmmiwioii  appointed  by  parliament  to  draw  up 
reguJattaos  for  "  the  well  governing  of  the  king- 
dom and  of  the  king's  houadiold,'*  in  oonsequence  of 
the  oomipt  influence  exercised  at  that  period  by 
Plera  GeeeifoM,  in  the  aJIkirs  of  the  rsahn,  through 
the  unbounded  partiality  of  the  kingt  and  in  two 
yean  afterwards,  when  that  unhappy  favorite  MI 
into  the  hands  of  his  enemies  upon  the  surrender  of 
Searbocough  Caatle,  his  lordship  violently  sdaad 
upon  Ma  person,  and  after  a  summary  trial,  caused 
him  to  be  beheaded  at  Blacklow  Hill,  near  Warwick. 
The  earl's  hostJlity  to  Gaveston  is  said  to  have  bea 
much  increased  by  learning  that  the  favorite  had 
nicknamed  hire  **  ih4  Bladt  Doff  qf  Jrde$Mo.**  For 
this  unwarrantable  proeeeding  his  lordship,  and  all 
others  concerned  therein,  received  within  two  yean 
the  royal  pardon,  but  ha  ia  supposed  to  have 
evoitually  perished  by  poison,  ndrnJiristerad  in  re- 
venge by  the  partiaans  of  Gaveston.  The  earl  m» 
Alice,  rdict  of  Thomas  de  Layboume,  daughter  of 
Ralph  de  Toni,  of  Flamsted,  in  the  county  of 
Herts,  and  sbter  and  heiress  of  Robert  de  Toni,  by 
whom  he  had  issu^^ 

THOMAa,  his  successor,  whose  sponsors  were, 
Thomas  Plantagenet,   Earl  of  Lancaster, 
and  Henry  his  brother,   and  Thomas  de 
Warrington,  prior  of  Kenilworth. 
John,  a  very  eminent  person  in  the  reign  of 
Edward  IIL,  bring  captain  of  Calais,  ad- 
miral of  the  fleet,  axAiroARn  rbarsr  at 
CRBaav,  and  one  of  the  original  knights  of 
the  GartCT.    He  was  summoned  to  parlia- 
ment as  a  BAROH ,  but  dying  «.  p.  the  dignity 
expired.  . 
Maud,  m.  to  GeoflVey,  Lord  Say. 
Emma,  m.  to  Rowland  Odingsds. 
Isabel,  f».  to  John  Clinton. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Sir  Thomas  Astley,  Knt. 
Lucia,  m.  to  Robert  de  Napton. 
This  great  Earl  of  Warwick,  was  like  most  of  the 
nobles  of  his  time,,  a  munificent  benefsctor  to  the 
church,  having  bestowed  Isnds  upon  several  reli- 
gious houses,  and  founded  a  chantry  of  priests  at 
his  manor  of  Elmley.     His  will  bean  date,  '*  at 
Warwick  Castls,  on   Afunday  next  after  the 
feast  of  St.  James  the  Apostle,  An.  1315,"  and  by  it 
he  bequeaths  to  Alice  his  wife,  a  propcvtion  of  hia 
plate,  with  a  crystal  cup,  and  half  his  bedding  {  aa 
also,  all  the  vestments' and  books  belonging  to  hia 
chappel ;  the'  other  moiety  of  his  beds,  rings,  and 
jewels,  he  gives  to  his  daughters.     To  his  son 
Thomas,  his  hmt  coat  of  mail,  hdmet,  and  suit  of 
harness;  to  his  son  John,  his  second  coat  of  mail, 
Ac,  appointing  that  all  the  rest  of  his  armour, 
bows,  and  other  warlike  provtMom*,  should  remain 
In  Warwick  Castle  for  his  heir.    His  lordship,  im- 
mediately before  his  death,  obtained  a  grant  from 
the  king,  that  his  executon  should  have  the  custody 
of  his  linds  during  the  minority  of  his  heir,  so* 
counting  for  the  receipts  to  the  exchequer  at 
Michaelmas  and  Easter  every  year,  provided  that 
his  castles  of  Elmley  and  Warwick,  should  not  be 
disposed  of,  without  a  special  license  fkora  the 

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crown.  But  notwithftandtaig  this  grant,  and  a  ocm- 
flnnation  thereof,  after  the  earl't  death  to  John 
Hamelyn,  and  the  other  executoxv,  the  king  aoon 
afterward*  paned  the  custody  of  those  caatles  "kad 
lands,  by  new  letters  patent,  to  Hugh  le  Despencer, 
the  elder,  in  satisfaction  of  a  deht  of  £6,770*  asserted 
to  be  due  to  Despencer  by  the  crown.  Alice,  widow 
of  the  earl,  had  very  extensive  estates  assigned  her 
in  dowry,  in  the  November  following  the  death  of 
her  husband,  and  in  the  next  year  she  paid  a  fine  of 
five  hundred  marics,  for  Ucence  to  marry  William 
La  Zouche,  of  Aahby,  in  the  county  of  Leicester, 
to  whom  she  was  accordingly  wedded.  The  earl  d. 
at  Warwick  Castle,  on  the  12th  of  August,  1315,  and 
was  «.  by  his  ekiest  son,  then  but  two  yean  of 

THOMAS  DE  BEAUCHAMP,  third  earl,  regard- 
ing whom  we  find  the  king  (Edward  IL)  in  two  years 
subsequently  soliciting  a  dispensation  trora  the  pope, 
to  enable  him  to  marry  his  cousin  Catherine,  daughter 
of  Roger  de  Mortimer,  Lord  of  Wigmore,  under 
whose  guardianship  the  young  earl  had  been  placed  { 
an  alliance  eventually  formed,  when  his  lordship  had 
completed  his  fifteenth  year.  In  two  years  after- 
wards, the  earl  by  special  licence  firom  the  crown, 
was  allowed  to  do  homage,  and  to  assume  his  here- 
ditary offices  of  Sherifi'  of  Worcestershire,  and 
Chamberlain  of  the  Exchequer.  This  nobleman 
sustained  in  the  brilliant  reign  of  Edward  III.,  the 
high  military  renown  of  his  illustrious  progenitor, 
and  became  distinguished  in  arms  almost  fh>m  his 
boyhood.  So  early  as  the  third  year  of  that  mo- 
narch, he  commanded  the  left  wing  of  the  king's 
army  at  Wyaonfosse,  where  Edward  proposed  to 
give  the  French  battle,  and  ftom  that  period  was 
the  constant  companion  of  the  king,  and  his  gallant 
son,  in  all  their  splendid  campaigns.  At  Cressy, 
he  had  a  principal  command  in  the  van  ot  the 
English  army,  iwder  the  Prince  of  Wales,  and  at 
Poictiers,  where  Dugdale  says  he  fought  so  long 
and  so  stoutly,  that  his  hand  was  galled  with  the 
exercise  of  his  sword  and  pole-axe :  he  personally 
took  William  de  Melleun,  Archbishop  of  Sens, 
prisoner,  for  whose  ransom  he  obtained  dght  thou- 
sand marks.  Alter  these  heroic  adiievemcnts  in 
France,  the  earl  arrayed  himself  under  the  banner 
of  the  crocs,  and  reaped  firesh  laurels  on  the  plains 
of  Palestine,  whence  upon  his  return  he  brought 
home  the  son  of  the  King  of  Lithuania,  whom  he 
had  christened  at  London  by  the  name  of  Thomas, 
answering  for  the  new  convert  himself  at  the  baptis- 
mal font;  for  his  lordship  was  not  more  distin- 
guished by  his  valour  than  his  piety,  as  his  num»> 
rous  and  liberal  donations  to  the  church  while 
living,  and  bequests  at  his  decease,  testily.  This 
nobleman  rebuilt  the  walls  of  Warwick  Castle, 
which  had  been  demolished  in  the  time  of  the 
Manduits;  adding  strong  gates,  with  Ibrtifled  gate- 
ways, and  embattled  towers;  he  likewise  founded 
the  choir  of  the  collegiate  church  of  St  Mary, 
built  a  booth  hall  in  the  market  place,  and  made 
the  town  of  Warwick  toU  tree.  His  lordship  had 
issue,  by  the  countess  already  mentioned,  six 
sons,  and  nin«  daughters :  vis. 

Guy,  called  by  Dugdale,  a  <«  stout  souktier," 
m.  Philippa,  daughter  of  Henry,  Lord  Fer- 

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rars,  of  Groby,  and  dying  before  his  Ikther, 

left  three  daughters:  vis. 

Katherine, 

Elisabeth, 

Margaret, 

Thomas,  inheritor  of  the  honors. 

Reynbume,  who  left  an  only  daughter,  Alia^ 

nore,  wife  of  John  Knight  of  Hanslape,  in 

the  county  of  Bucks,  by  whom  she  left  a 

daughter,  Emma,  whom. Forster,  from 

whom  the  Forsters  of  Hanslape  derived. 
John,      "^ 

^ogfr*     |-*U  d,  unm. 
Hierom,  3 

Maud,*  m.  to  Roger  de  Cliflbrd. 
Philippa,  m.  to  Hi^h,  Earl  of  Staflbtd. 
Alice,  m.  to  John,  Lord  Beaudiamp,  of  Haoche, 

in  the  county  of  Somerset. 
Joane,  m.  to  Ralph,  Lord  Basset,  of  Drayton. 
Isabel,  m.  first,  to  John,  Lord  Strange,  of  Black- 
mere,  and  secondly,  to  William  Ulford,  Earl 
Suflblk. 
Margaret,  m.  to  Guy  de  Montibrd,  after  whose 

decease,  she  took  the  vril  at  Shouldham. 
Agnes,  m.  first,  —  Cokesay,  and  afterwards 

BardolU 

Juliana,  d.  unm. 

Catharine  took  the  veil  at  WroxhaQ,  in  War- 
wickshire. 
The  earl  was  one  of  the  original  knights  of  the  Gar- 
ter. His  lordship  d*  on  the  13th  November,  1369,  of 
the  plague  at  Calais,  where  he  was  then  employed  in  ■ 
his  military  capacity,  and  had  Just  achieved  a  vic- 
tory over  the  French;  he  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

Thomas,  fourth  Earl,  K.G.  who  was  appointed 
by  parliament,  governor  of  the  young  king,  Richard 
IL  in  the  third  year  of  that  monarch's  reign,  but  did 
not  long  enJoy  the  office,  for  we  find  him  in  arms 
with  Thomas,  Duke  of  Gloucester,  (the  king's 
uncle,)  long  before  the  miOo'i^  of  Richard,  con- 
straining the  assembling  of  parliament,  for  which 
proceeding,  however,  in  several  years  afterwards,  he 
was  seised  at  a  f<east  given  to  him  by  the  king—tried 
and  condemned  to  death— a  sentence  commuted  by 
the  king,  at  the  instance  of  the  Eari  of  Salisbury,  to 
banishment  to  the  Isle  of  Man,  while  his  castle  and 
manors  of  Warwick,  with  his  other  estates,  were 
granted  to  Thomas  Holland,  Earl  of  Kent,  to  whom 
the  custody  of  his  son  and  hdr,  Richard  Beau- 
champ,  was  also  confided.  From  the  Isle  of  Man, 
the  Earl  was  brought  back  to  the  Tower  of  London, 
and  imprisoned  there  during  the  remainder  of  King , 
Riduud's  reign ;  but  upon  the  accession  of  Henry 
IV.  he  was  released,  and  re-instated  in  all  his  honors 
and  possessions.  His  lordship  m.  Margaret,  daugh- 
ter of  William,  Lord  Ferrars,  of  Groby,  and  had 
issue, 

*  Those  lakes'  portraitures  are  curiously  drawn, 
and  placed  in  the  windows  on  the  south  side  of  the 
quire  of  the  collegiate  church  at  Warwick,  in  the 
habit  of  their  time.  Seven  of  them  were  married, 
and  have  their  paternal  armes  upon  their  inner  gar- 
ments ;  and  on  their  outer  mantle,  their  husbandi^ 
armes ;  the  picture  of  Isabd,  who  married  twice,  is 
twice  drawn.— DM^/e^s  BoroiMgv. 


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RicSAftD,  Ida  auccenor,  Ibr  whom  King 
Riduurd  IL  and  Rldiard  Scrope*  then 
Biahop  of  Coventry  and  LidhAeld,  (aftor- 
Arcfabiaht^  of  York.)  atood  apon- 


Katfacrtne,  d.  yovmg. 
Inima. 


The  Earl  d.  fai  I40I  and  waa  «.  by  hia  aon, 

RICHARD  DB  BEAUCHAMP,  fifth  earl.  &.S8th 
January.  1381.  Thia  nobleman  waa  mada  a  knight  of 
Che  Bath  at  the  coronation  of  King  Henry  IV..  and 
at  the  oorooation  of  the  Queen  in  the  following  year, 
atfainfid  high  reputation  for  the  gallantry  he  had 
di^lsyedintheliata.  Inthe  Mh  year  of  theaame 
monardi.  he  waa  pio-eBainently  diatingwiahwl  againat 
Owen  Glandower.  wboae  banner  he  captured,  and  put 
the  rebel  hlmaglf  to  flight  i  and  about  theaame  time, 
he  won  freah  lanreb  in  the  memorable  battle  of 
Shrewabury,  agaioat  the  Perdea,  after  which,  he  waa 
made  a  Itnight  of  the  moat  noble  order  of  the  Garter. 
Of  hia  loidahip'a  pilgrimage  to  the  Holy  Land.  Dug- 
dale  givea  the  ftdlowing  aooottnt>--<*  In  the  9th  of 
Henry  IV..  obtaining  licence  to  viait  the  Holy  Land, 
he  fitted  himadf  with  all  neceaaariea  for  that  journey. 
aed  the  aea :  in  which  voyage,  viaiting  hia 
I.  the  D0KB  or  Babb.  he  waa  nobly  received 
and  entertained  by  him  for  eight  daya.  who  thence 
itowMiniiaHied  him  to  Paria;  where  being  arrived, 
the  King  of  France  then  wearing  the  crown,  in  re- 
verence of  that  holy  feaat,  made  him  to  alt  at  hia 
table,  and  at  hia  departure,  lent  an  herald  to  oon« 
duct  him  aafely  through  that  realm.  Out  of  which, 
entering  Lumbardy.  he  waa  met  by  another  herald 
tram  Sir  Pandulph  Malaoet.  with  a  diallenge  to 
perfonn  certain  ftaMa  oi  arma  with  him  at  Verona, 
upon  a  day  aialgned.  for  the  order  of  the  Garter ; 
and  in  the  prcacnceof  Sir  Galiotof  Mantua ;  where- 
nnto  he  gave  hia  aaaent.  And  aa  aoon  aa  he  had  per- 
formed hia  pilgrimage  at  Rome,  returned  to  Verona, 
where  he  and  hia  challenger  were  firat  to  Juat,  next 
to  fight  with  axca.  afterwarda  with  arming  aworda. 
and  lastly  with  aharp  d^^gen.  At  the  day  and 
place  aaaigned  for  whidi  exerdaea.  came  great  reaort 
of  people.  Sir  Pandulph  entning  the  liata  with  nine 
speara  borne  before  him:  but  the  act  of  apeara 
being  ended,  they  fell  to  it  with  axea ;  in  which  en- 
counter Sir  Pandulph  received  a  aore  wound  on  the 
aboulder.  and  had  been  utterly  atain.  but  that  Sir 
Galiot  cried  peace." 

"  When  he  came  to  Jenualem,  he  had  much  re- 
apect  ahewed  him  by  the  patriardi'a  deputy,  and  hav- 
ing performed  hia  oflbringa  at  the  aepulchre  of  our 
Saviour,  he  aet  up  hia  arma  on  the  north  aide  of  the 
templ&  While  at  Jenualem.  a  noble  peraon,  caUed 
Baltredam.  (the  Soldan'a  lieutenant.)  hearing  that 
he  waa  deicended  from  the  Camoua  Sir  Guy,  of  War- 
wick, whoaeatory  they  had  in  booka  of  thdr  own  lan- 
guage, invited  him  to  hia  palace,  and  royally  feaating 
him.  « piaeeuted  him  with  three  precioua  atonea  of 
great  value,*  beaidea  dl^era  cloatha  of  ailk  and  gold 
given  to  hia  aervanta.  Where  thia  Baltredam  told 
hfan  privately,  that  he  feithftilly  believed  aa  he  did. 
though  he  durat  not  diacover  himaelf ;  and  rehearaed 
the  articlea  of  the  creed.    But  on  the  morrow  he 


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Sir  Baltredam'a  aervanu,  and  gave  (ham 
acarlet.  with  other  Engliah  doath,  which  being 
ahewed  toSlr  Baltredam.  he  returned  again  to  him. 
and  aaid,  he  would  wear  hia  livery,  and  be  manhal 
of  hia  halL  Whereupon  he  gave  Sir  Baltredam  a 
gown  of  timA  peak,  ftirred ;  and  had  much  dl»- 
oourae  with  him,  for  he  waa  akilful  In  aundry  la»> 
guagaa.**  At  the  coronation  of  King  Henry  V..  in 
whoaeaervioe.  when  Prmce  of  Walea,  hia  lordahip 
had  been  engaged,  the  earl  waa  conatltuted  Hien 
Stbwabd  of  Eholaho  for  that  aolemnlty.  and  in 
the  next  year,  we  find  him  actively  engaged  for  the 
khig  againat  the  LoUarda.  In  the  3rd  of  Henry  V. 
he  waa  at  Calala.  and  there  hia  chivalric  diapoaitlon 
led  him  into  a  rencounter  with  three  Prandi  knigfata. 
the  reault  of  which  Dugdale  thua  rdatea  !-^*  which 
lettera  (cfaaUengea  aent  by  the  earl  under  fictitloua 
namea)  were  aent  to  the  king*a  court  at  France, 
where  three  French  knighta  received  them,  and  pro- 
miaed  their  fellowa  to  meet  at  aday  and  place  u- 
aigned :  whereof  the  firat  waa  a  knight  called  Sir 
Gerard  Herbaumea.  who  called  himaelf  La  Chevalier 
Rovge;  the  aecond.  a  famoua  knight,  named  Sir 
Hugh  Launey,  calling  himaelf  Le  Cheealier  Blane; 
and  the  third  a  knight  named  Sir  CoUard  FInca. 
Twelfday,  In  Chriatmaa,  being  appointed  for  the 
time  that  they  ahould  meet,  in  a  tend  called  the 
Pttrkhedlge  «if  Gifnee,  On  which  day  the  Earl  came 
into  the  field  with  hia  face  covered,  a  plume  of 
oatridi  feathera  upon  hia  helm,  and  hia  horae 
trapped  with  the  Lord  of  Toney'a  arma  (one  of  hia 
anceatora),  via.  argent  a  numeh  guU»:  where,  firat 
encountering  with  the  Chevalier  Rouge,  9X  the  third 
oourae  he  unhoraed  him,  and  ao  returned  with 
ckMed  viior,  unknown  to  hia  pavilion,  whence  he 
aent  to  that  knight  a  good  courier.  The  next  day 
he  came  Into  the  field  with  hia  vixor  doaed,  a  chap- 
let  on  hia  helm,  and  a  plume  of  oatrich  feathera 
aloft,  hia  hone  trapped  with  the  arma  of  Hantiap, 
via.  tUver  two  bare  guleet  where  he  met  with  the 
Blanc  knight,  with  whom  he  encountered,  amote  off 
hia  viaor  thrice,  broke  hia  beiagun  and  other  har- 
neya.  and  returned  victorioualy  to  hia  pevilion,  with 
all  hia  own  habilimenta  aafe,  and  aa  yet  not  known 
to  any  s  from  whence  he  aent  the  Blanc  knight  a 
good  courier.  But  the  morrow  after,  via.  the  laat 
day  of  the  Juata.  he  came  with  hia  face  open,  and  hia 
helmet  aa  the  day  befc»e,  aave  that  the  chaplet  waa 
rich  with  pearb  and  predoua  atonea;  and  in  hia 
coat  of  arma,  of  Guy  and  Beaue^amp  quarterly  i 
having  the  arma  of  Tofiay  and  Hanebtp  on  hia  trap- 
perat  and  lald,  *  That  ae  he  had,  in  hi*  own  pereon, 
perj\frmed  Ote  eervice  the  two  doffe  b^ore,  eo  tcith 
Qoite  grace  he  would  the  third,*  Whereupon,  en- 
countering with  Sir  Collard  Flnea,  at  every  atroke 
he  bore  him  backward  to  hia  horae  i  Inaomuch,  al 
the  Frenchman  laying,  « that  he  himaelf  waa  bound 
to  hia  laddlet*  he  alighted  and  preiently  got  up 
again,  but  all  being  ended,  he  returned  to  hia  pavl- 
lion,  lent  to  Sir  C(4]ard  Finea  a  fdr  oourMr,  feaatod 
all  the  people,  gave  to  thoae  three  knighta  great  re- 
warda,  and  ao  rode  to  Calaia  with  great  honor.'* 
About  thia  time  the  Earl  attended  the  depuU 
tion  of  blahopa  and  other  learned  peraona,  tram 
England  to  the  Council  ov  Cowstawcb,  and  dur^ 
ing  hia  atay  there  alew  a  great  duke  in  justing. 
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In  Cbe  Bcxt  jmr,  he  wa»  with  King  Henry  at  the 
Kiegt  of  Caen.  axMl  upon  the  sunrender  of  that  place 
was  appointed  governor  of  ita  casUe.  His  lordship 
ooDtittued  actively  engaged  in  military  and  diplo- 
matic services,  during  the  remainder  of  the  reign 
of  King  Henry  Y.,  by  whose  will  he  was  appointed 
governor  toliis  infant  son  and  successor,  Henry  VI., 
w^\ich  charge  having  fulfilled  with  great  wisdom 
and  fidelity,  his  lordship  was  appointed,  upon  the 
death  of  John  Plantagenet,  Duke  of  Bedford,  Re- 
gent of  France,  Libutcnant  Oknbkal  of  the 
whole  RBALM  or  Francs,  and  Duchy  or  Noa- 
MAMDT.  The  earl,  who  had  been  created  Earl  or 
ALBJtMARi.B,  for  life,  in  I4I7,  died  in  the  castle 
of  Roan,  in  his  French  government,  on  the  30th  of 
April,  143&— having  by  his  wiU,  ordered  his  body 
to  be  brought  over  to  England,  where  it  was  after- 
wards deposited,  under  a  stately  monument.*  ap- 
pointed by  the  decoaeed  lord,  to  be  erected  in  the 
collegiate  church  of  St.  Mary,  at  Warwick.  His 
loidship  m.  first,  Elisabeth,  daughter  and  heiress 
of  Thomas,  Lord  Berkeley,  Viscount  Lisle,  by  whom 
he  had  three  daughters,  vis. 

M argaiat,  m.  to  John  Talbot,  Earl  of  Shrews- 
bury, (his  lordship's  second  wife,  by  whom 
he  had  one  son,  Johtf  Talbot,  Lord  Viscount 
Lisle,  of  whom  the  Dudleys,  Earb  of  War- 
wick, derived.) 
Alienor,  m.  first,  to  Thomas,  Lord  Roos,  from 
whom  the  Dukes  of  Rutland  derive;   and 
secondly,  to  Edmund,  Duke  of  Somerset. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  George  Nevil,  Lord  Latimer. 
The  Earl  m,  secondly,  Isabel,  daughter,  and  even- 
tually heiress  of  Thomas   le  Despencer,  Earl   of 
Gloucester,  and  widow  of  his  uncle,  Richard  Beau- 
champ,  Earl    of  Worcester,  (for  which  marriage 
he  obtained  a  papal  dispensation,)  and  had  a  son  and 
daughter— namely, 

Hbjtry,  his  successor,  whose  sponsors  were 
Cardinal  Beaufort,  Humphrey,  Earl  of 
Staflbrd,  and  Joane,  Lady  Bergavenny. 
Anne,  who  m.  Sir  Richard  Nevil,  son  and  heir 
of  Richard,  Earl  of  Salisbury,  and  grandson 
of  Ralph  Nevil,  first  Earl  of  Westmore- 
land. 
The  Earl  of  Warwick  was  «.  by  his  son. 


a  When  his  executors,  pursuant  to  his  will, 
erected  this  most  magnificent  tomb,  (which  yet 
remains  in  uncommon  splendour,)  inferior  to  none 
in  England^  unless  that  of  Henry  VII.  in  Westmin- 
ster Abbey,  they  covenanted  with  John  Borde,  of 
Corfe,  marUer,  to  make  the  same  of  fine  and  well- 
eoloured  marble,  four  feet  and  a  half  high,  from 
the  base,  the  base  six  inches  thick,  and  eighteen 
broad;  the  uppermost  stone  of  the  base,  nine  feet 
long,  four  broad,  and  seven  inches  thick;  and  to 
have  fSor  the  marble,  carriage  to  Warwick,  and 
work,  £4A»  For  marble  to  pave  the  chapd,  work- 
BBanship,  and  carriage  of  every,  hundred  of  these 
•tones,  £2,  in  aU  £4b  13*.  4ri.  The  charges  of  the 
diapet  and  tomb  came  to  £948L  4*.  7yL,  a  vast 
■nm,  when  the  price  of  an  ox  was  thirteen  shillings 
and  fburpence»  and  a  quarter  of  bread  onm,  three 
shillings  and  ibttrpe»oe.~Hi«fcft<w#'*  Dontt. 
34 


HENRY  DE  BEAUCHAMP,  sixth  earl,  K.O. 
This  nobleman,  having,  before  he  had  completed  his 
nineteenth  year,  tendered  his  services  for  the  defence 
of  the  Duchy  of  Aquitaine,  was  created  by  charter, 
dated  Snd  April,  1444,  Prbmibr  Eari.  or  Eno- 
LAND,  and  his  lordship  obtained,  at  the  same  time, 
permission  for  himself  and  his  heirs  male,  to  wear 
a  golden  coronet  about  his  head,  in  the  presence  of 
the  king  and  elsewhere.  In  three  days  after  he  was 
advanced  to  the  dignity  of  Dukb  or  Warwick, 
with  precedence  immediately  after  the  Duke  of 
Norfolk,  and  before  the  Duke  of  Buckingham: 
which  extraordinary  noark  of  royal  favour,  so  dis- 
pleased the  Utter  nobleman,  that  an  act  of  parlia- 
ment was  subsequently  passed  to  appease  his  Jea- 
lousy, declaring  that  from  the  ind  of  December* 
then  next  ensuing,  the  two  dukes  should  take  place 
of  each  other,  altematriy  year  about,  but  with 
precedency  of  the  first  year  to  the  Duke  of  War- 
wick. After  which,  his  Grace  of  Warwick,  had  a 
grant  in  reversion  upon  the  death  of  the  Duke  of 
Gloucester,  of  the  Isles  of  Guernsey,  Jersey,  Serke, 
Erme,  and  Aldemey,  for  the  annual  rent  of  a  rose ; 
also  the  hundred  and  manor  of  Bristol,  for  £60.  a 
year,  with  all  the  royal  castles  and  manors  in  the 
Forest  of  Dene,  for  £100.  per  annum,  and  he  was 
crowned  by  Henry  himself.  King  of  the  Isle  of 
Wight.  His  grace  m.  in  the  life-time  of  his  father, 
when  but  ten  years  old,  and  then  called  Lord  De»- 
penoer,  Cicily,  daughter  of  Richard  Nevil,  Earl 
of  Salisbury,  whose  portion  was  four  thousand 
seven  hundred  marka— by  whom  he  left  an  only 
daughter, 

Annb. 
His  grace  (i.  in  the  28nd  year  of  his  age,  on  the 
11th  June,  1446,  when  the  dukedom  (and  the  male 
line  of  this  branch  of  the  Beauchamps)  ex- 
pired, but  his  other  honours  devolved  upon  his 
daughter, 

ANNE  DE  BEAUCHAMP.  Omntauef  Warwick, 
then  but  two  years  old,  who  was  committed  to  the 
guardianship  first  of  Queen  Margaret,  and  afterwards 
of  William  de  la  Pole,  Duke  of  Suflblk.  Her  lady- 
ship dying  however  in  a  few  years  afterwards,  on 
the  3rd  of  Janiury,  1449,  the  honours  of  the  illus- 
trious house  of  Beauduunp  reverted  to  the  young 
countess's  aunt. 

ANNE,  wife  of  Richard  Nevil,  Earl  of  Salisbury, 
who  then  became  Countess  of  Warwick,  and  her 
husband  was  subsequently  created  Earl  of  Warwick. 
—(See  Nevil,  Earl  of  Salisbury  and  Warwick),  the 
odebrated  Kibo-Makbr. 

Arms. — Gules,  a  fease  between  six  cross  croaslets, 
or. 

BEAUCHAMP -- BARONS  ST. 

AMAND. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  85th  March,  1313, 
6  Edward  IL 

ICincage. 

WALTER  DE  BEAUCHAMP,  younger  son  d 
John,  Lord  Beauchamp,  of  Powyke,  a  military 
person  of  celebrity  in  the  reigns  of  Henry  IV.  and 
Henry  V^  fii.  Elisabeth,  daughter  and  oo-hciresa 
of  Sir  John  Roche,  Knt,  wA  had  iasoe, 


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WvkLiAu,  of  wlioBi  pnMBtly. 

Biahop  of  SaUsbury.   suppoied  to 
the  fint  rhmi^ftUw  of  tb*  order 
of  the  Garter,  ^<ktJjlIU^ 

Elittbech,  «.  to  Si^  Ricfaaid  Dudjcgr,  end  had 
a  warn  and  daughter,  tbe  latter  of  whon, 
/mbm  JMdKiir,  becane  htinm  to  the  fbniiar» 
and  matned  Sir  John  Baynton,  KnC,  frons 
which  nuRJaga  throng  a  long  line  of 
diatingutihed  aneeston  detoended  Edwerd 
Baynton  Rolt,  Eaqp«  of  Spy  Park,  in  the 
county  of  Wilts,  who  was  created  a  baiooet 
in  17Be>  an  honoiu  mow  juctimct. 
Thedderaott, 

WILLIAM  DE  BEAUCHAMP.  m.  EUaabeth, 
ddot  daughter  and  oo-heireH  of  Gerard  de  Bny- 
hrooke.  (graadaaot  and  eventually  heir  of  Almaiic 
St  Anand,  third  and  laat  Baron  St.  Amend  of  that 
ftmily,)  and  wae  auinmoBed  to  parliaoMnt  in  right 
of  hb  wUci,  ••  m  WiiUam  de  Beauchamp.  Baroo  of 
Sl  Anand."  fkom  the  2nd  January,  1410,  (the 
huony  had  beoa  forty-eix  yean  prerioualy  in  abey- 
ance^) to  the  {Kth  May,  l<l60b  His  lordahip  was 
•ooa  afterwards,  being  then  sewer  to  the  king, 
oomtituted  chamberlain  of  North  Walea.  Hed.  in 
1457,  and  was  «.  by  his  only  son, 

RICHARD  D£  BEAUCHAMP,  aeoood  Baron  St 
Amand,  of  the  liunily  of  Beauchamp,  attainted 
ia  the  lat  of  Richard  III.,  but  AiUy  reatorad  upon 
the  aoceaaion  o€  Henry  VII.  This  nobleman  waa 
in  the  expedition  made  in  the  8th  of  Henry  VII., 
in  aid  of  Maximilian  the  Emperor  againat  the 
French.  He  died  in  UMJS,  and  by  hia  teaCament 
dated  on  the  l^th  June,  in  that  year,  he  deairea  to 
be  incerred  in  the  Black  Frien'  Churdi,  near  Lud- 
gate,  within  the  City  of  London,  and  for  lack  of 
iaaue  by  Dame  Anne  hia  wife,  aettlea  divena  lord- 
ihtpa  in  the  counUea  of  WilU,  Bedford,  Berka, 
Huati^gdan,  and  Hereford,  upon  hia  natural  aon  by 
Mary  Wroughton,  Anthony  St  Amend,  and  the 
heirs  of  hia  body.  The  Babowy  at  the  deceaae 
of  this  Bcrtdemno,  Nioolaa,  in  hia  aynopaia,  pre- 
sumes became  veated  in  the  deaoendanta  and  repre- 
aentativea  of  lenbella,  aiater  of  Almaxic  St  Amend, 
aaeoad  Baron  St.  Amend  of  that  fiunily,  (Maud  and 
Aliaoore,  the  sisters  of  Elizabeth  Braybrooke,  who 
brought  the  barony  into  the  family  of  Beauchamp, 
the  otlier  co-beireaaea  of  Gerard  de  Braybrooke 
baving  died  leaueleaa,)  which  laabella  married  drat, 
Richard  Handlo,  and  secondly,  Robert  de  Ildesle ; 
but  Mr.  Nkolaa  obaenres  ftirther  in  a  note,  **  that 
although  no  other  issue  is  assigned  to  William 
Bcaudsamp,  ftmrth  Lord  St  Amend,  (or  ftrtt  of 
that  fiunily,)  in  either  of  the  numerous  pedigrees 
he  had  consulted,  than  his  son  Richard  the  last 
Baron,  it  Is  to  be  remarked,  that  in  the  will  of  the 
aaid  Richard,  Lord  St  Amend,  he  bequeathes  a 
cup  to  his  ni0e0  henMnti/e,  This  expreasioB  was 
probrtly  used  to  describe  his  vriffa  tAvce ;  but  it 
must  be  obscrred,  that  if  be  had  a  sister  of  the 
whole  Uood  who  left  iasue,  the  berony  became 
veated  in  her  and  her  deaoendanta,**  upon  the 
death  of  the  but  knd. 

ABNe— Oulea,  a  feaae  between  aiz  martlets,  or. 
witlda  a  hofdure,  ar. 


BEA 

BBAUCHAMP  —  BARON   BEAU* 
CHAMP,  OF  BLET8UO. 

By  Wilt  of  Summona,  dated  lat  June,  \M^ 
37  Edward  IIL 

"Xincsgc. 

ROGER  DE  BEAUCHAMP.  one  of  the 
neat  warrkm  of  the  reign  of  Edward  IIL, 
grandaon  of  Waller  de  Beauchamp,  ef  h  Irealer, 
aommonfd  to  parliement,  ea  Babon  Bbauchahi», 
or  Blbtbho,  fkom  the  lat  of  June,  UO,  to  the 
90th  October,  ISTB.  In  the  90th  of  Edward  IIL,  we 
firat  find  thia  gallant  person  aenring  in  France^  and 
the  next  year  the  king  confirming  unto  him  and  his 
wiA,  Sibel,  the  manor  of  Lydeard-Tvagoa,  in  the 
county  of  Wilta,  granted  to  them  by  Peter  de  Gran- 
diaon;  which  Sibel  waa  eUeat  of  the  four  aiaten  and 
oo-heira  of  Sir  WUUam  de  Patshul,  Kat,  end 
grand-daughter,  matenially,  of  Mabel,  eUeat  ^  the 
four  aistera  and  co-heirs  of  Otto  de  Oraadlson.  In 
the  98th  of  Edward  III..  RoRor  de  Beaumont  was 
captain  of  Calais ;  in  the  33d  of  the  same  monarch 
he  attended  the  king  in  his  expedition  into  Gaa- 
ooigne,  and  in  the  next  year  he  obteined,  in  right  of 
his  wife,  the  manw  of  Blbtm aano,  or  Bi.btbho, 
in  the  county  of  Bedford,  which  he  made  the  chief 
place  of  his  residence.  In  the  46lh  of  Edward  HI., 
being  still  captain  of  Calais,  his  lordship  had  licence 
to  transport  his  household  goods  and  other  neces- 
saries thither  without  the  payment  of  any  custom 
upon  the  same,  and  iil  the  next  year  he  had  a  special 
oommiasiop  to  take  care  that  the  peace  then  made 
between  King  Edward  and  the  Earl  of  rianders 
should  be  preserved  within  the  mardies  of  Calais. 
In  the  6th  of  Edward,  bebig  then  Chambbb- 
]«AiM  OF  THB  Houbbbold,  Lord  Beauchamp 
had  a  penakm  for  life  of  100  marks  per  annum.  In 
consideration  of  his  eminent  aerrices,  out  of  the 
farm  of  the  caatle  and  town  of  Deytses,  in  WUt> 
shir&  His  knrdship  d.  in  1379,  and  by  hU  testament, 
which  bears  date  two  years  previously,  at  London, 
19th  June,  he  bequeathes  his  body  to  be  burled  in 
the  diurdi  of  the  ftiers' preadiers  (commonly  called 
the  Black  Friers)  within  the  dty  of  London,  near 
to  the  grave  of  Sibel  his  wife  t  and  wills  that,  at  his 
ftineral,  there  should  be  ploesbo  and  Origt  with 
note ;  as  also,  on  the  morrow  after,  two  masses,  one 
Xiiwtr  Jjady,  and  another  of  requiem  /  and  In  regard 
that  he  was  obliged  to  do  service  egainst  the  Infidels 
in  the  Holy  Land,  by  the  appointment  of  Walter  de 
Beauchamp,  his  grandlkther,  to  the  expense  <H  900 
marks,  he  desires  that  Roger,  his  son,  whenAe 
arrive  at  maturity,  shall  assume  the  cross,  and 
perform  that  duty.  His  lordship  war  succeeded  by 
hia  son, 

ROGER  DE  BEAUCHAMP,  as  second  BA- 
RON  BEAUCHAMP,  of  Bletsho;  but  this  noble- 
man was  never  summoned  to  parliament  His 
lordship  proving  his  age  in  the  7th  of  Ridi.  IL, 
had  livery  of  all  his  lands.  In  the  18th  of  the 
'  seme  reign,  we  find  this  nobleman  aUendiag  the 
king  into  Ireland;  but  of  his  lordship  nothing 
more  is  known  than  that  he  was  succeeded  by  his 
son, 

JOHN   DE  BEAUCHAMP,   third  baron,   but 
never  f ununoned  to  parliament     This  nobleman 

as 


BEA 


BEA 


doing  homage  in  the  8th  of  Henry  IV.,  had  livery 
of  his  lands ;  but  he  died  In  six  yeaxs  afterwards, 
and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  DE  BEAUCHAHP,  fourth  baron,  then 
only  two  yean  old,  at  whose  decease  the  title 
and  estates  passed  to  his  only  sister  and  heiress, 

MARGARET  DE  BEAUCHAMP,  who  m.  first. 
Sir  Oliver  St.  John,  Knt,  and  conveyed  the  Ba- 
BOXY  OF  Bbauchamp,  OF  B1.ST8H0,  into  that 
fiunily}  ftom  which  it  was  carried,  by  Anne  St 
John,  of  Bletsho-'<see  Burk^t  Peerage  and  Ba- 
ronetage, artide  St.  John)— into  the  fkmily  of 
William  Lord  Howard,  son  and  heir  of  Charles, 
first  Earl  of  Nottingham,  whose  daughter  and 
hdreis,  Elisabeth,  m.  John  Mordaunt,  fifth  Earl 
of  Peterborough,  and  the  barony  of  Beauchamp,  of 
Bletsho,  with  that  of  Mordaunt,  is  now  vested  in 
his  Grace  the  Duke  of  Gordon.  Margaret  de  Beau- 
champ  m.  secondly,  John  Beaufort,  Earl  of  Somer- 
set, and  by  him  was  mother  of  Maigaret  Countess 
of  Richmond,  whose  son  ascended  the  British 
throne,  as  King  Henry  VIL 

BEAUCHAMP  —  BARONS  BEAU- 
CHAMP,  OF  HACHE,  IN 
THE  COUNTY  OF  SOMER- 
SET. 

By  Writ,  S9th  December,  Ii90,  88  Edward  I. 

The  first  of  this  Somenetshire  ftmily,  of  whom 
mention  is  made  by  Dugdale,  is 

ROBERT  DE  BEAUCHAMP,  who,  in  the  3d 
of  Henry  II.,  accounted  the  king  six  pounds  for  a 
mark-of  gold,  and,  in  the  9th  of  the  same  monarch, 
was  sheriff  of  the  coimties  of  Somerset  and  Dorset. 
In  three  years  afterwards,  this  Robert,  upon  the 
assessment  of  the  aid  for  marrying  the  king's  daugh- 
ter, then  levied,  certified  his  knight's  fees,  de  ve- 
teri/eqffiimento,  to  amount  in  number  to  seventeen, 
for  whidi,  in  the  14th  of  Henry  II.,  he  paid  leven 
pounds  one  shilling  and  eight-penoe,  that  is,  el^t 
shillings  and  four-pence  for  each  knight's  fob  In 
the  22d  of  the  same  Henry,  he  again  enjoyed  the 
sheriflUty  tot  the  same  counties,  and  continued  in 
ofiioe  for  five  years,  and  one  half  of  the  sixth  year 
following.  This  feudal  lord  d,  in  1288,  leaving  in 
minority,  and  in  ward  to  Hubert  de  Burgh,  his  son 
and  heir, 

ROBERT  DE  BEAUCHAMP,  who  d.  before 
18ftl,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

ROBERT  DE  BEAUCHAMP.  Of  this  feudal 
baron  nothing  is  known  beyond  his  being  engaged 
against  the  Welsh  with  Henry  III.,  and  his  found- 
ing the  priory  of  Frithdstoke,  in  the  county  of 
Devon.    He  was  «.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  DE  BEAUCHAMP,  who.  In  the  ffth  of 
Ed.  I.,  was  made  governor  of  the  castles  of  Kaermcr- 
din  and  Cardigan.  He  m.  Cicely,  daughter  and 
heiress  of  Maud  de  Kyme,  daughter  of  William 
Ferrers,  Earl  of  Derby,  by  her  second  husband, 
WiUiam  de  Vivonia,  which  William  was  son  of 
Hugh  de  Vivonia,  by  Mabel,  one  of  the  co-heirs  of 
William  Mallet,  a  greftt  baron,  whorf.  temp.  Hen.  III. 
This  John  de  Beauchamp  was  «.  by  his  sod, 
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JOHN  DE  BEAUCHAMP,  who  was  summoned 
to  parliament  as  a  baron,  by  the  style  of  "  lo  de 
Bello  Campo  de  Somerset,"  on  the  a9th  December, 
1229,  88th  of  Edward  I.,  and  in  the  34th  of  the  same 
reign  was  one  of  the  distinguished  penons  who  te- 
ceived  the  honour  of  knighthood  with  Prince  Ed- 
ward, the  king's  eldest  son,  being  in  the  expedition 
made  into  Scotland  in  that  year.  In  the  8th  of 
Edward  II.  his  lordship  was  again  in  the  Scottish 
wars  I  and  in  the  14th  -of  the  lame  king  he  suc- 
ceeded to  the  very  extensive  landed  possessions  of 
his  mother,  comprising  the  manor  of  Sturmlster- 
Maxshal,  in  the  county  of  Dorset,  a  moiety  of  the 
manor  West  Kington,  in  the  county  of  Wilts,  of 
the  whole  manor  of  Wadmersh,  in  the  county  of 
Surrey,  of  the  manor  of  Bullingham,  in  the  county 
of  Cambridge,  as  also  of  the  hamlets  of  Watweton 
and  Wideoombe.  In  two  years  afterwards  Lord 
Beauchamp  was  made  governor  of  the  castle  of 
Bridgewater.  In  the  7th  of  Edward  III.  he  ob- 
tained licence  to  fortify  his  manor  houses  at  Hacche, 
Estokes,  and  South  Hainedon,  and  to  embattle 
their  walls.  His  lordship  d.  in  1336,  up  to  which 
period  he  had  regular  summonses,  and  was  «.  by 
his  son, 

JOHN  DE  BEAUCHAMP,  second  Lord  Beau- 
cAamp,  <^  Hae^tet  summoned  to  parliament  from 
24th  August,  1336,  to  24th  February,  1343.  This 
nobleman  participated  in  the  glories  of  Edward  the 
Third's  reign,  being  constantly  engaged  in  the 
French  wars  of  that  monarch.  His  lordship  d.  in 
1343,  and  was  «.  by  his  son  (then  twelve  years  of 
age,  and  under  the  guardianship  of  Robert  de 
Ferrers,  and  Reginald  de  Cobham), 

JOHN  DE  BEAUCHAMP,  third  baron,  sum- 
moned to  parliament  fkom  16th  November,  1351,  to 
aoth  November,  1360.  This  nobleman  was  in  the 
expedition  made  into  Gascolgne,  in  the  33rd  of 
Edward  III.,  and  of  the  retinue  of  Thomas  de 
Beauchamp,  Earl  of  Warwick,  whose  daughter 
Alice  he  had  married.  His  lordship  d.  in  1300  with- 
out issue,  when  the  babony  of  Bbauchamp 
OF  Hacchb  fell  into  abbyakcb  between  his  two 
sisters  and  co-heireues,  and  in  that  state  it  still 
continues  amongst  their  desosndants.    Those  ladies 


Cecily,  m.  first,  to  Sir  Roger  de  St.  Maur,  by 
whom  she  had  a  son,  William,  fhmi  whom 
the  extant  Dukes  of  Somerset,  and  Mar- 
quesses of  Hertford,  derive;  and  secondly, 
to  Richard  TurberviUe,  of  Bere  Regis,  in 
the  county  of  Dorset,  by  whom  she  left  a 
daughter,  Juliana  TurberviUe. 

Eleanor,  m.  to  Mertet,  and  left  a  son, 

John  MerieC,  whose  daughter  and  heiress, 
Elisabeth,  married  also  a  St  Maxir. 
Upon  the  division  of  the  estates,  Cecily  had  for 
her  share  the  manors  of  Hacche,  Shipton,  Beau- 
champ,  Murifield,  and  one-third  of  the  manor  of 
Shipton  Mallet,  in  the  county  of  Somerset,  with 
certtdn  lands  in  Sturminsfer-Maishal,  in  the  county 
of  Dorset ;  the  manors  of  Boultberry  and  Haiber- 
ton,  in  Devonshire;   the  manor  of  Dourton,  in 
Buckinghamshire;   of  Little  Hawes,   in  Suflblk, 
and  two  parts  of  the  manor  of  Selling,  in  Kent. 
Arms. — Vaire  as.  and  ar. 


BEA 


BEA 


BJBAUCHAMP  —  BARONS      BEAU- 
CHAMP,  OF  KYDDERMINSTER. 

Bf  Lctten  Patent,  (the  lint  Barony  lo  cxeatad,) 
10th  October,  1387. 

Xincasr. 

SIR  JOHN  DE  BEAUCHAMP.  Knt,  of  Holt, 
in  the  county  of  Worcetter,  (great  grandion  of 
WiDiam  de  Beauchamp,  Lord  of  Elmlej,  and  his 
wife,  Iiab^  daughter  and  heireH  of  Wiiuiun  Hau- 
dttit,  of  Handope,  tee  Beaudiamp,  Earls  of  War- 
idck.)  having  participated  in  the  high  achierements 
of  bis  distingoimhed  fiunily,  during  the  "itTtlal 
reign  of  Edward  IIL,  obtained  a  grant,  in  the  11th 
ot  Richard  IL,  of  the  manors  and  lands  belonging 
to  the  priory  of  Deerhurst,  in  the  county  of  Glou- 
cester, being  then  steward  of  the  king's  household, 
and  was  elerated  to  the  peerage  by  letters  patent, 
dated  10th  October,  1987,  (the  first  barony*  so  con- 
ftned,)  as  Loan  Bbaucbamp,  of  Kyddbbmih- 
STBB.  An  honour,  however,  which  he  did  not  long 
c^)oy,  for,  in  the  same  jrear,  he  was  attainted  of 
high  treason  along  with  Sir  John  Tresilian,  chief 
JusCioe  of  the  King's  Bcndi,  and  several  others,  by 
the  parliament  which  the  nobles  forced  the  king  to 
aseemUe,  and  bdieaded  upon  Tower-hiU,  his  sen- 
tence being  so  commuted  from  hanging  and  qiuur- 
tering  (which  latter  punishment  the  chief  Justice 
underwent).  Lord  Beauchamp  m.  Joane,  daughter 
and  heiress  of  Robert  le  Fitswith,  and  was  «.  by  his 
only  son  (then  but  ten  years  of  age,  the  lordship  of 
Holt  being  committed,  during  his  minority;  to 
ThonuM,  Earl  of  Warwick), 

JOHN  DE  BEAUCHAMP,  second  baron  (the 
attainder  being,  we  presume,  repealed).  This  noUe- 
man  attended  King  Richard  II.  into  Irdand,  in  the 
Snd  year  of  that  monarch's  reign,  and  vzecuted 
the  office  of  eadteator  of  the  county  of  Worcester, 
in  the  8th  of  Henry  IV.  His  lordship  d.  in  1490, 
leaving  an  only  daughter  and  heiress,  Margaret, 
who  m.  first,  John  Pauncefort,  and  secondly, 
John  Wysham,  when  theBAHonv  of  Bbavchamp, 
OP  Kyddbrmibbtbb,  expired. 

BEAUCHAMP  ^  BARONS       BEAU- 
CHAMP, OF  POWYKE. 

By  Letten  Patent,  dated  9d  May,  1447^ 

Xintagc. 

WALTER  DE  BEAUCHAMP,  a  younger  son  of 
William  de  Beauchamp,  Lord  of  Elmley,  and  his 

•  That  the  solemn  investure  ot  this  John, 
and  an  other  barons  who  were  thenceforth 
created  by  patent,  was  perfonned  by  the  king  him- 
self, by  putting  on  a  robe  of  scarlet,  as  also  a 
mantle  (with  two  gards  on  the  left  shoulder)  and  a 
hood,  all  ftirred  with  minever,  there  Is  no  doubt ; 
which  form  of  creation  continued  until  the  13th 
year  of  King  James,  that  Sir  James  Hay  (a  Scotch- 
man) was  advanced  to  the  dignity  of  a  baron  of  this 
reafan,  by  letters  patent  date  Jnnii,  by  the  title  of 
Lord  Hay,  of  Sauley,  the  lawyers  then  declaring 
that  the  delivery  of  the  letters  patent  was  sufficient 
without  any  ceremony.r— Duooalb. 


wife  Isabel.  alsMr  and  beirasa  of  William  Maudoit, 
Earl  of  Warwick,  (see  Beauchamp,  Earls  of  War- 
wick,)  having  purchased  from  Reginald  Fitaher- 
bert,  a  moiety  of  the  manor  of  ALcaaTan,  in  the 
county  of  Warwick,  made  that  one  of  his  principal 
seats,  the  other  being  at  Powtxb,  in  the  county  of 
Gloucester.  This  Walter,  who  was  a  very  eminent 
person  at  the  period  in  which  he  lived,  being  signed 
with  the  cross  for  a  pilgrimage  to  the  Holy  Land, 
had  a  legacy  of  900  marks  bequeathed  to  him  by 
his  father,  for  his  better  performance  of  that  voy- 
age. He  was  steward  of  the  household  to  King 
Edward  I.,  and  attended  that  monarch  to  Flanders, 
and  into  Scotland,  where  he  shared  in  the  honours 
of  Falkirk  on  the  S9d  July,  1980L  In  the  99th  of  the 
same  reign  he  was  one  of  the  lords  in  the  parliament 
of  Lincoln,  being  then  styled  DohUhus  de  Aleettm-, 
who  signified  to  the  pope,  under  their  seals,  the 
superiority  of  King  Edward  over  the  kingdom  of 

Scotland.    His  lordship  «.  Alios,  daughter  of 

Tony,  <«  which  marriage,"  says  Dugdale,  **  in  re- 
gard they  were  within  the  fourth  degree  of  consan- 
guinity, was  after  ratified  by  Godftrey,  bishop  of 
Worcester,  and  the  childrsn  b^got  between  them 
decreed  legitimate  by  him  who  had  authority  so  to 
do  by  the  pope,  in  regard  they  knew  nothing  of 
that  impedhnent  at  the  time  of  the  contract  made," 
of  which  marriage  there  was  survivltag  issue— 
Waltbb,  successor  to  his  ISstheiv 
William,  a  military  man  of  celebrity,   who 
succeeded  to  part  of  the  estates  of  his  dder 
brother. 
•     Giles,  who  inherited  the  lordship  of  Alceater, 

by  the  settlement  of  his  eldest  brother. 
The  eldest  son, 

WALTER  DE  BEAUCHAMP,  succeeded  his 
father  in  1306,  and  was  the  next  year  in  the  expedi- 
tion against  the  Soots.  In  1317*  loon  after  the 
death  of  Guy,  Earl  of  Warwick,  his  kinsman,  he 
had  custody  of  aU  the  lands  belonging  to  Warwick 
Castle,  together  with  the  castle  Itself,  during  the 
minority  of  the  young  earL  In  1397  he  had  a  spe» 
cial  commission  to  execute  the  office  of  constable  of 
England  in  a  particular  case ;  and  dying  in  the  fol- 
lowing year, «.  j».  was  «.  by  his  brother, 

WILLIAM  DE  BEAUCHAMP,  a  military  offi- 
cer of  high  reputation,  who  had  attended  Edward  I. 
in  several  of  his  expeditions  into  Flanders  and  Scot- 
land. In  the  10th  of  that  monarch  he  acted  as  she. 
rilTof  Worcestershire,  which  office  was  granted  to 
him  during  the  minority  of  the  heir  of  his  kinsman, 
Guy,  Earl  of  Warwick.  In  the  14th  of  Edward  II. 
he  was  appointed  governor  of  St.  Briavd  Castle,  in 
the  county  of  Gloucester,  and  of  the  Forest  of 
Dean,  and  was  constituted.  In  the  year  following, 
one  of  the  king's  commissioners  fait  the  safo  cus- 
tody of  the  dty  of  Worcester.  Dying,  however, 
without  Issue,  his  estates  devolved  upon  his 
brother, 

GILES  DE  BEAUCHAMP,  who  had  already  In- 
hcrited,  by  the  settlement  of  his  eldest  brother,  the 
lordship  of  Aloester,  the  manor-house  of  which, 
called  Beauduunp's  Court,  he  had  licence  to  fortify 
in  the  14th  of  Edward  IIL  with  a  wall  of  stone  and 
lime,  and  to  embattle  it  I  and  he  obtained  similar 
permiwion  regarding  his  house  at  Fresh- Water,  in 

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B£A 


tife  I«le  of  Wight,  in  th*  19th  jmt  of  ch* 
reign.    This  GUet  wm  «.  by  Ub  wm, 

JOHN  DE  BEAUCHAMP.  of  whom  little  u 
mentioned  cave  hit  founding  a  cbmtry  in  the  perish 
church  of  Akester,  temp^  Edward  IIL,  for  one 
priert  to  odebrate  divine  tenrioe  daily  at  the  altar  of 
All  Saints,  and  Us  being  in  the  expedition  against 
France  in  the  ad  of  Richard  IL  This  John  de 
Beauchamp  left  two  aon^^ 

William  (Sir)  his  suooeiaoc. 
Walter  (Sir),  fhnn  whom  the  Beauchampe, 
Barons  of  St  Amend,  derived,  (see  that  d%- 
nity.) 
and  was  «.  by  the  dder, 

SIR  WILLIAM  DE  BEAUCHAMP,  Knt.,  who 
inthel6thofRidiardIL,  was  made  oonetable  of  the 
castle  of  Gloucester.  In  the  3rd  of  Henry  IV.,  was 
appointed  aherilT  of  Worcestershire,  and  upon  the 
eocenion  of  Henry  V.,  sherilT  of  Glouoesterdiiie. 
He  m.  Catharine,  dang^ter  ot  Genard  de  U£Bete, 
and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR  JOHN  BEAUCHAMP.  Knt.,  who  pifxidiased 
flrom  Thomas  de  Botreaux,  the  other  moiety  at 
the  manor  of  Aloester,  which  had  continued  in  that 
fimiily  fbr  divers  descents.  In  the  17th  of  Henry  VL, 
this  Sir  John  de  Beaudiamp,  upon  the  dewth  of 
Ridiard,  Eail  of  Warwick,  was  constituted  one  of 
the  commissioneri  for  the  guardianship  of  all  his 
castles  and  lands,  during  the  minority  of  Henry, 
the  young  earL  And  in  the  SSth  of  the  same 
monarch,  tnd  May,  U47»  he  was  elevated  to  the 
peerage,  in  coniequence  of  the  many  good  and  ac- 
oqrtaUe  services  performed  by  him  to  that  king, 
and  to  Henry  V.  his  father,  by  the  title  of  Loan 
Bbauchamp,  Babon  up  Powvkb,  obtaining  at 
the  same  time,  a  grant  of  £60.  per  annum,  out  of 
the  fee^arm  of  the  dty  of  Gloucester,  to  himsdf 
and  his  heirs,  for  the  better  lupport  of  the  honour. 
He  was  abo  constituted  Justice  of  South  Wales, 
with  power  to  exercise  that  office  personally  or  by 
depiity :  and  ere  long  (88th  Henry  VI.)  was 
raised  to  the  office  of  Loan  TnaASuajER  op  Eno- 
LAVo,  and  honoured  with  the  garter.  Hit  lordship 
d.  in  1478,  and  by  his  last  testament,  dated  9th  April, 
1475,  bcMqueathed  his  body  to  sepulture  in  the  church 
of  the  Dominican  Frien,  at  Woroeiter,  in  a  new 
chapel  to  be  made  on  the  north  side  of  the  quire, 
to  which  rdigious  house,  in  consideration  of  his 
burial  there,  he  gave  twenty  marks,  to  be  bestowed 
in  vestments  and  stuA,  besides  an  organ  of  his 
own:  and  appointed  that  a  priest  of  that  friery, 
should  daily  say  mass  at  the  altar  within  that  cfais^ 
pd,  before  his  tomb,  after  the  order  of  a  tremtal  for 
his  soul,  as  also  for  the  souls  of  his  father  and  mo- 
ther, dtc,  his  children  and  anoeston'  souls,  and, 
especially  for  the  soul  of  Sir  John  FtutaHf,  KnL, 
WUUam  Botreauxt  and  all  diristian  souls;  taking 
by  the  week,  for  that  mass  m  daily  to  be  said, 
eightpence,  for  evermore.  Which  diapel  and  tomb, 
with  his  effigies  in  alabaster,  he  enjoined  his  execu- 
tors to  cause  to  be  erected.  Lord  Beauchamp  was 
«.  by  his  only  son,  then  forty  years  of  age, 

SIR  RICHARD  BEAUCHAMP,  second  Loan 
BsAOCHAifP,  of  Powpke,  who  m.  Elisabeth,  daugh- 
ter of  Sir  Humphrey  Staflbrd,  Knt.,  (in  the  private 
diapel  of  his  manor  hous^  at  Beanchiunp'i  Court. 

m 


by  vlrtoe  of  a  spedal  ttcenoe  fkom  the  BMiap  ot 
Worcester,)  and  had  issue, 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  Sir  Robert  Willoughby,  Lord 
WiUougfaby  de  Broke,  and  had  an  only  son 
Edward,  who  pre-deceased  his  father,  leav- 
ing by   his   wife   Elizabeth,    daughter   of 
Richard  Nevil,  Lord  Latimer,  three  daugh- 
ters, of  whom  the  eldest,  Elisabeth,  alone 
left  issue;  wfaidi  Elisabeth  m.  Sir  Fulke 
Greville,  second  son  of  Sir  Fulke  Greville, 
of  Melcote,  in  the  county  of  Warwick,  and 
from  that  union  desrands  the  extant  Earls 
of  Brooke  and  Warwick,  and  the  Barons 
WiUoughby  de  Broke. 
Anne,  m.  to  Richard  Lygon,  Esq.,  of  Worces- 
tershire, and  from  this  marriage  tiie  present 
Earl   Beauchamp   derives.       (See   BurM* 
Dietionmv  qfthe  Peerage  and  Baronetage,) 
Margaret,  m.  to  Richard  Rede,  Esq.,  of  the 
county  of  Gloucester. 
His  lordship  d.  in  14{)6,  and  thus  leaving  no  male 
issue,  the  Babont  op  Bbauchamp  op  Powykk 
■xpinan,  while  the  estates  of  the  deceased  lord 
devolved  upon  the  above  ladies  as  co-hdresses.   Eli- 
sabeth, Lady  Willoughby  de  Broke,   having  the 
manor  of  Aloester,  and  her  sisters,  Powyke  and 
other  lands  in  the  county  of  Worcester. 

BEAUCHAMP  —  EARL   OF    ALBE- 

MARLE. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated ,  1417. 

(See  Beauchamp,  fifth  Earl  of  Warwick.) 

BEAUFORT  —  EARL  OF  DORSET, 

AND  DUKE  OF  EXETER. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  leth  November,  1410. 

This  was  a  branch  of  the  royal  house  of  Plakta- 
oswKT,  springing  from  the  celetirated 

JOHN  OF  GAUNT,  (fourth  son  of  King  Ed- 
ward III.,  and  so  denominated  from  the  place  of 
his  birth.  Gaunt,  anno  1940,)  Earl  of  Richmond, 
Duke  of  Lancaster,  and  Duke  of  Aquitaine,  K.G., 
who  espoused,  for  his  third  wife,  Katherine,  daugh- 
ter of  Sir  Paen  Roet,  Knt.,  King  at  Arms,  and 
widow  of  Sir  Hugh  (or  Otes)  Swineford,  but  had 
the  following  issue  by  her  before  his  marriage,  who 
were  legitimated  by  parliament,  in  the  20th  Rich- 
ard II.,  for  all  purposes,  save  accession  to  the 
crown. 

John,  Earl  of  Somerset,  from  whom  descends 

the  present  ducal  house  of  BnAUPonr. 
Henry,  Cardinal  of  St.  EuseUus,  and  Bishop 

of  Winchester. 
Thomas,  of  whom  presently. 
Joane,  m.  first,  to  Sir  Robert  Ferrers,  and 
secondly,  to  Ralph  Nevill,  Earl  of  West^ 
moreland. 
The  youngest  son,  (sumamed  JBsoH/brf ,  from  the 
castle  of  Beaufort  in  France,  part  of  the  marriage 
portion  of  Blanch  op  Abtoib,  upon  her  marriage 
with  Edward  Crouchback,  first  Earl  of  Lancaster,) 

SIR  THOMAS  BEAUFORT,  having  attained 
some  eminence  in  the  leign  of  Richard  IL,  was 
appointed  Admlnd  of  (be  whole  fleet  to  the  north- 


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is  the  itk  or  Hovy  lY.. 
tcrre  the  king  fs  that 
drcd  OMB  at  af«w»  MmMlf  and 

of  the  amber.     In  the  10th  of  the 

heranedeCaptalaof  raleii,  and  to  the 
ant  year,  had  laothar  gnnt  of  the  office  of  Ad- 
■ktaal,  both  of  the  aorthern  md  werten  Mat,  for 
fiAu  In  whidi  emfiofwMmtB  Sir  Thoaua  deported 
Umicif  with  to  much  dtaaratka*  that  he  wat  looa 
aftarwards  (Slid  Henry  IV.)  appointed  Loan  Cmami- 
csuoa  OF  ExoLAnn,  with  a  pavioa  of  ei^ 

ram,  ovor  and  above  the 
of  that  hi^  office,  to  o^joy 
tnm  the  Slat  day  of  January  |»aoeding,  to  long  as 
he  ahouU  hold  the  lame.    He  obtained  Ukewiae  a 

ofiome  of  the  forfeited  laada  of  Sir  Hobart 
in  addition  to  the  command  of  the 
■mtain  teas,  the  Admirahhip  of 
Ireland,  Acquitaine,  and  Picardy,  with  six  tnm  of 
viae  yearly,  from  tlie  port  oi  Kingrton  apon  HulL 
la  the  Uth  of  Henry  IV.,  he  wai  etevated  to  the 
pcengOb  aa  Ea»x.  of  Dobost,  and  vpon  the  acoea- 
don  of  Henry  V.,  being  then  LiaurairAjrr  of  Ac- 
OoiTAias,  he  waa  retained  to  lerve  tlie  king  in 
that  capacity  fbr  one  half  year,  with  two  handred 
and  forty  men  at  anna,  and  twdve  hundred  archerk 
In  the  eeoond  year  of  the  new  monarch,  his  lordship 
was  one  of  the  amhasiadnrs  to  negotiate  a  mar- 
liage  taatween  hit  itoyal  master,  and  Catherine, 
dsaghtCT  of  tbe  King  of  France;  and  in  the  next 
yav  he  had  the  honour  of  commanding  the  rear 
guard  at  the  celebrated  BATTLa  of  Aoiitcourt, 
"oooBsting  of  archers,  and  such  as  were  armed 
with  spears,  halberds,  and  UUs,"  and  was  oonstl- 
tttted  Lientenant  of  Normandy.  In  the  4th  of 
Henry  V.,  hie  loidship  was  created  Dvkm  ow 
ExsTsaybr  Hfg  onJ|r>  in  the  parliament  then  held 
at  London,  having  therewith  a  grant  of  a  thousand 
pounds  per  ■««»"m  out  of  the  exchequer,  and  forty 
pounds  per  annum  more  peyaUe  from  the  City  of 
Exeter.  During  the  remainder  of  the  martial  reign 
of  the  gallant  Henry  V.,  at  whose  solemn  funeral 
he  anliieil  aa  a  mourner,  his  grace  continued  con- 
itaatly  engaged  upon  the  plains  of  Normandy,  and 
rapped  fresh  lauiela  in  each  succeeding  campalgik 
Vpnn  the  arcf  sehw  nf  thrnmrmnnirrh.  (Hmry  VI.) 
the  Dnke^s  se i  w  h  >e  in  Prance  were  retained,  with 
three  bannerete,  three  knights,  one  hundred  four 

at  arms,  and  six  hundred 
and  he  obtained  in  the  same  year  the  office 
of  Jttiticeof  North  Wales.  His  grace  m,  Margaret, 
daughter  and  oo-hairaes  of  Sir  Thomas  Nevll,  of 
Honeby,  in  the  county  of  Lincoln,  Kat.,  but  had 
BO  isBBC  He  d:  on  the  87th  of  December,  1498, 
when  the  EAajuooM  of  Dorobt,  axo  Dukboom 
OF  ExBTBB  Bxpiaao,  but  his  great  landed  posaes- 

devolTod  upon  his  nephew,  John,  Duke  of 
In  the  laat  iestunent  of  this  eminent 
penoo,  dated  »th  December,  In  the  fith  of  Henry 
TL,  he  ocdaina  that  as  soon  after  his  decease,  (vli. 
the  fint  day  if  possible,  or  the  second  or  third  at 
the  furthest)  a  thousand  masses  should  be  solemnly 
*ung  ffor  his  soul,  Ac  {  that  no  great  cost  should 
be  taicttned  at  his  l^meral,  and  that  five  tapcn 
only  ia  so  mrfky  candlesticks  should  be  placed 
round  his  rsnaaftna.    Thai  aa  many  pooe.  men,  aa 


hestaoaldtaeyearsof  age  at  the  time  of  hia  death, 
ahouU  cany  a  torch  at  hia  ftmefml,  each  of  them 
haying  a  gown  or  hood  of  white  doth,  and  as  numy 
pence  as  he  himself  had  ttved  yeers;  likewise  the 
same  nmnbar  of  poor  women  to  be  stmUarly  attired 
and  xemnnerated.  Furthermore  he  bequeathed  to 
each  poor  body  oomiag  to  his  funeral  a  penny  i 
and  he  appotarta,  that  at  every  aaaiTenary  of  him- 
self, and  Mari^rat,  his  wife,  that  the  Abbot  of 
SL  Edmundsbury,  if  present,  should  have  six  shll- 
linga smd  ei(^t  pencei  the  prior,  if  present,  thre6 
shillings  and  four  pence  t  and  every  monk  there,  at 
that  time,  twenty  pence  i  giving  to  the  monastery 
for  the  support  of  thaee  auuivaisartes,  fbur  hundred 
marks.  To  Joane,  hb  sister,  Conntess  of  West- 
morland, he  gives  a  book,  called  TaiaTBAii,  and 
to  Thomas  Swinelbtd,  a  cup  of  silver  gilt,  with  a 
cover.  To  the  uae  of  poor  scholars  in  Queen's 
CoUoge  Oxon,  he  bequeaths  one  hundred  pounds  to 
be  depoaitad  in  a  cheat,  to  the  end  that  they  might 
have  some  relief  thereby,  in  loan,  desiring  that  the 
borrowers,  should  in  diarity  pray  Ibr  his  soul,  Ac., 
vpon  the  like  tema  he  baqueaths  one  hundred 
Biore,  to  be  similarly  placed  to  Trinity 
Hall,  Cambridge.  The  dBeeanil  dnke  was  a  knight 
of  the  Gartv. 

BEAUFORT  _  KARLS  AND  DUKES 
OF  SOMERSET. 


Earldom 
Dukedom 


}byLett.«Patent{^lJ^ 

ILincagc. 

In  the  20th  year  of  Richard  II.,  the  Lord  ChanceUor 
having  declared  hi  parliament,  that  the  king  had 
created 

SIR  JOHN  BEAUFORT,  Knt,  eldeat  son  of 
JoHW  OF  Gaunt,  by  Catharine  Swineford,  (see  Beau- 
fort, Duke  of  Exeter,)  Eabi.  of  Sombbbbt,  he  was 
brought  in  betinjen  the  Earl  of  Huntingdon,  and 
the  Earl  Marshal,  in  a  vesture  of  honour,  his 
sword  (with  the  pomd  gilt)  carried  befbre  him. 
When  the  diarter  of  areatkm  being  publidy  read, 
he  was  girt  with  the  same  sword  i  and  having  done 
homage,  was  placed  between  the  Earl  Marshal,  and 
the  Earl  of  Warwick.  His  kirdshlp  was  advanced 
la  the  next  year  (also  in  open  parliament)  to  the 
MABOOiaATB  OF  DoBSBT,  B  dignity  which  he  soon 
alterwarda  resigned  t  and  waa  created  on  the  day  of 
his  resignation,  MABonaaa  of  Sombbbbt.  He 
bore,  however,  sabseqnently,  the  former  title,  and 
as  Marquess  of  Dorset,  was  made  conauble  of  Wal- 
ingford  Castle,  and  constable  of  Dover  Castle,  and 
Warden  of  the  Cinque  Porta.  In  the  same  year,  his 
lordship  had  extmsive  granta  from  the  crown, 
and  waa  appointed  admiral  of  the  king's  fleet,  both 
to  the  north  and  west{  but  upon  the  accession 
of  Henry  IV.,  having  been  one  of  the  accusers  of 
Thomaa  de  Woodstock,  Duke  of  Olouoestcr,  his 
right  to  the  Marqulsate  of  Dorset  was  declared  void 
by  parliament,  ud  hia  only  title  then  remaining 
was  Earl  of  Someraet.  by  which,  in  the  same  year, 
he  waa  conatituted  Loan  CnAMBsmLAni  of  Eno- 
xujf  Db  In  the  4th  of  the  new  numardi,  the  com- 
moiM  in  perliament,  however,  petitioned  ftor  his 
restitution  to  the  Marquiiala  of  Donet  i  but  the 

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B£A 


BEA 


Earl  ieemed  unwilUog  to  re-adopt  the  derignaUon  of 
Marqukw,  that  being  then  to  new  a  dignity  in 
England.  Hii  lordship  did  at  length  though  re- 
•ume  it,  tot  we  find  him  in  a  few  yean  after  ap- 
pointed, aa  Marqueu  of  Donet,  Loan  High  AnMi- 
RAL  or  Enoland.  The  Marquea  espoused  Mar- 
garet, daughter  of  Thomas  Holland,  and  slater  and 
heiress  of  Thomas,  lx>th  Earb  of  Kent,  (who  mar- 
ried after  his  decease,  Thomas,  Duke  of  Clarence,) 
and  had  issue, 

HsNRY,  who  «.  as  second  Earl  ct  Somenet. 
John,  successor  to  his  brother. 
Edmund,  who.  In  the  9th  of  Henry  VI.,  was 
appointed,  under  the  title  of  Lord  Morteign, 
commander  of  the  forces  in  France  (but  of 
him  hereafter). 
Jane,  m.  to  James  I.  King  of  Scotland. 
Margaret,  m.  to  Thomas  Courtenay,  Earl  of 
Devon. 
His  lordship  who,  amongst  his  other  honours,  was 
a  KifiOHT  09  THS  OARTBa,  d.  in  1410»  and  was«. 
by  his  eldest  son, 

HENRY  BEAUFORT,  MooMd  Bar!  qf  Somerset, 
god-son  to  King  Henry  IV.,  who,  dying  in  his  mino- 
rity, was  «.  by  his  lirother, 

JOHN  BEAUFORT,  third  EmrlufSomereet,  K.G., 
a  distinguished  military  commander  in  the  reigns  of 
Henry  V.  and  Henry  VI.  by  the  latter  of  whom  he 
was  created,  in  1443,  Earl  ^  Kendal,  and  Duks  op 
SoMBRasT,  by  which  tiUe  he  was  made  lieu  tenant-ge- 
neral of  Aqultaine,  and  of  the  whole  realm  of  France, 
and  Duchy  of  Normandy.  His  grace  m.  Margaret, 
daughter  of  Sir  John  Beauchamp,  of  Blesto,  KnU, 
and  heiress  of  John,  her  brother,  (whidi  lady  m. 
after  the  duke^s  decease, Sir  Leode  Welles,)  by  whom 
he  left  an  only  daughter  and  heiress, 

•Maroarbt,  who  m.  Edmund  Tudor,  sur- 
named  of  Hadham,  Earl  of  Richmond,  by 
whom  she  was  mother  of 

Hbnry,  Earl  op  Richvokd,  who  as- 
cended the  throne  as  Henry  VII. 
Her  ladyship  espoused,  secondly.  Sir  Henry 
Staflbrd,  Knt.,  and  thirdly,  Thomas,  Lord 
Stanley,  but  had  issue  by  ndther.    The  vir- 
tues  of  this  distinguished  lady  have  been 
greatly  celebrated,  and  Walp^  mentions 
her  in  his  catalogue  of  noble  authors,  as 
baring  written  upon  several  occasions!  and 
by  her  son's  command  and  authority,  "made 
the  orders  for  great  estates  of  ladies  and  no- 
blewomen, for  their  precedence,  attires,  and 
wearing  of  harbes  at  funerals,  over  the  diin 
and  under  the  same.** 
John,  Duke  cX  Somerset,  d.  in  1444,   when  that 
dignity,  and  the  Earldom  of  Kendal  expired;  but 
the  Earldom  of  Somerset  devolved  upon  his  bro- 
ther, 

EDMUND  BEAUFORT,  Marquees  of  Donet,  as 
fourth  Earl  of  Somerset.  This  nobleman  had  com- 
manded in  the  10th  of  Henry  VI.,  oneof  the  divisions 
of  the  Duke  of  Bedford's  army  In  Normandy,  and 
upon  the  death  of  that  eminent  general,  was  appoint- 
ed Joint  commander,  with  Richard,  Duke  of  York, 
of  all  the  English  fbroes  in  the  duchy.  He  subse- 
quently (15th  Henry  VI.)  laid  successful  siege  to 
Harfleur;  and  afterwards  crossing  the  Somme,  In- 
40 


vested,  with  equal  fortune,  the  Fort  of  Fullevllle, 
when  he  formed  a  Junction  with  Lord  Talbot  In  a 
few  years  following,'  he  acquired  an  accession  of 
renown  by  his  rdief  of  Calais,  then  invested  by  the 
Duke  of  Burgundy,  and  for  his  good  scrrioes  upon 
that  occeaion,  was  created  on  the  Mth  of  August. 
1441,  Earl  op  Dorbrt.  His  lordship  continuing  to 
distinguish  himself  in  arms,  was  advanced,  on  the 
84th  of  June,  1442,  to  the  Marquibatb  op  Dorbrt, 
by  which  title  he  inherited  the  Earldom  of  Somer- 
set at  the  decease  of  his  brother  in  1444,  and  the  next 
year  was  constituted  RBonrr  op  Frahcr.  In  three 
years  afterwards  (31st  March,  1448)  he  was  created 
DuKB  OP  SoMRRBRT.  His  grace  was  also  a  knight 
of  the  Garter,  and  Lord  Hioh  Cowbtablb.  But 
the  fortune  of  war  veering  soon  after,  and  Caen 
felling  into  the  hands  of  the  French,  the  duke  had 
to  encounter  a  storm  of  unpopularity  in  Eng^d, 
to  which  he  was  recalled,  with  the  hostility  of 
Ridiard,  Duke  of  York,  and  espousing  the  Lancaa- 
trian  cause,  in  the  lamentable  war  of  the  Roses, 
which  about  that  period  broke  out,  he  fril  in  the 
first  battle  of  St.  Albans,  in  1445^  His  grace  had 
m.  Alianore,  one  of  the  daughters  and  co-heiresses 
of  Richard  Beauchamp,  Earl  of  Warwick,  and  had 
issue, 

Hrwry,  Earl  qf  Mcrteign,  his  successor. 
Edmund,  successor  to  his  brother. 
John,  slain  at  the  battle  of  Tewkesbury. 
Alianore,  m.  first,  to  James  Boteler,  Earl  of 
Wiltshire,   and  secondly,   to    Sir   Robert 
Spencer,  Knt. 
Joane,  m.  to  the  Lord  Houth,  of  Ireland,  and 

afterwards  to  Sir  Richard  Fry,  Knt 
Anne,  m.  to  Sir  William  Paston,  Knt 
Margaret,  m.  to  Humphrey,  Earl  of  Staflbrd, 
and  afterwards  to  Sir  Richard  Darell,  Knt 
*      Elisabeth,  m.  to  Sir  Henry  Lewes,  Knt 
The  duke  was  «.  by  his  tAdett  son, 

HENRY  BEAUFORT,  second  DUKE  OF  SO- 
MERSET, a  very  distinguished  personage  in  the 
York  and  Lancaster  contest  His  lordship,  like  his 
father,  being  a  staunch  Lancastrian,  was  constituted 
in  the  36th  of  Henry  VI.,  governor  of  the  Isle  of 
Wight,  with  the  castle  of  Caresbroke,  and  in  the  fol- 
lowing year  appointed  captain  of  Calais.  He  subse- 
quently continued  high  in  the  oonfldenoe  of  his  royal 
master,  until  the  defeat  sustained  by  the  Lancastrians 
at  Towton,  on  the  ISth  of  Mardi,  1461,  when  flying 
ftom  the  fidd  with  the  unfortunate  Henry,  he  is 
accused  of  abandoning  the  fallen  monarch  at  Ber- 
wick, and  of  making  his  peace  with  the  new  king 
(Edward  IV.)  by  the  surrender  of  Bamburgfa  Castle. 
Certain  it  is,  that  he  was  taken  into  ISsvonr  by  that 
prince,  and  obtained  a  grant  from  him  of  a  thousand 
marks  per  annum.  In  the  next  year  however,  upon 
the  appearance  of  Margaret  of  A^Jou,  in  the  North, 
at  the  head  of  a  considerable  force,  his  grace  re- 
sumed •*  the  Red  Rose,"  but  falling  into  the  hands 
of  the  Yorkists  at  Hexham,  in  1463,  he  was  be- 
headed the  day  after  the  battle:  and  attainted  by 
parliament  in  the  5th  of  Edward  IV.  The  duke 
had  no  legitimate  issue,  but  left  by  Joane  Hill,  an 
illegitimate  son,  Cmarlbb  Sombrbbt,  from  whom 
the  present  ducal  family  of  Somerset  directly  de- 
scends.   His  grace  was  «.  by  his  brother. 


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«. 


EDUIJND  dsX^lftlMlffA'who  «rt«r  oiditf. 
is»g  a  miaenble  exile  with  hit  brother  John  in 
Fnace,  was  rettoved  to  the  hoaoun  of  hit  family, 
upon  the  temporary  re-eitabliahment  of  the  Lancaa- 
trian  power,  in  the  10th  of  Edward  IV.,  when  he  is 
seid  to  hava  been  summoned  to  parliament  as  Dukb 
orSoMBSftST.  His  grace  commanded  the  archers  at 
the  battle  of  BABjraTriBi.i>  in  the  next  year,  and 
upon  the  loss  of  that  battle  fled  into  Wales  to  the 
Earl  of  Pembroke ;  be  was  subsequently  in  oonunand 
at  Tewkesbury,  where  the  111  fortimeof  the  day  was 
attdbatcdtohisdefectioB.  his  grace  fled  the  field, 
bat  ha  was  soon  overtaken,  and  paid  the  forfeit  of 
Jiis  head  (anno  1471).  Dying  without  issue,  aU  his 
hononxa  sxrinno,  leavii^  ATTAiMDasa  out  of  the 
qiMsdon,  while  hb  sisters  or  their  representatives 
baonM  his  heirs. 

Amau— Quarterly,  Franca  and  Rnglend,  a  border 
Goiwny,  ar.  and  ai. 

BEAUMONT  —  BARONS  AND    VIS- 
COUNTS BEAUaiONT. 


By  Writ  of  SuBunoBS,  dated  4th  Maidi,  1309, 
tad  Edward  IL,  and  by  Lett«i  Patent, 
19th  February,  144a 

The  original  descent  of  this  noble  flunily  does  not 
appear  to  have  been  clearly  ascertained.  Some  au- 
thorities deduce  it  fhan  Lewis,  son  of  Charles,  Garl 
of  Ai^jott,  a  younger  ion  of  Lewis  VIIL,  khig  of 
Franoet  some  firom  Lewis  de  Bnnne,  second  son 
of  John  de  Brenne,  the  lest  king  of  Jerusalem  i  and 
fkom  the  Viscounts  Beaumont,*  of  Normandy. 


Of  diese  Tisoou&ts  a  perftct  narratlTe  cannot  be 
to  be  given  i  but  what  can  be  said  we 
win  venture  to  oflhr.  It  appears,  then,  that  our 
King  Henry  L  had  many  natural  sons  and  daugh- 
ters; of  the  latter  of  which,  one  named  Constance, 
is  said,  by  Sandlbrd,  to  have  married  Rosceline, 
Vieeouiit  Beaumont,  in  Normandy,  and  to  have 
been  endowed  by  her  Ikther  with  the  manor  of 
Abicheoott,  In  the  town  of  Suttanton,  in  Devon- 
shire. Of  this  Viscountess  Beaumont,  Mr.  Hadox, 
in  his  Baronia  Anglicana,  has  produced  from  the 
Pipe  Rolls  several  payments  of  money  In  the  4th  of 
Henry  IL,  (who  was  her  n^hew,)  whidi  payments 
were  made  to  a  lady,  styled  only  "  Vicaoomitissa,'* 
though  afterwards  **  Vicceomltiaia  de  Bellomonte.** 
She  had  issue  a  son  Richard,  who  succeeded  to  the 
viscounty,  (and  probably  Odoard  le  Viscount,  to 
whom  King  Henry  II.  gave  the  manor  of  Kmildon, 
in  Noithumberland,  might  be  one  of  her  younger 
sons,)  in  which  he  was  succeeded  by  Ralph,  who, 
very  likely,  when  the  duchy  of  Normandy  was  lost 
by  King  John,  sought  reftige  and  relief  in  England. 
For,  in  the  next  reign,  it  appears  that  mention  is 
made  of  William  de  Beaumont,  and  also  of  Godfrey, 
who,  with  Cecilia  de  Ferres,  his  wife,  levied  a  fine 
of  the  manor  of  Rokbum,  in  Northamptonshire, 
flth-Edward  I.  Why  may  not,  then,  one  of  these  be 
Ihtherof  thcLady  Veseyand  her  brothers  ?—(Hor- 
neby's  Remarks  on  Dngdale's  Baronaga) 
This  note  is  taken  from  Bankos's  ExUnct  Pcer- 


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Certain  it  is,  however,  that  in  the  lelgn  of  fid- 
ward  I.,  mention  is  made  of  Isabel  de  Beaumont, 
wife  of  John  de  Vesdi  of  Lewis,  who,  in  liM,  was 

treasurer  of  the  church  of  SaUsbury,  and  alterwaida 
Bishop  of  Durham  i  and  of 

HENRY  DE  BEAUMONT,  who,  attondtag  the 
king,  3lith  Edward  L,  in  hU  expedition  agahist  the 
Scots,  obtained  a  precept  to  the  ooUectora  of  the 
Fifteenth  in  Yorkshire  for  two  hundred  marks  to- 
wards his  support  in  those  wars.    Intheiiatyearof 
King  Edward  IL  this  Henry  had  a  grant  in  fteof 
the  manors  of  Folkynham,  Edanham,  and  Barton- 
upon-Humbar,  and  of  all  the  knight's  ftm  belongs 
ing  to  Gilbert  de  Gent,  which  Laura  de  Gant,  his 
widow,  held  in  dower,  and  in  three  yean  afterwards 
hada  Airthergrantof  the  Isle  of  Man,  to  hold  for 
life,  by  the  services  which  the  lords  thaiaof  had 
usuaUyperfonned  to  the  kings  of  Scotland.    Inthe 
preceding  year  he  had  been  constituted  governor  of 
Roxborough  Castle,  and  deputed,  with  Humpluay 
de  Bohuta,  Earl  of  Hereford,  and  Robot  de  Clif- 
ford,  to  guard  the  marches.    About  thb  period  ha 
espoused  Alice,  dau^ter,  and  eventuaUy  heirass  of 
Alasander  Comin,  Earl  of  Boghan,  ^«fta»|»  of 
ScDthmd,  and,  doing  his  homi^,  in  the  gth  of 
Edward  IL,  had  livery  of  her  lands.    In  the  10th  of 
the  same  monarch,  Lord  Beaumont,  (he  had  been 
summoned  to  parliament  es  a  BAnoir  on  the  4th 
March,  1309,)  being  then  the  king's  lieutenant  hi 
the  north,  accompanying  thither  two  cardinals  who 
had  come  fhmi  Rome,  partly  to  reconcile  the  king 
to  the  Earl  of  Lancaster,  and  partly  to  iathronlaa 
his  lordship's  brother,  Lewis  de  Beaumont,  in  the 
bishopric  of  Durham,  was  attadted,  near  Darlingw 
.ton,  by  a  band  of  robbers,  headed  by  Gilbert  de 
Middleton,  and  despoiled  of  all  his  treasure,  hoiaas, 
and  every  thing  else  of  value,  as  were  likewise  his 
companions.     His  kirdshlp  and  his  brother  were 
also  made  prisonen,  the  former  being  conveyed  to 
the  castle  of  Mitford,  and  the  latter  to  that  of 
Durham,  there  to  remain  until  ransomed.    From 
this  period  the  baron  continued  to  bask  in  the  sun- 
aldne  of  royal  favor,  and  to  receive  from  the  crown 
further  augmentations  to  his  territorial  possessions, 
until  the  16th  of  Edward  IL,  when,  being  required 
to  give  his  advice  in  council  regarding  a  truce  than 
meditated  with  the  Soots,  he  dwiined  contemptu- 
ously, observing,  **  that  he  urould  give  none  therein,** 
which  so  irritated  the  Una,  that  his  lordship  was 
ordered  to  depart  the  couroil,  end  he  retired,  say- 
ing, *'  he  had  rather  begone  than  etaif.'*    He  was  in 
consequence  committed,  with  the  consent  of  the 
lords  present,  to  prison,  but  soon  after  released 
upon  the  b^   of  Henr^  de  Perei  and  Ralph  de 
Neeile,    He  seems  within  a  short  time,  however, 
sgain  to  ei\)oy  the  king's  favor,  for  we  find  hlro  in 
two  years  constituted  one  of  the  plenipotentiaries 
to  treat  of  peace  with  France,  and  in  two  years 
subsequently  nominated  guardian  to  David,  son 
and  heir  of  David  de  Strabolgl,  Earl  of  Athol,  de^. 
ceesed,  in  consideration  of  the  sum  of  one  thousand . 
pounds.    His  lordship  after  this  time,  entirely  de- 
serting his  royal  master,  sided  with  the  queen  con- 
sort Isabella,  and  was  the  very  perwn  to  deliver  up 
the  unhappy  monarch  to  his  enemies,  upon   his 
abortive  attempt  to  fly  beyond  sea.  The  king,  there- 
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upon,  was  committed  cloie  prftoner  to  B«rkdey 
CMtle*  where  he  was  inhumanly  murdered  in  1387* 
For  this  act  of  treachery  Lord  Beaumont  received  a 
grant  of  the  manor  of  Loughborough,  part  ot  the 
poaseasions  of  Hugh  le  Despenser,  the  attainted  Earl 
of  Winchester,  and  was  summoned  to  parliament  on 
the 9Snd  January,  13U,  7th  Edward  III.,  aa  Earl 
or  BooHAir.  His  lordship,  during  the  reign  of  Ed- 
ward III;,  had  many  high  and  confidential  employ- 
ments, and  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  aflUrs  of 
iScotland,  being  at  one  time  sent  aa  constable  of  the 
king's  army  into  that  country  for  defence  of  the 
realm.  The  earl  if.  in  ISW,  leaving  two  children, 
namely, 

John,  his  heir. 

Elisabeth,  m,  to  Nicholas  de  Andley,  son  and 
heir  of  James,  Lord  Audley,  of  Heley. 

His  lordship  inhJerited,  upon  the  decease  of  his 
NSter,  Isabell,  wife  of  John  de  Vesd,  of  Alnwick,  in 
the  county  of  Northumberland,  (one  of  the  most 
powerfVil  barons  of  the  north,)  a  lady  of  great 
eminence  in  her  time,  without  issue,  large  possea- 
sions  in  the  county  of  Lincoln,  which,  added  to  his 
own  acquirements,  placed  him  amongst  the  most 
wealthy  noUes  of  the  kingdom  at  the  period  of  his 
death.    He  was  «.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  DE  BEAUMONT,  second  Baror  Brau- 
MORT,  summoned  to  parliament  SSth  February,  1349, 
but  never  entitled  Earl  of  Boghan.  His  lordship  m. 
Lady  Alianore  Plantagenet,  6th  daughter  of  Henry, 
Earl  of  Lancaster,  and  great  grand-daughter  of  King 
Henry  III.,  by  whom  he  had  an  only  child,  Henry, 
bom  In  Brabant,  during  her  ladysldp's  attendance 
upon  Philippa,  queen  consort  of  Edward  III. ;  in 
considerittion  of  which,  Lord  Beaumont  obtained 
the  king's  special  letten  patent,  declaring,  "that, 
notwithstanding  the  said  Henry  waa  begotten  and 
bom  in  foreign  parts,  nevertheless,  in  regard  It  was 
by  reason  of  his  and  his  lady's  attendance  on  the 
queen,  he  should  be  reputed  a  lawAil  heir,  and  in- 
herit his  lands  in  Erolard,  as  if  he  had  been  bom 
there."  This  nObleman,  like  his  Esther,  was  much 
engaged  in  the  Scottish  wars.  His  lordship  d,  in 
1349,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

HENRY  DE  BEAUMONT,  third  Baron,  whose 
legitimacy,  (owing  to  his  bring  bora  beyond  the 
sea,)  was  ratified  by  act  of  parliament,  in  the  9Sth 
Edward  III.  In  the  34th  of  the  same  monarch, 
being  then  of  flill  age,  his  lordship  did  homage  and 
had  livery  of  his  lands,  ind  waa  summoned  to  par- 
liament tram  the  I4th  August,  138i,  to  the  94th  Feb- 
ruary, 1388.  He  m.  Margaret,  daughter  of  John  de 
Vere,  Earl  of  Oxford,  (which  lady  m.  after  his  de- 
cease, Nicholas  de  Lorraine,)  and  dying  In  136B,  was 
a.  by  his  only  child,  (placed,- In  the  47th  Edward  III., 
under  the  guardianship  of  William  Lord  Latimer), 

JOHN  DE  BEAUMONT,  fourth  baron,  who 
attaining  maturity  in  the  6th  Richard  II..  had  livery 
of  his  lands,  and  in  the  same  year  with  Henry  de 
Spencer,  Bishop  of  Norwich,  waa,  in  the  Bn^h 
army,  sent  to  oppose  the  adherents  of  Pope  Clement 
VIL  In  four  years  afterwards,  his  lordship  accom- 
panied JoRR  OF  Gaurt,  then  called  KlngqfCatHt* 
amd  Leon,  into  Spain ;  but  before  the  dose  of  that 
year,  lie  was  expelled  the  court,  as  one  of  the  king's 
eviladviaers,  by  the  grtat  lords  aasembled  at  Harin- 
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gey  Park.  Soon  afterwards,  however,  he  made  his 
peace,  and  had  license  to  repair  to  Calais,  in  order  to 
engage  in  a  tournament,  and  he  had  then  the  honor 
of  tilting  with  the  Lord  Chamberlain  of  the  King  of 
France.  In  the  19th  Richard  II.,  he  was  made  Ad- 
miral of  the  king's  fleets  to  the  northwards,  and 
one  of  the  Wardens  of  the  Mardies  towards  Soot- 
land  ;  <*  whereupon  he  entered  that  country  forty 
miles,  spoyled  the  Market  at  Fowics,  and  brought 
many  prisoners  back.**  In  the  next  year  he  had  the 
castle  of  Cherburgh  in  France,  committed  to  his 
custody,  and  about  that  time  was  specially  enjoined 
to  abstain  from  exercising  any  feats  of  arms  with 
the  French,  without  permission  from  Henry  de 
Perci,  Earl  of  Northumberland.  In  the  16th  of  the 
same  iteign,  his  lordship  received  a  penrion  of  £lO0k 
per  annum  for  his  services,  and  was  constituted 
Constable  of  Dover  Castle,  and  Warden  of  the 
Cinque  Ports;  and  in  the  19th,  he  was  appointed 
one  of  the  commissioners  to  negotiate  a  marriage 
between  the  King  of  England,  and  Isabell,  daugh- 
ter of  the  King  of  France.  His  lordship  m.  Kathe- 
rine,  daughter  of  Thomas  de  Everlngham  of  Laxton, 
in  the  county  of  Nottini^uun,  and  had  Issue, 

Hrrbt,  his  successor. 

Thomas,  ancestor  of  the  Beaumontsof  Stough- 
ton  Grange. 

Richard. 
The  baron,  who  had  been  summoned  to  parlia- 
ment from  the  90th'  August.  1383.  to  the  13th  No- 
vember. 1383,  and  had  the  high  honour  of  being  a 
Krioht  or  THR  Gabtrr,  died  In  1386,  and  was  «. 
by  his  eldest  son, 

HENRY  DE  BEAUMONT,  fifth  baron,  whore-' 
ceived  the  honor  of  knighthood  at  the  coronation  of 
King  Henry  IV. ;  and  in  the  11th  of  the  same  mo- 
narch's reign,  was  constituted  one  of  the  oommis-- 
sionen  to  treat  of  peace  with  France.  His  lordship 
m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  William,  Lord  Willoughby 
de  Eresby,  and  had  issue, 

JoHR,  his  heir. 

Henry,  from  whom  the  Beaumonts  of  Wednes- 
bury,  in  Uie  county  of  Stafford,  descended. 
Lord  Beaumont,  who  had  been  summoned  to  par- 
liament from  99th  Augiist,  1404,  to  the  99nd  March, 
1413,  died  in  the  Uftter  year,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest 
son, 

JOHN  DE  BEAUMONT,  sixth  baron,  a  very 
distinguished  personage  in  the  reign  of  Henry 
VI.,  and  high  in  that  monarch's  favour,  under  whom 
he  ei^oyed  the  moat  lucrative  and  honorable  em- 
ployments, and  in  whose  service  he  eventdally  laid 
down  his  life.  In  the  14th  of  King  Henry,  hik  lordship 
obtained  by  letters  patent,  to  himself  and  his  heirs 
male,  the  EarMon  of  Boloine,  being  at  that  time  upon 
his  march  for  the  relief  of  Calais,  and  in  finir  years 
afterwards,  19th  February,  1440,  he  waa  created 
ViacouRT  Bbaumort,  (being  the  first  person  dig- 
nified with  such  a  title.)  with  precedency  above  aU 
barons  of  the  realm,  and  with  a  yearly  fee  of  twenty 
marks,  out  of  the  revenues  of  the  county  of  Lin- 
coln. His  lordship  recdved,  subsequently,  a  patent 
of  precedency  (9Srd  Henry  VI.)  above  all  viscounts 
thenceforth  to  be  created  {  and  in  five  years  after- 
wards, was  constituted  Lonn  Hioh  Chambrb- 
LAIR  OP  Erolard.    The  viscount  finally  lost  his 


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'  Bfr  at  the  tettl*  o#  Northamptoii,  flgbttnf  imd«r 
tte   LaBCMtilMi  iMBacr  cm  the   10th  July.  lOSi 
Wb  hmWdp  WW  •   Kvioht  of  thb   GAmTBR* 
0d  had  twCD  tninmoBed  to  parHanMnt  fai   the 
BAaojrr   or«  Bbavmont,    firom    94th  February. 
1431^  to  mOk  Scptonbcr,  1439.  He  had  m.  Elieabethp 
dOy  danghtar  and  hcbcM  of  Sir  Willhnn  Phdip, 
vord  Bianhri^  by  whom  he  left* 
WiixiAJi.  hie  ■uecBMor. 
JcHMb  m.  to  John,  Lord  Lorel*  of  Tidunenh* 
and  dying  bcftm  her  brother,  left  a  Mm, 
^j^ygyho  succeeded  ae  Lord  Lovd.  but  AM  with- 
out Imw,  and  two  dau^ters,  vis. 

L  Joane>  ek  to  Sir  Brian  St^leton*  of 
Carlton,  Knt.,  from  which  marriage, 
Unaa&y  deMnded, 

GiSiart  Stapleton,  Eiq,  who  left  one 
eon  and  one  daughter*  out  of  a 
munanws  finnily,  that  had  lanie^ 


Sir  Mliei  Sti^leton.  Bart^  who 
d.  in  1707»  in  inflmt  mu  and 
dau^lMer  baring  pre-deceaied 


Anne,  m.  to  Mark  Erriogton, 
Beq.,  of  Gonteiand,  and  left 
aion, 

Nichofan^  whoaiiamed  the 
name  of  Stapleton,  and 
marrjring  Mary  Scroope, 
left  at  hie  deoeaie,  in 
I7U»  an  only  turrlYing 
aoUf 

NiCHOLAa  Staplb- 
TOM,  who  IN.  first, 
Charlotle  Bure,  by 
whom  he  had  four 
daughters  I  aecond- 
ly,  Mary  BagneO, 
but  had  no  furri- 
Ting  iafue }  and 
thirdly,  Wlnefred 
White,  by  whom 
he  left  an  only  tui^ 
Tivingaon, 

Tmomab     Sta> 

FLBTOK,  Ee(|R 

Of  Carlton, 
.who  claimed 
the  Baromy 
OP  Bbau- 
MonTfimtun- 
sucoeMftilly, 
in  17B6. 
»,  m.  to  Sir  Edward  Norres, 
Kni^tt  and  whoee 
Henry  Norresa  was  sum- 
moned to  parliament,  temp.  Elisabeth, 
ae  Baron  Norres.  of  Ryoote,  a  barony 
merged  in  the  EarMom  of  Abing- 
Her  ladyship  had  an  only  grand- 


SL  PrideswMe, 
of    Yattenden, 


Mary,  sister  of  Lord  Norres,  who 
m.  flnt.  Sir  George  Careir,  end 
secondly.  Sir  Arthur  Champcr- 
noun»  and  left  issue. 


lahn»    Viscount   Beaument,   was  a  by  his  only 


WILLIAM  DB  BEAUMONT. 

wtmth  amom»  who  Inherited  likewise  large  poe- 
■s  from  his  mother,  the  heiras  of  the  BardolA. 
This  noblman  adhering  faithfully  to  the  Lancastrian 
interest,  was  made  prisoner  by  the  Yorkisto  at  Tow- 
ton  field,  in  the  1st  year  of  Edward  IV..  when  he  was 
attainted,  and  his  large  possessions  bestowed  upon 
Lord  Hastings;  from  this  perkMl  until  the  aooession 
of  King  Henry  VIL,  his  lordship  shared  the  lUlen 
fortunes  of  his  perty,  but  rising  with  that  event, 
he  was  restored  to  his  honors  and  estates,  by  act  of 
parliament,  passed  on  the  7th  Novembsr,  in  the 
1st  year  of  the  new  monarch's  reign.  The  viscount 
m,  first.  EUxabeth,  daughter  of  Richard  Scrope, 
and  niece  of  Lord  Scrope,  of  Bolton;  and  secondly, 
Joene,  daughter  of  Humphrey  Staflbrd,  Duke  of 
Buckingham,  but  dying  without  issue  in  1M7,  thb 
VieooimrcY  bzpibbd,  while  thb  Babomv  op 
Bbaumont  fril  into  abbyamcb,  and  so  continues, 
aoDording  to  the  decision  upon  the  daima  of  Mr. 
Stapleton,  in  1798,  "Between  the  coheirs  of  Wil- 
liam, Viscount  Beaumont,  (tai  whom  it  was  vested 
by  descent  from  his  tether,  John,  Lord  Beaumont, 
who  was  summoned  to  and  sit  in  parliament,  ted 
Henry  VL,  as  a  baron  in  fee,)  descended  from  his 
sister  Joene,  and  that  the  petitioner  Thomas  Sta- 
pleton, Esq.,  was  one  of  thoee  otAieifa.'' 
Armb— Aa.  a  Uon  rampant  semte  de  lis,  or. 

BEAUMONT  — EARLS   OF   LEICES- 
TER. 

By  Charter  of  Creation,  dated  anno  lioa 

ICiiuagc. 

ROBERT  DE  BELLOMONT,  OR  BEAU- 
MONT, (son  of  Roger,  grandson  of  Turolf  of  Pont 
Audomere,  by  Wevia,  sister  to  Gunnora,  wife  of 
Richard  L,  Duke  of  Normandy,)  came  into  Eng- 
land with  the  Conqueror,  and  contributed  mainly  to 
the  Norman  triumph  at  Hastings.  This  Robert 
inherited  the  earldom  of  Mellent  in  Normendy, 
from  his  mother  Adriina,  daughter  of  Waleran. 
and  sister  of  Hugh,  (who  took  the  habit  of  a  monk 
hitheabbeyofBec,)bothEarUof  MeUent.  Of  his 
conduct  at  Hastings,  William  PicUvensis  thus 
speaks :  *'  A  certain  Norman  young  soldier,  son  of 
Roger  de  Bellomont,  nephew  and  heir  to  Hugh. 
Ea4  of  Mellent,  by  Adeline  his  sister,  making  the 
first  onset  in  that  fight,  did  what  deserveth  httUng 
Ihme,  boldly  charging  and  breaking  in  upon  the 
enemy,  with  that  regiment  which  he  commanded 
in  the  right  wing  of  the  Bxtay,**  for  which  gallant 
services  he  obtained  sixty-four  lordahips  In  War- 
widuhire,  sixteen  In  Leicestershire,  sevqn  in  Wilt- 
^shire,  three  in  Northamptonshiret  and  one  in 
Ghnicestershire,  in  all  hikbty-okb.  His  lordship 
did  not  however  arrive  at  the  dignity  of  the  English 
peerage  before  the  reIgn  of  Henry  L«  when  that 
monarch  creeted  him  Kam<  op  LaicBarBB.  The 
mode  by  which  he  attained  this  honour  is  thus 
stated  by  an  ancient  writer  t  **  The  City  op  Lbi- 
CB8TBB  had  then  four  lords,  via.,  the  Kine,  the 
Bishop  op  Lincoln,  Eabx.  Simon,  and  Yvo.  the 
son  of  Hugh  de  GrentmesneL  This  Earl  of  Mel- 
lent, by  &vour  of  the  kipg»  fcunoingly  entering  it 

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on  that  side  which  heloiigtd  to  Yto,  (then  governor 
thereof,  as  also  kherifT,  and  the  king's  farmer  there,) 
sttl^ecting  it  vrtioUy  to  himaelf ;  and  bj  this  means, 
being  made  an  Eabl  in  England,  exceeded  all  the 
nobles  of  the  realm  in  riches  and  power.**  His 
lordship  espoused  Isabel,  daughter  of  Hugh,  Earl 
of  Vermandois,  and  had  issue, 

Walaren,  who  «.  to  the  Earldom  of  M eUent. 

RoBKRT,  successor  to  the  English  Earldom. 

Hugh,  sumamed  Pauper,  obtained  the  Earl- 
•  DOM  OF  BsDPORD  ftom  King  Stephen, 
with  the  daughter  of  M llo  de  Beaucfaamp, 
upon  the  expulsion  of  the  said  Milo.  Being 
a  person  (says  Dugdale)  remiss  and  negli- 
gent himself,  he  tea.  flrom  the  dignity  of  an 
earl,  to  the  state  of  a  knight ;  and  in  the 
end  to  miserable  poverty. 
With  several  daughters,  of  whom, 

EUsabeth,  was  concubine  to  Henry  I.,  and 
afterwards  wife  of  Gilbert  Strongbow,  Earl 
of  Pembroke. 

Addlne,  m.  to  Hugh  de  MoBtfort. 

m.  to  Hugh  de  Novo  CasteUo. 

— ^— -  m.  to  William  Lupellus,  or  LoveL 
This  great  earl  is  characterised  as  «*  the  wisest  of 
all  men  betwixt  thlk  and  Jerusalem,  in  worldly 
alEurs ;  famous  for  knowledge,  plausible  in  speech, 
■kilAil  in  craft,  discreetly  provident,  ingeniously 
subtile,  excdling  for  prudence,  proAnind  in  coun- 
sel, and  of  great  wisdom."  In  the  latter  end  of  his 
days,  he  became  a  monk  in  the  ^bbey  of  Preaux, 
where  he  died  in  1118,  and  was  «.  in  the  earldom  of 
Leicester,  by  his  second  son, 

ROBERT,  (called  Bossu,)  as  second  earL 
This  nobleman  stoutly  adhering  to  King  Henry  I. 
upon  all  occasions,  was  with  that  monarch  lit  his 
decease  in  113S,  and  he  afterwards  as  staunchly 
supported  the  interests  of  his  grandson,  Henry  II., 
upon  whose  accession  to  the  throne,  his  Icwdship 
was  constituted  Jvarics  or  Eholand.  He  m. 
Amicia,  daughter  of  Ralph  de  Waer,  Earl  of  Nor- 
folk, by  whom  he  had  a  son,  Robbrt,  and  two 
daugihters;  one,  the  wife  of  Simon,  Earl  of  Hun- 
tingdon, the  other,  of  William,  Earl  of  Gloucester. 
The  'earl,  who  was  a  munlfloent  benefkctor  to  the 
church,  and  foimder  of  several  religious  houses,  d. 
in  1167,  efter  having  lived  for  fifteen  years  a  canon 
regular  in  the  Abbey  of  Leicester,  and  was  «.  by  his 
son, 

ROBERT,  (sumamed  Blanchm^nes,  from  having 
white  hands,)  as  third  earl,  who  adhering  to 
Prince  Henry,  in  the  19th  of  Henry  II.,  in  his  rebel- 
lion, incurred  the  high  displeasure  of  that  monarch. 
The  king  commanding  that  his  town  of  Leicester 
should  be  laid  waste,  it  was  besieged,  and  the 
gfeater  part  burnt  i  the  inhabitants  having  permit- 
•ion  for  three  hundred  pounds  to  move  whither 
they  pleased.  He  was  received  however  into  royal 
favour  in  four  years  afterwards,  (1177t)  and  had 
restoration  of  idl  his  lands  and  castles,  save  the 
castle  of  Montsorel,  in  the  county  of  Leicester,  and 
Paoey,  in  Normandy ;  but  surviving  King  Henry, 
he  stood  in  such  favour  with  Richard  I.,  that  those 
castles  were  likewise  restored  to  him,  and  he  was 
appointed  to  carry  one  of  the  swords  of  state  at 
that  monarch's  coronation.    His  lordship  m.  Patro- 

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nil,  daaghter  of  Hugh  de  GrentoneviU,  with  whom 
he  had  the  whole  honour  of  Hinkley,  and  SrawARn* 
SHIP  of  England,  and  had  issue* 

ROBBRT  FiTtPARHRI.,  his  SUCOeMOr. 

Roger,  Bishop  of  St.  Andrews*  in  Scotland. 
William,  a  leiq;>er,  founder  ot  the  hospital  of 

St.  Leonards,  at  Leicester. 
Amicia,  m,  to  Simon  de  Montfbrt,  who  after 
the  Earldom  of  Leicester  expired,  with  the 
male  line  of  the  Bbaumonts,  was  cxeated 
Earl  of  Leicester,  by  King  John  (see  Mont- 
ford,  Earl  of  Leicester). 
Margaret,  m.  to  Sayer  de  Quincy. 
The  earl  d.  in  his  return  flrom  Jerusalem,  at  Duns, 
in  Greece,  anno  1190,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

ROBERT,  (sumamed  Fitx-pamel  ftam  his 
mother,)  Iburth  earl,  who  in  1191,  befaig  at  Messina, 
in  his  journey  to  the  Holy  Land,  was  invested  into 
Us  father's  earldom  of  Leioester,  by  King  Richard, 
with  the  cincture  of  a  sword.  After  which,  whilst 
his  royal  master  was  detained  in  captivity  by  the 
Emperor,  the  King  of  France  having  invaded  Nor^ 
mandy,  and  taken  divers  places,  this  earl  coming  to 
Roan,  excited  the  inhabitants  to  so  vigorous  a  de- 
ftnce,  that  the  Prendi  monarch  was  obliged  to  re- 
treat Furthermore,  it  is  rdated  ot  him,  that 
wiwfciiig  a  pilgrimage  into  the  Holy  Land,  he  there 
unhorsed,  and  slew  the  Soldan  in  a  tournament, 
when  returning  into  England,  he  d.  in  1JI04,  and 
was  buried  in  the  Abbey  of  Leioester,  befbre  the 
high  altar,  betwixt  his  mother  and  grandfather. 
His  lordship  had  m.  Lauretta,  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam, Lord  Braose,  of  Brember,  but  having  no 
issue,  the  EARiiDOv  or  Lxicrstxr  became  bx- 
TijfCT,  while  his  great  inheritance  devolved  upon 
his  two  sisten,  as  coheirs,  which  was  divided  be- 
tween them,  thus— 

SiMOw  DB  MoKTPORT,  husbsod  of  Amicia, 

had  one  moiety  of  the  earldom  of  Leicester, 

with   the  honour    of    Hinkley,   and   was 

CBBATBD  Eari.  OP  Lbicbstbr;  he  also 

enjoyed  the  stewardship  of  England,  as  in 

right  of  the  said  honor  of  Hinkley. 

Savbb  db  Quibcby,  husband  of  Margaret, 

had  the  other  moiety  of  the  earldom  of 

Leicester,  and  was  shortly  after  created 

Earl  of  WiifCHBaTBB.  (See  that  dignity). 

Arxb.— 43u.  a  cinqueMI  Erm.  pierced  of  the 

field. 

BEAUMONT— EARL  OF  BEDFORD. 

(See  Beaumont,  Earl  of  Leicester.) 

BEG  OR  BEKE.J)ARONS  B£K£  OF 
ERESBY. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  23rd  June,  U9S. 
S3rd  Edward  I. 

Xincasc. 

Amongst  the  compenioiis  in  arms  of  the  Coh- 
guBROR,  wae» 

WALTER  BEC,  who,  although  cqjoying  a  fair 
Inheritance  in  Normandy,  embarked  aealously  in 
the  enterprise  against  England,  and  obtained  upon 
the  triumph  of  his  master  a  grant  of  the  manor  of 
Exesby,  in  the  county  of  Lincoln,  with  other  im- 


BEC 


BEC 


portanttedikiiM.  Thli  Wattw  m.  Agntt,  dtughtar 
■Ml  liclnw  of  Hugh,  tlie  Mxi  of  PtiMS  (one  of  the 
chieA  hi  Duke  WUIkm**  anny,)  oommaaly  adled 
Hugh  Dapilier*  and  had  tow 

Hn^  who  died  «.  jk  in  hii  vetvn  from  tha 

Holy  Land. 
Hanry,  bafaig  apanon  of  naak  nndantandfaif. 
Ma  two  next  toothen  itaavad  with  him  the 
inhferltanoa 
Walter,  IpattlGlpafean   with    their    tatothar 
John,     j  Henry,  in  their  lkth«'t  landi. 
Thoanai  inherited  the  chuidi  patfooaga  ct 
hitfttfaer. 
The  eideit  nnrlTing  ton, 

HENRY  BEKE,  tadierited  Bmsaar,  and  other 
manon,  and  waa  «.  by  his  ion, 

WAJLTER  BEKE,  who  «.  Eva.  ttiaoe  of  Walter 
de  Grey,  Aichbidiop  of  York,  and  waa  «.  by  hie 


JOHN  BBKB,  who  gare  to  King  John  a  hundred 
poonds  end  four  pelfteys,  for  lioenie  to  merry  the 
wUow  of  WilUam  Baidicdph.  This  feudal  lord  wee 
ik  by  his  ton, 

HENRY  BEKE,  who  «.  HawyM,  liater  of 
Thoanae  de  Muleton,  and  obtained  luge  eetatat  in 
the  ooonty  of  Uneoln  thereby,  es  a  gift  fkom  the 
arid  Thomaa.    To  thie  feudal  Baron  of  Breiby,  «. 


WALTER  BEKE,  who  left  three  ions,  Tia.^  . 

JoBW,  his  suceessor  In  the  lordship  of  Eresby. 

AimoirT,  the  oetebiated  Bibbop  of  DvasA  v, 
end  Pathiargh  ov  Jkbusalkm.  "  This 
Anthony,  (saya^Dugdale,)  was  signed  with 
the  croes  in  the  Mth  Henry  III.,  in  order 
to  Us  going  to  the  Holy  Lend  with  Prinoe 
Edward;  and  on  the  3rd  of  Edward  L,  being 
then  a  derk,  was  made  constable  of  the 
Tower  of  London.  Moreover,  in  anno  U83, 
befaig  present  at  the  translation  of  St.  Wil- 
liam, Ardibishop  of  York,  and  at  the  whole 
charge  of  that  great  solemnity,  (the  king, 
queen,  and  many  of  the  noUHty  being  also 
there,)  he  was  then  consecrated  Bisbop  op 
DintBAM,  by  William  Wickwane,  Ardibishop 
of  York,  in  the  dmrch  of  St.  Peter,  within 
thet  city.  Alter  which,  anno  1S04,  <8Snd 
Edward  L  the  king  disoeming  his  great  losses 
in  Oascoigne,)  he  waa  sent  to  Rodtdph,  King 
of  Ahnalne,  to  make  a  league  with  him  i 
and  the  seme  year,  upon  the  arrival  of  the 
cardinals  to  treat  of  pcafCe  between  King 
Edward  and  the  King  of  Fiance,  he  readily 
answered  their  proposels  in  the  French 
tongue.  Furthermore,  in  anno  106,  King 
Edward  entered  Scothmd  with  a  powerftil 
armyt  he  brought  thither  to  him  no  less  than 
five  hundred  horse,  and  a  thousand  foot, 
besides  a  multitude  of  Welsh  and  Irish. 
After  whidi,  the  same  year,  being  sent  am- 
bMsador  into  that  realm,  he  was  solemnly 
met  by  the  king  end  nobles}  and  after  much 
dispute,  brought  them  to  such  an  accord, 
that  they  totally  submitted  themselves  to 
the  pleesure  of  King  Edward.  Also  upon 
that  Tcb^on,  which  again  broke  out  there 
the  -next  year  following,  (at  which  time  they 


used  great  cruelties  to  the  BngHsh,)  he  was 
Vgain  sent  tMthir  to  Inquire  the  truth,  and 
to  advertise  the  Ung  thereol  And  in  the 
nth  of  Edward  L  waa  vgain  aent  into  Scot- 
land, with  certain  forces,  at  which  thne  he 
aasanUad  the  caatle  of  DuMon,  and  took  It. 
And  tawtly,  hi  aaM  of  Edward  L  bataig  with 
the  Earl  of  Lincoln,  and  aoeoe  other  Wahope, 
sent  to  Rome,  to  prasent  dlveia  vceeeb  of 
pure  gtdd  from  King  Edward  to  the  Pope, 
his  Holyncss  teking  eapedal  notice  of  his 
courtly  bdiavkmrand  magnanimity  of  spirit, 
advanced  him  to  the  title  of  Patbiabcb  op 
JsavaALBM.** 

**  Amongst  other  wwks  of  this  great  pr»> 
late,  (continues  Dugdale,)  he  founded  the 
oollegiste  churches  of  Chester  and  Langcee- 
tar,  as  also  the  collegiate  chappel  at  Bishops- 
Aukland,  all  in  the  ooonty  palatine  of  Dur- 
ham. Moreover,  it  is  reported  that  no  man 
in  an  the  realm,  except  the  king,  did  equal 
him  for  habit,  behavtovr  and  military  pomp, 
and  that  he  waa  more  versed  in  state  afluirs 
than  in  eodeslaatlcal  duties  t  ever  eeebting 
the  king  moet  powerftilly  in  his  wavsi  hav- 
ing sometimes  In  Scotland,  twanty-elx  stan- 
dard bearers,  and  of  his  ordinary  retinue^ 
an  hundred  and  forty  kni|^tsi  so  that  he 
was  thought  to  be  rather  a  temporal  prince 
than  a  priest  or  Mshopi  and  lastly,  that  he 
died  <m  ard  of  March,  1810,  and  was  buried 
above  the  Hiob  Altab  in  his  cathedral  of 
Durham.**  This  prelate  was  the  first  bisbop 
that  presumed  to  lie  in  the  church,  on  ao> 
count  of  the  interment  of  the  holy  St  Cuth- 
bert,  and  so  superstitious  were  they  In  those 
days,  that  they  dared  not  bring  in  the  re^ 
mains  at  the  doon,  bat  bn^e  a  hole  In  the 
wall,  to  eoaytj  them  in  at  the  end  of  the 
chufdi,  which  breach  is  said  to  be  stUl  visl- 
btab 
Thomaa,  Biehop  of  St.  David's. 
The  ddest  son, 

JOHN  BEKE,  «.  his  fether  in  the  feudal  k>rd- 
ship  of  Eraiby,  end  waa  summoned  to  parliament  aa 
Babob  Bbkb,  op  Ebbbby,  on  the  83rd  of  June, 
SOth  of  Septamber,  end  8nd  of  November,  1385,  and 
the  96th  of  August,  1390,  having  previously  (4th  of 
Edward  I.)  had  license  to  make  a  castlMkf  his  manor 
house  at  Eresby.    His  lordship  m.  ■ ,  and  had 

issue, 

Waltbb,  his  successor. 
Ahce,  m.  to  Sir  William  da  WUkraghby,  Knt, 
end  had  issue, 

Robbbt  Wilixiuobbt,  who  inherited, 
at  the  decease  of  his  grand  uncle,  An- 
thony Beke,  Bishop  of  Durham,  the 
great  poeeeesloni  of  that  eminent  pre- 
late, and  wee  sumnumed  to  parliament, 
temp.  Edward  II.  as  Loan  Willovob- 
bt  dm  Ebbbby.  (See  that  dignity  in 
Burke^t  Dfctionofy  tf  Me  P^tragB  and 


Margaret,  m.  to  Sir  RicheiddeHaroourt,  Knt* 

ancestor  of  the  Haroourts,  Earls  of  Har- 

eourt. 

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BEL 


BEL 


Mary»  d.  unm. 
Lord  Beke,  dL  in  1309,  and  was  «.  by  hif  KNif 

WALTER,  Moond  baron,  but  never  lummoned 
to  parUament;  at  whoae  deoeaae  without  inue,  the 
Barony  or  Bsks  dx  Eaksby  fell  into  ABSvAircn, 
between  his  two  listen  and  oo-helrt,  the  ladies 
Willoughby  and  Haroourt,  and  so  continues  amongst 
thdr  desoendanta. 

Anna— Oules,  a  cross  moUne,  ar. 

BECHE— BARONS  LA  BEOHE. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  85th  February,  1342, 
I6EdwaidlIL 

ICineage. 

Of  this  fismily,  Da  la  Bbchb,  of  Aldworth,  in 
th^  county  of  Bucks, 

NICHOLAS  DB  LA  BECHE  was  constituted 
Constable  of  the  Tower  ot  London  in  the  9th  of 
Edward  III.,  and  had  a  grant  from  the  crown,  in 
two  yean  afterwards,  of  the  manor  of  Whitchurch, 
with  other  lands.  About  this  period,  too,  he  ob- 
tained license  to  encastrilate  his  houses  at  De  La 
Beche,  Beaumys,  and  WaUyington.  He  was  sub- 
sequently distinguished  in  the  wan  in  Brittany, 
mad  was  summoned  to  parliament,  as  a  baron,  on 
the  S6th  of  February,  1S4SL  In  1343  his  lordship 
became  scnesrtial  of  Oasoony,  and  the  next  year  was 
constituted  one  of  the  commissionen  to  treat  with 
Alphonsus,  king  of  Castile,  touching  a  marriage 
between  the  ddest  son  of  that  monarch  and  Joane, 
daughter  of  the  Idng  ot  England. 

Lord  De  La  Beche  died  in  1347»  and  leaving  no. 
issue,  the  barony  expired,  but  the  estates  passed 
to  the  sisten  of  John  de  la  Beche,  who  died  nineteen 
yean  previously,  and  is  supposed  to  have  been  the 
elder  brother  of  the  baron ;  consequenUy  the  oo- 
heiresses  were  his  lordship's  sisten  Ixkewisei  Of 
those  ladies, 

Joane,  the  dder,  m.  flnt.  Sir  Andrew  Sack- 
ville,  and  secondly.  Sir  Thomas  Langfind. 
— ^  nv  Robert  Danvi 


Arms— Vairde  ar.  andguka. 

BELASYSE  --  BARONS  FAUOON. 
BERG,  OF  VARUM,  IN 
THE  COUNTY  OF  YORK. 
VISCOUNTS  FAUCON- 
"BERG,  OF  HENKNOWLE, 
IN  THE  COUNTY  OF  DUR- 
HAM. 

EARLS  OF   FAUCON- 
BERG. 


Barony 

Viscounty 

Earldom, 


m,    J 


Letten 
Patent, 


dated  S5th  May,  UI27. 
dated  3Ist  Jan.,  1643. 
dated  first,  9th  AprU, 

1689;     second,  Iffth 

June,  1774. 


ICiiuage. 

This  eminent  Nonnan  family  deduced  an  unin- 
terrupted descent  from 

BELASIUS,  one  of  the  commanden  in  the  army 
of  the  Conqueror,  distinguLdied  for  having  sup- 
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pwsaed  the  adherents  of  Edgar  EthUng,  in  the  Isle 
of  Ely,  whence  the  spot  where  he  had  pitched  liis 
camp  was  named  Bdasius  Hill,  now  known  by  the 
corrupted  designation  of  Belsar's  HilJ.  The  son  of 
this  gallant  soldier, 

ROWLAND,  marrying  Elgiva,  daughter  and 
heiress  of  lUlph  de  Belasyse,  of  Bdasyae,  tn  the 
county  of  Durham,  assumed,  upon  sucoeding  to  the 
inheritance  of  his  wife,  the  surqame  of  **  Bdasyse, 
of  Belasyse^**  and  his  desoaadants  ever  afterwards 
adhered  to  the  same  designation,  although  the 
spdling  has  frequently  varied.  The  great-grandson 
of  this  Rowland  Brtasyse, 

SIR  ROWLAND  BELASYSE  attained  the  ho- 
nour of  knighthood  by  his  gallant  bearing  at  the 
bettle  of  Lewes,  in  the  48th  of  Henry  IIL  Sir  Row- 
land m.  Mary,  daughter  and  heiraai  ai  Heory 
Spring,  Lord  of  Howton-le^pring,  in  the  bishopric 
of  Durham,  by  whom  he  acquired  a  considerable 
accession  ot  property,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR  ROGER  BELASYSE,  Knt.,  who  m.  Joan, 
daughter  of  Sir  Robert  Harbottlc!,  Knt,  and  had 
issue— 

Robbrt,  his  suoaetsor. 

John,  m.  to  Mary,  daughter  of  Robert  Ber- 
tram, Esq. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Thomas  Madison,  Esq.,  of 
Unthank  HalL 
Sir  Roger  was  «.  by  his  dder  son, 

SIR  ROBERT  BELASYSE,  lirom  whom  Une* 
ally  descended, 

WILLIAM  BELASYSE,  Esq.,  tfBehu^M,  who 
m.  fint,  Cecily,  daughter  and  heiress  of  William 
Hottou,  Esq.,  and  had  issue— 
RicHAiin,  his  successor. 
Anthony,  LL.D.,  master  in  Chancery  in  1545, 
when  he  waa  (me  of  the  ftwr  especially  ap- 
pointed to  hear  causes,  and  pass  decrees  In 
the  Court  of  Chancery,  in  the  absence  of  the 
lord  chancellor.  Sir  Thomas  Wriothesley. 
And  in  the  rrign  of  Edward  YL,   being 
written  Anthony  Bdasis,  Esq.,  was  one  of 
the  king's  council  in  the  north.    On  the  dis- 
solution of  the  monasteries  he  obtained 
from  the  crown  a  grant  of  Newborough 
Abbey,  in  the  county  of  York,  which  htf 
afterwards  gave  to  his  nephew.  Sir  William 
Bdasyse. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  William  Clervaux,  of  Crofts, 
in  the  county  of  York. 

Margaret,  m.  to Minshull,  Esq. 

Anne,  m.  to  Anthony  Smith,  Esq.,  of  Kalton. 
Mr.  Bdasyse  m.   secondly,  Jane,   daughter  of 
Thomas  Tipping,  Esq.,  but  had  no  issue  by  that 
lady.    He  was  «.  by  his  son, 

RICHARD  BELASYSE,  Esq.,  who  was  consti- 
tuted constable  of  Durham  for  life,  to  officiate  in 
person,  or  by  deputy.  He  m.  Margaret,  daughter 
and  heiress  of  Richard  Errington,  Esq.,  of  Cockley, 
in  the  county  of  Northumberland,  and  dying  in  the 
30th  of  Henry  YIIL,  was  «.  by  his  son,  (then  in 
minority,) 

SIR  WILLIAM  BELASYSE,  Knt,  who  served 
the  office  of  sheriff  for  Yorkshire  in  the  17th  year  of 
Elisabeth.  He  m.  Margaret,  daughter  of  Sir  Nicho- 
las FairCsx,  of  Malum*  in  the  county  of  York,  and 


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dytegMaiiMVM0ida«»,  lath  April,  16M,  wm«.  by 
liii  ddflit  Mill* 

SIR  HENRY  BKLASYSE,  of  Newbonmgh.  in 
tb*  oouatry  of  Yotk,  wbo,  hsTing  reodveil  the 
boBoor  of  knighthood  tram  King  Jamei  I.,  at  York* 
in  Ills  nu^erty's  Joarney  to  London,  17th  April, 
1003,  «M  ccmtod  a  BABoirar  upon  die  imtitutioo  of 
that  dignity,  on  the  89th  June,  MIL  Sir  Henry  m. 
Umila,  daughter  of  Sir  Thomae  Fairfbx,  of  Den- 
ton* in  the  county  of  York,  and  had  leiue 
THOiiAa,  hie  eucoeMor. 
Dorothy*  m.  to  Sir  Conyeie  Dscf*  Kat.*  of 

Hornby* 
Mary.  ».  to  Sir  William  Lerter.   Kat*  of 
ThantoB,  in  the  county  of  York. 

Ho  was  ju  at  his  deoeaee  by  hie  ton, 

SIR  THOMAS  BBLASYSE,  lacond  baronet,  6. 
in  15S7>  and  adTanced  to  the  peerage  by  the  title  of 
Raaoir  Faccombxro,  «f  Yerum*  in  th$  eovniy  nf 
Ym'k,  on  the  2Sth  May.  1087.  His  lordship,  ad- 
iMring  ftithfuny  to  the  fortunes  of  King  Charles  I., 
vas  created*  on  the  31st  of  January,  1649,  Viscoumt 
FADCoxBsao,  of  Hcnknowle,  in  the  county  pa]»> 
tine  of  Durham.  His  lordship  was  subsequently  at 
the  siege  of  York,  and  at  the  battle  of  Marston 
Moor*  under  the  Duke  of  Newcastle,  with  whom  he 
fled  to  the  continent  after  that  uufortunate  defeat. 
He  M.  Barbara,  daughter  of  Sir  Henry  Cholmood- 
ley.  Baronet,  of  Roxby,  in  the  county  of  York*  and 


Thomas,  m.'  Marie  Louise 
de  ManevlUe,  and  had 
flre  daughters. 


«   M.P.  for  the  county  of  York;   of 

whom  Cfanendoo  writes  t-^**  Harry  Belesis, 
with  the  Lord  Fairfbx,  the  two  knights  who 
red  in  parliament  for  Yorkshire,  signed 
for  a  neutrality  for  that  county, 
rly  allied  together,  and  of  great 
till  their  ^sereral  opinions  and 
aflbctions  had  divided  them  in  this  quarrel; 
the  Lord  FalrCsx  adhering  to  the  parlia- 
ment, and  the  other,  with  great  courage  and 
soinlety,  to  the  king."  Mr.  Belasyse  m. 
Grace,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Sir  Thomas 
Barron,  of  Smithdls,  in  the  county  of  Lan- 
r,  and  dying  In  the  lifo-time  of  his  fo< 
I,  left  issue, 

Thovab,  Bucoenor  to  his  graadfother. 
Henry,  d.  unmarried. 
Rowland,   (Sir)    K.B.,   m.  Anne,   eldest 
daughter  and  sole  heiress  of  J.  Daven- 
port, Esq.,  of  Sutton,  in  the  county  of 
Chester,  and  dying  in  1009,  left 

TBOMAa,  who  «.  as  third  Viscount 

Fauconbeig. 
Henry,  d,  unmarried. 
John,  died  «.  p. 

Rowland,  m.  Frances,  daughter  of 

Christopher,  Lord  Teynham,  by 

whom  he  had,  with  other  issue, 

Anthony,  who  m.   Susannah, 

daughter  ot  John  Clarvet, 

Esq.,  and  had  issue— 

RowukNO,  who  «.  as  sixth 

viscount 
Charles,   D.D.,    of   Sor- 
bonne.  who«.  as  seventh 
viscount. 


Barbara. 
Once,  m,  to  Goorge*  Visoovnt  Castle- 
town, in  Irdand. 
Frances,  m.  to  Sir  Henry  Jones,  of  Aston, 
in  the  county  of  Oxford,  Knt.,  of 
which  marriage  there  was  an  only 
daughter  and  heiress, 

FaAircKB,  m.  to  Richard,   Earl  of 
Scarboraugh. 
Arabdh^  m.  to  Sir  WiUam  Frankland, 
Bart,  of  Thirklaby,  in  the  county  of 
York. 
Barbara,  m.  firrt,  to  Walter  StricUand, 
Esq.,  son  of  Sir  Robert  Strickland,  of 
Slaaigfa,  and  secondly,  to  Sir  Marmadnk 
Dalton,  of  Httxw^,  Yorkshiin. 
John,  neatail  Loud  BaLAaTsn,  q^  IFerMy 

<see  that  di«nity>. 
Margaret*  m.  to  Sir  Edward  Osbom,  of  KiT^ 


Mary,  m.  to  John,  Lord  Darcy,  of  Aston. 
Barbara,  ta.  to  Sir  Henry  SUngsby,  Bart,  of 

Scriven,  in  the  county  of  York,  who  was 

put  to  death  under  Cromwd^s  usurpatton, 

and  died,  as  he  said  on  the  scaflbld,  for 

being  an  honest  man. 
Ursula,  m.  to  Sir  Walter  Vavasor,  of  Haela- 

wood,  Bart 
Fiances,  m.  to  Thomas  Ingram,  Esq.,  ddest 

son  of  Sir  Arthur  Ingram,  of  Temple  New- 

som,  Yorkshire. 
His  lordship  d,  in  IdSS,  and  was  «.  by  his  grand- 
son, 

THOMAS  BELASYSE,  second  visnwiU,  who  ai. 
first,  Mildred,  daughter  of  Nicholas,  Viscount  Caa- 
UetoD,  by  whom  be  had  no  issue;  and  secondly,  on 
the  18th  of  November,  1607,  at  Hampton  Court, 
Mary,  daughter  of  the  protector  CromwelL  Of  tMs 
nobleman  Lord  Clarendon  gives  the  following  a^ 
count  :»«<  After  Cromwell  was  declared  protector, 
and  in  great  power,  he  married  his  daughter  to  the 
Lord  Fauconberg,  the  owner  of  a  very  great  estate 
in  Yorkshire,  and  descended  of  a  family  eminently 
loyaL  There  were  many  reasons  to  believe  that 
this  young  gentleman,  being  then  about  three  or 
four>and-twenty  yean  of  age,  of  great  vigour  and 
ambition,  had  many  good  purposes  that  he  thought 
that  alliance  might  qualify  and  enable  him  to  per- 
form. His  marriage  was  celebrated  at  Whitehall 
(Wood  has  given  the  time  at  Hampton  Court,)  with 
all  Imaginable  pomp' and  lustre.  And  it  was  ob- 
served, that,  though  it  was  performed  in  public, 
according  to  the  rites  and  ceremonies  then  in  use, 
they  were  presently  afterwards,  in  private,  married 
by  ministers  ordained  by  bishops,  and  according  to 
the  form  in  the  book  of  Common  Prayer,  and  this 
with  the  privity  of  CromweU."  In  1607>  his  lord- 
ship  was  m^e  one  ot  the  council  of  state,  and  sent 
the  next  year,  by  his  father-in-law,  with  a  compli- 
mentary message  to  the  court  of  Versailles.  This 
was  the  only  employment  Lord  Fauconberg  had 
under  the  usurper  i  for,  as  the  noble  author  before 

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mentioned  relates,   "his  domestic  delights  were 
lessened  every  day ;  he  plainly  discovered  that  his 
son  Fauconberg's  heart  was  set,  upon  an  interest 
destructive  to  his,  and  grew  to  hate  him  perfectly." 
Of  Lady  Fauconberg,  Burnet  writes :— <**  She  was  a 
wise  and  worthy  woman,  more  likely  to  have  main- 
tained the  post  (of  protector)  than  rither  of  her 
brothcrsi  aoco^lin|^  to  a  saying  that  went  of  her, 
that  <AoM  who  toore  breechet  deterved  petticoats  bet- 
ter I  but  if  ^ose  in  petticoat*  had  been  in  breeehea, 
they  would  have  held  faeter.**    That  his  lordship 
forwarded  the  restoration,  is  evident  from  his  being 
appointed,  by  the  restored  monarch,  in  IGOO,  lord- 
lieutenant  of  the  bishopric  of  Durham,  and  in  the 
same  year,  lord-lieutenant  and  custos  rotulorum  ctf 
the  North  Riding  of  Yorkshire.     He  was  soon 
afterwards  accredited  ambassador  to  the  state  of 
Venice  and  the  princes  of  Italy,  and  nominated 
captain  of  the  band  of  gentleman  pensioners.    In 
16^,  Lord  Fauconberg  was  sworn  of  the  privy 
council  t  and  again,  in  16a9>  uptm  the  accession  of 
King  William  and  Queen  Mary,  when  his  lordship 
was  created  Eari<  Fauconbbro,  by  letters  patent, 
dated  on  the  9th  of  April,  in  that  year.    He  dL  on 
tlie  dlst  December,  1700,  and  leaving  no  issue,  the 
BABX.DOM  RXPiaxD,  While  his  other  honours  re- 
verted to  his  nephew  (refer  to  Sir  Rowland  Bela- 
syse,  K.B.,  third  son  of  the  first  lord), 

THOMAS  BELASYSE,  Esq.,  as  third  Viscount 
Fauconberg.  His  lordship  m.  Bridget,  daughter  of 
Sir  John  Gage,  of  Flrle,  in  the  county  <tf  Sussex, 
Bart,  and  co-heiress  of  her  mother,  who  was 
daughter  of  Thomas  Middlesmore,  Esq.  of  Egbas- 
ton,  in  the  county  of  Warwick,  by  whom  he  had 
surviving  issue* 

Thomas,  his  successor. 

Rowland. 

Mary,  m.  9th  April,  1721,  to  John  Pitt,  Esq. 
third  son  of  Thomas  Pitt,  Esq.,  governor  ot 
Fort  St  George. 
And  two  other  daughters,  both  of  whom  d.  un- 
married.   His  lordship  d,  S6th  November*  1718,  and 
was  «.  by  his  elder  son, 

THOMAS,  fourth  Viscount,  who  was  created 
Eaiu.  FAUcoirBBao,of  Newborough,  in  the  county 
of  York,  on  the  15th  June,  1796.  His  lordship  m. 
in  1796,  Catherine,  daughter  and  heiress  of  John 
Betham,  Esq.,  of  Rowingtou,  in  the  county  of 
Warwick,  and  co-heiress  of  WUl^un  Fowler,  Esq., 
of  St  Thomas,  in  the  county  of  Siaflbrd,  by  whom 
he  had  surviving  issue, 

HaKBY,  his  successor. 

Barbara,  m.  in  1758,  to  the  Hon.  George  Bame- 

"^  wall,  only  brother  of  Henry  Benedict,  Vis- 
count Kingsland. 

Mary,  m.  in  1776,  to  Thomas  Eryre,  Esq.,  of 
Hassqp,  in  the  county  of  Derby. 

Ann^,  M.  in  1761,  to  the  Hon.  Frands  Talbot, 
brother   ck   George,    fourteenth    Earl  of 
Shrewsbury. 
His  lordship,  who  oonfonned  to  the  estabUshed 
churdi,  died  4th  FMiruary,  1774,  and  wm  «.  by  his  ' 


HENRY  BELASYSE,  second  earL     His  lord- 
ship IN.  first,  in  1766,  Charlotte,  daughter  of  Sir 
Matthew  Lambk  of  Brocket  Hall,  in  the  county  of 
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Hertford,  Bart,  and  had  four  daughters,  his  co- 
heirs: vis.-~ 

Charlotte,  nu  to  Thomas  Edward  Wynn,  Esq., 
third  son   of  Colonel  Glynn  Wynn,  who 
assimied  the  surname  and  arms  of  Bbla- 
SY8K,  in  addition  to  his  own. 
Anne,  m.  to  Sir  George  Wombwell,  Bart 
Elisabeth,  m.  in  1789,  to  Bernard  Howard,  Esq., 
(present  Duke  of  Norfolk,)  from  whom  she 
was  divorced  in  1794»  when  she  re-married 
the  Earl  of  Lucan. 
Harriot 
The  earl  m.  secondly.  Miss  Chesshyre,  but  had  no 
issue.    He  dL  23rd  March,  1808,  when  the  Earldom 
became  bxtinct,  but  the  other  honours  devolved     * 
upon  his   kinsman  (refer  to  descendants  of  the 
Hon.  Henry  Belasyse,  eldest  son  ctf  Sir  Thomas 
Belasyse,  the  first  Viscount). 

ROWLAND  BELASYSE,  as  6th  Viscount,  who 
died  «.  p,  in  1810,  and  was  «.  by  his  brother,  «^ 

The  REV.  CHARLES  BELASYSE,  D.D.,  of 
the  Roman  Catholic  Church,  as  seventh  Viscount, 
at  whose  decease,  in  1815,  the  Barony  and  Viscounty 
of  Fauconberg,  became  bxtinct. 

Arm^. — Quarterly,  first  and  fourth,  ar.  a  Chev. 
gu.  between  three  fleurs-de-lis,  as.t  second  and 
third,  ar.  a  pale  ingrailed  between  two  pallets 
plain,  sa. 

BELASYSE  —  BARONS  BELASYSE, 
OF  WORLABY,  IN  THE 
COUNTY  OF  LINCOLN. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  STth  January,  1644, 
90  Charles  L 

ICincagc. 

THE  HON.  JOHN  BELASYSE,  second  son  of 
Thomas,  first  Viscount  Fauconberg,  having  distin- 
guished himself  as  one  of  the  gallant  leaders  of  the 
royal  army  during  the  civil  wan,  was  elevated  to 
the  peerage  on  the  27th  January,  1644,  as  Lord  Bb- 
LAavsB,  i^f  Woriaby,  in  the  county  uf  lAneeln,  At 
the  commencement  of  the  rebellion,  this  eminent 
person  arrayed  six  regiments  of  horse  and  foot  un- 
der the  royal  banner,  and  had  a  principal  command 
at  the  battles  of  Edge-Hill,  Newbury,  and  Knaresby, 
and  at  the  sieges  of  Reading  and  Bristol ;  and  being 
appointed,  subsequently,  governor  of  York,  and  com- 
mander-in-chief of  the  king's  forces  in  Yorkshire, 
he  fought  the  battle  of  Selby  with  Lord  Fairfax. 
His  lordship  being  lieutenant-general  of  the  counties 
of  Lincoln,  Nottingham,  Derby,  and  Rutland,  and 
governor  of  Newark,  vaUantly  defended  that  garri- 
son against  the  Ehiglish  and  Scotch  armies,  uflHl  his 
m^esty  came  in  person,  and  ordered  it  to  surrender ; 
at  which  time  he  had  also  the  honour  oi  being  gene- 
ral ot  the  king's  horse-guards.  In  all  those  arduous 
services.  General  Belasyse  deported  himself  with 
distinguished  courage  and  conduct,  was  frequently 
wounded,  and  thrice  incarcerated  in  the  Tower  of 
London.  At  the  restoration  of  the  monarchy,  his 
lordship  was  made  lord  lieutenant  of  the  east  riding 
of  the  county  of  York,  governor  of  Hull,  general  of 
his  miO*>ty's  forces  in  AMca,  governor  of  Tangier, 
and  captain  of  the  king's  guards  of  gentlemen  pen- 
sioners.   In  the  reigB  of  King  James  II.,  Lord  Bda- 


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tyse  WW  Hxtt  lord  of  the  trawuiy.    His  lordship  m. 

fint,  Jane^  daughter  and  sola  bdtaas  of  Sir  Robert 

Boteler,  Knt,  of  Woodhall.  in  the  county  of  Hert> 

fi>rd,  by- wtaomhehadiflsuo-^ 

Hkitby  (Sir)  K.B.,  wlio  m.  fiitt,  Rogeraa, 
daughter  and  co-heir  (with  her  sister  Eli- 
aalwth.  Duchess  of  Richmond  and  Lenox)  of 
Richard  Rogers,  Esq.,  of  Brianston,  in  the 
county  of  Dorset, by  wlioni  he  had  no  issue; 
and  secondly,  Susan,  daughter  and  oo-heiress 
of  Sir  William  Armine,  of  Osgodby,  in  the 
county  of  Lincoln,  (which  lady  was  created 
Barojcbss  BSLA8T8B,  tot  her  own  life, 
after  the  decease  of  her  husband,)  by  whom 
he  left,  at  his  decease  in  1068,  an  only 


HnxBT,  of  whom  presently,   as  second 
Lono  Bblabybb. 
Mary,  m.  to  Robert,  Viscount  Dunbar,   of 
^  Scotland. 

Lord  Belasyse  m.  secondly,  Anne,*  daughter  and  oo- 
heireaa  of  Sir  Robert  Crane,  of  Chilton,  in  the 
cuonty  of  Sullbik;  and  thirdly,  Anne,  daughter 
of  Jolin,  fifth  Marquess  of  WindieBter,  tiy  whom  he 
had  several  children,  of  whidi  the  following  alone 
survived  inlkncy— 

Monora,  m.  to  George  Lord  Abergayemiy,  and 

died  «.  p. 
Barbara,  m.  to  Sir  John  Webb,  Bart,  of  Old- 

stocJL,  in  the  county  of  Wilts. 
Katherine,  m.  to  John  Talbot,  Esq.,  of  Long- 
ford. 
Isabella,  m.  to  Thomas  Stoner,  Esq.,  of  Sto- 
ner,  in  the  county  of  Oxfinrd,  and  died  #.  p, 
failTW. 
His  lordship  4.  in  1080,  and  was  «.  by  his  grand- 


HENRY  BELASY5E.  second  baron,  who  mar- 
ried Anne,  daughter  of  Francis,  son  and  heir  of 
Robert  Brudenel,  Earl  of  Cardigan ;  but  dying  in 
1088,  without  issue,  the  bakoity  ov  Bblasybb 
brrame  bxtiitct,  while  the  estates  reverted  to  his 
lordsiiSp^s  aunts  by  the  half  blood,  as  co-heiresses. 

Arms— Arg.  a  chevron  gu.  between  three  fleurs-de- 
lis,  with  due  diSfarence; 

BENSON  —  BARON    BINOLEY. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  2lst  July.  1719^ 

ROBERT  BENSON,  Esq.,  M.  P.  form  city  of 
Yoflc,  son  of  Robert  Bensifn,  Esq.,  of  Wrenthom, 
in  the  county  of  York,  by  Dorothy,  daughter  of 
ToUas  Jhkins,  Esq.,  I^jjliig  filled  the  oflices  of 
oommjasioner,  and  chancellor,  and  under  treasurer 
of  the  esdiequa,  was  ^vated  to  the  peerage,  as 
Babow  B1B01.BY,  on  the  91st  July,  1713>  His 
knrddiip  was  subsequently  ambassador  to  the  court 
of  Madrid.  He  m.  EUxabeth,  elder  daughter  of 
Heneage  Finch,  first  Earl  of  Aylesford,  and  had  an 
only  daughter  and  hdress, 

Harriot,  whom.  George  Fox  Lane,  Esq.,  M.P. 
tor  the  dty  of  York,  who  was  created  Lobi> 
BtMOLKY,  in  1772  (see  tliat  title). 
His  lordship^  d,  9th  April,  1730,  and  thus  leaving  no 

ly  of  BrNoi<BY,  became  ex- 


tinct, while  one  hundred  thousand  pounds,  and 
seven  thousand  pounds  a  year,  devolved  upon  his 
dau^ter,  with  the  fine  seat  of  Bnunham  Fark« 
erected  by  the  deceased  lord. 

Abmb.— Arg.  three  trefoils  in  bend  saootested 
gules. 

BENHALE— BARON  BENHALE. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  3rd  April,  1980, 
94  Edward  II L 

ICincagc 

ROBERT  DE  BENHALE,  a  soldier  of  dbtino- 
tion  in  the  expedition  made  into  France,  in  the 
loth  year  of  Edward  III.,  and  again  in  two  years 
afterwards,  in  the  expedition  made  Into  Flanders, 
was  summoned  to  parliament  as  Barok  Bbniiai.b, 
on  the  9rd  April,  1960,  but  never  subsequently, 
and  nothing  further  is  known  of  his  lordship,  or  Ida 


BERKELEY  —  VISCOUNT  BERKE- 
LEY,  EARL  OF  NOTTINO- 
HAM,  AND  MARQUESS  OF 
BERKELEY. 

VT^'  \  byLette™  fJSSf'^'lSl' 
Earldom  J-  p^Un^^d^jed  1  »* «'«»«'  ^^* 
MarquiMte,  )  f.  1488. 

Xincagc. 

The  family  of  Berkdey,  established  In  Eni^and  at 
the  Norman  conquest,  was  founded  by  a  leading 
chief  in  the  conqueror's  army,  named 

ROGER,  who  U  styled,  in  the  SOth  year  of  Wil- 
liam's reign,  "  Roobrus  sbniob  db  Bbrkblk,*' 
flrom  the  possession  of  Bbrkblbv  Cabtlb,  in  th^ 
county  of  Gloucester.  This  Roger  bestowed  sever^ 
churches  upon  the  priory  of  Stanley,  with  the  tithes 
and  lands  thereunto  belonging,  and  being  shorn  a 
monk  there,  in  1091,  restored  the  lordship  of  Shote- 
shore,  which  he  had  long  detained  firom  that  convent. 
He  was  «.  at  his  decease  by  his  nephew, 

WILLIAM  DE  BERKELEY,  second  finidal 
lord  of  Berkeley  Castle,  who  was  «.  by  his  son, 

ROGER  DE  BERKELEY.  This  nobleman, 
adhering  to  the  Empress  Maud,  *'  undcrwoit  (says 
Dugdale,)  a  very  hard  fkte,  through  the  perfidious* 
ness  and  cruelty  of  Walter,  brother  to  Milo,  Earl  of 
Hereford,  his  seeming  friend,  (and  kinsman  by  con- 
sanguinity,) being  treacherously  seised  on,  stripped 
naked,  exposed  to  scorn,  put  into  fetters,  and  thrice 
drawn  by  a  rope  about  his  neck,  on  a  gallows,  at  his 
own  castle  gates,  with  threats,  that  if  he  would  not 
deliver  up  that  his  castle  to  the  earl,  he  should  suf- 
fer a  miserable  death:  and  when  he  was,  by  this 
barbarous  usage,  almost  dead,  carried  to  prison, 
there  to  endure  fkirther  tortures.**  This  feudal 
baron  was  «.  by  his  son, 

ROGER  DE  BERKELEY,  the  Ust  of  the  orl. 
ginal  femily  of  Berkdey,  of  Berkeley  Castle,  whose 
daughter  sod  heiress,  Alice,  at  the  instigation  of 
King  Henry  II.,  espoused 

MAURICE  DE  BERKELEY,  (son  of  Robert 

Pitahardinge,  upon  whom  had  been  conferred,  tor 

his  attachment  to  the  Empress  Maud,  the  lordship 

of  Berkeley  and  Berkeley  Harness,  the  confiscated 

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ofthe  Abore  KogK,  tht  adhaKnt  of 
Ktaif  Stephen  t  but,  to  reeoncUe  the  parties,  Klog 
Henry,  who  bed  netored  to  Roger  hii  numor  end 
cMtle  of  Durdey,  cauied  an  agreement  to  be  oon- 
tiuded  between  them,  that  the  heireia  of  the  oiuted 
knrd  ihould  be  given  in  marriage  to  the  heir  of  the 
new  baron  I  and  thua  paned  the  feudal  caatle  of 
Berkelef  to  another  chief,)  which  Robert  de  Berke- 
ley became  feudal  Lord  of  Berkdej  upon  the  deceaae 
of  his  brother  Henry,  and  dying  in  1189,  left  fix 
sona,  and  was  «.  by  the  eldest, 

ROBERT  DB  BERKELEY,  who.  In  the  turbu- 
lent times  of  King  John,  forfeited  his  castle  and 
lands  by  hia  participation  in  the  rebdHous  proceed- 
ings of  the  barons,  but  upon  submission,  and  paying 
a  flne  of  nine  hundred  and  slxty-Uve  pounds,  and 
one  mtuk,  had  all  lestoied  save  the  castle  and  town 
of  Berkeley,  in  the  flrst  year  of  Henry  HI.  This 
nobleman,  who  had  been  a  munlfleent  benefector  to 
the  church,  died  t.  p,  in  1219,  and  waa  «.  by  his 
brother, 

THOMAS  DE  BERKELEY,  who.  in  the  8th  of 
Henry  III.,  upon  giving  his  two  nephews  as  pledges 
for  his  fldeUty,  had  restitutian  of  Berkeley  Castle. 
His  lordship  m.  Joane,  daughter  of  Ralph  de 
Somery,  Lord  of  Campden,  in  the  county  of  Glou- 
cester, and  niece  of  William  Manhal,  Earl  of  Pem- 
broke, and  dying  in  1943,  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

MAURICE  DE  BERKELEY,  who  d.  in  1881, 
and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

THOMAS  DE  BERKELEY,  who  was  summoned 
to  parliament  as  a  babom,  Arom  the  83rd  June,  1895, 
to  the  15th  May,  1321.  This  nobleman  was  of  great 
eminence  in  the  reigns  of  Edward  I.  and  Edward  II., 
being  in  the  French*  Welsh,  and  Scottish  wars  of 
those  periods,  particularly  at  the  celebrated  si^ge  of 
KAxnLATKEocK.  He  was  involved,  however,  at  the 
dose  of  his  life^  in  the  treason  of  Thomas,  Bar!  of 
Lancaster.  His  kurdship  m.  Jane,  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam de  Ferrers,  Earl  of  Derliy,  and  dying  in  1321, 
was  «.  by  his  son, 

MAURICE  DE  BERKELEY,  second  baron, 
firom  whom  we  pass  to 

THOMAS,  X/M  Lofti  Berkeley,  who  m.  Margaret, 
daui^ter  and  heiress  of  Gerard  Warren,  Lord  Lisle, 
by  whom  he  left  an  only  child, 

Eliaabeth,*  m.  to  Ridiard  Beauchamp,  Earl 
of  Warwick,  and  had  three  daughters,  vis. 

*  According  to  the  usual  descents  of  baronies  in 
fee,  (says  Mr.  Nicolas,  in  a  note  to  his  Synapeis,) 
the  Baboxt  ot  BanKu.sY,  created  by  writ  of  sum- 
mom  of  the  83d  Edward  I.  devolved  on  the  said 
Eliabeth,  daughter  and  heir  of  Thomas,  Lord 
Berkeley,  instead  of  the  heir  malei  but  whether  this 
anomaly  arose  tnaa  an  idea  then  prevailing,  that 
the  tenure  of  the  CAaTi.n  ov  BBRKSLnv  conferred 
the  barony,  or  that  the  heir  male  had  the  greatest 
political  influence,  cannot  now,  perhaps,  be  ascer- 
tained i  the  inference  which  may  be  drawn  from  the 
relative  altuations  of  the  husband  of  the  said  Elian- 
beth,  who  was  one  of  the  most  powerful  noblemen 
of  the  time,  and  that  ot  James  Berkeley,  who  suc- 
ceeded to  the  Barony,  is,  that  the  tenure  of  Bkekk- 
C.SY  Cabtls  was  thA  considered  to  confer  the  dig- 
nity of  Baron  on  Its  poeseeeor,  and  coaeeqnently. 


1.  Maigaiet,  m.  to  John  Talbot,  fliat  Earl 
<rf  Shrewsbury  (his  Ibrdship^s  second 
wife). 

8.  Alienor,  m.  first,  to  Thomas,  Lord  Ross, 
and  secondly,   to  Edward,   Duke  of 


&  EUaabeth,  m.  to  George  NevOl,  Lord 


His  lordship  d.  on  the  13th  July,  1416,  and  thus 
leaving  no  male  issue,  his  nephew, 

JAMES  BERKELEY,  became  his  heiri  and  In- 
heriting, by  virtue  of  a  special  entail  and  fine,  the 
castle  and  lordship  of  BnnKBi.nY,  with  other  lord- 
ships in  the  said  flne  specified,  was  summoned  to 
parliament  fttnn  the  9th  of  October,  1421,  to  8Sd 

May,  1461.   His  lordship  m.  flrst, » daughter 

of  Humphrey  Stallbrd.  ot  Hooke,  in  the  county  ot 
Dorset,  by  whom  he  had  no  issue;  and  secondly, 
Isabd,  widow  of  Henry,,  son  and  heir  of  William, 
Lord  Ferrers,  of  Groby,  and  second  daughter  and 
co-heir  of  Thomas  Mowbray,  flrst  Duke  of  Norfolk, 
Earl  Manhal  of  England,  by  EUmbeth,  his  wife, 
eldest  sister  and  co-heiress  of  Thomas  Fita-Alan, 
Etfl  of  Arundel,  by  whom  he  had  iasuc;, 

WiifLiAM,  his  successor. 

Maurice,  successor  to  the  berony  at  the  decease 
of  his  brother. 

James,  killed  in  France. 

Thomae,  ftom  whom  descended  the  Berkleys 
of  Worcestershire  and  Herefordshire. 

EUaAbeth,  m.  to  Thomas  Burdett,  Esq..  of 
Arrow,  in  the  county  of  Warwick. 

Isabel,  m.  to  Thomas  Trye,  Esq.,  of  Haidwick, 
in  the  county  of  Gloucester. 

Alice,  m.  to  Richard  Arthur,  Esq.,  of  Clap- 
ham,  in  the  county  of  Somerset. 
His  lordship  m.  thirdly,  Joan,  daughter  of  John 
Talbot,  flrst  Earl  of  Shrewsbury,  whldi  lady,  after 
his  decease,  m.  Edmund  Hunger  ford,  Esq.  Lord 
Berkeley  rf.  in  1463,  and  was  «.  by  his  ddest  son, 

SIR  WILLIAM  DE  BERKELEY,  Knt.,  Baron 
Berkeley,  who  had  been,  when  a  boy,  in  the  retinue 
of  Henry  Beaufort,  Cardinal  Bishop  of  Winchester. 
This  nobleman  having  a  dispute  with  Thomes  Tal- 
bot, Viscount  Lisle,  regarding  some  landed  pro- 
perty, the  contest  ran  so  high,  that  they  encountered 
with  their  respective  feilowers  at  Wotton-under- 
Edge,  in  1469,  when  Lord  Lisle  was  mortally 
wounded  by  an  arrow  shot  through  his  mouth. 
In  the  next  year,  when  the  Duke  of  Clarence  and 
the  Earl  of  Warwick  took  up  arms  against  the 
king,  we  And  Lord  Berkeley  commanded,  with 
Maurice  Berkdey,  of  Beverstone,  to  muster  and 
array  all  fitting  to  bear  arms  in  the  county^  Gkni- 


that  the  said  James  was  allowed  that  dignity  as  his 
right,  rather  than  by  favour  of  the  crown.  If,  how- 
ever,  modem  decisions  may  be  applied  to  the  sub- 
ject, the  Barony  of  Berkdey,  creeled  by  the  writ  of 
the  83d  Edward  I.  is  now  in  abkyanck  between 
the  descendants  and  representatives  of  Qie  three 
daughters  and  co-heirs  of  EUaabeth,  Countess  of 
Warwick,  above  mentioned  i  and  the  barony  merged 
in  the  present  Earldom  of  Berkeley,  is  the  new 
one  created  by  the  writ  of  the  9di  of  Henry  V.  to 
Jamti  Berkeley. 


r{  md  Mgraata  M^Hd  ImmI  Ktaif  Edward  IV. 
tot  hki  Inrdihip,  that  he  created  him  YiacovNT 
BKUMMhmr,  on  the  flirt  of  April,  1481*  with  a  grant 
of  one  hundred  marks  per  annum,  pajaMeout  of 
theciMloaMorthaportor  BfiBtd,  fbr  Mbl  The 
vigeount  wai  advanoed  to  the  Eabldov  ov  Nov- 
TTvoiEAN,  {%  dignity  eqjoyed  fey  hie  anoerton,  the 
Mowtesya,)  by  King  Richaid  IIL,  on  the  IMi  of 
Jane.  I4ni  hot  hit  kardihip  aftarwafda eqMMnlng 
theoHueofthaEariofRidunondfUponthe  aceei- 
of  that  BoMeman  tothe  throne,  aa  Henry  VII., 
ooortltated  Bam.  Mabbhal  ov  Eiv«laiii>, 
with  limltalion  of  that  greatofflce  to  the  heira  male 
of  Ma  bodyi  and  ciaated  on  the  IMi  of  January, 
liWiW,  M Angintaa  or  BsBKBi.aT.  His  lordship 
at.  flart,  Eliaabath,  dao^tarof  R^ghmld  Weit,  Lord 
de  in  Wane,  fkom  whom  he  was  diTorced  without 
haTing  Issue;  secondly,  Jane,  widow  of  Sir  WiUlam 
wmrwighhy,  Rnc,  and  daughter  of  Sir  Thomas 
Straasewaya,  Knt.,  by  whom  he  had  twosons,  who 
died  young  I  and  thirdly,  Ame,  dan^Mer  of  J<rfm 
Ixml  Deere,  but  had  no  issuer  The  Mar- 
I  d.  thus  «.  ^.  OB  the  14th  ot  February,  ]491<8, 
vlHD  aB  the  hoBKars  acquired  by  hims^  became 
sxTf ircT,  while  the  barony  and  castle  of  Berkeley, 
with  his  lordsUp^s  other  estates,  should  hare  de- 
woived  upon  his  brother  Maurice,  but  for  a  settle* 
tDcnt  made  by  the  ilecsaied  nobleman,  who  seems 
fto  iMTe  been  ollteded  with  his  brother  ftnr  marrying 
lowly,  of  the  CABTLa  ov  BanKSLBT,  upon  King 
Hcvy  VIL  and  the  heirs  male  of  that  monardi's 
body,  whidi  castle  and  leads  were  thos  alienated 
ontU  the  deoetwe  of  King  Edward  VI.,  the  lart 
male  deKsndent  of  Henry  VII.,  when  they  returned 
to  the  house  of  Berkley,  and  hare  stDoe 
Joyed  by  that  noMe  fionily.* 


•  The  dispute  between  Viscount  Lisle,  and  Wit- 
Bam  Lord  Borkeiey,  Is  thus  mentioned  by  Dugdale: 
— '•  But  it  was  not  long  after,  ere  this  Viscount 
L'Isle  arrived  at  his  fulLage;  and  thirsting  after  the 
Castle  of  Berkeley,  practised  with  one  Thomes  Holt, 
the  keeper  of  Whitley  ^ark,  and  one  Maurice  King, 
porter  of  thecastle,  to  betray  it  into  his  lunds;  one 
Robert  Veel,  (the  Viscount's  engineer,)  being  Uke* 
wise  aa  actlye  person  in  that  destgn,  glring  bond  to 
Maurice  King  in  the  summe  of  aa  hundred  pounds, 
that  as  soon  as  the  work  should  be  accomplished,  he 
should  be  made  keeper  of  Wotton  Park,  with  the 
iseof  Ave  marks  per  annum  during  his  lifb  Bnt 
this  plot  being  discovered  by  Maurice  King,  so 
Buidi  pesplaxed  the  Visoooat  L'Isle,  that  he  Ibrth- 
wtth  sent  this  Lord  Berkeley  a  diallenge,  'reiiuiring 
him  of  knighthood  end  manhood,  to  appoint  a  day, 
and  to  meet  Urn  half  way,  to  try  their  quarrel  and 
title,  CO  esdMw  the  shwiding  of  Chrirtian  blood ;  or 
to  being  the  saoM  day  the  utmoet  of  his  power.' 
TMs  letter  of  challenge,  under  the  head  of  that 
Vteount,  WM  seat  19th  MartU,  10th  Edward  IV., 
be  be^  thea  not  Mi  twenty-two  yeers  of  age, 
havteg  eaed  out  his  Hvcvy  upon  the  14th  July  be- 
fofet  aad  his  wife  then  with  diUd  of  her  trrt  bom. 
0nto  which  the  Lord  Berkeley  returned  this  answer 
inwrltlag:  via.  'thet  he  would  not  bring  the  tenth 
asan  he  could  make;  and  bid  him  to  meet  on  the 
F,  at  Nybley  Gresn,  by  eight  or  nine  of  the 


in  drief •  ead  ftnir  in 


pattde^eis 


BERKBLEY— BARONS  BERKELEY, 
OF  8TRATTON. 

By  Lettan  Palant,  dated  iMi  May,  MML 

XhlCB^* 
Descended   ftom  the  BABOira  Bbbkbi.bt,  of 
Bbbkblb  Y  Castlb,  was, 

SIR  RICHARD  BERKELEY,  Kat,  of  Sloka- 
Giflbrd,  in  the  county  of  GlottceBter,  who  died  in 
1514,  leaving  Issue  by  his  wife^  EBaabeth,  daughter 
of  Sir  Humphrey  Cooingiby,  KnL,  two  ionst 
namely.  Sir  John  Bcrkdey,  of  8toka4}iflbtd»  aa- 
ccstor  to  Lord  Botetott,  and 

SIR  MAURICE  BERKELEY,  K.a,  of  Bruton, 
in  the  county  of  Somerset,  staadaid-bearer  to  King 
Henry  VIII.  aad  Edward  VL.  aad  to  Queea  EUbb. 
beth.  Of  thisgaBtlemaa  It  is  meathmed,  that,  in 
the  first  year  of  Queea  Mary,  iMiag  casuaUy  oa 
London,  he  met  with  Sir  Thonm  Wiat  at  Temple 
Bar,  and  persuading  him  to  yield  himsdf  to  the 
queen.  Sir  ThonuM  took  his  advioo^  aad,  mounting 
behind  Sir  Maurice,  rode  to  the  court  Sir  Maurice 
Berkeley  in.  first,  Catherine,  dawghfir  of  William 
Blount,  Lord  Moun^oy,  tad  had  issue  two  scas^ 
Henry  and  Edward,  uid  Ibur  daughters,  via«— 
Gertrude,  m,  to  Edward  Home,  Esq. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  James  Perdvsl,  of  Weeton 

Gordon,  Esq.,  in  the  county  of  Somennt. 
Anne,  m.  to  Nicholas  Poynlngs,  Esq.,  of  ^d- 

derley. 
Frances,  d.  unmarried. 
Sir   Maurice   m.    secondly,    BHaabeth,    daogliter 
of  Anthony  Sands,  Esq.,  by  whom  he  had  two  sone 
and  a  daughter.     He  was  c  at  Ms  rtecaeee  by  his 
ddestsoB, 

SIR  HENRY  BERKELEY.  Knt..  who  wm 
«.  by  his  ddmt  ion. 

SIR  MAURICE  BERKELEY,  who  received 
the  honour  of  knighthood  tnm  the  Earl  of  Essex, 
while  serving  under  that  nobleman  in  the  expedition 
to  Calais,  anno  laom.  Sir  Maurice  m.  Ellmbeth, 
dsttghterof  Sir  Henry  KUUgrew,  of  Hanworth,  in 
the  county  of  Middleux.  aad  had  isMi^  five  sone 
and  two  daughters;  vis.— 

1.  CMABI.BB,   who  recdved  the  honour  of 
knighthood  at  Bewley,  in  1683,  and,  bdng 
eminently  loyal  to   King  Charles  I.,   wm 
sworn  of  the  privy  council  upon  the  re- 
storation of  the  monarchy,  and  appointed 
firrt,  comptroller,  aad  then  treasurer,  of  the 
household.  Sir  Charim  m.  Pendope,  dau|^ 
ter  of  Sir  WiDlam  Godolphin,  of  Godol- 
phin,  in  the  county  of  Cornwall.  Knt..  end 
had  issue- 
Maurice,  created  a  baroaet  fld  July,  1680, 
successor  to  the  viscounty  of  Fitshar- 
dinge,  Arc  at  the  decease  of  his  fh- 
theri  but  died  «.jK 

tHogk,  whkh  standeth  (sdth  he)  on  the  borders  of 
the  Llvdode  that  thou  keepert  untruly  ttom  ma.' 
Whereupon,  they  accordingly  met,  and  the  Viscount 
L'lsWi  viaor  being  up,  he  wm  slain  by  an  arrow 
shot  through  his  head.** 

51 


BER 


BER 


Chari^ks,  who  for  his  fidelity  to  King 
Charles  II.  during  his  majesty's  exile« 
and  other  eminent  senrioes,  was  created 
a  peer  of  Ireland,  as  Baron  Berkeleif,  qf 
Hathdown,  and  Viscount  Fitzhar- 
DiNOK,  with  remainder  to  his  fither, 
and  his  issue  male;  and  a  peer  of  Eng- 
land, on  the  17th  March,  1664,  by  the 
titles  of  Baron  Botetort,  of  Langport, 
in  the  countjf  t^f  Somerset,  and  Earl  of 
Falmouth.  His  lordship  m.  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Colonel  Hervey  Bagot, 
second  son  of  Sir  Henry  Bagot,  Bart., 
of  Blithfield,  in  the  county  of  Staf- 
ford, by  whom  he  had  an  only  dRugh- 

Mary,   m.  to   Gilbert   Cosyn   Ger- 
rard,  Esq.,  eldest  son  of  Sir  Gil- 
bert Gerrard,   Bart.,   of  Fesker- 
ton,  in  the  county   of   Lincoln, 
ftom  whom  she  was  divorced  in 
1684,  and  d.  in  1693. 
Lord  Falmouth  feU  in  a  naval  engage- 
ment with  the  Dutch,  3d  June,  1665,  and 
his  remains  were  honourably  interred  in 
Westminster  Abbey.    At  the  decease  of 
his  lordship,  his  English  honours  kx- 
piRRO,  while  those  of  Ireland  reverted, 
according  to  the  patent,  to  his  father. 
Sir  Charles  Berkeley. 
William  (Sir),  governor  of  Portsmouth, 
and  vicfr«dmiral  of  the  white,  killed  at 
8eainl666. 
John,    who    succeeded    his   eldest   bro- 
ther,   as   Viscount   Fitzharoinor, 
was  treasurer  of  the  chamber,  and  one 
of  the  tellers  of  the  exchequer,  in  the 

reign  of  Queen  Anne    He  m. , 

daughter  of  Sir  Edward  Villiers,  and 
sister  to  the  Earl  of  Jersey,  governess 
to  his  royal  highness  William  Duke  of 
Gloucester,  and  had  issue— 

Mary,  m.  to  Walter  Chetwynd,  Esq., 
of  Ingeatre,  in  the  county  of  Staf- 
ford, who  was  created,  in  1717,  Bar 
ron  Rathdown  and  Viscount  Chet- 
wynd, with  the  remainder  to  the 
heirs  male  of  his  father. 
Frances,  m.  to  Sir  Thomas  Clarges, 
Bart. 
His  lordship  d,  on  the  19th  of  Decem- 
ber, 1712,  and  thus  leaving  ho  male 
issue,   the  Irish  Baronif  qf  Berkeley, 
and  Viscounty  of   FiTSBARniNOR, 
became  xxtinct. 
Sir  Charles  Berkeley,  upon  the  decease  of  his 
second  son,  Charles,  Earl  of  Falmouth,  suc- 
ceeding to  that  nobleman's  Irish  honours, 
became  Baron  Berkeiey  of  Bathdown,  and 
Viscount  Fitzharoinor,  of  the  kingdom 
of  Ireland ;  and  dying  12th  June,  1688,  those 
honours  descended  to  his  eldest  son.   Sir 
Maurice  Berkeley,  Bart  * 

S.  Henry  (Sir). 
a.  Maurice  (Sir), 
4.  William  (Sir). 


ft.  Jolm  (Sir),  of  whom  presently^ 

1.  Margaret* 

2.  Jane. 
The  youngest  son, 

SIR  JOHN  BERKELEY,  having  a  command 
in  the  army  raised  to  march  against  the  Soots,  in  1698, 
received  the  honour  of  kni^thood  from  the  King  at 
Berwick,  in  the  July  of  that  year,  and  at  the  break- 
ing out  of  the  rebellion,  appearing  in  arms  for  his 
sovereign,  was  one  of  those  very  good  officers,  (as 
Lord  Clarendon  calls  them,)  who  were  ordered,  with 
the  Marquess  of  Hertford,  to  form  an  army  in  the 
west.  But,  before  entering  upon  that  duty,  (in 
1642,)  Sir  John  safdy  conducted  a  supply  of  arms 
and  ammunition  from  the  queen  into  Holland. 
Soon  after  this,  being  constituted  commissary- 
general,  he  marched  into  Cornwall  at  the  head  of 
about  one  hundred  and  twenty  horse,  and  not  only 
secured  the  whole  of  that  county,  but  made  incur- 
sions into  Devonshire ;  and  being  in  Joint  commission 
with  Sir  Ralph  Hopton,  obtained  divers  triumphs 
over  the  insurgents  of  those  western  shires  in  the 
several  battles  of  Bradock,  Saltash,  Launceston, 
and  Straiton,  as  also  at  Modbury,  in  the  county 
of  Devcm  1  subsequently  investing  Exeter,  he  re- 
duced that  garrison,  and  gallantly  repulsed  the 
enemy's  fleet,  then  at  Topeham,  under  the  com- 
mand of  the  Elarl  of  Warwick;  when  he  was  con- 
stituted governor  of  Exeter,  and  general  of  all  his 
miOttty**  forces  in  Devon.  Sir  John  Berkeley 
stood  so  high  in  the  estimation  of  the  queen,  that 
her  majesty  selected  the  city  under  his  protection 
as  the  place  of  her  accouchement,  and  was  delivered, 
at  Exeter,  of  the  Princess  Henrietta  Maria;  and 
writing  to  the  king  on  the  13th  March,  1644,  she  says, 
'* Farewell,  my  dear  heart:  behold  the  mark* 
which  you  desire  to  have,  to  know  when  I  desire 
any  thing  in  earnest.  I  pray  begin  to  remember 
wlut  I  spoke  to  you  concerning  Jacke  Berkdey, 
for  master  of  the  wards."  Exeter  subsequently 
surrendered  to  Sir  Thomas  Fairfax,  but  its  go- 
vernor obtained  the  most  honourable  terms  for  its 
inhabitants  and  garrison.  Sir  John  Berkdey  was 
afterwards  employed  with  Mr.  Ashbumham,  in 
endeavouring  to  negociate  terms  for  the  unfortu- 
nate Charles ;  and  in  a  statement  which  he  has  given 
of  the  aflUr,  attributes  the  ruin  of  the  king  to  his 
miq>laced  oonfldenoe,  after  his  escape  ftrom  Hamp- 
ton Court,  in  Colonel  Hammond,  governor  of  the 
Isle  of  Wight,  at  the  Instigation  of  Ashbumham, 
by  whom  Rapin  is  of  opinion  that  Charles  was 
betrayed;  but  Clarendon  considers  Ashbumham 
faithful,  but  outwitted  by  CromwelL  During  the 
usurpation,  Sir  Jcrfm  Berkdey  remained  in  exile 
with  the  royal  family,  and  after  the,  death  of  Lord 
Byron,  in  1682,  was  placed  at  the  head  of  the  Duke 
of  York's  family,  having  the  management  of  all  his 
receipts  and  disbursements.  In  a  few  yean  after- 
wards, he  was  elevated  to  the  peerage  by  the  exiled 
monarch,  as  Baron  Brrkrlry,  of  S(«yiIA>m,  in  the 
eountjf  qfSomereet,  (one  of  the  scenes  of  his  former 
triumphs  over  the  rebels,)  by  letten  patent,  dated 
at  Brussels  in  Brabant,  on  the  19th  of  May,  1656,  in 
the  lOth  year  of  his  majesty's  reign.  Upon  the 
restoration  of  the  mooardiy,  his  lordship  was  sworn 
of  the  privy  council;  and  at  the  dose  of  the  year 


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160^  WM  cwmUeteJ  lord  Iteutaumt  of  Iiclond, 
where  he  loaded  in  1070,  and  oontiiraed  in  the 
gorernment  fat  two  yeac^  when  hi*  lordahlp  wm 
Wicceeded  by  the  Earl  of  Enex.  In  1678,  he  ww 
accredited  iinihewartor  extraordinary  to  the  court  of 
Vcnaillea,  ani^  died  on  the  fltth  of  Auguat.  10711. 
Hia  lordafaip  had  m.  Chriatian,  daughter  and  heireia 
of  Sir  Andrew  Riecard,  preiident  of  the  East  India 
Comiway,  and  widow  of  Henry  Rich.  Lord  Ken- 
aington,  eon  and  heir  of  Henry»  Earl  of  Holland,  by 
whom  he  had  three  sona,  all  of  whom  eventually 
aocceaded  to  the  title,  and  one  daughter,  Anne, 
M.  to  Sir  Dudley  Cullnm.  Bart,  of  Hawsted,  in  the 
ooonty  ot  Suffolk.  Lord  Berkeley  waa  «.  by  hia 
eldest  aon. 

CHARLES  BERKELEY,  aecoad  baron,  captafat 
of  the  Tiger  man-of-war,  who  d,  at  sea,  unmarried, 
in  the  twenty-fourth  year  ot  hia  age,  on  the  2Ut 
September,  1688,  and  waa  ju  by  his  brother, 

JOHN  BERKELEY,  third  baron,  groom  of  the 
Btole,  and  first  gentleman  of  the  bed-chamber  to 
Prince  George  of  Denmark,  and  in  the  reign  of 
King  William,  one  of  the  admiral*  of  the  fleet, 
and  coldoei  of  the  aeoond  regiment  of  marinea.  Hit 
lordahip  m.  Jane  Martha,  daughter  of  Sir  John 
Temple^  Knt.,  of  Eaat  Sheen,  hi  the  county  of 
Suney,  (who  waa  married,  after  hia  lordahipri  de- 
ceaaaw  to  William,  Earl  of  Porthmd,)  by  whom  he 
hadnoanrriTing  laaue.  He  d.  on  the  S7th  February, 
UB6»  and  waa  ju  by  hia  brother, 

WILLIAM  BERKELEY,  fburth  baron,  who  waa 
conetituted  chanrrifcg  ot  the  Duchy  of  Lancaater, 
and  awom  of  the  privy  eoundl,  lo  Queen  Anne,  on 
the  flOth  September,  I7ia  Hto  lordahip  m.  Prances, 
yooxtgcst  dau^ter  of  Sir  John  Temple,  (aforesaid,) 


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WiBiam,  Captain  of  the  Tiger  man-of-war,  on 
board  of  which  he  died,  on  the  26th  March, 
1783,  cp. 

Charles,  ■^  tai  1746,  Frances,  daughter  of  Colo- 
nel John  West,  and  dying  in  1765,  left  two 


Mary. 

Jane,  d,  umm.  ■ 

Fraacca,  ■^  flrst,  to  William,  Lord  Byron,  and 
aeeondly,  to  Sir  Thomaa  Hay,  Bart.,  of  Alder- 
atOB,  N.B. 
Barbara,  ■^  in  1796,  to  John  Tievanioo,  Esq., 
of  Cavhays,  Cornwall,  by  whom  she  had  a 
aon,  William,  and  two  daughters. 
Anne,  m.  in  1797*  to  James  Cocks,  Esq.,  of  Rye- 
in  the  county  of  Surrey,  by  whom 
left,  at  her  deoeaae  in  1739,  a  son, 
James. 
Ilia  kvdship  d.  on  the  94th  of  March,  1740,  and  was 
«b  by  hia  eldest  aon,' 

JOHN  BERKELEY,  fifth  baron,  who  waa  conati- 
tuted,  in  1743,  captain  of  the  yeomen  of  bis  miO«>ty'B 
gnard,  awom  of  the  priry  council  in  1769,  and  ap- 
pointad  captain  of  the  band  of  gentlemen  penaioners 
inl746L  Hia  lordahip  was  subsequently  constable  of  the 
Towwof  London,  and  lord  lieutenant  of  the  Tower 
Hamlela.  Hem.,  but  dying«.  p,  in  1773,  the  Babont 
ov  BmMMMUur,  ow  Stbatton,  became  axTincr. 


B£IIK£I«EV— BAAON  BOTETOURT. 

By  Writ  of  Summona,  dated  l(Hh  March,  1306, 
1  Edward  IL 

In  the  year  1763, 

NARBONNE  BERKELEY,  Esq.,  only  son  and 
heir  of  John  Symes  Berkeley.  Esq.,  by  his  second 
wife,  Elisabeth,  daughter  and  co-heiress  of  Walter 
Narbonne,  Esq.,  of  Calne.  in  the  county  of  Wilts, 
claimed  the  BxaoNT  ov  Botxtourt.  which  had 
been  In  abeyance  from  the  decease  of  Joyce.  Lady 
Bumell,  *.  p.  in  1406,  grand-daughter  of  John  da 
Botetourt,  (see  Botetourt,  Barons  Botetourt.)  and  his 
right  being  caUblished,  he  was  summoned  to  parlia- 
ment in  that  ancient  dignity,  on  the  13th  April, 
1764.  But  dying  without  Issue  in  1776.  it  agahi  fell 
into  AaavAif CK.  and  so  remained,  until  once  more 
called  out  in  flsvour  of  Henry  SoroerMt,  fifth  Duke 
of  Beaufort,  son  and  heir  of  Charles,  fourth  duke, 
by  Elisabeth,  (who  d,  in  1799.)  sbter  and  sole  helreta 
of  the  above  mentioned  Narbonne.  the  deceaaed 
lord.  The  Bakomy  ov  Botktourt  is  now  there- 
fine  merged  in  the  DOKKDOM  OF  BXAUFOBT. 

BERKELEY— EARL  OF  FALMOUTH. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  17th  of  March,  1664. 

CHARLES  BERKELEY,  Eaq.,  aecond  son  of 
Sir  Charles  Berkdey,  Knt.,  and  nephew  of  John, 
flnt  Lord  Berkeley,  of  Stratton,  standing  high  In 
the  fisvour  of  King  Charles  IL,  was  elevated  by  that 
monarch  to  the  peerage  of  Ireland,  aa  Baron  Berke- 
ley and  Ylacount  Fitahardinge.  with  remainder,  in 
defiiult  of  male  issue,  to  his  lirther,  and  his  male 
descandantat  and  afterwards  created,  on  the  l7th  of 
March.  1684,  a  peer  of  England,  in  the  dignities  of 
Boron  BotHort,  ^Langport,  in  the  county  t^  Somer- 
set, and  Eaiu.  op  Falmouth.  His  lordship  m. 
Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Colonel  Hervey  Bagot.  se- 
cond son  of  Sir  Henry  Bagot,  Bart.,  of  BUthfleld  la 
the  county  of  Staflbrd,  by  whom  he  had  an  only 
daughter, 

Mary,  who  m.  Gilbert  Cosyn  Gerrard,  Esq., 
eldest  son  of  Sir  Gilbert  Gerrard,  Bart,  of 
Feskerton,  In  the  county  of  Lincoln,  ftom 
whom  she  was  divorced  in  1664,  and  d,  in 
1603. 
Lord  Fahnouth  fell  in  a  bkxMly  naval  engagement 
with  the  Dutch,  on  the  3rd  of  June,  160^,  and  his 
remains  were  honorably  interred  in  Westminster 
Abbey.     Dying  thus  without  male  lasue.  his  lord- 
ship's Eni^idi  honours  azpiaao,  while  those  of  Ire- 
land reverted,  according  to  the  limitation  of  the 
patsnt,  to  his  fethar.  Sir  Charles  Berkeley,  who 
then  becsme  Charlea,    second  Yiscouut  Fitahard- 
inge, of  that  realm. 

AaMa— Gu.  a  chevr.  betw.  ten  crosses  formte,  ar. 
a  label  of  three  points. 

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BERMINOHAM  —  BARONS  BERM. 

INGHAM. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  in  1398, 
I  Edward  III. 

XincBdc. 

Thia  family  aaaumed  its  surname  from  the  town 
of  BsRM INOHAM ,  in  Warwiduhire,  which 

PETER  DE  BERM  INGHAM,  Steward  to  Ger- 
▼ase  Paganell»  Baron  of  Dudley,  held  of  that  noble- 
man in  the  ISth  of  Henry  II.,  with  no  less  than  nine 
knighU'  fees,  de  vetoi  feoflhmento,  of  which  Wil- 
liam, his  fkther,  had  been  enfeoflbd  in  the  reign  of 
Henry  I.  This  Peter  had  a  castle  at  Bermingham, 
which  stood  scarcely  a  bow-shot  from  the  church  to 
the  westward,  and  by  a  duurter  ftom  the  crown, 
held  a  weekly  Thursday  market  there,  by  which 
charter  he  had  the  liberties  of  Tkol,  Thmm,  Soek, 
Sadk,  and  Irsfangeth^,*  to  him  and  his  heirs  for 
ever.    This  Peter  was  «.  by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  BERMINGHAM,  who  having  m. 
Isabell,  daughter  of  Thomas  de  Estley  (or  Astley), 
a  great  feudal  lord,  and  joining  his  fisther-in-law  in 
rebelUon,  fell  at  the  battle  of  Evesham,  in  the  49th 
of  Henry  IIL,  and  was  #.  by  his  sotf, 

WILLIAM  DE  BERMINGHAM,  who.  in  the 
82nd  of  Edward  I.  was  in  the  expeAtion  made  then 
into  Gascony,  and  in  three  years  afterwards,  he  ac- 
companied the  Earl  of  Lincoln,  and  Sir  John  de  St. 
John,  to  the  relief  of  Bdgrade,  then  besieged  by  the 
Earl  of  Arras.  But  the  English  army  forming  into 
two  divisions,  that  under  General  St  John,  in  which 
William  de  Bermingham  immediately  served,  had 
the  misfortune  to  encounter  the  whole  force  of  the 
enemy,  led  by  the  Earl  of  Arras  himself,  and  to  be 
totally  routed*  numbers  falling  in  the  field,  and 
numbers  being  made  prisoners,  of  which  latter  was 
this  William  Bermingham  t  to  whom  «.  at  bis 
decease,  his  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  BERMINGHAM,  who  waas.  by 
hie  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  BERMINGHAM,  who  having 
filled  several  eminent  employments  during  the  reign 
of  Edward  IL,  was  summoned  to  parliament  as 
Babon  BBRMUfOHAV,  in  the  1st  year  of  Edward 
UI.  But  (says  Dugdale)  never  afterwards,!  so 
that  I  shall  not  pursue  the  story  of  him  nor  his 
descendants  any  CutlMr,  than  to  observe^  that  his 
grandson, 

SIR  THOMAS  DE  BERMINGHAM,  left  issue 
one  sole  daughter  and  heiress,  Elisabeth,  m.  to 
Thomas  de  la  Roche,  of  which  marriage  there  were 
two  daughtersr  co-heiresses,  via. 

Elena,  m.  first,  to  Edward,  Lord  Ferrars,  of 

Chartley,  and  secondly,  to  Philip  CheCwynd. 

Elii^beth,  m.  to  Geosge  Longvill,  Esq.,  anoas> 

tor  of  Charles  Longvill,  Baron  Grey  of 

Ruthyn  and  Hastings^ 

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a  Tail,  4C'-~^  power  of  punishing  o  Anders  within 
his  own  bounds;  a  power  of  obliging  all  that  live  in 
his  Jurisdiction  to  plead  in  his  courts:  aoogniaanoe 
of  aO  courts:  a  power  to  punish  natives  for  theft. 

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BERTIE  — DUKES  OP  ANCASTER 
AND  KESTEVAN,  IN  THE 
COUNTY  OF  LINCOLN.  . 
MARQUESSES  OF  LIND- 
SEY.  EARLS  OF  LINDSEY. 
BARONS  WILLOUGHBY 
%    DE  ERESBY. 

The  Barony,  by  Writ  of  Summons,  dated 

96th  July,  1313. 

Earldom,      *)  ^    L«tt«m  f  ******  **■*  Nov.,  16B6L 

Marquisate,  y^J^^Z^i  dated  29th  Dec,  1708. 

Dukedom,  J  ( dated  leth  July,  1715. 

ICincagc. 

The  family  of  LfWDaav  came  originally  into 
Enc^land  from  Bertiland,  in  Pruasia,  with  the 
Saxona,  and  obtained  firom  one  ot  our  Saxon  nu^ 
nardu  a  castle  and  town  in  the  county  of  Kent, 
which  waa  denominated  firom  them  BsnTiB-Amf, 
(Saxon-town,)  now  Bented,  near  Maidstone. 

It  appears  tram  an  old  manuscript  in  the  Cotton 
Library,  that 

LEOPOLD  DE  BERTIE  was  constable  of  Dover 
CasUe,  temp.  King  Ethelred,  but  opposing  strongly 
the  government  upon  some  occasion,  his  son  and 
heir, 

LEOPOLD-  DE  BERTIE,  upon  succeeding  to 
the  inheritano^  apprehsnsive  of  his  safety  in  conse* 
quence  of  his  lather's  pfwewilngi,  fied  to  Robert, 
King  of  France,  and  marrying  a  French  woman, 
settled  in  that  kingdom,  where  his  posterity  conti- 
nued until  the  year  11A4,  when 

PHILIP  BERTIE,  accompanying  Kfaig  Henry  II. 
into  England,  was  restored  by  that  monarch  to  his 
ancient  patrimony  in  Bersted.  From  this  Philip 
lineally  descended, 

THOMAS  BERTIE,  Esq.,  of  Bersted,  captain  of 
Hurst  Castle  in  the  Isle  of  Wight,  temp.  Henry  VI L, 

who  m.  — ,  daughter  of, Say,  Esq.,  of  the 

county  of  Salop,  and  left  a  son  and  heir. 


RICHARD  BERTIE,  Esq.,  who  espoused  Katha- 
rine Willoughby,  Baroness  Willoughby  de  Eresby, 
in  her  own  right,  and  Duchess  of  Soflblk,  in  right 
of  her  first  husband,  CBAni<Ka  BnAivooir,  Dvkk 
or  SirrFOLK,  and  had  issue, 
PnnmoBiNB,  his  sueeessor. 
Susan,  m,  first,  to  Reginald  Gray,  Earl  of  Kent, 
and  secondly,  to  Sir  John  Wingfield. 
During  the  reign  of  Quean  Mary,  the  Duchess  of 
Sullblk,  being  a  aealous  supporter  of  the  reforma- 
tion, was  obUged  to  retire,  accompanied  by  Mr. 
Bertie,  fkom  En^^d,  and  they  subsequently  en- 
countered great  privationa  and  dangers  upon  the 
continent,  until  received  under  the  protection  of 
the  King  of  Poland,  and  placed  by  that  monarch,in 
the  earldom  of  Crvaon  in  Sanogalia.     Mr.  Bertie 


continued  however  much  longer  than  the  race  of 
baiona,  and  iinssieidd  the  lordship  of  Birmingham, 
until  the  dese  of  King  Henry  VIIL's  rsign,  when 
Edward  Bermlnghem  was  "  wfl^  wiesled  out  of  it, 
aooording  to  Dugdale,  by  John  Dudley,  afterwaida 
Viseottnt  LislOb  Earl  of  Warwick,  and  Duke  oi 
Northumberland.  From  this  ftmUy  sprang  alH> 
the  BsniiiMhans,  Earls  of  Louth  hi  Inland. 


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PBJUSGRINE  BERTIE,  Ba«o»  Wumuohbt 
DB  KftcftBY,  who  being  bom  in  the  Duchy  of 
ClevM,  WM  naturaUMd  by  patent,  dated  And  Au- 
gust, IM^  and  declared  by  order  of  Queen  Eliia- 
bilh«  by  the  Loid  Trenurar  Buxghley.  the  Loitl 
ChnbcrlaiB  SuMex,  and  the  'Earl  of  Leicerter* 
in  the  Star  damber,  on  the  1 1th  November,  IMO^ 
entitled  to  theaoeieBt  Babcitt  09  Wii.u>uobbt^ 
JiHt  at  thoiehi^  pcnonagef  were  about  to  sit  down 
to  dinner,  when  hie  lordihip  was  placed  by  them 
In  his  proper  sttnation  at  table;  and  he  took  his  seat 
in  parhamcnt  on  the  Monday  fiiUowing,  next  to 
I^ofd  Zoudb  of  Harringworth.  His  lordship  was 
deputed,  in  158S,  to  attend,  with  the  Earl  of  Lei- 
ceMar,  and  other  nobles,  upon  the  Duke  of  Ai\)ou, 
iaio  Antwvp,  and  waa  sent  In  the  same  year  to 
Frederick,  Kfaig  of  Denmark,  with  the  ensigns  of 
the  Order  of  the  Garter.  In  the  80th. of  Elisabeth, 
I'Oid  WiDooghby  waa  emptoyed  at  the  siege  of 
Ziitphcn  in  the  Netherlands,  and  in  an  encounter 
*ith  the  forces  of  the  garrison,  orerthrew  General 
Gcoige  C^rcBsialL,  Commander-in-chief  of  the  ca- 
valry, and  took  him  j^isoner.  His  lordaliip,  in  the 
■ext  year,  upom  the  reUtement  of  the  Earl  of  Lei- 
certer,  was  appointed  Commaader4n-chicf  of  the 
Eagiish  Auxiliary  Forces  in  the  United  Provinces, 
and  BMst  valiantly  deCendcd  BBBami-or-ZoAM, 
Sfsiast  the  Rxiaoe  of  Panna.  He  subsequently 
ooniBsnded  an  English  anny  sent  into  France,  in 
Sid  of  the  King  of  Navarre  Of  this  nobleman. 
Sir  Hobcrt  Nauaton,  says»  in  hia  Fragmenta  Re- 
gslim  *<  That  be  was  one  of  the  Queen's  first  swords- 
OKB,  and  a  great  master  ot  the  art  military.'*  His 
lo*dshipa^  Mary,  daughter  of  John  Vere^  Earl  of 
Oxtatd,  sister  and  heiress  of  the  whole  blood,  to 
Bdward,  sevenCeenth  Earl  of  Oxibrd,  and  had  issue, 
five  sons, 

RoBBET,  Peregrine,  Henry,  Vers,  and  Roger, 
with  a  daughter,  Catherine,  who  m.  Sir  Lewis  Wat- 
son, of  Rockingham  CasUe,  in  the  county  of  Nortb- 
ampcoo,  afterwards  Lord  Rockingham.  Lord  Wil- 
longhby  died  in  ISDl,  and  waa  «.  by  hie  eldest  eon, 

ROBERT  BERTIE,  m  10th  Baron  WUloughby  de 
Ercdiy.  Thia  noMcman  claimed  theEarkiom  of  Ox- 
ford,  end  the  Baronies  of  Bulbec,  Sandlbrd  and  Bad- 
keacr^  withtheoflloeof  Lobd  Hieii  CBAiiBBBi.Aiif 
or  EaoijiBD  hi  ijl^t  of  hie  mother,  but  eucoeeded 
^  establishing  hie  right  to  tike  chamberlaiaehip 
oBly;  be  waa*  however,  rieaiert  Eau.  op  LiNnaBY, 
«■  the  SSnd  Novembor,  IfiSS,  and  in  four  yeare  after 
elected  a  Kaight  of  the  Moet  Noble  Order  of  the 
Oabtbb.  In  the  7tb  of  Chaxies  I.,  ha  waa  ooneti- 
tttted  Constable  of  England,  for  the  trial  of  Lord 
Rea,  and  David  Raaaaey.  In  the  11th  of  the  same 
Rign.  he  was  made  Loan  Hioh  Admibaxi  and  in 
J03S^  upon  the  Soots  takingup  arms,  he  waaappointed 
Governor  of  Berwick.  His  lordshftp  was  chosen 
General  of  the  King's  Forces,  at  the  breaking  out 
of  the  CivU  War,  and  fieU  at  the  battle  of  Edge 
iiiU,  in  1648.  Lord  WiUonghby  m.  Elisabeth, 
only  child  of  Edward,  fliat  Lord  Montague,  of 
Boughton,  and  grand-daughter,  maternally,  of  Sir 
Jobn  Jeflkeias,  Lord  Chief  Baron  of  the  Exchequer, 
and  had  issue, 

Montagu,  his  successor. 


llag«  (Sir),  K.B..  m,  Miae  Lawley,  daughter 
and  heiress  of  Sir  Edward  Lawley,  Knt.,  and 
d.inie5i. 
Robert»d.bilffO& 

Per^grinak  m.  Aaat,  daughter  of  William 
Harvey,  Eeq.,  of  ^eden,  in  the  eounty  ot 
Lincoln,  with  whom  he  acquleed  that  eeat 
and  eettled  there.  He  left  at  Ue  deceaae, 
an  only  daughter  and  heirees,  EUxabeth, 
who  m.  WiUiam,  Lord  WIdrington. 
Francis,  Captain  of  Horse,  killed  in  the  king's 

service,  in  Irelend,  anno  1641. 
Robert,  m.  first,  Alice,  daughter  of  Richard 
Barnard,  Esq..   and    eeoondly.    EUsabeth, 
eeooBd  daughter  of  Sir  Thomae  Bonnet,  ot 
Baberham,  in  the  county  of  Cambridge. 
Henry,  Captata  ot  Horee,  killed  at  Newberry, 

fighting  under  the  royal  banner. 
Vere,  and  Edward,  died  immarried. 
Catherine,  m.  to  Sir  William  Paeton,  Bart, 

of  Oxnead,  in  the  eounty  of  Norfblk. 
Elixabelii,  m.  to  Sir  Miles  Stapleton,  of  Carl- 
ton, in  the  county  of  York. 
Sophia,  m.  first,  to  the  Rev.  JohnHewlt,  D.D., 
beheaded  for  his  loyalty  to  King  Charles  I., 
and  secondly,  to  Sir  A.  Shipman,  Knt. 
His  lordship  waa  e.  by  his  eldest  son, 

MONTAGU  BERTIE,  second  earl,  who  com- 
manded the  king's  royal  regiment  of  guards,  at  Edge 
Hill,  and  being  near  his  gallant  fkther,  when  that  no- 
bleman fdl  wounded  hito  the  hands  of  the  enemy, 
voluntarily  surrendered  himself  to  a  commander  of 
the  horee  on  the  rebri  eide,  in  order  to  be  in  attend- 
ance upon  hie  aiBictcd  parent.  Being  afterwarde 
exchanged,  he  continued  aoalouely  to  eupport  the 
royal  eaueo— and  at  the  head  of  the  guarde  fought  at 
the  three  battles  of  Newberry,  at  Cropiedy,  at  Lest- 
withiel.  and  at  the  foul  fight  of  Naseby,  where  he 
was  wounded}  nor  did  he  forsake  his  royal  nunter  to 
the  very  last;  for  befaig  one  of  the  Lords  of  the  Bed- 
chamber, and  of  the  Privy  Council,  he  attended 
personally  upon  the  unhappy  asonareb,  until  his 
mi^esty  put  himaelf  into  the  hands  of  the  Scots. 
After  the  foul  murder  of  the  king.  Lord  LIndsey 
compounded  for  his  estate,  and  lived  In  privacy 
until  the  restoration  of  the  monarchy,  when  he  was 
called  to  the  privy  council,  and  elected  a  Knight  of 
the  Moet  Noble  Order  of  the  Garter.  His  lordship 
had  the  honour  and  gratification  too  pf  officiating  at 
the  coronation  of  King  CharlcelL,  ae  Lord  H/qh 
Chaitbxblaiiv  op  Enolakb.  The  earl  m.  first, 
Martha,  daughter  of  Sir  William  Cockain,  of  Rush- 
ton,  in  the  county  of  Northampton,  Knt.,  and  wi- 
dow' of  James  Ramsay,  Earl  of  Holdemess,  by  whom 
he  had, 

RoBBBT,  hia  cucoeoeor. 

Peregrine,  m.  Susan,  daughter  and  eo-heirese 
of  Sir  Edward  Monine.  Bart,  of  Walder- 
flhare  in  the  county  of  Kent,  and  had  two 
daughters, 

Bridget,  wifo  of  John,  Earl  of  Poulet 
Mary,  ai.  first,  to  Anthony  Henley.  Esq., 
of  the  Grange,  In  the  county  of  South- 
ampton ;  and  secondly,  to  the  Honor- 
able Henry  Bertie,  third  eon  of  Jamee, 
Earl  of  Abingdon. 

M 


BER 


BER 


Vere,  Juttiee  of  the  Common  Ptai,  temp. 

Charles  II..  d.  umnarried  in  1680. 
Charles,  of  Ufflngton,  in  the  county  of  Lincoln, 
Ml.  Mary,  daughter  of  Peter  Tryon,  Esq., 
of  Harringworth,  in  the  county  of  North- 
ampton, and  widow  of  Sir  Sunuel  Jones, 
by  whom  he  had  a  son, 

Charles,  m.  Mary,  daughter  and  heiress 
of  John  Nartxmne,  Esq.,  of  Great 
Stukley,  in  the  county  of  Huntingdon, 
and  had, 

Charles,  m.  to  Bathsheba,  daughter 

of  Doctor  Mead,   and  had  several 

children. 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  Charles  MUdmay,  Lord 

Fiti-Walter. 

Elizabeth,     m.    to   Baptist    Noel,    Viscount 

Campden. 
Bridget,   m.   to  Thomas  Osborne,  Duke  of 


Catherine,  m.  to  Robert  Dormer,  Esq.,  of 
Dourton,  in  the  county  ot  Bucks. 
The  earl  m.  secondly,  Bridget,  daughter  and  sole 
heiress  of  Edward  Wray,  Esq.,  (third  son  of  Sir  W. 
Wray,  of  Glentworth,  in  the  oMmty  of  Lincoln, 
Bart.,)  by  EUxabeth,  his  wife,  daughter  and  heiress 
of  Francis,  Lord  Norreys  and  EarV  of  Berkshire,  and 
had  issue, 

Jamks,  who  succeeded  to  the  Barony  of  Nor- 
reys, of  Ryeote,  in  the  county  of  Oxfbrd,  and 
was  created  Earl  of  Abingdon :  his  lorddiip 
is  ancestor  to  the  extant  Earls  of  Abingdon. 
Henry,  m.  Philadelphia,  daughter  of  Sir  Ed- 
ward Norris,  of  Western,  in  the  county  of 
Oxford,  d,  in  1734. 
Mary,  m.  to  Cha.  Dormer,  Earl  of  Caeraarvoo. 
His  knrddiip  d.  on  the  S6th  July,  1686,  and  was  «. 
by  his  eldest  son, 

ROBERT  BERTIE,  third  earL  This  nobleman 
m.  first,  Mary,  second  daughter  and  co-heir  of  John 
Massingherd,  Esq.,  and  had  an  only  daughter,  Ara- 
bdla,  IN.  to  Thomas  Savage,  Earl  of  Rivers.  He  m. 
secondly,  EUxabeth,  daughter  of  Philip,  Lord  Whar- 
ton, by  whom  he  had  five  sons,  vis. 

RoBflRT,  his  successor,  who  was  summoned  to 
the  house  of  peers,  as  Baroo  WiUoughbyt 
Peregrine,  vice<hamberlain  of  the  housdiold 
to  Queen  Anne,  and  one  of  the  tdlers  of  the 
exchequer,  died  «.  p.  in  1711, 
Philip  d.  unmarried  in  1788. 
Morris  tf.  unmarried. 
Albemarle. 
His  lordship   m.   thirdly,   Elisabeth,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Pope,  Earl  of  Down,  in  Ireland,  by  whom 
he  had  a  son  and  daughter,  who  both  died  unmar- 
ried.   The  earl  d.  on  the  8th  May,  1701,  and  was  «. 
by  his  eldest  son, 

ROBERT  BERTIE,  Lord  WiUoughbyde  Eieaby, 
as  fourth  earl,  who  was  created  Maroubss  or  Lind- 
■BY  on  89th  December,  1706 ;  and  upon  the  deeewe 
of  Queen  Anne,  was  appointed  one  of  the  lords  Jus- 
tices until  the  arrival  of  King  George  L  His 
lordship  was  subsequently  called  to  the  privy  coun- 
cil, appointed  lord-lieutenant  and  custos-rotulorum 
of  the  county  of  Lincoln,  and  elevated,  on  the  90th 
July,  1715,  to  the  Duxboom  or  Akcabtbb  awd 
B6 


KBSTBVxir.  His  grace  m.  fint,  30th  July,  1678, 
Mary,  daughter  of  Sir  Richard  Wynn,  of  Gwydier, 
in  the  county  ot  Caernarvon,  Bart.,  by  whom  he 
had  issue— 

PxBXOBiNB,  his  successor. 
And '  three  daughters,  who  all  died  unmarried.    He 
m.  secondly,  Albinia,  daughterofMi^}or^General  Wil- 
liam Farrington,  of  Chisselhurst,  in  Kent,  by  whom 
he  had, 

Vere,  M.P.  for  Boston,  m.,  in  1736,  to  Miss 
Anne  Casey,  of  Braunston,  near  Lincoln,  and 
left,  in  1788,  two  daughters,  his  coheirs ;  vis.- 
Albinia,  m.  87th  May,  1707>  to  the  Hon. 
Geor^  Hobart,  who  succeeded  his  bro- 
ther as  third  earl  of  Buckinghamshire. 
Louisa. 
Montagu,  Capt.  R.N.,  m.  Eliaabeth,  daughter 
of  William  Piers,  Esq.,  M.P.  ftxr  Wells,  and 
left,  in  17S3,  two  daughter*— 
Augusta,  IN.,  in  1756,  to  John  Lord  Bur^ 
hersh,  afterwards  Earl  of  Westmordand. 


Robert,  a  general  officer  in  the  army.  In  1756  his 
lordship  happened  to  be  on  board  the  R*- 
milUes  (proceeding  to  join  his  regiment  in 
Minorca),  with  Admiral  Byng,  in  the  en- 
gagement with  the  French  fleet  off  that 
Island,  and  gave  a  very  dear  and  candid 
evidence  in  bdialf  ot  that  unftntunate  offi- 
cer, at  his  trial  in  the  January  foUowing. 
Lord  Robert  sate  in  parliament  successively 
for  Whitechurch,  Hants,  and  Boston  in  Lin- 
colnshire. He  m.  Chetwynd,  daughter  and 
heir  of  Montagu,  Viscount  Blundell,  in 
Ireland. 
Thomas,  Capt.  R.N.,  d.  unmarried,  91st  July, 

1740. 
Louisa,  m.,  in  1736,  to  Thomas  Bludworth, 
Esq.,  gentleman  of  the  hone  to  the  Prince 
ot  Wales,  and  one  of  the  grooms  of  the  bed- 
chamber. 
Hto  graced.  96th  July,  1793,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest 
son, 

PEREGRINE  BERTIE,  second  duke,  who  had 
been  summoned  to  parliament,  in  the  life-tikne  of  his 
father,  as  LoBoWiLLODOHBYnBEBBBBY.  Hisgrace 
was  called  to  the  privy  council  in  1784,  and  i^ppointed 
in  the  same  year  lord-lieutenant  and  custoe-rotulorum 
of  the  county  and  city  of  Lincoln.  In  1734  he  was 
constituted  lord  warden  and  justice  in  Eyre  of  aU 
his  majesty's  parks,  chases,  forests,  5rc.  north  of  the 
Trent.  The  duke  espoused  Jane,  one  of  the  four 
daughters  and  co-heirs  of  Sir  Jcdm  Brownlow, 
Bart.,  of  Belton,  in  the  county  of  Lincoln,  by 
whcnn  he  had  • 

PanxoBiirB,  his  successor. 

Brownlow,  who  «.  as  fifth  duk& 

Mary,  nu   to    Samuel    Greteheed,    Esq.,    of 

Guy's-Clilfe,  near  Warwick,  and  d.  in  1774. 
Albinia,  m.  to  John  Beckford,  Esq.,  and  d.  in 

1754. 
Jane,  m.  to  Captain  Matthews. 
Carolina,  m.  to  George  Dewar,  Esq.,  and  d.  in 
1774. 
His  grace  d.  on  the  1st  January,  1749,  and  was  «.  by 
his  ddest  son. 


.  'PBRKGRlNBUaTIC.CkM«tak«»wteiN.flnC. 
aod  May*  173S,  EMttbedi.  dixghtefd  lole  heircw 
of  WUiina  BhuxMI,  Baq.,  of  Bauagtttikt,  In  the 
cottnty  of  SouChamptOD,  and  relict  of  Six  Charles 
Gnntcr  Nidnib,  KJI.,  bat  had  no  ^nm.  Hit 
grace,  10.  Mondly,  STth  NorcmlMr,  1780^  Maryj 
daughtar  of  Thomas  PantOD,  Esq.,  bf  whom  he 
had  tiuTiviQg  issuer 

RoBssT,  Ussuccenor. 

Priscilla-Barbara-Elixabeth,  m.  8»rd  Fehruary, 
1^,  to  Peter  BurreU,  Esq.»  of  Beckcnham, 
Kent,  afterwards  created  a  baronet,  and 
devated  to  the  peerage,  as  Baron  G  wydtiu 
(See  Wllloughby  de  Erertjy-^Hrlre^*  Die- 

GeocgianirCharlotte,  m.  to  James,  first  Mar- 
qnen  Chobnonddcy. 

Id  174s,  on  the  teeaUag  out  <)f  the  rebi3tton  in 
Sootlaiid,  his  graee  raised  a  regiment  of  fbot  for 
his  mi^esty's  senrioek  and  attained  threugh  the  dif- 
ferent gradatioDs,  the  rank  of  general  in  the  army, 
in  177s.  At  the  oonmatioD  of  King  George  III., 
the  dukeoOdated  at  Lo&o  Grbat  CBAnBSRLAiir 
or  EiroLAND.  In  17B8.  he  wm  a^xiinted  Master 
of  tlie  Horse;  he  was  also  Recorder  of  Linoofai.  He 
d.  on  the  Uth  April,  1778.  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

ROBERT  BERTIE,  fourth  duke,  at  whose  de. 
cease,  unmarried.  8th  July,  1779,  the  Baroivt  op 
WiLLOtroiiBV  Dx  Errbb'K  fen  into  ABXTAif  ex  be- 
tween his  graced  two  sisters,  but  was  calledout  by  the 
ciown,inthefo1IowlBg  year.  In  flivour  of  the  elder, 
aod  is  now  erOoyed  by  her  ladyship's  son  and  heir. 
The  Lord  Gbbat  CRAMBBSLAnrsittp  derolved 
Jointly  apon  the  two  ladiest  ^Hiile  his  grace's  other 
boDours  rercrtad  to  his  uncl^ 

tORD  BROWNLOW  BERTIE,  as  filth  duke. 
This  noblemaa  ■^  first,  Oth  November,  17»,  Har- 
riot,  daughter  and  sole  heireis  of  Gemrge  Morton 
Pitt,  Esq.,  of  Twickenham,  in  the  county  of  Mid- 
dkaex,  but  her  graoe  A  in  the  foltowing  year  with- 
out issa&  He  m.  secondly,  and  January,  17G0, 
Mary  Aane,  youngest  daughter  of  M^or  Layard, 
by  whoos,  (who  d.  13th  January,  1804>)  he  had  an 
«mly  daughter,  MARy-Ei.isABBTH,  «.  26th  May, 
1793,  to  Thomas,  Viscount  Milsiagton,  now  Earl 
of  Portmore-aad  left  at  her  decesse,  in  1797,  an 
only  son,  BR0W7ri.ow-CHARi.B8,  who  inherited  the 
great  personal  estates  of  his  grandfather,  the  Duke 
of  Ancaster,  but  died  at  Rome,  in  181%  ot  wounds 
received  from  a  baadittL  His  grace  d.  iu  1800, 
when  the  Dukbdoms  op  Ancastbr  and  Kbs- 
KATBB,  and  the  MARflimaiTx  and  Earldom  op 
LiNDSBT,  became  bztihct. 

Arii»— Ar.,  three  battering  rams,  bar*WRys,  in 
pale,  proper,  amusd  and  garnished  asure. 

The  following  quaint  old  ballad,  was  written  to 
commemorate  the  snffierings  of  her  Grace,  the 
Duchess  of  Suilblkf  and  her  husband,  Mr.  Bertie, 
during  their  exile,  in  the  reign  of  Queen  Mary.  It 
Is  entitled.  "  The  moat  rare  and  occellent  history 
of  the  Dudieasof  Sulfolk,  and  her  husbend  Richard 
Bertie's  calamities.  To  the  tune  of  Queen  DidOb" 
Origlaany  pubilihed  in  the  rdgn  of  Queen  Elisa- 


BBR 

"  When  Got  hid  ttdtcn,  flir  bnri 
:  That  pntdeat  prince.  King 
Then  bloody  Bonner  did  begin 
Hb  Etgiag  maUoe  to  bewray  I 
AH  thoee  that  did  OodH  word  piotas. 
He  perseeated  \ 


away, 


Thus  while  the  Lord  on  us  did  km^. 

Many  in  prison  he  did  throw, 
Tovmenting  them  in  Lollards'  Tower,* 

Whereby  they  might  the  truth  farcgo; 
Th«  Cranmer,  Ridley,  and  the  r«at« 
Were  burning  in  the  (Ire  that  Christ  profese'd. 
Smithfield  was  then  with  fi«gots  fiU*d, 

And  many  plaoea mete  bmide; 
At  Coventry  was  Seandan  UBM, 

At  Wonnater  eke  good  Hooper  dM  I 
And  to  escape  this  bhiody  day 

Beyond  sea  nwny  fled  away 


Among  the  test  that  sought  x«lief. 
And  for  their  lUth  in  danger  stood, 

lAdy  Elixabeth  was  chief. 

King  Henry's  daughter  of  roysl  blood  < 

Who  in  the  Tower  did  prisoner  lie, 

Lo(4dBg  each  day  when  she  should  di& 

The  Dutcheis  of  Suflblk  seeing  this. 
Whose  life  likewise  the  tyrant  sought. 

Who  in  the  hopes  of  heavenly  bUes* 

Within  God's  word  het  comfott  wrought  { 

For  fear  of  death  wm  ftmM  to  fiy. 

And  leave  her  house  most  lecxetly. 

That  for  the  love  of  God  alonok 
Her  knds  and  goods  she  left  hahlndt 

Seeking  still  that  precious  stone. 
The  word  and  truth  so  rare  to  find : 

She  with  her  husband,  nurse  and  chiM, 

In  poor  amy  thehr  sighs  beguii'd. 

Thus  thro^  London  they  paas'd  along. 
Each  one  did  take  a  several  street  I 

And  all  along  escaping  wrong. 
At  BiUingagate  they  all  did  meett 

Like  people  poor,  In  Gravesend  bargee 

They  simply  went  with  all  their  chargeb 

And  an  along  from  Gravesend  town. 
With  journey  short,  on  foot  they  want; 

Unto  the  sea  coast  came  they  down. 
To  pass  the  seas  was  their  intent ; 

And  God  provided  so  that  day. 

That  they  took  ship,  and  sail'd  awAy. 

And  with  a  prosperous  gale  of  wind 
In  Planders  they  did  safe  arrive ; 

This  iras  to  them  great  ease  of  mind. 

And  from  their  hearts  much  woe  did  drive 

And  so,  with  thanks  to  God  on  hi^i 

They  took  their  way  to  Germany. 

Thus  as  they  travellM  stUl  disguls'di 

•  Upon  the  highway  suddenly 
By  cruel  thftfves  they  were  BttrprisTd* 
Assaulting  th^  small  company  t 
And  all  their  traesure,  and  their  store,  ■ 
They  took  away,  and  beat  them  sore^ 

•  There  ii  a  place  so  named,  in  the  palace  of  the 
Archbishop  of  Canterbury  at  Lambeth. 

I  W 


B£R 


BER 


The  mine*  unldit  of  all  thdr  fright, 
l^d  down  the  child  upon  the  groimd ; 

She  ran  away  out  of  thdr  fight. 
And  nerer  after  that  was  found. 

Than  did  the  Dutchew  malce  great  moaa» 

With  her  good  huahand  all  alone. 

The  thievca  had  then  their  hortea  kill'd. 
And  all  their  money  quite  had  took ; 

The  pretty  baby  almoat  spoil'd. 
Was  by  the  nurse  likewise  fonook ; 

And  they  far  from  their  Mends  did  stand. 

And  suocourless  in  a  strange  land. 

The  sky  likewise  began  to  sooul. 
It  h^'d  and  rain*d  in  piteous  sort. 

The  way  was  long,  and  wond'rous  foul ; 
Then  may  I  now  full  well  report. 

Their  grief  and  sorrow  were  not  small. 

When  this  unhappy  chance  did  fall. 


Soihetimes  the  Dutchess  bore  the  child. 

As  wet  as  erer  she  could  be, 
And  when  the  lady,  kind  and  mild. 

Was  weary,  then  the  child  bore  he; 
And  thus  they  one  another  eas'd. 
And  with  their  ftntunes  seemed  well  pleas'd. 

And  after  many  a  weary  step. 

All  wet-shod  both  in  dirt  and  mire; 

After  much  grief  their  hearts  yet  leap. 
For  labour  doth  some  rest  require ; 

A  town  before  them  they  did  see, 

Byt  lodged  there  they  could  not  be. 

From  bouse  to  house  then  they  did  go. 
Seeking  that  night  where  they  might  lie ; 

But  want  of  money  was  their  woe. 
And  stiU  their  babe  with  cold  did  cry  i 

With  .cap  and  Icnee  they  court'sy  miJce, 

But  none  of  them  would  pity  take. 

Lot  here  a  princess  of  great  blood. 

Doth  pray  a  peasant  for  rdief. 
With  tears  bedewed  as  she  stood, 

Yet  few  or  none  regard  her  grief: 
Her  speech  they  could  not  understand. 
But  some  gave  money  in  her  hand. 

When  all  in  vain  ber  speech  was  spent, 
And  that  they  could  not  house-room  get. 

Into  a  church-porch*  then  they  went. 
To  stand  out  of  the  rain  and  wet  t 

Then  said  the  Dutchess  to  ber  dear, 

«*  O,  that  we  had  some  flre  liere  r 

Then  did  her  husband  so  provide. 

That  flre  and  coals  they  got  with  speed ; 
She  sfrt  down  by  the  fire  side, 
,         To  dress  her  daughter  that  had  need ; 
And  while  she  dreu'd  it  in  her  lap. 
Her  husband  made  the  Infant  pap. 

•  Of  St  Willebrode,  at  Wesd,  in  Germany,  where 
the  Duchess  fell  in  labour,  and  was  delivered  of  a 
•on,  called  Pei^grlne,  afterwards  Lord  WUloughby 
daEresby. 


Anon  the  leKton  thither  came. 

And  finding  them  there  by  the  fire. 

The  drunken  knave,  all  void  of  shame. 
To  drive  them  out  was  his  desire; 

And  spuming  out  the  noble  dame 

Her  husband's  wrath  he  did  inflame. 

And  all  in  fUry  as  hestood. 

He  wrung  the  church-keys  fVom  his  hand. 
And  struck  him  so  that  all  the  blood 

Ran  down  his  bead  as  he  did  stand ; 
Wherefore  the  sexton  presently. 
For  aid  and  help  aloud  did  cry. 

Then  came  the  officers  in  hasten 
And  took  the  Dutchess  and  her  child; 

And  with  her  husband  thus  they  past. 
Like  lambs  beset  with  tigers  wild ; 

And  to  the  governor  were  Inought, 

Who  understood  them  not  in  aught. 

Then  Master  Birtie,  brave  and  bold. 

In  Latin  made  a  gallant  speech. 
Which  all  their  mis'ries  did  unfold. 

And  their  high  favour  did  beseech. 
With  that,  a  doctor  sitting  by 
Did  know  the  Dutchess  jnresently. 

And  thereupon  arising  straight. 

With  looks  abased  at  the  sight ; 
Unto  them  all  that  there  did  wait. 

He  thus  broke  forth  in  words  aright : 
"  Behold !  within  your  sight,"  quoth  he* 
"  A  princess  of  most  high  d^ree  I" 

With  that  the  governor,  and  aU  the  rest. 

Were  much  amaa'd  the  same  to  here  t 
Who  welcomed  this  new  come  guest. 

With  reverence  great,  and  princely  cheer ! 
And  afterwards  convey'd  they  were. 
Unto  their  friend.  Prince  Castmir. 
A  son  she  had  in  Germany, 

Peregrine  Bertie  call'd  by  name, 
Sumam'd  the  good  Lord  WUloughby, 

Of  courage  great,  and  worthy  fisme  i 
Her  daughter  young,  that  with  her  went. 
Was  aflcrwards  Countess  of  Kent.         • 

For  when  Queen  Mary  was  deoeas'd. 

The  Dutcheu  home  retum'd  agidn; 
Who  was  of  sorrow  quite  rdeas'd 

-  By  Queen  Elisabeth's  happy  reign ; 
Whose  godly  life  and  piety 
We  may  praise  continually. 

BERTRAM  —  BARONS  BERTRAM, 
OF  MITFORD. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  14th  December,  1S64, 
49  Henry  IIL 

ICincffSc. 

In  the  rmgn  of  King  Henry  I., 

WILLIAM  BERTRAM,  with  the  approbation  of 
his  wife  and  s<ms,  founded  the  Augustinian  Priory, 
of  BRiNKBunirn,  in  the  county  of  Northumber- 
land, and  was  «.  at  his  decease  by  his  son, 

ROGER  BERTRAM,  who«  in  the  Uth  of 
Henry  II.,  upon  the  assessment  in  aid  of  the  marx 
riage  portion  of  the  king's  daughter,  certified  his 
knight's  fees  to  be  six  and  a  half;  and,  in  the  18th 


B£R 


BIO 


o/ the  iBiiMiiKiiiaiKh,  paid  six  poandt,  tan  ihUlliigi, 
acuti^  fior  not  going  in  pencm,  nor  sending  lot 
dim,  upon  the  expedition  then  made  into  Ireland. 
To  this  liBudal  lord  luooeeded  hit  son  and  h^, 

WILLIAM  BERTRAM,  who  obCahied  ■  giant 
ftom  the  crown,  in  the  5th  year  of  King  John,  of 
tbe  manor  of  Felton,  in  Northumberhuid,  with  all 
tbm  woods  thertunto  bdonging.  He  m.  AUce,  lietar 
of  Robert  de  Umfivvil,  and  died  in  or  before  the 
7th  year  of  the  same  reign,  for  at  that  time  we  And 
King  John  eooiierring  the  wardriiip  of  his  lord8hip*s 
•oik  and  heir,  Roger,  upon  Peter  de  Brus,  with  the 
custody  of  his  lands  during  the  minority,  in  oonsi- 
domtioB  of  tbesum  of  three  hundred  marks.  To 
the  poaseadon  of  whidi  lands  suceeedad,  when  at 
All!  age.  the  said 

ROGER  BERTRAM.  This  feudal  lord  behig 
in-ndved  in  the  proceedings  of  the  beions,  in  the 
17th  of  King  Joha,  his  castle  and  lands  of  Mitford 
were  aeiaed,  and  cuuHeiied  upon  Philip  de  Uleootes; 
hot  afterwards  making  his  peace,  and  PhUip  de 
lUeeotes  not  swnning  willing  to  obey  the  king's 
mandaff  In  restoring  those  lands,  he  was  threatened 
wiUi  the  imuifidiafe  conflaeation  of  his  own  territo- 
rial poesessions,  in  the  counties  of  York,  Notting- 
ham, and  Durham.  After  this  period  Roger  Bertram 
appears  to  have  oOoyed  the  royal  favour ;  and  In  the 
13th  of  Henry  III.,  when  Alexjuukr  of  Scotland  was 
to  meet  the  KngHsh  monarch  at  York,  he  was  aab 
of  the  great  northern  barons  who  had  command  to 
attend  him  thither.  He  d.  in  ISil,  and  was  e.  by 
hkson, 

ROGER  BERTRAM,  who,  hi  the  4Snd  of 
Henry  IIL,  had  command,  with  other  great  barons 
of  the  north,  to  march  into  Scotland  §or  the  rescue 
of  the  young  king  of  SootsI  the  king  of  England's 
aon-in-law,  out  of  the  hands  of  his  rebellious  sub- 
jects :  but,  in  the  48th  of  the  same  monarch,  bdng 
In  arms  with  the  other  rebellious  barons,  he  was 
takan  prisoner  at  NoRTHAMProiir,  and  his  castle  of 
Mitford  seised  upon  by  the  escheator  of  the  crown, 
while  he  waa  himself  committed  to  the  custody  of 
WUliam  de  Valence.  He  must,  however,  have  made 
his  peace  very  soon  afterwards,  for  we  find  him 
swmmfmrd  to  parliament  as  a  babow,  in  the  next 
r,   14th    December,   liM.     His  kmlshlp  had 


Roeaa,  his  successor. 

Agnes,  m.  to  Thomas  Flts-WilUam,  Lord  of 

Elmeley  and  Sprotborough,  in  the  county  of 

York,  and  had  issue— 

WlI^LIAM  FiTZ-WlLUAM,  WhO  WSB  8UC> 

oeeded  by  his  son, 

WULIAM      FiTZ-WlLLIAM,      (from 

whom  the  extant  Earls  Fits- Wil- 
liam descend,)  one  of  the  co-hrirs 
of  the  BAROivT  and  estates  at  the 
decease  of  bis    cousin,    Aonbs 

BXRTftAM. 

Itabel,  m,  to  Darcy,  and  bad  Norman 

Darcy,  who  was  «.  by  his  son, 

Philip  Dabct,  one  of  the  co-heirs  of 
the  BARONY  and  estates  at  the  decease 
of  his  cousin,  Aonxs  Bbbtram. 

Christian,  m.  to »  and  had  a  son, 

Ei*XAB  PB  Pbivulbvbv,  One  of  the  co- 


haln  to  the  m&BoirT  tad  IumIb,  at  the 
decease  of  his  eooalD,  AojiBa  Bb»* 

TBAM. 

Ada,  m.  to de  Yere,  and  had  a  daughter, 

Isabd,  whose  son, 

GiLBXRT  DB  Atok,  wsb  ooe  of  the  co- 
heirs to  the  BABONY  and  lands,  at  the 
decease  of  his  cousin,  Aeit bb  Bbbtra  jh. 
The  banm  waa  «.  at  hia  decease  by  his  son, 
ROGER  BERTRAM,  second  baron,  but  nevar 
summoned  to  parliament.    This  noUanan  d.   In 
1311,  leaving  an  only  daughter  and  hciiess* 

AoRaa  Bbrtrav,  at  whoae  decease,  without 
issue,  the  babowy  of  Bbbtram  op  Mit- 
.  PORO,  IMl  into  ABBYANCB,  boiweeu  her 
ladyship's  cousins  and  co-heirs,  mentiooed 
above,  and  ao  continues  amongst  their  ra- 
preeentatives. 
Anna— As.  an  escutcheon  or. 

BIOOD-~£ARLS    OF  NORFOLK. 

By  creation  ot  King  Stephen,  and  also  of 
King  Henry  IL 

Xiittagc 

The  lint  of  this  great  f«mily  thateettled  In  Eng- 
land, was 

ROGER  BIOOD,  who  in  the  ConquenM*e  time 
possessed  six  lordships  hi  Essex,  and  a  hundred  and 
seventeen  in  Suftdk.  This  Roger  adhering  to  the 
party  that  took  up  arms  against  William  Ruftis,  in 
the  first  year  of  that  monarch's  reign,  fortifled  the 
castle  of  Norwich,  and  wasted  the  country  around. 
At  the  accession  of  Henry  I.  being  a  witness  of  the 
king^s  laws,  and  staunch  in  his  intereets,  he  obtained 
Framingham  In  Suflblk,  as  a  gift  f^om  the  crown. 
We  find  further  ot  him,  that  he  ftmnded  in  1108, 
the  Abbey  of  Whetftnd,  in  Norfolk,  and  that  he 
was  buried  there  at  his  deoeese  in  four  years  after, 
leaving  by  Adelisa,  a  son  and  heir, 

WILLIAM  BIOOD,  steward  of  the  household  to 
King  Henry  I.,  one  oi  the  unhappy  persons  who 
perished  with  the  king's  children  and  several  of  the 
nobility,  in  the  memorable  shipwreck  which  oc- 
curred in  the  SOth  of  that  monarch's  reign.  This 
feudal  lord  leaving  no  issue,  his  great  poesessJons 
devolved  upon  his  brother, 

HUGH  BIOOD,  also  steward  to  King  Henry  I., 
who,  being  mainly  Instrumental  in  raising  Stephen, 
Earl  of  Boloigne,  to  the  throne,  upon  the  deoeese  of 
his  royal  master,  was  rewarded  by  the  new  king 
with  the  BarI'DOK  op  thb  Eabt  Ajrox>X8»  com- 
monly called  NoBPOLK,  and  by  that  designation  we 
find  him  styled  hi  1140  (6th  Stephen).  His  kird- 
shlp  remained  fidthftil  in  his  aUq[lMice  to  King 
Stephen  tlyrough  the  difllculties  which  afterwards 
beset  that  monarch,  and  gallantly  defended  the 
castle  of  Ipswich  agafaurt  the  Empress  Maud  and 
her  son,  until  obliged  at  length  to  surrender  for 
want  of  timely  rdief.  Ir  the  19th  Henry  II.,  this 
powerful  noble  certified  his  knighfs  fees  to  be  one 
hundred  and  twenty-five  «*  de  veterl  fooflhmento," 
and  thirty-five  "  de  Novo,'*  upon  the  occasion  of 
the  assessment  in  aid  of  the  marriage  of  the  king's 
daugliter »  and  he  appears  to  have  acquired  at  this 
period  a  considerable  degree  of  royal  fkvour  t  for 
wo  find  him  not  only  recreated  Eari>  op  Norpoi^k 
I  8  00 


Bia 


BIG 


Xgf  chartOTf  datad  at  Norlluuntrtoii.  iMf  by  the  same 
iastninMnt  ohtainhig  •  giant  of  tha  oAce  of  steward, 
to  hold  in  M  ample  a  manner  at  hb  fitther  had 
Aone  Ib  the  time  of  Henry  L  Notwilhetaading. 
howeyer,  these  and  other  equally  subetantial  aurks 
of  tha  king's  fib«rality,  tha  Bail  of  Nocfolk  arrayed 
himself  under  the  baBner  of  Robert*  Earl  of  Lel- 
oiater»  in  tha  insonection  sadtad  by  that  nobleman 
In  fayoor  Of  the  Ung^  aon,  (whom  Heavy  himself 
bad  crowned,)  in  the  IMi  of  tha  monarch's  nii^  s 
bat  hla  trcaami  npen  this  oeonnan  coat  htan  tha  sur- 
render of  baa  atrongeat  caatlns  an4  a  fine  of  a  thou- 
sand marksL    Altar  wWeb  ha  want  Into  the  Holy 

l4Uid,  with  the  £arl  of  Ftedns,  and  died  bill77. 

Hia  lordship  had  married  first*  JaUan*  daughter 
of  Alberic  da  Vera*  by  whom  he  had  a  eon  Rooxa ; 

and  aaeondly » Gundred    ,  who  brought  him  two 

sons,  Hugh  and  William.  He  waa  t.  by  his  eldest 
son, 

ROGfiR  BIOOD,  seeond  earl,  who^  in  the  flrat 
year  of  Richard  I.,  had  a  charter  dated  at  Westmins- 
ter, S7th  November,  reoonititttttng  him  Eam.  or 
Noaroi.K,  and  Steward  of  the  Housdiold,  his  lord- 
ship obtaining  at  the  leaaa  time  restitution  of  some 
aaaaoA,  wHhgiaita  of  others,  and oonflnnatloB of 
all  his  wide>q>reading  demesnes.  In  the  same  year 
be  waa  made  one  of  the  ambaasadocs  fkom  tba  Eng- 
liab  monarch  to  Philip  of  France,  Ibr  obtaining  aid 
towards  tba  raoorary  of  tba  Holy  Land.  But  for 
the  privilege  of  e^)eytng  the  Earldom  of  Worfbik, 
and  that  Hugh,  hia  brother,  ahould  not  Imto  Bvary 
of  any  landa  whkb  ware  hia  fbther'a,  eieept  by 
judgment  of  the  king^  eourt,  and  hia  peers,  ha 
paid  no  less  than  a  thousand  marks  to  tha  kin^ 
Upon  the  return  of  King  Richard  from  his  captivity, 
the  Earl  of  Norfolk  aesistad  at  tha  great  council 
held  by  the  king  at  Nottingham}  and  at  hia  second 
ooromrtiOB,  hia  lordship  wae  one  of  the  Ibor  eark 
that  carried  the  silken  canopy  over  the  monarch's 
In  the  reign  of  King  John,  ha  waa  one  of  the 
that  extorted  the  great  CKaamaa  or  Fnan- 
Doaa  from  that  prince^  and  waa  amongst  tha  twenty^ 
Ave  locda  ^ipeinted  to  enforce  their  folfiJmenb 
His  kitdsUp  m.  Isabel*  daughter  of  Humelyn,  Swl 
ef  Wanrai^  and  Suarey,  and  had  iaaue^ 

HuoB,  his  successor. 
-     Wmiam.  m.  Margaret,  daughter  of  Robttt  de 
Sutton,  with  whom  he  acquired  ceneiteaMe 
pvoperty. 

ThomaSi 

Margwy,  m.  to  William  de  Hasting*. 

Adeliaa,  m,  to  Alberie  da  Vere^  Earl  of  Oxford. 

Mary,  m.  to  Ralph  FiU  Robeft,  Lord  of  Mid- 


The  earl  4.  in  U90,  end  wm«.  by  hUeldeat 

HUGH  BIGOD,  third  earl.  whoM.  Maud,  eldeat 
daughter  of  WUliam  Mareachal,  Earl  of  Penktaroke, 
andhadfani% 

Roona,  his  suoceasor. 

Hugh,  an  eminent  lawyer,  appointed  Cniar 

JvaxicB  or  EirextaBD,  by  the  barons  la 

180Z.  iiem.flrst,Joene,  daughter  of  Robert 

Bunaet.  by  whom  be.  had  issue, 

RooBB,  succcMor  to  his   unele  in  the 

earkkom. 


He  m.  secondly,  Joans,  daughter  of  NicholM 

StuteviUe,  and  widow  of Wake,  but  had 

noisauOi  His  lordship  fell  under  tha  baronial 
banner  at  tba  battle  of  Lewes. 
Ralph,  M.   Berta,   dau^ter  of    the  Baron 
Fumival,  and  had  a  daughter, 

Isabel,  who  M.  first,  OUbert,  son  of  Walter 

da  Lacy,  Lord  of  Meath  in  Ixelandt 

and  secondly,  John  Fita  Geoffrey. 

Hia  lordahip  who  waa  alao  one  of  the  twenty-five 

baiona  appointed  to  enforce  the  obaervaace  of 

Maova  Cbmmta,  d.  in  Iflfifi*  and  wm*.  by  his  ddeat 


ROGER  BIGOD,  fourth  earl,  whoee  guardianship 
Alexander,  King  of  Scotland,  obtained,  for  five  hu»- 
dred  marks.  This  nobleman  attained  high  reputation 
in  an  martial  and  warlike  axerchca.  Skilful  and 
valiant  aUke  in  tha  tUtiag,  and  tha  battle  field,  he 
held  a  high  rank  amongat  the  chivalrous  spirits  of 
his  day,  and  won  many  a  trc^hy  in  court  and  camp^ 
la  the  tournament  held  at  Blithe,  in  Nottingham, 
(Slat  Henry  III.,)  whidi  terminated  in  a  conflict 
between  tha  southern  and  northern  birds,  the 
Earl  of  Norfolk  waa  pre-eminenay  distkigulshed* 
andinafow  years  afterwards  he  gained  new  laureb 
at  the  battle  of  Zantoigna.  But  the  most  remarka- 
ble event  In  hia  lordship's  life  waa  his  personal 
dispute  with  King  Henry  IIL,  m  thus  stated  by 
Dugdale :  «<  In  the  SBth  Henry  IIL,  the  Earl  of 
Norfolk  making  a  just  apotogy  for  Robert  de  Roe, 
(a  great  baron  of  that  age,)  then  charged  with  some 
crime,  which  endangered  his  life,  he  had  very 
harsh  language  given  him  by  the  king,  being  openly 
called  tratfior:  whereat,  with  a  stem  countenance 
he  told  him  (the  king)  that  ht  Umis  and,  that  he 
iwver  war,  mot  wuU  b§  a  tratfton  adding,  *  ifu^u 
da  nothing  hut  what  tha  lata  taarrantath,  you  can  da 
ma  no  harm.'—*  Yes,'  quoth  the  king,  '  I  eon  thrash 
pour  cam,  and  9tUit,  and  *ahmaMaif«a»*  To  which 
he  replied,  <  Ifjfou  do  m,  IwUimndyou  tha  heads  o/ 
yonr  thrasher*.'  But  by  the  interposing  of  Uie  kmta 
then  present,  thia  heat  soon  paated  overt  ao  that 
(shortly  after)  he  was,  together  with  the  Earl  of 
Ldceater,  and  aome  others,  sent  on  an  embassy  to 
the  King  of  France,  to  treat  with  him  for  restoring 
some  rights,  which  he  withheld  from  tha  king." 
His  lordship  was  subsequently  appointed  by  the 
barons,  after  their  victory  at  LeweB,(48th  Henry  III.,) 
Govemor  of  the  CaMtla  of  Obpobjo^  in  Sufiblk.  To 
this  noUeman,  by  reason  of  hia  mother  Maud, 
being  the  eldest  co-heireeB  of  William  Mareschal. 
Earl  of  Pembroke,  the  MAaauALaBip  or  Eno- 
UANj>,  with  the  righta  thereuato  belonging,  was 
assigned.  Hia  tordship  espoused  Isabel,  sister  of 
Alexander.  Ktaig  of  Scotland,  but  dying  issueless, 
all  his  honours  and  possessions  devolved  upon  his 
nephew,  (refer  to  Hugh,  second  son  ot  the  third 
aarl,) 

ROGER  BIGOD,  fifth  Earl  of  Norfolk,  and  second 
Earl  Marshal  of  this  family.  Thia  nobleman  took  a 
distinguished  part  in  the  wars  of  King  Edward  I., 
having  previously,  however,  la  cot^unction  with 
the  Eerl  of  Heieford,  coaopeUed  even  that  resolute 
monarch  to  ratify  tub  Gbxat  Chabtbr,  and 
Chabtbbopthb  FoaasT..  His  lordahip  m.  first. 
Aliva,  daughter  and  heiroas  of  Philip,  Lord  Basset, 


BLO 


BLO 


adirfifawof  ffaigh  DaqpoMtr, tliria  at 
ad  Mooadly.  Joaae,  dm^tor  of  Jobii  d«  AaMine* 
BM  of  BsyomMb  but  had  no  itnu  by  neither.  In 
the  flSth  of  Edwaid  L,  the  earl  constituted  that 
mamidi  bia  biir,  aad  ittmnderad  into  hi*  hands* 
Hbt  manhaTs  rod,  upon  eonditioik  that  it  ahoubi  be 
rahmwdj  ia  the  event  of  hie  haTiag  ^ildren,  aad 
that  te  fhonU  McelTe  £10901  prarapt.  aad  £1000. 
a  ymg  tor  Ufe.  la  conaequenee  of  wlrich  aunendar* 
bis  lonUi^  was  xm  ciaatoil  Eaei.  or  Noaroui*  ia 
1308,  with  remainder  to  his  ImIzs  noalet  by  hii  flxst 
viftb  bat  dying  witbont  iasae»  as  stated  abova,  in 
Ave  yean  afterwaida»  the  mamlhou  became^  aO' 
ending  to  the  sunender,  axTiacr,  in  the  Biaob 
Aniiiyt  althoqgfa  his  lordifaip  left  a  brother. 

JOHN  BIGOD.  his  heir  at  law.  whose  right  aenaa 
to  hare  been  annihilated  in  this  yery  lu^ust  aad 
aataKMdinary  laamiea  and  lo  ooetipleldy  daatroyed. 
that  he  did  not  even  Inherit  any  of  the  gaeat  estates 
ofUsaoeaaton. 

Aam— Gules,  a  lion  pawant,  or.. 

BLOUNT— BARONS  MONTJOY  OF 
THURVESTON,  IN  THE 
COUNTY  OF  DERBY,  AND 
EARL  OF  DEVONSHIRE. 

Barony,  by  Chartec*  dated  80th  June,  146ff. 
Karldoan.  by  Letters  Patent,  dated  8Ut  July,  1003. 

ICiiuagc. 

BLOUND.  Lord  of  Guiancs,  In  France,  had 
three  ions,  wbo  acoompeaied  the  Conqueror  into 
Kiglaad,  one  of  whom  retnnied  into  Normandy, 
while  the  other  two,  * 

SIR  ROBERT    1  r^^^f'.K"'*  . J^*^**^! 
^"**U        F  hngety,  in  the  spoils  of  conquest 

era  wf  i  t  t Air   f— S*'  William  ohtaining  several 
am  wiJ-l-lAM.j,^j^j^^pg  5^  Ltocohishire,  and 

SIR  ROBERT  LB  BLOUND,  no  less  than  thir- 
teen hmkhipa  in  the  county  of  Suffolk,  of  which 
Ixwofth  waa  Hk  head  of  the  feudal  barony.  The 
gnat  giaudaon  and  Baeai  descendant  of  this  Sir 
Robert, 

GILBERT  LE  BLOUND,  Lord  of  Ixwordk,  fa. 
Agaes  de  Liale,  and  had  two  sons, 

Wu.titAJi.  who  sucosedadto  the  fiaiflUbenmy, 
and  marrying  Cicely  de  Vere,  had  issue, 
WfiiLiAM,  Baron  of  hcworth,  standaid- 
bearer  to  die  army  of  the  insurgent 
bamos,  under  Simon  Moofort,  Earl  of 
Leicester,  and  sUdn  at  the  battle  of 
Lewes,  tssapi  Henry  liL,  when  kar- 
iag  no  issue,  the   nude  line  of   the 
Banns  of  Ixworth  ceased,  and  his  sis- 
ters became  his  a>>heix8. 
Agnes,  m.  to  Sir  William  de^ 

Criclietot  f-,    .   . 

Bobeae.  m.   to  Robert  de  rCo-n«»- 

Vaknnea.  J 

Stephen,  m.  Marf ,  only  daughter  and  heiress 

of  Sir  William  le  Blound,  of  Sazlingham, 

in  the  county  of  SullbllL,  (fourth,  in  a  direct 

line.  Ciom  Sir  WiiUam,  brother  of  Sir  B4>- 

bert,)    and  from   this  union  sprang    the 


Bi^oxra*  of  whldi  wa  aae  now  aboat  to 

treat,  as  well  as  the  still  eiUatiag  fhaiii«  of 
tlie  name  in  England. 

WALTER  BLOUNT,  (deacaoded  from  the  aaid 
Steplien,)  waa  nude  treesurer  of  Calais  in  the  anth 
of  Henry  VI..  and  had  the  same  ofllce  oonllrmed  to 
liim  upon  the  accession  of  King  Edward  IV.  In 
the  4th  yeer  of  which  latter  mosiarcVa  reign,  he 
was  constitnfted,  by  letters  pataat,  dated  S4th  No- 
▼ember.  Loan  TaaAaomam  of  ExoLAwa,  ^  the 
neat  year,  adyanoad.  by  charter,  dated  SOth  June, 
to  the  peerage,  by  the  title  of  BAaoa  Montjoy, 
<tf  Tkurveaton,  in  Che  ootmtw  qf  Dsrby.  This  aoUe- 
man  became  so  staunch  an  adherent  of  the  House 
of  York,  that  he  shared  largdy  in  the  oonflacated 
estatas  of  the  leading  l.anrasfTisns  particularly  In 
those  of  Sir  William  Carey.  Sir  William  Vaux,  and 
Thomas  Courieaay.  Earl  of  Devon,  obtaining  there- 
by extensive  territorial  possessions  in  the  counties 
of  Devon,  Cornwall  and  Worcestsr.  He  was  alao 
honoured  with  the  GAaraa.  His  lordship  m.  Anne, 
widow  of  Humphrey,  Duke  of  Buckingham,  and 
had  several  children,  of  whom  the  eldest  son. 

John,  died  in  the  life-time  of  his  fhther,  kav- 
lag  issue  by  Margaret,  daughter  aad  hdiasa 
of  Sir  Thomas  Itchingham, 

Edward,  successor  to  his  grandflsther. 
Eliaabeth,  m.  to  Andrews  Wiadsor.  who 
was  sununoned  to  parliament  as  BAaoa 
Win  Dsoa.  in  1528. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1474,  and  waa  «.  by  his  grandson, 

EDWARD  BLOUNT,  second  baron,  who  died  the 
following  yeer.  having  attained  only  the  eighth 
year  ci  his  age.  when  his  estates  devolved  upon 
his  sister,  but  the  Barony  of  Montjoy  reverted  to 
his  uncle, 

JOHN  BLOUNT,  third  baron,  who  d,  fai  1485k 
leaving  by  his  will,  bearing  date  on  the  6th  October 
in  that  year,  a  chain  ot  gold,  with  a  gold  lion 
set  with  diamonds,  to  his  son,  Rowland  Blount, 
and  to  his  daughter,  Constantine,  £100.  for  her 
marriage  porUon.  His  lordship  was  «.  by  his  eldest 
son, 

WILLIAM  BLOUNT,  fourth  baron.  This  noble- 
man was  called  to  the  privy  council,  upon  the  acces- 
sion of  King  Henry  VII.,  and  was  constituted  in  the 
Ist  year  of  Henry  VIII.,  Master  of  the  Mint  in  the 
Tower  of  London,  aa  also  throughout  the  whole 
realm  of  England,  and  the  town  of  Calais.  His  lord- 
ship subscribed,  in  the  latter  reign,  to  the  articles 
against  Cardinal  Wolsey,  and.  the  letter  to  Pope 
Qement  the  Vllth.  regarding  the  King's  divorce 
from  Queen  Catherine.  He  m,  first.  Elisabeth, 
daughter  and  hdress  of  Sir  William  Say,  by  whom 
he  had  an  only  daughter,  Gertrude,  m.  to  Henry 
Courtenay,  Marquess  of  Exeter.  His  lordship  m. 
secondly,  Dorothy,  daughter  of  Henry  Kebtey  by 
whom  he  had  a  son,  CaAaLBS,  aad  thirdly,  Alice 
— -n.    He  d.  in  11195,  and  waa  s.  by  hia  son, 

CHARLES  BLOUNT,  fifth  baron,  who  in  the 
36th  Henry  VIII.,  served  in  the  rear-guard  of  the  army 
then  sent  into  France,  and  by  his  testament  made  at 
that  time,  ordained  a  stone  to  be  laid  over  his  grave, 
in  case  he  should  there  be  slain,  with  the  following 
cpita|)h,  as  a  memento  to  his  children,  to  continue 
aad  keep  themselves  worthy  of  so  much  honour,  as 

61 


BLO 


BLO 


to  be  caUed  forward  to  die  in  tlw  cauae  of  their 
king  and  oouatry. 

Willingly  have  I  sought. 

And  willingly  have  I  found* 
The  fotal  end  that  wrought 

Me  hither,  at  duly  bound. 

Ditdiaig'd  I  am  of  that  I  ought 
To  my  country  by  liooett  ownde ; 

My  MMil  departed  Christ  hath  bought. 
The  end  of  man  ia  ground. 

His  lordship  died  in  the  following  year,  anno  1645, 
leaving  issue  by  his  wife  Anne,  dau^ter  of  Robert, 
Lord  WiUoughby  de  Broke,  three  sons.  Jambs, 
Frands,  and  William,  of  whom  the  eidest, 

JAMES  BLOUNT,  succeeded  as  sixth  baron. 
This  nobleman  was  one  of  the  peers  who  sate  in 
judgment  upon  Thomas,  Duke  of  Norfolk,  temp. 
Eliaabeth.  Hb  lordship  m.  Catherine,  daughter  of 
Sir  Thomas  WWs,  of  the  county  of  York,  and  had 
two  sons,  William  and  Charles.  He  d.  in  U03,  and 
was  «.  by  the  elder, ' 

WILLIAM  BLOUNT,  seventh  baron,  who  d.  in 
1094, «.  p.,  and  was  «.  by  his  brother, 

CHAklLES  BLOUNT,  eighth  baron.  ThisnoUe- 
man,  when  a  commoner,  being  a  person  of  hi^  mili- 
tary reputation,  had  a  command  in  the  fleet  which 
defeated  the  famous  Spanish  Armada:  and  a  fow 
years  afterwards  succeeded  the  Earl  of  Sussex  in  the 
governorship  of  Portsmouth.  In  1097,  his  lordship 
waa  conatituted  lieutenant  of  Ireland;  and  in  two 
years  after  repulsed  the  Spaniards  with  great  gal- 
lantry at  Kinaale.  Upon  the  acoeaslon  of  King  James, 
he  was  reinvested  with  the  same  important  offloe,  and 
created  by  letters  patent,  dated  21st  July,  1O03,  Eahi. 
OF  DBvotrsHiBa,  being  made  at  the  same  time  a 
knight  of  the  most  noble  order  of  the  Gaktkb. 
The  high  public  character  of  the  earl  was,  however, 
considerably  tarnished  by  one  act  of  his  private 
lifo,  the  seduction  of  Penelope,  sister  of  the  Earl  of 
Essex,  and  wife  of  Robert,  Lord  Ridi.  By  this 
lady  he  had  several  children  i  and  upon  his  return 
from  Ireland,  finding  her  divorced  ftom  her  husband, 
he  married  her  at  Wanstead,  in  Essex,  on  the  26th 
of  December,  1605,  the  ceremony  being  performed 
by  his  chaplain,  William  Laud,  afterward  Arch- 
bishop of  Canterbury.  Camden  says,  that  this 
nobleman  was  so  eminent  for  valour  and  learning, 
that  in  those  respects,  "  he  had  no  superior,  and 
but  few  equals,"  and  hb  secretary  Moryson,  writes, 
*'  that  he  was  beautlAil  in  person,  as  wdl  as  valiant ; 
and  learned,  as  well  aa  wise.**  His  lordship  d.  on  the 
3rd  April,  1006,  and  leaving  no  legitimate  iaaue,  all 
hia  honours  became  xxtinct. 

Abjcs. — ^Bazry  nebuUe  of  six  or.  and  sa. 

BLOUNT— BARONS  MONTJOY,  OF 
THURVESTON,  IN  THE 
COUNTY  OF  DERBY,  AND 
EARLS  OF  NEWPORT. 


Barony 
Earldom, 


n,J    P 


Letters  f 


1G87. 


Patent,    \  3rd  August,  1688. 

MONTJOY  BLOUNT,  Esq.,  Okgitimate  son  of 
Charles  BkKint,  Earl  of  Devonshire,  by  Penelope, 


daughter  of  Walter  Devereilx,  first  Sail  of  Eaaex, 
of  that  family— the  divorced  wife  of  Robert,  Lord 
Rich,  (whom  the  Earl  of  Devooahtre  aubaequently 
married,) — waa  elevated  to  the  peerage  of  Ireland, 
aa  Lord  Mowtjoy,  or  Mont/oy  Fobt,  by  King 
James  I.,  and  created  in  the  following  reign,  anno 
1687,  Babow  MonT9QY«^'I%utv9»ton,  in  the  county 
qfDertnf,  and  Earx.  ow  Nbwpobt,  on  the  3rd  Au- 
gust, Ifltn.  Hb  lordship  m.  Anne,  daughter  of 
John,  Lord  Butlkb,  of  Bramfidd,  and  dying  in 
I66ff,  was  a.  by  his  eldest  son, 

GEORGE  BLOUNT,  second  earl,  at  whose  de- 
oeaae,  unmarried,  in  1676,  the  honours  devolved 
upon  hb  brother, 

CHARLES  BLOUNT,  third  carl,  who  Ukewiae 
died  a  bachdor,  in  the  aame  year,  and  waa  «.  by 
hb  only  surviving  brother, 

HENRY  BLOUNT,  4th  carL  Thbnobleman  in. 
Susanna,  daughter  of  John  Briaooe,  Esq.,  and  wi- 
dow of  Edmund  Mortimer,  Esq. :  by  Hying  a.  p.,  in 
1681,  all  hb  honours  rxpirsd. 

Arms— Bany  nebulee  of  six  or  ahd  aa. 

BLOUNT— BARON  BLOUNT. 

By  Writ  of  Sumniona,  dated  2Stb  January,  1340, 
4  Edward  III. 

3Ciiif«0f. 

WILLIAM  LE  BLUND,  OR  BLOUNT,  having 
m.,  in  the  2nd  Edward  III.,  Margerv,  one  of  the 
daughters  and  co-heiresses  of  Theobald  de  Verdon, 
obtained  livery  of  the  castle  of  Webbele,  in  the 
county  of  Hereford,  with  divers  other  lands  and 
lordships,  aa  her  portion  of  the  inheritance,  and 
waa  aummoned  to  parliament  aa  a  Baron,  ftom 
the  25th  January,  1330,  to  18th  Auguat,  1337.  Hb 
lordship  had  a  command  in  the  Scottiah  wars,  in 
the  9th  of  Edward  III.  He  d.  in  1337,  and  leaving 
no  issue,  the  Babohy  op  Bi.ount  xxpirbd,  while 
hb  lordship's  estates  devolved  upon  hb  brother 
and  heir,  John  Blount,  of  Sodington,  in  the  county 
of  Worcester,  from  whom  descend  the  present  Bap 
ronets  (Blount)  of  Sodington. 

ARMS—Barry,  nebulte  of  six  or.  and  aa. 

BLOUNT-BARON  BLOUNT. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  3rd  December,  1396, 
90  Edward  IL 

XCncagc. 

THOMAS  LE  BLOUNT,  deaoended  from  a 
younger  toandi  of  the  great  feudal  baronial  houae 
of  Blound,  of  Ixworth,  (aee  Blount,  Lorda  Mount- 
Joy,  and  Earb  of  Devonahire,)  waa  aummoned  to 
parliament  aa  a  Baron,  from  the  3rd  December, 
1396,  to  the  15th  June,  1398.  Hb  Umbhip  m.  Julian, 
daughtar  of  Thomaa  de  Leibum,  and  widow  of 
John,  Lord  Bergavenny,  but  it  doea  not  appear 
that  he  had  any  laaue^  In  the  20th  of  Edward  II., 
Lord  Blount  being  steward  of  the  king's  household, 
eapouaed  the  cauae  of  the  queen  after  the  taking  of 
Brbtol,and  the  flight  of  the  Ung  faito  Walo.  Of 
t^nobleman  or  hb  deaoeodanU,  nothing  Airther 


BOH 


BOH 


bdiag  knofPB,  It  I*  pntaincd  that  tiie  barany  nc- 
piKso  at  hia  dnrwufti 
A«Ms— Bany  nalmUa  af  alz  or  aad  aa. 

BliOUNT— EARL  OF  DEVONSHIRE. 
By  Latttaa  Patant,  dated  Slst  July  1803. 

Xfiuagc. 

See  CouTtenay,  Earls  of  Derail. 

BOHUN—BARONS  BOHUN  OF  MIB- 

HURST. 

By  Writ  oi  Sammona,  dated  lit  June,  1963. 
87tli  Edward  IIL 

Xfncagc 

In  addition  to  the  ilhiafrkNis  houae  of  BofauB, 
Barla  of  Heieftnd,  Wmrr,  a&d  Northampton,  there 
another  ftmily  of  the  lame  name,  and  probably 
from  the  lame  aouroe^  whoaa  chief  teat 
at  Midhunt*  in  the  county  of  Suimk.  In  the 
naftk  of  King  Henry  III. 

SAVARIE  DB  BOHUN  held  three  knighta' feea 

in  Ford  and  Midhuxst,  and  had  to  wife, ,  fister 

of  John  Fits  GeOey,  Jnatice  of  Irdand,  by  whom 
hehadiaBue, 

FRANCO  DE  BOHUN,  whom.  Slbel,  one  of  the 
danghtcra  of  William  de  Femn,  Earl  of  Derlyy,  by 
Sibel,  hia  wife,  daughter  to  William  Mayhmi,  sarl 
of  Pembroke,  and  aiater  and  eo-heiren  of  Aiudm, 
Earl  of  Pembroke,  by  whom  ha  had  a  mo  and  luo- 


JOHN  DE  BOHUN,  aeiiJeant  of  the  king's 
Chapel,  and  tpigumel,  that  is,  sealer  of  the  writs, 
temp.  Edward  I.  In  the  twelfth  year  of  wjiich  reign 
he  d.,  Icairing  with  other  children,  his  successor, 

JAMES  DE  BOHUN,  whom,  one  of  the  daughters 
and  co-heiresBes  of  WQliam  de  Braose,  of  Gowor,  and 
W3H  A  by  his  son, 

JOHN  DE  BOHUN,  who  making  proof  of  hb 
agt,  and  doing  homage,  had  livery  of  his  lands  in 
die  16tb  Edward  II.  "  This  is  he,  (says  Dugdale,) 
who  for  his  great  services  in  Flanders,  and  dsewhere 
beyond  sea,  in  14th  Edward  III.,  (when  the  king 
flzst  laid  chiim  to  the  crown  of  France,)  as  also  in 
that  famous  expedition  into  France^  19th  Ed- 
ward IIL,  (shortly  after  which,  the  king  obtained 
that  glorious  victory  at  Crcsaey,  whereof  our  his- 
torians make  ample  mention,)-  became  afterwards 
one  of  the  BAnova  of  the  realm,  being  summoned 
to  sit  in  parliament,  in  37tb,  aSth,  and  Sfth  of  that 
kinif  s  reign."  His  lordship  m.  first,  Isabd  ,  by 

irtKOsn  he  had  two  daughters,  via. 

Joone,  at.  to  Jchn  de  L'lde,  of  Gatcombe. 
Sveu 
The  bann  a.  secondly,  Ceoely,  daughter  and  hdreas 
of  John  FIDol,  of  Essex,  and  left  a  son  and  heir, 

JOHN  DE  BOHUN,  who  attaining  majority  in 
the  7th  Richard  II.,  and  doing  hia  homage,  had 
livery  of  bb  lands;  but  he  does  not  appeer  ever  to 
have  been  summoned  to  parliament  as  a  baron, 
neithflr  were  hia  descendants  considered  as  such. 
He  was  «.  by  his  son, 

HUMPHREY  DB  BOHUN,  whose  son  and  sue- 


JOHN  DB  BOHUN.  left  at  hia  deeeaae^  la  the 
reign  ot  Henry  VII.,  two  daughtara»  co-hahassast 
via. 

Mary,  m.  to  Sir  David  Owen,  KnL,  natural 
son  of  Owen  Tudor,  grandlbther  of  King 
Henry  Vllth,  by  whom  she  had— Henry, 
Jaaper,  Roger,  and  Anne. 
Ursula,  m.  to  Robert  SonthweUi  of  the  county 
ofSuflblk. 
Aniu.— Or.  a  crasa,  aa.  (in  a  field  or.) 


BOHUN— EARLS  OF  HEREFORD, 
EARLS  OF  ESSEX,  EARLS 
OF  NORTHAMPTON,  AND 
HIGH  CONSTABLES  OF 
ENGLAND. 

The  first  Earldom,  by  Charter   of  Creation, 

«th  April,  lUW. 
The  second,  by  the  same,  of  King  Henry  III. 
The  third,  by  the  same,  I7th  March,  U87. 

ICiiuasc. 

The  founder  of  this  fiunily  in  England  was, 

HUMPHREY  DE  BOHUN,  Unsman  and  com- 
panion  in  arms  of  William  the  Conqueror,  generally 
known  as  *«  Humtptirw^  with  th^  Btard;**  by  reason 
that  most  of  the  Normans  did  at  that  period  totally 
shave  their  liMes.  Of  this  Humphrey  little  more  is 
ascertained  than  that  he  possessed  the  kirdship  of 
Taterford,  in  Norfolk,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

HUBCPHREY  DB  BOHUN,  sumamed  the 
Gubat,  who  by  command  of  King  William  Ruftia 
espoused  Maud,  daughter  of  Edward  de  Saresbury, 
(progenitor  of  the  ancient  Earls  of  Sarum,)  by 
whom  he  acquired  large  estates  In  the  county  of 
Wilts,  and  had  issue,  Maud,  and  his  successor, 

HUMPHREY  DE  BOHUN,  who  was  steward 
and  sewer  to  King  Henry  I.  This  feudal  lord  mar- 
ried Margery,  daughter  of  Milo  de  Gloucester,  Earl 
of  Hereford,  Lord.  High  Consteble  of  England,  and 
sister  and  co-heiress  of  Mabel,  last  Earl  of  Hereford, 
of  that  fiunUy.  At  the  instigation  of  which  MUo. 
he  espoused  the  cause  of  the  Emprem  Maud  and  her 
son,  against  King  Stephen,  and  so  fUthftiUy  main- 
tained bis  aUegianoe,  that  the  empress,  by  her  es- 
pecial charter,  granted  him  the  office  of  steward 
and  sewer,  both  in  Normandy  and  England.  In 
the  90th  of  Henry  II.,  this  Humphrey  accompanied 
Richard  de  Lacy,  (Justice  of  EngUud,)  Into  Soot- 
land,  with  a  powerful  army,  to  waate  that  country  i 
and  was  one  of  the  witnesses  to  the  accord  made  by 
William,  King  of  ScoU,  and  King  Henry,  as  to  the 
subjection  of  that  kingdom  to  the  crown  of  Eng- 
bmd.  He  died  on  the  0th  April,  1187,  and"  waa  §» 
lyyhbsori, 

HUMPHREY  DE  BOHUN,  who  was  Earl  or 
Hbrsfobd,  and  CowaTABLa  of  England,  in  right 
of  his  mother,  if  the  Chronicles  of  Lanthohy  be  cor- 
rect. His  lordship  m.  Margaret,  daughter  of  Henry, 
Earl  of  Huntingdon,  sister  of  WilUam,  King  of 
Scots,  and  widow  of  Cooale  Petit,  Earl  of  Britanny 
and  Richmond,  and  was  «.  by  hb  son, 

HENRY  DE  BOHUN,  who  in  reality  was  the 
first  Earl  or  Hbrrvoro,  of  this  fiunUy,  being  so 
created  by  charter  of  King  John,  dated  flSth  April, 

08 


BOH 


BOH 


1109;  bat  thft  coMtablethlp  he  Inherited  tnm  Ui 
father.  HU  kmidshlp  taking  part  with  Uie  taaxons 
against  King  John,  had  his  lands  sequestered,  but 
tiiey  wererestoredat  the  signing  Qf  If  aonaCharta, 
at  Runnimede,  the  earl  being  one  of  the  twenty-five 
lords,  appointed  there,  to  enlbroe  the  ofaservance 
of  the  celelmited  charters.  His  lordship  was  su1>- 
lequently  eKoammunicated  by  the  pope,  and  he 
became  a  prisoner  at  the  battle  of  Lincotai,  in  the 
1st  year  of  Henry  III.  Hetn.  Maud,  daughter  of 
Crenft-ey  Fita-Piers,  Earl  of  Essex,  and  eventually, 
heiress  of  her  brother,  William  de  Mandevill^  laet 
Earl  of  Essex  of  that  fkmily,  (see  Mandeville,  Earls 
ef  Essex,)  by  whom  he  acquired  the  honour  qfEuex, 
tad  other  extensive  k>rdidLips«— and  had  surviving 
issue,  Humpluey,  and  Ralph,  and  a  daughter  Mar- 
gery, who  m.  Waleran,  Earl  of  Warwick.  Hb  lord- 
ship d.  ah  the  1st  Jannary,  1280,  and  was  s.  by  his 
son, 

HUMPHREY  DE  BOHUN,  as  Eakl  op  Hbrb- 
roRo,  and  possessing  the  honour  of  Essex,  through 
his  mother,  was  created  Eablofthat  couhty,  by 
King  Henry  III.,  at  whose  marriage  his  lordship 
performed  the  oAce  of  marshal  in  the  king's  house, 
and  ia  three  years  afterwards,  anno  1239,  was  one 
of  the  godfkthers  at  the  font,  for  Edward,  eldest 
son  of  the  king,  there  being  no  less  than  nine  spon- 
sors on  the  occasion,  via.,  five  temporal  and  four 
spiritual  lords.  In  1S46,  he  signed  with  the  rest  of 
the  Engttdi  peers,  a  letter  to  thepope,  remonstrate 
ing  against  tiie  oppression  of  the  Court  of  Rome, 
nnder  which  the  kingdom  at  that  period  groaned, 
and  threatening  to  ftee  themedves,  if  not  speedily 
redressed.  In  1860,  he  took  up  the  cross  and  pro- 
ceeded to  the  Holy  Land.  In  three  years  after- 
wards, his  lordship  was  present,  with  other  peers, 
when  that  formal  cune  was  denounced  in  West- 
minster Hall,  with  heUt  booXr,  and  eandle,  against 
the  violators  of  Magna  Charta  :  in  which  year,  he 
founded  the  Church  of  the  Fryert  AugtutUua,  in 
Broad-street,  within  the  city  of  London.  In  the 
great  contest  between  the  king  and  his  barons,  this 
nobleman  fought  under  the  banner  of  the  latter,  at 
Evesham,  where  he  was  taken  prisoner,  but  he  did 
not  long  continue  in  bondage,  for  we  find  him  soon 
after,  again  in  favour,  and  receiving  new  grants  ttom 
the  crown.  His  lordship  m.  first,  Mand,  dau^ter 
of  the  EUorl  of  Ewe,  by  whom  he  hadksue, 

HuMPHRST,  a  very  distinguished  person 
amongst  tiie  rebellious  barons,  in  the  reign 
of  Henry  III.  In  the  47th  of  that  monarch, 
he  was  excommunicated*  with  Sinum  de 
Montfort,  Earl  of  Leicester,  and  others,  for 
plundering  divers  churches,  and  committing 
sacrilege.  He  was  afterwards  one  of  the 
commanders  at  the  battle  of  Lewes,  where 
the  king  was  made  prisoner,  and  was  con- 
stituted Governor  of  Goodrich,  and  Win- 
chester Castles.  In  the  year  following,  he 
commanded  the  inltatry  at  the  battle  of 
Evesham,  where  he  fell  into  the  hands  of 
the  royalists*  and  was  sent  prisoner  to  Bees- 
ton  Castle  in  Cheshire,  where  he  soon  after- 
wards died,  leaving  issue  by  his  wife,  Eleanor, 
daughter  and  co-heir  of  William  de  Breause, 
of  Brecknock,  and  co-heir  of  her  mother. 
64 


Eve,  one  td  the  fire  daughtflirs  and  oo-heirri 
of  William  Marshal,  Earl  of  Pembroke. 
H  UMPIRXT.  who  sttooeeded  his  gandflither. 

Maud,  m.  to  Ansehn  MaresdhaL 

Alice,  IN.  to  -*—  Theny. 

— --,  m.  to  —  Quincy. 

HUPHREY  DE  BOHUN,  Earl  of  Hereford, 
Earl  of  Essex,  and  Lord  High  Constable.  Thi» 
nobleman  inheriting  the  high  and  daring  spirit  of 
his  predeceesoTB,  often  strenuously  opposed  the 
measures  of  the  court,  and  was  often  therefore  in 
disgrace,  but  he  appears  at  the  dose  of  his  career  to 
have  regained  rojnsl  favour,  for  we  find  him  attend- 
ing  the  king  into  Scotland,  when  that  monarch, 
(Edward  I.,)  obtained  a  great  victory  near  Rox- 
borough.  His  lordship  m.  Maud,  daughter  of  In- 
gebam  de  Fines,  and  third  sister  of  William,  Lord 
Fines,  and  dying  in  ise,  was  t.  by  his  son, 

HUMPHREY  DE  BOHUN,  as  Earl  of  Henford, 
Earl  of  Essex,  and  Lord  High  Constable^  In  tiie 
90th  Edward  L,  this  nobleman  gave  and  granted 
unto  the  king,  by  a  formal  oonvenanc^  the  inherit- 
ance of  all  his  lands  and  lordships,  as  also,  of 
his  Fjirldoms  of  Hcseford  and  Essex,  and  the 
Consfbleship  oi  England,  whidi  upon  his  mar* 
riage  with  Elisabeth  Phmtagenet,  widow  of  John, 
Earl  of  Holland,  and  daughter  of  the  king, 
were  regranted  to  him,  and  entailed  upon  his 
issue  lawftiUy  begotten  by  that  lady;  In  dcfinilt 
thereof,  and  firom  and  after  the  death  of  himself 
and  wift,  then  the  lordship  of  Phnseta,  and  certain 
other  lordships  in  Essex,  and  elsewhere,  together 
with  the  oottstableship,  should  remain  wholly  to 
the  king  and  his  heirs  for  ever.  In  the  34th  of  the 
same  reign  he  had  a  gnmt,  similariy  entailed,  of 
the  whole  territory  of  Anandale,  in  Scotland.  After 
this,  his  kndship  was  in  the  wars  of  Scodand,  and 
was  taken  prisoner,  in  the  7th  Edward  II.,  at  the 
disastrous  battle,  (to  the  English)  of  StryveUn.  But 
he  was  exdianged  fbr  the  wifJB  of  Robert  Bruce, 
who  had  long  been  captive  fai  England.  From  this 
period  we  find  him -constantly  engaged  in  the  ser- 
vice of  the  crown,  until  the  fourteenth  year  of  the 
king's  reign,  when  Edward  leaning  that  the  eari 
was  raisfaag  fbrces  in  the  marches  of  Wales,  against 
Hugh  de  Spencer  the  younger,  sent  him  a  peremp- 
tory omnmand  to  forbear,  whidi  his  lordship  not  only 
reftised  obeying,  but  forthwith  jofaied  Thomas, 
Earl  of  Lancaster,  in  the  great  insurrection  then 
Indted  by  that  nobleman,  for  the  redress  of  cer- 
tain grievances,  and  the  banishment  of  the  Spencers. 
In  this  proceeding,  however,  he  eventually  lost  his 
life,  bdng  run  through  the  body  by  a  soldier  at  the 
battle  of  BoRODOHBRinoB,  In  Yorkshire,  where 
his  party  reodved  so  signal  a  defeat  on  the  16th 
March.  1381.  The  carl  had  issuOf-five  surviving  sons, 
and  two  survivtaig  daughters,  via. 

"successors  primogeniturdy  to 
the  honours.  The  ddest  was 
made  a  Knight  of  the  Bath  in 
the  aoth  Edward  II.,  having 
by  special  command  of  Prince 
Edward,  the  robes  Ibr  that  so* 
lemnity  out  of  the  royal  ward- 
robe, as  for  an  earL 


JoHir, 

HUMPRRBY,  ' 

Edward, 


BOH 


vBOL 


WnuAM,  «  p<MOii^»  o#  giMt  emliMnce  in 
the  tarbalent  timet  in  whidi  he  lived :  and 
one  of  the  gsllmt  hsroef  of  Crs88bt.  In 
the  parliflloeBt  held  et  beodon,  in  the  11th 
Edward  II L,  upon  the  adTaacemeat  of  tl>e 
Black  Prince  to  the  dukedom  of  CaniwaU, 
he  vat  created  Earic  ov  NonYnAJfrrow, 
(17th  lfai«li,  1337,)  Ad  ftwn  that  period. 
Ids  lordihip  appears  tlie  constant  oomponion 
in  ems  of  tte  inartial-  Ehwaad.  and  his 
illustrious  son.  At  Cressey,  he  was  in  the 
aeoond  battalia  of  Uie  EngUsh  army,  and  he 
was  frequently  engaged  in  the  sulisequent 
wars  of  France  and  Scotfauid.  He  was  en- 
trusted at  ^iflUeat  periods  with  the  most 
important  ofSces,  sudi  as  ambassador  to 
treat  of  peace-  with  hostile  powen»  com- 
missioner  to  lery  ttfoope,  dte.  IkC,  nad  li* 
was  ftulBy  honoured  with  thb  OAmTsa. 
Mia  iotdsUp  m.  Eliabeth,  danghter  of  Bar- 
tholoasew  de  nadloaneie^  one  of  the  e»- 
heirs  of  her  brother,  Oiln,  and  widow  of 
Edmund  de  Mtntbam,'  by  whom  1m  had  an 
only  son, 

H  vMPHmvr.  second  Bariof  Northampton, 
of  whom  >]iefiaAer  ae  tnnmtn'  to  his 
nnde,  in  the carldomiof  Hereford  and 
Euex,  and  'canatsUesUp^  England. 
He  A  in  laiQi ' 

to  James  Bntler,  Earl  of  Or- 


Uargsret,  m.  to  Hugh,  bob  and  heir  of  Hugh 
deCovrtenayt  fl»t  Earl  of  Devonshire. 
The  eeri  waa  «.  by  hia  eldest  son,  • 

SIR  JOHN  DE  BOHUN,  R.a  at  Sari  of  Here- 
ford.  Earl  of  Essex,  and  Lord  High  Oonilabie. 
This  nobleman,  who  had  served  in  die  Scottish 
wars,  being  in  an  infirm  state  of  health,  was  allowed 
in  the  4tii  Edward  III.,  »  depute  his  brother  Bd- 
waid^to'exeoote  the  duties  of  eonMslble.  Hit  lord- 
ship M.  Bist,  Lady  AHce  Fite^dail, -daughter  of 
Edmund,  Earl  of  Arundel,  and  secondly,  Margaret, 
dangUter  of  Raipbi  Lettd  Basset  of*  Drayton,  but 
liadnDlBsaei  He  tf.  fa  1330»  When  alThis  honours 
cad  estalea  devirived  upon  hie  neatt  brother, 

HUMPHREY  DE  BOHUNv  Bferl  of  Hereford, 
EarIoffEaBe>,aBdI.A««Rlgl»Constab]ekKO.  This 
noblemaa  was  one  of  the  gnat  lords  wiu>  assisted,  in 
the  IBth  of  Edward  Ilf .,  at  the  cdebMited  feast  and 
justs  which  the  king  then  hdd  at  London  in  honour 
oftheCoaHtessofSaliiilniry,  and,  WtheSOthof  the 
sam«  taenaicfa,  ettended  thb  king  to  theieUefof 
Agnikni,  dien  besieged  tiy  the  Piwch.  His  lordsliip 
never  married,  and  dying  hi  '1361,  Ids  honours  and 
i  letwied  to Msf nephew  (seBWWiaiA,  fourth 
of  the  last  earl  but  one), 

HUM^RBY  DE  BOHUN,  saftmd  earl  of 
KotChampton,  Hun  a  nrtnoi;  and  imder  the  guar- 
diaaahlpofRtehasdEaflof  ATuhdeL  Hte  ler<Uiip 
did  not,  however.  Hang  eajlOf  ttA%  gieat  acoAtaular 
tioB  of  wealth  and  Honettr,  'for  hfe  diedto'lflTB*  in 
tihe  thirty  second  'ytfir'of  hitf  age,  letting,  by  his 
wifo  Jottae,  daughter  of  his  late  guardian,  the  Earl 
of  Aruadri,  two  daughters,  his  colieirsi  vis. 

Allanore,  m.  to  Thomas  of  Woodstock,  Duke 
of  GVMceiter,  sixth  son  of  King  Edw«  III. 


m,  to  Itairy,  Eiit  of  DMby,  (eon  df 

Joknef  Oeimt,  Dnke  of  Lancaster,)  whoaf- 

terwavds  ascanded  the  throne  as  HsmiT  lY. 

Upon  the  deoeese  of  this  nobieeaan,  the  EAmi> 

DOM  ow  HMtBPomD  ■Knma»  t  but  hit  son  In- 

bwv  the  Earl  of  Dai^,  was  eubsequentiy  created 

(in  1307)  Dims  ov  HaMyenn,  prior,-  of  course, 

to  his  becoming  Kiko  or  Enoulitd,  while  tiie 

lordships  of  BMex  and  Nerthanfptan,  addth*  cow- 

eTABLneBip,  foB  to  his  other  son-in-law,  the  Duke 

of  Gloucester,  and  the  EAai.i>oiia  of  Eaanz  and 

NonTUAMPioir  encAiin  nxTurcT.  ^ 

Arms->^  a  bend  ar.  between  two  cottipcs  and 
six  lions  rulpant  or.      •,       /  i.  if  7    ^   r 

BOLEYNE  —  VISCOUNT  ROCH- 
FORD,  EARL  OF  WILT. 
SHIRE,  AND  EARL  OF 
ORMONDE. 


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18th  June,  Ifias. 
SthDec,  IMft 


XCncagc* 


The  family  of  Bnllen,  or  Botoyde,  is  said  to  have 
been  of  andent  date  in  the  oodnty  of  Norfolk :  we 
shall,  however,  begin  with 

SIR  GEOFFREY  BOLEYNE,  who,  setUing  in 
the  city  of  London,  attained  great  opulence  as  a 
mercer  there,  and  had  the  honour  of  UMing  the 
Lord  Maytn**  chair  In  the  year  1458,  when  he  was 
made  a  knigitt  beciielor.  He  ei.  Anne^  eldest 
daughter  and  co-heiress  of  Thomas  Lord  Noo  and 
Hasfingt,'by  wHom  he  baui  sevend  chUdrta,  of 
which  the  eldest  son, 

SIR  WILLIAM  BOLEYNE,  settled  at  BMck- 
ling,  in  Norfolk,  and  m.  Matgaret,  youn^t  daugh- 
ter  of  Thomas  Buder;  seventh  Earl  of  Otmondr,  by 
whom,  with  other  issue,  he  left,  at  Us  decease  in 
U06,  a  son' and  heir, 

SIR  THOMAS  BOLEYNE.  This  genUeroan 
took  up  arms  in  the  ISth  of  Henry  VII.,  with  his 
fotherandotherpetsoiis  of  rank,  against  the  Cor- 
nish rebdst  and  in  the  beginning  of  tlie  nexC  reign, 
beinir  <">•  ^  the  knights  of  the  klng^  body,  was 
constituted  gofemoi  of  the  Castle  of  Norwich, 
Jointly  frith  Star  Henry  Wyatt,  KnL,  mastte  of  the 
king's  Jewri'hous^  In  the  next  year  he  was  one  of 
tlw  ambassadors  to  the  Emperor  Mflxtmilian,  touch- 
ing- a  wa^  with  Franeei  and  a  fowyeatfs  afterwarda 
was  appointed  sole  constable  of  Norwich  CaMle. 
In  the  11th  of  the  same  rdgn,  being  ambassador 
to  France,  he  ananged  the  pteliminarise  for 
the  fomeus  interview  between  lUs  royal  mastA 
and  Francis  I.,  between  OulsDea  and  Ardres.  In 
three  years  afterwards  he  was  ambassador  to  thd 
court  of  Spain,  and  was  Advanced  to  the  peerage  on 
the  18th  June,  1325,  in  the  dignity  of  ViBcouirr 
RocHvoao.  In  1987  his  lOTdship  was  one  of  the 
commissioners  to  invest  the  king  of  Frands  with 
the  order  of  the  Garter.  In  15S9  he  subscribed  the 
articles  then  exhltrited  against  Cardinal  Woolseyt 
and  upon  the  8th  ot  December,  in  the  same  year, 
being  then  a  knight  of  the  Garter,  he  was  advanced 
K  « 


BOL 


BON 


to  the  EAMLDOira  of  Wiltsbxmb  and  Oewoitdb— 
the  former  to  the  heir*  of  his  body,  and  the  latter 
to  hein  generaL  In  the  January  following,  hia 
lordahip  was  nominated  lord  privy-seal,  soon 
alter  which  he  was  again  accredited  to  the  court 
of  Spain.  The  earl  m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Howard,  Duke  of  Norfolk,  and  had 
issue, 

OxoaoB,  who  was  summoned  to  parliament  in 
the  life-time  of  his  father,  as  Vibcount 
Rochfohjd.  This  nobleman  was  deputed 
by  King  Henry  to  announce  his  private 
marriage  with  his  lordships  sister,  Anne 
Boleyne,  to  the  king  of  France,  and  to  so- 
licit that  monarch's  advice  regarding  its 
public  avowaL  In  two  years  afterwards  he 
was  made  constable  of  Dover  Castle,  and 
lord  warden  of  the  Cinque-Ports.  Again  the 
viscount  was  accredited  to  Versailles,  in  the 
87th  of  his  brother-in-law's  reign,  touching 
a  projected  union  between  the  king's  infant 
daughter,  Eliaabeth,  and  one  of  the  sons  of 
France.  His  lordship,  who  had  risen  with 
his  sister,  shaded  in  the  downfal  of  that 
unhappy  lady— was  committed  to  the  Tower 
on  the  8d  of  May,  isas,  and  arraigned  and 
bdieaded  on  the  17th  of  the  same  month. 
He  m.  Jane,  daughter  of  Sir  Henry  Parker, 
(ddest  son  and  heir  of  Henry,  Lord  Morley,) 
an  inftmous  woman,  who  continued  a  lady 
of  the  bed-chamber  to  the  three  succeeding 
queens,  but  eventually  shared  the  fate  of 
Cathedne  Howard*  His  lordship  had  no 
Issue.  He  was  attainted  soon  after  his  exe- 
cutioo. 
AiTNS,  created  BlARCHiONBaa  or  Pbm- 
BBOKB  on  the  1st  Sept.  1598,  married  in 
the  following  year  to  King  Henry  VIII., 
and  thus  became  guaaif  coiraoBT  of 
Ebolaitd.  Beheaded  in  1536,  leaving  an 
only  child, 

E&isabbth,  who  ascended  the  English 
throne,  as  qubbb  rbobant,  at  the 
decease  of  her  half-sister,   Mary,   on 
the  17th  November,  1558L 
Mary,  m.  to  William  Carey,  Esq.,  whose  son 
and  heir  was  created,  in  1558,  Baron  Huns- 
don,  (see  Carey,  Lord  Hunsdon). 
The  Eferl  of  Wiltshire  and  Ormonde  died  in  two 
years  after  his  unhappy  son  and  daugh^,  when 
the  ViacouBTT  of    Rochpobd    and   Eabi^dom 
or   Wix.TaRiBB  became  bztimct,   that  of  Oa- 
MOBDB  being  to  heirs  general,  fell  into  abeyance 
between  the  representatives   of  his  daughters— 
*'  On  the  death  of  Queen  Elisabeth,**  says  Nicolas, 
**  the  only  issue  of  Anne  Boleyn,  the  ^est  co- 
heir,  became    bxtiitct,    when    it    is    presumed 
that  the  abeyance,    agreeable  to  the  limitation, 
terminated,    and    consequently    that  dignity  re- 
verted to  the   representative  of  the   other    co- 
heir, the  hdr  general  of  whom  is  the   present 
Earl  of  Berkdey,  and  under  the  said  limitation, 
must  probably  be  considered  as  Eabl  or  0»- 

MOND.** 

Abmb.— -Ar.  a  ehev.  gules,  beCw.  three  buUs'  heads, 
sa.  armed  or. 


BOLEYNE->MARCHIONES8  OF 
PEMBROKE. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  1st  September,  1592. 

ICittcagc. 

This  dignity  was  conferied  by  King  Henry  VIII. 
upon  hu  unhappy  Queen  Anne  Boleyne,  prior  to 
his  nuurriage.  For  that  unfortunate  lady's  fsmily 
(see  Boleyne,  Earl  of  Wiltshire  and  Ormonde). 

BONVILE— BARON  BONVILE. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  SSrd  S^tember,  1449» 
aoth  Henry  VL 

Xintagc. 

In  the  4th  of  Richard  IL, 

SIR  WILLIAM  DE  BONVILE  was  constituted 
sheriff  of  the  counties  of  Somerset  and  Dorset, 
which  trust  he  also  held  the  next  ensuing  year :  and 
in  the  13th  of  the  same  reign  was  sheriff  of  Devon- 
shire;   He  d,  in  1406,  and  was  «.  by  his  grandson, 

SIR  WILLIAM  BONVILE,  who.  in  the  5th  of 
Henry  V.,  in  the  expedition  then  made  into  France, 
was  of  the  retinue  of  Thomas,  Duke  of  Clarence, 
the  king's  brother.  In  the  1st  year  of  Henry  VI. 
Sir  William  was  appointed  sheriff  of  l)evon^re, 
and  being  afterwards  engaged  in  the  French  wars, 
wherein  he  deported  himadf  with  great  valour,  he 
was  constituted  seneschal  of  the  duchy  of  Aqui- 
taine,  and  had  summons  to  parliament  as  a  babon, 
Arom.83rd  September,  1449,  to  30th  July,  1460,  under 
the  title  of  LoBD  Bobvilb,  q^  Chutim.  His  lord- 
ship subsequently  espousing  the  interests  of  the 
house  of  York,  was  one  of  those  to  whom  the 
custody  of  King  Henry  VI.  was  committed  after  the 
battle  of  Northampton,  but  the  tide  of  fortune 
turning,  his  lordship  lost  his  head,  with  the  Duke 
of  Exeter  and  the  Earl  of  Devon,  after  the  second 
battle  of  St.  Albans.     Lord  Bonvile  had  an  only 


WuLiAM,  who  died  before  the  baron,  having 
m.  Elisabeth  de  Harrington,  daughter  and 
heir  of  William,  Lwd  Harrington,  and  leav- 
ing an  only  child, 

WiLiLiiAM,  commonly  odled  Lord  Har- 
rington, who  m.  Lady  Catherine  Nevil, 
daughter  of  Richard,  Earl  of  Salisbury, 
and  had  an  only  daughter,   Cbcfly. 
This  William  was  shun  at  the  battle  of 
Wakefidd,  fighting  under  the  banner 
of  the  house  of  York,   in  the  90th 
Henry  VL 
Lord  BonvUe  was  succeeded,  at  his  decease,  by  hia 
great  grand-daughter,  the  above  mentioned  Cbcily 
BomriiiB,  who  married,  first,  Thomas  Grey,  Mar- 
quess of  Dorset,   and  secondly,  Henry  Stafford; 
Earl  <rf  Wiltshire,  but  had  issue  by  the  former  only. 
Through  this  union  the  BABOiriBe  or  Boitvilb 
AND  Habbiitoton  Were  conveyed  to,  and  continued 
in  the  famUy  of  Grey,  until  the  attainder  of  Henry 
Grey.  Duke  of  Suffolk,    (grandson  of  the  s^d 
Thomas  and  Cecily.)  in  1554,  when,  with  his  grace's 
other  honours,  those  dignities  BzriBSD. 
ABMa^-fia.  six  mullets  ar.  pierced  gu. 


^oo 


BOO 


BOOTH— BARONS  DELAMERE,  OF 
DUNHAM  MASSIE,IN  THE 
COUNTY  OF  CHESTER, 
AND  EARLS  OF  WAR- 
RINGTON. 

i^»i«»r«<Hi,s  i7tji  April,  1680. 


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Xineagc. 


ThefiunllyofBotiTHWMofgimtvapale  md  ho- 
aoacalde  station  in  the  eountlet  of  Lancaster  and 
Cheater  ftn-  feveral  centuries  befine  it  arrived  to  the 
dignity  of  the  peerage. 

ADAlk  DE  BOOTHS,  so  called  fhnn  his  place  of 
abode  in  Lancashire,  was  flsther  of 

WILLIAM  OE  BOOTHS,  Uving  in  187A,  who  m. 
Sibd,  daughter  of  Sir  Ralph  deBereton,  Knt,and 
was  ».  by  his  son* 
THOMAS  DE  BOOTHS,  to  whom  «.  his  son. 
JOHN  DE  BOVTHB,  living  temp.  Edw.  IL, 
who  m.  Agnes,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Sir  Gilbert 
de  Barton,  and  was  «.  by  his  scm. 

SIR  THOMAS  BOUTH,ofBarton,caUed"  To- 
nkin of  the  Bootbes,'*  m.  Ellen,  daughter  of  Tho- 
mas de  Workesley,  Esq.,  of  Workesley,  now  Wor»- 
ley,  in  the  county  of  Lancaster,  and  had  Issue, 
JoHX,  his  successor. 
Henry— left  a  son,  John. 
Thoma»-4eft  a  son,  Robert. 
Alioe,  m.  first,  to  William  Leigh,  Esq.,  of  Ba- 
guley,  in  the  county  of   Chester,  and  se- 
condly, to  Thomas  Ouncalf,  Esq.,  of  Fox- 
wist. 
Catherine. 


Anne,  m.  to  Sir  Edward  Weeyer. 
Sir  Thomas  was  «.  by  his  ddest  son, 

JOHN  BOUTH,  Esq.,  of  Barton,  who  IlTed  in 
the  reigns  of  Richard  II.  and  Henry  IV.,  and  m. 
first,  Joan,  daughter  of  Sir  Henry  Traflbrd,  of  Traf- 
fbrd,  in  the  county  of  Lancaster,  by  whom  he  had 


Thomas,  who  reeeiTed  the  honour  of  knight- 
hood in  the  14th  Henry  VL  Sir  Thomas  m. 
a  daughter  of  Sir  George  Carrington,  Knt., 

and  widow  of Weever,  and  had  issue. 

Sir  John  Bouth,  KnL,  to  whom  King  Hen. 
VII.  granted  an  annuity  of  10  marks 
sterling  for  his  good  services.  Sir  John 
Ml  at  modden-Field  fai  the  ffth  of 
Henry  VIII.,  and  his  male  line  ceased 
with  his  great-grandson,  Johk,  who 
left,  at  his  decease,  three  daughters, 
co-hrircsscs. 
Robert,  of  whom  presently,  as  ancestor  of  the 

Lords  Delamere. 
WUUam,  Archbbhop  ot  York. 
Richard,  of  Striddand,  near  Ipswich,  in  the 

county  of  Suflblk. 
Roger,  fR.   Catherine,  daughter  and   heiress 
of  Ralph  Hatton,  Esq.,  of  Mollington,  near 
Chester,  and  had  issue, 

Robert  Booth,  Esq.,  of  Sawky,  in  the 
county  of  Derby. 


Isabel,  m.  to  Ralph  Neril,  third  earl  of 

Westmoreland,  and  had  issue, 

Anira,  who  m.  WllUam  Lord  Co- 

niers. 

John,  Bishop  of  Exeter,  anno  14fi5 1  buried  in 

the  church  of  St.  Clement  Danes,  London, 

Ralph,  Axchdeaoon  <tf  York. 

Margery,  m.  to  John  Byron,  Esq.,  of  Clayton, 

in  the  county  of  Lancaster. 
Joan,  m.  first,    to  Thomas  Sherbonie,  Esq., 
Stanhurst,  in  the  county  of  Lancaster,  and 
secondly,  to  Sir  Thomas  Sudworth,  Knt 
Catherine,  m.  to  Thomas  Ratcliflb,  Esq.,  of 

Wimmorley. 
AlleCf  m.  to  Sir  Robert  Clifton,  Knt.,  of  Clif- 
ton, in  the  county  of  Nottingham. 
Mr.  Booth  married  a  second  wife,  (but  the  lady's 
name  is  not  known,)  and  left  a  son, 

Laurence  Booth,  who  was  chancellor  of  the 
university  of  Cambridge,  bishop  of  Dur- 
ham, and  afterwards  archbishop  of  Yoik. 
His  lordship  was  appointed  keeper  of  the 
privy-seal  in  the  3Sth  of  Henry  VL,  and 
I.0110   CBAivcaLLOR  OF  ENOLAxn  In  the 
lath  of  Edward  IV.    Hed.inl480L 
The  line  Sir  Thomas  Bouth,  the  ddest  son,  termi- 
nating, as  stated  above,  in  co-hdrcsscs,  we  proceed 
with  the  second  son, 

SIR  ROBERT  BOUTH,  Knt,  of  Dunham 
Massie,  in  the  county  of  Chester,  which  seat  he  ac- 
quired by  his  wife.  Douce,  daughter  and  co-heiress 
of  Sir  William  Venables,  of  Bollen.  in  the  same 
shire  i  which  Sir  William  was  son  of  Joane,  daugh- 
ter and  heir  of  Hamon  Fitton,  who  was  grandson  of 
John  Fitton,  of  Bollen,  by  Clcelie  his  wife,  eldest 
daughter  and  co-heir  of  Sir  Hamon  de  Massie,  the 
sixth  and  last  Baron  of  Dunham  Maasie,  one  of  fbB 
eight  feudal  lordships  instituted  by  Hugh  Lupus, 
Earl  of  Chester,  in  the  time  of  the  Conqueror.  By 
this  lady  Sir  Robert  Bouth  had  no  less  than  nine 
sons  and  five  daughters.    Of  the  former, 

William,  the  eldest,  inherited  the  fortune. 

Phillip,  the  youngest,  m. ^  daughter  and 

heiress  of  Sir  William  Hampton,  of  Wei* 
Ungton,  Knt 
The  daughters  were, 

Lucy,  m.  to  WiUlam   Chauntrell,   Esq.,  of 

the  Bache,  near  Chester. 
Ellen,  m.  to  Robert  Leigh,  Esq.,  of  Adlington, 

in  the  county  of  Chester. 
Alice,  m,  to  Robert  Hesketh,  Esq.,  of  Ruf- 
ford,  in  the  county  of  Lancaster,  anceator 
of  the  Baronets  Hesketh. 
Joan,  m.  to  Hamond  Massie,  Esq.,  (rf  Rlxtoo, 

Lancashirei 
Margery,  m,  to  James  Scarebrich,  Esq. 
Sir  Robert  mi  his  eldest  son  had  a  grant  of  the 
office  of  sherlif  of  Cheshire  for  both  their  lives, 
and  to  the  survivor  of  them,  by  patent,  dated  at 
Chester  on   the  8th    of   March,   in  the  Slst  of 
Henry  VI.,  with  all  fees  appertaining  to  the  said 
office,  and  to  execute  its  duties,  either  personally  or 
by  deputy.    Sir  Robert  died  on  the  16th  Septem- 
ber, 1400,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 
SIR  WILLAM  BOTHE,  who  m.  Maud,  daugh- 

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t«rof  J<dm  DattoD,  Efq.*  of  Dutton,  in  the  county 
of  Chester,  by  whom  he  had  Are  toiiB  and  nine 
daughtos,  wUdi  daughters  were, 

Douoe,  m.  to  Thomaa  Leigh,  Eiq.,  of  West 

Hall^  .in  the  county  of  Chester. 
Aqne,  m.  first,  to  Joh|i  Leigh,  Esq.,  of  Booths, 
ClMshire,  and  secondly,  to  Geofftry  Sha- 
kerly,  of  Shakerly,  in  the  county  of  Lancas- 
ter. 
Ellen,  m.  to  Sir  John>Leig}>,  of  Bitfuley,  In  the 

county  of  Chester. 
Margery,  m.  John  Uy4«>  EsQ-i  of  Haighton, 
.  Lanouhire; 
Alice,  m.  to  John  Asliley,  l^iuitf  of  Ashley,  in 

the  county  of  Chester, 
^liiaheth,  m.  to  Thoniai  Fitto«,  Elsq.,  of  Pow- 

nail,  Cheshire. 
Joane.  m.  to  Willkm  UoU,  Esq. 

Catherines 
Sir  William  d.  in  U76,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest 
>on» 

OEOROE  BOTHE,  Esq.  This  gentleman  m. 
Calhertne,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Robert  Mount- 
fort,  .Es^,  of  BeMTotf^  in  the  county  of  Stallbrd,  and 
of  Monkspath,  Warwiduhire,  by  whom  he  acquired 
considerable  estate^in  the  countiesof  Salop,  Stailbnt, 
Warwick.  Leicester,  Wilts,  Somanet,  Cornwall, 
and  Hereford,  and  had  issue, 
WiLviAMt .  his  successor, 

.    Roger. 

Alice,  m.  to  William  Maasie,  Esq.,  of  Denfield, 

in  the  cpunty  of  Chester. 
£llen>  m.  first,  to  Thomas  Vaudrey,  Esq.,  and 
secondly,  to  — —  Traflbrd,  Esq.,  of  Bridge- 
Traflbrd. 
Mr.  Bothe  d.  in  1483.  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest 

SOOa 

SIQl  WILLIAM  BOTHE,  Knto  who  m.  first, 
Margareft,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Sir  Thomas  Ashe- 
Um,  of  Ashten-under-Lyne,  in  the  county  sMT  Lan- 
caster, and  of  his  wife  Anne>  daughter  of  Ralph, 
Lord  Oivyilock,  by  which  alliance  a  great  accession 
of  property  came  to  the  liunily  of  Bother  He  had 
issue  of  this  marriage, 

George,  his  successor. 
,     .John,  m.  to  Margery,  daughter  of  Sir  Piers 
Dutton,  of  Dutton,  in  the  county  of  Ches- 
ter, and  had  two  sons,  William  and  Ro* 
bert. 
Sir  Willifum  m.  aecondly,  EQen,  daughter  of  Sbr 
John  Montgomery,  of  Trewly»  in  the  county  of 
Staflbrd,  and  had 

William,  m.  to ,  daughter  of Smith, 

Esq.,  oi  the  coimty  of  Leicester. 
Hammet,  m.  to  -— i  dau^ter  of  Humphrey 
Newton,  Esq. 
,  Edward,  m.  to  Mary,  dau^ter  and  co-heir  of 
Roger  Knutsford,  Esq.,  of  Twcmlow,  In  the 
county  of  Chester,  from,  whom  descended 
ihe  Booths  of  Twemkm  Hall,  still  ex- 
tant. 
Henry,  >■«.  to  — ^,  daughter  of  — —  Bowdon, 

Esq.,  of  the  eounty  of  Chester. 
Andmr. 


Jane,  m.  first,  to  Hugh,  son  and  heir  of  Sir 
Piers  Dutton,  of  Duttoo,  in  the  county  of 
Chester,  and  aecondly,  to  Thomas  Holford, 
Esq.,  of  Holford,  In  the  same  shiie. 
Dorothy,  m.  to  Edward,  son  and  heir  of  Lau- 
rence Warren,  Esq.,  of  Pointon,   in  the 
county  of  Chester. 
Anne,  m.  to  Sir  William  Biereton,  of  Brare- 
ton,  Cheshire^ 
Sir  William  d.  9th  November,  in  the  11th  Hen.  VIII., 
and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

GEORGE  BOTHE.  Eaq.»  who  in.  Blbabeth, 
daughter  of  Sir  Thomas  Botder,  of  Beausey,  near 
Warrington,  and  had  issue, 
OnoRGB,  his  successor. 

John,  m.  to  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Joh  Dut. 
ton,  Esq.,  and  left  Ibiir  sonst . 
William. 
Robert. 
Edmund. 
Henry. 
Rotert.  In  holy  orders,  rector  of  Thomton-ln- 

tbe*MQon*  In  the  county  of  Chester. 
EUen,  m.  to  John  Carrington,  Esq.,  of  Car- 

rington. 
Atuie«  m.  to  William  Maasie,  Esq.,  of  Poping- 

tOB. 

Margaret,  m.  to  Sir  William  Davevport,  of 

BromhalL 
Elisabeth,  m.  RidMod  Sutton,  Esq.,  of  Sutton, 

near  Macclesfield. 
DoiotlQr,  m,.  to  BobRt  Taltoo*  Esq.*  of  Wil- 

thenshaw. 
Alice,  m.  to  Peter  Daniel*  E»%.,  of  Over-Tab- 

ley. 
Cedlie,  d.  unmarried. 
Mr.  Bothe  died  in  the  SM  Henry  VIIL,  and  was  ». 
by  his  eldest  spo. 

GEORGE  BOTHE,  Esq.,  who  left,  at  his  de- 
cease in  1540,  e  eon  and  three  daughters,  via. 
William,  his  successor. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Wittiam  ChauntreU,  Esq.,  of 

the  Bache,.  near  Chnter. 
Mary,  m.  to  Handle  Davenport,  Esq.,  of  Hen- 
bury,  in  the  county  of  Chester. 
Asni^  nu  to.  ^-i-  Wenfcwoith.  Esq.,  of  the 
county  of  York. 
To  this  George  Bothe^  Queen  Jane  Seymour  com- 
manded a  letter  to  be  written,  acquainting  him  with 
theUrth  of  a  son,  (aflerwards  King  £dward  VL,) 
bearing  date,  at  Hampton  Court,  the  very  day  of 
her  delivery,  October  Uth,  SHh  Henry  VIIL.  in 


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Bt  tbb  QuBur. 
Truaty  and  weUieioved,  we  grete  youe  welL 
And  for  asmudie  as  by  the  inestiwable  goodness  and 
grace  of  Almighty  God,  we  be  delivered  and  brought 
in  childbed  of  a  prince,  oonadved  In  most  lawftil 
matrimonle  between  my  Lord  the  King's  Ma)estye 
and  us,  doubting  not  but  that  for  the  love  and  af- 
fection which  yrbeere  unto  ue,  and  to  the  commyn 
wealth  of  this  reahncb  the  knowledge  .thereof  shud 
be  Joy6us  and  glad  tidings  unto  youe,  we  have 
thought  fit  to  certifie  youe  of  the  samsk  Tothintent 
ye  might  not  only  rendrounto  God  condigne  thanka 
and  praise  for  soo  grea^a  tKnefit,  but  also  pray  fbr 


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tbm  kmg  cDntaHitnc^  ttd  pwwrvtioii  of  Um  mom 
in  tUsUcf,  to  the  bonor  of  God,  J07  and  pla- 
of  my  Lord  the  Kiqg,  and  vm,  and  the  univcnall 
quiet*  and  tranquSHfty  of  thii  hcde  icahne. 
UKlea  <»ar  aipiet,  at. my  1akA*»  manor  of 
Hampton-Ckvt,  tb0jcii..daiyQfOctolMr. 


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Mr. 


#«  GflOife  fiotfa'.  Siq.'* 
Bathe  had  alao  the  hooonr  of  a  letter  trata 
t,  dated  at  WcMmfaiater*  10th 
Fehnurjb  la  the  Slthyearafhia  reign,  concemii^^ 
fbnaei  to  be  taieed  to  war  afainat  the  Scotch.  Mr. 
0Qfthewaa«.  by.hiaaan, 

WILLIAM  BOTHE,  or  BOUTHB.  who,  hafa« 
than h«t<hi«e|«an  old,  was  hi  ward  tothekhiff. 
Heaacatradthehononrof  kaichlhD0dinU7&  Sir 
WHliam  m,  EUaafaeth,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Wat- 
burtoiu  ofWarburtoaaad  Arley,  in  the  county  of 

and  nix  danghfa.    Of 


Piaifltwich. 
hadiero- 


OmoMQM  avaBeadadhia  Ihther. 
JohiW  Jat'toi— — »  dam^tcr  of  « 

of  Huhne,  neer  Maacfaaatcr 
•raldiildren. 
Ridiard,  m,  — •,  daughter  and  heiren  of  — - 

UmuAe,  Eiq.,  of  OogrimUr-  1 

The  married  dau^ten  ware,  - 

Sliaahethj  m.  first*  to  William  Baaaet,  Emi.,  of 

Eaton,  in  the  county  of  Denbigh,  and  le- 

condly,  to  — >  Wabh,  Etq.,  of ,  in 


I>orothy,  m.  to  Ralph  Bonniagtop,  Eaq*,  of 
Barrowoota^  in  the  county  of  Derby. 

Alic^  m.  to Panton,  Esq. 

Suaan,  m.  first,  to  Sir  Edward  Warren,  of 
Pointoo,  in  the  county  of  Gbestar,  apd  se- 
condly, to  John  Fatfeon,  £fl<|„  of  the  city  of 


Sir  William  d,  on  the  28th  Nov^  U79>  and  nas  t.  by 
Ua  eldest  eon, 
SIR  GEORQE  BOOTH,  whose extsnaiye  estates 
(pbwad  by  Queen  Elixabeth  during  his  minority, 

the  guardianship  of  her  fiivourlte,  Robert 
Dudley,  Earl  of  Leinster.  In  the  latter  end  of  her 
BB^^ty'a  rdgn.  Sir  Genga  received  the  honour  of 
knighthood,  and  upon  the  institution  of  the  order 
of  banmet,  be  was  amongst  tha  first  raised  to  tbi^t 
digalty»on  the  ffid  May,  16U.  Sir  Geosge  Bootb, 
■k  first,  his  seoond  cousin,  Jane,  only  daughterr  an4 
haiaasaof  John  Carrington,  Esq.,.  of  Cartiagton*  in 
thaoouBty  of  Chester.  By  whom  he  had  no  issue, 
Bor  did  ha  Hve  long  with  bar,  yet  he  Inheritad  4ha 
lands  o£  bar  fttfaer;  the  same  being  strictly  so 
settlad  by  that  gentleman,  before  the  marriage  of 
hie  daughter,  to  descend  to  the  family  ot  Bootlw  in 
which  sattleoMnt,  among  other  provisions,  is.  one 
particularly  worthy  of  notice:  «*  Tbat  if  she,  tlie 
aaid  Janc^  should,  after  marriage,  be  detected  of 
incontineacy,tbe  estate  should  remain  to  the  fiunily 
of  Booth."  Alter  the  deceaae  of  this  huly.  Sir  Wil< 
Uam  m.  Catherine,  daughter  of  Chief  Justice  Ander- 
ion,  of  the  Couijt  of  Common  Pleas,  and  had  sevoral 
diildren,  of  whom, 

Wii.X'tAJW  the  eldest  son,  fa.  Vere,  seoond 

daughter,  and  co-heir  of  Sir  Thomas  Egen> 
•     4fln»  Vlflcount  BmdUey,  I^oa*  CjiajicbuiO» 


OF  Eiffai^iTD,  and  pradarsailng  Us  fisther, 
(98th  April,  1«».)  left  issue, 
Gaoaoa*  of  whom  presently,  as  auccessor 

to  the  baronetcy. 

-Katbaniel,  m.  Anna,  ihird  daughter  of 

Thomea  RavenaorafI,  Esq.,  of  Bretton, 

'    intbe-eountyof  niat»whoee  Une  tet^ 

niBated  with  his  great^grand-daughter, 

Manaah  VesaBooth, in  I7H. 

Catherine,  «■»  to  Sir  John  Jackaon,  of 

in  tlie  eounty  of  York, 


John,  the  youagaat  son,  hairing  actively  es- 
poused the  cause  of  Klag  Charles  II.,  re- 
ceifad  the  honour  of  knighthood  after  the 
restoiation,  anno  1600.  Sir  John  m.  Dorothy, 
ilaughfeer  of  Sir  Anthony  St.  John,  younger 
son  of  Oliver,  Cari  of  BoUngbroke,  and  left 

.   sevend  children  at  his  deoaesa,  in  1698. 

Alice,  m.  George  Vernon,  Esq.,  of  Hoalinton, 
in  thaoaunty  of  Chaster; 

Susan,  aw  Sir  William  Brseeton,  of  HandAvth* 

•  in  tiie  county  of  Chester,  baronet. 

Elixabeth,  ta.  to  Richard,  Lonl  Byron,  (hie 
loadahipls  aeeond  wife,)  and  died  without 


Sir  George  Booth,  who  eervad  theofllceof  sheriff 
of  Cheshire  twice,  and  as  often  of  Lancashire,  A  on 
the  24th  October,  iaBB,and  was  a.  in  hia  title  and 
estates  by  his  grttidson  (whose  guardianship  he  had 
purchased  fhan  the  crown  for  £4000l), 

SIR  GEORGE  BOOTH,  seoond  baronet.    This 
gentleman  was  oonuaitted  prisoner  to  the  Tower  of 
London  during  'the  usurpati9B,  for. his  aeei  in  the 
royal  cause,  and  his  eflbrta  to  restore  the  exiled 
prince.    He  had  the  pleesure  eventually,  however, 
of  being  diosen  one  of  tint  twelve  members  deputed 
fay  the  House  of  Commons,  in  May,  16B0,  to  carry 
to  that  prince  the  ncal  of  the  house,  in  answer 
to  his  m^eatyfs  letters.  And  on  Monday,  Uth  July, 
1060,  the  House  of  Commons  ordsrad*  *'  that  the 
sum  of  £lO,QO(k  be  conliviad  on  Sir  George*  as  a 
mark  of  rsm»ect  for  his  eminent  ssrvices,  and  great 
suflMijgs  in  the  public  causei**  which  orda  obtained 
theaanctioQ  la  the  Uousaof  Lords  ^  tha- ensuing 
month.    In  addition  to  which  honouaMa  grant,  the 
baronet  was  elevated  to  the  |ieiiii  sfpsb  by  letters  pa- 
tent, dated  90th  April,  1061,  as  Bauom  DsvikMaaa, 
Hf,DunlkamMasH0s  <a  the  couniif  ^  Ghastfer.    His 
lordship  at.  first.  Lady  Carolina  Clinton,  daughter, 
and  coheir  of  Theophitus,  Earl  of  Lincoln,  by 
whom  ha  had  i^i  only  daughter*  Vera,  who  d.  un- 
marriad»  in  1717>  in  the  74th  year  of  her  age^    He  m. 
secondly.  Lady  Elisabeth  Grey,  eldest  daughter  of 
Henry,  Earl  of  StamiiDgrd,  by  .whom  he  had  -seven 
sons  and  five  daughters,  ot  whom, 
HaKAT,  succeeded  to  the  titles 
George,  m.  Lucy,  daughter  of  the  Right  Hon. 
Robert  Robertas,  Viscount   Bodmin,    son 
and  heir  of  John,  Earl  of  Radnor,  by  whom 
he  had- an  .only  son,  Henry,  who  d.  unmar- 
ried. 
Robert,  in  holy  orders.  Archdeacon  of  Durham, 
in  1081,  and  Dean  of  Bristol,  in  1708.    Thb 
gentlaaum  m.  first,  Ann»  daughter  of  Sir 
Robert  Booth,  chief  Justice  of  the  Court  of 


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Common  Pleat  in  IieUmd,  by  whom  he  had 

a  ion,  Henry,  who  died  «.  j>.  He  m.  Mcondly, 

Mary,  daughter  of  Thomai  Hales,  Esq.,  of 

Howlets,  in  the  county  of  Kent,  and  had 

fire  sons  and  four  daughters,  of  whom, 

Nathanibl,  the  fourth,  and  only  tur- 

viTing,  suooeeded  to  the  Barony  op 

Dblambrx,  hut  of  him  hereafter. 

Mary,  m.  to  Charles  Thrupp«  £sq^  of  the 

dty  of  London. 
Vere,  m.  to  Geoige  Tyndale,  Esq.,  of 
Bathford,  Somersetshire,  and  had  a  son, 
George  Booth  Tyndale,  Esq.,  Barris- 
ter at  Law. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Edward,  Earl  of  Conway. 
Diana,  m.  to  Sir  Ralph  Delavall,  Bart.,  of 
Scaton-Ddavall,  in  the  county  of  Northum- 
berland, and  after  his  decease  to  Sir  Edward 
Blaclcet,  Bart,  of  Newby,  in  the  county  of 
York. 
George,  first  Lord  Delamere,  d.  on  the  8th  August, 
1684,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  surviving  son, 

HENRY  BOOTH,  second  baron.     This  noble- 
man, who  had  been  committed  to  the  Tower  prior  to 
the  death  of  King  Charles  IL,  was  brought  to  trial, 
in  the  reign  of  King  James,  for  high  treason,  before 
the    Lord    Chancellor  Jelfteys,   constituted   high 
steward  on  the  occasion,  and  a  select  number  (87) 
of  peers,  but  was  most  honourably  acquitted.    After 
which  he  lived  in  retirement  imtil  the  revolution, 
when  espousing  the  cause  of  the  Prince  of  Orange, 
he  was  deputed  with  the  Marquess  of  Halifkx,  and  the 
Earl  of  Shrewsbury,  upon  the  arrival  of  the  prince  at 
Windsor,  17th  December,  1688,  to  bear  a  message  to 
the  fallen  monarch,  requiring  that  his  m^esty  should 
remove  from  WhitehalL    An  office  which  his  lord- 
ship executed  so  delicately  that  King  James  was 
afterwards  heard  to  remark ;  **  that  the  Lord  Dela- 
mere, whom  he  had  used  ill,  treated  him  with  much 
more  regard,  than  those  to  whom  he  had  been  kind, 
and  firom  whom  he  might  better  have  expected  it.** 
His  lordship  was  afterwards  swom  of  the  privy 
council,  and  appointed  chancellor  of  the  exdiequer, 
an  office  which  he  held  but  one  year ;  when,  upon 
hb  retirement,  he  was  advanced  to  the  dignity  of 
Earl  or  Warrinotoit,  by  letters  patent,  dated 
17th  April,  I6B0l    The  earl  m.  Mary,  daughter,  and 
sole  heiress  of  Sir  James  Langham,  Bart,  of  Cottes- 
brooke,  in  the  county  of  Northampton,  by  whom  he 
had  four  sons  and  two  daughters,  which  latter  were, 
EUxabeth,  m.  to  Thomas  Delves,  Esq.,  son  and 
heir  apparent  of  Sir  Thomas  Ddves,  Bart, 
of  Dodington,  in  the  county  of  Chester,  and 
died  «.  p.  in  1607> 
Mary,  m.  to  the  Hon.  Ruasd  Robartes,  and 
had  issue, 

Henry,  last  Earl  of  Radnor  of  that  fismily. 
Hb  lordship,  who  published  a  Vindication' of  his 
Ariend,  Lord  Russd,  and  other  literary  productions 
mentioned  in  Walpole^s  Catalogue,  d.  on  the  9d 
January,  16B34»  and  was  «.  by  his  second,  but  eldest 
surviving  son, 

GEORGE  BOOTH,  second  Earl  of  Warrington. 
This  nobleman  m.  Mary,  eldest  daughter,  and  co- 
heiress of  John  Oldbury,  Esq.,  of  London,   mer- 
chant, by  whom  he  had  an  only  daughter, 
70 


Mai7,  who  m.  in  1796.  HttarfOnf,  toatth  Earl 
of  Stamfiord,  and  left, 

Hrnry,  who  «.  to  the  Earldom  of  Stam- 
ford, upon  the  decease  of  his  Csther,  in 
1768,  and  was  created  in  1^,  Baron 
Delamere,  and  Earl  of  Warrington— 
(see  those  dignities  in  Burk^t  DictUm' 
ttrp  <ifate  Pe«rag9  and  Baronetage), 
His  lordship  dl  on  the  9d  August,  I7S6,  when  his 
estates  pasiiirl  to  hb  daughter,  Mary,  Coontess  of 
Stamford;   the  Earldom  or  Warrinotoh  rx- 
piRRD,  while  the  barony  reverted  to  hb  cousin,  (re* 
fer  to  the  Very  Reverend  Dean  Robert  Booth,  son 
of  the  first  Lovd  Delamere). 

NATHANIEL  BOOTH,  Esq.,  as  fburth  Baron 
Delamere.  Hb  lordship  m,  Margaret,  daughter  of 
Richard  Jones,  Esq.,  of  Ramsbury  Manor  in  the 
county  of  Wilts,  by  whom  he  had  two  sons,  who 
both  died  young,  and  a  daughter,  Elizabeth,  who  d. 
unmarried,  in  1765.  Lord  Delamere  was  appointed 
chairman  of  the  committees  of  the  House  of  Lords 
in  1765,  and  d.  in  1770,  when  the  Barony  or  Drla- 
M RRB  became  bxtinct. 
Arms. — ^Three  boars  heads  erect  and  erased  sa. 

BOTELER^BARONS  BOTELER  OF 
OVERSLEY  AND  WEMME. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  26th  August,  1896. 
84  Edward  I. 

IdncBgc. 

In  the  reiga  of  the  Firat  Hbnrv, 

RALPH  BOTELER,  so  called,  from  holding  the 
office  of  Initler  to  Robert,  Earl  of  Mdlent  and 
Leicester,  seated  himself  at  Oversley,  in  the  county 
of  Warwick,  where  he  erected  a  strong  castle,  and 
at  a  mile  distant,  founded  a  monastery  for  Benedic- 
tine Monka,  (anno  1140,  and  6th  Stephen).  Thb 
Ralph  was  «.  by  hb  son, 

ROBERT  BOTELER,  who  was  t.  by  his  son, 

RALPH  BOTELER,  oneof  the  barons  who  took 
up  arms  against  King  John,  and  whose  lands  were 
sdaed  in  oonaequence}  but  making  hb  peace  he  had 
restitution  on  paying  40  marks  upon  the  accession 
of  Henry  III.,  in  whose  reign  he  was  constituted  a 
commisdoner  for  collecting  thtAfteenth  then  levied 
in  the  counties  of  Warwick  and  Leicester.  In  the 
former  of  which  shires  he  was  likewise  a  jiutice  of 
assiie.    He  was  «.  at  hb  decease  by  hb  son, 

MAURICE  BOTELER,  one  of  the  justices  of 
assise  for  the  county  of  Warwick,  in  the  13th  and 
16th  of  Henry  III.,  and  a  commissioner  fbr  assessing 
and  collecting  the  fourteenth  part  of  all  men's 
moveable  goods,  according  to  the  form  and  order 
then  appointed.  Thb  feudal  lord  filled  the  office 
of  justice  of  assise  for  the  same  shire,  a  second  and 
third  time,  and  was  repeatedly  justice  for  the  gaol 
ddivery  at  Warwick,  in  the  same  king's  reign.  He 
was  «.  by  hb  son, 

RALPH  BOTELER,  who  m.  Maud,  daughter 
and  heiress  of  William  Pantulf,  by  whom  he  ac- 
quired the  great  Lordshfp  of  Wemme,  in  the  county 
of  Salop.  Thb  tendal  baron  had  divers  summonses 
to  attend  the  king,  Henry  III.,  in  hb  wars  with  the 
Webb,  and  adhering  fkithAilly  to  that  monarch, 
against  Simon  de  Montfort,  and  thex0volted  barons. 


BOT 


BOT 


be  «■■  amply  icwMitod  fay  gnats  of  lands  and 
money  from,  the  crown.  Ha  was  «.  at  his  decsease  fay 
bis  son. 

WILLIAM  BOTELER,  who,  hi  tha  U/e-time  of 
his  Dsthar,  had  m.  Ankaiet*  ntooe  of  James  de 
Aldithlejr.  He  diadt  however*  inaTary  few  yean 
after  inheriting  his  paternal  property,  (aauo  1983,) 
leaving  three  sons,  John,  Gawine,  and  William,  and 
was  «.  by  the  ddest, 

JOHN  BOTELER,  at  whose  decesse  in  minority, 
anno  1286,  the  inheritance  devolved  npon  his  Ivo- 


GAWINE  BOTELER,  who.  dying  Issuelen,  was 
A  by  his  brother, 

WILLIAM  BOTELER.  who,  in  tha  S4th  Ed- 
ward L,  was  in  ward  to  Walter  de  Langton,  Lord 
Treasurer  of  England,  and  Walter  da  Beawchamp, 
of  AJcaster,  Steward  of  the  King's  Household.  This 
fendnl  lord  obtaining  renown  in  the  ScotUsh  wan  of 
the  period,  was  summoned  to  parliament  as  a 
Babov,  from  96th  August,  1896,  to  the  10th  Octo- 
ber, 132S,  His  lordship  m.  fint,  Ankeret,  daughter 
of  GrUBn,  and  had  an  only  son,  Wuliam,  his  suc- 
cessor. He  M.  secondly,  Ela,  daughter,  and  oo- 
heiresB  of  Roger  de  Hardeburg^,  by  whom  he  had 
two  sooa*  Edmund  and  Edward,  who  both  died 
and  four  daughters,  viz. 
Ankeret,  m.  to  John  Le  Strange,  of  Black- 


Ida,  m.  toSir  Fulke  PembruggeL 

Alio^  M.  to  Nidiolas  Langford. 

Dionys^  m.  to  Hu^  de  CokeMy. 
He  d.  in  1334,  and  was  «.  by  his  eUsst  son, 

WILLIAM  BOTELER,  second  Baron  Boteler  of 
Wenune,  but  never  summoned  to  parliament.  This 
nobleman  m.  Margaret,  daughter  of  Richard  Fits- 
Alan,  Earl  of  Arundel,  and  dying  in  1361,  was  «;  by 
his  son, 

WILLIAM  BOTELER,  third  Baron  Boteler  of 
Wemme,  summoned  to  parliament  from  the  83rd 
February,  1368,  to  6th  April,  1380.  Hu  lordship  m. 
Joane,  elder  sister  and  co-heir  of  John  Lord  Sud- 
ley,  and  dying  in  1369,  left  an  only  daughter  and 


Elizabeth,  who  m,  flnt.  Sir  Robert  Ferren,  a 
younger  son  of  Robert,  second  Baron  Fer- 
ren of  Chartley,  and  conveyed  to  him  the 
great  lordship  of  Wemme,  in  the  cotmty  of 
Salop,^  and  the  said  Robert  was  summoned 
to  psxliament  as  *'  Robert  Ferren  de 
Wemme,  Chev.'*  in  the  49th  Edward  III. 
Elisabeth  Boteler  m.  secondly.  Sir  John 
Say,  and  thirdly.  Sir  Thomas  MoUnton, 
who  styled  himself  *'  Baron  of  Wemme," 
but  was  never  summoned  to  parliament. 
Her  ladyship  had  no  issue  by  her  second  and 
third  hnsbnids,  but  by  tha  fint  she  left  a 


RoBSET  FBRaaas,  who  inherited  the 
barony  of  Boteler,  as  well  as  that  of 
Ferren  of  Wemme,  but  was  never 
summoned  to  parliament.  His  lord- 
ship d.  in  1410,  leaving  two  daughten, 
co-heiresses,  viz. 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  John,  ion  ci  Ralph, 
Lord  Greystock. 


Mary,  m,  to  Hobart  NarlU,  Earl  of 
Wastmordand. 
Between  whose  repiBsantatlvai  thoaa  ba- 
BONiBB  are  still  in  abbyancb. 
Arms.— Gu.  a  Faisa  oompon^a  or.  and  sa.  batw. 
six  crosiai  pat^  arg. 

BOTELERr-BARON  SUDLEY. 

(Sea  Sudley,  Banm  Sudlay.) 

BOTELER—BARONS  BOTELER  OF 
WERINGTON. 

By  Writ  of  Siunmons,  dated  SSrd  June,  U96, 
83  Edward  I. 

ICincagc. 

The  first  ot  this  fkmily  who  assumed  the  surname 

of  BOTBLBR  was 

ROBERT  LE  BOTELER,  fhnn  filling  the  oflice 
of  boteler  or  bntler  to  Ranulph  de  Gemons,  Earl  of 
Chester,  and  under  that  designation  he  founded  an 
abbey  for  Cistercian  monks  in  the  year  IIM.  This 
Robert  left  a  son  Robert,  but  nothing  fVirther  Is 
known  of  the  family  until  the  time  of  King  John, 
when 

WILLIAM  LE  BOTELER  was  certified  to  hold 
eight  knights*  fees,  in  capita  of  the  king,  in  the 
county  of  Lancaster.  To  this  William  succeeded 
another, 

WILLIAM  LE  BOTELER,  who.  In  the  4Srd  of 
Henry  III.,  was  constituted  sheriff  of  the  county  of 
Lancaster,  and  governor  of  the  csstle  there.  But 
being  involved  with  the  turbulent  banms  of  that 
period  he  appean  subsequently  to  have  lost  his 
lands,  until  making  hb  peace  in  the  49th  of  the 
same  monarch,  soon  after  the  battle  of  Evesham, 
the  sheriff  of  Lancashire  had  orden  to  restore  them. 
In  the  early  part  of  the  next  reign  this  William  le 
Boteler  had  chaxten  firom  the  crown  to  hold  markets 
and  fain  upon  some  of  his  manon,  and  was  sum- 
moned to  parliament  as  a  baron,  ttom  the  Sftrd 
June,  199S.  to  26th  August.  1896.  In  the  S4th  of 
Edward  I.  his  lordship  was  engaged  in  the  Scottish 
war,  having  been  previously  upon  military  service 
in  Gascony.  He  was  «.  at  his  decease  by  his  son 
and  heir, 

JOHN  LB  BOTELER,  who  had  summons  to 
parliament  in  the  14th  Edward  II.,  but  after  this 
nobleman  nothing  further  is  known  of  the  fluaaily. 

ABM8— Az,  a  bend  betw.  six  garbs  or. 

BOTETOURT  —  BARONS  BOTE. 

TOURT. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  10th  March,  1306, 
1  Edward  II. 

ICiiuagc. 

JOHN  DE  BOTETOURT,  governor  of  St. 
Briavel's  Castle,  in  the  county  of  Gloucester,  and 
admiral  of  the  king's  fieet,  in  the  ralgns  of  Ed- 
ward I.  and  Edward  II.,  was  summoned  to  parlia- 
ment as  a  BABON  by  the  latter  monarch,  flrom  tha 
lOth  March,  1306,  to  the  13th  September,  1384.    Hia 

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lordship  m.  Maud,  sifter  and  tetim  of  Otto,*  son 
aud  hdr  of  Beatrice  de  Beauchaaip,  widow  of  Wil- 
liam de  Mimchensi  of  Edwardstooe,  by  whom  he 
had  issue, 

Thomas,  who  m.  Joano,  sister  and  heiress  ot 
John  de  Somery,    Baron  of  Dudley,  and 
dying  before  his  father  left  an  only  son, 
.  JoHH,  who  «.  his  grandfather. 
John,  of  Beauchamp  Otea,  m.  — — ,  and  left  a 
son, 
John,  who  m.  Joane,  daughter  and  hdreis 
of  John  Gemon,   and  left  an  only  . 
daughter  and  heiress, 
JoAKX,   m.   to   Sir   Robert  Swyn- 
bume,  Knt. 

Otto,  of  Mendlesham,  m. ,  and  had  issue, 

John,  who  m.  Catherine,  daughter  of  Sir 
William  Wayhmd,  Knt,  and  had  an 
only  daughter  and  heiress, 

Joans,  m.  to  John,  ion  and  heir  of 
Sir  John  Knyvet,  Knt. 
Elisabeth,  m.  first,  to  William,  Lord  Latimer, 

and  secondly,  to  Robert  Uflbrd. 
Joane,  contracted  to  Robert,  son  and  heir  of 
Robert  Fitiwalter,  Lord  of  Woddiam^  in 
Essex. 
Lord  Botetourt,  who  was  one  of  the  eminent  mi- 
litary characters  of  the  reign  of  Edward  L,  tooli  a 
leading  part  in  the  Scottish  wars  of  that  monarch, 
and  was  entrusted  with  the  government  of  the 
strongest  castles,  the  command  of  the  fleet,  and 
other  duties  of  the  highest  importance.    His  lord- 
ship d,  in  1324,  and  was  «.  by  his  grandson, 

JOHN  DE  BOTETOURT,  second  baxon,  who 
had  livery  of  his  lands  in  the  14th  Edward  IIL,  and 
in  two  yean  afterwards  attended  the  king  in  the  ex- 
pedition made  then  into  France,  in  the  tndn  of 
Thomas  de  Beaudiamp,  Earl  of  Warwick.  From 
that  period  his  lordship  appears  to  have  been  con- 
stantly engaged  in  the  French  wars  of  his  sovereign, 
and  was  summoned  to  parliament  tiom  85th  Feb^ 
ruary,  1342,  to  the  3rd  February,  138S.  He  m. 
Joyce,  daughter  of  William,  Lord  Zouche  of  Har- 


•  In  the  time  of  Richard  L  money  coined  in  the 
east  of  Germany  began  to  be  of  especial  request  in 
Englaniji,.  and  tot  the  purity  thereof  was  called 
"  Ca3T£rlino  monsy,*'  as  all  the  inhabitants  of 
those  parts  were  called  Easterlings;  and  shortly 
after  some  of  that  country,  skilfUl  in  mint  matters 
and  aUaies,  were  sent  for  into  this  realm,  to  bring 
tbe  coin  to  perfection,  which,  since  that  time  was 
called  of  them  '*  Stbrlhto"  for  «'  EasterHng,*' 
which  implied  as  much  as  good  and  lawful  money 
of  England.  Of  these  Easterlings,  Otho,  a  German, 
was  the  principal,  and  in  old  reoxrds  is  calTed 
"  Otho  Cuneator,"  who  grew  to  such  wealth,  that 
Thomas,  hbson,  somamed  Ftts^Otes,  married  one 
of  the  co-heirs  of  Beauchamp  of  Bedford,  was  Lord 
of  Ifcndlesham  in  Suflblk*  and  **  held  in  fee  to 
maka  the  coining  stamps  serving  for  all  England.** 
Whidi  office,  by  his  heir  general,  dewcnded  to  this 
flunily  of  Botetourt,  from  which,  by  sale,  the  3rd 
Edward  IIL,  it  passed  into  that  of  Latimer.— 
Banks. 


yngworth,  <aust  and  heir  of  Hugh  dala^Zoudieof 
Ricluird's  Castle,)  and  had  issue,       •    ■ 

John,  whom.  Maud,  daughter  of  John,  Lord 
Grey  of  Rotherfldd,  -and  predeceasing  his 
father,  left  a  son,  John,  who  died  before 
his  grandbther,  aad  a  daughter,  Joyce,  who 
m.  Sir  Hugh  BumcH,  KBt.>  and  died  s,p, 
Maud,  Abbess  of  Polesworth. 
Agnes,  a  nun  at  Elstow. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Sir  Baldwin  Fxevilr  Knt*,  but 
died  beHore  co-habitation.    • 

Alice,  m.  to  Kyriel,  and  had  an  only 

dani^iter  and  heiiess,  Joane,  who  m.  John 
Wykes,  and  left  two  daughten,  Agnes,  who 
d.  lunnarricd,  and  Joytt,  m.  to  Hugh 
Stanley. 
Joyce,  m.  first,  to  Sir  Baldwin  Frevil,-  Knt, 
and  secondly,  to  Sir  Adam  de  Preshale,  Knt, 
and  had  issue  by  the  former, 

Baldwin*  who,  dying  beforeUs  mother, 
left  by  his  wife,  Joane,  danghter  of  Sir 
Thomas  Green,  Knt, 
Baldwin,  who  d.  young. 
Elisabeth,  m.  Thomas,  second  son 
of    William,    Lord    Ferrers    of 
Groby. 
Margaret,  m.   'first,   to  Sir  Hugh 
Willoughby,  Knt,  and  seamdly, 
to  Sir  Richard  Bingham,  Knt 
Joyce,  m.  to  Sir  Roger  Aston,  Knt 
Katherine,  m.  to  Maurice  de  Berkeley  «f  Stoke 
Gilford,  in  the  connty  of  Gloucester,  and 
left  an  only  son  and  heir, 

Mavricb  dn  BBnKXi.BY,  who  m.  Joan, 
daughter  of  Sir  John  Denhamy  Knt, 
and  his  great  grandson, 

Ricbabd  BBBXBI.X7,  having  mar- 
ried Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Sir 
Huimphiey  Coniagsliy,  Knt,  left 
at  his  decease,  in  1514,  Sir  Mau- 
rice Berkley,  Knt,  ftom-  whom 
the  BxRKBLBva  or  Stbatton  de- 
scended, and  an  aide*  son. 

Sir  John  Bbrkblbt  of  Stoke, 
who  iM.  Isabtf,  daughter  of 
Sir  WiUiam  DennU,  Knt, 
and  whoso  great-graat-great 
grandson, 

RiCBARD    BBBKBLBY,   d, 

in  1871*  Itft  issue, 
Goorge,  m.  to  Jane, 
dau^feer   of  Vis- 
count ■    ntxhard- 
inge,  and  died  «.  p 
in  UBS. 
John  •  Symes,  m.  to 
EUaabeth,  daugli- 
ter  andoo-heireM 
of  WUUam    Nor- 
bonne,    Esq.,    of 
Calne,  in  tlie  coun- 
ty of  WilU,   and 
dying  in  1736,  left 
a  son  and  heir, 

NORBONNB,whO 

was  summon- 


BOU 


BOU 


oS  to  p«ili» 
m«Bt  M  Bao 

■OW        BOTB- 
TOUKTIB  178S» 

and  (Ued«.ph 
in  1776. 

cwtohcrbro- 
ttner,    m.    to 
ClUfftat^Duke 
of  Beauftnt. 
JtHm,  tMond  Lord  BoUtourt*  d.  in  1386*  leaving 
Joyce,  LadrBunicU,  his  grand-daughter,  hiahciraM ; 
bat  that  lady  dying  in  1406.  the  babomt  or  Botb- 
roumr  then  ML  into  abbyabcb  between  his  three 
■urriTing  married  daughteri,  and  so  continued 
their  desceadants  for  more  than  three 
and  a  half,  when  it  was  at  lengOi  called 
oat  in  fivrour  of  the  representatiTe  of  Katharine  de 
Beriielesr  (see  Berkeley,  Baran  Botetourt). 
AnnsM—Or.  a  Saltier  cngr.  ea. 

BOURCHtER-  BARONS  FITZ-WA- 
RINE,  EARLS^OF  BATH. 

Barony,  by  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  S3rd  June, 
ISSe,  83  Edward  I. 

Eaildom,  by  LcttenPatent,  datedMh  July,  1536. 

SIR  WILLIAM  BOURCHIER,  (thiid  son  of 
William  Boitbchibb,  Eabi,  or  Eitb,  in  Nor- 
mandy, and  Anne  h^  wife,  dan^ter  and  heiress  of 
Thoinaa,  of  Wooftstocfc,  Duke  of  Gloucester, 
yoaqgest  son  of  king  Edward  III.,)  having  es- 
poused Thosnasine,  dsugfatsr  and  htf  ress  of  Richard 
Hankfivd,  Esq.,  Irf  Elisabeth  his  wife,  sister  and 
heiress  of  PttUce  Fit»-warine,  seventh  and  last  Baron 
Fits-warine,  of  that  family,  who  died  «.  p.,  in  1489, 
wae  sammoned  to  parHaaienti^ire  mjoKs,  as  Baboh 
FtTz-WABivB,  Aom  and  January,  1440,  to  7th 
September,  146Bk  This  noblemen,  who  was  one  of 
the  ioneten  in  the  reign  of  Edward  IV.,  had  licence 
from  that  monarch  to  export,  duty-free,  a  thou- 

wocdkn  cloths  of  his  own  goods.     His  lord^ 

appears  to  have  married  secondly,  Catheiine^ 
widow  of  — —  Stukdey,  by  whom  he  had  a  daugfa^ 
ter,  EHsBBbeth*  to  whom  her  mother  bequeaths  in 
tier  hHt  win,  dated  In  1406, «« a  girdle  of  red  ttssue." 
Lord  Fits-warine  tL.  about  the  year  1470*  and  was 
ju  by  his  son, 

SIR  FULKE  BOURCHIER,  Knt,  second  Baron 
Ff ts.warine,  who  was  summoned  to  parliament  on  ^ 
the  19th  August,  1478;    This  nobleman  m.  Elisa- 
beth, sister  and  beircss  of  John,  Lord  Dynham, 
BDdhadissoe, 

JoHv,  his  successor. 

Joane,  m.  to  James,  Lord  Audley. 

Eliaabeth,  m,  first,  to  Sir  Edward  Stanhope, 
Knc,  and  secondly,  to  Sir  Richard  Page,  Knt, 
Hie  lorddiip  dl  in  1470,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  BOURCHIER,  third  Baron  Fita-warbie, 
who,  hi  the  0th  of  Henry  VIL,  being  of  ftill  age, 
bad  livery  of  his  lands,  and  was  summoned  to  par- 
Bament  from  the  lath  August,  1408,  to  the  8th  June, 
1A361     His  lordship  faihcrited  likewise,  the  large 


of  Ua  mother,  the  hetrem  of  the  Cotds  Dyn- 
ham.  This  noblsman  signed  the  celebrated  letter  to 
Pope  Clement  VII.,  in  theaSnd  Henry  VIIL,  wheretai 
the  subscribing  lords  apprised  his  hoUness  of  the 
frail  tenure  of  his  supremacy,  should  he  refuse  the 
pontillriai  aesent  to  the  divorce  of  the  king  from 
Quesn  Katharine.  Lord  Fita-warlne,  wm  aubse* 
quently  advanced,  by  Letters  Patent,  dated  9th 
July,  1636,  to  the  Eabldom  or  Bath.  His  kml- 
ship  IN.  Cedla.  daughter  of  Giles,  Lord  D'Aubaney, 
and  sister  and  heiress  of  Henry  D'Aubenejr,  Earl 
of  Bridgewatcr,  and  had,  with  other  issue, 
John,  his  successor. 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  Edward  Chichester,  Esq. 
Dorothy,  m.  to  Sir  John  Fulfcrd,  Knt 
The  eerl  d.  30th  of  April,  1639,  leaving  amongst 
other  directions  in  his  will,  **  that  an  honest  secubtf 
priest  should  sing  mass  for  the  health  of  his  soul, 
for  the  space  of  twenty  years  after  his  deoeeae.** 
His  lordship  was  succeeded  by  his  tfdest  son, 

JOHN  BOURCHIER,  ftNorth  Baron  Fits-warine, 
and  second  EAbi.  or  Bath.  This  nobleman  upon 
the  decease  of  King  Edward  VI.,  being  amongst 
the  first  to  dedare  for  Queen  Mary,  was  consti- 
tuted me  of  the  rommissloners  for  receiving  the 
cbdms  of  those,  who  in  respect  of  their  tenures, 
were  to  peiftwm  service  upon  the  day  of  her  ma- 
JCBty*s  coronation.  His  lordship  m.  first,  Elisabeth, 
daughter  of  Sir  Walter  Hungerford,  Knt.,  by  whom 
he  had  one  daughter,  Elisabeth.  He  m.  secondly, 
Eleanor,  daughter  of  George  Manners,  Lwd  Ros, 
and  sistsr  of  Thomas,  first  Earl  of  Rutland,  of  that 
family,  and  had  issue, 

John,  Lord  Fita-warlne,  who  d.  in  the  K(bb 

time  of  his  fether,  leaving  by  his  wife. 

Prances,  daughter  of  Sir  Thomas  Kitson, 

Knt,  of  Hengrave,  in  the  county  of  Sufiblk, 

WiLLiAMf  who  a.  to  the  honon  of  hie 

grandlbtber. 

Henry. 

George,  (Sir)  general  of  the  army  sent  to  sup- 
press tile  rebdlion  in  the  province  of  Mun- 
ster,  in  Ireland,  anno  1600 1  m.  Martha, 
daughter  of  William,  Lord  Howard,  of 
Effingham,  and  had  issue. 

Sir  iMenry  Bourchier,*  Knt.,  who  9,  as 
sixth  Eabx.  or  Bath, 
Fulkew 

Mary,  m.  to  Hugh  Wyot,  of  Exeter. 
Cecilia,  m.  to  Thomas  Peyton,  Customer  of 
Plymouth. 
The  earl  m.  thirdly,  Margaret,  daughter  and  heiress 
of  J<4m  Donington,  Esq.,  and  widow  of  Sir  Rich- 
ard Long,  Knt,  and  of  thif  marriage  there  were 
two  daughters,  vis,, 
Susanna. 

Bridget,  wife  of  Thomas  Price,  Esq.,  of  Vay- 
nor,  in  the  county  of  Montgomery. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1600,  and  was  *.  by  Ms  grandson, 

WILLIAM  BOURCHIER,  fifth  baron  and  third 
eerL  Thisnobleman  was  in  the  expe^tion,  asth  Eli- 
sabeth, to  the  Netberlsnds,  in  aid  of  the  Dutch,  under 
Robert,  Earl  of  Leicester.  Hlslordshipm.  Elisabeth, 
daughter  of  Francis  Russell,  Earl  of  Bedford,  and 
had  surviving  issue, 

Edwabd,  who  wae  made  Knight  of  the  Bath, 
L  79 


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at  Che  ooronstion  of  Henry,  Prinee  of  Weld, 
anno  1610. 
Francci,  4.  tmm. 
The  earl  tf.  on  the  UKh  July,  1683,  and  was  •.  tiy 
hliion, 

EDWARD,  sixth  bakout,  and  fourth  bakl,  who 
m,  first,  Dorothy,  daughter  of  Oliver,  Lord  St. 
Jirfui,  of  Bletso,  and  sister  of  Oliver,  Earl  of  Bo- 
Ungbroke,  by  whom  he  liad  surviving  issu^ 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  Basil,  Eari  of  Denbigh,  and 

died  «.  p, 
Dorothy,  m.   to    Thomas,    Lord  Grey,    of 
Oroby,  eldest  son  of  Henry  Grey,  flxst  Earl 
of  Stamford,  and  had  issue, 

Thomas,  who  «.  his  grandfather  as  Earl 
of  Stamford,   his  Ikther  dying    pre- 
viously. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Henry  Benson,  Esq. 
Anne,  m.  to  James  Grove,  Esq.,  So^eant 
at  Law. 
Her  ladyship  m.  secondly,  Gustavus  Mack- 
worth,  Esq.,  by  whom  she  had 
Mary,  m.         •••» 
Anne,  m.  fint,  to  James  Cranfldd.  Earl  of 
Middlesex,  by  whom  she  had  a  daughter, 
<v        Elisabeth,  m.  to  John,  Lord  Brackley, 
but  died  «.  p. 
Lady  Middlesex  m.  secondly.  Sir  Christopher 
Wray,  Bart,  flrom  whom  the  present  Sir 
Bourdiier  Wrey  descends,  and  who  inhe- 
rits the  msnsion  of  Tavistock,   in  the 
county  of  Devon,  the  chief  seat  of  the 
Earl  of  Bath. 
His  lordship  m.  secondly,  Anne,  daughter  of  Sir 
Robert  Lovet,  KnL,  of  LIsoombe  in  the  county  of 
Buckingham.    The  earl  dying  thus  in  1630,  with- 
out  male  iisue,  the  Bahony  of  Firs-irAaiNa  Ml 
Into  ▲BSYANCB  between  his  three  daughters,  and 
so  continues  among  their  descendants,  of  whom  the 
present  Sir  Bourchier  Wray,  Bart.,  is  one,  while 
the  Earldom  of  Bath  devolved  upon  (General, 
Sir  George  BourcMer's  son,— refer  to  the  third  son 
of  the  second  earl,)  his  cousin, 

HENRY  BOUBCHIER,  fifth  Earl,  who  m.  Rap 
chad,  daughter  of  Frances  Pane,  Earl  of  Westmore- 
land, but  dying  without  issue  on  the  lAth  August, 
16M,  the  Earldom  of  Bath  became  RzriircT. 

Armb. — ^Ar.  a  cross  engruled  gu.  betw,  four  water 
bougeu  sa.  label  of  three  poinU  aa.  charged  with 
iiine  fleur-de-Us,  or. 

BOURCHIER  — BARONS  BERNERg. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  96th  May,  14ffS, 
an  Henry  VL 

Xintasc. 

SIR  JOHN  BOURCHIER,  K.O.  fourth  eon  of 
William,  Earl  of  Ewe,  by  Anne  Ptentagenet, 
daughter  of  Thomas  of  Woodstodc,  Duke  of  Okm- 
oester,  and  grand-daughter  of  King  Edward  III., 
(see  Bourchier,  Earl  of  Essex,)  having  married 
Margery,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Richard  Bemen, 
(commonly  called  Lord  Bemars,)  of  West  Horsley, 
in  the  county  of  Surrey,  was  summoned  to  parlia- 
ment, ftom  the  96th  May,  14U,  to  the  liKh  August, 
1479,  as  «'  JoBN  BouRCHiBR  DM  BsRif  ■»«,  Cbb- 

7* 


▼ALiBR.**  This  nobleman  appears  to  have  played 
a  safe  game  between  the  houses  of  York  and  Lan- 
caster, for  we  find  him  in  the  reign  of  Henry  VI., 
srrayed  at  the  battle  of  St.  Albans,  under  the  red 
rose,  and  in  that  of  Edward  IV.,  a  staunch  adherent 
of  the  white.  In  the  first  year  of  the  latter  king. 
Lord  Bemers  was  made  constable  of  Windsor  Castle, 
and  warden  of  the  forests  and  parks  thereunto 
belonging,  and  his  lordship  attended  Edward  into 
the  north  in  the  following  year,  when  he  invested 
the  Castle  of  Bamburg,  and  the  other  strong  places 
in  Northumberland,  then  holding  out  for  the  Lan^  - 
cestrians.  His  lordship  died  in  1474,  leaving  amongst 
other  bequests  in  hb  last  wiU,  to  the  monks  of  the 
Abbey  of  St  Peter  at  Chcrtsey,  where  he  ordered 
his  remains  to  be  interred,  a  croes  of  silver  gilt ; 
having  a  foot,  whereon  were  the  images  of  Mary 
and  John  {  as  also  other  Jewels  and  ornaments,  to 
the  value  of  forty  pounds,  to  the  intent  that  tlwy 
should  pnty  for  hb  soul,  and  the  soul  of  Margery, 
his  wife,  and  all  their  children's  souls.  The  baron 
hadissue-^ 

H  VMPHRKY,  (Sir)  slain  at  the  battle  of  Bamet. 
Add,  fighting  under  the  banner  of  King 
Edward    IV.,  and  left  lisue  by  his  wife^ 
Elisabeth,    daughter    and    hdress  of  Sir 
Frederick  Tilney,  and  widow  of  Sir  Thonuyk 
Howard,  Knt 
John,  who  «.  his  grandfather. 
Anne,  m.  to  Thomas  Fynes,  Lord  Dacre. 
Thomas,  who  joining  Henry,  Earl  of  Ridi- 
moQd,  upon  his  march  to  Boeworth-fldd, 
participated  in  the  victory  that  placed  the 
diadem  upon  the  head  of  Henry  VII.,  and 
was  afterwards  In  the  twelfth  year  of  that 
monardi,  at  the  battle  tougbt  on  Btadt" 
htath,  with  the  oomish  rebels. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Robert,  Lord  Welles,  and  died 

9.p, 
Joanna,  m.  to  Sir  Henry  Nevil,  Knt. 
His  lordship  was  «.  by  his  grandson, 

JOHN  BOURCHIER,  second  Baron  BsRHKaa. 
summoned  to  parliament,  from  14th  October,  I486,  to 
9th  November,  IBBSL  This  nobleman  was  captain  of 
the  pioneers,  in  the  6th  Henry  VIIL,  and  the  next 
year  being  made  chancdkar  of  the  klng^  exchequer 
for  life,  he  attended  the  Lady  Mary,  the  king's 
sister  into  France,  upon  her  marriage  with 
Lewis  XIL  His  lordship  m.  Catherine,  daughter 
of  John,  Duke  of  Norfolk,  by  whom  he  had  two 
daughten,  vis., 

Mary,  the  younger,  who  m.  Alexander  Unton, 
Esq.,  but  dying  «.  p.,  the  estates  entirely 
devolved  upon  her  ddast  sister, 
Jane,  at.  to  Edmund  Knyvett,  Esq.,  of  Ashwd- 
worth,  seijeant  porter  to  King  Henry  VIIL, 
by  whom  she  had  a  son, 
John  Knyvet,  of  Plumstead,  in  the  county 
of  Norfolk,  who  m.  Agnes,  daughter  of 
Sir  John  Haroourt,  Knt,  of  Stanton 
Harcourt,  in    the  county  of  Oxford, 
and  dying  before  his  mother,  left  a  son. 
Sir  THOMAa  Kjcttbt,  Knt.  who  d. 
in   1616  or   17,    ■»!    from  him 
sprang,  thiou^  various  descents, 
the  two  brotheri. 


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1*  Sir  John  Kmyrct*  wbo  «■.  Mary, 
dAu^ter  of  Sir  Thoauw 
BedUngCdd*  ttid  had  Mveral 
children,  all  <tf  whcnn  died 
iaudcM,  eacccpt 

Elisabeth,  who  m.  Thomaa 
Glemham,  Eaq.,  and 
left  an  only  eon, 

Thomaa,    who  died 

«. p..  in  1710.  Inl717* 
Catherine,  a  younger 
daughter  than  EUsa> 
beth,  claimed  the  B»- 
•rony  of  BnurBna,  and 
obtained  it  t  but  her 
ladyship  dying  without 
iaiue^  in  1743,  it  again 

fbH  into  ABBTAMCS. 

S.  ThonuM   Knyvet,    Eiq.,    who 
M.  Emme,  daughter  of  Tho- 
mas Hayward,  Eaq.,  of  Cran- 
wiM,  in  the  county  of  Noiw 
folk,  and  left  a  son, 
John    Knyvet,    who     m. 
Lucy,     daughter     and 
co-heireM    of    Charlea 
Suckling,  Eaq.,  of  Bra- 
koidale,  Norfolk,  and 
had  wveral  children  of 
whom    only    two   left 
iwue,  Tla.~ 
EUxabeth,      m,     to 
HcnryWilaoDfEiq. 
and  had,  - 
Henry. 
Knevit. 

Harriot,  in.   to 
John  JLayton, 
Eiq. 
Lucy    IN.    flnt,     to 
Thoa.  Holt,  Ewi., 
and  hadadaughter, 
Elisabeth  Anne. 
She  IN.   aeoondly, 
John  Field,  Esq., 
and       left       two 
daughters, 
Lucy. 
Catherine^ 
Of  Lord  Bcmers,  Dugdale  concludes  his  aooount, 
: — "  It  Is  further  obserrable  of  John,  Lord 
that  he  was  a  person  not  a  little  eminent 
Ibr  his  learning,  and  that  thereupon,  by  the  com- 
maid  of  King  Henry  VIIL,  he  translated  the  Chro- 
nicle of   Sir  J«»hn  Froiasart   (canon  treasurer  of 
Chinay,  dariL  and  servant  to  King  Edward  III.,  aa 
also  to  Queen  Philippa,)  out  of  French  intoJEnglish. 
He  likewise  translated  out  of  French,  Spanish,  and 
Italian,  several  other  works,  vii.»The  Life  of  Sir 
Arthur,  an  Armorican  knight  i  the  fiunous  exploits 
of  Hv«H  or  BowDCAirxt  Mareu»-AurMu9,  and  the 
OsfHsitfLoM.  He  also  composed  a  book  of  the  Duties 
oftlie  Inhabitants  at  Calais  I  and  a  comedy,  intituled 
If  in  Vimeamr    His  lordship  is  likewise  noticed  In 
WalpolefsCatakjgua  of  NoUe  Authors.  ByhiswiU, 
he  biwioimtha  to  Humphrey  Boucher;  his  mo,  his 


gown  of  damaak-towney,  Aamd  witK  jemiecs,  and 
certain  tcgacies  to  James  and  Genge,  his  other 
sons  I  but  aU  these  children  were  illsgitlmate.  HIa 
lordshipd.  in  IMS,  when  his  only  surviving  daughter, 
the  lady  Joane  Knyvet,  had  livery  of  his  lands,  but 
the  Babony  or  BnBMnna,  appears  to  have  kin 
DORMANT,  until  aUowed  to  her  ladyship's  desoei^ 
dant,  Katharine  Knyvet,  then  the  wife  of  Thomas 
Bokenham,  Esq.,  in  1717;  but  upon  this  lady's 
deoeaie,  s.  ^  in  1743,  it  agatai  became  dobmaitt, 
although  it  is  presumed  it  devolved  upon  her 
ladyship's  cousin,  Mrs.  Wilson.  Robert  Wilson, 
Esq.,  of  DedlingtOB,  and  of  AshwcUthorpe,  in  the 
county  of  Norfolk,  that  Uuly's  grandson,  presMited 
a  petition  a  ftw  years  ago  to  his  m^esty,  pnying 
that  the  abeyance  might  be  terminated  in  hie 
ikvouT. 

ABMBd— Ar.  a  cross  engnOled,  gu:  betw.  four 
water  bougets,  sa. 

BOURCHIER  -.  BARONS     BOUR. 
CHIER,  EARLS  OF  ESSEX. 

Bmny*  by  Writ    of   Summooa,   dated  flBth 

February,  1342. 
EarMom,  by  Letters  Patent,  dated  30th  ^j/gf, 

1401. 

Xincagc 

In  the  rdgn  of  King  Edward  ILi 

SIR  JOHN  DE  BURCER  or  BOURCHIER, 
Knt.,  one  of  the  Justices  of  the  Court  of  King's 
Bench,  marrying  Helen,  daughter  and  heiress  of 
Walter  de  Cokhester,  end  niece  maternally  of 
Roger  de  Montchensy,  acquired  the  manor  of  Stan- 
sted  Hall  in  the  county  of  Essex,  and  took  up  hie 
abode  there.  Sir  John  had  two  sons,  Robert  and 
John,  and  waa  «.  at  his  decease  by  the  elder, 

ROBERT  DE  BOURCHIER,  who  in  the  4th 
Edward  III.,  obtained  a  royal  charter  for  hokUng  a 
Court  Leetat  Halsted,  and  in  the  10th  of  the  same 
monarch,  had  permission  to  impark  his  woods 
there.  In  four  years  afterwards,  this  eminent  per« 
son  waa  constituted  Lobo  CHAircBX.LOB  or  Eng- 
land, with  £M0  a  year  above  the  customary  feee, 
for  his  suitable  maintenance ;  and  In  the  next  year 
he  had  liosnoe  to  make  a  castle  of  his  mansion- 
house  at  Habted.  Uniting  the  civic  end  military 
characters,  his  lordship  was  subsequently  distin- 
guished in  arms,  particularly  in  the  glorious  fidd  of 
Cbbss  Y,  where  he  was  attached  to  the  division  of  the 
army,  under  the  immediate  command  of  the  Black 
PrinoBi  He  im.  Margaret,  dattght«r  and  sole  heirca 
of  Sir  Thomas  Prayers,  of  Sible-Hedingham,  in  the 
county  of  Esmx,  by  Aime,  daughter  and  heiress  of 
Hugh  de  Essex,  descended  fhmi  a  younger  son  of 
Henry  de  Essex,  Baron  of  Raleigh,  standard-bearer 
of  England,  and  h«d  issue>— 
John,  his  successor* 

William,  m.  Eleanor,  daughter  and  heiress  of 
Sir  John  de  Louvaine,  and  dying  in  ISU,. 
left, 

W11.MAM,  who  was  made  constable  of 
the  Tower  of  London,  and  created 
Eabx*  or  EwB,  in  Normandy,  by 
Henry  \.     Hia  kirdahip    m.  Anmb 

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pLAiTTAttBNSTy  widow  of  BdmoMU 
£arl  iiX  Staftvdf  and  dMif^iter,  and 
eTontusUy  lole  hrtren  of  ThomM  of 
Woodstock,  Duke  of  Olouoortor,  Mm 
of  King  EdwBTd  IIL,  aad  left  at  his 
decease  four  sons  and  «  daughter, 
▼is.— 

Hwrnv,  Eabl  or  Eitb,  of  whom 

hereafter  as  Eabz,  or  EaaBx. 
Thomas,  Bishop  of  Ely,  and  aubse- 
queotiy  Ardifatoiiap  of   Canter- 
bury. 
WiOiam,  Lord  Fits-wariBe,  see  that 

dignity. 
John,  Lord  Berasfs,  see  that  dig- 
nity. 
Anne,  in.  to  John  Mowlnay*  Duke 
ofNdrfblk. 
Lord  Bourchier,  who  had  been  summoned  to  parlia- 
ment ftom  29th  February,  1342,  to   10th  March, 
1349,  died  in  the  latter  year,  and  waa  «.  by  his  elder 


SIR  JOHN  BOURCHIER,  Knt,  as  second  Baton 
Bourchier:  summoned  to  parliament  ftom  16th 
July,  1381,  to  aoth  September,  13BB.  This  noble- 
man was  engaged  during  the  greater  part  of  his  life, 
in  the  French  wan  of  Edward  III.,  and  Richard  II., 
and  was  installed  a  Kniohtof  thb  OARTaa,  for 
his  gallant  services  therein.  In  the  9th  year  of  the 
latter  king,  his  lordship  was  appointed  chief  go- 
v«mar  of  Flanders,  and  particularly  of  the  town  of 
Gaunt,  at  the  express  desire  of  the  Flemings.  Prior 
to  his  rtfrease  he  oiitained  a  special  exemption, 
owing  to  age  and  infirmity,  ftom  parliamentary 
dudes,  and  tnm  attending  councils.  His  Lordship 
m.  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  John  GoggeriiaU,  and 
dying  in  1400,  was  «,  by  his  only  ion, 

BARTHOLOMEW  BOURCHIER,  third  baron 
BovncHinn,  summoned  to  parliament  ftmn  9th  Sept. 
1400,  to  2Sth  Oct.  1400.  This  nobleman  obtained,  like 
hisfiither,  when  he  became  old  and  inflrm,  an  exemp- 
tion ftom  parliament  and  council,  and  ftam  mili- 
tary service  in  Scotland  and  beyond  the  seas.  His 
lorddiip  m.  first,  Margaret,  widow  of  Sir  John  de  Sut- 
ton, but  had  no  issue.  He  m.  secondly,  Idtmm 
Utfoeg*  widow,  fiiM,  of  Edmund,  son  <tf  Sir  John 
de  Braokdmm,  and  afterwards  of  John  Glerant, 
and  dying,  in  140O,  left  an  only  daughter, 

ELIZABETH  BOURCHIER,  Baroness  Bour- 
diier,  who  m.  first.  Sin  Hdoh  STArronn,  ^t. 
who  thereupon  aaswmH  the  dignity  of  Load  Boun- 
cHinn,  but  had  summons  to  parliament  <fiPom  the 
9ist  Sept.  1411,  to  89d  March,  1414)  aa  «*  UugMd 
St^JB^irdP*  only.  His  lordship  d.,  however, «.  p.,  and 
his  widow  remarried  with  Sir  Lewis  Robsart,  K.G., 
standard-bearar  to  King  Henry  V.,  who  assumed 
also  the  title  of  BovacHica,  but  was  summoned,  in 
like  manner,  in  his  own- name  only.  He,  likewise, 
died  issueless,  and  upon  the  decease  of  Lady  Bour- 
chier, in  1432,  the  berony  devolved  upon  her  lady- 
ship'* cousin  and  next  heir, 

HENRY  BOURCHIER,  second  earl  of  Ewe,  in 
Normandy— -(revert  to  William,  second  son  of  Ro- 
bert, first  Baron  Bonrcliicr)-Hvho  had  summons  to 
parliament  in  the  13th  Henry  VI.,  in  his  Norman 
dignity,  bat  never  subsequently  under  that  title. 
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In  the  »th  Henry  YI.,  14th  December,  1446,  his 
lordship  was  advanced  to  the  dignity  of  Viaoouirr 
BouncMiBB,  and  had  summons  accordingly;  and 
in  the  33d  of  the  same  monarch  he  was  constituted 
I.OBD  TBBASunnn  or  Ekoland.  But,  notwith- 
standing rach  sterling  marks  of  royal  ftivour,  the 
lord  treasurer  Itaraook  his  royal  master,  and,  espous- 
ing the  Interests  of  the  Earls  of  March  and  War- 
widi,  was  reinvesled  with  the  treesurenhlp  by  the 
former  (his  brother-in-law)  upon  his  acccssioo  aa 
Edward  IV.,  and  created,  by  letters  patent,  dated 
30th  June,  1461,  Eael  or  Eaaxz.  His  lordship 
m.  Isabd,  dauf^iter  of  Riduurd,  Duke  of  York,  Pro- 
tecting of  Enf^iand,  (great-grandson  of  King  Edward 
IIL,)  and  sister  of  King  Edward  IV.,  by  whom  he 
had  issue- 

William,  who  in.  Anne,  daughter  of  Richard 
Widvile,  Earl  Rivers,  and  sister  of  Elisa- 
beth, queen  of  King  Edward  IV. ;  and  dying 
in  the  life-time  of  his  fiither,  left  Issu^- 
Hnif  av,  successor  to  his  grandlkther. 
Cecily,  m.  to  John  Devereux,  Lord  Fer- 
rers, of  Chartley,  and  left  a  son. 
Sin  William  Dnvsnaux,    Lord 
Ferrers,  of  Chartley,  from  whom 
sprang  the  extinct  house  of  Dnvn- 
nxirx.  Earls  or  Essnx,  and  the 
extant  family  of  Devertus,  Vis- 

OOUITTS  HBRBFORD. 

HsNRY  (Sir),  IN.  Elisabeth,  daughter  and 
heiress  of  Thomas,  Lord  Scales. 

Humphrey,  m.  Joane,  niece  and  oo-heiress  of 
Aalph,  Lord  CromweU. 

John  (Sir),  m.  Elisabeth,  niece  and  heiress  of 
William,  Lord  Ferrers,  of  Gn^y. 

Thomas  (Sir),  m.  Isabel,  daughter  and  heiress 
of  Sir  John  Barre,  Knt.,  and  widow  of 
Humphrey  Stafford,  Earl  of  Devon. 

Edward  (Sir),  slain  at  the  battle  of  Wakeflrid. 

[22:  }'»«•>  *  Toung. 

This  noUeman  shared  largely  in  the  confiscated 
ertates  of  tfie  Lancastrians,  particularly  in  those  of 
the  attainted  Bark  of  Devon  (Thomas  Courtenay) 
and  Wiltshire,  and  the  Lord  Roos.  His  lordship  d. 
in  1483,  and  was  «.  by  his  grandson, 

HENRY  BOURCHIER,  second  earl  of  Essex,  who 
had  special  livery,  9th  Hen.  VII.,  of  the  great  estates 
which  dasMSidud  to  him  flrom  the  Earl  of  Essex,  his 
grandfisther^-his  Ikther— Isabel,  his  grandmother^— 
Anne,  his  mother,  and  Sir  Thomas  Bourdiier,  Knt, 
his  uncle,  to  all  of  whom  he  was  heir.  Thisnobleman, 
who  is  represented  to  have  been  a  person  of  singuler 
valour  and  worth,  was  of  the  pilvy  councUof  King 
Henry  VII.,  and  had  a  chief  command  at  the  battle 
of  Bladcheath,  In  the  12th  of  that  monanh.  Upon 
the  accession  of  Henry  VIII.,  his  lordship  was  ap- 
pointed captain  of  the  king's  hone^uard,  tiien  newly 
constituted  as  a  body-guard  to  the  monarch.  The 
corps  consisted  of  fifty  horse,  «« trapped  with  cloth 
of  gold,  or  goldsmith's  work;  whereof  every  one 
had  hisarcher,  a  demi-lance,  mid  ooustriU."  In  the 
ith  of  the  same  king,  he  attended  his  highness  into 
FrsDoe,  as  lieutenant-general  ctfaB  the  spears;  and 
at  the  Csmous  toumanunt  which  Henry  hdd  on  the 
19di  and  90th  of  Mif,  hi  the  8th  year  of  his  reign,  tat 


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of  Utiiater.  Uawg^mtt,  QuBm  of  ScaOmA, 
the  Bart  of  Ems,  with  the  king  UaMcif,  the  Duke 
of  SuftA.  and  Nicfaoias  Caz«w,  Eiq.,  igwwd  aU 
In  the  ISth  d  Henzy,  hU  lotdaUp  acaln 
his  tovereign  into  Pnnoe,  and  ewdlsd  tiie 
of  the  xnooardi  in  hu  magniftoant  inter- 
with  Fbakcib  I.  upon  the  «<  FiM  ^  the 
Ctfth^GcU,"  The  earl  m.  liarf»  eklert  daughter 
>  of  Sir  WiUiam  Say,  Knt.,  by  whom 
I  only  daughter, 

who  AN.  SirWIUiam  Pair,  Knt,  (bro- 

of  Qoecn  Katherine  Parr,)  but  that 

nM  djiannnlted  by  parliament  in 

the  5th  of  Bdward  VL,  and  the  iarae  tiMMof 


I,  in  coneegnence  of  a  Ml  ftom  Ma 
at  Ids  manor  of  Beeae»  hi  the  oounty  of  Here- 
•ard,  to  189,  when  the  aAni.i>OM  or  Eaaax  and 
the  TiaoovirTY  or  Seanx  sxpinnni  wliile  tlM 
■ABOirY  ov  BoiTMnmn  devolved  upon  his  only 
daughter,  Anne  Ledy  Parvi  but  that  lady's  inue 
being,  as  above  elatod,  iUegMmated,  it  paised,  at 
her  decease,  to  Walter  Devcreux,  Baron  Ferrers, 
of  Chartley,  son  end  heir  of  Cecily,  the  riecwaeBd 
e  deaocndants  of  WiUiam,  eldest 
of  the  fliet  earl)  and  united  with  the  barony  of 
Fesran,  until  the  deceeee,  lasudeu,  of  Robert, 
eleventh  Bason  Ferrers,  of  Chartley,  and  Earl  of 
c,  in  IMS,  when  it  fdl  into  abbtahcb  between 
lovdahip's  two  ststars  and  co-hetreaMs,  Frances, 
;  of  Hertford,  and  Dorothy,  wife  of  Sir 
Sfairley,  Bart.;  and  it  so  continues  between 
Anaie-EHaa,  Duchess  of  Buckingham  and  Chaados, 
as  hefa  g>M<'ial  of  Frances,  the  elder  oo-hdr,  snd  the 
pieeeut  Ifaniuess  Townshend,  the  representative  of 
the  Junior. 
Arme    Ar.  a  croes  ingrailed  gu«   between  four 


BOURCHIEIU-BARON  CROMWELL. 

See  Oomtceil,  Baron  CrotmoeO,  of  Tatbhall. 

BOYLE  ^  COUNTESS     OF    GUILD- 

FORD. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  14th  July,  1000. 

LADY  ELIZABETH  FIELDING,  daughter  of 
WflUam,  flat  Earl  of  Denbigh,  m.  Lewis  Boyle, 
Visooont  Boyle,  of  Kynahneaky,  in  the  peerage  of 
Ireland,  (second  son  of  the  first  Earl  of  Cork,)  by 
wlMmi  she  had  no  issue.  His  hudriiip  fell  at  the 
battle  of  Liscarroll,  in  16tt,  and  her  ladyriiip  was 
advanced  to  the  peerage  of  England  /br  lift,  on  the 
14th  July,  1000,  as  Couirrxas  or  OmLOPOBD  $  she 
died  in  1^^  when  the  dignity,  of  course,  bxpirxd. 

BOYLE  — BARONS  CLIFFORD,  OF 
LANESBOROUGH,  IN  THE 
COUNTY  OF  YORK,  EARLS 
OF  BURLINGTON. 

Barony,    1  by  Letters /  dated  4th  Nov.,  1644. 
Earldom,  j    Patent,   X  dated  SOth  March,  iOM. 

Xbicasc. 

RICHARD  BOVLE,secendCarlof  Cork*  havhig 


(Mh  July,  !<»>.  Lndy  EUasbath  CMftcd. 
only  danghter  and  heiiess  of  Henry,  flfkh  end  last 
Earl  of  Cumberland,  of  that  fiunUy,  waa  created  a 
of  Enghmd,  by  letters  patent,  dated  4th  No* 
r,  1044,  as  Baboh  Cuvroan,  ^f  LaiMsAe. 
rs«f*,  in  the  county  of  York,  and  advanced  to  the 
Eabldom  ow  Bvblimotom  on  the  floth  March, 
1084,  having  bean  constituted,  previously,  lobo 
HioB  TmatABOBBn  tfw  IxBLAvn.  His  lordship  was 
a  aeaious  supporter  of  the  loyal  cause  during  the 
dvil  wars,  and  one  of  the  ddef  pramotcrs  of  the 
restoration.    His  eldest  son, 

Chablbs,   Lord  Viscount  .Dungarven,  (who 
predeceased  the  earl,)  was  summoned  to  the 
English  perliament  by  writ,  in  lOK,  as  Lord 
CliUbrd.  Hislordshlpm.  first.  Lady  Jane  Sey- 
mour, youngest  daughter  of  William,  Duke 
of  Somerset,  and  fiirst  cousin  of  King  Edward 
VI.,  by  whom  he  had  surviving  issue— 
CJIAB1.BS,  successor  to  his  grandfluher. 
Henry,  one  of  the  ministers  of  the  crown, 
in  the  reigns  <rf  WiUiam  and  Mary, 
and  King  George  L,  created  Babon 
CABI.TOX  (see  that  dignity). 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  James,  Earl  of  Barry- 

morsu 
Mary,  m.  in  108S,  to  James   Douglas, 
Duke  of  Queensbury ,  afterwards  created 
Duke  of  Dover. 
Arabella,  m.  to  Henry,  EsrI  of  Shelbnme. 
His  lordship  ai.  secondly,  Arethusa,  daughter 
of  George,  Earl  Berkeley,  and  had, 
Arethusa,  m.  to  James  Vernon,  Esq. 
Richard,  first  earl  of  Burlington,  d.  Ifith  January, 
1007,  and  wss  «.  by  his  grandson, 

CHARLES  BOYLE,  second  earl  of  Burlin^^tOB, 
(third  earl  of  Cork,)  lord  high  treeanrcr  of  Ireland. 
This  nobleman  (who  was  esteemed  one  of  the  most 
accomplished  gentlemen  in  England,)  m.  Juliana, 
daughter  and  hdrass  of  Henry  Nod*  Eiq.,  of  L«tf> 
fibnham,  in  the  county  of  Rutland,  and  had  issue— 
RicBABJD,  Lord  Dungarven. 
EUaabeth,  m.  hi  1719,  to  Sir  Henry  Aivndel 

BedingJRsld,  Bart. 
Juliana,  m.  in  1719,  to  Charles,  Lord  Bruce, 
son  end  heir  of  Thomas,  Earl  of  Aylesbury, 
8addled«.|i.fail7aB> 
HenrietU,  m.  in  1796,  to  Henry  Boyle,  Esq., 
of  Castle  Martyr,  in  the  oounty  of  Cork, 
cxaaled  Earl  of  Shannon. 
His  hvdshipd.  8th  February,  1703>  end  was*,  by  big 
son, 

RICHARD  BOYLB,  thhd  Earl  of  Burlington, 
(finirth  Earl  of  Cork,)  lord  high  treasurer  of  Ireland, 
K.G.  His  lordship  m.  Lady  Dorothy  Savile,  eMest 
daughter,  and  coJieir  of  William,  Marquess  of  Ha- 
liCax,  by  whom  be  had  fasue 

Dorothy,  b.  hi  17M,  m.  in  1741,  to  George,  Eeri 

Euston,  and  disd  «.  ^  in  1748. 
Juliana,  b.  in  1727*  nd  A  hi  \7»u 
Charlotte  EUsabeth,  6.  in  1731,  m.  hi  1748,  to 
William,  Marquess  of  Hartington,  sen  and 
heir  of  the  Duke  of  Devonshire. 
His  lordship,  who  was  distinguished  by  hb  patron- 
age of  the  arts,  and  a  very  splendid  and  refined  taste 
in  ardntactuie^  d.  4th  December,  1783,  when  the 

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Eabldom  or  Bi7Bi.t«OTOir>  and  BABomr  or  Cx.iir^ 
roKD,  in  the  pMnge  of  Bnglmd  expind,  while  the 
Irish  hooon  devolved  upon  his  kinsman,  Johm, 
fifth  Eaul  or  OnnnnY  (see  Earl  of  Cork,  in  ex- 
tant peerage).  The  deceased  nobleman's  extensive 
estates,  at  Chiswick,  in  the  county  of  Middlesex, 
and  at  Lismore,  in  the  county  of  Waterftnrd,  with 
Burlington  Houae^  in  London,  passed  with  his  lord- 
ship's only  surviving  daughter  and  heireM,  Charlotte 
Elisabeth,  Marchioness  of  Hartington,  into  the 
Devonshire  fiunily. 
Arms. — Per  bend  cranelle,  ar.  and  gules. 

BOYLE— BARON  CARLTON* 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  28th  October,  1714 

The  Right  Honorable, 

HENRY  BOYLE,  (third  son  of  Charles,  Lord 
CUflbrd,  by  his  first  wife.  Lady  Jane  Seymour, 
daughter  of  William,  Duke  of  Somerset,)  repre- 
sentative in  parliament  for  the  University  of  Cam- 
bridge, and  for  the  dty  of  Westminster,  was 
devated  to  the  peerage  oif  England,  on  the  flSth 
October,  1714,  in  the  dignity  of  Babow  Caelton, 
and  was  constituted  lord  president  of  the  council, 
on  the  14th  March,  1724.  His  lordship  had  pre- 
viously fiUed  the  offices  of  cfaancdlor  of  the  ex- 
chequer, (1701,)  and  principal  secretary  of  state, 
(1707)«  He  was  made  Hior  TRBASunna  or  Irb- 
LAND  in  1704,  during  the  minority  of  Richard, 
Earl  of  Cork,  and  he  was  constituted  one  of  the 
commissioners  for  the  union  with  Scotland,  in 
1706.  His  lordship  died  unmarried,  on  the  14th 
March,  1724,  when  the  BAaoif  y  or  Carlton  be- 
came BXTINCT. 

BRADESTON  —  BARONS  BRADES- 

TON. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  26th  February,  1322> 
16  Edward  lU. 

ICmfafif. 

The  fest  person  of  this  fiunily,  of  whom  any- 
thing memorable  occurs,  is 

THOMAS  DE  BRADESTON,  of  Bradeston,  in 
the  county  of  Gloucester,  the  andent  seat  of  his 
predecessors,  (all  of  whom  were  homagen  to  the 
castle  of  Berkeley,  for  their  manors  of  Bradeston 
and  Stinchomnbe,  which  they  held  by  kni^t's  ser- 
vice,) who,  in  the  10th  and  13th  of  Edward  IL, 
was  engaged  in  the  Scottish  warsi  but  in  the  16th 
of  the  same  monarch,  adhering  to  the  Lord  Berke- 
ley against  the  ftvourite  Spencer,  his  lands  were 
seiaed  by  the  crown:  he  was,  however,  the  next 
year  included  in  a  general  amnesty,  and  upon  pay- 
ing an  hundred  marks  and  renewing  his  oath  of 
aU^glance,  had  his  property  restored.  He  was 
afterwards  constituted  keeper  of  Kingswood  Chase, 
near  Brist<d,  and  governor  of  Berkeley  Castle;  and 
subsequently  taking  part  with  the  queen  oonaort, 
Isabella,  he  waa  made  one  of  the  gentlemen  of  the 
privy  chamberj  at  the  accassioa  of  the  young  King 
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Edward  III.,  end  through  dia  inflmre  of  th* 
queen,  obtained  a  grant  of  three  considerable  ward- 
ships. In  the  4th  of  the  new  monarch,  he  waa 
honoured  with  knighthood,  by  bathing,  &c« 
having  robes  and  all  other  things  iq^^^rtaining 
to  that  solemnity,  allowed  him  firom  the  king's 
wardrobe,  as  in  the  case  of  a  banneret.  In  the 
next  year,  he  was  constituted  provost  of  a  cer- 
tain part  of  Aquitain,  and  had  a  confirmation  of  a 
grant  made  to  him  by  Queen  Isabella,  of  the  castle, 
Berton  and  Tyne,  of  Gloucester,  for  life,  upon  pay- 
ing £l.  and  £10l  yearly,  into  the  exchequer.  Sir 
Thomas  was  afterwards  engaged  in  the  Scottish 
wars,  and  had  extensive  grants  of  forHeited  lands 
for  his  services,  in  Scotland,  particularly  those  of 
Patxic  de  Dunbar,  Earl  of  March.  In  the  11th  of 
Edward  III.,  he  had  a  grant  of  a  ship,  called  The 
Christmab,  taken  in  fight,  Aom  the  French,  by 
the  merchants  of  Bristol  t  and,  in  the  next  year, 
was  in  the  grand  expeditions  made  into  Flanden 
and  Scotland,  and  for  his  good  services,  was  made 
a  Knight  Banncrxt.  Continuing  actively  en- 
gaged in  foreign  warfare,  and  acquiring  fresh  repu- 
tation each  succeeding  campaign.  Sir  Thomas  de  Br»> 
deston  was  summoned  to  parliament  as  a  Baron,  on 
the  2Sth  of  February,  1S4S,  and  from  that  period 
until  the  3rd  April,  1360,  during  which  Interval 
his  services  were  remunerated  by  extensive  terri- 
torial grants,  and  by  hig^  and  lucrative  employ- 
ments. This  nobleman  inppears  to  have  had  one 
son,  RoBBftT,  who  predeceased  him,  leaving  an  only 
son,  Thomas.  Of  Robert,  the  only  thing  memo- 
rable is,  that  having  been  taken  prisoner  in  the 
19th  of  Edward  III.,  by  the  dtiacns  of  Pisa,  in  hia 
journey  to  the  Holy  Land,  the  English  monarch 
caused  all  the  merchants  of  Pisa,  as  well  as  those  of 
St.  Luca,  then  in  London,  with  their  goods,  to  be 
seised,  until  he  was  released,  twelve  of  the  prin» 
cipal  of  whom  wera  committed  to  the  Tower,  and 
not  discharged  until  bidl  was  given  that  young 
Bradeston  should  be  forthwith  enlarged.  His  lord- 
ship d,  in  1360,  and  was  »,  by  his  grandson, 

THOMAS  DE   BRADESTON,   second  Baron, 
but  never  summoned  to  parliament.     This  nobto- 
man,    like    his    predecessors,    having    a   martial 
spirit,  was  in  the  expedition  against  France^  in 
the  43rd  of  Edward  III.,  before  he  had  attained 
mejority.    He  died,  however,  in  five  years  after- 
wards, leaving  an  infiut,  only  daughter  and  heirew, 
Ejuizabbth,  who,  in  the  rtign  of  Richard  IL, 
made  proof  of  her  age,  and  had  livery  of 
her  lands,  being  then  the  wife  of  Walter  de 
la  Pole,  by  whom  she  left  a  daughter  and 
heiress, 

—— ,  who  IN.  —  Ingoldsthorp,  whose 
heir  general  espoused  John  Nxvix., 
Marquess  of  Montagu,  brother  to  the 
celebrated  Richard  Nevil,  Earl  of  War- 
wick. 
ARifa.^-Ar.  ona  canton  gu.  a  rose  or  barbed  vert. 

BRANDON—DUKES  OF  SUFFOLK. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  1st  February,  1514^ 

Xincagc. 

SIR  WILLIAM  BRANDONj  Kmt.  hid,  witli 


BRA 


BRA 


ottier  imom,  bj  hta  wHt,  KBttlMCh,  dnightflr  ofSir 
Robart  Wfaigfleid,  Knt.,  two  Mm*,  lioth  aMlooa 
partJMiw  of  H«i7  of  Rkhmond,  in  his  oontast  with 
RidMid  III.    Tbe  younger, 

TnoMAS,  Bring  to  witneM  the  ■cccnion  of  his 
patron  to  the  crown,  as  Henry  VII.,  was 
made  one  of  the  esquires  of  that  kin^s  body, 
and  bore  his  bacUer  at  the  battle  of  Stokb. 
In  consideration  of  which,  and  other  ser- 
TieCB,  he  obtained  the  wardship  of  Ridkard 
Fcnys,  ion  and  heir  of  William  Penys,  Lord 
Say,  with  the  bencflt  of  his  marriages  and 
befinre  the  termination  of  the  same  reign, 
was  installed  a  kviobt  of  the  most  xoblb 
order  of  the  Gartsb.-  Sir  Thomas  d,  in 
the  first  year  of  Henry  VIII.,  being  then  one 
of  the  Icnjghts  of  the  lung^  body,  and  mar- 
shal of  tibe  court  of  commoB^leM.    He  left 


SIR  WILLIAM  BRANDON,  standard-bearer  at 
Bosworth,  fell  by  the  hand  of  King  Richard  in  that 
oeidnated  field,  leaving  by  his  wife,  Elisabeth, 
danghtrr  and  co-heir  of  $ir  Henry  Bruyn,  &nt.»  a 
aon  and  heir, 

CHARLES  BRANDON.  ««  Which  Charles," 
says  Dogdale,  *■  being  a  penon  comely  of  stature 
high  of  courage^  and  conformity  of  disposition,  to 
King  Henry  VIII.,  became  so  acceptaUe  to  him, 
especially  in  all  his  youthftil  exerrises  and  pastimes, 
ae  that  he  soon  attained  great  adTancement,  both  in 
titles  of  honor,  and  otherwise.**  In  the  1st  of 
Hony  he  was  made  one  of  the  esquires  of  the  king's 
body,  and  chamberlain  of  the  principality  of  North 
Waltt,  in  the4th  he  distinguished  himsdf  in  a  nar 
-vnl  engagement  off  Brest,  and  tibe  next  year,  attend- 
ing the  king  upon  the  expedition  of  T^emtnt  and 
IWtmoy.  he  was  derated  to  the  peerage  (ffthMardi, 
5th  Henry  VIII.)  as  Viecoirirr  L'Islb,  and  ap- 
pointed commander  of  tibe  adTanced  guard  of  the 
amy:  in  which  campaign  he  bdiaved  so  ▼aliantly^ 
tiaat,  in  reward  of  his  distinguislied  services,  he  was 
ocnted*  in  the  following  February,  (anno  1A14,) 
Dmut  ow  ScFVOLK,  and  shortly  afterwards,  assist- 
ing  at  the  coronation  of  the  Lady  Mary,  (King 
Henry's  sister,)  then  wife  of  Lewis  XII.  of  France, 
at  St.  Dennis,  he  acquired  so  much  renown  by 
ovotiirowing  the  knight  with  whom  he  tilted  at  a 
iMluMdy  tournament,  ceielMtBted  upon  the  occasion, 
that  he  won  the  affections  of  the  queen,  who,  upon 
the  ilet— sf  of  her  royal  husband,  which  occurred 
aoon  after*  bestowed  upon  him  her  hand  i  and  hav- 
ing reeonciled  the  kings  of  England  and  France  to 
the  union,  he  obtained  fkom  the  fonner  a  grant  in 
general  tail,  <rfall  the  hnrddiips,  manors,  Ace.,  whidi 
had  prevkmsly  belonged  to  Edmund  de  la  Pole, 
Poke  of  Snflblk  (who  was  beheaded  and  attainted 
In  1513).  Htograce  made  (me  of  the  retinue  of  his 
loyal  master  at  his  magnificent  interview  with 
Frauds  L  upon  "the  field  of  the  Cloth  of  Gold," 
between  Guisnes  and  Ardres,  in  Picardy;  and,  in 
the  next  year,  (15th  Henry  VIII.,)  he  led  an  army 
Bfaneet  to  the  gates  of  Paris,  to  the  great  constenia- 
tSon  of  the  good  cttlaans,  whose  destruction  was 
•vetted  only  by  the  recal  of  the  generaL  In  the 
tlat  of  Henry  VIII.  be  was  one  of  thopeers  who 


SBbfoibed  the  arttdas  agaiiiet  Cferilnal  Wolsey,  and, 
in  the  next  year,  the  dedaration  to  Pope  Clo- 
ment  VIL  icgarding  the  king's  divorce  Ihn  Queen 
Katherineb  His  grace  was  afterwards  constituted 
chief  justice  in  Eyic  of  all  the  king's  Ibiests,  and  at 
the  dissolution  of  the  gnat  monasteries  he  had  a 
huge  proportion  of  the  sptrfL  The  duke  was  also 
a  KBiOHT  of  the  most  koblb  order  of  the  Oabtbb. 
Hb  grace  married  no  less  than  ftmr  wives,  first, 
Margaret,  daughter  of  Jolm  Novil,  Marquem 
of  Montagu,  and  widow  of  Sir  John  Mottimir,  by 
whom  he  had  no  issue)  secondly,  Anne,  daughter 
of  Sir  Anthony  Browne,  Knt.,  governor  of  Calais, 
by  whom  he  had  two  daughters— 

Amwb  ml  to  Sir  Edward  Grey,  Lord  Powys. 
Mary,  m.  to  Thomas  Stanley,  Lord  Monteagle. 
His  grace  espoused,  thirdly,  the  Lady  Mary  Tudor, 
second  daughter  of  King  Henry-  VI L»  end  queen 
dowager  of  (Lewis  XII.,  king  of)  France,  by  whom 
hehadiasue-- 

Hbbrt,  created  Eabx.  or  Liifcoi.H  in  1585, 
who  predeceased  the  duke  unmanied,  when 
the  BA  BLOOM  of  Lincoln  expired. 
Frances,  m.,  first,  to  Henry  Grey,  third  Mar- 
quess of  Dorset,  who  was  created  Duxx  or 
SurroLK  after  the  decease  of  his  wiftTs  half 
brother,  Henry  Brandon,  (last  duke  of  that 
family,)  in  1551,  but  beheaded  and  attainted 
in  thive  years  afterwards.    The  iMue  of  this 
marriage  were  ■ 
Laov  Javb  Obby,  the  amiable  but  un- 
fortunate aspirant  to  the  crown  at  the 
decease  of  Edward  VI. 
Lady  Catherine  Grey,  the  unhappy  wifii 
of  Edward  Seymour,  Earl  of  Hertford, 
d.  a  prisoner  in  the  Tower  in  1587. 
Lady  Mary   Grey,  m.  to  Martin  Keys, 
Esq. 
Her  grace  married,  secondly,  Adrian  Stokes. 
Eleanor,  m.  to  Henry  Cliflbrd,  Earl  of  Cum- 
berland. 
His  grace  in.,  Ibnrthly,  Catherine,  Baroness  Wil- 
kmghby  de  Eresby,  (only  daughter  and  hdress  of 
William,  Lord  WUloughby,  who  d.  in  IMS,)   by 
whom  he  had  two  sons, 
Hbwry,  his  succeieor, 
Charlei. 
Outrtet  Brandon,  Dokb  or  Snrrox.K,   d.  on  the 
94th  August,  1545,  and  was  «.  by  his  elder  son, 

HENRV  BRANDON,  second  duke,  who,  with  his 
brother  Charles,  died  in  minority,  14th  July,  1551, 
at  the  residence  of  the  Bishop  of  Lincoln  at  Bugden, 
in  Huntingdonshire,  of  the  sweating  sickness,  when 
the  DUKBDOM  or  SurroLK  became  BXTiifcr.  The 
patent  of  the  Viscounty  or  L'Islb  was  cancelled 
soon  after  its  creation,  owing  to  the  reftisal  of  Eliza- 
beth Grey  (only  daughter  and  heiress  of  John  Grey, 
Viscount  L'Isle,  at  whose  decease  that  dignity  ex- 
pired in  the  Grey  family,  in  1519,)  to  fulfil,  on  com- 
ing of  age,  her  marriage  oontoact  with  his  grace, 
then  Charles  Brandon,  Viscount  L'Isle,  the  said 
patent  being  hi  reversion  to  his  Issue  by  that  huly. 
Miss  Grey  afterwards  married  Henry  Courtenay, 
second  Earl  of  Devonshire,  and  d,  lasueleBs. 

ABMSd— Barry  of  tan  ar.  and  gu.,  over  all  a  lion 
rampant  im  crowned  per  pale  as. 

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NoTS.-*lB  the  Bud  of  Eliubeth  the  extttsire  pos- 
Msaiont  of  this  oelelin^ed  Duke  of  Suflblk  were 
shered  amongit  the  deeoendants  of  Sir  William  Bran- 
don* his  grandfather,  tIs.-^ 

Sir  Henry  Sidney,  Knt.,  descended  from  John 

Sidney  and  Anna  Brandon. 
WilUam  Cavendish,  Esq.,  firom  John  Caren- 

dish  and  Elisabeth  Brandon. 
Thomas  Glenham,  Esq.,  ftom         ■    ■   Glen- 

ham  and  Alianora  Brand<m. 
Franis  Kersey,  Esq.,  son  of  John  Kersey,  by 
Margaret  LoTel,  daughter   and  heiress  of 
Margaret  Brandon,  hy  her  husband,  LoTel, 
Esq. 
Christian  Darnell,  widow. 
Walter  Asoough,  Esq.,  and  his  son. 
Henry  Ascough. 
John  Tyre,  Esq. 

BRANDON— EARL  OF  LINCOLN. 

See  Brandon,  Duke  of  Suffolk. 

BRAY— BARONS  BRAY. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  3d  November,  1589. 
21  Henry  VIII. 

ICineagc. 

SIR  REGINALD  BRAY,  Knight  Bannexvt,  and 
Knight  of  the  Garter,  (the  first  member  of  this 
family  mentioned  by  Dugdale,  as  of  note,)  was  in 
the  service  of  Margaret,  Countess  of  Richmond,  at 
the  m  tsasion  of  Ridiaxd  III.,  and  contributed  his 
exertions  to  the  devalion  of  her  ladyship's  son  to 
the  throne,  as  Henry  VIL  Sir  Reginald  d,  without 
issue*  and  Margery,  the  only  daughter  of  his  brother 
John,  became  his  heir,  which  Margery  m.  Sir  Wil- 
liam Sandys,  afterwards  Lord  Sandys.  Sir  Reginald 
Bray  had,  however,  another  brother,lKbose  son  and 
heir,  '^^^ 

SIR  EDMUND  BRAY,  KnL,  was  summoned  to 
par&ament  as  a  babon,  ttom  the  ad  November, 
Ua9,  to  8th  June,  1536.  His  lordship  m.  Jane, 
daiighter,  and  heiress  of  Richard  HaliweU,  (by  his 
wife,  Anne,  daiighter,  and  heirew  of  Sir  John  Nor- 
bury,  Knt,  grandson  of  Sir  John  Norbury,  Knt, 
by  Elisabeth,  eldest  sister,  and  co-heir  of  Ralph 
Boteler,  Lord  Sudley,)  and  had  Issu^- 
JoMir,  his  successor. 

Anne,  m.  George  Brooke,  Lord  Cofaham.  ^ 
Elixabeth,  m.  first,  to  Sir  Ralph  Vem^,  and 

secondly,  to  Sir  Richard  Catesby.       .  ^ 
Frediswide,  m.  to  Sir  Percival  Ha^  ^0  "^ 
Mary,  m.  to  Robert  PeckhamiEsoT 
Dorothy,  m.  first,  to  Edmund,  Lord  Chandoe, 
and  secondly,  to  WiUiam,  Lord   Knolles, 
K.G.       iV:!.*v^   tU/i^ 
Frances,  m.  to  Thomas  Lifidd,  Esq.,  of  Stoke 
D'Aubemon,  Surrey,  and  left  a  daughter, 
and  heiress, 

Jane,  who  m.  Thomas  Vincent,  Esq., 
lineal  ancestor  (rf  the  present  Sir  Fran- 
cu  Vincent,  Bart.,  of  Stoke  D'Auber- 
mm.  /}.  154^ 

Lord  Bray  d.  in  1539,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 
80 


JOHN  BRAY,  second  baron,  summoned  to  par* 
llament  from  the  3d  November,  1545,  to  the  81st 
October,  1556.  This  nobleman  was  a  commanding 
officer  in  the  expedition  nuide  into  France  under 
the  Earl  of  Hertford,  in  the  38th  of  Henry  VIII. ; 
and  upon  the  insurrectian  in  Norfolk,  in  the  Sd  of 
Edward  VI.,  his  lordship  marched  with  the  Mar- 
quess of  Northampton  for  its  suppression ;  and  in 
three  years  afterwards  he  was  appointed  to  attend 
the  same  nobleman  upon  his  embassy  into  France, 
as  bearer  of  the  order  of  the  garter  to  the  Frendi 
monarch.  In  the  4th  year  of  Mary,  he  assisted  at 
the  siege  of  St.  Quintius,  in  Picardy.  His  lordship 
m.  Anne,  daughter  of  Francis,  Earl  of  Shrewsbury, 
but  dying  «.  ^  on  the  18th  November,  1557,  his 
estates  devolved  upon  his  sisters,  and  the  Barony 
or  Bbay,  fdl  into  abbyancb,  amongst  these  ladies, 
as  it  still  continues  with  their  descendants. 

Arms.— Ar.  a  chev.  betw.  three  eagles  legs  erased 
Jilitquis^,sa. 

BROMFLETE— BARON  OF  VESCY. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  24th  January,  1449, 
27  Henry  VL 

In  the  11th  year  of  Richard  II., 

THOMAS  DE  BROMFLETE  obtained  a  char^ 
tar  of  firee  warren  in  all  his  demesne  lands  in  the 
county  of  York,  and  marrying  in  two  years  after- 
wards, Margaret,  daughter,  and  heiress  of  Sir  John 
St.  Jbhn,  Knt,  by  Anastasie,  daughter,  and  co-heir 
of  WiUiam  de  Aton,  Lord  of  Vesd,  had  livery  of 
the  lands  of  her  inheritance^  In  the  19th  of  the 
same  reign  he  was  constituted  the  king's  chief  butler, 
and  received  the  honor  of  knighthood.  In  the  9d 
of  Henry  V.,  Sir  Thomas  served  the  oflice  of  sheriiT 
of  Yorkshire,  and  was  governor  of  the  castle  at 
York.  He  d.  in  the  9th  of  Henry  VL,  and  was  #« 
by  his  only  surviving  son, 

SIR  HENRY  DE  BROMFLETE,  Knt.,  who 
had  then  livery  of  Ms  lands,  and  was  soon  after  con- 
stituted slieiiff  of  the  county  of  York,  and  governor 
of  the  castle  there.  In  the  12th  of  Henry  VI.,  Sir 
Henry  was  sent  ambassador  to  the  great  council, 
holden  at  Basil,  in  Germany;  having  license  to  take 
with  him,  in  gold,  silver,  jewels,  and  plate,  to  the 
value  of  £2000  sterling,  and  an  assignfttion  of  £300 
tot  every  half  year  he- should  lie  detained  upon  the 
mission,  beyond  the  first  six  months.  In  the  STth 
of  the  same  reign,  he  was  summoned  to  pariiament 
by  special  writ,  dated  24th  January,  (1440,)  as 
"  Hbnrico  Bromplbts  db  Vbbci,  Chbtalibr," 
in  remainder  to  the  heirs  male  of  hb  body,  being 
the  >lrsf  and  tmlp  writ  with  such  a  UtmUatUm.  His 
lordship  had  afterwards  a  specific  dispensation  firom 
the  duty  of  attendbig  parliament,  in  consideration 
of  hb  emhient  services  to  King  Henry  V.,  in  that 
monarch's  wars  of  France  and  Normandy,  fbr  whldt 
he  had  never  received  any  remuneratian,  and  in 
consideration,  likewise,  of  his  advanced  age.  Lord 
Vescy'k.  on  the  ath  January,  140B,  and  leaving  no 
male  issue,  the  baroitv  BXPiRBn,  according  to  the 
teems  of  the  writ.  A  portion  of  his  hnrdahlpFs  cstatci 


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bf  his  wUl,  to  nligioufl  purpoMt* 
while  the  icnudnder  devolved  i^msd  his  only  dragh- 

Maaoabbt  db  Bbomvlbtb,  who  m.  flnt» 
John  CUflnd,  Lord  Cliflbrd.  who  lUl  at  the 
battle  of  Towton,  on  the  1st  of  Henry  IV.* 
(see  ClilRvd,  Lords  CliAird,)  and  Moondly, 
Sir  Lancelot  Threlkdd.  Knt.»  by  whom  ihe 
had  three  dau^ters,  viz.  ^-< 
^~->  m.  to  Thomas  Dudley. 
-~— ,  IN.  to  James  Pickering. 
Winifred,  m.  to  William  Pickering. 
Henry  Bromflete,  Lord  VcMy,  was  summoned  to 
parliaaient  altogether,  ftom  the  84th  Jsnuary,  1440, 
to  the  »th  February,  140& 

a  bend  florte  oounter-florte,  or. 


BROOKE—BARONS  COBHAM. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  8th  January,  1313, 

6  Edward  II. 

Xincagt. 

This  ancient  barony  came  into  the  fiunily  of  Brooke, 
with  Joane,  only  ditnghter,  and  heiren  of  Sir  Rcgi> 
neld  Bnrybroke,  and  his  wife,  Joane  de  la  Pole, 
gnad-dougbter  and  heireis  of  John  Cobham,  second 
and  last  Lord  Cobham,  of  that  flunily,  (tee  Cobbam, 
Barans  Cobham,)  which 

JOANE  BRAYBROKE  espoused  Sib  Thomas 
Bbokb,  Knt.,  and  had  iMue, 

SIR  EDWARD  BROOKE,  KnL,  who  was  sum- 
Booad  to  parliament  as  ■«  EnwrABOO  Bbookb  db 
Cobham,  Cbbtalibb,"  ftom  the  13th  January, 
1445,  to  the  30th  July,  1400.  (The  bsrony  of  Cob- 
ham  had  lafan  dormant  from  the  execution  of  Sir 
John  OldcBstle,  Lord  Cobham,  until  the  iisue  of 
the  flist  of  these  summonies.)  His  lordship  was  a 
aealous  supporter  of  the  hooae  of  York,  under  whose 
banner  he  participated  in  the  victory  of  St  Albans, 
in  the  33d  of  Henry  VI.,  snd  commanded  tlie  left 
wing  ot  the  Yorlohiremen  at  Northampton.  He  m. 
EBaabeth,  daughter  at  James,  Lord  Audley,  and 
dyia^  in  1404,  was  «.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  BROOKE,  who  was  summoned  to  parliap 
ment  as  Loan  Cobram,  Arom  the  19th  August,  1472, 
to  the  Iflth  Jsnuary,  1407'  This  nobleman  dlstin- 
gnisfaed  hlmielf  in  arms  in  therelgns  of  Edward  IV., 
and  Henry  YIL  His  lordship  m.  Margaret,  daugh- 
ter of  Edw^  Nevil,  Lord  Abergavenny,  and  dying 
hi  UOB,  was«.  by  his  ion, 

THOMAS  BROOKE,  rammoned  to  parliament, 
Aran  17th  October,  1500,  to  ISth  November,  1513. 
His  lofldafaip  attended  King  Henry  VIII.  into  France 
at  tiie  taking  of  Toumay.  He  m.  thrice,  but  had 
issue  by  his  first  wife,  Dorothy,  daughter  of  Sir 
Henry  Heyden,  only,  and  dying  in  IfiSO,  was  «.  by 
hSsddcst  ion, 

GEORGE  BROOKE,  summoned  to  parliament, 
firomad  November,  15ao,  to flOth January,  15fi&  Upon 
thediieofaation  of  thegrcater  monasteries  in  the  reign 
of  Henry  VIIL,  this  nobleman  obtained  a  grant  in 
Urn  of  the  manor  of  Chattingdon,  In  Kent{  as  also 
of  the  eoUige  of  CObham,  and  in  the  5th  of  Edward 
VI.,  on  some  apprehension  of  danger  from^the 
Fvendk,  he  was  constituted  lieutenant-general  of 
those  forces  which  were  sent  Into  the  north  for  the 


purpose  of  faiUfying  some  havaos  thersk  At  the 
secession  of  Queen  Mary  he  was  oonunitted  to  the 
Tower  on  suspicion  of  bsing  implicated  in  the  tree- 
son  of  Sir  Thomas  Wyat,  but  was  soon  afterwards 
Uberated.  His  lordship  in.  Anne,  dau^ter  of  Ed- 
mund, Lord  Bray,  and  had  issue,  William,  hb 
suooessor,  with  seven  other  sons,  the  fifth  of  whom, 
Henry,  was  ancestor  of  the  Brofrites,  of  HeUnton, 
and  two  daughters,  namely^— 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  William  Parr,  Marquess  of 

Northampton,  (his  lordship's  second  wifo). 
Katharine,  m.  to  John  Jcmingham,  Esq. 
Lord  Cobham,  who  was  a  knight  of  the  garter,  d,  at 
Col>ham  Hall,  on  the  20th  September,  156B,  and  was 
«.  by  his  eldest  son, 

WILLIAM  BROOKE,  summoned  to  parliament, 
firom  1508  to  13B&  This  noMeman  bsing  lord  warden 
of  the  cinque  ports  at  the  death  of  Queen  Mary,  was 
deputed  to  announce  to  the  Spaniards,  in  the  Nether- 
lends,  the  accession  of  Elisabeth,  and  to  acquaint 
them  that  her  nu^esty  had  added  to  the  commission, 
appointed  to  negotiate  a  peace  atCambray,  William, 
Lord  Howard,  of  Efflngliam.  In  the  14th  of  Elisa- 
beth, Us  lordship  being  one  of  those  committed  to 
the  Tower  of  London,  for  participathig  in  the  de- 
signs of  the  Duke  of  Norfolk,  regarding  that  noble- 
man's marriage  with  Mary,  Queen  at  Scots,  made  a 
discovery  of  all  he  knew  of  the  aflUr,  in  the  hope  of 
obtaining  his  own  pardon.  The  baron  was  subse- 
quently employed  upon  two  occssions  to  treat  of 
peace  with  Franca  He  was  afterwards  constable  of 
Dover  Castls,  and  warden  of  the  dnque  ports,  lord 
dbamberiain  of  the  housdiold,  and  a  kkiobt  of  the 
most  NOBLB  order  of  the  Gabtbb.  His  lordship  m. 
first,  Dorothy,  daughter  of  George,  Lord  Aberga- 
venny, by  Mary,  daughter  of  Edward,  Duke  of 
BucklnghJsm,  by  whom  he  had  an  only  daughter, 
Frances,  m.  first,  to  Thomas  Coppinger,  Esq., 
of  Kent,  and  secondly,  to  Edmund  Beecher, 
Esq. 
Lord  Cobham,  m.  secondly,  Frances,  daughter  of 
Sir  John  Norton,  and  had  issuo^ 

MaadmiUan,  who  d.  before  bis  flither,  «.  p. 
Hbnby,  succewor  to  the  title. 
George,  executed  and  attainted  In  the  reign  of 
King  James  I.  ssa  participator  in  *<  Raleigh's 
conspiracy,"  and  left  Issue  by  his  wife,  EH- 
aabeth,  daughter  of  Thomas,  Lord  Borough, 
William,  restored  in  blood,  m.  Penelope, 
daughter  of  Sir  Moses  Hill,  Knt.^  and 
left  two  daughters,* 
— ,  m.  to  Sir  John  Denham,  Knt, 

the  poet. 
Hill,  m.  toSir  William  Boothley,  Knt 
William.  (Sir,)  killed  in  1507. 
Ebsabetb,  m.  to  Robert,  Earl  of  Salisbury. 
Frances,  m.  first  to  John,  Lord  Stourton,  and 

secondly,  to  Sir  Edward  Moore. 
Margaret,  m.  to  Sir  Thomas  Sondes,  Knt,  and 
had, 

Fbancbs,  m.  to  Sir  RIdurd  Levison, 
Knt,  and  left, 

SiB  John  Lbvisow,  Knt,  of  Tren- 

«  TotheBe1edle8,notwitlistandingtbeattalnder,  the 
king  grsnted  the  precedency  of  a  baron's  daughters. 
M  " 


BRO 


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Uum,    StAlRirdihlre,    who    had 

Sir  Rlduurd  LoiiKm,  K.B.»  died 
«.p. 

Frances,  m.  to  Sir  Thomas 
Gow«r>  aaoestor  of  the  Mar> 
quess  of  Stafford. 

Christiana,  m.  to  Sir  Pater  Tem- 
plei  of  Stowe,  in  the  county 
of  Bucks,  whose  grandson. 
Sir  Riclurd  Temple,  was  cre- 
ated in  1714,  Baron  Cohham, 
and  in  1718,  Viscount  and 
Baron  Cohham  (see  Temple, 
Lord  Cohham,  under  the  head 
of  Buckingham,  in  Burke'* 
DidUmarif  t^fthe  Petrage  and 


His  lordship  d.  In  1406,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 
HENRY  BROOKE,  summoned  to  parliament  on 
theMth  Octoher,  li97.  This  noUeman  was  constitut- 
ed by  Queen  Elisabeth,  warden  of  the  cinque  ports ; 
but  In  the  reign  of  King  James,  being  arraigned  with 
his  brother  George  fbr  participation  in  the  alleged 
treason  of  Sir  Walter  Raleigh,  they  were  Ibund 
guilty  and  condemned  to  death,  bat  Geoige  Brooke 
akme  suflbred.  His  lordship  was  repriered,  yet 
nevertheless  attainted,  and  left  to  drag  on  in  misny, 
and  the  most  wretched  porerty,  the  remainder  of  an 
unhappy  Hfb  in  impriaonment,  wherein  he  died  in 
KnUL  His  wife  was  Fmces,  daughter  of  Charles 
Howard,  Earl  of  Nottingham,  but  he  had  no  issuck 
Under  the  attainder  of  this  unfortunate  nobleman 
the  ancient  Baront  or  Cobham  skpirbd, 
although  his  nephew  and  heir  William  Cobham, 
(son  of  the  beheaded  and  attainted  George,)  was 
restored  in  blood  in  1610,  but  **  not  to  ee^oy  the 
title  of  Lord  Cobham  without  the  king's  espedal 
grace,"  which  was  never  coniteried  upon  him.* 

•  The  plot  in  whidi  Henry,  Lord  Cobham,  and 
his  brother  the  Honourable  Geoige  Brooke  were 
involved,  is  known  aa  the  **  Raleigh  Conspiracy," 
and  amongst  the  principal  actors  were  the  Lord 
Grey  of  Wilton,  Sir  George  Carew,  and  other  per- 
sons of  eminence.  Lord  Cobham  appears  to  have 
been  not  many  degrees  removed  firom  a  iool,  but 
e^)oyhig  the  favour  of  the  Queen,  he  was  a  fitting 
tool  in  the  hands  of  his  more  wily  associates.  Upon 
his  trial  he  was  dastardly  to  the  most  aliject  meanness. 

The  mode  of  bringing  the  prisoners  on  the  scaf- 
fold, and  aggravating  their  suArin^^  with  momen> 
tary  expectation  of  their  catastrophe,  before  the 
pre-lntended  pardon  was  produced,  was  a  piece  of 
management  and  contrivance  Ibr  whidi  King  James 
was  by  the  sycophants  of  the  court  very  highly  ex- 
tolled, but  such  a  course  was  universally  esteemed 
the  pitiAil  policy  of  a  weak  contemptible  mind. 

On  this  occasion,  however,  says  Sir  Dudley  Carle- 
ton,  CoUiam,  who  was  now  ■*  to  play  his  part," 
did  mudi  coain  the  world,  for  he  came  to  the  teat- 
fold  with  good  assuiance,  and  contempt  of  death. 
And  In  the  ahort  prayws  he  made,  so  outpiayed  the 
company  which  helped  to  pray  with  him,  that  a 
stander^by  observed,  *'  that  he  had  a  good  mouth  in 
a  cry,  but  was  nothing  single." 


AMfa— Gules,  a  dievraa  ar.  a  lion  rampant  sa. 
crowned  or* 

BROOK£~BARON  COBHAM. 

•      By  Letters  Patent,  dated  3rd  January,  1645, 

90  Charles  L 

SIR  JOHN  BROOKE  OP  HEKINGTON,  (son 
of  the  Honourable  Henry  Brooke,  5th  son  of 
George,  fourth  Lord  Cobham  of  that  fkmily,)  having 
eminently  distinguished  himself  In  the  cause  of 
King  Charles  I.,  was  elevated  to  the  peeiage  on  the 
3rd  January,  1645,  as  Lord  Cobham,  *'  to  ei^oy 
that  title  in  as  ample  a  manner  as  any  of  his  ances> 
tors  had  done,"  save  that  the  remaindership  was 
limited  to  hein  male  His  lordship  d.  in  1601, :  p. 
when  the  barony  bxpirbd. 

Arms. — Ou.  a  chevron  ar.  a  lion  rampant  sa. 
crowned  or. 

BROTHERTON  —  EARL    OF    NOR- 
FOLK. 

See  Plantagenet,  Earl  of  Norfolk. 

BROWN— VISCOUNTS  MONTACUTE 
OR  MONTAGU. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  2d  September,  1554. 

ICincagt. 

SIR  ANTHONY  BROWN,  who  was  made 
Knight  of  the  Bath  at  the  coronation  of  King 
Richard  II.,  left  two  sons,  the  younger.  Sir  Stephen 
Brown,  Lord  Mayor  of  London,  in  1439,  imported 
during  his  mayoralty,  large  cargoes  of  rye  from 
Prussia,  in  consequence  of  the  scarcity  of  wheat, 
and  distributed  them  amongst  the  poorer  rinses  of 
the  people  The  elder  son, 
SIR  ROBERT  BROWN,  was  father  ot 
SIR  THOMAS  BROWN,  treasurer  of  the  house- 
hold to  King  Henry  VI.,  who  m.  Eleenor,  daughter 
and  co-heiress  of  Sir  Thomas  Fita-Alan,  and  nil 


After  they  were  remanded  (Sir  Dudley  says),  and 
brought  back  on  the  scaflbld,  *'  they  looked  strange 
on  one  another,  like  men  beheaded  aad  meTagain  in 
the  other  world."  He  Is  stated  to  have  died  In  « 
state  of  filth,  for  want  of  apparel  and  linen  t  which 
was  a  singular  Judgment,  that  a  man  of  near  jC7,000 
a  year,  and  a  k>enanal  estate  of  £30,000,  which 
should  have  escheated  to  the  crown,  but  whereof 
the  king  was  cheated,  should  die  fin-  want ;  as  in 
such  cases  the  king  usually  grents  main»f>aTH^ 
thereout,  though  not  from  the  revenue  of  the 
crown.  It  is  moreover  asserted,  that  the  lady  Cob- 
ham, his  wife,  though  very  rich,  would  not  even 
give  him  the  crumbs  from  her  table. 

Thus  the  noUe  mansion  of  Cobham  Hall,  in  Kent* 
with  the  surrounding  estate,  the  ancient  seat  of  the 
once  illustrious  and  spreading  branches  of  the  Cob> 
ham  funily,  fell  to  the  crown  i  and  were  granted  by 
James  L,  in  the  10th  of  his  reign,  to  his  kinsman, 
Lodowick  Stewart,  Duke  of  Lenox,  and  after  warda 
of  RIdimood,  from  whom  they  at  length  dnnemlfni 
thfongh  an  heiress  to  the  family  of  Bligh,  Baron  of 
Clifton  in  England,  and  Earls  of  Damley  in  Ire. 
land. 


BRO 


BRQ 


of  John*  Earl  of  AnukW*  bjr  whom  teaequired 
the  cMtle  of  Beachirarth,  in  Smnvjr,  and  had,  with 


George  <Slr)  of  Beechworth  Castle,  who,  in  the 
lat  RIdiard  IIL,  was  amongsf  those  ocdered 
to  be  i^pxehoMled  aradharsnts  of  the  Duke 
of  Buckingham.  From  this  Sir  George 
Brown  deMended, 

Sir  AMBBoac  Bboww,  Baronet  of  Beech- 
worth,  who  m.  EUaabeth,  daughter  and 
heireii  of  WUliam  Adair,  Esq.,  of 
SaAoD  WaUxon,  and  was  «.  by  his 


Sin  Adam  Bbowx,  second  baronet, 
whose  only  son  Amnosa,  pre* 
deceasing  him  unmanied,  the  ba- 
ronetcy and  Une  terminated  at  his 


WUliam,  died*.  Ik 
Anthony,  of  wliom  pvesently. 
Robsrt.  (Star)  m.  Mary,  daughter  of  Sir  Wil- 
liam Mallet.  KnC,  and  left  an  only  dau^ter 
•ad  hail  ess  Eleanor,  in.  first  to  Thomas 
Fogo,    Esq.,    and    secondly,    to    William 
Kempe^  Esq.,  of  Olantye,  Kent. 
Catherine,  m.  to  Humphrey  Sackvile.  Esq., 
of  BncidrarBty  tai  the  county  of  Sussex. 
The  third  sop, 
ANTHONY  BROWN,  waa  appointed  in  the  1st 
of  Henry  VIL  standaid-beaier,  fbr  the  whole 
of  England  and  elsewhere;  and  the  next  year, 
one  of  the  esquires  of  the  king's  body,  was 
<ooatituted  goretnor  of  Quesabotongh  Castle,  Kent. 
At  this  period  pertlcipating  In  the  victory  achieved 
tlie  Earl  of  Linodn,  and  Lambert  Simnell.  at 
he  moalved  the  honour  of  kni^thood. 
Sir  Anthony,  m.  Lucy,  one  of  the  daughters  and 
cm  lieiis  of  Johh  Nbtii.,  MAnQunaa  or  Moittaou, 
and  widow  of  Sir  Thomas  Flt>>wiiliams,  of  AkU 
warkc*  iu  the  county  of  York,  and  had  issue— 
AifTHOXT,  his  successor. 
Elizabeth,  m.  to  Henry  Somerset,   Earl  of 

Worcester. 
Lucy,  m.  to  Sir  Thomas  Cliflbrd,  Knt 
Sir  Anthony  was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR  ANTHONY  BROWN,  who  was  with  the 
Eail  of  Surrey.  Lord  High  Admiral,at  Sontthampton, 
in  the  14th  Henry  VIII.,  when  he  convoyed  the 
emperor  from  that  port  to  Biscay ;  and  after  land- 
ing at  MorMa,  in  Britamy,  was  knighted  for  his 
fallantry  in  the  assault,  and  winning  ct  that  town. 
In  twD  years  afterwards,  being  then  an  esquire  of 
die  honsehoM,  he  was  oneof  the  challengers  in  feaits 
of  annstaeld  at  Greenwich  before  theking;  and  the 
next  ynar  he  was  appointed  Lieutenant  of  the  Isle 
of  Man,  during  the  minority  of  the  Earl  of  Derby. 
After  tUs  be  was  twice  deputed  on  imp<»tant  oc- 
isador  to  tfie  court  of  France ;  and 
,  in  30th  of  the  sune  ttiffk  a  grant  of  the 
!  of  mastiFr  of  the  hoae,  with  the  annual  fee  of 
In  which  year  he  had  adso  a  grant  of 
the  house  and  acite  of  the  late  Monastery  of  Battle, 
in  the  county  of  Sussex.  In  th&next  year  he  was 
eleeted,  with  the  Lord  ChanceBor^Audiey,  a  khioht 
of  the  moat  noBLn  order  of  the  Oartxb.  In  the 
30th   of   Henry,    Sir   Anthony    was  constituted 


standanUbeawr  to  the  king,  and  was  nominaled  by 
his  nu^lesty  one  of  the  executors  to  his  wilL    Sir 
Anthaoy  Brown,  m.  Alice*  daughter  of  Sir  John 
Gege,  K.G.,  and  had,  with  other  issue— 
AvTBOif  y,  his  heir. 

William,  M.  Anne,  daughter  and  oo-heireM  of 
Hugh  Hastings,  Esq.,  by  whom  he  acquired 
Elalngt  ia  the  county  of  Southampton. 
Mary,  m.  to  John  Grey,  second  son  of  Thomas, 

Marquess  of  Detset. 
Mabel,  ei.  toGemld,  Earl  of  Kiktam 
Lucy,  IN.  to  Thomas  Roper,  Esq.,  of  Eltham, 
in  Kent. 
Sir  Anthony,  d.  8Ch  May,  IMS,  and  was «.  by  his 
eldest  son, 

SIR  ANTHONY  BROWN,  KxT.,  sheriff  of 
Surrey  and  Sussex  in  the  last  year  of  King  Ed- 
ward VL,  who  was  elevated  to  the  peerage  by  Queen 
Mary,  <m  the  tad  September,  1564,  in  the  dignity 
of  ViacoDKT  MonTAou,  apMl  immediately  after 
deputed,  by  order  of  parUamcnt»  with  Thomas 
Thurlby,  Bishop  of  Ely,  to  the  pope,  for  the  pur^ 
pose  of  reunltiag  the  reabn  of  England  with  the 
churdi  of  Rome.  In  the  next  ^ar  his  lordship  was 
installed  a  khi obt  of  the  most  ifOBi.n  order  of  the 
GAnrnn;  but  upon  the  accession  of  Queen  Elisa- 
beth his  name  was  left  out  of  the  privy  council, 
and  he  voted  soon  after,  in  his  place  in  parliament, 
with  the  Earl  of  Shrewsbury,  against  abolishing  the 
popcTs  supremacy.  Yet,  according  to  Camden,  he 
contrived  to  ingxatiata  himself  with  her  miOesty. 
**  Quesn  Elisabeth,"  says  that  writer,  *'  having  ex- 
perienced his  loyalty,  had  great  esteem  for  him, 
(though  he  was  a  stiff  Romanist,)  and  paid  him  a 
visit  some  time  before  his  death:  for  she  was  sensi- 
ble that  his  regard  for  that  reUgton  wm  owing  to  Ms 
cradle  and  education,  and  procaeded  rather  from 
principle  than  fisction,  as  some  peoplcTs  faith  did." 
His  lordship  m.,  first,  Jane,  daughter  of  Robert 
Ratclifl>»,  Earl  of  Sussexf  and  had  issue— 

Ajithowt,  who  pradeceased  him  on  the  flOth 

June,   1MB,  leaving   by  his  wife,   Mary« 

daughter  of  Sir  William  Dormer*  Knt.  of 

Bthorp,  in  the  county  of  Buck»— 

ANTBOiry,  who  succeeded  as  second  vie- 

count. 
Jolm,  m.  Anne,  daughter  of  — —  Oiflbrd, 
Esq.,  and  had 

Stanislaus,  whose  grsadson,  Mahk. 
AvTHoiry  Browk,  inherited  as 
ninth  viscouat 


Borothy,  m.  to  Edwaad  Lee,  Esq.,  of 
Stanton  Barry,  ib  the  county  of  Bucks. 
Jane,  m.  to  Sir  Geoige  Englefleld,  Bart. 
Catharine,  m.  to  -— >-  TrQgaaian,  Esq. 
Mary,  m,  lint,  to  Henry  Wriothesley,  Earl  of 
Southampton  t  secondly,  to  Sir  Thomas 
Heneage,  Knt. }  and  thiidly,  to  Sir  William 
Harvey,  BarL,  created  Lord  Ross  in  Ireland, 
and  Baron  Kidbrook  in  England. 
The  viscount  f*.,  secondly,  MagdalsB.  daughter  of 
WUliam,  Lord  Dacres  of  Gilleaknd.  .and  had,  with 
other  issue— 

Oeoi^e.  (Sir,)  of  Wtchant-Breue*  in  the  county 
of  Kent,  m.  Mary,  daughter  of  Sir  Robert 


BRO 


BRU 


Tlrwhitt,  of  Kctthby,  In  tlwooimty  of  Lin- 
cola,  Knt.»  and  had 

George,   m.    Eleanor,    dau|^t«r  of  Sir 

Richard  Blount,  of  Mapledurham,  in 

the  county  of  Oxford,  Knt.,  and  had 

two  tooB  and  a  daughter. 

Havy,  of  Kiddington,  in  the  coimty  of  Oxidrd, 

m.  Anne,  daughter  of  Sir  William  Catetby, 

Knt,  and  had 

PsTBR,  (Sir,)  who  was  slain  in  the  ser- 
vice of  King  Charles  I.,  leaving  two 
sons, 

HaxRY,  created  a  baronet  in  1658, 

with  reminder  to  his  brother. 
Francis. 
EUabeth,  m.  to  Sir  Robert  Dormer,  afterwards 

Lord  Dormer. 
Mabel,  m.  to  Sir  Henry  Capel,  ancestor  to  the 

Earl  of  Essex,    -ti^iu  iif".^^* 
Jui»t  m.  to  Sir  Francis  Lacon  of  WiUey,  in  the 
county  of  Salop,  Knt 
His  lordship,  who  was  on  the  trial  of  Mary,  Queen 
of  ScoU.  d.  on  the  19th  October,  Ifiitt,  and  was  «. 
by  his  grandson, 

ANTHONY  BROWN,  second  viscount,  whom,  in 
February,  1091,  Jane,  daughter  of  Thomas  Sack ville. 
Earl  of  Dorset,  Lord  High  Treesurer  of  England, 
and  had  issue— 

FnAwcra,  his  successor. 
Mary,  m,,  first,  to  William,  Lord  St.  John  of 
Basing  {  and  secondly,  to  William,  second 
son  of  Thomas,  Lord  Arundel  (rf  Wardour. 
Catherine,  m.  to  William  Tirwhitt,  Esq.,  of 
Kettleby. 

.       '  j- became  nims  abroad. 

Mary,  m.  to  Robert,  Lord  PeCre 
His  lordship  tf.  83rd  October,  1689,  and  was  «.  by 
hisscm, 

FRANCIS  BROWN,  third  viscount.  This  noble- 
man suflbred  conrtderably  In  the  royal  cause  during 
the  civil  wars,  but  lived  to  hail  therestoratlon  of  the 
monardiy.  His  lordship  m.  Eliaabeth,  youngest 
daughter  of  Henry  Somerset,  Marquess  of  Woroea- 
ter,  and  had  issue,  Francis  and  Henry,  sucoessivdy 
viscounts,  and  Elisabeth,  m.  to  Christopher  Roper, 
^  e  yw.V*«^  fl^  Loi^  Teynham.X'Hls  lordship  d.  on  the  Snd 
November,  1089,  and  was  «.  by  hb  elder  son, 
J  FRANCIS  BROWN,  fourth  viscount    This  no- 

.>TM*r  bleman,  who  was  a  lealous  catholic,  was  appointed 

lord-Ueutenantof  Sussex,  by  King  James  IL,  in  1687. 
His  lordship  m.  Mary,  daughter  of  William  Herbert, 
Marqueis  of  Powis,  and  widow  of  Robert  Molineux, 
ddest  son  of  Carryl,  Viscount  MoUiftux,  but  dying 
«.  p.  in  1706,  his  honors  devolved  upon  his  brother, 
HENRY  BROWN,  fifth  viscount,  who  m.  Bar- 
bara, daughter  of  James  WaUngham,   Esq.,   of 
Chesterford,  in  the  county  of  Essex,  and  had  lasuo— 
Aif THOWY,  his  sucoesaor. 
Mary,  d.  unmarried. 
Elisabeth*  a  nun. 
Barbara,  m.  to  Ralph  Salvin,  Esq. 
Catherine,  m.  to  George  Colingwood,  Esq.,  of 

Northumberland. 
Anne,  m,  to  Anthony  Kemp,  Esq.,  of  Slindon, 
in  Sussex. 
— ^  84 


Henrietta,  m.  to  Richiid  Hanaourt,  Esq. 
His  lordship  d.  on  the  SHh  June,  1717*  and  was  «,  toy 
his  son, 

ANTHONY  BROWN,  sixth  viscount  This  no- 
bleman m.  Frances,  sbter  of  Sir  Herbert  Macworth, 
Bart,  and  widow  of  Aleunder,  Lord  Halkerton,  by 
whom  be  had  issuer 

GaonoB-SAjf  UBi.,  his  successor. 
Elisabeth  Mary,  m.  in  1794,  to  WOUam  Stqthcn 
Poyntx,  Esq.,  of  Medgham,  Berks. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1787,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

GEORGE-SAMUEL  BROWN,  seventh  viscount, 
who  met  an  untimely  £ste,  in  a  rash  attempt  to  pass 
the  waterfalls  of  Schauffhausen,  accompanied  by  his 
friend,  Mr.  Sedley  Burdet,  in  a  small  flat^bottomed 
boat,  contrary  to  the  advice,  and  even  restriction  of 
the  local  magistrate,  who,  knowing  the  certain  re- 
sult of  so  unprecedented  an  enterprise,  had  placed 
guards  to  intercept  the  daring  travdlers.  They 
found  means,  however,  to  dude  every  precaution, 
and  having  pushed  off,  passed  the  first  fall  in  secu- 
rity, but  in  attempting  to  dear  the  second  they  dis- 
appeared, and  were  never  afterwards  seen  or  heard 
o£  It  b  presumed  that  the  boat,  impelled  by  the 
violence  of  the  cataract,  got  Jammed  between  the 
two  rocks,  and  was  thus  destroyed.  This  mdan- 
choly  event  occurred  in  I79S,  and  about  the  same 
period  his  lordship's  magnificent  maiydon  at  Cou- 
dray  was  accidentally  burnt  to  the  ground.  His 
lordship  dying  unmarried  the  viscounty  was  sup- 
posed to  devolve  upon  (the  grandson  of  Stanislaus 
Brown,  Esq.,  son  and  heir  of  John  Brown,  Esq., 
brother  of  Anthony,  second  viscount,  and  grandson 
of  the  first  lord)  hb  cousin, 

MARK  ANTHONY  BROWN,  Eeo.,  as  ninth 
Viscount  Montagu,  at  whoae  decease,  in  1797,  wltli- 
out  issue,  the  dignity  became  cxTXNcT. 

Anjfa.— Sa.  three  lion«  passant  in  bend  between 
two  double  ootcees  ar. 

BRUCE— BARON  BRUCE,  OF  ANAN- 

DALE. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  23rd  June,  li95, 
83  Edward  1st 

Xiitcagc. 

The  illustrious  fkmily  <tf  Bruce,  was  fbunded  in 
England,  by 

SIR  ROBERT  DE  BRUS,  a  noble  Norman, 
who  accompanied  the  conqueror,  and  obtained  no 
less  than  ninety-four  lordships  in  the  county  of 
York,  of  which  Skdton,  manor  and  castle, 
the  chief,  and  the  manors  of  Herts  and  H< 
in  the  bishopric  of  Dtirfaam.  This  eminent 
IN.  first,  Agnes,  daughter  of  Fulk  Paganal,  and  had 

iSBU»— 

AoAM,  who  «.  to  the  Yorkshire  estates,  and 
whose  male  line  terminated  with 

Pbtbe  ob  Bbvb,  in  1871,  at  whose 
decease,  «.  p,,  hb  great  possoesions  r»- 
verted  to  his  four  slstcts,  aaoo-heiressea. 
via. 

Margaret,  m.  to  Robert  de  Roos. 

Agnes,  m.  to  Walter  Fauoonberga 

Lucy,  m.  to  Marmeduke  de  Thweng. 

Laderine,  m,   to    John    de  Bellew. 


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BRU 


Sir  RolMrt,  m.  wtamdkj,  Agnet  Aaand,  a 
SeottWi  hnlKM,  liy  whom  be  aeqnind  th*  Lotd- 
ihip  of  AnmdaK  in  tlwt  Uofdom,  whkb»  with 
Hot  mtd  HwrtnoMj  he  liMtowed  upon  hi*  aon  liy 
thatlady, 

ROBERT  DE  BRUS,  of  whom  llttto  li  noontod. 
■IT*  KMoe  bene&ctioiis*  which  he  bestowed  upon 
thednndl    He  wiw  «.  by  hit  Mn, 

WILLIAM  DE  BRUS,  who  it  UkewiM  uano- 
tioed*  except  for  hit  rtUgione.  gnnto ;  he  was 
IMag  at  die  dote  of  the  twdfth  entiUT'-Huid  waa 
j^  at  hit  deoaate  by  fait  ton, 

ROBERT  DE  BRUS,  who  in.  Iiabtl,  daughter 
of  DsTid,  Earl  of  Huntingdon,  niece  of  Wzixiam, 
KiJre  or  Sooti.axd,  and  one  of  the  titters  and 
of  John*  tumaaoed  Scot,  Earl  of  Hunt- 
laat  Count  Palatine,  of  Chetter:  and 
c  byhiataa, 

ROBERT  DE  BRVS,  who,  in  the  34th  of 
Honry  III.,  wet  one  of  tlM  Juttleet  of  the  court 
at  Common  Pleat,  and  in  two  yean  afterwardt, 
doing  homage,  had  livery  of  the  gnrt  ettatet  which 
be  inherited  from  hit  mother.  In  the  aoth  of  the 
I,  he  wat  conttituted  ihariff  of  Cum- 
I,  and  governor  of  tiie  cattle  ot  Carlitla.  Ad- 
hering to  the  king  agafaitt  tlw  turbulont  baxont, 
be  ttaared  the  fortunet  of  hit  royal  matter,  and 
roee  again  into  power  after  the  triumph  of  the 
royal  axmt,  at  Eveaham,  (48th  Henry  IIL,)  when 
he  was  reinttated  in  hit  goremoiship  of  the  castle 
of  CarUtle.  Upon  the  demite  of  Aliwander  IIL, 
of  Scotland,  in  1296,  thit  English  feudal  knd,  pre- 
ferred his  cfadmt  to  the  Scottish  throne,  but  the 
matter  bdng  referred  to  the' arUtxatlon  of  King 
Edward,  of  Engjbmd,  that  monarch  dedded  tai  favor 
of  John  Battel,  the  grandaon  of  David,  Earl  of  Hun- 
tingdon, to  whom,  however.  Brut  refuted  to  do  ho- 
mage, and  thereupon  resigned  his  lands  in  Anandale, 
to  bis  eldest  son  Robbbt,  but  Robert  also  reftuing 
ftalty  to  the  new  king,  the  estates  were  transferred 
to  hk  second  son,  another  Robbbt,  who  complied 
widi  the  oonditian.  Robert  de  Brus,  in.  first, 
Isabel,  daughter  of  Gilbert  de  Claxe,  Earl  of  Glo- 
ceater,  by  whom  he  had  a  son,  Robbbt  the  elder. 
He  m.  aecoodly,  a  dau^ter  <rf  the  Earl  of  Carrick, 
and  had  the  younger, 

ROBERT  DE  BRUS,  who  did  homage  to  BaUol, 
aa  stated  above,  and  obtained,  in  consequence^  the 
Loidship  of  Anandale.  In  the  SSnd  of  Edward  I., 
this  feudal  baron,  had,  with  other  great  men,  sum- 
moos  to  repair  to  Portanouth,  upon  the  1st  day 
of  September,  wdl  fitted  with  horse  and  arms,  to 
attend  the  king  upon  an  expedition,  preparing  at 
that  period,  against  France:  but  dying  in  the  same 
year,  he  was  #.  by  his  son, 

ROBERT  BRUCE,  who  wat  summoned  aa  a 
Babow,  to  the  F^gM***  perilament,  from  the  23rd 
June,  lfi05,  to  98th  January,  1997*  m  "  Robert  de 
Bnie,  tenior,"  to  diattnguish  him  from  his  brother 
Robert  Bruce,  Earl  of  Carrick.  Thit  nobleman 
adhering  fldthfuUy  to  King  Edward  I.,  wat  en- 
gaged leveral  years  in  the  Scottish  wars.  His 
lordship  dying  «.  ^  in  1304,  the  babony  bxpibbd, 
wUia  his  landa  devcdved  upon  his  brother, 

Robbbt  Bbvcx,  Earl  of  Carrick,  who  was 
Kiifo  or  ScoTi«AND,  at  Scone, 


OB  thaMth  March,  1305.  and  olMahMd,  sub- 
sequently,  so  much   celebrity,  aa  *'  tvb 
Bava  or  BAXirocKBVBV."     He  was  tne- 
oaeded  upon  the  Scottish  throne,  by  his  sob, 
David,  who  d.  without  issue,  when  the 
crown    devolved   upon  his    nephew, 
(the  son  of  his  sitter  and  helreai.  Mar- 
gery,  by  Walter  Stewart,  Lord  High 
Steward  of  Scotland). 

Robbbt,  first  monarch  of  the  Bouaa 
of  Stbwabt. 
ABMa.— Or.  a  saltier  and  chief  gules. 

BRUCE  ~  EARLS  OF  AYLi^URY, 
BARONS  BRUCE  OF  WHORL- 
TON,  IN  THE  COUNTY  OF 
YORK. 


Barony 
Earldom 


}  By  Letteia  Patent,  {  ^^  ^""^^  '•^ 


18th  March,  1089. 

THOMAS  BRUCE,  flrat  Earl  of  Elgin  in  the 
peenge  of  Scotland,  was  cieattd  a  peer  of  Bi^laBd 
on  the  13th  July,  1640,  at  Babon  Bbvcb  or 
Wboblton,  in  Uke  oswn^r  ^f  York,  and  dying  In 
1863,  was  «.  by  his  only  son, 

ROBERT  BRUCE,  seoosid  Eari  of  Elgin,  who  was 
advanced  fai  the  peerage  of  England  on  the  18th 
March,  108^  to  the  dignities  of  Baron  Bruce  of 
SkMton,  in  the  county  of  YoriL,  Viscount  Bruce  of 
AmpthiU,  in  the  county  of  Bedfiwd,  end  Eabi.  or 
ATi.BaBUBY.  His  lordship  m.  Diana*  dau^ter  of 
Henry,  second  Earl  of  Stamfmrd,  and  dying  in  IflM^ 
wat ».  by  his  only  surviving  son, 

THOMAS  BRUCE,  third  Earl  of  Elgin,  andseoond 
Earl  of  Aylesbury,  who  m.,  first,  in  1676,  Elintbeth, 
daughter  of  Henry,  Lord  Beauchamp,  and  heiress 
of  her  brother,  William,  third  Duke  of  Someiaet, 
by  whom  be  had  issu»— 

Chablbb,  hb  successor,  who  wat  summoned 
to  parliameBt  in  1711*  as  Lobd  Bbucb  or 

WHOBJ<TOir. 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  George  Brudenell,  third  Earl 
of  Cardigan,  and  had  issue— 

Gbobob,  fourth  Earl  of  Cardigan,  «•• 
Mary*  daughter  of  John*  Duke  of 
Montagu,  and,  assuming  the  surname 
of  Montagu,  was  advanced,  at  the  d*. 
cease  of  his  fisther-in-law,  to  the  Mai- 
quisate  of  Montbermer,  and  Dukboom 
or  MoBTAOU.  His  grace  d.  in  1790,. 
leaving  one  married  daughter, 
Elisabeth,  Duchees  ci  Bucdeuch. 
James,  successor  to  his  brother,  as  fifth 

Earl  of  Cardigan. 
Robert,  whose  son  inherited  aa  sixth  Earl 

<rf  Cardigan, 
Thomab,  who,  upon  succeeding  his  uncle, 
the  Earl  of  Aylesbury,  in  the  barony 
of  Bbucb  of  Tottenham,  assumed  tne 
surname  of  Bruce,   and  waa    subse- 
quently created  Eabx.  or  AvLBaauBy. 
His  knrdship,  whom.,  secondly,  Charlotte,  Countess 
of  Sannu,  and  had  an  only  daughter,  Charlotte- 
Maria,  wife  of  Prince  Home,  died  in  1741i  and  wee 
«.  by  his  only  surviving  son, 

85 


BRU 


BRV 


OBORGB  BRUCE,  third  Earl  of  Aytebary,  and 

fourth  Ecrl  of  Elgin.  This  noUanuoim.  Anne,  eldMt 

djNighter,  and  one  of  the  co-hcin  of  William  Sa- 

vlle*  MarqiieM  of  Halifax*  by  whom  he  had  iMue-~ 

Robert,  m.  Franda,  daughter  of  Sir  William 

BlackeC,  Bart.,  and  died  before  his  Cither, 


Mary,  m.  to  Henry  Brydget,  Duke  of  CThandoa. 

Elisabeth,  m.,  in  1732,  to  Hon.  Benjamin 
Bathurat,  son  and  heir  ot  Allen,  Lord 
BathunL 
Hi*  lordship  m.,  secondly,  Juliana,  second  daughter 
of  Charles  Boyle,  Earl  of  Burlington,  but  had  no 
issuer  He  m.,  thirdly,  in  1739,  Caroline,  only 
daughter  of  General  John  Campbell,  and  niece  of 
the  Duke  of  Argyll,  by  whom  he  had  an  only 
daughter, 

Mary,  m.  in  1757,  to  Charles,  Duke  oi  Rich- 
mond. 
After  the  decease  of  his  son  the  Earl  of  Aylesbury 
and  Elgin  obtained,  by  letters  patent,  dated  17th 
April,  1746,  the  English  Bkrony  of  Bbvcn  or  Tot- 
TBNBAM,  in  the  county  of  Wilts,  in  remainder  to 
his  nephew,  the  Hon.  Thomas  BrudeneU.  His 
lordship  <(.  oo  tlM  10th  of  February,  1747,  when  his 
Scottbh  booori  passed  to  his  heirs  general,  (see 
Elgin,  BurkeTs  Peerage  and  Baronetage).  The  Eng- 
lish BAitoKY  ov  ToTTKWHAM  as  limited,  and  the 
Eabldom  or  AVLBSBUAY,  with  Us  lordship's  other 
English  honors,  nxpinnD. 

Arms.— Or.  a  saltier  and  chief  gu.  on  a  canton  ar. 
a  lion  rampant  aa. 

BRUOES— EARL  OF  WINCHESTER. 

By  Creation  in  open  Pariiament,  13th  Oct,  1472, 
IS  Edward  IV. 

Xincagc. 

LEWES  DE  BRUGES,  Lord  of  Gruthuae,  and 
Prince  of  Steenhuse,  a  Burgundian,  having  evinced 
the  greatest  sympathy  for  King  Edward  IV.,  during 
that  RMwarch's  exile,  (when  toned  to  fly  by  the 
Lancastrians  in  the  tenth  year  of  his  reign,)  at 
the  court  of  his  brother-in-law,  Charles  de  Valols, 
Duke  of  Burgundy,  waa  received  in  two  years 
afterwards  by  Edward,  then  re-established  monarch 
In  his  English  dominions,  with  the  highest  honors, 
and  as  a  testimony  of  the  gratitude  felt  by  the 
nation  towards  so  staunch  a  ftriend,  its  sovereign, 
the  House  of  Commons,  in  parliament  assembled, 
besought  the  king,  through  their  speaker,  William 
Alyngton,  to  bestow  upon  the  for^gn  prince  some 
especial  mark  of  royal  ftvor.  In  compliance  with 
whidi  request  Edward  advanced  him,  on  the  13th 
October,  1478,  to  the  dignity  of  Earl  or  Wiir- 
CHB8TXR,  in  the  parliament  dumber,  by  dncture 
with  a  sword.  And  granted  to  the  new  peer  for 
upholding  the  dignity  the  sum  of  £900.  annuaUy. 
In  the  November  following  his  lordship  obtained  a 
patent  of  arms  as  Earl  of  Windiester,  viz.,  "  Asure 
diz  masdes  d'or,  enorme  d'une  canton  de  armes  de 
Angleterre;  cestasavoir  de  gules,  a  une  lipard  pas- 
sant d'or,  arm^  d'asure,"  whidi  were  so  depicted 
in  colours  in  the  roll,  wherein  his  patent  for  them  is 
recorded.  But  in  the  15ch  of  Henry  VIL  (which 
86 


waa  about  twenty-seven  years  aAer,)  both  theie 
grants  were  sunendcied  to  the  king,  then  at  Calais, 
and  upon  each  of  their  enrolments  a  vamt  made, 
without  having  any  reason  assigned  for  the  pro- 
ceedings. 

His  lordship  m.  Margaret*  daughter  of  Henry  de 
BocseUe,  and  had  issue— 

JoHK,  Lord  nfOnrtlnite,  father  <rf  Rboihalo, 
who  d,  without  issue  male. 

ArmSi— As.  ten  maades,  fourth,  third,  second, 
and  first,  or.  on  a  canton,  gules,  a  lion  passant 
guardantof  theseccnd.  . 

BRYAN— BARON  BRYAN. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  SSth  November, 
1300,  S4  Edward  IIL 

In  the  89th  of  Henry  in. 

GUY  DE  BRIAN,  whose  diief  seat  was  in  the 
mardies  of  Wales,  received  command  to  assist  the 
Earl  of  Gloucester  against  the  Wdsh :  and  in  the 
48nd  of  the  same  reign,  he  had  a  second  military 
summons  for  a  similar  service.  We  find  him  sub- 
sequently, howevCT,  arrayed  under  the  baronial  ban 
ner,  and  constituted  after  die  victory  of  his  party, 
at  Lewes,  governor  of  the  castles  of  Kardioait, 
and  Krrmsrdtn,  but  he  soon  afterwards  returned 
to  his  allegiance,  and  was  one  of  the  sureties--61st 
Henry  IIL— for  Robert  de  Vere,  Earl  of  Oxford, 
that  that  nobleman  should  thenceforward  deport 
himself  peaceably,  and  abide  by  the  dietwn  tf  JCe- 
nihoorfft,  for  the  redemption  of  his  lands.  This 
Guy  de  Brian,  m.  Eva^  only  dau^ter  and  heireBS 
of  Henry  de  Trad,  and  dying  in  the  3fth  Edward  I., 
was  #.  by  his  son, 

SIR  GUY  DE  BRYAN,  who.  In  the  4th  Ed. 
ward  IIL,  was  constituted  governor  of  the  castle 
of  Haverford,  but  he  was  afterwards  found  to  be 
of  unsound  mindr— when  an  agreement  was  made, 
that  the  Barony  of  «  Chtutei  fTahct^,'*  should 
at  once  oome  into  poasessami  of  his  son  GuovBur, 
upon  his  undertaking  to  provide  for  his  two  abters* 
jfrom  the  revenues  thereof:    This 

GUOYEN  DE  BRYAN,  thus  inwted  with  the 
Barony  of  Chastel-Walwyen,  served  in  the  Scottish 
wars,  in  the  11th  of  Edward  IIL,  and  in  consi- 
demtion  of  his  special  services,  had  an  annuity  of 
£40i  granted  him  by  the  king,  out  of  the  exdiequer, 
for  VHe,  In  the  15th  of  the  same  reign,  he  was 
made  governor  of  St.  Briavel's  Castle,  and  warden 
of  the  forest  ot  Dene,  in  the  county  of  Gloucester ; 
and  firom  the  16th  to  the  aoth,  he  was  engaged  in 
the  French  wars.  He  d.  hi  1350,  and  was  «.  by 
his  son, 

GUY  DE  BRYAN,  who  became  a  person  of 
condderable  note,  at  that  period  in  whidi  he  lived. 
About  the  time  of  his  father's  death,  he  ww 
standard-bearer  to  Khig  Edward  IIL,  in  the  ode- 


,  •  Banks  surmises,  that  those  ladies  were, 
Ella,  the  wift  of  Robert  Fita^pnyne,  and 
Elisabeth,  wife  of  Robert  de  Grey,  who  inherited 
a  portion  of  the  Fits-payne  estates,  and  assumed 
the  surname  of  Flla-paync.    (See  Fita-paync^) 


BRY 


BRY 


bfatadflglitwithtlMFiCBCb  at  Cklais,  «id  deport- 
ing himielf  with  gtoit  valour  upon  that  oocaskm, 
ha  had  a  gzant  of  two  hundred  marlu  per  annum* 
out  of  the  exchequer,  for  lifck  He  waa  alio  oon- 
atituted  goreniar  of  St.  Biiaveb  Castle,  and  war- 
den of  the  forest  of  Dene;  and  was  summoued  to 
parliament,  as  a  sabox,  from  flSth  Norember,  13S0, 
to  41th  December,  UMBl  In  1304,  his  lordship  was 
one  of  the  ambassadors  to  the  court  of  Rome,  to 
procure  the  papal  ratification  of  a  league,  then 
made,  between  the.  Kings  of  England  and  France  t 
tbe  next  year,  he  attended  King  Edward  in  his 
expedition  into  Fiance,  when  he  was  made  a  ban- 
neret, and  he  continued  for  several  years  subset 
qocntly,  in  the  French  wars.  In  1361,  he  was  again 
accredited  upon  a  mission  of  importance,  to  the 
holy  see,  end  being  some  years  afterwards,  once 
more  engaged  against  the  Frendi,  he  was  made 
afdmiral  of  the  king's  fleet  a  command  renewed  to 
his  lordship  in  the  next  year,  (44th  Edward  III,) 
aad  he  was  soon  after  elected  a  kiyioht  of  the 
Gabtbb.  In  the  rdgn  of  Richard  II.,  Lord  Bryan 
aiao  served  against  the  French,  and  he  was  in  the 
expedition  made  into  Ireland,  with  Edward  Mor- 
timer, Earl  of  March.  His  lordship  m.  Elizabeth, 
dnnghter  of  William  de  Montacute,  Earl  of  SaUa- 
bnry,  and  widow  of  Hugh  le  Despemer,  by  whom, 
(with  two  younger  sons,  who  d,  issudess,)  he  had. 
Gut,  who  d.  in  the  lifetime  of  his  fkther, 
Issving  issue, 

Phiuppa,  m.  first,  to  John  Devereux, 
and  secondly,  to  Sir  Henry  le  Scrope, 
Knt.,  but  died  *,  p, 

Elixabsth,  m.  to  Sir  Robert  LoveU, 
Knt.,  and  had  an  only  daughter  and 


Macdb  Lovklx.,  who  IN.  first,  John 
Fitzafam,  Earl  of  Arundel,  and  had 
issue, 

HUMPRRBY,   EAUL    OF    ARDN- 

DBLt  died  «.  jKi 
Her   ladyship  m.   secondly,    Sir 
Richard  Staiford,  and  had  a 
daughter, 

Aticb,  m.  to  James  Butler, 
Earl  of  Ormond,  and  died 
issueless,  in  I4fi6b 
His  lordship  dL  in  1390,  leaving  his  two  grand-daugh- 
ters, Philippe,  then  twelve,  and  Elisabeth,  nine 
years    of  age^   his   co-hdrs,   between  whom  the 
Babomt  or  Bbyah  fell  into  abbyavcx,  and  it 
became  BxrnrcT,  at  the  decease  of  Avin,  CouMTBsa 
or  OmffOWD,  in  1486. 
ABvaw — Or,  three  piles  meeting  in  point,  as. 

BRYDOES  —  BARONS  CH ANDOS  or 
SnoELET  Castle,   ik   the 

COUKTT      OF        OlOUCESTER, 

EARLS  OF  CAERNARVEN, 
DUKES  OF  CHANDOS. 

Barony      1  )  8th  April,  IftM. 

Earldom    >by  Letters  Patent,  VlMhOct.,  1714. 
Dukedom  j  J  30th  April,  1729. 

SIR  SIMON  DE  BRUGGE,  of  the  county  of 
Hereford,  supposed  to  have  sprung  from  the  old 


Countsde  Rethel,  tai  the  prorinoe  of  Champegnd, 
in  France,  having  taken  part  against  Henry  III., 
kist  by  confiscation,  a  great  proportion  of.  Ms 
lands,  which  were  eontered  upon  Roger,  Lord 
Cliflbrd.     Sir  Simon  was  fuher  of  enother 

SIMON  DE  BRUGGE,  (commonly  omitted  in 
the  printed  pedigrees,)  who  m.  the  daughter  of 
Walwyn,  a  family  of  distinction,  in  the  county  of 
Hereford,  even  to  the  present  times'  end  had  issue, 
JOHN  DE  BRUGGE,  M.P.  for  the  county  of 
Hereford,  16th  Edward  II.,  13SS,  who  left  issue, 

SIR  BALDWIN  BRUGGE,  who  m.  Imbel, 
daughter  and  heiress,  (or  oo-helress,)  of  Sir  Piers 
Orandlson,  (son  of  Sir  William  Otandlsan,  by  Sibel, 
daughter  and  co-heir  of  John«  Lord  Tiegoa,)  and 
had  three  sons, 

Tromab,  his  heir. 

John,  (Sir)  who  was  in  the  battle  of  Asinoourt, 
86th  October,  14U,  and  the  next  year 
served  the  efflce  of  Sheriff  for  Hereford- 
shire, at  whidi  period  he  bore  for  his  arms, 
or.  on  e  crow  so.  a  IsofMrd's  face  or.,  as  since 
used,  and  has  bem  borne  by  Simon  de 
Bmgge,  one  of  the  seme  fiunily,  when  he 
was  sheriff  of  this  county,  in  13791  Sir  John 
was  also  sheriff  of  Gloucestershire,  in  the 
7th  Henry  V.,  and  was  returned  to  parli*> 
ment  by  that  county,  the  following  year. 
He  left  at  his  decease,  an  only  daughter 
and  heiress, 

Joenna,  who  m..  Sir  John  Bmkeville,  of 
Erdisley,  Herefordshire. 
Simon,  of  the  Leye,  in  the  county  of  Here- 
ford, left  a  numerous  posterity,  of  whom 
the  chief  branch  was  still  living  at  the  We, 
when  Gregory  King  made  his  visitation  ot 
that  county,  in  1684.  And  hence  descended 
Sir  John  Bridges,  who  waa  Lord  Mayor  of 
London,  ISth  Henry  VIII.,  whose  daughter 
Whiifrede,  «.  first.  Sir  Richard  SackviUe, 
by  whom  she  wm  mother  of  Thomas  Sack- 
viUe, Lord  Buckhunt,  and  Earl  of  Dorset, 
the  celebrated  poet  Her  ladyship  espoused 
secondly,  John  Powlett,  Marqueis  of  Win- 
chester. 
Sir  Baldwin  Brugge  was*,  by  his  eldest  son, 

THOMAS  BRUGGE,  or  BRUGES,  who  m. 
Alice,  daughter  end  co-heiress  of  Sir  Thomas 
Berkeley,  of  Coberley,  in  the  county  of  Gkiuoester, 
by  Elizabeth,  sister  and  co-heiress  of  Sir  John 
Chandos,  (see  that  dignity.)  and  acquired  the  seat 
of  Coberley,  and  other  large  estates,  which  de- 
scended down  to  Geoige  Brydges,  sixth  Lord  Chan- 
dos, whod.  in  1654.  By  this  great  heiress,  Thomas 
Bruges  had  issue, 

OTLB8,  of  whom  presently. 
Edward,  of  Lone,  in  the  county  of  Gloucester, 
who  d.  in  1436,  leaving  a  daughter  and 
heirsss,  married  to  John  Throgmorton, 
Esq.,  ancestor  to  the  Throgmortons  of  Tot- 
worth,  in  the  county  of  Gloucester. 
The  dder  son, 

SIR  GYLES  BRUGES,  was  seated  at  Coberley, 
in  the  county  of  Gloucester,  and  in  the  7th  Henry  V.. 
(1419,)  was  amongst  the  persons  of  note,  of  that 
county,  who  h^d  command  to  serve  the  king,  in 

87 


BRY 


BRY 


penoo*  for  the  Mcurity  of  the  nelm*  all  thoae  then 
requirad  fo  to  do*  batag  rach,  <a8  the  wonb  of  the 
writ  impcrtt)  **••  did  bear  anieieDt  engs*  by  det- 
oent*  firom  their  encestork"  In  1489,  he  waa  iheriir 
of  Glouoesterdilre,  and  again  In  1453.  In  the  next 
year,  Sir  Gyla  Bruges  and  William  Whittinton,  were 
returned  members  of  parliament  for  that  shire. 
He  m.  Catherine,  daughter  of  James  Clillbrd,  Esq., 
of  FramptoB,  in  the  oounty  of  Okmeester,  and 
widow  of  Anselm  Guise,  Esq.,  of  Elmore,  by  whom 
he  had, 

Thom AS,  his  suooessor, 
CicUy,  who  m.  first,  Thomas  Gates.  Esq.,  and 
secondly,  John  WeQesbome,  Esq. 
Sir  Gyles  d,  in  1466,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

THOMAS  BRUGES,  Esq.,  at  Cobarley,  who 
was  returned  to  parliament  by  the  oounty  of  Glou- 
cester, In  1490,  and  by  the  county  of  Hereford,  in 
147S.  He  m.  Florence,  daughter  at  William  DareU, 
Esq.,  of  LitUeoot,  in  Wilts  (a  family  of  great  oon- 
sideratioo,  one  of  whom  intermarried  with  the 
royal  Uood,  and  branched  from  those  of  Sesay,  in 
Yorkshire,  whose  heireu  carried  titat  estate  to  the 
Dawneys,  now  Viscounts  Downe.  Another  branch 
of  the  Darells  settled,  temp.  Henry  IV.,  at  Cale^ 
hill,  in.  Koit,  and  still  continues  there).  By  this 
lady,  Thomas  Bruges,  had  issue, 
GiLsa,  his  successor. 

Henry,  of  Newberry,  in  the  county  of  Berks, 
whom. ,  daughter  of  John  Hunger- 
ford,  Esq., -and  had  a  daughter,  m.  toGif- 
ford,  of  Itchel  House,  Hants  and  a  son  and 
heir. 

Sir  Richard  Bridobb,  of    Sheilbrd, 
Berks,   and    of    LudgenhaU,    Wilts, 
K.B.    This  gentleman  m.  Jane,  daugh- 
ter of  Sir  William  Spencer,  of  Worm- 
leighton,  ancestor  to  the     Duke  of 
Ifarlborough,  and  had  issue, 
Akthoity,  of  Great  Sheflbrd,  whose 
heiress,  Eleana,  carried  that  estate 
to  Sir  George  Browne,  a  son  of 
Viscount    Montague,    by  whom 
she  had  no  issue. 
Edmund,  of  Bradley,  in  the  oounty 
of  SomerseL 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  William  Cassey,  Esq.,  and 

subsequently  to  Walter  Rowdon,  Esq. 
Elice,  m.  to  Thomas  Cldcheley,  of  WympuU, 

in  the  oounty  of  Cambridge. 
Eleanor,  m.  to  Sir  Thomas  Pauncefoot,  Knt. 
The  eldest  son, 

SIR  GILES  BRUGES,  of  Coberley,  reoelTed  the 

honour  of  knighthood,  for  his  valour  at  the  battle 

of  Blackheath.  S2nd  June,   1497-     He  m.  Isabel, 

daughter  of  Thomas  Baynham,  and  had  issue, 

John,  of  whom  presently. 

Thomas,  of  Combury,  in  Oxfordshire,  and 

Keinsham  Abbey,  in  Somersetshire.    Thb 

gentleman  was  sherlif  of  Gloucestershire,  in 

the  ard  of  Edward  VI.,  and  of  Berkshire 

and  Oxfordshire,  in   the  3rd  and  4th  of 

Philip  and  Mary.    In  the  reign  of  Queen 

Mary,   he  was  an  officer   of  the'  Tower, 

under  his  brother,  Lor^  Chandos.    He  tL 

14th  Norember,  1550,  leaving  Issue  by  Anne, 

88 


daui^ter  and  oo-helreis  of  John  Sldenham, 
Esq.,  of  Ordutfd,  in  the  county  of  Somer- 
set,—'Mary,  m.  to  Rowland  Arnold,  Esq., 
of  Higliam,  in  the  county  of  Gloucester. 
Ellen,  IN.  to  John  Aahfleld,  Esq.,  and  a  son 
and  heir, 

HsKRT  Brvdobs,  Esq.,  of  Keinsham, 
who  m.  Anne,  daughter  of  John  Hun- 
gerford,  Esq.,  of  Downe  Ampney,  in 
the  county  of  Gloucester,  and  was  «. 
by  his  son. 

Sir  Thokab  Brydobs,  oi  Kein- 
sham, whose  son, 

THOMAa   BRYDOxa,  Esq.,   m. 

Philippa,    daughter   of  Sir 

George    Speke,    K.B.,    and 

waa  «.  by  his  son. 

Sir  Taojf as  Brydoxb,  of 

Keinsham,  an  eminent 

loyalist,  who  m.  Anne, 

daughter  and  co-heiress 

of  Sir  Edward  Rodney, 

of  Stoke  Rodney,  in  the 

county  of  Somnaet,  by 

whom  he  had  with  other 

issue, 

1.  Harry  BRYDOxa, 
Esq.,  who  inhe- 
rited the  estates, 
and  m.  Lady  Diana 
Holies,  daughter 
of  John,  seocmd 
Earl  of  Clare,  by 
whom  he  had  a 
dau^ter,  Arabelle, 
m.  to  John  Mlt- 
chdU,  Esq.,  of 
Kingston  Russel,  In 
the  county  of  Dor- 
set. Mr.  Brydges 
m.  secondly.  Miss 
Freeman,  and  had 
two  more  daugh- 
ters ;  upon  his  de- 
cease, his  estates 
devolved,  by  an 
entail,  upon  his 
nephew, 

Gborob  Roditbv 
Brydors. 

a.  GROROX-RODIfXV 

Brydorr,  of  Aving- 
tnn,  Hants,  m.  Lady 
Anne  Maria  Brude- 
nell,  daughter  of 
Robert,  second  Earl 
of  Cardigan,  and 
widow  of  Francis 
Talbot,  eleventh 
Earl  of  Shrewsbury, 
who  was  killed  in  a 
duel  by  George, 
Duke  of  Bucking- 
ham, upon  her  ac- 
count, by  whom  he 
had  a  son. 


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GSOBOB      ROD- 
irxV  BAT1MB8 

ot    ATiiiftoiii 
wko  InlMritad 
thft       Mtatca 
tlM  d*. 
of   bk 
tmdiB,    Hany 
Brydcet,      at 
stated    abofve. 
Ha  waa  M.P. 
for   tha    dty 
of     Winchaa- 
t«r,  tram  1714 
tol7ftl.    This 
Candaman  waa 
found  drown- 
ed, in  thecanal 
of  Us  gaidan, 
at    AHngtoQ* 
In    the    7Snd 
of    his 
»;     learing 
no  isBoe,   the 
greater     part 
of  Ma  estates 
rarartad       to 
the     Cliandos 
branch  of  the 
flunily,     ■  bat 
he  derlaed  a 
property      at 
Alresford,    In 
Hampahlre, 
Co         Gtoorge 
Brydfss  Rod- 
afker- 
Lord 
Rodnaya 
The  ddar  son  and  heir  of  Sir  Giles  Brogas, 

SIR  JOHN  BRUGES,  was  under  age  at  his 
ftthar^  decease,  and  was  in  ward  to  King  Henry 
VIII.  Ha  had  an  eerly  ambition  of  military  glory, 
and  thoogh  Teryyoong,  attended  the  king  in  his 
aapaditlon  into  France,  1519,  when  Teroucnne  and 
Tommay  ware  taken.  He  was  likewise  at  the  battle 
of  Spun,  and  ftxr  his  Tallant  conduct  in  thoaeen- 
gUgfinenta  reeelTed  the  honor  of  knighthood.  In 
the  10th  of  Henry  VIIL,  Sir  John  ooronantad  to 
the  king  with  one  hundred  ercfaers  under  his 
idt  an^  being  one  of  the  knighti  of  the 
Ui^s  body,  was  in  his  train  at  Bnllolgn,  at  the  in- 
tarriew  at  Sadingfleld  with  the  French  king,  at- 
tended by  three  nrrants  and  one  hone  keeper, 
aeeording  to  the  appointment  then  made.  In  1487, 
he  was  constitatad  oonstable  of  Suddey  Castle,  and 
In  tha  same  year  was,  amongst  those  of  the  court, 
sanuDoned  with  the  noWlity  and  Ushops  to  be  pre- 
sent, on  October  Uth,  at  the  chriatening  of  Prince 
Edward.  In  theyear  1544,  he  passed  the  seas  with 
the  king,  and  Ibr  Us  gallant  behaviour  at  tha  siege 
of  BulMgn,  was,  on  the  surrender  thereof,  ap- 
poiated  deputy  governor  of  the  town  t  inwhldipoat 
ha  waa  oontlnued  by  King  Edward  VI.  He  had  also, 
in  the  first  year  of  the  reign  of  that  king,  a  grant  of 
dlvois  nanocs  in  consldaratlon  of  his  services,    fn 


IMO,  (3  Edward  VL,)  BulloIgM  bai^  bestigad  by 
the  Frandi,  he  had  the  command  of  the  place  as 
dapaty  governor,    and  aucoaiBAally  deftaded   it 
agaiast  tha  Prsndi  klag  In  person,  and  an  army 
fluahad  with  the  oonqueat  of  Newhavcn,  and  other 
plaeaa.    On  the  death  of  Edward  VL,  Sir  John 
Bruges  waited  upon  Quean  Mary,  assirlail  her  against 
those  who  had  umrped  the  govemmenti  and  upon 
her  mi4esty*s  sntranca  Into  Loudon  to  the  Tower, 
waa  one  of  the  principal  persona  in  her  train  i  for 
wUch  sarvloas  he  was  than  appointed  governor  of 
the  Tower,  end  had  a  grant,  at  the  aame  time^  of 
the  eaatle  and  numor  of  SonaLav,  In  Gloucester- 
shira    He  was  subsequsnay,  Sunday,  8th  April, 
1064,  elevated  to  the  peerage  In  thedignity  of  Bauon 
CBAiTDoa,  of  Suddey,  to  him  and  the  hein  mala 
of  Us  body,  '*  in  consideration  not  <mly  of  his 
nobility  and  toyalty,  but  of  Us  probity,  vakmr,  and 
other  virtues."    Four  days  efterwards  he  attended 
Lady  Jane  Grey  to  the  scaflbld,  and  that  unluqipy 
hidy  ptewnted  him,  (as  related  by  some^)  In  testi* 
mony  of  his  dvilities  to  her,  with  bar  prayer  booki 
but,  according  to  others.  It  was  atable  book,  with 
■ome  Grsak  and  Latin  venes  which  the  wrote  in  it, 
upon  Ub  knrdsUp's  bagging  her  to  write  something 
that  he  might  retain  as  a  memorial  of  her.    His  laat 
will  bears  date,  Id  March,  In  the  Sd  nd  aid  of  Philip 
and  Mary,  and  he  A  4th  Marqh  foUowbig,  (lUB,) 
an  adherent  to  the  old  religion.    His  lordriiip  m. 
EUaabath,  daughter  of  Edmund,  Lord  Grey  de  Wil- 
ton, sister  to  the  gallant  soldier,  William,  Locd 
Grey  de  Wilton,  and  aunt  to  Arthur,  Lord  Grey  de 
Wilton,  the  cdebrated  lord  deputy  of  Irdand.    By 
this  lady  he  had  seven  sons  and  three  daughters,  of 
the  latter,  Catherine,  m.  Edward  Sutton,  Lord,  Dud- 
ley t  Elisabeth,  m.  John  Tracy,  Esq.,  of  Todington, 
In  the  county  of  Gloucester,  and  Mary  wedded 
George  Throgmorton,  Esq.,   ion  of  Sir  George 
Throgmorton,  of  Cougbton,  in  the  county  of  War- 
wick—of  the  sons, 

EnxuKD,  inherited  the  title. 
Charles,  who  waa  of  Wilton  Caatle,  near  Roes, 
in  Herefbrdshire,  became  cup-bearer  to  King 
PUUp,  and  was  deputy  lieutenant  of  the 
Tower  to  his  firthsr,  John,  Lord  Chandos, 
when  the  warrant  came  Ibr  executing  the 
/  Princess   Elisabeth,   wUch  he  refttMd   to 

obey,  until  be  should  receive  orders  tram  the 
Ung  and  queen,  and  thereby  was  the  meens 
of  Mving  her  life;  for  the  order  being  dis- 
owned at  court  a  stop  was  put  to  the  execu- 
tion. Mr.  Brydges  lived  to  an  advanced  age, 
and  waa  sheriff  of  Herefordshire,  in  the  39d 
of  EUaabath.  He  m.  Jane,  daughter  of  Sir 
Edward  Came,  of  Wenny,  in  the  county  of 
Glamorgan,  Knt.,  and  dying  in  1619,  waa  «. 
by  his  eldest  ion, 

GihMB  Bbtdosb,  Eaq.,  of  Wilton  Castle, 
who  was  created  a  baronet,  17th  May, 
1087.  Sir  Giles  m.  Mary,  daughter  of 
Sir  Jemes  Scudamore*  and  was  «.  by  his 
eldest  son. 

Sir  John  Bavsoaa,  lecond  baro- 
net, who  m.  Mary,  only  daughter, 
and  hdr  of  James  Pearle.  Esq.,  of 
Dewsal  and  Anconbury.  in   the 
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couftty  of  Henfard,  nd  dying  In  1 
1651*  WM  #.  by  hU  only  ion*  ' 

Sib  Jambs  Betdobs*    tiiird 
bnroBCC*  of  whom  ItennflQf  ■ 
m  BioHTH  Lomn  Cuajoxm. 
Anthony*  m.  Catherine,  dnughter  of  Henry 
Fortcecue,  Esq.*  of  Faulkboun   Hall,  In 
Ewex,  of  whoie  dewendants  hereafUr,  as 
daimants  of  the  Barony  of  Chandoe. 
Lord  Chandoe  «ae  «.  by  his  eidest  son, 

EDMUND  BRUGES,  leoond  .baron,  who,  infltt- 
enoed  by  the  aame  deiire  of  martial  glory  as  his 
fsther,  adopted  early  the  profeMlnn  of  arms,  and 
served  under  the  Earl  of  Hertlbrd,  in  the  reign  of 
King  Hemry  VIIL,  and  in  1547>  behaving  himself 
with  great  bravery  in  the  fkmout  battle  <rf  Muslebo- 
rough,  he  was  made  a  knl^t  bsnneret  by  the  Duke 
of  Someraet,  in  the  camp  of  lUntbonnigh.  In  the 
lelgn  of  Queen  BHsaheth  he  was  elected  a  knight 
companion  of  the  most  noble  order  of  the  Garter, 
and  Imtalled  at  Windsor,  17th  June.  1A7S.  His  lord- 
ship IN.  Dorothy,  Afth  daughter,  and  eventually  oo- 
heir  of  Edmund,  Lord  Bmy,  and  dying  llih  Sept., 
1573*  was«.  by  his  dder  son, 

GILES  BRUGES,  third  heron,  who,  in  the  Ufo- 
time  of  his  fiuher.  repreiented  the  oounty  of 
Gloocerter  in  perliamenL  His  lordship  m.  Lady 
Frsnoes  Clinton,  daughter  of  Edward,  first  Earl  of 
Lincoln,  admiral  of  England,  by  whom  he  had  two 
daiH^hters,  EUaabeth,  who  m.  Sir  John  Kennedy,  of 
Scotland,  end  Catherine,  m,  to  Prances,  Lord  Rus- 
sell, of  Thomhaugh,  afterwards  Earl  of  Bedfbrd. 
Thoee  ladies  were  his  heiie.  His  kwdriiip  d.  Slst 
February,  IfiOSM,  and  was«.  in  the  peerage  by  hie 
brother, 

WILLIAM  BRUGES,  «Mirth  beron,  who  m. 
Mary,  daughter  of  Sir  Owen  Hoplon,  lieutenant  of 
the  Tower,  and  dying  in  1608,  was  «.  by  his  dder 


GREY  BRUGES,  fifth  benm,  K.B.  Thisnoblo- 
man,  fVom  the  magnlfloence  of  his  style  of  living  at 
his  mansion,  in  Oloucsstenhirs,  and  the  splendour 
of  his  retinue  when  he  came  to  court,  acquired  the 
title  of  Kino  or  CorewouLO.  He  had  an  amiple 
fortune,  which  he  enpended  in  the  moit  generous 
and  liberal  manner.  His  houie  was  open  three  days 
in  the  week  to  the  gentry,  end  the  poor  were  ftd  as 
constantly  from  the  remnants  of  his  entertainments 
On  the  8th  November,  16l7t  Lord  Chandoe  was 
appointed  to  receive  and  introduce  the  Muscovite  am- 
baseadon,  who  had  brought  rich  and  costly  presents 
from  their  meeter  to  the  king.  His  lordship  m.  Lady 
Anne  Stanley,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Fernando, 
Earl  of  Derby,  and  dying  10th  August,  1881,  was  «. 
by  his  elder  eon, 

GEORGE  BRUGES,  sixth  baron.  This  noble- 
man, who  was  but  a  year  old  at  the  deoeate  ot  his 
tether,  became  at  the  breaking  out  of  the  civil  wan, 
in  1641,  a  stout  iupportsr  of  the  royal  cause.  At 
the  battle  of  Newbory  his  kxdship  had  three  hones 
killed  under  him,  whidi  so  tu  from  damping  his 
ardour,  routed  Ids  valour  to  a  higher  pitch,  fbr 
mounting  a  fourth  charger,  he  renewed  the  attack. 
and  was  mainly  instrumental  in  breaking  the  ene- 
my's cavalry*  In  coniideration  of  his  splendid  con- 
duct in  this  utkm$  Lord  Chandos  had  enoflbr  from 


the  king  to  be  created  JBorl  qf  Nsce&erry,  but  he 
modestly  declined,  until  it  ihould  plesse  God  to  re- 
store his  miOMty  to  the  crown,  an  event  which  he 
did  not  survive  to  lee :  but,  on  the  contrary,  many 
■evere  mortiflcationi  and  suflbrlnge,  and  mudi  men- 
tal adversity,  es  weU  es  worldly  oppretslon.    When 
the  parliamentarians  triumphed,  his  lordship,  be> 
sides  having  suflnsred  imprisonment,  paid  at  one 
time  jCa073  10s.,  end  what  was  left  him  he  gene* 
rously  bestowed  in  relieving  the  ^stressed  clergy, 
end  those  who  had  suflbred  by  the  wan.    Speaking 
of  the  surrender  of  Sudely  Castle,  Lord  Clarendon 
says.--'*  Waller  proeecuting    his    mardi  towards 
Worcester,  where  his  miO«*^  then  was,  persuaded, 
rather  than  ftnroed,  the  gerrison  of  Sudeley  Cestle, 
the  strong  house  of  Lord  Chandols,  to  deliver  up 
that  place  to  him.    The  lord  of  that  castle  was  a 
young  man  of  spirit  and  courage;  and  had  for  two 
yean  served  the  king  very  bnvdy  at  the  head  of  a 
regiment  of  horse,  which  himsdf  had  raised  at  his 
own  chaigei  but  had  lately,  out  of  pure  weeriness 
of  the  fotigue,  end  having  spent  moetof  his  money, 
end  without  any  diminution  of  his  allbction,  left 
the  king,  under  pretenoeof  travel  i  but  making  Lon- 
don in  his  wey,  he  gave  himself  up  to  the  pleesures 
of  that  placet  which  he  enloyed,  without  consider- 
ing the  issue  of  the  war,  or  shewing  any  inclination 
to  the  parliament  i  nor  did  he  in  any  degree  contri- 
bute &  the  ddl  very  of  his  house}  whidi  was  at  first 
imagined,  because  it  was  so  ill,  or  not  at  all,  de> 
fended.    It  was  under  the  government  of  Sir  Wil- 
liam Morton,,  a  gentleman  of  the  long  robe  i  (who, 
in  the  beginning  of  the  wer,  cast  off  his  gown,  as 
many  other  gallant  men  of  that  profession  of  the 
law  did,  and  served  as  lieutenant-cokmel  in  the 
regiment  of  horse,  under  the  Lord  Chendois  t  end 
hadglvensoflnequent'testimony  of  signal  courage, 
in  several  actions,  in  which  he  had  received  many 
wounds,  both  by  the  plstid  end  the  sword,  that  hie 
mettle  was  never  ensp«eled,  and  his  fiddity  as  UtUe 
questioned  I  end  after  many  yeanf  Imprisonment, 
sustained  with  grsat  firmness  and  constancy,  he 
lived  to  receive  the  reward  of  his  merit,  alter  the 
return  of  the  king  t  who  made  him  fint,  a  sssjeent 
at  law,  and  afterwerds  a  Judge  of  the  klng^  besicht 
where  he  eat  many  yeen,  end  discharged  the  oflloe 
with  mudi  gnvity  end  leeming  t  end  was  tsrrible 
to  those  who  chose  to  live  by  robbing  on  the  liigik> 
way.)    He  was  unfortunate^  though  without  foolt* 
in  the  giving  up  that  ceeUe  in  so  unseeeonabie  n 
oonlunotures  whidi  was  done  by  -the  foction  and 
artlflce  of  an  olBoer  within,  irtio  had  found  mesne 
to  go  out  to  Waller,  and  to  acquaint  him  with  the 
great  wants  of  the  garrison  t  which,  indeed,  had  not 
plsnty  of  anything :  and  so,  by  the  mutiny  of  the 
soldiers,  it  was  given  up,  and  the  governor  made 
prisoner,  end  sent  to  the  Tower,  where  he  remeined 
some  yeen  altar  the  end  of  the  war." 

In  the  year,  16B8,  Lord  Chandos  had  a  dllfcsenoe 
with  Colonel  Henry  Comtpton,  grendson  of  Henry, 
Lord-  Gompton,  about  a  lady  he  leoonnnended  to 
the  colonel,  whoee  person  and  fortune  were  bdow 
fow  matfhes  in  the  kingdom!  which  unhappily 
ended  in  a  duel  at  Putney  Heath,  on  the  18th  May, 
when  Cokmel  Compton  folL  His  lordship  and  his 
ieoond*  Lord  Aiundel*  of  Wardour,  having 


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mora  thn  a  yaMr,  wcm  at 
nigaed  in  tte  upper  InhcIi,  17tb  May*  14M»  and 
fbuad  guilty  of  maasiaii^itar.  He  d.  in  the  Fe- 
brany  of  tbe  foOoviBg  year  of  the  amaU-pozt  and 
mafaoriedatSitdaley.  His  lotdaliip  in.  lh«t»  Suaan. 
daii^tar  of  Henry*  Earl  of  Mancliwt<r«  and  had 
t«D  danghtan.  Mary,  m.  to  WUUam  Bnnmloir> 
Bh|.»  of  Huttby.  in  the  eounty  of  Umeikk*  and 
Bllaaheth  wedded  fizat>  to  Edward,  Lord  Harbert, 
of  CSMabury,  aeoondly*  to  William,  Eail  of  Inclii- 
qnin,  and  thirdly,  to  Chariea,  Lord  Howard,  of 
Etciick.  Lord  Chaadoa  eipoiucd  aeoondly,  Jan^ 
^lnffg!T— ^  of  John  SaTagOb  Earl  Rirera,  by  whom  he 
had  with  two  other  davghten  that  tf.  unmarried, 
Lucy,  M.  to  Adam  Loftus,  Viaooant  Lisbum,  In 
Hia  lotdahip  dying  thua,  without  male 
the  mi^  pert  of  hia  fortune  peaaed  under 
to  Jane,  hia  laat  wiC^  who  aftcrwaida  ■». 
Caorga  Pitt,  Eai^,  of  Strathfleldaay,  anoaatov  of  the 
IMumit  Lord  Riven,  end  oooTeyed  to  that  gentlo- 
naan  Sndeley  Caat1e»  end  other  lands  of  great  ▼alueu 
Tian  peiMage  derolTsd  upon  Ua  kMrdaUp^a  brother, 

WILLIAM  BRUGES,  seventh  beron,  who  m. 
Sosen,  danghler  and  co-heir  of  Oerrot  KelxOk  of 
LoeidOD,  merdnnt,  but  having  no  male  iaauet  the 
title  devolved  at  hte  daraasei  in  107B,  upon  hia  kiaa- 
(xcAr  to  Charles,  second  son  of  John,  first 


SIR  JAMES  BRYDOSS,  Bart,  of  WUton  Ca*. 
tiew  m  ei^ith  Baron  Chandoa.  Tbla  noble  was 
anTr****^  ambassador  to  Constantinople,  in  1080, 
wlsere  he  redded  for  some  years  In  great  honor  and 
Hia  lordaUp  m.  Eliaabeth,  sldest  daughter, 
co-heir  of  Sir  Henry  Bernard,  Knt.,  an  eminent 
TurlEey  merchent.  By  this  lady  he  had  no  less  than 
twenty-two  children,  of  wUdi  number  fliteeo  only 
were  christened,  and  seven  of  thoae  dying  young, 
the  remsdnder  were, 

jAiufl,  ids  successor. 

Henry,  In  holy  ordeia,  of  Addlestrop,  hi  Olou- 
cestcnldra*  archdeecon  and  prebendary  of 
Rodwater,  and  rector  of  Agmondesham, 
Bucks.  Mr.  Brydges  m.  Annabdla,  daugh- 
ter of  Henry,  and  grand-daughter  of  Sir 
Robert  Atkins,  lord  diief  beron  of  the  ex- 
chequer,  by  whom  he  had  a  large  Csmily, 
Franda,  raoalver  general  of  the  dutiea  on  malt, 

died«.jiw 
Mary,  m.  to  Theophifaia  Leigh,  Esq.,  of  Addlo- 

elrop,in  the  county  of  OktucesCer. 
EUaabeCh,  m.  first,  to  Alexander  Jacob,  Esq., 
aacondiy,  to  the  Rev.  Dr.  Thomas  Daw- 


Emma,  at.  to  Edmund  Chamberlain,  Esq.,  of 

Bftow,  in  tbe  county  of  Oloocestcr. 
Amie»  Ml.  to  Charles  Walcote,  Esq.,  of  Wal- 

coce,  in  the  county  of  Salop. 

Cetfaerineb  m.  first,  to  Bvereton  Bonrchier, 

-Eeq.*  cMf  Bemsley  Court,  in  the  county  of 

OlosMester,  and  secondly,  to  Henry  Perrot, 

Eeq.,  of  North  Leigh,  tai  the  county  of  Ox- 

-  vDrd. 

His  idrdahip  d.  in  1714,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 
JAMES  BRYDOES,  ninth  beron,  who,  upon  the 
I  of  Klqg  Oeorge  L,  was  created,  by  letters 
t,  dated  UMh  October,  1714.  FlMomtf  WUton, 


f: 


and  EARt  or  CAnnitAmvoir,  with  •  collateral  re- 
meindertotheiesueaDBlaof  hisfluhert  and  in  the 
November  following,  a  patent  passed  the  gvset  seal, 
granting  to  hia  lordahip  and  his  two  sons,  John  and 
Henry,  the  reverrion  of  the  ofllce  of  derk  of  the 
hanaper  in  chancery.  In  1719,  on  the  aoth  April, 
his  lordship  was  wtvsMed  to  the  MmrqtdmH  ^ 
Qssi  iiai  ssii,  and  Dinunon  ov  CnAirnoe,  and  he 
acquired  by  his  megnificsnce  the  appeUatlon  of  the 
pHnesftf  Chandoa.  He  espoused  first,  SSthPsteuary, 
lfiM-7»  Mary,  only  surviving  daughter  of  Sir  Tho- 
maa  Lake,  of  Cannons,  in  the  county  of  Middleeex, 
by  whom  he  had  two  surviving  sons, 

Jonir,  Marquess  of  rseinaiiiei,  m.  in  17M, 
Lady  Catliarine  Tahnache,  daughter  of 
Lloiiel,  Earl  of  l>yaart,  by  whom  he  bed 


Catharine,  ai.  first,  to  Captain  Lyon,  of 
the  horse  gueida,  and  aeeondly,   to 
Edwin  Fvands  Stanhope^  Esq.,  and, 
Jane,  (a  poathumoua  child,)  m.  to  James 
Brydges,  Esq.,  of  Pinner.    Lord  Caer- 
narvon d.  8th  April,  1797. 
HnifRT,  Marquesa  of  Caenarvon,  after  the 
deceess  of  hia  brother. 
His  grace  m.  seooodly,  Caseaadra,    daughter  of 
Frands  WiUoughby,  Esq.,  and  sbter  of  Thomas 
Willoughby,  Lord  lliddletoni  and  thirdly,  Lydia 
Catherine   Van   Hattm.   widow  of  Sir  Thomaa 
Davall,  Knt,  but  had  no  issue  by  dther  of  these 
hulies.    He  tf.  at  his  noble  seat  of  Gannons,*  0th 
August,  1744,  and  was  a.  by  his  only  surviving 


HENRY  BRYDOES,  second  duke,  who  m.,  in 
I7S8,  Mary,  ddest  daughter  end  co-heir  ot  Charles, 
Lord  Bruce,  only  son  and  heir  apparent  of  Thomas, 
Earl  of  Aylesbury,  by  whom  he  had  iasue. 


•  CAinroNaw— This  most  splendid  palace  stood  on 
theroadleadtaigtoEdgewarek  The  fronts  were  all 
of  freestone,  end  the  pillars  of  marble,  eswen 
the  steps  of  the  great  stair-oaae.  Thegilding 
executed  by  the  famous  Pargotti,  and  the  hall 
painted  by  Paducd.  The  apartmenta  ware  most 
exquisitely  finished,  and  most  rldily  ftimislied. 
The  gardens,  avenues,  and  oflloes,  were  proportion- 
aUy  grand.  At  night  there  was  a  constant  watch 
kept,  who  walked  the  rounds  and  proclaimed  the 
hours.  The  duke  alao  maintained  a  frill  choir,  and 
had  divine  service  peiformed  with  the  best  music, 
in  a  chaprt  that  could  hardly  be  exceeded  in  the 
beauty  of  its  workmanship.  But  all  Uiis  terminated 
with  his  life;  fbr  on  bis  decease  this  magnificent 
mansion  was  disposed  of  piecemeeL  The  stone 
obdlsks,  with  copper  lamps,  whldi  fonned  the  ap- 
proach ttcm  the  Edgeware  road,  woe  purchased  for 
the  Earl  of  TUney,  for  his  new  buUding  at  Wan- 
steed,  in  Essex,  which  has  since  experienced  the 
Arte  of  Cannons  t  the  marble  staircase  was  bought 
by  the  Earl  of  Chesterflekl  for  his  residence  in  May 
Fair.  The  ground  and  site  whereon  this  megnifi- 
cent  edifice  stood  became  the  properly  of  an  opulent 
tradesman,  who  built  thereon  a  neat  habiution 
which  still  remains,  after  having  passed  Into  the 
hands  of  the  well  known  Colonel  O'Kelly  of  sport- 
ing celebrity. 


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Jambs,  Marquan  of  Camianroo. 

C«iolhie*  m.  to  John  Leigh*  Eaq.*  of  Addles- 
tiopi  in  the  county  of  Glouoetter. 
Hia  grace  etpottied,  lecondly*  Anne  Jeffreyt*  and  by 
her  he  had  a  daughter,  Augvata>Anne,  m.  to  Henry 
John  Keemey,  Eeq.  The  duke  m.,  thfardly,  in  1707* 
Elisabeth,  leoond  daughter  and  eo-helr  of  Sir  John 
Major.  Bart.,  of  Worlingworth  Hall,  in  the  county 
of  SufRalk,  by  whom  he  had  no  iaaue.  He  d.  88th 
November,  1771*  end  was  #.  by  his  aon, 

JAMES  BRVDOES,  third  duke,  b.  27th  Decern- 
her,  1731.  This  nobleman,  upon  the  acceaaion  of 
hia  majeaty.  King  Oeorge  IIL,  was  appointed  one  of 
the  loids  <k  his  bed-chamber.  In  177^,  he  waa  sworn 
of  the  privy  council,  and  waa  afterwarda  oonatituted 
lord-ateward  of  the  houaehold.  Hia  grace  m.,  SSnd 
May,  1703,  Mary,  daughter  and  sole  heiress  of  John 
Nicol,  Esq.,  of  Southgate,  Middlesex,  by  whom  he 
acquired  Minchenden  House  at  Southgate,  together 
with  the  whole  fortune  of  his  tether-in-law.  By 
this  lady,  who  d.  in  ITOS.  he  had  no  issue.  The 
duke  espoused,  secondly,  21st  June,  1777,  Anne- 
Elisa,  daughter  of  RichudGamon,  Esq.,  and  widow 
of  Roger  Hope  Elletson,  Esq.,  by  whom  he  had  one 
surviving  daughter  and  heiress, 

Ajcms-Elica,  who  m.,  in  1796,  Richard,  Earl 
Temple,  now  Dukb  or  Buckimobam  and 
Crandos. 
His  grace  d,  without  male  issue  89th  September, 
1780,  when  all  his  honours  became  ■zTiifcr,  but 
the  Barojcy  of  CHAjrooa,  which  was  immediately 
claimed  by  the  Rev.  Edward  TvMBwaLX.  Brto- 
OBS,  M.A.,  of  Wootton  Court,  in  Kent,  as  next 
heir  male  of  the  body  of  Sir  John  Brydges,«LoitD 
CHANDoa,  the  first  grantee,  who  d.  in  1567*  The 
first  hearing  of  thia  crtebrated  cause  took  place 
before  the  Committee  of  Privileges  of  the  House  of 
Lords  1st  June,  1790 1  the  second  21st  December,  in 
the  same  year  i  the  Srd,  4th,  6th,  0th,  and  7th,  in 
17M;  the  8th  and  9th  in  1796  i  the  10th,  Uth,  19th, 
and  13th,  in  1808i  thirteen  other  hearings  in  1803; 
and  at  length,  after  a  few  more  investigadons,  it 
was  determined,  17th  June,  1803,  upon  a  division,  in 
which  the  nuOority  of  the  lords  who  then  voted, 
(being  only  twenty-two,)  resolved  that  the  evidence 
was  not  Buffldent. 

The  claimant  deduced  his  descent  fhnn 
The  Hon. 

ANTHONY  BRUGES,  or  BRYDGES,  third 
aon  of  John,  first  Lord  Chandos,  who  m.  Catherine, 
daughter  of  Henry  Fortescue,  Esq.,  of  Faulkboum 
Hall,  Essex,  by  whom  he  had  issue, 

ROBBBT. 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  Robert  Brayne. 
Catherine,  m.  to  Sir  Jdbn  Astley,  Knt.,  of  the 
palace  at  Maidstone,  in  Kent,  Master  of  the 
Revels  to  King  Charles  I. 
The  son, 

ROBERT  BRYDGES,  (as  stated  by  the  daun- 
ant,)  resided  at  Maidstone,  and  died  there  in  1696, 
leaving  a  son,  Edward,  and  a  daughter,  Anne,  m. 
to  William  Best,  of  a  good  Kentish  family.  As 
Robert  derived  no  inheritance  from  his  father,  he 
appears  to  have  rdied  for  support  on  the  wealth 
acquired  by  his  sister's  marriage,  which  it  must  be 
supposed  drew  him  to  fix  his  residence  at  Maid* 
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stone,  where,  both  In  the  register,  and  in  legal 
proceedinga,  he  haa  the  addition  of  Require  afllxed 
to  his  name.    His  only  son, 

EDWARD  BRYDGES,  married  a  small  helresa 
connected  with  the  maritime  commerce  of  a  neigh- 
bouring town,  movii^  in  a  far  infarior  aphere  to  hia 
own  anoeatora,  which  aeema  to  have  highly  ofltaided 
the  arrogant  pride  of  Lady  Astley,  if  we  may  Judge 
by  a  aingular  letter,  which  waa  produced  In  evi- 
dcnce,  and  which  waa  decyphered  by  the  present 
LordChief  Justice  of  England,  (then  Mr.  Abbott). 
This  Edward  Brydges  left  one  surviving  son, 

JOHN  BRYDGES,  6.  in  1634,  who  removed  to 
Canterbury,  where  he  died  at  the  age  of  sixty-five, 
having  retrieved  the  fortunes  of  his  branch  of  the 
family.  By  his  first  wife,  of  the  name  of  Ackman, 
he  had  no  surviving  issue;  by  his  second  wife, 
whose  maiden  name  waa  Young,  he  had  four  aona, 
John,  Edward,  Thomaa,  and  RoberL  The  three 
laat  died  without  issue.    The  eideat  son, 

JOHN  BRYDGES,  was  6.  in  1080,  and  bred  to 
the  bar.  He  married  in  1704,  Jane,  sole  surviving 
daughter  and  heir  of  Edward  Gibbon,  Esq.,*  of 
Westdiflb,  near  Dover,  by  Martha,  daughter  of  Sir 
John  Roberts,  of  Beaksboume,  in  Kent.  With  thia 
lady  he  acquired  the  seat  and  eatate  of  Wootton, 
and  by  her  he  had  iasue, 

John,      1  who  both  retired  to,  and  spent  their 
Edward,  )     lives  at  Wootton  Court 
Deborah,  m.  to  Edward  Tirmewell,  Esq.,  of 
Chegwell,  in  Essex. 
Mr.  Brydges  died  of  a  fever,  faa  his  thirty  seomid 
year,  in  July,  1712,  and  was  #.  by  his  elder  aon, 

JOHN  BRYDGES,  Esq.,  of  Wootton  Court,  k 
in  1710,  who  spent  his  life  in  rural  reHrement  at 
Wootton  Court,  and  dying  in  1780,  unmarried,  waa 
e,  by  his  brother* 

EDWARD  BRYDGES,  Esq.,  of  Wootton  Court, 
who  had  retired  in  early  Ute  with  his  brother,  to 
e^Joy  the  tranquillity  of  a  country  lifie.  He  m.  In 
1747,  Jemima,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  William 
Egerton,  L.L.D.«  prebendary  of  Canterbury,  and 
his  wife  Anne,  daughter  of  Sir  Francis  Head,  Bart. 
(Dr.  Egerton  was  grandson  of  John,  second  earl  of 
Bridgewater.)  By  this  lady  he  had,  (with  five 
daughten,)  three  sons,  vis. 

Edward  Ttmbwbll,  b.  in  May,  17401    - 
Samuel  Egeston,  6.  30th  November,   17BM* 

created  a  Baronbt,  97th  Decembae,  1814. 
John  William  Head,  b.  in  1704,  M.P.,  m.  In 
1812,  Lady  Isabella  Anne  Beresford,  eldest 
daughter  of  George,  first  Marquess  of  Water- 
ford,  by  whom  he  has  one  son,  and  two 
daughters. 
Mr.  Brydges  d.  a  few  mootha  after  his  brother,  and 
waa  «.  by  hia  dder  aon. 
The  Reverend 

EDWARD  TYMEWELL  BRYDGES,  the  un- 
aucceasftil  dabnant  Ibr  the  Barony  or  CBAWDoe, 
This  Rev.  gentleman,  m.  In  1786,  Caroline,  dao^ter 
ot  Richard  Fairfield,  Esq.,  of 


e  This  Edward  Gibbon  was  dder  brother  oi 
Matthew  Gibbon,  great  grandlliithar  of  Edward 
Gibbon  the  hiatorian. 


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died  In  Otbobtr  1807.  wHhout  lorTiTteg  kmu*.    He 
WM  «.  by  his  next  brother, 

SIR  SAMUEL  EGERTON  BRYDGES,  Bart., 
of  Wootton  Court,  who  mrintetnt  his  Tl|^t,  not- 
wtthsCsDdiqg  the  deddoasgaiiist  his  brother,  to  the 
Baboitt  or  CBAjffDoa.* 


•  Uavixig  thus  detailed  the  ««  Crakdos  Pbkb- 
AOB,"  the  cfadm  to  the  revival  of  which  occupied 
the  House  of  Lords  no  less  than  thirtesn  years,  we 
shall  briefly  state  a  drcumstanoe  to  which  the 
flricnds  of  the  claimant  attributed  in  lome  measure 
his  discomflture.  Just  at  the  dose  of  the  investiga- 
tion, Mr.  Brydges,  in  a  moment  of  impatisnce,  ill 
adviafcd«  and  with  a  sort  of  indiscretion,  not  easily 
defended,  printed  and  sent  round  to  the  lords  a 
circular  letter,!  requesting  their  attendance  in  a 
tone  which  was  construed  to  be  either  a  reproach  or 
a  canvass.  In  itself,  the  letter  was  the  most  in- 
oAnsi  ve  and  harmless  of  addrenes,  but  the  question 
was  now  approaching  rto  a  oondusion ;  and  it  was 
known  that  it  would  come  to  a  vote  i  the  opposition 
therelSore  maimhalling  their  forces,  with  great 
A  noble  duke,  (Norfolk,)  moved  that 
the  letter  was  a  breach  of  privilege;  and  stormy 
debates  with  cloied  doors  ensued,  after  wUch  the 
bortile  resolution  against  the  daim  was  carried. 
The  didmant  sunk  under  the  blow,  but  lingered  for 
four  years,  when  he  died  issueless:  his  widow  sur- 
vived till  1884.  The  opposition  to  the  claim  was 
sustained,  by  en  endeavour  to  rebut  the  claimant's 
documents  by  counter  evidence;  by  disputing  the 
identity  of  the  Maidstone  branch  of  the  House  of 
Bruges  or  Brydges  altogether,  and  by  a  project  of  a 
counter  descent.  And  this  notwithstanding,  the 
evidence  of  reputation  was  dedrivdy  established  by 
the  testimony  of  Lady  Caroline  Leigh,  sister  of  the 
late  Duke  ot  Chandos,  of  bis  first  cousin.  Lady 
Catherine  Stanhope,  of  the  claimant's  brother,  and 
of  the  Rer.  George  Lefroy ;  while  the  regular  armo- 
rial adiievements,  with  the  due  mark  of  the  ^ird 
branch,  as  bonie  by  the  claimant's  ancestors,  (which 
were  luckily  still  in  existence,)  were  othiUted  to  the 
personal  inspection  of  the  committee. 


t  Copy  of  acircular  letter  from  the  Claimant  to  the 
Barany  of  Chandos,  (printed  in  the  Lords'  JoumaL) 

Wigmore  Street,  90th  May,  180a 
<•  My  Lord, 
'•  I  hare  the  honour  of  apprising  your  lordship, 
tiiat  Thnnday  next,  the  98th  instant,  is  appointed 
for  the  final  discussion  of  the  committee  of  privi- 
leges upon  my  cfaiim  to  the  Chandos  Peerage:  and 
I  bsve  been  compelled  to  take  this  liberty,  that 
your  lordship  might  not  by  any  accidental  omission 
of  notice,  be  deprived  of  an  opportunity  of  dedding 
upon  a  matter,  not  important  merdy  to  myself,  but 
to  the  rights  of  your  lordship's  house  of  parliament, 
and  to  tbeiust  pietogative  of  the  crown.  I  am  not 
piesomhig  to  solldt  any  fisTour  or  partiality  from 
your  lordship.  I  addreM  myidf  to  your  justice.  I 
sak  but  fdr  your  hndship's  candid  consideration  of 
the  evidcDoe  which  is  recorded  in  your  proceedings, 
and  will  survive  for  the  tnfannatioB  of  poatetlty. 


BULKELEY  —  BARON  BULKELEY 
OF  BEAUMARI8,  IN  THE 
ISLE  OF  WIGHT. 

By  Letters  Patent,  14th  May,  1784. 

Xliuagc. 

The  ancient  Ikmily  of  Bulkeley  deecended  ftom, 
ROBERT  BULKELEY,  Lord  of  the  Manor  of 

Bulkdey,  in  the  county  of  Cheiter,  temp.  King 

John,  whose  son  and  successor, 
WILLIAM  BULKELEY,  q^  BmOMe^,  had  five 


RoBBRT,  his  succeisor. 

WUlcock,  of  Petty  Hall,  hi  the  county  of 

Chester,  m.  Mary,  daughter  of  Hu^  Vena. 

Ues,  Baron  of  Kindenton,  and  had  an  only 

son, 

WII.1.COCK. 

Roger,  of  Orton  Madock,  Chedilre. 

Ralph,  of  Rudal  Hall,  in  the  same  county, 

died*.  ^ 
David,  from  whom  the  Bulkdey's  of  Bic^erton, 
in  Cheshire,  descended. 
Mr.  Bulkeley  was  «.  by  hii  eldest  son, 

ROBERT  BULKELEY,  qf  Butteley,  whose  son 
and  succeisor, 

WILLIAM  BULKELEY,  livtaig  at  Bulkdey,  in 
the  year  1909,  m.  first,  Maud,  daughter  of  Sir  J<dm 
Davenport,  Knt.,  and  had  issue, 

YifiLhiAMt  of  Bulkeley,  whoee  line  terminated 
with  his  grand-daughter,  Alice  Bulkdey, 
the  wife  of  Thomas  HoUbrd,  of  HoUbrd,  in 
the  county  of  Chester. 
Robert,  of  whom  preMntly. 
Roger,  of  Norbury,  in  Cheshire,  whence  Us 
descendants  derived  the  surname  of  «*  Nw- 
bury." 
Thomas,  m.  Alice,  daughter  and  co^hdr  of 
Matthew  Alprahum,  Esq.,  of  Alprahum,  by 
whom  he  acquired  that  aeat,  and  eettlsd 
there.    He  left  an  only  daughter  and  hdress 
Helen,  who  m.  Sir  Thomas  Arden,  of  Aid- 
ford,  in  the  county  of  Chester. 
Mr.  Bulkeley  m.  secondly,  Alice,  daughter  of  Bryan 
St.  Pierre,  and  had  one  son, 

Richard,  to  whom  he  gave  the  Manor  of 
Prestland,  in  Cheshire,  whence  he  assumed 
thesumame  of  Prestland,  whidi  his  descend- 
ants continued  to  bear. 
Mr.  Bulkdey's  second  son, 

ROBERT  BULKELEY,  Esq.,  became  seated  at 
Eatoh,  in  Cheshire,  and  was  sheriff  of  that  county 
in  1S41.  He  m.  Isabd,  daughter  of  Philip  Egcrton, 
Eiq.,  of  BCalpas,  in  the  same  shire,  and  had  a 


when  all  the  insinuations  and  pr^udioes  that  I  have 
had  to  contend  with,  shall  be  utterly  fbigotten.  It 
is  upon  the  truth  of  that  evidence,  my  lord,  that  I 
am  anxious  to  rest  my  pretensions  to  character  and 
the  unsullied  honour  of  my  ftmily. 

**  I  have  the  honour  to  be,  Sec  &c. 

'*  Edwabo  Tymswbll  BnysosB." 

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daughter,  Cecily,  m.  to  Thcnnas  WflftTtr,  Eiq.*  and 
two  Mm**  Robert  and  Richard.    The  elder, 

RoBSRT,  tuceeeded  at  Eaton,  and  Mrved  the 

office  of  iheriff  of  Cheshire,  anno  1341,  hit 

ftither  being  then  alive,  and  wae  «.  by  his 

elder  MiQ, 

JoHJff,  living  temp.  Richard  IL,  who  was 

father  of. 

Sin  William  Bulkblby,  Knt.,  of 
Eaton,  Chief  Justice  of  Chester 
in  the  reign  of  Henry  IV.,  who 
m.  Margaret,  daughter  of  Sir 
Richard  Molyneux,  of  Sefton,  and 
grand-daughter  nuitemally,  of 
Thomas,  Earl  of  Derby,  and  luui 
with  other  children, 

Thomas,  his  successor,  at  Eaton. 

Ralph,    m. ,  daughter  and 

heir  of Vernon,  of  White- 
croft,  Cheshire,  and  ParwiclL, 
in  the  county  of  Derby,  by 
whom  heacquirad  those  lands, 
and  firom  this  union  a  nume- 
rous posterity  deuended. 
Tbom AS  Bulkblby,  the  elder 
son,  «.  at  Eaton,  m.  Jane, 
daughter   of    Sir    Oeoflfrey 
Warburton,  and  had  issue, 
Thomas,  whose  son,  Tho- 
mas, died  «.  p. 
Robert,  whose  son,  Wil- 
liam, died  «.  p. 
William,  whose  two  sons, 
Robert    and    Ridiard, 
dled«.  p. 
Joan,  m.  to  Roger  Pules- 
ton,  Esq.,  of  KumbralL 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  John  Pit>- 
btsher,  Esq.,  of  Chirke, 
Flinuhire. 
RICHARD  BULKELEY,  the  second  son,  m.  in 
1307,    Agnes,   daughter  and   co-heiress  of  Roger 
Cheadle,  Esq.,  of  Cheadle,  in  the  county  of  Chester, 
and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

RICHARD  BULKELEY,  Esq.,  of  Cheadle,  who. 
In  the  reign  of  Henry  VI.,  being  constable  of  Beau- 
marls,  prevented  the  Duke  of  York  ftom  landing 
there,  in  his  return  fhnn  Ireland.  He  m,  Ellen, 
daughter  of  Guilliam  ap  Griffith.  Esq.,  of  Pentrie, 
and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

ROWLAND  BULKELEY,  Esq.,  of  Beaumaris, 
who  m.  Alice,  daughter  and  hrtress  of  William 
Beoonsal.  Esq.,  of  Beoonaal,  in  the  county  of  Lan- 
caster, by  whom  he  had  Ave  sons  and  two  daughters. 
He  was  «.  at  his  decease,  by  his  eldest  son, 

SIR  RICHARD  BULKELEY,  Knt.,  chamber- 
lain of  North  Wales,  In  lfiS4,  who  was  «.  by  his  son, 
SIR  RICHARD  BULKELEY,  M.P.  for  the 
county  of  Anglesey,  In  the  reigns  of  Queens  Mary 
tttd  Elisabeth,  m.  first,  Margaret,  daughter  of  Sir 
John  Savage,  of  Rock  Savage,  in  the  county  of 
Chester,  by  whom  be  had  issue,  Ricbabo,  his 
snccassor,  with  five  other  sons  and  five  daughters. 
He  m.  secondly,  Anne,  daughter  of  Thomas  Need- 
ham.  Esq.,  of  Shenton,  and  had  eight  sons  and  two 
daufhteie  ■  of  whom 
M 


Launceiot    was  foniecrattid    Aidibishop    of 
Dublin,  in   1619,  and  sworn  of  the  privy 
coundL    His  grace  m.  Alice,*  daughter  of 
Rowland  Bulkeley  Esq.,  ot  Beaumaris,  by 
whom  he  had  two  sooe  and  two  daughters; 
the  dder,  Ricbabd,  was  created  a  baronet* 
in  187S,  and  dying  in  1685,  was  #.  by  his 
son. 
Sib  Richabd,  aecond  baionet,  at  whose 
decease, «.  p..  In  1710,  the  title  ceased. 
Sir  Richard  Bulkeley,  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

SIR  RICHARD  BULKELEY,  Knt.,  of  Beau- 
maris, who  m.  first,  Catherine,  daughter  of  Sir 
William  Davenport,  of  Broomhall,  in  the  county 
of  Chester,  by  whom  she  had  a  son  and  daughtert 
and  secondly,  Mary,  daughter  of  William,  Lord 
Borough,  of  Gainsborough*  In  the  county  of  Ltai- 
eoln,  and  had, 

Richard.  (Sir) 

Thomas,  of  whom  presently. 

Eleanor,  m.  to  Sir  Thomas  Porter. 

Margaret,  m.  to  George  Shdlet,  Esq.,  of  Heath* 

In  the  county  of  York. 
Penelope,  m.  in  1614,  to  Sir  Edwyn  Sandys, 
of  Worsburgh,  son  and  heir  of  Sir  Samuel 
Sandys,  of  Ombersley,  in  the  county  of 
Worcester,  whose  deaeendant  was  created. 
Lord  Sandys,  of  Ombersley. 
THOMAS  BULKELEY,  Esq.,  the  younger  son, 
was  seated  at  Baroo-HiU,  near  Beaumaris,  and  es- 
pousing, aeakmsly,  the  cause  of  King  Charles  I., 
was  created  by  that  monardi,  by  patent,  under  the 
privy  seal,  dated  at  Oxford,  6th  January,    1643. 
ViacovNT  Bulkblby,  or  Cabhbl,  in  the  peerage 
of  Ireland.    His  lordship  m.  first,  Blanch,  daughter 
of  Robert  Coytmore,  Esq.,  of  Coytmore,  In  the 
county  of  Caernarvon,  by  whom  he  had  issue, 

Richard,    treacherously   killed    by    Richard 
Cheadle,  for  which  that  person  was  executed 
at  Conway. 
RoBBBT,  sttoeeasor  to  his  fiither. 
Thomas,  of  Dlnas,  in  the  county  of   Caer- 
narvon, IN.  Jane,  daughter  and  co-heiress  of 
Griffith  Jones,  Eaq.,  of  Castlemarch. 
Henry,  master  of   the  household  to    King 
Charles  IL,  and  James  IL,  m.  Lady  Sophia 
Stewart. 
Edwin,  d.  unm. 
Catherine*  m.  to  Ricfaafd  Wood,  Esq.,  of  Roa- 

moie. 
Lumley,  m.  to  Piers  Lloyd,  Esq.,  of  Uiyway. 
Mary,  m.  to  Sir  Roger  Mostyn,  Baron  of  Moa- 

tyn,  in  the  county  of  Flint  (his  Snd  wife). 
Penelope. 

*  The  commisrionen  of  government  having  pub* 
Ushed  an  order  to  prevent  the  killing  of  lambs, 
owing  to  the  great  decay  and  scarcity  of  sheep,  upon 
the  penalty  of  lOff.  for  each  lamb,  to  bepaldaswell 
by  the  kiUer  aa  the  eater,  she  peationed  Ibr 
to  eathunb,  by  reason  of  her  great  age,  and 
ness  of  body  t  in  oonaidention  of  which,  her  peti- 
tion was  granted,  and  she  had  a  lioanse^  17th  March, 
1698,  to  kill  and  dress  so  much  as  should  be  neces- 
sary Ibr  her  own  use  and  eating,  not  exceedlBg 
three  lambs  ia  the  whole  of  that  year. 


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The  visooiiiit,  who  m.  MeaiMUy,  MIm  Chfladteb 
daughtar  of  Mr.  Cheadlef  tome  time  Us  lord«hip*s 
atewmrdt  wee  «.  at  hie  deceeie,  by  Uc  eldeit  lurTiT- 
ingion, 

ROBERT  BULKELEY.  eecoad  Vieooant,  mem- 
ber  tbr  the  county  of  AngleMy,  of  the  perUement 
which  rertoRd  Kfaig  Charki  II.  Hit  JanUiip  m. 
Saxah*  dau^tar  of  DanM  Hervey,  Eaq.  ef  Coarabe* 
in  theooimty  of  Surrey,  and  had  ianie^ 

RrcBAAD,  hie  eucoeMor. 

Jamca*  L.LkD.,  M.P.  for  Beaunaria. 

Thomee,  M.P.  for  the  county  of  Caecnarvon. 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  John  Griflbth,  Eaq.,  of  Olyn, 
in  the  county  of  Caemanron. 

Gathoine,  m.  to  the  Rer.  PhiUp  Atkinson, 
IXD. 


Lumley. 

Martba,  m.  to  Roger  Priee,  Eeq.,  of  Rhinlaa. 

Kiesnor,  «.  to  Sir  WiUiam  Smith,  BarL,  of 
VfaihalL 
ThcTiaoonnt  d,  Uth  October,  1688^  and  was  «.  by 
hisddeetson, 

RICHARD  BULKELEY,  third  Viscount,  M.P. 
for  the  eounty  of  Anglesey.  This  nobienum  m. 
first,  Mary,  eldest  daughter  of  Sir  Philip  Egcrton, 
Knt.,  of  Egetton  and  OuUon,  in  the  county  of 
Cheater,  by  whom  he  had  a  son, 

RSCBABD. 

His  lordship  m.  secondly,  Elisabeth,  daughter  of 
Henry  White,  Esq.,  of  Hawtlalin,  in  the  county  of 
Pembiokeb  but  had  no  inue.  HetL,  Qth  August, 
170^  and  wae  «.  by  his  son, 

RICHARD  BULKELEY,  fourth  Viscount,  M.P. 
for  the  county  of  Anglesey,  which  honour,  together 
with  the  oonstableship  of  Beaumaris  Castle,  and 
chsmberlainsfaip  of  North  Wales,  had  been  almoet 
uttinteKruptedly  in  this  Hunily,  from  the  reign  of 
Elixebeth.  His  lordship  m.  Lady  Bridget  Bertie, 
eldest  daughter  of  James,  ftnt  Earl  of  AUngdon, 
and  had 


Ridiard.  1 

.  }■  successive  Viscounts. 


Eleanor-Mary,  m.  to  George  Hervey,  Esq.,  of 
Tiddington,  in  the  county  of  Oxford. 

Amae,  a*,  to  the  Rev.  William  Bertie,  D.D., 
brother  of  Willoughby,  third  Earl  of  Abtaig- 


Elisabeth,  m.  to  WlUlam  Price,  of  Eulace,  Esq. 
His  lordship  d.  on  the  4th  Junei,  17M,  and  was  «. 
by  his  elder  son, 

RICHARD  BULKELEY,  fifth  Viscount,  at 
whose  decease,  «.  p.,  16th  Mandi,  1738,  the  vis- 
eonnty  devtdved  upon  his  brother, 

JAMES  BULKELEY,  sixth  Viscount,  constable 
of  the  restle  ot  Beaumsris,  and  chamberlain  of 
North  Wales.  His  lordship  in.,  iSth  August,  1740, 
Emma,  only  daughter  and  heiress  of  Thomas  Row- 
IsBid,  Esq.,  of  Carew,  in  the  idand  of  Anglesey, 
and  dying  AM  April,  17iB,  was  «.  by  his  only  sur- 
viving child, 

THOMASJAMES  BULKELEY,  seventh  Vis- 
count, who  wae  created  a  pear  of  Gxeat  Britain,  on 
the  lldi  May,  1784,  as  Babov  Buucblbv,  or 
BsAiTMABJa.  His  lordship  m.  2eth  April,  1777t 
Bliaabetb>Haiiiet»  only  daughter  and  hetrOM  of  Sir 


Gcoige  Warren,  K.B.,  <upoB  which  oecasion,  he 
eesumed  the  surname  of  Warren,  before  that  of 
Bulkeley,)  but  had  no  lisue.  He  d.  In  18tt,  when 
all  his  honours  became  axTiifCT. 

AnMedx-ea,  a  cherv.  betw.  three  buU*e  head  as. 
armed  or. 

BULMER— BARON  BULAIER. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated^th  February,  1348. 

Xiiuagc. 

In  the  reign  of  King  Henry  I. 

ASCHITEL  DE  BULEMER,  gave  twelve  ok« 
gangs  of  land  lying  in  Bnunham,  to  the  canons  of 
Nostell,  and  wae  «.  by 

BERTRAM  DE  BULEMER,  sheriff  of  York- 
shire  in  the  times  of  King  Stephen,  and  Henry  II.. 
and  founder  of  the  priory  of  Barton,  in  that  county. 
To  this  Bertnun  «. 

STEPHEN  DE  BULEMER,  who,  upon  the  aid 
being  levied  in  the  19th  Henry  II.,  towards  the  mar- 
riage portion  of  that  monarch's  daughter,  certified 
his  knights  fees  to  amount  to  the  number  of  five, 
d0  vetariJbqffumnUo  ;  and  one-and-a-half,  and  fourth 
part,  de  lunoi  tor  which,  in  two  years  afterwards, 
he  paid  six  marks  and  a  haU:  Stephen  de  Bulemer 
was  r.  by  his  son, 

THOMAS  DE  BULEMER,  who,  in  the  18th 
Henry  IL,  paid  a  hundred  shilUngs  scutage  for  not 
joining  the  expedition  then  made  into  Irelend.  He 
was  9,  by  his  son, 

ROBERT  DE  BULEMER,  who  was  r.  by  his  son, 

BERTRAM  DE  BULEMER.  This  Unidal  kird 
left  an  only  daughter  and  heiress, 

Elmme,  who  m.  OeAey  de  Nevlll,  and  conveyed 

to  the  Neville  the  Lordship  of  Brenqpeth,  in 

the  county  of  Duriuun,  which  had  previously 

been  the  family  seat  of  the  Bukmers. 

The  male  line  of  the  original  feudal  house  thna 

failing,  the  next  of  the  name  met  with  is, 

JOHN  DE  BULEMER,  who,  hi  the  fi3d  Henry 
III.,  m.  Theophania,  one  of  the  three  daughten, 
and  co-helr«Mof  Hugh  de  Morewyke,of  Morewyke, 
in  the  county  of  Northumberland,  whose  son  and 
heir, 

RALPH  DE  BULMER,  obtained  a  spedal  chap- 
ter from  the  crown,  in  the  4th  Edward  II.,  enabling 
him  to  hold  his  park  at  Ricebeig,  end  keep  dogs  to 
himt  therein,  and  to  have  free  warrsn  in  all  his 
demesne  lands.  In  the  8th  of  the  same  monarch, 
we  find  this  Ralph  doing  homsge,  and  haviog  livery 
of  the  estates  which  descended  to  him  upon  the  de> 
oeese  of  his  mother:  in  the  next  year  he  was  in  the 
wars  of  Scodand,  and  egein,  in  two  years  after* 
wards.  In  the  90th  Edward  II.,  he  was  made  de- 
puty-governor of  the  castle  of  York,  to  WUUam  de 
Ros,  of  Hamlake^  and  upon  the  accession  of  King 
Edward  III.  was  summoned  to  parliament  as  a  ba» 
Bov.  In  four  years  afterwards  he  had  special  lioensft 
to  make  a  castle  of  his  manor-house  of  Milton,  In 
the  county  of  York,  being  the  same  year  consti- 
tuted sheriff  of  Yorkshire,  and  governor  of  the  casUe 
at  York.  His  knrdship  participated  egain  <the  8th 
Edward  IIL)  in  the  wars  of  Scotland.  He  d.  hi 
I3S7,  and  wee  #.  by  his  son,  then  in  his  sixteenth  year. 

RALPH  BULMERj  who  was  placed  under  the 

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fturdianafaip  of  the  king's  daught«r,  Iiabel,  uul  by 
lier  Mtlgned  to  Ralph  de  NevilL  He  had  livery 
of  hit  laadst  upon  attaining  maturity,  in  the 
S6th  Edward  III.,  after  which,  40th  Edward  IIL,  he 
had  licenie,  together  with  WilUam»  a  younger  ion 
of  Ralph,  Lord  Nerill,  of  Raby,  to  travd  into 
foreign  parts,  and  he  appears  to  have  d.  at  the  close 
of  that  year}  leaving  a  son  and  heir,  then  but  a 
year  old. 

RALPH  BULMER,  «<  whose  descent,'*  (says 
Dugdale,)  "  I  shall  not  trace  down  farther,  ir  re- 
gard that  none  of  this  family,  after  the  before 
specified  Ralph,  who  was  summoned  to  parliament 
from  the  first  till  83d  Edward  IIL,  were  barons  of 
the  realm."  The  male  line  of  this  branch  of  Bul- 
mers  continued,  however,  to  the  time  of  Philip  and 
Mary,  when  it  terminated  with  Sir  Richard  Buhner, 
KnL 

Auca.— Gu.  a  lion  rampant,  salient  erminois. 

BUROH_£ARL  OF  KENT. 

By  Charter  (rf  Creation,  1 1th  February,  1298. 

Xincagc. 

The  great  and  powerful  family  of  Buhoh,  (at  the 
head  of  which  now  stands  the  noble  house  of  Clan- 
ricarde,)  deduced  its  lineage  from, 

CHARLES,  DUKE  OF  INOEHEIM,  fifth  son 
of  the  Emperor  Charlemaign,  whose  grandson, 

GODFREY,  a  distinguished  soldier  of  the  cross, 
was  father  of 

BALDWIN,  whose  son, 

BALDWIN,  the  second,  was  founder  of  the  bouse 
of  Bloib,  in  France,  and  progenitor  of  the  noble 
flamiUes  of  Burgh  (Burlie),  and  Vesey,  in  Irdand, 
thiough  hii  son, 

JOHN,  EARL  OF  COMYN,  and  Baron  of 
Tonsburgh,  in  Normandy,  who  being  general  of  the 
king's  fmroes,  and  governor  of  his  chief  towns,  ob- 
tained the  surname  «*  Dx^irnoR."  This  nobleman 
had  issue, 

Harlowxk,  of  whom  presently. 
Eustace,  Baron  ci  Tonsburgh. 
MiUicent,  m.  to  Fulk,  Earl  of  Anjou,  who  «. 
as  King  of  Jerusalem,  in  1131. 
The  eldest  son, 

HARLOWEN  DE  BURGH,  espoused  ArlotU, 
mother  of  WiUiam  the  Conqueror,  and  dying  before 
his  father,  left  issue, 

Odo,  Bishop  of  Bayeux,  created  Earl  of  Kent, 
(see  Odo,  Earl  of  Kent),  and, 

ROBERT,  EARL  OF  MORETON,  in  Nor- 
mandy, who  peartldpating  with  his  brother,  the 
Bishop  of  Bayeux,  in  the  triumph  of  Hastings,  was 
rewarded  by  his  victorious  kinsman,  Duke  William, 
wHh  the  EA&I.DOM  or  Cobnwai.l,  (anno  1068,) 
and  grants  of  not  less  than  seven  hundred  and 
ninety-three  manors.  This  nobleman  in.  Maud, 
daughter  of  Roger  de  Montgomery,  Earl  of  Shrews- 
bery,  and  had  issue, 

William,  his  successor, 
and  three  daughters,  one  tk  whom  m.  Andrew  de 
Yetrel,  another,  Guy  de  Val,  and  the  youngest,  the 
Earl  of  Thoulouae,  brother  of  Raymond.  Count  of 
St.  Giles,  who  behaved  so  valiantly  in  the  Jerusalem 
expedition.  The  period  of  the  decease  of  Robert, 
W 


Earl  of  Moreton  and  Cornwall  is  not  ascertained, 
but  he  appears  to  have  been  «.  by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  MORETON,  Earl  of  Cornwall, 
who,  rebdling  against  King  Henry  IL,  died  a  prl- 
scmer,  having  had  his  eyes  put  oat  by  nder  of  that 
monnch,  and  his  earldom  of  Cornwall  transferred 
to  Stephen  of  Blois,  (see  De  MoreUm,  Earl  of  Corn- 
wall). This  unfortunate  nobleman  left  two  sons, 
Adblkx,  from  whom  the  tttmt  house  of 
CLAJCBicABDn,  and  the  numerous  families  of 
De  Burgh,  Burgo,  Burlce,  and  Bourke,  de- 
rive. 
And, 
JOHN  DE  BOURGH,  whose  son, 
HUBERT  DE  BOURGH,  became  one  of  the 
most  eminent  and  conspicuous  nobles  of  his  time ; 
and  as  a  subject  was  considered  the  greatest  in 
Europe,  during  the  reigns  of  King  John  and 
Henry  III.  **  The  first  mention  of  this  Hubert  I 
find,"  says  Dugdale,  *'  is,  that  he  was  servant  to 
King  Richard  I.,  as  also  to  King  John,  being  sent 
by  the  latter  from  Roan,  in  the  first  year  of  his 
reign,  to  treat  of  a  marriage  for  him  witha  daughter 
to  the  king  of  Portugal ;  and  had  such  great  esti- 
mation  from  that  king,  that  in  the  third  of  his 
reign,  l>eing  lord-chamberlain  of  the  housdiold,  he 
was  constituted  warden  of  the  mardies  of  Wides, 
and  had  a  hundred  soldiers  to  attend  him  in  those 
parts."  In  the  next  year  we  find  him  employed  on 
an  embassy  to  Philip  of  France,  to  treat  for  the  re- 
stitution of  Normandy,  then  seised  upon  by  that 
monarch— and  for  some  years  after  engaged  in  the 
importantdutiesof  sheriff  for  the  <x>unties  of  Dor- 
set, Somerset,  Hereford,  Berks,  and  Lino(dn.  At 
the  period  that  the  barons  rose  against  King  John, 
this  wen  then  powerftd  nobleman  was  seneschal  of 
Poictou,  and,  taking  part  with  his  royal  master,  he 
was  nominated  one  of  the  commissioners  to  treat 
with  the  insurrecti<mary  lords  at  RuNirYMXDB,  in 
which  capacity  he  witnessed  the  rigning  of  Maoma 
Chaata,  and  was  advanced  by  the  king,  before  he 
left  the  fidd,  to  the  high  station  of  Juaricn  or 
ENOLAxn.  In  ten  days  afterwards  he  was  consti- 
tuted sheriff  of  the  counties  of  Kent  and  Surrey, 
and  governor  of  the  castle  of  Canterbury,  and  within 
a  month  made  sheriff  of  Herefordshire,  governor  of 
the  castle  of  Hereford,  and  governor  of  the  castles 
of  Norwich  and  Oxford.  In  the  October  foUowhig 
he  obtained  a  grant  tif  the  lordship  and  hundred  of 
Hoa  in  Kent,  part  of  the  possessions  of  Robert 
Bardolph,  and  was  again  constituted,  on  the  19th  of 
the  ensuing  November,  one  of  the  commissionen 
upon  the  part  of  the  king,  to  treat  with  Riduvd, 
Earl  of  Clare,  and  otheis,  then  deputed  by  the 
barons  in  the  church  of  Erith,  tn  Kent,  touching  a 
peace  between  the  king  and  those  turbulent  nobles. 
He  subsequently  augmented  his  reputation  by  the 
gallant  d^ence  of  Dover  Castle  against  Lewis  of 
France,  when  King  John  was  compiled  to  fly  to 
Winchester,  and  after  the  death  of  that  mooudi, 
by  still  faiUif ully  holding  the  castle  for  the  young 
king,  Henry  III.,  although  the  liighest  lumours  and 
rewwds  were  tendered  him  personally  by  the  French' 
prince  for  its  surrender.  In  the  fourth  year  of  the 
new  king  he  sut^peeded  William  Mareschall,  Earl  of 
Pembroke,  Just  then  deceased,  in  the  guanUaashtp 


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oC  yovBg  Hony*  (at  tltat  time  but  foartten  yem  of 
age,)  and  In  the  government  of  the  kingdom :  and 
he  lupprMpcd  in  the  next  year  a  dangeioiu  iniurree- 
tion  of  the  Londonen,  begun  by  one  Cotutantine, 
a  chief  man  of  the  city*  whom  he  caused  to  be 
hanged.    His  groat  power  soon  after,  however,  ex- 
citing the  jealousy  of  the  barons,  the  Earl  oi  Chea- 
ter, and  others  of  the  discontented  party,  signified  to 
the  king,  that  unless  he  ftnrbore  to  require  their 
castles,  and  to  hearken  to  the  counsels  of  this 
Hubert,  who  then  assumed  a  higher  deportment 
than  any  nobleman  in  the  kingdom,  they  would  all 
riae  an  rebellion  against  him ;  butit  does  not  appear 
tliat  this  cabal  prevailed,  for  we  find  in  the  next 
ysar,  whan  the  king  solemnised  the  festival  of 
duiatmas  at  Westminster,  this  Hubert,  by  especial 
royal  appointment,  proposing  to  the  lords  spiritual 
and  temporal,  then  assembled,  an  aid  "for  vindi- 
catii^  the  injuries  done  to  the  king  and  his  subjects 
in  the  parts- beyond  sea."    And  soon  afterwards, 
having  executed  the  office  of  sheriff  for  the  counties 
of  Norfolk  and  Suflblk,  ftom  the  1st  to  the  9th  of 
Henry  111.  inclusive,  and  oi  the  county  of  Kent, 
from  the  3rd  to  the  11th  of  the  same  reign,  he  was 
created,  (on  the  11th  of  February,  1S96,)  Eabl  ow 
KajffT,  with  most  extensive  territorial  grants  ftom 
tlie  crown.    Wltfiin  the  year,  too,  he  was  consti- 
tuted, by  the  advice  of  the  peers  of  the  whole  realm, 
JcBTics  OP  EwGiJiND.    His  lordship  afterwards, 
however,  incurred  the  temporary  displeasure  ot  his 
royal  master,  as  Dugdale  dius  states — "  But  before 
the  end  of  this  thirteenth  year,  (about  Michaelmas,) 
tbe  king  having  a  rendezvous  at  Portsmouth,  of  the 
greatest  army  that  had  been  seen  in  this  realm,  (it 
oottsiating  of  English,  Irish,  Scotch,  and  Welch,) 
designing  therewith  the  recovery  of  what  his  father 
had  lost  in  foreign  parts ;  and  expecting  all  things 
in  read! uses,  with  shipa  for  their  transportation; 
but  finding  not  half  so  many  as  would  suffice  for 
that  purpose :  he  wholly  attributed  the  fault  to  this 
Hubert,    and   publicly   calling  him  Otd  Traytor, 
told  him,  that  he  bad  taken  five  thousand  marks  as 
a  brihe  from  the  queen  of  France,  and  thereupon 
drawing  out  his  sword,  would  have  killed  him  on 
tlie  spot,  had  not  the  Earl  of  Chester,  and  some 
others,  prevented  it,  but  displaced  him  from  his 
(^Boeof  Justice,  whereupon  he  withdrew  until  the 
king  grew  better  pacified,  as,  it  seems,  he  soon  was ; 
for  the  next  ensuing   year,   when  divers  valiant 
knights,  coming  to  the  king  out  of  Normandy, 
earnestly  besought  him  to  land  forces  in  that  coun- 
try, assuring  him  that  it  might  be  easily  recovered, 
this  Hutiert  wholly  dissuaded  him  from  attempting 
ity  and  prevailed  with  him  to  make  an  expedition 
into  Gascony  and  Poictou,  where  he  succeeded  so 
well,  that,  having  litde  opposition,  he  freely  re- 
ceived the  homage  of  the  inhabitants  of  those 
countries.** 

His  lordship  subsequently  so  fully  re-established 
himself  in  royal  favour,  that  he  obtained  permission, 
under  certain  circumstances,  to  execute  the  office  of 
JcsTicx  OP  Emoland  by  deputy,  and  he  soon  after- 
wanto  had  a  grant  of  the  office  of  Jubticb  op  Irk- 
LAND  ;  and  was  appointed  governor  of  the  Tower 
of  London,  castellan  of  Windsor,  and  warden  of 
Windsor  Forest,    Here,  however,  he  appears  to  have 


reached  the  summit  of  his  greatacas,  for,  sharing  the 
common  fate  of  favorites,  he  was  soon  afterwards 
supplanted  In  the  aActions  of  the  king,  and  ex- 
posed to  the  hostility  of  his  enemies,  so  that,  at  one 
period,  his  life  was  saved  only  by  his  taking  sanc- 
tuary in  the  church  of  Merton.  He  was  afterwards 
dragged  from  beft>re  the  altar  of  the  chapel,  at  the 
Bidiop  of  Norwich's  manor-house  in  Essex,  and 
conveyed  prisoner,  with  his  legs  tied  under  the  belly 
of  his  horse,  by  Sir  Qodftrey  de  Ctawoombe,  to  the 
Tower  of  London i  "whereof,"  (says  Dugdale,) 
**  when  they  made  relation  to  the  king,  who  had 
sate  long  up  to  hear  the  news,  he  went  merily  to 
bed.**  **  Howbeit,"  (continues  the  same  authority,) 
"  the  next  morning,  Roger,  Bishop  of  London, 
being  told  how  they  had  dragged  him  from  the 
chappel,  went  immecUately  to  the  king,  and  boldly 
rebuked  him  for  thus  violating  the  peace  of  holy 
church,  saying,  that  If  he  did  not  forthwith  free 
him  of  his  bonds,  and  send  him  back  to  that  chap- 
pel,  whence  he  had  been  thus  barbarously  taken,  he 
would  pronounce  the  sentence  of  excommunication 
against  all  who  had  any  band  therein.  Whereupon 
the  king,  being  thus  made  sensible  of  his  fault,  sent 
him  back  to  the  same  chappel  upon  the  Ath  calend 
of  October,  but  withall  directed  his  precept  to  the 
sheriff  of  Essex  and  Hertfordshire,  upon  pain  of 
death,  to  come  himself  in  person,  as  also  to  bring 
with  him  the  jnmm  eomUattu,  and  to  encompass  the 
chappel,  so  to  the  end  he  should  not  escape  thence, 
nor  receive  any  manner  of  food,  which  tiie  sheriff 
accordingly  did,  making  a  great  ditch,  as  well  about 
the  bishop's  house  as  the  chappel,  resolving  to  stay 
thdre  forty  days."  From  this  perilous  situation  the 
earl  was  rdieved  through  the  influence  of  his  staunch 
friend,  the  Archbishop  of  Dublin,  upon  conditiou 
of  expatriating  himself,  being  conveyed,  in  the 
interim,  again  to  the  Tower.  When  the  king, 
learning  that  the  difgraoed  lord  had  deposited  great 
treasure  in  the  new  temple  of  London,  peremptorily 
demanded  the  same,  but  the  Templars  as  peremp- 
torily refused  surrendering  the  property  entrusted 
to  them,  without  the  consent  of  the  owner,  which 
latter  being  obtained  **  great  store  of  plate,  both  of 
gold  and  silver,  much  money,  and  divers  Jewels  of 
very  great  value,"  were  seised,  and  deposited  in  the 
royal  treasury.  His  lordship  was  subsequently  com- 
mitted ckMO  prisoner  to  the  castle  of  Devizes, 
where,  it  is  said,  upon  hearing  of  the  death  of  his 
great  enemy,  the  Earl  of  Chester,  (5th  November, 
1233,)  *'  he  fetched  a  deep  sigh,  and  exclaimed.  Cod 
have  mercy  on  hissouii  and  calling  for  his  psalter, 
stood  devoutly  before  the  cross,  ceasing  not  before 
he  had  sung  it  all  over,  for  the  health  of  his  souL" 
Soon  after  this  the  earl  received  a  full  and  free  par- 
don for  his  flight  and  outlawry,  with  a  grant  that 
his  heirs  should  ei^oy  all  the  lands  of  his  own  inhe- 
ritance, but  as  to  such  as  he  had  otherwise  acquired. 
'*  they  should  stand  to  the  king's  fttvour  and  kind- 
ness, and  such  terms  as  the*  king  should  think  fit** 
Whereupon,  relinquishing  his  title  to  the  office  of 
JusTicB  OP  Enoland,  and  entering  into  obliga- 
tion upon  oath  never  agahi  to  claim  it,  he  had 
restitution  of  numerous  extensive  lordships  and 
manors.  He  did  not,  however,  obtain  his  freedom, 
but  was  stiU  ckisely  confined  at  Devises,  from 
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whenee  he  eviritmllf  madv  Ms  mtapt  ittloWalef, 
and  w«B  ulUnurtdy  pardoned,  with  the  other  Sag- 
Itth  aoblei  who  bad  Jofawd  Lewdlyn,  Prince  of 
Walee*  upon  the  oondnelaa  of  peaee  wHh  that 
chieit^a.  Again,  though*  be  taicanred  the  dliplea- 
■ure  of  the  ktng,  in  eonaequenoe  of  hit  daughter 
Margaret  having  wedded  BJcfaard,  Earl  of  Qkm- 
outer,  a  minor,  wMunrt  Uoeoae,  tnt  was  pardooed 
upon  clearing  hfanedf  of  all  cogai— ne  of  the  mat- 
ter, and  paying  a  flock  He  wee,  however,  again  in 
diflgraoe,  end  again  makt,  and  ao  on  until  he  wa9 
atript  of  ahnost  all  hie  iptandid  pOHearieni^ 

Hii  knndahip  fNu,  fint,  Joene,  daaghter  of  WilUam 
de  Veraun,  Earl  of  Devon,  ad  widowof  WiHiam  de 
Brewer,  widi  whom  he  acquired  the  wlude  Iile  of 
Wight,  and  the  letdBhip  of  Chriat  chnrdi  in  Hamp- 
shire, hut  by  whom  he  had  no  inuek  He  m., 
secondly,  Beatrix,  daughter  of  William  de  Warren 
of  Wirn^ay,  In  the  oonaty  of  Norfolk,  and  widow 
of  Dodo  Bardoif ;  thirdly,  Isabell,  daughter  nd 
oo-heireti  of  WliBam,.  Earl  of  Gloucester,  and 
widow  of  Geoftey  de  MandeviUe;  and  fourthly, 
Margaret,  daughter  of  WHIlani,  king  of  Scotland. 
By  the  bwC  he  is  said  to  have  had  two  snoa,  "  but 
that,"  obsenes  Mr.  Banks,"  *<  appaais  by  no  means 
the  Cact,  for  had  it  lo  been  the  issue  ftom  them 
«ould  have  been  nearer  to  the  crown  of  Scotland 
than  any  of  the  competitors  wbe  piufamsd  their 
claim  thereto,  temp.  Edward  I.,  inaomuch  as  the 
olApring  fjrom  the  daughter  of  WfUiam,  king  of 
Scotland,  would  have  had  a  better  pretenskm  than 
Bruce  or  BaUol,  who  wera  only  descended  from  the 
daughters  of  David,  younger  brother  of  the  said 
WUliam."  His  kwdship  had  issue,  however,  two 
sons  and  two  daiiq^hters,  vis. 

John,  (Sir)  m.  to  Hawyve,  daughter  and  hetrese 
of  WiUam  de  Lanvalay,  and  left  issue  a  son, 
John,    This  Sir  John  de  Burgh  never  Inhe- 
rited the  Earldom  of  Kent.    He  fought  under 
the  banner  of  the  barons,  at  the  battles  of 
Lewes  and  Evesham,  fai  the  reign  of  Henry 
IIL    The  period  of  his  decease  is  net  ascer- 
tained.   His  son  and  hdr, 
JoBir,  d:  in  the  8th  Edward  I.,  lewtng  the 
CKtensiTe  manors  and  estates  which  he  in- 
herited firom  his  fMher  and  mother,  to 
three  daughters,  as  co-hein,  via. :— > 
Hawyse,  m.  to  Robert  de  Grellly. 
Dervoigild,  mt,  to  Robert  Fita-WalCer. 
Maigerie,  a  nun  at  Chiksend,  in  the 
county  of  Bedford. 
Hubert,  ancestoi^  of  the  Barons  Borough,  of 

Gaiaaborough. 
Margaret,  m.  to  JUchaid  de  Clare,  Earl  oi 

Glouceetar. 
Blegotta,- — ^ 
Hubert  de  Burgh,  thus  edebrated,  as  Earl' of  Kent, 
d.  on  the  4th  March,  1M3,  and  his  lemafais  were 
honorably  interred  within  the  church  of  the  Friers 
preachers,  (eowmonly  called  the  BfaMk-Prfers,)  in 
Che  dty  of  London.  With  his  lordship  the  Eari.- 
ooM  or  Ksirr,  in  the  fmily  of  Burgh,  sxrinan, 
whldi  Coltins  accounts  for  in  hisparliamentwy  pie> 
cedents,  by  the  alligation  that  the  patent  by  which 
the  earldom  waa  conferred,  was,  in  remainder,  to 
his  heirs  BMie  by  the  SooCdsh  prtaKest  only,  and 


AaMBir^OuleB,  seven  loaenges  varry  three,  three 
andonck 

BURGH  —  BARONS  SOMERHILL, 
VISCOUNTS  TUNBRIDGE, 
EARLS  OF  ST.  ALBANS. 

Barony  and  Ylscty.  >  By  Letters  f  3d  April,  lOM. 
Earldom,  /    Patnt,    \  S3d  Ai]«ust,  IdM. 

ICituagc. 

RICHARD  BURKE,  OR  DE  BURGH,  fourth 
Earl  of  Chmrlcarde,  in  tl^  peerage  of  Irdand,  was 
created  a  peer  of  England,  on  ad  April,  16M,  as 
BUrsn  ftMMrMtf ,  and  Fiseowif  TunbHdg^,  both  in 
the  ooonty  of  Kent*  and  advanced  to  the  Earldom 
or  St.  A&BAita,  on  the  S3d  August,  IdR  His  lord- 
ship m.  Fiances^  daughter  and  heiress  of  Sir  Francis 
WaUngham,  and  widow  of  Sir  Philip  Sydney ,  and  of 
the  unfortunatoEarl  of  Essex,  by  whom  he  had  issue, 

ULJCK,hiS  SUCDSSSOr. 

Margaret,  m.  to  the  Hon.  Edmond  Butler,  son 

of  James,  Earl  of  Ormonde, 
Honors,  m.  to  John  Paulett,  Marquess  of  Win- 


that  lady  latvlng  no  lesue,  the  dignity  of  course 


His  lordship  d.  In  1036,  and  waa  «.  by  his  son, 

ULICK  BURKE,  OR  DE  BURGH,  fifth  Earl 
of  Chuaricarde,  and  second  Earl  of  St  Albans,  who 
was  created  Marquem  of  Clanricsrde,  in  Ireland,  oo 
the  81st  Fcibruary,  1844.  This  nobleman,  who  was 
appointed  lord  lieutenant  of  Irehmd,  fai  10BO,  took 
so  distinguished  a  part  against  the  rebels  in  the 
unhappy  times  of  Charles  I.,  that  he  was  excepted 
tgom  psedon  for  life  or  estate,  in  the  act  passed  by 
Crouwdf  s  parliament  for  the  settlement  of  Ireland. 
Uth  August,  Ifiifi.  His  kirdship  m.  fai  December, 
IdBS,  Lady  Aime  Compton,  then  only  daughter  of 
WiHiam,  Earl  of  Northampton,  and  by  her  had  an 
OBlychild, 

Margaret,  who  m.  first,  Charles,  Visooont  Mus- 
kerry,  and  had  iasuo— 
CHARLsa  JAMKa,  who  «.  hls  gFsndfother, 

Donogh,  Eart  of  Chmcaity. 
Praacm,  d.  unm. 
Her  ladyship  au  secondly,  hi  1076,  Robert 
▼imcts,  called  Viscount  Purbedc,  by  whom 
she  had  an  only  son, 
John  VilUers,  who  claimed  the  EarMom 
-  of  BuAingham. 
She  espo^ised  thirdly,  RcAert  FMdi^g,  Esq. 
Her  Uulyship  d.  in  160& 
His  lordship  d.  in  1657,  when  the  Irish  nmrquisate, 
and  the  English  Earloom  op  St.  ArBAira,  with 
the  minor  English  honors,  became  sxtikct;  his 
other  dignities  passed  to  his  heir  at  law. 
ARica.— Or,  a  cross  gu.in  the  dexter  canton  a  lion. 


BURGH— BARONS  BURGH,  OR  BO- 
ROUGH, OF  GAINSBO- 
ROUGH, IN  THE  COUNTY 
OF  LINCOLN. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  1st  Septttnber,  1487< 
3  Henry  YIL 

This  family  sprang  directly  tnm  Hubert  d* 


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BppgH,  3fowgir  ion  cJ  the  riMwBttd  Hubxbt  di 
Bvuoa,  ICaki.  op  Kb«t,  but  it  doci  not  Bpfms  to 
trnte  attaiiifd  mii«h  important  until  the  raign  of 
Edward  IV.,  whan, 

SIR  THOMAS  DEBUROH.JoliiadSirWilUain 
Staalay  fai  mcuing  that  prinoa  from  NavUla,  Earl 
of  Warwick,  whoia  priaonar  he  wai  at  the  oaatla  of 
BiddWham,  but  allowed  the  priTilage  of  huntiaf 
for  hia  leoaatloiu  upoo  one  of  whidi  raoaatloiia  bia 
eKspe  waa  aflbctad.  Sir  Thomaa  fought  aftaiwaida 
under  the  banner  of  the  Mune  monarch,  and  ■hand 
with  him  tai  the  fruUa  of  the  Tictory  of  Banet-AekL 
He  ■!.  EKsaheth,  daughter  end  ooJielreH  of  Sir 
Hanry  P«rqr,  of  Athol.  Knt,  ton  of  Sir  Thomaa 
Percy,  (aeoond  ion  of  Hanry,  flrrt  Earl  of  Northum- 
bsfamd,)  by  hia  wifa^  EUaabeth,  daughter  and 
beireM  of  David  Strabolgi,  Earl  of  Athol,  by  which 
lady  the  Percya  eoquirad  the  manor  of  Galubo- 
lough,  and  thua  it  pamed  to  the  De  Buigha.  Sir 
Thomaa  de  Buigh  waa  a.  by  hia  ion, 

SIR  THOMAS  DE  BURGH,  who  wwaeateda 
Mght  of  the  garter  by  King  Richard  III.,  and  waa 
■nmmnned  to  perljamant,  aa  Babon  Borouob,  op 
GAixaBOBOUOH,  on  the  let  Septambar,  1487.  Hia 
lordahip  mu  Maigaiet,  danghtar  of  Thomaa,  Lord 
Rooa,  of  Kandal.  and  widow  of  Sir  ThooM  Bot- 
laaux.  by  whom  hahad  iani»— 

Edward,  (Sir). 

Thomaa,——^ 

EKaabath,  m.  to  Richard,  Lord  Fita-Hugh. 


The  baron  A  in  1S9S,  and  waa  a.  by  hia  mo, 

EDWARD  DE  BUROH,  laoond baron,  butnerar 
aununoned  to  parlianMD^  who  m.  Anne,  daughter 
end  hainw  of  Sir  ThooMa  Cobbam,  of  Sterborough, 
and  waa  *  by  hia  ton, 

THOMAS  DE  BUROH,  third  baron,  aummoned 
to  perUament  fkom  the  9d  Norambar,  lflS9,  to  the 
8th  Septonber,  Ufift.  Thia  noblemen  uk,  Anne, 
daughter  of  Sir  Thomai  Tirwhit,  of  KfartUby,  in 
the  county  of  Lincoln,  and  dying  In  IMS,  wm«.  by 
haaMm, 

THOMAS  DE  BUROH,  fourth  taion,  who  ai. 
Elaaabeth,  danghtar  of  Sir  David  Owan,  Knt.,  but 
the  lady  proving  UMAam,  and  having  diiMran  by 
anothaa  parMn,  hia  lordship  obtained  en  act  of 
parliament  to  baatardize  thoae  children.  Ha  «•. 
■eeondly,  Alice,  danghtar  of ,  and  had  iaiue— 

Henry,  d.  in  the  life-time  of  hia  father, «.  p» 

Wii*LiAM,  auooaaaor  to  the  title. 

Dorothy,  Nk  to  Sir  Anthony  NeviU,  Knt 
Hia  lord«hip  wm  «.  by  hia  aon, 

WILLIAM  DE  BURGH,  llfth  baron,  one  of  the 
pecta  who  aete  In  judgment  upon  the  Duke  of  Nor- 
folk, in  the  raign  of  EUaabeth.  HU  kvdahip  m. 
Ketherine,  deoghter  of  Edward  Clinton,  Earl  of 
Lincoln,  and  had  iaane, 

Tbomab,  hia  wicraaaor, 

Henry,  alain  by  Hokroft. 

John,  (Sir,)  d.  in  lfi0i.* 

e  Sir  John  Bourgh— upon  thia  g^lant  panon,  the 
foilowiiV  epitaph  ^peara  In  Waatmlnater  Abbey  :— 

M& 

The  celeatlal  part  ia  fled  to  Heaven, 

And  the  earthly  la  laid  in  the  ground: 


Mary,  m.  to  — -  Bulkaley. 

EUaabeth,  m.  to Rider. 

Anne,  m.  to  Sir  Henry  Aahley,  Knt. 
The  beron  wm  «.  at  hia  decaaae  by  hia  eldaat  aon, 

THOBiAS  BURGH,  alxth  baron,  aummanad  to 
parliament  from  11th  January.  IMS,  to  94th  October, 
U07.  Thia  nobleman  wmaant  in  thaasth  EUaabeth, 
upon  an  embeaay  into  Sootlend  to  indte  King  Jemea 
againat  the  Spaniah  litKtion  there,  and  in  four  yeara 
afterwarda  auooaaded  Sir  William  RuaadU  itt  the 
lieutanantcy  of  Irtfand.    Hia  lordahip  ai.  » 

andhediaeue— 

RoBBBT,  hia  auooaaaor. 
Thomaa,  d.  in  minority,  a.  p. 
EUaabeth,  m.  to  George  Brooke,  fourth  aon  of 
Lord  Cobham,  and  had  iaaue— 
Sir  WiUiam  Brooke,  K.B.,  who  «.  Pene- 
lope, daughter  of  Sir  Moaea  HIU,  of  HiUa- 
borough  Caatle,  aarl  marahal  of  Irdand, 
and  left  a  daughter. 
Hill  Bbookb,  who  m,  flrat,  the  Hon. 
Mr.  WUmot,  eUeat  ion  of  Lord  WU< 
mot  t  aeeondly.  Sir  WUliam  Boothby, 
fhnn  whom  the  pieaant  Sir  William 
Boothby,  Birt,  deaeanda;  and  thirdly, 
Edward  Rwaaail.  brother  of  the  Earl 


Light  Bubatan< 

Whilat  the  heavy  tend  downwards. 

If  thia  church  contain  hia  body, 

Hia  fame  fills  the  world. 

And  hia  spirit  rangea  the  infinite  apace  of  Heaven. 

The  magnanimoua  and  moat  iUuatrioua, 

JOHN  BOURGH, 

Son  of  the  moat  noble,  Lord  William  Bou^h, 

(Deacended  from  that  moat  oouragaoua  Hero, 

Hubert  de  Burgh,  Earl  of  Kant,) 

And  of  the  most  noble.  Lady  Catherine  Clinton, 

Daughtar  of  Edmund  Clinton,  Earl  of  Lincoln, 

Lata  admiral  of  England, 

Renowned  for  hia  exploita,  by  aaa  and  land; 

Governor  ot  Duiaburgh. 
He  waa  twice  knighted.    First  in  Holland, 

By  his  Excellency,  the  Earl  of  Leioaster, 

General  of  the  English  and  Dutch  forcast 

Next  by  Henry  IV.,  King  of  Franoa, 

On  the  victory  of  St.  Andre. 

Afterwards,  he  overcame,  and  brought  to  England, 

A  large  Spanish  Caracca  ship, 

Laden  with  precious  stones,  sUver,  gold,  apicea,  drc. 

For  which  he  waa  received,  with  the  graateat 

Honour  and  applauaai 

But  unhappily,  fighting  the  enemy. 

Who  fought  with  much  courage. 

He  feU  by  an  untimely  death, 

to  the  great  grief  of  hia  men,  end  hia  oountry'a  loaa; 

In  the  Mrd  year  of  his  age,  March  7th,  Ifl04. 

And  here  waits  the  trumpet's  signal, 

for  the  universal  resurrection. 

To  keep  up  the  remembranca  of 

so  great  a  man, 

this  monument,  in  lieu  of  one  more  stately, 

and  more  suiUbla  to  his  high  deserts  and  name, 

is  in  the  testimony  of  their  love^  erected, 

by  G.  B.  and  M.  P. 

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of  Bedford*  by  whom  the  had  tevend 
children. 
Frances,  m,  to  Fnada  Coppinger,  Eeq. 
Anne,  m.  to  Sir  Drew  Drury. 
Catherine,  m,  to  Thomas  Knerit,  Esq.,  and  d, 
in  164a 
His  lordship,  who  was  a  knight  of  the  Garter,  d.  in 
1597,  and  was  «.  by  Ills  elder  son, 

ROBERT  BURGH,  seventh  baron,  at  whose  d»- 
ceaM>  unmarried  in  minority,  (his  brother  having  d. 
previously,)  his  estates  devolved  upon  his  sisters  as 
oo-heiresses,  while  the  Barony  op  Borough,  op 
Gainsborouoh,  fell  into  abxyancr  amongst  those 
ladies,  and  so  continues  with  their  representatives. 
ARica.— Asure  three  fleur-de-lis  ermine. 

BUROHERSH  —  BARONS   BURG- 

HERSH. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  19th  November,  1309, 
as  Edward  1. 

ICincagc. 

In  the  S6th  year  of  Edward  I. 

ROBERT  DE  BUROHERSH,  had  his  commis- 
sion renewed,  as  constable  of  Dover  Castle,  and 
lord  warden  of  the  Cinque  Ports,  and  was  sum- 
moned to  parliament  in  six  years  afterwards,  as 
Baron  Burohrrbh  ;  in  which  dignity  he  had 
summons  from  the  19th  November,  1309,  to  the 
13th  June,  1306.  His  lordship  d.  in  1306,  and  was 
«.  by  his  son, 

STEPHEN  DE  BURGHERSH,  second  Baron, 
but  never  summoned  to  parliament;  this  nobleman 
had  issue, 

BARTHOLOMBtr,  his  successoT. 
Henry,  Bishop  of  Lincoln,  temp.,  Edward  IL, 
and  in  the  reign  of  Edward  III.,  Lord  Trba- 
BURRR,  and  Lord  Chanckllor.  This  dis- 
tinguished prelate  died  at  Ghent,  in  1343,  and 
his  remains  were  brought  over  and  interred 
in  Lincoln  CathedraL  A  story  subsequently 
circulated — ^that  his  lordship  having  incurred 
many  a  bitter  curse,  for  despoiling  his  poorer 
tenantry  of  their  grounds,  to  form  a  park  at 
Tynghurst,  appeared  after  his  decease,  to  a 
certain  person,  (who  had  been  one  of  his 
esquires,)  in  the  habit  of  a  keeper,  with  his 
bow,  quiver  of  arroWl,  and  a  horn  by  his 
side,  arrayed  in  a  short  green  coat,  and  thus 
addressed  him-^*'Thou  knowesthow  I  have 
offimded  God,  and  iqjured  the  poor,  by  my 
indosure  of  this  park :  for  this  cause,  there- 
fore, am  I  e^Joyned  penance,  to  be  the  keeper 
of  it,  till  it  be  iaid  open  agun.  Go,  there- 
fore, to  the  canons  of  Lincoln,  (my  brethren.) 
and  intreat  them  from  me,  to  make  a  resti- 
tution to  the  poor,  of  what  I  thus  wrong- 
fully took  fh>m  them.**  Whereupon  having 
delivered  the  message  to  the  canons,  they 
sent  one  of  their  company,  called  William 
Batchelor,  to  see  the  desired  restitution  ac- 
complished ;  who  caused  the  banlu  and  pales 
to  be  forthwith  thrown  down,  and  the  ditches 
to  be  flUed  up. 
Stephen  de  Burghmh,  wai «.  by  his  elder  son, 
lOU 


BARTHOLOMEW  DE  BURGHERSH,  third 
Baron,  who  had  summons  to-  parliament,  from 
25th  January,  1330,  (4th  Edward  IIL,)  to  15th 
March,  1354,  latterly  with  the  addition  of  *'  Seni- 
orl."  This  nobleman  was  in  the  wars  of  Scotland 
and  France,  temp.  Edward  II.,  in  the  retinue  of 
Bartholomew,  Lord  Badlesmere}  but  in  the  15th 
of  the  same  reign.  Joining  Thomas.  EmcI  of  Lan- 
caster, against  the  Spencers,  he  was  taken  prisoner 
with  Lord  Badlesmere,  after  the  battle  of  Borough- 
bridge,  upon  the  surrender  of  that  nobleman's 
Castle  of  Leeds,  In  Kent,  and  sent  to  the  Tower  of 
London.  He  was  restored,  however,  to  his  freedom 
and  rank,  on  the  arrival  of  Queen  Isabri  and  Prince 
Edward,  and  constituted  governor  of  Dover  Castle, 
and  warden  of  the  Cinque  Ports— trusts  confirmed 
to  him  by  King  Edward  HI.,  in  whose  reign  his 
lordship  became  still  more  highly  distinguished, 
participating  in  the  glories  of  Crrssy,  and  filling 
several  important  ofl&ces,  sudi  as  lord  chamberlain 
of  the  household,  constable  of  the  tower,  dec.  Lord 
Burghersh  m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  and  co-heiress  of 
Theobald  de  Verdon,  a  great  Staffordshire  Bazon, 
by  whom  he  had  issue, 

Henry,  who  m.  Isabd,  one  of  the  sisters  and 
co-heirs  of  Edmund  de  St.  John,  but  died, 
«.  p. 
BARTHOI.OHBW,  his  sucoessoT. 
Joane. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1355,  and  was  «.  by  his  only  sur- 
viving son, 

BARTHOLOMEW  DE  BURGHERSH,  fourth 
Baron,  summoned  to  parliament,  fh>m  15th  Decern- 
her,  1357,  (31st  Edward  III.,)  to  94th  February, 
1368.    This  nobleman  was  one  of  the  most  eminent 
warriors  of  the  martial  times  of  Edward  III.,  having 
served  in  the  immediate  staff,  (as  we  should  now 
call  it,)  of  the  Black  Prince,  in  the  French  wars, 
and  attaining  therein  so  much  renown,  as  to  be 
deemed  worthy  of  one  of  the  original  garters,  upon 
the  institution  of  that  order.    In  a  few  years  after- 
wards, he  Journeyed  into  the  Holy  Land ;  and  he 
was,  subsequently,  for  several  yeaxa,  again  in  at- 
tendance upon  his  royal  master,  the  Black  Prince, 
during  which  period,  he  participated  in  the  triumph 
of  PoYTiXRS.    His  lordship  m.  first,  Cecily,  daugh- 
tn  and  heiress  of  Richard  de  Weyland,  by  whom 
he  had  an  only  daughter,  and,  eventually,  heiress, 
Elisabeth,  who  m.  Sir  Edward  le  Despencer, 
K.G.,  and  carried  the  Barony  of  Burghersh 
into  the  family  of  her  husband.    Tl)e  great 
grand-daughter,   and  representative  of  this 
marriage, 
EUxabeth  Beauchamp,  m.  Edward,  a  yoimger 
son  of  Ralph  Nevil,  Earl  of  Westmore- 
land, and  her  great  grand-daughter, 
Mary,  only  daughter  and  heiress  of 
Henry  Nevil,  last  Lord  A'bergavenny 
and  Despencer,  espoused  Sir  Thomas 
Fane,  Knt.,  whose  son.   Sir  Francis 
Fane,    K.B.,   was    created   in    1694, 
Baron  finROHBRSH,  and  Earl  op 
Wrstmorbland,  honours  now  en- 
Joyed  by  his   lordship's  descendant, 
John  Fane,  tenth  Eabl  op  Wbbt- 

MOBBLABD,  K.O. 


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Lord  BuTghenh   m.  leeondly,  Mtrgsret,  titter  of 
Bartholomew,  Lord  Badleunere,  but  had  no  issue. 
His  lordship  d.»  in  1389;  in  which  jmr»  his  hnt  win 
and  testament  bears  date,  at  Lcndon,  4th  April. 
By  this  instrument,  he  directs,  that  his  body  be  in- 
feored  in  the  Chapel  of  Maasingham,  beforetbe  image 
of  the  blessed  Virgin;  that  a  dirge  be  there  said, 
and  in  the  morning  a  mass  ;•  and  that  a  dole  should 
be  daily  given  to  the  poor  of  that  place,  at  the  dis- 
cretion of  his  executors.    To  Sir  Walter  Pavely,* 
(whom,  with  Lord  Badlesmere,  he  had  constituted 
executors,)  he  beqeathed  a  standing  cup,  gilt,  with 
an  L,  upon  the  cover,  as  also  his  whole  suit  of  arms 
for   the  Justs,  with  hu  coat  of  mail  and  sword. 
UpcMi  the  demise  of  this  nobleman,  the  last  male 
representative  of  this  branch  of  the  family  of  Burg- 
heish,  the  Barony  or  Burohxbsh,  passed  with 
his  daughter,  as  stated  above,  into  the  fSunily  of 
Despencer,  and  the  dignity  is  now  vested,  although 
not  assumed,  in  Thomas  Stapleton,  present  BAaoif 
Lb  Dbspxitcbii. 
AaMB.-^u.  a  lion  rampant,  double  quev^  or. 
^o<e.— Of  this  fionily  was, 

JOHN  DE  BURGHERSH,  who  m.  Maud,  one 
of  the  daughters  and  hrtresses  of  Edmund  Bacon, 

of ,  in  the  county  of  Essex,  and  left  a  son,' 

SIR  JOHN  DE  BURGHERSH,  Knt.,  who  was 
in  the  expedition,  made  in  the  47th  Edward  IIL, 
into  Flanders.  This  Sir  John  m,  Jamania,  daugh- 
ter of Hanham,  of         ■  ■,  In  the  county  of 

Gloucester,  and  widow  of  Sir  John  Ralegh,  Knt,  by 
whom  he  left  two  daughters,  his  co-heirs,  via. 

Margaret,  m.  first,  to  Sir   John  OrenveviUe, 
Knt.,  and  secondly,  to  John  Arund^,  Esq., 
of  the  county  of  ComwalL 
Maud,  m.  to   Thomas    Chaucer,   son  of  the 
celebrate  poet,  and  dying  in  1436  or  14^, 
left  an  only  daughter, 
Alice  Chaucer,  who  m.  William  de  la  Pole, 
Duke  ot  Suilblk,  K.O.,  Lord  Chancdlor, 
and  L<trd  High  AdmiraL  ' 

BURNELL— BARONS  BURNELL. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  19th  Dec  1311, 
6  Edward  XL 

ICincage. 

<«  That  this  family,'*  says  Dugdale,  "hath  been 
of  great  antiquity,  here  in  England,  an  old  Martyro- 
loge  (sometime  belonging  totheabliey  of  Buldewas, 
in  the  county  of  Salop),  doth  plainly  demonstrate; 
for  thereby  appeareth  that  Sir  Robert  Bumell, 
Knt.,  died  15th  Nov.  1087;  Sir  Philip,  14th  Dec. 
11C7;  Sir  Roger,  fith  Feb.  1140;  Sir  Hugh,  7th  Jan. 
1149;  Sir  Richard,  SOth  Jan.  1189 ;  Sir  Hugh,  13th 
Hay,  1242;  and  another  Sir  Roberf,  eth  Dec.  1249." 

The  next  persons  of  the  name  upon  record  are, 

WILLIAM  BURNELL,  who  took  part  with 
the  rebellious  barons  at  the  close  of  King  Henry 
III.'s  reign,  and  his  brother, 

ROBERT  BURNELL,  who,  in  the  Mth  of  the 
same  monarch,  obtained  a  charter  for  a  weekly  mar- 
ket, and  two  fairs  yearly,  to  be  holden  at  his  manor 
of  AcTOv-BuKKXLL,  in  the  county  of  Salop;  and 
before  the  end  of  the  same  year,  we  find  him, 
amongst  others,  signed  with  the  crass  for  a  voyage 
to  the  Holy  Land  with  Prince  Edward.    He  was. 


however,  drowned,  along  with  his  above-mentioned 
brother,  in  1282,  when  he  was  succeeded  by  his  ne> 
phew,  (the  son  of  his  brother  Philip,) 

PHILIP  BURNELL,  who  was  «.  by  hii   first 
cousin,  (son  of  his  uncle,  Hugh  Bumell,) 

PHILIP  BURNELL,  who,  hi  the  19th  Edw.  L, 
had  a  charter  for  free  warren  in  all  his  demesne 
lands  in  the  county  of  Salop,  and  in  two  years  af- 
terwards inherited  estates  in  the  counties  of  South- 
ampton, WUts,  Berks,  StiU|R>rd,  Essex,  and  Surrey, 
from  his  uncle,  Robert  Bumell,  bishop  of  Bath  and 
Wells.  This  feudal  lord  m.  Maud,  daughter  of 
Richard  Fits- Alan,  Earl  of  Arundel,  and  had  issue, 
Edward,  his  successor. 

Maud»  m.  first,  to  John  Lovel,  of  Tichmarch, 
in  the  county  of  Northampton,  by  whom 
she  had  issue, 
John  Lovel,  who  was  deprived  of  his  inhe- 
ritance by  fine. 
Maud  m.  secondly,  John  de  HandIo,  who  was 
summoned  to  parliament,  as  BAaoN  Handlo. 
hi  1342.    (See  that  dignity. ) 
Philip  Bumell  (i.  in  the  23d  of  Edward  I.,  and  was  #. 
by  his  son, 

EDWARD  BURNELL,  who,  being  in  the  wars 
of  Scotland,  had  summons  to  parliament,  as  Baron 
BuKNSLL,  ftom  the  19th  December,  1311,  to  the 
24th  October,  1314.  His  Unship  m.  Olivia,  daugh- 
ter of  Hugh  le  Despenser;  but  dying  without  issue, 
in  1315,  the  barony  bxpikxd  ;  while  his  estates,  save 
those  hdd  by  hte  widow,  in  dower,  devolved  upon 
Ills  only  sister,  Maud,  (mentioned  above,)  as  sole 
heiress. 

ARHS—Ar.  a  lion  rampant  sa.  crowned,  or.  within 
a  bordure,  as. 

BURNELL— BARONS  BURNELL,  OF 
UOLGATE,  IN  THE  COUN- 
TY OF  SALOP. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  25th  Nov.  ISSO, 
24  Edward  IIL 

Dineage. 

MAUD  BURNELL,  sister  and  sole  heiress  of 
Edward  Lord  Bum^>  who  d.  in  1315.  when  his  ba- 
rony expired,  espoused  for  her  second  husband 
John  de  Handlo,  afterwards,  summoned  to  par- 
liament as  Loan  Handlo,  and  had  issue,  two  sons, 
via. — 

Richard,  who  d.  in  the  life-time  of  his  father, 
leaving  a  son, 

■  Edmund  de  Handlo,  who  succeeded  to  the 
barony  of  Handlo,  (see  Handlo,) 
And, 

NICHOLAS  DE  HANDLO,  who  inherited,  in 
the  22d  Edward  III.,  the  estates  of  his  mother, 
and  assumed,  in  consequence,  the  surname  of  Bua- 
nkll;  by  which  designation  he  was  summoned  to 
parliament,  as  baron,  on  the  25(h  November,  1350. 
Hte  lordship-  dtetinguished  himself  in  arms,  and 
participated  in  the  glory  acquired  by  hte  victorious 
soverrign  upon  the  French  soiL  He  cf.  on  the  19th 
of  January,  1383,  and  was  «.  by  hte  son, 

SIR  HUGH  BURNELL,  Knt.,  as  second  Banm 
Bumai,  This  nobleman  was  constituted  governor 
of  the  castle  of  Bridgenorth,  in  the  county  of  Sa- 
lop, in  the  loth  of  Richard  II.;    but  being  de- 

lui 


BUT 


3UT 


nounoed.  in  neact  yaar,  m  one  of  tlie  fftvoaritei  «id 
evil  oounsellon  of  that  unhappy  prince*  he  ««•  ba- 
nished the  court.  He  regained  popular  Cavour. 
however*  to  much  within  a  few  yean,  that  upon 
the  depoul  of  his  royal  matter,  he  wee  one  of  the 
lords  deputed  to  receive  the  unlbrtunate  king's  re- 
signation of  the  crown  and  government,  at  the 
Tower  at  London.  In  the  neat  reign  we  find  Lord 
Bumdl  entrusted  with  the  government  of  several 
strong  castles  on  the  Welch  border.  His  lordship 
m.  first,  Joyce,  daughter  of  John  Botetourt*  and 
grand-daughter  and  heiress  of  John,  second  Lord 
Botetourt,  by  whom  he  had  no  issues  but  by  a  se- 
cond wife  he  luui  an  only  son, 

EowAKD,  who,  dying  in  the  life-time  of  his 
father,  left,  by  his  wife  Alice,  daughter  of 
Thomas,  Lord  Strange,  three  daughten,  vix.^ 
Joyce,  m.  to  Thomas  Erdington,  Esq.,  Jun., 
and  had. 
Sir  Thomas  Erdington,  Knt. 
Margery,  m.  to  Edmund,  son  of  Sir  Walter 
Hungerford,  Knt.,  and  had 
Thomas,  father  of  Sir  John  Hunger- 
ford. 
Katherlne,  m.  to  Sir  John  RatclUlb,  whose 
son  married  the  heiress  of  •—  Fits-Walter. 
Lord  Bumdl,  who  had  been  summoned  to  parliap 
ment  troat  the  SOth  August,  1383,  to  the  Sist  Octo- 
ber, 14ao,  died  in  the  latter  year ;  when  his  above- 
mentioned  grand-daughters  became  his  heirs,  and 
the  BAEONY  or  BumiiXLL  fell  into  abstancb 
amongst  them,  as  it  still  continues  with  their  re* 
preMntatives. 

Arms— Ar.  a  lion  rampant  sa.  crowned  or.  within 
abordureax. 

NoTB.— As  In  the  instance  of  this  barony,  it  may 
appear  rather  strange  that  the  issue  of  the  second 
husband  of  Maud  Bumdl,  by  John  Handlo,  instead 
of  her  issue  by  her  first  husband,  John  Lov^, 
should  come  in  for  the  barony,  it  may  be  necessary 
to  observe,  that,  on  the  decease  of  her  brother,  Ed- 
ward, Lord  Bumdl,  without  issue,  the  honour  ter- 
minated with  him,  as  she  could  not  make  henelf 
heir  to  his  lordship  so  as  to  take  any  thing  by  virtue 
of  the  record  of  his  creation  x  wherefore,  John 
Handlo  being  seised  of  the  manors  of  Holgate,  Ao- 
ton-Bumdl,  &c  for  life*  in  right  of  Maud,  his  wife, 
the  remainder  to  Nicholas  Handlo,  (alias  Bumell,) 
son  of  the  said  Maud  and  John,  (by  a  fine  in  court,) 
the  said  NicHOLAa  was  summcmed  to  parliament, 
amongst  the  barons  of  the  realm,  by  reason  of  the 
fine  aforesaid,  and  possession  of  the  caput  baronlK, 
(Holgate,  in  the  county  of  Salopr)  and  not  John 
Lovel,  who  was  heir  to  the  said  Maud  by  her  first 
husband.— Bamks. 

BUTLER— EARL  OF  WILTSHIRE. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  8th  July,  1448. 
XinC80C. 

JAMES  BUTLER,  son  and  heir  of  James,  fourth 
Earl  of  Ormonde,  in  Irdand,  by  Joan,  daughter  of 
William  Beauchamp.  Lord  Abeigavenny,  was  ele» 
vatsd  to  the  peerage  of  England,  by  letters  patent, 
dated  8tb  July,  1440,  as  Eau.  op  WiLTSJiiaB,  and 
102 


succeeded  Co  the  Irish  honois,  as  fifth  Earl  of  (^ 
monde,  at  the  lierease  of  his  father,  in  14iUL  This 
nobleman,  who  was  a  staunch  adhflrent  of  the  house 
of  Lancaster,  was  made  lieutenant  of  Ireland  in  the 
3Uth  Henry  VL,  and  in  three  years  afterwards  lomd 
TKaABuaaa  or  Ejcoland.  Shortly  after  this  his 
lordship  was  with  King  Henry  in  the  first  battle  of 
St  Albans,  where  the  Yorkists  prevailing,  he  fled, 
and  cast  his  armour  into  a  ditch.  In  the  38th  of  the 
same  monarch  he  was  reconstituted  lord  treasurer, 
and  app<rinted  keeper  of  the  forest  of  Pederton,  in 
the  county  of  Somerset,  and  of  .Cnnebume  Chase, 
lying  in  the  counties  of  Wilts  and  Dorset  i  being,  at 
the  same  time,  honoured  with  the  Garter.  His 
lordship  participated  this  year  in  the  triumph  of 
his  party  at  Wakbpibi.b,  where  the  Duke  of  York 
fell;  but  sharing  also  their  defeat  at  Mobtimbb 
Cbosb,  he  fied  the  fidd:  and  pursuing  a  similar 
course  after  the  unfortunate  issoe  to  the  LancMtri* 
ans,  of  TowTON-FiBLD,  he  was  taken  prisoner  by 
Richard  Salkeld,  Esq.,  and  beheaded  at  Newcastle 
on  the  1st  May,  1461.  His  lordship  d.  without 
issue,  and  being  attainted  by  parliament  in  the  No- 
vember following  his  execution;  his  Eabldom 
OP  WiLTBBiBB  BXPiRBD,  ssshould  the  Irish  honors 
of  the  fiunily,  the  deceased  lord's  brother  and  heir, 
John  Butler,  being  also  attainted  for  his  Lancastrian 
principles,  and  being  likewise  engaged  at  the  battle 
of  Towton,  but  that  the  said  John  was  restored  hi 
blood  by  King  Edward  IV.,  and  thus  enabled  to  In- 
herit as  sixth  Earl  of  Ormonde.  James,  Earl  of 
Ormonde  and  Wiltshire,  m.  thrice;  fint.  Amy, 
daughter  of  John  Fita-Alan,  Earl  of  Arundel; 
secondly,  Amicea,  daughter  of  Sir  Richard  Staflbrd, 
a  great  heiress,  and  thirdly,  Eleanor,  daughter  of 
Edmund  Beaufort,  Duke  of  Somerset,  but  never 
had  issue. 

Armb. — Or.  a  chief  indented,  aa.  a  label  of  five 
points,  ar. 

BUTLER  —  BARON  BUTLER,  OF 
WESTON,  IN  THE  COUN- 
TY OF  HUNTINGDON. 

By  Letters  Patent,  anno  187SL 

LORD  RICHARD  BUTLER,  second  son  of 
James,  first  Duke  of  Ormonde,  was  advanced  to  the 
peerage  of  Ireland,  as  Earl  op  Arran,  In  186S, 
and  created  a  peer  of  England,  by  the  title  of  Barom 
BcTLBR,  OP  Wbbton,  in  1673>  Upon  his  father's 
quitting  Ireland  in  1682,  this  nobleman  was  left 
deputy  until  his  return,  and  performed  great  service 
against  the  mutinous  garrison  of  Carrick-Fergus. 
His  lordship  distinguished  himself  also  in  the  cde- 
brated  naval  engagement  with  the  Dutch  in  I673L 
He  m,  first,  Mary,  daughter  of  James  Stuart,  Duke 
ot  Richmond  and  Lenox,  but  had  no  issua  He 
espoused  secondly,  Dorothy,  daughter  of  John 
Ferrers,  Esq.,  of  Tamworth  Castle,  in  the  county 
of  Warwick,  by  whom  he  had  an  only  surviving 
daughter, 

Charlotte,  m.  to  Charles,  Lord  CorawaUls. 
He  d.  in  1685,  when  leaving  no  male  issue,  all  his 
iioBOBa  BxpiABP,  but  wcve  rtvived  in  the  pcnoo 


BUT 


BUT 


of  hto  Mpheir,  tiM  Hon.  Cbarki  Bulkr,  (Me  Butler, 
Baron  Butler,  of  Weeton). 
Amjie.— or.  a  chtefjadmted  ae. 

BUTLER  —  BARON  BUTLER,  OF 
WESTON,  IN  THE  COUN- 
TY OF  HUNTINGDON. 

By  Letter*  PaleDt,  dated  fl3d  January,  10B3. 

Xintagi. 

The  Honogehle 

CHARLES  BUTLER,  eeeond  een  of  the  cele- 
hwfeil  Thoatu,  Earl  of  Oieory  (bf  etmttmf),  and 
Lord  Btttlv,  of  Moorpark,  by  writ,  eldert  ton  of 
Jamei,  Dnke  of  Onnonda,  waa  elevated  to  the 
of  Ireland  on  the  sad  January,  16B9,  as 
Cloghgrmum,  ViaeoutU  TttOomgh,  and  Earl 
or  AnRAir,  and  created  at  the  niae  time  a  peer 
of  England,  hy  the  title  of  Bauoit  Butlbb,  of 
Weeton,  in  the  county  of  Huntinsdon.  Thl*  no- 
Ucmen  waa  one  of  the  Lords  of  the  bedchamber, 
and  colonel  of  hoTM,  in  the  reign  of  King  WlUiam; 
goveraor  of  Dover  Caitleb  end  deputy-warden  of  the 
Cinque  Ports,  and  master  of  the  ordnance  In  Ire- 
land, temp.  Queen  Anne,  and  chancellor  of  the  uni- 
vcnlty  of  Oxford  in  the  rdgn  of  King  George  I. 
His  lordship  m.  EUiabeth,  fourth  daughter  end  co- 
haiims  of  Thomas,  Lord  Crew,  of  Stene;  but  dying 
#.  ^  in  17AB^  all  his  MovovBa  sxrinnn.  His  lord- 
ship was  also  lord  high  steward  of  Westminster,  end 
a  lieut.-gBnaa]  in  the  army. 

Arme   Or.  a  chief  indented  ae. 

BUTLER  —  BARONS  BUTLER,  OF 
BRAMFIELD,  IN  THE 
COUNTY  OF  HERTFORD. 

By  Letters  Patent,  90th  September,  162& 

ICincagc. 

From  the  BoruLBRa  or  BuTLsaa,  Barons  of  Wem- 
rore  and  Ovcrsley,  descended 

SIR  JOHN  BUTLER,  BART.,  of  Hatfield  Wood- 
hall,  in  the  county  of  Herts,  (so  created  in  17th 
James  I.,)  who  was  advanced  to  the  peerage  on  the 
90th  September,  IdSS,  a»  Baron  Butlrr  or  Bram- 
FiBLD,  in  the  same  shire.  His  lordship  m.  Elisabeth, 
sister  of  George  Vllliers,  Duke  of  Buckingham,  by 
whom  he  had  six  sons,  whereof  five  predeceased  him 
unmanied,  and  six  daughters,  of  which, 

Aubrey,  m.  first.  Sir  Frands  Anderson,  and 

secondly,  Francis,  Earl  of  Chidiester. 
Helen,  m.  Sir  John  Drake,  Knt. 
Jane,  m.  James  Ley,  Earl  of  Marlborough. 
Ollvera,  m.  Endymion  Porter,  Esq. 
Hary,  m.  Edward,  Lord  Howard  of  Escrick. 
Anne,  m.  first,  Moui^oy  Bk>unt,  Earl  of  New- 
port, and  secondly,  Thomas  Weston,  Earl  of 
Portland. 
His  lordship  d,  in  1637»  and  was  «.  by  his  only  sur- 
viving son, 
WILLIAM,  second  heron,  at  whose  decease  with- 
out issue,  bx  1617,  the  Barony  or  Bdtlxr,  of 
Bramfield,  bxpirbo,  while  his  lordship's  esutes 
devolved  upon  his  sisters,  or  their  representatives, 
and  were  purchased  alterwaida  hy  Geoife»  Viscount 


OiandeeoB,  In  betand,  who  thereby  oMafaMd  po*. 
eeision  of  the  manor  of  BRAMriBLo. 

ARMra.— <ju.  a  tase  Chequde,  er.  end  sa.  betw.  six 
cross  ciossleta.  or. 

BUTLER  —  BARONS  BUTLER,  OF 
LANTHONY,  IN  THE 
COUNTY  OF  MONMOUTH, 
AND  EARLS  OF  BRECK. 
NOCK,  IN  THE  PEERAGE 
OF  ENGLAND. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  90th  July,  IfiOO, 

19  Charles  II. 

Merquesees  and  Dukes  of  Ormonde,  end  Earb  of 

Oaeory,  in  Irdend. 

The  Rlgh\  Hon. 

JAMES  BUTLER,  Marquess  of  Ormonde,  and 
Earl  of  Oesory,  in  Irdand,  f6r  his  faithful  adherence 
to  King  Charles  I.,  was  created  a  peer  of  England 
at  the  restoration  of  the  monarchy,  (90th  July, 
IflOD,)  in  the  dignities  of  Bafim  Butter,  tflMUtumw* 
in  the  county  of  Monmouth,  end  Earl  or  Brrck- 
irocK,e  and  the  next  yeer  advanced  to  the  Irish 

•  James  Butler,  Earl  of  Ormonde,  his  hwdship'a 
ancestor,  m.  Alianore,  daughter  of  Humphrey  De 
Bohun,  Earl  of  Hereford  and  Eksex,  Lord  or 
Brrcknock,  and  constable  of  England,  by  Elisa- 
beth Plantagenet,  daughto-  of  Edward  I.—(See 
Bohun,  Earl  of  Herefbrd.) 

Note.— The  illustrious  house  of  Ormoitdb,  origi- 
nally sprang  ttom  the  great  feudal  finnUy  of 
Walter :  thus. 

In  the  Srd  Henry  II.,  in  the  sheriff's  account  for 
Norfolk  and  Suflblk,  mention  is  nmde  in  those 
shires,  of 

HUBERT  WALTER,  to  whom  succeeded, 

HENRY  WALTER,  who  had  five  sons,  Hubert, 
Theobald,  Walter,  Roger,  and  Hamon,  of 
whom, 

Hubert,  the  eldest,  a  churchman,  became  Arch- 
bishop of  Canterbury. 
And,  the  second, 

THEOBALD  WALTER,  obtained  from  King 
Richard  I.,  a  grant  in  fee,  of  the  lordship 
of  Prrstoh,  in  Lanceshire,  with  the  whole 
Wapentake  and  forest  of  Amundemesse,  to  hold 
by  three  knights'  fees :  which  grant  bears  date  99nd 
AprU.  in  the  first  yeer  of  that  king's  reign,  being 
the  Friday  immediately  after  his-  coronation.  In 
five  yeers  after,  he  was  appointed  sheriff  of  the 
county  of  Lancaster,  and  continued  to  Ailfll  the 
duties  of  that  high  office,  from  the  6th  of  Richard, 
to  the  1st  of  John,  inclusive^  This  feudal  lord  waa 
a  great  benefkctor  to  the  church,  and  a  founder  of 
several  religious  houses,  amongst  which  were  the 
Augustinian  Abbey  of  Cockersand,  in  Lancashire  i 
and,  (being  Butlrr  of  Ireland,)  the  monestery  of 
Arklow,  end  the  abbeys  of  Motheny,  county  of 
Limerick,  and  Nenegh,  county  of  Tipperary,  in 
IrebukL  In  the  5th  of  Khig-John.  he  gave  two 
palAreys  for  license  to  go  into  that  kingdom,  and 
having  espoused  Maud,  daughter  of  Robert  Vava- 


BUT 


BUT 


DuKKDOM  OF  Ormondb.  This  nobleman  distin- 
guished himarif  first  in  public  life,  by  a  disposition 
to  oppose  the  government  of  the  Earl  of  Straflbrd 
in  Ireland,  and  his  political  career  commenced  in 
the  following  singular  manner.  Lord  Straflbrd, 
upon  calling  a  parliament  to  meet  at  Dublin  Castle, 
issued  a  proclamation  that  none  of  the  members, 
lords  or  commons,  should  enter  with  their  swords  ; 
an  injunction  obeyed  by  all  but  the  young  Marquess 
of  Ormonde,  who  told  the  black  rod  at  the  door 
<*  that  he  thould  have  no  eworde  qf  hi*  except  in  hie 
gut*r  This  so  irritated  the  lord  deputy,  that  the 
refractory  lord  was  called  upon  in  the  evening  to 
account  for  his  conduct;  when  he  produced  his 
m^csty's  writ,  summoning  him  to  parliament, 
**  einctue  cum  gladio.*'  So  resolute  a  reply,  at  once 
fixed  his  lordship's  fortune,  and  it  being  deemed 
more  prudent  to  conciliate  than  to  provoke  so  ardent 
a  spirit,  he  was  immediately  called  to  the  privy 
council ;  Arom  that  period  he  attached  himself  lea- 
lously  to  the  cause  of  the  king,  and  used  all  his 
eflbrts  to  defeat  the  accusations  against  the  Earl  of 
Straflbrd,  who  thenceforward  felt  so  much  gratitude 
towards  him,  that  he  made  it  his  last  request  to  his 
royal  master  to  bestow  the  garter  upon  Ormonde ;  a 
request  (Cheerfully  complied  with.  The  marquess 
was  afterwards  lord  lieutenant  of  Ireland,  and  his 
valour,  conduct,  and  loyalty,  were  in  the  highest 
degree  conspicuous  throughout  the  whole  of  the 
civil  wars.  He  was  a  second  time  chief  governor  of 
Ireland  after  the  restoration.  Burnet  says  of  this 
eminent  person,  "  that  he  was  every  way  well  fitted 
for  a  court :  of  a  graceful  appearance,  a  lively  wit, 
and  a  cheecful  temper ;  a  man  of  great  expense,  but 
decent  even  in  his  vices,  for  he  always  kept  up  the 
forms  of  religion :  too  faithful  not  to  give  always 
good  advice;  but  when  bad  ones  were  followed,  too 
complaisant  to  be  any  great  complainer.  He  had 
got  through  many  transactions  with  more  fidelity 
than  success ;  and  in  the  siege  of  Dublin,  miscarried 
so  far,  as  to  lessen  the  opinion  of  his  military  con- 
duct: but  his  constant  attendance  on  his  master 
and  his  great  suflisrings,  raised  him  (after  the  resto- 
ration), to  be  lord  steward  of  the  household,  and 
lord  lieutenant' of  Ireland." 

His  grace  m.  Elisalieth,  only  daughter  of  Richard 
Preston,  Earl  of  Desmond,  by  whom  he  had  issue— 
Thomas,  who  d.  young. 


sour,  with  whom  he  acquired  the  manors  of  Edling- 
ton  and  Newborough,  and  the  lands  of  Boulton, 
departed  this  life  in  the  9th  of  the  same  monarch. 
When  Robert  Vavasour  above  mentioned,  gave  to 
the  king  a  fine  of  twdve  hundred  marks,  and  two 
palfreys  for  the  benefit  of  the  widow's  marriage  and 
dowrie.  The  lady  married  subsequently  Fulke 
Fitft-warine.    Theobald  Walter  left  issue, 

Thbobald,  who  aasiuned  trom  his  office  in 
Ireland,  the  surname  of  Botklbr  or  Butlbr, 
and  from  this  great  feudal  lord,  who  m, 
Maude,  sister  of  the  celebrated  Thoma»-a- 
Becket,  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  imme- 
diately descended  theBUTLBRS  OP  Ormondb. 
Maud,  wjiose  tuition  King  John  committed  to 

Gilbert  Fiti-Reinfrid,  Baron  of  Kendall. 
104 


Thomas,  Earl  or  OasoRv,  who  was  sum- 
moned to  parliament  S4th  September,  10S8,  as 
Lord  Butlbr,  qfMoor  Pmrk,  in  the  eounty 
€\fHerta,    This  nobleman  was  6.  at  Kilkenny 
on  the  8th  July,  1634,  and  by  the  time  he  had 
reached  majority  gave  such  proofs  of  discre- 
tion, talent,  and  noble  bearing,  that  Sir  Ro- 
bert Southwell  thus  depicts  him  at  that  period. 
'*  He  was  a  young  man  with  a  very  handsome 
.face;  a  good  head  of  hair ;  well  set;  very  good 
natured ;  rides  the  great  horse  very  well ;  is  a 
very  good  tennis  player,  fencer,  and  dancer ; 
understands  music,  and  plays  on  the  guitar 
and   lute;   speaks   French  elegantly;   reaia 
Italian  fluently;  is  a  good  historian;  and  so 
well  versed  in  romances,  that  if  a  gallery  be 
fiill  of  pictures  and  hangingsi  he  wiU  tell  the 
stories  of  all  that  are  there  described.     He 
shuts  up  his  door  at  dght  in  the  evening  and 
studies  till  midnight;  he  is  temperate,  cour- 
teous, and  excellent  in  all  his  behaviour."    In 
1661  his  lordship  was  general  of  the  horse  in 
Ireland,  and  a  member  of  the  privy  council. 
He  was  deputy  to  his  father  while  lord  lieute- 
nant, and  attained  the  highest  reputation  in 
the  cabinet  and  the  field.    His  lordship  pre- 
t.      eminently  distinguished  himself  in  the  great 
naval  engagement  with  the  Dutch  in  1673, 
**  wherein,*  (aaith  Anthony  Wood  J  **  he  gtti- 
ktntly  acted  beyond  the  fiction  qf  romance" 
He  m.  in  16S9,  Amdia,  eldest  daughter  of 
Louis  de  Nassau,  Lord  of  Beveweast,  Odyke, 
and  Auverquerque,  natural  son  of  Maurice, 
Prince  of  Orange,  by  whom  he  had  two  sur- 
viving sons  and  three  daughters,  viz. 

Jambs,  who  «.  his  grandfather. 

Charles,  created  Earl  oi  Arran. 

Elizabeth,  m.  to  William  Richard  George, 
ninth  Earl  of  Derby. 

Emilia,  ^ » 

Henrietta,  m.  to  Henry  D* Auverquerque, 
Earl  of  Grantham. 
His  lordship  d.  of  a  fever  at  Whitehall,  in  the 
life-time  of  his  father,  deeply  lamented  by 
the  kingdom  at  large,  on  the  30th  July,  1680. 

Richard,  created  Earl  of  Arran  in  Ireland,  and 
Lord  Butlbr,  or  Wbbtoit,  in  England. 

John,  created  Earl  or  Gowran,  d,  in  1677* 
e.p. 
The  duke  d,  the  year  of  the  revolution,  1688,  and 
was  «.  by  his  grandscm, 

JAMES  BUTLER,  second  Duke  of  Ormonde  in 
Ireland,  and  second  Earl  or  Brbcknock  in  Eng- 
land. This  nobleman  being  one  of  the  first  to  espouse 
thecaiueof  the  Prince  of  Orange,  was  madeaKNioHT 
of  the  Oartbr,  upon  the  elevation  of  his  highness 
to  the  throne :  and  constituted  Lord  High  Consta- 
blb  or  England  for  the  day,  at  the  coronation  of 
his  Majesty  and  Queen  Mary.  In  1690,  his  grace 
attended  King  WiDiam  at  the  battle  of  the  Boyne, 
and  in  three  yean  afterwards  was  at  Landen,  where 
he  received  several  wounds,  had  his  horse  killed 
under  him,  and  was  taken  prisoner  by  the  Frenchr 
and  carried  to  Namur.  In  1702,  he  was  appointed 
by  Queen  Anne,  Conunander-in-chief  of  the  land 


CAr 


CAM 


It  against  Fiance  and  Spain,  wlken  h«  de- 
•tnyed  the  French  fleet,  and  the  Spanish  galleons, 
in  the  harbour  of  Viga;  for  whldi  he reoeiTcd  the 
thanks  of  parliament.    In  17IS,  he  succeeded  the 
Duke  9t  Marlborough,  as  Captain-general,   and 
Commander-fai-diief  of  all  his  nu^asty's  land  Ibrcas 
in  Gnat  Britain,  or  employed  abroad  in  ooi^unction 
with  her  allies ;  and  on  the  Quean's  death  was  one 
of  the  piiTy  council  who  signed  the  proclamation, 
dwlatming  George  L  lUng  of  England }  on  whoae 
anlTal  he  was  at  first  graciously  received  by  his 
m^esty,  but  in  a  few  days  after  was  removed  flrom 
his  great  oflloes ;  and  within  a  short  time  (1715), 
bofeached  hi  parliament  of  high  crimes  and  mis- 
dcnoeanofs.    Whereupon  retiring  into  France,  he 
was  attafaitcd,  his  estates  confiscated,  and  all  his 
honours  jixtinouishbd,  on  the  SOth  August,  1715. 
But  in  1721,  an  act  of  parliament  pasied,  ■whHwg  hig 
brother  the  Earl  of  Arran,  to  purchase  the  esdieated 
property,  which  he  accordingly  did.    The  Duke  m. 
twice,  first  Lady  Anne  Hyde,  daughter  of  Laurence, 
£arl  of  Rochester,  who  died  with  her  only  infimt 
child,  and  lecondly.  Lady  Mary  Somerset,  daughter 
ol  Henry,  Duke  of  Beaufort,  by  whom  he  had  an 
only  sttrviTing  daughter,  Mary,  m.  to  John,  Lord 
Ashbuxnham.    He  died  at  Madrid,  at  the  advanced 
ageof  ninety-lbur,  on  the  16th  November,  1745. 
ABJta^-Or.  It  chief  indented  aa.  sUk   ^'Xtf 

BUTLER  —  BARON  BUTLER,  OF 
MOOR  PARK,  IN  THE 
COUNTY  OF  HERTS. 

See  Butler,  Eabi.8  of  Buckvock. 
<Thomas,  Earl  of  Ossory,  ion  of  the  first  k>rd.) 

CAILLI— BARON  CAILLL 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  4th  March  1309. 
Snd  Edward  XL 

In  the  7th  year  of  King  John, 

ADAM  DE  CAILLI  accounted  five  pounds  for 
license  to  plead  before  the  king,  in  a  cause  depend- 
ing between  himself  and  Michael  de  Puninges,  re- 
garding the  dowry  of  Margaret,  the  hUteTs  wife. 
From  this  Adam  deicended, 

THOMAS  DE  CAILLI,  who  in  the  35th  Ed- 
ward L,  obtained  livery  of  the  hmds  which  he  in- 
herited fhxn  hit  cousin,  Robert  deTatsthall,  (nephew 
of  his  mother  Emme,)  and  was  summoned  to  par- 
liament as  a  Babom,  from  the  4th  March,  1309,  to 
the  16th  June,  1311,  inclusive.  In  the  10th  Ed- 
ward IL,  this  nobleman,  with  Margaret  his  wife, 
procured  a  charter  of  free-warren  in  all  their  de- 
mesne lands  at  Wymundham,  Babingle,  and  Wul- 
ferton,  in  the  county  of  Norfolk.  In  which  year 
his  lordship  died,  leaving  Adam,  the  son  of  Roger 
de  Clifton,  by  Margerie,  his  sister,  then  but  nine 
years  of  age,  his  lole  heir.  Up(m  the  decease  of 
Lord  CaiU,  the  Babohy  became  sxtin ct. 

ABMa.— Ar.  four  bendlets  gu. 

From  a  coUaleral  branch  of  this  baronial  house, 
dearend  the  Bauon bts  Caylky,  of*  Brompton,  in 
the  county  of  Yorlb 


CADOOAN-BARON  CAI>OOAN,  OF 
READINO,  IN  THE  COUN. 
TY  OF  BERKS,  VISCOUNT 
CAVERSHAM,  EARL  CA- 
DOOAN. 

Barony,     ^    |  by  Letters  /  SOth  June,  171«. 
Earldom,  &C.J     Patent     (   8th  May,  17I8. 

Xincssc. 

WILLIAM  CADOGAN.  (eldest  ion  of  Henry 
Cadogan,  barrister  at  Uw,  by  Bridget,  his  wifte, 
daughter  of  Sir  Hardzess  Waller,  Knt..)  a  general 
officer  of  great  celebrity,  the  companion  in  arms  of 
the  Duke  of  Marlborough,  and  his  grace's  succeMor 
in  the  command  of  the  army,  was  elevated  to  the 
peerage  on  30th  June,  1716,  as  Babon  Caoooaw,  nf 
ReoiUnf ,  in  the  countp  qfBerk*,  and  created,  on  the 
8th  May,  17I8,  Baron  Cadogan,  of  Oakley,  in  the 
county  of  Bucks,  with  remainder,  in  default  of  male 
issuer  to  his  brother,  Charles  Cadogan,  Viscount 
Caybbsham,  in  the  county  of  Oxford,  and  Ea'bi. 
Cadogan.  His  lordship  m.  Margaretta-CeciUa, 
daughter  of  William  Munstcr,  counsellor  ot  Hol- 
land, by  whom  he  had  issue, 

Sarah,  m.  to  Charles,  second  Duke  of  Rich-, 
mond,  K.G. 

Margaret,  died  unmarried. 
The  earl  d.  on  the  17th  July,  17S6,  when  the  Ba- 
BONY  or  Cadooan  of  Rbaoino,  the  Viscounty 
OF  Caybbshait,  and  the  Eabx.do>i  or  Cadooan, 
became  bztinct,  while  the  barcmy  of  Cadogan  of 
Oakley  devolved,  according  to  the  limitation,  upon 
his  lordship's  brother,  Charles  Cadogan,  and  is  now 
ei^oyed  by  the  present  Earl  Cadogan,  the  said 
Charles's  grandson. 

CAMOIS—BARONS  GAMOIS. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  14th  Dec,  ISM, 
49  Henry  IIL 

*   ICineage. 

The  first  notice  ot  this  family  occurs  in  the  be* 
ginning  of  Henry  the  Third's  time,  whsn  we  find 

RALPH  DE  CAMOIS  restored  to  certain  lands 
in  Huntingdonshire,  which  had  been  seised  upon  by 
the  crown,  in  the  preceding  reign,  owing  to  his  par- 
ticipation in  the  rebellion  of  the  barons.  After  this, 
in  the  86th  Henry  HI.,  he  executed  the  office  of 
sherilTfor  the  counties  of  Surrey  and  Sussex,  and 
fh>m  that  time  until  the  thirteenth  year  of  the 
same  reign.  He  d,  in  thirteen  years  afterwards,  and 
was  «.  by  his  ion, 

SIR  RALPH  DE  CaMOIS,  who,  joinhig  Mont- 
ford,  Earl  of  Leicester,  and  the  rebdlious  barous, 
stood  so  high  in  their  confidence,  that,  after  the 
battle  of  Lewes,  he  was  constituted  one  of  their 
council  of  state  for  the  government  of  the  realm, 
having  been  summoned  to  parliament,  as  a  babon, 
on  the  14th  December,  U64.  His  lon^ip  d.  in  1870, 
and  was  «.  by  his  Mn* 

SIR  JOHN  DE  CAMOIS,  leoond  baron,  but 
never  summoned  to  parliament.  Of  this  nobleman 
the  only  remarkable  circumstance  recorded  is,  the 
granting,  by  a  formal  deed,  his  wife,  Margaret, 
daughter  and  heiress  of  Sir  John  de  Gatesden,  and 
ail  her  goods  and  chatteto,  to  Sir  WilBam  PainelU 
P  IW 


CAM 


CAM 


Knt.,  with  whom  ih*  had  ficvioQsly  departed  flroMi 
her  hnabaad,  and  was  thnliTkig  In  adultery.  After 
the  deceaae  of  Sir  John  Camola,  the  lady  married 
PaineU,  and  then  demanded  a  portion  of  her  de- 
ceased lord's  lands  as  her  dowry.  But  to  that  claim 
the  king's  attorney  replied,  that  she  had  no  right 
whatever.  In  as  much  as  she  had  voluataiily  for- 
saken her  hnsband  long  before  his  death,  to  whom 
she  had  never  subsequently  been  reconciled,  and  had 
been  living  in  adultery  with  PalnelL  Unto  which 
the  claimant  and  her  husband  responded,  that 
though  she  abode  with  him,  it  was  not  in  an  adul- 
terous manner,  but  by  virtue  of  the  grant  made  by 
her  rieceasert  husband.  The  case  was  eventually  re- 
ferred to  parliament,  (29th  and  90th  Edward  I.,) 
and  the  king's  counsel  urging  the  statute  of  , 

whereby  it  was  enacted,  «*  That  if  a  wife  do,  of  her 
own  accord,  forsake  her  husband,  and  live  adulter- 
ously  with  another  man.  she  shall  fbr  ever  be  de- 
barred of  her  dowry ,^  unless  her  husbend,  without- 
ecclesiastical  coercion,  be  reconciled  to  her,  and 
oohaUt  with  her."  Judgment  was  given  against  the 
claim,  that  the  sdd  Margaret  should  have  no  dowry 
out  of  her  husband  Camols*  lands.  This  suit  was 
very  famous  in  Its  time.  Sir  John  de  Camols  was 
«.  by  hto  son  by  the  said  Margaret, 

SIR  RALPH  DE  CAMOIS.  third  baron,  sum- 
moned  to  parliament  ftom  26th  November,  1313,  to 
1st  April,  1335.  This  nobleman  distinguished  him- 
sdf  in  the  Scottish  wan  of  Kings  Edward  I.  and 
Edward  IL,  and  was  in  the  retinue  of  Hugh  de 
Spencer  the  elder.  But  no  mention  Is  made  of  him, 
or  of  any  descendant  of  his,  after  the  year  ISSft. 
Anna., — ^Ar.  on  a  chief  gu.  three  plates  (besants). 
Copy  of  the  very  singular  deed  made  by  Sir  John 
Camols  to  Sir  WiUiam  PataeU— 

Omnibus  Chrlsti  fldelibus,  ad  quos  prasens  scrip- 
tum  pervenerit,  JoHAwwBa  db  Caiisvs.  filius  et 
hseres  Domini  Radulphi  de  Cameys,  salutem  in 
Domino.  Noveritis  me  tradiase  etdimJslsse,  spoo- 
taneA  voluntate  met.  Domino  Wili.sx.mo  PatitxIi 
mlliti,  Margaretam  de  Cameys,  llUam  et  lueredem 
Domini  JoHAiriria  dx  OATsaDxir,  uxorem  meam  t 
et  etiam  iledlsse  et  concesslsse  eldem  Williebno,  re- 
larasse  et  quletum  damasse,  omnia  bona  et  catalla, 
quse  ipsa  Margareta  habet,  vd  de  csetero  habere 
posset:  et  etiam  quicquid  mel  est  de  prsedicta  Mar- 
garettl,  bonis  vecataUis,  cum  pertinentils:  itaquod 
nee  ego,  nee  allquls  alius,  nomine  meo,  in  prasdictA 
MargaretA,  bonis  et  catalUs  ipsius  Margaretse,  cum 
■uls  pertinentils,  de  CBtero  exigere,  vri  vendicare 
poterimna,  necdebemus  imperpetuum.  Acvoloet 
coBcedo,  et  per  prvscns  scriptum  conflrmot  quod 
pTKdicta  Margareta,  cum  prssdicto  Domino  Wil- 
llelmo,  sit  et  maneat,  pro  voluntate  ipalus  WilUel- 
mL  In  CH)us  rei  testimonium  hulc  pnesenti  scripto 
slgiUummeumoppoeuit  Histestibus, 

ThomA  de  Depeston. 

Johanna  de  Perrings. 

WiUidmo  de  loombe. 

Henrico  le  Biroun. 

Stephano  Camenrlo. 

Waltato  le  Bkmnd. 

Ollberto  de  Batecumbe. 

Roberto  de  Boaoo. 

etaHie. 
1<M 


CAMOIS— BARONS  CAMOIS. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  20th  August,  1383, 
7  Richard  II. 

Xincage. 

In  the  47th  Edward  III., 

THOMAS  DE  CAMOIS  obtained  the  king's 
charter  for  a  weekly  market  on  the  Saturday,  at  his 
manor  at  Broadwater,  In  Sussex  t  and  In  the  1st  of 
Richard  II.  we  find  him  serving  the  king  in  his  fleet 
at  sea,  being  then  in  the  retinue  of  William,  Lord 
Latimer.  In  three  years  afterwards  he  was  In  the 
expedition  made  into  France,  and  in  the  7th  of  the 
same  monardi,  being  elected  one  of  the  knights  for 
the  shire  of  Surrey,  he  was,  as  a  banneret,  dis- 
charged trom  that  service,  it  being  amongst  the  prl- 
vilqies  of  that  high  order  of  knighthood  not  to  be 
subject  to  serve  in  parliament.  In  the  remainder  of 
this  rdgn  he  was  in  the  wars  of  Prance  and  Spain  t 
and  he  e^)oyed  the  confidence  of  the  succeeding 
monarcfas,  Henry  IV.  and  Henry  V.  He  had  been 
summoned  to  pariiament,  as  Baboit  Camoib,  from 
the  7th  of  Richard  II.  to  the  8th  of  Henry  V.,  in- 
dusive,  and  was  a  knight  of  the  Garter.  His  lord- 
ship married  Ellaabeth,  daughter  and  heiress  of 
WiUiam  de  Louches,  with  whom  he  acquired  the 
manor  of  Whatdey,  in  Oxfordshire',  and  had  issue, 
Richard,  who  d,  before  his  fisther,  leaving 
HuoB,  successor  to  the  barony.  *  «  ' 
Margaret,  m.  to  Ralph  Rademild& 
Alienor,  m.  to  Roger  Lewloior. 
Lord  Camols  d,  in  1421,  and  was  «.  by  his  grand- 
son, 

HUGH  DE  CAMOIS,  second  baron,  at  whose 
decease,  without  issue.  In  the  &th  of  Henry  VI.,  the 
estates  devolved  upon  his  sisters,  above  mentioned* 
as  co-heiresses,  while  the  babowy  fell  into  abbv- 
AKCB  between  them,  as  it  so  continues  amongst 
their  descendants. 

A  descendant  tnm  the  yoimger  sister.  Alienor, 
by  her  husband,  Roger  Lewknor, 

Sir  Roger  Lewknor  of  Camols  Court,  in  the 
county  of  Sussex,  left  issue,  a  daughter  and 


Catherine  who  m.,   temp.   Henry  VIII., 
John  Mill,  Esq.,  of  Grantham,  In  Sussex, 
and  had  Issue, 
Lewknor  MiU,  of  Camois  Court,  whose 
eldest  son  and  heir, 
John   Mijll,   Esq.,  was  created  a 
baronet  In  1619,  an  honour  en- 
Joyed  by  hb  descendant,  the  pre- 
sent Sir  CHARI.B8  Mill. 
Abm8.*»Ai.  on  a  chief  gules,  three  plates  (be- 
sants). 

CAMVILLE  —  BARONS  CAMVILLE, 
OF  CLIFTON. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  83d  June.  1296, 
23  Edward  L 

ICincagc. 

In  the  fifth  year  of  King  Stephen. 

GERALD  DE  CAMVILLE,  of  LUbuiue  Cestle, 
In  the  county  of  Northampton,  granted  two  parta 
of  the  tithes  of  Charleton-Camvllle,  In  Somenet- 


GAM 


CAN 


•tute,  to  tiie  moalu  at  BmnondNf ,  fai  Sumy.    To 
thJs  Gcnid  «.  bk  son, 

RICHARD  DB  CAMVILLE,  who  WM  ftnmdcr 
in  the  time  of  Kiire  Stspbsn,  of  Combe-Abbey, 
m  the  county  of  Warwick,  mad  wms  one  of  the  wit- 
■irwrB  in  the  ISth  of  the  same  xeigii,  to  the  ooovco- 
tk»  between  that  monarch  and  Henry,  Duke  of 
Normandy,  rcgaxding  the  nucettion  of  the  Utter 
to  the  crown  of  England.  Thia  fteudal  lord  eppeara 
to  bea  person  of  great  power  during  the  whole  of 
King  Henry's  reign,  and  after  the  aooevion  of 
Richard  L  we  find  him  one  of  the  admirala  in  the 
expedition  made  by  that  monardi  into  the  Holy 
Land.  He  was  tubaequently  governor  of  Cyprui: 
wlieoce  he  went  without  the  king's  permission  to 
the  aicge  of  Acox  and  there  died.  His  lordsiiip  left 
four  sons  and  a  daughter,  via. 

1.  GxBAU),  his  heir,  who  purchased  from  King 
Richard  the  custody  of  Linoofai  Casde,  and 
the  province  adjaoeat.     This  Gerald  was  a 
very  powerftil  feudal  lord  in  the  reign  of 
Jotmt  to  which  monarch  he  staunchly  ad- 
hered.   He  m.  Nidiola,  eldest  daughter  and 
co-hetresfl  of  Richard  de  Haya,  and  left  an 
only  son  and  lieir, 
RicHABD,  who  fa.  Bustachia,  daughter  and 
heiress  of  Gilbert  Basset,  and  widow  of 
Thomas  de  Vernon,  and   left  an  oolj 
daughter  and  hdress, 
iDow KA,  who  m.  William,  son  of  Wil- 
liam de  Longspee,  Earl  of  Salisbury. 
&  Walter,  left  issue— 

Roger,  who  had  an  only  daughter, 
Matilda,  m.  to  Nigel  de  Mouliray,   and 
died*.  ^ 
PatnmiDa,  m.  to  Ridiard  Curson. 
JIatUda.  m.  to  Thomas  de  Astky. 
Alicia,  m.  to  Robert  de.Esaeby. 
&  Richard  left  issue— 
Rlduuid,  died  «.  p. 

Isabdla,  heireas  of  her  brother,  m.  in  the 
4th  Richard  L,  Richard  Haroourt,  of  Boa- 
worth,  in  the  county  of  Leicester. 
WiBiam,  with  whom  we  shall  proceed. 
Matikto.  M.  to  Wffliam  de  Roa. 
WILLIAM  DE  CAMVILLE,  the  youngest  son, 
■k  Albiieda,  daughter  and  hetress  of  Geoffrey  Mar- 
I,  and  had  isaa»- 
Gaorrnny,  his  successor. 
William,  of  Sekerton,  in  the  county  of  War- 
wick, fiither  of 
Thesnas,  whose  grandson.  Sir  Gerard  de 
Camvilie,  left  a  dnighter  and  heii 
Elisabeth, m.  toRdbert  Burdett. 
tor  of  the  present  Sir  Francis  Burdett, 
BarL 


4. 
A. 


Wililam  de  CamvlDe  was  «.  by  hia  eldest  son, 

GEOFFREY  DB  CAMVILLE,  who,  in  the  itd 
Edward  1.  had  summons  to  attend  the  king  at 
Poftsmouth,  with  horse  and  arms,  to  embark  in  the 
SKpedlfinn  then  prooaedlng  to  Oaaoony;  and  was 
nihsfqwantly  smnmonfd  to  pariiamcnt  as  Babon 
CAIITIX.1.B,  t^  Oit^tan,  in  the  wufOif  </  an^gf^rd, 
from  S3d  June,  1900,  to  S9d  February,  1307.  His 
Ipcdslup  m.  Maud*  daughter  and  hdrasaof  Sir  Guy 


de  Bryan,  by  Eve,  daughter  and  hofateti  of  Henry 
de  Trad,  and  had  an  only  chiU, 

William,  hia  successor. 
Hed.  in  1300,  seised  of  the  tordshipa  of  Fvaymhig* 
ton,  Bovey-Tvad,  Nymet-Trad,  BaiMCahlBb  the 
fourth  part  of  the  manor  of  Toriton,  and  of  the 
hamlet  of  Nlmet  St.  George,  ea  also  of  the  lordship 
bf  Clifton  Camvilie,  tai  the  county  of  Staflbrd, 
which  he  held  by  the  service  of  three  knights'  Hmsi 
and  which  lordship  and  manors  were  holdan  by  hiaa 
(ea  tenant  by  the  courtesy  of  England),  in  right  of 
Mattd,hLBwifa    Hb  teedahip  was  c  by  hia  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  CAMVILLE,  second  baron,  sum- 
moned to  parliament  4th  Maich,  1300^  and  10th 
June,  1311,  but  never  afterwards.  Of  the  issue  of 
this  nohlemaa  there  are  diflbrent  statsments.  He 
d.  however,  without  a  son,  when  the  Baboitt  ow 
Camtillb  Ml  faito  ABCTANca,  aa  it  probably  so 
rontinueSi 

One  authority,  BuRTOir,  in  hia  Leicestershire, 
gives  his  lordship  twodaughters,  his  co-heiresses,  via. 
Maud,  fN.  to  Sir  Richard  Staflbrd,  of  Pipe,  in 
the  county  of  Staflbtd,  whoee  son, 
Richard,  was  summoned  to  pariiamcnt  aa 
Lord  Staltord,  of  Clifton. 
Margery,  tn.  to  Sir  Richard  Vernon,  of  Haddon, 
in  the  county  of  Derby. 
Another,  Eanewic,  the  historian  of  Staflbrdshire, 
says,  he  liad  but  one  daughter* 

Maud,  who  m.  first,  Ridiard    Vernon,  and 
secondly,  Sir  Richard  Stafibrd. 
Wfaile  a  third  authority.  Dr.  Vernon,  rector  of 
Bloomsbury,  in  an  interleaved  copy  oi  Brdswic, 
states, 

That  William  de  CamviUe,  of  Cllfton-Camville, 
had  issue  five  daughters  and  heirs,  via. 

Maud,  m.  to  Sir  William   Vernon,  Knt,  of 

Haddon,  in  the  county  of  Derby. 
Isabella,  tn.  first,  to  Sir  Richard  Staflbrd,  and 

secondly,  to  Gilbert  de  Bermingham. 
Eleanor,—— 

Nicfaola,  m.  to  John  St  Clara 
Catherine,  ai.  to  Robert  Griealy. 
AaMa.— Vert  three  lions  peasant  ar.  armed  and 
languedgn. 

CANTILUPK-BARONSCANTILUPB. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  90th  December,  1900^ 
90  Edward  L 

ICincagf. 

WILLIAM  DE  CANTILUPE,  the  flnt  of  thia 
flunily  upon  record,  served  the  ofllce  ot  Sheriff  for 
the  counties  of  Warwick  and  Leicester  in  the  3rd, 
4th,  and  Mh  years  of  King  John.  In  the  neat  year 
he  was  made  governor  of  the  castles  of  Hereford 
and  Wilton,  and  he  was  subsequently  sheriff  of 
Herefordshire.  In  the  11th  of  the  same  reign,  being 
dien  the  king's  steward,  he  gave  fonrty  marks  for  the 
wardship  of  Egidia,  Lady  of  Kilpeck,  widow  of 
WilUaro  FIts-Warine,  and  in  three  years  afterwarda* 
when  the  king  was  excommunicated  by  Pope  lano- 
ccttt  IIL,  he  remainei^  so  folthfol  as  to  become  one 
of  the  v&onarch's  chief  counsellors.  We  find  hhn, 
however,  arrayed  afterwards  under  the  baronial 
beaner,  and  Joining  in  the  invitation  to  Lewis  of 

107 


CAP 


CAR 


But  within  the  same  year  he  retuned  to 
the  king,  when  he  obtained  granttof  all  the  forfrited 
estates  of  Richard  de  Engaine  and  Vitalis  de  En- 
gaine,  two  leading  barons  in  the  insurrection ;  and 
was  appointed  governor  ot  Kenilworth  Castle,  in 
the  county  of  Warwiclc  In  the  rdgn  of  Henry  III. 
he  continued  attached  to  the  cause  of  royalty  and 
acquired  immense  possessions,  in  the  shapeof  grants 
from  the  crown  of  forfeited  lands.  He  d.  in  1S98, 
leaying  live  sons,  via.  - 

1.  Wii«LiAM,  his  heir,  also  steward  to  the  king, 
and  a  person  of  great  power,  m.  MlUoent, 
daughter  of  Hugh  de  Ooumai,  and  widow  of 
Almeric,  Earl  of  Eureux,  and  had  issue, 

William,  who  m.  Eve,  daughter  and  co- 
,  ^    heiress  of  WiUiam  Broose,  Lord  of  Breck- 
.<'^  "^     nock  and  Abeigavenny*  and  in  her  right 
became  possessed  of  that  honour.    He  d. 
in  the  flower  of  his  youth,  leaving  issue, 
George,  who  died  ».  p, 
MUioent,  m.  first,  to  John  de  Montalt, 
and  secondly,  to  Eudo  le  Zoucbe, 
ftt>m  which  latter  union  descended 
^  r  the  Lords  Zouche,  of  Haryngworth. 

^  "   ■  Joan,  m.  to  Henry  de  Hastings. 

Thomas,  Bishop  of  Hereford,  and  in  the 

34th  Edward  I.,  canoniaed. 
Julian,  m.  to  Robert  de  Trqjoa. 

2.  Walter,  a  priest,  employed  by  King  Henry  as 
his  agent  to  the  court  of  Rome,  afterwards 
Bishop  of  Worcester. 

a  John,  Lord  of  Snithfidd,  in  the  county  of 
Warwick,  m.  Margaret,  daughter  and  heiress 
of  WiUiam  Cummin,  of  that  place,  and  was 
«.  by  his  son, 
John,  who  d.  in  the  17th  Edward  II.,  add 
was  «.  by  his  grand-daughter, 
Eleanor  Cantilupe,  whom.  Sir  Thomas 
-  Wast,  from  which  union  lineally  de- 
scend the  ejrtunt  E^arla  of  DniiAWAKjt, 
and  Viscounts  Caktilupx. 
4.  Nicholas,  of  whom  presently. 
&  Thomas,  elected  lord  chancellor  of  England, 
by  the  barons  in  the  40th  Henry  III. 
NICHOLAS  DE  CANTILUPE,  the  fourth  son, 
m.  Eustachia,  sister,  and  eventual  beireas,  of  Hugh 
FIta-Ralph.  Lord  of  Oresriey,  in  the  county  of 
Nottingham,  and  waa  «.  by  his  son. 


neither  that  personage  nor  his  sons,  Nicholasand  Wil- 
liam, both  of  whom  died«.p.,  were  ever  summoned 
to  parliament,  or  deemed  barons  of  the  realm. 

Arms.— Ou.  three  leopards'  heads  inverted,  jea- 
sant  three  fleurs  de  lis  or. 

CAPEL-BARON  CAPEL  OF  TEWKS- 
BURY,  IN  THE  COUNTY 
OF  GLOUCESTER. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  11th  April,  1092. 

Xincagc. 

SIR  HENRY  CAPEL,  K.B.,  second  son  of 
Arthur,  first  Baron  Capel,  of  Hadham,  in  the  county 
of  Hertford,  and  brother  of  Arthur,  first  Earl  of 
Essex,  having  distinguished  himself  as  a  leading 
and  doquent  member  of  the  House  of  Commons, 
was  elevated  to  the  peerage  on  the  11th  April,  1098, 
as  Baron  Capbl,  tf  Tewktbuiy.  His  lordship  m. 
Dorothy,  daughter  of  Richard  Bennet,  Esq.,  of 
Kew,  in  the  county  of  Surrey,  and  niece  of  Sir 
Richard  Bennet,  Bart.,  of  Babraham,  in  Cambridge- 
shire, but  had  no  issue.  Lord  Capel  was  one  of  the 
Lords  Justices  of  Ireland,  upon  the  recal  of  Lord 
Sydney,  in  1098,  and  died  Lord  Libutsnant  of 
that  kingdom,  at  the  castle  of  Dublin,  30th  May* 
1698.  His  lordship  was  buried  at  Hadham,  where 
an  inscription  sUtes,  that  he  was  of  the  privy 
council  to  King  Charles  II.,  one  of  the  lords  of  the 
treasury,  and  of  the  privy  council  to  King  WiUiam. 
At  his  lordship's  decease  the  Barony  or  Capel, 
of  Tewksbury,  became  rztinct. 

Arms.— Gu.  a  lion  rampant,  betw.  three  cross 
crosslets  fitchy,  or.  with  due  diflierence. 

CAREW  —  BARON  CAREW,  OF 
CLOPTON,  IN  THE  COUN- 
TY OF  WARWICK.  EARL 
PF  TOTNESS. 


h"-*— ^-'•{^rr.r- 


Barony, 
Earldom, 

XincBSc. 

Of  this  family,  one  of  great  antiquity  In  the  Wes- 
tern parts  of  England,  and  which  derived  its  surname 
originally  from  Carew  Castle,  in  the  county  of  Pem- 
broke, was, 

SIR  GEORGE  CAREW,  Knt,  who  was 


,Ciq>tain  of  the  Tower  of  Ruysbanke,  at  Calais,  in 


ocnngnam,  ana  waa  «.  oy  nis  son,  ^mpimin  oi  ine  rower  or  Huysoanae,  si  i-auus,  m 

WILLIAM  DE  CANTILUPE,  who  having  dis-- KfSe  31st  of  Henry  VIII.,  which  command  Sir  John 


tinguished  Mma^in  the  French  and  Scottish  wars 
of  King  Edward  L,  was  summoned  to  parliament, 
as  Baron  Cantilupb,  from  89th  December,  1S99, 
to6th  August,  1308.  His  lordship  d.  in  thefoUow- 
ing  year,  and  was  «.  by  his  elder  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  CANTILUPE,  seoond  Baron, 
but  never  summoned  to  parliament.  This  noble- 
man dying  without  issue,  was  s.  by  his  brother, 

SIR  NICHOLAS  DE  CANTILUPE,  third  Ba- 
ron. This  nobleman  served  in  the  Flemish  and 
Scottish  wars  of  Edward  III.  and  had  summons  to 
parliament,  from  Sftrd  April,  1337,  to  I3th  March^ 
1394.  His  lordship  d.  in  1365,  seised  of  the  manor 
of  Eselburgh,  in  the  county  ef  Buckingham :  Ilkes- 
ton, In  the  county  of  Derby :  Greseley,  in  Not- 
tinghamshire;  and  Livington  and  others,  in  the 
county  of  Lincoln,  and  leaving  a  son,  William,  but 
IW 


Pecche  and  Sir  Nicholas  Carew  formerly  held.  From 
this  Sir  George  Carew  descended  another 
V  GEORGE  CAREW,  who,  being  a  churchman, 
was,  first,  archdeacon  of  Totness,  in  the  county  ot 
Devon;  next,  dean  of  Bristol,  and  diief  chanter 
ia  the  cathedral  of  Salisbury;  afterwards  dean  of 
the  king's  chapel,  and  dean  of  Christ  Church,  Ox- 
ford; lastly  dean  of  Exeter  and  Windaor.  This 
very  reverend  personage  married  Anne,  daughter  of 
Sir  Nidiolas  Harvey,  Knt.,  and  had  with  other  issue, 
GEORGE  CAREW,  who  adopting  the  profession 
of  arms,  was  In  the  expedition  to  Cadis,  in  the  30th 
of  Elisabeth,  and  afterwards  served  with  great  repu- 
tation in  Ireland.  In  which  kingdom  be  was  rostile 
President  of  Munster,  when  uniting  his  forces  with 
those  of  the  Earl  of  Thomond,  he  reduced  several 
castles,  and  other  strong  places,  obt^aed  many 


(  u/k^diXti  ffi^  ) 


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Criumplu  oTcr  th«  rebebt  and  brought  tha  Earl  of 
OeoDODd  to  triaL  He  wasliktwiaeapilTyoouncU- 
lor  in  Irelaad*  and  matter  of  tbe  ordnancei  Upon 
the  acCTMion  of  King  Jamea  I.,  he  was  ootatituted 
govcfuor  of  the  lale  of  Guamiey,  and  having  mar- 
ried Jofoi^  only  daughter  and  heireM  of  William 
Cloptoo,  Eeq.,  of  Clopton«  in  the  coiuty  of  War> 
vick,  he  was  eierated  to  the  peerage,  on  the  4th 
June*  1005,  as  Baron  CwrmD,9f  Clapton,  After  which, 
he  was  made  master  of  the  ordnance  fat  Ufe,  and 
sworn  of  the  privy  council  \  and,  in  the  1st  year  of 
King  Charles  I.,  created  Earx.  or  ToTMxaa.  **  Be- 
sides," says  Dugdale,  **  these,  his  noUe  employ- 
ments, tis  not  a  little  observable,  that  being  a  great 
lover  of  antiquities,  he  wrote  an  historical  account 
of  all  those  memorable  passages,  which  hapned  in 
Irdand,  during  the  term  of  those  three  years,  he 
continued  there,  intituled  Hiberrda  Foeala,  printed 
at  London,  in  1633,  and  that  he  made  an  ample  col- 
lection of  many  dironological  and  dioioe  observa- 
tions, as  also  of  divers  exact  maps,  rdating  to  sun- 
dry parts  of  that  realm.  Some  whereof  are  now  in 
the  public  library  at  Oxford,  but  most  of  them  in 
the  hands  of  Sir  Robert  Shirley,  Bart.,  of  Stanton 
Harold,  in  the  county  of  Leicester,  bought  of  his 
eoMCtttnTB.**  His  lordship  d.  27th  March,  1029,  at 
the  Savoy  in  the  Strand,  **  in  the  suburbs  of  Lon- 
don,** leaving  an  only  daughter  and  heiress. 

Lady  Axnx  Cakbw,  who  married  first,  

Wilford,  Esq.,  of  Kent,  and  secondly.  Sir 

Allen  Apsky. 
The  earl  dying  thus,  without  legitimate  male  issue, 
all  his  honours  became  xzTiircT. 
ABJi8«— Or.  three  lions  passant,  sa. 

CAREY  — BARONS  HUNSDON, 

VISCOUNTS  ROCHFORT, 
EARLS  OF  DOVER. 


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rtaxt,    ^  3^^  March,  1028. 


Barony, 

Viscounty, 

Earldomi 

Xliu&gc. 

This  finnUy  had  their  residence,  andcntiy,  at 
€)odcington,  in  the  county  of  Devon,  and  of  that 


SIR  JOHN  CAREY,  Knt,  one  of  the  barons 
of  the  exchequer,  temp.  Richard  11.  Sir  John  m. 
flnt,  ,  and  secondly,  Margaret,  daughter  of 

William  HolweU,  of  HohveU,  in  the  county  of 
Devon,  and  widow  of  Sir  Guy  de  Brian,  by  whom 
he  had  issue,  John,  Bishop  or  ExxTan,  anno 
1419,  and  sn  eider  son,  his  heir, 

SIR  ROBERT  CAREY,  Knt,  a  person  so  va- 
kmnis  and  soskilAU  in  arms,  that  few  presumed  to 
enter  the  lisU  with  him.  Amongst  his  other  exploits, 
is  recorded  his  triumph  over  an  AraAooiciak 
knight,  in  Smithfldd;  upon  which  occasion  he 
was  knighted,  and  allowed  to  adopt  the  arms  of 
his  vanquished  rival— namely,  «*  Three  roeee  on  a 
hemd,"  Sir  Robert  m.  Margaret,  daughter  of  Sir 
Philip  Conrtenay,  of  Powderham,  in  the  county  of 
Devon,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

PHILIP  CAREY,  Esq.,  of  Cockington,  who  m. 
Christian,  daughter  of  Richard  Orchard,  Esq.*  and 


■^^ 


SIR  WILLIAM  CAREY,  Knt.,  an  eminent  Lan- 
castrian, who,  upon  the  issue  of  the  battle  of 
Tewkesbury,  10th  Edward  IV.,  fled  to  a  church  for 
sanctuary,  but  was  brought  Ibrth,  under  a  promise 
of  pardon,  and  bdieaded.  Sir  William  m.  first, 
Anne,  daughter  of  Sir  William  Paulet,  Knt.,  and 
ftom  that  marriage,  descended  the  Careys,  who 
continued  at  Cockington.  He  m.  secondly,  Alice, 
daughter  of  Sir  Baldwin  Pulford,  Knt.,  and  had  aeon, 
THOMAS  CAREY,  Esq.,  who  m.  Margaret, 
seeond  daughter  and  co-heiress  of  Sir  Robert  Spen- 
cer, by  Eleanor  his  wife,  daughter  of  Edmund 
Beaufort,  Dulie  of  Somerset,  by  whom  he  had  two 
eons,  via.— 

JoHK,  (Sir)  who  m.  '  ,  sister  of  Anthony 

Denny,  Knt,  and  left  issue, 

EowAmn,  (Sir)  m.  Catherine,  daughter  of 

Sir  Henry  Knevet,  and  widow  of  Henry, 

Lord  Paget,  by  wl)om  he  had 

H B!f a Y,  created  ViacouiiT  PALKtAwo, 

in  the  peerage  of  Scotland,  a  dignity 

still  XXTAMT. 

William, . 

The  younger  son, 

WILLIAM  CAREY,  an  esquiie  of  the  body  to 
King  Henry  VIII.,  and  a  favourite  of  that  monarch, 
m.  Lady  Mary  Boleyne,  daughter  of  Thomme,  Eabl 
OF  W1J.T8HIRX,  and  sister  of  the  unfortunate 
Queen,  Awm a  Boi.nvHB,  and  had  Issue, 
HBKav. 

Catherine,  m.  to  Sir  Francis  KnoUes,  K.O. 
He<(.  in  1528,  being  then  of  the  bedchamber  to  the 
king,  and  was  s.  by  his  son, 

HENRY  CAREY,  who,  soon  after  the  accession 
of  his  first  cousin,  QuxBir  Elisabbth,  to  the 
throne,  received  the  honour  of  luiighthood,  and 
upon  the  13th  January  following,  (anno  lAfiO,)  was 
devated  to  the  peerage,  by  letters  patent,  as  Baboit 
HuwaooM,  with  a  grant  of  the  mansion  of  Huna- 
don,  in  the  county  of  Hertford,  and  a  pension  of 
£4000  a  year.  In  the  ffth  of  Elisabeth,  his  lordship 
was  sent  with  the  order  of  the  garter  to  the  King 
of  France,  then  at  Lyons ;  and  in  five  yeers  after- 
wards, being  governor  of  Berwick,  he  drove  the 
insurrectionary  Earls  ot  Northumberland  and  West- 
moreland,  into  Scotland  1  the  former  of  whom  he 
subsequently  got  into  his  hands,  and  had  beheaded 
at  York.  In  the  29th  of  Elisabeth,  Lord  Hunsdon 
was  appointed  gsneral  warden  of  the  Marches, 
towards  Scotland,  and  lord  chamberlain  of  the 
housAold.  In  lfi88,  the  memorable  year  ot  the 
menaced  Spanish  invasion,  his  lordship  had  the 
protection  of  the  queen's  person.  In  the  camp  at 
Tilbury,  and  the  mmmsnd  of  the  army  for  that 
purpose^  He  was  likewise  captain  of  the  pensioners, 
and  a  Kwioiit  of  tha  Oabtbb.  He  m.  Anne, 
daughter  of  Sir  Thcnnas  Morgan,  Knt,  and  had  issue, 
Gbobob,  his  successor. 
John. 

Edmund,  who  was  knitted  for  his  valour,  by 
the  Earl  of  Leicester,  In  U87.  Sir  Edmund 
m.  Mary,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Christopher 
Crocker,  Esq.r  of  Croft,  in  the  county  of 
Lincoln,  by  whom  he  had  three  stms,  and 
two  daughters,  and  was  «.  by  the  ddest  son, 
RoBBBT,  (Sir)  a  captain  of  hofse,  under 


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Hontio,  Lord  Vera  of  Tilbury,  in  the 
NetherlaiHia,   m.    Alletta,   daughter    of 
Mynheer  Hogenhove,   eecretary   to  the 
State*  General,  by  whom  he  had  three 
•onsp  Horatio,  EmestuB,  and  Ferdinand, 
and  was  «.  by  the  eldest, 
HoEATio,  captain .  of  hone  in  the  ler^ 
▼ice  of  King  Charlee  I.,  m.  PetronUla, 
daughter  of  Robert  Conyeri,  Esq., 
and  was  fisther  of 
RoBBRTf  of  whom  hereafter,  as 
sixth  Loan  HuNSOOir. 
RoBBRT,  created  Eari.  or  Monjiouth,  (see 

that  dignity). 
Catherine,  m.  to  Charles  Howard,  Kxhi*  ow 

NorriHOHAM. 
Philadelphia,  m.  to  Thomas,  Lord  Scrope. 
Margaret,  m.  to  Sir  Edward  Hoby,  Knt. 
His  lordship  d.  at  Somerset  House,  S3rd  July,  1996, 
and  the  iUnew  which  occasioned  his  death,  is  said 
to  have  arisen  fhnn  disappointed  ambition,  in  never 
having  been  able  to  attain  the  dignity  of  Eari«  op 
WiLTsniRB.  Fuller,  in  his  Worthies  of  England, 
rdates,  that,  <*  when  he  lay  on  his  death-bed,  the 
queengavehim  a  gracious  vimt,  causing  a  patent  for 
the  said  earldom  to  be  drawn,  his  robes  to  be  nuule, 
and  both  to  be  laid  on  his  bed;  but  this  lord,  (who 
could  not  dissemble,  neither  weU  nor  side,)  replied, 
*  Jfodam,  teeitig  yoM  counted  me  not  toorO^  tf  Mi« 
/bofiour,  tcAUe  1  toot  living,  I  count  m/foelfumoorth^ 
«ifit,  now  I  am  difimgr 

Sir  Robert  Naunton,  In  ••  Fragraenta  Regalia,** 
thus  characterises  the  llxst  Lend  Hunsdon :  *•  My 
Lord  of  Hunsdon  was  one  of  the  queen's  nearest 
kindred,  and  on  the  decease  of  Suasea,  both  he  and 
his  son  took  the  place  of  lord  chamberlain;  he  was 
a  fsst  man  to  his  prince,  and  firm  to  his  friends  and 
servants;  and  though  he  mi|^t  speak  big,  and 
therefore  would  be  borne  out,  yet  was  he  not  the 
more  dreadful,  but  Icm  hannftil;  and  far  from  the 
practice  of  my  Lord  of  Leicester's  instruction  :  for 
he  was  downright.  And  I  have  heard  those  that 
both  knew  him  wdl,  and  had  interest  in  him,  say 
merrily  of  him,  that  his  Latin  and  his  dissimula- 
tion were  both  alike;  and  that  his  custom  of 
swearing  and  obscenity  in  speaking,  made  him  seem 
a  wone  christian  than  he  was,  and  a  better  knight 
of  the  carpet  than  he  should  beu  As  he  lived  in  a 
ruffling  time,  so  he  loved  sword  and  buckler  men, 
and  such  as  our  forefathers  were  wont  to  call  men 
of  their  hands:  of  whidi  sort,  he  had  many  brave 
men  that  followed  him,  yet  not  taken  for  a  popular 
or  dangerous  person.  And  this  is  one  that  stood 
among  the  Togati  of  an  honest  stout  heart,  and 
siuch  a  one  as  (upon  occasion,)  would  have  ftmght 
for  his  prince  and  his  country." 
Hislonrdahip  was#.  by  his  eldest  son, 

GEORGE  CAREY,  seeond  Baraa  Himsrioii,  who 
had  been  educated  for  the  public  service,  ikom  his 
earliest  youth,  and  obtained  in  the  lifttime  of  his 
fiUher,  the  honour  at  knighthood,  for  his  distin- 
guished conduct  in  the  expedition  made  into  Soot- 
famd,  in  the  13th  of  Elisabeth,  under  the  Elurl  of 
Sussex.  Sir  George  succeeded  his  fkthcr  as  captain 
of  the  band  of  pensionen,  and  was  soon  afterwards 
made  loid  duunbcdalu,  and  •  KmeaT  of  the 
110 


Oahtsr.  His  lordship  mu  EUaabeth,  daughter 
of  Sir  John  Spenosr,  of  Althorp,  Knt.,  by  whom  he 
had  an  only  daughter  and  heiress, 

Elisabeth,  who  m.  Sir  Thomas  Berkeley.  Knt, 
son  and  heir  of  Henry,  Lord  Berkeley. 
He  d.  9th  September,  1603,  and  leaving  no  male 
issue,  the  peerage  devcrtved  upon  his  brother, 

SIR  JOHN  CAREY,  Kmt.,  warden  of  the  East 
Marches,  towards  Scotland,  as  third  Barow  Huna- 
now.    His  lordship  m.  Mary,  daughter  of  Leonard 
Hyde,  Esq.,  of  Throgkyn,  in  the  county  of  Hert- 
ford, by  whom  he  had  issue, 
Hbitry,  his  successor. 
Charles. 
Anne,  m.  to  Sir  Francis  Lovell,  Knt,  of  East 

Harlyng,  in  the  county  of  Norfolk. 
Blanch,  m.  to  Sir  Thomas  Woodhouse,  Knt, 
of  Kymberky,  in  the  same  shire. 
He  died  in  April,  1617.  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 
HENRY  CAREY,  fourth  Baron  Hunsdon,  who 
was  advanced,  on  the  6th  June,  t&Sl,  to  the  Vio- 
countp  ^  Jbtehfiird,  and  created,  8th  Hay,  ie27> 
Eari.  or  DovRR.    His  lordship  m.  Judith,  daugh- 
ter of  Sir  Thomas  Pelham,  Bart,  ot  Loughton,  in 
the  county  of  Sussex,  by  whom  he  had  issue, 

John,  Viacount  Boe^ford,  who  was  made  a 
knight  of  the  Bath  at  the  coronation  of  King 
Charles  L 

Pelham,  1 .   ^.   .,  . 
George,  j  both  died  s.  p. 

Mary,  m.  to  Sir  Thomas  Wharton,  K.B.,  brother 

of  Lord  Wharton. 
Judith,  d,  unmarried. 
Philadelphia. 
His  lordship  d,  in  1668,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 
JOHN  CAREY,  second  Earl  ow  Dovxr,  and 
fifth  Barvn  Hunodon,   This  nobleman  m.  first.  Lady 
Dorothy  St  John,  daughter  of  Otioor,  Earj.  or 
BoLiwoBROKX,  by  whom  he  had  no  issue.    His 
lordship  m.  secondly,  Abigail,  daughter  of  alder- 
man Sir  William  Cokayne,  Knt,  of  the  city  of 
London,  by  whom  he  had  an  only  daughter, 

Mary,  m.  to  William  Hevenkigham,  Esq.,  of 
Hevenlngham,  in  the  county  of  Suasex.  by 
whom  she  had* 
Sir  William  Hevenlngham,  Knt 
Abigail,  fM.  to  John,  son  and  heir  of  Sir 
John  Newton,  Bart 
He  d.  in  1677.  and  leaving  thus  no  male  issue,  the 
FiMMftt<y  <tf  Raek/ord  and  Earldom  or  Dovbr 
RxriRBD,  while  the  Baromt  or  Huiibdoh  reverted 
to  his  lordship's  kinsman, 

SIR  ROBERT  CAREY,  KxT.,  (revert  to  de- 
scendants of  the  Hon.  Sir  Edmnnd  Carey,  third  son 
of  theflrstlord,)  m  sixth  Baron  Hunsdon.  His 
lordship  ta.  Margaret,  daughter  of  Sir  Gervaae  Clif- 
ton, Bart,  and  widow  of  Sir  John  South,  Knt» 
but  dying  in  IflBS,  without  issue,  the  title  devolved 
upon  (the  son  of  his  uncle  Kmestus,)  his  cousin, 

ROBERT  CAREY,  as  ooventh  Barom  Hnnodom, 
who,  at  the  tfane  of  his  succession,  was  said  to  pur- 
sue the  humUe  avocation  of  a  mmmmt.  His  lordship 
d,  unmarried  in  September,  1709,  when  the  title  de- 
volved upon  (the  grandson  of  Colonel  Ferdinand 
Carey,  uncle  of  the  last  kwd,)  his  ooushi, 
WILLIAM  FERDINAND  CAREY,   is  etgUh 


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Tlilt  nolieman  wm  6.  in  HoDmdt 
Um  aon  of  William  Camj  and  Ocrtnide  Van  Out- 
toorn,  but  being  naturaliaed  in  1690,  he  inherited 
the  boooun  of  bit  ftmily,  and  took  his  teat  in  the 
HouM  of  Peen  on  the  1st  Mardi,  1708.  His  lord- 
ship m.  Qnee,  daughter  of  Sir  Edward  Waldo,  Knt., 
■ad  relict  of  Sir  Nicholas  Wobtenhotane,  Bart,  but 
dying  without  issue,  in  1765,  the  Babojtt  or  Huwa- 
noM  became  bxtinct. 

ABMaw— Arg.  on  a  bend  sa.  three  roees  ot  the  fidd 
barbed  and  seeded  ppr.,  a  crescent  for  dijfcrcnosb 


CAREY— BARONS  CAREY,  OF  LEP- 
PINGTON,  IN  THE  COUN- 
TY OF  YORK.  EARLS  OF 
MONMOUTH. 

By  Lcttcn  Patent,  dated  5th  February,  lflB6L 

Xincasc. 

The  Hcmonrable 

ROBERT  CAREY,  fburth  son  of  Henry,  first 
Loan  Himanoir,  was  elevated  to  the  peerage  by 
King  James  L,  by  letters  patent,  dated  &th  Feb., 
I6M,  m  Baron  Oerdy,  of  Leppington,  in  the  county 
of  Yorlc,  and  Bari.  of  Movmoutb.  This  eminent 
pcnoq,  whose  memoirs,  written  by  himsrif,  were 
published  by  Johm,  Karl  or  Conn  amd  Orrbry, 
in  17flB,  was  b.  sbout  1S60.  At  the  age  of  seventeen 
be  accompanied  Sir  Tliomas  Leighton  in  his  em- 
bassies to  the  States  general,  and  to  Don  John  of 
Auatria:  and  he  soon  afterwards  went  with  Secre- 
tary WaUngliam  into  Scotland,  where  he  appeers  to 
have  insinuated  bimsrif  into  the  good  graces  of 
James,  the  future  king  of  England.  He  was  on 
board  the  fleet  in  IMS,  at  the  destruction  of  the 
Armada,  end  he  states,  **  that  he  won  a  wsger  of 
two  thousand  pounds  the  next  year  by  going  on  foot 
In  twdve  days  to  Berwick."  «*  After  this,"  goes  on 
r,  «*  I  married  a  gentlewoman,  Elisabeth, 
of  Sir  Hugh  Treranion,  more  for  her 
thBnhar«MsM»,  for  her  estate  was  but  £M0. 
a  year  Jointure^  She  had  between  £aOOi  and  £eO(k 
In  her  purse.  Neither  did  she  marry  me  for  any 
great  wealth ;  for  I  had  in  all  the  world  but  £loa 
a  year  out  of  the  Exchequer,  as  a  pensiott,  and  that 
was  but  Shiring  pleaeurei  and  I  was  near  £1,000.  in 
debt.  Besides,  the  queen  was  mightily  displeesed 
with  me  for  marrying,  and  most  of  my  best  Mends, 
only  my  Crther  was  no  ways  oMnded  at  it,  which 
ganra  me  great  eontent.**  The  tide  of  fortune, 
wUcfa  he  took  in  the  spring,  was  the  oppor- 
tunity aflbrded  him  by  the  fiuaiUar  intercourse 
with  whidi  his  kinswoman.  Queen  Elisabeth, 
f  oni1es<  wudgd  to  treat  him,  of  being  the  first  to 
announce  her  mi^iesty's  decease  to  her  fbcoessor. 
Visiting  her  (he  says,)  In  her  last  iUneei,  snd  pray- 
ing that  her  health  might  amend,  she  took  him  by 
the  hand,  and  wringing  it  hard,  replied,  **  No, 
Robin,  I  am  not  wdl,**  end  fet^lng  at  tha  same 
tima  no  fower  than  forty  or  fifty  sighs,  whkh  he 
dedans,  except  for  the  death  of  If  ary  of  Scotland, 
ha  never  in  her  whole  Ufo  knew  her  to  do  before. 
By  tlMsse  sighs  the  wily  pdUtidan  Judged  her  ma- 
jesty was   near  her  dissohitioD,   and  with  great 


candour  he 
wlwea 


proceeds,  **  I  could  not  but  think  in 
state  I  dMmld  be  left,  moet  of  my 


liTellliood  depending  on  her  lil^  And  hereupon  I 
bethought  myself  with  what  grace  snd  favour  I  was 
ever  received  of  the  King  of  Scots  whensoever  I  wee 
sent  to  him."  Upon  the  decease  of  the  queen, 
Carey  immediately  proceeded  to  Scotland,  and  was 
the  first  person  to  announce  to  King  James  his 
accession  to  the  crown  of  England,  producing  and 
presenting  to  his  miO^ty,  In  proof  of  hto  veradty,  a 
certain  blue  ring.*  The  king  received  him,  of  course, 
most  gradouily,  and  observed,  **  I  know  you  have 
lost  a  near  kinswoman,  and  a  mistress,  but  t^ke 
here  my  hand,  I  will  be  agood  master  to  you,  and 
will  requite  this  service  with  honour  and  reward.** 
Notwithstanding  this  royal  pledge,  however,  full 
nineteen  years  fispsail  before  he  attained  the  peer- 
age, and  In  his  Memoirs  he  observes,  **  I  only  r*. 
lied  on  Ood  and  the  king.  The  one  never  left  W, 
the  other,  shortly  after  his  coming  to  London,  de- 
ceived my  expectations,  and  adhered  to  those  who 
sought  my  ruin.**  His  lordship  had  issue  by  the 
lady  already  mentioned, 

Hbwry,  bis  successor,  made  a  Knight  of  the 
Bath  at  the  creation  of  Charles,  Prince  of 
of  Wales,  anno  1610. 
Thomas,  one  of  the  grooms  of  the  bedchamber 
to  King  Charles  L,  and  amongst  that  unfor- 
tunate monarch's  most  fkithfttl  servants  I  so 
faithful  and  attached,  indeed,  that,  upon  the 
execution  of  his  royal  master,  he  fell  sick 
of  grief,  and  died  about  the  year  1648,  in  the 
33d  year  of  his  age.   The  Hon.  Thomas  Carey 
obtidned  cdebrlty  as  a  poet,  and  his  remains 
repose  in  Westminster  Abbey.    He  left  an 
only  daughter, 
Elisabeth,  who  m.  John  Mordaunt,  who  was 
created  VUeount  Monknmt,  of  Aveloo,  and 
left  a  son, 
Charlrs,   creited    Earl    or    Moir- 

MOUTH. 

Philadelphia,  m.  to  Sir  Thomas  Wharton,  Kiit, 
His  lordship  d.  in  1699,  and  was  «.  by  his  elder  son, 

HENRY  CAREY,  second  jgar/ttTJfonfNouM.  This 
nobleman,  according  to  Anthony  Wood,  was  noted, 
upon  succeeding  to  his  father's  honours, «« as  a  person 
well  skilled  In  the  modem  languages,  and  a  gener- 
ous scholar ;  the  fruit  whereof  he  found  in  the  trou- 


•  Blob  Rtwo.*— The  account  of  the  M«m  ring 
which  Ledy  Elisabeth  Spelman  (daughter  of  Martha 
Countess  of  Middleton,  who  was  daughter  of  the  sa* 
cond  earl  of  Monmouth,  and  grand-daughter  of  the 
nobleman  to  whom  the  anecdote  refers),  gave  to 
Lord  Cork,  was  this  t— King  James  kept  a  constant 
correspondence  with  several  persons  of  the  English 
court  for  many  years  prior  to  Queen  Elisabeth's  da* 
eeese;  among  others,  with  Lady  Scroope,  (sister  of 
this  Robert  Cerey,  )to  whom  his  mi^esty  sent,  by 
Sir  James  Fullerton,  a  sapphire  ring,  with  poeidve 
orders  to  return  it  to  him,  by  a  special  messen- 
ger, es  soon  es  the  queen  actually  expired.  Lady 
Scroope  had  no  opportunity  of  delivering  it  to  her 
brother  Robert  whilst  he  was  In  the  pakoe  of  Rich- 
mond I  but  waiting  at  the  window  till  she  eaw  him 
at  the  outside  of  the  gate,  she  threw  it  out  to  him, 
and  he  wall  knew  to  what  purpose  he  lecelTed  it. 

BAMice. 
Ill 


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blesome  timte  ot  the  rebellioD,  when,  by  a  forced 
retirednett,  he  was  capacitated  to  ekerdae  hinurif  in 
studies,  while  others  of  the  nobility  were  fain  to 
truckle  to  their  inferiors  for  company's  sake."  He 
wrote  much;  but,  as  Walpole  observes,  *•  we  have 
acarce  any  thing  of  his  own  composition,  and  are 
M  little  acquainted  with  his  character  as  with  his 
genius."  His  lordship  m.  Lady  Martha  Cranfleld, 
daughter  of  the  lord  treasurer,  LUmel,  Earl  of  Mid-, 
dieses,  by  whom  he  had  issue— 

LioNBL,  who  fell  in  the  ranks  of  the  royalists 
at  Marston-Moor,  in  1644,  and  d.  unmarried. 

Henry,  died  in  the  small-pox,  in  1641,  also  un- 
married. 

Anne,  m.  to  James  Hamilton,  Earl  of  Clambra- 
sll,  in  the  peerage  of  Ireland. 

Philaddphia,  d.  immarried. 

EUaabeth-Mary,  m.  William,  Earl  of  Desmond. 

Trevaniana,  d.  unmarried. 

Martha,  m.  to  John,  Earl  of  Middleton,  in  Scot- 
land. 

Magdalen,  j 

His  lordship  d.  13th  June,  1661,  and  leaving  no  male 
Issue,  the  barony  «/  Ckirsjf  «/  Lepplngton  and  the 
BARLDOM  or  MoNMOUTH  became  sxtinct. 

Anna,— Ax.  on  a  bend  sa.  three  roses  of  the  field, 
a  crescent  for  difllBrence. 

CARLTON— BARON  CARLTON  OF 
IMBERCOURT,  IN  THE 
COUNTY  OF  SURREY, 
VISCOUNT  DORCHESTER. 


TheophiU,  i^  unmarried. 


Barony, 
Viscounty 


.} 


by  Letters  /  SSnd  May,  ie8& 
Patent,   t  Sftth  July,  lOSa 

Xincagc. 


SIR  DUDLEY  CARLTON,  Kwt.,  son  of  An- 
thony Carlton,  of  Baldwin  Brightwell,  in  the  county 
of  Oxford,  b,  10th  March,  1573,  having  been  em- 
ployed, for  a  scries  of  years,  as  ambassador  to 
Venice,  Savoy,  and  the  Low  Countries,  was  elevated 
to  the  peerage  on  the  92nd  May,  1628,  as  BAiu>ir 
Cari^ton,  <^f  Imbereourt,  in  tht  eo«n<y  cfSumy, 
and  in  two  years  afterwards  created  Vibcount  Dob- 
CHBBTBBt  in  which  year  he  was  constituted  one  of 
his  majesty's  principal  Secretaries  of  StatSk  His 
lordship  m..  first,  Anne^  daughter  and  co-heiress  of 
Geoige  Gerard,  Esq.,  second  son  of  Sir  William 
Gerard,  Knt.,  of  Dogney,  in  the  county  of  Bucks, 
by  whom  he  had  a  son,  Hbnrt,  who  A  young.  He 
espoused  secondly,  Anne,  daughter  of  Sir  Henry 
Glemham,  Knt,  and  widow  of  Paul,  Viscount  Bayn- 
ing,  which  lady  survived  him,  and  gave  birth  to  a 
posthumous  child,  Frances,  who  <t.  young.  Lord 
Dorchester,  whose  negotiations  have  been  pub- 
lished, had  the  reputation  of  bung  an  able  diplo- 
matist, and  a  polished  stetesman.  Hewasmasterof 
diflhrent  languages,  and  a  good  ancient  and  modem 
historian.  He  composed  some  pieces,  which  are 
noticed  by  Walpole,  and  was  cateemed  a  graceful 
and  eloquent  speaker.  He  d.  in  1631,  end  his  ho- 
noun,  in  deliuilt  of  male  issue,  became  bxtibct. 

ABM8.— Ar.  on  B  Ijend,  sb.  three  miMcles  of  the 
first 
IM 


CARR— VISCOUNT  ROCHESTER, 
EARL  OF  SOMERSET. 

Viscounty,      \  by  Letters  f  SSth  March,  161 1. 
Earldom,  &c  j    Patent,    \  3rd  Nov.,  1613^ 

Xincagc. 

SIR  ROBERT  CARR,  K.B.,  of  the  ancient 
House  of  Femihurst,  in  Scotland,  and  half  brother 
of  Andrew,  first  Lord  Jedburgh,  having  ingratiated 
hlmsdf  into  the  favour  of  King  James  I.,  was  ap- 
pointed, upon  the  decease  of  George,  Lord  Dunbar, 
treasurer  of  Scotland,  and  elevated  to  the  peerage, 
as  Viscouirr  Rochbbtxb,  on  the  26th  March,  1611. 
In  the  May  following  his  lordship  was  installed  a 
knight  of  the  Garter,  and  created,  on  the  3rd  No- 
vember, 1613,  Baron  Carr,  of  Branspeth,  in  the 
bishopric  of  Durham,  and  Earl  of  Sombrbbt, 
baring  also  nominated  lord  chamberlain  of  the 
household,  and  sworn  of  the  privy  counciL  At 
this  time  the  earl  was  esteemed  the  first  favorite  of 
the  court  '«  But  having,"  says  Dugdale,  «*  thus 
seen  his  rise,  let  us  now  behold  his  fall,  which  i 
shall  briefly  here  rdate,  with  the  occasion  and  chief 
circumstances  thereof,  from  the  report  of  the  most 
Rev.  Dr.  Spotswood,  late  Archbishop  of  St  An« 
draw's  in  Scotland.** 

«*  This  earl  falling  in  love  with  the  Lady  Frances 
Howard,  daughter  of  Thomas,  Earl  of  Suffolk, 
(wife  to  Robert,  Earl  of  Essex,  from  whom  she  had 
procured  a  divoite,)  having  formerly  received  into 
his  intimBte  fiuniliarity  a  knight  of  excellent  parts, 
called  Sir  Thomas  Overburie,  was  frequently  by 
him  dissuaded  fkom  her  company,  which  bdng  dis- 
cerned by  Overburie,  and  that,  notwithstanding 
what  had  been  said,  he  had  a  purpose  to  marry  herf 
he  so  fiur  presumed  upon  the  friendly  freedom  which 
he  had  otherwise  given  him,  to  press  him  more 
earnestly  to  forbear  her.  And  one  night,  dealing 
more  pbdnly  with  him,  said  to  this  efibct,  '  My  lord, 
I  perceive  you  are  proceeding  In  this  match,  from 
which  I  have  often  dissuaded  you,  as  your  true  aer* 
vant  and  friend :  I  now  again  advise  you  not  to 
marry  that  woman,  for  if  you  do,  you  shall  mine 
your  honour  and  yourself,*  adding,  *  that,  if  he 
went  on  in  that  business,  he  should  do  well  to  look 
to  his  standing.*  Which  free  speech,  this  Earl  tak- 
ing impatiently,  because  he  had  touched  the  lady  in 
her  honour  i  replied  in  passion,  <  That  his  l^gs 
were  strong  enough  to  bear  him  up,  and  that  he 
should  make  him  repent  those  speeches.'  But 
Overburie,  interpreting  this  to  be  only  a  sudd«n 
passion,  thought  not  that  their  kng  continued 
friendship  would  break  off  by  this  occasion,  and 
therefore  continued  his  wonted  attendance;  neither 
did  this  earl  wholly  abandon  him.  Howbeit,  having 
discovered  his  words  to  the  hidy,  she  never  ceased, 
but  by  all  means  sought  his  overthrow.  It  happen- 
ing therefoie,  about  thU  Ume.  that  Overburie  being 
designed  for  ambassador  into  Russia,  this  earl 
(whose  counsel  he  asked,)  advised  him  torefUse  the 
service,  but  to  make  some  fklr  excuse.  Which  ad- 
vice he  foUowed,  supposing  that  it  did  proceed  of 
kindness;  but  for  his  refusal  he  was  committed  to 
the  Tower.  The  lady  thus  having  him  where  she 
wished,  and  resolving  to  dispatch  him  by  poison, 
wrought  so  with  Sir  Gervase  Elways,  thm  l|e^* 


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taunt  «r  tte  Tower*  m  tli«t  he  admitleA  om 
Richard  WeftoB»  upon  har  x«comniindjttion»  to  be 
hie  keeper,  by  whom  (the  very  evening  aitm  he  wee 
to  committed,)  e  yellow  poison  wee  mlniatered  to 
him  in  e  broth,  et  ropper.  But  neither  this  nor  the 
other  polMini,  which  were  eantinuelly  put  into  hie 
meets,  serring  to  deipetdi  Urn,  MittMM  Turner  (the 
pieparer  of  ell.)  procured  en  apothecery's  boy,  to 
five  him  e  poisoned  clyster,  which  aoon  brought  him 
tohiscnd.  Being  thus  dead,  he  was  presently  buried  i 
a  general  rumour,  however,  prevailed,  tiwt  he  had 
died  by  pcdion,  but  the  greatneu  of  the  procurers 
kept  all  hidden  for  a  time,  UU  at  length  it  pleesed 
God  to  bring  everything  to  light,  after  a  miraculous 
manner.  It  happened  that  the  Earl  of  Shrewsbury, 
in  oonfaence  with  e  oounseUcn'  of  state,  recom- 
mended the  lieutenant  of  the  Tower  to  his  fSsvoor, 
as  e  man  of  good  parts,  and  one  who  desired  to  be 
known  to  him.  The  counsellor  answered,  that  he 
took  it  ae  a  fsvour  ftom  the  lieutenant  that  he 
shouki  desire  his  fdendahip,  but  added,  that  there 
lay  upon  him  an  heavy  Imputation  for  Overburiers 
death,  whereof  he  wisht  that  the  gentleman  shouM 
dear  himsel£  Which  being  related  to  the  lieutenant, 
he  was  stricken  with  it,  and  said,  to  his  Khowledge 
some  attempts  were  made  against  Overburie,  but 
that  Ike  same  took  no  eflbct.  Which  being  toU  to  the 
king,  he  willed  the  counsellor  to  move  the  lieutenant 
to  set  down  in  writing  what  he  knew  of  that  matter, 
es  he  accordingly  did.  Whereupon  certain  of  the 
council  were  eppointed  to  examine  and  find  out  the 
truth.  Prom  Weston  somewhat  being  ftmnd,  he 
was  made  prisoner.  Turner  and  Frsnklyn,  the  pre* 
parers  of  the  poison,  being  examined,  confessed 
every  thing  i  whereupcm,  all  breaking  forth,  this 
earl  and  his  lady,  m  also  the  lieutenant,  were  com- 
mitted. But  Weston  at  his  first  srraignvient  stood 
mute^  yet  afterwards  was  Indueed  to  put  himself  on 
the  trial  of  his  country,  and  being  found  guilty,  suf- 
fiered  death  at  Tybnme.  MisticssTumer  and  James 
Franklynwerein  likesort  executed.  TheUeutenent, 
who  had  winked  at  their  doings,  being  Judged  acoes- 
aery  to  the  crime,  and  condemned,  suflbred  death 
also,  expressing  great  penltency.  And  in  May  fol- 
lowfaig.  this  earl  and  his  lady  were  both  brought  to 
their  trial,  though,  by  their  friends,  laboured  eer- 
nestly  toeschew  it.  But  King  Jamps  would  not- be 
intieeted,  for  the  love  he  had  to  nuintein  justice. 
Thoroes,  Ixard  EUesmere,  at  that  time  Lord  Chan- 
cellor of  Enghmd,  was,  by  commissian,  constituted 
High  Steward  for  that  occasion,  having  ft»  his 
assistanto.  Sir  Edward  Coke,  Knt.,  Lord  Chief  Jus- 
tice of  the  court  of  King'e  Bench,  Sir  Henry  Hobert, 
Knt.  Lord  Chief  Justice  of  the  Common  Pleas,  Sir 
Laurence  Tanfldd,  Knt,,  Lord  Chief  Baron  of  the 
Exchequer.  Justice  Alured,  one  of  the  bexoiia  of  the 
Bxchetfuer,  Crook,  Dodderldge,  and  Haughton.jus- 
tices  of  the  King's  Bench,  and  Nichols,  of  the  court 
c»f  Common  Pleas.  Thepeers  by  whom  they  were 
tried  being  the  Eari.  of  Wokcsernn.  kwd  privy 
seal,  the  Eabi.  of  Psmbboks,  lord  chamberlain, 
the  Bails  of  RuTLAim,  Svaaxz,  HnaTPomn,  and 
MowTooMBBin,  the  Viscount  L'Isle,  the  Lord 
Zouch,  warden  of  the  cbique  ports,  the  Lord  WU- 
hmghby  of  Breeby,  the  Lord  Decree,  the  Lord  Mont-> 
eegle,  the  Lord  Wentwo^,  the  Lord  Riph,  the 


Lord  WiUoughhy  of  Parham,  the  Lord  Hunsdon, 
the  Lord  Russel,  the  Lord  Compton,  the  Lords  Nor* 
rls,  Gerard,  Cavendish,  and  Dormer.  With  the 
lady  there  wesmuch ado i  she,  with  meny  teers,  con- 
fesdng  the  liKt,  end  deelrliV  mercy.  But  this  earl, 
being  the  next  day  preeented,  made  eonse  deteceb 
which  eerved  no  purpoeei  for  the  mn^beslnns  of 
those  who  had  suflbred  death  already  for  the  feet* 
and  a  letter  which  he  himself  had  sent  to  the  klqg^ 
did  so  clearly  convict  him  of  being  at  least  an  acces 
sary,  that  both  himself  and  his  lady  had  sentence  of 
death  passed  upon  them.  Neverthelees,  throu^ 
his  mi^esty's  great  demency,  their  lives  were  sper- 
ed.**  The  event  proved,  however,  miserable  to  both 
these  guilty  persons,  ending  in  a  total  seperation* 
and  hatred  of  each  other.  The  abandoned  counteei 
died  83rd  August,  1698.  The  earl,  who  was  released 
from  the  Tower  In  16B1,  but  afterwards  mnflned 
to  the  house  of  Viscount  WalUpgford«  died  in  July, 
194ft,  leaving  an  only  daughter, 

Awes,  who  m.  WUham.  titth  Earl  of  Bedford. 

and  was  mother  of  the  illustrious  patriot. 

William,  Loan  RuaaxLU    The  Countess  of 

Bedford  was  as  distinguished  for  purity  as 

her  unhappy  mother  had  been  f<ir  the  reverse^ 

Upon  his  lordship's  deosese  the  VimmuUM  «/  JtocA- 

ds/e  and  babuioii  or  SosmnanT  became  kxtiwct. 

Abmb.— Gu.  on  a  chevron,  ar.  three  mullets,  sa. 

in  the  dexter  pert  of  the  escutcheon,  a  lion  passant 

guardantor. 

CARTERET— BARONS  CARTERET, 
OF  HAWNES,  IN  THE 
COUNTY  OF  BEDFORD, 
VISCOUNTS  CARTERET, 
EARLS  GRANVILLE. 

Barony,  1  By  Letters/  18th  October,  1681. 

Berldom,  &e.  j    Patent,    \  1st  Jenuary,  1714. 

This  Aunily  derived  their  surname  f^om  the  seig- 
niory of  Carteret,  in  Normandy,  of  which  they  were 
formerly  lords. 

REGINALD  DE  CARTERET,  Lord  of  Carte- 
ret, Ac.,  in  the  last  years  of  King  Henry  II.,  enno 
1180.  forfeited  his  lands  in  Normandy  by  his  adhe- 
slon  to  the  crown  of  Shigland,  when  the  duchy  was 
delivered  up  to  the  French  in  1904,  and  dying  in 
three  years  afterwards,  was  «,  by  his  ion, 

PHILIP  DE  CARTERET,  who  being  with  King 
Henry  III.  In  his  expedition  into  Britanny,  in  the 
16th  yeer  of  that  monarch's  reign,  was  the  next 
year  constituted,  with  Ameuld  de  St  Amand,  go. 
vemor  of  Jeriey,  Guernsey,  Aldemey,  end  Sark. 
This  Philip  was  «.  by  his  son, 

PHILIP  DE  CARTERET,  who  was  styled  Lord 
St  Oven,  in  Jersey,  in  the  yeer  1880.  and  was  «.  by 
bis  son, 

REGINALD  DE  CARTERET,  who  obtained 
horn  King  Edward  I.,  in  consideration  of  his  mili- 
tary services,  a  grant  of  the  manor  of  Melesches,  in 
the  Isle  of  Jersey,  which  he  left  to  his  second  son. 
Sir  John  de  Carteret  He  was  «.  at  hb  decease  by 
his  ddest  son, 

SIR   PHILIP   DE   CARTERET,  Loid  of  St 
Ovsn,  temp.  Edward  IL,  who  was«.  by  his  son, 
9  .>!» 


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REGINALD  DB  CARTERET.  This  feudia 
lord,  by  hi«  prudence  and  valour,  preserved  the 
Island  of  Jersey  fVom  faUing  into  the  hands  of  the 
French  in  the  year  1374.  when  Bertrand  du  GuescUn, 
constable  of  France,  famous  for  his  many  victories 
over  the  English,  past  suddenly  from  Bretagne  into 
Jersey,  with  an  army  of  ten  thousand  men,  wheran 
were  the  Duke  of  Bourbon,  and  the  flower  of  the 
French  chivalry.  At  that  time  this  Reginald  de 
Carteret  secured  Mount  Orgueil  Castle,  and  de- 
fended it  so  bravely,  that  after  many  violent  assaults 
the  constable  withdrew  his  forces,  leaving  many  of 
his  best  soldiers  dead  under  the  walk.  For  this 
great  achievement,  Reginald  and  his  seven  sons  were 
all  knighted  by  King  Edward  III.  in  one  day.  From 
this  gallant  personage  we  pass  to  his  descendant, 

SIR  PHILIP  CARTERET,  who  undertook,  in 
the  reign  of  Elisabeth,  to  plant  such  a  colony  in  the 
Island  of  Sark,  as  should  keep  out  the  French,  and 
he  accordingly  enlarged  the  settlement,  and  thereby 
improved  his  own  estate.  He  m.  Rachad,  daughter 
and  heir  of  Sir  George  Paulet,  son  and  heir  of  Lord 
Thomas  Paulet,  of  Cosslngton  in  the  county  of 
Somerset,  second  son  of  William,  Marquess  of  Win- 
chester, and  had,  with  other  issue, 

Philip,  (Sir,)  his  successor,  who   m.  Anne, 

daughter  of    Sir   Francis  Dowse,  KnL,  of 

Wallop,  In  the  county  of  Southampton,  and 

was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

Philip,  in  the  seigniory  of  St.  Oven,  m. 

Anne,  daughter  of Dumasque,  Esq., 

^nd  dying  in  1068,  was  «.  by  his  son^ 

Philip,  created  a  baronkt  4th  June, 

1670,  and  dying  in  16B3,  was  «.  by  his  son, 

CHAmLKS,   (Sir,)   second   baronet, 

who  was  one  of  the  gentlemen  of 

the  privy  chamber  to  Queen  Anne, 

and  high  bsUiiT  of  the  Island  of 

Jersey.     Sir  Charles  d,  in  1715* 

when  the  baronetcy  expired,  but 

his  estates  passed  to  Lord  Carteret. 

HSLIBR,  of  whom  presently. 

Rachael,  m.  first,  to Beaver,  Esq.,  of  the 

Island  of  Jersey,  and  seeondly,  to  ^—  de  Vic, 
Esq. 
Judith,  m.  to  Sir  Brian  Johnson,  of  Bucking- 
hamshire: 
The  second  son, 

HELIER  CARTERET,  Esq.,  deputy  governor 
of  Jersey,  m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Du- 
masque, Esq.,  and  had,  with  other  children, 

SIR  GEORGE  CARTERET,  a  naval  officer  of 
high  reputation,  who.  through  the  influence  of  the 
Duke  of  Buckingham,  was  appointed  in  the  9d  of 
King  Charles  L  Joint  governor  of  Jersey,  and  at  the 
bfcaking  out  of  the  civil  war,  held  the  office  of 
comptroller  of  the  navy.  Sir  George  was,  however, 
■o  much  esteemed  by  all  parties,  that  when  the 
parliament  passed  the  ordinance  for  the  Earl  of 
Warwick  to  command  the  fleet,  then  fully  and  en- 
tirely at  their  disposal,  they  likewise  resolved  that 
Captain  Carteret  should  be  vice-admiral :  but  he  de- 
clined the  appointment  at  the  expren  command  of 
the  king.  Upon  wluch  Lord  Clarendon  observes, 
«•  his  interest  and  reputation  In  the  navy  was  so 
great,  and  his  diligence  and  dexterity  in  command 
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so  eminent,  that  it  waa  generally  believed  he  would, 
against  whatsover  the  Earl  of  Warwick  could  have 
done,  have  preserved  the  major  part  of  the  fleet  in 
their  duty  to  the  king.** 

Having  thus  retired  fWmi  the  navy,  he  withdrew 
with  his  family  to  Jersey ;  but  subsequently  return- 
ed to  aid  the  projects  of  the  royalists,  when  he  was 
created  by  King  Charles  a  baronet.  9th  May,  164S. 
He  again,  however,  went  back  to  his  government  in 
Jersey,  and  there,  in  the  ruin  of  the  royal  cause, 
allbrded  an  asylum  to.  the  Prince  of  Wales,  (who 
appointed  him  his  vicfr<liamberlain,)   Mr.  Hyde, 
afterwards  Lord  Clarendon,  and  other  refVigees  of 
distinction.    After  this  he  defended  the  Island  of 
Jersey  in  the  most  gallant  manner  against  the  par- 
liamentarians, and  ultimately  only  surrendered  upon 
reodving  the  command  of  King  Charles  II.  so  to  da 
Elisabeth  Castle,  in  the  Island  of  Jersey,  under  Sir 
George  Carteret,  was  the  last  fortress  that  lowered 
the  royal  banner.    At  the  restoration.  Sir  George 
fmmed  one  of  the  immediate  train  of  the  restored 
monarch  in  his  triumphant  entry  into  London:  and 
the  next  day  he  was  sworn  of  the  privy  council  and 
declared  rica  chambxrlain.    He  was  afterwards 
returned  to  parliament  b>  the  corporation  of  Ports- 
mouth.   Sir  George  m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Sir 
Philip  Carteret,  KuL.  of  St.  Oven,  and  had  issue, 
Philip  (Sir),  who  had  eminently  distinguished 
himself  during  the  civil  wars,  and  was  gover- 
nor of  Mount  Oi^^  Castle,  when  it  was  in- 
vested by  the  parliamentary  forces  in  1651. 
Sir  Philip  m.  Jemima,  daughter  of  Edward 
Montagu,  first  Earl  of  Sandwich,  vice-admiral 
ot  Ehgland,  and  had  issue, 
GsoBOK,  who  s.  his  grandflither. 
Philip,  captain  of  marines.  Lost  at  sea  in  1699L 
Edward,  M.P.,  Joint  post-master-general,  m. 
Bridget,  daughter  <^  Sir  Thomas  Exton, 
judge  of  the  high  court  of  admiralty,  and 
d.  in  1739,  leaving  issue. 
Sir  Philip  Carteret  being  with  his  fkther-hi. 
law.  Lord  Sandwich,  in  the  great  naval  en- 
gagement off  Solebay,  asth  May,  1672,  was 
blown  up  with  that  gallant  officer  in  the 
Royal  James. 
James,  captain  R.N.,  in   the  rrign  of   King 

Charles  IL 
Oeoi^e,  d.  unm.  in  1656. 
Anne,  m.  to  Sir  Nicholas  Slaning,  of  (he  county 

of  Devon,  K.B. 
Caroline,  m.  to  Sir  Thomas  Scot,  of  Scotis 

Hall,  Kent. 
Louisa-Margaretta,  m.  to  Sir  Robert  Atkins,  of 
$apcrton,  in  the  county  of  Gloucester. 
Sir  George  d.  13th  January,  1679,  and  was  «.  by  his 
grandson, 

SIR  GEORGE  CARTERET,  second  baronet, 
who  was  elevated  to  the  peerage  on  the  19th  Octo- 
ber, 1681,  aa  Bamon  CAmTxaxT,  of  Hawnes,  with 
remainder,  default  of  male  issue,  to  his  brothers,  and 
their  heirs  male.  This  nobleman,  when  only  eight 
years  of  age,  was  m.  to  Lady  Grace  GianviUe, 
youngest  daughter  of  John,  Earl  of  Bath,  and  oo- 
heiress  of  her  nephew,  William-Henry,  last  Earl  of 
-  Bath  of  that  family ;  a  marriage  agreed  upon  by  hia 
gnukUisther,  Sir  Geoige  Carteret,  and  the  Earl  of 


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Bath,  tocancBt  UMfriaMtahip  which  had  long  tub- 
listed  bdwam  them.    By  this  bMly  his  lordship  had 
Ivue*  Josh,  liis  sucoenor,  with  another  son,  Philip, 
aoid  a  daughter,  Jemima,  who  both  d.  unmarried. 
Hit  lordship,  who  was  a  aealous  supporter  of  the  rero- 
lutlon,  «i.  at  the  early  age  of  twenty-six,  in  law.   His 
widow.  Lady  Carteret,  havingsuooeeded  as  oo-bdress 
to  the  great  Bath  estates,  upon  the  decease  of  her 
neplMfW,  William-Henry  GranTille,  Earl  of  Bath,  in 
1711  (when  that  dignity  became  extinct),  was  created 
on  the  lat  January,  1714,  Fl«coiin«sM  Carteret,  and 
Coinmaa  Orahvii.i.s,   with  remainder  of  the 
▼isooanty,  deflmlt  of  male  issue  in  her  son,  John, 
Lord  Carteret*  to  the  unde  of  that  nobleman,  Ed- 
ward Carteret,  Esq.,  and  his  male  bein.    Her  lady- 
ship d.  in  1744,  and  was  «.  by  her  only  surriring  son, 
JOHN  CARTERET,  second  Lord  Carteret,  as 
Eari  GranTiUe.    His  knrdship  was  appointed  one  of 
the  lords  of  the  bedchamber  at  the  accession  of  King 
George  I.,  and  constituted  in  17I6  lord  lieutenant 
and  cuctos  rotukmun  of  the  county  of  Devon.    In 
1719  he  was  accredited  ambassador  extraordinary 
to  the  court  of  Sweden.    In  1721  he  was  declared 
principal  secretary  of  States  and  in  1794  constituted 
i4»&o  LiBUTsiTAirr  or  laxLAWD,  which  high  office 
he  retained  for  the  six  fcdlowing  years.    He  was 
thrke  one  of  tlie  lords  Jiutioes  during  the  occasional 
abswicf  of  the  king,  and  a  knight  of  the  most  noble 
order  of  the  garter.    His  lordship  m.  first,  I7th  Oc- 
tober, 1710,  Prances,  only  daughter  of  Sir  Robert 
Woidey,  Bart.,  and  grand-daughter  maternally  of 
Thomas  Thynne,  Viscount  Weymoutht  by  whom 
he  had  surTivlng  issue, 
RoBXBT,  his  suc<!essor. 
Grace,  m.  to  Lionel,  Earl  of  Dorset. 
Louisa,  m.  to  Thomas  Thymie,  Viscount  Wey- 
mouth, and  had  issue, 
Tbomab,    Viscount    Weymouth,    created 
Marquess  of  Bath,  d.  hi  1784,  and  left 
Thomas,  present  Marquess  of  Bath, 
and  other  issue. 
HBirnY-FmBDKRicK,  haTing  inherited  the 
Carteret  estates  under  the   will  ot  his 
grandlSsthcr,  Earl  of  Granville,  alter  the 
decease  of  his  linde,  assumed  the  surname 
and  arms  of  Cabtsbbt,  and  was  created 
in  1784  Babob  Cabtbbbt,  of  Hawnes, 
with  reminder  to  the  younger  sons  of  his 
brother,  the  Marquess  of  Bath.    His  lord- 
ship d,  in  1886,  and  the  barony  passed  ac* 
oording  to  the  limitation  to  his  nephew, 
LoBO  Gbobob  Thybkb,  present  Lobo 
Cabtbbbt. 
G«oigiBna<!arolina,  m.  first,  to  the  flon.  John 
Spencer,  and  saoondly,  to  William,  Earl  Cowper. 
Frances,  m.  to  John,  Marquess  of  Tweedale. 
The  earl  espoused  secondly.  Lady  Sophia  Fermor, 
daoghter  of  Thomas,  Earl  of  Pomfret,  and  had  an 
only  daughter, 

Sophia,  who  m.  in  1765,  William  Petty,  second 

Earl  of  Shelbume,  afterwards  Marquess  of 

Laasdown,  by  whom  she  had  an  only  son, 

JoHB,  second  Marquess  of  Lansdown,  half 

brother  of  Henry,  present  marquess. 

His  lordship  d.fld  January,  1763,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

ROBERT  CARTERET,  third  Lord  Cvtaiet, 


and  second  Earl  GTaavilla  His  kmkhip  d.  without 
issue  in  1776,  when  the  Babobv  or  CABraaBTr 
and  Eabldom  or  OBA]mu.B,  with  the  Via- 
cooMTY  or  Cabtbbbt,  became  bxtimct,  but  the 
Barony  of  Carteret  was  recreated  in  1784  (revert  to 
issue  of  Lady  Louisa  Carteret,  second  daughter  of 
John,  first  earl). 

ABxa.— Quarterly,  first  and  fourth  gules,  ftmr 
ftisils  in  fesse  ar.  fbr  Cabtbbbt,  second  and  third 
three  clarions,  or  darioords  or.  for  Gbamtillb. 

CAVENPISH  —  BARON  OOLE  AND 
VISCOUNTS  MANSFIELD, 
EARLS  OF  NEWCASTLE. 
UPON-TYNE.  Ac,  MAR- 
QUESSES OF  NEWCAS- 
TLE,  DUKES  OF  NEW- 
CASTLE,  &c 

Barony  and  Viscounty,  ^  B  ^  ^  3d  Nov.  1690L 
Earldom,  dec  f  2  H  f  7th  Mar.  lett. 

Marquisate,  [.2  %  f  97th  Oct.  164& 

I>ukcdom,  &c  J  ^^  J  18th Mar.  1664^ 

Xincagc. 

This  noUe  family,  and  the  existing  ducal  house  of 
Devonshire,  have  had  a  common  progenitor  in 
The  Right  Honorable 

SIR  WILLIAM  CAVENDISH,  who,  by  his  dia- 
tingulshed  lady,  (hte  third  wife,)  Eliaabeth,  daughter 
<rf  John  Hardwick,  Esq.,of  Hardwick,  in  the  county 
of  Derby,  and  eventually  oo-heiress  of  her  brother, 
James  Hardwickt  had  Issue, 

Henry,  of  Tutbury  Priory,  in  the  county  of 
Stafford,  M.P.  for  Derbydilre,  who  died  «.  p^ 
12th  October,  1616L 
William,  created  Eabl  or  DBTOBaBiBB,  an- 
cestor of  the  extant  ovKsa, 
and 

SIR  CHARLES  CAVENDISH,  Knt,  of  Wei- 
beck-Abbey,  in  the  county  of  Notts,  who  m.  first, 
Margaret,  eldest  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Sir  Tho- 
mas Kitson,  ot  Hengrave,  Suflblk,  by  whom  he  had 
no  issue  1  and  secondly,  Catherine,  daughter  of 
Cuthbert,  -seventh  Baron  Ogle,  who,  becoming 
eventually  his  lordship's  sole  heiress,  succeeded  to 
the  barony  of  Ogle,  which  was  confirmed  to  her 
ladyship  by  letters  patent,  dated  4th  Dec  1888 1  by 
this  Udy  he  left  an  only  surviving  son, 

SIR  WILLIAM  CAVENDISH,  K.B.,  who  was 
elevated  to  the  peerage  on  the  3d  Nov«  1698,  as  Botms 
Ogle,  CifBothal,  and  Viscoubt  MABsriBiiD,  to  the 
county  qf  Nottingham,  ThlsnoUeman,  afterwards  so 
celebrated  as  a  royalist  general,  filled  originany  the 
post  of  governor  to  the  prince  of  Wales,  eldest  son 
of  King  Charles  I.,  and  was  advanced  in  the  peerage 
by  that  monarch  on  the  7th  March,  18B8,  in  the 
dignities  of  Bonm  Cavendish,  qf  Boleeeer,  to  the 
eeunijf  t^f  Nottt,,  and  Eabl  or  Nswoastlb.  Whoa 
the  proceeding  of  the  Long  Parliatnent  ceased  to  be 
equivocali  his  lordship  hastened  to  rear  the  royal 
standard  in  the  north,  and  planting  it  on  the  battle- 
ments of  the  Castle  of  Tynemouth,  manned  and 
fortified  the  town  of  Newcastle.  He  then  levied 
forces,  and,  though  in  the  midst  of  winter,  placing 
himself  at  their  head,  routed  the  rebels  In  all  direo- 
tkms  in  the  ooonty  of  York,  and  became  master  of 

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tlMir  principal  itrong  ptoen  there.  In  16tt  he  re- 
ceived the  queen,  upon  her  m^feity'i  enival  with 
arme  and  ammunition*  and  cunductiuK  her  in  safety 
to  the  king,  at  Oxford,  was  rewarded,  by  letten  pa- 
tent dnted  S7th  Oct.  I643»  with  the  MAitouiaATK 
or  NnwcAaTi.Sk  Subsequently,  his  lordship  sue- 
tained,  upon  every  occasion,  his  high  reputation, 
but  purticularly  in  his  gallant  defence  of  the  city  of 
YorlL  against  three  powerful  armies  at  English  and 
Scotch.  He  retired  to  the  oontinent»  however, 
after  the  fktal  battle  of  Marston-Moor,  owing  to 
some  mitttnderttanding  between  himself  and  PntNCx 
RuPKRT,  a  misunderstanding  which  the  royalists 
had  eventually  most  deeply  to  deplore  Upon  the 
restoration  of  the  monardiy,  the  marquess  was 
cnated,  16th  Mardi,  10S4,  £arl  c/  Ogle  and  Dukji 
or  NSWCA8TLX,  as  some  compensation  for  the 
immense  losses  he  had  sustained,  amounting  in  the 
aggregate,  to  nearly  three  parts  of  a  million  ster- 
ling !  His  grace  m.  first,  Elisabeth,  daughter  and  hei- 
ress of  William  Basset,  Esq.,  of  Blore,  in  the  county 
of  Staflbrd,  and  widow  of  the  Hon.  Henry  Howard, 
ynungest  eon  of  Thomas,  Earl  of  Sullblk,  by  whom 
he  had  surviving  issue, 

CRAiiLnB,   who    m.   EUaabeth,    danghter   of 

Richard  Rogers,  Eeq.,  of  Brianston,  in  the 

county  of  Dorset,  but  d:  in  the  lifie-tinie  of 

his  father, «.  p. 
Hsn mv,  his  successor. 
Jane,  m.  to  Charles  Cheney,  Esq.,  of  Cheaham- 

Boys,  in  the.  county  of  Budca. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  John,  second  Earl  of  Bridge- 


Frances,  M.  to  Oliver  St.  John,  Earl  of  Boling- 
broke. 
The  duke  m.  secondly,  Margaret,  sister  of  the  Lord 
Lucas,  but  had  no  issue.  Of  his  grace,  Walpole,  in 
his  Noble  Authors,  says,  that  **  he  was  a  man  ex- 
tremely known  flrom  the  course  of  life  into  which 
he  was  forced,  and  who  would  soon  have  been  for- 
gotten in  the  walk  of  fame  which  he  diose  for  him- 
self: yet  as  an  author  he  is  femiUar  to  those  who 
scarce  know  any  other,  firom  his  Book  of  Horse- 
numship.  Though  amorous  in  poetry  and  music, 
is  Lord  Clarendon  says,  he  was  fitter  to  break  Pe- 
gasus for  a  menage,  than  to  mount  him  on  tiie  steeps 
of  Pamasaus.  Of  all  the  riders  of  that  eteed,  per- 
haps there  have  not  been  a  more  ftntasUc  couple 
than  his  grace  and  his  feithful  duchen,  who  was 
never  off  her  piUion." 

His  grace,  who,  amongH  his  other  honontt,  wns  a 
Knioht  of  the  Oabtce,  A  In  1076,  and  a  costly  mo- 
nument in  Westmtnstsr  Abbey  records  his  virtues, 
dignities,  and  high  public  empk^ymcnts.  He  was  0. 
by  his  only  surviving  son, 

HENRY  CAVENDISH,  second  duke,  who  m. 

Frances,  daughter  of  William,  second  son  of  Robert 

Pierpolnt.  Earl  of  Kingston,  by  whom  he  had  sur- 

living  issue, 

1.  Hnnnv,  Earl  of  Ogle,  who  m.  Lady  EUaabeth 

Percy,  only  surviving  child  and  heiress  of  Jo- 

celine,  eleventh  and  last  earl  of  Northumber- 

hmd  of  the  old  Percys,  upon  which  occMion 

his  lordship  assumed  the  surname  of  Pnncv. 

He  died  e^p.  1st  Nov.  IflBO,  and  his  iUns- 

trious  widow  espoused,  in  two  years  after- 

IM 


wards,  Charh»  Ssjmww ,  Dimm  op  SoHnm" 
BBT,  from  which  union  the  present  duke  of 
Northumberland  maternally  descends. 
8.  Elisabeth,  m.  first,  to  Christopher  Monk,  Duke 
of  Albemarle,  and  secondly,  to  Ralph  Mon- 
tagu, Duke  of  Montagu,  but  died  issueless. 

3.  Frances,  m.  to  John,  second  Earl  of  Breadal- 

bane^  but  died  t,p. 

4.  Margaret,  m.  to  John  Holies,  fourth  Earl  of 

Clare,  who  was  created,  14th  May,  lOM,  Mar- 
««f«M  t/aan  and  Dnxn  of  NnwcAarLB,  by 
whom  she  had  an  only  daughter. 
Lady  Henrietta-Cavendish  HoUes,  who  m. 
Edward,  Lord  Harky.  son  and  heir  of  Ro- 
bert, Earl  of  Oxford,  to  whom  she  carried 
a  very  great  real  and  peraonal  esute. 
His  grace  (John  Holies,  Duke  of  Newcastle,) 
dying  thus  without  male  iesue,  the  honours 
teesed  in  the  Holies  Amily,  but  were  revived 
in  the  descendants  of  his  sister.  Oracb  Hoi,- 
Lna,  who  m.  Thos.  Pelham,  Lord  Lou^ton, 
and  had  issue, 
Thomab,   created   Eerf  and  Jfareuasf  qf 
Clare,  and  Dunn  or  NawcASTLB,  d.  in 
1768,  «.  p,,  when  the  husbend  <rf  his  niece 
inherited  the  dukedom. 
Henry  Pelham,  m.  to  Catherine,  daughter 
of  John,  Duke  of  Rutland,  and  left  issue, 
Catherine^  in.  to  Henrp  CUnton,  Earl 
or  LiNcoLir,  who  succeeded  his  wil^s 
unde  in  the  nnsnooM  or  NnwcAa- 
TLx,  and  fkom  him  descend  the  extent 
DuxBS  or  Nbwcabtlb. 
Grace,  m.  to  George  Nailor,  Esq. 
Frances,  m.  to  Viscount  Castleconner. 
Gertrude,  m.  to  David  PolhiU,  Esq. 
Lucy,  m.  to  Henry,  seventh  Earlof  Lincoln. 
Margaret,  m.  to  Sir  John  Shelly. 

5.  Catherine,  m.  to  Thomas,  sixth  Earl  of  ThaneL 

6.  Arabella,  m.  to  Charles,  Earl  of  Sunderhmd,  and 

left  an  only  daughter, 
Francxs,  who  m.,  in  1717»  Henry,  fourth 
Earl  of  Carlisle,  and  had  surviving  issue, 
Arabella,  m.  to  Jonathan  Cope,  Esq. 
Diana,  m.  to  Thomas  Duncombe,  Esq. 
Hisgraced.  in  IflDl,  when,  leaving  no  male  issue,  the 
dignities  created  in  1680,  in  16B8,  in  1643,  and  in  1664,, 
(seecommenoementof  thisarticle,)  became  xxtinct, 
while  the  old  barony  of  Oolb,  which  came  into  the 
family  with   Catherine^  Lady  Ogle,  wife  of  Sir 
Charles  Cavendish,  of  WUbeck  Abbey,  fell  into 
ABBYAMCB  between  his  gracefs  five  daughters  and 
co-heiresses,   and  so  continues  amongst  their  des- 
cendants. 

Arms.— Sa.  three  bucks'  heads  eaboshed,  ar.  at- 
tired or.,  a  crescent  for  dilferaica. 

CECIL  — BARON  CECIL,  OF  PUT- 
NEY, IN  THE  COUNTY  OF 
SURREY,  VISCOUNT  WIM. 
BLEDON. 

Barony,      1  by  Letters  \  0th  November,  1625. 
Viscounty,)     Patent,    jSSth July,  1686L 

XCttcagt. 

The  Hon. 
SIR  EDWARD  CECIL,  third  son  of  Thomas, 


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Ant  EM  of  BnMr,  and  gMBdaon  of  th»  caMnted 
Lord  TiMMuuii  Bafghky,  hftTliig  adoptad  a  mili- 
tary life,  attained  calabtity  in  the  wan  In  tlia  N*- 
tlMrianda,  wImiv  ha  waa  engagad  ibr  a  qtaoe  of 
ttairty-fl^a  yean.  Ha  waa  manhal,  Uautanaat,  and 
general  of  the  ftnren,  lent  by  King  Jamaa  and  King 
ChailM  I.  agalnat  the  Spanlarda  and  Imparlaliits, 
and  waa  alemtad  to  the  peaiage  by  King  Charles  II. 
OB  the  9th  NoTambar,  1<B5»  aa  Bamm  Cteilt  ^  Put- 
nari  and  cxaatad  Mth  July,  MM.  Viacouirr  Wim- 
Bi.xDOir.  Walpole,  in  hia  noble  authon,  mentions 
that  In  the  king's  ttbrary  are  two  manuscript  tracts 
drawn  up  by  this  nobleman,  on  the  several  subjecu 
of  war,  and  the  military  deteice  of  the  nation ;  and 
he  Ukewiie  states,  that  a  manuscript  was  found  by 
the  Earl  of  Huntingdon  in  an  old  cheat,  purporting 
to  be  a  wairant  of  King  Chartea  L,  directtng,  at  the 
of  Lord  Wimbledon,  tile  teriral  of  the  old 
march,  ao  tenons  In  all  the  honoimbia 
ai'hle  f  amenta  and  gkwious  wan  of  this  kingdom  in 
times;  but  wliidi,  by  neglect,  had  been 

riy  loac  ana  roigocven. 
Bis  lordahip  m.  thrloa,  first,  Tfaaodoaia,  daughter 
of  Sir  Andrew  Nod,  of  Dalby,  In  the  county  of  Lei- 
cester, Knt.,  by  whom  he  had  ftmr  daughtersk  via. 

Dorothy,  ■■■    > 

Albmla,  m.  to  Sir  Chilatepher  Wmy,  Knt,  ot 
Barliags,  in  the  county  of  Linooln. 

EHiabeth,  m.  to  Francis,  Lord  WlUoughby,  of 


Frances,  m.  to  Jamas,  son  and  hdr  of  William, 
▼isoount  Say  and  Sdab 
The  Tiaoonnt  m,  secondly,  Diana,  daughter  of  Sir 
William  Drury,  of  Halatede,  in  Uie  county  of  Suf- 
fblk,  Knt.,  end  thirdly,  Sophia,  daughter  of  Sir 
fidward  Zoucha*  of  Woking,  in  Surrey,  by  whom 
liehadaaon. 

Algernon,  who  <L  in  infancy* 
Hia  lordship  d.  at  Wimbledon  on  the  10th  Norem- 
her,  M3Bt  where  he  waa  interred,  and  leaving  no 
Ukale  issue  hia  hooon  became  bxtiwct. 

Anita.  Daily  often,  ar.  and  as.  on  six  escutcheons, 
sa.  three,  two,  one,  as  many  Uona  rampant  of  the  first. 

CHANDOS— BARON  CHANBOS. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  SOth  December,  1337, 
11  Edward  IIL 

The  Bnt  of  thia  fbmily  upon  record, 

ROBERT  DE  CHANDOS,  came  ffrom  Nor- 
mandy with  the  Conqueror,  and  obtained  by  arms 
laige  poBsessioni  in  Wales.    He  was  subsequently  a 

to  the  chuith.    To  this  Ro- 


ROBERT  DE  CHANDOS,  who,  upon  the  aawsa- 
»ent  in  aid  of  laaiiyliig  the  king'a  daughter,  in  the 
Uth  Henry  II.,  certified  Ida  knights'  flsas  to  be 
Ihirteaaandaalxth  part,  ibr  which  he  paid  £8 15s.  6d. 
He  d.  in  1173,  and  wm  tw  by  hie  ddest  eon, 

ROBERT  DE  CHANDOS.  This  flmdal  lord 
paid  ftarty  marks  for  livery  of  the  landa  of  his  in- 
haritanceklnthetthRMmrdL    Hewas«.by 

ROBERT  DE  CHANDOS,  who  was  a.  by  his 
son  and  heir, 

ROGER  DE  CHANDOS,  whoee  wMdehip  was 
gnntadby  thacrown  to  WUIam  de  Caatihipe.  This 


Rogar  along  with  other  bawna  marclian  had  fy»> 
quent  summonaee  In  the  rdgn  of  Henry  III.  to 
march  agalnat  the  Weldi.    He  was  «.  by  Ms  son, 

ROBERT  DE  CHANDOS,  who*  in  the  flOtk 
Henry  III.,  doing  his  boaaage  had  Uvery  of  the  lands 
of  his  taihcrltance*  and  lb  the  10th  Edward  I.,  wae 
in  the  expedition  Uicn  made  into  Wales.  Upon  his 
death,  which  happened  in  the  30th  Edward  L,  It 
wasiound  that  he  held  the  naanor  of  Snodhull*  with 
ita  apputtenancai  by  barony,  and  the  aerrlce  of  two 
knights'  fees.    He  was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR  ROGER  DE  CHANDOS.  This  fbu^d  kird 
waa  In  the  Scottiah  wan  tamp^  Edward  II.,  and  r*. 
ceived  the  honor  of  knighthood  with  Prince  Ed- 
ward, and  many  othan,  by  bathing,  prior  to  going 
upon  one  of  those  expeditions.  In  the  Ifth  Edward 
IL  he  waa  made  aheriff  of  Henlbrdskirak  and  again 
In  the  1st  Edward  III.,  when  he  was  made  governor 
ofthecaatleofHstefbrd.  •*  But  of  his  suocasaon,'* 
says  Dttgdala,  **  I  am  not  able  to  continue  a  direct 
sariea."    We  coma  tharefoce  to 

ROGER  DE  CHANDOS,  brother  and  heir  of 
ThonuM  de  Chandoe,  daccassd.  This  Roger  pcrw 
fonahv  hia  fbalty  In  the  7th  Edward  IIL  had  livery 
of  hia  lands,  and  the  next  year  was  constltutad 
therilTof  Herefbrdahire,  and  governor  of  the  caetle 
of  Hereford.  In  the  19th  of  the  eesne  reign,  being 
then  a  banneret,  he  recrt  ved  a  military  summons  to 
attend  the  king  into  Franoa,  and  was  summoned  to 
parliament  as  a  babok  l^om  flOth  December,  1337, 
to  ttd  October.  136A.  In  which  latter  year  he  d. 
leaving  a  soil, 

SIR  THOMAS  DE  CHANDOS,  Knt,  but  never 
summoned  to  perllamant    He  waa  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR  JOHN  CHANDOS,  Knt,  who  d.  \n  1430^ 
leaving  his  sister.  If  argaret,  his  hair  i  which 

MABOAnxT  CHAMOoa,  m.  Sir  Thomaa  Berke- 
ley, Knt,  of  Coberley,  and  left  two  doubters, 
her  ooJiain,  namdy, 
Matgaret,  m.  to  Nkhotas  Mattesden. 
Alice,  m.  to  Thomaa  Brugaa,  whence  the 
Duxna  or  CnxMboa. 

Anna.— >Or.,  a  pile  gules. 

CHAVBNT—BARON  CHAVENT. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  ttth  December,  1399, 
98  Edward  L 

Xintsgt. 

PETER  DE  CHAUMPVENT,  OR  CHAVENT, 
having  been  engaged  In  the  wan  of  Oasoony  in  the 
S9th-90th  Edward  I.,  waa  summoned  to  parllamant 
as  a  BAROW  fan  two  yean  afterwards  i  but  of  his 
lordship,  his  tenily  or  descendants,  nothing  further 
is  known. 

ARM8.— Payly  of  six,  ar.  and  aa.  a  taae  gules. 

CHAWORTH— BARON  CHAWORTH. 

By  Writ  of  Summona,  deled  0th  February,  U9Bi 
97  Edward  L 

Xiitcsse. 

About  the  hitter  end  of  Kbig  William  the  Con- 
qneror's  reign, 

PATRICK  DE  CADURCIS,  vulgarly  called 
Cbawobtb*  a  native  of  Little  Britanny,  made  a 
grant  of  certain  mllla  in   Gloucestershire  to  the 

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monks  of  St  Petal's  Abbey,  in  Gkmoertar.    To  this 
Patrick  «.  his  son, 

PATRICK  DE  CHA  WORTH,  who  in  the  39rd 
Henry  II.,  upon  the  collection  ot  the  fcutage  of 
Oalway,  accounted  six  pounds  for  tlie  luighf  s  fees 
belon^ng  to  the  honor  of  StriguiL  This  feudal 
lewd  was  4,  by 

PAIN  DB  CHAWORTH,  who,  in  the  Snd 
Henry  III.  being  at  that  time  one  of  the  barons 
marchers,  became  lurety  for  Isabel  de  Mortimer 
that  she  should  oome  to  the  king's  exchequer  on  the 
octaves  of  St.  Michael  to  satisfy  for  such  debts  as 
she  owed  to  the  late  King  John.  Pain  de  Chaworth 
m.  Gundred,  daughter  and  heir  of  William  de  la 
Ferte,  (heir  to  Margaret  de  la  Ferte,  second  daugh- 
ter and  co-heir  of  William  de  Briwere,  a  great  feudal 
lord,  who  d,  in  1296,)  and  was  s.  at  his  decease  by 
his  son, 

PATRICK  DE  CHAWORTH,  who,  in  the  83rd 
Henry  III.,  being  thai  under  age,  compounded  with 
the  king  for  his  own  wardship  andmarrisge;  paying 
£500  for  the  same.  IntheS9thof  thesamerrignhe 
received  a  precept  from  the  crown,  whereby  he  was 
commanded  to  use  all  his  power  and  diligence  to 
annoy  the  Weldi  then  in  hostility.  He  m.  Hawyse, 
daughter  and  heir  of  Sir  Thomas  de  Londies,  Lord 
of  Kidwilly,  in  Wales,  and  had  issue. 

Pain,     'k  allof  whom,  in  Mth  Henry  I IL,  being 
Hervey,  >-signed  with  thecroas,  attended  Prince 
Patric,    J  Edward  to  the  Holy  Land, 
with  two  daughters.  Eve,  and  Anne.    This  feudal 
lord  d,  in  1S57.  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

PAIN  DE  CHAWORTH,  who,  in  the  fith  Ed- 
ward I.,  was  constituted  general  of  the  king's  army 
in  West  Wales:  whereupon  Roger  de  Mortimer  had 
command  to  aid  him  with  all  his  power,  and  to  admit 
him  into  all  his  castles  and  garrisons ;  at  which  time 
he  was  so  successful  that  the  Welch  sued  for  peace, 
and  did  homage  to  the  king.  This  gallant  soldier 
died  «.  !>.  in  1278*  end  was  «.  by  his  only  surviving 
brother, 

PATRIC  DE  CHAWORTH,  who  m.  the  Lady 
Isabel  de  Beauchamp,  daughter  of  William,  Earl  of 
Warwick,  and  d.  In  1382,  leaving  an  only  daughter 
and  heiress, 

Maud  nx  Chaworth,  who  m.  first,  Henry 
Plantagenet,  Earl  of  Lancaster,  and  secondly, 
Hugh  le  Despenser. 
Thus  terminated  this  great  feudal  branch  of  the 
Csmily,  but  another  branch  had  diverged  from 

WILLIAM  DE  CHAWORTH,  son  of  Robert, 
brother  of  Patric,  the  first  feudal  lord.  This  Wil- 
liam, in  the  Snd  year  of  King  John,  paid  £&  fine 
that  he  might  not  go  beyond  sea.  He  was  «.  by  his 
son  and  heir, 

ROBERT  DE  CHAWORTH,  who,  in  the  6th  of 
John,  paid  a  fine  of  one  hundred  marks,  and  one 
palf^  for  his  rdief,  and  that  he  might  have  the 
king  s  charter  for  those  lands  he  then  held  by  mili- 
tary service,  whereof  he  had  no  grant.  He  d.  with- 
out issue,  and  was  *.  by  his  brother,    ' 

WILLIAM  DE  CHAWORTH,  who  m.  Alice, 
daughter  of  Robert,  and  sister  and  co-heir  (with  her 
sister  Joane,  wifb  of  Robert  de  Latham,  of  Lanca- 
shire), of  Thomm  de  AUkvion*  and  was*,  at  his  de- 
by  his  Mm, 
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THOMAS  DB  CHAWORTH.  who 
moned  to  parliament  as  a  baboh  on  the  9th  Fe- 
bruary, 1880.  But  his  lordship  had  no  other  sum- 
mons, nor  had  any  of  his  descendants,  who  laD^ 
nourished  in  the  counties  of  Derby  end  Notting- 


Abmb.— Of  the  feudal  Barons  Chaworth— Barry  of 
ten  pieces,  ar.  and  gtu  an  orie  of  martlets  sa. 

Abms. — Borne  by  Lord  Chaworth,  bdng  the  arms 
of  Albeton,  vis..  Am.  two  chevrons  or. 

CHENEY— BARON  CHENEY. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  1st  September, 
1487,  3  Henry  VIL 

Xiiuagc. 

Although  this  family,  founded  by  Rai.pr  ob 
Cainbto,  (that  is  Chbhxy,)  who  came  into  Eng- 
land with  the  C<Hiqueror,  was  txcm  that  period  of 
considerable  note,  it  did  not  attain  the  honour  of 
the  peerage,  until  the  time  of  Henry  VIL 
'  JOHN  CHENEY,  Esq.,  of  Sherland,  in  the  Isle 
of  Shepey,  had  with  other  issue,  by  his  wife  Alia- 
nore,  dauj^ter  and  heiress  ot  Six  RolMrt  de  Shot^ 
stroke,  Knt.,  a  son  and  heir, 

SIR  JOHN  CHENEY,  Knt,  an  eminent  soldier, 
under  the  banner  of  Henry  of  Richmond,  at  Boe> 
worth  field,  whom,  it  is  said.  King  Richard,  per- 
sonally encountering,  felled  to  the  ground,  althou^ 
he  was  a  person  of  great  bodily  strength.  Upon 
the  accession  of  his  chief  to  the  crown,  as  Henry  VIL, 
Sir  John  Cheney  was  called  to  the  privy  council, 
and  soon  after,  again  stoutly  fought  for  the  king, 
against  the  Earl  of  Lincoln  and  his  adherents,  at 
Stoke.  In  the  3rd  year  of  the  new  monarch,  he 
was  summoned  to  parliament  as  a  babon,  and 
from  that  period  to  the  14th  October,  148S.  His 
lordship  was  also  a  knight  banneret,  and  a  knioht 
of  the  most  noble  order  of  the  Gabtxb.  He  d, 
without  issue,  in  1496,  when  the  Baboity  tft 
Chxnxy  expired,  while  his  lands  devolved  upon 
his  nephew.  Sir  Thomas  Cheney  (see  Cheney  of 
Taddington). 

ABMa.— As,  six  lions  rampant  ar.  a  Canton  er- 
mine. 

CHENEY  —  BARON  CHENEY,  OF 
TADDINGTON,  IN  THE 
COUNTY  OF  BEDFORD. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  8th  May,  1078. 

Xiiuagt. 

SIR  THOBfAS  CHENEY,  Knt.,  nephew  end 
heir  of  John,  Lord  Cheney,  a  dignity  that  expired 
in  1496,  m.  first,  Frideswide,  daughter  and  co-heixess 
of  Sir  Thomas  Frowyke,  Knt.,  Chief  Justice  of  the 
Court  of  Common  Pleas,  and  had  issue, 

Cathenne,  m.    to  Thomas    Kemp,   Esq.,  of 

Glendidi,  in  the  county  of  Kent. 
Margaret,  m.  to  George  Nevil,  Lord  AbergB- 

venny. 
Frances,  nu  to  Nicholas  Crips,  Esq.,  son  and 

heir  of  Sir  Henry  Crips,  Knt. 
Anne,  m.  to  Sir  John  Perrot,  KnL 
Sir  Thomas  m.  secondly,  Ann^  daughter  and  oo- 
heliesB  of  Sir  John  Bxoughtoa,  of  Taddington, 


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In  Dm  eouBty  o#  B«Ubcd,  by  whom  he  aniulrad 
fhat  ertate*  and  taftd  aa  only  Km,  Hbwiiv,  of  whom 
Sir  ThoouM  Cheney  eppeen  to  heve 
a  penon  of  greet  gillantry  and  note.  In  the 
rdgn  of  Henry  VIII.  At  the  celebrated  interview 
between  that  monarch  end  Frande  I.,  at  Ardret, 
he  wee  one  of  the  diaHengeiak  afainst  all  gentle- 
men, who  were  to  exerdae  feaH  of  arma,  on  horse- 
back, or  on  foot,  for  thirty  days.  He  wes  a  Knioht 
of  the  OABTsm,  warden  of  the  Cinque  Ports,  and 
treasurer  of  the  king's  household.  Upon  the  death 
of  King  Edward  VL,  he  espoused  the  interests  of 
Queen  Mary,  and  he  was  called  to  the  privy  council 
in  the  first  year  of  EHiabeth:  about  which  period 
he  deceased,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR  HENRY  CHENEY,  Knt,  who  was  sum- 
moned to  parliament  as  Baroit  Chxnky,  or  Tao- 
nnroTow,  in  the  county  of  Bedford,  ftom  8th  May, 
1A7S,  to  IMh  October,  1586.  His  lordship,  who  was 
oneof  the  peers,  on  the  trial  of  Mary,  Queen  of  Scots, 
m.  Jene,  daughter  of  Thomas  Wentworth,  Lord 
Wentworth,  but  died  without  issue,  in  U87,  whan 
his  estates  devolved  upon  his  widow,  and  the 
Barony  of  Cbxksy,  or  Taddinotow,  became  kz- 
TfircT.  His  lordship  erected  a  noble  mansion  at 
Taddington,  wherein  he  resided. 
-  Auuk—Erm :  on  •  bend  sa.  three  martlets,  or. 


CHEBLTON— BARONS  CHERLTON, 
OF  POWYS. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  86th  July,  131% 
7  Edward  II. 

HUneage.  ^f////^^     ^ 

In  the  first  yeer  of  Edward  II. 

JOHN  DE  CHERLTON,  (dderson  of  Sir  Alan 
Cherlton,  of  Appleby  Cestle,  in  the  county  of  Salop,^ 
from  whose  younger  son,    Alan,   descended 
Cherltons  of  Ludford,)  obtained  a  charter  of  free 
warren,  in  all  his  demesne  lands  at  Chbrltok,  and 
PONTB8B17RY,  In  the  county  of  Salop,  and  the  next 
year  had  a  confirmation  of  the  manor  of  Pontes- 
bury,  (some  time  belonging  to  Rhese  ap  Howell,) 
to  hold  in  general  tail,  by  the  services  anciently  im- 
posed for  the  same.     This  John,  by  the  gift  of 
King  Edward  II.,  espoused  Hawyse,  sister  and  heiress 
of  Oryfiln  ap  Owen,  otherwise  known  as  Gryflin  de 
la  Pole,  by  reeson  of  his  residence  at  Pole,  com- 
monly called  Welch-pole,  in  the  county  of  Mont- 
gomery,  and  in  her  right   acquired  the  fleudal 
Barony  of  Polx,  held  in  capita  f^om  the  crown ; 
but  in  the  next  year,  Oryflln  de  la  Pole,  uncle  to 
the  said  Hawyse,  pretending  a  right  to  the  castle 
of  Pole,  (afterwards  denominated  Rbd  Castlb,) 
nised  a  body  of  the  Welch,  and  regularly  besieged 
It,  his  niece  and  her  husband  bdng  at  the  time  re- 
sl^ng  therein;   whereupon  the  king  directed  his 
precept  to   Roger  de  Mortimer,  then  justice  of 
Wales,  to  nmnh  thither  for  their  relief  and  pro* 
tecticm.     Again,  however,  they  were  disturbed  by 
the  said  Gryflin,  who  had  summons  to  iq>pear  be- 
fore^he  king,  to  answer  fSmr  his  proceedings,  and 
to  render  John  Cherlton  and  his  wife  more  secure 
to  their  title,  they  had  a  royal  charter  in  the  7th  of 
Edward  IL,  confirmatory  of  all  their  lands  and 


PowTS.  In  which  year,  (fl0th  July,  1319,)  John 
Cherlton  was  summoned  to  parliament  as  Babon 
Cbbbltoii,  and  ftom  that  period,  to  the  8Sth  July, 
135S.  His  lordship  was  chamberlain  to  King  Ed< 
ward  IL,  and  took  an  active  part  in  the  wars  of 
Scotland.  In  the  reign  of  that  monarch,  he  had 
license  to  make  a  castle  of  his  manor  house,  at 
Cherlton,  Shropshire ;  but  notwithstanding  the  many 
important  immunities  he  received  fkom  the  crown, 
he  was  implicated  in  the  rebdlion  of  Thomas,  Earl 
of  Lancaster,  and  was  taken  prisoner  at  the  battle 
of  Borou^bridge,  in  Yorkshire,  but  was  fortunato 
enough  to  obtain  the  king's  pardon.  In  the  next 
reign,  he  was  constituted  Justicb  or  Ibblano, 
and  landed  there  upon  Thursday,  the  festival  of 
St.  Calixt,  the  pope,  with  his  brother  Thomaa, 
Bishop  of  Hereford,  chancellor,  and  about  two 
hundred  ardiers.  His  lordship  waa  subsequently 
engaged  in  the  wars  of  France,  and  dying  in  18S3,  was 
«.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  DE  CHERLTON,  second  Baron,  sum- 
moned  to  parliament,  ftom  the  Uth  March,  1SS4, 
to  the  90th  November,  laOO,  as  Babok  Chbbltow, 
and  from  14th  August,  13S8  to  4th  October,  1373, 
as  Lord  Cherlton,  of  Powys.  This  nobleman  being 
LoBD  CHAMnBBi.AZN  to  the  king,  was  in  the  wan 
of  Gasoony,  in  attendance  upon  the  Black  Prince^ 
His  lordship  m.  Joane,  daughter  of  Ralph  de  Staf- 
ford, Earl  of  Stallbrd,  and  d.  in  1374,  was  •,  by  his 
•on, 

JOHN  DE  CHERLTON,  third  Baron,  sum- 
moned  to  parliament,  as  "^Johanni  de  Cherlton, 
de  Powys,"  from  9th  August,  1388,  to  3rd  Octo- 
ber, 1400.  His  knrdship  m.  Maud,  daughter  of  Ro-  \/ 
gcr  de  Mortimer,  Earl  of  March;  but  d,  without /C 
issue,  anno  1400,  was  •.  by  his  brother, 
EDWARD  DE  CHERLTON,  fourth  Baron, 
the^aummoned  to  parliament,  fromSnd  December,  1401, 
to  86th  Fek,  1481.  In  the  9th  of  Henry  IV.  This 
nobleman  sustained  great  loss  by  the  insurrection  of 
the  Welch,  under  Owen  Glendower.  In  the  next 
reign,  he  had  the  thanks  of  parliament  for  his  activity 
in  apprdiending  the  unfortunate  Sir  John  Oldcastle, 
Lord  CoUiam,  within  the  territory  of  Powys.  His 
lordship  m.  Alianore,  daughter  of  Thomas  HoUand, 
and  sister  and  co-heir  of  Edmund  Holland,  both 
Earls  of  Kent,  and  widow  of  Roger  Mortimer,  Earl 
of  March,  by  whom  (who  m.  after  his  decease,  John 
Sutton,  Lord  Dudley,)  he  had  issue, 

Joane,  m.  to  Sir  John  Grey,  K.G.,  Earl  of  Tan- 
kerville,  in  Normandy,  whose  grandson,  John 
Oiey,  was  summoned  to  parliament,  as  «*  Jo- 
hanni  Grey  de  Powys,"  on  the  15th  Novem- 
ber, 1482,  (see  that  dignity). 
Joyce,  m.  to  Sir  John  de  Tiptoft,  who  was  sum- 
moned to  parliament,  fttnn  7th  January,  1486, 
to  3rd  December,  1441.     (Dugdale  says,  he 
bore  the  title  of  Lord  Tiptoft  and  Powys,  but 
he  was  never  summcmed  by  any  other  desig- 
nation than  **  Johanni  Tiptoft,  ChPr;")  and 
had  issue, 
John,  created  Eabx.  or  Wobcbbtba,  in 
1448,  but  beheedcd  and  attainted,  in  1470, 
when  his  honours  expired,  but  his  son, 
Edwa&d  db  TiPTorr,  was  restored  in 
bkiod,  as  Eabi.    or   Wobcbstbb 

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dying,  homerm,  «.  pb,  in  14lfti  hit 
•unti  beotmo  his  eoh«imi«  to  tho 
Barony  oa  Tiprorr*  md  to  his 
cstBtfls,    while   tho   babjuimm    bx< 

PIBBD. 

Philippa,  m.  to  Thomas,  Lofd  Root. 
Johanna,  m.  to  Sir  Edmund  Inglethorpe. 
Joyce,  m.  to  Edmund  Sutton,  son  and  heir 
of  John,  Lord  Dudley. 
His  lordship  d,  in  14SS,  when  the  Babont  or 
CHBBLToir,  or  PowYB,  fell  into  abbyabcb,  be- 
tween his  daughters,  and  his  mtates  devolved  upon 
them,  as  co-heirs.  The  Lordship  of  Powys  coming 
to  the  eldest  daughter,  Joane,  that  lady's  grandson, 
John  Orey,  had  summons  lo  parliament,  in  I4BB, 
as  LoBD  Gbby,  or  Powva,  but  Mr.  Nicholas,  in 
his  "  Synopsis,**  considers  Mar  summons  a  new  cre- 
ation, and  not  a  revival  of  the  original  dignity,  and 
he  is  borne  out  in  the  opinion,  he  says,  by  a 
careftil  examination  of  the  parliamentary  rolls, 
wherein  he  finds  the  old  lords,  denominated  in 
almost  all  instances,  Lonns  Chbbi.toiv,  and  be 
then  very  Justly  reasons,  that  if  it  were  meant  to 
revive  the  suspended  barony  in  the  great  grandson 
of  Edward,  fourth  and  but  L^rd  Charlton,  that 
personage  would  have  been  summoned  as  Babon 
Chbblton,  or  Poirva,  and  not  as  Lord  Grey— a 
course  whidi  appears  indisputable.  The  Babovv 
or  Cbbblton,  must  therefore  be  deemed  still  in 
abbyabcb. 
Abm&— Or.  a  lion  rampant,  gu. 
NoTB.— A  younger  branch  of  this  fMnlly,  was, 
ALAN  DB  CHERLTON,  brother  of  the  first 
baron,  who  in  the  Uth  of  Edward  IL,  had  a  charter 
for  free  warren,  in  all  his  demesne  lands,  at  Af- 
PLBBY,  and  other  places,  in  the  county  of  Salop, 
and  was  constituted  fas  three  years  afterwards, 
governor  of  Montgomery  Castle;  he  m.  Elen, 
widow  of  NichobM  de  St  Maur,  and  one  of  the 
daughters  and  co-heirs  of  Lord  Zouch— from  which 
union  descended  the  family  of  Charlton,  of  Lud- 
ford,  in  the  county  of  Hereford,  now  represented 
by  Edmund  Lechmere  Charlton,  Esq.,  of  Ludford. 

CHOLMONOKLEV  —  VISCOUNT 
CHOLMONDELEY,  EARL 
OF  LKINSTER,  IN  THE 
PEERAGE  OF  IRELAND, 
BARON  X^HOLMONDE. 
LEY.  IN  THE  PEERAGE 
OF  ENGLAND. 


Yisoounty, 

Earldom 

Barony 


>*y»lby  Letters  f, 
^'  J    Patent,  V 


:  ion. 

Ath  March,  1640. 
1st  Sept.,  1645. 

SIR    HUGH    CHOLMONDELEY,    Kbt.,    of 
Cholmondeley,  (eldest  son  of  Sir  Hugh  Cholmonde- 
ley,  and  his  wife,  Anne,  daughter  and  co-heiress  of 
George  Dorman,  Esq.,  of  Malpas,)  married  Mary, 
only  daughter  and  heiress  of  Christopher  Holford, 
Esq.  of  Holford,  and  had  issue, 
RoBBBT,  of  whom  praaently. 
Hugh,  m.  Mary,  daughter  of  Sir  John  BodvlDe, 
of  BodviOe  Caetle,  in  the  county  of  Camar- 
'    von,  and  dying  In  1056,  left 
ISO 


RoBBBTt  who  inherited  the  eetates  of  his 
uncle,  and  was  the  founder  of  the  present 
noUe  House  of  Cholmondeley. 

Thomas,  of  Vale  Royal,  ttom  whom  the  pre- 
sent Lord  Delamere  descends. 

Mary,  m.  to  Thomas  Middleton,  Esq.,  eldest  son 
of  Sir  Thomas  Middleton,  of  Chirk  Castle. 

Catharine^  m.  to  Charles  Mainwaring,  Esq.,  of 
Ightfl^,  in  the  county  of  Salop. 
Sir  Hugh  died  in  the  43rd  of  Elisabeth,  and  his 
Udy  (designated  by  King  Jamm  L  "  the  bold  Udy 
of  Cheshire,"  in  consequence  of  the  spirit  she  dis- 
played in  carrying  on  a  law  suit  with  George  Holi 
Ibrd,  Esq.,  of  Newborough,  for  more  than  forty 
yean,*  which  finally  terminated  by  compromise,) 
died  on  Uth  August!  169&  Sir  Hugh  was  «.  by  his 
eldest  son, 

ROBERT  CHOLMONDELEY,  Eag.,  who  was 
created  a  baronet  on  the  90th  June,  1611,  and  ad- 
vanced to  the  peerage  of  Irdand  in  IWB,  as  Vitcovnt 
Cholmond^h^,  nf  KtHl»,  His  lordship  afterwards, 
'*  in  consideration  of  his  special  service.  In  raising 
several  companies  of  foot  in  Chmhire,  in  order  to 
the  quenching  those  rebdlious  flames  whidi  began 
to  appear  anno  I64S,  and  sending  many  other  to  the 
king,  (Charles  I.,)  then  at  Shrewsbury,  (which  stood 
him  in  high  stead  in  that  memonible  battle  of  Kine- 
ton,  happening  soon  after,)  as  abo  raising  other 
forces  for  defending  the  city  of  Chester,  at  the  first 
siege  thereof  by  his  m^esty's  adversarim  in  that 
coimty,  and  courageous  adventure  in  the  fight  <d 
Tilton  Heath,  together  with  his  great  suflkrings,  by 
the  plunder  of  his  goods,  and  firing  his  houses," 
was  created  a  peer  of  England,  by  letters  patent, 
dated  1st  September,  I64ff,  in  the  dignity  of  Babom 
Cbolmoboblby,  ^  Wieke  JfaOanJk,  otherwise 
Namptwich,  in  the  county  of  Chester,  and  advanced 
the  next  year  to  the  Irish  babi«dom  or  LBiirarsB. 
Subsequently,  under  the  rule  of  the  parliament,  his 
lordship  was  obliged  to  compound  for  his  mtates, 
and  paid  the  huge  fine  of  £7*742.  He  m.  Catherine, 
daughter  of  John,  Lord  Stanhope  of  Harrington, 
but  died  without  issue  on  2nd  October,  1669,  when 
his  large  possessions  devolved  upon  his  nephew, 
Robert  Cholmondeley,  (son  of  his  brother  Hugh,) 
immediate  ancestor  <^  the  existing  noble  house  of 
Cholmondeley-— and  his  lordship's  honours,  namely« 
the  Irish  babony  or  Choliiobdbi.bv,  of  Kdls,  and 
the  BA  BLDOM  or  LBiNaTBB,  with  the  English  ba- 
bony OF  CBOLMONOBX.BY,  q^  Nomplicicft,  became 

BXTIVCT* 

ABMa,—- Gu.  two  helmets  in  diief  ppr.  garnished  or. 
in  base  a  garb  of  the  last. 

CLARE— LORDS  OF  CLARE,  EARLS 
OF  HERTFORD,  EARLS  OF 
GLOUCESTER. 

The  feudal  lordship  of  Clare,  from  tha  conquest. 
The  earldom  of  Hertford,  temp.  King  Stephen. 
The  earldom  of  Glouceater,  by  marriage  with  the 
heims  of  Gloucestar, 

GEOFFREY,  naturM  son  of  Ricbabd  L,  Duke 
of  Normandy,  bad  a  eon. 


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GISLBBKRT,  nmMBMd  Ctiapiu,  BmrlffBHom, 
in  Normaiuty,  wImm  eldest  MM* 

RICHARD    FITZGILBBRT,    hcring    accon- 
panied  tiM  CoirgosAOR  teto  BBglmd,  partidfated 
in  the  spolb  of  oon^uatt*  mA  obtained  extenalve 
pwiwHloiif  in  tlM  new  and  (dd  dflUinloDa,  of  his 
royal  leader  and  ktamnan*    In  lOTS.  ((fth  WUttaai 
Caiqtteror»)  «•  ind  him  joined  under  tbe  darigna- 
tlon  of  RiMririM  dr  Btm^f^eta,  with  WUUam  da 
Warren,  In  thagtaat  oOce  of  JoaricxABY  or  Swe- 
LAirn:  with  whom,  in  three  yean  afberwaids,  he 
was  in  anas,  4*lV  t^  rebciUou  Lords,  Robert 
4m  BrttoBOft  Barl  ot  HeraiMd,  and  Ralph  Waher, 
or  Ouader,  Karl  of  Norfolk  and  Suflblk,  and  be. 
iMTed  with  great  gallantry.    Rot  afterwards,  at  the 
time  of  the  gmund  marMifr  wikidi  was  towards  tlie 
dose  ot  WilUhm's  reign,  he  is  called  M€ardu»  de 
7\>mttrmge,  ftom  his  seat  at  Tonebniga,  (now  Tun- 
bvidge,)  in  Kent,  which  town  and  castle  he  obtained 
from  the  ArdiUsiiop  of  CanteHniry,  in  Ueu  of  the 
Castle  of  Brion ;  at  which  time  he  enjoyed  thirty- 
•i^t  lordships  in  Sarrey,  thirty-tve  in  Essex,  three 
in  Cambridgeshire,  with  some  others  in  Wilts  and 
Deron,  and  ninety-five  in  8aflblk>amoapt  those  was 
Ci^ABM,  whence  he  was  oocaslottaUy  styled  Richaho 
OS  CjULBn ;  and  that  place  in  a  few  yean  afterwards 
becoming  tlie  chief  seat  of  the  fiunily,  his  descend- 
ants are  said  to  have  assumed  therenpon  the  title  of 
EAaLs  or  Clarb.    This  great  ftudal  lord  m.  Ro> 
beae,  daaghtar  of  WAHerQiflbrd,  Karl  of  Bucking- 
tuun,  and  had  issue, 

GiLBXRT,  hb  successor. 

Roger,  an  eminent  soldier  in  the  rslgn  of  Henry 
I.,  died  «.  p.  whoi  his  estates  deroWed  upon 
Us  alder  brothers  son,  Gilbert. 
Welter,  who  haTing  Uosnce  fttnn  the  king  to 
enjoy  all  he  could  conquer  in  Wales,  possessed 
an  NBTBBn-WnnT ;  hed.  dao«.  p. 
Ridnrd,  a  monk  of  Bee,  in  Nonsandy,  and  last 

▲snoT  or  Ely. 
Robert,  steward  to  Kiftg  Hdnry  I.,  m«  Mmid, 
daughter  of  9hnen  St.  lAz,  Eam.  or  Huirr- 
inoooir,  and  hid  ITolfsr  FUZ'Robgrt,  whose 
son,  Roterr  PV^s-fFoMsi',  was  one  of  the  most 
distinguished  of  the  barons,  who  rebeUed 
agafattt  JoHjr,  and  was  styled,  MAaanAL  or 

THB  ABMT  Or  GoO,  AVO  HOX.Y  CBITRCS. 

—  9u  to  Ralph  da  Tetgsrs. 

•>-—  m.  to  Eodo  Dapifier. 
Ridiard  da  Tonebruge,  or  de  Clare,  whoissaidto 
haTefidlen  inaskinnish  with  the  Welsh,  was#.  by 
hisddcstsob, 

GILBERT  DB  TONEBRUGE,  who  resided  at 
Tonebruge,  and  Inherited  all  his  ftuher's  lands  in 
Bn^nd.  This  nobleman  joined  in  the  rebdUon  of 
Robert  de  MoMbray,  Earl  of  Northumberland,  but 
obeenrii^  the  King  (William  RuftM)  upon  the 
polat  of  fUl^  into  an  ambuscade,  be  relented, 
bssnnght  pardon*  and  saved  his  royal  masCar.  We 
ftidMm  sobsaiuently,  however,  agidn  in  rebtfUon, 
in  the  same  reign,  and  fortifying  and  losing  his  castle 
atTaabridga.  He  m.  Adellaa,  daughCar  of  the  Eerl 
Of  Clsremont,  and  had  Issue, 

RicBAno,  his  euecessor. 

GiOMrt,  cmated  Bam*  or  Fsmbbou,  enao 
1139;  see  that  dignity.    This  nobleman  was 


Ibthar  of  Riobam,  sunaiaad  8TaoBas6w, 

80  ceUbfated  ibr  his  conquest  of  iNiaad. 
Walter,  Ibundar  of  the  aMwy  of  TxirraBB,  in 

Waiss,  died  #.  p, 
Harvay,  flmumsln  the conqMat  of  IraLmd,  by 

the  name  ot  tUn^f,  ^  MmttmauriM,  but 

died  a  monk  at  Caaterliary. 
Beldwfai,  who  left  thiaa  tons,  William,  Robert, 

tnd  Richard,  andadau^hierHaigafet,  Ni.to 


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Gilbert  de  Toastamge,  who  was  a  muniBosat  be*o- 
fbctor  to  thediatch,  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

RICHARD  DB  CLARE,  who  lint  bon  the  title 
of  Eamx.  or  HBBTroani  and  being  one  of  those, 
who  by  power  of  the  sword  entered  Weles,  there 
phmted  himself,  and  became  lord  of  vait  territories, 
es  also  of  divan  castles,  in  those  porta,  bnt  re- 
quiring other  matten  of  moment  ftom  the  king, 
in  which  he  was  nnsucoessflil,  he  reared  the  standard 
of  revolt,  and  soon  after  fdl  in  an  cagagemaat  with 
the  Welsh.  His  lordship  te  IIM  removed  the 
monksoutof  hisoBAleatCtaua,  into  the  church  of 
St.  Augustine,  at  Stokb,  and  beatfrwed  upon  tlssm 
a  IHtle  wood,  called  Stokb-Ho,  with  a  doe  every 
year  out  of  Ms  park  at  Hi^BaDBifB.  He  mu  Alloa, 
sister  of  Ranulph,  second  Earl  of  Cheater,  and  had 
issue,  GiLBBBT,  his  successor,  with  two  other  sons, 
end  a  daughter,  Ahce,  who 
OrilBth,  Prince  of  North  Wales 
His  tordship  was«.  by  his  eldest  son, 

GILBERT  DE  CLARE,  second  Earl  of  Hert- 
ford,  who  is  said  by  Dugdale,  to  have  also  bonm 
the  title  of  Earl  of  Clsie,  but  Hornby  observes,  that 
Mor  meant  only  KaH  at  Cktrt/  for  his  earldom 
was  certainly  at  Hgr^fitrd,  This  nobleman,  in  tlm 
8th  of  King  Stephen,  amw  114ft,  was  a  hostage  for 
his  uncle,  Ranulph,  Earl  of  Chester,. and  subse- 
quently, being  in  rebellion  against  the  power  of 
Stephen,  was  taken  prisoner,  and.  held  in  capti- 
vity,  until  he  surrendered  all  his  strong  places.  He 
d.  in  llAl,  and  having  no  issue,  was  at  by  his 
brother, 

ROGER  DE  CLARE,  third  Earl  of  HertfonU 
who  is  Ukewise  said  to  have  borne  the  title  of  Earl 
of  Clare.  In  the  3rd  Henry  II.,  this  noblemen  ob- 
taining from  the  king  aU  the  lands  in  Wales  whkh 
he  could  win,  marched  into  Cardigan  with  a  great 
army,  and  fortified  diven  cestlcs  theiaabouto.  In 
the  9th  of  the  same  reign,  we  find  htm  summoned 
by  the  oetobrated  Thomss-^-Becket,  Archbishop  of 
Canterbury,  to  Westminater,  in  order  to  do  homage 
to  the  prelate  for  his  castle  of  Tonebrnge;  which 
at  the  command  of  the  king  he  refused,  aUegiag 
that  holding  it  by  miUtary  service  it  belonged 
rather  to  the  crown  than  to  the  church.  His  lord- 
diip  m.  Mande^  daughter  of  Jamm  de  St  Hillary, 
by  whom  (who  married  after  his  decease  Wittiam 
de  Albini,  Earl  of  Arundel,)  he  had  a  son, 

RicBARD,  his  successor. 
This  earl,  who»  Arom  his  munificence  to  the  church, 
and  his  numerous  acts  of  piety,  was  called  the 
Oosd,  d.  in  1173*  and  was*,  by  his  son, 

RICHARD  DB  CLARE,  fourth  Earl  of  Hert- 
ford, who.  In  the  7th  Richerd  I.,  gave  a  thousand 
pounds  to  the  king  for  livery  of  the  lands  of  his 
mother's  inheritance,  with  his  proportion  of 
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•oqM  time  beloaginc  to  Glflkrd,  Kul  of  Bucklag- 
haln.  Hb  lordship  m.  Amlda,  aeooikd  daughter  and 
co^eirCK  {with  her  listert  Mabell,  Wife  of  th«  BarL 
of  Evereux,  in  Normandy,  and  Iaabal«  the  divorced 
wife  of  King  John,)  of  Wiaktm,  Kaml  or  Olov- 
csaTBR,  by  whom  he  had  luue* 

OiLBXRT,  hi*  lucoeHor. 

Jome*  m.  to  Rhys-Orig,  Prlnoe  of  South  WUei. 
ThJa  earl,  who  was  one  of  the  twenty-flve  herons 
appointed  to  enforce  the  oheervance  of  Maowa 
Obaata,  if.  in  1S16»  and  was  «.  by  Us  son, 

GILBERT  OE  CLARE,  fifth  earl  of  Hertford, 
who,  after  the  deoeeae  of  Geoffrey  de  M  andeviUe. 
Earl  of  Eiaex,  the  second  husband  of  Isabd,  the 
dlToroed  wife  of  King  John*  (one  of  the  co-heireaaes 
mentioned  above  of  William,  Earl  of  Gloucester,) 
and  in  her  right  Earl  of  Gloucbstba,  and  her 
own  decease,  «.  ji.  as  also  the  decease  oi  Almarick 
D'Evereux,  son  of  the  Earl  of  Evereux,  by  Mabell, 
the  other  co-heiress,  who  likewise  succeeded  to  the 
Earldom  of  Gloucester,  became  Earl  or  Gloucbb- 
TRB,  in  right  of  his  mother  Amida,  the  other  co- 
belxeast  This  nobleman  was  amongst  the  principal 
barons  who  tO(A  up  arms  against  King  John,  and 
was  appointed  one  of  the  twenty-five  chosen  to  en- 
ftnoe  the  oheervance  of  Magna  Crarta.  In  the 
ensuing  reign,  still  opposing  the  arbitrary  proceed- 
iogi  of  the  crown*  he  ftnight  at  Lincoln,  under  the 
baioniai  banner,  and  was  taken  prisoner  there  by 
William  Marshall,  Earl  of  Pembroke;  but  he  soon 
afterwards  made  his  peao&  His  lordship  m.  Isabel, 
one  of  the  daughters,  and  eventually,  co-heiresscs 
of  the  above  mentioned  earl,  by  whom,  (who  m. 
after  his  decease,  Richard,  Earl  of  Cornwall,  brother 
of  King  Henry  III.,)  he  had  issue, 

RicRARO,  his  auccesaor. 

William. 

GUbert. 

Amida,  m.  to  Baldwin  de  Redvers,  fburth  Earl 
of  Devon. 

Agnes. 

Isabd,  IN.  to  Robert  de  Brus. 
The  earl  tf  .  in  isa9,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

RICHARD  DE  CLARE,  sixth  Earl  Hertford, 
and  secoibd  Earl  of  Gloucester,  then  in  minority. 
The  wardship  of  this  young  nobleman  was  grantod 
to  the  iSunous  Hubert  de  Burgh,  Earl  of  Kent, 
Justiciary  of  England,  whose  daughter  Margaret, 
to  the  great  <Uspleasure  of  the  king,  (Henry  III.,) 
he  afterwards  dandestinely  married,  but  flrom 
whom,  he  was  probably  divorced,  for  we  find  the 
king  marrying  him  the  next  year  to  Maude,  daugh- 
ter of  John  de  Lacy,  Earl  of  Lincoln,  in  considera- 
tion whereof  the  said  John  paid  to  the  crown  five 
tiionsand  marks,  and  remitted  a  debt  of  two  thou- 
sand more.  His  lordship,  who  appears  to  have  been 
a  very  distinguished  personage  in  the  reign  of 
Henry  III.»  was  one  of  the  chief  nobles  present  in 
Westminster  Hall,  (40th  Henry  III.,)  when  Boni- 
face, Arcubibbop  or  Cantxrburv,  with  divers 
other  prelates,  pronounced  that  solemn  curse,  with 
candles  lighted  against  all  those  who  should  thence- 
forth violate  Magna  Crarta.  In  two  years  after- 
wards, an  attempt  was  made  by  Walter  de  Sootenay, 
hts  diief  oounedlor,  to  poison  the  earl  and  his 
brother  WiHiam#  which  proved  efltetive  as  to  the 


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latter,  wUle  his  lordship  narrowly  escaped,  with 
the  kMB  of  his  hair  and  nails.  In  the  next  year,  the 
earl  was  commissioned  with  others  of  the  nobility, 
by  the  appointment  of  the  king,  and  the  whole 
baronage  of  En^bmd,  to  the  parliament  of  France, 
to  convey  King  Henry  III.'s  resipiation  of  Nor- 
mandy, and  to  a4)ust  all  difibrences  between  the 
two  crowns;  and  upon  the  return  of  the  mission, 
his  lordship  reported  proceedings  to  the  ktaig,  in 
parliament.  About  this  period,  he  had  licence  to 
fortify  the  Isle  of  Portland,  and  to  embattle  it  as  a 
fortress.  It  is  reported  of  this  noblefium,  that  being 
at  Tewkesbury,  in  the  4ath  Henry  III.,  a  Jew,  who 
had  fallen  into  a  Jakes,  upon  the  Saturday,  refusing 
to  be  pulled  out  in  reverence  to  the  Jewish  sabbath, 
his  lordship  prohibited  any  help  to  be  aflbrded  him 
on  the  next  day,  Sunday,  the  Christian  sabbath, 
and  thus  sufltered  the  unfortunate  Israelite  to  perish. 
He  d.  himself,  in  the  July  of  the  next  year.  (1262,) 
having  been  poisoned  at  the  table  of  Peter  de  Savoy, 
the  queen's  uncle,  along  with  Baldwin.  Earl  of 
Devon,  and  other  persons  of  note.  His  lordship 
left  issue, 

GiLBBRT,  his  successor. 

Thomas,  who  was  governor  of  the  city  of  Lon- 
don, in  the  1st  Edward  I.,  and  d.  in  the  I5th   ^    r 
of  the  same  reign,  leaving  by  Aaay;  his  wife.  ^  t*-^ 
daughter  of  Sir  Morris  Fita-Morris.    n  ISk-.  JV 


;A' 


Gilbert,  who  died  *.p.^~~~' 

Richard,  if.  in  the  liliBtlme  of  his  fkther, 

leaving  a  son,  Thonuu,  who  dieds.  jb. 
Thomas,  whose  daughters, 

Margaret,  wifJB  of  Bartholomew  Badles- 
.  mere. 

Maud,  wife  of  Robert,  Lord  Cliflbrd,  of 
Appleby,  became  eventually  his  co- 


"^^ 


Roae,  m,  to  Roger  de  Mowbray. 

Margaret,  m.  to  Edmund,  Earl  of  Cornwall,  and 
died  «.  p. 
The  earl  was  «.  by  his  dder  son, 

GILBERT   DE   CLARE,   somamed   the   Red, 
seventh  Earl  of  HertHord,  and  third  Earl  oi  Glou- 
cester, who,  by  the  king's  procurement,  espoused, 
in  the  lifetime  of  his  fkther,  Alice,  daughter  of 
Guy.  Earl  of  Angoulesme,  and  niece  of  the  King  of 
France,  which  monarch  bestowed  upon  the  lady  a 
marriage  portion  of  five  thousand   marks.    This 
nobleman,  who,  like  his  predecessors,  was  aealous  in 
the  cause  of  the  barons,  proceeded  to  London,  im- 
mediatdy  after  the  defeat  sustained  by  the  insur- 
rectionary lords  at  Northampton,  (48th  Henry  III.,) 
in  order  to  rouse  the  dtiaens,  which  having  effected, 
he  received  the  honour  of  knighthood,  firom  MmU- 
fordt  Earl  or  Lbicbstbr,  at  the  head  of  the  army 
at  Lewes;  of  which  army,  his  lordship,  with  John 
Fita-John,  and  WiUlam  de  Montchensi,  commanded 
the  second  brigade,  and  having  mainly  contributed 
to  the  victory,  in  whidi  the  king  and  prince  became 
prisoners,  while  the  whole  power  of  the  realm  fell 
into  the  hands  ot  the  victors,  the  earl  procured  a 
grant  under  the  great  seal  of  all  the  lands  and  pos« 
sessions  lying  m  England,  of  Jotm  de  Warren,  Earl 
of  Surrey,  one  of  the  most  fkithfUl  adherents  of 
the  king,  excepting  the  castles  of  RIegate  and 
Lewes,  to  hold  during  the  pleasure  of  the  crown. 


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heaoon  aftar,  with 
c&torted  ftom  the  capdrm  moBardk  •  commiastaB 
•utlMiKisfaig  Stephen,  then  Bisaop  or  CHicaBSTBii, 
ahmem  Men^/brd,  Eabl  or  LaicBiTBB,  and  hiooadf, 
to  nomhMtB  nine  peraooa  of  **  tho  oMiat  faithfUI, 
pnident*  and  moat  atudioua  ot  the  public  weal," 
aa  w^  prdataa  aa  otfaen,  to  manage  all  things  ac> 
oofdlng  to  the  laws  and  customa  of  the  reafan,  until 
the  oonaultatlona  at  Lewes  should  terminate.  Be- 
coming Jealoua,howeTer,  of  the  power  of  LBicnernn, 
the  earl  soon  after  abandoned  the  baronial  standard, 
and  having  assisted  in  procuring  the  liberty  of  the 
king  and  prince,  commanded  the  second  brigade  of 
the  royal  army,  at  the  triumphant  battle  of  £▼■• 
9MAM,  whidi  restored  the  kingly  power  to  its  ftmner 
hiatre.  In  reward  of  these  eminant  services  lie 
leoalTed  a  ftiD  pardon  for  htanadf  and  hia  brother 
Thomaasof  all  prior  treasons,  and  the  custody  of 
the  caatle  oi  BcrgaTanny«  during  the  minority  of 
ilaad*  wifs  of  Humphrey  de  Bohun.  Hia  lordship 
Toered  again  tkowgh  in  his  allegiance,  and  he  does 
not  eppeer  to  have  been  sincerdy  reconciled  to  the 
royal  caaea^  until  U70,  in  which  yeer  demanding 
fcom  Prinee  Edward  repayment  of  the  expenaes  he 
had  Incurred  at  the  battle  of  Evesham,  with  livery  of 
aU  the  cMtles  and  lands  whidi  hia  ancestors  had 
poasessed,  and  those  demands  having  been  complied 
with,  he  thenceforward  became  a  good  and  loyal 
auhlect  of  the  crown.  Upon  the  death  of  King 
Henry,  the  Earl  of  Hertford  and  Gloucester  was 
one  of  the  lords  who  met  at  the  Nnw  Tsmplb  in 
LoxDOH,  to  procfadm  Paiwcn  Edwabd,  then  in 
the  Holy  Land,  successor  to  the  crown,  and  so  soon 
as  the  new  monarch  returned  to  England,  his  lord- 
ship was  the  first  to  entertain  him  and  his  whole 
retinue,  with  great  magnificence,  for  several  days 
at  bis  castle  of  Tonebruge.  In  the  lath  Edward  I., 
hia  lordship  divorced  hia  wife,  Alices  the  French 
princess,  and  in  consideration  of  her  illustrious 
birth,  granted  for  her  support  during  her  Ufe,  six 
exttealve  manors  and  parks,  and  he  married  in  a 
few  years  afterwarda  Joavb  op  Acaa,  daughter  of 
King  Edward  I.,  upon  which  occaaion  he  gave  up 
the  inheritance  of  all  his  castles  and  manors,  aa  wdl 
In  W^W^  aa  in  Wales,  to  his  royal  fiather-in-law, 
to  dispose  of  as  he  might  think  proper;  which 
manon,  Ac.,  were  cntdled  by  the  king  upon  the 
earf  a  iasue,  by  the  said  Joane,  and  in  defoult,  upon 
her  hcbs  and  aaslgns,  should  she  survive  his  lord- 
ship.   By  this  lady,  he  had  issue, 

G11.BKKT,  his  successor. 

Alianore,  m.  first,  to  Hugh  le  Despenoer,  and 
secondly,  to  William,  Lord  Zouche,  of  Morti- 


K.G.,  and  had  an  only  daughter  and 


Margaret,  »ii.   first,  to  Piers  Gavestone,  and 
secondly,  to  Hugh  de  Audley,  who  waa  even- 
tuaUy  cieeled  Earl  of  (jf  louoester. 
Elisabeth,  nib  first,  to  John  de  Burgh,  son  of 
Richard,  Earl  of  Ulster,  by  whom  she  had 
issue, 
Wtniam,  Eabi.  op  UtarBB,  who  m,  Maud, 
sister  of  Henry  Plantagenet,   Duke  of 
Lancaater,    and    left   a    daughter    and 
hrireas, 
Elisabbtr  db  Bubor,  who  m.  Lionel 
nmkigenet,  Oukk  op  Clabbncb, 


PHILIPPA       PLAlfTAOBNBf,      whO 

m.  Edioard  Mortimer,    Eabjl  op 

Mabcb,    and  throu^  her    the 

house  of  York  derived  its  dalm 

to  the  throne. 

His  lordship  d.  in  ISM,  and  the  Countess  Joaae^ 

surviving,  married  a  "  pbdn  esquire,"  called  Ralph 

de  Monthermer,    clandestinely,  without  the  king 

her  fkthet's  knowledge;  but  to  which  aUiance  he 

waa  reconciled  through  the  intercession  of  Anthony 

Beke,  the  criefarated  BUhop  of  Durham,  and  be» 

came  eventually  mudi  attached  to  his  new  soo-ln- 

law, 

RALPH  DE  MONTHERMER,  who,  during  the 
lifetime  of  the  Princess  Joene,  his  wilb,  enjoyed  the 
earldoms  of  Hbbtpord  akd  Gu>vcb8tbb,  and  was 
summoned  to  parliament  In  those  dignides,  ftom 
6th  February,  1S9D,  to  3rd  November,  1906,  Jure 
MMrie  J  but  Joane  dying  in  1907*  he  never  afterwarda 
waa  so  summoned  but  aa  a  barou,  under  the  desig- 
nation of  '*  Radulpho  de  Monthermer,"  (see  Mon- 
thermer).   We  now  return  to 

GILBERT  DE  CLARE,  whoauceaededhbflrther, 
and  at  the  deoeeae  of  his  mother,  Joane,  berame 
Eablop  Hbbtpobd  and  Eabi.  op  GitOucBaTsn. 
His  lordship  m.  Maud,  daughter  of  Richard  de 
Burgh,  Eabl  op  Ulstbb,  but  Iklling  at  the  battle 
of  Bahnockbubn  in  1313,  and  leaving  no  issue,  his 
large  possessions  devolved  upon  his  three  sisters  aa 
co-hetresses,  and  the  babloomb  op  OLOvcBerBli 
AND  Hbbtpobd  became  bxtinct. 
Abms.— Or.  three  chevrons  gu. 

CLARE— EARLS  OF  PEMBROKE. 

By  Creation,  anno  1138,  3rd  of  King  Staphm. 

Xiiicast. 

GILBERT  DE  CLARE,  aecond  son  of  Olltaart 
de  Tonebruge,  feudal  Lord  of  Clare,  and  brother  of 
Richard  da  Clare,  first  Earl  of  Hertford,  having 
obtained  ftom  King  Henry  I.  a  licence  to  enjoy  all 
the  lands  he  should  win  in  Wales,  marched  a  larfe 
force  into  Cardiganshire,  and  brought  the  whole 
country  under  subjection :  here  he  soon  afterwarda 
built  two  strong  castles ;  and  his  power  increasing, 
he  was  created  by  King  Stephen,  in  1138,  Eabl  op 
Pbmbbokb.  His  lordship  m.  Eliiabeth,  dster  of 
Waleran,  Eart  of  Mellent,  and  had  issue, 

Ricbabd,  sumamed  Stbonobow,    his  auc- 


Baldwln,  who  fell  at  the  battle  of  Linootai, 

flghtin^  under  the  banner  ot  King  Stephen. 
Basilia,  m.  to  Raymond,  son  of  William  Fita- 
Gerald  of  Ireland. 
The  earl  d.  in  1U9,  and  waa  «.  by  hia  elder  son, 

RICHARD  DE  CLARE,  (the  celebrated  Strong- 
bow,)  second  Earl  of  Pembrolie.  This  nobleman 
waa  one  of  the  witneases  to  the  solemn  agreement* 
made  in  1153,  between  Ktaig  Stephen  and  Henry, 
Duke  of  Normandy,  whereby  the  latter  waa  to  suc- 
ceed to  the  English  throne  upon  the  decease  of  the 
former.  But  the  leading  part  he  subsequently  had 
in  the  subjugation,  Ireland  procuring  him  a  con- 


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•picuoiu  place  in  hUtory.  we  •hall  relate  the  par- 
ticulars of  that  event  in  the  words  of  the  Monk  of 
Jorevaulx-~"The  realm  of  Ireland,"  lalth  he, 
"  being  miaerably  opprett  with  warr  by  the  many 
kings  there,  who  banded  against  each  other ;  one  of 
them  sent  his  son  into  England  to  procure  souldiers 
thence  for  his  aid.  Which  souldiers  for  the  hope  of 
gain,  giving  him  assistance,  were  so  well  reoompeao- 
ed,  as  that  they  rather  chose  to  stay  there  than  return 
into  England.  But  after  a  short  time  the  stoutest 
people  of  Ireland,  being  much  offended  with  that 
king  for  getting  aid  from  England,  the  English 
already  fixed  in  Ireland,  sent  for  more  from  hence, 
to  strengthen  their  party :  and  because  they  had  no 
chief,  they  made  choice  of  this  Earl  Richard,  (a 
•tout  and  valiant  man,)  to  be  their  captain,  who, 
yielding  to  their  request,  rigging  a  good  fleet,  pre- 
pared for  the  journey.  Whereupon  there  were 
•ome  who,  in  the  king's  behalf,  endeavoured  to  re- 
strain him.  Howbeit,  getting  on  shipboard,  and 
landing  safe,  he  assaulted  DubUn,  and  took  it ;  the 
tidings  whereof  so  terrified  those  that  lived  afar  off, 
that  they  were  content  to  be  at  peace  with  him;' 
and,  to  confirm  what  he  had  got,  gave  him  in  mar- 
riage, Eva»  daughter  of  Dermot  McMurrough,  one 
of  their  kings,  with  whom  he  had  in  dower  a  great 
part  of  the  realm.  Whereat  the  king  of  England 
growing  much  displeased,  as  well,  for  that  he  had 
not  only,  without  his  consent,  but  forbidden,  made 
ao  great  an  attempt,  seised  upon  all  his  patrimony 
here,  prohibiting  that  he  should  have  further 
aid ;  and  threatening  him  otherwise  very  sore,  com- 
pelled him  so  to  such  a  compliance,  as  that  he  got 
Dublin  from  him,  and  all  the  principal  places  he 
had  won,  requiring  him  to  be  content  with  the  rest, 
and  his  patrimony  in  England:  soon  after  raising  a 
great  army  the  king  sayled  thither  himself."  In  the 
end  the  earl  was  constituted  Justice  of  Ireland  by 
Kino  Hknry  II.,  and  having  founded  the  priory  of 
KiLMAiNRAM,  in  the  province  of  Leinster,  for 
knights'  hoepitalars,  **  This  emhient  person,"  Dug- 
dale  concludes,  *■  died  untimely  upon  the  nones  of 
April,  anno  1176,  and  was  bxiried  in  the  Chapter- 
House  at  Gloucester,  as  may  be  seen  by  this  inscrip- 
tion on  the  waUtherei  Hicjacet  Ricabdub  Strono- 
Bow,  Alius  GiLBBBTi  Comitis  de  Pkmbrokb." 
Leaving  issue,  as  some  say,  one  son,  scarce  three 
years  old,  to  be  his  heir.  But  by  others  it  is  re- 
ported that,  being  by  treachery  abused  and  wounded, 
he  departed  this  life  the  fifth  year  after  his  acqui- 
sition of  the  province  of  Leinster,  and  that  he  was 
buried  at  Dublin,  leaving  issue  one  only  daughter 
and  heiress, 

Ibabbl,  who  became  in  ward  to  King  Henry  11. 
and  remained  imder  the  royal  guardianship 
for  the  space  of  fourteen  years,  when  she  was 
given  in  marriage  to  Wili.iam  Mabsmal, 
who  thereupon  became  Eabl  or  Pbmbbokb 
'  (see  Marshal,  Earl  of  Pembroke). 
ABM8.>-Or.  t^ree  chevrons,  gu.  a  label  of -five 

Note.— Hackbt,  in  his  collection  of  epitaphs, 
gives  the  following  from  the  tomb  of  Stromobow, 
at  Christ's  Church,  Dublin:— 
■'  Nate  ingrate,  mihi  pugnauti  tcrga  dedisti, 
"  Non  mihi,  sed  gcntl,  regno  quoque  terga  dedistL" 


This  alludes,  says  Banks,  to  a  story  that  Strong- 
bow's  only  son,  a  youth  about  seventpso,  frighted 
with  the  Bttmtaers  and  ululations  of  the  Irish  In  a 
great  battle,  ran  awayi  hut  being  affcervards  in- 
formed of  hb  father's  victory,  he  joyfully  roturoed 
to  coogratulate  hinu  But  the  severe  general  having 
Bnt  upbraided  him  with  his  cowardice*  camdt  him 
to  be  immediately  eatecuted  by  cutting  off  in  the 
middle  with  a  sword.  Such,  in  former  times*  was 
the  detesUtioD  of  dastardliness  I !  I 

CLARE^BARON  GLARE. 

By  Writ  of  Sununons,  dated  Sfith  October,  \9U$, 
3  Edward  IL 

Xineasc. 

RICHARD  DE  CLARE  was  stuBmened  feo  per- 
liament  as  a  babon  on  the  Mth  October,  1909,  but 
never  afterwards.  Of  this  nobleman  nothing  fiirther 
is  known,  and  Dugdale  makes  no  mentiou  of  him 
ataU. 


GLAV£RING -^  BARONS    CLAVER* 

INO. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  Snd  November,  1S95, 
23  Edward  I. 

EUSTACE  FITZ-JOHN,  (nephew  and  heir  of 
Serio  de  Burgh,  the  founder  of  Knaresborough  Cas- 
tle,) one  of  the  most  powerful  of  the  northern  ba- 
rons, and  a  great  favorite  with  King  Henry  I.,  mar- 
ried Beatrice,  only  daughter  and  heiress  of  Yvo 
de  Vesd,  Lord  of  Alnwick  in  Northumberland, 
and  dS  Halton  in  Yorkshire*  by  whom  he  had 
issue, 

William,  firom  whom  the  great  baronial  family 

of  De  Vesd  sprang. 
Oefibry. 
He  m.  secondly,  Agnes,  daughter  and  heiress  of 
William  Fits-Nigel,  Babon  or  Halton,  and  con- 
stable of  Chester,  and  with  her  acquired  those  dig- 
nities.   By  this  lady  he  had  a  son.  his  successor, 

RICHARD  FITZ-EUSTACE,  Baron  of  Halton, 
and  constable  of  Chester.  This  Richard  m.  AI- 
hrada  Li»ures,  half  sister  of  Robert  de  Lacy,  and 
had  issue, 

John,  who  assumed  the  surname  of  Lacy,  and 

succeeded  his  father  as  constable  of  Chester. 

Heii.  85th  Henry  IL,  leaving  one  son, 

Henry  de  Lacy,  whose  ohly  daughter  m.  the 

Earl  of  Ijaneaster. 

Robert,  the  hoqiitaller,  that  is  of  the  hospital  of 

Su  John  of  Jerusalem,  in  England. 
Roger* 
The  youngest  son, 

ROGER  FITZ-RICHARD,  who  was  feudal  Ba- 
ron «f  Warkwortb,  in  the  county  of  Northumber- 
land, a  lordship  granted  to  him  by  King  Henry  IL, 
m.  Alienor,  daughter  and  co-beir  of  Henry  of 
Essex,  Baron  of  Raleigh,  and  was  «.  by  his  only 
son. 
ROBERT   FITZ-ROGER,   who   m.    Margaret, 


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oBlf  Child  and  htknm  of  WUItem  d*  Cl^ffMy.  by 
wliom  he  acquirtd  th«  tarony  of  Hob«fo&p,  In  the 
county  of  Norfolk,  and  had  an  only  ton*  Jobw. 
This  Robert  obtained  a  eonfinnation  upon  the  acoat- 
sion  of  King  John,  of  the  castle  and  manor  of  Wabk- 
woKTHj  of  the  manor  of  CiiATaaiiro  in  Eoex,  and 
of  the  manor  of  £uiib»  in  Buckinghamshire*  to 
bold  by  the  service  of  one  knight's  fee  each.  And 
in  that  monarch's  reign  he  served  the  office  of 
sheriff  for  Northumberland,  Norfolk,  and  Suffolk  i 
tag  each  county  thrice.  In  the  conflict  betweto 
John  end  the  Uvons  this  powerful  person,  although 
faodebted  to  the  crown  for  immense  territorial  poa- 
aessions,  took  part  in  the  first  instatwe  with  the 
latter,  but  under  the  apprehension  of  confiscation, 
and  the  other  visitations  of  royal  vengeance,  he  was 
Tery  soon  induced  to  return  to  hisaUegianca.  He  d. 
in  U40,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  FITZ.ROBERT.  to  whom  King  John, 
in  the  14th  year  of  his  reign,  ratified  the  grant  of 
the  castle  and  manor  of  Wakkwohts,  made  by 
King  Henry  IL,  to  his  grandfather,  Roger  Fita- 
Richard,  as  also  of  the  manor  of  Clavkriwo.  In 
three  years  afterwards  he  was  appointed  Joint  gover- 
wor  with  John  Marshall,  of  the  castles  of  Norwich 
and  Oxford;  but  joining  in  the  insurrection  of  the 
barons,  and  being  chosen  one  of  the  twenty-five 
appointed  to  exercise  the  regal  authority,  his  lands 
were  seised  by  the  king,  and  a  part  confiscated. 
Retoraing,  however,  to  his  allagiance  in  the  next 
reign,  his  castles  and  estates  were  restored  to  him. 
In  the  9th  of  Henry  III.  he  was  constituted  sherilT 
of  Northumberland,  and  governor  of  the  town  of 
NewcBstIe-upoD>Tyiie;  end  in  the  ISth  of  the  same 
mooaccb  he  was  one  of  the  great  northern  barons 
iffpointed  by  special  command  of  the  king  to  wait 
upon  Alexander,  king  of  Scotland,  at  Berwick-upon- 
Tweed,  and  to  conduct  that  prince  to  York,  there 
to  meet  the  king  of  England,  "  to  treat  upon  car- 
tain  afiixs  of  great  importance."  His  lordship  m. 
Ada  de  Baliol,  and  had  issuer 

Rooan,  his  successor. 

Hugh,  sumamed  "  De  Eure,"  from  whom  the 
Lords  Eure  descended. 

Robert,  ancestor  of  the  Eures  of  Azholm,  in 
Lincolnshire^ 
He  d.  m  I840>  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son. 

ROGER  FITZ^OHN,  feudal  Baron  of  Wark- 
worth  and  Clavaring,  who  d.  hi  U49,  and  was  «.  by 
bisson, 

ROBERT  FITZ-ROGER,  then  Ux  infancy, 
whose  tuitkm  was  committed  to  William  de  Va- 
lence, the  king's  brother,  although  Ada  de  BaUol, 
the  grandmother  of  the  child,  oflteed  two  thousand 
two  hundred  marks  for  the  wardship.  This  feudal 
lord  became  eventually  so  eminent  in  the  Scottish 
wars  of  King  Edward  I.,  particularly  in  the  battle 
of  Faukirk,  and  other  memorable  conflicu,  that  he 
was  suannoned  to  parliament  as  a  babok  on  the  and 
November,  U9S,  and  subsequently  assisted  with  his 
son  Joaif,  who  assumed,  by  the  king's  appoint* 
ment,  the  tMinamt  of  CLATaaiifo,  at  the  cala* 
brated  siege  ef  Kabbi^avbrok.  Hie  lordship  m, 
Maigarac  de  la  9ouch«^  and  had  lifua,  seven  sona, 
via,— 

JoHjr,  hie  sueoevor. 


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Edmund, 
Alexander, 

Robert,        ^  all  died  «.  p. 
Henry, 
Roger, 

Alan  (Sir)  m.  Isabella,  ddeat  daughter  and  co- 
heir of  William  Riddell;  and  from  this  union 
descended  the  Baroneu  CiJiTBBiwa  of  Axp 
well,  in  the  county  of  Durham,  the  Cla. 
verings  of  Callely,  in  Northumberland,  the 
Claverings  of  Leardiild,  the  Claverlngs  of 
Tilmouth,  in  the  coimCy  of  Durham,  and 
other  eminent  families. 
He  d.  about  the  year  1311,  and  was  s.  by  his  eldest 
son, 

JOHN  DE  CLAVERINO,  eeeond  banm,  who 
had  summons  to  parliament  from  the  10th  April, 
1299,  to  the  Mth  November,  1331.  This  nobleifian 
had  distinguished  himself,  in  his  father's  lifetime, 
in  the  French  and  Scotch  wars,  and  was  taken  pri- 
soner at  the  battle  of  Strivelyn.  His  kndship  m. 
Hawyse,  daughter  of  Robert  da  Tibetot,  end  had  an 
only  daughter. 

Eve,  who  m.  first,  Ralph  de  Uflbid,  and 
secondly,  Thomas  de  Audley,  by  both  of 
whom  she  had  issuer 
Lord  Clavering,  hmg  before  his  death,  being  doubt- 
ful of  having  male  issuer  made  a  feofftaient  to 
Stephen  de  Tralford,  whereby  he  vested  the  inheri- 
tance of  his  castle  and  manor  of  WABKwt>RTH  in 
the  said  Stephen,  with  other  manors,  for  the  intent 
that  he  should  reconvey  them  to  his  lordship  for 
life,  with  remainder  to  the  king  and  his  heirs.  In 
consideration  whereof  the  king  granted  unto  the 
baron  and  his  heirs  divers  lands  and  hereditaments, 
then  valued  at  £400.  per  annum.  His  lordship  d. 
at  his  manor  of  Aynho,  in  Nortiiamptonshire,  in 
1338,  when  thoee  great  estates,  falling  to  the  crown, 
were  divided  thua— 

Wabkwortb,  and  the  manors  in  Northum- 
berland, granted  to  Henry  de  Perd,  are  still 
part  of  the  possessions  of  the  ducal  fomily  of 
Northumberland. 
Aymro  anb  Horsvord,  in  Northamptonshire 
and  Norfolk,  to  Ralph  de  Neville,  end  his 
heirs. 
Clatbrino,  in  Essex,  to  the  deceased  lord's 
brother  Edmund,  for  Ufe,  and  in  remainder  to 
the  above  Ralph  Neville  end  his  hdrs. 
In  this  very  ui^ustifiable  manner  were  the  descend- 
ants of  his  lordship's  youngest  brother  deprived  of 
their  fUr  inharitancsk    At  the  decease  of  Lord  CU- 
veriBg  the  BAaoB  v  should  have  devolved  upon  his 
daughter,  Etb,  and  it  is  now  probably  in  abby- 
ANCB  amongst  that  lady's  descendants. 
Anna     Quarterly  or.  and  gu.  over  all  a  bend  sa. 

CLIFTORD  —  EARLS  OF  CUMBER- 
LAND. 

Created  by  Letters  Patent,  dated  18th  June,  1595, 
17  Henry  YIII. 


XincBgc. 


The  first  of  this  ancient  family  of  whom  Doe- 
X>ALB  takes  notice,  was  called  Pavcv*   who  is 

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repreaenled  u  leaving  three  Mms,  Welter  and  Dru, 
considerable  landed  proprietors  in  the  Conqueror's 
survey,  and 

RICHARD  FITZPONCE,  a  personage  of  rank 
in  the  time  of  |f<tBMii  L,  and  a  liberal  benefttctor 
to  the  church ;  thi^>Richard  left  also  three  sons, 
of  whom  the  second.  Waiter,  having  obtained  Clif- 
r3RD  Castie,  in  Herefordshire,  with  his  wife,  Mar- 
garet, daughter  of  Ralph  de  Toney,  a  descendant 
from  William  Fitaoabom,  Earl  of  Herefbrd,  by 
whom  the  castle  was  erected,  assumed  thence  hii 
surname,  and  became 

WALTER  DE  CLIFFORD.    This  feudal  lord, 
who  was  in  influence  in  the  reign  of  Henry  II.,  left 
at  his  decease,  two  sons  and  two  daughters,  via. — 
Waltbr,  his  heir. 
Richard,  from  whom  the  Giffbrd*  of  Framp- 

ton,  in  Glouoeatershire,  descended. 
Rosamond,  so  wdl  known  as  "  Faik  Roba- 
MOND,"  the  celebrated  mUtreu  of  Henry  II., 
by  whom  she  was  mother  of  William  Lon- 
gespee,  Earl  of  Salisbury.    For  this  lady,  the 
monarch  caused  to  be  constructed  the  famous 
labyrinth  at  Woodstock;   and  he  is  said  to 
tyive  presented  her  with  a  cabinet  of  such 
'  exquisite    workmanship,    that    the  devices 
upon  it,  zefiresenting  champions  in  combat, 
moving  cattle,  flying  Urds,  and  swimming 
flshes,  seemed  as  though  they  were,  in  reality, 
animated.    At  her  decease.  Fair  RosAMOif  d 
was  interred  In  the  Chapter  House  of  the 
nunnery,  at    Oodstow,   and    the  ftdlowing 
epitaph  placed  upon  her  tomb : — 
*■  Hie  jaoet  in  Tumb&  Rosa  mundi,  non 
Rosa  MimoA, 
Non  redolet,  sed  olet,  quae  redol^re  solet." 
Another  account,  however,  states,  that  her 
memory  and  remains  were  treated  with  oblo- 
quy, after  the  death  of  her  royal  protector. 
In  1191,  it  is  said  that  Hugh,  Bislu^  of  Lin- 
coln, being  at  Godstow,  upon  his  visitation, 
observing  in  the  church,  near  the  high  altar, 
a  herse  covered  with  silk,  and  surrounded 
by  numerous  burning  lights,   demanded  an 
explanation,  and  being  informed  by  the  nuns, 
that  it  contained  the  remains  of  '*  Fair  Rosa- 
mond," whom  King  Henry  so  dearly  loved, 
and  for  whose  sake  he  had  been  a  munifloent 
benefactor  to  the  house,  having  conferred 
large  revenues  for  the  maintenance  of  those 
lights,    the   indignant    prelate   exclaimed— 
*'  Hence  with  her !  the  king's  allbctions  were 
unlawful,  and  adulteroua— remove  her  from 
this  sacred  ediflce,  and  bury  her  with  other 
common  people— that  religion  be  not  vilifled, 
and  that  other  women  be  deterred  from  such 
abandoned  courses  <" 
Lucia,  m.  flrat,  to  Hugh  de  Say,  of  Richard's 
Castle,   and  secondly,   to   Bartholomew   de 
Mortimer. 
Walter  de  Cliflbrd  waa  «.  by  his  elder  son, 

WALTER  DE  CLIFFORD,  who  m.  Agnes, 
only  daughter  and  heiress  of  Roger  de  Cundi,  Lord 
of  the  manors  of  Covenby  and  Glentham,  in  the 
county  of  Lincoln,  by  Alice  his  wifie,  Lady  of  Hom- 
castle,  daughter  and  heizeas  of  WUUam  de  Cheney, 
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lord  of  those  manors  in  the  Conqueror's  time,  by 
whom  he  had  issue,  Waltsr,  Roger,  Giles,  and 
Richard.  He  was  sheriff  of  Herefbrdshire,  in  the 
1st,  8th,  9th,  and  17th  John,  and  dying  in  the 
7th  of  Henry  III.,  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

WALTER  DE  CLIFFORD.  This  feudal  lord 
hdd  a  very  high  place  in  the  estimation  of  King 
Henry  III.,  until  the  rebellion  of  Richard  Mares-  \ 

chal.  Earl  of  Pembroke,  when,  taking  part  with 
that  nobleman,  his  lands  were  conflacated  and  him- 
self outlawed.  The  royal  displeasure  did  not,  how- 
ever, endure  any  length  of  time,  for  we  And  him 
soon  afterwards  restored  to  his  castle  of  Clifford, 
and  during  the  many  subsequent  years  ai  the  same 
reign,  eqjoying  the  full  confldence  of  the  crown. 
At  the  coronation  of  Queen  Eleanor,  consort  of 
King  Henry,  he  claimed  with  the  other  barons- 
marchers,  as  Jim  Maretus,  to  carry  the  canopy, 
which  belonged  to  the  barons  of  the  Cinque  Ports. 
This  Walter  de  Clifford  in.  Margaret,  daughter  of 
Lewelyn,  Prince  of  Wales,  and  widow  of  John  de  1 

Braose,  by  whom  hehad  an  only  daughter  and  heiress, 
Maud,  who   m.  first,  William   de  Longespee, 
Earl  of  Salisbury,  and  secondly.  Sir  John 
Giflbrd  of  Brimsfleld. 
Walter  de  Clifford  (L  in  the  48th  Henry  III.,  when 
the  continuation  of  the  male  line  of  the  fkmily  de* 
volved  upon  his  nephew, 

ROGER  DE  CLIFFORD,  (son  of  Roger  de 
Clifford,  by  Sibill,  daughter  and  co-heiress  of  Robert 
de  Ewyas,  a  great  Baron  of  Herefordshire,  and 
widow  of  Robert,  Lord  Tregos,)  who,  for  his  staunch 
adherence  to  Henry  III.,  was  appointed,  after  the 
victory  of  Evesham,  justice  of  all  the  king's  forests 
south  of  Trent,  and  obtained  a  grant  at  the  same 
time,  of  the  lordship  of  Kingsbury,  in  the  county 
of  Warwick,  forfeited  by  Sir  Ralph  de  Bracebrigge, 
Knt.  He  was  afterwards  firequently  employed 
against  the  Welsh,  and  lost  his  eldest  son,  Roger, 
who  had  married  Isabel,  daughter  and  co-heiress  of  | 

Robert  de  Vipount,  Lord  and  hereditary  Sheriff  of  ^ 

Westmoreland,  in  one  of  those  conflicts.  Roger 
de  Clifford  d,  in  14th  of  Edward  I.,  and  was  s.  by 
(the  son  of  his  deceased  son  above  mentioned) 
his  grandson, 

ROBERT  DE  CLIFFORD,  who  was  summoned 
to  parliament  as  a  baron,  from  the  S9th  December, 
1999,  (28th  Edward  I.,)  to  96th  November,  1313, 
(7th  Edward  II.).    This  nobleman  participated  in  the 
Scottish  wars  of  King  Edward  I.,  and  had  a  principal 
command  in  the  English  army.    He  fell  in  the  fol- 
lowing reign,  at  the  battle  of  Bannockbum.    His  ^, 
lordship  m.    Maud,   daughter   and    co-heiress  cfj^^*  i 
mirtiaift  de  Clare,  Bail  Of  OlUUwette^  and  was  «.   Sf^^ 
by  his  son,  ' 

ROGER  DE  CLLFEPRD.  seccmd  h«ran,  Arom . 
whom  we  pass  to    0«Vf^  W  Pu'^iUyf  ^  ^^ftjC^n^- 
HENRY  DE  CLIFFORD,  the  eleventh  baron{      /^ 
who  was  created  by  letters  patent,  dated  18th  June,      '^ 
IfiBS,  Earl  or  Cvmbrrland,  and  dignified  with      '^ 
the  Garter,  in  1538.    This  nobleman  obtained  large 
grants  out  of  the  monastic  spoliations,  and  was 
entrusted  with  a  principal  command  in  the  army 
which  invaded  Scotland  in  the  34th  of  Henry  VIII. 
His  lordship  m.  first,  Margaret,  daughter  of  George 
Talbot,  Earl  of  Shrewsbury,  by  whom  he  had  no 


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iMue;  and  wteoodXj,  MaryMnat.  drafhUrof  Henry 
9mKj,  Earl  of  Northumberland,  toy  whom  he  had* 
HsNRT,  Lord  Cliflbrd,  hiaiuooeHor. 
Ingeram  (Sir)*  who  m.  Auie,  daughter  and  lole 
hciKH  of  Sir  Henry  RatcUIT,  hut  dying  «.  p, 
left  Ua  yio'peiiy  to  hia  nephew,  George,  Earl 
of  Cumberland. 
Catherine,  m.  firtt,  to  John,  Lord  Scroope,  of 
BoItOD,  and  aeoondly,  to  Sir  Richard  Chol- 
mdey,  by  the  latter  of  whom  she  had 
Sib  Hsnay   Cbolmonblky,  of  Grand* 
mount  and  Raxby,  who  had 
RxcHARO  (Sir),  Sheriff  of  YorksMre,  in 
the  last  year  of  King  James  1.,  whose 
son, 
HvoH,  was  created  a  baronet,  lOth 
August,  1641,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 
Sia  William,  second  baronet, 
who  left  daughters  only,  hia 
co-heirs,  the  eldest  of  whom, 
Eliaabeth,  m.   Sir  Edward 
Daring,  of  Surenden. 
Maud,  m.  to  John,  Lord  Coniers  of  Hornby,  in 

the  county  of  York. 
Elisabeth,  «.  to  Sir  Christopher  Metcalf,  of 

Napper,  Yorkshire. 
Jane^  m.  to  Sir  John  Huddlestone,  of  MiUum 
Castle,  in  the  county  of  Cumberland. 
By  the  last  will  and  testament  of  this  nobleman, 
he  devised,  amongst  other  bequests,  three  hundred 
marks  to  be  expended  upon  his  funeral;  to  his 
daughter,  Eliaabeth,  £1000,  if  she  should  marry  an 
rl,  or  an  earl's  son ;  if  a  baron,  a  thousand 
if  a  knight,  eight  hundred  marks.  His 
lOKdshlp  d.  in  the  34th  of  Henry  VIIL,  and  was«.  by 
Madder  son, 

HENRY  CLIFFORD,  second  earl,  who  had  been 
made  a  Kni^t  of  the  Bath  at  the  coronation  of  Queen 
Anne  Boleyne.  This  nobleman  m.  first,  Eleanor, 
daughter  and  co-heiress  of  Charles  Brandon,  Duke 
of  SuflUk,  and  nieceof  King  Henry  VIIL,  by  whom 
he  had  an  only  surrlving  child, 

Margaret,  m.  to  Henry  Stanley,  then  Lord 
Strange,  and  afterwards  Earl  of  Derby. 
His  lordship  m.  secondly,  Anne,  daughter  of  Wil- 
Uam  Lord  Daoes,  ot  Gillealand,  by  whom  he  had 
surriring  issue, 

GaoBOB,  Lord  Cliflbrd. 
Francis. 

Frances,  m.  to  PhiUp  Lord  Wharton. 
The  earl  d.  8th  January,  IMP,  and  was  «.  by  his 


GEORGE  CLIFFORD,  third  earl,  then  in  hia 
eleventh  year,  who  was  phused  by  Queen  Eliaabeth 
mder  the  guardianship  of  Francis  Russell,  second 
Earl  of  Bedlbcd,  whose  third  daughter.  Lady  Mar- 
garet Russell,  he  eventually  espoused,  and  had  an 
only  surviving  dau^ter, 

Awira,  boni  30th  January,  1758,  who  m.  first, 
Richard  Sackville,  second  Earl  of  Dotset, 
by  whom  she  had  three  sons,  who  died 
young,  and  two  daughters,  vis. 

Maboabbt,  m.  to  John  Tufton,  second 

Earl  of  Thanet. 
leABBL,  fN*  to  James,  Earl  of  Northamp- 
ton. 


The  CouBteas  of  Doner  m.  secondly,  Philip 
Herbert,  Earl  of  Pembroke  and  Montgo- 
mery, K.O.,  and  lord-chambe»liin  of  the 
household ;   but  had  no  issue.  .  This  bkiy 
claimed  the  barony  of  Cliflbrd  in  I6S6,  and 
the  hearing  of  her  petition  was  appointed  for 
the  next  session ;  but  no  ftirther  proceedings 
ensued.    Her  ladyship  d.  in  I9f^    ^m  de- 
scendant, however,  Thomas,  sixth  Barl  of 
Thanet,  preferred  his  claim  to  the  barony, 
and  had  it  acknowledged  by  the  house  of 
tords  in  1691 1    but  the  dignity  Ml  into 
abeyance  at  his  decease,  in  17B9,  between  his 
daughters  and  co-heirs,  and  so  .remained 
until  terminated  by  the  crown,  in  1734,  in 
£svour  of  the  third  daughter,  Margaret, 
Countesy  of  Leicester,  at  whose  deceese,  in 
1775,  it  again  became  suspended,  until  again 
revived  in  fkvour  of  Eowabd  Southwbll, 
Esq.,   who  became  Lord  de  Cliilbrd,  and 
whose  son  is  the  present  lord. 
Earl  George  was  educated  at  the  university  of  Cam- 
bridge, and  attaching  himself  to  the  study  of  ma- 
thematics, imbibed  so  decided  a  paasion  for  naviga- 
tion, that  he  became  soon  afterwards  eminent  as  a 
naval  commander,  having  undertaken  at  his  own 
expense  several  voyages  for  the  public  service;  but 
^att  and  a  passion  for  tournaments,  horse-racing, 
and  similar  pursuits,  made  such  inroads  upon  his 
fortune,  that  he  was  said  to  have  wasted  more  of  his 
estate  than  any  one  of  his  ancestors.    His  lordship 
was  elected  a  Knight  of  the  Garter  in  lOBt.    Hia 
character  is  thus  depicted   in  the  MS.  memoirs 
of  his  celebrated  daughter,  Anne,  Countess  of  Dor- 
set and  Pembroke: — *'  He  was  endowed  with  many 
perfections  of  nature  befitting  so  noble  a  personage, 
as  an  excellent  quickneas  of  wit  and  apprehenaion, 
an  active  and  strong  body,  and  an  aflhUedispocition 
and  bdiaviour.    But  as  good  natures,  through  hu- 
man frailty,  are  oftentimes  misled,  so  he  Ml  to  love 
a  lady  of  quality,  whidi  did,  by  degrees,  draw  and 
aliene  his  love  and  aflbctlona  ftrom  his  so  virtuous 
and  well-deserving  wife;  it  being  the  cause  of  many 
discontents  between  them  for  many  years  together, 
so  that  at  length,  for  two  or  three  yean  beft»re  hia 
death,  they  parted  houses,  to  her  extreme  grief  and 
sorrow,  and  also  to  his  extrsme  sorrow  at  the  time 
of  his  death ;  for  he  died  a  very  penitent  man.    He 
died  in  the  duchy-house,  called  the  Savoy,  30th  Oc- 
tober, 1600,  aged  forty-seven  years,  two  months,  and 
twenty-two  days,  being  bom  at  Brougham  Caatle, 
8th  August,  1068." 

His  lordship  leaving  no  male  isaue,  the  barony  re- 
mained for  some  yean  in  abeyance,  but  eventually 
devolved  upon  the  descendants  his  daughten,  by 
one  of  whom  it  is  at  present  inherited,  while  the 
earldom  passed  to  his  only  brother, 

FRANCIS   CLIFFORD,   fourth  earl,  who  m. 
Grissel,  daughter  of  Mr.  Thomaa  Hughes,  of  Ux- 
bridge,  and  widow  of  Edward  Nevill,  Lord  Berga- 
venny,  by  whom  he  had  surviving  issue, 
Henry,  Lord  Cliflbrd. 

Margaret,  m.  to  Sir  Thomas  Wentworth,  ai 
Wentworth-Woodhouse,  in  the  county  of 
York,  afterwards  Earl  of  jStraflbrd. 
Frances,  m.  to  Sir  Gervase  Clifton,  Bart,  of 

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CUftOBf  in  tiM  county  of  Notdnghun,  (his 

leoond  wife). 
Of  this  nOUMnan,  the  Countan  of  Donet  nys, 
"  He  was  an  honourable  gentleman*  and  of  a  good, 
noble^  sweet,  and  oourteoua  natural  and  soine 
twenty  yean  before  the  Earl  PrancU  died*  hit  son, 
Henry  Lord  CliUbrd,  did  absolutely  govern  both  him 
and  tds  estate,  be  being  then  forty-nine  yean  of  age, 
wanting  forty  days,  at  the  time  of  his  fkther's  do- 
cease."  His  lordship  d.  in  1641,  and  waa  «.  by  hU 
son, 

HENRY  CLIFFORD,  llfth  earl,  who  in.  Frances, 
only  daughter  of  Robert  Cecil,  Earl  of  Salisbury, 
and  had  an  only  surviving  daughter  and  heiress, 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Richard,  second  Earl  of  Cork, 

and  flnt  Earl  of  Burlington,  who  waa  created 

Banm   Cl{jffbrdt  nf  Lanttborough,    in    the 

cettfKy  qf  York,  in  1644. 
The  earl  died  in  the  year  previously,  when  the  kari/- 
soM  or  CuMBBULAiTD  bccame  nxrilrcT.  Upon 
his  lordship's  decease,  all  the  castles  and  lands 
which  he  had  inherited  through  his  uncle,  George, 
the  fourth  earl,  reverted,  by  a  deed  of  entail,  to 
thAt  nobleman's  daughter,  Anne,  Couwrsaa  or 

DORSBT  AND  PBMBIMKB. 

Arms.— Checqute  or.  and  aa.  a  fesse  gules. 

NoTB. — '*  Beneath  the  altar.  In  Skepton  church," 
says  Whittaknr,  in  his  History  of  the  Deanery  of 
Craven,  in  the  county  of  York,  '*  is  the  vault  of  the 
ClURyrds,  the  place  of  their  Interment  from  the  dis- 
solution of  Bolton  priory  to  the  death  of  the  last 
Earl  of  Cumberland,  which,  after  having  been  closed 
many  yean,  I  obtained  permission  to  examine, 
S9th  March,  180&  The  original  vault,  intended  only 
for  the  first  earl  and  his  second  lady,  had  undergone 
two  enlargements;  and  the  bodies  having  been  de- 
posited in  chronological  order,  flnt,  and  imme- 
dlatdy  under  his  tomb,  lay  Henry,  the  flnt  earl, 
whose  lead  ooffln  was  much  corroded,  and  exhi- 
Uted  the  skeleton  of  a  short  and  very  stout  man, 
with  a  long  head  of  flaxen  hair,  gathered  in  a  knot 
behind  the  skuU.  The  coflin  had  been  ckiady 
fitted  to  the  body,  and  proved  him  to  have  been 
very  corpulent  as  well  as  muscular.  Next  lay  the 
remains  of  Margaret  Percy,  his  second  wife,  whose 
coflin  was  still  entirei  She  must  have  been  a  slen- 
der and  diminutive  woman.  The  third  was  « the 
lady  EUenor's  grave,'  whose  coflin  was  much  de- 
cayed, and  exhibited  the  skeielon  (as  might  be  ex- 
pected in  a  daughter  of  Charles  Brandon,  and  the 
sister  of  Henry  VIIL),  of  a  tall  and  large-limbed 
female.  At  her  right  hand  was  Henry,  the  second 
earl,  a  very  tall  and  rather  slender  man,  whose  then 
envelope  of  lead  really  resembled  a  winding-sheet, 
and  folded  like  a  coarse  drapery  round  the  Hmbs. 
The  head  was  beaten  to  the  left  side;  something  of 
the  shape  of  the  fkoe  might  have  been  distinguished, 
and  a  long  prominent  nose  was  very  consplcuons. 
Next  lay  Francis,  Lord  Cliflbrd,  a  boy.  At  hie  right 
hand  was  his  fisther,  George,  the  third  earl,  whose 
lead  coffin  preds^  rewmbfcd  the  outer  case  of  an 
Egyptian  mummy,  with  a  rude  face,  and  something 
nke  a  female  mamm*  cast  upon  it,  as  were  also  the 
figures  and  letten,  '  O.  C.  1600.'  The  body  was 
closely  wrapped  in  ten  folds  of  eoane  cere  cloth, 
which,  being  removed,  exhibited  the  face  so  entire, 
1£8 


(only  turned  to  a  copper  colour,)  as  plainly  to  le- 
semUe  his  portraits.  All  Ms  painten,  however,  had 
the  complaisance  to  omit  three  huge  warts  upon  the 
left  cheek.  The  ooffln  of  Earl  Frands,  who  lay 
next  to  his  brother,  was  of  the  modern  shape,  and 
akme  had  an  outer  shell  of  wood,  whidi  wss  covered 
with  leather.  The  soldering  had  decayed,  and  no- 
thing appeared  but  the  ordiuury  skdeton  of  a  tall 
man.  This  earl  had  never  been  embalmed.  Over 
him  lay  another  coflhi,  much  decayed,  which  I  sus- 
pect had  contained  Um  Lady  Anne  Dacre,  his  mo- 
ther. Last  lay  Henry,  the  fifth  earl,  in  a  coffin  of 
the  same  form  with  that  of  his  fisther.  Lead  not 
allowtng  at  absorption,  nor  s  narrow  vault  (rfmudi 
evaporation,  a  good  deal  of  moisture  remained  in 
the  coffin,  and  some  hair  about  the  skulL  Both 
these  coffins  had  been  cut  open.  Room  might  have 
been  found  for  another  slender  body;  but  the 
Countess  of  Pembroke  chose  to  be  buried  at  Ap- 
pleby, partly,  perhajw,  because  her  beloved  mother 
was  interred  there,  and  partly  that  she  might  not 
mingle  her  ashes  with  rivals  and  enemies.** 

CLIFTON— BAKONS  CLIFTON. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  1st  December,  197^, 
00  Edward  IIL 

XiiicasB. 

ROGER  DB  CLIFTON,  Esquire  to  Thomas, 
Lord  Catli^i,  m.  Margerie,  the  sister  of  that  no- 
bleman, and  left  issue, 

ADAM  DE  CLIFTON,  who,  in  his  nfaith  year, 
inherited  the  great  esutes  of  his  unde.  Lord  CaiUI, 
which  included  those  of  the  family  of  Tatshall,  de> 
rived  by  that  nobleman  ftom  his  mother,  Emme, 
one  of  the  co-hdn  of  Robert  de  TatshalL  This 
Adam  had  a  son,  CuN8TAirri2VB,  who  predeceased 
him,  leaving  a  son,  the  said  Adam*8  successor, 

JOHN  DE  CLIFTON,  who  was  summoned  to 
parliament  as  a  baron  from  1st  Deeember,  1376*  to 
SBOt  July,  laM.  His  tordship  <i.  hi  the  latter  year 
at  Rhodes  possessed,  amongst  other  lands,  of  the 
castle  of  Bokenham,  and  manor  of  Babhigle,  In  the 
county  of  Norfolk ;  which  castle  he  held  by  per- 
forming the  office  of  butler  at  the  king's  coran*- 
tlon.    He  was  «.  by  his  son, 

CONSTANTINE  DE  CLIFTON,  second 
baron,  summoned  to  parliament  ftom  19th  No- 
vember, laSS,  to  the  flOth  of  the  lame  month  in 
the  next  year.  This  nobleman  rf.  in  1900,  leaving 
issue, 

Jon  IT  (Sir). 

EHsabeth,  m.  to  Sir  John  Knevit,  Knt.,  and 
had  issue, 

JOR?r  KlTBVIT. 

His  lordship's  son  and  hdr, 

SIR  JOHN  DE  CLIFTON,  third  baron,  but- 
never  summoned  to  parliament*  m.  Joane*  daughter 
said  co>4ieir  of  Sir  Edward  Thorpe,  by  whom  he  had 
a  daughter  and  heiress, 

Margaret,  who  m.  Sir  Andrew  Ogsrd,  but  tf. 
without  issue 

His  lordahlp  A ,  and  the  Barowt  of  Cufton 

became  vested  at  the  decease  of  Lady  Ogard,  in 


CLI 


COB 


JoBN  Kjtbtit,  amongst  whoM 
preMDUtivw  it  u  now  in  AnnvAMcn. 
Amu.— Clieqao  or.  and  gu.  a  ItmA 


denandanti  mmI  re* 


CLINTON  —  BARON   CLINTON, 
EARD  OF  HUNTINGDON. 

Barony,  by  Writ  ot  Summons,  0th  Sept.,  U30l 
Earldom,  by  Letten  Patmt,  dated  10th  March,  1337. 

Xincagt. 

SIR  WILLIAM  DE  CLINTON,  Knt.,  youngar 
■on  of  John  de  Clinton,  Baron  Clinton,  aapoused 
Jiilien,  daughter  and  helrest  of  Sir  Thomas  de 
Leybume,  Knt.,  and  widow  of  John,  Lord  Hastings, 
of  BcigaTcnny,  by  which  alliance  it  is  prasumed, 
that  his  subsequent  advanosmant  in  life  was  eoosi- 
desably  promoted;  he  was,  however,  himadf  a  very 
eminent  person,  and  fully  entitled  by  his  own  deeds 
to  the  high  honours  he  attained.  In  the  year  ensuing 
his  marriage.  Sir  William  was  made  justice  of  Ches- 
ter, and  within  less  than  two  months  afterwards 
constable  of  Dover  Castle,  and  warden  of  the  cinque 
potts.  Shortly  after  this,  being  one  o(  those  who 
surprised  the  great  MonriMBR,  at  Nottingham 
Castle  he  had  summons  to  parliament  as  Babow 
Clibtoh,  on  the  0th  September,  1330,  and  from  that 
period  to  the  Mth  January,  1397*  In  three  years, 
subsequently,  7th  Edward  III.,  Us  lordship  was 
constituted  lord  admiral  of  the  leas,  flrom  the 
Thames  westwards,  and  in  that  year  he  was  engaged 
in  the  Scottish  wars,  as  he  was  in  the  0th  and  10th 
of  the  same  reign.  In  the  11th  Edward  III.,  then 
epjoying  the  highest  favour  of  the  king,  his  lordsliip 
was  created,  by  letters  patent,  dated  10th  March, 
1337*  Earl  or  Hubtibodok,  having,  at  the  same 
time,  not  only  £20,  per  annum  given  him  out  of  the 
issues  of  the  county  to  be  paid  by  the  sheriff,  but 
one  thousand  marks  per  annum  in  land,  to  hold  to 
himsrif  and  his  male  heirs  for  ever.  He  subse- 
quently participated  in  his  gallant  sovereign's  wars, 
both  in  Scothmd  and  France^  and  was  ftequently 
employed  in  foreign  embassies  of  the  flist  impor- 
tance. He  was  a  second  time  constituted  lord  admi- 
ral, and  a  second  time  appointed  constable  of  Dover 
Castle,  and  lord  warden  of  the  cinque  porta.  His 
lordship  d,  in  1304,  leaving,  according  to  Banks,  an 
onlydanghtar, 

Elixabbtb,  who  m.  Sir  John  FitswiUiam,  of 
Sprotborougfa,  ancestor  of  the  present  Eabl 

FiTSWILLIAJM. 

The  earl  having  no  male  issue,  the  dignity  of  Earl 
or  HiTBTiweDOB  became  bxtibct,  but  the  Ba- 
BOBT  or  Clibtob,  created  by  writ,  should  have 
devolved  upon  his  daughter  if  legitimate,  and.if  so, 
n  is  stm  extant  in  her  deacendanU,  the  Earls  Fita- 
william.  Of  this,  however,  there  must  be  strong 
doubt.  Dugdals  mentions  no  daughter,  but  says 
that  the  earl  left  aU  his  extensive  possessions  to  his 
nephew.  Sir  John  de  Clinton,  Knt.  Nicolas,  in 
his  synopsis,  confirms  Dugdale,  by  stating  that  the 
Earl  of  Huntingdcm  died  »,  i».,  '*  when  his  honours 
became  extinct  $"  while  Banks  gives  the  particuburs 
of  the  daughter  as  above.    Collins  and  Jacob  call 


the  bKly  "  EliaCbeth,  daughter  of  William,  Lord 
Clhiton."  Had  she  been  Isgltimate,  she  would, 
doubtless,  have  been  his  loidship^s  heiress,  and 
BABOBBaa  Clibtob. 

A^MB,— Arg.  six  croei  crosslets  fltchte  sa.  on  a 
chief  aa.  two  mullets  or.  pierced  gu. 

COBHAM  —  BARONS  COBHAM,  OF 
KENT. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  0th  January,  1313, 
0  Edward  II. 

In  the  18th  King  John,  Hbbrt  ob  Cobbbbam 
gave  to  that  monarch  a  thousand  marks  for  his 
royal  fkvour.    This  Henry  had  three  sons,  namely, 
Reginald,  (the  second  son,)  Justice  itinerant  in 
Essex,  in  the  SBnd  Henry  III.,  and  the  ensuing 
year  in  Middlesex  and  Wilts,  when  he  was  con- 
stituted sheriff  of  Kent,  and  he  continued  to 
execute  the  duties  ai  that  office  for  the  nine 
following  years.    In  the  30th  of  the  same  mo- 
nardi  he  was  made  constable  of  Dover  Castle, 
and  warden  of  the  cinque  ports,  when  he  had 
command  to  attend  the  ambassadors  ttom  the 
King  of  Castile,  who  then  landed  at  Dover,  to 
afford  them  hoqiitable  entertainment,  and  to 
conduct  them  to  the  new  temple  at  London, 
where  they  were  to  be  lodged.    He  d.  in  three 
years  afterwards. 
William,  (the  youngest  son,)  one  of  the  Justices 
itinerant  in  the  counties  of  Sussex,  South- 
>  ampton  and  Wilts,  in  the  aoth  ilenry  IIL,  end 
for  Norfolk  and  Suffolk  in  the  41st  of  the 
same  reign. 
JOHN  DE  COBBEHAM,  (the  eldest  son.)  ex- 
ecuted in  the  90th  Henry  III.,  the  office  of  sheriff 
of  Kent,  on  behalf  of  Peter  de  Savoy,  brother  of 
Queen  Eleanor,  for  one-half  of  the  year,  and  on  be^ 
half  of  Bertram  de  Criol  for  the  other  halll    He  was 
abo  one  of  the  Justices  of  the  court  of  Common 
Pleas  fhnn  the  Mth  to  the  35th  of  the  same  reign. 

This  eminent  person  married  flr^t, ,  daughter 

of  Warine  Fits-Benedict,  by  whom  he  had  issue- 
John,  his  successor. 

Henry  (Sir),  of  Runddl,  governor  of  the  Islands 
of  Guernsey  and  Jersey,  and  constable  of  the 
castle  of  Dover,  and  warden  of  the  cinque 
ports,  temp.  Edward  L    Sir  Henry  m.  Joane, 
elder  daughter  and  co-heiress  of  Stephen  de 
Pencestre,  and  had  issue— 
Stbpbbn. 
He,  Jokok,  m.  secondly,  Joane,  daughter  of  Hugh  de 
Nevill,  and  had  a  son, 

Rboibald,  ftom  whom  the  Cobhams  of  Ster- 
borough  sprang. 
JOHN  DE  COBBEHAM,  the  eldest  son,  suc- 
ceeded his  father,  and  was  one  of  the  Justices  of  the 
courts  of  King's  Bench  and  Common  Pleas,  and  a 
baron  of  the  exchequer,  in  the  reigns  of  Henry  IIL 
and  Edward  I.  This  learned  penon  m.  Joane  de 
Septvaus,  one  of  the  co-heirs  of  Roese,  the  widow 
of  Stephen  de  Pencestre,  and  had  issue, 

S  IM 


COB 


COB 


Hcmy,  bte 

Resfanld,  m.  JoMe,  diuufater  of  Wflliam  dc 
ETcn*  and  oiKalMed  a  cbarter  hi  3fod  Edward 
I.  for  free  warren  in  all  Ma  demaoM  landa  at 
PipanTa  CUve,  ia  the  county  of  WUta. 
Ttie  elder  ion. 

HENRY  DE  COBBEHAM.  «.  hli  father,  and 
doing  homage  in  the  28th  Edward  I.  had  livery  of 
Ma  laada.  In  the  4th  Edward  II.,  being  then  fttyted 
Henry  de  Cobbeham,  Jna.  (hia  uncle  Henry,  of 
Runddl,  itill  living),  he  was  tai  an  expedition  into 
Soodand;  tad,  in  four  yean  itfMnrarda,  he  waa  con- 
stituted cxmstable  of  Dover  Castle,  and  warden  of 
the  cinque  porta.  In  the  10th  of  the  same  reign  he 
was  again  In  the  wars  of  Scotlaod,  and  in  the  I5th  he 
was  made  governor  of  the  castle  of  Tonebrugge.  He 
had  been  summoned  to  parliaroeat  aa  a  BAmoif  on 
the  8th  January,  1313,  and  in  eontfaiuation  tar  the 
remainder  of  Ms  life.  HJa  lordaMp  d.  in  1339,  and 
waa  «.  by  Ms  rtdest  son, 

JOHN  DB  COBHAM,  second  Baron  Cobham, 
snmmoned  to  parliament  tiom  the  19th  September, 
ISA,  toSBth  August,  1407.  Thisnobleman,  who  had 
been  mode  admiral  of  the  ki»(^s  fleet  Anom  the  mouth 
of  the  Thames  westward  in  the  9th  Edward  HI.,  had 
the  next  year  in  remuneration  of  his  services,  whilst 
he  was  a  Justice  of  Oyer  and  Terminer,  in  Kent,  a 
grant  of  one  hundred  marks  out  of  the  two  hundred 
which  the  commons  of  that  county  gave  to  the  king 
In  f^itheiance  of  the  Scottish  war.  In  the  ftth  of 
the  same  monarch  he  waa  mode  a  banneret,  and  in 
some  years  afterwards  he  was  engaged  in  the  French 
wars.  In  the  beginning  of  Richard  II.'s  reign  his 
lardship  was  appointed  ambassador  upon  two  occa- 
sions to  negotiate  a  peace  with  the  French,  and 
jcrfned  in  oommisaion  by  the  same  monarch  with 
John,  Duke  ot  Lancaster,  and  others,  to  treat  with 
the  Earl  of  Flanders,  and  others  of  that  country, 
for  the  appeasing  of  certain  discords  between  them 
and  the  English.  In  the  lOth  Richard  he  was  one 
of  the  tMrteen  lords  then  appointed  to  govern  the 
kingdom,  but  bdng  impendled  in  the  81st  of  the 
same  king  he  had  judgment  pronounced  against 
him ;  his  lordship  received,  however,  a  pardon,  but 
was  sent  prisoner  to  the  Isle  of  Jersey.  Lord  Cob- 
ham  m.  Margaret,  daughter  of  Hugh  Courtenay, 
Earl  of  Devon,  and  had  issue, 

Joane,  who  m.  Sir  John  de  la  Pole,  Knt.,  and 

dying  before  her  ISather,  left  an  only  daufl^ter, 

JoAifS,  who  m.  first,  Sir  Robert  Hemeog- 

dale,  but  had  no  surviving  issuer 
Her   ladythip  m.  secondly.  Sir    Reginald 
Bniybroke,  by  whom  she  had  one  surviv- 
ing daughter, 
JoAWB.  IN.  to  Sir  Thomas  Brooke,  Knt. 
(see  Brooke,  Lord  Cobham). 
She  m.  thirdly.  Sir  Nicholas  Hawberke, 
but  had  no  surviving  issue;  fourtUy, 
Sir    John    OLDCASTLn,    Kirr.,    and 
fifthly.  Sir  John  Harpeuden. 
His  kMdsMp  d.  In  1407,  leaving  his  above-meBtloaed 
grand-daughter,  Joane,  then  Lady  Hawberkcf,  Ms 
sole  hdrcas,  who  marrying  subsequently, 

eUt  JOHN  OLDCASTLE,  Knt.,  that  gentle^ 
man  was  summoned  to  parliament,  Jure  tuori»,  aa 
BAftoif  CovHAV,  from  the  Mth  October,   <llth 
130 


Henry  IT,)  nm,  to  Oad  Maich,  (m  Heory  V.) 
1413.    Sir  John  Oldeastle  is  oelebcntod  in  history  aa 
leader  of  the  LoujinDe,  the  fimt  sect  of  reiDsmars 
that  arose  in  England,  und  eventually  by  htying 
down  his  life  in  maintenance  of  his  prbidplas.    Of 
this  celebrated  person  Dugdale  gives  the  following 
aocounfc>-'«  In  the  1st  at  Henry  V.,  being  tahited  in 
his  religion  by  those  pretended  holy  sealots,  then 
called  L01.X.ABD8,  he  became  one  of  the  chief  of 
that  sect,  which  at  that  time  gave  no  little  dittttr- 
banco  to  the  peace  of  the  church ;  for  wMch  he  waa 
dted  to  appear  before  the  Archbishop  of  Canter- 
bury.   Whereupon,  lietaking  himself  to  his  castle 
ofCoulIng,  he  was  shortly  alter  apprehended,  and 
brought  before  the  archblahop  and  others,  in  tho 
cathedral  of  St.  Paul,  and  thdre,  by  reason  of  Ms 
otaatinacy  in  those  dangerous  tenets,  received  the 
sentence  of  an  herecick.    Under  the  chnk  of  tMa 
sanctity  it  was,  that  he  and  his  party  desigiftd  to 
nmrther  the  king  upon  Twelfth  Night,  then  keep* 
kng  hia  Chriatmas  at  Eltham,  and  to  destroy  the 
monaateriea  of  Westminsler  and  SL  Albans,  as  also 
the  cathedral  of  St.  Paul  in  London,  with  aD  the 
houses  of  flriers  in  that  city :  to  which  end  tfbeut 
four  score  of  his  party  were  found,  in  arms.  In  the 
night  time,   expecting  no  less  than   twenty-five 
thousand  the  next  day  to  appear  with  them  in  St. 
Gftlea  Fields.    WMch  pernicious  purpose  being  se»: 
sonaMy  prevented,  divers  of  them  suflbred  death  at 
that  timcw  But  this  Oldcastteescaplng,  lurked  privily 
for  a  time  fai  Mindry  places,  and  endeavoured  to 
raise  new  commotions.     Wherein  fkiling  of  that 
success  he  expected,  in  anno  1417,  0th  Henry  V., 
(the  king  being  then  in  bis  wars  of  France,)  M  in- 
cited the  9eot»  to  an  invasion  of  this  realm,  wMch^ 
through  the  vlgilancy  of  John,  Duke  of  Bedford, 
(the  king's  brother,  and  has  lieutenant  here  in  Ms 
absence,)  was  happily  prevented,  and  at  length 
being  taken  hi  Wales  within  the  territory  of  the 
Lord  Powys,  was  brought  to  his  trial,  where  having 
Judgment  vi  death  pronounced  against  Mm,  via.  to 
be  drawn,  hanged,  and  burnt  on  thegaHowst  and 
accordingly  brought  to  the  place  of  execution,  he 
desired  Sir  Thomas  Erpiagham,  that  in  case  he  saw 
Mm  rise  again  the  tMrd  day  after,  that  then  he 
would  be  a  means  to  procure  isvour  for  the  rest  cf 
Ms  sect.**    Walpoie,  in  Mi  Catahigoe  of  Royal  and 
Noble  Authors,  gives,  however,  a  more  flattering  and 
jvat  dkancter  of  this  uofortunatev  though  highly 
gifted  nobleman— *<  The  flrst  author,  as  well  aa  the 
flrst  martyr,  among  our  nobility,  was  Sir  John  Old- 
castle,  caUad  « M«  good  Lord  Cobham  f  aman  whose 
virtum  made  Mm  a  reformer,  whose  valour  made 
hin  a  martyr,  whose  martyidmn  made  Mm  an  en- 
thustaat    His  ready  wit  and  brave  spMt  appeared 
to  great  advantage  on  hIatriaL*'  He  wrote  "  Twelve 
Conclusions,  addressed  to  the  parfiament  of  Eng>- 
tend,"  and  several  other  tracts.    His  lordsMp  had 
an  only  daughter,  Joane,  by  the  heiress  of  Cobham, 
who  d.  young,  snd  the  Babohv  or  Cobbam  ap- 
pears to  have  remained  donnant  fhnn  the  period  of 
Ms  execution,  until  revived  In  the  perMm  of  John 
BnooKB,  great  grandson  of  the  Bbove  mentioned 
Joane  de  la  Pole,  in  I440w 

Anita— On.  on  a  chevron  or.  three  llone  ram- 
paatsa. 


COKE  —  BARON  LOVEL  OF  MIN- 
gTCR  LOVEL,  IN  THE 
COUNTY  OF  OXFORD,  VIS- 
COUNT COKE  OF  HOLE- 
HAM,  m  THE  COUNTY  OF 
NORFOLK,  EARL  OF  LEI- 
CESTER. 


Barldoim&c/   PaUnt.    i  datad  9th  May,  1744. 

XincBgc. 

Tha  learned  CAMDBir,  who  a«c  fiictfa  the  pedigree  of 
tbii  jaident  fnnllyf  deduced  its  origin  from 

WILLIAM  COK£,  </  X>Ddte«ten,  in  the  county 
of  Norft>lk,  mentioned  in  a  deed  enno  1206,  who  by 

hie  wife  Fettca  had  iwue, 
GKFFRSY  COKfi,  of  ClieMnieplaoe,  fron  whom 


SIR  SDWARD  COKS,  the  celebrated  lawyer. 
This  eminent  pcnon.  the  ion  (tf  Robert  Coke,  Esq., 
of  Mtkhain*  in  Om  county  of  Nocftalk,  and  Wini- 
Jbad.  his  wife,  dau^tv,  and  one  of  the  heirs  of 
Wilttam  Knii^itley.  of  MotgEaTa-Knightley,  in  the 
sameshiie,  was  bom  at  the  aaatof  his  fsther,  and 
at  tv  ycHa  of  age  eent  to  the  gnunmar-school  at 
Ncraidi,  whence  he  rttsoved  to  Trinity  College, 
Cambridge,  where  he  etndied  for  four  years,  and 
was  in  eome  yews  afterwards  chosen  high-steward 
of  that  antrenlty.    From  Cambcidge  he  removed 
to  diflbrdVlBn.  and,  the  year  alter,  he  was  entered 
»  etndent  in  the  Inner  Temple,  whsnoe  he  was 
caOad  to  the  bar,  end  being  chosen  reader  in  Lyon's- 
lom  aoqnired  so  much  nttohrity,  that  he  very  soon 
.attiteBd  eoi^dendile  practice.    About  this  period 
he  married  Bridget*  daughter  and  co-heir  of  John 
Paalon,  Esq.,  of  UuntingAeld  Hall,  in  the  county 
efSuiMk,  third  son  of  Sir  WilUem  Paston,  of  Pas- 
ten,  with  whom  be  acquired  a  fortune  of  thirty 
thoaaand  pounds.    An  alliance,  too,  that  brought 
him  honours  and  prefiermentB  as  well  es  wealth. 
The  dties  of  Covontry,  and   Norwich  soon  after 
elected  him  their  recorder.    The  county  of  Nor- 
folk returned  him  to  parliament,  and  the  House  of 
Ceeomnns  placed  him  m  the  speaker's  chair.    In  the 
3Sth  of  Elisabeth,  (1N8,)  Mr.  Gokewas  appointed 
SolieUv,  and  the  next  yeer  AMumtwgBMral,     In 
1008  he  leeeiTed  the  hcnonr  of  knighthood  Arom 
James  L,  et  Greenwich,  and  in  three  years 
I  was  elevated  to  the  bench  aa  chief  of  the 
of  Common  Flees,  ftom  whldi  he  was  ad- 

in  Uis,  to  the  dignity  of  Chibf  Jubtics 

or  Exaxjurn,  (being  the  kat  peraon  who  bore  that 
kitia,)  and  awom  of  the  privy  ooundl.  His  lordship 
incurred  subsequenay,  however,  the  diapleesure  of 
jtlM>  oouttt  MKd  while  In  disgrace,  hearing  that  a 
aoble  lord  had  eoUcHed  ftom  the  crown  a  portion  of 

'tiia  hmda  bdon^iing  to  the  church  at  Norwich,  which 
he  had  iv»vered,  and  aettled  tboeon,  he  cautioned 
the  pear  to  dmiat,  or  that  he  would  resume  his 
a  nd  eap»  and  come  into  Westminster  Hall 
!  aff^,  to  pkad the  cause  of  thechurch.  Be- 
tween hie  pataanal  property,  the  great  marriage 
portion  he  had  with  his  wife,  and  his  vahuble  offices 
nad  iMiatiTe  practke  at  the  bar.  Sir  Edward  Coke 
iso  amplBk  thet  aadi  of  his  sons 


COK 

posaeaied  a  tottnneeqnal  to  ttar  of  an  aidg  brother. 
Camden,  tat  his  BrUmmtm,  sayi,  "  that  he  was  a 
person  of  admirable  iperU,  than  whoaa*  aa  none  ever 
applied  himself  doaer  to  the  study  of  the  hiw.  so 
never  did  mj  one  undstataad  It  better.  Of  which 
he  fuUy  convinced  Englend.  by  hie  excellent  adml- 
nistraUoa  for  many  yeers  together,  whilst  Attorney- 
genera].  Md  by  executiiv  theoffice  of  Lord  Chief 
Justice  of  the  Common  Plees  with  the  greatest  wis- 
dom and  prudences  nor  did  he  give  less  proof  of 
his  abilities  in  his  cxceUant  RtptfU,  end  Cemmen- 
tari«  upon  our  Laws,  whereby  he  has  highly 
obliged  bodi  his  own  i«e  end  posterity."  His  lord- 
ship d.  on  the  8rd  September.  M83,  at  the  advanced 
age  of  83L  A  noble  monnaaent  waserected  to  his  me- 
mory at  TittM>aU«fanreh«  Norfolk,  with  his  effigies 
habited  in  judge's  ioImi,  lying  M  ftUS  length,  under 
a  canopy  supported  by  two  aaarble  piUan.  on  the 
top  of  which  are  four  large  dgures,  and  between  the 
piUars  two  marUeUUes,  with  these  inacriptkms  :— 
FIRST  TABLE. 

Dxo  Optimo  Maximo 

Hs  ExUvise  Humane  Expectant 

Resurrectionem  Piorum 

Hie  Situs  est  non  Perituri 

Nominis  EovAanus  CoKn 

EouaaAuRAT  Legumanima 

Interpres  Oraculum  non  Dubium 

Arcanorum  Promicondus  Mysteriorum 

Cujus  Fere  unius  Beneflcio 

JurisperiU  nostrl  sunt  Juris- 

periti  Eloquentiae  Fulmen 

Torrens  Fubnen 

Suadas  Sacerdos  unicus 

DIvinus  Heros 

Pro  Rostris  iU  Dixit 

ut  Literis  Insudasse  non  nisi 

Humania 

IU  Yixit  ut  non  nisi  Divinis 

Sacerrimualntimse  Pietatis 

Indagator 

lategritas  Ipsa  Vers  Semper 

CausK  Constantlisimus  Assertor 

Nee  fkvore  nee  Muneribus  Violandus 

£xisil«  Misericors  Charior  erat 

Huic  reus  <}uam  sibi 

(Mizaculi  instar  est) 

Siccoculiis  Ssepe  iUe  audlit  Sentcntiam 

In  se  Prolatim  Nunquam  Hie  Nisi 

Madidoculus  Protulit  Scientise  Oceenus 

Qulque  Dum  V\xit  Blbliotheca  Parens 

Duodecim  Liberorum  Tredecim 

Librorum  Pater 

Facessant  Hinc  Monumenta 

Facessaot  Marmora 

(Nisi  quod  Plos  Fuisse  Denolarint  Poeteros) 

Ipse  siU  suum  est  monumentum 

Marmore  Perennius 

Ipse  sibi  sua 

Est  iBtemltas. 

SECOND  TABLE. 

DSPICATSD  TO  THB  MSMOnT  OV 

Sin  EnWAM)  COKB,  Knt., 

A  lata  Revarcnd  Judge.    Bon 

at  MUeham,  in  this  County  of  Norfolk. 

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COK 


COK 


ExceUent  in  tU  Learning,  Divine 
and  Humanei    That  for  his  own,  this 

for  his  Country's  Oood«  espedally 

in  the  Knowledge  and  Practioe  of  the 

Municipall  Laws  of  this  Kingdome, 

a  famous  Reader,  a  sound 
Oounsdkn- ;  in  his  younger  Years 
Reeorder  of  tlie  Cities  of  Norwich  and 
London.    Nest,  Solicitor-General 
to  Queen  Eliaabeth,  and  Speaker 
of  the  Parliament  in  the  XXXV  Years 
of  hir  Reigne.  Afterwards  Attorney' 
General  to  the  same  Queen,  as  also  to 
her  Suooessor,  King  James,  to  both  a 
fUthAil  Servant  for  their  M^}ties. 
for  their  Saftics.  By  King  James 
oonstituted  Chief  Justice  of  both 
Benches  successively,  in  both  a  Just, 
in  both  an  exemplary  Judge,  one  of  his 
Mi^tyi  most  Hon.  Privie  Councill,  as  also 
of  Council  to  Queen  Anne,  and  Chief  Justice 
in  Eire  of  all  her  Forrests,  Parks,  and  Chases, 
Recorder  of  the  Citie  of  Coventrie,  and 
High  Steward  of  the  University  of  Cam- 
bridge, whereof  he  was  sometime 
•  Member  of  Trinitie  Colledge. 
He  had  two  Wives.    By  Bridget 
his  first  Wife  <one  of  the  Daughters 
and  co-heirs  of  John  Paston,  Esq.,)  he  had 
Issue  seven  Sons,  and  three  Daugh- 
ters; and  by  the  Lady  Elisabeth,  his 
second  Wife,  (one  of  the  Daughters 
of  the  Right  Hon.  Thomas,  late  Earl  of 
Exeter,)  he  had  issue 
two  Daughters. 

A  CHA8T  HUBBAKD, 
A  PROVIDXNT  FATHKR. 

And  beneath  the  EfligieB  the  following  inscrip- 
tion:— 

'•  He  Crown'd  his  Pious  Life  with  as  Pious  and 

Christian  Departure  at  Stokx  Pooxa  In  the 

County  of  Buckingham  on  Wednesdaye 

the  third  Day  of  Sept  in  the  year  of  our 

Lord  MDCXXXIII 

And  of  his  Age  LXXXIII 

His  Last  Words 

Thy  Kixodovx  comk  thy  Will  bx  oonx 

Learn  Reader  to  Live  so 

That  thou  mayst  so  die." 

Sir  Edward  Coke's  daughters,  by  his  last  wife,  were, 

Elisabeth,  who  rf.  unmarried. 

l^rances,  m.  to  John  Villiers,  Viscount  Pur- 
beck,  son  and  heir  of  Sir  George  ViUiers, 
by  Mary,  Duchess  of  Buckingham,  and 
ddest  brother,  of  George,  Duke  of  Buck- 
ingham, died  «.  p. 
His  surviving  children,  by  his  first  wife  were, 

Robert,  (Sir)  m.  Theophila,  only  daughter  of 
Thomas,  Lord  Berkeley,  and  d,  19th  July, 
16S3,  issueless. 

Arthur,  m.  Eliaabeth,  daughter  and  heiress  of. 
Sir  George  Walgrave,  Knt,  of  Hitcham, 
in  the  county  of  Norfolk,  and  left  at  his 
decaaae,  6th  December,  1689,  four  daughters, 
his  oo*heirs. 

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John,  of  Holkham,  te  the  county  of  Norfolk, 
m.  Meriel,  daughter  and  heireas  of  Anthony 
Wheatley,  Esq.,  (son  of  Wiltiam  Wheatley, 
Prothonotary  of  the  Court  of  Common 
Pleas,)  by  wlunn  he  had  seven  sons  and 
seven  daughters,  whereof  EnwARn,  his  heir 
apparent,  died  before  him,  leaving  no  issue 
by  Elisabeth  his  wifiB,  daughter  of  George, 
Lord  Berkdey,    whereby   the  inheritance 
devolved,  eventually,  upon  his  youngest 
son, 
JoHH,  who  dying  unmarried,  the  estate 
of  HoLKHAV,  came  to  the  heirs  of 
HcwRY  CoKB,  of  Thurrington,  fifth 
son  of  Sir  Edward  Coke,  (next  men- 
tioned). 
Henry,  c€  Thurrington,  in  theoounty  of  Suffolk, 
IK.  Margaret,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Ridiard 
Lovelace,   Esq.,    of    Kingsdown,    in    the 
county  of  Kent,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest 
son, 

Richard,  who  m.  Mary,  daughter  of  Sir 
John  Rous,  Bart,,  of  Henham  Hall, 
in  the  county  of  Suflblk,  and  left  an 
only  son, 

RoBXRT,  of  whom  hereafter,  as  hi- 
heritor  of  the  principal  part  of 
Sir  Edward  Coke's  fortune,  and 
grandfather  of  the  first  peer. 
Clement,  m.  Sarah,  daughter  and  co-heiress  of 
Alexander  Redich,  Esq.,  of  Redich,  in  the 
county  of  Lancaster,  (by  a  daughter  and 
co-heiress  of  Sir  Robert  Langley,  of  Age- 
croft,  in  the  same  shire,)  by  whinn  k*  ac- 
quired the  estate  of  Longford,  In  Derbyshire, 
and  was  «.,  in  May,  1619,  by  his  elder  sim, 
Edward    Cokb,    who    was  created  a 
baronet,  on  the  3(NJi  December,  1641. 
He  m.   Catherine,   daughter  and  co- 
heiress of  Sir  Lodowick  Dyer,  Knt.,  of 
Great  Stoughton,  in  the   county  of 
Himtingdon,  jnd  had  issue, 

^y^   \  successive  Baronets. 
Edward,  j 

Catharine,  m.  to  Cornelius  Clarke, 

Esq.,  of  Norton. 

Sir  Edward  was  «.  by  his  elder  son. 

Sib  Robxrt  Cokb,  of  Longford,  second 

Baronet,  M.P.  for  theoounty  of  Derby, 

in  the  1st  of  James  IL,  who  m.  Sarah, 

daughter  and  oo-heiress  of Barker, 

Esq.,  of  Abrightlee,  in  the  county  of 
Salop,  but  dying  «.  ii.,  in  1617,  the  title 
and  estates  devolved  upon  his  brother. 
Sir  Edward  Cokb,  of  Longford,  third 
baronet,  at  whose  deceaae,  unmarried, 
86th  August,  1787,  the  baronetcy  ex- 
pired, while  the  estates  passed  by  the 
baronet's  will,  to  Edward  Coke,  Esq., 
brother  of  Thomas,  first  Lord  LoveL 
Anne,  m.  to  Ralph  Sadler,  Esq.,  son  and  heir 

of  Sir  Ralph  Sadler,  Knt. 
Bridget,  m.  to  William  Skinner  Esq.,  son  and 
\akx  of  Sir  Vincent  Skinner. 
So  much  for  the  lord  chief  Justice^s  children,  we 
now  return  to  the  grandson  of  his  son,  Hbnry, 


GOK 


COL 


ROBERT  COKE,  Esq.,  of  TlmRtagtMi,  who 
upon  tlMdeoeaMof  UsooiuId,  (the  loii  of  his  gM»t 
undo  John.)  John  C<Ae»  Saq..  of  Hoi.kham»  in 
the  oouDty  of  Norfolk^  unmarried,  inherited  that 
■■titc,  and  thai  became  poaiened  of  the  chief 
part  of  (Sir  Edward  Coke)  hb  great  grandlhthei't 
iwopeity.  Mr.  Coke  m.  Lady  Anne  Otbome,  daugh- 
ter of  Thomaa,  fint  Duke  of  Leeds,  Lord  Trea- 
of  England,  by  whom  lie  had  an  onlysunri-ving 
I,  his  sucoesmr  at  hb  decease^  10th  January, 
10791 

EDWARD  COKE,  Esq.,  who  m.  Carey,  daughter 
of  Sir  John  Newton,  Bart.,  of  Banows  Court,  in 
the  county  of  Olouoester,  and  had  iasue, 
Thomas,  his  suooeHor. 
Edward,  of  Longford,  in  the  county  of  Derby, 
who  bequeathed  at  his  deoeese,  unmarried, 
in  173s,  thai  estate  to  his  younger  brother, 
Robert,   Vice-Chamberlain  to  Queen  Anne, 
who  m,  in  June,  17S8,  Lady  Jane  Holt, 
widow  of  John  Holt,  Esq.,  of  RedgrsTe,  in 
the  county  of  SuflMk,  and  sister  and  co- 
heiress of  Philip,  Duke  of  Wharton,  but 
died«.^ 
Carey,  m.  to  Sir  Marmaduke  WyvH,  Bart.,  of 

Constable  Burton,  In  the  county  of  York. 
Anne^  m.  to  Philip  Roberts,  a  M^)or  in  the 
second  troop  of  Horse  Quaids,  and  left  a  son, 
Wknmam  R0BCRT8,  of  whom  hereafter, 
as  heir  to  the  entire  of  the  estates  of 
his  nnde,  the  Earx.  of  LsicnaTsii. 
Mr.  Coke  d,  13th  April,  1707.  and  was  «.  by  his 
ddestson, 

VHOMAS  COKE,  Esq.,  who  was  elected  a 
knight  at  the  Bath,  on  the  97th  May,  1795,  and 
elerated  to  the  peerage,  on  the  98th  May,  1798,  as 
Basoit  Lotsl,  qf  Mituter  Lovsf,  in  M«  comnt^  i^f 
Ou/onL  In  1733,  his  lordship  was  constituted  Joint 
poat-maater-general,  and  created  on  the  0th  May, 
1744,  rifeotfftf  Od*«,  <tf  HoflirA<H»,  and  Eabl  or 
LBXCseTBRi  fab  lordship  m.,  9nd  July,  1718,  Lady 
Mary  Tufton,  fourth  dauglucr  and  co-helrcei,  (rf 
Thomas,  sixth  Eail  of  Thanet,  (in  which  ladyt 
finrour,  the  abeyance  of  the  Babony  na  CLirrono, 
was  terminated  by  the  crown.  In  1734»)  by  whom  he 
had  an  only  son, 

Edwabd,  FiseotmC  Od*«»  who  m.   in   1747, 
Lady  Mary  Campbell,  daughter  and  co- 
heirms  of  Jcrfm,  Duke  of  Argyll  and  Green- 
wich, but  died  tf.  ^  hi  the  lifetime  of  hb 
ftther,  anno  1753. 
The  eerl  tf.  90th  April,  17fiO.  and  thus  leaTing  no 
issue,  the  fiarvMir  ^  Lewf,  and  Eabloom  or  Lbi- 
CS8TBB,  with  the  tp<M»icfi(y,  became  BXTiircT. 

Hb  lordship  commenced  the  stately  pile  of  build- 
ing, called  Holkham  HaU,  hi  Nbilblk.  which  was 
oomplated  by  the  countess,  who  suirived  him  many 
years;  her  ladyship  died  in  177S.  The  whole  of 
the  extansive  estates  of  the  Earl  of  Leicester  de> 
volved  upon  his  nephew,  (refer  to  Anne,  youngest 
daughter  of  Edward  Coke,  Esq.,  and  Carey,  daugh- 
ter of  Sir  John  Newton,  Bart.,)  Wbnman  Robbbtb, 
Esq.,  who  thereupon  assumed  the  surname  of 
CoKB,  only,  and  manning  Miss  Elisabeth  Cham- 
berbyne,  left  with  two  daughters,  and  a  younger 
son,   EnwABO,  the  present   Tbomab  William 


CoBB,  of  HolUuun.  M.P.  Ihr  the  county  of  Nor- 
folk. 

Abms.— Parly  per  pale  gu.  and  ar.  three  eagles  die* 
played  ar. 

COLEPEPER  -.  BARONS  COLEPE- 
PER.  OF  THORESWAY, 
IN  THE  COUNTY  OF  LIN- 
COLN. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  91st  October,  1844. 

Xiiuagc. 

The  fhmily  of  Colbpkpbb  flourished  In  the 
counties  of  Kent  and  Sussex  ftom  the  time  of 
Edw.  I.,  and  produced  many  eminent  characters, 
amongst  whom  were  Sib  JaorrBBV  Colbpbpbb, 
of  Pepenbury,  Mi^i-slierlir  of  Kent  in  the  reign 
of  that  monardi,  and  Sib  Thomab  Colspbpbb, 
of  Bedgbury,  goremor  of  Windidsea,  temp.  Ed- 
ward II.  These  eminent  persons  sealed  with  a 
fteiMl  m^Totftftf ,  gHX«a  4mi  ejield  mrgent;  and  Dray- 
ton, in  hb  Barons'  Wars,  enumeratfaig  the  arms  of 
the'dbtinguished  families  on  each  side,  says. 


*'  And  CoLBPBPBB,  with  silver  arms  inrail'd. 
Bare  thereupon  a  B1.00DY  bbmd  cngrail'd." 

JOHN  COLEPEPER  was  a  judge  in  the  reign 
of  Henry  VI.,  and  left  an  only  daughter  and  heiress, 
who  conTeyed  a  oonsiderabb  fortune  to  the  tenily 
of  HwrringUmt  into  which  she  married.  Richabd 
CoLBFBPBB,  of  Oxhmth,  was  sheriff  of  Kent  in  the 
reign  of  Edward  IV. ;  and  King  Henry  VIII.  set  up 
the  arms  of  two  of  the  name  in  his  gaUery  at  White- 
hall, for  their  military  achievements  at  Toumay 
and  the  Battle  of  Spurs. 

SIR  JOHN  COLEPEPER,  of  Bedgebury,  knight 
of  the  shire  for  Kent  in  the  parliament  which  met  in 
1641,  chancellor  of  the  exchequer,  and  afterwards 
master  of  the  roUs,  and  one  of  the  privy-council  of 
King  Charles  I.,  was  elevated  to  the  peerage  by  that 
monarch  on  the  91st  October,  1644,  as  Lobd  Colb- 
PXPBB,  Bonm  f^ThorMwajf,  in  the  county  qf  Lincoln. 
Hb  lordship  adhered  scalously  to  the  royal  cause 
during  the  whole  of  the  dvii  wars,  and  withdrew 
with  King  Charles  II.,  in  whose  exile  he  shared  for 
twelve  years,  but  had  the  high  gratification  of  wit- 
nessing the  restoration  of  his  royal  master.  Lord 
Colepeper  m.  first,  Philippa,  daughter  of  Sir  — . 
Sndling,  KnL,  and  had  iasue, 

Albxabdbb,  who  m.  Catherine,  daughter  and 
heiress  of  Sir  Edward  Ford,  Knt,  of  Harting. 
Siissex,  but  predeceased  hb  fkther,  issue- 

Phllippa,  m.  to  Thomas  Harlakenden,  Esq.,  of 
Wood  Church,  in  the  county  of  Kent. 
Hb  lordship  m.  secondly,  Judith,  daughter  of  Sir 
Thomas  Colepeper,  of  HoUingbuxn,  Knt.,  by  whom 
he  had  four  sons, 

Thomas,  hb  successor. 
John. 
Cheney. 
Francb 
And  three  daughters,  vis., 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  James  Hamilton,  Esq., 
had  by  him, 

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Jamss,  Eaki.  or  Absboobit. 

Judith,  m.  to Colepeper,  Esq. 

PUlippa. 
Lord  Colepeper  d.  mattar  of  the  rolls,  in  July,  1060, 
and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

.  THOMAS  COLEPEPER,  aeoond  baron,  who  m. 
Margaret,  daughter  and  oo>heir  of  Seigneur  Jean  de 
Hessei  of  the  noble  family  of  Hbssk,  in  Cremumy, 
by  whom  he  had  an  only  daughter  and  heiress, 

Catherine,  m.  to  Thomas,  Lord  Fairfiu,  and  con- 
veyed to  her  husbwEid  Ledes  Caatie,  in  Kent 
His  lordship  <2.  in  1688,  and,  leaying  no  male  issue, 
the  title  devolved  upon  his  brother, 

JOHN  COLEPEPER,  third  banm.  ThUntible- 
BMn  m.  Frances,  daaghtar  at  Sir  Thomas  Colepeper, 
of  HoUingbum,  in  the  county  of  Kent,  but  dying 
«.  p.  in  17i9»  was  •.  by  his  brother, 

CHENEY  COLEPEPER,  ftmrth  bsron,  at  whose 
deoeaae,  iasunless,  (his  younger  brother,  Frands, 
having  previoosly  died  unmarried,)  in  17S5»  the 
BABOMY  or  CoLBrsPBR  became  bxtibct. 

Abmb— Ar.  a  bend  engrailed  gu. 


COLLINOWOOD  —  BARON  COL- 
LINGWOOD,  OF  COX«D- 
BURNE  AND  HETHPOOL, 
IN  THE  COUNTY  OF 
NORTHUMBERLAND. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  20th  Nov.  IMS. 

inCncagc. 

CUTHBERT  COLLINGWOOD,  b.  1750,  son  of 
Cuthbert  CoUii^gwood,  Esq.,  of  Ditchbume,  in  the 
county  of  Northumberland,  having  adopted  thenaval 
profession,  <^tained  the  rank  of  lieutenant  in  1775 
-'was  made  post-captain  in  1780— advanced  to  the 
rank  of  rear-admiral  of  the  white  in  179it^— rear- 
admiral  of  the  red  in  1801— vice«dmiral  of  the 
blue  in  1804,  in  which  commission  he  had  the  glory 
of  bdng  second  in  command  at  the  memorable 
battle  off  Cape  Trafklgar,  on  the  21  rt  October,  1805, 
under  the  immortal  Nelson  ;  and  for  the  services 
rendered  upon  that  triumphant  occasiouj  the  vice- 
admiral  obtained  the  professional  promotion  of 
vice-admiral  of  the  bltie,  and  was  advanced  to  the 
peerage  on  the  90th  November,  1805,  as  Baron 
CouLiNOWOOD,  of  Qtldbume  and  Hethpool,  in  the 
county  of  Northumberland.  His  lordship  m.  Par 
tience,  daughter  and  co-h^ess  of  Erasmus  Blackett* 
Esq.,  alderman  of  Newcastle-upon-Tyne,  by  whom 
he  had  issue, 
Sarah. 

Mary-Patience. 
His  lordship  died  in  1810>  when«  leaving  no  male 
issue,     the    barony    of-   Collinowood    became 

■XTINCT. 

COLUMBERS  —  BARON      COLUM- 

BERS. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  89th  July,  1914, 
6  Edward  IL 

Xincogc. 

In  the  seeoad  year  of  Henry  II., 
PHILIP  DE  COLUMBERS  paid  fmr  pound* 
131 


vpmx  the  cbHaotkm  of  the  impost,  then  deoomi- 
Bated  deuugtUe  and  fai  twelve  years  afterwards^ 
upon  tta  BSSBssmrat  of  aid  for  marrying  the  king's 
daughter,  he  certtiad,  among  the  other 
his  ludghts'  fees,  de  veteri  fM^flaumeHtOt  to  be 
and  de  novo,  one,  for  all  which  hepaid  theaum  of  six 
pounds  thirteen  shiBingsandfonr-penceL  Hed.  soon 
afterwards,  about   the  year  1186,   leaving  three 


Hugh 


Phiuf.  his  Imis. 
William. 

Hbbbt,  whose  daugfatert 
deLongchamp. 
PHILIP  DE  COLUMBERS  m 
and  was  «.  himself,  at  his 


his 
1816.  by  his 


PHILIP  DE  COLUMBERS.  This  foudal  knrd, 
who  distingoiahed  himsdf  in  the  French  wars  of 
Henry  IIL,  obtained  license  to  impark  his  manor 
oi  Stavey,  in  the  county  of  Somerset,  which  was  the 
head  of  his  barony.  His  lordship  m.  Egeline, 
dau^ter  of  Robert  deCourtenay,  and  was  «.,  at  his 
decease  in  ISK,  by  his  elder  son, 

SIR  PHILIP  DE  COLUMBERS,  who,  having 
been  in  the  expedition  made  into  Gaacony  in  the 
38th  Henry  III.,  received  the  honour  of  Imighthood 
for  his  services  upon  that  occasion.  His  lordship 
d.  in  1S78>  and,  having  no  Isaue,  was  succeeded  by 
his  brother, 

JOHN  DE  COLUMBERS.  This  feudal  lord  was' 
in  the  expedition  made  htto  Wales  in  the  10th  Ed- 
ward 1 1  and  in  the  S9d  of  the  same  monardi,  he 
had  summons  to  attend  the  king,  to  give  his  advice 
upon  the  urgent  aAurs  of  the  realm ;  shortly  after 
which  he  received  command  to  be  at  Portsmouth, 
in  order  to  proceed  in  the  expedition  to  Oasoony : 
but  upon  his  arrival  on  the  French  soil,  he  aban- 
doned his  Btuidard,  and  joined  the  enemy,  for  which 
ircasou  his  lands  were  all  immediatdy  seiaed.  We 
ftad  Mm,  however,  subsequently,  (having  made  hia 
peace,)  fai  the  Scotdi  wars,  asd  Edward  L,  and  again 
in  two  yean  afterwards.  His  lordship  m.  Alice,  one 
of  the  daughtsn  and  co-heirs  of  Stephen  de  Pences- 
ter.  and  was  «.,  at  his  decease  about  the  year  1905, 
by  his  elder  son, 

PHILIP  DE  COLUMBERS,  who  was  summoned 
to  parliament  as  Babon  CoirUMSBBa,  tnm  the 
89th  July,  U14,  to3d  March,  1341.  In  the  13th  of 
Edward  IIL,  his  lordship  was  associated  with  Hugh 
de  Ceurtanay,  Earl  of  Devonahire,  in  guarding  the 
coast  of  Hampshirei  He  m.  Allanora^  one  of  the 
dsters  and  hein  of  William,  son  of  William  Martin, 
but  died  without  issue  in  1348,  kaving  Stb^bbn 
DB  CobUMBBBa,  priest  of  the  church  of  Shirewell, 
his  brother  and  heir.  At  the  decease  of  hU  lordship, 
the  barony  otCohvummma  beoame  BxriiroT. 

ABMa-^Ou.,  a  bend  or. 

COLVUiE^BARONd  COLVILE. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  14th  December,  1864, 
49  Henry  IIL 

In  the  time  of  Khw  StsplMn, 
PHILIP  DE  OOLVILEt  bcii«  oppOMd  to  that 


COL 


COM 


b,  taik  c  cHlto  IB  YorkiUpt^  and  ftiriiSia 
kt  agaiwt  him,  but  which  Stephttt  invested*  i«- 
ioced,  and  demoHihad.  la  the  enmiof  nigii  w* 
ftid  this  itedil  knd  one  of  the  witneHia  to  the 
agrafiHiail  batwaea  the  King  of  Ei^lnd,  and  the 
King  of  Scou,  by  wtadch  the  tatter  obMgfaig  hi nuelf 
to  be  fliithfal  to  King  H«nry,did  hoBii«etohim 
■tYork.    TothtoPhittpsiMcaedad, 

WILLIAM  DE  COLVILB,  one  of  the  barons 
who  toolL  up  atms  against  John»  and  was  ex- 
eoBiBBunieafead  by*  the  Pope.  This  William, 
bci^g  taken  prisoner  at  the  batUe  of  Lincoln,  in 
the  let  Henry  IfL,  his  wife  Maude  had  safe  con- 
duct to  the  king,  to  treat  for  his  liberation,  and 
having  accomplished  her  ol^^ect,  obtained  a  royal 
precept  to  William,  Earl  of  Albemarle,  for  the 
rertorattoB  of  her  husband's  castle,  at  Blrham.  in 
the  county  of  Lincofai.  WilUam  de  Colvile  was  ». 
by  his  son, 

AOBERT  DE  COLVILE,  who  had  also  taken 
up  arms  against  John,  and  in  the  17th  of  that 
BBonarch's  reign,  had  letters  of  salbconduct,  with 
Roger  de  JarpevilU  to  the  loyal  presence,  to  treat 
of  peace  on  behalf  of  the  baorona.  Continuing,  how- 
ever,  in  rebeliion,  be  was  taken  prisoner  by  Falcase 
de  Bieant*  fat  the  1st  Henry  IIL    To  this  Robert 


WALTER  DE  COLVILE,  a  paeon  of  no  less 
turbulent  disposition  than  his  predecessoia.  Join- 
ing whhMontfort,  Earl  of  Leicester,  he  was  taken 
prlaooer  by  Prince  Edward,  at  ReaUwortb,  fai  the 
40th  Hcaiy  IIL,  but  under  the  decree,  called  the 
"  Dictum  of  KeaUwerth,"  was  admitted  to acom- 
fmimtitm  tat  Us  lamk  which  had  been  setaed,  and 
he  appeaia  to  hare  bean  sammcaied  to  parliament  as 
a  BAaow  in  the  same  year,  14th  December,  1»L 
His  lordship  d.  in  1276,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

ROGER  DE  COLVILE,  second  baron,  who  was 
sheriflTof  Norfolk  and  Suftdk,  in  the  5Ist  Henry  IIL, 
asMl  paid  £100.  flne  hi  the  14th  Edward  L,  for  per- 
mission to  marry  Ermentrud^  widow  ef  Stephen  de 
Creasy,  by  whom  he  had  issue, 
EnairaD,  his  stacoeMor. 

EHadMth,  IN.  to Basset,  of  Sapoote,  in  the 

county  of  Lincoln,  and'  had, 
.    Siaioa,  whoee  sen  and  heir, 

Ralph  Bassbt,  of  Sapcote,  became 
eventually  co-heir  to  the  Cohriles. 

Alice,  m, Gemun,  asal  had, 

John  Gemun,  who  became  eventually  co- 
heir to  the  Colvilea. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1887,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 
EDMUND   DE  COLVILE,   third   baron,   but 
never  summoned  to  parliament     This  nobleman 
m,   Margaret,  daughter  of  Robert  de  Uflbrd,  and 
dying  in  1315,  was  «.  by  his  son, 

ROBERT  DE  COLVILE,  fourth  baron,  sum- 
moned to  parliament,  from  85th  ^February,  1349, 
to  80th  January,  130B.  His  lordship  d.  in  1368,  and 
was  «.  by  his  son. 

WALTER  DE  COLVILE.  fifth  baron,  but  never 
summoned  to  parliaaraat.  His  lordship  m.  Mar- 
garet, daughter  and  heiress  of  Giles  de  Basiiiv- 
banie,  and  had  issue  a  son, 

ROBERT  DE  COLVILE,   who  died   without 
leavhig  Raipb  Basset,  of  Sapcoie^  and  John 


Gfermm,  (tbof  meatioMd,)  Ma  hain,  between 
whoee  desoendaata  and  rapieatatattvea,  H  is  pn^. 
saaoed,  the  Babont  ov  Coi.TrLs  ia  near  in  ABaT« 
Aaca. 
Aur8.-4>r.  a  fisBBe  gutaa. 

COMPTON  —  BAKON  WILMINO- 
TON,  OF  WIMINGTON, 
IN  THE  COUNTY  OF 
SUSSEX.  VISCOUNT 

PEVENSEY,  AND  EARL 
OF  WIIiMINOTON. 


Baroay,  "I  by  ^, . 

Earldom,  ftc  >    Patent*    t  ^'^  May»  iTui 


f  Ufh  January,  ITSBI 


IClncagi. 

The  Right  Honourable 

SIR  SPENCER  COMPTON.  K.B.,  third  son  of 
James,  third  earl  of  Northampton,  havhig  filled  the 
speaker's  chair  of  the  House  of  Commons,  in  the 
parUaments  of  1714,  and  1722.  and  sutaaequenUy,  the 
oflOoes  of  paymaster  general  of  his  miO»ty's  land 
forces,  and  treasurer  of  Chelsea  Hospital,  was  ele. 
vated  to  the  peerage  on  the  11th  January,  1788,  as 
Boron  Vf^lminglon,  In  1730,  his  lordihip  was  con- 
stituted knd  privy  seal,  and  advanced  on  the  14th 
May,  in  that  year,  to  the  digaltieB  of  FUcount 
PeveHMif,  and  Eahl  ov  Wilmikotok.  In  the 
December  following,  he  was  declared  lord  piesideut 
of  the  council,  and  installed  on  the  SSnd  August, 
1738,  a  KaioHT  of  the  OAaTaa.  He  was  aboone 
of  the  lord's  Justices  during  the  king's  abaence  in 
Hanover,  and  one  of  the  govcmorB  of  the  Charter 
House;  This  nobleman,  who  was  ftttfrncd  a  per* 
sonage  of  great  worth,  abilities,  and  integrity,  died 
unmarried  in  July,  1743,  wl)en  all  his  hoaoum 
became  axTijccr;  while  his  esUtca,  passed  by  his 
lordship's  bequest  to  his  brother,  George,  fourth 
Earl  of  Northampton,  and  have  since  been  carried  by 
that  nobleman's  great  grand-daughter.  Lady  Eliaa- 
beth  Compton,  only  daughter  and  heiress  <rf  CharlMv 
seventh  Earl  of  Northampton,  into  the  Cavsndish 
family,  up^  her  ladyship's  marriage  in  1788,  with 
Lord  George  Cavendish,  uncle  and  heir  presump> 
tive  of  His  Grace  the  Duke  of  Devonshke;  The 
Barony  of  Wilmington  was  revived  on  7th  Sep. 
tember,  1812,  in  the  advancement  of  Charles,  ninth 
and  late  mtl,  to  the  Marquisale  of  Northamp- 
ton. 

AavB^Sa.  a  lion,  passant*  guardaot*  or.  betw. 
three  helmets  ar. 

COMYN  —  EARL    OF  NORTHUM. 
BERLAND. 

Conferred  by  WlUiam,  the  Gonquoor, 
anno  1088. 

In  the  third  year  of  King  William,  the  Conqueror, 
that  monard)  inferred  the  BarMom  ot  Nor- 
tfaumberlaad,  vacant  by  the  death  of  Earl  Caiisi, 
upon  * 

136 


CON 


CON 


ROBERT  COMYN ;  but  the  iioniiiutl<m  ■ocord- 
•d  BO  little  with  the  wlahei  of  the  inhabitants  of  the 
county*  that  they  at  first  resolTed  to  abandon  en- 
tlxely  their  dwelUngs;  being  prevented  doing  so, 
however,  by  the  inclemenqr  of  the  season,  it  was 
then  determined,  at  all  hazards,  to  put  the 
new  earl  to  death.  Of  this  evil  design,  his  lordship 
had  intimation,  through  Egelivine,  Bishop  of  Dur- 
ham, but  disregarding  the  intelUgenoe,  he  repaired 
to  Durham,  with  seven  hundred  soldiers,  and  com- 
menced  a  course  of  plunder  and  bloodshed,  which 
rousing  the  inhabitants  of  the  neighbourhood,  the 
town  was  assaulted  and  carried,  by  a  multitude  of 
country  people,  and  the  earl  and  all  his  troops,  to  a 
man,  put  to  death*  This  occurrence  took  place  in 
1060,  in  a  few  months  alter  his  lordship's  iqpptrint- 
ment  to  the  earldom. 

Anai a.'-Ou.  three  garbs  or. 

CONINGSBY— BARON  CONINGSBY, 

OF   CONINGSBY,  IN  THE 

>       COUNTY    OF     LINCOLN, 

EARL     OF      CONINGSBY. 

BARONESS  AND  VIS- 
COUNTESS CONINGSBY, 
OF  HAMPTON  COURT,  IN 
THE  COUNTY  OF  HERE- 
FORD. 


English  Barony, 
Earkkwn, 


Baronessand  Viscountess, 


18th  June,  171A. 
30th  April,  1719. 
96th  Jan.,  17I6. 


Xincagc. 

The  surname  of  this  family  was  originally  assumed 
trom  the  town  of  Conhigsby,  in  the  county  of  Salop, 
and  the  Coningsbys  are  said  to  have  been  of  ancient 
descent,  but  they  do  not  appear  to  have  attained 
much  importance  until  the  period  of  the  revolution. 
A  Thomas  db  Cowimosbib  certainly  distinguished 
hlmsdf  in  the  martial  reign  of  Edward  III.,  and 
participated  in  the  glory  of  Poictibrs,  and  the 
family  of  which  we  are  about  to  treat  may  have 
sprung  tram  him,  but  of  that  there  is  no  evi- 
dence. 

THOMAS  CONINGSBY,  EsQ^,  having  sealously 
promoted  the  revolution,  attended  King  William 
into  Ireland,  and  was  present  at  the  battle  of  the 
Boynet  where,  being  close  to  his  majesty  when  the 
king  received  a  slight  wound  in  the  shoulder,  he  was 
the  first  to  apply  a  handkerchief  to  the  hurt.  He 
was,  subsequently,  upon  William's  departure  from 
Ireland,  constituted  lord  Justice  with  Lord  Sidney, 
and  elevated  to  the  peerage  of  that  kingdom  as 
Barow  C0NIMO8BT,  ^OanbrasM,  in  the  county  of 
Armagh,  on  the  YJth  AprU,  10g3.  In  which  year  his 
lovdriiip  was  sworn  of  the  privy  council  in  England, 
and  again  in  the  reign  of  Queen  Anne,  when  he  was 
made  vice-treasurer  and  paymaster  of  the  forces  in 
Ireland.  Upon  the  accession  of  King  George  I.  he 
was  made  a  peer  of  Great  Britain,.  (18th  June,  1715,) 
hi  the  dignity  of  Babow  CowiwoeBT,  of  Coningsby, 
te  the  county  of  Lincoln,  and  created  Eabz.  ow 
I'omiraavT,  also  to  the  peeeege  of  Great  Britain, 
198 


on  the  90th  April,  1719,  both  hoDoun  being  in  re^ 
mainder  to  Maboarbt,  Viscountess  Coningsby,  his 
ddest  daughter  by  his  second  wife,  and  her  heirs 
male.  His  lordship  m.  first,  Miss  Gorges,  daughter 
of  Ferdinando  Gorges,  Esq.,  of  Eye,  in  the  county 
of  Hereford,  by  whom  he  had  issue, 

Thomas,  who  m.  ,  daughter  of  John  Carr, 

Esq.,  of  Northumberland,  and  dying  in  the 
lifetime  of  ^^  father,  left  issue, 
Thomas,  who  d.  unmarried. 
RicHABo,  who  «.  his  grandfather  in  the 
Irish  Baboity  of  CoNiMoaBV,  ttfOanbrao- 
oU.    His  lordship  m.  Judith,  daughter  of 
Sir  Thomas  Lawley,  Bart.,  but  died  «.  p, 
on  the  18th  December,  1^,  when  the 
dignity  bxpibbd. 
Mdior,  m.  to  Thomas,  first  Lord  SouthwdL 
Barbara,  m.  to  George  Eyre,  Esq.,  of  Eyre- 
Court,  in  the  county  of  Galway. 
Lettice,  m.  to  Edward  Denny,  Esq.,  of  Tralee, 
in  the  county  of  Kerry. 
Lord  Coningsby  m.  secondly,  Frances,  daughter  and 
co-heir  of  Richard,  Earl  of  Ranelagh,  by  whom  he 
had  two  surviving  daughters,  vis. 

Margaret,  who,  in  the  lifetime  of  her  father 
(26th  January,  17I6),  was  created  Babonbbb 
Alt D  ViscouifTBsa  C0KINO8BY,  of  Hampton- 
Court,  in  the  county  of  Hereford,  with  re- 
mainder to  her  heirs  male. 
Fiances,  m.  to  Charles  Hanbury  Williams.  Esq. 
The  earl  d.  on  the  Ist  May,  1789,  when  the  Babokv 
or  C0NIMO8BT,  of  Clanbrassll,  devolved  upon  his 
grandson,  Ricrabd,  as  stated  above,  and  bxpibbd 
with  that  nobleman   in  the  same  year,  while  his 
dignities  of  Great  Britain  passed  according  to  the 
limitation  to  his  eldest  daughter  (by  his  second 
wife), 

MARGARET,  VloeountMO  Coning^t  <^f  Itamp- 
ton-Xkturt,  who  then  became  CouMTaaa  or  Co- 
lt i  bobby.  Her  ladyship  m.  Sir  Miduid  Newton* 
K.B.,  by  whom  she  had  an  only  son, 

John,  who  d,  in  Infancy. 
Lady  Coningsby  d,  in  1761,  when  leaving  no  issue, 
all  her  own  honours  and  those  inherited  from  her 
father  became  bxtinct. 
Abmb.— Ou.  three  conies  wtjrtmt  ar. 

CONWAY-BARONS  CONWAY,  OF 
RAOLEY,  IN  THE  COUN- 
TY  OF  WARWICK,  VIS- 
COUNTS CONWAY,  OF 
CONWAY  CASTLE,  IN  THE 
COUNTY  OF  CAERNAR. 
VON,  AND  EARL  OF  CON- 
WAY. 

The  English  Barony,     ^  |  ^  TsSnd  March,  1024. 

'' :  Viscounty   V*  1  -^  6th  June,  1(06. 

Earldom,    I  "^fi  |  3rd  Dec.,  1678. 

From 

SIR  HENRY  CONWAY,  who  was  retained  in 
the  BOk  Riduurd  II.  to  do  that  monarch  service  as  a 
knight  all  his  life,  and  in  time  of  peace,  to  have  diet 


COP 


COP 


fior  Umteif.  om  esquire^  one  dnmberJain,  and  torn 
as  also  hay.  oats,  hono-tboet  and  nails  for 


JOHN  CONWAY,  Esq.,  of  Potiithan,  in  the 
oounty  of  Flint,  whose  son, 

SIR  HUGH  CONWAY,  rMeived  the  honour  of 
knighthood  at  the  ooronatioQ  of  Queen  EUaabeth, 
oonsort  of  King  Henry  VII.,  haying  been  previously 
a  aeaknis  supporter  of  the  interests  of  that  monaich» 
and  master  of  his  wardrobeii  From  this  Sir  Hugh 
»n«Uy  sprang,. 

EDWARD  CONWAY,  Esq.,  one  of  the  gentle- 
men  ushen  of  the  chamber  to  Kiqg  Henry  VIII., 
who  m.  Ann^  daughter  and  hdren  of  Richard  Bur- 
dett,  Esq.,  of  Arrow,  in  the  county  of  Warwick,  and 
was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR  JOHN  CONWAY,  KnL,  who  being  in  the 
great  expedition  made  into  Scotland  in  the  1st  year 
of  Edward  VL,  distinguished  hims^io  highly  as  to 
be  made  a  BAwirBRaT.  Sir  John  m.  Catherine 
daughter  of  Sir  Ralph  Vemey,  Knt,  and  was  «.  at 
his  decease,  lome  time  in  the  reign  of  Edward  VLby 
his  ton, 

SIR  JOHN  CONWAY,  who  was  made  goremor 
of  Ostcnd,  by  Robert,  Earl  of  Leicester,  in  the  year 
ISM.  He  m.  Eleue,  daughter  of  Sir  Fulke  GreviUe, 
of  Bcauchamps  Court,  in  the  county  of  Warwick, 
and  dying  in  the  1st  year  of  King  James  I.,  was  «. 
by  his  son, 

SIR  EDWARD  CONWAY.  This  gallant  pei^ 
son  receiTed  the  honour  of  knighthood  flrom  Robert, 
Earl  of  Enex,  at  the  sacking  of  Cadiz,  where  he 
commanded  a  regimttit  in  1508.  After  which  he 
served  in  the  Netherlands,  and  was  governor  of  the 
BrilL  In  the  90th  James  I.  he  was  constituted  one 
of  the  principal  secretariei  of  sUte,  and  elevated  to 
the  peerage  on  the  22nd  March,  1684,  as  Baron 
CovwAY,  0/  Ragiev,  in  the  oounty  of  Warwick,  a 
manor  acquired  by  purchase  towuds  the  dose  of 
.Queen  Elisabeth's  reign.  His  lordship  was  appoint- 
ed captain  of  the  Isle  of  Wight  in  the  December  fol- 
lowing, and  being  again  secretary  of  sUte  in  the  1st 
King  Charles  I.,  was  advanced  to  the  Irish  Vis- 
county or  K1LX.ULTA0B,  in  the  county  of  Antrim, 
in  1626,  in  which  year,  on  the  6th  June,  he  was  cre- 
ated Viscount  Conway,  or  Conway  Castlb, 
in  the  county  ci  Caernarvon.  Hit  lordship  filled 
afterwards  the  high  office  of  prxsidbnt  or  thb 
couNcu,,  and  was  accredited  upon  some  occasion 
ambassador  extraordinary  to  the  court  of  Vienna. 
His  lordship  m.  Dorothy,  daughter  of  Sir  John 
Tiacy,  Knt.,  of  Lodington,  in  the  county  of  Glou- 
cester, and  widow  of  Edward  Bray,  Esq.,  by  whom 
he  had  issue,  Edward,  his  suoceisor  {  Thomas  (Sir), 
a  lieutenant-colonel  in  the  army  hi  the  wars  in  Ger- 
many, and  Ralph  t  with  four  daughters,  vis. 

Frances,  m.  to  Sir  William  PeDiam,  Knt,  of 

Brocklesby,  in  the  county  of  Lincoln. 
Brilliana,  m.  to  Sir  Robert  Harley,  Knt,  of 

Brampton  Bryan,  in  the  county  of  Hereford. 
HeUgawrth,  m.  to  Sir  WilUam  Smith,  Knt,  of 

the  county  of  Essex. 
Mary. 

The  viscount  d.  in  1630,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest 
son, 

EDWARD  CONWAY,  second  Viscount,  who  had 


been  sumiBoned  to  parliament  in  tha4th  of  Charles  I., 
in  his  fiuher's  Barony  of  Conway.  His  lordship 
m,  first,  Frances,  daughter  of  Sir  Francis  Popham, 
Knt,  of  Littlecot,  in  the  county  of  Somenet,  by 
whom  he  had  two  surviving  sons,  Edward  and 
Francis,  snd  two  daughters,  Dorothy,  m,  to  Sir 
Geoige  Rawdon,  Bart,  of  Moira,  in  the  county  of 
Down,  (ancestor of  the  Lords  Moira,  of  Ireland;) 
and  Annsu  His  kirdship  m.  secondly,  Katharine, 
daughter  of  Giles  Heicriblock,  of  Ghent,  but  had 
no  issue.  He  d.  in  1605,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest 
surviving  son, 

EDWARD  CONWAY,  4th  Viscoont,  who  was 
created  Earl  or  Conway,  on  the  Srd  December, 
1679,  and  was  for  some  time  secretary  of  statOi  His 
lordship  m.  first,  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  Hcncage 
Finch,  Seijeant  at  Law,  and  Recorder  of  London, 
and  sister  of  the  Lord  Chancellor,  HenMge,  (Finch,) 
first  Earl  of  Nottingham,  by  whom  he  had  an  only 
■on,  Hcneaga,  who  died  in  infimcy.  He  in.  se- 
condly, EUsabeth,  daughter  of  Henry  Booth,  Earl 
of  Warrington,  and  thirdly,  Ursula,  daughter  of 
Colonel  Stawd,  but  had  no  surviving  issucb  He 
died  in  1683,  when  all  his  honour*  became  rx- 
TiNCT)  but  the  prinoipal  part  of  his  extensive 
esutes  passed,  by  his  lordshjp%  will,  to  the  sons  of 
Sir  Edward  Seymour,  Bart,  of  Bury  Pomeioy,  by 

his  second  wife,  Lettice,  daughter  of Popham, 

Esq.,  of  Littleoote,  with  the  ii^uncUon,  that  the 
inheritor  should  assume  the  surname  and  arms  of 
Conway.  This  fortune  was  first  inherited  by 
Popham  Sbymour,  Esq.,  who  assumed,  of  course, 
the  name  of  Conway,  but  that  gentleman  falling 
in  a  duel  with  Cokmel  Kirk,  4th  June,  1690,  and 
dying  unmarried,  it  passed  to  hii  brother,  FRANcia 
Sryxour,  Esq.,  who  assumed  likewise  the  surname 
of  Conway,  and  was  afterwards  created  Baron 
Conway,  qf  Bagteif,  which  rarony  now  merges 
in  the  MARQUiaATR  or  Hbrtpord. 

Arms^-^.  on  a  bend  ootised  ar.  a  rose  betw.  two 
annulate  guks. 

COPSI  — EARL  OF  NORTHUMBER- 
LAND. 

Conferred  by  William  the  Conqueror,  anno  106& 

The  Earldom  of  the  county  of  NoRTHuaiRBR- 
LAND,  was  held  at  the  time  of  the  conquest,  by 

MORKAR,  younger  son  at  Algar,  Earl  of  the 
county  of  Chester,  and  he  was  left  undisturbed  in 
the  dignity,  tmtil  he  rose  in  robellioQ  against  the 
new  monarch,  when  he  forfeited  the  earldom,  which 
was  then  conferred  upon 

COPSI,  (uncle  of  Tofti,  a  very  distinguished 
Earl  of  Northumberland  under  the  Saxon  rule,)  in 
consideration  of  the  high  character  he  had  attained 
in  coundL  The  new  earl  immediately  expdled 
fkrom  his  territory,  Osulph,  whom  Morkar  had 
pbced  there  tm  his  deputy,  but  that  chief  collecting 
a  force,  compelled  Earl  Cnpai  to  seek  shelter  in  the 
churdi  of  Newbume,  which  being  fired,  the  Earl  of 
Northumberland  was  seised  by  his  opponent  in  an 
attempt  to  escape,  and  was  decapitated  at  the  door 
of  the  church,  on  the  fourth  Iiles  of  March,  in  the 
T  137 


COR 


COR 


fifth  week  after  he  had  the  administntion  of  those 
parts  committed  to  him ;  but  in  the  Tery  next 
autumn,  Omilph  himself  was  slain  by  a  robber, 
with  whom  he  came  casually  into  conflict. 

CORBET— BARONS  CORBET. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  23rd  June,  1295, 
83  Edward  L 

Xintage. 

In  the  time  of  William  the  Conqueror, 

f  Rooaa  ^  sons  of  Corbkt, 
The  brothers*  •]      and      S-lield  of   Roger  de 

(^  RoBBKT, }  Montgomery,  divers 
lorddiips  in  the  county  of  Salop,  and  were  muni- 
ficent benefhcton  to  the  church.    From  the  younger 


ROBERT  CORBET,  Lord  of  Caus,  Ac,  In  the 
county  of  Salop,  who  in  the  22nd  of  Henry  II., 
paid  twenty  marla  for  trespaaring  in  the  king's 
fiorests.  And  in  the  6th  of  Richard  I.,  upon  the 
collection  of  the  scntage  for  that  monarch's  redemp- 
tion, answered  four  pounds,  as  also  twenty  shillings 
mote,  for  one  knight's  fee.  This  Robert,  was  *,  by 
his  son, 

THOMAS  CORBET,  who,  siding  with  the 
barons  in  the  latter  end  of  the  reign  of  John,  had 
his  castle  of  Caus  seised,  but  making  hb  peace  and 
doing  homage,  it  was  restored  in  the  Snd  Henry  III. 
This  feudal  lord  d.  in  three  years  afterwards,  and 
was  «.  by  his  son, 

THOMAS  CORBET,  who  in  the  17th  of 
Henry  III.,  was  oomttelled  with  otha*  barons 
mardicn  to  give  a  pledge  to  the  crown  for  his 
good  conduct.  This  Thomas  was  cast,  in  the  90th 
of  the  same  reign,  in  a  law-suit,  which  he  had  with 
Avioe  and  Lude,  the  daughters  and  heiresses  of 
Roger  de  Say,  for  a  wood  at  Ambaldeston.  In  the 
2Snd  of  Henry  III.,  he  had  summons  aa  a  baion 
marcher,  to  attend  the  king  at  Oxford,  to  consult 
touching  certain  proceedings  of  Lewelin,  Prince  of 
Wales.  In  the  32nd  of  this  same  monarch,  he  was 
constituted  sheriff  of  the  counties  of  Salop  and 
Staflbrd,  and  he  hdd  that  office  for  two  years  and 
a  half.  In  a  few  years  afterwards,  he  attended  the 
king  in  his  expedition  into  Wales,  and  had  com- 
mand to  aid  Hamon  le  Strange,  in  driving  the 
Welch  fkom  Montgomery.  He  was  subsequently 
engaged  several  times  in  the  Wdch  wars.  This  feudal 
lord  fii,  Isabdl,  daughter  of  Reginald,  and  sister  of 
Roger  VanetoTt,  Baron  of  Huberton,  and  had  issue, 
PnTBR,  his  successor. 

Alice,  m.  to  Robert  de  Stafford,  and  had  issue, 
Nidiolas  de  Staflbrd,  whose  son, 
Edmund  de  Staflbrd,  was  fktber  of 
Ralph,  Lord  Stapvord. 
Ehnme,  m.  to  Sir  Bryan  de  Brampton,  and 
had, 

Walter  de  Brampton,  father  of 

Sir  Bryan  de  Bramptom,  who  left  two 
daughters,  co-heiresses, 

Margaret,  m.  to  Robert  Harley, 
Esq.,  ancestor  of  the  Earls  of 
Oxford. 
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Eliwbeth,    m,    to    Edmund    de 
ComwalL 
His  lordship  d.  in  1273,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

PETER  CORBET,  who  having  distinguished 
himself  in  the  wars  ot  King  Edward  I.,  was  sum- 
moned to  parliament  •»  a  baron  by  that  monarch, 
from  the  23rd  June,  1296,  to  96th  September,  1300. 
In  the  27th  of  the  same  reign,  his  lordship  was 
found  by  inquisition,  to  be  one  of  the  next  heirs 
to  Roger  de  Valletort.  Hed.  In  1300,  and  was  s.  by 
his  second,  but  eldest  surviving  son, 

PETER  CORBET,  second  Baron  Corbet,  sum- 
moned to  parliament  from  19th  September,  1302,  to 
14th  March,  1322.  His  lordship  m.  Beatrix,  daugh- 
ter of  John,  Lord  Beauchamp,  of  Haccfae,  but  died 
without  issue,  in  1392,  when  he  was  ».  by  his 
brother, 

JOHN  CORBET,  third  Baron,  at  whose  decease, 
9,  p.,  the  Barony  of  Cobbxt,  became  bxtiwct, 
while  (the  descendanU  of  the  deceased  lord's  aunts,) 
Ralph,  Lord  Staflbrd,  and  Sir  Robert  Harley,  be- 
came his  heirs. 

Arms.— Or.  a  raven  ppr. 

CORBET— VISCOUNTESS  CORBET, 
OF  LINCHDALE,  IN  THE 
COUNTY  OF  SALOP. 

By  Lettcn  Patent,  dated  anno  167B>    The  dig- 
nity for  life  only. 

ICincagc. 

DAME  SARAH  CORBET,  widow  of  Sir  Vincent 
Corbet,  Bart,  of  Moreton  Corbet,  in  the  county  of 
Salop,  (a  descendant  of  the  old  Lords  Corbet,  of 
Caus  Castle,)  and  daughter  of  Sir  Robert  Monson, 
of  Carlton,  in  the  rounty  of  Lhicofai,  was  elevated 
to  the  peerage,  by  letters  patent,  dated  in  1679, /or 
t{fii  onitft  as  ViBcouNTBBS  Corbet,  op  Lincr- 
DALB.  Her  ladyship's  son.  Sir  Vincent  Corbet,  se- 
cond Baronet,  left  a  son.  Sir  Vincent  Corbet,  third 
Baronet,  at  whose  decease,  «.  p.,  in  1688,  the  ba- 
ronetcy became  extinct.  The  peerage  xxpirbd  of 
course,  with  the  viscountess. 

NoTX.— Upon  the  demise  of  Sir  Vhicent  Corbet, 
in  1688,  the  estates  of  the  family  reverted  to  that 
gentleman's  great  uncle,  Richard  Corbet,  Esq.,  of 
Shrewsbury,  whose  lineal  descendant,  Andrew  Cor- 
bet, Esq.,  was  created  a  baronkt,  in  1806,  and  is 
the  present  Sir  Andrxw  Corbbt,  itf  Mortton 
Corbet, 

CORNWALL  —  BARON  FANHOPE, 
IN  THE  COUNTY  OF  HE- 
REFORD.  BARON  MIL- 
BROKE,  IN  THE  COUNTY 
OF  BEDFORD. 

Barony  of  Fanhope,  17th  July,  1433. 
Barony  of  Milbroke,  30th  January,  1442. 

Xincage. 

The  first  notice  of 
SIR  JOHN  CORNWALL,   K.G.,  occurs  In  the 


COB 


COS 


SOthof  Rlcfaanl  IL,  whan,  Mag  pMained  lo 
thtt  king  during  hb  liA,  he  obtained  a  grant  of  100 
marks  per  annum.  In  the  8d  of  Henry  IV.,  Sir 
John,  haTing  deported  hinuelf  with  great  gaUantry 
in  Juating  against  a  Frenchman  at  York,  in  the 
presence  of  the  king,  won  the  iieart  of  that  mo* 
naid&'s  sister,  Elisabeth,  widow  of  John  Holland, 
Earl  of  Huntingdon,  whose  hand  he  Man  after- 
wards obtained,  and  with  her  oonsidecabie  grants 
from  the  crown  to  eq|oy  during  the  }Mdf%  liib^  with 
a  rent  charge  of  400  marks  per  annum  for  his  own. 
In  Ave  years  afterwards  he  was  again  distinguished 
at  a  tournament  hdd  in  L«mdon,  where  he  triumph- 
ed over  a  Scottish  knight;  and  he  was  subsequently 
one  of  the  companions  in  armsof  the  gallant  Hen.  V. 
nt  the  glorious  battle  of  Aoin court.  In  the  6th  of 
the  sama  reign,  he  was  constituted  one  of  tlie  com- 
miaslonect  to  treat  with  the  captain  of  the  castle  of 
Caen  for  the  sunender  of  that  fortress ;  and  upon 
the  departure  of  his  royal  master  ttam  France,  he 
was  left  behind  for  the  definoe  of  those  partsi  for 
all  which  important  serrioes,  and  in  ooniideration 
of  his  connection  with  the  house  of  Plantagenet,  Sir 
John  Cornwall  was  advanced  by  King  Henry  VL,  in 
open  perliament,  to  the  dignity  of  a  mmmou  of  the 
reafan,  under  the  title  of  Barow  Fajthopb,  of  Fan^ 
hope,  in  the  county  of  Herefbrd*  on  the  17th  July, 
1433,  and  created,  on  the  30th  January,  144S,  Barow 
MII.BROKR,  to  bear  that  title  as  afreedcniaen  of  this 
realm,  dec. ;  bat  he  was  always  summoned  to  parlia- 
ment as  «« JtkantU  Commomi/tt  ChmniUr.**  In  the 
18th  of  Henry  VI.,  his  lordship  waa  made  governor 
of  the  town  of  St.  Selcrine,  then  won  by  assault; 
shortly  after  which  he  had  a  grant  ot  the  custody  of 
Charles,  Duke  of  Orleans,  during  the  time  of  the  re- 
straint of  that  prince  in  England. 

This  gallant  nobleman  outlived  his  wife,  the  Prin- 
cess Elisabeth,  by  whom  he  had  no  issue,*  and  died 
in  1443>  when  the  BARowisa  or  Fakhopr  akd 
M11.BBOKB  became  nitTiivcT.  His  lordship  left 
two  iUqgitimate  sons,  Johh  and  Thomas,  fbr  whom 
he  provided  in  his  wia 

Arm8«— Enn.  a  lion  rampant»  gn.  crovmed  or. 
within  a  bordure  aa.  bwantA*. 

CORNWALLIS     —      MARQUESSES 
CORNWALLia 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  lAth  August,  179S. 

Zincage. 

CHARLES  CORNWALLIS,  aeoond  earl  Com- 
waUis,  bom  31st  December,  1738,  having  distin- 
guished himsdf  as  a  military  commander  in  India, 
was  created  Marousbs  Cormwai.lis  on  the  15th 
August,  1792.  In  17S9  his  lordship  was  appointed 
Lord  LiBtmvAiTT  or  InRLAMB,  and  commander 
of  the  forces  these;  in  which  high  situation  he  ac- 
quired the  vqiutation  of  having  restored  puMic 

•  No  itw,  so  says  Dugdale ;  but  Heylin,  in  his 
Lists  of  the  Earls  of  Arundel,  states  that  John  Fits- 
Alan,  Lord  Maltravers,  espoused  for  biM  second  wilb, 
'Maud,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Cornwall,  Lord  Fan- 
hope  ;  and  Lysson  asserts  that  his  lordship  had  one 
legitimate  son  slain  in  France  in  his  own  life-time. 


tranqnilUty  at  that  nahappy  period  by  the  Armneas, 
moderation,  and  humanity  which  governed  his 
councils.  In  1804,  the  marquess  had  the  honour 
of  being  placed  a  aeoond  time  at  the  head  of  the 
government  of  India,  as  governor-general,  and  died 
there  on  the  5th  October,  in  the  following  year. 
His  lordship  m.,  in  July,  1768,  Jemima,  daughter  of 
James  Jones,  Esq.,  and  had  iasue, 

CsAJtuia,  his  sncoesaor. 

Mary,  m,  in  1785,  to  Mark  Shigleion,  Esq., 
M.P.*  principal  storekeeper  to   the  ocd- 


The  marqueas,  who  was  a  Kiciobt  of  the  Qartsr, 
was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

CHARLES  CORNWALLIS,  third  earl  and 
second  marquess,  bom  10th  October,  1774,  m.  17th 
April,  1707>  Louisa,  fourth  daughter  of  Alexander, 
fourth  Duke  of  Gordon,  and  had  issue, 

Jane,  m.  to  Richard,  third  and  present  Lord 
Braybroka 

liouisa. 

Jemima*  m.  to  Lord  EIlot»  eldest  son  of  the 
Earl  of  St.  Germana^ 

Mary,  m.  to  Charlea  Roea,  Ei^ 

Elisabeth. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1883,  whan  the  MARguiaATS  ov 
CoRmvALLia  bxfirbd;  but  the  baai.oom  and 
other  honours  reverted  to  his  uncle,  John,  Lord 
Bishop  of  LitchAeld  and  Coventry,  and  are  extant  in 
his  lordship's  son,  Jamea,  preacnt  Earl  Cormwai*- 

X.IS. 

Arms.— Sa.  guttee  d'eau,  on  a  feaae  ar.,  three  Cor- 
nish choughs  ppr. 

C08PATRICK  —  EARL  OF  NORTH- 
UMBERLAND. 

Conferred  by  William  the  Conqueror,  anno  106B. 

ICiiuagc. 

upon  the  death  of  Robert  Comyn,  Earl  of  North- 
umberland, 

COSPATRICK,  aon  of  Maldred,  son  of  Crinan, 
(which  Maldred  was  progenitor  to  the  second  dy- 
nasty of  the  great  flunlly  of  Neville,  still  repre- 
sented by  the  earls  of  Abergavenny,)  obtained  the 
earldom  of  the  county  of  Northumberland  Arom  the 
Conqueror  for  a  large  sum  of  money ;  but  soon  af- 
terwards becoming  dtssatiallfrti  with  the  sway  of  the 
new  ruler,  his  lordship,  with  other  northern  chiefs, 
fled  into  Scotland,  taking  with  them  young  Eooar 
Atbliko,  Agitha,  his  mother,  and  Margaret  and 
Christian,  his  sbters,  and  were  well  received  by 
King  Malcolm. 

From  Scotland  the  earl  made  several  hostile  incur- 
sions into  England,  and  was  deprived  of  the  earldom 
tot  those  repeated  treasoni  He  subsequently  ob- 
tained Dunbar,  with  the  adjacent  lands  in  Loudon, 
fipom  the  Scottish  monarch  for  his  subsistence,  but 
died  soon  afterwards,  leaving  three  sons  and  a 
daughter, 

Julian,  whom  King  Henry  II.  gave  in  marriage 
to  Ranulph  de  Merley,  of  Morpeth*  a  great 
Northumberland  baron. 

Anna.— OukSf  a  saltier  art 

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COTTINGTON— BARON  CX)TTINO- 
TON,  OF  HAMWORTH,  IN 
THE  COUNTY  OF  MID- 
DLESEX. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dMed  19th  July,  l(t31. 

ICiiuagf. 

FRANCtS  COTTINOTON,  Eaq.,  fourth  ton  of 
Philip  Cottington,  Eiq.*  of  Godmamton,  in  the 
county  of  Somcnetr  having  hdd  the  office  of 
clerk  ai  the  council  in  the  reign  of  King  James  I., 
and  being  secretary  to  Charles,  Prince  of  Wales,  was 
crnted  a  baboitkt  by  that  monarch  on  the  16th 
February,  1690.  Alter  the  accession  of  King 
Charles  I.,  Sir  Francis  Cottington  was  constituted 
cfaanodlor  and  under  treasurer  of  the  exchequer  t 
and  being  sccredited  ambassador  to  the  court  of 
Madrid,  for  the  purpose  of  negodeting  »  peace,  he 
was  elevated  to  the  peerage  on  the  10th  July,  1631, 
as  Lord  Cottinotoit,  Baron  qf  Hanwar^,  in  the 
county  of  Middlesex.  His  lordship  was  next  com- 
missioned to  exercise  the  importtuit  office  of  lord 
treasurer  during  the  king's  absence  In  Scotland,  in 
the  9th  Charles  I.,  and  was  constituted  master  of 
the  wards  upon  his  mi^asty's  return.  During  the 
dvil  wars.  Lord  Cottington  remained  faithfully 
attached  to  his  royal  master,  and  eventually  went 
into  exile  with  King  Charles  II.,  ftom  which  he 
never  returned.  His  lordship  married  Anne,  daugh- 
ter of  Sir  William  Meredith,  KnL,  and  widow  of 
Sir  Robert  Brett,  by  whom  he  bad  a  son  and 
four  daughters,  all  of  whom  predeceased  him 
unmarried.  He  d.  at  Valladolid,  In  16fi3,  when  the 
the  BABOMY  or  CorriifOTON  became  Bzrrif ct,  and 
his  estates  passed  to  his  nephew,  Charlbs  Cot- 
TiiroTON,  Esq.,  who  had  his  lordship's  remains 
brought  over  to  England,  and  interred  in  Westmins- 
ter Abbey,  where  he  erected  a  stately  monument. 

ABxa.-^Aa.  a  fesse  between  three  roses,  or. 


COVENTRY— BARONS  COVENTRY, 
OF  AYLESBOROUOH,  IN 
THE  COUNTY  OF  WOR. 
CESTER. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  10th  April,  10S8. 

ICincage. 

This,  family  rose  first  into  Importance  through 

JOHN  COVENTRY,  an  opulent  mercer  of  the 
dty  of  London,  who  filled  the  dvic  chair  in  1425, 
and  was  one  of  the  executors  of  the  celebrated  Sir 
Richard  Whittington.  From  this  worthy  dtiaen 
descended 

THOMAS  COVENTRY,  Esq.,  an  eminent 
lawyer,  temp.  Elisabeth  and  King  James  I.  In  the 
S8th  of  the  former  reign,  he  was  chosen  autumnal 
reader  by  the  sodety  of  the  inner  Temple,  but  was 
obliged  to  postpone  the  ftilfifanent  of  his  task  to  the 
ensuing  Lent,  owing  to  the  plague  then  raging  in 
London.  He  was  soon  afterwards  advanced  to  the 
dignity  of  the  coif,  and,  in  the  3d  year  of  King 
James,  was  appointed  king's  serjeant;  before  the 
close  of  which  year,  being  constituted  one  of  the 
judges  of  the  court  of  common  pleas,  he  took  his 
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seat  upon  the  bendi,  but  surriyed  his  promotion  » 
few  months  only.     He  m.  Margaret,  daughter  and 

hdress  of Jeffreys,  Esq.,  of  Croome-d'Abitot, 

and  bad  issue, 

Thomab,  his  successor. 

William,   of  Ridmarley,   In   the  county  of 

Worcester. 
Walter,  from  whom  the  present  Earls  of  Co- 
ventry derive: 
Joan,  IN.  to  — —  Rogers  Esq.,  of  Surrey. 
Catherine,  m.  to  William  Child,  Esq. 
Anne,  m.  to  George  Frampton,  Esq. 
He  was  «.  by  hb  eldest  son, 

THOMAS  COVENTRY,  Esq.,  who,  having 
adopted  the  learned  profession  of  his  father,  at- 
tained the  very  highest  honours  of  the  bar.  His 
advancement  commenced  with  the  reoordership  of 
London;  he  was  then  appcdnted  soUdtor-general, 
and  honoured  with  knighthood,  and,  in  the  Ittth  of 
James  I.,  succeeded  to  the  attomey-generalship. 
In  the  first  of  King  Charles  I.,  Sir  Thomas  was 
constituted  loao  kxbpbr  of  thb  obbat  sbal, 
and  devatad  to  the  peerage  on  the  10th  April,  1698, 
as  BABOif  CovBiTTBT,  1^  AjfMbwnntgh,  in  th« 
eountp  ^  WcrcuUr,  His  lordship  m.  first,  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Edward  Sebright,  Esq.,  of  Besford,  in 
the  county  of  Worcester,  and  had  lame, 
Thomas,  his  successor, 
Elixabeth,  m.  to  Sir  John  Hare,  of  Stow-Bar- 
dolph.  In  the  county  of  Norfolk. 
He  nu  secondly,  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  J<dm  Al- 
dersey,  Esq.,  of  Spurstow,  and  widow  of  William 
Pitchford,  E^.,  by  whom  he  had 

John,  m.  to  Ellsi^beth,  daughter  and  eo-hdr  of 
John  Coles,  Esq.,  of  Barton,  in  the  county 
of  Somerset,  and  widow  of  Herbert  Dod- 
dlngton,  Esq.,  and  had 

John,  (Sir,  K.B.)  member  of  the  Long 
PirUament  for  Weymouth.  The  out- 
rage upon  this  gentleman,  and  its  pro- 
vocation, which  gave  rise  to  the  wdl- 
known  Covbhtby  act,  arose  thus  :— 
Upon  the  occasion  of  a  money  grant 
being  carried  in  the  House  of  Common^ 
it  was  proposed  by  opposition  that  the 
supplies  for  It  should  be  raised  by  a  tax 
upon  playhouses,  which  being  resisted 
by  the  court  party,  upon  the  plea 
"  that  playcn  were  the  king's  servants* 
and  a  part  of-  his  pleasure,"  Sir  John 
Coventry  asked  whether  did  the  king's 
pleasure  Ue  among  the  men  or  the  wo- 
men that  acted?— an  observation  that 
exdted  so  much  indignation  In  the 
royal  cirde,  that  it  was  determined  to 
inflict  summary  punishment  upon  the 
utterer.  The  Duke  of  York  told  Bur- 
net "  that  he  had  said  every  thing  t6 
divert  the  king  from  the  resolution  he 
had  taken,  whidi  waa  to  send  some 
guards  to  watch  in  the  street  where  Sir 
John  Coventry  lodged,  and  to  set  a 
mark  upon  him."  The  outrage,  by  Ulls 
of  indictment,  was  found  to  have  been 
committed  by  Sir  Thomas  SandyB,Knt., 
Charles  O'Brien,  Esq.,  Simon  Parry, 


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And  MtlM  Rtevm,  who  lied  ftrom  Jus- 
tice, not  daring  to  abide  a  legal  triaL 
**  Aa  Coventry  was  going  home,"  tayi 
Bumet»  "  they  drew  about  him :  he 
•tood  up  to  the  wall,  and  snatched  the 
flambeau  out  of  hia  servantTa  handa; 
and  with  that  in  one  hand,  and  his 
Bword  in  the  other,  he  defimded  himself 
•o  well,  that  he  got  great  credit  by  it 
He  wounded  some  of  them  i  Imt  was 
soon  disarmed,  and  then  they  cut  his 
nose  to  the  bone,  to  teach  him  to  re- 
member what  respect  he  owed  to  the 
kings  and  so  they  left  him,  and  went 
to  tlie  Duke  of  Monmouth's,  where 
O'Brien's  arm  was  dressed.  The  matter 
was  executed  by  orders  flrom  the  duke, 
for  which  he  was  severely  censured, 
because  he  lived  tlien  upon  terma  of 
friendship  with  Coventry.  Coventry 
had  his  note  so  well  needled  up,  that 
the  sear  was  scarcdy  to  be  discerned. 
This  put  the  house  of  commons  in  a 
furloua  uproar:  they  passed  a  bill  of 
banishment  against  the  actors  of  it, 
and  put  a  clause  in  it,  that  it  should 
not  be  In  the  king's  power  to  pardon 
them,  and  that  it  should  be  death  to 
maim  any  person."  This  Sir  John  Co- 
ventry died  unmarried,  and  endowed 
an  hospital  at  Wiveliscomb,  in  the 
.  county  of  Somerset. 
Francis,  married  thrice,  but  had  issue  <mly  by 
hia  third  wife,  Elisabeth,  daughter  and  co- 
heiress of  John  Manning,  Esq.,  of  London, 
and  widow  of  Robert  Csesor,  Esq.,  namely, 
Francis,  who  d.  unmarried  in  1686. 
EUiabeth,  m.  to  Sir  William  Keyt,  Bart., 

of  EUngton,  Glouoestershira 
Utruda,  m.  to  Sir  Lacon-Wllliam  Child, 
Knt. 
Henry,  one  of  the  privy  ooundl  of  King 
Charles  II.,  a  diplomatist  in  the  beginning 
of  that  monarch's  reign,  and  subsequently 
one  of  hia  nu^^ty's  principal  secretaries  of 
state.    He  d.  a  bachelor  on  the  7th  Decem- 
ber, 1686. 
William  (Sir),  a  privy-oouncUlor,  secretary  of 
theadpilralty,  temp.  Charles  II.   "Aman," 
says  Burnet,  ««ofgreat  notions  and  eminent 
▼irtuJBs;  the  best  speaker  in  the  House  of 
Commons,  and  capable  of  bearing  the  chief 
ministry,  as  it  was  once  thought  he  was 
very  near  it,  and  deserved  it  more  than  all 
the  rest  did."     Sir  William  was,  however, 
forbid  the  court  fbr  sending  a  challenge  to 
the  Duke  of  Buckingham ;  after  which  he 
redded  in  private  until  his  decease  in  1686, 
at  Minster  Lovd,  near  Whitney,  in  Oxford- 
shircb    Sir  William  Coventry  d.  unmarried. 
Anne,  m.  to  Sir  William  Savile,   Bart.,   of 

Thomhill,  in  the  county  of  York. 
Mary,  «n.  to  Henry  Frederick  Thynne,  Esq.,  of 

Loni^ete,  in  the  county  of  Wilts. 
Margaret,  m,  to  Anthony,  Earl  of  Shaftesbury. 
Dorothy,  m.  to  Six  John  Packington>  Bart,  of 


Westwood,  in  the  county  of  Worcester. 
This  lady,  who  was  distinguished  by  her  In- 
tdligenoe  and  piety,  was  esteemed  the  au- 
thor of  THaWHox.B  Duty  or  Mam. 
Thomas,  Lord  Coventry^  died  at  Durham  House,  in 
the  Strand,  London,  Uth  January,.  1640,  and  Lord 
Clarendon  says  that  **  he  discharged  all  the  offices 
he  went  through  with  great  abilities  and  singular 
reputation  of  integrity;  that  he  ei^oyed  his  place  of 
lord  keeper  with  universal  reputation  (and,  sure. 
Justice  was  never  better  administered,)  for  the  space 
of  about  sixteen  years,  even  to  his  death,  some 
months  before  he  was  sixty  years  of  age."     Hb 
lordship  was  ».  by  his  eldest  son, 

THOMAS  COVENTRY,  second  baron,  who  in. 
Mary,  daughter  of  Sir  William  Craven,  Knt,  and 
sister  of  William,  Earl  Craven,  by  whom  he  had 
two  sons,  Geoige  and  Thomas.  His  lordship  d,  S7th 
October,  1661,and  was  «.  by  the  elder, 

GEORGE  COVENTRY,  third  baron,  this  noble- 
man m,  18th  July,  1603,  Margaret,  daughter  of  John, 
Earl  of  Thanet,  by  whom  he  had  surviving  issuo, 
JoBif,  his  successor. 

Margaret,  m.  to  Charles,  Earl  of  Wiltshire, 
afterwards  Duke  of  Bolton,  and  died «.  p, 
in  1683. 
His  lordship,  d.  Uth  December,  1680,  and  was  «.  by 
his  son, 

JOHN  COVENTRY,  fourth  baron,  at  whose  de- 
cease, unmarried,  85th  July^    1685,  the  title  and 
estates  reverted  to  his  unde. 
The  Honourable 

THOMAS  COVENTRY,  of  Snitfleld,  in  the 
county  of  Warwick,  as  fifth  Baron  Coventry.  His 
lordship  was  advanced  by  letters  patent,  dated  26th 
April,  1607*  to  the  dignities  of  VUeount  Deerhurtt, 
and  Earjl  of  Covsntry,  the  limitation  extending 
to  William,  Thomas,  and  Hedry  Coventry,  grand- 
sons of  Walter  Coventry,  brother  of  the  Lord 
Keeper  Coventry.  He  m.  first,  WinifVede,  daughter 
of  Pierce  Edgcombe,  Esq.,  of  Mount  Edgcombe,  In 
the  county  of  Devon,  and  had  two  surviving  sons, 
Thomas  and  Gilbert  His  lordship  m.  secondly, 
Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Richard  Graham,  Esq.,  (who 
espoused,  after  the  earl's  decease,  Thomas  Savage, 
Esq.,  of  Elmley  Castle,  In  the  county  of  Worcester,) 
by  whom  he  had  no  Issue.  He  d.  on  the  I5th  July, 
1680,  and  was  «.  by  his  elder  son, 

THOMAS  COVENTRY,  second  earl,  who  m. 
Anne,  daughter  of  Henry,  Duke  of  Beaufort,  and 
dying  In  1710,  was  «.  by  his  only  surviving  son, 

THOMAS  COVENTRY,  third  earl,  at  whose 
decease  at  Eton  College,  88th  January,  1711-12,  the 
honours  and  estates  reverted  to  his  unde, 

GILBERT  COVENTRY,  fourth  earl,  who  m. 
first,  Dorothy,  daughter  of  Sir  William  Keyt,  Bart, 
of  Ebrlngton,  in  the  county  (rf  Gloucester,  and  had 
an  only  daughter, 

Anne,  m.  to  Sir  William  Carew,  Bart,  ot 
Anthony,  in  ComwaU. 
His  lordship  m.  secondly,  Anne,  daughter  of  Sir 
Streynsham  Masters,  but  had  no  issue.  He  d.  on 
the  27th  October,  1718,  when  the  Earldom  and 
Viscounty,  with  the  bulk  of  his  estates,  passed  to 
his  relative,  William  Coventry,  Esq.,  of  the  City  of 
Londoo,  one  of  the  clerks  of  the  green  doth,  ac- 

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oordteg  to  the  limltadoD  of  thapaCoit  ctf  lflB7>  (from 
whom  the  extant  Earb  of  Coventry  inherit.)  while 
the  Bakony  ow  CoYXJiTitY  of  Aylbsboiiouoh, 
became  sztinctt. 

Aaaia.— Ss.  a  liBMe  cnn.  between  three  oeMents. 
or. 

COURCY— EARL  OF  BEDFORD. 
By  charter,  dated  tai  1388. 

lUiicasc 

IGELRAM  DE  COURCY  m.  Catherine,  daugh- 
ter of  the  Duke  of  Auitria.  and  had  a  eon, 

INdELRAM  DE  COURCY.  who  was  lo  highly 
esteemed  by  King  Edward  IIL.  that  that  monarch 
bestowed  upon  him  his  daughter  Isabd.  in  marriage, 
and  created  him  Earl  op  BaoFonD.  conferring 
upon  him  aleo  the  ribbon  of  the  garter.    His  lord- 
ship d.  in  1397*  leaving  issue  by  the  princess» 
Mary.  m.  to  Robert  de  Barr. 
Philippa.  m.  to  Robert  de  Vere,  Earl  of  Ox- 
ford, and  Duke  of  Ireland,  one  of  the  un- 
happy fsvourites  of  Richard  II. 
Upon  the  decease  of  his  lordship,  the  EAaLOoai  or 
Beopord,  became  bxtinct. 
ASM8.— Barry  of  six.  Vairte  and  gules. 

COURTENAY  —  BARONS  COURTE- 
NAY.  EARLS  OF  DEVON. 

Barony,  by  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  Gth 

February,  1399, 87  Edward  I. 

Earidom,  by  Letters  Patent,  dated  SSnd 

February,  133ft. 

The  Courtenays,  one  of  the  moet  illustrious  races 
amongst  the  British  noUlity,  and  of  which  a  branch 
still  exists,  deduced  their  pedigree  paternally  from 
Athon,  who  himself  descended  from  Pharamokd, 
founder  in  420  of  the  French  monarchy,  and  com- 
mon patriarch  of  all  the  kings  of  France.  This 
Athon,  having  fortified,  during  the  reign  of  Ro- 
bert  the  Wise,  the  town  of  CouaTXNAV,  in  the 
Isle  of  France,  thence  adopted  his  surname^  But 
as  the  power  of  the  Courtenays  in  England,  princi- 
pally arose  fkom  the  great  alllanres  formed  by  the 
first  members  of  the  £smily  who  settled  here,  we 
shall  paes  at  once  to  their  maternal  pedigrea 

GODFRY,  Earl  of  Ewe  and  Brion,  natural  son 
of  Richard  I.,  Duke  of  Normandy,  was  fkther  of 

GILBERT,  Earl  of  Biion,  who  had  two  sons, 
Richard,  ancestor  of  the  house  of  Clare,  and 

BALDWYN  DE  BRIONIS,  who,  for  the  distin- 
guished  part  he  had  in  the  conquest,  obtafaied  from 
King  William,  the  Barony  of  Okehampton*  the 
custody  of  the  county  of  Devon,  and  the  govern- 
ment of  thc^astle  of  Exeter  in  fee.  He  m,  Albreda. 
daughter  of  Richard,  sumamed  Goz,  Count  of 
Avranche,  and  had,  with  other  issue, 

Richard,  sumamed  ox  Rbdvxra. 

Robert,  Governor  of  Brione. 

Emma,  m,  fint«  to  William  Avenal,  and  so- 

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amdly,  lo  William  de  Abnods,  by  the  latter 
of  whom  she  had  issue, 

RoBXRT  DB*ABRAHCia»  who,  upon  the 
resignaticm  of  his  uncl^  Richard  de 
Redvers,  obtained  agrant  of  the  Barony 
of  Okdiampton,  the  oAoeof  hereditary 
sberiir  of  Devon,  and  the  government 
of  Exeter  Castle.  He  m.  a  daughter  of 
Godwyn  Dole,  asMl  left  an  only  daughter 
andheiiaes, 

Maud  db  AxRAvcia,  who  m.  first, 

Deincourt,  by  whom  she  had 

a  daughter, 

Hawibb,  m.  to  Sir  Rboihajud 

DB    COURTBHAT,    Of    whom 


Maud,  espoused  secondly,  Robert 
Fita-Edith,  natural  son  of  King 
Henry  I.,  and  had  another 
daughter, 

MATII.DA,  m.  to  William  de 
Courtenay,  brother  of  Sir 
Rf(ginald. 
RICHARD  DE  ABRANCIS.  sumamed  dx  Rxd- 
vxRa,  having  succeeded  to  the  honours  and  posses- 
sions of  his  Csther,  resigned  the  Barmy  of  Oke- 
hamplon,  the  sheriffalty  of  Devon,  and  the  custody 
of  the  Caatle  of  Exeter,  in  favour  of  his  nephew 
Robert  de  Abrands,  mentioned  above,   and  was 
created  by  King  Henry  L,  Earl,  op  Dbvom,  with  a 
grant  of  the  Isle  of  Wight  in  fee.    This  nobleman, 
(who  from  residing  chiefly  at  Exeter,  was  generally 
called  Earl  of  Exeter,)  m.  Adelia^  daughter  and  co- 
heiress of  William  FiU-Osbome,  Earl  of  Herefotd, 
and  had  issue, 

Balowyn  db  RxDTBRa,  his  successor. 
William  de  Redvers,  sumamed  ox  Vxrnok. 
Robert  de  Redvers. 

Hadewise.  m.  to  William  de  Romare,  Earl  of 
Lincoln. 
Richard  de  Redvers,  first  Earl  of  Devon,  d.  in 
1137,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

BALDWYN  DE  REDVERS,  as  second  Earl  of 
Devon.  This  nobleman,  upon  the  demise  of  King 
Henry  I.,  espousing  the  cause  of  the  Empress  Maud, 
took  up  arms,  and  immediately  fortified  his  Castle  of 
Exeter,  and  the  Isle  of  Wight ;  but  being  besieged 
by  King  Stephen,  he  was  obliged  to  surrender  the 
castle,  and  all  his  other  possessions,  and  to  withdraw 
with  his  innily  from  the  kingdom.  We  find  him 
however  soon  again  returning,  and  in  the  e^|oymcnt 
of  the  Earldom  of  Devon;  but,  Uke  hto  father,gene- 
raUy  styled  Karl  «f  BsHer,  ttom  residing  in  that 
dty.  His  lordship  m.  Luda,  daughter  of  Dni  de 
Bkim,  and  had  issu^ 

Richard,  his  successor. 

William,  sumamed  de  VeniOD,  of  whom  her»> 

after,  as  sixth  Earl  of  Devon. 
Maud,  m.  to  Ralph  Avenill. 
He  d.  in  June,  1166,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

RICHARD  DE  REDVERS,  third  Earl  of  Devon, 
who  wedded  JDionysIa,  daughter  of  Reginald  de 
DuastanviU,  (natural  son  of  King  Henry  I.,)  Earl 
of  Cornwall,  and  had  two  sons,  successive  Earls. 
His  kMTdship  d.  in  1168,  and  was  «.  by  the  dder, 
BALDWIN   DE    REDVERS,   fourth   Earl  of 


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Devon,  at  wbOM  dttetme,  without  Imie*  tlie  hoikoun 
devolved  upon  hit  brother, 

RICHARD  DE  REDVERS»  fifth  Earl  of  Devon, 
vrtio  died  also  tine  prott,  when  the  honours  reverted 
to  hie  uncles 

WILLIAM  DE  REDVERS,  lumained  FemoM, 
M  tixth  Earl  of  Devon.  Thfa  noblemaa,  upon  the 
•eoond  coronation  of  King  Richard  I.,  wai  one  of 
the  fonr  eark  that  carried  the  eilken  canopy,  being 
then  ttyled,  "  Earl  of  the  tele  of  Wight.**  Hii 
lordship  appears  to  fa&ve  adhered  steadily  to  King 
John,  for  we  find  that  monarch,  in  the  eighteenth 
of  his  rtign,  providing  for  the  security  of  the  earl's 
property,  against  Louis  of  France,  which  from  his 
advanced  age,  he  was  unable  to  defiend  himself.  He 
m.  MabA,  daughter  of  Robert,  Earl  of  Mellent,  by 
whom  he  acquired  a  considerable  accession  to  his 
landed  possessions,  and  had  issue, 

Baidwin,  who  m.  Margaret,  daughter  and 
hdresB  of  Warine  Fitagerald,  and  left  at  his 
decease,  1st  September,  1S16,  (in  the  Ilf^ 
time  of  his  firther,)  an  only  son, 

BALDwm,  of  whom  presently,  as  7th 
EAai<  ov  Davoir. 
Margaret,  the  widow,  was  forced,  according 
to  Matthew  Paris,  by  Ming  John,  to  marry 
**  that  impious,  ignoble,  sad  base  condition- 
ed man,  FaOede  Breant,"  of  which  marriage, 
he  says,  oue  wrote  these  lines  at  the  time^ 

Lex  oonnectit  eos,  amor  et  concordia  Lecti : 
Sed  Lex  qujdis  I  Amor  qualis  I  Concordia  qualis  ? 
Lex  exlex  i  amor  exosus,  concordia  discoxs. 

Parfa  continues^"  On  a  time  being  in  bed 
with  him,  he  dreamed  that  a  stone  of  an 
extnor^nary  bigness,  hkt  a  thunderbolt, 
burst  out  of  the  tower  of  the  church  of  St. 
Albans,  and  falling  upon  him,  crusht  him  to 
pieces.  Whereupon  starting  out  of  his  sleep, 
and,  with  great  amaaement,  tronbling,  she 
asked  him  what  the  matter  was,  and  how  he 
did?  To  whom  he  answered,  *  I  have  in 
my  time  undergone  many  perils,  but  never 
was  so  much  terrified,  as  in  this  dream,* 
And,  having  told  her  all  particulars,  she 
repUed,  that  he  had  grevionsly  oAmded 
St  Albau,  by  pointing  that  church  with 
blood,  and  plundering  the  abbey  t  and 
therefore  advised  him,  for  preventing  a 
more  grievous  revenge,  to  reconcile  himself 
to  that  holy  martyr.  Wherefore,  lodging 
then  at  Lupton,  he  forthwith  arose  and  went 
to  St.  Albans;  and  having  sent  for  the 
abbot,  feU  upon  his  knees  with  tears,  and 
Iwlding  up  his  hands,  said,  '  Lord  have 
mercy  upon  me,  for  I  have  grievously 
oflimded  Ood,  and  his  blessed  martyr,  St. 
Alben ;  but  to  a  sinner  there  is  mercy :  let 
me  therefore,  by  your  leave,  speak  to  your 
convent  in  chapter,  to  ask  pardon  of  them 
In  your  presence  for  what  I  have  done.' 
Whcteunto,  the  abbot  consented,  admiring 
to  see  such  lamb-like  humility  in  a  wolf. 
Therefore,  putting  off  his  apparel,  he  en- 
tCTed  the  chapter  house,  bearing  a  rod  in  his 
hand ;  and,  coofesalng  his  fimlt,  (wtddi  he 


said  he  did  in  time  of  war,)  received  a  lash 
by  every  one  of  the  monks  upon  his  naked 
body  t  and  when  he  had  put  on  his  clothes 
again,  he  went  and  sate  by  the  abbot,  and 
said,  •  This  my  wife  hath  caused  me  to  do 
for  a  dream ;  but  if  you  require  restitutida 
for  what  I  then  took,  I  will  not  hearken  to 
you.'  And  so  he  departed,  the  abbot  and 
monks  being  glad,  that  they  wen  so  rid  of 
him,  without  doing  them  any  more  mis- 
chief.'* 
Joane,  »ii.  first,  to  William  Brewera,  and 
secondly,  to  Hubert  de  Bu^h«  chamberlain 
to  the  king,  but  had  no  issue. 
Mary,  m.  Roaanr  ns  Courtbhav,  feudal  Ba- 
ron of  Okdiampton,  son  and  successor  of  Sir 
Reginald  de  Courtenay  and  Maud  de  Abran- 
ds,  (refer  to  Emma,  daughter  of  Baldwin 
de  Abrancis,  first  Baron  of  Okehampton,) 
and  conveyed  to  her  husband  the  head  of 
the  Barony  of  Devonshire,  with  the  castle 
of  Plimton.  Of  this  marriage,  were  issue. 
Sir  Huoh  or  Codrtbkay,  successor  to 

his  fkther. 
Sir  William  de  Courtenay,  sumamed  de 
Musberrie,  who  m.  Joane,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Basset,  but  died  «.  p. 
Hauise,  m.  to  John  de  NeviL 
Robert  de  Courtenay,  Baron  of  Okdiampton. 
was  «.  by  his  elder  son. 

Sir  Hooh  db  CovRTRif  at,  as  third 
Baron  of  Okehampton.  His 
lordship  m.  Alianore,  daughter 
of  Hugh  le  Despencer,  (fiither 
of  Hugh,  Earl  of  Winchester,) 
by  whom,  (whod.  11th  October* 
1328,)  he  had  issue, 

HuoH  (Sir),  his  successor,  of 
whom  hereafter,  as  succes- 
sor to  the  estates  of  the 
Redverses,  and  the  person 
in   whom   the  Earldom 
or  Dbvon  was  revived. 
PhiUp  (Sir),  who  feU  at  the 
battle  of    ShiveUn,    24th 
June,    1314,   and    d.   un*- 
married. 
Isabel,  m.  to  John  St.  John, 
Baron  St.  John,  of  Basing. 
Aveline,  m.  to  Sir  John  Gifr 

ford,  Knt. 
Egeline,  m.  to  Robert  Scales. 
Margaret,    m.    to  John  de 
Moels. 
HU  lordship  d,  88th  February,  1S91. 
William,  sixth  Earl  of  'Devon,  d,  lith  September, 
1S16,  and  was  «.  by  his  grandson, 

BALDWIN  DE  REDVERS,  seventh  Earl  of 
Devon.  In  the  11th  Henry  III.  GiOertds  Ciart,  Eari. 
or  Oloucbrtrr  akd  Hbrtford,  paid  a  flneof  two 
thousand  marks  to  the  king  for  permission  to  marry 
his  ddest  daughter  to  this  young  nobleman :  where- 
upon aU  lus  demesne  buids,  which  were  then  valued 
at  £aOO  per  annum,  were  placed  under  the  guardian- 
ship of  the  Earl  of  Gknicester,  until  he  should  attain 
maturity.    In  the  94th  of  the  same  reign,  the  king, 

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keeping  his  Clirifltmat  at  Wincheiter,  at  tbeinitaace 
of  Richerd,  Earl  of  Cornwall,  under  whoee  tuition 
Baldwin  then  wu,  girded  his  lordship  with  the  sword 
of  knighthood ;  and  Investing  him  with  the  Earldom 
of  the  laLBOF  Wioht*  bestowed  upon  him  Amicia, 
the  daughter  of  the  said  Earl  of  Gloucester,  in  mar- 
riageu  The  Earl  of  Devon  d.  in  five  years  afterwards. 
In  the  flower  of  his  youth,  anno  ISM,  leaving  issue, 

Baldwiit,  his  suoceaebr. 

Margaret,  a  nun  at  Laoock. 

IsABBL,  successor  to  her  brother. 
His  lordship  was  «.  by  his  son, 

BALDWIN  DE  REDVERS,  eighth  Earl  of 
Devon,  who  was  oonuQitted  to  the  tuition  of  Peter 
de  Savoy,  uncle  of  Queen  Eleanor,  and  a  person  of' 
great  note  at  that  period.  His  lordship  did  homage, 
and  had  livery  of  his  lands  in  the  41st  Henry  IIL,  in 
which  year  he  espoused  Avis,  daughter  of  the  Earl  of 
Surrey,  by  whom  he  had  an  only  son,  John,  who  d.  in 
inCincy.  The  earl  d.  in  1S62,  having  been  poisoned, 
with  the  Earl  of  Gloucester,  and  others,  at  the  table 
of  Peter  de  Savoy.  With  his  lordriiip  the  male  line 
of  the  ancient  and  eminent  house  of  RnnvKita  ex- 
pired, but  its  honours  devolved  upon  his  sister, 

ISABEL  DE  FORTIBUS,  widow  of  William  de 
Fortibus,  Elarl  of  Albemarle  and  Holdemess,  as 
CouKTaaaov  Dsvoif.  Her  ladyship  had  three  sons, 
all  of  whom  d.  In  inAmcy,  and  two  daughters,  via. 

Anne,  d.  unmarried. 

Aveline,  m.  first,  to  Ingram  de  Percy,  and 
secondly,  to  Edmund  Plantagenet,  Earl  of 
Lancaster,  but  d.  without  iasue  in  the  life- 
time of  her  mother. 
The  countess  d.  in  1S93,  and  thus  leaving  no  issue, 
the  Eahldom  or  Davoir,  and  the  other  honours 
of  the  house  of  Rsovxrb  expired,  but  so  much  of 
its  extensive  possessions  as  passed  not  to  the  crown, 
devolved  upon  the  heir  at  law, 

SIR  HUGH  COURTENAY,  feudal  baron  of 
Okehampton,  (the  Uesoendant  of  Lady  Mary  Red- 
vers,  daughter  of  William,  sixth  Earl  of  Devon, 
refer  to  that  nobleman,)  who  was  summoned  to  par- 
liament as  Baron  Courtbnay  Arom  the  6th  Fe- 
bruary, 1280  to  the  84th  July,  1334,  and  created  on 
the  SSnd  Fetmiary,  1335,  Earl  or  Dbtoiv.  The 
latter  dignity  was  oonfiBrred  upon  hb  lordship  in 
consequence  of  a  reprcsentatioi  made  by  him  to  the 
Khig  (Edward  III.),  with  whom  he  was  in  high 
estimation,  to  the  purpose  *'  that  he  was  seised  of  a 
certain  annuity  of  £l&  6».  7d.  for  the  terHum  de- 
noHum  of  the  county  of  Devon,  with  divers  lands 
by  right  of  Inheritance,  from  Isabell  de  Fortibus, 
Countess  of  Albemarle  and  Devon,  which  she  m  her 
life-time  did  possess;  and  having  accordingly  re- 
ceived the  same  annuity  at  the  hands  of  the  sheriflk 
of  that  county,  for  which  they  had  allowance  upon 
their  accounts  in  the  exchequer,  until  Walter, 
Bishop  of  Exeter,  lord  treasurer  to  King  Edward 
II.,  upon  the  investigation  of  some  persons  who 
were  inclined  to  disturb  the  business,  did  refuse  to 
admit  .theieof,  aUedgIng,  that  this  annuity  was 
granted  to  the  ancestors  of  the  said  Isabell,  by  the 
king's  progenitors,  under  the  name  and  title  of 
barlsi  and  therefore,  that  he,  the  said  Hugh, 
being  ho  barl,  ought  not  to  receive  the  same:  and, 
'  that  upon  the  like  pretenoe,  Che  then  sheriA  of 

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Devon  did  decline  to  pay  it  any  longer  to  him.*' 
The  king  Immediatriy  instituted  an  inquiry  into 
the  afflur,  and  finding  it  as  stated,  removed  the  dif- 
ficulty by  creating  his  lordship  an  earl,  as  stated 
above,  and  dispatching  his  royal  precept  to  the  then 
sheriff  of  Devon,  commanding  him  to  proclaim  that 
all  persons  should  forthwith  style  his  lordship  Earl 
or  Dbvoit.  The  earl  m,  when  but  seventeen  years 
of  age,  Agnes,  daughter  of  Sir  John  St.  John,  Knt., 
and  sister  of  Lord  St.  John,  of  Basingt  by  whom 
he  had  issue, 

John,  abbot  of  Tavistock. 
HuoH,  his  heir. 

Robert,  of  Moreton,-  who  d.  in  youth. 
Thomas,  of  Southpole,  m.  Muriel,  daughter  and 
heiress  of  Sir  John  de  Mods,  Knt.,  by  whom 
he  had, 

Hugh,  who  died  s.  p. 
Margaret,  m.  to  Thomas  PeveralL 
.  Murid,  m.  to  John  Dynham. 
Eleanor,  m.  to  John,  Lord  Grey,  of  Codnor. 
Elisabeth;  m.  to  Lord  Lisle. 
His  lordship  <L  in  12S$ptm.d  was  «.  by  his  son, 

HUGH  COURTENAY,  second  Earl  of  Devon. 
This  nobleman  distinguished  himself  In  arms  during 
the  martial  rdgn  of  Edwaxd  III.,  and  was  one  of  the 
first  dignified  with  the  Gartbr  upon  the  institu- 
tion ^f  that  noble  order.  His  lordship  m.  Margaret, 
daughter  of  Humphrey  de  Bohun,  Earl  of  Hereford 
and  Essex,  and  grand-daughter  of  King  Edward  I., 
by  whom  he  had,  with  other  issue, 

HcoH  (Sir),  who  was  summoned  to  parliament 
as  Baron  Coubtbnat  on  the  8th  January, 
1371*  and  was  one  of  theorlgnal  Kniohts  of 
the  Gartbr.  His  lordship  being  in  the  ex- 
pedition made  into  France  twenty-four  years 
before,  (Edward  III.,)  participated  in  the 
glory  of  Cressy,  and  being  the  next  year  in 
the  tournament  at  Eltham,  he  had  a  hood 
of  white  doth,  embrcddered  with  dancing 
men,  and  l^ttoned  with  large  pearls,  pre- 
sented to  him  by  the  king.  He  m.  Elisabeth, 
daughter  of  Guy  Brian,  Lord  of  Tor-Brian, 
in  Devonshire,  and  sister  of  the  famous  Guy, 
Lord  Brian,  standard-bearer  to  the  King  at 
Cressy,  and  a  knight  of  the  Garter,  by 
whom  he  left  at  his  decease,  in  the  life-time 
of  his  father,  an  only  son, 

Hugh,  who  m.  Matilda,  daughter  of  Tho- 
mas Holland,  Earl  of  Kent,  and  of 
Joane,  his  wife,  commonly  called  the 
Fair  Mmid  ef  Kent,  daughter  of  Ed- 
mund, of  •  Woodstock,  son  of  King 
Edward  I.,  whidi  Joane,  was  subse- 
quently m.  to  Edward,   the  Black 
Prince,  and  by  him  was  mother  of 
Kino  Richard  If.    Hugh  Courtenay 
d.  in  1377*  a  few  years  after  his  father, 
and  before  his  grandfather,  leaving  no 
issufr     His   widow  m.  secondly,  Wa- 
leran.  Earl  of  St.  PauL 
Edward,  of  Godlington,  (who  d.  also  before  hU 
father,)  m.  Emeline*  daughter  and  heiress  of 
Sir  John  D'Auney,  Knt,  and  had  issue, 
Edward,  of  whom  presently,  as  Inheritor 
of  the  hooottxs  of  the  family. 


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migh  (Sir),  or  HMoomb,  m.  flxtt,  BUm- 
beUi,daiig]itaror  Sir  WlUtem  Cogaa» 
•nd  widow  of  Sir  Pulk  FltiwariiM»  who 
d.  wUHoMt  Imie  H«  to.  Mooiidly, 
PhiUppOy  drag btor  and  oo-lulroM  of 
Sir  WaR«B  AnrnMum,  (by  CHataCh. 
dmghfor  ood  hilNMOf  J^m  ToAot, 
of  RieBid**  Caatte,)  by  wliom  Im  hod  an 
only  doo^ii6r» 

Jooiio»  «.  fiitt.  to  NIcholM,  Lord 
Carew*  of  Mohimt  Aatny,  aad 
Moandly,  to  Sir  Robart  Varau 
Sir  Hogh  CoartaBatjrw.  thirdly,  Maud. 
dMMi^bim  of  Sir  Joh^  Baaumont,  of 
SharwaU,  in  tho  oounty  of  Donat,  by 
ho  had  •  dmghtar, 
Ifargaiot,  who  m.  Sir  TbooboU 
GtanvUltKiiC. 
and  a  aoo  aod  hair, 
HooH   (Sir),  of  BoooBBodE.   in 
Conwall,  Who  iellat  the  battle 
of  TewlLaabary,  leaviiig  iiaiie 
by  Ida  wiib^  Macgaiet,  daoghter 
and  oo>halr  of  Thooua  Car- 
m\ao,  Esq.,  of  Dovoaabixa, 
EowARD,  who  waa  created 
Baron  Ok^ampton,  aad 
Ea%v  or  Dbtoh,  in  1485, 


Eliaabelh,  m.-to  John  Tre- 

thiif,  Baq. 
Maud,  m,  to  John  Arundel, 

Eaq.,  of  Talvank 
laabei,  m.  to  William   Mo- 
ham,  Eaq. 
Fleaanee,  m,  to  John  Tre- 
lawney,  Eaq. 
k,  ChaaoaUor  of  the  Univanity  of  Ox- 
fofd,  anno  19671  Biahop of  Herafonl,  1309; 
Biahep  of  London  137A,  and  Archbiriiop  of 
Canterbury  uei.    Hia  yraea  d.  in  !»& 
Putvjr  (Sir),  of  Powderham  Caatte,  liautanant 
of  Irriand  in  the  raign  of  Ridittd  IL,  anoaa- 
tor  of  the  esUtUtg  noble  bOMae  of  Cocnrn- 

VAV« 

Pien  (Sir),  atandard-beaNr  to  Kia«  Edward 
III.,  conatable  of  Wlndaor  Caatle,  goreinoi 
of  Calaia^ehambarlain  to  King  Richard  II., 
and  KwiOHT  of  the  Gaktsb.  Thia  emi- 
nent and  gallant  paraon,  who  waa  celebrated 
far  daeda  of  armagd.  unmarried  in  140ft 
Margaret,  fa.  to  John,  Lord  Cobhanu 
EUaabeth.  m,  fifat,  to  Sir  John   Veie,  and 

aacondly,  to  Sir  Andrew  LuttereL 
Catherine,  m,  fixat,  to  William,  Lord  Haring- 
ton,  aad  lecondly,  to  Sir  Thomaa  Bngaiae. 
Jganob  m.  to  Sir  Jaiba  Choverafeon. 
Hugh,  aeoond  Earl  of  Devon,  d.  In  ISH*  and  waa  «. 
by  (the  elder  aon  of  hia  aon  Edward),  Ida  grand- 
aon, 

EDWARD  COURTENAY,  third  ewL  Thia  no- 
bleman aerved  In  the  beginning  of  the  reign  of  Rich* 
nrd  U.  aa  a  naval  officer,  under  John  owQavkt  and 
TaoMAa  or  WoonarocK  reapectivdy,  and  waa  ap- 
pointed in  theythof  the  aemomonareh,  aouikai>  of 
all  the  king'a  llaet  from  the  mouth  of  the  Thamea 


In  the  aoKt  year,  being  tficn  babl  mab* 
anAi.,  hialordBhip  waa  retataiad  to  aarre  the  king  in 
hIaScottiahwarai  in  two  yeara  aftarwacda  he  had  tho 
mmmand  of  the  iedt  at  aea  topterent  inTaaiOB,  and 
in  the  19th  of  Richard  waa  engaged  in  the  Pr4 
HIa  lordahlp  eapooeed  Maud,  daughter  of 
Barcn  Gamola,  aanl  had  laano, 

Edward  (Sir),  K.B.,  aad  a*niral  of  the  king'a 
fleet,  who  m.  Eleanor,  daughiar  ot  Roger 
Mortimer,  Earl  of  March,  but  died  a.  p.  in 
the  life-time  of  hia  fkther. 

HnoH,  hb  ancceaaoa. 

Jamaa. 
The  earl  d.  on  the  0th  Deeamber,  1410,  and 
by  hia  aeoond,  but  eldeat  aurvlving  aon, 

HUGH  COURTENAY,  ibvrth  earl,  K.B.,  wnu, 
fai theath  Henry  V.,  (hia  father  then  Hiring,)  waa 
appointed  oommaader4n-diief  of  the  king'a  fleet. 
Hia  kndriilp  m.  Anne,  daughter  of  Richard,  Lord 
Talbot,  and  alatar  of  the  renowned  John,  Earl  of 
Shrawidmry,  by  whom  he  had  laaua, 

TnoM Aa,  Ua  auBcoaaor. 

John,  d.  unmarried. 
Hia  lordahip  d.  Idth  June,  14tt,  and  waa  a.  by  hU  ' 
eldtfaon, 

THOMAS  COURTENAY,  flfth  earL  Thia  no- 
bleman eonuneneed  hia  military  career  at  the  ego  of 
aixtecn,  and  waa  engaged  for  aeveral  yeara  in  the 
French  wan  of  King  Henry  VI.,  with  whioh  monarch 
he  aided  upon  tho  breaking  out  of  the  unhappy  con- 
flict between  the  bouaea  of  York  and  Laneaatart  and 
the  Courtenaya  continued  to  adhere  to  the  red  rott 
with  unahaken  fldelity  from  that  period  until  the  tar* 
mination  of  the  contest  In  1448  a  dispute  regarding 
precedency  aroee  between  the  Earia  of  Devon  and 
Arundd,  but  it  waa  decided  by  pariiament  in  Cavour 
of  the  latter,  in  oanaequence  of  the  feudal  poaaemion 
of  Arundel  Caatle.  The  earl  m.  Margaret  Beaufort* 
aeoond  daughter  of  John,  Marqucu  of  Somerset, 
(one  of  the  legitimised  children  of  John  of  Oaunt,) 
and  had  laaue, 

TnoMAa,  hia  anceaiBor. 

Henry. 

John. 

Joana,  m.  to  Sir  Rogar  Cllflbrd,  Knt.,  who  waa 
beheaded  in  1480. 

EUaabeth,  «•.  to  Sir  Hugh  Conway,  Knt. 

Matilda. 

Eleanor. 
HIa  lordahlp  d.  3rd  February,  14fi8,  In  the  abbey  of 
Abingdon,  upon  hia  journey  to  London,  with  other 
lords,  to  mediate  between  the  king  and  the  Duke 
of  York,  and  waa  «.  by  hia  eldeat  aon, 

THOMAS  COURTENAY,  sixth  earl,  then 
twenty-alx  yeara  of  age.  Thia  nobknan  inheriting 
the  political  prindplea,  aa  well  m  honours  of  hia  de- 
eeaaed  father,  waa  a  strenuous  upholder  of  the  cauae 
of  Lancaatcr,  and  falling  into  the  hands  of  the  enemy 
at  Towton-fieki,  he  waa  beheaded  at  York,  by  order 
of  King  Edward  IV.  in  April, '14(S.  Under  the  at- 
tainder of  thia  earl,the  honoura  and  poasesalons  of 
the  house  of  Courtenay  fell ;  but  his  next  brother, 

HENRY  COURTENEY,  EBO.,(aa  he  waa  styled, 
but  who  should  have  been  anTSirrn  bari«,)  flnding 
flavour  with  the  new  king,  had  reatoraticn  of  aome- 
part  ot  the  bmda.    Engaging,  however,  in  the  Lan- 

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castrian  qtuurrd  with  the  setl  of  his  piedectfnon,  he 
was  ettaiiited  of  treaion*  4th  March,  14116,  before  the 
king  and  JuatioeB  at  Sarum,  and  beheaded  with  the 
Lord  Hungerfoid  on  the  Mune  day.  The  greater 
part  of  the  Courtenay  estates  having  been  oonliBrred 
upon  Humphrey  Stafford,  Baron  Stafford,  of  South- 
wicke,  hit  lordship  was  created  Earl  or  Dnron, 
7th  May»  1469,  but  being  beheaded  and  attainted  in 
the  August  following,  that  earldom  became  forfeited. 
Upon  the  damise  of  Henry  Courtenay,  his  only  sur- 
viving brother, 

JOHN  COURTENAY^  assumed  to  be  eighth 
Eabjl  of  Davoir,  and  the  Lancastrian  interest  pre- 
vailing in  1470,  when  King  £dwAbj>  was  driven 
into  Holland  by  the  Earl  of  Warwick,  Ills  lordship 
was  restored,  by  parliament,  with  King  Henry  VI., 
to  the  honour*  and  «Hat«»  of  his  family.  The  defeat 
of  the  Earl  of  Warwick,  however,  after  the  return 
of  King  Edward  by  that  prince,  at  the  decisive  bat- 
tle of  Bamet,  14th  April,  1471«  again  placed  the 
Earl  of  Devon  in  Jeopardy;  and  attaching  himself 
to  Margaret,  of  Anjou,  his  lordship  fell,  gallantly 
fighting  at  the  head  of  the  rear  guard  of  Margaret's 
army,  at  Tewkesbury,  on  the  4th  May  following. 
Thus  the  three  brothers  sealed  with  their  blood  their 
bond  Of  fidelity  to  the  house  of  Lancaster,  and  with 
these  brave  soldiers  expired  the  senior  branch  of  the 
ancient  and  illustrious  house  of  Courtenay.  The 
last  earl  was  buried  at  Tewkesbury,  and  being 
attainted,  the  honourb  and  saTATas  of  Dbvom, 
became  again  porvbitsd. 

'  Armb.— Or.  three  torteauzes,  with  a  label  of  three 
points,  as.  in  chief. 

COURTENAY— .EARLS   OF  DEVON, 
MARQUESSES  OF  EXETER. 

Earldom,  by  Letters  Patent,  dated  9Gth  Oct.,  1485. 
Marquesate,  by  Letters  Patent,  dated  18th  June,  1485. 

SIR  HUGH  COURTENAY,  Knt,  of  Bacon- 
nock,  in  the  county  of  Cornwall,  only  son  of  Sir 
Hugh  Courtenay,  of  Haocomb,  brother  of  Edtcard, 
THIRD  Eabl  or  Dbvon,  Of  the  Courtenay  family, 
<see  descendants  of  Hugh,  second  Earl  of  Devon- 
article  Courtenay,  Earls  of  Devon,)  m.  Margaret, 
daugliter  and  co-heiress  of  Thomas  Carmino,  Esq., 
(the  last  male  heir  of  that  ancient  family,)  by  whonn 
he  had  issue, 

Edward  (Sir),  his  successor. 
Walter  (Sir),  d.  unmarried. 
Elisabeth,   m.    to    John    Trethrif/ 
Esq.,  and  had  a  son, 
Tboxab    TBBTHRir,   who  m. 
— ^,  daughter  of  ••^—  Travlsa, 
and  left  two  daughters,  vis.— 
Elisabeth,   m.  to   John  Vi- 
vian, Esq. 
Margaret,    m.    to    Edward 
Courtenay,   Esq,  of  Lar- 
rock. 
Maud,  m.  to  John  Arundel,  Esq.,  of 

Talkem. 
Isabd,  m.  to  William  Mohun,  Esq. 
Florence^  m.  to  John   Trelawney, 
Esq. 
146 


Sir  Hugh,  faithful  to  the  LencaaCrian  Interest,  fell 
with  his  noble  kinsman,  the  Earl  of  Devon,  at  the 
battle  of  Tewkesbury,  and  his  dder  son, 

SIR  EDWARD  COURTENAY,  being  impli- 
cated with  his  brother.  In  Henry  StcHbrd,  Duke  of 
Buckingham's  conspiracy,  in  favour  of  Henry,  Earl 
of  Richmond,  was  forced  to  fiy  into  Britanny,  upon 
the  failure  of  that  plot,  and  the  decapitation  of  the 
duke:  and  was  attainted  with  the  Earl  of  Rich- 
mond and  others,  by  parliament,  in  the  bi^ginning 
of  1484,  but  returning  with  the  earl,  and  as^ting 
at  the  battle  of  Bosworth,  he  was  elevated  to  the 
peerage,  by  King  Henry  VII.,  on  the  96th  October, 
1489,  in  the  andent  dignity  of  the  family,  that  of 
Eari.  or  Dbvon,  the  new  monarch  making  him 
grants  at  the  same  time,  of  the  greater  part  of  the 
castles,  manors,  dec,  which  bdonged  to  the  late 
Thomas  Courtenay,  Earl  o£  Devon.  In  the  March 
following,  the  king  made  his  lordship  governor  of 
Kesterwell,  in  Cornwall,  and  a  Knight  of  the  Garter. 
The  earl  was  in  all  the  parliaments  of  Henry  VII. 
He  was  In  the  expedition  to  France,  in  1481,  and 
in  six  years  afterwards,  he  defended  the  city  of 
Exeter,  against  Perkin  Warbeck  and  his  adherents. 
He  m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  Philip  Courtenay, 
of  Molland,  by  whom  he  had  only  son, 

Wii<LiAM,  R.B.,  who  m.  Katherine,  seventh 
and  youngest  daughter  of  Kmo  Edward  IV. 
In  the  year  1M2,  this  gentleman,  with  Lord 
William  de  la  Pole,  Sir  James  Tyrrd,  and 
Sir  John  Windham,  were  arrested  on  the 
charge  of  holding  a  traiterous  correspondence 
with  Edmund  de  la  Pole,  Earl  of  Suflblk, 
(son  of  John,  Duke  of  Suffolk  and  Lady 
Elisabeth,  elder  sister  of  Edward  IV.,)  who 
had  fled  to  his  aunt,  Margaret,  Duchess  of 
Burgundy,  and  he  (Sir  William  Courtenay) 
was  attainted  In  consequence,  in  1504;  Tyrnrt 
and  Wyndham  were  beheaded  on  Tower  Hill, 
while  Sir  William  Courtenay  was  doomed  to 
incarceration  during  the  king's  reign. 
The  earl  d.  in  1500,  and  King  Henry  VIII.  ascend- 
ing the  throne  in  the  same  year,  his  highness  imme- 
diately liberated 

SIR  WILLIAM  COURTENAY.  and  took  him 
into  his  gracious  favour;  but  Sir  William  died  In 
the  third  year  of  that  monarch's  reign,  before  he 
had  either  letters  patent  or  a  fontaal  restoration  of 
the  earldom :  he  was,  however,  buried  **  with  the 
honours  t^fan  earl,"  at  the  espeeto/  command  of  the 
king.  By  the  Lady  Katherine  Plantaganet,  he  left 
an  only  son, 

EDWARD  COURTENAY,  who  being  restored 
in  blood  and  honours,  became  second  Earl  or 
Dbvob.  In  US9,  his  lordship  obtained  a  grant  of 
Caliland,  In  Cornwall,  and  of  **  a  fair  mansion," 
situate  in  the  parish  of  St.  Lawrence  Poultry,  in 
the  city  of  London,  forfeited  by  the  attainder  of 
Edward  Staflbrd,  Duke  of  Buckingham,  on  whose 
trial  he  was  one  of  the  twenty-six  peers  that  sat  in 
Judgment;  and  he  was  advanced,  by  letters  patent, 
dated  18th  June,  1685,  to  the  dignity  of  Marouxbb 
or  ExBTBR.  In  the  year  1580,  at  the  interview 
between  King  Henry  VIII.  and  the  King  of  France, 
in  the  vale  of  Arden,  when  the  two  monarchs  chal- 
lenged all  men  at  JusU,  4he  Marquess  of  Exeter  ran 


cou 


CKA 


«  cimnewMh  tht'  FrMMh  prince*  whan  both  thilr 
wpma  broken  and  th«y  nudnUined  their  wats. 
His  lordihip  erhioed  his  skill  and  Takmr  in  many 
odwr  tournaments*  and  in  the  year  15391*  on  Henry's 
going  to  Calais,  he  was  nominated  by  the  king, 
prior  to  his  highneMs's  departure,  heir  apparent 
to  the  thrasMu  His  lordship  subscribed  the  articles 
against  Cardinal  Wolsey,  and  the  letter  sent  to 
Pope  Clement  VII.,  entreating  his  holiness  to  ratiiy 
the  divorce  between  the  king  and  Queen  Catherine. 
In  ysas,  he  sate  in  Judgment  upon  Anne  Boleyne* 
and  in  the  same  year*  be  suppressed*  in  conjunction 
with  the  Duke  of  Norfolk,  and  the  Earls  of  Shrews- 
bury* Huntingdon*  and.  Rutland*  a  rebellion  in 
Yorkshire;  but  that  very  year  he  was  committed 
to  the  Tower,  with  Htfiuy  Bp/e*  Lord  Monta- 
cirrn*  and  Sir  Edward  Nevill*  brother  of  Lord 
AbergaTenny*  accused  by  Sir  Geoftey  Pole,  bro- 
ther of  Lord  Montacnte,  of  high  treason,  and  in- 
dicted for  derising  to  maintain*  promote,  and 
advance*  one  Reginald  Polei  late  Dean  of  Exeter, 
enemy  to  the  king,  beyond  sea*  and  to  deprive  the 
king*  ate.  The  Marquess  of  Exeter  and  Lord  Mon- 
taeute,  were  tried  on  the  1st  and  Snd  of  December, 
1530,  at  Westminster,  and  being  found  guilty,  were 
beheaded*  with  Sir  Edward  Nevill,  on  the  9th  of 
January  ensuing,  ob  TOwer  HilL  Upon  the  attain- 
der of  the  marquen,  all  his  honours  of  conRas 
xxpinxD,  and  King  Hcnht  annexed  to  the  Duchy 
of  Cornwall*  ail  his  lands  in  that  county,  which 
came  to  the  crown.  The  marquess  had  m.  first, 
Elisabeth  Orey,  daughter  and  heiress  of  John, 
Viscount  Lisle,  by  whom  he  had  no  iisue*  and 
secondly*  Gertrude,  daughter  of  William  Blount, 
Lord  Moun^oy*  by  whom  he  left  an  only  son*  (the 
Mardiioness  of  Exeter  was  attainted  with  the 
Counteas  of  Salisbury*  the  year  after  her  husband, 
but  the  latter  only  suffiered,) 

EDWARD  COURTENAY,  who,  although  but 
twelve  years  of  age  when  his  father  was  beheaded, 
was  committed  prisoner  to  the  Tower,  and  detained 
there  during  the  remainder  of  King  Henry's  reign, 
and  that  of  King  Edward  VI.,  but  upon  the  acces- 
sion of  Queen  Mary,  he  was  released,  and  restored 
to  his  tethei's  honours,  as  Mabquk88  or  Exbtck* 
5cc.*  and  to  the  estates  which  remained  in  the  pos- 
session of  the  crown*  by  a  private  bill,  passed  in 
the  1st  year  of  her  majesty's  reign*  while  another 
private  bill  reversed  the  attainder  of  his  mother. 
His  lordship  had  sOme  command  in  suppressing 
Wyattrs  rebellion*  and  yet  with  the  Princess  Elisa- 
beth was  afterwards  accused  of  being  accessory 
thereto,  and  sent  with  her  highness  to  the  Tower. 
He  was  subsequently  confined  in  Fotheringhay 
Castle,  but  released  through  the  interposition  of 
Philip  of  Spain*  upon  his  marriage  with  the  queen, 
aa  was  also  the  Ladtf  Elisabbth.  His  lordship 
after  this,  obtained  the  queen's  permission  to  go 
lOyroad,  and  died  at  Padua,  not  without  suspicion 
of  poison,  on  the  4th  October,  1566.  This  unfor- 
tunate nobleman  seemed  to  be  bom  to  be  a  prisoner* 
for,  from  twelve  years  of  age  to  the  time  of  his 
death,  he  had  scarcely  enjoyed  two  entire  years 
liberty.  He  d.  unmarried,  snd  was  the  last  of  the 
ISsmily  who  bore  the  titles  of  Mahqwbb  or 
ExKTBB*  Eabl  ow  Dxyon*  and  Barok  or  Oak- 


UAurtok,  those  dignities  cxplilng  with  hie  lord* 
ship,  while  his  estates  were  divided  amongst  the 
four  sisters  of  Eowaud,  the  first  earl*  his  lord- 
ship's grand-aunts  (refer  to  children  of  Sir  Hugh 
Courtenay).  The  marqusM's  remains  were  interred 
in  St  Anthony's  church,  in  Padua*  where  a  noble 
monument  was  erected  to  his  memory. 

ARXB.-^Or.  three  Torteanxes,  with  a  lahd  of 
three  pc^ts*  as.  in  diiefL 

CRANFIELD-BARONS  CRANFIBLDi 
EARLS  OF  MIDDLESEX. 

Barony,    f  by  Letters  1 9th  June,  16B1. 
Earldom*  \    Patent*    j  16th  Sept.,  16B& 

LIONEL  CRANPIELD*  a  merchant  of  Londbo* 
and  married  to  a  kinswoman  of  Villlers,  Duke  of 
Buckingham,  was  introduced  to  the  court  of  King 
James  I.*  by  that  cdebrated  fkvourlte*  when  he 
received  the  honour  of  knighthood,  and  soon  after 
attracting  the  attention  of  the  king,  by  his  habits 
of  business,  he  was  appointed  master  of  the  requests 
—-next,  master  of  the  king's  great  wardrobe,  then 
master  of  the  wards,  after  which  he  was  sworn  of 
the  privy  council,  and  devated  to  the  peerage,  ai 
Baron  CRAxvriBi.D,  4^  CranJIeld,  in  the  county  of 
Bedford,  on  the  9th  July,  16S1.  In  theOctobef 
fbUowiag,  his  lordship  was  constituted  Loan  Trba- 
SURXR  or  ENOL.AND,  and  created,  16th  September^ 
1089,  Earl  of  Miodlbsbx  (the  first  person,  says 
Dugdale,  to  whom  that  county  gave  the  title  of 
earl).  But  this  tide  of  prosperity  flowed  too  ra- 
pidly to  be  permanent*  and  a  short  time  only  elapsed* 
before  its  reflux  became  as  remarkable.  Within  two 
short  years,  the  lord  treasurer  found  himsdf  im- 
peached by  parliament,  through  the  influence  of 
the  very  nobleman  who  was  the  foiHider  of  his 
fortune*  the  fkvourite  Buckingham,  for  bribery* 
extortion*  oppression,  and  other  heinous  misde- 
meanours, fbr  which  he  received  Judgment*  vis.— 

«'That  Lionel,  Earl  of  Middlesex,  now  Lord 
Tressurer  of  England,  shall  lose  all  his  oflioes 
which  he  holds  in  this  kingdom,  and  sli&l  be  made 
for  ever  incapable  of  any  ofllce,  place,  or  taiploy^ 
ment*  in  the  state  and  commonwealth. 

'*  That  he  shall  be  imprisoned  in  the  Tower  of 
London,  during  the  king's  pleasure^ 

"  That  he  shaD  pay  to  our  sovereign  lord  the 
king,  the  sum  of  £50*00(k 

'■  That  he  shall  never  more  sit  in  parliament 

«'  That  he  shall  never  come  within  the  verge  of 
the  court" 

And  a  bill  passed  at  the  same  time,  to  make  his 
estate  liable  to  the  king's  fine,  and  other  accounts, 
and  to  make  restitution  to  all  whom  he  had  wronged* 
as  should  be  allowed  by  the  discretion  of  the  house; 
His  lordship  m..  first*  EHxabeth*  daughter  of  Richard 
Shepherd*  a  merdiant  in  London*  by  whom  he  had 
three  daughters,  vis.— 

Martha,  m.  to  Henry  Carey,  Earl  of  Monmouth, 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Edmund,  Lord  Sheflleld,  grand- 
son and  hirir  of  Edmund,  Earl  of  Mulgrave. 
The  earl  m.  secondly*  Anne,  daughter  of  James 
Brett*  Esq.*  of  Houby*  in  the  county  of  Leicester* 

147 


CRA 


CRB 


(•bttf  of  Mary,  CouaUn  of  BuddBglittn»)  and  had 
jAMxa,   IgucceiilveEarb. 

LlOMBL,  / 

Edward,  d.  unmarried. 

WilUam,  d.  young. 

Fraoeei,  m,  fine,  to  Rlchaid«  Earl  of  Donot, 
andtecbndly,  to  Hanry  Poola,  Eaq. 
HU  lordahip  d.  in  1645,  and  notwittaatanding  his 
diigrace,  was  buried  in  WeetminsCer  Abbey,  where 
a  mooument  was  erected  to  his  memory.  He  was 
s.  by  his  eldest  son, 

JAMES  CRANFIELD,  second  Earl,  who  m. 
Anne,  third  daughter  andco-helress,  of  Edward,  Earl 
of  Bath,  by  whom  he  had  an  only  daughter, 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  John,  Lord  firackley,  eldest 
son  of  the  Earl  of  Bridgewater. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1651,  whan  his  honours  derolTed 
upon  his  brother, 

LIONEL  CRANFIELD,  third  Earl,  who  m.  Ra- 
chel, widow  of  Henry,  Earl  of  Bath,  and  daughter  of 
Frands,  Earl  of  Weitmoreland,  but  dying  without 
issue,  in  1074,  the  Bahomy  or  Cbakfibld,  and 
^ABiinox  ov  MiDDJLsaaz,  became  axTjircT,  while 
his  lordship's  estates  devoWed  upon  his  sister,  the 
Counteas  of  Donet,  whose  eldest  son,  Charles,  was 
created  Baroh  CitairvisLD,  and  Eabi.  ov  Mi]>- 
DLxaax,  in  1075,  honours  which  have  descended 
with  the  Duludom  of  Dorset 
.  Abmb.— Or.  on  a  pale,  as.  three  Fleur  de  Us  of  the 

ant. 

CRAVEN  —  BARON  CRAVEN,  OF 
HAMPSTED-  MARSHALL, 
IN  THE  COUNTY  OF 
BERKS,  EARL  CRAVEN, 
&c,  BARON  CRAVEN. 


First  B^ony, 
Earldom  A  Viscounty, 
Second  Barony, 


} 


i^       r  19th  Mar.,  1696. 
M  g  «J  ■{  15th  Mar.,  1663. 
S  j  1 15th  Mar.,  1663. 


.o 


.  SIR  WILLIAM  CRAVEN,  KnL,  meichant-toy. 
lor,  served  the  office  of  lord  mayor  of  the  dty  of 
London  in  1611.  He  m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  of 
William  Whltmore,  and  had  inue, 

Wii<i.iAM,  his  heir. 

John,  created  Lord  Craven,  ot  RyUm. 

Thomas,  d.  unmarried. 
The  eldest  son, 

WILLIAM  CRAVEN,  Esq.,  having  distinguished 
hifluelf  in  arms  under  Gustavus  AnoLPHua,  of 
Sweden,  and  HaMnv,  Prixcs  or  Oeanob,  was 
elevated  to  the  peerage  by  King  Clwrles  I.  on  the 
12th  March,  1606,  as  Babon  Cravbk,  nfHamptted- 
JMorste//,  with  remainder,  in  default  of  male  issue, 
to  his brothen,  John  and  Thomas;  and  having  af- 
terwards, during  the  civil  wan,  aealously  and  aUy 
upheld  the  royal  cause,  his  lordship  was  created, 
upon  the  restoration  of  the  monarchy,  I5th  March, 
1663,  Viacouirr  Cbavbh,  otUfi»tgt»n,inth0ointHtp 
^  Btrkt,  and  Earl  Cba va w,  <n  M« comnly  <^  York  t 
and  his  brothen  being  both  at  this  period  defunct 
without  issue,  he  was  re-created  Babon  Cbavxiv,  ^ 

148 


Hmmptitd'M^rwkaa,  with  lemaindar  to  hia  biothan, 
Shr  William  Craven,  of  Lendwike^  and  Sir  Anthony 
Craven,  his  couaina  I  but  theiald  Sir  William  dying 
without  male  issue,  the  earl  had  a  new  patent, 
dated  11th  December,  1666,  renewing  the  origbial 
bainny,  with  an  estended  limitation  to  Sir  Thomas 
Craven  (a  younger  brother  of  the  above-mentioned 
Sir  WiUiam  and  Sir  Anthony),  and  Ms  male  imua 
His  lordship,  who  lived  to  the  advanced  age  of 
ei^ty-eight,  was  particularly  famous  for  awlsting 
in  extinguishing  fires  in  the  city  of  London,  of 
which  he  had  such  early  intimation,  and  was  so 
prompt  to  mount  his  hone  upon  such  calamitous 
occasions,  that  it  was  commonly  said,  '*  Lord  Cra^ 
van's  hone  smelt  a  fire  losoon  as  it  happened."  He 
d.  a  bachelor,  9th  April,  1697«  when  the  barony  of 
16ad,  and  that  of  1663,  with  the  viacouxTv  and 
BABLDOM  OP  Cbavbk,  becamo  bztinct  }  while 
the  babowy  of  1686  devolved  upon  William  Cba- 
TBN,  Esq.,  of  Combe  Abbey,  grandson  of  the  Sir 
Thomas  Craven  limited  in  the  patent,*  from  whom 
the  preient  Earl  or  Cbavbr  descends,  and  derives 
the  mid  dignity. 

Anaia.— Ar.  a  feise  between  six  crowletB  fitchte 
or. 

CRAVEN  -  BARON  CRAVEN,  OF 
RYTON,  IN  THE  COUN- 
TY OF  SALOP. 

By  Letten  Patent,  dated  21st  March,  1648. 

lCilUB0f. 

JOHN  CRAVEN,  Esq.,  second  ion  of  Sir  WU- 
11am  Craven,  Knt.,  merchant-taylor,  and  lord 
mayor  of  the  dty  of  London,  anno  1611,  was  ele- 
vated to  the  peerage  on  the  21st  March,  1642,  u  Ba- 
BOH  Cravbn,  t^fR^toH,  His  lordship  m.  Elisabeth, 
daughter  of  WiUiam,  Lord  Spencer;  but  dying  issue- 
leu  in  1690,  the  barony  became  bztinct. 

ABaia.-— Ar.  a  fesse  between  six  crosslets  fltch6e 
gules. 

CRETING— BARON  CRETINO. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  27th  January,  1332, 
6  Edward  IIL 

Xincagt. 

SIR  ADAM  DE  CRETINO,  Knt,  having  sum- 
mons to  attend  King  Edward  I.  at  Portsmouth,  and 
passing  with  the  monarch  into  Gasoony,  was  there 
slain  by  the  treachery  of  one  Walter  Oiflbrd.  He 
was  succeeded  in  his  manor  of  Grbat  Stocktom,  In 
the  county  of  Huntingdon,  and  other  lands,  by  his 
son  and  companion  in  arms, 

JOHN  DE  CRETINO,  who,  in  the  4th  of  Ed- 
ward  III.,  obtained  a  charter  for  flree-waneu  in  all 
his  demesne  lands  at  Qremi  MsArftm,  and,  being  a 
military  man  of  reputation,  was  summoned  to  par> 
liament,  aa  a  baroh,  on  the  27th  January,  133B,  but 
never  afterwards ;  and  nothing  further  Is  known  of 
the  fiunily. 

Armb.— Ar.  a  chevron  betw.  three  mullets  gutoi, 
pierced  of  the  field. 


CBJB 

CREW'-BARONS  CREW»  OF  8TENE, 
IN  THE  COUNTY  OF 
NORTHAMPTON. 

By  L«ttfln  PatflDt,  dated  80th  April*  im. 

Xiiusgc. 

JOHN  CREW»  Eiq.,  of  Stene,  ia  theooonty  of 
Nortbampton,  too  of  Sir  Thomas  Crew,  Knt,  ler- 
JeanUat-law  to  Khig  Charles  L»  (of  the  aodcnt  Che- 
shire family,  of  Crew  Hall,  repreMnted  by  the  pre- 
sent Lord  Crewe,  of  Crewe,)  by  hb  wife  Tempe* 
ranee,  daughter  and  heiren  of  Reginald  Bray,  Esq., 
of  Stcne,  was  elevated  to  the  Peerage  on  the  90th 
April,  1661,  aa  Babon  Caav,  of  Stene,  in  considera- 
tion for  his  serious  services  in  the  restoration  of  the 
monarchy.  His  lordship  m.  Jemima,  daughter  and 
co-heiress  of  Edward  Walgrave*  Esq.,  of  Lawford,  In 
the  county  of  Essex,  by  whom  he  had  Issue, 
Thomas  (Sir),  his  successor. 
John. 

Nathaniel,  Bishop  of  Durham. 
Walgrave. 

Jemima,  m.  to  Edward,  first  Earl  of  Sand- 
wich. 
Anne,  m.  to  Sir  Henry  Wright,  BarL,  of  Da- 
gciriiam,  in  the  county  of  Essex. 
Lord  Crew  d,  in  1G79,  and  was  «.  by  his  ddest  son, 

THOMAS  CREW,  second  baron,  who  m.  first, 
Mary,  daughter  of  Sir  George  Townshend,  Bart.,  of 
Bamham,  in  the  county  of  Norfolk,  by  whom  he 
had  surviving  issue* 

Anne,  m.  to JollifT,  Esq.,  of  London. 

Temperance,  m.  first,  to  Rowland,  son  and  heir 
of  Sir  Thcmias  Alston,  Bart.,  of  Odell,  in  the 
county  of  Bedford,  and  secondly,  to  Sir  John 
Wolstenholme,  Knt. 
His  lordship  m.  secondly,  Anne,  daughter  and  co- 
heiress of  Sir  William  Airmine,  Bart,  of  O^^odly, 
in  the  county  of  Lincoln,  and  had  four  daughters, 

Jenahna*  m.  to  Henry  de  Grey,  Duke  of  Kent. 
Airmine,  m,  to  Thomas  Cartwright,  Esq.*  of. 

Aynho,  in  the  county  of  Northampton. 
Catherine,  m.  to  Sir  John  Harper,  fourth  ba- 
ronet of  Caulk,  in  the  county  of  Derby,  the 
great-grandson  of  which  marriage.  Sir  Henry 
Harper,  seventh  baroo^  assumed,  by  royal 
permisdon,  the  surname  of  Caawi  only,  and 
was  succeeded,  at  his  decease,  by  his  son,  the 
present  Sib  Gkoros   Caawa,  eighth  Ba- 
ronet of  Caulk  Abbey. 
Elisabeth,  in.  Charles  Butler,  Earl  of  Arran, 
and  Lord  Butler,  of  Weston. 
His  lordship  d.  ,  and  thus  leaving  no 

male  Issue,  his  fortune  devolved  upon  his  daugh- 
ten,  as  co-heiresses,  while  the  title  passed  to  his 
brother. 
The  Right  Reverend 

NATHANIEL  CREW,  Lord  Bishop  of  Dur- 
ham, aa  third  Baron  Crew,  of  Stene:  His  lordship 
m,  first,  Penelope,  daughter  of  Sir  Philip  Frowde, 
Knt.,  and  secondly,  Dorothy,  daughter  of  Sir  Wil- 
iiua  Forster,  of  Balmborough  Castle,  in  the  county 
of  Northumberland ;  but  not  having  had  any  Issue, 


CRO 

the  Babont  ov  Cbbw.  of  Stmte, 
lordship's  rtfreaaa  in  ITSl,  bxtimct. 
Anaia.— Aa.  a  lion  rampant  ar.*  a 
faiences 


at  his 
fordlf. 


CROFTS—BARON  CROFTS,  OF  SAX- 
HAM,  IN  THE  COUNTY 
OF  SUFFOLK. 

By  Letten  Patent,  dated  18th  May,  lfi68L 

XintaQc. 

WILLIAM  CROFTS,  Esq.,  Uneal  male  heir  of 
the  family  of  Crofts,  which  had  flourished  for  seve- 
ral ages  at  Saxham,  in  the  county  of  Suflblk,  and 
desrended  by  females  from  the  first  Lord  Went- 
worth,  of  Nettksted,  as  also  fhm  the  Montacutes, 
earls  of  Salisbury,  and  NeviUs,  earls  of  Westmor- 
land, was  elevated  to  the  peerage  on  the  18th  May, 
1658,  as  Baboh  Caorra,  ^f  SoMhmm,  in  th9  mufi^ 
nf  SMt^tOc*  His  lordship  having  been  brought  up  at 
court  from  his  youth^  became,  first,  master  of  the 
horse  to  James  Duke  of  York;  next,  captain  of  the 
guards  to  the  queen-mother,  and  afterwards  one  of 
the  gentlemen  of  the  bed-chamber  to  King  CharlcsII. 
He  was  subsequently  employed  as  ambassador  to 
Poland,  and  for  his  services  on  that  occasion  ob> 
tained  the  peerage.  His  lordship  m.  first,  Dorothy, 
widow  of  Sir  John  Hale,  Knt.,  daughter  of  Sir 
John  Hobart,  of  Intwood,  in  the  county  of  Norfolk, 
Bart.,  (son  and  heir  of  Lord  Chief  Justice  Hobart, 
of  the  Common  Pleas,)  and  secondly  Ellaabeih, 
daughter  of  William  Lord  Spencer,  of  Wormlelgh- 
ton  t  but  having  no  issue,  the  barony  qf  Caorra 
became,  at  his  lordship's  decease  in  1877»  bxtuict. 

ABMa.— Or.  three  bulls'  heads  oouped  sa. 

CROMWELL  —  BARONS  CROM. 
WELL,  OF  TAT8HALL, 
IN  THE  COUNTY  OF 
LINCOLN. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  10th  March,  1308. 
1  Edward  II. 

ICincagc. 

The  fiunily  at  Cromwell  was  of  importance  so  flur 
back  as  the  time  of  King  John,  for  we  find  in  the 
17th  of  that  reign, 

RALPH  DE  CROMWELL,  paying  a  fine  of 
sixty  marks  and  a  palArey  to  m^e  his  peace  for 
participating  In  the  rdMllion  of  the  barons;  and 
upon  delivering  up  his  eldest  daughter  in  hostage, 
obtaining  restitution  ot  his  lands.  After  which,  in 
the  3rd  Henry  III.,  he  was  constituted  Justice  itine- 
rant in  the  counties  of  Lincoln,  Nottingham,  and 
Derby.    To  this  Ralph  «.  another 

RALPH  DE  CROMWELL,  who  m.  Maigaret, 
one  of  the  sisters  and  co-heirs  of  Roger  de  Someri, 
Baron  of  Dudley,  and  was  afterwards  engaged  in  the 
French,  Welch,  and  Scottish  wars  of  Kiqg  Edward 
L    lie  was  s.  by 

SIR  JOHN  DE  CROMWELL,  who  m.  Idonea 
de  Leybume,  younger  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Ro- 
bert de  Vipount,  hereditary  sheriir  of  Westmore- 
land, and  widow  of  Sir  Roger  de  Leybume.    In  the 

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33rd  Edward  I.  Sir  John  Cromwdl  aocuied  Sir 
Nicholas  de  Scsrave  of  treaKm,  and  waa  answered 
by  a  deflanc*  to  battle,  but  the  combat  was  not 
permitted.  In  the  1st  Edward  II.  he  had  a  grant 
for  life  tnm  the  crown  of  the  Castle  of  Hope,  in 
Flintshire,  and  the  same  year  was  made  governor  of 
Strltgull  Castle,  and  constable  of  the  Tower  of 
London.  He  was  likewise  summoned  to  parliament 
as  a  BARON.  His  lordship  was  subsequently  engaged 
in  the  French  and  Scotch  wars  of  King  Edwvd  II., 
and  having  had  summons  to  parliament  until  the 
9th  Edward  lit.,  d.  tn  the  latter  year,  (anno  1335,) 
and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR  RALPH  DE  CROMWELL,  second  baron, 
summoned  to  parliament  firom  S8th  December,  1375, 
to  10th  August,  1309  inclusive.  This  nobleman  m. 
Maud,  daughter  of  John  Bamack,  and  heiress  of 
her  brother  William,  in  whose  right  he  became  lord 
of  the  manor  of  Tatshall,  in  the  county  of  Lincoln, 
by  lineal  succession  from  the  hrirs  female  of  Robert 
de  Tatshall,  sometime  owner  thereof,  whereupon  he 
fixed  his  diief  residence  there.  In  the  10th  Richard 
II.  Lord  Cromwell  being  then  a  banneret,  was  re* 
tained  to  serve  the  king  in  defence  of  the  realm 
against  an  invasion  apprehended  at  that  period. 
His  lordship  if.  in  1300,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

RALPH  DE  CROMWELL,  third  baron,  sum< 
moned  to  parliament  ftrom  9th  September,  1400,  to 
3rd  September,  1417.  His  loxdship  d.  in  1419,  and 
was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR  RALPH  DE  CROMWELL,  fourth  baron, 
who  m.  Margaret,  daughter  of  John,  Lord  Dein- 
court,  and  Joane,  his  wife,  daughter  and  heiress  of 
Robert,  Lord  Grey,  of  Rotherfleld,  and  co-hdress 
of  her  brother,  William,  Lord  Ddncourt.  In  the 
11th  Henry  VL  this  nobleman  was  constituted  tresr 
surer  of  the  king's  exchequer,  and  in  three  years 
afterwards  had  a  grant  of  the  office  of  master  of  the 
king's  mues  and  fislcons.  In  the  8Srd  of  the  same 
reign  his  lordship  was  appointed  hereditary  consta- 
ble of  Nottingham  Castle,  and  warden  of  the  forest 
of  Sherwood.  He  d.  in  1455,  and  leaving  no  issue, 
his  sister  became  his  heir,  namdy, 

Maud  Cromwell,  who  m.  Sir  Richard  Stanhope, 
(ancestor  of  the  existing   noble  houaes  of 
Chesterfield,  Harrington,  and  Stanhope,)  and 
had  issue,  two  daughters,  co-heix«ases,  via. 
Maud  Stanhope,  m.  first,    Robert,    Lord 
Willoughby  de  Eresby,  and  had  a  daugh« 
ter. 
Joane,  wife  of  Sir  Robert  WeUs,  Knt, 
afterwards  Lord  Wdls,  by  whom  the 
said  Joane  had  issue, 
Robert,    Lord     Willoughby    and 

WeUs,  who  died  «.^ 
Jane,  heir  to  her  brother,  m.  Sir 
Richard  Hastings,  Lord  WeUs  and 
Willoughby.    (in    right    of   his 
wife,)  and  had  issue, 
Anthony  Hastings,  who  died«.  jn., 
thus  terminating  the  line 
Maude,  Lady  Willoughby,  m.  secondly. 
Sir  Thomas  Nevil,  Knt,  a  younger  son  of 
Richard,  Earl  of  Salisbury,  and  thirdly. 
Sir  Gervase  Clifton,  Knt,  but  had  issue 
by  neither. 
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JAifs    Stakbops,    m.    Sir    Huhpbrry 
BouRcaisR,  third  son  of  Henry,  Earl 
of  EsAx,  which 
SIR    HUMPHREY    BOURCHIER   was  sum- 
moned to  parliament  in  ri|^t  of  his  said  w|fe,  as 
Barok  CROMWBX.L,  from  SSth  July,  1461,  to  15th 
October,  147a    This  nobleman  fell,  gallantly  fight- 
ing at  the  battle  of  Bamet-fidd,  on  the  part  of  Ed- 
ward IV.  in  1471,  and  d.  without  issue.    The  Bat 
RONT  OP  CROMnrBLJL,  upon  the  decease  of  his  lord- 
ship's widow,  fell  into  abbyancb,  amongst  the 
descendants  of  Ralph,  the  fourth  baron's  three 
aunts,  , 

Hawise,  wife  of  Thomas,  Lord  Bardolph. 
Maud,  wife  of  Sir  William  Fita-WiUiams,  Knt. 
Elisabeth,  wife  first  of  Sir  John  Clifton,  Knt., 
and  afterwards  of  Sir  Edward  Bensted,  Knt. 
and  it  still  so  continues,  save  as  to  the  line  of  Bar- 
dolph, which  was  attainted. 
ARM8.— Or.  a  chief  gu.  over  all  a  bend,  ax. 

CROMWELL— BARON  CROMWELL, 
OF  OKEHAM,  IN  THE 
COUNTY  OF  RUTLAND, 
EARL  OF  ESSEX. 

Bnoaj,    \  by  Letters  Patent,  f  9th  July,  1538. 
Earldom,  J  dated  \  10th  April,  1530. 

Xiiuage. 

THOMAS  CROMWELL,  son  of  Walter  Crom- 
wdl,  a  blacksmith  at  Putney,  upon  hb  return  from 
foreign  service  under  the  Duke  of  Bourbon,  ob- 
tained a  situation  in  the  suite  of  Cardinal  Wolfey* 
and,  after  the  fall  of  that  celebrated  prelate,  was 
taken  into  the  service  of  the  king,  (at  Henry's  spe- 
cial command,  flrom  his  flddity  to  his  old  master,) 
in  which  he  evinced  so  much  seal  and  ability,  that 
the  road  to  the  highest  honours  of  the  state  presented 
very  soon  an  unimpeded  course  for  his  ambition.  In 
a  short  time  he  filled  suocessi  vdy  the  important  situa- 
tions of  master  of  the  Jewel-office,  derk  of  the  Hana- 
per,  prindfwl  secretary.  Justice  (rf  the  forests,  master 
(tf  the  rolls,  and  lord  privy-aeal,  and  was  elevated  to 
the  peerage,  in  the  dignity  oi  Barom  Croitw-sll, 
of  OArelkam,  on  the  9th  July,  153S.  He  was  after- 
wards constituted  the  king's  vice-regent  in  spiri- 
tuals, honoured  with  the  oartbr,  and  finally  (17th 
April  1539)  created  Earjl  op  Eaaaz,  when  he  was  in 
vested  with  the  lord  bioh  CHAMBBRLAiManip  op 
Emolaitd.  In  the  dissolution  of  the  monaatic  in- 
stitutions, and  the  establishmeut  of  the  spiritual 
supremacy  of  his  royal  master,  Cromwdl,  consider- 
ing the  powerful  interests  with  which  he  had  to 
contend,  exhibited  a  boldness  of  character  paralMwl 
only  by  the  profound  political  dexterity  that  ac- 
complished those  great  and  daring  innovations.  As 
a  recompense,  he  shared  largely  in  thespoil  of  the 
felkn  church,  and,  amongst  other  grants,  the  sacer- 
dotal revenues  of  SL  Osythus,  in  Essex,  and  ci  the 
Gray  Friars,  at  Yarmouth,  flowed  into  his  ooflbrti 
But  his  devation  was  not  more  rapid  than  his  d»* 
dine,  and  his  fall  was  hailed  by  all  parties  with  sa- 
tisfaction. So  long  as  Essex  nkinistcred  to  the 
plea^iires  of  Henry,  the  royal  shidd  protected  him 
from  the  indignation  of  the  people  i  but  the  mo- 
ment that  was  removed,  hia  fate  waa  eealed.    His 


GRO 


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tartminrmiiHty  In  tflyfng  tfie  king  wHh  Anne  of 
Clercs*  WM  the  rock  upon  wldeh  hii  ftwtinM*  fottn> 
Acted,  not  very.  dlwim^Uir  to  that  upon  whidi  the 
popal  powor  had  prerioualy  pariibod.  Unprepared 
for  such  a  proceeding,  the  earl  was  anasfced,  under 
the  king's  especial  order,  by  the  Duke  of  Norfolk, 
at  the  oontroal-board,  10th  June,  IMO,  hurried  off 
to  the  Tower,  attahited  unheard,  and  beheaded  on 
the  94th  of  the  ensuing  mondi,  notwithstanding 
Ardifaisliop  Cranmeifs  powerful  ei^ertions  in  his  be- 
half;  and  aU  the  honours  of  the  ex-minister  were 
of  douiae  FonFBinn  under  the  attainder ;  but  his 
son,  Gregory,  who,  in  his  Uf»-time,  had  been  sum- 
mooed  to  parliament  as  Lord  Cromwell,  had  that 
dignity  cooftrmed  to  him,  by  letters  patent,  in  the 
December  following  the  earl's  execution.  (See  Ba- 
>onCromweU.) 

The  annexed  Letter  was  written,  it  appears,  at  the 
king's  deslrft,  by  Cromwdl  hims^. 

**  Most  Oradous  Kinge,  and  moat  merciAill  So- 
Tcveying: 

'*  Your  most  humble,  most  obeysant,  and  most 
bounden  subject,  and  most  lamentable  lervant  and 
prisoner,  prostrate  at  the  feete  of  your  most  excel- 
lent M^)esty,  have  herd  your  pleasure,  by  the 
mouth  of  3rour  comptroller;  which  was,  that  I 
should  wrjftte  to  your  most  excellent  Highness, 
such  thynges  as  I  thought  mete  to  be  wryttyn  con- 
semyng  my  most  miserable  state,  and  condition ; 
for  the  which  your  most  habundant  goodness,  be- 
nignyte  and  lioens,  the  immortalle  God,  three  and 
one,  reward  your  magestye.  And  now  most  gracious 
Prince  io  the  matyer, 

**  FTxar.  Wher  I  haTe  bene  accusyd  to  your  Ma- 
gestye of  Treason.  To  that  I  say,  I  never  in  alie 
mf  lyfe  thought  wyllingly  to  do  that  thyng  that 
myght  or  sholde  displease  your  Mi^esty  i  and  much 
less'  to  do  or  say  that  thyng,  which  of  itself  is  so 
high  and  abbominable  oUtace;  as  God  knowyth, 
who  I  doubt  not  shall  reveale  the  trewth  to  your 
Highness.  Myne  accusers  your  Grace  knowyth, 
God  forgive  them :  For  as  I  ever  have  had  love  to 
your  honor, .  person,  lyfe,  prospeiitye,  helthe, 
wdthe,  Joy  and  comfort ;  and  also  your  most  dere 
and  most  entyerly  bdovyd  sone,  the  Prynce,  his 
Once,  and  your  prooeedyngs,  God  so  helpe  me  In 
this  myne  advenltie  and  conflbund  me  yf  ever  I 
thought  the  contrary.  What  labours,  payns  and 
tnvailes  I  have  taken,  according  to  my  most  boun- 
den deutye,  God  also  knowyth.  For,  yf  it  were  in 
my  power  (as  it  is  Godds)  to  make  your  Mi^estye  to 
lyre  ever  young  and  prosperous,"  God  knowyth  I 
wooMe;  If  it  hadde  bene,  or  were  in  my  power  to 
mafeeyowsorydie,  as  ye  myght  enrych  aUemen, 
God  helpe  me  as  woolde  do  hit  If  it  had  bene  or 
!  in  my  power  to  make  your  m^esty  so  puys- 

it,  as  alia  the  worlde  sholde  be  oompellyd  to  obey 
jow,  Christ  he  knowyth  I  woldet  for  so  am  I  of  alle 
othyr  most  bounde:  for  your  Magestye  hath  bene 
the  most  bountiAil  Prynce  to  me,  that  ever  was  a 
Kyng  to  his  subiect :  ye,  and  more  like  a  dere  father 
(your  Magestye  not  oflhndyd)  than  a  master.  Such 
Ittth  bene  your  most  grave  and  Godly  oounsayle 
towards  me,  at  sundry  tymes.  In  that  I  have  of- 
fendid  I  ax  your  mercy.  Should  I  now,  for  such 
exoaeding  goodness,  .benyngnyte*  liberalitie  and 


bounty  be  your  ttmytor,  nay  th^  the  greatest  payaas 
were  too  little  for  me.  Should  any  faccyon,  or  any 
aflbccyon  to  any  point  make  me  a  traytor  to  your 
magestie,  then  alle  the  Devylls  in  Hell  confound 
me,  and  the  vengeance  of  God  light  upon  me,  yf  I 
sholde  once  have  thought  yt,  most  gracious  Sova- 
rayn  Loid.  To  my  remembrance  I  never  ^wke 
with  the  Chavcblour  or  ths  AuoMSHTACYoiva 
and  TRaooMORTON  togethyr  at  one  tyme ;  but  yf  I 
dyde,  I  am  sure,  I  sake  never  of  any  such  matyer  t 
and  your  Grace  knowyth,  w}kat  manner  of  man 
Throgmortan  hath  evyr  bene  towards  your  Grace 
and  your  procedyngs,  and  what  Mr.  Chancelour 
hath  bene  towards  me,  God  and  he  best  knowyth,  I 
will  ne  can  accuse  hym.  What  I  have  bene  towards 
hym,  your  magestye  right  welle  knowyth.  I  wolde 
in  Christ  I  had  obeyed  your  often  most  gradous, 
grave  counsayles,  and  advertysements,  that  it  had 
not  bene  with  me  as  now  hit  is.  Yet  our  Lord,  yf 
hit  be  his  wylle,  can  do  with  me  as  he  dyd  with  Su- 
san who  was  falsely  accused :  unto  the  whyche  God 
I  have  only  oommytted  my  sowle;  my  body,  and 
goods  at  your  Mgestyes  pleasure,  in  whose  mercye 
and  pyetie  I  do  hoUy  repose  me :  for  othyr  hope 
then  in  God  and  your  Magestye  I  have  not. 

'*  Sir,  as  to  your  Common  Welthe,  I  have  aftyr 
my  wytte,  power,  and  knowledge,  travayled  therein ; 
havyng  had  no  respect  to  persons  (your  Magestie 
only  except)  and  my  dewtye  tu  the  same :  but,  that 
I  have  done  any  injustice,  or  wrong,  wyllfuUy,  I 
trust  God  shall  here  my  wytaa,  and  the  world  not 
able  Justly  to  accuse  me.  And  yet  I  have  not  done 
my  dewtye  in  alle  thynges,  as  I  was  bounden,  whve- 
fore  I  ai^  mercy.  If  I  have  herde  of  any  oombyna- 
cyons,  convencyons,  or  such  as  were  oflbnders  of 
your  laws;  1  have,  though  not  as  I  sholde  have 
done,  for  the  most  part  revealed  them,  and  also 
causyd  them  to  be  punyshed ;  not  of  males,  as  God 
shall  Judge  mOi  Nevertheless,  Sir,  I  have  medelyd 
in  so  many  matyen,  under  your  Highnes,  that  I  am 
not  able  to  answer  them  aU.  But  one  thyng  I  am 
well  assured  cfi  that  willingly  and  wyttyngly  I  have 
not  had  wlUa  to  oflhnd  your  Hyghness :  but  hard  it 
is  for  me,  or  any  other,  medelyng,  as  I  have  done, 
to  live  under  your  Grace  and  your  laws,  but  we 
must  daylle  offmd ;  and  where  I  have  okbndyd 
I  most  humbly  aske  mercy  and  pardon  at  your 
Grace^s  wyll  and  pleasure. 

«  Amongst  othyr  thynges,  mo«t  Gracyous  Soverayn, 
Mr.  Comptroller  shewed  me,  that  your  Grace  shewed 
hym,  that  within  this  fourteen  dayes,  ye  oommytted 
a  matyer  of  grete  secresye,  which  I  did  revele,  con- 
trary to  your  expectation.  Sir !  I  do  remember 
well  the  matyer,  which  I  nevyr  revelyd  to  any 
creture:  but  this  I  dyd.  Sir;  after  your  Grace  had 
openyd  the  matyer ;  flyrst  to  me  in  your  chamber, 
and  declared  your  lamentable  fate;  dedarying  the 
thynges,  which  your  Highnes  mysliked  in  the  Queue ; 
at  whych  time  I  shewyd  your  Grace,  that  she  often 
desyred  to  speke  wyth  me,  but  I  durst  not:  and  ye 
sayd,  why  sholde  I  not  7  AUegyng,  that  I  might  do 
much  good  in  goying  to  her;  and  to  be  playn  wyth 
her,  in  dedaring  my  mynde :  I  thereupon,  takyng 
oportunitye,  not  bdng  a  lyttil  grievyd,  spake  prl- 
vylie  with  her  Lord  Chamberlayn,  for  the  whych  I 
aske  your  Grace  mercy ;  desyring  him,  (not  naming 

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yourGnoe  to  hym*)  to  tynd  tome  meant  that  Che 
Queue  might  be  induced  to  ofder  your  Oraoe  pie- 
untly,  in  her  bduivyour  towardi  yout  thinking 
therrtiy*  finr  to  have  had  tome  Ikultcs  amendyd, 
to  your  Mageitiet  eontant.  And  after  that,  by  gene- 
ralle  wordes.  the  layd  Lord  Chambetlane,  and 
other  of  the  Quecne't  ooumayle,  being  with  me,  in 
my  chamber  at  Wevtmlnster.  for'  Lyoenc  for  the 
departure  of  the  itzange  Maydens  i  I  then  required 
them  to  coan«ayl  their  Mayetret,  to  me  aU  plea- 
■antnem  Co  your  Higfanei^  the  whydi  things  un- 
doubtedly  weren  both  fpoken  before  your  Magertye 
told  the  secrete  matyer  unto  me*  only  of  purpose, 
that  she  might  hare  by  tove  inducyd  to  sudi  plo- 
sant  and  hoDorri>Ie  fiicyons,  as  myght  have  bene 
to  your  Grao^  oomforte ;  whydi,  above  all  things, 
as  God  knoweth,  I  dyd  most  oovyt  and  desire. 
But  that  I  openyd  my  mouth  to  any  creature,  aftyr 
3rour  Magestye  oommlttyd  the  secresye  thereof  to 
me,  othyr  than  only  to  my  Lord  Admyralt  which  I 
dyde  by  your  Gracc^s  commandemcnt,  whidi  was 
upon  Sunday  last  in  die  naorayng,  whom  I  then 
fownd  as  wylHng,  and  ^ad  to  sake  remedye,  for 
your  comfort  and  oons(4acyon  i  and  saw  by  hym 
that  he  did  as  much  lament  Your  Hl^hnes  fkte,  as 
ever  dyd  man;  and  was  wondeifiilly  grevyed  to  see 
Your  HIghnes  so  troubdyd,  wyshtaig  gretdy  your 
comfort :  for  the  attayning  whereof  He  sayd,  (your 
Honour  salvyd)  he  would  spend  the  best  Moud  in 
hys  bdye :  and  yf  I  wolde  not  do  the  lyke,  ye  and 
wyUlngly  dye  for  ^pur  oomfort,  I  wolde  I  were  In 
Hdi\  and  I  woolde  lAoMe  recdve  a  Thousand 
DetMs. 

••  Sir,  This  is  an  that  I  have  done  in  that  matyer ; 
and  yf  I  have  oflbndyd  yoar  Magestle  therein,  pros- 
trate at  your  Highnes  fete,  I  meet  lowly  aske  mercy 
and  pardon  of  your  Highnes.  Sir,  this  was  also 
layd  unto  my  chardge,  at  myne  examination,  that 
I  had  retayned  contrary  to  your  Laws.  Sir,  what 
exposydoun  may  be  made  upon  retaynors,  I  know 
not :  but  thys  wyH  I  say ;  that  yf  ever  I  retayned 
any  man,  but  sudi  only  as  were  my  household  ser- 
vants, but  ageynat  my  wiD  God  confound  me.  But 
most  Gracyons  Soverayn,  I  have  been  so  called  on, 
and  sewyd  to  by  them,  that  sayd  they  were  my 
Prendes  {  that  constrayned  thereto,  I  retained  their 
children  and  ftcndys,  not  as  Retayners :  for  their 
fathers  and  parents  did  promyse  me  to  fynde  them, 
and  so  I  took  them,  not  as  Ratayners,  to  my  grete 
chardge,  and  for  none  evyll,  as  God  best  knowyth, 
interpret  to  the  contrary  who  wylle;  most  humbly 
beseechyng  your  Magestye  off  pardon,  yf  I  have 
oimndyd  therein. 

•«  Sir,  I  acknowledge  mysdf  to  hare  been  a  most 
miserable  and  wrechyd  sinner ;  and  that  I  have  not 
towards  God  and  your  Hif^es,  behavyd  myaelf  as 
I  ought  and  shOlde  have  done:  for  the  whych  mjme 
oflbnce  to  God,  whyle  I  live,  I  shall  continually  kail 
for  his  mercy.  And  for  myne  oflbncys  to  your 
Grace  which  God  knowyth  wen  never  malydous 
and  wylftill  and  that  I  never  thought  treason  to 
Your  Highnes,  your  realme,  or  Posteritle,  so  God 
hdpe  me,  either  in  word  or  dede^  nevertiieles, 
prostrate  at  your  Magcstles  feet.  In  what  thyng 
soever  I  have  ofltedyd,  I  appel  to  your  Highnes  for 
mercy,  grace,  and  paffdon.  In  eudi  wyae aailiBll  be 
litt 


your  pleasure  I  besediyng  the  Ahniglhty  MAer 
and  redeemer  o€  the  World  to  send  your  Magestle 
continual  and  long  hrtthe,  walthe  and  praaperltia 
with  Nestor's  Yeares  to  rdgaat  and  yoor  dere  son 
the  Princess  Grace  to  prober,  relgne  and  continue 
long  after  you.  And  tiiey  that  wolde  contrary, 
short  liflb,  shame,  and  oonfiision.  Wryttan  with 
the  quaUng  hand  and  most  sorrowftil  heart  of  your 
most  soiruwftdl  sut^oct  and  moat  homUe  servant 
and  pryioner,  this  Satnrday  at  your  Tower  of 
London. 

«« TnoMAt  Cmoinr«j«" 

w 

Aniia.— ^il^on  a  feaie  bet  wean  three  lions  ram* 
pant  or.,  a  rose  gules  batweesi  two  Cornish  ciioughs 

proper.        v.Ck^ci 

NOTB.--SlR      ROBBRT     WILI.IAJC8,     U&fhtBW    Oi 

Thomas  Cromwdl,  Karl  of  Bssex,  aasiimed  the 
sunume  of  Cromwdl,  and  being  in  fkvour  with 
King  Henry  VIIL,  was  appointed  a  gentloiMm  of 
the  privy-chamber  to  that  monarch,  and  conatriila 
of  Berkeley  Castle.  Upon  the  dissohition  of  the 
monaatarles,  he  obtained  ail  the  lands.  In  Hunting- 
donshire, brionging  to  any  religious  house  In  that 
county,  and  was  «.  by  Us  son, 

SIR  HENRY  CROMWELL,  Knt,  of  HtaNhin* 
broke,  who  left  issue. 

Sir  Oliver  Cromwell,  K.B.,  and 
Ronnnr  Cromwbll,  who  waa  flUhar  of 
OitiTSB  CnoMwni.i<,  the  Protector. 

CROMWELL  —    BARONS      CROH* 

WELL- 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  S8th  April*  1530. 
By  Letters  Patent,  dated  18th  December,  IMOl 

ICincsgt. 

The  Hon. 

GREGORY  CROMWELL,  aomBMued  to  par- 
liament flBth  April,  1539,  as  LoBD  CnoMWSLi*,  ^son 
of  Thomas  Cromwell,  Karl  of  Essex,  attainted  and 
beheaded  in  July,  1540,)  a  servant  of  King  Hanry 
VIIL,  was  created  Babon  Cbomwbxx,  by  lettars 
patent,  dated  18th  December,  154a  His  lordship 
m.  Eliiabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Seymour,  sister 
of  Edward,  Duke  of  Somerset,  and  widow  of  Sir 
Anthony  Oughtrad,  by  whom  he  had  tlirae  sons, 
Hbnby,  Edward,  and  Thomas,  and  two  danghftars, 
Frances,  m.  to  Edward  Stnmde,  Esq.,  of  Doveu- 
shire  I  Catherine,  m.  to  JOhn  Stroude,  Esq.,  of  the 
county  of  Dorset  Lord  Cromwell,  who  had  auas- 
mons  to  parliament  to  the  year  IMS,  A  in  UN,  and 
was  *.  by  his  eldaat  son, 

HENRY  CROMWELL,  second  banm,  ram* 
moned  to  parliament  from  the  Mh  to  the  Slat  Eliaa- 
beth.  His  lordship  m.  Mary,  daoghtar  of  John,  Mar- 
quess  of  Winchester,  and  had  Issne,  EvwAnn,  hla 
BuooesMr,  Sir  Gregory  Cromwell,  Knt.,  and  Cathertna 
m.  to  Sir  Lionel  Talmache,KnL  HeAIn  iaBt,and 
was  «.  by  his  elder  son, 

EDWARD  CROMWELL,  ttairi  baron,  anm- 
moned  to  parliament  in  the98th Elisabeth.  Thisne- 
Meman  was  with  the  Earl  of  Easaa  in  Ms  eKpedMon 
at  sea  against  the  Spaniards  In  the40th  Eliaabeth,  and 
Joined  In  the  insuiiection  three  yaars 
whkh oaat  tiie  earlhla 


CRO 

csdved.  bowmrflr*  en  eqiecial  paidan  <m  tlMrMh  July, 
IBM.  Hift  lordthip  m.  lint,  — -»  daughter  of  — — 
Umptoo,  Etq.taad  had  an  only  daughter,  Eliabeth, 
m.  flnt,  to  Sir  John  ShelUm,  of  Shelton,  in  Norfolk, 
«m1  aitorwsnb  io  Thomaa  Fitxhnghea,  Esq.,  of  Ox- 
ibrdshiie.  The  baron  m.MOOndiy,Franoa>,  daughter 
of  William*  Rugge,  Esq.,  of  NorfoUc,  by  whom  ho 
had  TaoKAB,  Ma  wiccdmot,  with  two  daughters, 
▼iau,  Francei,  m.  to  Sir  John  Wiaglleld,  of  Ticken- 
oote,  in  the  county  of  Rutland,  and  Anne^  m.  to  Sir 
William  Wingfleld,  of  Poorea  Court,  in  Ireland. 
Lord  CromweU  haTing  alienated  his  estates  in  Eng- 
land by  sale,  purchased  the  barony  of  Lecale,  in 
Ireland,  traan  Mmmtioj  Blount,  Earl  of  Devon,  or, 
according  to  Noble,  in  his  History  of  Cornwall,  made 
an  exchange  thercofl  His  lordship  d.  in  Ireland  in 
1907,  snd  was  «.  by  his  son, 

THOMAS  CROMWELL,  fourth  baron,  who  was 
created  by  King  Charles  I.  in  1685,  VUeoutH  Lteale, 
and  Eaui.  or  AnnoLAas,  in  the  peerage  of  Ireland. 
Hia  lordship  remained  firmly  attached  to  the  interests 
of  the  king  during  thedTll  wars,  notwithstanding  his 
friendship  with  the  Earlof  Essex.  He  m.  Elisabeth, 
daughter  and  heiress  of  Robert  Meverdl,  Esq.,  of 
ThrowMgh,  in  the  county  of  Stallbrd,  by  whom  he 
had  surviving  issue,  Wivofisld,  his  successor, 
VKas-Esexx,  who  inherited  after  his  nephew,  and 
Oliver,  with  a  daughter  Mary,  who  m.  William  Fits- 
Herbert,  Esq.,  of  Tissington,  in  the  county  of 
Derby.    He'  d.  in  16S3,  and  was  «.  by  his  ddest  son, 

WINGFIBLD  CROMWELL,  pifth  Babon 
CnoMwau.,  and  bboomd  Eau.  op  ARDOi^aa. 
This  nobleman  m.  Mary,  daughter  of  Sir  William 
Russell,  of  Strentham,  in  the  county  of  Worces- 
ter, and  was  «.  in  1668,  by  his  only  son, 

THOMAS  CROMWELL,  sixth  barow  and 
TBiRD  SARI.,  who  m.  ,  daughter  of  His  Grace 

Michael  Boyle,  Archbishop  of  Dublin,  and  lord 
dianodlor  of  Ireland,  but  dying  issudcas  11th  April, 
MBB,  hia  honours  reverted  to  his  unde, 

VERE-ESSEX  CROMWELL,  seventh  baion  and 
ioorth  earL  This  nobleman  m.  Miss  Hamilton,  by 
whom  (who  subsequently  espoused  Ridiard  Price, 
Esq.),  he  had  an  only  daughter,  Elicabxtb.  His 
lordship  d.  in  1687,  when  the  Irish  ViacouNTT  op  Lb- 
CAZ.B  and  Earldom  op  Ari>oi.a88,  and  the  English 
Barony  of  Cromwell,  created  by  patent,  bxpibbo; 
but  theBABOMY  op  Cbomwbi.i.,  originating  in  the 
writ  of  S8th  April,  1538,  devolved  upon  his  daughter, 

ELIZABETH  CROMWELL,  as  Baroness  Crom- 
well, in  which  rank  her  ladyship  assisted  at  the  fune- 
ral of  Queen  Mary  II.,  and  coronation  of  Queen  Anne. 
Sh%  nil.  Edward  Southwdl,  Esq.,  principal  secre- 
tary of  state  for  Ireland,  and  had  issue,  two  sons 
andadangl^ter,  who  d.  all  H9te  prole,'  and  another,  a 
son,  Edward  Southwell,  who  marrying  Catherine, 
daughter  of  Edward  Watson,  Viscount  Sondes,  and 
sole  heiroM  of  her  brothers,  Lewis  and  Thcnnas, 
Earls  of  Roddngham,  left  a  son, 

Edward  Soutbwbli.,  who,  in  right  of  his 
mother,  succeeded  to  the  Barony  of  db  Clip- 

POBD. 

Her  ladyBhip  d,  in  1700,  and  the  Babony  op  Crom- 
virxi.1.  is  now  supposed  to  be  vested  in  Lord  db 
Clippord,  son  and  successor  of  Edward,  Lord  de 
Clillbrd,  mentioned  above.    . 


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DACRE— BARONS  DACRE,  OF  GIL- 
LE8LAND  OR  THE  NORTH. 

By  Writ  ot  Summons,  dated  I5th  November,  1489, 
asnd  Edward  IV. 

In  the  20th  year  of  King  Henry  lU. 

WILLIAM  DACRE,  qf  Doer*,  in  the  county  of 
Cumberland,  served  the  ofllce  of  sheriff  for  that 
shire,  with  John  de  Moore,  and  in  the  thirty-second 
of  the  same  reign,  he  was  constituted  sheriff  of 
Yorkshire,  and  governor  of  the  castles  of  Scar- 
borough and  Pickering.  He  died  in  ten  years  after- 
wards, when  again  sheriff  of  Cumberland,  and 
governor  of  the  castle  of  Carlisle,  and  was  «.  by  hia 


RANULPH  DE  DACRE,  who  had  been  in  the 
life-time  of  his  father  a  sUunch  adherent  of  King 
Henry  III.,  In  the  conflicts  between  that  monarch 
and  the  barons,  and  upon  succeeding  to  his  inherit- 
ance, was  ^ipointed  sheriff  of  Cumberland.  In  the 
7th  Edward  I.,  he  was  constituted  sheriff  of  Vork- 
shire^  and  continued  in  that  trust,  until  the  end  of 
the  third  quarter  of  the  eighth  succeeding  year. 
This  Ranulph,  m.  Jdane  de  Luci,  and  dying  in  the 
14th  Edward  I.,  was  «.  by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  DACRE,  who,  in  theaSndEd- 
ward  I.,  was  in  the  expedition  made  that  year  into 
Scotland,  and  about  the  same  period  obtained  a 
charter  for  firee  Warren  in  all  his  demesne  lands  at 
Daore,  in  the  county  of  Cumberhmd,  and  at  Halton, 
in  Lancashire  In  the  first  year  of  the  next  reign 
he  had  licence  to  encssteUate  his  mansion  at  Dun- 
walloght,  in  Cumberland,  on  the  marches  of  Soot- 
land,  and  in  three  years  afterwards  was  again  en- 
gaged in  the  Scottish  wars.  His  lordship  m.  Joane, 
daughter  and  heiress  of  Benedict  Gemet,  of  Bluet, 
and  having  been  summoned  to  parliament  as'  a 
Baroh,  fh>m  the  asth  Edward  I.,  to  the  lifth  Ed- 
ward IL,  departed  this  Ufb  in  the  latter  year,  and 
was  «.  by  his  son, 

RANULPH  PE  DACRE,  who  had  summons  to 
parliament  as  Barom  Dacrx,  ftom  15th  May,  1381, 
to  15th  November,  1338.  His  lordship  was  made 
sheriff  of  Cumberland,  and  governor  of  Carlisle,  in 
the  4th  Edward  III.,  and  in  the  dghth  of  the  same 
monarch,  he  obtained  livery  of  all  those  castles  and 
manors  in  Anandale,  within  the  realm  of  Scotland, 
part  of  the  possessions  of  Roger  de  Kirkpatric,  and 
Humphrey  de  Bois,  which  had  been  given  to  him 
by  Edward  King  of  Scotland.  He  was  also,  in  the 
same  year,  joined  in  commission  with  Robert  de 
Cliflbrd,  fbr  the  defence  of  the  town  and  marchA 
of  Carlisle,  and  for  arraying  so  many  '*  men  at 
arms,  hoUers,  and  foot  soldiers,**  as  should  be  need- 
ftil  ftnr  theservice.  In  the  n«xt  year  he  had  license 
to  make  a  castle  of  his  house  at  Naworth,  in  the 
county  of  Cumberland.  His  lordship  m.  Margaret, 
only  daughter  and  heiress  of  Thomas  de  Multon, 
Baron  Multon,  <^  GiUe§land,  (by  writ  of  Edward 
II.,  dated  fl6th  August,  1807*)  by  whom  he  acquired 
considerable  estates,  and  left  at  his  decease,  in  18a9| 
three  sons,  via. 

William,  who  succeeded  to  the  Baron v  of 
X  159 


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Dacr*  throufli  his  ftUier»  «Dd  to  Che  Banmy 
of  MvLTOs,  through  hU  mother*  but  died 
«.  p,  in  1361. 
Ralph,  suoceMor  to  hit  brother  in  the  b«roiiiei« 
died  also  *.p,in  137& 
And 

HUGH  DE  DACRB,  who  «.  hi*  brother  Ralph 
u  Lord  Dacre  and  Lord  Multon,  and  had  summons 
to  parliament  ftom  1st  December,  1376,  to  90th 
August,  19B3.  His  lordship  m.  Ela,  daughter  of 
Alexander,  Lord  Manrell»  and  dying  in  1389,  waa 
«.  bf  his  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  DACRE,  summoned  to  parlia- 
ment from  3rd  Mardi,  1304,  toSSrd  November,  1403. 
His  lordship  m.  Joane,  daughter  of  James,  Earl  ot 
Douglas,  and  dying  about  the  year  1408,  was  s.  by 
his  son, 

THOMAS  DE  DACRE,  summoned  to  parli*- 
ment  ftom  1st  December,  141S,  to  90th  May,  14fi& 
This  nobleman  was  eonstitnted  chief  forester  of 
Inglewood  Forest,  in  the  county  of  Cumberland,  in 
the  8th  Henry  V.,  and  was  appointed  in  the  2nd 
Henry  VL  one  of  the  commissioners  to  treat  for 
peace  with  James  I.  of  Scotland.  His  lordship  m. 
PhiUppa,  daughter  of  Ralph  NerlL  Earl  of  West- 
morland, and  had  issue, 

Thomas,  who  m.  EUiabeth,.danghter  of  Richard 
Bowes,  Esq.,  and  dying  in  the  life-time  of  his 
father,  left  an  only  daughter  and  heireis, 
Joane,  m.  Sir  Richard  Fienas,  Knt,  who 
was  declared  Bonn  Dacbs  by  King  Ed- 
ward IV.,  and  ftom  whom  the  babowy 
has  descended  in  regular  suooeBion  io  the 
present  Loan  Dackb. 
Ranulph,  a  stout  adherent  of  the  house  of  Lan- 
caster, had  summons  to  parliament  as  a  babon 
in  the  3Bth  Henry  YL.  but  feU  at  Towton- 
fldd,  and  was  subsequently  attainted,  when 
his  title  and  estates  became  forfeited. 
HuMPHBBY,  of  whom  presently. 
Joan,  m.  to  Thonuw,  eighth  Lewd  de  CUflRnd. 
SIR  HUMPHREY   DACRE,  (the  third  son,) 
having  deported  himself  obsequiously  to  the  then 
triumphant  bouse  of  York,  attended  King  Edward 
IV.  at  the  sieges  and  surrender  (rf  the  dlflferent  Lan- 
castrian Castles  in  the  north :  for  which  good  ser- 
vices, as  writ  as  his  fidelity  to  the  king's  sister,  Blar- 
garet,  whom  he  escorted  as  chamberlain  upon  her 
Journey  into  Flanders,  on  the  occasion  of  her  mar- 
riage with  Charles,  Duke  of   Burgundy,  he  was 
constituted  master  forester  of  Inglewood  FcMrest  for 
life,  and  continuing  to  enjoy  the  confidence  of  the 
king,  he  was  summoned  to  parliament  as  a  babon 
on  the  Uth  November,  1482,  under  the  designation 
•f  '*  HuMrainio  Dacbbs  or  Gillbsland,  CSheva- 
tier."    Sir  Humphrey  Dacre,  who  epjoyed  GiUesland 
and  other  capital  manors,  by  virtue  of  a  fine  levied 
by  his  father,  had  previously  disputed  the  original 
Barony  or  Dacbb,  with  his  niece  Joane,  Lady 
Fienes,  when  the  afikir  was  leferied  to  the  arbitra- 
ilon  of  King  Edward  IV. ,  who  confirmed  Sir  Richard 
Fienes  and  his  lady  in  the  barony,  with  tiie  prece- 
dency enjoyed  by  Lady  Fienes's  grandfather,  and 
decreed  to  them  divers  castles  and  manors,  but 
GiLLBBLAirD,  the  ancient  seat  of  the  Vaux's,  with 
several  considerable  catatee  was  ad^dgad  to  Sir 


Htti&pliiey  I  whok  at  the  sama  time,  was  created  a 
BAROV,  with  place  next  bdow  Sir  Richard  Fienca, 
and  for  distinction  was  styled  Lord  Dacre,  of  GiUes- 
land, or  of  the  north;  Sir  Richard  being  entitled 
Lord  Dacre,  of  the  South.  His  lordship  m.  Maud, 
daughter  of  Sir  Thomas  Parr,  Knt.,  and  dying  in 
1309,  was  s.  by  his  son, 

SIR  THOMAS  DACRE,  second  Lord  Dacre,  of 
Oillesland,  summoned  to  parliament  from  17th  Oc- 
tober, 1309,  to  12th  November,  lAlfi.  This  noble* 
man,  in  the  9th  Henry  VII.,  served  under  Thomas, 
Earl  of  Surrey,  at  the  siege  of  Norham  Castle,  and 
his  lordship  obtained  great  cdebrity  In  the  com- 
mand of  a  body  of  horse  reserve,  at  die  famous 
fight  of  Fix>noBK,  in  the  4th  Henry  VIIL  under 
the  same  gallant  leader.  He  was,  subsequently,  at 
difltarent  times,  engaged  in  Scotland,  and  be  filled 
the  important  office  of  warden  of  the  West  Marches 
ftom  the  1st  year  of  King  Henry  VIIL  He  m, 
Elimbeth,  grand-daughter  and  sole  heiress  of  Ralph 
de  Oreystock,  Baron  Greystock,  K.G.,  and  had 


William,  his  successor. 
Humphrey. 

Mary,  m.  to  Francis,  Earl  of  Shrewsbury. 
Margaret,  m.  to  Henry,  Lord  Scrope,  of  Bolton. 
Jane. 
His  lordship  d.  lit  1383,  and  was  s.  by  his  ddcr 
son, 

SIR  WILLIAM  DACRE,  as  third  Lord  Dacre» 
of  GiUesland,  summoned  to  parliament  from  3rd 
November,  1829,  to  21st  October,  1565,  in  the  first 
writ  as  *<  WlUielmo  Dacre  de  Dacre  and  Oreystok, 
ChiV,"  afterwards  as  <«  de  Ollleshuid,"  or  of  Grey- 
stok,  or  '*  de  North."  In  the  26th  Henry  VIIL  this 
nobleman  being  accused  of  high  treason  by  Sir 
Ralph  Fenwyke,  was  brought  to  trial  before  Ua 
peers  at  Westminster,  in  the  July  of  that  year,  and 
acquitted,  owing  to  the  description  of  evidence  by 
which  the  charge  was  sustained,  namriy,  persons  of 
mean  degree  ftom  the  Scottish  border,  who  were 
^ther  suborned,  or  brought  forward  by  a  vindictive 
fteling  towards  Lord  Dacre,  arising  fkom  the  severity 
with  which  he  had  executed  the  duty  of  warden  of 
the  marchesr  In  the  reigna  of  Edward  VL,  Mary 
and  Ellisabeth,  his  lordship  wak  captain  of  the  Cas- 
tle, and  governor  of  Carlisle,  and  in  the  2Bd  year  of 
the  last  Queen  he  was  Joined  in  commission  with 
the  Earl  of  Northumberland  to  negotiate  a  peace 
with  Scotland.  His  lordship  m.  Elisabeth,  fifth 
daughter  of  George,  Eari  of  Shrewsbury,  and  had 
issue* 

THOMAa,  his  successor. 

Leonard,  who  being  dissatisfied  with  the  distri- 
'  bution  of  the  Aunily  estates  amongst  faia 
nieces,  at  the  decease  of  his  nephew,  Geoige, 
Lord  Dacre,  Joined  in  the  conspiracy  of  the 
Earia  of  Northumberland  and  Westmorland, 
temp.  Elisabeth  for  the  rescue  of  Mary,  Queen 
of  Scots,  and  took  possession  of  the  Dacre 
Castles,  of  Gbbtbtock  and  Nawobth,  in 
the  north,  but  was  eventually  ohUged  to  fiy 
into  Scotland,  when  he  was  attainted,  with 
the  lords  above-mentiosMd }  died«.|». 
Edward,  attainted  vrith  hb  brother  Leonard.for 
the  same  treason,  died«.  p» 


Z>A€I 


1>AQ 


WrtDtk,  attaiiited  >rich  Ida  brotlMH,  aaA  totOm 
He  lived,  howerer,  tevenl 
I,  dying  about  the  8th  Cfaarlet  I. 
He  m.  Dorothy,  deiighter  of  John,  Earl  of 
Danreotwatar,  and  laft* 
Randal,  (the  kit  male  heir  of  Humphrey, 
L4nrd  Dacre,  of  GlUealand,)  who  d,  two 
year*  after  Ida  fiithfer,wittioutiiauei   The 
parish  rcgialer  of  Oreystodc  for  UiS4,  con- 
taim  the  following  entiry  (Buried),  "Ran- 
dal Dacre,  Esq.,  lonne  and  hyre  to  Fran- 
cis Dacre^  Eequir^  deeeaaed,  being  the 
youngest  aon  of  the  last  Lord  William 
Dacre,  deoeaaed,  being  the  laat  hyre  male 
of  that  lynet  which  aaid  Randal  dyed  at 
London,  and  waa  bion^t  downe  at  the 
chaigea  of  the  Right  Hon.  Thomaa,  Earle 
of  Arundell  and  Sun^e,  and  carle  mar- 
ahall  of  England." 
MasguMt,  nu  to  Anthony  Browne,  Viaoount 

Montacuta 
Annok  at.  to  Henry  CUfibid,  Earl  of  Cumber- 
land. 
Eleanor,  m.  to  Henry  Jemingham,  Esq.,  of 
Coatteasey  Hall,  in  the  county  of  Norfolk,  by 
whom  she  had,  with  other  iaaue, 
HnimY  jKBiiiifeHAii,  who  waa  created  a 
baronet  16th  October,  16S1;  a  dignity  is 
inherited   by  Sir   Henry's    descendant, 
George-WilUam     (fitaiftwwi-Jemingham), 
preacut  Lord  Staflbrd. 
Hary,  m.  to  Alexander  Culpepper,  Esq. 
Dorothy,  m.  to  Sir. Thomaa  Windaore,  Knt, 
son  and  heir  of  William,  Lord  Windacnre. 
Lord  Dacre  d.  in  1563,  and  waa  «.  by  his  eldeat 
son, 

THOMAS  DACRE,  fourth  Baion  Dacre,  of 
GiOealand,  but  never  aummoned  to  parliament. 
This  nobleman  m.  EUxabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  James 
Leibume,  Knt.,  of  Cunawick,  in  Wcvtmorland,  and 
had  iaaue, 

Gaoaaa,  hiB  suooeaaor. 

Anne,  m.  to  Philip  Howard,  Earl  of  Arundel. 

Mary,  m,  to  Thomaa,  Lord  Howard,  of  Waldm, 

and  died  «.  p, 
Elisabeth,  m.  to- Lord  William  Howard,  and  her 
great-grandaon,  Charlea  Howard.  Esq.,  waa 
elevated  to  the  peerage  on  the  flOth  April,  1661, 
by  the  titlea  of  Baron  Daere,  of  GiOetland, 
VUeeunt  Howard,  tfMorpOh,  and  Earl  op 
CAMiiSLa.  To  whidi  nobleman  the  present 
Eakl  op    CABLiajUE,  ia  great^reatpgreat- 


Hia  lordship  d.  in  U06,  and  was  «.  by  bis  only 


GEORGE  DACRE,  fifth  Lord  Dacre,  of  GiUea- 
land,  who  d.  hi  minority,  anno  lfi6B,  of  a  fall  from 
a  wooden  horse,  upon  which  he  practised  to  leap. 
At  the  decease  of  his  lordship  the  «'  Babony  op 
Dacrs,  op  OiLLa8i.AND,"  fell  into  abeyance  be- 
tween  Us  sisters  as  co-hsiis,  and  it  so  continues  with 
their  descendants.  Of  his  estates,  Greystock  fell  to 
the  Earl  of  Arundel,  and  is  now  in  the  poaseesion  of 
the  Duke  of  Norfolk.  While  Naworth  Castle  de- 
volved upon  Lord  William  Howard,  where  he 
settled,  and  it  now  belonga  to  the  Earl  of  Carlisle. 


NbCM-^ha  alstcca  of  the  laat  Lord  Dacre  arai 
repreaented,  thus  ^— 

Anne,  Lady  Arundel,  by  the  Lords  Petre  and 

Stourton. 
Elisabeth,  Lady  WUUam  Howard^  by  the  Earl 
of  Carlisle. 
Ami 8.-«u.  three  escallops  ar. 

DAOWORTH   —    BARONS        DAG- 
WORTH. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  lath  November,  1347, 
81  Edward  in. 

In  the  19th  of  King  Edward  IL,  upon  the  death 
of  Lom,  widow  of  William  Peyftarer,  which  Lora 
died,  seised  of  the  third  part  of  the  office  of 
HtiMbar,  (Usher)  in  the  exchequer  court,  and  crier 
in  the  King's  Bench,  her  grandson, 

JOHN  DE  DAGWORTH,  being  found  her  next 
heir,  upon  doing  hia  homage,  had  livery  of  the 
landa  of  hia  inheritance.  To  thia  John,  aucceeded 
hia  son. 

THOMAS  DE  DAOWORTH.  a  very  eminent 
soldier  in  the  reigna  of  Edward  II.,  and  Edward  IIL 
In  the  20th  of  the  hitter,  being  then  a  knight  and 
commander  of  the  king's  fcnroes  in  Britanny,  he  ia 
recorded,  aa  having  defeated  twice  in  one  day, 
Charles  de  Blois,  who  had  usurped  in  right  of  his 
wife,  the  title  of  Duke  of  Britanny,  notwithstand- 
ing the  great  inequality  of  forces,  the  duke  haviiig 
fifteen  hundred  horse,  eight  thousand  balistars. 
and  thirty  thousand  foot,  being  treble  the  army  of 
the  English  commander.  In  the  next  year  follow- 
ing up  his  fortune,  he  marched  to  the  relief  of 
Rochedirlan,  invested  by  the  same  foe,  end  giving 
battle  to  the  duke,  obtained  a  decisive  victory, 
making  prisoners  of  thirty-aix  knighu,  slaying 
more  than  five  hundred  men-at-arms,  and  convey- 
ing Charles  himself  a  captive  to  the  Tower  of 
London ;  for  which  good  services  he  was  appointed 
lieutenant  snd  captain-general  to  the  king,  in  the 
dukedom  of  Britanny  (  and  the  next  year  reaping 
fresh  laurels  on  the  French  soil,  he  was  summoned 
to  parliament,  as  Baron  Daoworth,  on  the  13th 
November.  1347,  *■  >&  additional  reward  for  his 
gallantry.  His  lordship  resided  from  that  period 
in  Britanny  until  13fi9,  whan  he  is  said  to  have 
been  stain  by  the  treachery  of  the  French.  He  was 
«.  by  his  son, 

SIR  NICHOLAS  DAGWORTH,  second  Baron 
Dagworth,  but  never  summoned  to  parliament.  Like 
his  father,  this  gallant  person  acquired  the  highest 
military  renown.  In  the  year  1366,  Sir  Nicholas 
obtained  a  great  victory  over  the  French  in  Ai^ou, 
when  amongst  his  prisoners,  were  the  Dulces  of 
Orleans  and  Ai^ou.  It  is  further  reported  of  him. 
that  with  thirteen  En^^ish  horse,  he  encountered 
sixty  French  near  Ftaveny,  and  by  the  means  of 
chariots,  which  he  employed  for  his  defence,  utterly 
vanquUhed  them.  In  the  reign  of  Richard  II.,  he 
was  imprisoned  by  the  great  lords  then  opposed  to 
the  court,  but  having  obtained  his  freedom,  he 

Ififf 


DAM 


DAN 


was  employed  with   Welter  Skiilew,   Bishop  of 
Durham,  to  ncgodate  a  peeoe  with  France—'*  from 
which  period,**  layt  Dugdale,    «I  have  not  teen 
any  more  of  him.** 
Anna.— Ermine,  on  a  bend  gulea,  three  Beamta. 

DAMER-BARONS  MILTON,  VIS- 
COUNTS MILTON,  EARLS 
OF  DORCHESTER. 

Barony,  f  by  Letters  \  10th  May,  17fli. 

Earldom,  &c.  \    Patent,    j  18th  May,  179S. 

ICineajsc. 

This  ISimily  had  beCB  long  seated  in  the  counties 
of  Somerset  and  Dorset,  and  its  founder,  William 
D'Amory,  came  into  England  with  the  Conqueror. 
JOSEPH  DAMER,  eldest  son  of  John  Darner, 
of  Godmanston,  embarked  early  in  the  senrice  of 
the  parliament,  and  was  adTanced  by  CromwHl  to 
the  command  of  a  troop  of  horset  being  in  high 
confidence  with  the  usurper,  he  wtt  twice  deputed 
by  him  upon  secret  negotiations  to  Cardinal  Maia- 
rine.  After  the  restoration,  Mr.  Darner  not  deem- 
ing it  safe  to  continue  in  England,  dispoaed  of  his 
lands  in  Somerset,  and  Dorsetshire,  and  purchased 
other  estatek  in  Ireland,  whither  he  remoTed.  He 
dL  on  the  6th  July,  1780,  at  the  advaneed  age  of 
ninty-one,  never  having  experleneed  indisposition 
until  theee  days  before  his  decease.  He  died  a 
bachelor,  and  bequeathed  his  estates  to  his  nephew, 

JOHN  DAMER,  Esq.,  of  Shronehill,  In  the 
county  of  Tipperary,  who  m.  in  1724,  Margaret, 
eldest  daughter  of  Andrew  Roe,  Esq.,  of  Roes- 
borough,  in  the  same  shire,  but  dying  without  issue 
in  1768,  the  estates  devolved  upon  his  brother, 

JOSEPH  DAMER,  Esq.,  of  Came,  in  the  county 
of  Dorset,  b,  in  1076,  m.  9th  December,  1714,  Mary, 
daughter  of  John  Churdilll,  Esq.,  of  Henbury,  in 
the  same  diire,  and  had  issue, 
Joaara. 

John,  of  Came,  in  the  county  of  Dorset,  m. 
Martha,  daughter  of  -Samuel  Rush,  Esq.,  of 
Benhall,  in  the  county  of  Suflblk. 
George,  M.P.  tot  Dorsetshire,  in  17W-1,  died 

in  17fiS,  unmarried. 
Mary,  m.  to  William  Henry  Dawson,  Esq.,  of 
Dawson's  Grove,  in  the    Queen's    county. 
This  gentleman  was  advanced  to  the  peerage 
of  Ireland,  as  Viscount  Carlow,  and  his  son 
was  created    Earl    of    Portarlington.      His 
grand-children,  the  present  Earl  of  Portarling- 
ton, and  his  brothers,  succeeded  to  the  Damer 
estates,   at  the  decease   of    Lady  Caroline 
Damer. 
Martha,  m.  first,  in  1741,  to  Sir  Edward  Crolton, 
Bart,  of  the  Muat,  in  the  county  of  Roa- 
common,  and  secondly,  to  Eaekiel  Nesbitt, 
M.D. 
Mr.  Damer,  who  represented  the  county  of  Dorset 
in  parliament,  in  17S,  died  1st  March,  1736-7,  and 
was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

JOSEPH   DAMER,   Esq.,  who  having  succes- 
sively  represented   the  borough    of    Weymouth, 
(1741,)  Bramber,  (1747»)  and  Dorchester,  (17M,)  hi 
IM 


parliament,  was  elevated  to  the  pettage  of  Ireland, 
on  the  3rd  July,  1753,  as  Babon  Mix.toiv,  of  Shrone- 
hill, in  the  county  of  Tipperary,  and  created  a  peer 
of  Great  Britain,  on  the  10th  May,  1768,  in  the 
dignity  of  BAaoit  Mix.TOir,  qf  MiUon  Abbe^f  in  the 
county  of  DorMt.  His  lordahlp  m.,  87th  July,  174S, 
Lady  Caroline  Sackville,  only  surviving  daughter 
of  Lionel,  first  Duke  of  Dorset,  by  whom  (who  d, 
Mth  March,  \m)  he  had  issue, 

John,  6.  S5th  June,  1744,  m.  14th  June,  1767* 
Anne,  only  child  of  the  Right  Honourable 
Henry  Seymour  Conway,  brother  of  Francis, 
first  Marquess  of  Hertford,  and  died  «.  p,, 
IMh  August,  1776. 
Gsonos,  who  succeeded  his  Hither. 
Lionel,  ft.  16th  September,  1748,  m.  16th  April, 
1778,  Williamsa,  daughter  of  William  Janssen, 
and  niecp  of  Sir  Stephen  ^Theodore  Janssen, 
Bart. 
Caroline,  ft.  4th  May,  17fifi,  and  d.  unmarried,  iu 
1890. 
His  lordship  was  advanced  to  the  dignities  of  Fit- 
count  MiUon,  and  Earl  op  Dorchsstsr,  in  the 
peerage  of  Great  Britain,  on  the  Uth  May,  1792. 
He  d.  12th  February,  1796,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest 
surviving  son, 

GEORGE  DAMER,  second  earl  of  Dorchester, 
at  whose  decease  in  1806,  without  issue,  (his  brother 
Lionri  having  died  previously,)  the  Irish  Barontf  of 
MiLTQir,  with  the  British  Earldom  op  DoRcnaa- 
Tsa,  and  inferior  dignities,  became  sxtinct. 

ARBia.— Barry  nebule  of  six,  ar.  and  gu.  a  band 
ingiailed.  as. 

DANVERS— BARON  DANVERS,  OF 
DANTSEY,  IN  THE  COUN- 
TY OF  WILTS.  EARL  OF 
DANBY,  IN  THE  COUNTY 
OF  YORK. 

Barony,    f  by  Letters,  'IS7th  July,  160S. 
Earldom,  \    Patent,    jAth  February,  1696L 

Xiiuage. 

JOHN  NEVIL,  laat  Lord  Latimer,  of  that  sur- 
name,  m.  Lucy,  daughter  <tf  Henry,  Earl  of  Worces- 
ter, and  left  at  his  decease,  in  1A77,  four  daughters, 
his  cO'heiressei,vla^>— 

Catherine,  m.  to  Henry  Percy,  Eerl  of  Northum- 
berland,  by  whom  she  had  eight  sons  and 
three  daughters^    This  earl  was  committed  to 
the  tower,  for  a  supposed  plot  in  favour  of 
Mary,  Queen  of  Scots,  and  there  found  dead 
in  hb  bed,  wounded  by  three  pistol  bullels, 
anno  IMS. 
Dorothy,  m.  Thomas  Cedl,  first  Eerl  of  Exeter, 
by  whom  she  was  mother  of 
William,  second  Earl,  who  Itft  at   his 
deceaae,  in  1640,  three  daughters,  via.— 
Ellaabeth,  m.  to  Thomas,  Earl  of  Berk- 

shire; 
Diana,  m.   first,  to  Thomas,  Earl  of 
Elgin,  and  secondly,  to  the  Earl  of 
Aylesbury. 


1>AN 


1^'AR 


Amw*  m.  to  Henry  Qiey»  Earl  of  Stftm- 
ford. 
Loej,  m.  to  Sir  William  Comwallis,  Knt.,  and 
left  ^111  daugbterSf  vix.-^ 
Frances,  m.  to  Sir  Edward  Withipool^ 
Elisabeth*  m.  to  Thomaa  Sandys*  Eiq. 
Catherine,  m.  to  Richard  Farmer,  Esq. 
Dorothy,  m.  to  Archibaldt  Earl  of  Argyll. 
EUsabeth,  m.  flrstt  to  Sir  John  Daavert,  Knt, 
and  Moondly,  to  Sir  Edmund  Carey,  Kat. 
SIR  JOHN  DANVERS,  acquired  with  the  Ho- 
aottxaUe  Elisabeth  Neril,   the  ancient  Castle  of 
Danby,  in  the  North  Riding  of  Yorkshire,  and  had 
issue, 

CHAB1.BS,  (Sir)  who  lost  his  life,  and  was  at- 
tainted tot  participating  in  the  insurrection 
of  Robert,  Earl  of  Essea,  4ard  Elisabeth. 
HsNET,  of  wliom  presmtly. 
John,  (Sir)  one  of  the  Jud^  of  King  Charles  I., 

d.  in  1659. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Thomas  Wahnsley,  Esq.,  of 
Dunkelhagh,  in  the  county  of  Lancaster,  and 
left  an  only  daughter, 
Anne  Wahnsley,  who  in.    first,    William 
HJddleton,   Esq.,   of   Stockeld,   in   the 
county  of  York,  and  secondly.  Sir  Edward 
Osbom,  Bart.;  by  the  latter   she   had 
issue. 
Sir  Thomas  Osbocn*  Bart,  who  was 
created    VUeount  Latimar,   Earl  t^f 
DanAy,  Mar^ueM  qf  Carmarthen,  and 
DuKS  or  Laane.    His  lordship  was 
great-great,  great-grandfather,  of  the 
present  Dukb  op  Laaoa. 
Dofothy,  fM.  to  Sir  Peter  Osbom,  KnL,  ftrom 
wUicb  union  the  BarontU  OsBoair,  of  Chick- 
sand  Priory,  in  the  county  of  Bedford,  de- 
rive. 
The  second  son, 

SIR  HENRY  DANVERS,  KnL,  was  elevated  to 
the  peerage,  by  letters  patent,  on  the  97th  July, 
1609,  as  Baron  Datuw*,  of  Dantsey,  in  the  county 
of  Wilts,  and  in  two  years  afterwards,  his  knrdahip 
was  restored  in  Uood,  by  special  act  of  parliament, 
as  heir  to  his  tether,  notwithstanding  the  attainder 
of  Sir  Charles  Danvers,  his  elder  brother.  Upon 
the  accession  of  King  Charles  I.,  Lord  Danvers  was 
created  by  letters  patent,  dated  5th  February,  1686, 
Earl  op  Daitby,  and  his  lordship  was  soon  after- 
wards chosen  a  Kkiort  of  the  GARTaa.  This 
noUeman,  who  had  adapted  ftom  his  youth  the 
profession  of  arms,  distinguished  himself  both  by 
sea  and  land,  and  was  esteemed  an  able  and  gallant 
soldier. 

His  lordship  was  the  founder  of  the  fiunous  Physic 
Garden,  at  Oxford,  which  cost  him  little  short  of 
j£ff,(NW.  He  d.  90th  January,  1643,  when  never 
having  married,  the  Barenjf  ef  Ikmvtr*  and  Exai/- 
noM  OP  Daitby,  became  extinct.  His  remains 
were  interred  in  the  chancel  of  the  parish  church 
at  Dantsey,  under  a  noUe  monument  ci  iHilte 
marble,  with  the  following  inscription  :■— 

**  HawBT,  Earl  op  Danby,  second  son  to  Sir 
John  Danvers,  Knt.,  and  Dame  Elibabbth, 
daughter  and  co-heir  of  John  Nevil,  Lord  Latimer ; 
bom.  at  Dauntesey,  in  the  county  of  Wilts,  98th 


June,  ann.  Dom.,  157S>  and  baptisea  in  this 
church,  the  1st  of  July  following,  being  Sunday. 
He  departed  this  life  on  the  90th  of  January,  ann. 
Dom.,  1643,  and  lyeth  here  fanterred. 

**  He  was  partly  bred  up  in  the  low  country  wars, 
under  Maubicb,  Earl  of  Nassau,  (afterwards 
Prince  of  Orange,)  and  fan  many  other  military 
actions  of  those  times,  both  by  sea  and  land.  He 
was  made  a  captain  in  the  wars  of  Prance,  and 
there  knighted  for  his  good  ssrrioe,  under 
Henry  IV.,  then  French  King.  He  was  employed 
as  lieutenant-general  of  the  hoiseb  and  seijeant* 
mi^  of  the  whole  army,  in  Ireland,  under  Robbrt, 
Earl  of  Essex,  and  Charles,  Baron  of  Mount;)oy, 
in  the  reign  of  Queen  Elisabeth. 

'*  He  was  made  Baron  of  Dauntsby,  and  peer 
of  the  realm,  by  King  James  I. ;  and  by  him  made 
Lord  President  of  Munbtbb,  and  Oovemor  of 
Garnbsby. 

**  By  King  Charles  I.,  he  was  created  Earl  of 
Danby }  made  of  his  privy  council,  and  knight  of 
the  most  noble  order  of  the  Garter  i  but  declining 
more  active  employments  in  his  later  time,  (by 
reason  of  his  imperfect  health,)  foil  of  honour, 
wounds,  and  days,  he  died  at  his  house  at  Corn- 
BVRY  Park,  in  the  county  of  Oxford,  in  the  7Ist 
year  of  his  age." 

LausDeo. 

Sacred  marble,  safely  keep 

His  dust,  who  under  thee  must  sleep, 

Untill  the  years  again  restore 

Their  dead,  and  time  shall  be  no  more. 

Meanwhile,  if  He  (who  all  things  wears) 

Does  mine  thee;  or  if  thy  tears 

Are  shed  for  him :  disserve  thy  frame. 

Thou  art  requited :  for  his  fame. 

His  vertue,  and  his  worth  shall  be 

Another  monument  to  thee. 
Armb.— Ou.  a  chevron  between  three  mullets  of 
six  points,  or. 

D'ARCY-  BARONS  D'ARCY. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  99th  December,  1909, 
96  Edward  I. 

Xincagc. 

At  the  time  of  the  general  survey, 

NORMAN  DE  ARECI  enjoyed  no  less  than 
thirty-three  lordships  in  the  county  of  Lincoln,  by 
the  immediate  gift  of  the  Conovbror,  of  whidi 
NocTON  was  one,  where  he  and  his  posterity  had 
their  chief  seat,  for  divers  after  ages.  This  Nor- 
man, in  the  6th  year  of  William  Rufos,  being  with 
the  king  in  his  great  council  held  at  Gloucester, 
(together  with  several  bishops,  abbots,  and  others,) 
was  a  witness  to  that  confirmation  there  made  to 
the  monks  of  SL  Mary's  Abbey,  in  York,  of  nume- 
rous possessions  whidi  had  formerly  been  bestowed 
upon  them.  To  Norman  de  Ared  «.  his  son  and 
heir, 

ROBERT  lyARCY,  who  founded  a  priory  of 
Augustines  at  his  lordship  at  Nocton,  and  otherwise 
oontriboted  liberally  to  the  church.  This  Robert 
#.  by  his  son  and  heir, 

THOMAS  D'ARCY,  who,  upon  the  assessment 

W7 


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of  di«aid  fbr  marrytoif  the  king*!  tteiightar  is  Hit 
18th  Henry  It.,  certified  that  he  then  held  twenty 
knights'  liBes  de  vettri  /hq^mtetUo,  vith  .helf  a 
knight's  fee,  and  a  fourth  partd*  laovo,  for  which  he 
paid  £l&  6i.  Bi.  This  feudal  kird  m.  Alice,  daugh- 
ter of  Ralph  IVEineurt.  by  whom  he  had  three  eons 
and  four  daughters  He  d.  on  St.  Swithin'e  day, 
anno  1180,  leaving  Thomai  hie  eon  and  heir,  then 
eighteen  yean  of  aget  Upon  the  deceaie  of  hie  lord- 
•hip,  William  Bawet,  eherlirof  Linoolnahire,  eeiaed 
on  his  whole  taacony  for  the  king,  and  conunitted 
it  to  the  custody  of  Michael  IVAzcy,  but  the  baron's 
widow  subsequently  obtained  the  ponession  with 
(he  guBidianship  of  her  children,  for  which  she  paid 
£iOa  To  Thomas  D'Arcy  «.  bis  aforesaid  son  and 
hair, 

THOMAS  IVARCY,  who  was  with  King  Richard 
L  in  the  expedition  whidi  that  monarch  made  into 
Nonnandy  in  the  8th  year  of  his  reign«  and  in  the 
Ml  John  was  retained  to  senrethat  king,  with  three 
knights  for  one  whole  year,  in  consideration  of 
whidi  King  John  remitted  to  him  a  debt  of  two 
hundred  end  twenty-flre  marks,  which  he  then 
owed  the  Jews:  but  besides  this  retainer  he  was  to 
petform  the  like  serrioe  for  his  barony,  that  other 
barons  did.  His  lordship  was  «.  at  his  decease  by 
his  son, 

NORMAN  D'ARCY,  who  in  the  7th  of  King 
John  giving  five  hundred  marks,  six  palAreys,  with 
one  horse  for  the  great  saddle,  and  doing  his  hMnage, 
had  livery  of  all  the  lands  of  his  inheritance:  but 
taking  part  with  the  barons,  those  lands  were  seised 
upon  bythe  crown  a  fow  years  afterwards,  and  held 
until  the  pacification  in  the  beginning  ot  Henry 
llL's  reign,  when  they  were  restored.  The  baron 
d,  soon  after,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

PHILIP  D'ARCY,  who  had  praviously,  Ibr  hb 
adhesion  to  the  king,  in  the  turbulent  times  of  John, 
m  grant  of  all  the  lands  of  Robert  de  Camberling. 
In  the  34th  Henry  III.  this  feudal  lord  is  said  to 
have  been  the  accuser  of  Sir  Hettr^  de  Bathe,  an 
eminent  Judge  of  the  period,  for  corruption  in  hie 
Judicial  capacity.  His  lordship  was  afterwards  en- 
gaged in  the  Fnndi  wars,  and  Involved  himself  so 
deeply  in  debt  in  theking'sservioe  that  he  was  obliged 
to  obtain  in  the  90th  Henry  III.  certain  letters  horta- 
tory, to  all  his  tenants  by  military  service,  and 
other;  earnestly  moving  them  to  yield  unto  him 
such  reasonable  aid  as  might  extricate  him  ftom  his 
pecuniary  difficulties,  and  for  which  they  should 
receive  the  especial  thanks  of  the  crown.  He  m. 
Isabel,  sister  and  co-heir  of  Roger  Bertram,  of  Mlt- 
fixrd,  and  dying  in  IMS,  was  «.  by  his  son, 

NORMAN  D'ARCY,  then  twenty-eight  years  of 
age,  who  doing  his  homage,  and  giving  security  for 
the  payment  oi  his  rdief  as  a  baron,  had  livery  of 
his  lands,  but  the  very  next  year,  being  one  of  the 
barons  defeated  at  Evesham,  those  lands  were  all 
seised  by  the  crown.  His  brother  Roger,  and  his 
unde  Thomas,  were  likewise  involved  in  the  defeat, 
but  all  made  their  peace,  under  the  memorable  do- 
oree,  denominated  «  DUtwm  de  KenUworth,**  John 
de  Burgh,  of  Kent,  Adam  de  Newmarch,  of  York, 
and  Robert  de  Ufllbrd,  all  barons,  undertaking  for 
their  future  loyalty  and  quiet  demeanour.  He  was 
subsequently  engaged  in  the  Welsh  wan»  and  in  the 
IW 


Sflnd  Edward  I.  had  fummoos  to  attend  the  khig 
forthwith,  and  to  give  him  his  advice  in  those  great 
and  difficult  aAlrs  which  then  concerned  his  crown 
and  kingdom.    This  feudal  lord  had  issuer 
Philip,  his  successor. 
John,  summoned  to  perUament  as  a  baron  28th 

Edward  I.  <see  another  Lord  D'Arcy). 
Robert,  of  StaiUngburgh,  in  the  county  of  Lin- 
oaHn,  m.  Joan,     ■  ■■■  ■■  ,  and  left  an  only 
daughter  and  heiress, 
Margaret,  who  m.  John  Argentine. 
Norman  D'Arcy  d.  1S06>  and  was  «.  by  his  ddest 
son, 

PHILIP  D'ARCY,  who  was  summoned  to  par- 
liament as  Babow  D'Aacv  from  nth  December, 
1890,  to  80th  October,  1338.  This  noblenoan  was 
involved  in  the  insurrection  of  Thomas,  Earl  of 
Lancaster,  in  the  lAth  Edward  IL,  but  made  his 
peace,  and  had  restltutioa  of  his  lands.  His  lord- 
ship had  issue, 

NoRMAH,  his  BuceasBor. 

»«*»«*' \ died*.  j»; 
John,     J 

Julian  m.  to  Sir  Peter  de  Limberry. 
Agnes,  m.  to  Sir  Roger  de  Pedw^Mine. 
Lord  Darcy  was  «.  at  his  decease  by  his  only  sur- 
viving son, 

NORMAN  D'ARCY,  second  Baron  D'Aicy,  but 
never  summoned  to  parliament;  his  lordship  was 
likewise  implicated  in  Lancaster's  rebellion,  but  had 
pardon  for  his  treason,  and  restitution  of  his  lands. 
Hed.  in  1340,  and  was  «.  by  his  only  chUd, 

PHILIP  D'ARCY,  third  Baxon  D'Arcy,  at  whose 
decease  without  issue, 

Sim  Philip  db  Limbitky,  Kbt.,  son  of  Julian, 
the  elder  sister  of  Philip,  first  Lortl  D'Arcy, 
And 

AoHxs,  wife  of  Sir  Roobb  db  Pbdwardinb, 
younger  sister  of  Philip,  first  Lord  D'Arcy, 
were  fbund  to  be  his  next  heirs,  and  betweeu  thoee 
the  Barony  op  D'Arcy  fell  into  abbyancb,  as  It 
la  stiU  supposed  to  continue  amongst  their  repre- 
sentatives. 

ARMa.— Ai.  semde  of  croes  aroeslets,  and  three 
dnquefbUs  ar. 

D'ARCY— BAKONS  D'ARCY. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  87th  January,  1338, 
8  Edward  IIL 

JOHN  D'ARCY.  (next  brother  of  PhiUp  D'Arcy, 
who  was  summoned  to  parliament,  as  Baron  D'Arcy, 
89th  December,  18n,)  being  an  active  and  distin- 
guiahed  person  in  the  rrigns  of  the  first,  second,  and 
third  Edwards,  obtained  some  of  the  highest  offices 
in  the  atate^  and  attained  eventually  the  peeragai 
In  the  latter  years  of  Edward  L,  and  the  beginning 
of  Edward  II.'s  reign,  he  was  engaged  in  the  wars 
in  Scotland;  and  during  the  time  of  the  laat-mesH 
tioned  monarch,  he  was  govensor  of  Norham  Castle^ 
sheriff  of  the  counties  of  Nottingham,  Derby,  and 
Lancaster,  and  juariCB  or  Irblanp.  Upon  the 
accession  of  Edward  III.,  he  was  appotaited  sheriff 
of  Yorkshire  and  govemor  of  the  castle  at  York* 


D*AR 


ITAR 


•■die^oindtutedl  jvsnca  or  Isslaicd;  lowhldi 
latter  post,  with  the  fovemuwl  of  th«  oouatry,  be 
mm  we-mpfcinttd  the  next  yew ;  eud  in  the  Mikm- 
ing  year  he  had  a  grant  tnm  the  king,  for  has  good 
services,  of  the  msnor  of  Werk,  in  TindalCi  In  the 
6ih  of  Edward  III.,  he  was  summoned  to  parlia- 
ment, as  Baron  D'Akcy;  and  the  next  year,  being 
then  in  his  goTenunent  of  briand,  his  kyrdship 
marched  with  a  great  army  into  the  prorfaice  of 
Ulster,  to  avenge  the  death  of  William  de  Burgh, 
Kabl  or  U1.8TBR ;  but  beftMV  he  got  thither,  the 
people  of  the  country  having  vindicated  the  mur- 
der, he  transported  ffimsdf  and  his  army  into  Scot- 
land, leaving  Thomas  Burke,  his  lieutenant,  in 
Ireland,  and  Joined  the  king,  who  was  then  pursuing 
the  victorious  course  which  placed  Edward  Baliol 
upon  the  Soottish  throne.  In  two  years  afterwards. 
Lord  J>'Arcy,  at  the  head  of  the  Irish  nobles,  made 
a  second  inroad  upon  Scotland  with  ftfty-six  ships, 
and  wasted  the  Isles  of  Arran  and  Bute,  for  which 
good  service  the  king  granted  to  him  and  his  heirs 
the  manors  of  Rathwere  and  Kildalk,  in  Irdand. 
His  lordship  was  subsequently  constable  of  the 
Tower  of  London,  and  steward  of  the  king's  house- 
hold; and  he  was  accredited  ambassador  to  the 
courts  of  France  and  Scotland  in  the  11th  Edw.  III. ; 
after  which  we  find  him  acquiring  flresh  laurels  on 
the  French  soil*  until  he  finally  shared  in  the  ^k>ry 
of  CnsaaT.  His  lordship  obtained  Airther  great 
immunities  from  Edward  IIL,  and  was  appointed 
JU8TICB  OF  laRLAwn  and  GoweTABi<B  or  tb> 
Towns  for  life.  This  eminent  nobleman  espoused 
first,  Emeline,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Walter  He- 
ron, of  Hedleston,  in  the  county  of  Northumber- 
land, by  whom  he  had  issue, 

John,  his  mccenor. 

Roger,  from  whom  the  D'Arcyi  of  Euex  de- 
rive. 

Adomar. 
His  lordship  married  Mcondly,  3d  July  1339,  Joane, 
daughter  of  Richard  de  Burgh,  Earl  of  Ulster,  and 
wiitow  of  Thomas  Earl  of  Kildare,  and  had  issue  of 
this  marriage, 

William,  of  Platin,  tnuk  whom  the  Darcys  of 
Ireland  derive. 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  James,  Earl  of  Osmonde. 
Lord  IXArcy ,  who  had  summons  to  parliament  from 
ISas  to  1349,  d.  aoth  May,  1347,  and  was  «.  by  his 
eldest  son, 

SIR  JOHN  D'ARCY,  second  Baion  ITArey,  b. 
in  iai7»  summoned  to  parliament  ftom  90th  Novem- 
ber, 1348,  to  liMh  March,  1304.  This  nobleman  had 
acquired  Ugh  military  fsme  in  the  Hfe-thne  of  his 
fistlier,  and  was  also  amongst  the  heroes  of  CaaaaY. 
His  lordship  had  custody  of  the  king's  liberty  of 
HoiJ>snNBa8,  in  the  county  of  York,  and  was 
constable  of  the  Tower  of  London.  He  fa.  Elisa- 
beth, daughter  and  heiress  of  Nicholas  Meinell, 
LonI  MelneU,  of  Wherlton,  and  had  iseue, 

John,  his  sucoeisor. 

Philip,  succewor  to  his  brother. 

Isabel. 
His  lordship  d.  In  1356,  and  was  #.  by  his  elder  son, 

JOHN  D'ARCY,  third  Baron  D'Arcy,  at  whose 
dwcasee  in  naaority  {t,  p.),  9Bth  August,  UO,  the 
barony  devolve4  upon  hit  bvotbar. 


PHILIP  D'ARCY,  l!Mkit&  Bwon  D'Aicy, 
moned  to  parHanwmt  ftom  4th  August,  1377*  to  5th 
November,  13B7*  This  nobleman,  in  the  4th  ot 
Richard  II.,  was  in  the  expediticoi  made  into 
France  with  Thomas  of  Woodstock,  Eari  of  Buck- 
ingham i  and  arriving  at  Calais  three  days  before 
Maudlin-tide,  in  July,  rode  with  his  banner  dis- 
played. He  became  subsequently  so  eminent  in  the 
French  wars,  that,  in  thefith  of  Riduurd  II.,  he  was 
especially  excused,  in  consequence,  trotn  repairing 
into  Ireland,  as  all  persons  having  lands  there  were 
compelled  to  by  act  of  parliament  passed  three  years 
before,  for  the  defence  of  the  realm  against  the  in- 
surgents then  in  arms ;  and  in  the  next  year  he  was 
again  excused,  by  reason  of  the  great  charge  he  was 
at  in  supporting  himself  in  those  wars,  and  likewise 
'*'that  he  was  then  marching  towards  ScoUand 
against  the  king's  enemies  there."  In  the  9th  of 
Richard  II.,  his  lordship  was  constituted  AomaAL 
of  the  king's  fleet  from  the  river  Thames  north- 
ward. Lord  Darcy  m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Sir 
Thomas  Orey,  of  H^on,  and  had  issue, 
John,  his  successor. 
Thomas,  of  Seamer. 
PhiUp. 
Elisabeth. 
His  knrdship  d.  25Ui  AprU,  1308,  and  was  *.  by  hii 
eldest  son, 

JOHN  D'ARCY,  fifth  Baxon  D'Arcy,  ».  in  1377, 
summoned  to  parliament  from  19th  August,  1369, 
to  21st  September,  1411.    This  nobleman  fn.  Mar- 
garet, daughter  of  Henry,  Lord  Grey  de  Wilton,  and* 
had  issue, 

Philip,  his  successor. 

John,  in.  Joan,  daughter  of  John  Lord  Grey- 
stock  t   and    his    great-grandson,     Thomas 
D'Arcy,  was  summoned  to  parliament,  as  Lord 
D'Arcy,  of  D'Arcy.   (See  that  dignity.) 
Elisabeth. 
Maud. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1399,  (leaving  his  widow,  who  m. 
secondly.  Sir  Thomas  Swinford,)  and  was  «.  by  his 
elder  son, 

PHILIP  D'ARCY,  sixth  Baron  D'Arcy.  This 
noUfeman  m.  Eleanor,  daughter  of  Henry  Lord  Fits- 
Hugh,  and  d.  in  1418,  before  he  had  attained  mino- 
rity, leaving  two  daughters,  vis., 

EHsabeCh,  m.  to  Sir  James  Strangeways,  and 
had  issue, 
1.  Richard  Strangeways,  who  m.  Lady  Elisa- 
beth Nevil,  one  oi  the  daughters  and  co- 
heirs of  William  NevU,  Lord  Fauoon- 
berg,  and  Earl  ot  Kent.     The  baront 
ok  Fauconbbro  continues  still  in  abey- 
ance amongst  the  descendants  of  this  mar- 
riage, and  of  the  other  coheirs,  Joane,  wift 
of  Sir  Edward  Bedhowing,  and  Alice,  wife 
of  Sir  John  Cooyers. 
9.  James,  ancestor   of  the   Srangeways  at 
Ormsby,  in  the  county  of  York. 
Margery,  m.  to  Sir  John  Conyers,  Knt. 
Upon  the  decesse  of  his  lordship,  the  baront  op 
D'Arcy  fell  into  abbyancb  between  those  ladies, 
and  it  so  continues  with  their  representatives. 

Arms.— -As.  semte  of  cross  crosslets,  and  three 
dnquefeUs  ar.> 

1» 


DAR 


D'AR 


DARCY  —  BARONS  DARCY,  OF 
CHICHE,  IN  THE  COUN- 
TY OF  ESSEX. 

By  Lecten  Patent,  dated  fith  AprU»  1A51. 
6  Edward  VI. 

This  is  prestuned  to  have  been  a  branch  of  the 
great  baronial  house  of  D*Arcy«  which  floiirished 
in  the  counties  of  Lincohi  and  York,  but  the  exact 
line  could  never  be  traced.  The  first  of  the  family, 
of  note, 

ROBERT  DARCIE,  was  originally  a  lawyer's 
clerlL,  who  laid  the  foundation  of  his  fortune,  by 
marrying  the  widow  of  a  rich  merchant  of  Maiden, 
in  Essex,  which  widow,  called  Alice,  daughter  and 
co-heiress  of  Henry  Fit2-Langley,  died  in  the  a6th 
Henry  VI.,  and  was  buried  in  the  chapel  of  the 
Holy  Trinity,  within  the  diurch  of  All  Hallows,  in 
Maiden,  with  this  Ro|)l)ert  Darcie,  her  husband, 
leaving  issue  by  hlm^ 

Sir  Robert  Darcy,  of  Danbury. 

John  Darcy,  of  TolshunL 
The  elder  son, 

SIR  ROBERT  DARCY,  died  in  the  9th  Edward 
IV.,  and  left  a  son, 

THOMAS  DARCY,  Esquire  of  the  body  to  King 
Henry  VL,  and  King  Edward  IV.,  who  <f.  in  the 
first  year  of  King  Henry  Vllth,  and  was  «.  by  his 
son, 

ROGER  DARCY,  Esquire  of  the  body  to  King 
Henry  VII.,  who  m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Sir 
Henry  Wentworth,  Knt.,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR  THOMAS  DARCY,  Knt,  who  in  the  a6th 
Henry  VIIL,  was  constituted  master  of  the  king's 
artillery,  within  the  Tower  of  London,  and  in  the 
next  year  made  a  gentleman  of  the  privy  chamber. 
In  the  ffth  Edward  VI.,  Sir  Thomas,  being  then 
vice  chamberlain  of  the  king's  household,  captain 
of  the  guard,  and  one  of  the  principal  knights  of 
the  privy  chamber,  was  advanced  to  the  peerage,  as 
BARoif  Daucy,  ^f  Chiehtp  in  the  eountjf  qfEitaes, 
by  letters  patent,  dated  5th  April,  1551,  and  there- 
upon had  summons  to  the  parliament  then  sitting. 
He  was  also  made  a  Knzort  of  the  Gabtsr.  His 
lordship  m.  Lady  Elixabeth  de  Vere,  daughter  of 
John,  Earl  of  Oxford,  and  had  surviving  issue, 

John,  his  successor. 

Thomasine,  m.  to  Richard  Southwell,  E^sq.,  of 
Wood-Rising,  in  the  county  of  Norfolk. 

Constance,  m.  to  Edmund   Pyrton,   Esq.,  of 
Bentley,  in  the  county  of  Essex. 
Lord  Darcy,  d,  in  1558,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  DARCY,  second  Lord  Darcy,  of  Chiche.' 
This  nobleman  accompanied  William,  EUurl  of 
Essex,  into  Ireland,  in  the  16th  of  Elisabeth.  His 
lordship  m.  Frances,  daughter  of  Richard,  Lord 
Rich,  Lord  Cbancsllob  or  Emolano,  ahd  had 
issue, 

TaoMAB,  his  successor. 

John,  d,  unmarried. 

Mary,  m.  to  Robert,  Lord  Lumley. 
He  d.  in  1580,  and  was  «.  by  his  elder  son, 

THOMAS  DARCY,  third  Lord  Darcy,  of  Chiche. 
who  was  advknoed  on  the  5th  July,  lfi21,  to  the 

lao 


dignity  of  ViscouvT  Coi^bxstxa,  with  remaindto 
to  his  son-in-law.  Sir  Thomas  Savage,  of  Rock- 
savage,  in  the  county  of  Chester,  Bart,  and  created 
on  the  4th  November,  1626,  Eari<  or  Rivbrs,  with 
a  similar  revernonary  clause  in  the  patent  His 
lordship  m.  Mary,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Sir  Tho- 
mas Kitson,  Knt.  and  had  issue, 

Thomar,  who  <L  in  the  Ufe.time  of  his  Ikther, 

issueless. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Sir  Thomas  Savage,  to  whom, 
and  his  male  issue,  by  the  said  Elisabeth,  the 
viscounty  and  earldom  of  her  father,  were 
granted  in  reversion;  but  previously  to  In- 
'  heriting  those    honours.   Sir   Thomas    was 
himself  created  Viscoukt  Savaor,  of  Rock- 
savage,  in  the  county  of  Chester,  by  letters 
patent,  dated  6th  November,  16^6. 
Mary,  m.  to  Roger  Manwood,  Esq.  son  of  Sir 

Peter  Manwood,  K.B. 
Penelope,  m.  first,  to   Sir  George  Trenchard, 
Knt,  and  secondly,  to  Sir  John  Gage,  Bart,  of 
Firle,  in  the  county  of  Suflblk,  trcm  which 
uni(m  the  ftunily  of  Gage,  Viscounts  Gage, 
and  that  of  Gage,  Baronets  of  Hengrave, 
derive. 
Susan,  d,  unmarried. 
His  lordship  d,  in  1630,  and  his  only  son  having 
died «.  p.,  previously,  the  Barony  or  Darcy,  of 
Chiche,  became  xxtinct,  while  the  viscounty  and 
earldom  devolved,  according  to  the  limitation,  and 
his  estates  passed  to  his  four  daughters  aa  co- 
heiresses. 
ABifa.— Ar.  three  cinqucfoils  gu. 

D'ARCY  —  BARONS  D'ARCY,  OF 
D'ARCY.  BARONS  D'AR- 
CY,  OF  ASTON. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  17th  October,  1509, 

1  Henry  VIII. 

Restored,  as  Baron  D'Arcy,  of  Aston,  to  heirs  male 

wdy,  by  act  of  parliament,  1548,  t  Edward  II. 

'  %ixustL%t, 

The  Honourable 

JOHN   D'ARCY,  second   son   of  John,   Lord 
D'Arcy,  and  Margery,  daughter  of  Henry,  Lord 
Grey  de  Wilton,  becsone  male  representative  of  the 
family  upon  the  decease  of  his  brother  Phihp,  Lord 
D'Arcy,  1418  (the  barony  fell,  however.  Into  abbt- 
ANCB  between  the  said  Philip's  two  daughters  as  oo-' 
heirs,  as  it  still  continues  with  their  descendants). 
Mr.  D'Arcy,  while  a  minor,  living  in  ward  to  the 
king,  m,  without  license,  Joane,  dau^ter  of  J(4m, 
Lord  Greystock,  for  which  ofllence  he  paid  a  fine  of 
two  hundred  marks.    Of  this  marriage  were  issue, 
Richard,  who  d.  in  the  life-time  of  his  fisther, 
leaving  by  his  wife,  Eleanor,  daughter  of 
John,  Lord  Scroop,  of  Upsal,  an  only  son, 
William,  who  «.  his  grandftther. 
John. 
George. 
Thomas. 
Philip. 

Jane,  m.  first,  to  John  Beaumont,  and  secondly j^ 
to  Giles  Daubeney. 


D*AB 


D*AR 


J<rfiB  lyAtcf  d.  In  the  aind  Htnry  VI.,  and  was  «. 
by  liu  ffsndflMiy 

SIR  WILLIAM  lyARCY,  then  trat  IJour  yeen 
ct  egek  This  gentleman  m.  Euphemle*  daughter  of 
Sir  Tfaomae  Laagton,  of  Famly,  In  the  county  of 
York,  and  dying  in  the  3rd  Hairy  VIL,  was  «.  by 
his  too, 

SIR  THOMAS  D*ARCY,  a  pmon  who  obtahied 
Ugh  iMBOurs  end  distinction  in  the  reign  of  Henry 
VIL,  and  was  called  to  the  peerage  by  the  succeed- 
ing nxmarch.  In  Uth  Henry  VIL  Thomas  D*Arcy 
was  one  of  the  northern  lords  that  marched  with 
Thomas,  Earl  of  Surrey,  to  the  relief  of  Norham 
Castle,  then  besieged  by  the  King  of  Scotland,  and 
the  next  year  being  a  knight  of  the  king's  body,  he 
was  made  constable  of  Bamburgh  Castle,  in  Nor- 
thumberland i  in  two  years,  subsequently,  he  was 
constitutsd  captain  of  the  Town  and  Castle  of  Ber- 
irick,  as  also  warden  of  the  eest  end  middle  marches 
towards  Scotland,  and  he  had  a  special  commission 
soon  afterwards  to  exercise  the  office  of  constable 
and  marshal  of  Englaad  against  certain  rebA,  being 
appeinted  about  the  same  time  constable  of  Sheriff 
Hoton,  in  the  county  of  York,  and  steward  of  that 
lordship.  In  thel7thof  the  same  reign  he  was  one 
of  the  commisdoners  appointed  to  receive  the  oath 
of  Jemes,  the  fourth  Kingof  Scotland,  upon  a  treaty 
of  peace,  end  In  four  years  afterwards  bring  then  of 
the  privy  council,  he  was  made  general  warden  of 
Che  mardies  towards  Scotland.  An  office  confirmed 
to  him  jointly  with  Sir  Thomes  D'Arcy,  Knt.,  upon 
the  BCPwsslonof  King  Henry  VIII.,  when  hewassum- 
mflned  to  parliament  as  Babov  D'Arcy,  or  D'Arcy, 
inetalled  a  kniort  of  the  Gartbr,  and  sworn 
of  the  psivy  eounciL  From  this  period  he  enjoyed 
the  confidence  fSor  several  years  of  his  sovereign, 
being  amongst  those  who  exhibited  articles  against 
Welsey,  and  subscribed  the  celebrated  letter  to 
Clement  VII..  until,  at  length,  abaantlng  himself 
from  parliament  sooner  then  sanction  the  dissolu- 
tion of  the  religious  housss,  and  finally  Joining  in 
Ask's  rebellion,  csUed  "  tk*  PUgHmag*  tif  Grace," 
he  was  convicted  of  high  treeson,  on  a  diarge  of 
dettvering  up  PoMTiraAcr  CAeri^  to  the  rebels, 
and  beheaded  on  Tower  Hill,  90th  June,  1A3B,  when 
the  BARomr  or  I/Arct  fell  under  the  attainder. 
His  lordship  bed  m,  first,  Dcvwsabel,  daaghter  and 
hefaressof  Sir  Richard  Tempest,  KBt.,of  Ridlesdale, 
in  thecovnty  of  Northumberkmd,  by  whom  he  had 


Geotge,  of  whom  presently,  as  the  restored 

Lord  D'Arcy. 
Arthur,  who  m,  Mary,  dani^ter  and  oo-heir  of 
Sir  Nicholes  Carew,  of  Bedington,  in  the 
eounty  of  Surrey,  K.O.,  and  dying  in  IMl, 
4eft  Issue, 

Henry,  «•.  Catherine,  daughter  of  Sir 
John  Fermor,  end  widow  of  M.  Pulte- 
ney,  Esq.,  and  left  an  osdy  daughter 


Catherine,  who  m.  Gervase,  Lord 

Clifton,  and  had  a  daughter, 

Catherine,  who  laid  claim  to 

the  Barony  of  Clifton  In  1074, 

and  had  the  same  allowed  in 

perUamentt  from  thto  hidy. 


the  pneent  Lord  Clifton  de- 
rives. 
Thomas,  m.  KttBOMth.  co-heir  of  John, 
Lord  Coniers,  and  had  issue. 

Sir   Coniers   D'Arcy   (see  D'Arcy, 
Lords  HoMemessK 
Edward,  l^om  whom  the  D'Aicye  of  Kent 

derive. 
Arthur,  ancestor  of  the  IXArcys  of  Al* 
dington,  in  the  county  of  Northamp- 
ton. 
Frands,  m.  to  Catherine,  daughter   of 
Ed.  Leigh,  Esq.,  of  RushaU,  in  the 
county  of  Staftvd. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Lewis,  Lord  Mosdannt. 
Lord  D'Arcy  espoused  secondly,  EliadMth,  sister  of 
William  Sandys,  first  Lord  Sandys,  by  whom  he 
had  an  only  daughter, 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  Sir  Hannaduke  Constable,  of 
SpeUingmoor,  in  the  county  of  York. 
GEORGE  D'ARCY,  the  eldest  son,  received  the 
honour  of  knighthood  from  King  Henry  VIII.  at 
the  siege  of  Tonmay,  and  was  restored  in  blood, 
with  the  dignity  of  Baron  D'Arcy  to  himsrif,  and 
his  heirs  male,  by  en  ace  of  parliament  passed  in  the 
ted  Edward  VI.,  anno  1548.  This  nobleman  m, 
Dorothy,  daaghter  and  heiress  of  Sir  John  Melton, 
of  Aston,  in  the  county  of  York,  by  whom  he  had 
issue, 

JoBW,  his  successor. 

Agnes,  m.  to  Sir  Thomas  Falrlhx. 

Mary,  m.  first,  to  Hsnry  Bablngton,  Esq.,  and 

secondly,  to  Henry  Foljamb,  Esq. 
Edith,  m.  to  Sir  Thomas  Dauney,  Knt. 
Dorothy,  ai.  to  Sir  Thames  Metham,  Knt. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Bryan  SUpleton,  Esq^  of 
Carleton. 
His  lordship,  who  firom   the  restoration  of  hie 
honours  bore  the  title  of  Lord  D'Arcy,  ^  JUbw, 
d.  9Bth  August,  1587,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  D'ARCY,  as  second  Baroh  D'Arcy,  ^ 
AgUm.  This  nobleman  was  with  the  Earl  of  Essex  in 
the  expedition  made  into  Irelsnd  in  the  IGth  Film 
beth.  His  k>rdship  ei.  Agnes,  daughter  of  ThoauM 
Bablngton,  Esq.,  of  Dethick,  in  the  county  of 
Derby,  by  whom  he  had  an  only  son, 

MicHABiw  who  m,  Margaret,  daughter  of  TImk 
mas  Wentworth,  Esq.,  end  dying  in  the  life, 
time  of  his  father,  left  issu^ 
JoBv,  who  #.  to  the  title  at  the  decease  of 

his  grandflither. 
Margaret,  d.  unmarried. 
Anne,  m.  to  Thomas  Savlll,  Esq. 
Lord  D'Arcy  d,  in  1M7*  and  was  «.  by  his  grandson, 
JOHN  D'ARCY.  third  Lord  D'Arcy,  of  Aston, 
who  was  summoned  to  parlianient  as  <*  Johanni 
D'Ardeand  MakpilL**   His  kxrdship  m.  Rosamond, 
daughter  of  Sir  Peter  PreschevUe,  of  SUvely,  in 
the  county  of  Derby,  and  had  issue, 

,  JoBN,  who  predeceased  his  fathar  uamanried. 
Rosamond,  1  ^^^j^  ^  unmarried. 

Lord  D'Arcy  d.  163S,  when  the  Barony  ov  D'Arcy, 
ufAtUmt  for  want  of  a  male  heir,  became  bxtinct. 
Arms.— Aa.  aem4s  of  oose  cresslet^  and  three 
dnquefoil^  ar. 

Y  lis 


D*AR 


D*AR 


D'ARCY-BARONS  CONYERS,  BA- 
RONS D'ARCY,  EARLS  OF 
HOLDERNESS. 

Barony  of  Caiiycn«  by  inheritmoe,  crested  origi- 

naUy  by  Writ.  17th  October.  150a 
Barany  of  lyArcy,  by  Letters  Patent,  dated  lOth 

August,  1641. 
Earldom,  by  Letters  Patient,  dated  Ath  December, 

leas. 
Xincage. 

The  Hon.  Sir 

ARTHUR  D'ARCY,  second  son  of  the  beheaded 
and  attainted  Lord  D'Arcjr,  temp.  Henry  VIII.i^ 
m.  Ifary,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Sir  Nicholas 
Carew,  of  Bedington,  in  the  county  of  Surrey,  and 
dying  in  1061,  left,  with  several  other  children, 

THOMAS  D'ARCY,  who,  upon  the  decease  of 
his  dder  brother  Sir  Henry  D^Aicy,  without  male 
issuer  became  chief  of  the  fkmily.  This  gentleman 
«.  Elisabeth,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  John,  Baron 
Conyers  (see  that  dignity),  and  dying  in  1606,  was 
«.  by  his  only  child, 

SIR  CONYERS  D'ARCY,  who  being  the  prin- 
cipal male  brandi  then  remaining  of  this  ancient 
and  noble  fSunily  set  forth  in  a  petition  to  King 
Charles  I.  in  that  parliament,  begun  at  Westmin- 
ster 3rd  November,  1640,  that  after  the  attainder  of 
Thomas,  Lord  D'Arcy,  his  great-grand  flrther,  in 
the  nth  Henry  VII L  Sir  George  D'Arcy,  Knt., 
eldest  son  of  the  said  Thomas,  iMing  restored  in 
blood  by  King  Edward  VI.,  obtained  a  grant  of  the 
title  and  dignity  of  Lonn  I^AacY  to  himself  and 
the  heirs  maleof  his  body  t  and  that  by  the  death 
of  John,  Lord  D'Arcy,  late  of  Aston,  in  Yorkshire, 
without  issue  nude,  in  the  11th  of  his  m^)esty's 
veign,  the  title  and  dignity  of  Lord  D'Arcy  was 
utterly  extinct,  did  humbly  desire,  that  being  grand- 
child and  hei».male  of  Sir  Arthur  D'Arcy,  Knt, 
and  likewise  son  and  heir  of  EUiabeth,  daughter 
and  co-heir  of  John,  Lord  Conyers,  lineal  heit  to 
Margery,  daughter  and  co-heir  to  nuiip.  Lord 
D'Arcy,  son  of  John,  Lord  D'Arcy,  one  of  the 
barons  of  this  reelm  in  the  time  of  King  Hairy  IV., 
his  majesty  would  bepleeaed  to  declare^  restore  and 
eonflrm  to  him,  the  said  Sir  Conyers  D'Arcy,  and 
to  the  heirs  male  of  his  body,  the  dignity  of  Loan 
D'AncY,  with  sudi  precedency  as  the  said  John, 
Loid  D'Arcy  had,  and  by  right  from  his  anceston 
then  e^)oyed.  Whereupon  his  mi^esty  gradoudy 
condescending,  he  did  by  letters  patent,  dated  at 
Westminster  10th  August,  1641,  restore  and  eonflrm 
to  the  said  Sir  Conyen  D'Arcy,  and  the  hdrs  m^ 
•f  his  body,  the  dignity  of  Baroh  D'Ancr,  as  en- 
Joyed  by  his  albresaid  ancestor  John,  JLord  D'Arcy, 
and  he  had  summons  to  parliament  accordingly. 

His  lotdship  was  seated  at  Hornby  Castle,  and 
having  m.  Dorothy,  daughter  of  Sir  Henry  BeOasise, 
Baranet,  had  issue, 

CoiTYana,  his  successor. 

William  (Sir),  m.  Dorothy,  daughter  of  Sir 

George  Selby,  Knt. 
Henry,  of  Newpark,  In  the  county  of  York, 
m,  Mary,  daughter  of  William  Scrope,  Esq., 
of  Highly,  in  the  county  of  Dnrham. 
fOS 


Thomas,  of  Wfaikbone. 

Maimaduke,  gentleman  usher  of  the  privy 

council  to  King  Charles  IL,4L  unmarried. 
Jemes,  ct  Sedbury  Park,  in  the  county  of 
York,  M.P.  for  Richmond,  anno  1600,  m. 
Isabel,  daughter  of  Sir  Mannaduke  Wyvill, 
Bart.,  and  had  issue, 
James,  mho  «.  to  Sedbuiy  Park. 
Barbara,  m.  to  Matthew   Hutton,  Esq.,  «f 

Mask,  in  the  county  of  York. 
Ursula,  m.  to  John  StilUngton,  Esq.,  of  KA- 

Add,  in  the  county  of  York. 
Dorothy,  m.  to  John  Dalton,  Esq.*  of  HairiLea- 

well,  in  the  county  of  York. 
Anne,  in.  to  Thomas  Metcalfe,  Esq.,  of  Routh 

Park,  in  tlie  county  of  Lincoln. 
Grace,  m.  first,  to  Geo.  Bert,  Esq.,  of  Middle- 
ton,  and  secondly,  (after  his  decease,)  to  Sir 
Frsnds   Molineux,   of   Mansfield,   in  the 
county  of  Nottingham. 
Margaret, «.  to  Acton  Bumcil,  Esq.,  of  Winck- 
boume  Hall,  in  the  county  of  NottSi,  whose 
descendant,  Peter  Pegge  BumeU,  Esq.,  con- 
tinues  to  reside  at  the  same  seat 
Lord  D'Arcy  d.  3rd  March,  1603,  and  w«  «.  by  his 
ddestson, 

CONYERS  D'ARCY,  second  Baron  D'Aicy. 
summoned  to  parliament  from  8th  Bfay,  1661,  to 
1st  March,  1680,  as  **  Conyers  D'Arde  de  lyAide," 
and  hi  the  two  last  writs  with  the  addition  of 
**  MeynilL"  This  nobleman  was  advanced  to  the 
dignity  of  Earl  or  HoLoanivnaa  by  letters  pa- 
tent, dated  Ath  December,  1688.  His  lordship  m. 
Grace,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Thomas  Rokeby, 
Esq.,  of  Skyers,  in  the  county  of  York,  and  had 
issue, 

Comrsna,  his  successor,  who  had  been  sum- 
moned to  the  House  of  Lords  in  November* 
1680,  as  Baron  Conyers. 
Ursula,  m.  to  Sir  Christopher  WyvUl,  Bart., 

of  Burton  Constable. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Sir  Henry  Stapleton,  BarL, 

of  Myton,  in  the  county  of  York. 
Grace,  m.  to  Sir  John  Lcgard,  Bart.,  of  Gaa- 

ton,  in  the  county  of  Yoriu 
Maxgaret,  m.  to    Henry  Marwood,  Eeq.,  of 
Little  Bugby,  in  the  county  of  York. 
The  earl  d.  14th  June,  1680,  and  was  «.  by  liis  son, 

CONYERS  D'ARCY,  Lord  Conyers,  «  second 
Earl  of  Holdemess.  TUs  nobleman  m.  no  less  than 
four  times  t  first.  Lady  Catherine  Fane^  daughter  of 
Francis,  Earl  of  Westmorland,  by  whom  he  had  no 
issues  secondly.  Lady  Frances  Howard,  daughter  of 
Thomas,  Earl  of  Berkshire,  by  whom  he  had, 

JoHH,  M.P.,  for  the  county  of  York,  m. 
Bridget,  daughter  of  Robert  Sutton,  Lord 
Lexington,  and  predeceasing  his  fkther  and 
grandfather  on  the  7th  June,  1688,  left  issue, 
Robsht,  successor  to  his  grand£sther. 
Conyen  (Sir),  M.P.,  for  the  county  of 
York  in  1707*  and  in  several  succeeding 
parliaments  t  Master  of  the  Horse  to 
Queen  Anne  and  King  George  I.,  and 
subsequently  comptndler  of  the  house- 
hold, and  a  member  of  the  privy  coun- 
dl|  m,  twioe«  but  had  no  Issue. 


ITAft 


DAU 


BHnlwth,  «».  to  Sir  Ralph  MUbiBka, 
Bart,  of  Halnaby,  in  the  oouBty  of 
York. 

Chariottc, «.  to  Wardal  Geoi)fe  Weitky, 
Eaq.t  a  mmwiwiopar  of  tlie  custom. 

?l!***?'   IbothAuniMrriod. 
Charles,  J 

Tlie  earl  m.  thirdljj  Lady  Freneet  SeynMmr,  daugh- 

tar  of  William,  ftcoiid  Duke  of  Somenet,  and 

widow  of  Richard,  tnt  Viscouiit  MoUneux,  nd  of 

Thornes  Wriotheity,  Earl  of  Southampton.    Hif 

hndahip  eq»uied  fourthly,  EUaAeth,  daughter  and 

eo-heir  of  John,  Lord  Preedievile,  and  widow  of 

Philip  Werwfck,  Esq..  but  had  no  i«ue  by  thoee 

iadiei.    He  d.  in  lflB2,  and  wae  «.  by  his  gnmdaon, 

ROBERT  D'ARCY,  third  Earl  of  Holderaeas, 
ftnt  commiariflner  of  trade  in  17I8,  and  sworn  of 
the  priry  oounciL  His  lordihip  m.  Frederica,  eldest 
emrlving  dau|^ter  and  00-heir  of  Meinhardt  Schom- 
berg,  Duke  of  Sdiomberg,  and  had  issue, 
Meinhardt'Prederic,  who  d,  young. 
RoBsnT,  sttccenor  to  the  honoun. 

.    CaroBaa,  m.  to  William-Henry,  Earl  of  An- 
cram,  afterwards  (fourth)  Marquess  of  Lo- 
thian. 
The  earl  d,  fiOth  January,  17S1-8*  and  was  #.  by  his 
only  snnriiing  son, 

ROBERT  D'ARCY,  fourth  Earl  of  Holdemess. 
His  lordahip  was  appointed,  hi  1740,  knd-lieutsnant 
of  the  North  Riding  of  Yorkshire,  and  in  the  161- 
lowiag  year,  was  admitted  gentleman  of  his  ma- 
jesty's bed-dkamber.  In  June,  1744,  he  was  accre- 
dited ambassador  to  the  republic  of  Venice  t  in  1740, 
minister  plenipotentiary  to  the  states-general  of  the 
United  provinces— and  in  1751,  his  lordship  was  con- 
stituted one  of  the  prindpiJ  secretaries  of  sUte,  and 
sworn  of  the  privy  coundL  In  17A8,  he  was  ap- 
polBtad  one  of  the  lords  Justices  during  the  king's 
sbsencc  at  Hanover.  He  resigned  the  secretaryship 
of  state*  but  was  reappointed  in  17M.  He  was  sub- 
sequently admiral  and  warden  of  the  Cinque  ports. 
His  knddilp  m.  at  the  Hague,  in  November,  1742, 
Mary,  daughter  of  Francis  Doublet,  member  of  the 
Stales  of  Holland,  by  whom  he  had  issue, 

g^  }  both  died  young  before  the 

Amelia,  6.  Uth  OctiAer,  1754— m.  first,  in  1773, 
Fnmds-Oodolphin,  then  Marquess  of  Car- 
marthen, afterwards  ilfth  Duke  of  Leeds,  by 
whom  she  had  issue, 

Osoaos  -  William  -  FaKnaaic,  present 
Duke  of  Leeds. 

Frands-Oodolphin  Osborne  (Lord). 

Mary-Henrletta-Juliana,  in.  to  Thomas, 
second  Earl  of  Chicherter. 
Her  ladyship  being  divorced  fhmi  the  Mar- 
quess, by  act  of  Parliament  in  May,  177^^ 
m.  secondly,  John  Byron,  Esq.,  and,  had  an 
only  surviving  daughter, 

Augtuta-Mary  Byron,  6.  Mth  January, 
17B3,  m.  In  1807  to  John  Leigh,  Eaq. 
Lady  Conyers  (to  which  dignity  she  suc- 
ceeded at  the  decease  of  her  father,)  d,  in 
1784,  and  Ci^>tain  Byron  m.  subsequently 
Miss  Gordon,  by  whom  he  was  fttther  of 
(an  only  son,) 


ByvoB,  the  oaMmliil 
Lord  Byran. 
The  Eari  of  Holdemess  Ate  1778.  when  the  Eaai^ 
DOM,  for  want  of  male  issue,  became  extinct,  as 
did  the  Barony  of  D'Arcy,  created  by  the  patent  of 
1041,  but  the  Barony  of  "  CoirYaaa**  devolved 
upon  his  only  surviving  daughter,  Amdia,  then 
Mardihrnessof  Carmarthan,  and  at  her  ladyship^ 
decease  passed  to  her  ddsst  son, 

George- William-Frederick,  present  Duke  of 


ABMa.— As. 

dnquefoUs,  ar. 


semte  of 


andthfae 


JSui 
ihy 


DAUBENEY—BARONS  DAUBENEY, 

EARL    OF    BRIDGE- 
WATER, 

by  Writ  ci\  datadSnd  November,  UtO, 
Summons,  F  83  Edward  I. 

p^^  J  dated  13th  Mardi,  1488. 
Earidom*  by  LettMs  Patent,  dated  I9th  July,  1538. 

XCncagt. 

Amongst  the  most  distinguished  companions  te  arms 
of  the  Conqueror,  was 

ROBERT  DE  TODENI,  a  nobleman  of  Nor- 
mandy, upon  whom  the  victorious  monarch  con- 
forrsd,  with  numerous  other  grants,  an  estate  te  the 
county  of  Lincoln,  upon  the  borders  of  Leicester- 
shire. Here  De  Todeni  erected  a  statdy  castle,  and 
ftom  the/Wr  vimo  it  commanded,  gave  it  the  desig- 
nation of  Bblvoib  Castlb,  and  here  he  established 
his  chief  abode.  At  the  time  of  the  general  survey 
this  powerful  personage  possessed  no  less  than  el^ty 
extendve  lordships,  vis.,  two  in  Yorkshire,  one  te 
Essex,  four  in  Suffolk,  one  in  Cambridge,  two  te 
Hertfordshire,  three  In  Bucks,  four  in  Gloucester- 
shire, three  in  Bedfordshire,  nine  in  Northampton- 
shire, two  te  Rutland,  thirty-two  te  Lincolnshire, 
and  seventeen  te  Ldcestsrshire.  *'  Of  this  Robert,** 
saith  Dttgdale,  •«  I  have  not  seen  any  other  memo- 
rial, than  that  the  Coudier-Book  of  Bdvofar  re- 
cordeth :  which  Is,  that  bearing  a  venerable  esteem 
to  our  someUme  much  celebrated  protomartyr,  St. 
Alban,  he  founded,  near  to  his  castle,  a  priory  for 
monks,  and  np^**^  it  as  a  ceO  to  that  great  abbey 
in  Hertfordshire,  formerly  erected  by  the  devout 
King  Oilk,  te  honour  of  that  most  holy  man.** 
Robert  de  Todeni,  Lord  of  Bdvoir,  d.  te  1088,  Beav 
teg  issue  by  his  wifo  Adda,  vis, 

William,  who  sssumed,  ftom  what  reason  is 
unascertained,  the  surname  of  Albini,  and 
was  known  as  "  William  de  Albtei,  Brito,** 
te  contradistinctian  to  another  great  barony 
•'  WllUam  de  Albtei,  Ptecema,"  fkom  whom 
the  Earls  of  Anmdel  descended. 
Beringar,  who  had  divers  lordships  in  the- 
county  of  York,  as  wdl  as  others  te  Lincotej^ 
Oxford,  and  Nottinghamshlres, 
Geo^nry. 
Robert. 

Agnes,  m.  to  Hubert  de  Ryai  a  parson  ofnota 
in  Lincolnshira 
He  was  «.  by  his  eMest  son« 

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DAU 


WILLIAM  DE  ALBINI.  Briit,  Lord  of  Bdvolr, 
who,  in  the  duptbr  House  of  St.  Albuu,  oonflrmed 
all  the  grants  of  hi*  Cither  and  mother  to  the  church 
of  our  Udy  at  Belvoir,  desiring  that  he  might  be 
admitted  in  the  fraternity  as  those  his  parents  had 
been.  This  £nidal  lord  acquired  great  renown  at 
thecdebrated  battle  of  Tenercbebyt  in  Normandy, 
where,  commanding  the  hone,  he  charged  the 
enemy  with  so  much  spirit,  that  he  determined  at 
moe  the  fste  of  the  day.  Of  the  exploit,  Matthew 
Paris  says,  **  In  this  encounter  chiefly  deserreth 
hoaour  the  most  heroic  William  de  Albini,  the 
Briton,  who,  with  his  sword,  broke  through  the 
enemy,  and  terminated  the  battle."  He  subse- 
quently adhered  to  the  Empress  Maud,  and  had 
his  castle  of  Belvoir,  with  aU  his  other  lands,  seised 
by  King  Stephen,  and  transferred  to  Ranulph,  Earl 
of  Chester.  He  m.  Maud,  daughter  of  Simon  de 
St.  Lis,  first  Earl  of  Huntingdon,  widow  of  Robert, 
son  of  Ridiard  de  Tunbridge,  and  dying  about  the 
year  llfffi,  left  two  sons,  vis. 

1.  Wii.i'iAM,  sumamed  Mbbcouvbs,  and 
likewise  BaiTO,  who  hadBaLTOia  CAaTx.s, 
and  a  considerable  portion  of  his  lands,  re- 
stored by  King  Henry  11.  In  the  14th  of 
which  mimarch's-  reign  he  died,  and  was  «. 
by  his  son, 

William  db  Albini,  feudal  Lord  of 
Belvoir,  .who,  in  the  6th  of  Richard  L, 
was  with  that  monarch  in  the  army  in 
Normandy.  And  the  next  year  was 
sheriff  of  the  counties  of  Warwick  and 
Leicester,  as  he  was  subsequently  of 
Rutlandshire.  In  the  Snd  of  King 
John  he  had  special  license  to  make  a 
park  at  Stoke  in  Northampton,  and 
liberty  to  hunt  the  fox  and  hare,  (it 
lying  within  the  royal  forest  of  Rock- 
ingham.) Afterwards,  however,  he  took 
up  arms  with  the  other  barons,  and 
leaving  Belvoir  well  fortified,  he  as- 
sumed the  governorship  of  Rochester 
Castle,  which  he  held  out  for  three 
months  against  the  Royalists,  and  ulti- 
mately only  surrendered  when  reduced 
to  the  last  state  of  famine.  Upon  the 
surrender  of  Rochester  William  Albini 
was  sent  prisoner  to  Corfe  Castle,  and 
there  detained  until  his  freedom  became 
one  of  the  conditions  upon  which  B^ 
voir  capitulated,  and  until  he  paid  a 
ransom  of  six  thousand  marks.  In  the 
reign  of  Henry  III.  we  find  him  upon 
the  other  side,  and  a  principal  com- 
mander at  the  battle  of  Lincoln,  anno 
1217,  where  his  former  associates  sus- 
tained so  signal  a  defeat.  This  stout 
baron,  who  had  been  one  of  the  cele- 
brated TWBNTY-rivB,  appointed  to 
enforce  the  observance  of  Maoha 
Charta^«i,  first,  Margery,  daughter 
of  Odonel  de  UmframviUei  by  whom 
he  had  issue, 
William. 
Robert. 
Nicholas. 
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He  espoused,  seoooAy,  Agatha,  dau^- 
ter  and  co-heir  of  William  Trusbut, 
and  dying  in  1236,  was  «.  by  his  eldest 


William  um  Albini,  feudal  Lord  of 
Belvoir,  who,  like  his  father,  ad- 
hered firmly  to  King  Henry  III. 
He  iM.  first,  Albreda  Bireth,  aod 
secondly,  Isabel  ,  and  left 

issue,    an    only    daughter    and 
heiress, 
laABBL  OB  Albini,   who  m. 
Robert  de  Ros,  Lord  Roa  of 
Hamlake.  (see  that  dignity,) 
and  conveyed  to  him   the 
feudal  barony  and  castle  of 
Bblvoib,  which  eventually 
passed  tioai  the  family  ot 
Ros  to  that  of  Manners,  by 
which  they  are  now  enjoyed 
in  the  person  of  the  Ditkb 
or  Rutland. 
S.  Ralph. 
The  second  son  of  William  de  Albini,  Brito, 

RALPH  DE  ALBINI,  obtained  fifteen  knights' 
fees  from  his  brother  William,  in  the  12th  of 
Henry  II.,  and  in  the  28th  of  the  same  reign,  he 
gave  two  hundred  marks  for  license  to  marry  the 
mother  of  Etarard  de  Ross,  (whose  name  was  Sibilla 
de  Valoines.)  Thte  feudal  baron,  who  founded 
some  religious  houses,  died  at  Acre,  in  the  Holy 
Land,  in  1190,  and  was  «.  by 

PHILIP  DE  ALBINI,  who,  in  the  8th  of  King 
John,  was  governor  of  Ludlow  Castle,  in  Shropshire, 
and  in  six  years  afterwards  of  the  Isle  of  Jersey. 
He  was  subsequently  governor  of  the  castle  of 
Bridgenorth,  and  he  obtained  some  territorial  grants 
from  the  crown ;  but  notwithstanding  those  favours, 
he  enrolled  himself  under  the  baronial  banner,  and 
participated  in  the  triumph  of  Rvnnimbob.  Again, 
however,  he  changed  his  colours,  and  adhered  to 
King  John  during  the  remainder  of  his  reign.  Upon 
the  accession  of  Henry  III.  he  sssisted  at  that  mo- 
narch's coronation,  and  was  one  of  his  principal 
generals  at  the  battle  of  Lincoln.  Independently, 
however,  of  his  military  renown,  he  appears  to  have 
acquired  the  reputation  of  a  man  of  learning,  and 
Matthew  Paris  designates  him  *<  a  most  faithAil 
teacher  and  instructor  of  the  king."  In  this  reign 
he  was  governor  of  Guernsey  and  Jersey,  and  gover- 
nor of  the  castle  of  Devises.  Ultimately  being 
signed  with  the  cross,  he  repaired  to  the  Holy  Land, 
and  dying  there  was  «.  by  his  nephew, 

Ptf  ILIP  DE  ALBINI,  who  had  acted  as  lieu- 
tenant to  his  uncle  in  the  government  of  Guernsey 
and  Jersey,  and  in  the  8th  of  Henry  III.  had  the 
hundred  of  Wichton  granted  to  him  for  his  better 
support  in  the  king's  servicer  He  was  «.  at  his 
decease  by  his  brother, 

ELIAS  DAUBENEV,  who  was  summoned  to 
parliament  ss  a  babon,  from  2nd  November,  1296, 
to  22ad  January,  IdOff.  HU  lordship  was  «.  at  his 
decease  by  his  son, 

SIR  RALPH  DAUBENEV,  second  baron,  sum- 
moned to  parliament  20th  February,  1342.  This 
nobleman  was  one  of  the  Knights  of  the  Bath, 


DAU 


DBD 


ited  in  tha  Mth  Edward  II.,  Md  iMd 
his  lobM  as  a  bannareL  In  tha  8th  of  Edwaid  IlL 
]i0  was  in  the  expaditkm  than  made  into  Scotland, 
-and  again  in  a  timilar  expedition  made  in  four  yean 
afterwards.  His  lordship  m.  first,  Katherine,  daugh- 
ter of  William  da  Thweng.  Lord  Thweng,  and 
aister  and  oo-heir  of  Thomas  da  Thweng,  Lord 
Thweng,  a  priest,  by  whom  he  had  an  only 
daughter, 

Klizabmtv,  in.  to  Sir  William  Bodreaux, 
Knt. 
The  baron  espoused  secondly,   Alice  Montacute, 
daughter  of  Lord  Montacute,  and  had  a  son, 

SIR  GILES  DAUBENEY.  Knt..  third  baron, 
but  never  summoned  to  parliament.  This  noble- 
man m.  Alienor,  daughter  of  Henry  de  WyUngton, 
and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

GILES  DAUBENEY,  fimrth  baron,  but  never 
summoned  to  parliament  This  Giles  was  sheriff  of 
Bedfordshire  and  Bucks,  in  the  10th  Henry  VL  He 
d.  about  the  year  1444,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  DAUBENEY,  fifth  baron,  but  never 
summoned  to  parliament,  who,  doing  homage  in 
the  24th  Henry  VL,  had  livery  of  his  lands :  and  in 
the  following  year  obtained  a  royal  charter  for  a 
fair  at  his  lordship  of  South  PsoaiiTON.  To  this 
William  «.  his  son, 

GILES  DAUBENEY,  sixth  baron,  who  in  the 
17th  Edward  IV.  being  one  of  the  esquires  of  the 
body  to  the  king,  had,  in  consideration  of  his  many 
services,  a  grant  for  life  of  the  custody  of  the 
King's  Park  at  Petherton,  near  Bridgewater.  Upon 
the  accession  of  Richard  III.  he  appears  to  have  been 
one  of  the  fizst  consulted  by  the  friends  of  the  Earl 
of  Richmond,  utd  to  have  cordially  joined  in  the 
conspiracy  to  place  that  nobleman  upon  the  throne. 
Which,  being  acoomplisbed  by  the  victory  of  Bos- 
worth,  he  was  made  one  of  the  new  monarch,  Henry 
the  Seventh's,  chief  counsellors— appointed  consta. 
Ue  of  the  castle  of  Bristol,  master  of  the  Mint,  and 
created  by  letters  patent,  dated  12th  March,  1486,« 
LoBD  DAUBsnav.  In  the  2nd  of  Henry  VII.  his 
lordship  was  retained  by  indenture  to  serve  the  king 
in  his  fleet  at  sea;  and  in  the  next  year  he  was  consti- 
tuted one  of  the  chamberlains  of  the  exchequer. 
He  was  afterwards  Joined  with  Richard  Fox,  Bishop 
of  Exeter,  in  an  embassy  to  France,  and  subse- 
quently made  Justice  Itinerant  with  Sir  Reginald 
Bray,  of  all  the  king's  forests  on  the  south  of  Trent. 
Upon  the  fall  of  Sir  William  Stanley,  in  the  10th  of 
Henry  VII..  Lord  Daubeney  succeeded  to  the  lord 
cbamberlainship  of  the  king's  hoiuehold.  In  the 
12th  of  the  same  reign  his  lordship  was  about  to 
march  at  the  head  of  a  large  army  into  Scotland, 
but  his  course  was  diverted  by  the  insurrection  of 
Lord  Audley  and  the  Comishmen :  and  he  partici- 
pated in  the  victory  obtained  over  those  rebels  at 
Blackheath— as  he  did  in  that  of  Taunton,  the  next 
year,  achieved  over  Perkin  Warbeck  and  his  parti- 
sans.   In  the  19th  of  Henry  VII.  he  was  made  con- 

•  The  original  barony  does  not  H>p«Ar  to  have 
been  assumed  from  the  period  of  the  demise  of  Sir 
Ralph  Daubeney,  who  had  summons  in  1348.  This 
patent  was  probably  but  a  cooflnnatloo  of  the  dig- 
nity already  -in  the  fiunily. 


ataUe  oTtlM  caatla  oC  BridfevMer,  nd  he  had 
prevkmsly  been  honoured  with  the  Garter.  Hie 
kwdship  m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Arun- 
del, of  Lanham,  in  Cornwall*  by  whom  be  had 
issue, 

Hbnry,  his  successor. 

Cedly,   m.  to  John  Bourchier,   Lord   Fits- 
Warine^  afterwards  Earl  of  Bath. 
He  d.  28th  May,  1007,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

HENRY  DAUBENEY,  second  baron  under  the 
new  creation,  but  seventh  of  the  old,  who  was 
created  Earl  or  BninonwATsn  on  the  19tfa  July, 
163&  His  ksrdship  m.  Lady  Catherine  Howard, 
daughter  of  Thomas,  Duke  of  NorfUk,  but  had  no 
issuer  He  d.  in  1M8,  when  the  BAnon v  or  Dau- 
BSMBY,  created  in  I486,  and  the  £Ami.noM  or 
BniDOBWATan,  became  bxtiitct— but  the  ba- 
BowY  created  by  the  writ  of  Edward  L,  anno  12W, 
should  have  passed  to  his  sister  Cedly,  Conntess  of 
Bath,  and  it  is  probably  now  vested  in  the  descen- 
dants of  that  lady,  if  such  existi  if  not,  it  is  in 
the  heirs  general  of  Elias,  the  first  Babon  Dau- 

BBMBY. 

ABM8.— Gules,  four  loaengas  in  U 


D'AUNEY— BARON  D'AUNEY. 
By  Writ  of  Summons,  1  Edward  III. 

Xincagc. 

NICHOLAS  D'AUNBY,  lord  of  the  manor  of 
Shunock,  in  Cornwall,  was  summoned  to  parlia- 
ment, as  a  Barow,  in  the  1st  of  Edward  IIL,  but 
never  afterwards,  nor  any  of  his  posterity.  His 
lordship  made  a  Journey  to  the  Holy  Land,  whence 
he  brought  home  a  rich  and  curious  medal,  said  to 
be  yet  in  the  possession  of  the  family  of  Burton- 
Dawnay,  Viscounts  Downe;  in  Ireland,  whidrdaims 
descent  firom  this  nobleman. 

ABJis.— Ar.  a  bend  sa.  betw.two  oottJaes  ax. 

DE    DREUX  —  EARLS     OF    RICH- 

MOND. 

Creation  of  WiDiam  the  Conqueror. 
By  Letters  Patent,  dated  6th  July,  88  Henry  IIL 

Xincagc. 

The  first  Eabl  or  RicHMoirn  was 

ALAN,  sumamed  Rurua  or  Fbhoauitt,  (by 
reason  of  his  red  hair,)  son  of  Eudo.  Earl  of  Bri- 
tanny,  in  France  t  which  Alan  coming  over'Hnto 
England  with  the  Conqueror,  commanded  the  rear 
of  his  army  in  the  memorable  battle  of  Hastings, 
and  for  his  services  upon  that  occasion,  and  at  the 
siege  of  York,  obtained  the  Eabj^dom  or  Ricb- 
Moivn,  with  all  the  northern  part  of  the  county  of 
York,  vulgarly  denominated  Richmondshire,  pre- 
viously the  honour  and  county  of  Edwyne,  the 
Saxon,  Earl  of  Merda.  This  nobleman  was  es- 
teemed a  personage  of  great  courfve  and  abili^— 
and  bia  benefactions  to  the  church  were  munificent 
He  m.  Constance,  daughter  of  King  WilUam  the 
Conqueror,  but  had  no  isaue^  The  earL  who  was 
likewise  Earl  of  Britanny,  died  in  1060,  and  was  «. 
by  his  brother, 

ALAN  NIGER*  Moond  Karl  of  Richmond,  and 

16» 


D£D 


D£D 


Bnl  of  BHtaaoy.    This  notalenmi  wai  abo  a  very 
liberal  benefector  to  the  churdi.    He  A  in  1009,  utd 
leaving  no  iMue,  wat  ■.  by  hit  brother, 
STEPHEN,  third  Earl  of  Richmond,  and  Earl 

of  Brltauny.    This  nobleman  m. ,  daughter  of 

the  Earl  of  Ouingampe,  and  had  iasue^ 
Alan,  hit  tucoeMor. 

Henry,  who  had  by  diarter  of  King  Henry  IL, 
Waltham  In  EsBex,  the  Stoke  in  the  county 
of  Lincoln,  to  hold  in  fee,  as  Stephen  his 
Aither  had  it  given  to  him,  temp.  Henry  L 
GeoflRery,  sumamed  BottferdL 
Maud,  m.  to  Walter,  son  of  Oilbert  de  Gant 
The  earl  d.  in  1104,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

ALAN,  sumamed  the  Savage,  fourth  Earl  of 
Richmond,  and  Earl  of  Brltanny.    This  nobleman 
was  an  active  partisan  of  King  Stephen's  in  his  con* 
test  with  the  Empreas  Maud.    In  1148,  he  took  the 
castle  of  Lincoln,  with  considerable  treasure,  from 
Ranulph,  Earl  of  Chester,  by  scaling  the  walls  at 
night    He  also  garrisoned  the  Castle  of  IIotvk,  in- 
Yorkshire,  then  part  of  Uie  Bishop  of  Durham's 
possessions,  and  made  great  spoil  at  Ripon,  upon 
the  demesnes  and  tenants  of  the  Archbishop  of 
York.    This  Alan*  who  is  described  as  a  most  d»> 
ceitAil,  wicked  penon,  wrote  hinudf  Earl  of  Brl- 
tanny, Cornwall,  and  Richmond ;  but  notwithstand- 
ing that  character,  he  appears,  like  his  progenitors, 
to  have  been  a  munificent  benefactor  to  the  church. 
His  lordship  m.  Bertha,  eldest  daughter  and  co- 
heir of  Conan  le  Groase,  and  had  issuer 
CoiTAir  LB  Pbtit,  his  sucoeisor. 
Brian,  father  of  Alan,  Lord  of  BedalAi 
Guy,  ancestor  of  the  Barons  Strange. 
Reginald. 
Hed.  in  1165,  and  was  «.  by  his  ddest  son, 

CONAN  LE  PETIT,  fifth  Earl  of  Richmond, 
who  bore  also  the  title  of  Duk«  of  Britanny.  Little 
more  is  recorded  of  this  nobleman,  than  his  numer- 
ous grants  to  the  dmrch.  He  m.  Margaret,  daughter 
of  Henry,  Earl  of  Huntingdon,  and  sister  of  Wil- 
liam, King  of  Scotland,  by  whom  he  had  an  only 
daughter, 

CoNSTANCB,  who  m.  first,  GeoflVey  Plantage- 
•net,  fourth  son  of  King  Henry  IL,  and  had 
issue, 
Abtbve,  said  to  be  put  to  death  by  his 

uncle  John,  afterwards  King  John. 
Eleanor,  called  Le  Brit,  died  «.  p. 
,  daughter,  name  unknown. 
Oeoll^  Plantagenet  was  accidentally  slain 
m  a  tournament,  at  Paris,  In  the  twenty- 
eighth  year  of  his  age.    His  widow,  Con- 
stance,   of   Britanny,  eq>oused,   leoondly, 
Ralph  db  Blondvillb,  Earl  of  Chester, 
but  ftom  him    she  was  loon  afterwards 
divorced,  and  she  married,  thirdly,  Ginr, 
ViacouifT  or  Thouabs,  by  whom  she  had 
two  daughters,  via.~ 

AltcM,  in.  to  Pbtbb  db  Dbbdx. 
Katherine,  m.  to  Andrew  de  Vitre,   in 
Britanny. 
The  three  husbands  of  Constance  are  aaid 
to  have  been  Eabls  or  Richmond  /tuv 
uMfitt  but  It  is  very  questionable  how  Uit 
they  were  entitled  to  the  dignity, 
let 


Conan,  fifth  Earl  of  Richmond,  d.  tai  1171,  and  hli 
grandson, 

PETER  DE  DREUX,  (called  Mavdete,)  ob- 
tained on  0th  July,  1968,  a  grant  of  the  dignities  of 
Eabl  or  Richmond,  and  Duke  of  Britanny :  but 
he  does  not  appear  to  havee^}oyed  the  whide  honour 
of  Ridmiond,  for  in  1941,  we  find  a  grant  ftom 
King  Henry  IIL,  to  Peter  de  Savoy,a  of  divers 
towns,  castles,  manors,  lands,  Ac.,  belonging  to  the 
Honour  of  Ridunond.  This  nohlanan  had  isstte 
by  Alice,  coheir  of  Constance  of  Britanny, 
John,  his  successor. 

J<rfand,  M.  to  Hugh  le  Brun,  Earl  of  PIcardy. 
His  lordship  d.  about  the  year  1250,  but  previoudy, 
his  son, 

JOHN  DE  DREUX,  seems  to  have  become  Earl 
of  Richmond,  and  in  the  fiOth  of  Hairy  IIL,  had 
livery  of  the  Honour  of  Richmond,  from  Qulschard 

*  Peter  de  Savoy.  This  distinguished  fordgner 
was  uncle  of  EInnor,  Queen  consort  of  King 
Henry  III.  Matthew  Paris,  taking  notice  of  his 
coming  into  England,  in  1941,  saith,  *«  That  the 
king  gave  him  ComUatum  RMumundUe,  the  Earldom 
of  Richmond,"  which  it  seems  he  ei^oyed  for  some 
time,  "  though  it  doth  not  appear,"  says  Dugdale, 
**  by  any  record  I  have  seen,  that  he  either  used, 
or  had  the  title  attributed  to  him,  until  fiOth 
Henry  III..  Upon  his  arrival  here,"  continues  Dug- 
dale, "certahi  it  Is,  that  the  king  entertained  him 
with  much  joy,  and  made  him  chief  of  his  council ; 
after  whidi,  ere  kmg,  he  held  a  tournament  at 
Northampton,  agunst  Roger  Bigod,  Earl  of  Nor- 
folk, to  the  end,  that  those  aliens  who  came  into 
England  with  him  and  othen,  might  try  masteries 
with  the  English.  And  the  nextensuingyear,  fearing 
that  his  power  and  trust  here  might  be  displeasing 
to  the  English,  prudently  resigned  the  custody  of 
those  castles  which  had  been  committed  to  his 
charge,  craving  leave  to  return  into  his  own  coun- 
try. But  I  do  not  discern  that  he  went  out  of 
Enghmd  accordingly  t  for  before  the  end  of  that 
yesT,  the  king's  subjects,  in  Poictou,  being  in  no 
little  fear  of  invasion  from  the  French,  and  earnestly 
soliciting  King  Henry  for  some  idd,  he  sent  over 
this  Peter  de  Savoy,  with  Peter  de  EgueUanch, 
Bishop  of  Hereford,  to  let  them  know  that  he  was 
preparing  to  come  speedily  to  them  In  person,  with 
a  very  great  power.  In  the  30th  Henry  III.,  the 
king  granted  to  Peter  de  Savoy,  the  inheritance  of 
those  houses  in  the  street,  called  the  Strand,  in  the 
suburbs  of  Lond(m,  and  adjoining  the  river  of 
Thames,  formerly  bekmging  to  Brian  de  Lisle; 
paying  yearty  to  the  king's  exchequer,  three  barbed 
arrows  for  all  services;  which  houses.  Queen 
Eleanor,  in  her  widowhood,  having  obt^ned  by 
purchase  ftom  the  Provost  and  Chapter  of  the 
House  of  Mountjoy,  granted  to  Edmund,  her  son, 
afterwards  Earl  of  Lancaster."  Here  was  erected 
the  palace,  called  the  Savoy. 

Peter  de  Savoy,  unde  of  Queen  Eleanor,  Is  often 
included  (says  the  General  Report  of  the  Lords 
Committee,  on  the  dignity  of  a  Peer  of  the  Realm,) 
in  the  lists  of  Earls  of  Richmond,  but  it  is  evident 
that  he  only  obtained  a  grant  of  the  Honour  of 
Richmond,  and  never  used  the  titla 


BJBD 


DED 


dtdmmii*  AMnmt  to  P«tar  of  Ssvoy*  who  ted 
•uthoiity  for  granting  the  mum.  Having  thus  ae- 
qvirad  PetOT  de  Savoy'i  title,  tiie  Ung,  by  lotton 
potMit,  dated  6th  Jttl7«  1288,  confeiied  upon  him 
tni  hiM  hdn,  under  the  derignetion  of  JMn,  Duk& 
^BHftnmifythe  Eahldom  ov  Ricbmoitd,  with  the 
GeMle  and  Honour  of  Richmond,  Ac.,  in  fee 
Soon  after  thia,  he  obtained  a  grant  from  the  Icing 
of  tlie  Honour  and  Rape  of  Haatinga  t  and  the  next 
year,  he  attended  Prince  Edward  to.  the  Holy  Lend. 
Hia  lordship  mt.  Blanch,  daughter  of  Theobald, 
King  of  Navarre,  and  dying  in  1986,  was*,  by  his  son, 
JOHN  DE  DREUX,  Earl  of  Richmond,  and 
Duke  of  Britanny.  This  nobleman  was  an  eminent 
military  leader,  in  the  reigns  of  Edward  L,  and 
Edward  IL  In  U98,  he  bad  the  command  of  tlie 
ftMces  then  sent  into  Gesoony,  end  the  ensuing  year, 
bsing  the  king's  lieutenant  in  Britanny,  he  was 
Joined  in  commission  with  the  leneschal  of  Aqui- 
tane^  and  others,  to  conclude  a  league  of  amity  with 
the  King  of  Castile.  In  1300,  he  wss  with  King 
Edward  in  the  wars  of  Scotland ;  and  in  1305,  he 
was  ooiMtitnted  the  king's  Ueutcnant  in  ttet  king^ 
dom :  as  he  was  again  upon  the  arffsilon  of  King 
Edward  II.  In  the  Iflth  of  which  latter  monarch's 
reign,  the  Earl  of  Richmond  waa  one  of  the  ambas- 
aadors  deputed  to  the  King  of  Pranoe,  for  securing 
the  Duchy  of  Aquitane  flrom  Airther  spoil  fkom  the 
Frsndi.  Hia  lordship  espoused  the  Lady  Beatrix 
Piantagenet,  daughter  of  King  Henry  IIL,  and  had 
aunriving  issue, 

AaTHim,  who    inherited  the  Dukedom  of 
Britanny,  and  whose  son, 

JoBK,  «.  his  unde  in  the  Earldom  of 
Richmond* 

JoBir,  of  whom  presently,  as  Inheritor  of  the 
Earldom  of  Riclunond. 

Blanch  m,  to  Philip,  son  of  Robert,  Earl  of 
Artoia. 

Gray,  m,  to  Guy  Castilion,  Earl  of  St.  PauL 

AUoe,  Abbesi  of  Fount  Eueroes. 
He  d.  in  1306,  and  was  a.  by  his  younger  son, 

JOHN  DE  DREUX,  as  Earl  of  Richmond,  who 
waa  lummoned  to  perliament  as  «  Johanni  Britan- 
nia Juniori,**  in  the  S3d.  Edward  L,  and  the  next 
year  as  BakL  op  Ricbmoko.  He  died,  however, 
Ui  1334,  without  issue,  and  waa  s.  by  his  nephew, 

JOHN  DE  DREUX,  Duke  of  Britanny,  who 
did  his  homage  ftnr  the  Eari.dom  op  Ricbmoito, 
and  waa  summoned  to  parliament  as  Johanni 
Dud  Britannia,  and  Comlti  Richmund,**  on  1st 
April,  1335,  and  SSnd  January,  1336.  This  noble- 
man M.  first,  Isabd,  daughter  of  Charles,  Earl  of 
Valoist  secondly,  Blanch,  daughter  of  the  King  of 
Caatille;  and  thirdly,  Marj^iet,  daughter  of  Ed- 
ward, Earl  of  Savoy,  but  had  no  issueu  He  d.  in 
1341,   when  his  niece,  Joane,«  daughter   of  his 


•  This  lady  m.  Charies,  second  son  of  Guy,  Earl 
of  Blois,  who  laid  dalm  in  her  right,  to  the  Dudiy 
of  Britanny,  which  caused  a  procrastinated  war, 
wherein  England  and  France  became  involved- 
one  espousing  the  dalm  of  John  de  Brenon,  half- 
brother  of  the  deceased,  Duke  John ;  the  other 
that  of  Charles,  of  Blois,  which  latter  was  cartataily 


brother  Ouy,  was  conetitnted  his  heir,  but  the 
KABLnoM  OP  RicBMoirn  reverted  to  tiie  crown- 
when  King  Edward  HI.  crsated,  on  tte  flOth  Sep. 
tember,  134S, 

JOHN  PLaNTAGENET,  sumamed  of ««  Gaunt,** 
his  younger  son,  Eael  op  Ricbmond,  but  this 
prince  resigned  the  dignity  in  137S,  when  it  waa 
conltsrred  upon 

JOHN  DE  DREUX,  sumamed  Ds  Btmm,  Bart 
of  Montford,  half-brother  of  the  last  John,  Duke 
of  Britanny  and  Richmond.  This  noblemen  being 
deprived  by  the  King  of  France  of  his  Earldom  of 
Montfort,  tm  siding  with  King  Edward  III.,  had 
the  Eabldom  op  Ricbmono  from  the  English 
monarch  in  its  stead,  with  the  castle  town,  and 
honour  of  Richmond.  His  lordship  was  oooetantly 
engaged  with  King  Edward,  in  the  wan  of  France, 
but  ultimately  lUllng  into  the  hands  of  his  great 
foe,  Charles  of  BMs,  he  was  sent  to  Paris,  and 
thne  died  in  prison,  about  the  year  1375,  leav- 
ing issue  by  Joene,  his  wilb,  daughter  of  Charles, 
King  of  Navarre— a  daughter,  Joene,  who  m.  Ralph, 
Lord  Basiet,  of  Drayton,  and  a  son,  his  succewor, 

JOHN  DE  DREUX,  (sumamed  the  VmUmtt,)  hi 
the  EABjLnoM  op  Rigbmobd.  This  nobleman  in 
the  1st  Richard  II.,  was  retained  by  indenture  to 
serve  the  king,  in  his  French  wars,  for  one  quarter 
of  a  year,  with  two  hundred  men  at  arms,  (himself 
accounted,)  twdve  knights,  and  one  hundred  and 
dghty-seven  ardiers.  And  the  next  year,  in  consi- 
deration of  the  Castle  of  Brest  in  Britanny,  which 
he  ddivered  up  to  King  Ridiard,  obtained  a  grant 
to  himself,  and  Joane,  his  wife,  sister  of  the  king, 
of  the  castle  and  mamir  of  Ribino,  in  the  county  of 
Norfolk.  In  the  3rd  of  the  same  reign,  bearing  the 
titles  of  Duke  of  Britanny,  Earl  of  Montfort,  and 
Eabl  op  Ricbmobd,  he  was  in  the  wan  of  France, 
but  shortly  after  this,  deserting  the  bsnner  of  Eng- 
land for  that  of  France,  all  his  lands  in  the  former 
kingdom  were  seised,  and  he  was  deprived  of  the 
E&BLDOM  OP  Ricbmond,  by  special  act  of  perils 
mcnt,  7th  Richard  II.,  November  1383L  He  is  said 
to  have  been  afterwards  restored  to  the  dignity,  but 
with  the  proviso,  that  If  he  died  without  lisue,  the 
earldom  and  honour  should  revert  to  the  king;  In 
the  14th  Richard  II,  It  was  however  again  adiudged 
to  be  POBPBITBD,  and  thus  terminated  the  ftunily 
of  Db  Dbbux,  EABi.a  op  Ricbmond.  The  last 
Earl  m.  the  lady  Mary  Piantagenet,  daughter  of 
King  Edward  III.,  and  had  Issue, 

JoBN,  Duke  of  Britanny,  who  had  Issue, 
Pbtbb,      1  both  Dukes  of  Britenny,  and 
Fbancbb,  j  both  died  without  lasue^ 
Richard,  Eari  of  Estampes,  married  Mar- 
garet of  Orleans,  and  was  flither  of 

FBANCia,  Duke  of  Britanny,  who 
espoused  Margaret,  of  Foix,  and  had 
a  daughter, 

Annb,  heiieii  of  Britanny,  who 
espoused  Lbwis  XIL,  Kino  op 
Fbancb,  end  thus  annexed  the 
DucBY  OP  Bbitannt  to  the 
crown  of  France. 


the  more  iBglilinalet  the  Lady 
of  Guy*  brother  of  the  whole 


being  daughter 
tottedukei 
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DEI 


Abms.— Of  Abm  Fergaunt*  *!  Cbcquy  or  and 
and  hi*  immediate  de-  >as.  a  Caatcm 
•oendants.  J  arm.— 

Of  De  Dreux.  The  same. 

DEINCOURT  —  BARONS        DEIN. 

COURT. 

By  Writ  of  Snmmona,  dated  6th  FH>raary,  1S90> 

27  Edward  I. 

By  Writ  of  Summonf ,  dated  27th  January,  19SS, 

6  Edward  III. 

Xiiuagc. 

WALTER  DEINCOURTt  one  of  the  distin- 
guished companions  in  arms  of  the  Conqueror,  ob- 
tained as  his  portion  of  the  spoil  from  the  first  Wil- 
liam, no  less  than  sixty-seven  lordships,  in  different 
eountles,  of  which  Blankney,  in  the  county  of 
Lincoln,  was  his  principal  aeat,  and  head  of  his 
feudal  barony.  **  This  Walter,"  says  Dugdale, 
«« had  a  son  called  William,  probably  the  eldest, 
who,  haTing  his  eduoUion  in  the  court  of  King 
William  Rufus,  there  died  upon  the  3rd  of  the 
calends  of  NoTcmber,  as  appeareth  by  this  inscrip- 
tion made  on  a  plate  of  lead,  in  Saxon  c^>ital  let- 
tecs,  with  abbreviations ;  and  lately  found  in  his 
grave  in  the  church-yard,  near  to  the  west  door  of 
the  cathedral  church  at  Lincoln.** 
<*  Hie  Jaoet  Wilbblmub  Alius  Waltbri  Aibh- 
cvBinwBia, 
Consangttinei  Remigii  Episcopi  Licolibvsib, 

qui  banc 
Ecdesiam  fedt.   Prsefatus  Wilhblkub.  Regit 
sdrpe  progenitus,  dum  in  curia  Regis  Wii.- 

RBLMI  (fllii 
magni  Regis  WiLHsiiMi,  qui  Angliam  oonqui- 

rivit)  aleretur, 
9"  Kalendas  Novcmbris  obiit." 
To'  Walter  Deincourt,  succeeded  his  son, 

RALPH  DEINCOURT,  who  founded  the  Au- 
gustine priory  of  Thuigarton,  in  the  county  of 
Nottingham.    This  lisudal  lord  had  issue, 
Waltbb. 
Hugh. 
Ralph 

Aelinda>  m.  to  Thomas  lyArey,  and  was  «.  by 

his  ddest  son, 

WALTER  DEINCOURT.    This  nobleman  was 

a  great  benefactor  to  St.  Mary's  Abbey,  at  York. 

He  d.  about  the  year  1187»  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest 

surviving  son, 

JOHN  DEINCOURT,  who.  inthettnd  Henry 
IL,  paid  twenty  marks  in  Nottinghamshire,  for 
trespassing  in  the  king's  forests,  and  ten  marks  in 
NorthamptoBsUre,  for  a  similar  transgression. 
This  John  m.  Alice,  daughter  of  Ralph  Murdach, 
and  had  three  sons,  viz.,  Olitbr,  William,  and 
Nicholas.    By  the  dldest  of  whom,  he  was  s.  at  his 


OLIVER  DEINCOURT,  who  was  employed  in 
Normandy,  in  the  king's  service,  in  the  rogn  of 
Richard*I.,  and  died  in  the  beginning  of  the  ensuing 
rdgn,  whan  be  waa  «.  by  his  son, 

OLIVER  DEINCOURT,  then  a  minor,  for 
whose  waidiUp  JflliBi  BialKip  of  Norwidu  |«U  a 


fine  of  four  hundred  marks  to  the  king.  This 
feudal  lord  Joined  the  baronial  standard  against 
King  John,  but  little  farther  is  known  regarding 
him.  He  m.  Nichola,  niece  of  Nichola  de  Haya,  a 
lady  of  importance  in  the  county  of  Lincoln,  and 
was  s.  at  bis  decease  by  his  son, 

JOHN  DEINCOURT,  who  upon  the  death  of 
his  father,  in  the  30th  Henry  III.,  paid  a  hundred 
pounds  for  his  relief,  and  had  livery  of  the  lands  at 
his  inheritance.     This  John  died  within  ten  or 
twelve  years  afterwards,  leaving  three  sons,  via. 
Edmund. 
William. 
John. 
And  was  «.  by  the  eldest, 

EDMUND  DEINCOURT,  who  was  summoned 
to  pariiament  as  a  Baron,  on  the  6th  February, 
1299,  having  participated  previously  in  the  French 
and  Scottish  wars  of  King  Edward  I.  Hk  lordship 
had  an  only  son,  Edmund,  who  died  in  his  life-time, 
leaving  one  daughter,  Isabbu  Upon  the  death  of 
his  son.  Lord  Deincourt,  to  perpetuate  his  own 
NAMB  and  ARMS,  which  with  his  grand-daughter 
should  of  course  cease,  he  obtained  special  license 
tram  the  crown,  in  the  7th  year  of  King  Edward  IL, 
to  entMl  his  lands,  8cc,  upon  whomsoever  he 
thought  proper,  and  he -accordingly  settled  the 
whole  of  his  territorial  possessions,  upon  his  bro- 
thers primogenitureily,  and  th^  male  heirs  for  ever. 
He  d.  in  1387,  when  the  Barony  devcdved  upon  his 
grand-daughter,  the  aforesaid  Isabel;  and  ii  proba- 
bly still  in  ABBYANCB,  amongst  her  descendants 
and  representatives,  while  the  estates  passed  accord- 
ing to  the  entail  upon  his  next  broth^, 

WILLIAM  DEINCOURT,  who  was  summoned 
to  pariiament  as  Babon  Dbincourt,  from  27th 
January,  1332,  to  1st  of  June  1383L  This  nobleman 
was  one  of  the  eminent  warriors  of  the  martial 
reign  of  King  Edward  III.,  and  participated  for  a 
aeries  of  years  in  the  glorious  achievements  on  the 
French  soil.  His  lordship  m.  Milioent,  daughter 
of  William,  Lord  Roos,  of  Hamlake,  and  had 
issue, 

William,  who  d.  in  the  life-time  of  his  father, 
leaving  an  only  son, 
William. 
Margaret,  m.  to  Robert  de  TibetoL 
Lord  Ddncourt,  d.  in  1379,  and  was  «.  by  his  grand- 


WILLIAM  DEINCOURT,  second  Baron  Dein- 
court,  summoned  to  parliament  firom  the  90th 
August,  1380,  to  82ttd  August,  1381.  This  noble* 
man  in.  first,  Margaret,  daughter  of  Adam  de  Welle, 
by  whom  he  had  no  issue,  and  secondly,  AUoe« 
daughter  of  J<dm,  Lord  Nevil,  by  whom  he  had, 

Ralph,  Us  successor. 

John,  successor  to  his  brother. 

Robert,  of  Deincourt  Hall,  in  the  county  of 
Lincoln,  died  «.  p,  in  the  21st  Henry  VI. 
His  lordship  d.  15th  October,  1381,  and  was  s^  by  his 


RALPH  DEINCOURT,  third  Baron  Deincourt, 
but  never  summoned  to  parliament.  This  nobleman 
d.  a  minor,  and  unmarried  in  1400,  when  the  title 
and  fortune  devolved  upon  his  brother, 

JOHN  DEINCOURT,  feuttb  Baron  Deincmut, 


D*£I 


DEL 


Imt  iMTflr  rommwiM  to  ptatUmmtmL  Hb  lordship 
m.  Jomae,  only  daughter  and  heireH  of  Sir  Robert 
de  Grey,  Knt.,  Lord  Grey,  of  Rotherfield,  by  whom 
hefaadlKue, 

WI1.LIAM*  hit  succeenr. 
AUoe,  IN.  lint,  to  Ralph,   Lord  Botder,  of 
Sudley,  by  whom  the  had  no  isnie,  and 
■eooodly,  to  William,  Lord  Lovell,  of  Tich- 


MargareC,  m,  to  Ralph,  Lord  Cromwell,  but 
died*,  p. 
He  d.  11th  May,  1406,  and  was  «.  by  hia  son, 

WILLIAM  DEINCOURT,  fifth  Banm  Dein- 
court.  His  lordship  m.  Eliaabeth,  sitter  of  John, 
Viscount  Beaumont,  bat  died  in  minority,  without 
iasue,  anno  14S2,  leaTing  his  two  sisters,  his  oo- 
bcirs:  tis. 

Alice,  Lady  Lovdl,  and  Margaret,  Lady  Crom- 
well, but  the  latter  dying  without  issue,  the 
BAnowY  ov  DsuroornT  became  then 
vested  <the  abeyance  terminating,)  in  Lord 
and  Lady  Lordl's  grandson,  FtmuU,  Via- 
coumr  LoTBLi*,  K.G.,  under  whose  attamdcr 
it  etrentually  bxpibbd  in  1487*  See  Lovell, 
Barons  Lordl,  of  Tlchmerch. 
Abm8.-^A8.  a  Fess  indented  betwean  ten  Billets 
or.  four  in  chief,  six  in  basc^ 

D'EIVILL— BARON  D'EIVILL. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  14th  December,  U64, 
49  Henry  IIL 

Xintagc. 

In  the  reign  of  the  First  Henry,  Niobl  dx  Albibi, 
being  enftollbd  of  the  manor  of  Sgmtmtom,  in  the 
county  of  Nottingham,  by  the  crown,  conferred  it 
upon 
ROBERT   D'EIVILL,  ttoia  whom  descended 


ROBERT  D^IVILL,  who,  in  the  Ifith  King 
John,  attended  that  monarch  in  hia  expedition  into 
Poictou,  and  in  the  20th  Henry  III.  had  summons 
to  fit  himsdf  with  hone  and  arms,  and  to  aooom- 
pany  the  king  into  Oasoony.    To  this  Robert «. 

JOHN  D'EIVILL,  who,  in  the  SBth  Henry  IIL, 
was  forced  to  fiy  the  country  under  an  exoommunir 
cation,  but  soon  afterwards  having  made  his  peace, 
had  permission  to  return,  for  in  the  third  year  foK 
lowing  we  find  him  constituted  Jtistioe  of  all  the' 
forests  beyond  Trent,  and  the  next  year  the  King 
of  Scots,  King  Henry's  son-in-law,  being  in  restraint 
by  his  own  suhlects,  he,  with  other  of  the  northern 
barons,  received  summons  to  fit  himself  with  hone 
and  arms,  and  to  be  ready  on  command,  to  mardi 
Into  Seothmd  for  the  captive  monarch's  rescue^  In 
the  44th  Henry  III.  he  was  again  constituted  warden 
of  aU  the  forests  north  of  Trent.  So,  likewise,  in 
three  y^kn  afterwards,  irhen  be  was  appointed  go- 
vernor of  the  Castle  at  York,  and  the  next  yaar  he 
obtained  license  to  erect  a  castle  at  a  place  called 
HoDB,  in  Yorkshire,  in  whldi  year  he  was  consti- 
tuted governor  of  Scarborough  CasUe.  After  this 
we  find  him  arrayed  with  the  other  discontented 
barons  against  the  crown,  and  so  actively  cqgi^ged  in 
the  north,  that  the  sheriiTof  Yorkshire  could  not 


excrdse  hi^  oAcelior  the  king^  service  litom  Michael- 
mas in  the  48th  till  the  battle  of  Evesham  in  the 
49th  of  that  rdgn,  during  which  period  Henry  was 
in  the  handsof  the  banns  aprisoner,  and  this  foudal 
lord  was  summoned  to  parliament,  by  the  com- 
panions then  ruling,  as  Babon  I^Eivill.  The 
subsequent  triumph  of  the  royal  cause  at  Evesham 
terminated  for  that  time,  howe;rer,  the  baronial 
sway,  butit  did  not  bring  back  Lord  D'ElviU  to  his 
allegiance,  for  Joining  Robert,  Lord  Ferren,  hie 
lordship  made  heed  again  at  Chesterfield,  in  the 
county  of  Derby,  where,  after  thecapture  of  Ferren, 
be  was  unhorsed  by  Sir  Gilbert  Haunsard,  but 
eflteted  his  escape  to  the  Isle  of  Artxdm^  in  the 
county  of  Lincoln.  Under  the  decree,  called  the 
**  Dictum  of  Kenilworth,"  he  eventually,  however, 
made  his  peace,  and  redeemed  bis  lands  by  a  pecu- 
niary fine.  His  lordship  m.  Maude,  widow  of  Sir 
James  de  Aldithley,  without  licance,  for  which 
transgression  he  paid  a  fine  of  £900  to  tiie  king.  Of 
this  nobleman  nothing  further  is  known,  and  his 
posterity  were  never  afterwards  summoned  to  par- 
liamenL 
Abm8.~As.  a  chevron  sa.  a  fleur  de  lis,  or. 

DELAVAL^BARON  DELAVAL,  OF 
8EATON  DELAVAL,  IN 
THE  COUNTY  OF  NOR- 
THUMBERLAND. 

By  Letten  Patent,  dated  91st  August,  1788. 

Xinfsgc. 

FRANCIS  BLAKE  DELAVAL,  Esq.,  (descended 
ttom  the  old  feudal  Barons  De  la  Val,  who  flourished 
in  the  deventh  and  twelfth  centuries,)  m.  Rhode, 
daughter  of  Robert  Apreeoe,  Esq.,  of  Washingly,  in 
the  county  of  Huntingdon,  by  Sarah,  daughter,  and 
eventually  sole  heiress  of  Sir  Thomas  Hussey,  BarL, 
and  had  issue, 

FBAircie  Blakb,  who  was  installed  a  knight 
of  the  Bath  In  March  1781.  Sir  FiandsBhdte 
Deiaval  m.  Isabtila,  daughter  of  Thomas, 
sixth  Earl  of  Thanet,  and  widow  of  Lord 
Nassau  Paulett,  but  died  «.  jn  in  177L 
John-Hussey,  of  whom  presently. 
Edward-Thomas,  d.  unmarried  in  1787. 
Rhode,  m.  to  Sir  Edward  Astley,  Bart.,  of 
Meltcm  Constable,  In  the  county  of  Norftdk. 
Anne  m.  to  the  Hon.  Sir  William  Stanhope, 
K.B.,  second  son  of  Philip,  third  Earl  of 
Chesterfield,  and  after  his  decease  to  Cap- 
tain Morris. 
Sarah,  ak  to  John  Seville,  fint  Earl  of  Mez- 
borough,  by  whom  she  was  mother  of  the 
present  earL 
Mr.  Blake-DeUvald.  in  1709,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest 
son.  Sir  Francis  Blalie'Delaval,  K.B.,  but  we  pesa 
to  the  second, 

JOHN  HUSSEY  DELAVAL,  who  was  crceted 
a  BABOMBT  in  1761,  and  upon  the  decease  of  his 
brother.  Sir  Francis,  became  the  representative  of 
the  family.  In  1789  he  was  created  a  peei  of  Ire. 
land,  as  fienm  DOaval,  at  Redford,  hi  the  county 
of  Wicklow,  and  enrolled  amongst  the  peen  of 
Great  Britain  on  the  91st  August,  1786,  in  the  dig- 
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t&ty  of  BAitON  DcLA^AL,  o/SooAm  D^vAl,  in  tfa 
eountv  €f  NorthutiU)erland,  His  lordship  m.  fint« 
Susannah,  daughter  of  R.  Robinson,  Esq.,  and 
widow  of  John  Potter,  Esq.,  by  whom  (wlio  d.  Ist 
October,  1783)*  he  had  issue, 

John,  b.  in  1755,  d.  in  1775,  unmarried. 
Sophia-Anne,  m.  to  ^~  Jadis,  Esq.,  and  d, 

84th  Jul7,.1793L 
Elisabeth,    m.   19th  May,    1781,  to   George, 
sixteenth  Earl,  Lord  Audky,  and  d.  in  1785, 
leaving  issua 
Frances,  m.  to  John  Fenton  Cawthom,  Esq. 
Sarah,  m.  to  George,  Earl  of  Tyrconnel,  by 
wlxnn  she  left  an  only  daughter,  (heiress  of 
the  earl). 

Lady  Susanna  Carpenter,  who  m.  Henry, 
second  Marquess  of  Waterford,  and 
had  with  other  Children, 

Hkmry,  prssbnt  Mahqusbb. 
Lord  Delaval,  m.  secondly.  Miss  Knight,  but  had 
no  issue.  He  died  in  May,  1806,  when  his  honoors 
became  bxtinct;  and  his  estates  devcdred  upon 
his  daughters  as  co-heixesses,  or  their  represen- 
tativea. 

Abus. — Quarterly— first  and  fourth,  erm  :  two 
bars  vert  s  second  uid  third,  a  chevron  betw.  three 
garbs. 

DENMARK,  PRINCE  OF— DUKE  OF 
CUMBERLAND. 

By  Act  of  Parliament,  dated  9th  April,  lG8d. 

Xincagc. 

GEORGE,  PRIXCE  OF  DENMARK,  havhig 
espoused  her  Royal  Highness,  the  Princess  Anne, 
youngest  daughter  of  Hit  Majaty,  King  Jamcs  II., 
was  created  Baron  Workingham,  Earl  qf  Kendai, 
and  DuKX  OP  Cokbsiiland,  with  precedency  of 
all  other  dukes,  by  act  of  parliament,  dated  9th 
April,  1689.  He  was  also  constituted  Lord  High 
Admiral  of  Great  Britain  and  Ireland,  and  installed 
a  Knight  of  the  Garter.  By  the  princess,  who  sub- 
sequently to  her  marriage,  ascended  the  throne  as 
QuEBM  Annv,  the  duke  had  two  sons  and  four 
daughters,  all  of  whom  died  before  the  age  of 
maturity,  and  in  his  lifietime.  His  own  death  oc- 
curred in  1706,  when  his  British  honours  became 

IBXTIMCT. 

ARMa.>-Or.  three  lions  passant  guardant  ax. 
crowned  ppr.,  and  semte  of  hearts  gules. 

DENNY  — BARONS  DENNY,  EARL 
OF  NORWICH. 

Barony,  by  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  97th 

October,  1604,  2  James  L 

Earldom,  by  Letters  Patent,  S4th  October,  1696L 

ICincagt. 

EDWARD  DENNV,  a  Clerk  in  the  Exchequef, 
was  constituted  King's  Remembrancer,  in  the  90th 
Henry  VII.    To  this  Edward  «.  his  son, 

SIR  ANTHONY  DENNY,  who  in  the  reign  of 
Henry  VIIL,  was  Gentleman  of  the  Privy  Council, 
and  Groom  of  the  Stole.  TMs  was-  the  only  indi- 
vidual, amongst  the  courtiers,  who  dared  to  apprise 
his  yoyal  master  of  bis  approaching  dissolution; 
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Henty  had,  however,  so  high  an  esteem  for  Sitf 
Anthony,  that  he  could  perfSorm  the  sad  ofltoe  with 
impunity,  and  the  monarch  presented  him  with  a 
magnificent  pair  of  gloves  worked  in  pearls.  Sir 
Anthony  Denny  was  also  constituted  one  of  the 
executors  of  hu  deceased  sovereign*  and  appointed 
to  be  council  to  Prince  Edward.  Sir  Anthony  was 
«.  by  his  son, 

SIR  HENRY  DENNY,  whom.  Honora,  daughter 
of  William,  Lord  Grey,  of  Wilton,  and  had  isftue, 
Edward,  (Sir)  of  whom  preMntly. 
Anne,  m.  to  George  Goring,  Esq.,  of  Hurst 
Pierpont,  in  the  county  of  Suffolk,  and  bad 
issue, 

Geo^e  Goring,  who  was  created  BaroU 
Goring,  and  Earl  of'  Norwidi,  (se« 
Goring,  Earl  of  Norwich,)— from  Ed* 
ward  Goring,  E^.,  uncle  of  this  noble- 
man, the  Gofings,  Baronets,  of  High- 
den,  in  Sussex,  derive. 
Dorothy,  m.  to  ~^-—  Pamey,  Esq.,   of  the 

county  of  Hertford. 
Catherine,  m.  to  George  Fleetwood,  Esq.,  of 

Buckinghamshire. 
Elisabeth,  d.  unmarried. 
Sir  Henry  was  «.  at  his  decease  by  hb  son, 

SIR  EDWARD  DENNY,  Knt.,  so  created  in 
3Ist  Elizabeth,  anno  1589 ;  who  was  summoned  to 
parliament,  in  the  3rd  James  I.,  as  Baxon  Ttxvsy, 
of  Woltham,  in  the  county  of  Essex,  and  created  by 
letters  patent,  dated  24th  October,  1626,  Eael  or 
Norwich.  His  lordship  m.  Lady  Mary  Cecil, 
daughter  of  Thomas,  Earl  of  Exeter,  by  Dorothy, 
daughter  and  co-heir  of  John  Nevil,  Lord  Lati- 
mer, and  had  an  only  daughter  and  heir, 

Honoim,  whom.  Sir  James  Hay,  (of  Pitoorthie* 
in  the  county  of  Fife,  the  celebrated  Cstou- 
rite  of  King  James  I.,)  Viscount  Doncaster* 
and  Earl  of  Cariisld,  by  wbotn  she  had  an 
only  son, 
JAMxa,  seootad  Eail  of  Carlisle,  at  whose 
decease,  «;  pw,  in  1660,  the  Viscountcy 
of  Doncaater,  and  Earldom  of  Carlislflk 
with  the  Baboky  or  Dxmity,  esjAred. 
When  King  James  I.  passed  ftfun  Scotland  to 
London,  npoa  succeeding  to  thethzone  of  England, 
Sir  Edward  Denny  was  high  sheriff  of  Hertford- 
shire; and  met  his  mjOoty  with  a  splendid  retinue 
of  one  hundred  and  forty  men,  dressed  in  blu^ 
livery  coats,  with  white  douUeU,  hats,  and  fea- 
thers: being  all  well  mounted,  with  red  saddles  on 
their  hones.    Sir  Edward  presented  the  king,  at  the 
same  time,  with  a  noble  charger  richly  aoooutred. 
His  lordship  d.,  aoth  December,  1630,  when  the 
Earldom  or  Norwich  became  sxtikct,  but  the 
Baront  of  DRKKir  deroKed  upon  his  daughter,  . 

HONORA,  as  Baroness  Denny,  at  her  deceaaett 
passed  to  her  son,  the  Right  Honourable 

JAMES  HAY,  second  Earl  of  CarUsle,  at  whose 
decease,  in  1660,  it  rzpirrd,  with  his  lordship's 
other  honours. 

ARMa.--Ou.  a  saltier,  ar.  betw.  twelve  itnisss 
pat^or. 

Note.~From  Sir  Edward  Denny,  Knt,  youngest 
son  of  Sir  Anthony  Denny,  Henry  VlII.'s  executor, 
descended  the  flanUy  Denny,  Baronets  of  Tndee 


B£a 


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Cmtie,  ia  the  county  of  Kerry,  is  Irdaad,  wpm- 
ited  by  the  porewnt  Sir  Edvaard  Denny,  Bart. 


DESPENCER- EARL  OF  WINCHES- 
TER. 

Creetton  afEdwvd  II.  lOtb  Msy,  1393. 

In  the  18th  year  of  William  the  Conqueror, 

ROBERT  LE  DESPENCER,  so  called  from 
heing  steward  to  the  king,  wa»  a  witnen  to  the 
royal  charter  fcnr  removlngthe  secular  canons  out  of 
the  cathedral  of  Durham,  and  placing  monks  in 
their  stead.  TlUa  Robert  was  toother  of  Urao  de 
AUtot,  then  sherilT  of  Worcestershire,  and  he  ap- 
pears, as  well  by  his  high  official  situation,  as  by 
the  numerous  lordships  he  possessed,  to  have  been 
a  person  of  great  eminence :  but  it  has  not  been 
ascertained  whether  he  first  came  into  England 
with  his  royal  master,  or  whether  he  was  of  Saxon 
or  Norman  extraction)  nor  is  it  clearly  known, 
whether  he  had  ever  been  married  or  had  issue. 
In  the  reign  of  Henry  I.  there  was  a 

WILLIAM  LE  DESPENCER,  but  whether  he 
had  the  name  from  being  soo  of  Robert,  or  tram 
succeeding  to  the  post  of  steward,  cannot  be  deter* 
mined. 

The  next  person  we  find  holding  this  office,  and 
In  the  same  reign,  was 

THURSTAN  DISPENCER.  Of  this  steward. 
Camden,  in  his  remains,  relates  the  following  story. 
•*  In  the  time  of  Henry  I.  it  was  the  custom  of  the 
^ourt,  that  books,  lulls,  and  lettws,  should  be 
drawn  and  rigned  by  servitors  In  court,  concerning 
thetr  own  matters  without  fee.  But  at  thiji  time 
Thuntan,  the  king's  steward,  or  Le  Despencer,  as 
they  then  called  him,  (from  whom  the  family  of  the 
Lords  Spencer  came,)  exhibited  to  the  king  a  com- 
plaint against  Adam  of  Yarmouth,  derk  of  the 
signet  I  tor,  that  he  refused  to  sign,  without  a  fee, 
a  bill  passed  for  him.  The  king  first  heard  Thur- 
stan  commending  the  old  custom  at  large,  and 
charging  the  derk  for  exacting  somewhat  coatnary 
thereunto*  for  passing  his  book.  Then  the  clerk 
was  heard,  who  briefly  said,  *  I  received  the  book, 
end.sent  unto  your  steward,  desiring  only  ot  him 
to  bestow  upon  me  two  spice  cakes  made  for  your 
own  mouth  t  who  returned  for  answer,  he  would 
pot,  and  thereupon  I  desired  to  seal  his  book.' " 

The  king  greatly  disliked  the  steward  for  return- 
ing this  negative,  and  forthwith  made  Adam  sit 
down  upon  the  bench^  with  the  seals  and  Thurstan's 
book  before  him,  but  compelled  the  steward  to  put 
off  his  cloak,  to  fotch  two  of  his  best  spiced  csJces 
for  the  king's  own  mouth,  to  bring  them  in  a  fair 
white  napkin,  and  with  low  curtsie  to  present  them 
to  Adam,  the  clerk.  Which  being  accordingly  done* 
the  king  omnmanded  Adam  to  seal  and  deliver  him 
his  book,  and  made  them  friends,  adding  this 
speech—**  Officers  of  the  court  must  gntifie  and 
sliew  cast  of  their  office,  not  only  one  to  another, 
but  also  to  atnoigers,  whosoever  need  shall  ro- 
qnire^' 
This  Thurstan  was  «.  by  hie  son, 

ALMAIIIC   D£    SPENCER*  who  served  the 


office  of  sheriff  of  Rutland  in  the  Mth  Henry  II., 
and  again  in  the  1st  of  Richard  I.  From  the  latter 
monarch,  to  whom  he  was  also  steward,  he  ob- 
tained a  confirmation  in  foe  of  the  lordships  of 
Wurdie  and  Stanley,  in  the  viOe  of  Gloucester.  The 
former  of  which  King  Henry  II.  had  given  to  Wal- 
ter, the  usher  of  his  chamber,  son  of  Thurstan, 
and  uncle  of  this  Alttaric,  for  his  homage  and  ser- 
vice, reserving  a  pair  of  gilt  spurs,  or  twdve  pence, 
to  be  yearly  paid  for  the  same  into  the  exchequer. 
In  the  6th  of  King  John  this  Almaric  paid  a  fine  of 
a  hundred  and  twenty  marks  and  one  palfry,  to  be 
exempted  from  attendingnipon  the  king  in  an  exp^ 
dition  then  proposed  to  be  made  beyond  the  sea. 
Almaric  de  Spencer  m,  Amabil,  daughter  of  Walter 
de  Chesnei,  by  whom  he  had  two  sons,  Thurstan 
and  Almaric,  end  wss  «.  by  the  dder, 

THURSTAN  DE  SPENCER,  who  appears, 
with  his  brother,  to  have  takoi  arms  with  the  other 
barons  against  King  John,  tot,  in  the  18th  of  that 
reign,  the  king  committed  the  custody  of  Thurstan 
de  Spencer  to  Rowland  Bloet,  and  gave  away  the 
lands  of  Almaric  de  Spencer  to  Osbert  Giffkrd,  his 
own  natural  son.  Thurstan  seems  however  to  have 
ragained  his  rank  in  the  next  reign,  and  to  have 
twice  served  the  office  of  sheriff  for  Gloucestershire. 
He  died  in  1248.  y. 

Contemporary  with  this  Thurstan,  end  rtewbtless    ^Oi 
of  the  same  family,  was       t»  \j^'y 

HUGH  DE  SPENCER,  whom  King  Henry  III., 
in  the  8th  year  of  his  reign,  constituted  sheriff  of 
the  counties  ot  Salop  and  SJJifford,  and  governor  of 
the  castles  of  Salop  and  Bruges  (Bridgenorth).  He 
was  subsequently  sheriff  of  Berkshire,  and  governor 
of  WalUngfoid  Castle.  To  this  Hugh  Henry  IIL 
gave  the  manor  of  Rithal,  in  the  county  of  Rut- 
land, and  in  the  Slst  of  that  monarch's  reign,  upon 
the  death  of  John  Soot,  Earl  of  Chester,  he  was 
deputed  with  Stephen  de  Scgrave  and  Henry  de 
Aldithley  to  take  charge  ot  the  castles  of  Chester 
and  Beeston.  Alter  this  Hugh  came  his  grandson, 
another 

HUGH  DESPENCER,  who,  toklng  part  with 
the  barons,  was  nominated  under  the  baronial 
power  in  the  44th  of  Henry  III.,  Justidary  of  Eng- 
land. After  the  battle  of  Lewes  he  was  one  of  those 
to  whom  the  custody  ot  the  captive  monarch  was 
committed,  and  he  was  then  entrusted  with  the 
castles  of  Orford,  in  Suflblk,  of  Devises,  in  Wilts, 
and  Barnard  Castle,  in  the  bishopric  of  Durham. 
He  was  summoned  to  parliament  on  the  14th  De. 
cember,  1864,  as  *'  Hugh  le  Despencer,  Justic*  An- 
glise,"  and  lost  his  life  under  the  baronial  banner  at 
the  battle  of  EvsaBAJt.  His  lordship  m.  Aliva* 
daughter  of  Philip  Basset  of  Wycombe,  in  the 
county  of  Bucks,  and  widow  of  Roger  Bigod,  Earl 
of  Norfolk,  by  whom  he  had  issue,  Huoh,  of  whom 
presently,  and  Alianore,  m.  to  Hugh  de  Courtenay, 
fisther  of  Hugh,  first  Earl  of  Devonshire.  After  the 
forfeiture  and  decease  of  Lord  Despencer  his  widow 
Aliva,  for  her  father's  sake,  found  such  favour 
from  the  king,  that  she  was  enabled  to  retain  a  con- 
siderable proportion  of  the  property,  and  at  her 
death,  in  the  9th  of  Edward  L,  it  devolved,  on  the 
payment  of  a  fine  of  five  hundred  marks,  upon  her 
son, 

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HUOH  DESPENCER.  Mnior,  so  called  to  dit- 
tingulih  him  Imm  hi*  •on,  who  bore  the  dedgnation 
of  HuoH  DsBPSwccR,  Juolor,  both  so  well  known 
In  history  as  the  favourites  of  the  unfortunate 
Edward  II.  Of  Huob*  senior*  we  shall  first  treat, 
although  as  father  and  son  ran  almost  the  same 
couTW,  at  the  same  time,  and  shared  a  similar  fkte. 
It  is  not  eisy  to  sever  their  deeds. 

Hugh  DispBirsBB  paid  a  fine  of  two  thousand 
marks  to  the  khig,  in  the  15th  of  Edward  I.,  for 
marrying,  without  license,  Isabd,  daughter  of 
William  de  Beauchamp,  Earl  of  Warwick,  and 
widow  of  Patrick  Cheworth;  by  this  lady  he  had  an 
only  son,  the  too  cdebrated 
HuoH  DispsNeaR,  jun. 

In  the  2ad  of  the  same  rdgn,  he  was  made  gover- 
nor of  Oldham  Castle,  In  the  county  of  Southamp- 
ton, and  the  same  year  had  summons  to  attend  the 
king  at  Portsmouth,  prepared  with  horse  and  arms 
for  an  expedition  into  Oasoony.    In  two  years  after- 
wards he  was  at  the  battle  of  Dunbar,  in  Scotland, 
where  the  English  arms  triutnphed ;  and  the  next 
year  he  was  one  of  the  commissioners  accredited  to 
treat  of  peace  between  the  English  monarch  and  the 
kings  of  the  Romans  and  of  France.    In  the  96th 
and  S8th  years  of  Edward,  he  was  again  engaged  in 
the  wars  of  Scotland,  and  was  sent  by  his  soverrign, 
with  the  Earl  of  Lincoln,  to  the  papal  court,  to 
complain  of  the  Scots,  and  to  entreat  that  his  holi- 
ness would  no  longer  favour  them,  as  they  had 
abused  hia  confidence  by  falsehoods.    To  the  very 
dose  of  King  Edward  L's  reign,  his  lordship  seems 
to  have  enjoyed  the  favour  of  that  great  prince,  and 
had  summons  to  parliament  firom  him  from  the 
the  83d  June,  1295,  to  14th  March,  138S:  but  it  was 
after  the  accession  of  Edward's  unhappy  son,  the 
8BCOND  of  that  name,  that  the  Spencers  attained 
that  extraordinary  eminence,   from   which,  with 
their  fteble-minded  master,  they  were  eventually 
hurled  into  the  gulph  of  irretrievaUe  ruin.    In  the 
first  years  of  Edward  II.*s  reign,  we  find  the  fiither 
and  son  stUl  engaged  in  the  Scottish  wars.    In  the 
14th  year,  the  king,  hearing  of  great  animosities 
between  the  younger  Spencer  and  Humphrey  de  Bo- 
hun.  Earl  of  Hereford  and  Essex,  and  learning  that 
they  wCTe  collecting  their  followers  in  order  to  come 
to  open  combat.  Interfered,  and  strictly  commanded 
Lord  Hereibrd  to  forbear.    About  the  same  time,  a 
dispute  arising  between  the  Earl  of  Hereford  and 
John  de  Moubray  regarding  some  lands  in  Wales, 
young  Spencer  seised  posseisian  of  the  estate,  and 
kept  it  firom  both  the  litigants.    This  conduct,  and 
similar  proceedings  on  the  part  of  the  dder  Spencer, 
exciting  the  indignation  of  the  barons,  they  forifced  a 
league  against  the  favourites,  and  placing  the  king's 
cousin,  Thomas  Plaatagenet,  Earl  of  Lancaster,  at 
their  head,  marched,  with  banners  flying,  fkom  Sher- 
burne to  St  Alban's,  whence  they  dispatched  the  bi- 
shops of  Salisbury,  Hereford,  and  Chidiester,  to  the 
king  with  a  demand  that  the  Spencers  should  be  ba- 
nished! to  whldi  mission  the  king,  however,  giving 
an  Imperious  reply  in  the  negative,  the  irritated 
noblee  continued  their  route  to  London  t  when  Ed- 
ward, at  the  instance  of  the  queen,  acquiesced; 
whereupon  the  barons  summoned  a  parliament,  in 
which  the  Spencers  were  banished  from  England; 
17« 


and  the  sentence  was  proclaimed  In  •  Westminster 
HalL  To  this  decision,  Hugh  the  elder  submitted 
and  retired;  but  Hugh  the  younger  lurked  in  divers 
places  t  sometimes  on  land,  and  sometimes  at  sea, 
and  was  fortunate  enough  to  capture,  during  his 
exile,  two  vessels,  near  Sandwich,  laden  with  mer- 
chandise to  4he  value  of  forty  thousand  pounds ; 
after  which,  being  recalled  by  the  king,  an  army 
was  raised,  which  encountered  and  defeated  the 
baronial  forces  at  Boroughbridge,  in  Yorkshire^ 
In  this  action,  wherein  numbers  were  slain,  the 
Earl  of  Lancaster  being  taken  prisoner,  was  curried 
to  his  own  castle  at  Pontefract,  and  there,  after 
a  summary  trial,  (the  dder  Spencer  being  one  of 
his  Judges,)  beheaded.  The  Spencers  now  became 
more  powerful  than  ever,  and  the  elder  was  Im- 
mediately created  Eitai.  or  WiwcRnarnR,  the 
king  loading  him  with  grants  of  the  forfeited  estates. 
He  was,  about  the  same  time,  constituted  warden  of 
the  king's  forests  on  the  sooth  of  Trent.  Young 
Spbkcbr  obtained,  like  his  Ikther,  immense  grants 
from  the  lands  forfeited  after  the  battle  of  Borough- 
bridge;  but  not  satisfied  with  those,  and  they  were 
incredibly  numerous,  he  extorted  by  force  whatso- 
ever else  he  pleased.  Amongst  other  acts  of  law- 
less oppression,  it  is  related  that  he  selaed  upon 
the  person  of  Elisabeth  Comyn,  a  great  heiress,  the 
wife  ot  Richard  Talbot,  in  her  house  at  Kenn*ng- 
ton.  In  Surrey,  and  detained  her  for  twdve  months 
in  prison,  until  he  compdled  her  to  assign  to  him 
the  manor  of  Painswike,  in  Gloucestershire,  and 
the  castle  and  manor  of  Goderlch,  in  the  maxrhes  of 
Wales:  but  this  ill-obtained  and  lll-exerdsed  power 
was  not  formed  for  permanent  endurance,  and  a 
brief  space  only  was  necessary  to  bring  it  to  a  termi- 
nation. The  queen  and  the  young  prince,  wllofaad 
fied  to  France,  and  had  been  proclaimed  traitors 
through  the  Influence  of  the  Spencers,  ascertaining 
the  fedings  of  the  people,  ventured  to  returr ;  and 
landing  at  Harwich,  with  the  noblemen  and  parsons 
of  eminence  who  had  been  exiled  after  the  defeat  at 
Boroughbridge,  raised  the  uotal  standard,  and 
soon  found  themsd  ves  at  the  head  of  a  considerable 
force;  when,  marching  upon  Bristol,  where  the 
king  and  his  favourites  then  were,  they  were  re- 
odved  In  that  dty  with  aodamation,  and  the  elder 
Spencer  bdng  sdsed,  (although  in  his  ninetieth 
year,)  was  brought  in  chains  before  the  prince  and 
the  barons,  and  reodved  Judgment  of  death,  which 
was  accordingly  executed,  by  hanging  the  culprit 
upon  a  gallows  in  the  sight  ot  the  king  and  of  his 
son,  upon  St.  Dennis's  day,  in  October,  1986.  It  is 
sdd  by  some  writers  that  he  body  was  hung  up 
with  two  strong  cords  for  four  days,  and  then  cut 
to  pieces,  and  given  to  the  dogs.  Young  Srawcnn, 
with  the  king,  eflbcted  his  escape;  but  they  were 
both,  soon  afterwards,  taken  and  ddivered  to  the 
queen,  when  the  unfortunate  monarch  was  con- 
signed to  Berkeley  Castle,  where  he  was  basdy  mur- 
dered In  1987.  Hugh  Spencer  the  younger,  it  ap- 
pears, was  impeadied  before  parliament,  and  re- 
odved sentence  '« to  be  drawn  upon  a  hurdle,  with 
trumps  and  trumpett,  throughout  all  the  dty  of 
Hereford,"  and  there  to  be  hanged  and  quartered, 
whidi  sentence  was  executed,  on  a  gallows  fifty  feet 
high,  upon  St.  Andiew'seve,  anno  1386  (90  Edw.  II.) 


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Thus  tcrmiafttad  tha  citMr  of  two  of  the  nuMt  eile- 
bfsted  royal  faTOiuitas  in  tha  annaU  of  Engiand. 
The  younger  Hugh  was  a  peer  of  the  realm,  aa  veil 
M  Ufl  firther,  having  bean  tumnMined  toparlianent, 
aaa  baron,  from  S9th  July,  1314,  to  10th  October, 
UBS ;  but  the  two  BAEOKZca  of  SPSNcea,  and  the 
UAMhoou  or  WiwcRBBTKitf  expired  undar  the 
attalnden  of  the  father  and  aon.  For  the  family 
of  the  younger  Spencer,  see  Deapencer,  Earl  of 
OlouoCBter. 

AnMa.— Quarterly  ar.  and  gu. ;  In  the  aeoond  end 
third  a  fret,  or.    Over  all  a  bend  la. 

DESPENCER  —  BARONS    DESPEN. 
OER,  EARL.  OF  GLOUCESTER. 

Barony,  by  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  IMh  June,  1338. 

12  Edward  III. 

Earldom,  anno  1337< 

Xincagc. 

HUGH  DESPENCER,  Jun.,  (one  of  the  haplaes 
flsTonrites  of  King  Edward  I.,)  espoused  Elenior, 
dau^ter  and  co-heir  of  Gilbert  de  Clare,  Earl  of 
and  had  issue,  iZC^- 
HvoH,  of  whom  presently. 
Edwardf  in.  Anne,  daughto*  of  Hcbry,  Lord 
Farrcrs,  of  Groby,  and  dying  in  1342,  left  an 
only  son, 
^Epwabd,  who  snicaaded  hisunde,  Huoh. 
to  Richard,  Earl  of  Arundd. 
After  the  execution  of  Hugh  Despencer,  in  Novem- 
ber, 1380,  Eleanor,  his  widow,  with  her  children  and 
family,  waa  cooflned  in  the  Tower  of  London  imtil 
the  ensuing  February,  when  she  obtained  her 
liberty,  and  married,  subsequently,  WiUlam  la 
Zott^,  of  Mortimer.  She  died  in  July,  1337,  poa- 
of  several  estates,  in  which  she  waa  «.  by  her 


HUGH  DESPENCER,  who  had  already  distin- 
guished himself  as  a  soldier  in  France  end  Scotland ; 
and  continuing  actively  and  gallantly  engaged  in  the 
same  fields,  he  was  summoned  to  parliament  aa  a 
BABOir,  by  King  Edward  IIL,  ft-om  15th  June,  1338, 
to  the  1st  of  January,  134a  His  lordship  m.  Elisa- 
beth, widow  of  Giles  de  Baddlesmere,  but  died 
without  issue  in  1349,  when  the  barony  xxpiesd, 
but  his  lands  devolved  upon  his  nephew, 

EDWARD  DESPENCER,  who,  in  the  30th 
Edward  III,  befaig  then  a  knight,  attended  Edward 
the  Black  Prince  into  France,  and  shared  in  the 
gknry  of  Poictisrb.  For  several  years  afterwards 
Sir  Edward  continued  in  the  French  wan,  and  for 
his  gallant  conduct  was  summcmed  to  parliament  as 
BAaav  Ds  SPsifcxR,  from  I&th  December,  1307* 
to  Oth  October,  1372,  being  also  honoured  with  the 
Garter.  His  lordship  m.  Elixabeth,  daughter  and 
heiress  of  Bartholomew  de  Burgherah,  Baron  Burg- 
hersh,  and  had  issue, 

TnoMAa,  his  successor. 

Cicely,  who  d,  young. 

Elisabeth,  m.  first,  to  John  Arundel,  and  se- 
condly, to  the  Lord  Zouch. 

Anne,  m.  to  Hugh  Hastings,  and  afterwards 
to  Thomas  Morley. 

Margaret,  m.  to  Robert  Ferrers. 
LordDeqicnoer  rf.  in  137S,  and  was  «^  by  his  son. 


THdMAS  DESPENCER,  id  Bmton  De  Apeacer, 
summoned  to  parliament  30th  November,  1308,  and 
18th  July,  1307*  This  nobleman,  who  was  known  as 
Lord  Despencer  of  Glamorgan,  was  in  the  expedi- 
tion to  Ireland,  made  hi  the  18th  Richard  IL »  and 
in  the  21st  of  the  same  reign,  having  the  sentence  of 
b*nishment  reversed,  which  had  been  psMsed  by  par- 
liament in  Ifith  Edward  II.  against  his  great  grand- 
father, Huoh  Dnapnircna  ths  Youwonn,  was 
created  Eaal  or  Oix>uc>aTnB,  anno  1337,  by  rea- 
son of  Us  descent  through  Eleanor,  wiA  of  the  said 
Hugh,  from  the  De  Clares,  Earls  of  Gloucester.  In 
the  petition  which  his  kndsliip  preaented  for  the 
reversal  of  Hugh  his  ancestor's  banishment,  it  was 
set  forth,  that  the  said  Hugh,  at  the  time,  possessed 
no  less  than  fifty-nine  lordships  in  difteent  coun- 
ties, twenty-eight  thousand  sheep,  one  thousand 
oxen  and  steers,  one  thousand  two  hundred  kiae, 
with  their  calves ;  forty  mares,  with  their  colts  of 
two  years  t  one  hundred  and  sixty  draught  horses ; 
two  thousand  hogs  t  three  thousand  bullocks ;  forty 
tuns  of  wines  six  hundred  baoonst  four  sccwe  car- 
casses of  martinmas  beef;  six  htmdred  muttons  in 
his  larder}  ten  tuns  of  dder;  armour,.  phit«,  jewels 
and  ready  money,  better  than  ten  thousand  pounds; 
thirty-six  sacks  of  wool,  and  a.library  of  books. 
His  lordship  m.  Constance,  daughter  of  Edmund 
Plantagenet,  sumamed  De  Langley,  Duke  of  York, 
fifth  son  of  King  Edward  III.,  and  had  issue, 

RjCHARD,   who  m.   Elisabeth,   daughter  of 
Ralph,  Earl  of  Westmorland,  and  d.  issue- 
less in  1414. 
Isabti,  IN.  to  Richard  Beauchampj  Lord  Aber- 
gavenny and  Earl  of  Worcester,  by  whom 
she  had  an  only  daughter  and  heiress, 

Elisabeth  Bhauchamp,  who  m.  Ed- 
war0  Novel,  a  younger  son  of  Ralph, 
Earl  of  Westmoreland,  and  brought 
into  that  fiunily  the  Baronies  of  Burg- 
hersh  and  Despencer  and  Abergavenny. 
Upon  the  marriage  of  the  Earl  of  Gloucester,  he 
obtained  from  King  Richard  II.  a  grant  of  divera 
manors  i  but  adhering  to  that  unfortunate  monarch, 
he  was  degraded  from  his  earldom,  and  dispossessed 
ot  most  of  his  lands  by  the  flnt  parliament  of 
Henry  IV. :  and  before  the  same  year  elapsed,  being 
taken  prisoner,  in  aa  attempt  to  fiy  the  kingdom, 
at  Bristol,  and  being  condemned  by  a  vote  of  the 
House  of  Commons  to  die,  he  was  carried  into  the 
market-place  and  there  beheaded  by  the  rabble,  on 
the  third  day  after  St  Hillary,  in  the  year  1400; 
when  the  Earldom  or  Gloucebtbr  and  Barony 
or  Da  Sfrncrr  fell  under  the  attainder.  Ri- 
chard, his  eldest  son,  dying  in  fourteen  yean  after- 
wards, still  a  minor,  wiUiout  issue,  Isabel,  his  only 
daughter,  then  became  his  heir.  This  lady,  as  stated 
above,  married  Richard  Beauchamp,  Baron  Aber- 
gavenny, and  Earl  of  Worcester,  by  whom  she  had 
an  only  daughter  and  heirees.  Lady  Elisabeth 
Beauchamp.  The  attainder  at  Thomas,  Lord  De. 
q>enoer  and  Eiarl  of  Gloucester,  her  gnndfother, 
being  reversed  in  the  first  year  of  Edward  IV.,  the 
said  Lady  Eliaabeth  carried  the  Barony  of  Despencer 
(the  Earldom  of  Gloucester  could  not  of  course  be 
revived,  having  lUled  for  want  of  a  male  heir),  with 
the  Baronies  of  Abergavenny  and  Buxgbersh,  to  her 

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)»Mli«i«,  Jlk«  Hob.  BdwMd  K«v11,  who  «M  rata- 1 
jDaoned  to  puUflnMBt*  w  Lord  Ahagvnauf,  in 
14fi0i  «m1  the  dignity  of  Dcipenosr  continued  in  hit 
detoendants*  tlie  Lovdft  AbeigaTenny*  until  the 
deoeeie  of  Henry>  fourth  heron,  in  lfi87>  when  hi* 
lordship's  only  daughter  and  heiren»  Eliaabeth, 
then  the  wife  of  Sir  Thomas  Fane,  Knt.,  claimed 
the  baronleB}  hut»  after  a  long  investigation*  the 
House  of  Lords  dedded,  that  the  Barony  of  Aberg»- 
vcnuy  belonged  to  the  belz  male  at  law  i  when  the 
crowSf  hy  letters  patent,  confirmed  the  Barony  of 
Jbe  Dcspcnoei  to  ha  ladyship  and  her  heirs.  From 
:that  period  it  was  o^oyed  by  Lady  Fanefs  imme- 
diate descendants,  the  first  seven  Eark  of  West- 
mordand ;  at  the  decease  of  John,  the  seventh  earl, 
in  176SI,  the  Barooy  of  Despencsr  Ml  Into  abeyance 
hetwesn  the  heirs  of  his  lordship's  sisters,  and  was 
terminated  the  next  year  in  fkvour  of  his  nephew, 
Sir  Francis  Dash  wood «  at  whose  decease,  s.!).  in 
}781*  it  again  fell  into  abeyance;  and  so  continued, 
until  ffgain  terminated  in  1788  in  fkvour  of  Sir 
■Thomas  Stapleton,  Baronet,  present  Lord  Le  De- 
spencer,  the  descendant  of  Lady  Catherine  Paul, 
John,  ^Mventh  Earl  of  Westmoreland's  younger 
sister 

.  Arms^— Same  as  those  of  Despencer,  Earl  of 
Winchester. 

D'EVEREUX  —  EARLS    OP    SALIS- 
BURY. 

.CEe^tioo  of  the  Empress  Maud. 

ICiiuagt. 

Amongst  die  prlndpai  Normans  who  accompanied 
the  Conqueror  in  his  expedition  against  England, 
and  participated  in  the  triumph  and  wpoU  of  Has- 
tings, was 

WALTER  DE  EVEREUX,  of  Rosmar,  in  Nor- 
mandy^  who  obtained,  with  other  considerable 
grants,  the  lordships  of  Salisbury  and  Ambresbury, 
which,  having  devised  his  Norman  posaewions  and 
earldom  to  Walter,  bis  eldest  son,  he  bequeathed  to 
his  younger  son, 

EDWARD  DE  EVEREUX,  who  was  thence- 
forward designated  "  of  Salisbury."  This  Edward 
was  aubsequenUy  sherifT  of  Wiltshire,  and,  at 
|he  time  of  the  general  survey,  possessed  lordships 
in  the  counties  of  Dorset,  Somerset,  Surrey,  Hants, 
Middlesex,  Hereford,  Buckingham,  and  Wilts^ 
When  Sheriff  of  the  latter  county,  we  are  told 
that  he  received  in  rent,  as  belonging  to  his  office, 
an  hundred  and  thirty  hogs— thirty-two  bacons- 
two  bushels  and  sixteen  gallons  of  wheat  the  same 
of  barley— several,  bushels  of  oats— thirty-two  gal- 
lons, of  honey,  or  sixteen  shillings— four  himdred 
and  forty  eight  hens— a  thoussnd  and  sixty  eggs- 
en  hundred  cheeses— fifty-two  lambs— two  hundred 
fleeces  of  wool ;  having  likewise  one  htmdred  and 
sixty-two  acres  of  arable  land,  and,  amongst  the 
leves-land,  to  the  value  of  forty  pounds  per  annum. 
This  Edward  was  standard-bearer  at  the  battle  of 
BrenneviU,  in  Normandy,  fought  SOth  Henry  1., 
King  Henry  being  present,  and  distinguished  him- 
self by  his  singular  skill  and  valour.  HeleflatMs 
decease,  a  daughter, 

MMide,  wife  of  Humphrey  de  Bohun,  and  a  son 
«od  heir, 
174 


WALTER  DE  EVEREUX,  who  «.  SibUl*  ^ 
Chaworth.  This  feudal  lord  founded  the  monas* 
tery  of  Brndenstoke,  wherein.  In  his  old  ^e,  be 
became  a  canon.    He  was  «.  by  his  son, 

PATRIC  DE  EVEREUX,  who,  being  stew- 
ard  of  the  household  to  the  Empress  Maud,  wac 
advanced  by  that  princess  to  the  dignity  of  Eak^, 
or  SALiaBuav,  and  was  one  of  the  subscrib- 
ing witnesses,  ss  such,  to  the  agreement  made 
between  King  Stephen  and  Henry,  Duke  of  Nor- 
mandy,  in  the  18th  year  ot  that  monarch's  reign. 
In  the  10th  Henry  II.  his  lordship. was  a  witness 
to  the  recognition  of  the  ancient  laws  and  liberties 
of  England ;  and  in  two  years  afterwards,  upon  the 
aid  then  assessed  for  marrying  the  king's  daughter, 
he  certified  his  knights'  fbes  at  seventy-eight  and 
two-fifths.  The  earl  being  the  king's  lieutenant  in 
Aquitaine,  and  captain-general  of  his  forces  there, 
was  slain,  in  1167»  by  Guy  de  Lesinnian,  upon  his 
return  from  a  pil^mage  to  St  James  of  Com- 
postdOa,  and  was  s.  by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  EVEREUX,  second  Earl  of  Sa- 
lisbury,  who,  at  the  coronation  of  King  Richard  I., 
bore  the  golden  sceptre  with  the  dove  on  the  head  of 
it ;  but  the  next  year,  when  the  king  became  a  pri- 
soner in  Almaine,«his  lordship  was  one  of  those 
who  adhered  to  John,  Earl  of  Morton.    In  the  6th 
Richard  I.,  the  earl  was  with  the  king  in  the  expe- 
dition then  made  into  Normandy,  and,  upon  his 
return  to  England,  was  one  of  his  great  council, 
BBSSiiibled  at  Nottingham.    At  the  second  corona, 
tion  of  Richard,  in  the  same  year,  the  Earl  of  Sa- 
lisbury was  one  of  the  fbur  earls  who  supported 
the  canopy  of  state.    His  lordship  m.  AUanore  de 
Vitrei,  daughter  of  Tirrd  de  Mainers,  and  left, 
at  his  decease,  an  only  daughter  and  heiress,   ' 
EI.A,  *'  of  whom  (writes  Dugdale)  it  is  thus 
reported :  that,  being  so  great  an  inhixetrix, 
one  William  Talbot,  an  Englishman,  and  an 
eminent  soldier,  took  upon  him  the  habit  of 
a  pilgrim,  and  went  into  Normandy,  where, 
wandering  up  and  down  for  the  space  of  two 
months,  at  length  he  found  her  out   Likewise, 
that  he  then  changed  his  habit,  and  having 
entered  the  court  where  she  resided  in  the 
gsrb  of  a  harper,  (being  practised  in  mirth 
and  Jesting,)  he  became  well  accepted.    More- 
over, that,  growing  acquainted  with  her, 
after  some  time  he  conducted  her  into  Eng- 
land, and  presented  her  to  King  Richard, 
who,  receiving  her  very  teurteously,    gave 
her  in    marriage   to   William,   sumamed 
langMpM,  (from  the  long  sword  which  he 
usually  wore,)  his  brother,  that  is,  a  natural 
son  of  King  Henry  U.  by  Fair  Rosamondt 
and  that  thereupon  King  Richard  rendered 
unto  liim  the  earldom  of   Rosmar,  as  her 
inheritance."    Be  this  story  true  or  fslse,  it 
is  certain,  however,  that  the  great  heiress  of 
the    D'Evereux,  E3a,  espoused  the  above- 
named 
WILLIAM  LONOESPEE,  who  thereupon  be- 
came, in  her  right,  Eabl  or  Salisburt.    In  the 
^Hig*niiing  of  King  John's  reign  this  nobleman  was 
sheriff  of  Wiltshire,  he  was  afterwards  wardftn  of 
the  marches  of  Wales,  and  ihm  abtKiffat  tfm^ovayi 


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t'^*. 


Ate«t  tMs 

period  <14th  Jofaa.)  the  bnonlal  enitnt  mwwni 
cing,  WiOSot  Vaagetpm  at  onee  cqpoiued  tiM  nj9l 
cnue,  and  ttatetained  it  00  atoutly,  that  he  was 
indnded,  by  tfak  taidwnst  aaMmgit  the  evil  councli- 
lon  of  the  cxowwl  The  next  year  he  was  afpdh 
ooBttitated  ahertfr  of  WUu»  and  he  held  the  oflke 
firom  that  time  dwrtag  the  jfeaudnder  of  his  lilia. 
He  had  also  a  giant  of  the  hononr  of  Eye,  In  Siif> 
iolkk  and  was  the  same  year  awitoentD  the  agree* 
man  mode  betweai  King  Jolm  and  the  herons,  as 
guarantee  fior  the  former.  He  was  likewlae  a  wit- 
noM  to  the  diarter  wheteby  John  resigned  his 
to  the  pope.  Affcar  this  we  And  him  a 
leader  In  tiie  royal  army,  until  the  very 
I  of  John's  reign,  when  he  swerved  In  his  loyalty, 
and  joined  fbr  a  short  period  the  ranks  of  Lewis  of 
France.  Upon  the  aooesrion,  however,  of  Henry  III., 
he  did  homage  to  that  monarch,  partioolarly  Ibrthe 
oonntyof  SomcrMt,  whidi  the  king  Aen  gave  him ; 
and  joinfaig  with  William  Manhall,  (governor  of  the 
king  end  kingdom,)  raised  die  sieye  of  Lincoln! 
when  he  was  constituted  sheriff  of  Lincolnshire, 
end  governor  of  Lincoln  Cartle,  being  invested  at 
the  same  time  with  shcrifldty  of  the  county  of 
Somermt,  and  governorship  of  4he  castle  of  Shir< 
burner  HU  lordship  soon  afterwards  acoompenled 
the  Earl  of  Chester  to  the  Holy  Land,  and  was  at 
the  battle  of  Dajs mta,  in  whidi  the  aesceut  tri- 
umphed. He  served  subsequently  In  the  Oascou 
whence  returning  to  England,  Dugdale  re* 
"there  arose  so  great  a- tempest  at  sea,  that, 
despairing  of  life,  he  threw  his  money  and  ridi 
over  board.  But  when  all  hopes  were 
I,  they  discerned  a  mighty  taper  of  wax,  hum- 
ing  hrif^  at  the  prow  of  the  ship,  and  a  beautiftil 
woman  standing  by  it,  who  preserved  it  firom  wind 
and  rain,  so  that  it  gave  a  clear  and  bright  lustre. 
Upon  sight  of  which  heavenly  vision  both  himself 
and  the  mariners  oonduded  of  their  fiiture  security : 
but  every  one  there  being  ignorant  what  this  vision 
might  portend  except  the  earli  he  however  attri- 
bated  it  to  the  benignity  of  the  blessed  virgin,  by 
reesott,  that  upon  die  day  when  he  was  honoured 
with  die  girdle  of  knighthood,  he  brought  a  taper 
to  her  ahar,  to  be  lighted  every  day  at  mass,  when 
the  ranonical  hours  used  to  be  sung,  and  to  die 
Intant,  that  for  this  terrestrial  light,  he  might  ei^oy 
dot  which  is  etemaL'  A  rumour,  however,  reached 
Cnghind  of  the  earl's  having  been  lost,  and  Hubert 
de  Burgh,  widi  the  concurrence  of  die  king,  pro- 
vided a  suitor  for  his  supposed  widow,  but  the  lady, 
in  die  interim,  having  received  letters  tmtk  her 
husband,  r«d«cted  the  suit  with  indignation.  The 
earl  socm  after  came  to  the  king  et  Marlborough, 
and  being  received  with  great  joy,  he  preferred  a 
strong  complaint  against  Hubert  de  Bur|^,  adding, 
that  unless  the  king  would  do  him  right  therein,  he 
ahould  vindicate  himself  otherwise,  to  the  disturb- 
nnco  of  the  puUic  peace.  Hubert,  however,  ap- 
peased his  wrath  with  rich  presents,  and  invited 
Mm.  to  his  table,  where  It  Is  asserted  that  he  wes 
-poisoned',  fbr  he  retired  to  his  castle  of  Salisbury  fn 
extreme  ilfaaess,  and  died  almost  immediately  after, 
anrfb  tsae.  His  lordship  left  iisue^  ibur  sani  and 
Are  dapghtera,  vis. 


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WiLtiiAV,  Ue 

Richard,  a  canon  of  SalMrary. 

Stei^wn,  chief  juatioeor  Irahmd,  ak  Eamdinfk'  =  t 

Countess  of  Ulster,  daughter  andjidr  of 
.      Walter  de  Ridelsltard,  Ba^p^^ef^ay,  and 
X    Mt  a»«Mj  daughtarjpd^ldreaak     .«vp-««" 
jlCrte^     s  Sla,  whie  muMwtifLmef,  who  waacieated 
VU^^^        Serl  of  Ulster  by  lUngJohAt   i  f 

r?/ Kicholas,  Bishop  Of  Salisbury.  A  In  l«7« 

ieabel,  IN.  to  William  de  Teed,  Loid  Vewy.    * 

Ela*  m.  flnt,  to  Thomas,  Earl  of  Warwlcki 

and  eeeondly,  to  Philip  Bseset^  of 


Idonea,  ei.  to  William  de 
ofBedftnd. 

Loea,  a  nun  at  Laeock. 

Ete.  jun.,  IN.  to  William  de  Odii«aelii» 
His  lovddilp's  eldest  ma, 

WILLIAM  DE  LONOESPES.  «« 
called,"  says  Sir  William  Dugdale.  "  by  Mattitew 
Pails,  and  most  of  our  odier  historians,  Kabl  ov 
SAuanuaT.  but  erroneously  i  for^teeords  wherehl 
mention  to  medeof  him,  do  net  give  Idm  that  tMai 
but  call  him  barely  WUUsoB  Longespee^  Nayi  there 
is  an  old  chronide  who  salth  expressly,  that,  to 
anno  liSS;  (17th  Henry  IIL,)  he  was  girt  widi  the 
sword  of  knighthood,  but  not  mad*  Earl  of  Salit* 
bury.**  This  WUHhu  made  a  pilgrimage  to  the 
Holy  Lend  in  1940  — and  agafai  te  1M7»  having 
assumed  thecrom  forasscond  pilgrimage,  proceeded 
to  Rome,  and  thus  prfefaCTed  a  suit  to  dm  soveorelgi 
pontlft  '*-6ir,  you  seettet  I  em  signed  with  the 
crossv  and  am  on  my  journey  with  the  king  of 
Fnoioa.  to  llfht  in  this  pUgria^ge.  My  name  is 
great,  and  of  note,  via.,  William  Loiranapsa  i 
but  my  estate  Is  eiender:  for  the  king  of  Englsnd. 
my  kinsman,  and  liege-lord,  hadi  bereft  me  of  the 
title  of  earl,  and  of  that  estatot  but  this  he  did 
judiciously,  and  not  in  diipleaiure»  and  by  the  im- 
pulse of  his  will  t  therefore  I  do  tet  blame  him  for 
it.  Howbeit,  I  am  neceadtetad  to  haive  recourse  to 
your  holiness  for  ikvour,  desiring  your  assistance  tai 
this  dlstrees.  We  see  here  (quoth  he,)  that  Earl 
Riduttd  (of  Cornwall,)  who,  though  he  Is  not 
signed  with  the  tsoes,  yet,  through  the  especial 
grace  of  your  hoUnees,  he  baCh  got  very  much 
money  ftom  dmee  who  aie  signed,  end  theretere  t, 
who  am  signed^  and  in  want,  ^do  intreat  the  like 
Ikvour."  The  pope  taking  into  oonsideratioa  die 
elegance  of  Ms  mantier,  the  eiBeacy  of  hto  Tnasowing, 
and  the  eomeiineas  of  his  person,  conceded  in  part 
irilat  he  deeired:  whereupon  be  retidted  above  a 
thouaand  mariufrdm  those  who  had  been  so  signed. 
In  about  two  years  after  this,  anno  1M9,  having  re- 
odved  the  Ueasiog  of  Ms  noble  modier,  Ela,  theb 
Abbess  of  Laeock,  he  commenced  his  journey  at  the 
head  nf  a  company  of  twobundred  EdgHA  borM, 
and  being  recdved  with  great  respect  by  the  king  of 
France,  joined  that  monarch!s  army.  In  Palestine 
he  became  subsequently  pre-eminendy  distin- 
guiAied,  and  fen.  In  19B0,  In  a  great  conflict  wHh 
the  Saracens,  near  Damieta,  havtaig  pravloudy 
killed  above  one  hundred  of  the  enemy  with  Ms 
own  hand.  It  was  reported  that,  die  night  befbre 
the  battle,  his  mother  Ela,  the  abbess,  saw  in  'a 
yMaA  the  heavens  open,  andlier  eon  armed  at'ull 

hi'   J-t:,    y-^     t^r^iZ^^-^     ^■^*     ..' , 


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partf,  (wboM  thidd  ahe  wdl  knew,)  noelved  with 
joy  by  the  angeli.  Remembering  the  occurrenoe, 
when  newt  of  his  deeth  reeched  her  in  six  months 
efter,  she  held  up  her  hands,  and  with  a  cheerful 
eountcoanoe  said,  "  I,  thy  handmaid,  give  thanks 
to  thee,  O  Lord,  that  out  of  my  sinful  flesh  thou 
hast  caused  such  a  champion  against  thine  enemies 
to  be  bom."  It  was  also  said,  that  in  1268.  when 
messengers  were  sent  to  the  Soldan  of  Babylon, 
for  redemption  of  those  who  had  been  taken  pri- 
soners, he  thus  addressed  thern^*'  I  marrel  at  you, 
christians,  who  reverence  the  bones  of  the  dead, 
why  you  inquire  not  for  those  of  the  renowned  and 
right  noMe  William  Longespee,  because  there  be 
many  things  reported  of  them,  (wliether  fabulous 
or  not  I  cannot  say,)  via.,  that,  in  the  dark  of  the 
night,  there  have  besn  appearances  et  his  tomb,  and 
thAt  to  some,  who  called  upon  his  God,  many  things 
were  bestowed  ftom  Heaven.  For  which  cause,  and 
in  regard  of  his  great  worth  and  nobility  of  birth, 
we  have  caused  his  body  to  be  here  intombed." 
Whereupon  the  messenger  desiring  it,  the  remains 
were  ddivered  to  them  by  the  Soldan,  and  thence 
conveyed  to  Acres,  where  they  were  buried  in  the 
church  of  St.  Cross.  This  eminent  and  heroic  per- 
sonage m.  Idonea,  daughter  and  heir  of  Richard  de 
CamviUe,  and  had  issue, 

WILLIAM  DE  LONGESPEE,  his  son  and  heir, 
who  m.  Maud,  daughter  of  Walter  CUflbrd,  and  died 
in  the  4l8t  Henry  IIL,  in  the  flower  of  his  age, 
leaving  an  only  daughter  and  heiress, 

MAnoARBT,  commonly  called  Countess  of 
Salisbury,  who  in.  Henry  de  Lacy,  Earl  of 
Lincoln,  and  had  issue,  an  only  daughter 
and  heiress. 

AucB,  m.  to  Thomas,  Earl  of  Lancaster, 
who  being  outlawed.  Ring  Edward  II. 
seised  upon  the  lands  which  she  had 
made  over  to  her  husband;  some  of 
whidi,  vis.— Tenbrigge,  Winterboum, 
and  Ambresbury,  with  other  manors. 
King  Edward  III.  gave  to  WlUiam  de 
Montacute,  to  hold  in  as  tail  and  ample 
a  manner,  as  ever  the  same  had  been 
holden  by  Margaret,  Countess  of  Salis- 
bury, or  her  prcdecewori. 
Thus  terminated  the  very  eminent  families  of 
D'Evereux,  and  De  Longespee,  Eaals  or  Sai.is- 

■URY. 

Anmk^D'Evereux. — Three  Pallets  varry,  on  a 
chief,  or.  a  lion  passant,  sa. 
De  Longespee. — A*,  six  lions,  (or  lioods,) 
rampant,  or.  third,  second,  flrst. 

DEVEREUX— BARONS  DEVEREUX. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  i8th  September,  1364, 
8  Richard  II. 

ICineagc. 

Of  this  funily,  which  derived  its  surname  from 
the  town  of  Eureux,  in  Normandy,  and  which  came 
into  England  with  the  Conqueror,  there  were  several 
generationSf  prior  to  that  which  attained  the  peer- 
In  the  7th  King  Henry  IIL, 

STEPHEN  DEVBRBUX,  being  in  the  king's 


army  agaliist  the  Welsh,  had  iciitage  of  all  bis 
tenants  in  the  counties  of  Gloucester  and  Hereford, 
who  held  of  him  by  military  service.  To  this 
Stephen  succeeded  his  son, 

WILLIAM  DEVEREUX,  who  in  the  ttnd  of 
Henry  III.,  had  summons  to  attend  the  king  at 
Chester,  with  hone  and  arms  to  restrain  the  Incur- 
sions of  the  Welch,  and  in  two  years  afterwards, 
being  then  one  of  the  barons  marchers,  received 
command,  with  the  others,  to  repair  to  the  marches 
without  delay,  for  a  similar  purpose.  He  suhie* 
quently  attended  the  king  at  the  battles  of  Lewes, 
but  there  he  forsook  the  royal  standard,  and  aAat< 
wards  lUl  fighting  <m  the  side  of  the  Baions  at 
Evesham,  in  the  40th  Henry  III.,  whereupon  Maud, 
his  widow,  sister  of  Walter  Giflhid,  Bishop  of  Bath 
and  Wells,  applied  to  the  king,  for  •<  certain  Jewels 
and  harness,"  which  had  been  deposited  in  the 
church  of  Hereford,  by  the  deonased  baron,  and 
obtained  a  precept  to  the  treasurer  of  the  cathedral, 
for  their  deliverance  to  her.  But  his  lands  being 
seised,  continued  with  the  crown,  until  the  filst 
Henry  III.,  when  his  son  and  heir, 

WILLIAM  DEVEREUX,  making  his  oompodtion 
at  three  years  valuer  according  to  the  decree  called 
"  Dictum  de  Kenilworth,"  had  livery  of  those 
•estates.  In  the  88nd  Edward  I.,  we  find  this  Wil* 
liam  Devereux  employed  in  the  great  expedition 
made  by  the  king  himself  into  Gascony.  To  this 
lisudal  lord  succeeded, 

SIR  JOHN  DEVEREUX,  Knt.,  who  in  the 
4Snd  Edward  III.,  attended  Edward,  the  Black 
Prince,  into  Gascony,  and  the  next  year  was  sene- 
schal and  governor  of  Lymoein.  Upon  the  aooes- 
sion  of  King  Richard  II.,  Sir  John  served  in  the 
fleet  at  sea,  and  was  constituted  governor  of  Ledes 
Castle,  in  Knt,  In  the  3rd  of  Richard^  he  was 
made  captain  of  Calais,  and  in  the  eighth  of  the 
same  monarch,  being  then  a  banneret,  was  sum- 
moned to  parliament  as  a  Barom.  The  following 
year,  his  lordship  was  Installed  a  Knight  of  the 
Garter,  and  in  the  second  year  afterwards  consti- 
tuted constable  of  Dover  Castle,  and  warden  of  the 
cinque  porU,  but  the  latter  appointment  was 
through  the  influence  of  the  great  lords  then  pre-v 
dominant.  Upon  the  attainder  of  Sir  Simon  Burley, 
Knt.,  the  Castle  and  Manor  of  Leonhales,  in  the 
county  of  Herefbrd,  devolving  to  the  crown.  Lord 
Devereux  obtained  a  spedal  giant  thereof  •  and  being 
possessed  of  the  lordship  of  Penshurst,  he  had  a 
license  in  the  16th  of  Richerd,  to  make  a  castle  of 
his  mansion  house  there.  His  lordship  m,  Margaret, 
daughter  of  Sir  John  Barre,  Knt.,  and  had  Issue, 
JoHir,  his  successor. 

Joane,  ta.  to  Walter  Fits-Walter,  Lord  Fits- 
Walter,  a  '  L    \  i^£^ 
He  d.  in  1364,  and  was  «.  by  bis  son,      ni^  int  W.'      h*^ 

SIR  JOHN  DEVEREUX,  Knt.,  second  Baion 
Devereux,  who  m.  PhiUppa,  one  of  the  daughters 
of  Guy  de  Brien,  then  deoeesed,  and  granddaughter 
and  co-heiress  of  Sir  Guy  de  Brien,  but  d.  in  1307, 
stIU  in  minority,  and  without  issue.  When  his  lord- 
ship's barony  and  estates  devolved  upon  his  saster 
Joane,  Lady  Fita-Walter,  and  thenceforward  be* 
came  united  with  the  Berony  of  Fits- Walter. 

Arms.— Ar.  a  fessegu.  in  chief  three  Torteauxca, 


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DIOBY— BARONS  DIOBY  OF  SHER. 
BORNE,  IN  THE  COUNTY 
OF  DORSET.  EARIiS  OF 
BRISTOL. 

Barony,    \  by  Letten  f  Sdth  November,  Iftia 
EarMom,  J   Patent,    \  Ifith  September,  IflBS. 

XIncasf. 

The  funame  of  this  ancient  flnnily  le  said  to  have 
origineUy  been  Tiltok,  assumed  ftom  their  red- 
dsnee  at  TUtOD,  io  the  ooonty  of  Leicester*  where 
they  possessed  a  fidr  estate  In  the  reign  of  Henry  II., 
in  whose  time  lived  Sxa  JoRif  Tiltow,  w1k>  gave 
certain  parcels  of  land  in  BiUersden  and  Kirby- 
Bdkrs,  in  that  county,  to  the  Lepers  of  St.  Laartis, 
of  Jerusalem,  which  the  king  conflrmed  to  the  in- 
firm brethren  of  Burtoa-Laaers.  In  1906,  40th 
Henry  IIL.  tlie  ftmily  removed  from  Tilton,  to 
Digby,  in  the  county  of  Linoofai,  and  aasumed  a 
new  designation  ftom  that  p]aea»  which  tlieyconti- 
naed  ever  afterwards  to  retain.    Of  this  line,  was 

JOHN  DIGBY,  who,  in  the  reign  of  Edward  L, 
was  a  commissioner  for  the  gaol-d^very  at  War- 
wick, and  served  that  prince,  in  his  wars.  He  lies 
buried  at  Tilton,  under  a  tomb,  adorned  with  his 
eOgies  at  ftiU  length,  and  cross-legged,  holding  a 
shield  of  his  arms  of  the  Fleur-de-lis»  with  the  sun 
and  moon  thereon,  and  this  Une, 

•«  Jdian  de  Digby,  gist  icy,  ptaiei  pour  hiy.** 
To  this  John,  succeeided 

ROBERT  DE  DIOGEBY,  to  whom,  temp. 
Rldiard  IL,  William  Francels  conveyed  certain 
lands  in  BIHesdon,  in  Leteestershire  i  and  by 
CatheHne*  dauf^ter  and  co-heir  of  Simon  Paka- 
man,  be  was  Ikther  of 

EVERARD  DIOBY,  who  m.  Agnes,  daughter  of 
John  Clarke,  and  widow  of  Richard  Seddale,  and 
had,  with  three  other  sons,  all  of  whom  Ml  at 
Towton-ileld,  in  1461,  fighting  under  the  Lancaa^ 
trian  banner,  his  succewor. 

EDWARD  DIGBY,  Esq.,  of  Tiltoo,  in  the 
county  of  Leicester,  and  of  Digby,  in  the  county 
of  Rutland,  M.P.,  for  the  latter  shire,  temp.  Henry 
Vlth,  who  lost  his  life  in  the  same  cause  and  battle 
as  his  brothers,  leavhig  by  his  wife,  Jaqueu, 
daui^ter  and  co-heir  of  Sir  John  Ellys,  of  Devon- 
shire, one  daughter,  Baringold,  M.  to  Robert  Hunt, 
Esq.,  of  Lydnen,  and  seven  sons,  via. 

1.  EvaKABO  (Sir)»  progenitor  of  the  Digbys, 
of  Drystoke,  in  the  county  of  Rutland,  ^md 
of  Sandon,  in  the  county  of  Stallbrd.  Sir 
Everard,  was  Sheriff  of  Rutland,  in  1440, 
I486,  and  14flO)  and  its  representative  in 
parliament,  from  the  80th  to  the  98th  year 
of  Henry  VI.,  inchisivek  He  d.  in  1M8,  and 
was  «.  by  his  son. 
Sir  Eybbabd,  whose  grandson. 

Sin  EvsBABD  DisBT,  ono  of  the 
moet  accomplished  persons  of  the 
period  in  which  he  lived,  being  un- 
ftfftnnataly  Involved  in  the  gtm^ 
powder  plot,  was  convicted  on  the 
97th,  and  wrecurert  on  the  dOth 
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t.  Shnon,  of  Coles  Hill,  in  the  eonaty  of 

Warwick,  of  whom  presently. 
3L  John  (Sir),  of  Eye-Keltleby,  IB  the  county 
of  Leicester,  received  the  honour  of  knight* 
hood  from  King  Henry  VIL,  for  his  services 
at  Bosworth  Field.  In  1513,  Sir  John  Digby» 
attended  King  Henry  VI IL  to  Csflals,  and 
fought  valiantly  at  l^tafmimiM,  but  d,  in 
Sftth  of  the  same  king,  leaving  issue,  by  his 
wife,  Catherine,  daughter  of  Sir  Nicholas 
GrifBn,  of  Braybrook,  in  tba  county  of 
Northampton. 
4.  LilMBua,  of  Lullteham,  whose  grand-daugh- 
ter, Anne,  (his  only  son,  Thomas  Digby*8 
heirssBi)  m,  John  Burton,  Esq.,  of  StodLcrs- 
ton.  In  the  county  of  Leicester. 
&  Rowland,  of  Welby,  In  the  county  of  Lei- 
cester, which  estate  he   acquired,  temp. 
Henry  VIL,  with  fate  wife,  Agnes,  daughter 
and  heiress  of  John  bidden,  Esq.,  and  whidi 
continued  with  Us  descendants  until  tiia 
reign  of  James  I. 
6.  Thomas  (Sir),  of  Oulney,  in  the  county  of 
BudLs,  received  the  honour  of  knighthood 
from  King  Henry  VII.,  after  the  battle  of 
Bosworth  Field.     Sir  Thomw*s  daughter, 
Catherine,  m,  first,  Simon  Whedsr,  Esq., 
of  Kenilworth,  and  secondly,  John  Fisher, 
Esq.,  of  Packington  Magna. 
7*  Berjamin,  of  Bathley,  in  the  county  of  Nor- 
folk. 
SIR  SIMON  DIGBY.  the  second  son,  havfaig 
taken  a  distinguished  pert  with  hte  brothers  at 
Bosworth  Fldd,  was  rewarded  by  the  sucoessftil 
monarch,  in  the  first  year  of  his  reign,  (l48Si>  by  a 
giant  for  lifo  of  all  the  lands  which  had  belonged  to 
George,  Duke  of  Clarence,  in  the  county  of  Rut- 
land, being  at  the  same  time  appointed  steward  and 
receiver  of  divers  other  manon  in  that  shire,  and  in 
the  county  of  York.    In  the  next  year  having 
achieved  a  victory  for  the  king,  at  Stoke,  over  the 
impostor  Lambert  Simnd,  be  obtained  a  grant 
from  the  crown  of  Ravysbury,  in  the  county  of 
Surrey,  and  in  1480,  by  letten  patent,  dated  89rd 
December,  in  that  year,    the  lordship  of  Coles 
Hill,  in  the  county  of  Warwick,  forfoited  by  Sir 
Simon  Montfoct,  the  previous  year.    In  1496,  Sir 
Simon  Digby,  was  commissioned  to  exercise  martial 
law  in  the  countiea  of  Devon  and  Cornwall,  against 
several  maletectors;  and  he  filled  the  office  of  sherilT 
for  Leicester  and  Warwickahires,  in  1000,  and  1517. 
He  m.  Alida,  daughter  of  John  Walleys,  Esq.,  of 
East  Raddon,  in  the  county  of  Devcm,  and  had 

RaoiwALD,  his  successor. 
Thomas,  whose  descendant, 

Thomas  Digby,  Esq.,  of  Mansfield  Wood- 
house,  M.P.,  left  a  son*  John,  who  died 
«.  p,,  and  two  daughters,  (co-heirs  to  their 
brother,)  via. 

Frances,  m.  in  1796,  to  Sir  Thomas 

Legard,  Bart. 
PhihMlelphia,  m.  in  1780,  to  Sir  George 
Cayley,  Bart. 
Catherine,  m.  to  Anthony  Worth,  Esq.,  of 

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AgMt,  m.  to  William  Tracy,  Biq.,  of  Todington. 
Alice,  m.  to  Robert  CUfton.  Esq. 
Sir  Simon  Digby,  d,  27th  February,  151)9,  and  waa 
«.  by  bis  eider  son, 

REGINALD  DIGBY,  Esq.,  of  Coles  Hill,  sheriff 
of  Leicestershire,  for  the  26th  and  36th  years  of 
Henry  VIIL,  m.  Anne,  daughter  and  oo-heir  of 
John  Danven,  Esq.,  of  Calthorpe,  in  tha  county  of 
Oxford,  and  dying  2Ath  April,  1540,  was  «.  by  his 
soils 

JOHN  DIGBY,  Baq.,  of  Coks  HiU.  who  m, 
Anne,  ddest  daughter  of  Sir  George  Throgmorton, 
and  dying  tfth  November,  1558,   was  «.   by  his 


SIR  GEORGE  DIGBY,  who  reoelTed  the  honour 
of  knighthood  for  bla  lerrloes  at  the  siege  of  Zut- 
phen,  in  Flanders,  from  Robert,  Earl  of  Leicester, 
In  the  sath  of  Elisabeth.  TUs  gentleman  'm,  Abigail, 
daughter  of  Sir  Arthur  Hennlngham,  Knt.,  of 
Ketterin^um,  in  the  county  of  Norf<dk,  and  had 
issue, 

RosnKT  (Sir),  whose  son,  Robert  Digby,  was 
elevated  to  the  peerage  of  Irdand,  in  1620, 
as  BAROif  DioBY,  which  barony  now 
merges  in  the  Eakldom  op  Dioby,  eqjoyed 
by  bla  lordship's  descendants. 
Philip. 

JoHir,  of  whom  presently. 
Sir  George  Digby,  d,  4th  February,  1586,  and  waa  «. 
by  his  dder  son.  Sir  Robert  Digby,  but  we  pass  to 
the  younger  son, 

SIR  JOHN  DIGBY,  Knt,  who  having  ailed 
some  high  situations  in  the  court  ot  James  I.,  and 
being  twice  accredited  ambasaador  to  the  court  of 
Spain,  waa  devatad  to  the  peerage,  on  the  26th 
November,  1618,  as  Babok  Diobt,  qf  Sherborne,  in 
the  etnmtif  ef  HoreeL  His  lordship  was  subse- 
quently employed  upon  diflbrent  cmbaaales,  but 
particularly  to  the  court  of  Spain,  in  1622,  touching 
a  marriage  between  Prince  Charles,  and  the  Lady 
Maria,  when  he  waa  created  Eabx.  op  Bbibtol.  In 
1624,  his  lordship  had  a  dlArenoe  with  the  Duke 
of  Buckingham,  and  they  mutually  impeached  each 
other.  From  that  period  he  lived  in  retirement, 
until  the  breaking  out  of  the  dvil  war,  in  which  he 
first  aided  with  the  parliament,  but  afterwards 
went  over  to  the  king,  and  eventually  withdrew 
into  Franca.  The  earl  m.  Beatrix,  daughter  of 
Charles  Walcot,  Esq.,  of  Walcol,  in  the  county  of 
Salop,  and  had  issue, 

Obobob,  his  successor, 

John,  who  was  a  general  of  hone,  in  Lord 

Hopton's  army,  and  afterwards  a  secular 

prteet,  at  Pontolae,  in  France,  d.  after  the 

restoration. 

Abigail,  m.  George  Freke,  Esq.,  of  Shroton,  in 

the  county  of  Doiaet,  and  died  «.  jx. 
Mary,  m.  to  Arthur,  Earl  of  Donegal,  had  no 
surviving  issue. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1652,  and  waa  «.  by  his  elder 
son, 

GEORGE  DIGBY,  second  Earl  of  Bristol,  ILG. 
This  nobleman  suflteed  considerably  during  the  civil 
wars,  havhighad  bis  estates  confiscated,  and  himself 
banished.  He  lived,  however,  to  be  restored  with 
the  monarchy,  to  his  country  and  fortune  i  but 
178 


having  become  a  Roman  catludlc  while  abroad,  he 
was  thereby  incapacitated  from  holding  any  place 
in  the  government.  His  lordship  Is  noticed  by  • 
Walpole,  as  an  author,  and  a  person  of  singularity, 
whose  life  was  one  contradiction.  '<  He  wrote 
against  popery,  and  embraced  it.  He  was  a  se*- 
lous  opposer  of  the  court,  and  a  sacrifice  for  it; 
was  conscientiously  converted  in  the  midst  of  his 
prosecution  of  Lord  Straflbrd,  and  was  most  un- 
conscientlously  a  prosecutor  of  Lord  Clarendon. 
With  great  parts,  he  always  hurt  himself  and  his 
friends.  With  romantic  bravery,  he  was  always 
an  unsucceasAil  commander.  He  spoke  for  the 
Test  Act,  though  a  Roman  Catholic ;  and  addicted 
himsdf  to  astrology,  on  the  birth-day  of  true 
philoeophy.'*  His  lordship  m.  Anne,  daughter 
of  Francb,  fourth  Earl  of  Bedford,  by  whom  he 
had  issue, 

John,  his  successor. 

Francis,  slain  in  the  sea-fight  with  the  Dutdi, 
20th  May,  1672,  and  ({.without  Issue. 

Diana,  m.  to  the  Baron  Moll,  in  Flanders. 

Anne,  m,  to  Robert,  Earl  of  Sunderland,  from 
whom  descend  the  Dukes  of  MarllxMrottgh, 
and  the  Earls  of  Spencer. 
His  lordship  d,  in  1676,  and  was  «.  by  his  only  sur- 
vivlngson, 

JOHN  DIGBY,  third  Earl  of  Briatol,  who  m.  first, 
Alice,  dau^ter  and  heiress  of  Robert  Bourne,  Esq., 
of  Blackball,  in  the  county  of  Essex  t  and  secondly, 
Rachad,  daughter  of  Sir  Hugh  Windham,  Knt, 
but  having  no  issue,  the  Babony  op  Dioby,  and 
the  Earldom  op  Bbibtol,  became,  at  his  lord- 
ship's decease,  in  16B8,  bxtiwct,  while  his  large 
estates  devolved  upon  his  only  surviving  sister, 
Anne,  Countess  of  Sunderland,  whose  son,  George, 
third  Earl  of  Sunderland,  married,  for  his  second 
wife,  Anne,  second  daughter  of  John,  first,  and 
celebrated  Ditkb  op  Mablbobouor. 

ABiia.— Ax.  a  Fleur  de  lis  ar.  with  a  mullet  for 
dlflbrence. 

DINAN— BARON  DINAN. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  23d  January  1296, 
23d  Edward  L 

ICincagi. 

The  surname  of  DiWAif  ^>pears  to  have  been  first 
adopted  by  Fouke,  one  of  the  knights  of  Roger  de 
Montgomery,  Earl  of  Shrewsbury,  upon  whom  that 
nobleman  conterred  the  castle  which  he  had  erected 
at  2NiMiN,(iiow  called  Ludlow),  and  he  was  thence 
designated  Sir  Fouke  de  Dlnan. 

6EFFERY  DINAN  had  summons,  with  other 
persons  of  not^  in  41  Henry  III.,  to  repair  to  the 
king  at  Bristol,  well  fitted  with  horse  and  aims,  in 
order  to  march  against  the  Wddi.  He  died  In  two 
years  afterwards,  seised  of  the  manor  of  Hertland, 
in  the  county  of  Devon,  which  he  held  by  service  of 
two  knights'  foes,  and  was  «.  by  Us  son, 

OLIVER  DINAN,  who,  upon  doing  homage  in 
48  Henry  III.,  had  Uvery  of  his  lands.  This  OUver, 
having  married  Isabd,  widow  of  John  de  Courtenay, 
without  licanse,  had  to  pay  a  fine  of  £100.  to  the 
crown  In  ooniequeBce.  In  14  Edward  I.  be  procured 


BIN 


DOD 


the  rofd  dianer  for  IVm  wwnn  in  all  hif  deriMOM 
lands  ia  the  oountiet  of  Devoo,  SomeneC  and  Corn- 
wall; and  mm  mmmoned  to  parHamctit  aa  »  Barow, 
fram  S3d  June,  119ft»  to  ttth  December/  IflW,  and 
dying  in  tlie  fMlowing  jrear,  was  «.  by  lila  eon* 

JOSCE  DINAN,  Moond  Baron  DInan,  but  never 
sanunooed  to  parliament ;  be  died  loon  after  hie 
Ctther  (S9  Edward  !.)»  iMvlng  two  ions*  Tie. 
John.  Me  ittccenor. 

Oliver,  who  d.  in  SO  Edwted  III.  and  left  a 
son, 
OliTer,  who  left,  by  his  first  wUis,  a  son, 
Oliver,  who  died  «.  p.  i  and  by  his  second, 
Mainaret,  daughter  of  Richard  de  Hydon, 
three  dai^hters,  vis. 
Maigeret,  m,  to  William  de  Asthorpft 
Ekne,  1 
Issbel,)»«»* 
Thedderson, 

JOHN  DINAN,  succeeded  his  Ikther,  and  was 
succeeded  himself  by  his  son, 

JOHN  DINAN,  (Dynant,  or  Dynham,  as  the 
name  was  diflfarcntly  written,)  of  Hertland,  fourth 
tmran,  but  never  summoned  to  parliament.  He  m. 
Joane,  daughter  ot  Sir  Thomas  Courtenay  and  Mu- 
riell,  his  wif^  daughter  and  co-heir  of  John,  Lord 
liodls  I  which  Joane  was  heiress  ot  her  brother.  Sir 
Hu^C<rartenay,Knt.  To  this  nobleman  succeeded 
his  son, 

JOHN  DYNHAM,  fifth  baron,  but  not  sum- 
moned to  parliament  He  m.  a  daughter  of  Lord 
Lovell,  and  was  9.  by  hb  son, 

SIR  JOHN  DYNHAM,  sixth  baron,  who  served 
in  the  wars  of  King  Henry  VI.,  and  died  in  the  aeth 
of  that  monarch,  leaving  by  his  wife,  Joane,  daugh- 
ter and  heiress  of  Richard  de  Arches,  the  following 
issuer 

JoHir,  his  successor. 

Elizabeth,  m.  first,  Fouke,  Lord  Fltx-Warren, 

and  secondly,  to  Sir  John  Sapcoate,  Knt. 
Joane,  m.  to  John,  Lord  Zouche,  of  Uarring- 

worth. 
Margaret,  in.  to  Sir  John  Carewe,  Knt. 
Catherine,  m.  to  Sir  Thomas  Arundel,  Knt 
Sir  John  Dynham  was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR  JOHN  DYNHAM,  Knt,  who  being  in  high 
favour  with  King  Edward  IV.,  was  summoned  to 
parliament  as  a  Baiiom,*  by  that  monarch,  on  the 
28th  February  1406,  and  continuing  one  of  the  most 
sealous  and  gallant  supporters  ot  the  Houie  of 
York,  his  k>rdship  obtained,  in  two  years  after- 
wards, the  custody  of  the  Forest  of  Dartmore,  with 
extensive  territorial  grants,  amongst  which  were 
several  manors,  part  of  the  posseHions  of  Humphrey 
Staflbrd,  Earl  of  Devon,  then  in  the  crown,  by 
reason  of  the  death  of  that  earl,  without  issue,  and 
the  forfeiture  of  Thomas  Courtenay,  Earl  of  Devon. 
In  15  Edward  IV.  Lord  Dynham  was  sworn  of  the 
privy  council,  and  had  a  grant  of  an  annuity  of  one 

e  No  writ  of  summons  having  issued  for  several 
generations,  (fkom  the  reign  of  Edward  I.,)  Sir  John 
Dynham,  although  unquestionably  a  Bahon  by  de- 
scant, is  presumed  to  have  been  only  raised  to  the 
dignity  by  this  writ:  and  this  lias  been  dMmed  erro- 
neously a  new  creation. 


hvndred  marks  for  his  attendaaee  on  thataervice,  to 
be  received  out  of  the  petty  customs  in  the  Port  of 
London;  in  which  ofllce  of  Privy  Counsellor  he 
was  continued  by  King  Henry  VIL,  and  constituted 
by  that  monarch  Treasurer  of  the  Exchequer.  Hie 
lordship  was  also  a  Knight  of  the  Garter.  He  m. 
Elisabeth,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Walter,  Lord 
Fits  Walter,  and  widow  of  Sir  John  RatcliA;  but 
dying  without  issue,  about  the  year  IMO,  his  ba- 
rony, supposing  it  a  new  creation,  bzpibbd  ;  but 
tkat  created  by  the  writ  of  Edward  I.  fell  into 
ABXYANca  between  his  heirs  at  law,  and  so  con- 
tinues amongst  their  representatives.  Those  heirs 
were, 

Elisabeth,  Us  lordship's  sister,  widow  of  Sir 

Fulke  Fits  Warine. 
Joane,  his  lordship's  sister,  widow  of  John,  Lord 

Zouche,  of  Haryngworth. 
Sir  Edmund  Carewe,  his  lords&ip's  nephew,  son 

of  his  sister  Margaret,  Lady  Carewcb 
Sir  John  Arundel,  K.B.,  of  Lanbeme,  in  the 
county  of  Cornwall,  his  lordship's  nephew, 
son  of  his  sister  Catherine,  Lady  Arund^ 
This  Sir  John  Arundel  m.  first,  Eleanor, 
daughter  of  Thomas  Grey,  Marquess  of  Dor- 
set, from  which  union  the  noble  fiunily  of 
AauNDBL  or  Warooue  derives. 
Arms.— Gu.  a  fease  Dancettte  Eimineb 


DODDINOTON  —  BARON  MEL- 
COMBE,  OF  MELCOMBE 
REGIS,  IN  THE  COUNTY 
OF  DORSET. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  in  April,  ITU. 

ICiiuagc. 

GEORGE  BUBB,  Esq.,  assumed  by  Act  of  PRr- 
liament,  in  pursuance  of  the  testamentary  i^Jun^ 
tion  of  his  maternal  uncle,  George  Doddington, 
Esq.,  of  Eastbury,  in  the  county  of  Donet,  the  sur- 
name of  DoooiHOTOiir  I  and  under  that  deslgnRtion 
was  a  very  eminent  personage  in  the  rdgns  of 
George  L  and  George  II.  i  during  which  period,  he 
was  member  of  perliament  for  Bridgewater,  Wey- 
mouth and  Mdcombe  Regis,  and  held  many  political 
posts  of  importanco,  being  at  one  time  Envoy  Ex- 
traordinary  at  the  Court  of  Spain  i  but  his  own 
curious  and  wdl-known  Diary,  published  after  his 
decease,  best  shews  the  high  place  he  held  in  publie 
life.  He  was  elevated  to  the  peerage  in  April,  1781, 
by  the  title  of  Lord  Mblcombb,  of  Melcombe 
Regis,  l«  the  county  of  DorMt;  but  dying  in  the 
following  year,  unmarried,  die  dignity  became  bx- 
TiircT.  This  nobleman  is  so  generally  known,  that 
it  would  be  a  work  of  supererogation  to  enter  more 
into  detail  ngarding  him  upon  the  present  occasion. 
His  mansion  at  Eastbury,  when  finished  by  his  lord- 
ship, was  estecmod  a  most  superb  and  costly  struc 
ture;  it  passed,  at  his  decease,  to  the  present  Duke 
of  Buckingham,  and  was  puUed  down  and  sold 
pieco.meal;  but  the  bulk  of  his  fortune  he  left  to 
Thomas  Wyndam,  Esq.,  of  Wyndham. 

ARMe.^Ar.  a  chevron  between  three  buglo  horns, 
sa. 

m 


DOR 


DOU 


DORMBR-EARL8  OF  CARNARVON. 

By  L«tt«rf  Patent,  dated  ittd  Augiut,  lfl9& 

ROBERT  DORMER,  (Km  of  the  Hon.  MTilUam 
Dormer,  and  AUce,  daughter  of  Sir  Richard  MoU- 
neaux,  of  Sefton,)  tuoceeded  ai  Mcond  Baroit  Dor- 
MBR,  9f  WengBt  on  the  deoeaie  of  his  grandfather, 
Robert,  flrtt  lord.  In  1916,  and  wa*  advanced  on  9nd 
Attgutt,  1688,  to  the  Ylmxwnty  t^fAaaot,  and  Eari^ 
DOM  OP  Carkarvon.    His  lordship,  who  took  up 
arms  in  the  royal  cause  during  the  civil  wan,  was 
eminently  distinguished  as  a  military  leader  in  those 
unhappy  times.    In  the  year  1643  he  had  the  com- 
mand of  a  r^ment  of  horse,  and  went  with  Prince 
Rupert,  the  Marquess  of  Hertford,  Prince  Maurice, 
and  Cokmel  Howard,  into  Dorsetshire,  and  charged 
as  a  volunteer  in  Sir  John  Byron's  regiment,  at  the 
battle  of  Roundway-down,  in  the  county  of  Wilts; 
after  which  he  joined  the  king  before  Gloucester, 
being  then  a  general  of  horse,  but  was  slain  at  New- 
bury on  the  SNHh  September  following.     Of  this 
gallant  person  Lord  Clarendon  gives  the  following 
account; — *'  Before  the  war,  though  his  education 
was  adorned  by  travd,  and  an  exact  observation  of 
the  manners  of  more  nations  than  our  common 
travellers  use  to  visit,  (for  he  had,  after  the  view  of 
Spain,  France,  and  most  parts  of  Italy,  spent  some 
time  in  Turkey,  and  those  eastern  countries,)  he 
sflfiiifd  to  be  wholly  delighted  with  those  looser 
exercises  of  pleasure,  hunting,  hawking,  and  the 
like,  in  which  the  nobility  of  that  time  too  much 
delighted  to  exceL    After  the  troubles  however 
b^gan,  having  the  command  of  the  first  or  second 
regiment  of  horse,  that  was  raised  for  the  king's 
service,  he  wholly  gave  himsdf  up  to  the  oflBce  and 
duty  of  a  soldier,  no  man  more  diligently  obeying, 
or  more  dexterously  commanding;  for  he  was  not 
only  of  a  very  keen  courage  in  the  exposing  of  his 
person,  but  an  exodlent  discemer  and  pursuer  of 
advantage  upon  his  enemy.    He  had  a  mind  and 
understanding  very  present  in  the  article  of  danger, 
which  is  a  rare  benefit  in  that  profession.    Those 
Infirmities,  and  that  lioenoe  which  he  had  formerly 
Indulged  to  himsdf,  he  put  off  with  severity,  when 
others  thought  them  excusable  under  the  notion  of 
a  soldier.     He  was  a  great  lover  of  Justice,  and 
pvactised  it  then  most  ddiberately,  when  he  had 
power  to  do  wrong;  and  so  strict  in  the  observation 
of  his  word  and  promise  as  a  commander,  that  he 
could  not  be  persuaded  to  stay  in  the  west,  when  he 
fiound  it  not  in  his  powwr  to  perform  the  agreement 
which  he  had  made  with  Dorchester  and  Weymouth. 
If  he  had  lived  he  would  have  proved  a  great  orna- 
ment to  that  profession,  and  an  excdlent  soldier; 
and  by  his  death  the  king  found  a  sensible  weakness 
ia  his  army."    His  lordship  m.  Anna-Sophia,  daugh- 
ter of  Philip  Herbert,  Earl  of  Pemteoke  and  Mont- 
gomery, and  was  #.  by  his  only  son, 

CHARLES  DORMER,  third  Baron  Dormer,  and 
•eoond  Bail  of  Carnarvon.  This  nobleman  m. 
Bliaabeth,  daughter  of  Arthur,  Lord  Capel,  by 
whom  he  had  surviving  issue, 

Bliiabeth,  m.  to  Philip  Stanhope,  Eari  of  Ghes- 
terflekL 


Isabella,  m.  to  Charles  Coote,  fieri  of  Mount- 
rath. 
Anna-Sophia,  d.  of  the  small-pox,  unmarried, 
in  the  twenty  second  year  of  her  age,  anno 
IflW. 
His  lordship  m.  secondly,  Mary,  daughter  of  Mon- 
tagu Bertie.  Earl  of  Lindsay,  but  had  no  issue.    He 
d.  on  the  S9th  November,  17W»  when  the  Earldom 
OP  Carnarvon  became  bxtinct,  while  the  Ba- 
rony OP  DoRMSR  devolved  upon  his  kinsman. 
Rowland  Dormer,  Esq.,  of  Grove  Park,  in  the 
county  of  Warwick,  great  grandson  of  Robert,  first 
lord,  through  his  second  son,  the  Hon.  Anthony 
Dormer;  and  is  still  extant. 

Arms.— As.  ten  billeu,  fourth,  third,  second,  and 
first,  or.  in  a  chief  of  the  second,  a  demi  Hon  issuant, 
sa.  armed  and  langued,  gu. 

DOUGLAS— DUKES  OF  DOVER. 
By  Letters  Patent,  dated  S0th  May,  1706. 

Xincagc. 

JAMES  DOUGLAS,  who  succeeded  his  tether  in 
1696,  as  second  Ddxb  op  Qurrnbbury,  in  the 
Scottish  peerage,  having  taken  a  prominent  part  in 
the  revolution,  was  appointed  in  16BS  one  of  the 
lords  of  the  treasury  in  Scotland,  and  the  following 
year  had  a  patent  to  sit  and  vote  in  the  parliament 
of  that  kingdom  as  xx>rd  hioh  TRSAauRRR.*  After 
his  accession  to  the  Dukedom  of  Queensbury,  his 
grace  was  made  by  King  William  lord  privy  seal  of 
Scotland,  and  one  of  the  extraordinary  lords  of 
Session;  and  in  1700 appointed  lord  high  commis- 
sioner to  represent  the  king  in  the  parliament  of 
Scotland,  where  he  held  two  sessions  under  two 
distinct  patents.  Upon  his  return  to  court  his  grace 
was  dected  a  Knight  of  the  most  nOble  order  of  the 
Garter  t  and  at  Queen  Anne's  accession  to  the  crown, 
he  was  made  secretary  of  State  for  Scotland.  In 
1708  he,  for  the  fourth  time,  filled  the  office  of  knrd 
high  commissioner,  and  again  in  1706,  being  the  last 
session  of  the  parliament  of  Scotland,  in  which, 
with  the  utmost  eflbrts,  his  grace  carried  the  mea- 
sure of  Union  between  the  two  kingdoms.  For  all 
these  eminent  services  the  duke  was  rewarded  with 
a  pension  of  £3,000  a  year  out  of  the  post-ofllce,  and 
the  first  peerage  of  Great  Britain,  under  the  titles  of 
Boron  Rippon,  Marqueu  i^f  BeotHetf,  and  Dukb  op 
DovBR,  with  remainder  to  his  second  son,  Charles, 
Earl  of  Solway.  His  grace  m.  Mary,  second  daugh- 
ter of  Charles,  Lord  Cliflbrd,  and  grand-daughter 
of  Richard  Boyle,  Earl  of  Burlington  and  Cork,  and 
had,  with  other  issue, 

James,  an  imbedle. 

Charlbb,  ^.  Mth  November,  1006,  created  17th 
June,  1706,  Yiaoount  Tlbbers,  and  Earl  of 
Solway. 

George,  ft.  SOth  Feteuary,  1701. 


•  The  ofllcen  of  state  in  Scotland,  prior  to  the 
union,  had  seats  In  parliament  ex-offlcio»  and  when 
an  office  was  placed  in  conunissioB  the  crown  had 
the  privUage  to  appoint  any  one  person  to  repnsent 
the  said  office  in  parliament. 


DOU 


DUD 


Jtiatt,  m.  flfh  April,  17*0,  to  the  Barl  of  D«l- 

keitb. 
Anne,  m.  Sfth  Jainuny,  ITS,  to  the  Hon.  Wm. 
Findi. 
The  duke  d.  In  1711,  and  «m  «.  by  his  eldest  mirTly- 
ingMD, 

CHARLES  DOUGLAS,  Berl  of  Sdway,  >■  Moond 
Duke  of  Dorer.  Hie  grace  m.  10th  Moch,  1710, 
Lady  Catherine  Hyde,  leoond  daughter  of  Henry, 
Earl  of  Clarflndon  and    Rocherter,  and  had  two 


DUDLEY  —  VISCOUNTS  L*I8LE, 
EARLS  OF  WARWICK, 
DUKE  OF  NORTHUM. 
BERLAND. 


HsiTBT,  Earl  of  Dnunlanrig,  m.  1764,  Lady 
Eliiabeth  Hope,  and  was  kiUed  a  flew  monthi 
after  by  the  accidental  diacharge  of  hla  own 
piatoL 
Charlea,  d.  In  17M. 
The  duke  d.  at  the  age  of  eighty,  on  the  S9nd  Oc- 
tober, 1778,  and  leaving  no  imie,  the  Duksoom  op 
DoTsn,  and  his  other  Britiih  honours,  became  bk- 
TivcT.    The  Scottish  dignities  devolred  upon  the 
heir  at  law,  and  are  now  eiOoyed  in  part  by  the 
Dttkeof  Bucdeugh,  and  in  pwt  by  the  Marquess  of 
Queenslrary. 

ABiiair>i^nartsrly,  first  and  fourth,  ar.  a  heart, 
gu.  crowned  with  an  Impoial  crown,  or.  on  e  chief, 
ae.  three  mullets  of  the  field,  for  Douglas ;  second 
and  third,  a  bend  between  six  uosi  nosilets,  fltche, 
or,  (for  the  Earldom  of  Marr,)  the  whole  within  a 
bordure,  or,  charged  with  a  double  treasure  fleury 
and  counter  fieury  of  the  second,being  an  augmen- 
tationt  as  was  ako  the  heart  in  the  first  quarter, 
used  in  memory  of  the  pilgrimage  made  by  Sir  James 
Douglas,  anoastor  of  his  grace,  to  the  Holy  Land,  hi 
the  year  1330,  with  the  heart  of  King  Robert  Bruce, 
which  was  there  interred  according  to  that  monarch's 
own  desire  Thedoubletressure  was  added  by  King 
Charles  IL,  when  he  honoured  the  family  with  the 
Marqnisate  of  Queansbury,  the  bordure  previously 


DOUGLAS— BARON  DOUGLAS,  OF 
AMBRESBURY. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  91st  August,  1786. 

WILLIAM  DOUGLAS,  third  Earl  of  March, 
who  succeeded  in  1778>  as  fourth  Duke  of  Queens- 
berry,  in  Scotland,  was  created  a  peer  of  Great  BrI- 
tain,  on  the  81st  August,  1786,  as  Baaon  Douolas, 
qf  Ambirt/lmnff  <«  M«  «otmiy  nf  WUU»  but  dying 
unmarried  in  1810,  the  barony  became  nxTiircT. 

Amira.— Four  grand  quarterln^i,  via.  first  and 
fourth,  quarterly:  first  and  fourth,  ar.  a  human 
heart  gules,  imperially  crowned  ppr.  on  a  chief  as. 
three  mullets  of  the  firid,  for  DovouLs;  second  and 
thtad,  aiL  a  bend  betw.:  six  cross-crossleu,  fltch^, 
or.  for  MAan,  all  within  a  bordure  of  the  last, 
charged  with  the  double  treisure  of  Scotland,  which 
tressure  was  added  by  King  Charles  IL,  when  he 
honoured  the  funily  with  the  Marquisate  of 
Queensberry  i  second  and  third  grand  quarters,  gu. 
a  Hon  rampant,  ar.  within  a  bordure  of  the  last, 
charged  with  eight  roses  of  the  fint,  for  Maror. 


Viscounty, 

Earldom, 

Dukedom 


1 19th  March,  1A48. 


17th  Febu.  1547. 


Letters 

**•••*'  j  lith  Oct,  lui. 
Uintagc. 

SIR  JOHN  SUTTON,  K.O.,  fourth  Baron 
Dudley,  of  that  family,  m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  and 
co-heir  of  Sir  John  Berkeley,  KnL,  of  Bevestoo,  and 
widow  of  Sir  Edward  Charlton,  Lord  Fowls,  and 
had  with  other  issue,  John,  his  lecond  son,  who 
assuming  the  name  of  Dudley,  became 

JOHN  DUDLEY;  thU  genUeman  m.  Elisabeth, 
one  of  the  daughters  and  co-heirs  of  John  Bramshot, 
Esq.,  of  Bramshot,  and  wss  father  of 

EDMUND  DUDLEY,  so  well  known,  with  his 
ocdleague,  Richard  Empson,  tm  the  rapacious  minis- 
ter of  King  Henry  VII.     Dudley  was  brought  up 
to  the  bar,  having  studied  at  Gray's  Inn,  and  before 
he  entered  the  lervice  of  the  king,  he  had  attained 
considerable  eminence  in  his  profesaion.    Upon  the 
accoaslon  of  Henry,  he  was  sworn  of  the  privy  coun- 
cil, and  he  subsequently  filled  the  speaker's  chair 
of  the  House  of  Commons;  whilst  in  the  latter 
office,  they  were  about  making  him  a  seijeent-at- 
law,  when  he  petitioned  the  king,  for  what  reason 
does  not  appear,  that  he  might  be  discharged  ftom 
assuming  that  dignity.    This  occurred  in  the  IMh 
of  Henry  VII.,  and  in  three  yean  afterwards,  he 
obtained  the  stewardship  of  the  rape  of  Hastings, 
in  the  county  of  Suflblk.    '*  Whether,  (writes  Dug- 
dale,)    Dudley,   with   Richard   Empson,    another 
lawyer,   son   to  a  sieve-maker,    discerning   King 
Henry  to  be  of  a  fhigal  disposition,  did  first  pro- 
ject the  taking  advantage  against  such  as  had  trans- 
gressed the  penal  laws,  by  exacting  from  them  the 
forfeitures  according  to  those  statutes ;  or  whether 
the  king  perceiving  so  fUr  a  gap  open,  to  rake  vast 
sums  of   money  from  his  sutdccts,   finding  'those 
persons  to  be  fit  instruments  for  his  purpose,  did 
put  them  upon  such  courses  for  filling  his  coflbre, 
'tis  hard  to  say.    But  certain  It  Is,  that  theae  were 
they,   whom  he  constituted    his  JtmUeea  fiteatea, 
(Dudley  being  an  eminent  man,  and  one  that  could 
put  hatefol  busineis  into  good  language,  as  Lord 
Verulam  saith.)"     The  extortions  of  those  men 
exciting  univosal    clamour,    Henry   VIII.  com- 
menced his  reign,  by  the  popular  acts  of  submitting 
their  oppreisive  conduct  to  judicial  investigation 
before  a  criminal  court;    Dudley  was  tried    at 
Guildhall,  In  thedty  of  London,  and  Empson  at 
Northampton,  and  both  being  found  guilty,  were 
beheaded  together,  on  Tower  Hill,  on  the  fiSth 
August,  in  the  And  year  of  Henry  VIII.    Dudley, 
in  the  day  of  his  power,  having  obtained  the  ward- 
ship of  Eliaabeth  Grey,  daughter  of  Edward,  first 
Viscount  Lisle,  by  Eliaabeth  TaIbot,^thOgIiter  of 
John  Talbot,  Vlaoount  L'Isle,  and  sister  and  co- 
heir of  Thomas  Talbot,  second  and  last  Viscount 
L'Isle,  of  the  Shrewsbury  fomily,  married  the  lald 
Elisabeth  Grey,  and  left  issue  by  her, 
JoHW,  of  whom  preMBtly. 

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Andxew,  (Sir)  lATolTsd  in  the  ooniplncy  to 
elevate  Lady  Jane  Grey  to  the  throne,  and 
received  aentenoe  of  death,  in  the  1st  year 
of  Mary. 

Jeromei 

Elizabeth,  m.  to  Winiam.  dxth  Lord  Stoiirton. 
Of  these,  John,  the  eldest  son,  had  scarcely  attained 
his  eighth  year  at  the  period  of  his  father's  execu- 
tion, and  being  in  ward  to  Edward  Guifibrd,  Esq., 
of  the  body  of  the  king,  that  gentleman  petitioned 
that  the  attainder  of  Edmund  Dudley  might  be 
repealed,  and  obtained  a  special  act  of  parliament, 
(3rd  Henry  VIIL,)  which  restored  the  said 

JOHN  DUDLEY,  in  name,  Mood  and  degree, 
so  that  he  might  inherit  all  his  deceased  father's 
lands.  From  this  period  twelve  years  elapsed  before 
John  Dudley  appeared  in  public,  and  the  first  we 
afterwards  hear  of  him  is  his  receiving  the  ho- 
nour of  knighthood  from  Charles  Brandmi,  Duke, 
of  Suffolk,  general  of  the  army  sent  into  France 
against  the  Duke  of  Bourbon.  In  the  19th  ot 
Henry  VIIL,  Sir  John  Dudley  was  in  the  train  of 
Cardinal  Wolsey  upon  an  embassy  into  France; 
and  in  eight  years  afterwards,  «' being  the  king's 
servant,"  he  was  made  master  of  the  armory  In 
the  Tower  of  London  for  life,  with  the  wages  of 
twelve-pence  per  day  for  himself,  and  three-pence 
per  day  for  his  groom  in  the  office.  In  the  31st  of 
the  same  reign  he  was  appointed  master  of  the 
horse  to  Anne  of  Cleves ;  and  the  next  year,  in  the 
Justi  held  at  Westminster,  Sir  John  was  ooie  of  the 
principal  challengers,  his  horse  being  accoutred 
with  white  vdvet.  In  about  two  years  after  this  he 
was  elevated  to  the  peerage,  in  the  ancient  dignity 
enjoyed  by  his  mother's  family,  that  of  ViacM>vNT 
L'l8i«s,  and  made,  the  same  year,  lord  admiral  of 
England  for  life.  In  this  capacity  his  lordship  dis- 
played great  gallantry,  and  did  good  service  against 
France  and  Scotland. '  «*  To  say  truth,"  remarks 
Sir  John  Howard,  "  he  was  the  minion  of  that 
time ;  so  as  few  things  he  attempted,  but  he  achiev- 
ed with  honour,  which  made  him  the  more  proud 
and  afhbitious.  Generally  he  always  increased  both 
in  estimation  with  the  king  and  authority  amongst 
the  nobility ;  but  doubtAil,  whether  by  fatal  des- 
tiny to  the  state,  or  whether  by  hi*  virtues  or  ap- 
pearance of  virtues."  His  lordship  was  one  of  the 
executors  to  the  will  of  his  royal  masto*;  and  upon 
the  accession  of  Edward  VL,  he  was  created  Easl 
OP  Warwick,  with  a  grant  of  Warwick  Castle; 
At  this  period  he  was  made  lieutenant-general  of 
the  army,  and  acquired  an  accession  of  military 
fame  under  the  Earl  of  Hertford,  in  Picardy 
and  Scotland,  as  well  as  by  his  successful  defence  of 
Boulogne,  of  which  he  was  governor.  In  the  3d  of 
Edward  VI.  he  tras  again  made  admiral  of  Eng- 
land, Ireland,  and  Wales,  and  the  next  year  consti- 
tuted lord  steward  of  the  hous^old.  Henoefcnr- 
ward  his  lordship's  ambition  appears  to  have  known 
no  bounds,  and  to  have  hurried  him  Into  acts  of 
great  baseness  and  atrocity.  Through  his  intrigues 
the  quarrd  arose  between  the  Protector  Somerset 
and  his  brother.  Lord  Thomas  Seymour,  which 
terminated  in  the  public  execution  of  the  latter; 
and  he  is  at  this  period  accused  of  acquiring  con- 
siderable wealth  by  plunder  of  the  chiirch.  In  the 

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0th  of  the  tame  reign  he  was  advanced  to  the  dignity 
of  DuKJB  or  North  UMBSRLAND,  a  peerage  whldt, 
by  the  death  of  the  last  earl  of  Northumberland 
without  issue,  and  the  attainder  and  execution  of 
his .  brother.  Sir  Thomas  Percy,  with  the  Percy 
estate,  became  vested  in  the  crown.  His  grace  had 
previously  been  constituted  earl-maishal  of  Eng- 
land. Having  now  attained  the  highest  honour  in 
the  peerage,  and  power  the  moat  unlimited,  the 
duke  proceeded,  with  scarcdy  the  semblance  of  re* 
straint,  in  his  ambitious  projects;  and  the  Proteo* 
tat  Somerset,  one  (rf  his  earliest  and  steadiest  pa- 
trons, soon  f(dl  a  victim  to  their  advancement. 
That  distlnguiahed  personage  was  arraigned,  through 
the  intrigue  of  Northumberland,  before  his  peers, 
and  though  acquitted  of  high  treason,  was  ton- 
demned  for  friiony,  and  sentenced  to  be  hanged.' 
The  eventual  fate  of  this  unhappy  nobleman  is 
well  known,  and,  considering  his  own  conduct  to 
his  brother,  not  deplored.  He  was  executed  by  de* 
capitaticm  on  Tower  HIU.  From  the  death  of  So- 
merset, the  Duke  of  Northumberland  became  so 
unremitting  in  his  attentions  upon  the  king,  and 
had  so  much  influence  over  him,  that  he  prevailed 
upon  his  mejesty  to  sign  and  seal  a  patent  conferring 
the  succession  upon  Lady  Jane  Grey,  the  wife  of  his 
son.  Lord  Guilford  Dudley.  His  subseqiient  ef- 
forts, after  the  decease  of  Edward  VI.,  to  estab- 
lish this  patent  by  force  of  arms,  proving  abortive, 
he  was  arrested,  upon  a  diai^  of  high  treason,  at' 
Cambridge,  and  being  condemned  thereof,  he  was 
beheaded,  on  Tower  Hill,  upon  the  8Sd  of  August, 
1563,  when  all  his  honours  became  forfeited  under 
the  attainder.  His  grace  m.  Jane,  daughter  of  Sir 
Edward  GuUfwd,  Knt.,  and  had  issue, 
Henry,  died  at  the  siege  of  Bologneb 
John,  Earl  of  Warwick,  d.  in  the  lii!»-tijne  of 

his  father,  s.  p. 
Ambrose,  created  Earl  op  Warwick.    (See 

Dudley,  Earl  of  Warwick.) 
Guilford,  who  m.  Lady  Janji  Grjiy,  eldest 
daughter  of  Henry,  Duke  of  Suflblk,  by 
Mary,  Queen  Dowager  of  France,  and  sister 
of  King  Henry  VIIL  Lady  Jane  Grey  was 
therefore  grand-niece  to  King  Henry  VIIL 
Lord  Guilford  Dudley  was  attainted  and  be- 
headed with  his  father. 
Robert,  K.O.,  created  beron  of  Denbigh  and 

Earl  of  Leicester.    (See  those  dignities.) 
Henry,  shun  at  St.  Quintin. 
Charles,  d,  young.  ^a       r  \. 

.    Mary,  m.  Sir  Henry  Sidney,  K.G»^    UMHh^U. 
CatEoine,  nuiaeaiy  Haaongs,  Earl  of  Hun- 
tingdon. 
Arm8«— Or.  a  Uon  rampant,  ax.  double  quevee. 

vert. 
NoTx.— John  Sutton,  the  seventh  Lord  Dudley  of 
that  fiunily,  disposed  of  Dudley  Castle  to  the  Duke 
of  Northumberland,  and  having  alienated  other  pro- 
perty, was  ever  afterwards  known  as  Lord  Qwm- 
dam, 

DUDLEY— DUCHESS  OF  DUDLEY. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  83rd  May,  1644. 

ICincagc. 

ROBERT  DUDLEY,  Earl  of  Leicester,  the  noto- 


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rknu  DiVoaTlt*  of  Queen  Elinbeth,  married  far  hie 
McoDd  wife,  DcHiglM  Howard,  dau^iter  of  William, 
Lord  EHIngham,  and  widow  of  John,  Lord  Shef- 
fldd,  tiy  whom  he  had  an  only  ton, 

ROBSKT. 

The  earl  apfitrttending  a  diminution  of  hit  influ- 
ence with  hia  royal  mistteas,  made  an  attempt  to 
get  rid  of  tUa  wite,  aa  he  did  of  hia  first,  the  un- 
happy Amy  Roboot,  hy  poiaon,  but  Ineflhctually. 
He  repudiated  her,  iiowever,  and  denied  hia  mar- 
riage---but  he  bequeathed,  at  hli  deoeaie,  the  greater 
part  of  hia  property  to  their  iiaue,  calling  hin« 
nevertheleM,  hia  baae  son, 

SIR  ROBERT  DUDLEY,  who  having  In  vahi 
endeavoured  to  establiah  his  legitimaqri  retired  In 
umbrage  to  Italy :  whence,  through  the  influence  of 
hia  enemies,  being  summoned  to  return,'  and  dia- 
obeying  the  mandate  his  lands  wcra  seized  under 
the  statute  of  fugiUves.  Sir  Robert  m.  Alice  Leigh, 
daughter  of  Sir  Thomas  Leigh,  Bart.,  and  his  wife, 
Catharine,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Spencer,  of  Worm- 
Idghton,  in  the  county  of  Warwick,  and  aunt  of 
Thomas,  first  Lord  Leigh,  of  Stoneldgh,  by  whom 
he  had  issue, 

^**»      1.  died  unmarried. 
Douglas,  j 

Catherine,  m.  to  Sir  Richard  Lereson,  K.B. 

Fiancest  m.  to  Sir  Gilbert  KniTeton,  of  Brad- 
ley, im  the  county  of  Derby. 

Anne,  m.  to  Sir  Richard  Holboume,  solicitor- 
general  to  King  Charles  I. 
Sir  Robert  Dudley  took  up  his  abode  in  the  terri- 
tories of  the  Grand  Duke  of  Tuscany,  with  which 
prince  he  became  a  favourite,  owing  to  his  extraor- 
dinary accomplishments,  being  not  only  well  skilled 
in  all  kinds  of  mathematical  learning,  in  navigation, 
and  ardiitecture,  but  being  a  great  chymist  and  skil- 
ful phyridant  and  his  fame  reaching  the  imperial 
eourts*  the  emperor,  Ferdinand  II.,  by  letters  pa- 
tent, dated  0th  March,  16SK),  oonfiBrred  upon  him 
the  dignity  of  Ddks,  when  he  assumed  the  title 
of  Duke  of  Northumberbmd.  Sir  Robert,  like  hia 
fethcr,  deserted  Ids  lady,  and  took  with  him  to  the 
Continent  Hiis  Southwell,  daughter  of  Sir  Robert 
SouthweU,  of  Wood  Riaing,  in  the  county  of  Nor- 
ftdk,  and  there  married  her,  tmder  the  pretence  that 
hia  nuurriage  with  AUce  Lei^  waa,  by  the  canon 
law,  illegal,  in  as  much  as  he  had  carnal  knowledge 
of  her  during  the  life-time  of  his  first  wife.  Miss 
Cavendish,  sister  of  Thomas  Cavendish,  the  navi- 
girtor.  By  Miss  SouthweU,  Sir  Robert  Dudley  had 
sevexal  children,  of  which  Charles,  the  ddest  son, 
bore,  alter  hia  decease,  the  title  of  Duke  of  Nor- 
thumberland. Notwithstanding  the  conduct  of  Sir 
Robert,  his  lady,  who  remained  in  England, 

ALICE  DUDLEY,  waa  elevated  to  the  peerage 
for  life,  by  King  Charles  I.,  by  letters  patent,  dated 
23rd  May,  1644,  as  DocHsaa  of  DuDi.aT,  and  her 
surviving  dan^ten  were  allowed  the  precedency  of 
a  dnke^s  children. 
The  following  is  a  copy  of  the  grant,  via.— 

"  CBAu.Ba,  by  the  grace  of  God,  ftc. 

'*  Whenaa,  in  the  reign  of  King  James,  a  suit 

was  eommenced  in  the  Star  Chamber  Court  against 

Sir  Robert  Dudley,  for  pretending  himself  lawful 

heir  to  the  hooonn  and  lands  of  the  earldoms  of 


Warwick  and  Leicester,  as  son  and  heir  of  Robert, 
Earl  of  Ldoester,  by  Douglas,  wife  to  the  said  earl, 
and  all  proeeeiUngs  stayed  in  the  eodealastlcal 
oourtsMn  which  the  said  suit  depended  for  proof  of 
his  Intimation;  yet,  nevertheless,  did  the  said 
court  vouchsafe  liberty  to  the  said  Sir  Robert  to 
esuftlne  witnesses  In  the  Star  Chamber  Court,  to 
make  good  his  legitimacy.  Whereupon,  by  Aill 
testimony  of  the  Lady  Douglas  henelf  ,  and  other 
witnesses,  it  was  made  appear.  But  a  special  order 
being  made,  that  the  daftositions  should  be  sealed 
up,  and  no  copies  taken,  did  cause  the  said  Sir 
Robert  to  leave  the  kingdom ;  whereof  hia  adver- 
saries taking  advantage,  occasioned  his  bmda  to  be 
seised  on,  to  the  klngj  our  fether's  use.  And  not 
hmg  after.  Prince  Henry  made  overture  to  the  said 
Sir  Robert,  to  obtain  his  title  by  purchase  of. 
Kenilworth  Castle,  &c.,  valued  at  £fiO,O00L,  but 
bought  by  the  prince  In  consideration  of  jCl4,/M)0., 
and  piomiae  of  his  prino^  fevour  to  restore  Sir 
Robert  in  honours  and  fortunes  ;  but  before  pay- 
ment thereof  was  made  (if  any  at  all,)  to  the  said 
Sir  Robert's  hands,  the  prince  was  dead.  And  it 
appearing  that  Alice,  Lady  Dudley,  wife;  of  Sir 
Robert,  had  an  estate  of  inheritance  in  the  same, 
descendible  unto  her  posterity,  in  the  19th.  of 
James  L,  an  act  waa  passed  to  enable  her  to  aUen 
'her  estate  flrom  her  children  as  a  feme  sole ;  which 
she  accordingly  did,  in  conaideratian  of  ^£4,000., 
and  further  payments  yearly  to  be  made  out  of  the 
exchequer,  &c. ;  which  having  not  been  accordingly 
paid  for  many  years,  are  to  the  damage  of  the  said 
Lady  Alice  and  her  children,  to  a  very  great  ^alue. 
And  the  said  Sir  Robert  settling  himsdf  in  Tua- 
cany,  within  the  territories  of  the  great  duke,  (from 
whom  he  had  extraordinary  esteem,)  had  troin  the 
emperor,  Ferdinand  II.,  the  title  of  a  duke  given 
him,  to  be  used  by  himself  and  his  heirs  throughout 
the  sacred  empire. 

*'  And  whereas,  our  fether  not  knowing  the  truth 
of  the  lawful  Mrth  of  the  said  Sir  Robert,  (as  we 
piously  believe,)  granted  away  the  titles  of  the  said 
earldom  to  others,  which  we  now  hold  not  fit  to 
call  in  question.  And  yet  having  a  very  deep  sense 
of  the  injuries  done  to  Sir  Robert  Dudley,  and  the 
Lady  Alice,  and  their  children,  Ac.,  and  holding 
ourselves  in  honour  and  conscience  obliged  to  make 
reparation ;  and  ako  taking  into  consideration  the 
said  great  estate  which  the  Lady  Alice  had  in  Kenil- 
worth, and  sold  at  our  desire  to  us  at  a  very  great 
undervalue  and  yet  not  performed  or  satisfied  to 
many  thouaand  pounds  damage.  And  we  also,  cast- 
ing our  princely  eye  upon  the  felthful  services  done 
by  Sir  Richard  Leveson,  who  married  the  Lady 
Catherine,  ime  of  the  dsughten  of  the  said  duke, 
and  also  the  great  services  which  Robert  Hol- 
boume, Esq.,  hath  done  us  by  hia  learned  pen, 
and  otherwise,  who  married  Anne,  another  of  the 
daughters;  we  have  conceived  ourselvea  bound  in 
honour  and  conscience  to  give  the  said  Lady  Alice 
and  her  diUdren  such  honours  and  precedencies  as 
is,  or  are  due  to  them  in  marriage  or  blood.  And 
therefore  we  do  not  only  give  and  grant  unto  the 
said  Lady  AUce  Dudley  the  title  of  Duchess  of 
Dudley  for  life,  in  England,  and  other  our  realms, 
itc,  with  such  precedendea  as  she  might  have  had,  >  , 

183: 


DUD 


DUN 


i  f  the  had  lived  in  the  dominioas  of  tiM  Mcred  em- 
pire, &C. ;  but  we  do  alio  further  grant  unto  the 
•aid  Liady  Catherine  and  Lady  Anne,  her  daughtera, 
the  plaooi,  titles,  and  precedencies,  of  the  said 
duke's  daughters,  as  ftotn  the  time  of  tlieir  firther's 
creation  during  their  respective  lives,  Aec  Con- 
ceiving oursdves  obliged  to  do  much  more  for 
than,  if  it  were  in  our  power,  in  these  unhappy 
times  of  distraction,  Ac*  witness  ourself,  at  Oxford, 
S3rd  May,  In  the  SOth  year  of  our  reign." 

This  honour  was  also  oonflrmed  to  her  grace  by 
King  Charles  II. 

The  Duchess  of  Dudley  died  on  theSSnd  January, 

1669-70^  and  was  buried  at  Stoorieigfa,  in  the  county 

of  Warwick,  under  a  noble  monument  elected  by 

herself,  when  her  peerage,  being  for  life  only,  sz- 

»  rinnn. 

DUDLEY-^EARL  OF  WARWICK. 
By  Letters  Patent,  dated  96lh  September  IMl. 

Xiiuagc. 

Throu^  the  especial  favour  of  the  Quefln,  in  the 
ad  and  4th  of  Philip  and  Mary. 

LORD  AMBROSE  DUDLEY,  then  eldest  sur- 
viving son  of  the  attainted  John  Dudley,  Duke  of 
Northumberland,  was  restored  in  blood  i  and  in  the 
flnt  year  of  Elinbeth,  he  obtained  a  grant  of  the 
manor  of  Ribworth  Beauchamp,  in  the  county  of 
Leicester,  to  be  held  by  the  service  of  pantler  to  the 
kings  and  queens  of  England  at  their  coronations, 
which  manor  and  office  his  Ikther  and  other  of  his 
ancestors.  Earls  of  Warwick,  formerly  enjoyed. 
In  the  next  year  he  was  made  master  of  the  ord> 
nance  for  life,  and  two  years  afterwards,  85th  De< 
cembcr  1561,  advanced  to  the  peerage  as  Baboit 
L'lsLn,  preparatory  to  his  being  created  next  day 
Earl  of  Warwick,  when  he  obtained  a  grant  of 
Warwick  Castle,  and  divers  other  kndships  in  the 
same  county,  which  had  come  to  the  crown  upon 
the  attainder  of  his  fether.  His  lordship  was  after- 
wards dected  a  Knight  of  the  Oarter.  In  the  19th 
Elisabeth,  upon  the  insurrection  in  the  North  of  the 
Earls  of  Northumberland  and  Westmordand,  the 
Earl  of  Sussex  being  first  dispatched  against  the 
rebds  with  seven  hundred  men,  the  Earl  of  War- 
wick, with  the  Lord  Admiral  Clinton,  followed  with 
thirteen  thousand  more,  the  earl  being  nominated 
lieutenant-general  of  the  army.  The  next  year  his 
lordship  was  constituted  Chief  Butler  of  Enghmd, 
and  soon  afterwards  sworn  of  her  nuO^ty's  privy 
council ;  in  which  latter  year,  15th  Eliabeth,  he  was 
one  of  the  peers  who  sate  in  Westminster  Hall  upon 
the  trial  and  Judgment  of  Thomas,  Duke  of  Norfolk, 
as  he  did,  in  fourteen  years  after  at  Fotheringay, 
upon  the  trial  of  Mary  of  Scotland. 

His  lordship  m.  first,  Anne,  daughter  and  oo-heir 
of  William  Whorwood,  Esq.,  Attomey-Oencral  to 
King  Henry  VIILi  secondly,  Elisabeth,  daughter 
and  heir  of  Gilbert  Talboys,  and  sister  and  heir 
of  George,  Lord  Talboys;  and  thirdly,  Anne^ 
daughter  of  Frands,  Earl  of  Bedford;  but  died 
without  issue  in  1589,  when  all  his  noirouRa  became 
BXTiNCT,  and  the  lordships  and  lands,  which  he 
had  obtained  by  grant,  (part  ci  the  inheritance  of  the 
old  Earls  of  Warwick,)  reverted  to  the  crown.  Of 
1M 


these  the  ancient  pmk  of  WedgOMck  was  granted 
in  1001  by  Queen  Eliabeth  to  Sir  Fulke  Greville, 
to  whom,  in  four  years  afterwards.  King  James 
likewise  granted  the  Castle  of  Warwick,  with  the 
gardens  and  dependencies.  This  Sir  Fulke  Greville 
was  deweiMlwl  through  his  grandmother,  Elisabeth, 
one  of  the  dau^teis  and  co-heirs  of  Lord  Beau- 
champ,  of  Powyk,  ftom  the  old  Beaiichamps,  Eark 
of  Warwick;  and  ftom  him  have  sprung  the  exist- 
ing Earls  of  Brooke  and  Warw^k. 

AKMB^-Or.  a  lion  rampant  as.  double  queree. 
vert. 

DUFF—BARON  FIFE. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  19th  February  1790. 

Xincasc. 

JAMES  DUFF,  second  Earl  of  Fife,  in  the 
peerage  of  Ireland,  was  created  a  peer  of  Great  Bri- 
tain, in  the  dignity  of  Babon  Fipc,  on  the  19th 
February  1790.  His  lordship  m.,  in  1708,  Lady  Do- 
rothea Sinclair,  sole  heir  of  Alexander,  ninth  Earl 
of  Caithness;  but  dying  without  male  issue  in  1809, 
the  British  Bakony  op  Fipb  became  nxTiHcr, 
while  his  lordship's  Irish  honours  devolved  upon  his 
brother,  the  Hon.  Alexander  Ditff,  as  third  Earl  of 
Fife. 

Anm.— <}uarterly ;  first  and  fourth,  or.  a  lion 
rampant  gu.  for  Mac  DulT,  second  and  third,  vert, 
afessee,  danoett6e,  erm.  between  a  harfs  head,  ca- 
bossed,  in  diief,  and  two  escallops  in  base  or.  for 
Duff. 

DUNCOMBE  —  LORD  FEVERSHAM, 
BARON  OF  DOWTON, 
IN  THE  COUNTY  OF 
WILTS. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  SSd  June,  1747- 

Xdicagc. 

The  Duncombes,  originally  of  Barley-End,  in 
the  county  of  Buckingham,  spread  in  diflvent 
branches  Into  other  counties  during  the  reigns  of 
King  Henry  VIII.  and  his  son  Edward  VI. 

WILLIAM  DUNCOMBE,  of  Ivingho,  (at  the 

time  of  the  visitation   in   1834,)   married   Mary, 

daughter  of  John  Theed,  gentleman,  and  had  four 

sons,  of  whom  the  second, 

ANTHONY  DUNCOMBE,  Esq.,  of  Drayton,  in 

the  county  of  Bucks,  m. daughter  of  Panlye^ 

Lord  of  the  Manor  of  Whitdiurdi,  and  had  issue, 
Charles  (Sir),  a  banker  in  London,  who  served 
theofflceof  sheriff  for  that  city,  anno  170O, 
and  filled,  in  nine  years  afterwards,  thedvic 
chair.  Sir  Charles  died  unmarried,  possessed 
of  immense  wealth,  acquired  by  himself, 
whidi  he  devised  to  his  nephews,  Anthony 
Dunoombe,   the  son  of  his  brother,  and 
Thomas  Brown,  the  son  of  his  sister. 
Anthony,  of  whom  presently. 
Mary,  m.  to  Thomas  Brown,  Esq,  of  the  dty 
of  London;  by  whom  she  had  an  only  son, 
Thomas,  whose  grandson,  Charles  Bun- 
combe,  Esq.  of  Dunoombe  Park,  in  the 
county  of  Yotk, 


DUN 


DUN 


F«r«nlum  in  IflM,  and  it  Um  praMot 
Lord  Fsvenham* 

ANTHONY  DUNCOMBE,  E«i.  (the  Mcond 
•on)  JH.  J«ae,  ddett  daughter  and  co-haireM  of  the 
Hon.  Frederick  Corawallis,  leeond  ton  of  Fredarick, 
flnt  Lord  CorawalUs,  and  had  an  only  ton, 

ANTHONY  DUNCOMBE,  Eaq.  who  inherited, 
aa  atated  above,  a  moiety  of  hit  uncle  Sir  Charlet 
Duncombe'a  large  fortune,  and  wat  elevated  to  the 
peerage  by  lettert  patent,  dated  S3d  June,  1747,  aa 
Lomo  FsvanaHAM,  Bartm  of  DMCfifon,  in  the 
county  of  Wllta.  Hit  lordihip  m.  fint,  the  Hon. 
Margery  Vemey,  daughter  of  George,  Lord  Wil> 
kmghby  de  Broke;  by  whom  he  had  three  aont, 
Charlet  and  Anthony,  who  both  died  young,  and 
George,  who  attained  hit  nineteenth  year,  but  died 
in  1741}  he  had  Ukewiae  a  daughter,  that  died  in 
inCmcy.  Lord  Fevertham  in.  aeooodly,  Francee, 
daughter  of  ~  Bathurtt,  Eiq. ;  thit  lady  died  in 
childbed,  21tt  November,  1757*  and  he  m.  thirdly, 
Anne,  daughter  of  Sir  Thomat  Halet,  by  whom  he 
had  a  daughter, 

Anne,  who  m.  Jacob,  leoond  Earl  of  Radnor, 
by  whom  the  wat  mother  of  the  preient 
Earl  of  Radnor  and  hit  brothert. 
Hit  lordthip  d.  in  1763*  and  leaving  no  male  ittne, 
the  Babony  of  Fbvbrsram,  or  Downton,  be- 
came BZTiivcT.  Hit  widow  m.,  SSd  July,  1709,  Wil- 
liam, first  Earl  of  Radnor. 

AnMa.— Per  chevron  ingrailed,  gu.  and  ar.  three 
talbott  headt  erated,  counterchanged. 

Note. — Sir  Saunden  Duncombe,  (probably  a  mem- 
ber of  thit  family,)  a  gentleman  pentioner  to  King 
Jamaa  L  and  hit  ton  King  Charlet,  wat  the  taitro- 
dueerof  tedofw  or  dote  chain  into  thit  country  in 
1634,  when  he  obtained  a  patent,  vetting  in  himtelf 
and  hit  heirt  the  lole  right  of  carrying  peraont  "  up 
and  down  in  them**  for  a  certain  turn.  It  it  tome- 
what  ttngular  that  the  tomtf  yaar  introduced  hack- 
ney coechet  into  London :  they  were  flrtt  brought 
into  ute  by  Captain  Bayley. 

DUNNING— BARON  ASHBURTON, 
OF  ASHBURTON,  IN 
THE  COUNTY  OF 
DEVON. 

By  Lettcn  Patent,  dated  8th  April,  17BS. 

Xincage. 

JOHN  DUNNING,  lecond  tonof  John  Dunning, 
of  Gnathem,  in  the  county  of  Devon,  m.  Agnet, 
daughter  of  Henry  Judtham,  of  Old  Port,  in  the 
fame  thlre,  and  left  at  hit  deceate  an  only  turviving 
ton, 

.  JOHN  DUNNING,  6.  at  Afhburton,  18th  Octo- 
tober,  1731,  who  having  applied  himtelf  to  the  study 
of  the  law,  waa  called  to  the  bar,  and  toon  attained 
the  flrtt  rank  in  hit  learned  profeition.  In  1767  Mr. 
Dunning  wat  appointed  lolicitor-general,  an  office 
which  he  retigued  in  1770>  He  wat  elected  to  par- 
liament by  the  borough  of  Calne,  in  1768,  and  con- 
tinued a  member  of  the  lower  house  until  elevated 
to  the  peerage  upon  the  accettion  of  Lord  Shelbume, 
hit  great  patron  to  power*  by  patent,  dated  8th 


April,  ITtt*  at  Bandir  AaHsunToir,  of  AaMmrtOB* 
in  the  coiyity  of  Devon.  On  the  19th  of  the  tame 
month  hit  lordthip  wat  appointed  CHAircxLLoa  op 
TBB  Ducav  OP  LABCAaTBB.  He  wat  alto  recor- 
der of  Brittol,  and  a  member  of  the  privy  counclL 
He  m.  in  1780,  Eliaabeth,  daughter  of  John  Baring, 
Esq.,  of  Larkbear,  In  the  county  of  Devon,  and 
titter  of  Sir  Frandt  Baring,  Bart.,  by  whom  he  had 
two  tout,  John,  who  d.  at  about  teventeen  montht 
old  in  April,  1783,  and  Ricbabd-Babbb,  hit  tuc- 
cenor.  Of  thit  eminent  lawyer.  Sir  Egerton  Brydgea 
taya,  *«  He  wat  aman  whote  talentt  were  to  peculiar, 
and  had  tuch  a  dngular  kind  of  brilliance,  that  they 
are  not  yet  fngotten  at  the  bar.  They  were  more 
remarkable  for  acuteneM  and  for  wit,  than  ftw  de^ 
ganoe  and  chattenett.  The  combination  of  hia 
wordt  were  to  tingular,  and  the  tooet  of  hit  dit- 
oordant  voice  to  served  in  him  to  rivet  the  atten- 
tion, that,  aa  they  aiwaya  conveyed  powers  of 
thinking  eminently  tharp  and  forcible,  he  waa  oini< 
ttantly  Utteued  to  with  eagemeas  and  admiration. 
Hit  temper  wat  generout,  hit  tplriu  lively,  and  hit 
pattiont  violent.  The  popular  aider  which  he  took 
inpolitictlncreatedhitfamei  and  he  died  generally 
lamented,  Jutt  at  he  had  attained  the  fond  object  of 
hit  ambition,  aged  flfty-twa" 

HU  kirdthip  d.  18th  Augutt,  1783,  and  waa  t.  by 
fait  ton, 

RICHARD-BARRE  DUNNING,  teoond  baion, 
b.  16th  September.  1788.  Hit  lordthip  m.  17th  Sep- 
tember, 180ft,  Anne,  daughter  of  the  Ute  William 
Cunningham,  Esq.,  of  Lainthaw,  but  had  no  ittue^ 
He  d.  in  1893,  when  the  Babony  op  AaRBURTon 
became  xxtimct. 

Arkb.— Bendy  tinitter  of  eight,  or.  and  vert,  a 
lion  rampart,  aa. 

DUNSTANVILL-EARL    OF    CORN. 

WALL. 

By  Creation,  anno  1140, 
A  Stephen. 

Xincagc. 

REGINALD  DE  DUNSTANVILL,  one  of  the 
illegitimate  toot  of  King  Henry  I.,  by  the  daughter 
of  Robert  Corbet,  wat  made  Babi.  op  Cornwall, 
by  King  Stephen,  anno  1140.  Notwithttandlng 
which,  he  tubtequently  etpouted  the  cause  of  the 
Empress  Maud,  and  waa  in  rebellion,  until  the  fall 
of  Stephen't  power  at  the  battle  of  Lincoln.  From 
which  period  we  find  nothing  remarluble  of  him 
until  the  10th  Henry  II.,  when  he  appears  to  have 
been  an  untucceitAil  mediator  between  that  mo- 
narch and  the  haughty  prelate*  Thomat  k  Becker. 
His  lordthip  wat  afterwardt  in  arms  on  the  tide  of 
the  king,  against  Robert,  Earl  of  Leicester,  (who 
had  reared  the  standard  of  revolt  in  favourof  Prince 
Henry,  the  king's  son,)  and  joined  Richard  de  Luci, 
Juitice  of  England,  in  the  siege  of  Leicester;  the 
town  tA  whidi  they  carried,  but  not  the  cattle.  H  is 
lordthip  m.  Beatrice,  daughter  of  William  Fits- 
Richard,  a  potent  man  of  Cornwall,  and  d.  In  1175, 
when  leaving  no  legitimate  male  issue,  the  Earldom 
OP  CoamfPALL  reverted  to  the  crown,  and  wat  re* 
tained  by  King  Henry  IL  for  the  ute  of  John,  hit 
SB  18ft 


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£CH 


younger  'son.  exceptliig  •  nnall  proportioa  which 
derolTvd  upon  the  deoeewd  lord's  deughtcn,  yia. 

Hawyie,  m.  to  Richard  de  Redven. 

Maud,  m.  to  Robert,  Earl  of  Mellent. 

Umtla,  m.  to  Walter  de  DunatanvUL 

Sarah,  fn.  to  the  Vtooount  of  Limoges. 
ARXia.— Gu.  two  lions  passant  guardant,  or.  a 
batune  sinister,  aiL 

No«0.— Besides  his  Intimate  daughters  above- 
mentioned,  theearlleftby  Beatrice  de  Vaus,  Uidy  of 
Torre  and  Karswell,  two  baeUrd  sons,  Hswry  and 
William,  whereof  the  ^der, 

HENRY,  sumamed  FiTE-CotnrT,  became  a  par- 
eon  of  great  celebrity.    In  the  4th  King  John  he  had 
an  assignation  of  £M  current  money  of  Anjou,  for 
his  support  in  the  king's  serrioe  in  Roah;  and 
about  that  time  gave  twelve  hundred  marks  for  the 
hmds  of  Wtttlam  de  Traci ;  which  lands  Hugh  de 
Courtenay  and  Henry  de  Tracy  afterwards  enjoyed. 
In  the  17th  John  he  had  a  grant  frooi  the  king  of 
the  whole  county  of  Cobhwali,,  with  the  de- 
mesnes, and  all  other  appurtenances,  to  Ckrm,  until 
the  reelm  should  be  in  peace,  and  the  king  clearly 
satisfied,  whether  he  ought  to  hold  it  in  right  of 
inheritance,  or  as  a  part  of  the  demesne  of  the 
crown :  and  being  then  made  constable  of  the  Cab- 
TLK  OT  LANcasTON,  rendered  up  thegovcnmientof 
the  Castle  of  Pobcbstrx,  which  he  had  previously 
held.    Inthe4thof  King  Henry  III.  it  appears  that 
he  stood  indebted  to  the  king  in  £007  and  one  mark, 
which  sum  was  due  by  him  to  King  John,  and  that 
the  same  year  ^sobeylng  the  king's  commands,  and 
departing  the  court  without  permiisifln,  the  king 
discharged  all  his  subjecU,  and  in  particular  those 
fd  Cornwall,  firom  having  anything  to  do  with  him. 
He  made  his  peace,  however,  soon  after,  through 
the  mediation  of  the  Bishops  of  Norwich,  Winches- 
ter, and  Exeter,  and  the  friendship  of  Hubert  de 
Burgh,  then  justice  of  England,  upon  surrendering 
to  the  crown  the  castle  of  Launoeston,  and  the 
county  of  Cornwall,  with  all  the  homage  and  services 
thereto  belonging  as  fully  as  King  John  enjoyed 
them  at  the  beginning  of  the  war  with  the  barons : 
saving  the  right  which  he,  Henry  Fits-Count,  pre- 
Cerred  to  the  county,  and  in  which  the  king  pro- 
mised to  do  him  Justice  when  he  attained  maturity. 
The  claimant  died,  however,  beftne  the  arrival  of 
that  period,  and  the  matter  was  consequently  never 
determined.    By  some  it  has  been  thought  that  this 
HsNBY  FiTz-CouTTT  sucoecded  his  fother  in  the 
Earldom  of  Cornwall,  because  he  obtained  a  grant 
of  tile  county  from  the  crown.    "  But  considering," 
says  Dugdale,  **  that  the  title  of  earl  was  never 
attributed  to  him,  I  cannot  conceive  any  thing  more 
passed  by  that  grant,  than  the  barony  or  revenue  of 
the  county." 

DURAS— BARON  DURAS,  OF  HOI*- 
DENBY,  IN  THE  COUNTY 
OF  NORTHAMPTON, 

EARL  OF  FEVERSHAM. 

Barony,    \  by  Letters  P^  f  19th  January,  1673L 
Earldom,  J     tent,  dated    1 8th  April,  I070> 

Xincagt. 

LEWIS  DE  DURAS«  MarqucM  of  Blmquefort, 
18S 


and  brother  of  the  Duke  de  Duraa,  In  France,  was 
naturalised  by  act  of  parliament,  17th  King  Charles- 
II.,  being  at  that  period  captain  of  the  guard  to  the 
Duke  of  York,  whom  he  afterwards  attended  in  the 
criebrated  sea-llght  with  the  Dutch,  in  June,  1685* 
and  behaved  so  gallantty  therein,  that  be  was  de* 
vated  to  the  peerage  by  letters  patent,  dated  19th 
January,  1678,  (in  consideration  of  this  and  other 
services,)  In  the  dignity  of  Baron  Dums,  of  Hol- 
denby.  His  lordship  m.  Mary,  elder  daughter  and 
00-heiress  of  Sir  George  Sondes,  of  Lees  Court,  in 
the  county  of  Kent,  K.B.,  which  Sir  George  was 
elevated  to  the  peerage  (see  Sondes),  as  BaroM 
Throwley,  Viseount  Sondu,  and  Earl  or  Frtsr- 
BHAM,  with  remainder,  in  deCsult  ot  male  issue,  to 
his  son-in-law.  Lord  Duras,  by  letters  patent,  dated 
8th  April,  1876,  and  dying  in  the  following  year. 
Lord  Duras  inherited  accordingly,  and  became  Eari 
of  Fevershaou  Hb  lordship  had  a  command  at  the 
battle  of  Sedgemoor,  and  was  oomman4ter  of  the 
army  of  King  James,  (by  whom  he  was  made  a 
knight  of  the  Garter,)  when  the  Prince  of  Orange 
came  to  WhitehalL  He  survived  the  revolution, 
and  died  without  issue  in  1709,  when  all  his  honours 
became  sxtinct. 

Arms.— Gu.  a  lion  rampant,  ar.  (a  label  of  tiiree 
points). 


ECHINOHAM  —  BARON  ECHING- 

HAM. 

By  Writ  ot  Summons,  dated  19th  December,  1311, 
5  Edward  IL 

ICincagc. 

SIMON  DE  ECHINGHAM,  of  Echhigham.  ih 
the  county  of  Sussex,  served  the  office  of  ■heriif  for 
that  shire  and  the  county  of  Surrey  in  the  18th, 
19th,  and  90Ui  of  Henry  III.  To  this  Simon  suc- 
ceeded his  son  and  beirr 

WILLIAM  DE  ECHINGHAM.  who  held  seven 
knights'  fees  of  the  honour  of  Hastings;  and  in  the 
31st  of  Henry  III.,  having  m.  Margaret,  ddest 
daughter  and  co-heir  of  William  de  Montacute,  had 
livery  of  the  moiety  of  the  manor  of  Gysseberg,  in 
the  county  of  Somerset.  After  this  William,  the 
next  person  of  note  of  the  family, 

ROBERT  DE  ECHINGHAM,  was  engaged 
in  the  Scottish  wars  of  Edward  I. ;  and  after  Mm 
came 

WILLIAM  DE  ECHINGHAM,  who  was  sum- 
moned to  parliament,  as  a  baron,  ftam  19th  De* 
cember,  1311,  to  14th  March,  ISSi.    His  successor, 

ROBERT  DE  ECHINGHAM,  was  summoned* 
to  parliament  in  the  1st  of  Edward  III.  He  died 
the  next  year,  possessed  of  the  manor  of  Eching- 
ham,  in  Sussex,  and  its  members;  but  nothing 
authentic  is  fcuther  known  of  the  fsmily. 

Aam.— Ai.,  a  flrett  ar. 


•  Nicolas  says  this  was  a  military  summons,  and 
not  a  summons  to  parliament. 


JEOC 


ENa 


JEOSBTON  —  BARONS  OF  EL- 
LESMERE,  VISCOUNTS 
BRACKLEY,  EARLS  OF 
BRIDGEWATER,  DUKES 
OF  BRIDGEWATER. 


Vbcounty, 


Dukedom, 


by  Letten 


f  ]7th  July.  1«»L 
7th  Nov.,  1616b 
97th  If  fty,  I6I7. 

18th  June,  178a 


Xincast. 

The  DvKSDOK  or  Bridocwatbr  and  Mar^i- 
mt€  9f  BrwMtif  were  ooafened  18th  June,  17flO» 


SCROOP  EOBRTON,  Iburth  Earl  of  Bridge- 
water,  and  thoae  honours  bxpiaso  with  Frandi 
EgertoB,  the  third  duke,  In  1809.  The  earldom  and 
minor  titka  then  devolved  upon  the  next  male 
hair, 

JO*1N  WILLIAM  EOBRTON,  Bw|.,  aa  tercnth 
earl,  who  tranamltted  them,  at  his  deoeaae  in  1888, 
to  hit  brother, 
The  Reverend 

FRANCIS  HENRY  EOBRTON,  aa  elfhth 
earL  At  the  deceMe  of  thia  nobleman,  in  1889,  the 
honours  of  the  house  of  Bridgew&ter  became  sus- 
pended t  but  as  we  understand  that  they  are  likely 
•nitf  to  be  au^ftnded,  we  have  hcaltated  to  consider 
them  xxTiNCT,  and  the  particulars  of  the  family 
■any  yet,  therefore,  he  found  in  BwM»  Die- 
Homanf  <t^M«  P99rag9  and  Baronetage. 

EOERTON  —  BARON  GREY  DE 

WILTON. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  Iftth  May,  1784. 

Xincase. 

This,  and  the  noble  house  of  BniDonwATsn, 
originated  with  a  common  ancestor;  but  the  branch 
of  Gray  de  Wilton  waa  the  senior. 

ROBERT  FITZHUOH.   Baboic  of  MALPAa, 
in  Cheshire,  left  aa  only  daughter  and  lieireis, 
',  who  espoused 

WILLIAM  LE  BELWARD,  and  conferied  upon 
him  the  Babont  op  Malpas.  From  this  alliance 
sprang  the  two  grsat  Cheshire  families  of  Eobbton 
and  Choi«moxdbi.by.    Of  the  former, 

SIR  ROWLAND  EGERTON,  Knt.,  of  Eger* 
ton  and  OtUton,  in  the  ouunty  of  Chester,  (the  lat- 
ter estate  inherited  through  an  heiress  of  the  DofMt, 
ftrom  the  family  of  Kingal^,)  was  created  a  baronet 
081  the  13ch  of  April,  1617.  This  gentleman  re- 
sided at  his  manor  of  Ferminghoe,  in  the  county  of 
Northampton*  and  m.  Bridget,  daughter  of  Sir 
Arthur  Grey,  fourteenth  Lobd  Obby  dm  Wiltob, 
lord-lieutcoant  of  Ireland  in  IMO,  and  heir  of  her  bro- 
ther, Thomas  Grey,  fifteenth  and  last  baron  i^  that 
fiunily,  (see  Grey,  Barons  Grey  de  Wilton,)  by  whom 
be  had,  with  other  issue, 

Thomas,  who  m.  Barbara,  daughter  of  Sir 
John  SL  Jcrfm,  Bart.,  and  died  s.  jpb  in  the 
lilb-ame  of  his  father. 
JoBXj  his  suooessoi;. 


Philip,  of  Ottlton,  whose  descendant  is  the 
present  Baronet  of  Bgertonand  Oulton. 
Sir  Rowtand  d.  in  16«B»  aad  wass.  by  hia  eldest  sur* 
viviog  son, 

SIR  JOHN  EGERTON,  second  baronet,  who 
m.  Anne,  daughter  of  George  Wintour,  Eaq.,  of 
Derham,  in  the  county  of  Gloucester,  and  dying  in 
1674,  was  #.  by  his  only  surviving  son, 

SIR  JOHN  EGERTON,  third  baionet.  This 
gentleman  m.  first,  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  William, 
and  sisfesr  and  sole  heic  of  Edward  H<41and,  Eaq., 
of  Heaton  and  Denton,  in  Lancashire,  by  whom  he 
had  six  sons  and  two  daughters.  He  espoused,  se- 
condly, Anne,  sole  daughter  and  heir  of  Francis 
Wolferstaa,  Esq.,  of  Statfold.  In  Stallbrdahira.  Sir 
John  <L  4th  November,  1780,  and  was  «.  by  his  ehl« 
est  son, 

SIR  HOLLAND  EOBRTON,  fourth  baronet, 
who  m.,  in  1718,  Eteanor,  youqgest  daughter  of 
Sir  Roger  Cave^  of  Stanford*  in  Northampton- 
shire, Bart.,  and  dyii^  85th  April,  1790i  was  «.  by 
his  ddest  surviving  son* 

SIR  EDWARD  EOBRTON,  fifth  baronet,  at 
whose  decease,  unmarried*  in  1744,  the  title  de- 
volved upon  his  brother, 

SIR  THOMAS-GREY  EGERTON,  sixth  ba^ 
ronei,  who  lepiesented  the  county  of  Lancaater  in 
three  parliaments,  and  was  elevated  to  the  pesrage, 
by  letters  patent  dated  14th  May.  1784,  In  the  dignity 
of  Babok  Gbxy  vu  Wilton,  in  thecounty  of  Hert- 
ford. His  ]ordshipin.,18thI>ecember,  1788*  Eleanor, 
daughter  and  co-heir  of  Sir  Ralph  Ashefeon.  Bart., 
of  Middleton,  In  the  county  of  Lancaster,  by  whom 
he  had  two  sons  and  three  daughters,  of  which  one 
daughter  alone  lived  to  maturity,  namely, 

Elbanob,  who  fik,  iSth  April,  1794,  Robert* 
Viscount '  Bdgrave  (present  Earl  Orosve* 
nor). 
The  baron  was  advanced,  on  the  26th  June,  1801, 
to  the  dignities  of  FUotmni  Grey  d»  mUon  and 
Eabl  op  Wilton,  with  special  remainder  to 
Thomas  Grosvcnor*  the  second,  end  to  the  younger 
sons.  suceeMively,  of  his  daughter  Eleanor,  by  her 
then  hnsbend,  Robert,  Viscount  Belgrave,  or  to  her 
male  issue  by  any  future  husbend.  His  lordship  d, 
83d  September,  1814,  when  the  baronetcy  reverted 
to  John  Grey  Egerton,  Eaq.,  of  Oulton  Park.  The 
viscounty  and  earidom  devolved,  according  to  the 
limitation,  upon  his  grandson,  the  Hon.  Thomas 
Grosvenor,  now  Eabl  op  Wilton,  and  the  ba- 

BONY  of  GBBT  OB  WiLTON  bSCame  BXTINCT. 

Abms.— Ar.,  a  lion  rampant,  gules*  betw.  three 
pheons'  heads  sa. 

ENQAINE— BARONS  ENGAINE. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  6th  February,  1890» 
which  became  extinct;  but  revived  by  Writ* 
dated  SSth  February.  1348,  16  Edward  IIL 

The  first  of  this  family  taken  notice  of  by  our 
public  records.  Is, 

RICHARD  INGAINE,  chief  engineer  to  King 
William  the  Conqueror,  from  which  office  he  d». 
rived  his  surname  i  to  whom  succeeded* 

187 


ENO 


£Dll 


VITALIS  ENGAINE ;  and  after  him  came, 

RICHARD   ENGAINE,  Lord  of  Blatherwick, 
in  the  county  «f  Northampton*  temp.  Henry  II., 
who  m.  Sara,  daughter  of  the  Earl  of  Oxford,  and 
had  two  sons, 
Richard, 
Vitalia. 
He  was  #.  by  the  elder, 

RICHARD  ENGAINE,  one  of  the  Insurrec- 
tionary barons,  in  the  reign  of  King  John,  whose 
lands  were  in  consequence  seised  by  the  crown.  He 
d,  in  1216,  and  was  #.  by  his  brother, 

VITALIS  ENGAINE,  who  had  Ukewise  espoused 
the  baronial  cause,  and  had  not,  therefore,  posses- 
sion of  the  estates  of  the  family  until  the  accession 
of  King  Henry  III.  In  the  9Gth  of  this  reign,  this 
feudal  lord  made  partition  with  William  de  Cante- 
lupe,  of  Bergavenny,  of  the  manor  of  Badmunds- 
flelds,  in  Suilblk,  as  hdrs  to  WiUiam  de  Courtenai. 
He  m.  Roese,  one  of  the  three  sisters  and  co-heirs  of 
the  honour  of  Montgomery,  in  Wales,  and  wasa.,  at 
his  decease  in  1248,  by  his  son, 

HENRY  ENGAINE,  who  in  the  42nd  Henry 
III.  had  a  military  summons  to  march  against  the 
Welch :  but  afterwards  taking  part  with  the  barons, 
he  was  involved  in  the  defeat  at  Evesham,  and  had 
his  lands  sequestered.  They  were  soon  restored, 
however,  under  the  JHetum  itf  KenUuwrth*  This 
feudal  lord  never  married,  and  dying  in  1271,  was  «. 
by  his  brother, 

JOHN  ENGAINE,  who  m.  Joene,  daughter  and 
heir  of  Henry  Gray,  and  dying  in  1296,  was  «.  by  his 
son, 

JOHN  DE  ENGAINE.  This  feudal  lord  having 
distinguished  himself  in  the  wan  of  Scotland,  temp. 
Edward  I.,  was  summoned  to  parliament  as  a  barom 
by  that  monarch,  flrom  6th  Febnuury,  1290,  to  15th 
May,  1321.  His  lordship  died,  however,  the  next 
year,  when  the  barony  became  bxtimct,  but  liis 
landed  property  devolved  upon  his  nephew  as  heir 
at  law,  namely^ 

JOHN  DE  ENGAINE,  (son  of  Nicholas  de 
Engaine,  by  Amida,  daughter  ist  Waiter  Fauoon- 
berg,)  who  making  proof  of  his  age  had  livery  of 
his  estates.  This  John,  in  the  19th  Edward  III., 
then  residing  in  Huntingdonshire,  had  a  military 
summcms  to  attend  the  king  into  France,  and  was 
summoned  to  parliament  as  a  babon,  ftom  2ftth 
February,  1342,  to  20th  November,  1360.  His  lord- 
ship had  previously  the  high  military  rank  of  knight 
banneret.  He  m.  Joane,  daughter  of  Sir  Robert 
PevereU,  and  had  issue, 

Thomas,  his  successor. 
Joyce,  m.  to  John  de  Goldington. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Sir  Lawrence  Pakenham. 
Mary,  m.  to  Sir  William  Bemak. 
His  lordship  d.  at  his  seat  at  Dillington,  in  the 
county  of  Huntingdon,  seised  of  the  manors  of 
Haighton,  in  the  county  of  Leicester ;  Noteley,  in 
Essex;  Handsdon,  in  Herts:  Saundey,  in  Bedford- 
shire; Gldelingand  Dillington,  in  Huntingdonshire, 
and  Laxton,  in  the  coimty  of  Northampton.    In 
which  he  was  «.  by  his  son, 

THOMAS   DE  ENGAINE,  second  baron,  but 
never  summoned  to  parliament.    His  lordship  m. 
the  Lady  KBtherlne  Courtenay,  daughter  of  Hugh, 
188 


Earl  of  Devonshire,  but  dying  withoat  Issue  ia 
1367,  his  great  landed  possessions  devolved  upon 
his  sisters  as  co-heirs,  while  the  Babony  of  En- 
OAiNB  fell  into  abbyancb  amongst  them,  as  it  still 
continues  with  their  representatives. 

Arms. — Gules,  a  fesse  indented  between  seven 
cross  crosslets,  four  in  chief,  three  in  base,  or. 

EDRIN6TON  —  BARON  EDRING- 

TON. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  22nd  January,  1336. 
9  Edward  IIL 

The  surname  of  this  family  was  assumed  from  the 
lordship  of  Edrington,  in  the  county  of  Warwick, 
bestowed  by  Gervase  Paganell,  Banm  of  Dudley, 
upon 

HENRY  DE  EDRINGTON,  whose  grandson, 

THOMAS  DE  EDRINGTON,  was  appointed, 
with  Richard  de  Altacvipa,  in  the  6th  King  John, 
bailiff  or  substitute  to  Geoffrey  Fiupiers,  then 
sheriff  of  the  counties  of  Salop  and  Stafford.  He 
was  afterwards  chamberlain  to  the  king,  and  ob- 
tained some  territorial  grants  from  the  crown.  In 
the  15th  of  John,  when  the  banmial  influence  pre- 
dominated, this  Thomas  de  Edrington,  and  Ralph 
Fits-Nicholas,  are  said  to  have  been  despatched 
secretly  by  the  king  to  Admiralius  Murmelius,  king 
of  AfHca  and  Spain,  to  afSa  to  the  infidel  the  whole 
realm  of  England,  as  a  tributary  state;  and  that  he, 
John,  would  renounce  the  cross,  and  assume  the 
crescoit,  if  the  Mahomedon  monarch  would  ailbrd 
him  assistance  against  his  powerful  and  rebelUous 
subjects.  Thomas  de  Edrington  m.  Roese  de  Cock- 
field,  and  dying  in  the  latter  end  of  John's  reign, 
was  #.  by  his  son, 

GILES  DE  EDRINGTON,  who,  hi  the  35th 
Henry  III.,  was  one  of  the  justices  itinerant  for  the 
City  of  London,  and  the  next  was  constituted  one 
of  the  justices  of  the  court  of  common  pleas :  he 
was  likewise  one  of  the  justices  of  assiae  for  the 
county  of  Warwick,  ttom  the  34th  to  the  53rd  of 
the  same  reign  indiisive;  This  learned  peiflOn  was 
a  munificent  beneilsctor  to  the  church.  He  was  «. 
at  his  decease  by  his  son, 

HENRY  DE  EDRINGTON,  who  m.  Maud, 
one  of  the  daughters,  and  eventually  co-hdresses  of 
Roger  de  Someri,  Baron  of  Dudley ;  and  ako  one 
of  the  co-heirs  of  Nichola,  daughter  and  co-heir  of 
Hugh  Albini,  Earl  of  Arundel,  and  dying  in  the 
10th  Edward  I.,  was  #.  by  his  son, 

HENRY  DE  EDRINGTON,  who,  in  the  30th 
Edward  I.,  upon  the  decease  of  his  mother,  had 
livery  of  her  lands.  In  four  years  afterwards  he 
was  made  a  knight  of  the  Bath,  and  he  then  attend- 
ed Prince  Edward  in  the  expedition  made  into  Soot- 
land:  wherein  he  attained  so  much  celebrity  that 
he  was  summoned  to  parliament  as  a  barom  on  the 
22nd  January,  1336.  His  lordship  m.  Joane,  daugh* 
ter  and  co-heir  of  Sir  Thomas  de  Wolvey ,  of  Wolvey, 
in  the  county  of  Warwick,  by  whom  he  had  an  only 
son, 

OI1.B8,  who,  not  appearing  In  the  19th  Ed- 
ward III.  to  receive  the  honour  of  knight- 
hood, obtained  pardon  fbr  that  omission. 


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Lord  Edriagton  had  iMit  CNMiummons,  and*  his  d»- 
tmndmtM  none.    He  wu  #.  by  his  soHf 
GILES  DE  EDRINOTON,  whose  great  grand- 


THOMAS  EDRINGTON,  who  lived  in  the 
reign  of  Henry  VL,  was  the  last  of  the  fiunily  that 
ei^oyed  the  lovdship  of  Edrington«  In  the  county  of 
Warwick. 

Asms.— Or,  two  lions  passant  in  pale  as. 

ELIOTT  —  BARONS  HEATHFIELD, 
OF  GIBRALTAIL 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  6th  July,  1787. 

SIR  GILBERT  ELIOTT,  of  Stohbs,  in  the 
county  of  Roxtnirgh,  a  Baronet  of  Nora  Scotia,  m. 
Eteaoflv,  daughter  of  William  Eliot,  of  Weld,  or 
Wdls,  in  the  same  shire,  and  had,  with  other  issue, 

JoHK,  his  successor  in  the  barraetcy. 
And 

GEORGE  AUGUSTUS  ELIOTT,  (eighth  son,) 
who  was  bom  at  the  paternal  seat,  2ftth  DeoembCT, 
1717,  and  receiTed  the  rudiments  of  his  education 
under  a  private  tutor.  At  an  early  age  he  was  sent 
to  the  university  of  Leyden,  where  he  made  rapid 
progress  in  classical  learning,  and  spoke  with  ele* 
gance  and  fluency,  the  German  and  French  lan- 
guages. Being  designed  for  a  military  life  he  was 
sent  from  thence  to  La  Fere,  in  Picardy.  This 
school  was  rendered  the  most  celebrated  in  Europe, 
by  means  of  the  great  Vauban,  under  whom  it  was 
conducted.  It  was  afterwards  placed  under  the 
management  and  care  of  the  Count  de  HouroviUe ; 
here  it  was,  that  the  foundation  was  laid  of  that  know- 
ledge of  military  science  in  all  its  branches,  and  parti- 
cularly in  the  arts  of  engineering  and  fortification, 
which  afterwards  so  greatly  distinguished  this  re> 
nowned  officer.  He  completed  his  course,  by  a  tour 
upon  the  continent,  for  the  purpose  of  witnessing 
the  practical  eflbct  of  what  he  had  been  studying  the- 
oretically. Mr.  EUott  returned,  tn  his  seventeenth 
yesr,  to  his  native  country  of  Scotland,  and  was 
introduced  by  his  father.  Sir  Gilbert,  in  1735,  (the 
same  year,)  to  Lieutenant-Colonel  Peers,  of  the 
twenty-third  r^ment,  then  lying  in  Edinburgh. 
Sir  Gilbert  presented  him  as  a  youth,  anxious  to 
bear  arms  tot  his  king  and  country ;  he  was  accord- 
ingly entered  as  a  volunteer  in  that  regiment,  and 
eontinued  as  such  ft>r  more  than  a  year.  From  the 
twenty-third,  he  went  into  the  engineer  corps  at 
Woolwich,  and  made  great  progress  in  that  study, 
until  his  unde.  Colonel  Eliott,  brought  him  in  as 
adjutant  of  the  second'  troop  of  horse  guards. 
With  these  troops  he  went  upon  service  to  Germany, 
and  was  wounded  at  the  battle  of  Dettingen.  Of 
tMs  regiment,  he  eventually  became  lieutenant- 
colonel,  and  was  soon  afterwards  appointed  aid-de- 
camp to  King  George  II.  In  the  year  17M*  he 
quitted  the  second  troop  of  horse  grenadier  guards, 
being  selected  ,to  raise,  form,  and  discipline  the 
fifteenth  r^ment  of  light  horse,  called  after  him 
Mliote*  light  hone.  As  soon  as  this  corps  was  fit 
for  service,  he  was  appointed  to  the  command  of 
the  cavalry  in  the  expedition  on  the  coasts  of  France, 


with  the  rank  of  bcigadler-genersil,  thenee  |it  passed 
into  Germany,  and  from  that  was  appointed  second 
in  command  in  the  memorable  expedition  against 
the  Havannah.  In  1775>  General  Eliott  succeeded 
General  A'Court,  as  commander-in-chief  of  the 
forces  in  Ireland.  But  he  did  not  continue  long  oti 
that  station ;  not  even  long  enough  to  unpack  his 
trunks.  He  solicited  his  recal,  which  being  com- 
plied with,  he  was  appointed  to  the  wmmund  <t^ 
Oibraltor.  The  system  of  his  life,  as  well  as  his 
education,  peculiarly  qualified  him  for  this  trust. 
He  was  perhaps  the  most  abstemious  man  of  the  age. 
His  food  was  vegetables,  his  drink,  water.  He  never 
slept  more  than  four  hours  at  a  time,  so  that  he  was 
up  later  and  earlier  than  most  other  men.  He  had 
so  inured  himself  to  habits  of  severity,  that  the 
things  which  to  others  are  painful,  were  to  him  of 
daily  practiM,  and  rendered  agreeable  by  use.  It 
could  not  be  easy  to  starve  such  a  man  into  a  sur* 
render.  It  would  be  quite  as  difficult  to  surprise 
him.  The  example  of  the  commander-in-diief  in 
a  besieged  garrison,  has  a  most  persuasive  efficacy 
in  forming  the  manners  of  the  soldiery.  Like  him, 
his  gallant  followers  came  to  regulate  their  lives  by 
the  most  strict  rules  of  discipline,  before  there 
arose  a  necessity  for  so  doing  t  and  severe  exercise* 
with  short  diet,  became  habitual  to  them  by  their 
own  choice;  Thus  General  Eliott  maintained  his 
station  upon  the  rock  for  three  years  of  uninterrupted 
investment,  in  which  the  whole  resources  of  Spain 
were  employed.  All  the  eyes  of  Europe  were  on  hU 
garrison,  and  his  conduct  Justly  raised  him  to  a  most 
elevated  place  in  the  military  annals  of  his  country. 
Upon  his  return  to  England,  the  gratitude  of  the 
British  senate  was  as  prompt  as  the  YoSee  of  the 
British  public,  in  voting  him  that  distinguished 
mark  his  merit  deserved,  to  which  his  mi^esty  waa 
pleased  to  add  that  of  Knight  of  the  Bath,  and  an 
devation  to  the  peerage  by  the  title  of  Lord 
HsATBprBLD,  Baron  Gibraltar,  by  letters  pa- 
tent, dated  14th  June,  1787,  permitting  his  lordship 
at  tlie  same  time  to  take  the  arms  of  the  fortress  he 
had  so  bravely  defiended,  to  perpetuate  to  poste- 
rity his  heroic  conduct.  His  lordship  m.  10th  June, 
1746,  Anne  Pollexfen  Drake,  daughter  of  Sir  Franda 
Drake,  Bart.,  of  Buckland,  in  the  county  of  Devon, 
and  had  surviving  issue, 

Francxs-Auoustub,  his  succcsoor. 

Anne,  m.  in  1777i  to  John  Trayton  Fuller, 
Esq.,  of  Brlghtling,  in  the  county  of  Sus- 
sex, by  whom  she  had  Thomas,  and  other 
issue. 
Lord  Heathfield  died  in  the  seventy-third  year  of 
his  age,  at  his  chateau,  at  Aix  la  Chapelle,  6th  July, 
1790,  and  was«.  by  his  son, 

FRANCIS-AUGUSTUS  ELIOTT.  second  ba- 
ron,  b.  31st  December,  17fia  This  nobleman  was 
also  a  roilitury  man,  and  attained  the  rank  of  lieu- 
tenant-generaL  He  died  «.  j».  in  1813,  when  the 
Barony  op  Hxathpibld  xxpibbd,  while  his 
estates  devolved  upon  his  nephew,  the  present 

Sir  Thomas -Trayton    Fuia<BR  •  Eliott- 
Drakb,  Bart. 
Arms. — G.  on  a  bend  ar.  a  baton  a& :  on  a  a  chief 
aiure,  the  fortress  of  Gibraltar*   under  it,  pi.u» 
ULTRA,  as  an  augmentation. 

180 


JEUR 


£UR 


£URE,  OR  EVRE—BARONS  EURE, 
OR  EVRB,  OF  WILTON, 
IN  THE  COUNT  V  OF  DUR. 
HAM. 

By  Letton  Pfttent,  dated  S4th  February,  1M4 

Xincagt. 

The  Minwune  of  this  Cuaily  was  derived  from  tke 
lordship  of  £▼»■•  in  the  county  of  BuchiQgham« 
where  Hugh,  a  younger  torn  of  the  Bacow  of  Wcrk- 
worth*  in  Northumberland*  (which  Baconi  were 
aftermwdt  known  under  the  name  of  Cktwtrin^,) 
took  up  his  abode*  in  the  reign  of  Henry  11I.«  and 
thus  became, 

HUGH  DE  BVRE.  He  was  succeeded  by  hU 
■on  and  heir, 

SIR  JOHN  EVRE.  who  hi  theaAth  Edward  I., 
obtained  a  charter  for  Free- Warren,  in  all  his  de> 
mesne  lands,  at  Bsby,  in  Cleveland,  in  the  county 
of  York;  and  in  the  8th  Edward  II.,  was  in  the 
expeditioa  then  made  into  Scotland..  In  two  yean 
afterwards.  Sir  John  Evie,  wa»  constituted  one  of 
the  commissioners  to  negotiate  a  truce  with  the 
Soots }  and  in  the  19th  of  the  same  reign,  we  find 
him  again  in  the  Scottish  wars.  From  Sir  John 
Bvre  descended, 

SIR  RALPH  BURB,  who  maxried  Katharine, 
one  of  the  daughters  and  co-hein  of  Sir  William 
Aton,  second  Lord  Aton,  and  in  the  13th  Richard  II., 
made  partition  with  the  other  co-heirs,*  of  those 
lands  which  were  of  their  inheritance;  Sir  Ralph 
being  at  that  time  sheriff  of  Northumberland,  and 
governor  of  Newcastle-uptm-Tynei.  He  was  after- 
wards sheriff  of  Yorkshire,  and  constable  of  the 
Castle  of  York,  and  again  sheriff  ot  Northumber- 
land. Sir  Ralph  Eure  was  «.  by  his  son, 
RALPH  EURE,  whose  son  and  successor, 
SIR  WILLIAM  EURE,  m.  Maud,  daughter  of 
Henry,  Lord  Fits-Hugh,  and  had  issue, 

SIR  RALPH  EURE,  who  feU  at  Towton-field, 
in  the  1st  Edward  IV.,  and  from  him  descended, 

SIR  WILLIAM  EURE,  who,  in  the  3()th  Henry 
VIII.,  was  made  captain  of  the  Town  and  Castle  of 
Berwick  upon  Tweed,  and  afterwards,  bdng  warden 
of  the  west  marches  towards  Scotland,  was  elevated 
to  the  peerage,  by  letters  ptftent,  dated  S4th  Feb., 
1544,  as  Baboh  Euan,  of  Wilton,  in  the  county  of 
Durham ;  his  tordship  m.  Eliaabeth,  sister  of  WU- 
Uam,  Lord  Willoughby  de  Eresby,  and  had  issue, 
Rau>h  (Sir),  who  being  constable  of  Scar- 
borough Castle,  in  the  S8th  Henry  VIII., 
held  that  fortress  so  gallantly  against  the 
insurgents,  calling  themselves  the  "  Pilgri- 
mage of  Grace,"  that  he  was  made  Com- 
mander-in-chief of  all  the  king's  fwcei  ap- 
pointed for  guarding  the  marches  towards 
Scotland.     A  post  which  he  defended  for 

e  The  ether  oo-hcirs, 

AnasUtia,  m.  Edward  de  St.  John. 
Elisabeth,  m.  first,    William  Playts.  and  se- 
condly, John  Conlers. 
Between  these  ladies,  and  lady  Eure,  the  barony 
of  Aton  Ml  into   AanvANCK,  and  so  continues 
amongst  their  representatives. 
IW 


aeveiml  yean  with  grtat  reputatioa.     Sir 
Ralph  Eure  after  distinguishing  himself  by 
many  valiant  inroads  upon  Scotland,  fell  at 
hut,  in  1644,  at  the  battle  of  Halydon  Hill. 
He  m.  Maiifsret,  daughter  of  Ralph  Bowes, 
Esq.,  of  Streatlam  Castle,  In  the  county  of 
Durham,  and  left  issue, 
William,  who«.  his  grandlhther. 
Ralph. 
Thomas. 

Frances,  m.  to  Robert  Lambton,  Esq.,  of 
Lambton,  in  the  county  of  Durham, 
Irom  whidi  marriage  the  present  Lord 
Durham  descends. 
Anne,  m.  to  Lancelot  Merfeild,  Esq. 
Henry. 
Anne,  m.  to  Anthony  Thorp,  Esq.,  of 

Conyl  Thorp,  in  the  county  ot  York. 
Muriel  ei.  first,  to  George  Bowes,  Esq.,* 
and  secondly,  to  William  Wicliff,  Esq., 
itfWidift 
Margaret,  m.  to  William  Buckton,  Esq. 
Lord  Eure,  who  was  one  of  the  oommissiooeis  mp- 
pointed  in  5th  Edward  VL,  to  convey  the  Garter  to 

the  King  of  France  d. and  was  «.  by  his  grand. 

son, 

WILLIAM  EURE,  second  baion.  Thia  nobleman 
was  constituted  one  of  the  commissioners  in  the 
a9th  of  Eliaabeth,  to  negotiate  a  league  with  Scot- 
land. His  lordship  ei.  Margaret,  daughter  of  Sir 
Edward  Dymoke,  of  Scrivelsby,  in  the  county  of 
Iiincoln,  and  had  issue, 
Ralpb,  his  successor. 

Francis  (Sir),  m.  first,  Eliaabeth,  daughter  of 
John  Leonard,  Esq.,  and  had  Issue, 

HoBA.cs,  who  m.  Debora.  daughter  and 
co-heir  of  John  Bret,  Esq.,  and  had, 
with  other  issue, 
Gsoaen,  \  who  inherited  as  7th  and 
Ralph,    j  8th  lords. 
Eliaabeth,  m.  to  William  Kay,  Esq. 
Debora,  m.  to  John  Pickering,  Esq. 
Sir  Fvands  Eure  m.  seooniUy,  Ellen,  widow 
of  Sir  John  Owen,  and  had  an  only  son, 
Compton  Bureb 
William. 
Charles. 

Anne,  m.  to  John  Malory,  Esq. 
Meriol,  m.  to  Richard  Ooodricke,   Esq.,  of 
Ribstone,  and  ber  grandson. 

Sin  Joan  GoooniCKJi,  Knt.,   of  Rib* 
stone  Hall,  in  the  county  of  York*  was 
created  a  baromst  on  14th  Ai^uat, 
1641,  an  honour  ei^yed  by  his  deioen- 
dant,  the  present  Sir  Jaimb  Good- 
RiCKB,  of  Ribstone. 
Martha,  m.  to  William  Ayrmin,  Esq. 
William,  Lord  Eure,  d.  in  15fM,  and  was  s.  by  his 
eldest  son, 

RALPH  EURE,  third  baton,  who  was  conati- 
tuted,  in  the  5th  of  James  I.,  the  king's  lieutenant 
within  the  principality  of  Wales.  His  kirdahjp  m. 
first,  Mary,  only  daughter  of  Sir  John  Dauney  of 
Cessay,  in  the  county  of  York,  and  had  an  only 
son, 

William,  his  sucoeeior. 


fiVE 


EVE 


He  M.  neoiidly.  Lady  HubmImi,  widtow  ofCMifB^ 
■eoondLordHuiudoii,  butluidnoistte.  HevM*. 
at  hto  ilimeaw  by  his  mi, 

WILLIAM  EURB,  fourth  bwon.    Thia  nobto- 

■mm  m.  Luda,  daughter  of  Sir  Andnw  Nod,  Knt., 

of  Daltyy  t  in  the  eounty  of  Leionter,  aad  had  i«ue, 

Ralph,  who  d.  fai  the  lifetime  of  his  tether, 

leaviof  by  his  wife,  Catherine,  daughter  of 

Thomas,  Lotd  Anmdel,  of  Wardour,  tti 

only  child, 

WiLLiAK,  who  tnhsritsd  as  flfth  lord. 
William,  who  succeeded  >s  sixth  lord. 
Mary,  m.  to  Sir  WHUam  Hofrard,  Knt.,  of 
Naworth  Castle,  in  the  county  of  Cumber- 
lend,  and  had,  with  other  Issue* 
CBAALHi  Howard,  who  was  elerated  to 
the  peerage  on  the  SOth  April,  ]«!,  as 
BerpM  Doers,  ^  GWnkmd,  VUeemnt 
Himeard,  ^Morpeth,  aad  Barl  ov  Car- 
LiBLB— dignitieB  ei^oyed  by  his  lord- 
ship's great-great-great  grandson, 
Oborob,  preMnt  Eabl  op  Car- 

LI8LR. 

His  lordship  was  «.  by  his  grandson, 

WILLIAM   EURE,   fifth  baron.     This  noble- 
man dying  unmarried,  the  rarow y  rererted  to  his 


WILLIAM  SURE,  sixth  baron.  This  noble- 
who  was  a  colonel  in  the  army  of  Ring 
Charles  I.,  feU  at  Manton  Moor  in  164A.  HU  lotd- 
ship  m.  ,  daughter  of  Sir  Thomas  Denton, 

Knt.,  of  Heladen.  in  the  county  of  Bucks,  and  left 
two  daoghtcrs,  Tis. 

Margaret,  m.  to  Thomas   Danby,   Esq.,  of 
Thorpe,  in  the  county  of  York— first  mayor 
of  Leeds. 
Mary,  iii.  to  William  Palmer,  Esq.,  of  Linley, 
in  the  county  of  York. 
Lord  Eute  dying  thus  without  male  issue,   the 
berony  of  Eure  passed  to  his  kinsman  (revert  to 
issue  of  Sir  Francis  Eure,  second  son  of  William, 
second  lord), 

GEORGE  EURE,  as  seventh  baron.    This  noble- 
man dying  unmarried  in  1678*  was  s.  by  his  brother, 
RALPH  EURE,  eighth  heron,  at  whose  decsMe, 
in  IdBS,  without  lesue^  the  Barony  op  Burr  is  pr»> 
Bumed  to  hare  become  bxtihct. 
ARiia.— Quarterly  or.  and  gu.  on  a  bend  sa.  three 


EVERINOHAM  —  BARONS     EVER. 
INOHAM. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  4th  March,  1300, 
2  Edward  11. 

ICincasc. 

In  the  14th  Henry  IIL, 

ROBERT  DE  EVERINGHAM  married  Isabel, 
daughter  of  John  da  Birkin,  and  sister  and  sole 
heiress  of  Thomas  de  Biridn,  (ftudal  lords  who 
flourished  to  nearly  the  middle  of  the  thirteenth 
century,)  and  paid  a  fine  of  two  hundred  marks  to 
the  crown  for  livery  of  her  lands,  and  likewise  for 
livery  of  the  Bailiwick  of  the  foiest  of  Sherwood, 
that  brtng  also  part  of  her  inheritance.     This 


Robirt  held  then  five  knights'  foes  and  a  half  in 
the  county  of  Nottingham,  and  one  In  Lexinton. 
He  had  issuer 

Adam,  his  successor. 

John,  to  whom  his  mother  gave  the  manor  of 
Birkin. 

Robert,  a  clergyman,  rector  of  the  church  of 
Birkin. 
He  died  in  the  30th  Henry  IIL,  and  was  s.  by  his 
ddeetson, 

ADAM  DE  EVERINGHAM,  who  ita  six  years 
alter,  at  the  decease  of  his  mother,  had  livery  of  her 
lands,  upon  doing  homage*  and  giving  security  for 
the  payment  of  fifty  pounds  for  his  relief.  In  the 
48nd  Henry  III.  this  feudal  kird  was  hi  the  expedi- 
tion made  then  into  Wales,  but  he  afterwards  took 
up  aims  with  Mooifort,  Earl  of  Leicester,  and  the 
o^ier  discontented  herons  of  that  period,  aad  was  at 
the  battle  of  Evesham.  He  d.  in  the  9th  of  Ed- 
ward L,  being  at  the  time  seised  of  a  moiety  of  the 
barony  of  Schelfwd,  in  Nottinghamshire,  into 
which  moiety  twelve  knights'  fees  and  a  half  la 
several  counties  appertained,  whereof  ten  were  for 
the  Bailiwick  of  Sherwood.  He  likewise  possessed 
the  manon  of  Everingham  and  Farbume,  In  the 
county  of  York,  and  Westbury,  in  the  county  of 
Lincoln.    He  was  #.  by  his  son, 

ROBERT  DE  EVERINGHAM,  who  m.  LucU, 
daughter  and  heiress  of  Robert  de  Thwenge.  a  great 
foudal  lord,  temp.  Edward  I.,  (the  lady  had  been 
previously  the  wifo  of  Sir  William  Latimer,  and 
divorced,)  and  dying  in  the  15th  Edward  I.,  was  «. 
by  his  son, 

ADAM  DE  EVERINGHAM,  who,  hi  the  3Ist 
of  Edward  I.,  was  in  the  wars  of  Scotland,  and  in 
three  years  afterwards  was  created  a  Knight  of  the 
Bath  with  Prince  Edward,  and  other  persons  of 
rank,  when  he  attended  the  prince  upon  the  expe- 
dition then  made  into  Scotland.  After  which.  In 
the  Snd  of  Edward  IL,  he  was  summoned  to  parlia^ 
ment  as  a  baroh,  and  ftom  that  period  to  the  9th 
inclusive;  during  those  years  he  was  constantly  en- 
gaged in  the  wars  of  Scotland  :  but  afterwards  tak- 
ing up  arms  with  Thomas,  Earl  of  Lancaster,  he 
was  made  prieoncr  at  the  battle  of  Boroughbridge, 
and  forced  to  pay  a  fine  of  four  hundred  marks  to 
the  king  to  save  his  lifsL  In  the  11th  Edward  III. 
his  lordship  entailed  his  manor  of  Lkxintoh,  in 
the  county  of  Notts,  where  he  principally  resided, 
upon  AoAM,  his  ddest  son,  and  so  successively  In 
default  of  male  issue  upon  Robert,  Edmund,  Alex- 
ander, and  NichohM,  his  younger  sons.  This  manor 
was  holden  of  the  ArdtUshop  of  York,  by  the  ser- 
vice of  performing  the  office  of  butler  In  the  pre- 
latefs  house,  upon  the  day  of  his  InthroniBatioa. 
Lord  Everingham  d.  in  1341,  aad  was  «.  by  his 
ddestsmi, 

ADAM  DE  EVERINGHAM,  second  baron,  sum- 
moned  to  parliament,  as  **  Ada  de  Everingham  de 
Laxton,"  on  the  8th  January,  1371*  This  noble- 
man, who  was  several  years  aetivdy  engaged  in  the 
French  wars,  shared  In  the  glory  of  Crxssy.  His 
lordship  had  issue, 

William,  who  m.  Alice,  daughter  of  John, 
l»rd  Grey,  of  Codnor,  aad  dying  in  the 
lifo-time  of  hb  fother,  left  issue, 

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RoB>»f  ,  who  tucoeeded  hit  gnnOfsthto. 
Joan,  m.  to  Sir  WUliam  Elys,  KnL 
Cftthnrine,  m.  to  John  Elton,  Esq. 
Reginald,  who  inherited  the  manor  of  Weet- 
burgh,    in    Yorkshirt,    m.    lint,   Agnes, 
daughter  of  John  LungviUers,  and  secondly, 
Joan,  daughter  of  — — ,  and  dU  Ist  Henry  VI., 
leaving  a  son, 

Edkuitd,  who  died  «.  p. 
The  haron  d,  in  1371,  and  was  #.  by  his  grandson, 

ROBERT  DE  EVERINGHAM,  third  baron. 
This  nobleman  d,  in  minority  a  few  months  after  he 
inherited  the  title,  leaving  his  two  sisters  his  heirs, 
and  the  Baaony  op  EvsaziroHAM  fell  into  abbt- 
ANCB,  between  those  ladies,  as  it  lias  continued  since 
with  their  representatives. 
Arms. — Gules,  a  lion  rampant,  valrie,  ar.  and  as. 

FALVE8LEY— BARON  FALVESLEY. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  SOth  August,  1383» 
7  Richard  II. 

ICincagc. 

SIR  JOHN  FALVESLEY,  Lord  of  Falvesley, 
in  the  county  of  Northampton,  one  of  the  great 
military  characters  of  the  reign  of  Edward  III., 
having  m.  Elisabeth  Say,  daughter  of  William, 
Lord  Say,  and  sister  and  heiress  of  John,  Lord 
Say,  had  livery  of  all  her  lands  lying  in  the  counties 
of  Kent,  Sussex,  and  Hertford,  and  the  same  year 
attended  John,  Duke  of  Lancaster,  in  the  expedi- 
tion then  made  into  Spain.  Sir  John  was  sum- 
moned^  to  parliament,  as  "  Johanni  de  Falvesley, 
Chevalier,"  from  90th  August,  1383,  to  8th  Septem- 
ber, I30S.  His  lordship's  last  martial  occupation 
was  in  the  fleet,  imder  the  command  of  the  Lord 
Admiral,  Richard,  Earl  of  Arundel,  in  the  11th 
lUduurd  II.  He  d.  about  the  year  1302,  when, 
leaving  no  issue,  the  Barony  of  Falvbslby  be- 
came BXTINCT. 

Arms.— Ou.  two  chevrons  or.      v  .  Cvo/^ 

FELTON— BARONS  FELTON. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  8th  January,  1S13» 
6  Edward  II. 

Xincage. 

In  the  25  Edward  L, 

ROBERT  DE.  FELTON  obtained  a  charter  from 
the  crown  for  a  weekly  market  at  his  manor  of 
Luchin,  in  the  county  of  Norfolk,  and  likewise  for 
free-warren  thera  in  the  34th  of  the  same  reign  he 
was  in  the  expedition  then  made  into  Scotland,  and 
In  4  Edward  II.,  he  had  a  military  summons  for  a 
similar  service.  The  next  year  he  was  constituted 
Governor  of  Scarborough  Castle,  and  was  sum- 
moned to  parliament  as  a  Barom,  on  the  8th  Janu- 
ary, S9d  May,  86th  July,  and  S6th  November,  1313. 
His  lordship  d,  soon  afterwards,  and  was  «.  by  his 
son, 

JOHN  DE  FELTON,  second  baron,  who  (ac> 
cording  to  Dugdale)  had  summons*  to  parliament 

•  His  name  does  not  appear  in  the  list  of  sum- 
monses for  that  year— Nicolas. 


in  the  I0th  Edward  III.,  but  not  afterwards.  This  no- 
bleman was  Governor  of  Alnwick  Castle  in  the  8th 
Edward  II.,  and  for  some  years  afterwards,  he  was 
engaged  in  the  Scottish  wars.  In  the  18th  of  the 
same  reign  he  was  in  the  expedition  then  made  Into 
Gasoony,  being  at  that  time  one  of  the  admirals  oi 
the  fleet,  sent  out  to  annoy  the  French  and  their 
commercial  adventurers.  Of  his  lordship  nothing 
further  appears  known,  except  that  he  was  an  an- 
cestor of  the  Feltons  of  Playford,  in  the  county  of 
Stailbrd,  and  created  Babonbt  in  1680,  an  honour 
now  extinct. 

Arms. — Gu.  two  lions  passant  erm.  crowned  or. 
Contemporary  with  this  John,  Baron  Felton,  was 

WILLIAM  DE  FELTON,  who  was  governor  of 
Bamburgh  Castle,  in  the  county  of  Northumber- 
land, in  the  reign  of  Edward  II, ;  and  governor  of 
Roxburgh  Castle  in  Scotland,  in  the  11th  Edward  III<! 
This  personage,  who  appears  to  have  taken  a  dis- 
tinguished part  in  the  wars  of  Scotland  and  France, 
was  summoned  to  parliament  as  a  Barow,  on  the 
2Sth  February  1342,  but  not  afterwards.  In  the 
39th  Edward  III.  he  attended  Prince  Edward  into 
Gascony,  and  being  then  Seneschall  of  Limosin,  he 
vanquished  a  considerable  party  ot  the  Britaint 
there;  biit  in  two  years  subseiiuently,  b«ng  in 
Spain  with  the  Duke  of  Lancaster,  and  wishing  to 
prove  his  charger,  he  made  a  descent  upon  a  body 
of  the  enemy,  with  his  spear  in  his  rest,  and  pierc- 
ing it  through  a  knight,  he  was  immediately  sur- 
rounded and  slain,  19th  March,  I367«  leaving  a  son 
and  heir, 

SIR  JOHN  DE  FELTON,  Knt,»whowas  never 
summoned  to  parliament,  nor  were  any  of  his  de- 
scendants. 

FERRERS— ^EARLS  OF  DERBY. 

Creation  of  King  Stephen,  anno  1 1S7« 

Xineagc. 

The  first  of  this  eminent  fismily  that  settled  in 
England,  was 

HENRY  DE  FERIERS,  (son  of  Gualcheline  de 
Feriers,  a  Norman,)  who  obtained  from  William 
the  Conqueror,  a  grant  of  Tutbury  Castle,  in  the 
county  of  StalTord,  with  extensive  possessions  in 
other  shires,  of  which  one  hundred  and  fourteen 
manors  were  in  the  single  county  of  Derby.  This 
person  must  have  been  of  considerable  rank,  not 
only  from  these  enormous  grants,  but  from  the  cir- 
cumstance of  his  bang  one  of  the  commissioners 
appointed  by  the  conqueror  to  make  the  great  sur- 
vey of  the  kingdom.  He  was  the  founder  of  the 
priory  of  Tutbury,  which  he  liberally  endowed, 

and  dying ,  was  «.  at  his  decease  by  his  (mly 

surviving  son, 

ROBERT  DE  FERRERS,  who  having  contri- 
buted, at  the  head  of  the  Derbyshire  men,  to  King 
Stephen's  victory  over  King  David,  of  Scotland,  at 
Northallerton,  (commonly  called  the  battle  of  the 
Standard,)  was  created  by  that  monarch  Earl  ob 
Dbrby.    His  lordship  m.  Hawyse  ,  and  had 

Issue, 

Robbrt,  his  successor. 

Isolda,  HI.  to  Stephen  de  Beauchamp. 


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Msiid,  m.  to  Biftimn  de  Verdon. 

,  m.  to  WaldidiM  da  Mamliiot 
Tlie  earl  d.  In  11SB»  and  was  «.  liy  Us  Ma* 

ROBERT  DE  FERRERS,  at  ■eoond  Earl  of 
Derby.  TMa  noUcmaii  waa  dJetingwiahad  byhSa 
nranifloence  to  the  cfauicfa.    Hte  kmbhlp  d.  , 

and  was  buried  at  tlie  Abbey  of  If  cerrale,  te  the 
connty  of  Warwick>  one  of  the  reUgioaB  hoosei 
which  he  had  f oanded,  wrapped  In  an  os*s  hMe^ 
according  to  his  own  desire.    He  was  ».  by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  FERRERS,  third  Earl  ot  Derby, 
who^  in  the  ISth  Henry  11..  upon  levying  the  aid 
for  marrying  the  king's  daughter,  oerttfled  the 
knightsr  fiees  then  in  his  possession  to  bein  number 
serenty-nine.  for  which  he  paid  the  sum  of  sixty- 
eight  marks.  This  n(»bleman  was  ako  a  Ubenl 
!r— <^*'*  to  the  dturdh.  His  lordship  m.  Mar- 
garet, daughter  and  hdrcss  of  William  Peveiel,  of 
Nottingham,  by  whom  he  had  iasoa, 

RoBSBT,  his  successor. 

Walcheline. 
The  earl  was  «.  by  his  elder  son, 

ROBERT  DE  FERRERS,  fourth  Earl  of  Derby. 
This  nobiaman  rriieiled  against  Henry  II.,  and 
marddng  at  the  head  of  the  Leicestershire  men  (liHh 
Henry  II.),  upon  Nottingham,  then  kept  for  the 
king  by  Reginald  de  Lud.  got  possession  of  the 
town,  which  he  sadied,  putting  the  greater  part  of 
the  inhabitants  to  the  sword,  and  taking  the  rest 
prisoners.  He  was  soon  afterwards,  however,  r*> 
duced  to  submisiion,  and  obHged  to  surrender  to  the 
crown  his  csstles  of  Tutbnry  and  DoiBeld,  which 
wcve  demolished  by  order  of  the  king.  HislordsMp 
m,  SiUlla,  daughter  of  WiUiam  deBmoso.  Lord  of 
Abergavenny  and  Bredmock.  by  whom  he  had  issno. 

WiiXL4Jt.  his  successor. 

Millocnt.  m.  to  Roger.  Lord  Mortimer,  of 
Wigmoveu 

Agatha.  This  lady  being  a  concubtaie  to  King 
John,  had  by  that  prince  a  daughter. 
Joane,  who  m.  Leweline,  Prince  of  Wales. 
This  earl,  who  was  also  a  beoetector  to  the  dmrch. 
having  founded  the  priory  of  Woodham,  commonly 
called  Woodfaam-Fcrrers,  in  Essex,  wass.  at  his  de- 
ceeseby  his  son. 

WILLIAM  DE  FERRERS,  fifth  Earl  of  Derby. 
This  nobleman  was  ousted  of  his  dignities  of  Derby 
and  Nottingham  by  lUng  Richard  I.,  botlhey  were 
soon  afterwards  restored  to  him,  and  we  ftnd  him 
accompanying  the  lion-hearted  monarch  to  the 
Holy  Land,  where  he  lost  his  life  at  the  sioge  of 
Aeon,  anno  1191.  His  lordship,  amcaigst  other  gilts 
to  the  church,  gave,  hi  the  1st  Richard  L.  for  the 
health  of  his  souU  and  the  soul  of  Sibel.  his  wifb,  to 
the  monks  of  St.  Denis,  in  France,  one  wax  taper 
yearly,  price  thirteen  pencei  as  also  a  steg  and  boar 
in  their  proper  seasons,  to  be  sent  annnaUy  thither 
at  the  feast  of  St.  Denis,  by  himself  and  his  heirs. 
He  was  s.  by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  FERRERS,  sixth  Earl  of  Derby. 
This  noblemsn,  upon  the  return  of  King  Richard 
from  captivity,  took  arms  in  hu  behalf,  and  Joining 
the  Earl  of  Chester,  besieged  Nottingham  Castle, 
which,  after  a  brief  resistance,  surrendered.  For 
this  and  other  acts  of  fidelity,  he  was  chosen  by  the 
kfaig  to  ait  witti  tiie  test  of  the  peen  te  the  great 


council  held  at  the  add  easCle  of  NoCthtghim  in  the 
ensuing  March.  Moreover,  at  Rldiard's  second 
oorooation  he  was  one  of  the  four  that  carried  the 
canopy  over  the  king^  head.  Upon  the  accession 
of  Kfaig  John,  his  kndAlp,  with  the  Earls  of  Claro 
and  Chester,  and  other  great  men,  swore  flsalty  to 
the  new  monarch»  but  upon  the  oonditioB  that  eadi 
pcmn  should  have  his  right.  His  tordsUp  was 
present  at  the  coronation  of  King  John,  and  on  the 
7th  June  IbUowing,  being  solemnly  eteatod  Eakl 
OF  Dbrby  by  special  charter,  dated  at  Northamp- 
ton, he  was  girt  with  a  sword  by  the  king's  own 
hands  <belng  the  first  of  whom  in  any  charter  that 
expressloB  was  used).  He  had  also  a  grant  of  the 
third  penny  of  an  the  pleas  before  the  sbcviff 
throtti^out  the  whole  county,  whsreof  he  was  earl, 
to  hold  to  him  and  his  heirs  as  amply  as  any  of  his 
nacestors  had  ecOoyed  the  same.  Moreover,  In  con- 
sideration of  four  thousand  marks,  he  obtained 
another  charter  from  the  king  of  the  manor  of 
Higham-Ferrers,  in  the  county  of  Northampton, 
with  the  hundred  and  park  {  as  also  of  the  manors 
of  Bliseworth  and  NewbottJe^  in  the  same  Aire; 
which  were  part^  the  lands  of  his  great  grandlhtlier. 
William  Peverel,  of  Nottingham.  King  John  alM> 
conferred  upon  him  a  mansion  house,  situated  In 
the  pariah  of  St.  Margaret,  within  the  City  of  Lon- 
don, which  had  bdooged  to  Isshc,  a  Jew,  at  Nor- 
wich, to  hold  by  the  service  of  waiting  upon  the 
king  <the  earl  and  his  hslis),  at  aU  Asdvals  yearly, 
without  any  cap,  but  with  a  garland  of  the  breadth 
of  his  little  finger  upon  his  head.  These  liberal 
marks  of  royal  favour  were  f elt  so  gratefoUy  by  the 
earl,  that  in  all  the  subsequent  struggles  between  the 
king  and  the  refractory  barons^  his  tordshJp  never 
onee  swerved  from  his  alkglance,  but  remained  true 
to  the  monarch  i  and  after  King  Jchaft  decease,  he 
adhered  with  the  same  unshaken  loyalty  to  the  ta- 
teresu  of  his  son.  King  Hemy  III.  His  lordship 
assisted  at  the  coronation  of  the  new  HMniarcht  and 
Immediately  after-  the  ensuing  Eastte  he  took  part, 
with  the  tenous  William  Marshan;  (governor 
of  the  king  and  kingdom,)  the  Earls  of  Chester  and 
Albemarle,  and  many  other  great  men  in  the  siege 
of  Mountsordl  Castle^  in  Leicestershire,  then  held 
by  Henry  da  BraybnAe.  and  ten  other  stout  knigferts. 
And  the  same  year,  was  likewise  with  those  noMe 
persona  at  raising  the  siege  of  Linoohi.  wMch  place 
the  rebeUious  barons  with  Lewis.  King  of  France, 
had  Invceted.  His  lordship  m.  Agnes,  sister,  and  one 
of  the  co-hein  of  Ranulph,  Eail  of  Chester,  by 
whom  he  had  two  sons,  WlUiam  and  Thomas.  He 
d,  of  the  gout  in  1S40,  and  his  countess  d.  in  the 
same  year,  after  a  union,  according  to  some  autho- 
rities, of  seventy-five,  and  by  others,  of  fifty-five 
yean.    His  lonfehlp  was  s.  by  his  elder  son. 

WILLIAM  DE  FERRERS,  seventh  Eart  of 
Derby,  who^  upon  doing  homage  in  the  And 
Henry  IIL  had  livery  of  CnARTLXv  CAetLs,  and 
the  other  lands  of  his  mother's  inheritance  i  and 
the  same  year  he  sate  in  the  parfiament  hdd  Hi 
London,  wheielii  the  kfaig  made  so  stout  an  answer 
to  the  demands  of  his  Impetuous  barons.  His 
lordship  m.  first.  Sibel.  one  of  the  daot^ters  and 
co-heirs  of  WllUam  Maresehal,  Earl  of  Pembroke, 
by  whom  he  had  sevtti  dsmghteie,  via.-« 

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Agam,  m.  to  WUlitm  de  Vaici. 

Isabel*  m.  lint,  to  Gilbert  Banet,  andiecondly, 
to  Rc^ginald  de  Mohun. 

Maud,  m.  first,  to  William  de  Kyme,  secondly, 
^5  /        to  William  de  Vyvon,  and  thirdly,  to  Em- 
meriek  de  Rupel  Canardi. 

Sibil,  m.  to  Franco  de  Mohun. 

Joane,  m.  to  William  AguUlon,  and  secondly, 
to  John  de  Bohun. 

Agatha,  m.  to  Hugh  Mortimer,  of  Checlmarsh. 

Eleanor,    m.   first,   to  William   de  Vallibus, 
secondly,  to  Roger  de  Quinry,  Earl  of  Win- 
ton,  and  thirdly,  to  Ro^er  de  Leyboume. 
The  earl  m.  secondly,  Margaret,  one  of  the  daugh- 
ters and  co-heirs  of  Roger  de  Quinci,  Earl  of  Win- 
chester, and  iiad  issue, 

Robert,  his  successor. 

William,  upon  whom  his  mother  conferred 
the  Lordship  of  Groby,  in  the  county  of 
Leicester,  (See  Ferrers,  Barons  Ferrers,  of 
Groby.) 
His  lordship,  who  from  his  youth  had  been  a 
martyr  to  the  gout,  and  in  consequence,  obliged  to 
lie  drawn  firom  place  to  place  in  a  chariot,  lost  his 
life  by  being  thrown,  through  the  heedlessness  of 
his  driver,  over  the  bridge  of  St.  Neotts,  in  the 
county  of  Huntingdon,  In  the  year  1254.  (38th 
Henry  III.)  He  was  #.  by  his  elder  son, 
•  ROBERT  DE  FERRERS,  eighth  earl  of  Derby. 
This  nobleman  being  a  minor  at  the  time  of  his 
fitther's  decease,  the  queen  and  Peter  de  Savoy  gave 
six  thousand  marks  for  the  custody  of  his  lands, 
daring  his  minority.  His  lordship,  when  arrived  at 
manhood,  became  one  of  the  most  active  of  the 
^seoDtented  nobles,  arrayed  against  Henry  III., 
and  commencing  his  career  by  the  plunder  and 
destruction  of  Worcester,  the  king,  to  retaliate, 
sent  a  force  under  Prince  Edward,  into  the 
counties  of  Sta(R»rd  and  Derby,  which  wasted  the 
earr«  lands  with  fire  and  sword,  and  demolished 
his  castle  at  Tutworth.  His  lordship  Joining,  after- 
wards, with  Montford,  Earl  of  Leicester,  and  Clare, 
Earl  of  Gloucester,  participated  in  the  victory 
achieved  at  Lewes,  in  Sussex,  wherein  the  king 
and  the  prince  were  made  prisoners ;  but  conti- 
quing  to  adhere  to  Leicester,  he  was  defeated,  with 
tiiat  nobleman,  by  his  former  companion  in  arms, 
the  Earl  of  Clouoester,  at  Evesham,  and  obliged  to 
throw  hims^  upon  the  mercy  of  Uie  king,  which, 
in  consideration  of  a  cup  of  gold,  adorned  with 
precious  stones*  (obtained  from  Michal  de  Tony, 
upon  |i  mortgage  on  one  of  his  manors  In  Northamp- 
tonshire,) and  fifteen  hundred  marks,  was  extended 
to  him,  and  he  recdved  a  full  pardon  for  all  his 
prior  misdem«anoun,  the  king  undertaking  to  pro- 
tect him .  against  Prince  Edward,  and  all  others, 
towards  whom,  at  any  time  during  the  troubles, 
he  had  done  wrong;  upon  condition,  that  if  he 
should  transgress  again,  he  was  wltlunit  hope  of 
favour,  to  be  wholly  disinherited.  For  the  strict 
observance  of  which  provision,  the  earl  not  only 
obliged  himself  by  special  charter,  then  fredy 
sealed  to  the  king,  but  by  his  oath  of  all^gianoe  at 
the  time  renewed.  The  charter  and  oath,  however, 
were  but  feeble  restraints  upon  Us  lordship,  for  in 
the  very  next  spring,  we  find  him  again  at  the  head 


of  a  powerful  army  In  the  northern  part  of  Derby- 
shire, and  soon  after  defeated  in  a  pitched  battle, 
at  Chesterfidd,  by  Prince  Henry,  eldest  son  of  the 
King  of  Almaine.  Here,  his  lordship  was  amongst 
those  who  made  their  escape  from  the  field,  but 
hiding  himself  under  some  sacks  of  wool  in  a  church, 
he  was  there  discovered,  through  the  treachery  of  a 
woman,  and  thence  conveyed  a  prisoner  to  London ; 
whereupon  he  was  totally  disinherited,  by  the  par- 
liament then  sitting  at  Westminster,  as  well  of 
the  Earldom  of  Dbrby,  as  of  his  territorial  pos- 
sessions, the  greater  part  of  which  were  conferred 
by  the  king  upon  his  second  son,  Edmund,  (sur- 
named  Crouchback,)  Earl  of  Leicester  and  Lancas- 
ter ;  to  whom  many  writers  of  authority  attribute 
also  the  dignity  of  Earl  of  Derby;  but  Dugdale 
expressly  says,  ''although  he,  (the  prince,)  had 
possession  of  the  greater  part  of  this  Robert's  land, 
and  exerdsed  (perhaps,)  the  power  of  earl  in  that 
county,  I  am  not  satisfied  that  he  really  was  Earl 
of  Derby ;  in  regard,  I  cannot  find  that  the 
same  Edmund  had  any  patent  of  creation  to  that 
honour,  as  he  had  to  those  of  Leicester  and  Lan- 
caster." It  seems  that  this  unfortunate  nobleman 
continued  in  confinement  about  three  years,  but 
in  the&Srd  Henry  III.,  there  was  so  much  interest 
made  for  him,  that  the  king  accepted  of  security, 
whereby  he  might  receive  satisfaction  for  his  lord- 
ship's misdemeanours,  and  issued  his  precept  to 
Prince  Edmund,  to  make  restitution  of  his  lands; 
when  m  agreement  was  entered  into,  between  the 
disinherited  earl  and  the  prince,  by  which  the  latter, 
for  the  sum  of  i?fiO,000.,  to  be  paid  at  once  upon  a 
certain  day,  was  to  relinquish  all  interest  in  the  lands ; 
but  that  payment  not  being  made  good,  the  securities 
to  the  covenant  passed  over  the  lands  to  Prince 
Edmund  and  his  heirs  for  ever.  Subsequently, 
however,  the  ousted  lord  instituted  a  suit  in  the 
Court  of  King's  Bench,  against  the  prince,  for  the 
restitution  of  his  property,  upon  the  allegation 
that  the  agreement  he  had  sealed  was  extorted  flrom 
him  when  a  prisoner,  and  under  apprehension  of 
his  life:  but  after  divers  pleadings,  a  decision  of 
the  court  in  the  banning  of  Edward  I.'s  rngn, 
confirmed  the  lands  to  Prince  Edmund. 

This  Robert  de  Ferrers,  last  Earl  of  Derby,  <^  the 
fiunily,  m.  first,  Mary,  daughter  of  Hugh  le  Brun, 
Earl  of  Angoulesme,  and  niece  of  King  Henry  III., 
by  whom  he  had  no  Issue;  and  secondly,  Eleanore^ 
daughter  of  Ralph,  Lord  Basset,  by  whom  he  had 
an  only  son, 

JoHK,   who  inherited  Chartlby    Castlb. 
(See  Ferrers,  Barons  Ferrers,  of  Chartley). 
The  earl  died  in  the  7th  Edward  L,  the  last  Earl 
OP  Dbbbt,  of  the  house  of  Fbrrbbb. 

Arm8^— Ar.  six  hon»«hoes  sa.  pierced  or.  three, 
two,  andon^ 

FERRERS— BARONS  FERRERS,  OF 
WEMME,  IN  THE  COUN- 
TY  OF  SALOP. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  98th  December  1375, 
49  Edward  III. 

SIR  ROBERT  FERRERS,  Knt,  younger  son 


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qi  Robert,  leooiid  Lord  Femn,  of  ChuHtj,  liATing 
m.  EliabeCh,  only  daughter  aud  heiren  of  Robert, 
Lord  Boteler,  of  Wenime,  was  lummoned  to  parlifr- 
ment,  aa  Babok  Fkrrbrs,  of  Wenuite,  from  88th 
Decvmber,  137ff*  to  16th  February,  1379.  His  lordship 
acquired*  by  this  alliance,  the  Lordship  of  Wbmmb, 
to  Shropshize,  and  that  of  OTxaaLRy,  in  the 
county  of  Warwick,  with  other  extensive  estates, 
and  had  an  only  son, 

RoBSBT,  his  successor. 
This  nobleman,  prior  to  his  marriage,  was  engaged 
in  the  Flemish  wars  of  Edward  III.  His  kfrdship  <L 
in  1380,  and  his  widow  married  two  husbands  after- 
wards, via.  Sir  John  Say  and  Sir  Thmnas  Molinton, 
but  had  issue  by  neither.  Lord  Ferrers  was  «.  by 
his  son, 

SIR  ROBERT  FERRERS,  second  Baron  Fer-^ 
vets,  of  Wemme,  but  never  summoned  to  par- 
liament. His  lordship  m.  Joane,  daughter  of 
John  of  Gaunt,  by  Catherine  Swinford,  and  had 
issue, 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  John,  son  of  Ralph,  Lord 
Greystock,  (who  succeeded  to  the  barony  in 
1417.)  and  had  issue, 
Ralph,  Lord  Greystock,  who  m.  Elisa- 
beth, daughter  of  William,  Lord  Plti- 
httgh.  and  was  «.  in  14B7  by  his  grand- 
daughter, 

Elizabeth,  who  m.  Thomas,   Lord 
Dacre,  of  Gilkaland. 
Elisabeth,  m,  to  Roger  Thomtoo,  Esq., 
whose  only  daughter  and  hetress, 
Elisabeth,  m.  Sir  George  Lumley, 
whose  descendant,  and  eventual 
representative, 

Barbara  Lumley,  m.  Humphrey 
Lloyd,  Esq.,  of  Denbigh,  the 
great-great-grandson  of  this 
marriage.    Rev.  Dr.  Robert 
Lloyd    claimed,    unsuccess- 
ftilly,  the  Barony  of  Lumley 
in  17S3. 
Mary,  ta.  to  Ralph,  a  younger  son  of  Ralph 
Nevil,  Earl  of  Westmoreland,  and  had  issue, 
JoBW  Nbvil,  who  m.  Elisabeth,  daugh- 
ter and  heiress  of  Robert  Newmarch, 
and  left  an  only  daughter  and  heiress, 
JoAWB  Nbvix.,  m.  to  Sir  William 
Gascoign,    whose    daughter    and 
heiress, 

MABOABBT        OASCOIOlf,       fN. 

Thomas  Wentworth,  ances- 
tor of  the  Wentworths,  Earls 
ofStraflbrd. 
ripbert.  Lord  Ferrers,  died  in  1410,  when  the  Ba- 
BONT  or  Fbbbbbs,  ot  Wemme,  fell  into  abbyancx 
between  his  daughters,  Elisabeth  Greystock  and 
Mary  Nevil.  His  widow  Joane,  m.  secondly,  the 
above-mentioned  Ralph  Nevil,  Earl  of  Westmore- 
land (his  second  wife).  Elisabeth,  Lord  Ferrers's 
mother,  outlived  his  lordship,  and  at  her  decease, 
the  Babojvy  or  Botblbb,  of  Wbmmb,  fell  also 
into  ABBYAnrcB  between  her  ladyship's  grand- 
daughters, the  said  Elisabeth  and  Mary,  and  both 
baronies  continue  in  the  same  state  with  their  repre^ 
sentatives. 


ABMa.^Valre  ok,  and  gu.  a  lion  pasaant  guardant 
of  the  first  in  a  canton. 

FERRERS— BARONS  FERRERS,  OF 
OROBY,  IN  THE  COUN- 
TY  OF  LEICESTER* 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  fleth  January,  1S97, 
25  Edward  L 

The  Honourable 

WILLIAM  FERRERS,  second  son  of  WiUlam, 
seventh  Earl  of  Derby,  obtained,  by  gift  of  Marga- 
ret, his  mother,  one  of  the  daughters  and  co-heirs  of 
Roger  de  Quinci,  Earl  of  Winchester,  the  manor  of 
Groby,  in  the  county  of  Leicester,  whereupon  he 
assumed  the  arms  of  the  family  of  De  Quind.  He 
m.  Joane,  daughter  of  Hugh  le  Despcncer,  and  had 
issue, 

William,  his  successor. 

Anne,  m.  to  John,  Lord  Grey,  of  Wilton. 
He  d.  in  1987,  and  was  «.  by  his  son. 

WILLIAM  FERRERS,  who  doing  homage  had 
livery  of  his  lands  in  England,  in  the  21st  Edward  I., 
and  in  the  S4th,  of  the  lands  which  he  inherited  in 
Scotland.  In  the  following  year  he  was  summcmed 
to  parliament  as  Babon  Fbrbxbb,  of  Grth^,  His 
lordship  was  engaged  in  the  wars  of  Scotland  in  the 
reigns  of  Edward  I.  and  Edward  II. ;  he  m.  Marga- 
ret, daughter  of  John,  Lord  Segreve,  and  dying  in 
1325,  was  9.  by  his  soA, 

HENRY  FERRERS,  second  Baron  Ferrers,  of 
Groby,  summoned  to  parMamesit,  ftrom  5th  June 
1331,  to  20th  November  1342.  This  nobleman, 
being  actively  engaged  in  the  wars  of  King  Edward 
III.,  both  in  Scotland  and  France,  acquired  very 
large  territorial  possessions,  by  grants  from  the 
crown,  for  his  services.  His  lordship  m.  Isabel, 
fourth  sister,  and  one  of  the  co-heirs  of  Theobald 
de  Verdon,  and  in  the  5th  Edward  III.,  upon  doing 
homage,  had  livery  of  the  lands  of  her  inheritance 
lying  in  Ireland.  Of  this  marriage  there  were 
issue, 

William,  his  successor. 

Philippe,  fit.  to  Guy  de  Beauduunp. 

Elisabeth,  m.  to de  AsseUs. 

His  lordship  <f.  in  1343,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  FERRERS,  third  Baron  Ferrers,  of 
Groby,  summoned  to  parliament,  from  15th  March 
1354.  to  eth  April  13S9.  In  the  29th  Edward  III.  his 
lordship  was  in  the  expedition  then  made  into 
France  in  the  retinue  of  his  father-in-Uw,  Robert 
de  Uffbrd,  Earl  of  Sufiblk;  and  again,  in  the  33d 
and  34th,  in  the  latter  of  which  years,  his  lands  in 
Ireland  being  seised  for  the  defence  of  thiU  realm, 
the  king  directed  his  precept  to  the  Justice  chancel- 
lor and  treasurer  there,  to  discharge  them,  in  conse- 
quence of  his  lordship's  being  then  in  the  wars  in 
France,  with  divers  men  at  arms  and  ardiers,  at  a 
very  considerable  expense.  His  lordship  m.  first, 
Margaret,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Robert  de  Uflbrd, 
Earl  of  Sulfolk,  by  whom  he  had  issue, 

Hbnry,  his  successor. 

Elizabeth,  a  nun,  in  the  convent  of  MinortuM 
without  Algate,  in  the  suburbs  of  London. 

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iCargaret,  m.  to  Thomw  BwHifhimp,  Eflrl  of 

Warwick. 

He  m.  secondly,  Margaret,  daughter  of  Henry  de 

Percy,  and  widow  of  Robert,  wm  <tf  Oiibert  de  Um- 

flraTU*  £arl  of  Angua,  and  dying  in  1371,  was  «.  by 

his  SOD, 

HENRY  FERRERS,  ftmrth  Baron  Ferrers,  of 
Groby,  sumnuned  to  parUament  firom  4th  August, 
1377*  to  17th  December,  1387>  This  nobleman  was 
uninterruptedly  engaged  in  the  French  wars  trom. 
the  1st  to  the  7th  Richard  II.  inclusive;  and  the 
next  year,  being  then  a  banneret,  he  was  retired  to 
perve  the  king  in  the  wan  of  Scotland.  Upon  the 
death  of  WiUian  de  Uilbrd,  Earl  of  Suflblk,  his 
mother's  brother,  without  issuer  Lord  Ferrers  was 
found  to  be  one  of.  the  deceased  earl's  next  hebrs. 
His  lardahip  m.  Joene,  daughter  at  Thomas,  Lord 
Poynings,  and  dying  in  1387,  was  «.  by  his  son, 

WILLIAU  FERRERS,  fifth  Baron  Ferrers,  of 
Groby,  summoned  to  parliament  fh>m  30th  Novem- 
ber, 1366,  to  3rd  December,  1441.    This  nobleman 
was  4lao  in  the  French  wan.     His  lordship  m. 
,  and  had  issue, 
Hbmby,  who  d.  in  his  Cither's  lifO'time,  learing 
an  only  dau^ter  and  heiress* 
EusABSTH,  heiren  to   the  Barony  of 
Ferrers,  of  Groby,  at  the  decease  of  her 


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grandfather,  m.  Sir  Edward  Grey,  Knt 


Thomas,  who  m.  EUxabeth,  sister  and  co-heir 
of  Sir  Baldwin  Frevile,  Knt.,  of  Tamworth 
Castle,  in  the  county  of  Warwick,  txom 
whidi  union  lineaUy  descended. 
Sir  John   Ferren,  KnL,  of  Tamworth 
Castle,  who  d.  in  lOSO,  leaving  (the 
only  child  of  his  deceased  son.  Sir 
Humphrey  Ferren),  his  grand-daugh- 
ter, 
Annc  Fkrbsrs,  his  heiress,  who 
m.  the  Hon.  Robert  Shirley,  ddest 
son  of  Robert,  flnt  filarl  Ferren 
(which  Robert  <f.  before  his  Ikther 
had  been  advanced  to  the  earl- 
dom).    The  only  daughter  and 
hdress  of  this  marriage, 

EI.IXABBTH  Shiblby,  married 
James  Compton,  Earl  of 
Northampton,  and  their  only 
daughter  and  heiress. 

Lady  ChabxiOTTb  Comp- 
ton, Baroness  Ferren 
and  ComptoD,  marrying 
George,  flnt  Marquess 
Townshend,    conveyed 
those  baronies  to  the 
Townshendfiunily,  with 
Tamworth  Castle,  in  the 
county     of    Warwick^ 
which  they  have  since 
enjoyed. 
William,  fifth  Baron  Ferren,  of  Groby,  d.  in  1444, 
when  his  estates  passed  by  an  entail  to  his  brother, 
the  Hon.  Thomas  Ferren,  as  heir  at  law,  and  the 
Babovv  ow  Fbbbbbb,  nf  Crobfft  devolved  upon 
his  daughter,  Eliaabeth,  in  which  dignity,  her  hus- 
bMid,  Sir  Edward  Grey,  was  summoned  to  parlia- 
ment (see  Grey,  Baron  Fenrers*  of  Groby). 
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ABM&— Gu.  seven  muactee  voided,  or*  (the  aims 
of  Quina). 

FERRERS— BARONS  FERRERS,  OF 
CHARTLEY. 

By  Writ  of  Sununona,  dated  6th  February,  U99, 
27  Edward  I. 

JOHN  DE  FERRERS,  (only  son  of  Robert  de 
Ferrers,  eighth,  and  last  Earl  of  Derby  at  that 
family,)  Bfter  the  forfeiture  of  hia  father,  was  sum- 
moned to  parliament  as  Babozc  Fbbbbbb,  ^f 
Chardey,  in  the  county  i^f  SftUford,  on  the  6th  Fe* 
bruary,  U99.  (A  seat  which  came  into  the  £unily  of 
Ferren,  by  the  marriage  of  William,  fifth  Earl  of 
Derby,  with  Agnes,  sister  and  oo-hefar  of  Ranulph, 
Earl  of  Chester.)  This  John,  inheriting  the  turbu- 
lent spirit  of  his  (ather,  joined  the  Earl  of  Hertlbrd 
and  others,  in  the  2ftth  Edward  I.,  in  opposing  the 
collection  of  the  subsidies  granted  by  the  parliament 
then  held  at  St.  Edmundsbury,  to  the  crown,  but 
the  ferment  was  allayed  by  the  king's  confirming 
Magna  Charta,  and  the  charter  of  the  Forests;  and 
by  derlarlng  that  in  future,  no  tax  should  bb 
impobbo  upon  thb  bubjbct  without  thb  con- 
8BNT  or  PABLiAM BNT,  Bt  the  samo  time  granting 
a  pardon  to  the  discontented  lords  and  their  adher- 
ents, in  which  pardon  John  de  Ferren  is  especially 
named.  Soon  after  this  he  petitioned  Pope  Nicho- 
las  IIL,  that  his  holiness  should  interfere  to  procure 
him  the  lands  of  his  late  father  which  had  been  con- 
ferred upon  Edmund,  Earl  of  Lancaster,  but  his 
suit  was  ineflfectuaL  He  was  subsequently  in  the 
Scottish  wan,  and  was  then  raised  to  the  peerage  as 
suted  above.  His  lordship  in.  Hawyse,  niece  and 
heiress  of  *CeciUa  de  Muso^gros,  by  whom  he  ac- 
quired a  great  increase  to  his  fortune.  In  the  34th 
Edward  I.  he  was  again  in  the  wan  of  Scotland, 
and,  subsequently.  In  the  4th  Edward  II.,  the  year 
following  whidi  he  was  constituted  Seneschal  of 
Aqtiitaine.    He  d.  in  ISM,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

ROBERT  DE  FERRERS,  second  Banm  Fenen. 
of  Chartley ,  summoned  CD  parliament  Sffth  February, 
1342.  This  nobleman,  who  was  of  a  martial  charac- 
ter, served  frequently  in  the  Scotch  and  French  wan 
of  Henry  IIL,  and  finally,  the  year  befbre  his  de- 
ceese,  participated  in  the  oi.oBiova  victory  op 
CBX88Y,  (83rd  Edward  IIL)  His  lordship  m.  Agnes, 
daughter  of  Humphrey  de  Bohun*  Earl  of  Hereford, 
by  wlKMn  he  had  issue, 
John,  his  successor. 

Robert,  summoned  to  parliament  as  Baron 
Ferren,  of  Wenune  (see  that  dignity). 
He  d,  hi  1350,  and  was  «.  by  his  dder  son, 

JOHN  DE  FERRERS,  third  Banm  Ferrers,  of 
Chartley,  but  never  summoned  to  parliament  This 
nobleman  was  in  the  wan  of  Gascony  in  the  33rd 
Edward  III.  His  lordship  m.  Elisabeth,  widow  of 
Fulke  le  Strange,  and  dying  beyond  the  seas,  in 
1367,  was  «.  by  his  eon, 
ROBERT  DE  FERRERS,  fourth  Baron  Fsrren, 

*  According  to  Dugdale;  but  by  EdmonsiHi, 
daughter  and  heiress  of  Robert  de  Muscegros,  Lcurd 
ot  Charlton,  in  the  county  of  Somerset. 


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ol  Chttttof.  Iwt  Mv«r  mmuMMMd  to  pwUmMnt. 
His  lordsfaip  m,  Marguet,  daughter  of  Edwud, 
Lord  Spencer,  and  dying  in  1413,  wai «.  by  his  ton, 
EDMUND  DE  FERRERS,  filth  Baran  Femn, 
of  Chartley,  but  nerer  summonad  to  parliament. 
This  nobknun  participated  in  most  of  the  gnat 
▼ictorlcs  of  Kii«  Henry  V.  His  lordship  m.  Helen, 
daughter  and  oo-heir  of  Thomas  da  la  Roche,  by 
whom  he  acquired  large  landed  possessions,  amongrt 
which  was  that  of  Caetle  Bromwlch.  in  the  county 
of  Derby,  and  he  had  issue, 

W11.1.IAM,  his  successor. 

Edmund,  upon  whom  the  estates  were  en- 
tailed. 
He  d.  in  the  14th  Henry  VL.  and  was  «.  by  his  dder 


WILLIAM  DE  FERRERS,  sixth  Baron  Ferrers, 
of  Chartley,  who  m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Sir 
Hamon  Belknap,  Knt,  and  dying  in  the  88th  Henry 
VL,  left  an  only  daughter, 

ANirx,  then  wife  of  Walter  Derereuz,  Esq., 
upon  whom  the  Barony  of  Fsrkbrs,  of 
CHABTX.JEY,  devolved,  a  dignity,  at  present, 
eqjoyed  by  the  Marquess  Townshend. 
His  lordship's  great  landed  possessions  passed  in 
conformity  with  the  entail  upon  his  only  brother, 
the  Hon.  Edmund  Ferrers. 
AsMS^— Vaire  or.  and  gu. 

FIENES  —  VISCOUNTS   SAY   AND 

SELE. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  7th  July,  1684. 

See  Say,  Lords  Say  and  Sele.. 

FINCH— BARON  FINCH,  OF  FORD- 
WICH,  IN  THE  COUNTY 
OF  KENT. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  7th  April,  164a 

Xincagt. 

SIR  THOMAS  FINCH,  Knt,  a  gaUant  soldier 

in  the  reigns  of  Mary  and  Elisabeth,  mi.  Catherine, 

elder  daughter  and  oo-Jwiress  of  Sir  Thomas  Moyle, 

of  Eastweil,  in  the  county  of  Kent,  and  had  issue, 

MoTLB,   from  whom  the  bxtakt  Earls  ot 

Winchelsea  and  Nottingham  descend. 
Henry,  of  whom  presently. 
Thonaas,  m.  — ~,  daughter  of  —  Wilklns, 
Esq.,  of  Tonge,  and  died  «.  p. 
The  second  son, 

SIR  HENRV  FINCH,  seijeant  at  hiw,  m.  Ur- 
sola,  daughter  and  heiress  of  John  Thwaits,  Esq., 
and  had  an  only  son, 

SIR  JOHN  FINCH,  an  emtaient  hiwyer,  who 
filled  the  chair  of  the  House  of  Commons  in  16B7, 
became  attomey-gcnenl  to  the  queen  in  1635, 
juatiee  of  the  common  pleas  the  following  year, 
and  diief  Justice  afterwards.  In  1630,  Sir  John  was 
appointed  lord  keeper  of  the  great  seal,  and  in  the 
beginning  of  the  next  year,  (7th  Aptlll640,>  he  was 
adTanoed  to  the  peerage,  hi  the  dignity  of  Babon 
FiKCH,  of  Fonefccridk,  in  the  county  of  Kent.  His 
lordship  m.  first,  Eleanor,  dau|^ter  of  Sir  George 
Wy«t»  of  Bexlay,  and  secondly,  Mabel,  daughter  of 


the  Very  Hev.  Charles  Fortherby,  Dean  of  Canter* 
bury ;  but  having  no  issue,  save  one  daughter,  who 
m.  the  Right  Hon.  Sir  Oeoige  RadcliA,  of  Ireland, 
the  Baaont  op  Finch,  at  his  lordship^s  deceese  in 
1600,  became  nxTurcT. 

FITZ-ALAN— EARLS  OF  ARUNDEL, 
BARONS  MALTRAVERS. 

Earldom,  by  feudal  possession  of  Arundel  Castle. 

Barony,  by  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  6th  June,  1S90, 

4  Edward  IIL 

Xintagt. 

In  the  time  of  William  the  Conqueror, 

ALAN,  the  son  of  Flathald  (or  FhuOd)  obtained, 
by  the  gift  of  that  king,  the  Castle  of  Oswaldestre, 
with  the  territory  adjoining,  which  belonged  to 
Meredith  ap  Bletbon,  a  Briton.  This  Alan,  having 
married  the  daughter  and  heir  of  Warine,  sherilT  of 
Shropshire,  had,  in  her  right,  the  Barony  of  Warine^ 
and  wasV  by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  FITZ  ALAN,  who,  in  the  contest 
between  King  Stephen  and  the  Empress  Maud, 
being  then  governor  of  Shrewsbury  and  sheriff  of 
the  county  of  Salop,  hdd  the  castle  of  Shrewsbury 
for  the  latter,  until  it  was  taken  by  aasaolL  He  was 
also  with  the  empreas  at  the  siege  of  Wtaschester 
Castloi  in  the  6th  Stephen,  irtien  she  and  her  whole 
army  were  put  to  flight  t  and  afterwards,  continuiug 
to  adhere  stoutly  to  the  seme  cause,  he  was  r»«on« 
stituted  sheriff  of  Salop,  so  soon  as  King  Henry 
attained  the  crown.  This  William  mi.  Isabel,  daugh- 
tsr  and  heir  of  Hdias  de  Say,  Lady  of  Clun,  niece 
of  Robert,  Earl  of  Gkmoester,  and  dying  some  time 
before  1165,  was  «.  by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  FITZ-ALAN,  who,  in  the  19th 
Henry  II.,  upon  the  assessment,  in  idd  of  marrying 
the  khag's  daughter,  certified  his  knights'  fees  to  be 
in  number  thirty-five  and  a  half.  Hawass,  by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  FITZ-ALAN.  ThU  feudal  lord 
served  the  oflloe  of  sherilT  ftir  Shiopehive,  from 
9d  Richard  L,  untU  the  9d  of  John,  inchisivek  He 
was«.  by  his  brother, 

JOHN  FITZ-ALAN,  who  took  up  arms  with 
the  other  herons  temp.  John;  but,  upon  the  acces- 
sion of  King  Henry,  having  had  letters  of  safe  con- 
duct to  come  in  and  make  his  peace,  he  had  livery 
of  the  lands  of  his  inheritance,  upon  paying,  how- 
ever, a  fine  of  ten  thousand  marks.  This  feudal 
lord  fN.  txaU  Isabel,  second  daughter  of  William  de 
Albinl,  Earl  of  Arundd,  and  sistsr  and  co-heir  of 
Hugh,  iMMt  earl  of  that  femlly,  by  whom  he  had  a  son, 

JoHH,  his  successor. 
He  eqwused,  secondly.  Haws  de  Bhmcminiter,  and 
dying  in  1S39,  was  «.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  FITZ-ALAN,  who,  in  the  98th  Henry 
III.,  upon  the  division  made  of  the  property  of 
Hugh  Albini,  Earl  of  Arundel,  then  made,  had  the 
castle  of  Anmdel  asiigned  to  him  for  his  principal 
seat,  thus  becoming  fifth  Earl  of  Arundd;  and 
soon  after  that,  in  eoaaideration  of  a  thousand 
pounds'  fine,  had  livery  of  his  own  castles  of  Chin, 
Blancminster  end  Schrawurthen.  In  the  i2d  Henry 
IIL,  his  lordship  was  made  captain-general  of  all 
the  finrces  designed  for  guarding  the  Welsh  marches, 
and  in  the  baronial  wai^  he  ai»pean  ^irst  to  have 

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tided  with  the  baroiu,  and  •ftcrwardi  with  the 
king.  He  died  in  the  fiSd  Henry  III.,  leaving  iMue 
by  his  wife,  Maud,  daughter  of  Rote  de  Verdun, 
his  successor, 

JOHN  FITZ-ALAN,  sixth  Earl  of  Arundel, 
who  m.  Isabel  de  Mortimer,  and  dying  in  two  years 
after  his  accession  to  the  honours  ot  the  family, 
was  «.  by  his  son, 

RICHARD  FITZ-ALAN,  seventh  Earl  ot  Arun- 
del, who  espoused  Alice,  daughter  of  the  Marquess 
of  Saluce  in  Italy,  and  had  issue, 

Edmund,  his  successor. 

Maud,  m.  to  Philip,  Lord  BumeL 

Margaret,  m.  to  William  Boteler,  of  Wemme. 
His  lordship  dL  in  1301,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

EDMUND  FITZ-ALAN,  eighth  Earl  of  ArundeL 
We  find  this  nobleman,  ftom  the  34th  Edward  I., 
when  he  was  made  a  Knight  of  the  Bath  with 
Prince  Edward,  to  the  fourth  of  the  ensuing  reign, 
constantly  engaged  in  the  wars  of  Scotland ;  but  he 
was  afterwards  involved  in  the  treason  of  Thomas, 
Earl  of  Lancaster,  yet  not  greatly  to  his  prejudice; 
for,  in  the  10th  Edward  II.,  his  lordship  was  consti- 
tuted lieutenant  and  captain-general  to  the  king, 
from  the  Trent  northwards,  as  £sr  as  Roxborough 
in  Scotland,  and  for  several  years,  subsequently,  he 
continued  one  of  the  commanders  of  the  English 
army  in  Scotland;  in  whidi  service  he  so  distin- 
guished himself,  that  he  obtained  a  grant  Arom  the 
crown  of  the  confiscated  property  of  Lord  Baddies- 
mere,  in  the  dty  of  London  and  county  of  Salop ; 
as  well  as  the  escheated  lands  of  John,  Lord  Mou- 
bray,  in  the  Isle  of  Axholme,  and  several  manors 
and  castles,  part  of  the  possessions  (also  forfeited) 
of  Roger,  Lord  Mortimer,  of  Wigmore.  But  those 
royal  grants  led,  eventiully,  to  the  earl's  ruin ;  for, 
alter  the  fall  of  the  unhappy  Edward  into  the  hands 
of  his  enemies.  Lord  Arundel,  who  was  implacably 
hated  by  the  queen  and  Mortimer,  sufRered  death, 
by  decapitation,  at  Hereford  in  1386.  His  lordship 
m.  the  Lady  Alice  Plantagenet,  sister  and  sole  heir 
of  John,  last  Earl  of  Warren  and  Surrey  of  that 
family,  by  whom  he  had  issue, 

Richard,  his  successor. 

Edmund. 

Alice,  m.  to  John  deBohun,  Earl  of  Hereford. 

Jane,  m.  to  Warine  Gerard,  Lord  L'Isle. 
His  lordship  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

RICHARD  FITZ-ALAN,  who  being  restored 
by  parliament,  4th  Edward  III.,  had  the  Castle  ot 
Arundel,  (which  had  been  given  to  Edmund,  Elarl 
of  Kent,  the  king's  unde,)  rendered  to  him,  and 
thus  became  ninth  earL  In  the  7th  Edward  III., 
this  nobleman  was  constituted  governor  of  Chirke 
Castle,  in  the  county  of  Denbigh,  and  the  ensuing 
yiear,  had  a  grant  of  the  inheritance  of  that  castle, 
with  all  the  territories  thereunto  belonging,  being 
part  of  the  possessions  of  Roger  Mortimer,  the 
attainted  Earl  of  March;  he  was  soon  afterwards 
made  governor  ot  Porchester  Castle,  and  the  same 
year  had  a  command  in  the  wars  of  Scotland,  where 
he  continued  engaged  for  some  years.  After  this 
he  was  constituted  admiral  of  the  western  seas, 
and  governor  of  Caernarvon  castle.  In  the  14th 
Edward  III.,  his  lordship  embarked  in  the  French 
wars,   and    participated   in  the  glories   of    the 

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subsequent  campaigns.  He  was  at  the  dcge  of 
Vannes,  the  relief  of  Thouars,  and  the  immortal 
battle  of  CBK88Y.  Besides  his  great  military  ser- 
vices, the  earl  was 'frequently  employed  in  diplo- 
matic missions  of  the  first  importance,  and  was 
esteoned  one  of  the  most  eminent  generals  and 
statesmen  of  the  era  in  which  he  lived.  His  lord- 
ship, who  with  his  other  honours  had  the  Gartbr, 
contracted  in  minority,  and  under  constraint,  mar- 
riage with  Isabd,  daughter  of  Hugh  le  Despenaer, 
and  had  issue  by  her,  an  only  daughter, 

Philippa,  m.  to  Sir  Richard  Sexgeaux,  Knt, 
of  ComwalL'- — A  '.  ~  ,  ■  ' 
He  subsequently  repudiated  this  lady,  with  the 
sanction  of  the  Pope,  and  espoused  the  Lady  Elea- 
nor Plantagenet,  daughter  of  Henry,  Earl  of  Lan< 
caster,  by  whom  he  had  issue,  / 

Richard,  his  successor. 

John,  m.  Eleanor,  grand-daughter  and  heir  of    ' 
John,  Lord  Maltravers,  in  whose  right  he    ^ 
bore  that  title,  and  had  issue, 
John,   who  cT.  in  his  ikthex's  lifi»-time, 
leaving  a  son, 
John,  Lord  Maltravers,  who  «.  as 
eleventh  Earl  of  ArundeL 
Thomas,  called  Arundd,  successively  Bishop 
of  Ely,  Archbishop  of  York,  and  Archbishop 
of  Canterbury,    Lord    Chancrllor  op 
England.      This  prelate  was  impeached 
and  banished  the  kingdom,  in  the  reign  of 
Richard  II. ;  but  returned  with  Henry  IV. 
and  was  restored  to  the  see  of  Canterbury. 
He  was  a  person  of  great  eminence  in  his 
time,  but  is  accused  of  being  a  religious 
persecutor,  particularly  of  the  Wickliffites, 
and  of  Sir  John  Oldcastle,  Lord  Cobham. 
He  d,  80th  October,  1413,  and  was  buried  in 
the  cathedral  church  of  Canterbury. 
Alice',  m.  to  Thomas  Holland,  Earl  of  Kent 
Eleanor,  died  young. 
Joane,  m.  to  Humphrey  de  Bohun,  Earl  of 

Hereford. 
Mary,  m.  to  John,  Lord  Strange,  of  Black- 
mere. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1376,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest 
son, 

RICHARD  FITZ-ALAN,  tenth  Earl  of  Arundel, 
K.G.  In  the  1st  Richard  II.,  this  nobleman  being 
constituted  admiral  of  the  king's  fleet  in  the  westp 
wards,  and  soon  after  that  to  the  southwards,  was  re- 
tained by  indenture,  to  serve  the  king  at  sea,  for  one 
quarter  of  a  yew,  in  the  company  of  John,  Duke  of 
Lancaster,  King  of  Castile.  He  was  afterwards  en- 
gaged for  some  years  in  Scotland;  and  was  in  the  com- 
mission, (9th  Edward  II.,)  for  the  trial  of  Michael 
de  la  Pole,  and  some  other  of  the  king's  fkvourites, 
whom  the  Commons  had  then  impeached.  His 
lordship  was  appointed  the  next  year  admiral  of  the 
whole  fleet,  and  putting  to  sea,  encountered  and 
vanquished  the  united  fleets  of  France  and  Spain, 
taking  no  less  than  one  hundred  ships,  great  and 
small,  all  laden  with  wines,  comprising  nineteen 
thousand  tuns.  This  gallant  exploit  he  followed 
up  by  entering  the  port  of  Brest,  and  reducing  one 
of  its  castles  and  burning  the  other.  He  now  re- 
turned to  England  in  groat  triumph,  but  had  to 


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enooanter  tht  jaaknuy  and  hatred  of  the  king*! 
fiiTOurites*  puthnilarty  of  the  Duke  of  Ireland, 
whose  influence  over  the  king  he  itrenuousiy  re- 
listed. His  lordship  afterwards  entered  into  the 
confederation  of  the  Earb  of  Derby  and  Warwick, 
which  assembled  in  arms  at  Haringhay  Park,  (now 
Homsey,)  in  Middlesex,  and  compelled  the  king 
to  acquiesce  in  their  yiews.  He  was  then,  by  the 
general  consent  of  parliament,  (11th  Richard  II.,) 
made  governor  of  the  castle  and  town  of  Brest, 
and  shortly  after,  captain-general  of  the  king's  fleet 
at  sea,  with  commission  to  treat  of  peace,  with  John 
de  Montfort,  then  Duke  of  Britanny;  whereupon 
hoisting  his  flag,  soon  after  met  with  the  enemy, 
<d  whose  sMps  he  sunk  and  took  fourscore;  en- 
tered the  isle  of  Reas,  which  he  burnt  and  spoiled, 
and  several  other  ports  which  he  likewise  plun- 
dered, putting  to  flight  all  the  French  and  Britons, 
that  made  any  resistance.  From  this  memorable 
period  in  the  life  of  Lord  Arundel,  little  is  known 
of  him,  until  the  Ifith  Richard,  whoi  the  king 
regaining  his  power,  summoned  a  parliament  at  West- 
minster, and  dismissed  several  of  the  great  officers 
of  state,  amongst  whom  his  lordship  was  removed 
ftom  his. command  as  admind;  and  in  two  years 
afterwards,  the  parliament  then  sitting,  he  was  ac- 
cused of  treason  by  the  Duke  of  Lancaster,  but 
escaped  for  the  moment,  and  sought  to  retire  Arom 
public  hfe.  The  king  entertaining,  however,  the 
strongest  feeling  of  personal  enmity  to  all  those  who 
had  previously  opposed  his  minions,  contrived  to 
get  the  Earl  of  Artmdel  into  his  hands  by  strata- 
gem, and  having  sent  him  prisoner  to  the  isle  of 
Wight,  brought  him  to  immediate  trial,  when  he 
was  condemned  to  be  hanged,  drawn,  and  quartered, 
as  a  traitor.  The  sentence  was  however  some- 
what mitigated,  and  the  gallant  nobleman  was 
simply  beheaded  at  Cheapside,  in  the  dty  of  Lon- 
don, 21st  of  Richard  II. ;  the  king  himself  being 
a  spectator,  and  Thomas  de  Mowbray,  Earl  Mar- 
shal, (who  had  married  his  daughter,)  the  execu- 
tioner, who  bound  up  his  eyes,  and  according  to 
some,  the  person  who  actually  struck  off  his  head. 
It  is  stated,  that  when  the  earl  saw  his  son-in-law, 
Mowbray,  and  the  Earl  of  Kent,  his  nephew,  guard- 
ing him  to  the  place  of  execution,  he  told  them,  it 
had  been  much  more  fit,  that  they  should  have 
absented  themselves :  "  For  the  time  will  come," 
(said  he,)  <*when  as  many  shall  wonder  at  your 
misfortune,  as  they  now  do  at  mln&"  His  lordship 
m.  first.  Lady  Elisabeth  de  Bohun,  daughter  of 
William,  Earl  of  Northampton«  and  had  surviving 
issue, 

Thomas,  his  tuoceaaor. 

Elisabeth,  m.  flrst,  to  William  de  Montacute, 
efclest  son  of  William,  Earl  of  Salisbury, 
which  William  was  unhappily  slain  by  his 
listhcr  in  a  tilting  at  Windsor,  6th  Richard  IL 
Her  ladyship  m.  secondly,  Thomas,  Lord 
Mowbray,  Earl  Marshal,  and  through  the 
daughter  of  this  marriage,  the 

Ladt  Maroabkt  MowBftAY«  eventual 
heiress  of  the  Mowbrays,  who  espoused 
Sir  Robert  Howard,  Knt,  the  Dukk- 
DOM  of  NOBPOLK,    the  Eabi.  Mab- 

SHAMBtPy  and  Other  honours*  came 


into  the  family  of  Howabo,  which 
they  have  since  enjoyed. 
Lady    Elisabeth    m.   thirdly.    Sir  Gerard 
Ufflete,    Rnt.,    a^d   foivrthly.   Sir   Robert'    >, 
S      GoufhiU,  KnL    I     -.     •.  *        '/j   'f   "^ 

Margaret,  m.  to  Sir  Rowland  Lentli^l^  Knt. 
Alice,  m.  to  John  Charlton,  Lord  Fowls. 
The  earl  was  «.  by  his  son, 

THOMAS  FITZ-ALAN,  who.  being  restored  in 
blood  in  the  parliament  1st  of  Henry  IV.,  when  the 
Judgment  against  his  father  was  reversed,  became 
eleven^  Eabi.  op  Arunokl.  This  nobleman  was 
made  a  Knight  of  the  Bath  at  the  coronation  of 
King  Henry  IV.  He  was  afterwards  made  a  Knight 
of  the  Garter — and  upon  the  accession  of  King 
Henry  V.  he  was  constituted  constable  of  Dover 
Castle,  and  lord  warden  of  the  Cinque  Ports,  as  alto 
LORD  TBBA8URKB  of  England.  His  lordship  m. 
Beatrix,  an  ill^timate  daughter  of  John,  king  of 
Portugal,  and  the  nuptials  were  celebrated  with 
great  pomp  in  London,  the  king  and  queen  assist- 
ing. He  died,  however,  without  issue,  in  141  A, 
leaving  his  four  sisters  his  heirs,  as  to  rartain  parts 
of  his  great  possessions ;  but  the  qabtlb  or  Aruw- 
DBL,  and  with  it  the  earldom,  devolved  upon  his 
cousin, 

JOHN  FITZ-ALAN.  Lord  Maltraven,  as  twelfth 
Earl  of  Anmdel*  (refer  to  issue  of  Richard,  ninth 
earl).  This  noUeraan  was  in  the  king's  fleet  at  sea 
under  his  kinsman,  Richard,  Earl  of  Arundel,  and 
he  was  subsequently  in  the  wars  of  Scotland  and 
France.  His  lordship  m.  Alianore,  daughter  of  Sir 
John  Berkeley,  Knt,  of  Beverston,  in  the  county 
of  Gloucester,  by  whom  he  had  issue, 
John,  his  successor. 
William,  who  s.  as  fifteenth  earL 

*  Nicolas  has  the  foHowIng  note  in  his  Synopsis-* 
Until  the  11th  Henry  VI.,  wh«n  it  was  decided 
that  the  tenure  of  the  castle  of  Arundel  alone, 
without  any  creation,  patent,  or  investiture,  con- 
stituted its  possessor  Earl  of  Arundel,  neither  this 
John,  nor  John  his  son  and  heir,  were  regularly 
considered  to  have  possessed  that  dignity,  although 
they  were  both  seised  of  the  said  castle  t  in  proof  of 
which  John  Fits-Alan,  twelfth  earl,  was  never  sum- 
moned to  parliament,  and  John,  his  son  and  heir, 
was  summoned  in  the  7th  Henry  VI.,  as  a  baron 
only  i  nor  was  it  until  the  3rd  December,  1441,  that 
the  inheritor  of  the  castle  of  Arundel  sat  in  parlia- 
ment by  that  title,  which  probably  arose  from  this 
circumstance,  that  at  the  time  of  the  decision 
alluded  to,  in  the  11th  Henry  VI.,  1438,  John,  Earl 
of  Arundel,  was  engaged  in  the  wars  of  France,  and 
continued  to  be  so  until  his  death,  which  happened 
within  two  years  afterwards:  and  Humphrey,  his 
son  and  heir,  died  in  1437*  then  only  ten  years  of  age, 
and  was  succeeded  by  William,  his  uncle  and  heir, 
who  was  accordingly  summoned  to  parliament  as 
Earl  of  ArundeL  Notwithstanding  what  has  been 
observed,  that  John  Fits-Alan,  who  succeeded  in 
1415,  was  not  admitted  to  this  earldom,  it  is  mani- 
fest he  was  generaUy  styled  Earl  of  Arundel,  for 
Alice,  his  widow,  in  her  will,  describes  herself  as 
Countess  of  Arundd,  and  speaks  of  her  hite  husband 
as  Johu>  Earl  of  ArundeL 

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Lord  Amndd  4.  in  14S1,  and  wai  «.  by  hit  elder 
•on, 

JOHN  FITZ-ALAN,  thirteenth  Eeii  of  Arun- 
del, who,  in  the  7th  of  Henry  VL,  was  lununoned 
to  parliament  as  Lord  Maltravers,  and  the  next 
year,  according  to  Dugdale,  at  Earl  of  Amndd.  In 
the  11th  of  Henry  VI.  this  nobleman  petitioned 
parliament  for  the  confirmation  of  his  title,  as 
annexed  to  the  castle,  honour,  and  seigniory  of 
Arundel,  which  was  adjudged  to  him  by  virtue  of 
the  tenure  only,  after  much  opposition  fhnn  John 
Mowbray,  Duke  of  Norfolk,  who  was  heir  to  Elin^ 
beth,  one  of  the  sisters  and  co-heirs  of  Thomas, 
eleventh  earL  His  lordship  was  in  the  wars  oi 
France,  under  the  celebrated  general,  John  Talbot, 
first  Earl  of  Shrewsbury,  and  for  his  adiievements 
was  created,  by  Henry  VI.,  Dvkb  of  TouBAiirn, 
in  France,  and  invested  with  the  Garter.  But  even- 
tually having  his  leg  shattered  by  a  cannon  baU,  in 
an  engagement  with  the  enemy,  he  was  taken  pri- 
soner, and  conveyed  to  Beauvols,  where  he  departed 
this  life  in  1434.  The  earl  m.  Maud,  daughter  of 
Robert  Lovd,  by  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  Ouy 
Bryen,  the  younger,  Knt,  and  had  issue, 
HmfPHftBT,  his  successor. 
Amicia,  m.  to  James  Butler,  Earl  of  Ormonde 
and  WUtshire,  and  died,  temp.  Edward  IV., 
*.p. 
His  lordship  was  «.  by  his  son, 

HUMPHREY  FITZ-ALAN,  as  Duke  of  Tou- 
raine,  and  fourteenth  Earl  of  Arundel«  then  but  six 
years  old.  This  nobleman  d.  in  three  years  after- 
wards, (1437,)  when  the  dukedom  of  Touraine  xx- 
piRXD,  but  the  castle  oi  Arundd  reverted  to  his 
uncle, 

WILLIAM  FITZ-ALAN,  who  thus  became  flf- 
teenth  Earl  of  ArundcL  Between  this  nobleman 
and  Thomas  Courtenay,  fcarl  of  DeroB,  there  arose, 
in  the  2ard  Henry  VI.,  a  great  dispute  in  parlia- 
ment regarding  precedency,  which  brtng  renewed  in 
the  parliament  held  four  years  afterwards,  was  then 
lefaied  to  the  Judges,  who  refused,  however,  to 
give  any  o|»inlon  upon  the  subject,  declaring,  <•  that 
it  was  a  mattsr  of  parUament,  belonging  to  the 
king's  highness,  and  to  his  lords  spiritual  and  tem- 
poral in  parliament,  by  them  to  be  decided."  The 
question  at  isnie  was,  whether  this  earl  shoold  have 
precedency  of  the  Earl  of  Devon,  or  not  ?  The  Act 
of  Ilth  Henry  VI.,  expressing  onfy  that  John,  Men 
Earl  of  Arundd,  should  have  the  place,  precedency, 
A^c  as  Earl  of  Arundd,  without  mentioning  Us 
heirs.  Upon  which  the  lords  ultimatdy  leeotved, 
"  that  he  should  have  his  place  in  parliament,  and 
the  king's,  council,  as  earl,  by  reason  of  the  castle, 
lordship,  and  honour  of  Arundd.  for  hlmadf ,  and 
Us  heirsfor  evermore,  above  the  said  Earl  of  De- 
von, and  his  hetn,  as  worshlpftilly  as  any  of  his 
ancestors  Earls  of  Arundel  before  that  time  ever 
had.**  The  Earl  of  Arundel,  fai  the  10th  Edward  IV., 
wee  made  constable  of  Dover  Castle,  and  warden  of 
the  dnqne  Porta,  being  then  also  jusdce  of  all  the 
king's  Ibrssts  south  of  Trent,  a  poet  renewed  to 
him  upon  the  accession  of  Henry  V.  He  was  also  a 
Knight  of  the  Garter.  His  lordship  m.  the  Lady 
Joane  Nevll,  daughter  of  Richard,  Earl  of  Salis- 
bury, by  whom  he  had  issue,  TnoMAa*  Lord  Mai- 
90» 


trtveri,  hb  successor,  William,  George,  and  JeliB, 
with  a  daughter  Maiy.  He  d.  in  1487,  and  was  «.  by 
hisddestson, 

THOMAS  FITZ-ALAN,  sixteenth  Earl  of  Arun- 
del, who  had  been  summoned  to  parliament,  in 
22nd  Edward  IV.,  and  1st  Henry,  as  "Thomaa 
Arundel,  of  Maltravers,  Knight,"  his  father  being 
then  alivok  His  lordship,  who  was  a  Knight  of  the 
Garter,  was  one  of  the  English  nobles  sent  over  to 
Flanders,  5th  Henry  VII.,  to  asaist  the  Emperor 
Maximilian  against  the  Frendu  Hem.  Margaret, 
daughter  of  Richaid  Widvile^  Earl  Riven,  and  had 
issuer 

William,  Lord  Maltravers,  his  tuooesaor. 

Edward. 

Margaret,  m.  to  John  de  la  Polei  Earl  of  Lin- 
coln. 

Joane,  m.  to  George  NevUl,  Lord  Bergavenny. 
The  earl  d.  in  15S4,  and  was  «.  by  his  dder  son, 

WILLIAM  FITZ-ALAN,  seventeenth  Earl  of 
Arundel,  K.G.  Tfab  nobleman's  signature  appears 
to  the  letter  of  remonetranoe  transmited  to  Pope 
Clement  IL,  in  the  28nd  Henry  VIIL,  regarding 
the  king's  divorce  ftom  Queen  Katharine.  His 
lordship  m.  first,  Anne,  sister  of  Henry,  Earl  of 
Northumberland,  upon  whidi  oocadon  he  had 
grants  ftom  the  crown  of  three  manors.  In  the 
county  of  Somerset,  end  that  of  Hunton,  In  Sovth- 
amptonshire,  to  hold  by  the  service  of  a  red  roae 
yearly.  By  this  lady  he  had  issue,  Hbubt,  Lord  Mal- 
travcvh  his  successor,  and  two  daughters,  who  both 
died  unmarried.  He  espoused  secondly,  Efiabeth, 
daughter  of  Robert  WiUoughby,  Lord  BnAe,  by 
whom  he  had  two  daughters,  Margaret  and  EUaa- 
beth,  who  likewise  died  unmsoried.  In  eonftmnlty 
with  the  poHcy  recommended  by  Cromwell  to  the 
king  upon  the  confiscation  of  the  church  lands,  the 
Earl  of  Arundd  was  obliged  to  exchange  several  of 
his  manors,  for  those  which  had  bdonged  to  the 
religious  houses.  Hb  lordship  d.  in  IMS,  snd  wae 
«.  by  his  son, 

HENRY  FITZ-ALAN,  eighteenth  Eari  of  Arun- 
dd„ K.G.  This  noUemao,  in  the  38th  Henry  VIIL, 
was  field  marshal  of  the  king's  army  at  the  siege  of 
Boulogne,  and  in  two  years  afterwards  was  oonstl- 
tttted  one  of  the  assistants  to  that  mosuoch's  execu- 
tors. After  the  fdl  of  the  Protector  Someraet, 
temp.  Edward  VL,  the  Earl  of  Arundd  having  de- 
clined to  enter  into  the  viewe  of  Dudley,  Earl  of 
Warwick,  was  removed  flrom  the  conncil  by  the  in- 
trigues of  that  nobleman,  and  fined  jCli,00O.  upon 
ttie  Mvokms  dia^ge  of  having  lenMyved  b(4Cf  and 
locks  from  Westminster,  and  given  away  the  king's 
stuir,  in  his  capacity  of  knd  chamberlala :  and  the 
ensuing  year  he  was  committed  priaoner  to  the 
Tower.  Upon  the  death  of  King  Edward,  his  lord- 
ship aealoudy  espoused  the  cause  of  Queen  Maiy, 
and  was  mahily  instrumental  in  her  ascending  the 
throne  without  any  eAision  of  Wood;  for  whlchand 
other  eminent  services,  he  was  made  conatable  of 
the  day  at  her  nuOesty'k  coronation,  as  be  was  also 
the  day  Immediatdy  preceding  the  eoranation  of 
Queen  EUaabeth,  at  which  he  ofldated  as  zx>ao 
Hiov  BTBWARD.  Hls  lordshlp  at  this  period  aspired 
to  the  hand  of  the  Virgin  Queen,  but  bdng  dis- 
appotaited  In  hb  hopes,  he  obtained  permission  to 


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travels  $iad  while ebrcNidi  lerved  in  the iMun agelntt 
the  Turks.  After  hit  return  to  England  he  was 
upon  the  commianon  inatltuted  to  Inquike  into  the 
murder  of  Henry,  Lord  Damley*  husband  of  Mary, 
Queen  of  Scots,  and  subsequently  favouring  the 
prstenaiona  of  the  Duke  of  Norfolk,  to  the  hand  of 
that  beautiful,  but  unfortunate  princess,  he  luf- 
fared  imprisonment  (Uth  Elisabeth).  His  lord- 
ihip  m.-  flzst.  Lady  Catherine  Orey,  daughter  of 
Thoroaa,  Marquess  of  Dorset,  by  whom  he  had, 
Hbkry,  Lord  Maltravers,  who  d.  in  the  liliB- 

time  of  his  father, «.  p, 
Joanna,  m.  to  John,  Lord  Lumley,  by  whom 

she  had  no  nirvlying  issue. 
Mary,  m.  to  Tfaomaa  Howard,  Duke  (if  Nor- 
folk, and  had  ismie, 

Philip  Howard,  who  having  inherited 
Arundel  CasUe,  was  summoned  to  par- 
liament 16th  January,  1680,  as  Eari. 
OP  AtLWDMh,  and  the  castle  Md  dig- 
nity havesinoeitBrnaised  in  the  FAMILY 

OP   HOWABD. 

The  earl  espoused  secondly,  Mary,  dau^ter  of  Sir 
John  Arundel,  of  Laaheme,  in  the  county  of  Con>> 
wal,  but  had  no  issue.  His  lordship,  who,  with  the 
other  high  offices  already  enumerated,  was  presi- 
dent of  the  cotmdl  to  Queens  Mary  and  Elisabeth, 
d»  in  1579,  when  the  Earldom  op  Arunobx.,  and 
castle,  passed  with  his  daughter,  and  eventually  sole 
heiress.  Lady  Mary  Fits-Alan,  to  her  husband,  Tho- 
mas Howard,  Duke  of  Norfolk,  with  the  Barony 
OP  Maltravrrs,  which  descended  to  her  son, 
Philip  Howard,  who  wes  attainted  in  the  atad  Ell- 
labeth,  when  the  barony  became  pobpritkd;  it 
was,  however,  restored  to  his  son,  Thomas  Howard, 
twentieth  E^rl  of  Arundel,  and  by  act  of  parli»- 
meot,  3rd  Charles  1.',  the  Barony  of  Maltravers, 
with  the  Baronies  of  Fits-Alan,  Clun,  and  Oswaldes- 
tre,  was  M»«M»«iMi  to  the  title,  dignity,  and  honour 
of  Earl  of  Anindd,  and  settled  upon  Thomas 
Howard,  then  Earl  of  Arundel  and  Surrey,  and  his 
heirs  male,  &c  dec.  Until  the  passing  of  thU  act 
Fitx-Alak  was  not  a  parliamentary  barony,  it 
was  merdy  feudsJ.  Thus  terminated  the  noble  and 
ancient  family  of  FitM-jUtut,  Earlb  op  Arundbi» 
Armb.— -Ar»  a  lion  rampant  within  a  bordure,  or. 


FITZXHARLES  —  EARL  OF   PLY- 
MOUTH. ,    .     , 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  99th  July,  1875,      ^ 
27  Charles  IL 

ICincsgc. 

CHARLES  FITZ-CHARLES,  illegitimate  son 
of  King  Charles  II.  by  Catherine,  daughter  of  Tho- 
mas Pegg,  Esq.,  of  Yeldersley,  in  the  county  of 
Derby,  was  elevated  to  the  peerage  on  29th  July, 
1670,  ae  Boron  Dartmouth,  VUeount  TotnMt,  and 
Earl  op  Plymouth.  His  lordship  m.  Lady  Brid- 
get Osborne,  daughter  of  Thomas,  flxst  Duke  of 
Leeds,  but  died  without  issue,  at  Tangier,  during 
the  siege  of  that  city  by  the  Moors,  in  1680,  when 
all  his  HOHOURB  bec«ne  bxtihct. 


Arms.— England,  with  a  batune  sinister,  vany  ar. 
and  as. 


FITZ-HERBERT  —  BARON      FITZ- 

HERBERT,  OR  FITZ- 
REQINALD. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  8th  June,  1294, 
22  Edward  L       ^ 

ICiiuanc. 

In  the  fifth  year  of  King  Stephen, 

HERBERT  FITZ-HERBERT,  then  knd  cham- 
berlain to  that  monarch,  gave  £S3S,  In  silver,  for 
livery  of  his  father's  lands.    This  Herbert  m.  first, 

,  daughter  and  co-hehress  of  Robert  Corbet* 

Lordof  Alcester,  in  the  county  of  Warwick,  who 
had  been  some  time  concubine  to  King  Henry  I. 
He  espoused  secondly,  Lucy,  daughter  of  Milo, 
Earl  of  Hereford,  and  was  «.,  at  his  decease,  by  hia 
son  by  that  lady, 

PETER  FITZ-HERBERT.  who,  being  very 
obeequious  to  Khig  John,  was  reputed  one  of  that 
princeTs  evil  counsellors.  In  1214,  he  was  consti- 
tuted governor  of  Pykering  Castle,  in  the  county 
of  York,  and  sheriff  of  the  shire :  but  afterwards 
falling  oflT  in  his  allegiance,  his  lands  at  Alcester 
were  seised  by  the  crown,  and  given  to  WiUiam  de 
CamviU.  Returning,  however,  to  his  duty  upon 
the  accession  of  Henry  III.,  those  lands  ware  re» 
stored  to  him.  He  d.  in  1234,  and  was  «.  by  his 
son, 

HERBERT  FITZ-PETERf  who,  in  the  98th 
Henry  III.,  had  a  milhary  summons  to  attend  the 
king  into  France.  Hed.  soon  after,  however,  (anno 
1247,)  and,  leaving  no  issue,  was  «.  by   his  bro* 


REGINALD  FITZ-H£&B£Ba*.  This  fbudai 
lord  had  summons  to  march  against  the  Welch  in 
the  4Sd  Henry  III.,  and  in  two  years  afterwards  re» 
oeived  or  den,  as  one  of  the  barons  mardiers,  to  re- 
side in  those  parts.  In  the  4Ath  of  the  same  reign, 
he  was  made  sherilf  of  Hampshire,  and  governor  of 
the  Castle  of  Winchester!  and  in  the  48th,  he  was 
one  of  those  benms  who  undertook  f<»  the  king*s 
performance  of  what  the  king  of  France  should 
determine  regarding  the  ordinances  of  Oxford.    He 


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m^oane,  daughter  of  William  de  Fortibus,  Lord  U  f^  J-^ 
of  Che^ton,  in  the  county  of  Scmierset, 
In  1285,  was  :  by  his  son.  iN/Mtdl^ 

JOHN  FITZ-REGINALl),  who  had  Simmons 
to  parliament,  as  a  baron,  on  the  8th  June,  1294, 
and  from  that  period  to  26th  January,  1297.  He 
was  afterwards  summoned  ftom  99th  December, 
1299,  to  96th  August,  1807;  but  his  descendants, 
who  all  bore  the  surname  of  Fits*Hrrbbrt,  were 
never  erteemed  barons,  nor  had  any  of  them  sum- 
mons to  parliament  as  such.  From  Pbtbr,  r  bro- 
ther of  this  John,  Lord  Fits-Reginald.  Che  Ftta- 
H«r6er<«,  Earls  op  Pbmbrokb,  ate  said  to  de- 
scend. 

Armb.— Ar„  a  chief  vairte  or.  and  gu.    Over  all  a 

bend  as.  '  .  I  '     » 

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FITZ.HUOH— BARONS  FITZ-HUOH. 

By  Writ  of  Summoiif,  dated  Iffth  Itey,  lasi* 
14  Edwud  II. 

Although  the  tumeme  of  Firt-HuoH  was  not 
^proprUted  to  this  family  before  the  time  of  Ed- 
ward III.*  it  bad  d^oyed  oonsideration  Arom  the 
period  of  the  Cooqueit :  when  lu  ancestor, 

BARDOLPH,  was  Lord  of  Ravenswath,  with 
divers  other  manors,  in  Richmondshire.  This  Bar- 
dolph  assumed  in  his  old  age  the  habit  of  a  monlc, 
in  the  Abbey  of  SL  Mary,  at  York,  to  which  he  gave 
the  churches  of  Patrick  Brompton  and  Ravenswath, 
in  pure  alms.    He  was  «.  by  his  son  and  heir, 

AKAIUS  FITZ-BARDOLPH,  who,  in  the  ffth 
Stephen,  founded  the  Abbey  of  Fors,  in  the  county 
of  York,  then  called  the  Abbey  of  Charity,  and 
dying  in  1161,  was  «.  by  Us  elder  son, 

HERVBY  FITZ-AKARIS,  who  being  a  noble 
and  good  knight,  and  mudi  esteemed  in  his 
eountry,  gave  consent,  that  Conan,  then  Earl  c/t 
Richmondand  Brltanny,  should  translate  the  Abbey 
of  Charity  into  the  Adds  at  East  Wilton,  and  there 
place  it  on  the  verge  of  the  river  Jore,  from  which 
it  was  thenceforward  caUed  JoaavAULx.  This 
Hervey  d.  in  1188,  and  was  «.  by  his  ion, 

HENRY  FITZ-HERVEY,  who  m.  Alice,  daugh- 
ter of  Randolph  Fits- Winter,  (ancestor  of  the  Barons 
of  Oreystoke,)  by  whom  he  acquired  considerable 
estates  in  the  north.  He  d.  in  UOl,  and  was  «.  by 
his  son, 

RANDOLPH  FITZ.HENRY.  This  feudal  lord 
m.  Alice,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Adam  de  Stavdey, 
Lord  of  Staveley,  Dent,  and  Sadbergh,  and  dying 
In  U6B,  was  «.  by  his  elder  son, 

HENRY  FITZ-RANDOLPH,  who  waa  «.  by 
his  son, 

RANDOLPH  FITZ-HENRY.  This  feudal  ba- 
ton dying  without  issue,  was  «.  by  his  brothert 

HUGH  FITZ-HENRY,  whod.  in  ISM.  and  was 
a.  by  his  son, 

HENRY  FITZ-HUOH,  fkom  whom  his  descen- 
dants ever  afterwards  adopted  the  surname  of  FWs- 
Huiflk,  This  Henry  was  engaged  in  the  Scottish 
wars  from  theSrd  to  the  8th  Edward  IL,  the  next 
year  he  was  constituted,  owing  to  the  minority  of 
the  Earl  of  Warwick,  (whose  inheritance  it  was,) 
governor  of  Barnard  Castle,  in  the  Bishoprick  ai 
Durham  t  and  being  again  employed  in  Scotland, 
he  was  summoned  to  parliament  as  a  babon  from 
Iftth  Mmt,  lasi,  ta  15th  November,  1S51.  In  1327 
his  kn^Plp  acquitted  Sir  Henry  Vavasor,  Knt,  of 
a  drtrt  of  five  hundred  marks,  by  special  instrument 
under  his  seal,  upon  condition  that  Henry  Vavasor, 
Sir  Henry's  son,  should  take  to  wife  Annabil  Fits- 
Hugh,  his  daughteE.  In  the  7th,  8th  and  9th  Ed- 
ward III.  Lord  Fits-Hugh  was  again  in  arms  upon 
the  Scottish  soil.  His  lordship  m.  Eve,  daughter  of 
Sir  John  Buhner,  Knt,  and  had,  beside  the  daugh- 
ter already  mentioned,  a  son, 

HnwEY,  who  d.  in  the  life-time  of  his  father, 
leaving  issue  by  Ma  wife,  Joane,  daughter 
of  Sir  Richard  Foumeys,  and  sister  and 
helms  Qi  William  Foumeys, 


Hugh,  M.  Isabrt,  daughter  of  Ralph,  Lord 

Nevill,  and  died  «.  p. 
Hbhkt,  who  «.  his  grandfiuher. 
Lord  Fita-Hugfa  d.  in  189^  and  wass.  by  his  grand- 


HENRY  FITZ-HUOH,  second  baron,  sum- 
moned to  parliament  flrom  4th  August,  1377*  to  8th 
August,  138S.  His  lordship  was  faagtqpA.  in  the 
Frendi  wars  of  King  Edward  IIL,  almost  uninter* 
ruptedly  from  the  33rd  to  the  48rd  of  that  gallant 
monarch's  reign.  He  m.  Joane,  daughter  of  Henry, 
Ixnrd  Scrope,  of  Masham,  and  had  issue, 

John,  slain  in  the  battle  of  OrraBaooRKS, 
better  known  as  Chbtt  Chasb,  fought  be- 
tween the  English,  under  Sir  Henry  Percy, 
son  and  heir  of  the  Earl  of  Northumber- 
land, and  his  brother.  Sir  Robert  Percy, 
and  the  Scots,  commanded   by  the  Earl 
Douglas. 
Hbnby,  successor  to  his  father. 
His  lordship  d.  in  U86>  and  was  «.  by  his  only  sur- 
viving son, 

HENrV  FITZ-HUOH,  third  baron,  summoned 
to  parliament  flrom  17th  December.  1387,  to  1st  Sep- 
tember, 14S3.    This  noldeman  attainwi  great  emi- 
nence in  the  reigns  of  Henry  IV.  and  Henry  V.    In 
the  beginning  of  the  former  we  And  his  lordship  in« 
eluded  in  a  commission  to  negotiate  a  truce  with 
Scotland,  and  afterwards  to  accomplish  a  league  of 
amity  betsreen  the  two  crowns  (of  England  and 
Scotland).    In  the  8th  Henry  IV.  he  was  accredited 
upon  an  important  mission  to  Denmark,  and  in  five 
years  afterwards  he  was  again  a  commissioner  upon 
the  afiUrs  of  Scotland.    On  the  coronatian  of  King 
Henry  V.  Lord  Fits-Hugh  was  appointed  constaWe 
of  England  for  that  solemnity,  and  the  next  year  he 
obtainedagrantftom  thecrownof  £I00l  per  annum. 
He  was  afterwards  lord  chamberlain  of  the  king's 
household,  and  assisted  at  the  couirciL  op  Con- 
8TANCB.    For  whidi,  and  his  other  eminent  ser- 
vices, he  had  a  grant  of  all  the  lands  which  had 
belonged  to  the  attainted  Henry,  Lord  Scrope,  of 
Masham,  lying  in  Richmondshire,  to  hold  during 
the  term  that  those  lands  should  continue  in  the 
king's  hands;  and  upon  the  surrender  of  that  grant 
in  the  same  year,  he  had  another  grant  for  life  of 
the  manors  of  Masham,  Clifton,  Burton-Constable, 
and  ten  others,  likewise  part  of  the  possessions  of 
the  aforesaid  Lord  Scrope.    From  theSth  to  the  9th 
Henry  V.  his  lordship  was  uninterruptedly  engaged 
\fk  the  French  wars,  during  which  period  he  was  at 
ithe  siege  of  Roan  with  the  Duke  of  Exeter. 

It  is  further  reported  of  Lord  Fita-Hugh,  that  he 
traveled  more  than  once  to  JBBUsALxif ,  and  be- 
yond that  celebrated  city,  to  Gbakd  Caibo,  where 
the  sottldan  had  his  residenoe,  and  that  in  his  return 
he  fought  with  the  Saracens  and  Turks.    It  is  also 
stated  that  by  the  help  of  the  knights  of  Rhodes,  he 
built  a  castle  there,  caUed  St.  Peter's  Castla.    His 
lordship  m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  and  heir  of  Sir 
Robert  Grey,  Knt,  son  of  John,  Lord  Grey,  of 
Rotherfleld,  by  Avice,  sister  and  co-heir  of  Robert, 
Lord  Marmion,  by  whom  he  had«  with  other  issuer 
William,  his  successor, 
John,  (Sir). 
Robert,  in  holy  orders.  Bishop  of  London. 


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m.  to  Sir  Robert  WinouffHby,  KnC 
m.  flnt,  to  WiUfam,  Lord  D'Afcy, 
andMooudlyf  to  Thomas  TimttaL 
Maud,  m.  to  Sir  William  Eon,  aaoaitor  of  the 

Lords  Euroi 
SUaabeth,  m,  to  Sir  Ralph  Oroy,  Knt 
Laura,  m.  to  Sir  Maurice  Berkeley,  Knt. 
Henry,  Lord  Fita-Huffh,  K.G.,  A  in  14M,  and  wae 
«.  by  hb  ddest  son, 

SIR  WILLIAM  FITZ-HUOH,  Iburth  banm, 
Btunmonad  to  parliament  fkom  lith  July,  1419,  to 
5th  September,  1400.    This  noUeman  attained  dis- 
tinction in  the  liHs-timeof  his  ftther  In  the  French 
wan,  and  after  his  accession  to  the  title,  he  was  in 
commission  (llth  Henry  VI.)»  to  treat  with  the  oom- 
mtsslnners  of  King  James  I.>  of  Sootlend,  regarding 
compwwatfcin  for  injuries  inflicted   by  the  Soots 
upon  the  English.     In  two  years  afterwards  his 
lordship  was  Joined  with  the  Earls  of  Northumber- 
land and  Westmoreland,  and  the  great  northern 
Lords,  Dacre,  CUflbrd,  Oreystoke*  and  Latimer,  to 
repd  en  irruptioa  of  the  Scots.    Lord  Fits-Hugh 
m.  Margery,  daughter  of  William,  Lord  WiUoughby 
de  Eresby,  and  had  iseue, 
HxNaY,  his  successor. 
Margery,  m.  to  Sir  John  Milton,  Knt 
Joane,  tn.  to  John,  Lord  Scrope,  of  Bolton* 
Eleanor,  m.  to  Thomas,  Lord  Dacre. 
Maud,  m.  to  WHliam  Bowes. 
Lore,  Ml.  first,  to  John  Musgrave*  and  secondly^ 

to  Thomas  Constable,  of  Halshanu 
Lucy,  a  nun  at  Dartfbrd. 
His  lordship  tf.  in  14W,  and  was  a  by  his  son, 

HENRY  FITZ-HUGH,  fifth  baron,  summoned 
to  parliament  fkom  96th  May,  1455,  to  I5th  Octo- 
ber. 147a  His  lordship  obtained,  in  38th  Henry 
VI.,  a  grant  of  the  stewardship  of  the  honour  of 
Ridunond,  and  also  of  the  ofllce  of  chief  fbrester  of 
the  new  ftnest  of  Arkilgarth-Dale,  and  Le  Hoppe, 
then  escheated  to  the  king  by  the  ftorfUture  of 
Ridiard,  Earl  of  Salisbory,  to  hold  for  life.  During 
the  reign  of  King  Henry  VI.  Lord  Fits-Hugh  r»- 
mained  firmly  attached  to  the  Lancastrian  interest, 
but  he  seems  nerertheless  to  have  suceessftilly  cul- 
tlTated  the  good  opinioA  of  King  Edward  IV.,  the 
diampion  of  York,  for  we  find  his  kndship,  soon 
after  the  accession  of  that  monarch,  employed  in  his 
military  capacity,  and  as  a  diplomatist.  In  1468  he 
made  a  pilgrimage  to  the  Holy  Sepulchre,  and  upon 
his  return  founded  a  chantry  for  two  priests  in  his 
cartle  at  RaTcnswath,  there  to  celebrate  divine  sor- 
Tice  for  himsdf  and  Alice  during  their  lives,  and 
fbr  the  health  of  their  souls  after  their  deceese.  His 
lordship  m.  the  Lady  Alice  Nevill,  daughter  of 
Ridiard,  Earl  of  Salisbury,  and  bad,  (with  other 
iseue,) 

RiCHAao,  his  successor. 

Alice,  IN.  to  Sir  John  Flenes,  Knt.,  and  was 

mother  of  TaoMAa,  Lord  Dacrb. 
EUxabeth,  m.  first,  to  Sir  WiUlam  Fair,  Knt, 
and  had  (with  WilUam,  created  Lord  Farr, 
of  Hor  ton,) 

^'•'^  Stn  Thomas  PAma,  who  bad  one  son 

.1  ^  c  and  two  daughters,  via., 

1.  WiUlam     Parr,      Marquess    of 
NorthamptoDy  died  #.  p* 


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1.  Anne  Pair,  m,  to  William  Herbert* 

Earl  of  Pembroke,  and  her  male  de- 

y   n  rv    scendant  continues  to  the  present 

^c4^iM^*^   time  to  inherit  that   dignity,  but 

"i  ii^r^       Philip,  eighth  Earl  of  Pembroke, 

Trvvf.  leaving  M  his  decease  an  only  daugfa> 

>MAev'C'^>«^    ter, 

LAOY      CHARIOTTB     HBRBBnT, 

who  m.  first,  JelkM,  Lono  Jar- 
riUBB,  and  ssoondly,  Th»mMa, 
Viscouirr  WiwDSoa,  the  co- 
heirship  to  the  Barony  of  Fits- 
Hugh  was  thus  severed  tnmk 
the  Baridom  of  Pembroke.  Tho 
lepiesentaUwes  of  her  ladyship's 
two  marriages  are  the  present 
Earl  Pomfket  and  Marquess  of 
Bute, 
t.  CATRBifciNB  Parr,  m.  first,  to  Ed« 
ward  Borough;  secondly,  to  John 
Neville,  Lord  Latimer;  thirdly,  to 
KiBO  Hrwrt  VIII.,  and  fourthly, 
to  Thomas,  Lord  Seymour,  of  Sud- 
ley,  but  died  «.  p. 
Elisabeth  Fiu  Hugh,  m.  secondly,  Nichohw, 
Lord  Vaux. 
Anne,  m.  to  Frauds  LoveU,  but  had  no  issue. 
Margaret,  m.  to  Robert  Constable,  died  st  p« 
Joane,  a  nun  at  Dartford. 
Henry,  fifth  Barm  Fits-Hugh,  cL  in  147>«  and  wae 
«.  by  his  only  son, 

RICHARD  FITZ-HUOH,  sixth  baron,  sum- 
moned to  parliament  from  15th  November,  1488,  to 
1st  September,  1487.  This  nobleman  was  consti- 
tuted, in  the  1st  Henry  VII.,  goveinor  of  the  castles 
oi  Richmond  and  Middleham,  and  of  Barnard 
Castle.  His  lordship  m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Sir 
Thomas  Borough,  Knt,  snd  was  «b  at  his  decease, 
about  the  year  1506,  by  his  only  child, 

GEORGE  FITZ-HUGH,  seventh  baron,  sum- 
m(med  to  parliament  fhnn  17th  October,  1500,  to 
88th  November,  1511,  but  dying  without  iseue  In 
1518,  his  aunt  Alice,  Lady  Fiencs,  end  his  cousin. 
Sir  Thomas  Psir,  Knt,  (lelbr  to  Issue  of  Henry, 
fifth  baron,)  were  found  to  be  his  next  heirs,  end 
between  those  the  Baront  op  Fitx-Huob  fUl  into 
ABBYANCB,  ss  It  Still  coutluues  amougst  their  ro> 
preeentatives.  Whidi  representatives  are  at  pre^ 
sent,  we  bdieve, 

Thomas  Brand,  Lord  Dacre,  descended  ftrom 
Alice,  Lady  Fienes,  whose  husband  was  son 
of  Richard,  Lord  Dacre,  and  fkther,  by  her 
ladyship,  of  Thomas,  Lord  Dajae.     His 
lordship,  if  we  are  correct,  is  oo-IWr  there- 
fore to  a  moiety  of  the  berony  of  Fits-Hugh. 
Thomss-Wimam,  Earl  of  Pomlket,^ 
the  great  grandson  of  Lady  Char- 
lotte Herbert,  (see  issue  of  Henry, 
fifth  Lord  Fits-Hugh,)  by  her  first 
husband,  John,  Lord  JeflMes. 
John,  Marquess  of  Bute,  the  great 
grandson  of  Lady  Charlotte  Her- 
bert,   by  her    second  husband, 
Thomas,  Visoottnt  Windsor. 
Arms.— As.  three  chevroueis  in  base  or. 
diiaf  of  the  second.  s 

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FITZ^AMES— DUKE  OF  BERWICK. 

By  Letten  Patent»  dated  19th  March,  168?. 

JAMES  FITZ-JAMES,  iUegitimate  son  of  King 
James  II.,  by  Arabella  Churchill,  sister  ot  the  cele- 
brated John  Churchill,  Duke  of  Marlborough,  was 
6.  in  1G7I,  and  elevated  to  the  peerage,  on  the  I9th 
March,  1G87*  in  the  dignities  of  Betron  Bosworth,  in 
the  county  uif  Leiewtert  Earl  cf  Tinmoutht  in  the 
county  nf  Northumberland,  and  Ditkb  or  DxnwiCK 
UPON  TwKXD.  His  grace  withdrew  into  France 
with  his  father,  and  entering  into  the  French  ser- 
vice, became  one  of  the  most  distinguished  com- 
manders of  the  martial  reign  of  Louis  XIV.  In 
1690,  he  was  at  the  siege  of  Londonderry,  and  the 
battle  of  the  Boyne,  and  returning  soon  after  the 
last  engagement  to  France,  he  acquired  high  reputa- 
tion at  the  sieges  of  Mons,  Charleroi,  and  Ath,  and 
at  the  battles  of  Leoae,  Steinktrk,  and  Nerwinde. 
In  the  latter  he  was  taken  prisoner,  and  detained 
until  exchanged  for  the  Duke  of  Ormonde^  In 
1083,  the  French  King  made  him  lieutenant-general 
of  his  armies,  and  in  ten  years  afterwards  he  com- 
manded the  expedition  sent  to  aid  the  King  of  Spain. 
By  which  latter  monarch  he  was  created  in  1704,  a 
Spanish  grandee  of  the  flrst  class.  After  a  most 
successftil  campaign,  the  Duke  returning  into 
France,  was  nominated  (anno  17U*)  to  the  com- 
mand of  the  troops  destined  to  act  against  the 
fimatics  In  Languedoc,  and  upon  the  fjsvourable 
issue  of  that  campaign,  he  was  presented  by  his 
royal  master  with  a  marshal's  baton.  Subsequently 
sent  a  second  time  bito  Spain,  he  achieved  over  the 
combined  forces  of  England  and  Portugal,  the 
glorious,  though  bloody  victory  of  Almanxa,  for 
which  eminent  service  Philip  V.,  granted  to  the 
gallant  marshal,  with  the  dignity  of  Duke,  the 
towns  of  Liria,  and  Xerica,  in  Valentia.  Upon  his 
return,  the  duke  was  placed  at  the  head  of  the  army 
on  the  Rhine,  destined  to  oppose  Prince  Eugene, 
of  Savoy,  in  which  service,  after  a  long  series  of 
brilliant  achievements,  he  fell  at  the  siege  of  Philips- 
burg,  anno  1734.  His  grace  espoused  first  in  1696| 
Honora  de  Burgh,  widow  of  Patrick  Sarsfleld, 
Earl  oi  Lucan,  and  daughter  of  the  Earl  of  Clanri- 
carde,  by  whom  (who  d,  in  1696),  he  had  issue, 

jAMB8-FRAKCia,  an  officer  of  eminence,  chief 
of  the  branch,  known  in  Spain  as  that  of 
Liria;  he  m.  Katherlne,  daughter  of  Pierre, 
Duke  of  Veraguei  i   and  had  several  chil- 
dren. 
The  DiAe  at  Berwick,  m.  secondly,  in  1700,  Anne, 
daughter  of  Henry  Bulkeley  Esq.,  by  Sophia  Stuart, 
maid  of  honour  to  the  queen,  and  had  issue. 

Jambs,  6.  in  1708,  m.  Victoire  Felidt^,  daugh- 
ter of  John  de  Durfort,  Duke  of  Duras,  but 
died  issueless  in  the  life-time  of  his  father, 
anno  1781. 
Francis,  who  haying  entered  into  holy  orders, 

never  sssumed  the  French  title. 
Henry,  who  likewise  entered  into  holy  orders, 
and  for  the  same  reuon  never  assumed  the 
FrcQcfa  honours. 
CuAfti^xa,  6.  in  1714,  heir  eventually  to  the 
904 


French  Dukedom  of  Fit»James,  and  the 
estates  in  that  kingdom.  He  m.  in  1741  p 
Victoria,  daughter  of  the  Marquess  de  Matig- 
non,  and  had  several  children.  His  grace 
was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 
JoBN-CHAnLXB,  third  Duke  FitaJames, 

b.  in  1743,    m.   ,    daughter    of 

Charles,  Count  de  Thiard. 
Edward. 

Henrietta,  m.  to  the  Marquess  de  Reud. 
Laura,  m.  to  the  Marquess  de  Bousds. 
Emelia,  m.  to  the  Marquess  d'Escars. 
Sophia,  a  nun. 
Marshal  Berwick  was  attainted  in  1695,  when  the 
DuKXDOM  OP  Bbbwick,  and  the  mimn'  English 
honours  became  bxtinct.    His  grace  was  besides 
Duke  of  Lhria  and  Xerica,  in  Valentia,  a  dignity 
which  he  transferred  in  his  life-time  to  his  ddcst 
son.  Jambs,  who  then  became  Duke  of  Liria,  and 
having  married,  as  already  stated,  Katherlne,  daugh- 
ter of  Pierre,  Duke  of  Veraguei,  was  succeeded  in 
1738,  by  his  eldest  son.  Jambs,  bom  tn  1716*  sur- 
named  Stuabt,  who  was  himself  succeeded  by  his 
brother,  Pxtbr,  6.  in  1780,  created  BlABguBBS  op 
St.  Lbonaro,  in  1764. 

His  grace  of  Berwick  was  created  Dvkx  Fits- 
Jambs  in  France,  with  remainder  to  the  issue  of 
his  second  marriage,  and  that  dignity  is  enjoyed  by 
his  descendant,  the  present  Dukb  Fits-Jambs. 

Arms.— Quarterly  of  four.  First,  England  and 
France;  second,  Scotland;  third,  Irdand;  fourxh, 
as  the  first,  within  a  border  compone,  gu.  and  ax. 
the  gu.  charged  with  lions  of  Eng.  the  as.  with 
fleur-de-lis  of  Franceb 

FITZ JOHN  — BARONS  FITZ-JOHN. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  14th  December,  1964, 

49  Henry  IIL 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  83d  June,  1896, 

S3  Edward  L 

mncasc. 

JOHN  FITZ-OEOFFREY,  son  of  Oeofflrey 
Fits-Piers,  Earl  of  Essex,  by  Aveline,  his  second 
wife,  being  next  male  heir  of  that  family  on  the 
death  of  William  Fits-Piers,  Earl  of  Essex,  in  1887, 
paid  a  fine  to  the  king  of  three  hundred  marks  for 
those  lands  which  were  bis  father's,  and  did  by  he^ 
reditary  right  bdong  to  him,  whereof  this  last 
Earl  William  died  seised.  In  the  18th  of  Henry  III., 
this  John  was  constituted  sheriff  of  Yorkshire ;  end 
in  the  81st  of  the  ssme  reign,  upon  the  treaty  then 
made  between  the  king  and  the  barons,  whereby,  in 
consideration  of  the  great  charter  and  charters  of 
the  forest  bring  confirmed,  a  thirtieth  part  of  al) 
men's  moveables  was  given  to  the  king,  this  feudal 
lord  was  admitted  one  of  the  privy  council  i  and  the 
same  year,  there  being  a  grand  council  held  at  Lon- 
don, he  was  one  of  those  at  the  time  sent  to  the 
pope's  legate,  to  prohibit  his  attempting  any  thing 
therein  pr^udicial  to  the  interests  of  the  king  and 
kingdom.  In  eight  years  afterwards*  John  Fits- 
GeoflVey  was  one  of  the  commiwionen  scot  firom 
King  Henry  (with  Roger  Bigod,  Earl  of  Norfolk, 
and  others)  to  the  council  at  Lyons,  in  order  to 


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oomplalA  of  the  gicat  exactions  mad«  upon  the 
realm  by  the  holy  see ;  and  the  next  year  he  was 
constituted  Justice  ef  Irdand,  where»  for  his  ser- 
▼ioes,  he  received  a  grant  from  the  crown  of  the 
lates  of  Thomond.  He  m.  Isabel,  sister  of  John 
Blgod*  and  widow  of  Gilbert  de  Ladi  and  was  «. 
by  his  son, 

JOHN  FITZ^OHN,  who  had  a  military  sum- 
mons to  nuocfa  against  the  Welch  in  the  4Sd  Hen.  11 1. 
To  this  firadal  lord  succeeded  his  son, 

JOHN  FITZ<JOHN,  wliom.  ttaigery,  daughter 
of  Philip  BsMet,  Justice  of  England.  Joining  Mont- 
ford,  Earl  of  Leicester,  and  the  other  turbulent 
barons,  this  John  Fit»>lohn  had  a  diief  command 
a*  the  battle  of  Lewes ;  afcer  which,  marching  to- 
wards Wales,  he  reduced  Ricahd'b  CAVT^n  <the 
chief  seat  of  Hugh  de  Mortimer),  and  the  CAari.B 
or  Ludlow.  He  was  subsequently  constituted,  by 
a  grant  from  the  barons,  sheriff  of  Westmoreland, 
and  keeper  of  the  castles  in  those  parU;  as  like- 
wise governor  of  Windsor  Castle ;  but  shfuring  the 
fkte  of  his  party  at  the  battle  of  Evcrtuun,  he 
became  a  prisoner  in  the  hands  of  the  royalists, 
when  the  Inheritance  of  his  lands  appears  to  have 
been  given,  by  the  king,  to  Clare,  Earl  of  Glouces- 
ter; but  he  had  permissionafterwards  to  compound 
for  them  under  the  "  dictum  of  Kenilworth."  He 
was  summoned  to  parliament,  as  a  baron,  on  the 
14th  December,  19S4,  but  died  without  issue  the 
next  year,  when  that  dignity  expired.  His  lordship 
was  succeeded  fai  his  estates  by  his  brother, 

RICHARD  FITZ-JOHN,  who,  upon  doing  ho- 
mage, and  paying  hit  relief,  had  livery  of  all  his 
lands  in  the  counties  of  Norfolk,  Ducks,  Devon, 
Surrey,  Wilts,  Southampton,  Essex,  and  North- 
ampton.   In  the  10th  Edward  I.,  this  feudal  lord 
was  in  the  Wdch  wars,  and  he  was  summoned  to 
parlianwnt,  as  a  baroit,  23d  June,  1295,  but  died 
the  following  year  in  the  wars  of  France,  without 
issue,  when  the  BAJtomr  op  Fits-John  became  bx- 
TiNCT,  whilehis  lands  devolved  upon  his  heirs,  vis., 
Maud,  Counte$$  qf  Wartoiek,  his  eldest  sis- 
ter. 
RoBBRT  Clifford,  son  of  Isabel'^  Isabell  de 
de  Cliflbrd,  daughter  of   .    .     f  Vipount, 
IDONBA  DB  Lbybvrnb,  another  r*his  second 

daughter  of J     sister. 

Richard  db  Bvroh,  Eari  qf  UMer,  son  of 

AveHne,  his  third  sister. 
JoANB,  wife  of  Theobald  le  Buteler,  his  fourth 
sister. 

FITZ.PATRICK— BARON  OF  UPPER 
OSSORY,  OF  AMPUILL, 
IN  THE  COUNTY  OF 
BEDFORD. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  13th  August,  1794. 

JOHN  FITZ-PATRICK,  Esq.,  of  Castletown, 
(descended  from  the  ancient  monarchs  of  Ireland,) 
m.  Elisabeth,  fourth  daughter  *of  Thomas,  Vis- 
count Thurka,  sister  of  JameB»   first  Duke  of 


Ormonde,  and  widow  of  James  Purcell,  Baron  of 
Loughmoe,  by  whom  he  had  issue, 
Edward. 
Richard. 

Arabella,  m.  to  Sir  Thomas  Wiseman,  Bart.,  of 
East  Grinsted,  in  Sussex. 
Mr.  Fits-Patrick,  who  suflbred  during  the  usurp»> 
tion  of  Cromw^  for  his  fidelity  to  the  House  of 
Stewart,  was  involved  on  King  James's  general 
Act  of  Attainder  in  1689,  and  died  in  10B3L  His 
elder  son, 

EDWARD  FITZ-PATRICK,  Esq.,  had  the 
command  at  the  revolution  of  a  regiment  given 
him,  31st  December,  1688;  was  made  colonel  of  the 
Royal  Fusiliers,  1st  August,  1668,  and  promoted  to 
the  rank  of  brigadier^geneFal  in  1694.  General 
Fits-Patrick  was  drowned  in  his  passage  from  Eng- 
land to  Ireland,  10th  November,  1696,  and  died 
unmarried.    His  brother, 

RICHARD  FITZ-PATRICK,  Esq.,  being  bred 
to  the  sea-aervice,  had  the  command  of  a  ship  of 
war,  in  which  station  he  signalised  himself  by  his 
valour  and  conduct  I  and  to  him  and  his  brother, 
in  consideration  of  their  faithful  services.  King 
William  granted,  in  1696,  the  estate  of  Edmond 
Morris,  (one  of  the  adherents  of  King  James,  killed 
at  the  battle  of  Aghrim,)  situated  in  the  Queen's 
County.  Mr.  Fits-Patrick  was  elevated  to  the 
peerage  of  Ireland  on  87th  April,  1715,  as  Baron 
Gowran,  qf  Gowran,  and  took  his  seat  in  parlia- 
ment the  November  following.  His  lordship  m. 
Anne,  younger  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Sir  John 
Robinson,  Bart.,  of  Farming-Wood,  in  the  county 
of  Northampton,  and  had  two  ^ons,  Johh  and 
Richard.  He  d.  9th  June,  1787*  and  was  «.  by  his 
elder  son, 

JOHN  FITZ-PATRICK,  second  baron,  who 
was  advanced  to  the  Mrldom  qf  Vpptr'Oesory,  in 
the  peerage  of  Ireland,  6th  October,  17A1.  His 
lordship  m.  in  1744,  Lady  Evelyn  Leveson  Cower, 
eldest  daughter  of  John,  Earl  Gower,  and  had 
issue, 

JOHK,  Lord  Ocwratu 

Richard,  b.  24th  January,  1748,  a  general  ofB- 
cer  in  the  army,  a  privy  counsellor,  and 
M.P.  for  the  county  of  Bedford.  In  1783 
General  Fits-Patrick  was  appointed  secre- 
tary at  war,  which  of&ce  he  resigned  in  the 
course  of  the  year.  Under  the  whig  admi- 
nistration of  1806  he  again  filled  the  same 
department,  and  for  hardly  a  longer  period. 

He  A . 

Mary,  m.  to  Stephen  Fox,  second  Lord  Hol- 
land, by  whom  she  was  mother  of 

HewihBichard,  present  Lord  Holland. 

Louisa,  m.  to  William,  second  Earl  of  Shel- 

bume,  and  first  Marquess  of  Lansdowne, 

(his    lordship's    second    wife,)    and    was 

mother  of 

Henry,  present  Marqubss  ow  Lawb- 

DOWNB. 

The  earl  d.  83rd  September,  1756,  and  was  «.  by  his 


JOHN  FITZ-PATRICK,  second  earl,  who  was 
created  a  peer  of  Great  Britain  on  the  18th  August, 
1794,  as  BARON  OF  UppBB-OaaoRY,  of  Amphill,  in 

90ft 


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the  county  of  Bedford.  His  lordship  m.  in  1789, 
Anne*  daughter  of  Heory  LiddcU,  Lord  Ravens- 
worth,  hf  whom  (who  had  heen  diToroed  from  the 
Duke  of  Grafton.)  he  had  two  daughters.  Lady 
Anne  and  Lady  Gertrude.  The  earl  died  in  1818, 
when,  with  his  Irish  honours,  the  British  barony  of 
Uppnn-OseoBT  became  bxtiitct. 

AufBw— Sa.,  a  saltire,  arg.,  and  chief,  anire«  the 
latter  charged  with  three  fleur  de  lis. 


PITZ-PAYNE    —   BARONS 

PAYNE. 


FITZ- 


By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  6th  February,  ISBB^ 
S7  Edward  I» 

HUiuagc. 

The  first  that  assumed  this  surname  was  Robbst, 
■on  of  Pain  Fits-John,  whose  nephew,  taking  the 
name  of  Vnaci,  was  founder  of  that  eminent  family. 
This 

ROBERT  FITZ-PAIN  served  the  office  of  sherilT 
for  the  counties  of  Dorset  and  Somerset,  from  the 
31st  to  the  34th  Henry  1 1,  inclusive ;  and  in  the  13th 
of  John,  upon  the  collection  of  the  scutage  of 
Wales,  he  paid  thirty  marks  for  fifteen  knights' 
fees.    He  was  «.  by 

ROGER  FITZ-PAIN,  who  tn.  Margery,  eldest 
of  the  three  sisters  and  oo-helrs  of  Alurcd  de  Lin- 
colne,*  and  thereby  acquired  considerable  property 
In  the  counties  of  Somerset,  Dorset,  Wilts,  and 
Devon,  whereof  Ockford  Fits-pain,  in  Dorsetshire, 
constituted  a  part.  He  tU  about  the  year  1237,  and 
was  «.  by  his  son, 

ROBERT  FITZ-PAIN,  who,  during  his  homage 
In  the  30th  Henry  IIL,  had  livery  of  his  lands  fai  the 
counties  of  Wilts,  Somerset  and  Dorset,  and  Ne- 
therwent,  in  Wales.  In  the  41st  of  the  sameteign, 
he  had  two  military  summonses  to  nuocfa  against 
theWddit  but  after  this  he  appears  to  have  joined 
the  barons,  and  to  have  taken  a  prominent  part  in 
the  battle  of  Lewes,  where  the  baronial  banner 
waved  in  triumph.  He  d.  in  the  9th  Edward  I. 
(1S80),  and  was  ».  by  his  son, 

ROBERT  FITZ-PA  YNE.  This  feudal  lord  was 
in  the  expedition  made  against  the  Wdch,  in  the 
10th  Edward  I.,  and  the  same  year,  during  his 
homage,  had  livery  of  the  lands  of  his  inheritance. 
He  was  summoned  to  parliament  as  a  babok  on  the 
6th  February,  1299,  and  lirom  that  time,  to  tiie  23d 
October,  1314.    In  1303  he  was  in  the  Scottish  wars, 

*  Alubkd  OB  LurcoLWB.  The  Lincolnes  were 
great  feudal  barons,  from  the  period  of  the  con- 
quest, until  the  death  of  Alurcd  Lincolne,  in  the 
48th  Henry  III.,  when  their  great  possessions  de- 
volved upon  the  deceased  baron's  sisters,  as  co- 
heirs, vii. 

Margery,  m.  to  Roger  Ftta-pain. 
Beatrix,  m.  to  Sir  William  de  Gouls,  and  her 
portion  of  the  pn^ierty  passed  eventually, 
by  an  heiress,  to  the  fiumily  of  Latimer, 
Lords  Latimer,  of  Corby. 
Albreda*  d.  without  iaiucw 
200 


and  again  In  1306,  In  the  immediate  train  of  Prince 
Edward,  having  been  created  a  knight  of  the  bath  in 
the  same  year.  In  the  1st  Edward  IL  his  lordship 
was  constituted  governor  of  the  castle  of  Winches- 
ter, and  the  next  year,  being  then  steward  of  the 
king's  houselMdd,  he  was  deputed,  with  Otto  de 
Grandison,  upon  an  important  mission  to  the  Sove- 
reign Pontic  In  the  eighth  of  the  eame  reign  he 
had  a  military  summons  to  mardi  against  the  Scots, 
but  died  the  ensuing  year,  1315,  seised  of  manon  in 
the  counties  of  Devon,  Wilts,  Dorset,  Gloucester, 
and  Somerset;  and,  Jdntty  with  his  wife  Isabel,  of 
themanor  of  Stourton,  in  Wiltshire.  His  lordship 
waa  «.  by  his  son, 

ROBERT  FITZ-PAYNE,  second  baron,  sum- 
moned to  parliament,  from  7th  August,  1387,  to  lAth 
November,  1351.  This  nobleman  was  in  the  wars  of 
Scotland  in  the  10th  and  12th  Edward  IL,  and  in 
the  16th  Edward  III.  (residing  then  at  his  seat  of 
Mershwode,  In  the  county  of  Dorset)  he  had  com- 
mand to  provide  ten  men  at  arms,  and  ten  archers, 
for  the  king's  service  in  France,  and  in  three  years 
afterwards,  being  then  a  bamnbbbt,  he  had  a  mili- 
tary summons  to  attend  the  king  into  that  realm. 
His  kmUiip  m.  Ela,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Guy 
de  Bryan,  and  dying  in  1354,  left  an  only  daughter 
and  hrir, 

ISABBL  FiTS-PATNB,  then  thirty-«ix  yeazs  of 
age,  and  the  wife  of  John  Chideocke ;  by 
whom  she  had  a  son  and  heir, 

SiB  John  Chiobockb,  Knt.,  whose  son 
and  heir, 

SiB  John  Chiobocbjb,  Knt,  left 
two  daughters,  his  co-heirs,  vis. 

1.  Kathbbinx  Chidbockb,  m. 
first,  to  Sir  WlOiam  Staflbrd, 
and  had  an  only  child, 

HUMPRBBY      STAPFOBO, 

Eabx.  or  Dbvon,  who  - 
diedf.p. 
She  espoused,  secondly.  Sir 
John  Arundel,  Knt.,  and 
from  this  union  descend 
the  Loans  Abundbl,  of 
Wabxmxjb. 

2.  Margaret  Chideocke,  m.  to 
William,  second  Lord  Stour- 
ton, and  flrom  this  marriage 
the  Lords  Stourton  descend. 

The  Babony  op  Fits-paynb,  upon  the  deccMe  of 
Robbbt,  the  second  baron,  appears  to  have  been 
suspended,  and  it  is  now  in  abbyancb  between  the 
representatives  of  Sir  John  Chldeocke's  co-heirs, 
namdy,  the  above-mentioned  Katherine  and  Mar- 
garet Chideocke;  which  repreuntatives  are. 
Jambs  Evbbabd,  Loan  Abundbx.,' 
OP  Wabooub,  dder  son  of  Mary 
Christiana,  elder  daughter  and  co- 
heir of  Henry,  eighth  Lord  Arun- 
del, of  Wardour. 
Blbanob  Maby,  wife  of  Charles, 
late    Lord     Cliflbrd,    of    Chud- 
leigh,  younger  daughter  <tf  Henry. 
righUi  Lord  Arundd,  of  Wardour.  ^ 
W11J.1A11,  Loan  Stoubton,  heir  to  a  moiety 
of  the  Babony  op  Fits-paynb* 


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riT 


AB«i.p-Gtt.  thMB  UOM  piunt  fuanbnt  ia  pale, 
over  mil  a  bend,  u. 


Certain  manon  in  the  county  of  Donet,  part  of 
the  piopetiy  of  Robert,  last  Lord  Flta-payiie,  and 
Kla,  hit  wif^  brtn^  lo  entaUed,  deroWed,  at  the 
daceawof  the  Mid  Ela,  (then  hie  lordihip'e  widow,) 
upon  her  prenuned  broUier-in-law, 
The  Honourable 

ROBERT  OREY,  of  Charlton  Orey,  In  the 
oountyofSomenet,  younger  ion  of  Richard,  Lord 
Qrey,  of  Codnor,  who  thereupon  aaeumed  the  sur- 
name of  FiTX-PAYKB,  and  Dugdale  saya,  was  sum- 
UMmedto  parliament  as  Baron  Fitz-faymb;  but 
the  name  of  such  a  baxon  does  not  appear  upon  the 
roll.  He  fN.  Elisabeth,  dauf  hter  and  co-heir  of  Ouy 
de  Bryan,  (sister  of  Bla,  Lady  Fits-payne,)  and  left 
am  only  daughter  and  heiress, 

Ibabsi.  Fxtb-patnb,  who  m.  Richard,  Lord 
Poynlngs,  and  was  mother  of 

V>     |9    I    k      RoBBBT,  tard  Fotpningt,  whose  giand- 
•    '•'^•^^  daughter  and  heiress, 

Y  vy^  Ax<iANORB  PoYMiifOB,  Ml.  Sir  Houry 

Cw  h    J&^fi^  Percyi  son  and  heir  of  the  Earl  of 

PM/^*-^^-^  Northumberland,*  and  conveyed 

yC&^^/U*^  ''^  l^'**^  inheritance  to  the  noble 

'  HouBB  of  Pbbcy. 

FITZ-PIERS— EARL  OF  ESSEX. 

See  MandeviUe,  Earl  of  Essex. 

FITZJftOY  —  DUKES  OF  CLEVE- 
LAND, DUKES  OF  SOUTH. 
AMPTON. 


•  12 


Dukedom  of  Cleve-'^ 

land,  F  by  LettcnJ  3rd  Aug.,  1670. 

Dukedom  of  Southp-  C  Patent,   j  10th  Sep.,  1874. 

ampton.  J  V 

Tincagc. 

BARBARA  VILLIBRS,  daughter  and  heiress  ot 
William  ViUiers,  Viscount  Orandison,  in  Ireland, 
grand-niece  of  George,  Duke  of  Buckingham,  the 
cdebrated  favourite  of  King  James  I.,  and  wife  of 
Roger  Palmer,  Earl  of  Castlemaine,  in  Ireland, 
becoming  the  mistress  of  King  Chjurles  II.,  was 
derated  to  the  peerage  by  letters  patent,  dated 
3rd  August,  1670,  as  Banmna  Naiuu^,  in  CIto 
county  t^f  Sttrrey,  Counter  nf  SouOuumpton,  and 
DucBBaa  or  CLBVBLABn,  with  remainder  to 
Charles  and  George  Fitsroy,  two  of  her  sons  by  the 
king.  Her  grace  had  issue  by  his  mi^esty, 
CBABLBa,  of  whom  presently. 
Henry,  created  Duke  of  Grafton,  from  whom 

the  present  Dukes  of  Grafton  descend. 
George,  created   Duke  of  Northumberland, 
died  «.  p.,  in  1716,  when  that  dignity  ex- 
pired. 

•  Through  'this  alliance  the  Percys  claimed  the 
ancient  Baroky  of  Fitz-Paymb,  but  they  had  no 
pretensions  whaterer  to  it. 


Charlotte,  m.  to  Edward  Lee,  Barl  of  Litch«. 
field. 
The  Duchess  married,  secondly,  Robert  Fielding, 
Esq.;  she  d.  9th  October,  1709,  and  was  succeeded 
by  her  eldest  son, 

CHARLES  FITZROY,  b.  in  June,  latt,  who 
had  been  elevated  to  the  peerage  himself,  by  lettara 
patent,  dated  10th  September,  1074,  as  Barvn  Nma^ 
bttnf,  in  th4  eountif  nf  Berk»»  Earl  <nf  GUcAertsr,  in 
tkt  eouniy  qf  Simmt,  and  Dukb  or  Soutbampton, 
with  remainder,  in  deftult  of  male  issue,  to  his 
brother  George.  He  was  installed  a  KKieHT  of  the 
Gabtbr,  the  year  preceding.  His  grace  m.  first, 
Mary,  daughter  and  sole  heiress  of  Sir  Henry 
Wood,  one  of  the  Clerks  of  the  Green  Cloth,  temp. 
CharlesIL, bywhomhehadnoissue.  Thisladydied 
in  1660 ;  but  in  Michaelmas  term,  1685,  the  duke  had 
a  decree  in  Chancery  for  £30,00a,  against  her  uncle. 
Doctor  Thomas  Wood,  Bishop  of  Litchfield  and 
Coventry,  as  a  portion  of  her  fortune.  His  grace 
espoused,  secondly,  Anne,  daughter  of  Sir  William 
Pulteney,  of  Misterton,  in  the  county  of  Leicester, 
Knt,  by  whom  he  had, 

William,  his  suonssor. 

Charles,  6.  in  1660,  d.  in  1723b 

Henry,  6.  in  1701,  d.  in  1708. 


Grace,  m.  to  Henry  Vane,  third  Baron  Barnard, 
of  Barnard  Castle,  (who  was  created  Vis* 
count  Barnard,  and  Earl  of  DarUngton, 
and  was  mother  of, 

Hbnry,    second  Barl   of    Darlington* 
whose  son  and  successor, 

William   Hbnry,   third  Earl  of 
DarUngton,   was    created    Mar- 
guBsa  or  Clbvbland,  in  18S7, 
and  is  the  prbbbkt  MARgusas* 
Arnie,  m.  to  Francis  Paddy,  Esq. 
The  duke  died  9th  September,  1730,  and  was  «.  by 
his  eldest  son, 

WILLIAM  FITZROY,  second  Duke  of  Cleve- 
land and  Southampton.  His  grace  m.  Lady  Hen- 
rietto  Finch,  daughter  of  Daniel,  Earl  of  Winchebea, 
but  died  without  issue,  in  1774,  when  all  his  bo« 
KotxRB  became  bxtimct. 

Arms.  — Quarterly— first  and  fourth,  grand 
quarters,  France  oiui  England  ,•  second,  Seotland, 
and  third,  Ireland,  (being  the  arms  of  King 
Charles  II.,)  over  all  a  Baton  Sinister,  Counter* 
Compond,  Erm :  and  as. 

FITZ-ROY  —  DUKE  OF  RICHMOND 
AND  SOMERSET. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  18th  June,  15S5, 
17  Henry  VIIL 

Idtcagc. 

HENRY  FITZROY,  natural  son  of  King 
Henry  VIU.,  by  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  John 
Blount,  Knt,  and  widow  of  Gilbert,  Lord  Talboyst 
was  first  made  a  knioht  of  the  Gartbr,  and  then 
created  by  letters  patoit,  dated  18th  June,  159S, 
Earl  qf  Nottingham,  and  Dukb  op  Ricbmomd  and 
SOMBRBBT :  the  ceremony  being  performed  at  the 
royid  palace,  called  Bridewell,  in  the  city  of  Lon< 

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don,  at  which  time  he  was  little  more  than  tU  yean 
of  age.  Upon  the  same  day  he  was  appotated  lieu- 
tenant-general of  all  the  king**  Ibrees  north  of 
Tient,  and  warden  of  the  Mardiee  of  S«otlaad.  In 
five  years  afterwards,  his  grace  was  constituted 
lieutenant  of  Ireland,  and  Sir  William  Skefflngton 
appointed  his  deputy  there.  The  Duke  was  edu- 
cated with  Henry,  Earl  of  Surrey,  at  Windsor  Cas- 
tle, and  went  with  that  nobleman  to  Paris,  in  1532, 
where  he  formed  an  attachment  to  the  earl's  sister, 
Lady  Mary  Howard,  and  married  her,  but  the 
marriage  was  never  consummated.  His  grace  was 
a  youth  oi  great  promise,  and  much  bdoved  by  his 
royal  father.  He  died,  aged  about  seventeen,  in 
1530,  when  all  his  honours  became  ■ztiitct. 


FITZ-WALTER  —  BARONS 
WALTER. 


FITZ- 


By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  23rd  June,  1895, 
23  Edward  I. 

ROBERT,  fifth  son  of  Richard  de  Tonbridge, 
Earl  of  Clare,  being  steward  to  King  Henry  I., 
obtained  from  that  monarch  the  Barony  of  Dun- 
'  mow,  in  Essex,  as  also  the  Honour  of  Baynard's 
Castle,  in  the  city  of  London,  both  which  came 
into  the  possession  of  the  crown,  by  the  forfeiture 
of  William  Baynard.  This  Robert  m.  Maud  de 
St.  Lit,  Lady  of  Bradham,  daughter  of  Simon  de 
St  Lis,  first  Earl  of  Huntingdon,  and  had  two 
sons, 

Waltbb,  his  successor. 
Simon,  to  whom  he  gave  Daventre,  in  North- 
amptonshire. 
He  d.  in  1134,  and  was  «.  by  his  elder  son, 

WALTER  FITZ-ROBBRT,  who  in  the  I2th 
of  Henry  II.,  up«m  the  assessment  in  aid  of  marry- 
ing the  king's  daughter,  certified  his  knight's  fees 
to  be  in  number,  sixty-three  and  a  half,  ds  Vtteri 
^eqffbmeHto  t  and  three  and  a  fourth  part,  de  Novo, 
for  all  of  which  he  paid  £^  10s.  In  the  great  con- 
troversy between  John,  Earl  of  Moreton,  (brother 
ot  King  Richard,)  and  William  de  Longcamp, 
Bishop  oi  Ely,  whom  the  king  left  governor  of  the 
realm  during  his  absence  In  the  Holy  Land ;  this 
Walter  adhered  to  the  bishop,  and  had  at  that  time 
the  custody  of  the  Castle  of  Bye,  in  Suffolk.  He 
m.  first,  Maud  de  Lucy,  with  whom  he  had  the 
Lordship  of  Dis,  in  Norfolk;  and  secondly,  Mar- 
garet de  Bohun.  Hed.  in  1196,  and  was  «.  by  his 
son, 

ROBERT  FITZ-WALTER.  This  feudal  lord, 
upon  the  assessment  of  thescutageof  Scotland,  in 
the  13th  of  John,  had  the  king's  espedai  writ  of 
acquittal  for  sixty-three  knights'  fees  and  a  half, 
which  were  of  his  own  proper  inheritance;  and  for 
thirty  knights'  fees,  and  a  third  part  which  he  had 
acquired  by  marriage^  But  the  next  year  he  was 
forced  to  fly  with  his  family  Into  France,  in  order 
to  avoid  being  arrested,  upon  the  first  disposition 
of  the  barons  to  revolt;  and  was  soon  afterwards 
charged  with  treason  and  rebellion,  when  his  house, 
called  Baynard's  Castle,  in  the  city  of  London,  was 
demolished  by  order  of  the  king. 


"  The  primary  occasion  of  these  ^scontents,"  (says 
Dugdale,)  *'is  by  some  thus  reported:  viz.— that 
this  Robert  Fits- Walter  having  a  very  beautlAtl 
daughter,  called  Maude,  residing  at  Dunmow,  the 
king  frequently  solicited  her  chastity,  but  never 
prevailing,  grew  so  enraged,  that  he  caused  her  to 
be  privately  pcrfsoned,  and  that  she  was  buried  at 
the  south  side  of  the  quire  at  Dunmow,  hetwceu 
two  pillars  there." 

Fita-Walter,  however,  is  said,  subsequently,  to 
have  made  his  peace  with  King  John,  by  the  great 
prowess  and  valour  he  displayed  at  a  tournament, 
held  in  Normandy  before  the  kings  of  France  and 
England;  where,  running  a  tilt  with  his  great  lanoe, 
he  overthrew  his  rival  at  the  first  course;  which  act 
of  gallantry  caused  the  English  monarch  to  exclaim, 
"  ^  God9  TmM,  h€  dsMTves  to  be  a  king  teho  hath 
racft  a  9olMer  of  hU  train ;"  and  afterwards,  ascer- 
taining the  name  of  the  victorious  knight,  he  immo* 
diately  sent  for  him,  and  having  restored  his  barony, 
gave  him  liberty  to  repair  hii  castle  of  Baynard. 
In  the  17th  of  King  John,  Fits- Walter  had  so  far 
regained  the  confidence  of  the  crown,  that  he  was 
appointed  governor  of  the  casUe  at  Hertford ;  but 
soon  after,  arraying  himself  under  the  baronial 
banner,  his  lands  were  all  seised,  and  those  in  Corn- 
wall committed  to  Prince  Henry,  the  king's  son: 
a  course  of  proceeding  that  had  the  immediate 
effect  of  riveting  the  haughty  baron  to  the  cause 
which  he  had  espoused,  while  his  high  rank,  tried 
courage  and  acknowledged  abilities,  soon  gave  him 
a  lead  amongst  his  compeers.    We  find  him,  there- 
fore, amongst  the  first  commissioners  nominated  to 
treat  with  the  king ;  when  it  was  agreed,  that  the 
city  of  London  should  be  delivered  up  to  the  barons, 
and  twenty-five  ot  those  powerftal  feudal   chle£i 
chosen  to  govern  the  realm.    The  insurrectionary 
lords  subsequently  assembled  at  St.  Edmundsbury, 
and  there  pledged  themselves,  by  solemn  oath  at 
the  high  altar,  that  if  the  king  nefused  to  confirm 
the  laws  and  liberties  granted  by  Edward  the  Con- 
fessor, they  would  withdraw  their  allegiance  from 
him  and  seise  upon  his  fortresses.    After  which, 
forming  themselves  into  a  regular  army,  they  ap- 
pointed this  Robert  Fita-Walter  their  GswaaAL, 
with  the  title  of  Marshax.  or  thx  army  op  God 
AND  THB  Church,  and  under  his  command,  they 
eventually   extorted   the  Orsat    Chabtbrb   op 
Frbhdom  from  John  on  the  plains  of  Rukn  ymbob, 
when  Fits-Walter  was  elected  one  of  the  celebrated 
TwrBNTY-piTB,  appointed  to  see  the  fkithful  ob- 
servance of  those  laws.    He  continued,  during  the 
remainder  of  John's  reign,  equally  firm  to  his  pur- 
pose; and  after  the  accession  of  Henry  III.,  until 
the  battle  of  Lincoln,  where  the  baronial  army 
sustained  a  signal  defeat  under  his  conunand,  and 
he  became  a  prisoner  himself,  after  displaying  a 
more  than  ordinary  degree  of  valour.    He  does  not 
appear,  however,  to  have  remained  long  under 
restraint,  for  we  find  him,  the  very  next  year.  In  the 
Holy  Land,  and  assisting  at  the  great  siege  of  Da- 
mietta.    This  eminent  feudal  baron  m.  first,  Gun- 
nora,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Robert  deValonles, 
and  had  issue, 

Waltbr,  his  successor. 
Matifcla. 


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Ciufatian,  m.  to  WiHlun  Maadevil,  Earl  of 


Roew' 


and  dying  in 


Heeipouaed,  leoondly, 
1834,  was  tf.  by  hi*  son, 

WALTER  FITZ-WALTER.  who,  tn  the  34th 
Hanry  III.,  paid  into  the  exchequer  a  fine  of  tliree 
hundred  marks  for  livery  of  his  lands,  and  in  the 
49d  of  the  same  king  had  a  military  summons  to 
march  against  the  Welsh,  in  which  year  (1867)  he 
died,  and  was  succeeded  by  his  son, 

SIR  ROBERT  FITZ-WALTER,  who  had  a 
licence,  in  ISCfB,  to  pass  away  the  inheritance  of 
Baynaid's  Castle  to  Robert  Kilwardby,  then  Arch- 
Ushop  of  Canterbury,  which  prelate  translated 
thereto  the  Dominican  or  Black  Friars,  ftom  Hol- 
bom,  near  Linooln's-inn.  In  alienating  this  part  of 
his  property,  Sir  Robert  took  especial  care,  how- 
ever, to  preserve  the  immunities  of  his  barony, 
whidi,  as  appertaining  to  Baynard's  Castle,  are  thus 
spedlled:  **  That  the  said  Robert,  as  constable  of 
the  Castle  of  London,  (so  Baynard's  Castle  was 
designated,)  and  his  heirs,  ought  to  be  banner- 
bearers  of  that  city,  by  Inheritance,  as  belonging  to 
that  castle ;  and  in  time  of  war,  to'Serre  the  city  in 
the  manner  following,  via.  to  ride  upon  a  light  horse, 
with  twenty  men-at-arms  on  horseback,  their  horses 
covered  with  cloth  or  harness,  unto  the  great  door 
of  St.  PauPs  church,  with  the  banner  of  his  arms 
carried  before  him ;  and  being  come  in  that  manner 
thither,  the  mayor  of  London,  together  with  the 
sberiA  and  aldermen,  to  issue  armed  out  of  the 
church,  unto  the  same  door,  on  foot,  with  his  ban- 
ner in  his  hand,  having  the  figure  of  St.  Paul 
depicted  with  gold  thereon,  but  the  feet,  hands  and 
head  of  silver,  holding  a  silver  sword  in  his  hand ; 
and  as  soon  as  he  shall  see  the  mayor,  sherifft,  and 
aldermen  oome  on  foot  out  of  the  church,  carrying 
sttdi  a  banner,  he  is  to  alight  from  his  horse,  and 
salute  him  as  his  companion,  saying,  8ir  mayor,  I 
mm  obliged  to  come  hither  to  do  nqf  wsrviee,  which  I 
oufo  to  thiM  ettp.  To  whom  the  mayor,  sheriflOi  and 
aldermen  are  to  aiuwer :  Wo  givo  to  you,  a»  our 
ftawMT-ftearw  Ay  inheritmneefur  thi*  city,  this  banner 
of  the  city,  to  bear  and  carry  to  the  honour  and  profit 
Uiereof  to  your  power.  Whereupon  the  said  Robert 
and  his  heirs  sluQl  receive  it  into  their  hands,  and 
the  mayor  and  sherifb  shall  foUow  him  to  the  door, 
and  present  him  with  a  horse  worth  twenty  pounds ; 
which  horse  shaU  be  saddled,  with  a  saddle  of  his 
arms,  and  covered  with  silk,  depicted,  likewise, 
with  the  same  arms;  and  they  shall  take  twenty 
pounds  sterling,  and  deliver  it  to  the  chamberlain  OS 
the  said  Robert,  for  his  expenses  that  day. 

<*  This  being  done,  he  shall  mount  upon  that  horse, 
with  his  banner  in  hb  hand,  and  being  so  mounted, 
shall  Ud  the  mayor  to  choose  a  marshal  for  the 
dty  army  t  who,  being  so  chosen,  shall  command 
the  mayor  and  burgers  ot  the  city  to  assemble  the 
commons,  who  shall  go  under  this  banner  of  St. 
Paul,  which  he  shall  hear  to  Aldgate;  and  being 
come  thither,  they  shall  give  it  to  whom  they  shall 
think  fit 

'*  And  if  it  shall  so  happen,  that  they  must  march 
out  of  the  city,  tfaDen  shall  the  said  Robert  make 
choice  of  two  of  the  gravest  men  out  of  every  ward, 
to  guard  the  city  in  their  absence,  and  their  consul- 


tation shall  be  tn  the  priory  of  the  Holy  Trinity 
near  Aldgato ;  and  beftne  what  town  or  castle  this  city 
army  shall  come,  and  shall  continue  the  siege,  for 
one  whole  year,  this  Robert  shall  receive,  from  the 
commonalty  of  the  city,  one  hundred  shillings  for 
his  pains  and  no  more^  Those  were  his  rights  and 
privileges  in  time  of  war ;  in  time  of  peace  they 
were  these  :>—  . 

"  That  thesald  Robert  should  have  asoJke  (that  is, 
a  Jurisdiction)  in  the  same  dty;  extending,  from 
the  canonry  of  St.  Paul's,  along  the  street  before 
Paul's  brewhouse,  unto  the  Thames,  and  thence  to 
the  side  of  the  mill,  which  is  in  the  water,  that 
comes  down  trom  Fleet-bridge,  and  thence  up  to 
London-wall,  all  about  the  Black-friars  unto  Lud- 
gate,  and  so  back  to  the  house  of  the  said  friars,  to 
the  comer  of  the  wall  of  the  same  canonry  of  St. 
Paul's;  that  is,  all  St.  Andrew's  parish,  which  was 
the  gift  of  his  ancestors  for  that  royalty. 

*'  In  this  soke,  the  said  Robert  should  have  the 
nomination  of  a  sokeman,  who  should  possess  certain 
privileges  in  the  trial  and  execution  of  criminals. 

**  Moreover,  the  said  Robert  was  to  enjoy  as  ex- 
tensive privileges  in  the  dty  as  the  mayor  and  dti- 
sens ;  and  when  the  mayor  hdd  a  great  council,  he 
was  to  be  summoned  thereto ;  and  at  all  times  that 
he  came  to  the  hustings  in  Guildhall,  the  mayor  was 
to  rise  and  to  place  him  next  to  himself."  So  much 
for  the  immunities  attached  to  the  ancient  office  of 
standard-bearer  of  the  city  of  London,  originally 
held  by  the  Baynards,  and  afterwards  by  the  Fits- 
Walters. 

This  Robert  Fits- Walter  was  in  the  wars  of  Gas- 
oony,  in  the  22d  Edward  I.,  in  the  retinue  of  Ed- 
mund, Earl  of  Lancaster,  and  continued  there  the 
next  year ;  at  which  period  he  was  summoned  to  par- 
liament, as  a  BAKON,  and  from  that  time  to  the  19th 
Edward  II.  His  lordship  was  afterwards  continually 
engaged  in  the  Scottish  wars.  He  m.  first,  Alia- 
nore,  daughter  of  William,  Earl  of  Ferrers,  by 
whom  he  had  an  only  son, 

RoBKRT,  his  successor. 
His  lordship  espoused  secondly,  Devorgil,  one  of 
the  daughters  and  co-heirs  of  John  de  Burgh,  and 
grand-daughter  of  Hubert  de  Burgh,  Earl  of  Kent, 
and  had  an  only  daughter. 

Christian,  m.  to  John  le  Marshal,  and  left  a 
son, 

William  Marshal,  who  left  two  children, 
.     viz. 

John  Marshal,  who  died  e.  p. 
Hawyse,  whom. to  Robert  Morley. 
The  baron  d,  in  1389,  and  was  e.  by  his  son, 

ROBERT  FITZ-WALTER,  second  baron,  but 
never  summoned  to  parliament.  This  nobleman 
m.  Joane,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  John  de  Multon,' 
ofEgremond;  and  dying  in  1388,  was  «.  by  his 
son, 

JOHN  FITZ-WALTER,  third  baron,  sum- 
moned to  parliament  from  3d  March,  1341,  to  80th 
November,  1360.  In  the  latter  year,  bdng  then  in 
the  wars  of  France  with  the  king,  his  lordship  was 
one  of  those  appointed  to  assist  Sir  Walter  Manny 
in  an  attack  upon  the  barriers  of  Paris,  the  Duke 
ot  Normandy  bdng  at  the  time  within  the  dty ; 
and  he  was  knighted  fbr  his  good  services  therdn. 
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Lord  Fits- Walter  m.  Elemor,  daughtar  of  Henry, 
Lord  Percy,  and  was  «*,  at  his  deccaM  in  1361*  by 
bissta, 

WALTER  FITZ-WALTER,  fourth  baron,  fum- 
moned  to  parliament  from  6th  April,  1369,  to  Sd 
September,  138Bw  This  nobleman,  in  the  44th  Ed- 
ward III.,  was  in  the  expedition  made  into  Gas- 
oony,  being  esteemed  at  that  time  one  of  the  most 
expert  soldiers  in  the  realm ;  but  being  taken  pri- 
soner, he  was  constrained  to  mortgage  his  castle 
and  lordship  of  Egremond  for  the  sum  of  a  thou- 
sand pounds  to  accomplish  his  release  by  ransom. 
In  three  years  afterwards,  he  was  again  in  France 
under  John,  Duke  of  Lancaster;  and  in  the  1st  of 
Richard  IL,  he  served  with  Thomas  of  Woodstock 
against  the  Spaniards.  In  the  5th  of  the  same 
reign,  he  did  great  service  in  Essex  against  Jack 
Straw,  and  the  next  year  he  was  constituted  one  of 
the  wardens  of  the  west  marches  towards  Scotland. 
In  the  9th,  being  with  John,  Duke  of  Lancaster,  in 
hb  expedition  into  Spain,  when  he  went  to  receive 
possession  of  the  kingdom  of  Castile,  his  lordship 
displayed  great  valour  in  storming  the  forts  raised 
against  the  castle  of  Brest,  in  Britanny,  and  reliev- 
ing that  fortress,  then  closely  besieged.  He  m.  first, 
Eleanor  ,  but  had  no  issue;   and  secondly, 

Philippe,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  John  de  Mohun, 
Lord  of  Dunster,  and  widow  of  Edward,  Duke  of 
York,  and  dying  in  1386,  was  «.  by  his  son, 

WALTER  FITZ-WALTER,  fifth  baron,  sum- 
moned  to  parliament  from  ISth  September,  1300,  to 
85th  August,  1404.  This  nobleman  m.  Joane, 
daughter  of  Sir  John  Devereuz,  and  sister  and 
heireM  of  John,  second  Baron  Devereux,  (by 
which  alliance  the  baronies  of  Fits-Walter  and  De- 
vereux became  united,)  and  had  issue, 
HUMPRKST,  Iguccesslve barons. 

WAX.TBB,        j 

Eleanor. 
His  lordship  d,  in  1407*  and  was  «.  by  his  elder 
son, 

HUMPHREY  FITZ-WALTER,  sixth  baron, 
who  died  a  minor,  without  issue,  in  14S9,  and  was 
«.  by  his  brother, 

WALTER  FITZ-WALTER,  seventh  baron, 
summoned  to  parliament  fhnn  19th  July,  14S9,  to 
87th  November,  1430.  This  nobleman  became  so 
distinguished  In  the  French  wars  of  King  Henry  V., 
that  he  obtained  from  that  monarch,  in  considera- 
tion of  his  services,  a  grant  to  himself  and  his  heirs 
male  of  all  the  lands  and  lordships  which  Sir  John 
Cheney  held  within  the  duchy  of  Normandy,  and 
which  had  reverted  to  the  crown  upon  the  decease 
s.  p.  of  the  said  Sir  John.  At  this  time  Lord  Fits- 
Walter  had  not  attained  his  full  age :  he  was,  how- 
ever, equally  eminent  in  naak»its  upon  the  lame 
field.  HLi  lordship  m.  ^ — Csjt^^ftn 
daughter  and  heiress, 

Elisabsth,  who  m.  Sir  John  Ratclifib,  K.G., 
and  conveyed  the  baronies  of  Fits-Walter 
and  Devereux  into  that  flunily. 
He  d.  in  1438,  when  the  male  line  of  the  Firx- 
WALTsna  became  ejMnet;  but  the  honours  of  the 
Ikmily  passed,  as  stated  above,  to  the  RatcUII^ 
(See  RatcUflb,  Barons  Fita-Walter.) 

Anna.— Or.,  a  feiae  betwen  two  ctaenonds  gu. 
810 


id  had  an  only 


FITZ.WARINE  —  BARONS      FITZ. 
WARINE. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  83rd  June,  1895, 
83  Edward  I. 

ICinesgc. 

Amongst  the  first  penons  ot  note,  to  whom  Wil- 
liam the  Conqueror  committed  the  defence  of  the 
Marches  towards  Wales,  was 

GUARINE  DE  MEEZ,  (a  member  of  the  house 
of  Lorraine,)  to  whose  custody  he  confided  Adder- 
bury,  in  the  county  of  Salop,  and  Alestoun,  in 
Gloucestershire,  of  which  former  coiwty  Guarine 
was  sheriflT,  in  the  year  1063 ;  and  he  was  at  the 
same  time  one  of  the  chief  councillors  to  Roger  de 
Montgomerie,  Earl  of  Shrewsbury.  Of  this  Gua- 
rine, it  is  stated,  that  having  heard  that  William, 
a  valiant  knight,  sister's  son  to  Pain  Peverdl,  Lord 
of  Whittington,  in  Shropshire,  had  two  daughters, 
one  of  whom.  Mallet,  had  resolved  to  marry  none 
but  a  knight  of  great  prowess;  and  that  her  father 
had  appointed  a  meeting  of  noble  young  men,  at 
Peverel's  Place,  on  the  Pekb,  from  which  she  was 
to  select  the  most  gallant,  he  came  thither;  when 
entering  the  lists  with  a  son  of  the  King  of  Soot^ 
land,  and  with  a  Baron  of  Biugundy,  he  vanquished 
them  both,  and  won  the  fair  priae,  with  the  Lord- 
ship and  Castle  of  Whittington.  At  this  place  he 
subsequently  took  up  his  abode,  and  founded  the 
Abbey  of  Adderbury.  He  was  «.  at  his  decease,  by 
his  son, 

SIR  FULKE  FITZ-WAlllNE,  who  being  under 
the  tutelsge  of  Sir  Josce  de  Dinant,  fell  in  love 
with  his  daughter,  Hawise,  and  marrying  her,  pro- 
ceeded with  her  father  to  Irdand,  and  assisted  him 
in  his  wars  against  Walter  de  Lade.  This  Fulke 
was  constituted  by  King  Henry  I.,  about  the  year 
1188,  lieutenant  of  the  Marches  of  Wales,  and  after- 
wards steward  of  the  household,  and  lord  and  go- 
vernor of  those  Marches.  Of  Sir  Fulke  it  is  stated, 
that  at  one  time  Calling  out  with  Prince  John,  King 
Henry's  son,  at  a  game  of  chew,  and  having  bad 
his  head  broken  by  a  blow  of  the  chess-board,  ftom 
the  prince,  he  returned  the  assault  so  violently,  as 
nearly  to  deprive  his  opponent  of  life.  He  cf.  some 
time  before  the  year  1195,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest 
son, 

FULKE  FITZ-WARINE,  who  had  a  castle  at 
Adderbury,  theruins  of  which  were  remaining  at  the 
time  Dugdale  wrote;  This  Fulke  was  left  by  King 
Richard  I.,  to  defend  the  Marches  of  Wales,  when 
that  monardi  set  out  hims^  for  the  Holy  Laud ; 
and  in  the  7th  of  the  same  reign,  he  paid  forty 
marks  to  the  crown  for  livery  of  Whittington  Cas- 
tle, in  conformity  with  the  Judgment  then  given  in 
hb  fttvour,  by  the  Court  of  King's  Bench.  After 
the  acceision  of  John,  however,  this  castle  was 
forcibly  seised  by  the  crown,  and  conferred  upon 
another  person,  which  act  of  injustice  drove  Fits- 
warine  and  his  brothers  into  rebellion,  and  they 
were  in  consequence  outlawed:  but  through  the 
mediation  of  the  Earl  of  Salisbury,  (the  king's 
brother.)  and  the  Bishop  of  Norwich,  the  outlawif 
was  rev&aed,  and  Fits-Warine,  upon  paying  two 
hundred  marks,  and  two  oouiseca,  had  livery  of  the 


FIT 


FIT 


GMtld  M  his  iMndltary  rifhtt  oomBMnd  bilBf 
given  to  the  sheriff  of  Shropshh*  to  yield  him  pos- 
seision  thereof  acoordiiigly.  About  this  time  he 
paid  to  the  crown*  twdve  hundred  marks  and  two 
palAreys,  liar  pennisiion  to  marry  Maud,  daughter 
of  Robert  Vavasour,  and  widow  of  Theobald  Wal- 
ter. In  the  ISth  John,  he  attended  that  prince  into 
Ireland,  and  in  the  17th  he  had  livery  of  his  wife's 
inberltance,  lying  in  Amundemesse,  in  Lanca- 
shire. Afterthis  we  find  him  active  in  the  baronial 
cause,  and  amongst  those  exoommunicated  by  the 
Popei  nor  did  he  make  his  peace  until  the 4th  of 
Henry  III.,  when  he  compromised  by  paying  jCSflB, 
and  two  great  coursers,  tar  the  re-posseMion  of 
Whittiagton  Castle,  whidi,  in  the  baronial  conflict, 
had  again  been  alienated.  Whereupon  under^ 
taking  that  it  should  not  be  prtjudldal  to  the 
king,  he  had  licence  the  next  year,  to  fortify  the 
■amet  and  he  thenceforward  evinced  his  loyalty, 
by  the  good  services  he  rendered  against  the  Welch, 
under  William  Marshal,  Earl  of  Pembroke,  and  by 
his  penonal  attendance  upon  the  king  himself,  in 
his  army  at  Montgomery.  He  had  subsequently 
military  summonses  upon  several  occasions,  and 
ftraght  at  the  battle  of  Lewes,  anno  1263,  under  the 
royal  banner:  in  which  action  he  lost  his  life,  by 
being  drowned  in  the  adjacent  river.  This  cele- 
brated feudal  lord,  m.  first,  as  already  stated,  Maud, 
daughter  of  Robert  Vavasour ;  and  secondly,  Cla- 
rice — — %  He  left  at  his  decease,  a  daughter,  Cve, 
who  became  leoond  wife  of  Lewellne,  Prince  of 
Wales,  and  a  son,  his^ucoeisor, 

FC/LKE  FITZ-WARINE,  who  havfaig  distin- 
guished himself  in  the  Wdch  wars,  was  iummoned 
to  parliament  as  a  Babon,  by  King  Edward  I.,  on 
S3rd  June,  1295,  and  he  had  summons  from  that 
period,  to  the  94th  October,  1314.  His  kmlshlp  was 
afterwards  equally  eminent  in  the  wars  of  Sovtland 
and  Flanders,  and  was  made  a  knight  of  the  Bath, 
prior  to  attending  Prince  Edward  Into  the  former 
kingdom,  in  the  expedition  made  against  Robert 
Bruca  Lord  Fits-Wartaie  m.  the  daughter  of  Gryf- 
fln,  ion  of  Wenovewyn,  by  whom  he  acquired  the 
territory  of  Ballesley ;  and  dying  about  the  year 
1^4,  was  «.  by  hisson, 

FULKE  FITZ-WARINE,  second  Baron,  sum- 
moned to  perliament  from  8th  October,  1315,  to 
flSnd  January,  1336.  This  nobleman  being  at  the 
time  of  his  father's  death,  in  the  wars  of  France, 
Alianore,  his  wife,  by  the  king's  especial  favour, 
had  livery  of  the  manor  of  Whittington  until  hb 
return.  During  the  remainder  of  King  Edward  II.'s 
rdgn,  he  was  engaged  either  in  Scotland  or  Gas- 
,  oony,  and  he  was  constable  of  the  royal  army  which 
idvanoed  against  the  barons  in  insurrection  under 
the  Earl  of  Lancaster.  In  the  7th  of  Edward  III., 
he  was  again  in  Scotland ;  and  in  the  80th,  he  was 
in  the  expedition  then  made  into  France.  His 
lordship  d.  in  1349,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

FULKE  FITZ-WARINE,  third  Baron,  but 
never  summoned  to  parUsment.  This  nobleman, 
in  the  41st  Edward  IIL,  attended  Edward,  the 
Black  Prince,  into  Oascony,  and  was  subsequently 
engaged  in  the  wars  in  Flanders.  His  lordship  m. 
Margaret,  daughter  of  James,  Lord  Audley,  and 
third  sister  and  co-heir  of  Nicholas,  Lord  Audley, 


of  Heleigh,  in  the  county  of  Staflbrd.  and  dyhig  in 
1873,  was  s.  by  his  son, 

FULKE  FITZ-WARINE,  fourth  Baron',  but 
never  summoned  to  parliament.  This  nobleman  d. 
in  1377*  and  was  «.  by  hisson. 

FULKE  FITZ-WARINE,  fifth  Baron,  but,  ttke 
his  two  immediate  predecessors,  never  summoned 
to  parliament  His  k»rdship  making  proof  of  his 
age,  in  7th  Richard  II.,  had  livery  of  his  hmds. 
He  m.  Elisabeth,  sister  and  hefar  of  Sir  William 
Cogan,  Knt,  by  Elisabeth,  widow  of  Sir  Hugh 
Courtenay,  Knt.,  and  was  «.  at  his  decease,  in  1301, 
by  hisson, 

FULKE  FITZ-WARINE,  sixth  Baton,  but  never 
summoned  to  parliament.  His  lordship  d.  in  mino- 
rity, anno  1407,  and  was  «.  by  his  spn, 

FULKE  FITZ-WARINE,  seventh  Baron,  never 
summoned  to  parliament.     This  nobleman  died 
also  In  minority,  anno  14S9,  and  left  his  only  sister, 
Elisabstb  Pits-Wahinb,  his  heir.     This 
lady  m.  afterwards,  Richard  Hankford,  Esq., 
and  left  an  only  daughter  and  heiress, 
Thomabinb  Habkpobo,  who  espoused 
Sib  William  Boubchibb,  Knt.  who 
was  summoned  to  parliament,  in  her 
right,  as 
LoBD  Fits-Wabinb.    (See  Bour- 
diier.  Barons  Fits-Warine.) 
Abmb— ^arterly  arg.  and  gu.  per  feaee  indented. 

FITZ-WARINE  —  BARONS      FITZ- 
WARINE. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  8Sth  Febniary,'1349, 
16  Edward  IIL 

Besides  the  babowt  or  Fits-Wabiitb,  conliBrred 

by  the  writ  of  Edward  L,  upon  Fulke  Fits-Warine, 
in  1S95,  and  which  barony  was  eventually  conveyed 
by  an  heiress  to  a  branch  of  the  great  house  <tf 
Bourdiier,  another  member  of  the  same  family, 

WILLIAM  FITZ-WARINE,  called  Le  Frera^ 
was  elevated  to  the  peerage,  as  a  babob ,  by  writ  of 
summons,  dated  SSth  February,  134S.  This  Wil- 
liam had  been  constituted  governor  of  the  castle  of 
Montgomery,  in  the  beginning  of  King  Edward''the 
Third's  reign,  and  was  afterwards  engaged  in  the 
French  and  Scottish  wars.  The  year  he  attained 
the  peerage  he  was  in  France,  being  then  of  the 
rank  of  banneret,  with  one  knight,  eight  esquires, 
and  ten  archers,  on  horseback,  in  his  immediate 
train— end  again  in  four  years  afterwards.  His 
lordship  m.  Amlcia,  daughter  and  heir  of  Henry 
Haddon,  of  Candd  Haddon,  in  the  county  of  Dor- 
set, and  dying  In  1361,  poesessed  of  estates  in  the 
counties  of  Berks,  Somerset,  and  Dorset,  was  «.  by 
hisson, 

IVO  or  JOHN  FITZ-WARINE,  second  baron, 
but  never  summoned  to  parliament.  This  noble- 
man was  at  the  siege  of  Nantes  in  the  beginning  of 
the  reign  of  Richard  II.,  under  Thomas  op  Wood- 
stock. He  d.  in  1414,  leaving  an  only  daughter 
and  heiress, 

)        Elbanob  FiTB-WABiirB,  who  m.  Sir  John 
Chedlock,  and  left  a  son, 


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Sir  John  Chbdiock,  Knt.,  who  m. 
Katherine,  dau^ter  of  Ralph  Lumley» 
and  left,  at  hb  decease,  two  daughters, 
his  co-heirs,  via. 

Margaret,   m.  to  William,   second 
Lord  Stourton,   ancestor  of  the 
present  lord. 
Katherine,  m.  first,  to  Sir  WilUam 
Stafford,    and  secondly,   to   Sir 
John  Arundel, ,  from  whom  the 
Lords  Arundel,  of  Wardour,  de- 
scend. 
Arm a.»Quarterly  gu.  and  erm.  per  fcsse  indented. 
In  the  first  quarter  a  fret  gules. 


FITZ-WILLIAM  —  BARON 
WILLIAM. 


FITZ- 


By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  6th  April*  1384, 
1  Edward  111. 

ICtiuagc. 

In  the  reign  of  Henry  II.,  William,  the  son  of 
l^iUiam  Fits-Godrick,  was  the  first,  according  to 
Dugdale,  who  assumed  this  surname,  and  called 
himself 

WILLIAM  FITZ.WILLIAM,  in  which  opinion 
Seager,  Garter-Icing-of-arms,  temp.  Charles  I.,  coin- 
cides. William  Fits-Godrick  is  stated  to  have  heen 
cousin  in  blood  to  King  Edward  the  Confessor,  and 
to  have  been  deputed  upon  an  embassy  by  that  mo- 
narch to  William,  Duke  of  Normandy,  at  whose 
court  he  remained  until  he  returned  with  the  expe- 
dition in  1006,  as  marshal  of  the  invading  army,  and 
it  is  added,  that  the  con qusror  bestowed  upon  him 
a  scarf  from  his  own  arm,  for  the  gallantry  he  had 
displayed  at  Hastings.  Sir  William  Fiti-William 
(Fitz-Godrick's  son,)  m.  Eleanor,  daughter  and  heir 
of  Sir  John  de  Elmley,  Lord  of  Elmley  and  Sproc- 
borough,  in  Yorkshire,  and  was  ».  by  his  son, 

SIR   WILLIAM    FITZ-WILLIAM,    who   was 
.living  in  1117,  Lord  of  Elmley  and  Sprotborough. 
This  feudal  lord  m.  Ella,  daughter  and  co-heir  of 
.William,  Earl  of  Warren  and  Surrey,   and  had 
Roger,  to  whom  the  Earl  of  Warroi  gave  the  lord- 
ship of  Gretewell ;  and  an  elder  son,  his  successor, 

SIR  WILLIAM  FITZ-WILLIAM,  Lord  of  Ehn- 
ley  and  Sprotborough,  who  m.  Albreda,  daughter 
and  hdr  of  Robert  de  Liiures,  widow  of  Richard 
Fitx-Eiutace,  constable  .of  Chester,  and  sister  of  the 
half  blood  to  Robert  de  Laci,  Baron  of  Pontefract, 
and  had  issue,  a  daughter,  Donatia,  to  whom  her 
mother  gave  lands  in  Crowle— i^th  a  son,  his  suc- 
cessur, 

SIR  WILLIAM  FITZ-WILLIAM.  This  feudal 
lord  took  up  arms  in  the  baronial  cause,  temp. 
King  John,  but  relumed  to  his  allegiance  in  the  5th 
Henry  III.  He  m.  Ella,  daughter  of  Hamlyn,  Earl 
.Warren  and  Surrey,  and  was  t,  by  his  son, 

SIR  THOMAS  FITZ-WILLIAM,  who  m.  Ag- 
nes, one  of  the  daughters  and  co-heirs  of  Roger 
Bertram,  feudal  Lord  of  Mitford,  by  whom  be  had 
three  sons, 

William,  hjs  successor. 
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Roger  (Shr)',  who  had  the  lands  of  WoodhaU 

from  his  fsther. 
Peter,  who  was  settled  at  Denby. 
He  had  besides  five  daughters,  of  whom  Albreda  in. 
Sir  Richard  WalleU,  Knt.,  of  Burgh  WaUels.    Sir 
Thomas  Fiti- William  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

SIR  WILLIAM  FITZ-WILLIAM,  of  Spiot- 
borough,  who,  in  the  29th  Edward  I.,  was  in  the 
Scottish  wars  t  but  the  next  reign,  joining  In  the 
great  insurrection  of  Thomas,  Earl  of  Lancaster,  he 
was  made  prisoner  with  that  nobleman  at  Borough- 
bridge,  and  hanged  immediately  after  at  York.  He 
m.  Agnes,  daughter  of  Richard,  Lord  Gxey,  of  Cod- 
nor,  and  left  an  only  son, 

SIR  WILLIAM  FITZ-WILLIAM,  who  was 
summoned*  to  parliament,  in  the  1st  Edward  III., 
as  a  BARON,  but  never  afterwards.  This  nobleman 
m.  Maud,  daughter  of  Edmond,  Lord  Delncourt, 
and  had  several  children,  but  as  none  were  subse- 
quently esteemed  barons,  we  presume,  with  Nico- 
las, that  the  summcms  was  not  a  parliamentary,  but 
a  military  one.  From  this  Sir  William  the  present 
noble  house  of  Fits- William,  Earls  Fita-William, 
lineally  deriva 

Arms.— Loaengy,  ar.  and  gules. 

FITZ-WILLIAM— EARL  OF  SOUTH- 
AMPTON. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  18th  October,  1S37. 

Xincafic. 

From  Sir  William  FiU-William,  son  of  William 
Fita-Godrick,  marshal  of  the  victorious  army  at 
Hastings,  descended, 

SIR  JOHN  FITZ-WILLIAM,  who  m.  Elis». 
beth,  daughter  and  heiress  of  William  Clinton, 
Earl  of  Huntingdon,  and  had  several  children,  of 
whom, 

EDMOND  FITZ-WILLIAM,  was  grand&ther 
of 

SIR  THOMAS  FITZ-WILLIAM,  Knt,  of  Ald- 
warke,  in  the  county  of  York,  who  m.  Lucy,  daugh- 
ter and  co-heir  of  John'NeviU,  Marquess  of  Monta- 
cute,  and  had  issue,  Thomas,  slain  at  Flodden- 
Field,  in  the  4th  Henry  VIII.,  and  another  son, 

WILLIAM  FITZ-WILLIAM,  who  was  made  by 
King  Henry  VIII.  one  of  the  esquires  of  his  body, 
and  knighted  soon  after  for  his  good  services  at  the 
siege  of  Toumay.  Upon  the  attainder  of  Edward 
Stafibrd,  Duke  of  Buckingham,  Sir  William  Fitz- 
William,  being  then  vice-admiral  of  England,  ob- 
tained a  grant  of  the  manor  of  Navesby,  in  the 
county  of  Northampton,  part  of  that  nobleman's 
possessions.  In  the  15th  Henry  VIII.  Sir  William, 
as  admiral  of  the  English  fleet,  went  to  sea  for  the 
purpose  of  intercepting  the  Duke  of  Albany,  who 

*  So  says  Dugdale,  "  but  it  appears  from  his 
Ust  of  summonses  in  that  year,  that  Sir  William 
Fits-William  was  not  included  in  either  of  the  sum- 
monses to  parliament t  but  only  in  the  summons, 
dated  at  Ramsay,  5th  April,  1324,  to  attend  at  New- 
castle-upon-Tyne with  horse  and  arms. 

.««  Nicolas." 


FOL 


FOR 


.about  tetttrtiliig  to  Scotland  with  •  large  body 
of  French.  The  next  year  he  was  captain  of  OuiantB, 
in  Picardy*  and  he  was  soon  alter»  being  at  the  time 
treasurer  of  the  honidiold.  deputed  with  John  Tay- 
Uht,  doctor  of  hiw,  to  take  the  oath  of  the  Lady 
Rcgsnt,  then  at  Lyons,  (King  Fiands  I.  being  a 
prisoner  in  Spain,)  Cor  ratifying  the  articles  ta  a 
treaty  Just  conchided  between  the  crowns  of  Eng- 
land and  France.  In  the  94th  of  the  seme  reign  he 
was  J<dned  in  another  embassy  to  Prance  with  the 
Duke  of  Norfolk  and  Dr.  Cox,  ragaiding  the  mar- 
riage of  the  French  tang's  thl^  son,  with  the  Eng- 
lish monarch's  daughter,  the  hadM  Ex.isabbtb; 
after  which  (9Bth  Henry  VIIL),  being  a  Knight  of 
the  Garter,  treasurer  of  the  household,  and  chan> 
ceUor  of  the  Duchy  of  Lenceater,  he  was  consti- 
tuted ADMIBAX.  OP  ENOLAND,  WaLEB,  InBLAND, 

NonMAiTDY,  GAacoHY,  ANo  Aqditainb,  and  de- 
▼ated  to  the  peerage,  by  letters  patent,  dated  18th 
October,  1AS7,  as  Earl  or  Soutbajipton.  He 
was  subsequently  appointed  lord  privy  seaL  His 
lordship  d,  at  Newcastle  in  1543,  upon  his  march 
into  Scotland,  leading  the  van  of  the  English  army, 
but  so  highly  was  he  esteemed,  that  to  do  honour 
to  his  memory,  his  standard  was  borne  in  the  for- 
ward, throughoutthe  wholeof  the  ensuing  campaign. 
The  earl  m.  Mabel,  daughter  of  Henry,  Lord  CUf- 
ford,  and  sister  of  Henry,  first  Earl  of  Cumberland, 
but  had  no  issue,  in  consequence  of  which  the 
Earloom  op  SoirrBAMPTOB  at  his  decease  became 
BXTiNCT,  while  his  estates  devolved  upon  (his 
brother's  daughters)  his  nieces, 

Margaret  Fits- William,  wifo  of  Oodfirey  Ful- 
Jambe,  Esq. 

Alice  Fits- William,  wife  of  Sir  James  Ful- 
jambe,  Knt. 
ABMa.— -LoKngy,  ar.  and  gu.  a  mullet  for  dif- 
fereDce. 


FOLIOT— BARON  FOLIOU 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  23rd  June,  U9S, 
83  Edward  L 

XincBgc. 

In  the  12th  year  of  King  Henry  11. 

ROBERT  FOLIOT,  upon  the  assessment  of  the 
aid  for  marrying  the  king's  daughter,  certified  that 
he  had  fifteen  knighu'  fees,  which  hii  ancestors 
had  held  flrom  the  Conquest.  This  feudal  lord  m. 
Margery,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Richard  de  R^n- 
curt.  Lord  of  Sutton,  in  the  county  of  Bedford, 
whereupon  King  Henry  II.  confirmed  to  him  the 
manor  of  Burton,  in  the  county  of  Northampton, 
and  all  other,  the  lands  and  honour  of  Guy  de 
)tf^.  Runout,  ancestor  of  the  said  Richard.  He  was  «. 
bylblsson, 

RICHARD  FOLIOT,  who  left  an  only  daughter 
and  heiroM,     nrftV^  4m,  ^  64^ 

Margery,  who  m.  Whytchard  Ledet,  son  of 

AJ^         Christian  Ledet,  Lady  of  Lai^tone,  in  the 

^j^^H     county  of  Leicester.     The  inheritance  of 

VW*^^  this  lady  (Margery  Foliot)  was  Utigated  in 

the  8th  Richard   Lj   by  Thomas  Foliot, 


'  Ridiard  de  Hidon,  Eame  de  Bolerel.  uid 
Gell^  de  Barinton,  grand-children  of  Ro- 
bert Foliot,  and  the  suit  was  pending  in  the 
rdgn  of  King  John.  \    jr* 

With  this  heiress  this  branch  of  the  family  Spears 
to  have  terminated,  but  many  of  the  samei||0|  were    )^.<^  lu 
distinguished  for  several  years  afterwards,  until  the 
rdgn  of  Edward  I.,  when 

JORDA^  FOLIOT  was  summoned  to  parlia- 
ment as-a  BABoif  firom  23rd  June,  1295,  to  26th 
January,  1207*  but  oi  his  lordship  and  descendants 
nothing  Airther  is  known. 

Anna.— Ou.  a  bend  ar.. 

Nole.— Gilbert  Foliot,  Bishop  of  Herefbrd,  anno 
1140,  and  of  London,  in  1161,  is  another  eminent 
person  of  this  name.  Of  his  lordship,  distinguished 
by  his  fidelity  to  King  Henry  II.,  in  the  struggles 
between  that  monarch  and  Thomas  k  Becket, 
Matthew  Paris  states  the  following  circumstance:— 
As  he  lay  in  bed  one  night  after  a  conference  with 
the  king,  a  terrible  and  unknown  voice  sounded 
these  words  in  his  ears :  •*  O  Gilbert  Foliot,  dum 
revolvis  tot,  et  tot  Deus  tuus  est  Astaroth."  Which 
he  taking  to  come  from  the  devil,  answered  as 
boldly :  *'  Mentirls,  dsemon,  Deus  mens  est  Deus 
Sabbaoth."  He  was  the  author  of  an  apology  Ibr 
Henry,  against  Becket;  end  he  also  wrote  an  in- 
vective against  the  proud  prelate,  with  several  other 
works. 


FORTESCUE— EARL  OF  CLINTON. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  5th  July,  1746. 

Xincagc. 

LADY  MARGARET-CLINTON,  one  of  the 
daughters  and  co-heirs  of  Theophilus,  fimrth  Earl 
of  Lincoln,  and  tenth  Baron  Clinton,  m.  Hugh 
Boecawen,  Esq.,  of  Tregotham,  in  the  county  of 
ComwaUL  and  left  an  only  daughter  and  heiress, 

BRIDGET  BOSCAWEN,  who  espoused  Hugh 
Fortescue,  Esq.,  of  Pilley,  in  the  county  of  Devon, 
and  had  (with  two  other  sons  and  two  daughters,  aU 
of  whom  died  «.  p,)  a  son  and  heir, 

HUGH  FORTESCUE,  Esq.,  hi  whose  favour 
the  ABBYAMCB  of  the  ancient  barony  op  Clinton 
was  terminated  by  the  crown,  and  he  was  sum- 
moned to  parliament,  as  Loan  Clinton,  on  the 
leth  March,  1721.  His  knrdship  was  made  a  Knight 
of  the  Bath  in  1725.  and  created,  by  letters  patent, 
dated  5th  July,  1746,  Baron  Forte9cue»  ofCaHle  Hill, 
and  Earl  op  Clinton,  with  special  remainder  of 
the  berony  to  his  half  brother,  Matthew  Fortescue, 
Esq.  The  earld.  in  1751,  without  issue,  when  the 
Baront  op  Clinton  teU  again  into  abbyancb 
between  his  sister  and  heir,  Margaret  Fortescue, 
and  Margaret,  Countess  of  Orford,  daughter  of 
Lady  Arabella  Clinton,  by  her  husband,  Robert 
Rolle,  Esq.,  of  Haynton,  in  the  county  of  Devon. 
The  Barony  op  Fortb8cub  passed  according  to 
the  limitation,  and  is  enjoyed  by  the  present  Earl 
FoRTBacDB,  while  the  Earldom  op  Clinton  be- 
came bxtinct. 

ABM8."Aa.  a  bend  engrailed  ar.  cottiied,  or. 

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FRESGHEVILLE  —  BARON  FRE- 
SCHEVILLE,  OF  STAVE- 
LEY,  IN  THE  COUNTY  OF 
DERBY. 

By  Letten  Patent,  dated  6th  March.  1664. 

Xintagt. 

.    In  the  9th  of  Hmry  III.,  upon  the  death  of  Robert 
Fita-Ralph,  Lord  of  Cryche,  in  Derbyshire, 

RALPH  DE  FRESCHEVILLE,  bdng  his  heir, 
and  paying  one  hundred  marks  tor  his  rdief,  had 
Uyery  of  his  lands.  This  Ralph,  in  the  9Gth  of  the 
same  reign,  paid  a  line  of  thirty  marks  to  be  excused 
from  attending  the  king  into  Gasocmy.  He  d.  in 
nineteen  year^  afterwards,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 
.  ANKERE  DE  FRESCHEVILLE,  who,  having 
joined  the  baronial  standard,  was  made  prisoner  at 
the  battle  of  Northampton,  when  his  lands  were 
•elaed  by  the  crown,  and  conferred  upon  Brian  de 
Brompton,  according  to  the  tenor  of  the  Dletum  <f« 
Ken^ocrOk,  until  the  heir  of  the  said  Ankere  should 
accomplish  his  AiU  age;  Ankere  d.  in  the  Mth 
Henry  IIL,  when  it  was  found  that  he  held  the 
manor  of  Boncy,  in  the  county  of  Nottingham,  by 
■barony,  of  the  king  in  Capita,  so  likewise  the  manor 
of  Crydie,  in  Derbyshire.  He  had  married  Amice, 
eldest  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Sir  Nicholas  M usard. 
Lord  ct  Staveley,  in  the  county  of  Derby,  and  sister 
and  co-heir  of  Nicholas  M  usard,  and  was  «.  by  his 
son, 

RALPH  DE  FRESCHEVILLE,  who,  in  the 
lAth  Edward  L,  doing  his  homage,  had  lirery  of  all 
his  father's  lands,  save  the  manor  of  Boney,  which 
Richard  de  Grey  still  retained  until  the  fine  im- 
posed by  the  Dictum  of  Kenilworth  should  be 
liquidated.  In  ten  yean  afterwards  this  Ralph  dis- 
tinguished himself  in  the  wan  of  Scotland,  and  was 
summoned  to  parliament,  as  a  babon  ,  in  the  S5th 
Edward  L,  but  never  afterwards.  His  lordship  was 
«.  by  his  son, 

RALPH  DE  FRESCHEVILLE,  who  was  never 
summoned  to  parliament,  nor  esteemed  a  babox  ; 
nor  were  any  of  his  descendants.  Of  whom  hb 
direct  male  heir, 

SIR  PETER  DE  FRESCHEVILLE,  had  the 
honour  of  knighthood  conferred  upon  him  by  Kiho 
Edward  VL,  for  his  valour  at  the  battle  of  Mussel- 
borough,  in  Scotland.  Sir  Peter  was  great  grand- 
father of 

JOHN  FRESCHEVILLE,  Esq.,  of  SUveley,  in 
the  county  of  Derby,  who,  having  adhered  firmly 
to  the  royal  cause  during  the  dvil  wan,  waa  ele- 
vated to  the  peerage  by  King  Charles  II.,  on  16th 
March,  1664,  as  Babon  Fbb8chbvii.lb,  of  Stawley. 
In  1677  his  lordship  claimed  to  be  allowed  to  sit  in 
the  House  of  Peen  under  the  writ  of  summons  to 
his  ancestor,  Ralph,  in  the  reign  of  Edward  I., 
but  it  being  contended,  that  to  give  the  party  sum- 
mooed  to  parliament  an  estate  of  inheritance,  a 
sitting  under  the  wnt  was  necessary,  as  the  onus  of 
proving  such  sitting  rested  with  the  party  claiming 
the  dignity,  and  no  such  proof  being  extant  in  the 
case  of  Ralph  Fresdieville,  the  claim  was  not  ad- 
mitted. Lord  FrescheviUe  m.  flnt,  Sarah,  draghter 
814 


of  Sir  John  Harington,  Knt.,  and  had  three  daug^ 
ten,  vis. 

Christian,  m.  to   Charles  Paulet,  then  Lord 

St.  John,  afterwards  Duke  of  Bolton. 
Elisabeth,  m.  flnt,  to  Philip,  son  and  heir  of 
Sir  Philip  Warwick,  Knt.,  and  secondly, 
(his  locdship's  fourth  wife,)    to  Conyen 
Darcy,  second  Earl  of  Holdexnene. 
Frances,   m.  to  Cokmel  Thomas  Colqieper. 
This  lady  became  eventually  sole  heiress  of 
her  father. 
His  lordship  espom^,  secondly,  Anna-Charlotta, 
daughter  and  heir  of  Sir  Henry  Vick,  Knt.,  but 
had  no  issue.    He.d.  in  1688,  when  the  Babony  or 
FBaacBBViLLB  tfShavOep  became  bxtinct. 
Abmb. — As.  a  bold  becw.  six  eschallop  shdis  ar. 

FREVILLE— .BARON  FREVILLE. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  6th  April,  1397, 
1  Edward  IIL 

Xineagc. 

This  family  was  anciently  seated  in  the  county  of 
Cambridge,  and  of  consideiable  note.  In  the  15th  of 
Henry  III., 

BALDWIN  DE  FREVILLE,  having  obtained 
the  wardship  of  Luda,  daughter  and  heir  of 
Richard  de  Scaien,  for  which  he  gave  two  hundred 
marks,  made  her,  very  soon  after,  his  wife;  and  in 
the  30th  of  the  same  reign,  paid  towards  the  mar- 
riage-portion of  the  king's  daughter,  fifteen  pounds, 
for  fifteen  knights'  fees  which  he  had  of  her  inhe- 
ritanoe.  To  this  Baldwin  succeeded  his  son  and 
heir, 

RICHARD  DE  FREVILLE,  who  was  engaged 
in  the  Welsh  wars.  He  was  «.,  at  his  decease,  by  his 
son, 

BALDWIN  DE  FREVILLE,  who  died  without 
issue,  and  was «.  by  his  brother, 

ALEXANDER  DE  FREVILLE,  who  m.  Joene, 
daughter  of  Masere,  second  daughter  and  co-heir  of 
Sir  Philip  Marmion,  and  wife  of  Ralph  de  Crom- 
well. This  Alexander  was  in  the  Scottish  wan  of 
Edward  I.,  and  had  a  military  summons  for  that 
service  in  the  8th  of  Edward  II. ;  in  the  3d  of  whidi 
latter  monarch's  reign,  upon  partition  of  the  lands 
of  Isabel,  wife  ot  William  Walraund,  he  had,  in 
right  of  his  wife,  heir  to  the  said  Isabel,  the  manon 
of  Winterbome  and  Asserton,  in  the  county  of 
Wilts.  He  was  afterwards  summoned*  to  parlia- 
ment as  a  BABOH,  in  the  1st  of  Edward  III.,  but 
never  again,  nor  any  of  his  descendants.  He  d.  in 
1388,  leaving  a  son, 

BALDWIN  DE  FREVJLLE,  whod.  in  the  I7th 
Edward  IIL,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

BALDWIN  DE  FREVILLE,  then  twenty-eix 
yean  of  age,  who,  doing  homage,  the  next  ensuing 

•  On  referring  to  Dugdale's  List  of  Summonses, 
it  appean  that  this  Albxandbb  is  not  induded 
in  either  summons  to  parliament  issued  in  that 
year,  but  only  in  a  summons  dated  at  Ramsey,  Ath 
April,  1st  Edward  III.,  1327,  to  be  at  Newcastle. 
upon-Tyne,  with  hoiee  and  arms,  to^  serve  against 
Robert  Bruce.— Nicolas. 


PRE 


FUR 


year  lud  livery  of  tbe  lands  of  hit  tnheritaiiot 
lying  in  the  oountlei  of  Warwidc«  Hereford,  Sa- 
lop, StaHbrd,  Wilto,  Norfolk,  and  Suflblk.  In  the 
38th  Edward  IIL,  this  Baldwin  was  made  tencschal 
of  Fantolgne  for  life,  by  Edward,  the  renowned 
Black  Prince,  and  he  was  afterwards  in  the  wars  of 
CSasoony  with  that  iUustrious  personage.  He  m. 
first,  Elisabeth,,  rister  and  oo-heir  of  Sir  John 
Montfort,  of  BeUesert,  tai  the  county  of  Warwick; 
teoondly,  Ida,  daughter  of  »— <-  Clinton,  a  lady 
of  honour  to  Queen  Philippe ;  and  thirdly,  Joane, 
daughter  of  Lord  Strange,  an^  dying  in  the  49th 
Edward  III.,  was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR  BALDWIN  DE  FREVILLE,  who,  in  the 
1st  of  Richard  II.,  claimed,  as  feudal  lord  of  Tarn- 
worth  Castle,  in  the  county  of  Warwick,  to  be  the 
king's  champion  on  the  day  of  his  coronation;  but 
the  same  was  determined  against  him,  in  favour  of 
Sir  John  Dymoke,  Knt.,  (see  Marmion,)  in  right 
of  the  tenure  of  the  manor  of  ScriTelsby,  in  the 
county  of  Lincoln,  and  the  Dymokes  have  ever  since 
enjoyed  that  honour.  Sir  Baldwin  m.  two  wives, 
both  of  them  daughters  of  Sir  John  Botetourt,  of 
Weoly  Castle,  namdy,  Eliaabeth,  who  died  very 
young,  and  Joice,  by  whom,  at  his  decease,  11th 
Richard  II.,  he  left  issue, 

Sm  BALDWIN  DE  FREVILLE,  who  m. 
Joane*  dau^ter  of  Sir  John  Green,  Knt.,  and  had 


BAiiDWiir,  his  successor. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Sir  Thomas  Ferrers,  second 
son  of  William,  Lord  Ferrers,  of  Groby, 
from  whom  lineaUy  descended 

Ajrifs  FsnnsRS,  grand-daughter  and 
heiress  of  jSir  John  Ferrers,  of  Tam- 
worth  Castle,  who  d.  in  1880.  This 
great  heiress  m.  the  Hon.  Robert  Shir- 
ley, first  Earl  of  Ferrers  of  that  £s- 
mily,  and  had  issue, 

Robert,  who  died  «.  p.  in  1714. 
Elisabeth,  heir  to  her  Inother,  m.  to 
James,  fifth  Earl  of  Northamp* 
ton,  and  carried  the  baronies  of 
Ferrers,    of  Chartley,    &c    &c. 
into  that  family. 
Margaret,  m.  to  Sir  Hugh  Willoughby,  Knt., 
and  a^erwards  to  Sir  Richard   Bingham, 
Knt,  one  of  the  Justices  of  the  King's 
Bench. 
Joice,  m.  to  Roger  Aston,  Esq.,  ancestor  of 
the  Lord  Astons,  of  Forfar,  in  Scotland. 
Sir  Baldwin  A  in  the  8d  of  Henry  IV.,  and  was  «. 
by  his  son, 

BALDWIN  DE  FREVILLE,  at  whose  decease 
in  minority,  and  issueless,  6th  Henry  V.,  his  sisters 
became  his  heirs,  and  the  great  possessions  at  the 
Frevilles  were  thus  divided: — 

Sir  Thomas  Ferrers  had  the  castle  and  manor  of 
Tamworth,  with  other  estates  in  the  county 
of  Warwick,  and  lands  in  Hereford  and 
Staflbrd  shires. 
Roger  Aston  had  the  manor  of  Newdigate,  in 
Surrey,  with  other  lands  in  Wiltshire  and 
Warwickshire. 
Sir  Richard  Bingham  obtained  the  manors  of 
MiddletOB  and  Whitnasb,  in  Warwickshire, 


and  other  lordships  in  the  coimt&os  of  Not- 
tingham and  Hereford. 
Akmb.— Or.,  a  cross  patonce  gu. 

FURNIVAL  —  BARONS   FURNIVAU 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  83rd  June,  U90, 
83  Edward  I. 

lUncagc. 

In  the  time  of  Richard  I. 

GIRARD  DE  FURNIVAL  came  into  EngUmd 
ftom  Normandy,  and,  accompanying  the  lion- 
hearted  monarch  to  the  Holy  Land,  assisted  at  the 
celebrated  siege  of  Aeon.  To  this  gallant  soldier 
succeeded  his  son,  another 

GIRARD  DE  FURNIVAL,  who  m.  Maud,  daugh- 
terand  heiress  of  William  de  Luvetot,  a  power- 
ful Nottinghamshire  Baron,  and  had  livery  of  her 
lands  in  the  fifth  year  of  King  John.  This  feudal 
lord,  being  one  of  the  barons  who  adhered  to  John, 
was  included  in  the  commission  to  treat,  on  part  of 
the  mcmarch,  with  Robert  de  Ros  and  the  other 
insurrectionary  lords,  and  was  appointed  by  the 
king  to  reside  at  Bolsover  Castle,  in  the  county  of 
Derby,  for  the  better  preservation  of  the  peace  in 
those  parts.  He  d.  at  Jerusalem,  in  the  3d  Henry 
IIL,  leaving  three  sons,  vis. 

Thomas,  of  whom  presently. 
Girsrd,  who  m.  Christian  Ledet,  daughter  and 
.  heiress  of  Wischard  Ledet,  and  widow  of 
Henry  de  Braybroc,  in  whose  right  he  held 
the  barony  of  Wardon.    He  left,  at  hia 
decease,   two  daughters,   his  co-heiresses, 
vis. 
Christian,  m.  to  William  Latimer. 
Agness,  m.  to  John  Latimer. 

William,  m.  Ada 1  and  left  an  only  daughter 

andheiren, 

Hetewyse,  m.  to  Eustace  de  Baliol. 
The  eldest  son, 

THOMAS  DE  FURNIVAL.  succeeded  to  the 
feudal  barony,  and  Henry  III.  committed  to  hla 
wardship,  William  de  Moubray,  son  of  Roger  de 
Moubray,  a  great  Yorkshire  baron.  Of  this  Thomas 
nothing  more  Is  known,  than  his  being  slain  by  the 
Saracens  in  the  Holy  Land,  whither  he  had  journeyed 
upon  a  pilgrimage,  and  that  his  body  was  brought 
flrom  thence  by  his  brother  Girard,  and  buried  at 
Worksop.    He  was  succeeded  by  his  son, 

THOMAS  DE  FURNIVAL,  who  had  licence, 
in  the  54th  Henry  III.,  to  make  a  castle  of  hia 
manor-house,  of  Sheflidd,  in  the  county  of  York. 
To  this  Thomas  «.  his  son  and  heir, 

GERARD  DE  FURNIVAL,  who  d,  some  time 
before  1280,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

THOMAS  DE  FURNIVAL,  who,  in  the  fiSd 
Edward  I.,  had  summons,  amongst  other  great  men, 
to  attend  the  king,  in  order  to  advise  of  the  ailUrs 
of  the  realm ;  and  having  so  done,  received  com- 
mand to  repair  to  Portsmouth,  upon  the  first  day  of 
the  ensuing  September,  well  fitted  with  horse  and 
arms,  for  the  expedition  then  intended  against 
France.    In  the  next  year,  83d  June,  1895,  he  was 

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ftnt  rammoiied  to  parliament  m  a  nxmoit,  and  ttom 
that  period  his  lordship  appears,  for  several  years, 
to  have  taken  a  distinguished  part  in  the  Scottish 
wars.  In  the  S7th  Edward  h,  he  was  constituted 
captain-general  and  lieutenant  to  the  king  for  the 
counties  of  Nottingham  and  Derby,  and  had  sum- 
mons to  parliament,  uninterruptedly,  until  27th 
January,  1338,  (0th  Edward  III.,)  but  he  did  not 
>  '^  iJ^  ^  hold  his  lands  by  barony.  Lord  Fumival  mj^Usa^ 
'^  beth,  daughter  of  Peter  de  Montfort,  of  Bfidteert 
Castle,  in  the  county  of  Warwick,  and  was  «.^at  his 
decease,  in  1338,  by  his  eldest  son,  rir  /i  '  x'  t  ^< 

THOMAS  DE  FURNIVAL,  who  was  himself  a 
BAAON,  having  been  summoned  to  parliament  as 
"  Thonue  de  Fumival,  Junior,"  from  SSth  August, 
1318,  to  87th  January,  1338,  and  without  "Junior," 
untU  Iftth  November,  1338  (18th  Edward  III.).  This 
nobleman,  who,  like  his  father,  was  engaged  in  the 
Scottish  wars,  m.  Joan,  eldest  daughter  and  co- 
heness  of  Theobald  de  Verdon,  (a  great  baron,)  and 
widow  of  William,  son  of  William  de  Montacute, 
but  without  the  king's  licence,  for  which  he  had  to 
pay  a  fine  of  £900.  By  this  lady  he  acquired  exten- 
sive esutes  in  the  county  of  Staflbrd,  and  had  two 
sons,  Thomas  and  William.  His  lordship  d.  in  1339, 
and  was  «.  by  the  elder, 

THOMAS  DE  FURNIVAL,  third  baron,  then 
seventeen  years  of  age;  In  the  10th  Edward  III. 
this  nobleman  embarked  in  the  expedition  made 
into  France,  and  the  next  year  participated  in  the 
glories  of  Crkssy.  His  lordship  continued  in  the 
French  wars  some  years  subsequently,  and  he  was 
afterwards  in  Scotland  under  Henry,  Lord  Percy. 
He  d.  about  the  year  1364,  having  been  summoned 
to  parliament,  ttom  the  80th  November,  1348,  to  the 
4Ch  October  in  that  year ;  and  leaving  no  issue,  was 
«.  by  his  brother, 

WILUAM  DE  FURNIVAL,  fourth  baron, 
summoned  to  parliament,  firom  80th  January,  1366, 
to  7th  January,  1383.  This  nobleman  permitted  the 
pale  of  his  park  at  Worksop  to  be  so  defective,  that 
divers  of  the  king's  deer,  out  of  the  forest  of  Sher- 
wood, came  freely  into  it,  and  were  destroyed.  In 
consequence  of  which,  William  de  Latimer,  warden 
of  the  forests  beyond  Trent,  seised  the  s^d  park  for 
the  king;  but  it  was  soon  afterwards  released,  and 
Lord  Fumival  pardoned,  upon  the  payment  of  a 
fine  of  £90.  His  lordship  m.  Thomasin,  daughter 
and  hdress  of  — —  Dagworth,  (in  whose  right  he 
acquired  the  manor  of  Dagworth,  in  Suffolk,)  by 
wlKMn  he  had  an  only  daughter, 

Joane,  who  m.  Thomas  NeviU,   brother  of 
lUH>h,  first  Earl  of  Westmoreland. 
With  this  nobleman,  in  the  year  1383,  expired  the 
male  line  of  the  Furnivals,  and  the  barony  was  con- 
veyed by  his  heirctt,  Joane  Nevill,  to  her  husband, 

THOMAS  NEVILL,  who  was  summoned  to  par- 
liament on  the  90th  August,  1383,  (7th  Richard  II.) 
as  *<  Thonue  NevyU  de  Halumshire,"and  thencefor- 
ward styled,  **  Lord  FumivaL'*  In  which  year, 
maUng  proof  of  his  wifeTs  age,  he  had  livery  of  her 
great  inheritance.  By  this  lady  he  had  two  daugh- 
ters, vis. 

Maud,  m.  to  Sir  John  Talbot,  Knt. 
Joane,  who  d.  unmarried. 
His  lordship  m,  seoondly,  Ankaret,  widow  of  Sir 
^— ^  916 


Ridiard  Talbot,  and  sister'  of  John,  son  to  John, 
Lord  Strange,  of  Blackmere,  but  had  no  issue. 
This  nobleman,  who  was  a  personage  of  distinction, 
in  the  relgm  of  Richard  II.  and  Henry  IV.,  died  in 
1406,  leaving  his  two  daughters,  his  co-hdresies. 
The  elder  of  whom,  Maud,  as  stated  above,  married 
thecdebrated 

GENERAL  SIR  JOHN  TALBOT,  who  was 
summoned  to  parliament  as  •*  Lord  Fumival,"  from 
96th  October,  1408,  to  a6th  Febraary,  1481 ;  and  sub- 
sequently, for  his  many  heroic  achievements,  created 
Eakl  op  SBKawsBUKT,  in  the  peerage  of  England, 
and  Eari.  ow  Watbrporo  and  Wbzporo,  in  that 
of  Ireland.  In  whidi  higher  honours  the  Baroky 
OP  FvRNiTAL  merged  for  two  centuries,  until  the 
demise  of  Gilbert,  seventh  Earl  of  Shrewsbury,  in 
1616,  without  male  issue,  when  the  earldom  passed 
to  that  nobleman's  brother ;  but  the  baronies  of 
Talbot,  Furftital,  Stranob,  op  Blackmbrx, 
Ac.  fell  into  abeyance  between  his  three  daughters, 
vis. 

Mary,  m.  to  William,  Earl  of  Pembroke; 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  Henry,  Earl  of  Kent. 

Alethea,  m.  to  Thomas,    (Howard,)   Earl  of 

Arundel ;  by  which  maniage  the  manor  of 

Workmp  came  into  the  Howard  fkmily; 

and  by  virtue   of  possessing  which,    the 

Dukes  of  Norf<^  daim   to  support   the 

king's  left  arm  on  the  day  of  coronation,  so 

long  as  his  majesty  holds  the  royal  sceptre ; 

George,  fourth  Earl  of  Shrewsbury,  having 

exchanged  with  the  crown,   his  manor  of 

Famham  Royal,  (holden  by  that  tenure,)  for 

the  inheritance  ot  the  site  of  the  priory  of 

Worksop,  with  divers  other  lands. 

The  baronies  finally,  however,  devolved  upon  jU0- 

Mes,  CouFTTBas  op  Arundbx.,  and  thenceforward 

became  merged  in  the  Earldom  of  Arundd  and  the 

Dukedonntf  Norfolk,  until  the  decease  of  Edward 

Howard,  ninth  Duke,  80th  September,  I777f  without 

issue,  when  the  higher  honours  passed  to  the  male 

heir ;  and  the  baronies  in  fee,  amongst  which  was 

that  of  FuRNivAX.,  fell  into  abbvancb  between 

the  daughters  of  his  graoeTs  deceased  brother,  Philip 

Howard,  of  Buckinham,  in  the  county  of  Norfolk, 

via.,  the  said 

PHI1.IP  Howard,  m.  first,  Winefirede,  daugh- 
ter of  Thomas  Stoner,  Esq.,  and  had  issue, 
Thomas,  who  d.  in  1763, «.  p. 
Winefiede,  m.   to   William,    fifteenth 
Lord  Stourton,  and  had  issue, 

Charlbb  Philip,  sixteenth  Lord 

Stourton,  father  of  the  present 

Lord  Stourton. 

Mr.  Howard  m.  secondly,  Harriet,  daughter 

and  co-heir  of   Edward  Blount,  Esq.,  by 

whom  he  had, 

Edward,  who  d,  unmarried  in  1767. 
Anne,  m.  to  Roliert  Edward,  ninth  Lord 
Petre,  by  whom  she  had, 

RoBBRT  Edward,  tenth  Lord  Pe- 
tre, father  of  the  present  Lord 
Pbtrb. 
The  baronies  thus  continue  still  in*ABBYAircB 
between  the  Lords  Stourton  and  Pbtrb. 
Arms.— Ar.  a  bend  between  six  masdes,  Gu. 


OAN 


OAN 


OA6E  — BARON  OAOE  OF  FIRLE, 
IN  THE  COUNFY  OF  SO* 
MERSET. 

By  Leitm  Patent,  daltd  S7th  October,  178a 

WILLIAM  HALL  GAGS,  Moond  Vlacount 
Gage,  In  the  peerage  of  Ireland,  (eee  the  extant 
Viaoountf  Gage^  BttrM*  Pxrqyr  and  Buronatmgv,) 
waa  created  a  peer  of  Great  Britain  on  S7th  October, 
1780,  aa  BAaow  Gaob,  of  FIxle,  In  the  county  of 
SomerML  Hla  lordship  m.  In  17«7*  EUaabeth,  liater 
of  Sampeon,  Lord  Eardley,  by  whom  he  had  an 
only  waa,  who  died  in  infancy.  His  lordship  ob- 
tained, lubaequently ,  another  British  peen^  as  Lord 
Gage,  of  High  Meadow,  in  the  county  of  Glouces- 
ter, with  remainder  to  his  nephew  and  presumptive 
heir,  Major-Gcneral  Henry  Ctege,  who  inherited 
that  dignity  and  the  Irish  viscounty  at  his  deccese, 
11th  October,  1791,  when  the  Bakohy  op  Gaos^ 
t^fFMe,  became  sxtihct. 

Abjss.— Per  saltier,  aa.  and  ar.  a  saltier  gules. 

PANT— EARLS  OF  LINCOLN. 

Inherited  by  marriage  ftom  the  Ikmily  of  Romabs, 
(see  Romare,  Earl  of  Lincoln). 

Xincagc. 

GILBERT  DE  GANT,  son  of  Baldwin,  Earl  of 
Flanders,  by  Maud,  sister  of  William  the  Conqueror, 
accompanied  his  unde  into  England,  and  partici- 
pating in  the  triumph  of  HASTiiraa,  obtained  a 
grant  of  the  lands  of  a  Danish  proprietor,  named 
Tour,  with  numerous  other  lordships ;  for  we  And 
him  at  the  general  survey,  possessed  of  manors  in 
Berks,  Oxford,  Yorkshire,  Cambiidgcshire,  Buck- 
inghamshire, Huntingdonshire,  Northamptonshire, 
RutlAid,  Leicestershire,  Warwickshire,  Notting- 
hamshire, and  Lincolnshire,  in  all  a  hundred  and 
seventy-three  lordships  t  of  which  Folliin^ham  was 
one,  and  his  scat,  as  the  head  of  his  barony.  This 
Gilbert  hi^ipcned  to  be  at  York,  anno  1069,  and  had 
a  narrow  escape,  when  the  Danes,  4n  great  force  on 
bdialf  of  Edgar  Etheling,  entered  the  mouth  ot  the 
Humber,  and  marching  upon  that  city,  committed 
lamentable  destruction  by  fire  and  sword,  there 
bong  more  than  three  thousand  Normans  slain. 
Like  most  ct  the  great  lords  of  his  time  Gilbert  de 
Gant  disgorged  a  part  of  the  spoil  which  he  had 
seised  to  the  churdi,  and  amongst  other  acts  of 
piety  restored  Bardney  Abbey,  in  the  county  of  Lln- 
ooln,  which  had  been  utterly  destroyed  many  years 
before  by  the  Pagan  Danes,  Inquar  and  Hubba.  He 
m.  Ali5e,  daughter  of  Hugh  de  Montfcnrd,  and  had 
Issue, 

Waltbb,  his  successor. 

Robert,  lord  chancellor  of  England,  anno  UBS, 

Emma,  m.  to  Alan,  Lord  Percy. 
This  great  feudal  chief  died  in  the  reign  of  WlUiam 
RuAis,  and  was  «.  by  his  elder  son, 

WALTER  DE  GANT,  a  person  of  great  valour 
and  piety ;  who,  at  an  advanced  age,  commanded  a 
brave  regiment  of  Flemings  and  Normans,  in  the 
e^brated  conflict  with  the  Scots,  at  Northallerton, 
in  Yorkshire,  known  in  history  as  the  Bvitl4  tf  the 


I  Standard,  "  where,'*  says  Dugdale,  "byhisdoquent 
'  speech  and  prudent  conduct  the  whole  army  received 
sudi  encouragement,  as  that  the  Scots  were  utterly 
vanquished."  He  m.  Maud,  daughter  of  Stephen, 
Earl  ot  Britanny,  and  had  issue,  Gilbert,  Robert, 
and  Oeftey.  He  d.  in  the  4th  King  Stephen,  and 
was  a.  by  his  eldest  son, 

GILBERT  DE  GANT,  who.  In  his  youth,  being 
taken-prlsoner  with  King  Stephen  at  the  battle  of 
Lincoln,  (1148,)  was  oompdled  by  Ranulph,  Earl  of 
Chester,  to  marry  his  niece,  the   Lady  Hawyse 
Romare,  daughter  of  William,  Earl  of  Lincoln, 
whereby  he  became  eventually  in  her  right*  Earx. 
OP  LiNcoLir.    This  nobleman  founded,  in  1148,  the 
Abbey  of  Rutford,  in  Nottinghamshire,  and  other- 
wise contributed  munificently  to  the  church.    He 
d.  in  1156,  leaving  two  daughters,  his  co-heirs,  vis. 
Alice,  m.  to  Simon  de  St  Lis,  (the  last  of  that 
name,)  Earl  of  Huntingdon  and  Northamp- 
ton. 
Gunnora. 
At  the  decease  of  these  ladies,  without  issue,  the 
great  inheritance  reverted  to  their  unde^ 

ROBERT  DE  GANT,  who  does  not,  however, 
appear  to  have  succeeded  to  the  Earldom  nf  Lin- 
coln.   This  Robert  m.  first,  Alice,  daughter  and 
heir  of  William  Psganel,  and  of  Avice  de  Romelli, 
(daughter  and  co-heir  of  William  Mesdiines,  Lord 
of  Copdand,)  by  whom  lie  had  an  only  daughter. 
Alios,  m.  to  Robert  Pitihardinge,   ot  the 
fiunily  ot  Fitshardinge.   ftom  which  the 
Eark  of  Berkeley  derive.    This  Robert  as- 
sumed the  name  of  Gant,  and  had  issue, 
Maurice  de  Gant,  who  died  e.  p.,  anno 

1x30. 
Eve,  m.  to  Thomas  de  Harpetre,  and  had 
ifwue, 

Robert  de  Harpetre,  sumamed  Gour- 
nay. 
This  Eve  was  heir  to  her  brother  Mau- 
rice. 
Robert  de  Gant  m.  secondly.  Ounnon,  niece  of 
Hugh  de  Ooumay,  and  had  issue, 
GiLBBRT,  sumamed  the  Good. 
Stephen,  who  adhered  to  the  rebellions  barons 
about  the  latter  end  of  Ring  John's  reign,' 
and  d.  In  1168. 
Hed.  about  the  4th  Rldiard  I.,  and  was  #.  by  his 
elder  son, 

GILBERT  DE  GANT,  then  under  age,  and  in 
ward  to  William  de  StutevilL  In  the  last  year  of 
Khsg  John's  reign,  this  Gilbert  adhering  to  the 
barons,  was  constituted  Eabl  or  Lincolft,  by 
Lewis,  of  France,  at  that  time  in  London,  and  at 
the  head  of  the  baronial  party,  and  was  despatched 
into  Nottinghamshire  to  oppose  thfe  royalists. 
Shortly  alter  which,  asusted  by  Robert  de  Ropesle, 


•  In  the  succession  ot  this  earldom  there  is  some- 
thing very  singular.  William  Romare,  Earl  of  Lin- 
coln, left  at  his  decease  a  grandson,  William  Romare/ 
■on  of  his  only  son,  who  had  predeceased  him,  and 
tMs  grandson  ought  surely  to  have  been  earl  befbre 
the  husband  of  his  aunt,  but  he  never  appears  to 
have  borne  the  title  (see  Romare,  Earl  of  Lincoln). 
SF  nf 


GAV 


GEN 


he  fl«dttMd  the  dty  of  Lincoln,  but  ftt  the  rataie- 
qttCDt  tattle,  the  taronUl  force  bdng  totally  brokcD* 
he  WW  taken  prboner,  and  never  after  aMumed  the 
title  of  Earl  of  Lioooln ;  which  dignity  was  then 
oonferred  upon  Randall  de  Meschtam,  lumaxned 
BhindktTiUe.  Earl  of  Chatter.  This  es-earl  d.  m 
1242,  leaving  iisue, 

GiLBBRT,  who  inherited  a  oomideraMe  pro- 
perty, for  in  the  29th  Hoary  III.  he  paid  £m 
for  as  many  knights'  fees,  upon  collection  of 
the  aid  for  raarrying  the  king's  daughter. 
In  the  42nd  of  the  same  reign  he  was  made 
governor  of  Scarborough  Castle,  but  after- 
wards adhering  to  the  baruns,  he  was  taken 
priaona*  at  Kenilworth,  and  was  obliged  to 
pay  no  less  than  three  thousand  marks  fbr 
the  redemption  of  his  lands.  Whereupon 
Ae  king  received  him  again  into  favour; 
but  he  d.  toon  afterward^  anno  1274*  leaving 
issue, 
OiiiBaRT,  summoned  to  parliament  as  a 

baron  (see  Barons  Oant). 
Margaret,  m.  to  William  de  Kerdeston. 
Nichola,  m.  to  Peter  de  Ifauley.  . 
JuHan,  d,  unmarried. 
Julian,  m.  to  Oeflkey,  son  of  Henry  de  Armen- 
tiers. 
AAMa.— Barry  of  six,  or.  and  aa.  a  bend  gules. 

GANT— BARON  OANT. 

By  Writ  ot  Summons,  dated  29rd  Jipne,  1296, 
23  Edward  I. 

ICineagc. 

GILBERT  DE  GANT,  grandson  of  Gilbert,  last 
Earl  of  Lincoln  of  that  family,  (see  Gant,  Earls  of 
Lincoln,)  succeeded  tp  his  father's  possession  in 
1274,  and  having  served  in  the  Welch  wars  of  King 
Edward  L,  was  summoned  to  parliament  as  a  ba- 
HON  from  83rd  June,  1205,  to  20th  August,  1296, 
His  lordship  m.  Lora,  sister  of  Aleautnder  de  Baliol, 
but  having  no  issue,  he  constituted  King  Edward  I. 
his  heir  in  the  lands  of  his  barony ;  via.  FalUng- 
ham.  Barton,  Heckyngton,  and  Edenham,  retaining 
only  Swaledale,  and  his  portion  of  Skendrtley.  He 
d.  In  1297*  when  the  Babony  or  Gakt  became 
BXTurcT,  and  his  property  passed  to  Roger,  son  of 
WUliam  de  Kerdeston,  by  Margaret,  his  dder  sis- 
tar;  Peter,  son  of  Peter  de  Mauley,  by  Nioola,  his 
second  sister;  and  Julian  de  Gant,  his  third  sbter. 

Anna. — Barry  of  six,  or.  and  ai.  a  bend,  gules, 

GAVESTON^EARL  OF  CORNWALL. 

Creation  about  the  year  1906. 

PIERS  DE  OA  VESTON,  the  notorious  favourite 
of  King  Edward  IL,  was  elevated  to  the  peerage 
by  that  Vfonarch,  as  Baron  WaUingfotd  and  Eabl 
or  CoBNvrAx.1.. 

Gaveston,  the  eon  of  a  private  gentleman  in  Gas- 
cony,  who  had  been  distinguished  in  the  wars,  was 
brought  to  court  by  King  Edward  I.,  as  a  companion 
for  his  son.  Prince  Edward,  ^ut  that  monarch  before 
8I9 


his  death  wis  so  sensible  of  the  danger  incurred  by 
the  prinos^  in  having  so  evil  an  adviser,  compelled 
Gaveston  to  abjure  the  realm,  and  forbad  his  son 
recalling  him,  under  the  penalty  of  his  cune.  Upon 
the  accesdon  of  the  young  monarch,  however,  he 
not  only  invited  Gaveston  back,  but  elevated  him 
to  the  peerage,  and  loaded  him  so  profusely  with 
fkvours,  that  the  rest  of  the  nobility  found  it  im- 
peratively necessary  to  interfere,  and  to  beseech  the 
king  to  remove  him.  Edward  for  the  moment  ac- 
qulescedr-but  only  for  the  moment— Oaveston  was 
recalled,  and  new  honours  awaited  him.  This  at 
length  so  exasperated  the  haughty  nobles,  that  they 
flew  to  arms,  under  Thomas  Plantagenet,  Earl  of 
Lancaster,  and  determined  to  compel  the  king  to 
comply  with  their  wishes.  Edward  being  apprised 
of  these  proceedings,  conducted  the  favourite  to 
Scarborough  Castle,  and  there  left  him  with 
sufficient  forces  for  its  defence,  whilst  he  him- 
self marched  into  Warwickshire.  The  lords  there- 
upon invested  Scarborough,  and  the  unhappy  Ga- 
veston soon  after  surrendered  upon  conditions  of 
personal  safety.  He  was,  however,  conveyed  by  the 
Earl  of  Warwick  to  Warwick  Castle,  and  beheaded 
by  his  orders  at  Bltoklow  Hill,  about  a  mile  Arom 
the  town  of  Warwidic,  without  any  form  of  trial 
whatsoever. 

Gaveston  m.  Margaret,  daughter  of  Gilbert  de 
Clare,  Earl  of  Gloucester,  by  Joane  of  Acres,  the 
king's  sister,  and  co-heir  ot  hex  brother,  Gilbert  de 
Clare,  Earl  of  Gloucester,  by  whom  (who  m,  after 
his  decease,  Hu^  de  Audley,)  he  had  an  only 
daughter,  Joanb,  who  died  young.  The  execution 
of  his  lordship  took  place  in  1314,  when  the  Eabi<- 
DOM  OP  CoBN WAX.!,  became  KxriircT. 

ABMa.*— Vert  six  eagles  displayed  or.  membered 
and  beaked  gules. 

GENEVILL— BARON  OENEVILL. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  6th  February,  1296, 
27  Edward  I. 

In  the  28th  Henry  IIL, 

PETER  DE  GENEVA  having  married  Maud, 
niece,  and  cue  of  the  co-heirs  of  Walter  de  Lad, 
obtained  with  her  the  cabtlb  op  Lcnirow,  and  its 
members.  To  this  Peter,  who  was  governor  of 
Windsor  Castle,  succeeded  his  son  and  heir, 

GEOFFREY  DE  GENEVILL,  who,  in  the  38th 
Henry  IIL,  had  livery  of  the  castle  of  Trim,  in 
Ireland,  as  the  right  by  inheritance  of  Maud  de  Lad, 
daughter  of  Gilbert  de  Lad ,  who  died  in  his  CBther** 
lifi»-time.  In  four  years  afterwards  this  Geoffrey 
received  a  military  summons  to  march  against  tht 
Welch,  and  in  the  44th.  of  the  same  king,  being  then 
one  of  the  barons  marchers,  he  had  command  to 
repair  to  the  castle  of  Wales,  and  to  reside  there. 
In  the  10th  of  Edward  I.  he  was  in  the  expediOon 
made  against  the  Welch,  and  in  fifteen  years  subse- 
quently he  was  in  the  wars  of  Gaacony.  For  all 
which  services  he  was  summoned  to  parliament,  as  a 
BARON,  on  the  6th  February.  1299,  and  from  that 
period  to  3rd  November,  1306.    He  «».  ,  and 

had  issue. 


G£B 


GSR 


GsorpftCY,  who  dted  «.  jk  mthelii^tuMOf 

hiifBther. 
Pbtsb.,  Us  cuoeMMr. 
Simoii»  m.  Joaa  Fils-Luci,   Lady  of  ToU- 

MalyiB,   and  had  Issue,  one  mmi  and  six 

da(iif|iten»  Tis., 

Nkboiasr  who  left  aa  only  daughter  and 


1. 


Joaoe*    wllh  ot  John  Cuaak,    ot 


^->  m.  to  Jcdm  Hose,  Lord  of  Sal- 
trim. 
8.  ,  m.  to  WilhaaB  de  Loundfes,  of 

Ashhoy. 

& ^,  m.  to  the  Baroa  of  Slaae. 

4. ,  m,  to  Walter  de  Hyde. 

&  ,  m.  to  John  Cmoe. 

&  ',  M.  to  Joiiii  Fita-ThonuM*   ne- 

phew of  Gerard  lita>Maarke. 
His  lordship  d.  ahout  the  year  ]307f  and  was  #.  by 
eldcct  sunriving  son, 
PETER  DE  GENEVILL,  MCOBd  baron,  but 
summoned  to  parliament,  who  m.  Joane, 
dauf^ter  of  Hugh  le  Brane,  Earl  of  Angoleon^  and 
had  three  daughters,  viz. 

JoANK,  who  m.  Roger  Mortimer,  Earl  ct 
Mardk,  and  oonTcyed  eventaidly  the  whole 
inheritance  of  the  Greneril^,  and  half  the 
lands  of  the  Lacks,  into  that  futtily. 

IsabeL     1 

jl^^j^       >  nuns  at  Aconbury. 

Upon  the  decease  of  this  Peter,  the  Basont  op 
GmxaviLL,  if  he  were  erer  esteemed  a  baran.  Ml 
into  ABCTAjrcB  between  those  ladies. 

AmMB.-* As.  three  hones'  bits,  or.  on  a  chief,  er- 
mine^ a  demy  lion  issuaat  gules. 

OEORBODUS— EARL  OF  CHESTER. 

Creation  of  the  Conqueror. 

The  Eahumm  or  CHnsTan,  after  the  Norman 
conquest,  was  first  conferred  upon 

GEORBODUS,  a  Fleming,  who,  having  en- 
countered  many  difficulties,  as  well  from  the  Eng- 
lish as  his  troublesome  ncighbottrs  the  Welch,  and 
being  at  length  sent  for  into  Flandns  by  lome  of 
his  friends,  to  whom  he  had  entrusted  his  aflUrs 
ther^  obtained  licence  from  King  William  to  attend 
the  summons,  but  he  had  no  Booner  reached  his 
native  soil,  than,  falling  into  the  power  of  his  ene> 
mies,  he  was  cast  into  prison,  where  he  remained  a 
considerable  time.  He  does  not  appear  to  have 
ever  returned  to  England,  and  the  earldom  of 
Chester  was  subiequcntly  bestowed  upon  Hugh  db 
Abrincsb,  (lee  Abrinces,  Earl  of  Chester). 

GERARD  —  BARONS  GERARD,  OF 
GERARD^S  BROMLEY, 
IN  THE  COUNTY  OF 
STAFFORD. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  2l8t  July,  10O9L 

Xinsagt. 

In  the  first  year  of  Queen  Mary, 
GILBERT  GERARD,  a  branch  of  the  ancient 


Gcrards,  of  Bryn,  la  Laacashlre/v  derived  ftom  the 
gicat  Oetaldine  stock,  in  Irelanii  having  attalae* 
eaainence  in  the  ptofsseicm  of  the  law,  was  diosen 
autumn-reader  by  the  benchers  of  Grey's  Ipn,  and. 
the  next  year  appointed,  with  NkhOlas  Bacon,  (after-  - 
wards  lord-keeper,)  Jolnt^lreasurer  of  the  society. 
In  some  time  after,  when  the  princem  ElisabeUi 
wasbmog^t  beftne  the  council,  MrrGenurd  advo- 
cated her  cause  so  aUy,  that  he  was  committed  to 
the  Tower,  where  he  remained  during  the  rest  of 
Queen  Mary's  reign.  Upon  the  aecesiloo  of  Elisa- 
beth, he  was  rdseeed,  and  constituted  attovney- 
gcneraL ,  He  afterwards  received  the  honour  of 
knii^thood,  and  was  appointed  maelcr  of  the  rolls, 
when  he  had  held  the  attamey^enccalshlp  no  leis 
than  three  and-twenty  years.  This  Sir  Gilbert 
erected  a  stately  mansion  iu  the  county  of  Staf- 
ford, when  he  resided,  cidled  Genrd's  Bromley. 
Hem.  Anne»  dangfater  of  William  RatcUflb,  Esq.,  *  ^ 
of  Wimersky,  in  the  ooiwty  of  Lancaster,  and  had 
issue, 

Tbomao,  his  successor. 
RatdUfe,    ftom  whom  the  Gerards,  Barons 
Gerard,  ot  Brandon,  and  Earls  of  Maccles- 
field, derived.    (See  Gerard,  Berona  Gerard, 
of  Brandon.) 
Franoes,  m.  to  Sir  Ridmrd  Molineux,  Baetr 

ancestor  of  the  extant  Earis  of  Sefton. 
Margaret,  m.  to  Peter  Leigh,  Esq. 
Catherine,  m.  to  Sir  Richard  Hoghton,  Bartr 
of  Hoghton  Tower,  in  the  county  of  Lan- 
caster, ancestor  of  the  present  Sir  Henry- 
Philip  Hoghton,  Bart. 

Ratdifte,  m.  to Wbagfield,  Esq. 

Sir  Gilbert  Genurd  A.  in  liW,  and  wass.  by  his  elder 


SIR  THOMAS  GERARDr  who  was  advanced 
to  the  peerage  on  the  21st  July,  1606,  as  Babow  On- 
KAno,  of  Gsror^s  Arsm/sy,  in  the  county  of  Staf' 
ftird;  and  in  the  14th  of  King  James  L,  was  oonatl- 
tuted  lord  president  of  Wales.  His  lordship  m.  firat, 
Alice,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Sir  Thomas  Rivet> 
Knt.,  and  had  three  sons, 

GiLBSRT, 

William, 
John. 
He  espoused  leoondly,  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  — >* 
Woodford,  Esq. ;  but  had  no  issue.     He  tf.  In  1618, 
and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

GILBERT  GERARD,  second  Baron  Gerard,  of 

Gerard's  Bromley,  who  m.  Eleanor,  daughter  and 

heiress  of  Thomss  Dutton,  Esq.,  of  Dutton,  in  the 

county  of  Chester,  by  whom  he  had  surviving  issue, 

DuTTOK,  his  successor. 

Alice,  m.  to  Roger  Owen,  Esq.,  son  and  heir  of 
Sir  William  Owen,  of  Cundover,   in  the 
county  of  Salop,  Knt. 
Frances,  m.  to  the  Hon.  Robert  Nee^Hiam,  son 

and  heir  of  Robert,  Viscount  Kllmorey. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Sir  Peter  Leicester,  Bart.,  of 
Nether  Tabley,  the  celebrated  antiquary ' 
and  historian  of  Cheshire,  maternal  anees- 
tor  of  the  present  Lords  de  TaUey. 
His  lordship  cL  In  1682,  (his  widow  re-married  the 
above-mentioned  Robert,  Lord  Kifanorey.)    He  was 
«.  by  his  son. 


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DUTTON  OBRARD,  thlnl  Banm  Gersrd.  This 
■oblan«D  m.  fint.  Lady  Mary  Pane,  daughter  of 
Francis,  Earl  of  Waatmorland,  by  whom  he  had 
iMue,    . 

Cbarlbs,  hif  tuocenor. 
Mary,  m,  to  Sir  Anthony  Cope*  Bart.,   of 
Hanwell,  in  the  county  of  Oxford. 
Hif  lordship  eapouaed  aeoondly.   Lady  RHiaheth 
O'Bryen,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  H«ry.  Earl  of 
Tbomond,  in  Ireland,  and  had  an  only  daughter, 
Eliaabeth,  m.  to  William  Spenoer,  of  Athton, 
in  the  county  of  Lancaster,  third  ion  of 
William,  Lord  Spenosr,  and  had  a  daughter, 
Elisabeth  Spencer,  who  m.  Robert  Hes- 
keth,  Esq.,  of  Ruflbrd,  in  theoounty  of 
Lancaster,  and  left  a  daughter   and 
heirees, 

Ei<rzABBTH  Hbskbtk,  who  m.  Sir 
Edward  Stanley,  Bart.,  afterwards 
eleventh  Earl  of  Derby,  and  had, 
with  other  issue, 
Jaxtbs,  Lord  Stanley,  father  of 
Edward,  present  Earl  or 
Dbrby. 
Lord  Genrd  ri;  in  UMO,  and  was  #.  by  his  son, 

CHARLES  GERARD,  fourth  Baron  Gerard, 
who  m,  Jane,  only  surviving  daughter  and  heiress 
of  George  Digby,  Esq.,  of  Sendon,  in  the  county  of 
Stafford;  and  dying  in  1607,  was  «.  by  his  only 
«hild» 

DIGBV  GERARD,  fifth  Baron  Gerard.  This 
noUeman  espoused  his  ^tant  relation,  EHsabeth, 
daughter  of  Charles  Gerard,  first  Earl  of  Maccles- 
fldd,  and  had  an  only  daughter  and  hdress, 

Elixabbth,  who  m.  James,  Duke  of  Hamil- 
ton, in  Scotland,  and  first  Duke  of  Brandon, 
in  Eiq^land. 
Lord  Gerard  died  in  1711*  when  the  babony  of 
Gkrabd,  of  GsrarcT*  Brofa/«jf,  became  bxtinct, 
in  default  of  a  male  heir,  while  his  lordship's  estates 
devolved  upon  his  daughter,  the  Duchen  of  Hamil- 
ton and  Brandon. 

Arms.— Quarterly,  first  and  fourth  ar.,  a  saltier 
gules.  Second  and  third  ai.,  a  lion  rampant  crowned 
or. 

GERARD  —  BARONS  GERARD,  OF 
BRANDON,  IN  THE 
COUNTY  OF  SUFFOLK, 
EARI^  OF  MACCLES. 
FIELD. 


Barony, 


Letters  1  3rd  November,  1645. 


Earldom,  J    Patent.    jS3rd  July,  1679. 

■  RATCtlFFE  GERARD,  Esq..  of  Hatsall,  in 
the  county  of  Lancaster,  second  son  of  Sir  Gilbert 
Gerard,  Bttomey-general  and  master  of  the  rolls,  in 
the  reign  of  Elisabeth,  m.  Elisabeth,  dmughter  and 
heiress  of  Sir  Charles  Somerset,  K.B.,  and  grand- 
daughter of  Edward,  Earl  of  Worcester,  and  was  «. 
by  his  ion, 

.   SIR  CHARLES  GERARD,  Knt,   who  w,  Pe- 
nelope, sister  and  co-heir  of  Sir  Edward  Fitton,  of 
£i9 


GoswoTth,  in  the  county  of  Chester,  Knt.,  and  was 
«.  by  his  son, 

CHARLES  GERARD,  who,  being  brought  up 
Atom  his  youth  to  the  profesdnn  of  asms,  upon  the 
usual  theatre  of  European  wartee,  the  Nbthbb- 
I.AN08,  Joined  his  mi^esty,  King  Charles  L,  at 
Shrewsbury,  soon  after  he  had  reared  the  royal 
standard,  and  became  eminently  ^tinguished 
amongst  the  cavaliers.  First,  at  Kixbton ,  where 
he  received  some  dangerous  wounds.  And  soon 
afterwards  at  the  taking  of  Lichfidd,  the  first  battle 
of  Newberry,  and  the  relief  of  Newark.  General 
Gerard  then  accompanied  Prince  Rupert  into  South 
Wales,  and  acquired  high  reputation  by  his  victo- 
ries at  Cardi£te,  Kidwelly  and  Caermarthen— «nd  his 
success  in  taking  the  castle  of  Cardigan,  and  other 
fortresses,  and  reducwg  the  strong  garrison  of 
Haverford-West,  with  the  castles  of  Picton  and 
Carew.  In  consideration  of  which  gaUant  services 
he  was  made,  by  the  king,  lieutenant-general  of  his 
horn,  and  derated  to  the  peerage,  as  Baron 
Gbraro,*  t(f  Brandon,  on  the  8th  November,  164ft. 
His  l<M-dship,  after  the  restoration,  was  created, 
SSrd  July,  1679,  Vioeount  Brandon,  and  Earl  op 
Macclbsfibld — but  in  the  time  of  James  II.  he 
was  committed,  with  the  Earl  of  Stamford  and  the 
Lord  Ddamere,  to  the  Tower,  and  condemned  to 
death,  but  pardoned.  He  lived  to  see  the  revolu- 
tion, and,  *<  in  fact,  to  witness,"  says  Banks,  "  three 
singular  occurrences  in  the  annals  of  British  his- 
tory ;"  (he  might  have  characterised  them  as  the 
three  moot  singular,)  "first,  the  deposition  and 
decapitation  of  King  Charles  I. ;  secondly,  the  re- 
storation of  his  soni  and  thirdly,  the  RxyoLurioir 
and  total  expulsion  of  the  royal  fiunily  so  recently 
restored."  His  lordship  married  a  Frendi  lady,  and 
had  issue, 

Charlbs,  1  successively  earls. 

Fitton,       j 

Charlotte,  m.  first, Mainwaring,  Esq.,  of 

Cheshire,  and  had  a  daughter, 

Charlottb,  who  m.  Charles,  Lord  Mo- 
hun.  To  this  noUeman,  Charles,  second 
Earl  of  Macdesfleld,  left  the  chief  of 
his  estates,  which  causing  a  law-suit 
between  him  and  James,  Duke  of 
Hamilton,  an  unhappy  persona]  quarrri 

•  Besides  his  lordship,  there  were  of  his  family  the 
following  persons  actively  engaged  upon  the  royal 
side,  in  those  unhappy  conflicts- 
Edward  Gerard,  a  colonel  of  foot, 
wounded  in  the  first  battle  of 
His  brothers,'^     Newberry. 

Gilbert  Gerard,  slain  near  Lud« 
low. 
Sir  Gilbert  Gerard,  governor  of 
I     Worcester. 
His  uncles,    J  Ratdilfo  Gerard,  Ueut.-€oL  to  his 
I     brother.     This  gentleman  had 
^    three  sons, 

Raddiflb.  ^   « 

John,  put  to  death  I  ^  %  g 
by  CromweU.      S.  g  £  fi 
Gilbert,  created  a  |  a  1  J 
baronet.  -^  < 


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JsirGU 


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mmt,  which  tcfmlaated  In  •  dud, 
wherein  both  lost  thdr  livei,  Uth  No- 
Tcmber,  17U. 
Lady  Charlotte  Malnwariag  efpouaed,  •»• 
coDdly.  Sir  Thonuw  Orby,  of  Lincofaiahira. 
Annm,  m.  to  Captain  Ebrington. 
Eliabeth,  m.  to  Digby,    Lord  Gerard,   of 
Bromley. 
The  earl*  d,  tn  1698f  and  waa  «.  by  hit  elder  son, 

CHARLES  GERARD,  lecood  Earl  of  Macdes- 
lleld,  a  colonel  in  the  army.  Thia  nobleman  was 
ambonador  to  Hanover,  upon  the  eubject  of  the 
■uooeesion  to  the  throne  of  England.    Hia  lordahip 

m,  first ,  daughter  of  Sir  Richaid  Mason, 

KnL,  of  Shropshire,  ftom  whom  he  separated  t  and 
aeoondly.  Miss  Harbourd,  but  had  no  issue.  His 
lordship  d.  in  1667>  leaving  the  greater  part  ot  his 
estates  to  Charles,  Lord  Mohun,  (who  had  married 
his  niece.  Miss  Mainwaring,)  owing  to  some  dispute 
with  his  brother  and  successor, 

FITTON  GERARD,  third  Earl  of  MacdesAeld, 
irho  d.  unmarried  in  1702,  when  the  Baaony  or 
GnnABD,  of  Brandon,  with  the  Viteountif  ef  Bran' 
iony  and  Earldom  of   Macci.bbpisi.d,  became 

BZTIXCT. 

Anjia^— A£.  sa.  saltier  gules,  a  crescent  for  dif- 


GHISNES— BARON  GHISNES. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  23rd  June,  1290, 
83  Edward  I. 

ICintage. 

INGELRAM  DE  GHISNES,  otherwise  Dm 
CuRsi,  a  noble  baron  of  France,  related  to  the 
Counte  De  Ghisnes,  of  that  kingdom,  who  were 
feudal  lords  in  England,  temp.  John  and  Henry  III., 
had  a  daughter,  Mary,  married  to  Alexander  II., 
king  oi  Scotland,  and  was  «.  by  another 

INGELRAM  DE  GHISNES,  who,  having  mar- 
ried Christian,  daughter  and  heir  of  William  de 
Lindcsey,  descended  from  Alice,  one  of  the  sisters 
and  oo-heirs  of  William  de  Lancaster,  and  doing 
hiaftalty  in  the  11th  Edward  L,  had  livery  of  the 
lands  of  her  inheritance,  amongst  which  was  the 
joaanoc  of  Wyrssdale,  tu  Lancashire.  This  feudal 
lord  having  distinguished  himself  in  the  wars  of 
Scotland,  was  summoned  to  parliament,  as  a  barok, 
from  23rd  June,  1205,  to  14th  March,  1822.  His 
loedship  d.  in  the  17th  of  Edward  IL,  seised  of  the 
unanor  of  Middleton,  near  Ridnnond,  and  was  «.  by 
his  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  GHISNES,  alias  DE  CURSI, 
second  baron,  but  never  summoned  to  parliament. 
This  nobleman  died  ««  p.,  seised  of  the  moiety  of 
the  manor  of  Kirby,  In  Kendale,  and  was  s.  by  his 
brother  and  heir, 

INGELRAM  DE  GHISNES,  or  DE  COURC Y, 
wIm»  m.  Katharine,  daughter  and  heir  of  the  Arch- 
duke of  Austria,  and  was  *  by  his  son, 
•  INGELRAM  DE  GHISNES,  or  DE  COURC Y, 
who  espoused  the  Lady  Isabella  Plmtagenet,  one 
of  the  daughters  of  King  Edward  III.,  and  was 

*  His  lordship  was  Arvt  created  Earl  of  Newberry, 
but  the  title  was  changed  to  MAccLBaviaLO. 


created  Eari  of  ABOffono,  <see  De  Courcy,  Earl  of 
Bedford).  The  Baeoby  oy  GBiaHsa  la  now  vested 
in  the  descendant  and  repreecntetive  of  Iboblbam, 
who  was  summcmed  to  parliament  in  the  reign  of 
Edward  L 
ABJca^^Barry  of  six  vairte  and  gu. 

OIFFORD  —  EARLS  OF  BUCKING- 

HAM. 

Creation  of  William  the  Conqueror,  anno  1008. 

X(nta$c. 

The>lr«^  babl  of  this  county,  after  the  conquest, 
was 

WALTER  GIFFARD,  son  of  Osborne  de  Bolebec, 
and  Aveline,  his  wife,  sister  of  Gunnora,  Duchess 
of  Normandy,  great-grandmother  of  the  Conqueror, 
who  was  so  dignified  for  his  gallant  services  at  the 
battle  of  Hastings.  At  the  time  of  the  general  sur- 
vey, this  noUeman  was  sent  with  Remigius,  Bishop 
of  Lincoln,  and  others,  into  Worcestershire,  and  - 
some  other  counties,  tovslue  the  lands  belonging 
to  the  crown,  as  well  as  to  private  individuals  in 
those  parts.  He  himself  possessed  at  that  time 
two  lordships  in  Berkshire;  one  in  Wilts;  one  in 
Somersetshire;  one  in  Huntingdon;  five  in  Cam- 
bridgeshire t  nine  in  Oxfordshire ;  nine  in  the 
county  of  Bedford ;  three  in  Suflblk ;  twenty-ei^t 
in  Norfolk;  and  forty-eight  in  Buckinghamshire; 

in  all    ONB    RUIfDBBD    AND    BBVBK.      In    1009,    his 

lordship  adhering  to  William  Rufus,  fortified  hia 
mansions  in  Normandy,  for  that  king,  and  became 
diief  general  of  his  army  there:  yet  in  some  years 
afterwards,    (1102,)    he  sided  with    Robert    Cur- 
thoae,  against  King  Henry  I.    The  earl  m.  Agnes, 
daughter  of  Gerard  Flaitell,  and  sister  of  William^ 
Bishop  of  Eureux,  and  had,  with  other  issue, 
Waltbr,  his  successor. 
Rohais,  m.  to  Richard  Fits-Gilbert,  fnidal  lord 
of  Clare,  in  the  county  of  Suffolk,  (see  Clare, } 
and  had,  besides  other  children, 

GiLBBBT,  who  m.  Adeliaa,  daughter  of 
the  Earl  of  Clercmcmt,  and  was  father 
of 

Richard  de  Clare,  Earl  of  Hertford. 
GiLBBRT  Dx  Clarb,   Created  Earl 
o/PembfoA«,  whose  son, 

Richard,  sumamed  Strong- 
BOW,  became  so  distinguished 
in  the  conquest  of  Ireland. 
Isabel,  m.  to  Richard  Granville,  or  Grenville, 
progenitor  of  the  noble  bouse  of  Grenville, 
now  Dukes  of  Buckingham. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1102,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

WALTER  GIFFARD,  second  Earl  of  Buckings 
ham.  This  nobleman  adhered  fldthftiUy  to  King 
Henry  L,  and  distinguished  himsdf  in  that  mon<> 
arch's  cause  at  the  battle  of  Brbhbtillb,  in  1119, 
against  the  French,  commanded  by  theu*  king  in 
person,  where  Henry  obtained  a  victory.  His  lord- 
ship, during  this  reign,  founded  the  Abbey  of 
Nutley,  in  the  county  of  Bucks.  He  died  in  1164, 
without  issue,  when  the  lands  of  his  Barony  came, 
according  to  Dugdale,  to  be  shared  amongst  his 

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GIF 


Kiativte;  **taK  it  laons,"  (uyt  that  writer,)  **in 
the  1st  of  Ridiard  L,  that  Riduud  de  Clave,  Earl 
of  Hertford,  (in  rapeet  of  hia  dawmt  tnm  Rohaiae, 
•ister  of  the  Earl,  and  wife  of  Riidianl  Pitt-OUbert, 
hit  lineal  ancestor,)  and  William  Maretchall,  Earl 
of  Pembroke,  (in  right  of  Isabel  de  Clare,  hit 
wife,)  obtained  a  oonflrmation  from  that  king,  of 
all  the  lands  of  this  Walter,  Earl  of  Buckingham, 
both  in  England  and  Normandy;  of  which  lands, 
Richard,  Earl  of  Hertfort,  was  to  baTe  the  chief 
seat  in  England,  and  William,  Earl  of  Pembroke, 
the  chief  scat  in  Normandy;  the  residue  in  both 
countries  to  be  equally  divided  between  them." 
Thus  tenninatcd  the  house  of  Giffardt  Earlb  op 
BucKiHOHAN.  The  ti^  i»  said  by  Camden  to 
have  been  subsequently  borne  by  Richard  de  Clare, 
samamed  Strongbow,  Earl  of  Pembroke. 
AB.iia.— Gu.  three  lions  passant  ar. 

GIFFARD  —  BARONS  GIFFARD,  OF 
BRIMSFI£LD,  IN  THE 
COUNTY  OF  GLOU- 
CESTER. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  Mth  June,  1295, 
83  Edward  I. 

ICincogc. 

In  the  Conqueror's  time, 

OSBERT  GIFFARD,  held  one  lordship  in  Berk- 
shire; one  in  Oxfordshire;  three  in  Cornwall,  one 
in  Dorsetshire,  and  four  in  Gloucestershire,  wheieof 
Brimslldd  was  one,  and  his  chief  seat.  To  this 
feudal  lord,  who  died  befof e  the  year  108Q,  suc- 
ceeded his  son, 

HELIAS  GIFFARD,  who,  incop|unction  with  Ala, 
hts  wife,  granted  in  1066,  part  of  his  woods,  with 
three  borderers,  to  the  Abbey  of  St.  Peter,  at  Glou- 
cester.   He  was  «.  at  his  decease,  by  another 

HELIAS  GIFFARD,  who,  like  his  father,  was 
a  liberal  benefactor  to  the  churdi,  having  made 
grants  to  divers  religious  houses,  amongst  which 
was  the  above  mentioned  Abbey  of  St.  Peter,  upon 
which  he  conferred  his  lordship  of  Crunham.  He 
was  «.  by  a  third 

HELIAS  GIFFARD.  ThU  fradal  lord,  upon 
the  assessment  for  the  marriage  portion  of  King 
Henry  II.'s  daughter,  Maud,  certified  that  he  poe- 
sessed  nine  knights'  fees,  and  the  same  year,  (12th 
Henry  II.,)  gave  one  hundred  marks'  fine,  for  livery 
of  his  inheritance.    He  d.  in  1190,  and  was  «.  by 

THOMAS  GIFFARD.  who  in  the  6th  of  Rich- 
ard I.,  paid  £9l  upon  levying  the  scutage  for  the 
king's  redemption.    He  was  «.  by  his  son, 

HELIAS  GIFFARD,  who  took  up  arms  with  the 
other  barons  against  King  John,  and  in  the  18th  of 
that  monarch's  reign,  all  his  lands  in  the  counties 
of  Wilts,  Northampton,  Gloucester,  Somerset, 
Dorset,  Oxford,  and  Berks,  were  given  by  order  of 
the  king,  to  Bartholomew  Peche,  but  restored  by 
Henry  III.,  at  the  general  pacification.  By  the 
inquisition  taken  after  the  death  of  this  feudal 
baron,  33rd  Henry  III.,  he  appears  to  have  been 
possessed  of  the  manor  of  WinCerbome,  in  the 
county  of  Wilu,  and  that  that  knrdihip  was  then 


the  head  of  hk  baMoy.    He  d.  in  IMS,  and  was  «. 
by  his  son, 

JOHN  GIFFARD,  then  in  his  seventeenth  year, 
during  whoee  minority  the  queen  had  a  grant  of 
his  lands,  towards  the  maintenance  of  Prince  Ed- 
ward. In  the  41st  Henry  III.,  tUs  John  Giflhrd 
was  conunanded  to  be  at  Bristol  with  horse  and 
arms,  thence  to  march  into  South  Wales,  against 
Lewelin  ap  Griflln.  In  six  yenra  subsequently,  h§ 
was  constituted  governor  ot  St  BriaveTs  Castle, 
andof  the  Forest  of  Dean,  in  Gloucestershire;  but 
soon  after,  taking  part  with  the  rdiellious  barons*. 
was  amongst  those  whom  the  ArchUshop  of  Can- 
terbury ocdered  to  be  excommunicated.  He  was  at 
the  battle  of  Lewes,  under  the  baronial  banner,  but 
adopting  a  dilftrent  course  at  the  battle  of  Ev»* 
sham,  he  obtained  pardon  for  his  fbnner 
in  consideration  of  the  services  which  he  then 
dered  to  the  royal  cause.  ^ 

In  the  5ftth  of  Henry  IIL,  Mand  Lot^spe,  widow  , 
ot  WillSam  Longspe,  son  of  William,  Earl  of  Salis- 
bury, and  daughter  and  heiress  of  Walter  de  Clif> 
ford,  having  by  letter  complained  to  the  king,  that 
this  John  Giflkord,  had  taken  her  by  force  from  her 
manor  house,  and  carried  her  to  his  Castle  of  Brine- 
field,  where  he  kept  her  in  restraint ;  he  was  sum« 
moned  before  the  king,  when  denying  the  charge^ 
but  confessing  his  marriage  with  the  lady  without 
the  royal  licence,  he  made  his  peace  by  paying  a 
fine  of  three  hundred  marks. 

In  the  10th  Edward  L  John  GilTord  was  in  the 
expedition  then  made  by  Gilbert  de  Clare.  Earl  of 
Gloucester,  against  Lewdin^  Prince  of  Wales)  and 
observing  that  Lewdin  had  separated,  with  a  snail 
pariy,  from  the  body  of  his  army,  he  Joined  with 
Edward  Mortimer,  and  slaying  the  prince,  de> 
spatched  his  head  to  the  Idng,  who  caused  it  to  be 
set  upon  the  tower  of  London,  crowned  with  ivy. 
In  the  eighteenth  of  the  same  reign  he  was  consti- 
tuted governor  of  Dynevor  Castle,  in  Wales,  and 
having  had  summons  to  parliament  as  a  baron, 
fkom  S4th  June,  12Sft,  to  10th  AprU,  1299,  died  in  the 
latter  year,  and  was  buried  at  Malmesbury.  His 
lordship  m.  first,  (as  already  stated,)  Maud,  widow 
oi  William  Longspe,  by  whom  he  had  issue, 

Katherine,  m.   to   Nicholas  Aldithley,    first 

Baron  Aldithley.  or  Audley,  of  Hekg^ 
Alianore,  m.  to  Fulk  le  Strange^  Baron  Strange, 
of  Blackmere. 
He  fM.  secondly,  Alicia  Maltraven,  by  whom  he  had 
no  child;    and  thirdly,  Margaret  de  Nevile,   by 
whom  he  had  an  only  son,  his  successor, 

SIR  JOHN  GIFFARD,  K.B.,  second  baron, 
summoned  to  parliament,  trom  0th  October,  1311,ili 
15th  May,  1321,  as  '•  Johanni  Giflkrd  de  Brymes- 
field."  This  nobleman  was  constituted,  in  the  9th 
Edward  II.,  constable  of  the  castles  of  Gkmorgao 
and  Moifannoc.  Adhering  subsequently,  however, 
to  Thomas,  Earl  of  Lancaster,  in  his  opposition  to 
the  Spencers,  he  sate  in  the  parliament  by  which 
those  tevourites  were  condemned  to  benishmcnt, 
and.afterwaida,  when  the  king  marched  into  Wales, 
plundered  the  royal  carriages,  which  so  incased 
Edwaad.  that,  in  passing  trom  Cirencester  towards 
Worcester,  he  sent  a  party  of  soldien  to  demolish 
Lord  Giflhid's  castle  at  BrimaflekL    HU  kntdship 


QOD 


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ituaUy*  •haling  the  tartMM  ot  hte  latder,  the 
Eerl  of  Lancaster,  was  taken  iiriioner,  with  that 
nobleman,  alter  the  defeat  at  Botoughbridge,  and 
bdng  condeaoned  for  high  treaaon*  waa  hanged  at 
Okraocater  in  lass,  when  the  BAttoNY  or  Oiffard 
fen  under  the  attidnder;  but  the  proceeding!  against 
Thomaa,  Earl  of  Lancaster,  and  Ids  adheroits,  being 
reverted  in  the  1st  Edward  IIL,  anno  1327,  the  dig- 
'nity  was  reriTed,  and  may  now  probably  he  consi- 
deied  to  be  vested  hi  the  descendants  and  repreyen- 
latives  of  Ms  half  sisters,  the  above-mentioned 
Kathcrine.  Lady  Aldithley, 

and 
ASianore,  Lady  Strange,  of  Blackmertti 
Aajia.— ^Sttles,  three  lions  passant  in  pale  ar. 
and  langued  aa. 

OODOLPHIN  —  BARONS  GODOL- 
PHIN,  OF  RAILTON,  IN 
THE  COUNTY  OF  CORN- 
WALL. EARLS  OF  GO- 
DOLPHIN.  BARONS  GO- 
DOLPHIN,  OF  HEL- 
STON,  IN  THE  COUNTY 
OF  CORNWALL. 


Barony, 

Earldom 

Basoay, 


'    1  by  Letters  f 


8th  September,  1684. 
S9th  December,  I70& 
S9rd  January,  1735. 


This  family  derived  its  surname  from  Godolphin,* 
<andcntJy  written  Godolghan,)  in  the  county  of 
Cornwall, 

JOHN  DE  GOLDOLPHIN  was  Uving  about  the 
time  of  the  Norman  Conquest,  and  amongst  his 
other  feudal  possessions,  was  lord  of  the  manor  of 
Godolphin,  and  resided  there.  From  this  John 
descended,  through  several  generations, 

DAVID  GODOLPHIN,  Esq.,  who  m.  Mdiora, 
daughter  of  John  Cowling,  Esq.,  of  Trewerveneth, 
and  left  an  only  daughter  and  heiress, 

ELEANOR  GODOLPHIN,  who  m.  John  Rin- 
sey,  Esq.,  and  being  a  great  heiress,  covenanted, 
that  her  issue  should  bear  her  own  family  name. 
The  heir  of  this  marriage  was, 

THOMAS  GODOLPHIN,  Esq.,  of  Godolphin, 
whose  great-grandson, 

JOHN  GODOLPHIN,  Esq.,  of  Godolphin,  was 
shsriffof  ComwaU  tai  the  19th  and  83d  Henry  VII. ; 
he  was  also  Johit  steward  with  Sir  Robert  Wil- 
loughby.  Lord  Brooke,  of  the  mines  in  ComwaU 
«B4Devonahire.   Hem.  Blargaret,  daughter  of  John 
Jrenoutfa,  Esq.,  and  had  issue, 
William,  his  successor. 
John,  whose  descendants  were  seated  at  More- 
wall  and  Trewerveneth,  in  the  county  of 
CorawaJL 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  William  CaneU,  Esq. 
He  was  «.  by  bis  son, 

WILLIAM  GODOLPHIN,  Esq.,  who  m.  Mar- 

*  Godolphin,  in  Cornish,  signiflcs  a  Wuitb 
Eaolx,  which  was  always  borne  in  arms  ci  this 
j^ily. 


garet,  danghter  and  oo>hdr  of  John  Gllnne,  Esq., 
of  Moreval  and  Lowewater,  by  whom  he  had  two 
sons,  via. 

WiLUAM  (Sir),  his  successor. 

Thomas,  who  m. ,  daughter  of  Edmund 

Boaitban,  Esq.,  and  left  issue, 

FBAVcia,  who  succeeded  his  undo.  Sir 
WiiHam  Godolphin,  and  carried  on  the 
Jine  of  the  Ikmily. 
William,  M.P.  for  Helston,  in  the  SSth  of 
«  Elisabeth. 

Mr.  Godolphin  was  «.  by  his  elder  son, 

SIR  WILLIAM  GODOLPHIN,  a  very  disHn- 
guished  person  in  the  reign  of  Henry  VIII.,  who, 
toe  his  services,  had  the  honour  of  knighthood,  and 
was  constituted  warden  and  diief  steward  of  the 
Stanneries.  Sir  William  lived  to  an  advanced  age, 
and  was  ciiosen  several  times  one  of  the  knights  of 
the  shire  ft>r  Cornwall,  in  the  parliament  of  King 
Henry  VIII.  and  King  Edward  VL  He  was  thrice 
sheriff  of  Cornwall,  in  the  reign  of  Henry  VIII., 
and  onoe  in  the  idgn  of  Edward  VI.,  and  again  in 
that  of  Elisabeth.  He,  likewise,  attained  a  high 
military  reputation,  particularly  fbr  his  gallant 
conduct  at  the  siege  of  Boulogne.  Mr.  Carew,  in 
his  survey  of  Cornwall,  ranks  Sir  William  Godol- 
phin amongst  the  principal  worthies  of  that  shire; 
thus  speaking  of  him :  *«  He  demeaned  himself  very 
valiantly  beyond  the  seas,  as  appeared  by  the  scan 
he  brought  home,  no  less  to  the  beautifying  of  his 
fame,  than  the  disfiguring  of  his  face"  Sir  William 
M.  Blanch,  dau|^ter  of  Robert  Langden,  E$q,,  and 
had  issue, 

Margaret,  m.  to  Sir  Robert  Vemey. 

Grace,  m.  to  Sir  John  Sydenham,  of  Brimpton, 
in  the  county  of  Somerset. 

Anne,  m.  to  Sir  John  Arundel,  of  Talvem,  in 
the  county  of  ComwaU. 
Having  thus  no  male  issue,  the  estates  passed  at  Sir 
William's  decease  to  his  nephew, 

SIR  FRANCIS  GODOLPHIN,  M.P.  for  the 
county  of  ComwaU,  in  the  Slat  EUsabeth,  and  cokmel 
of  a  re^ment  of  twelve  companies  armed  with  four 
hundred  and  seventy  pikes,  four  hundred  and  ninety 
muskets,  and  two  hundred  and  forty  caUren.  He 
was  also  governor  of  SdUy,  '•  which,"  Carew  says, 
**  by  her  nu^ty*s  order,  was  reduced  to  a  more 
defensible  plight  by  him,  who  with  his  invention 
end  puxse,  bettered  his  plot  and  allowance,  and 
therein  so  tempered  strength  and  delight,  and  both 
with  use,  as  it  serveth  for  a  sure  hold,  and  a  com- 
modious dwelUng."  Of  Sir  Frauds,  the  samT  au- 
thor gives  the  following  character:—*'  Sir  Francis 
Godolphin,  Knt.,  whose  seal  in  rdigion,  upright- 
ness in  Justice,  providence  in  government,  and 
plentiful  housAeeping,  have  won  him  a  very  great 
and  reverent  reputation  in  his  country ;  and  these 
virtues,  together  with  his  services  to  her  majesty, 
are  so  suflldently  known  to  those  of  highest  place, 
as  my  testimony  can  add  but  Uttle  light  thereunto. 
But  by  his  labours  and  inventions  in  tin  matters, 
not  only  the  whole  county  hath  felt  a  general  bene> 
fit,  so  as  the  several  owners  have  thereby  gotten 
very  great  profit  out  of  such  reAase  works,  as  they 
before  had  given  over  for  unproflUUe;  but  her 
I  nu^estyhath  also  received  taicrease  of  her  customs 


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GO]> 


liytheiiintf,  fttlMittotheTBlaeo<'£iaoOOi.  Man- 
OTcr,  in  thow  works,  which  are  of  his  own  particu- 
lar inheritance,  he  oootiniially  keepeth  at  work 
three  hundred  penoos  or  tlMreabouts ;  and  the 
yearly  henefit,  that  oat  of  thoae  his  works  aocrueth 
to  her  nuOesty,  amounteth  eommmntbtu  mtmi*  to 
£1,000  at  the  leist,  and  sometimes  so  mudi  mote. 
A  matter  very  remarkahle,  and,  per  chance,  not  to 
be  matfhwl  again,  by  any  ot  his  sort  and  condition 
in  the  whole  reafan."  Sir  Prands  undertook  the 
coinage  of  sflTcr  out  of  the  mines  in  Wales  and 
Corawall;  and  King  Charles  I.  (for  he  was  llring  at 
the  accession  of  that  monarch),  granted  him  the 
power  of  coining  at  Aberrusky,  in  CorawalL  The  . 
pence,  groats,  shillings,  half-crowns,  &c.,  theve 
afterwards  coined,  were  distinguished  by  a  plume 
of  ostrich  foathers,  the  arms  of  Wales.  • 

Sir  Francis  Godidphin  m.  Margaret,  daughter  of 
John  KilUgrew.  Esq.,  of  Amwick,  in  Cornwall,  and 
had  three  sons  and  six  daughten,  of  whom. 
William,  was  his  successor. 
Blanch,  m.  George  Keckwith.  Es4|.,  of  Catdi- 
French. 

Ursula,  m. Creyde,  Esq. 

Thomasin,  m.  Sir  Geoq^  Carew,  afterwards 
Earl  of  Totness. 
Sir  Frands  was  s.  by  his  ddest  son, 

SIR  WILLIAM  GODOLPHIN,  who  aocompa. 
nied  Robert.  Earl  of  Essex,  in  his  expedition  to 
Ireland  against  the  rebds  in  15S0,  and  receiTed  the 
honour  of  knighthood  for  his  gallantry  at  Arklow. 
In  the  following  year  he  was  lo  highly  esteemed  by 
the  lord  deputy  MountJoy,  that  he  entrusted  him 
with  the  command  of  his  own  brigade  of  horae.  in 
the  dcdsive  battle  between  the  queen's  forces,  and 
the  Spaniards  and  Irish«  fought  on  the  S4th  Decem- 
ber, in  the  immediate  vicinity  of  Kinsale:  which 
victory  was  chiefly  owing  to  his  courageous  con- 
duct, having  broken  through  the  Spanish  line,  and 
made  prisoner  of  their  commander,  when  the  whole 
was  put  to  the  rout.    In  this  action  Sir  William  was 
slightly  wounded  in  the  thigh  with  a  halbert ;  but 
in  six  days  afterwards  was  so  far  recovered,  that 
when  Don  John    D'Aqulla,  commander  of  the 
Spaniards  In  the  town  of  Kinsale.  oflbned  a  parley, 
desiring  the  lord  deputy,  that  some  gentleman  of 
special  trust  and  sufficiency  might  be  sent  into  the 
town  to  confer  with  him.  he  was  employed  in  the 
negotiation.     Sir  William  Godoiphin  lepuseuted 
the  county  of  Cornwall  in  the  first  parliament  of 
King  James,  and  dying  in  1613,  left  issue  by  Tho- 
masin, daughter  and  heir  of  Thomas  Sidney,  Esq., 
of  Wrighton,  in  the  county  of  Norfolk, 
Fbavcis,  his  successor. 
Sidney,  a  very  accomplished  personage,  and  a 
poet  of  some  celebrity,  of  whom  Lord  Cla- 
rendon thus  speaks.—'*  A  young  gentleman 
of  {noomparaUe  parts,  who  being  of  a  con- 
stitution and  education  more  ddicate  and 
unacquainted   with  contentions,  upon  his 
observation  of  the  wickednes  of  those  men 
in  the  House  of  Commons,  of  which  he  was 
a  member,  out  of  pure  indignation  of  his 
soul  against  them,  and  consdcnce  to  his 
country,  had,  with  the  first,  engaged  himsdf 
with  that  party  in  the  west :  and  though  he 


thought  not  fit  to  take  command  in  a  pro- 
fession  he  had  not  willingly  chosen,  yet  as 
his  advice  was  of  great  authority  with  all 
the  commanders,  being  always  one  in  the 
council  of  wilk',  and  whose  notable  abilities 
they  had  still  use  of  in  their  civil  transac- 
tions, so  he  exposed  his  person  to  all  action, 
travd.  and  baaard;  and  by  too  forward  en- 
gaging himself,  (in  this  action  at  Chagford,) 
received  a  mortal  shot  by  a  musket,  a  little 
above  the  knee,  of  which  he  died  in  the 
instanL**  He  was  buried  at  Okdiampton, 
10th  February.  1642. 
William,  was  colonel  of  a  regiment,  and  pcr- 
f onned  many  signal  services  for  King  Charles 
I.,  in  several  remarkable  actions  in  the  west; 
Penelope,  m.  to  Sir  Charles  Berkeley,  Viscount 
Fitshardinge. 
Sir  William  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

FRANCIS  GODOLPHIN,  Esq.,  M.P.  for  St. 
Ives,  prior  to  the  breaking  out  of  the  rebellion. 
After  which  unhappy  proceeding  he  retired  to  hii 
seat  in  Cornwall,  secured  the  Island  of  Scilly  for  the 
king,  and  raised  a  regiment  of  foot,  the  command 
of  which  was  given  to  his  brother.  Colonel  William 
Godoiphin.  He  subaequently  waited  upon  his  ma- 
jesty at  Oxford,  and  was  amongst  those  members, 
who  met  there  by  royal  app<Hntment  in  January, 
1643.  The  Island  of  SdUy  was  under  Mr.  Godol- 
phin's  command,  until  the  incarceration  of  the 
king,  when  finding  it  lMq;>elesB  any  longer  to  resist, 
he  capitulated  upon  honourable  terms:  the  com- 
mons having  voted,  4th  January,  1646-7,  "  that  Mr. 
Godoiphin,  governor  of  SciDy,  upon  his  surrender 
of  that  Island,  with  all  forts,  Ac.,  should  e^)oy  his 
estate,  and  be  free  from  arrest  for  any  acts  of  war.** 
For  thew  services,  and  his  known  loyalty,  he  was 
created  a  Knight  of  the  Bath  at  the  coronation  of 
King  Charles  IL  He  m.  Dorothy,  second  daugh- 
ter of  Sir  Henry  Berkeley,  Knt.,  of  Yarlington.  in 
the  county  of  Somerset,  and  had  no  less  than  sixteen 
children,  of  whom, 

William,  (the  ddest  son,)  was  created  a  ra- 
noNBT  the  SOth  April.  1661.  Sir  WilUam 
lived  in  retirement,  and  dying  unmarried, 
17th  August,  1710,  bequeathed  his  estates  to 
his  nephew,  the  Earl  of  Godoiphin. 
Francis,  d,  unmarried  in  the  reign  of  Charles 

IL 
Sidney,  we  shall  treat  of  presently. 
Henry,  D.D.,  Provost  of  Eton  College,  and 
Dean  of  St.  PauFs.  Dr.  Goldophin.  who 
was  greatly  esteemed  for  his  teaming,  piety, 
and  benevfdence.  d.  at  the  advanced  age  of 
eighty 'four,  99th  January,  1738-3.  leaving  a 
son  and  daughter,  vis. 

William,  who  succeeded  to  the  Barony  of 
Godoiphin,  of  Hekton,  fipon  the  de- 
cease of  Francis,  second  Earl  of  Godoi- 
phin 

,  m.  to Owen,  Eiq.,  of  Pork* 

ington.  in  Shropshire. 
The  third  ion, 

SIDNEY  GODOLPHIN,  was,  from  hte  youth, 
in  the  service  of  King  Charles  IL.  who,  when 
Prince  of  Wales,  coming  into  Cornwall,  there  took 


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parttcolar  notice  of  hUn,  and  after  the  rastontion 
made  him  <Mie  of  the  grooma  of  the  bad-chamber. 
Jn  1678  he  waa  accredited  to  the  atatei  general  upon 
A  ipedal  mlMion*  and  the  next  year,  upon  the  dia- 
mi»rion  of  the  Earl  of  Danby  from  the  office  of 

LORD  BI«B  TBBAaURBB  OV  ENGLAND,  he  WaB  COD- 

atituted  une  of  the  commiarionera  of  the  treasury, 
and  iwom  of  the  privy  counciL  Soon  after  which 
he  acquired*  by  hia  prudent  management*  a  great 
aaoendant  in  the  coimcU,  and  Sir  William  Temple 
informa  lu,  **  that  the  Earl  ot  Sunderland,  Mr. 
Hyde,  and  Mr.  Godolphin  were  eateemed  to  be  alone 
in  the  Mcret  and  management  of  the  king's  attdrs, 
and  loolied  upon  as  the  miniatry."  On  the  resigna- 
tion hi  1684  of  Sir  Leoline  Jenkins,  one  of  his  nu^ 
Jesty's  principal  secretaries  of  state,  Mr.  Oodolphin 
was  sworn  into  that  office,  but  he  returned  to  the 
treasury  in  a  few  months  after  aa  first  commissioner, 
and  waa  elerated  to  the  peerage  on  the  8th  Septem- 
ber in  that  year,  aa  Baron  Oooolpbin,  of  Rialton, 
in  the  county  of  Cornwall.  Upon  the  accession  of 
King  James  II.  his  lordship  was  appointed  lord 
chamberlain  to  the  Queen,  and  upon  the  removal  of 
the  Earl  of  Rochester  from  the  lord  treasurership  in 
January,  1886-7*  he  was  again  constituted  one  of  the 
commissioners  <rf  the  treasury.  After  the  landing 
of  the  Prince  of  Orange,  his  lordship  waa  one  of 
those  deputed  by  the  reigning  sovereign  to  wait 
up<m  the  prince,  and  to  demand  the  ot(Ject  he  had 
in  view ;  and  when  King  James  retired,  in  the  de- 
bates regarding  the  vacancy  of  the  throne  that  fol- 
lowed, his  lordship  voted  for  a  rq;ency :  neverthe- 
less, when  their  majesties.  King  William  and  Queen 
Mary  were  proclaimed  king  and  queen  of  England, 
knowing  his  great  abilities  and  int^rity,  they  con- 
stituted him  one  of  the  lords  commissioners  of  the 
treasury,  and  he  was  sworn  of  the  privy  counciL  In 
the  year  1605  his  lordship  was  dedaied  one  of  the 
kevcki  lords  Justices,  for  the  administration  of  the 
government  during  the  king's  absence  beyond  the 
seas,  as  he  was  again  the  following  year,  aa  also  in 
the  year  1701. 

Upon  the  accession  of  Queen  Anne,  Lord  Oodol- 
phin waa  constituted  lord  biob  xkBAauRBR  of 
England.  Under  his  lordship's  administration  in 
this  high  office,  public  credit,  which  had  previously 
bem  declining,  revived.  The  war  was  carried  on 
with  success,  and  the  nation  was  entirely  satisfied 
with  his  prudent  management  He  neglected  no- 
thing that  could  engage  the  subject  to  bear  the 
burthen  of  war  with  cheerftilness ;  and  it  was  owing 
to  his  lordship's  advice  that  her  majesty  contributed 
i^OO,00O  out  of  the  civil  list  towards  that  object. 
In  1704,  he  was  installed  a  Kniobt  of  the  Oabtbr  ; 
the  next  year  he  was  constituted  lord-lieutenant  of 
the  county  of  Cornwall ;  and  his  lordship  so  ma* 
naged  aflUrs  before  the  end  of  that  year,  that  her 
malesty  waa  empowered  by  the  parliaments,  both 
of  Scotland  and  England,  to  appoint  commissioners 
to  treat  about  a  union.  This  important  aflUr  waa 
set  on  foot  by  King  James  I.  \  but  no  prince  before 
Queen  Anne,  nor  any  council  but  her's,  could  eflfect 
it :  for  by  the  assiduity  and  dexterity  of  Lord  Go- 
dolphin,  all  obetadea  were  removed,  and  the  long- 
deslted  union  of  the  two  kingdoms  acoomplMsed. 
For  those  eminent  senricea  her  majesty  created  his 


lordship,  on  the  S9th  December,  1708*  VUevunt 
RaiUon  and  Earl  of  Godolphin,  azid  constituted 
him  lord  hiob  TBBAauBBB  OF  Grbat  Britain  ( 
from  which  office  he  was  removed  by  the  spirit  of 
political  animosity  in  1710,  the  cdebrated  trial  of 
Or.  Sacheverel  having  previously  taken  place.  His 
lordship,  who  had  laboured  for  some  years  under 
an  indisposition  of  the  stone  and  gravel,  died  on 
15th  September,  171S,  and  waa  buried,  on  the  8th 
of  the  next  month,  in  the  south  aisle  of  Westminster 
Abbey,  where  a  monument  was  erected  to  his  me* 
mory  by  his  daughter-in-law,  the  Dudiess  of  Marl- 
borough. 

.  His  lordship  m.  Margaret,  fourth  daughter  and  one 
of  the  co-heirs  of  Thomas  Blague,  Esq.,  groom  of 
the  bed-chamber  to  Kings  Charlea  I.  and  II.,  by 
whom  he  left  an  only  child, 

FRANCIS  GODOLPHIN,  second  earl,  bom 
3d  September,  1678.  This  nobleman  represented 
the  county  ot  Oxford,  in  the  liib-time  of  his  father, 
in  parliament  {  and  in  the  reign  of  Queen  Anne,  was 
lord  warden  of  the  stanaries,  and  cofltnrer  to  her 
majesty.  In  17SS,  his  lordship  was  appointed  groom 
of  the  stole,  and  flnt  gentleman  of  the  bed-chamber^ 
and  the  same  year  waa  constituted  one  of  the  lords 
Justices  during  the  temporary  absence  of  the  king. 
In  1733,  the  earl  was  appointed  governor  of  the 
Islands  of  SdUy,  and  he  waa  created,  on  the  S3d 
January,  1735,  Baron  Godolphin,  of  HBLaroN, 
with  special  remainder,  (in  defiuilt  of  his  own  male 
issue,)  to  the  heirs  male  of  his  deceased  uncle,  the 
very  reverend  Henry  Oodolphin,  D.D.,  dean  of 
St  Paul's  (revert  to  issue  of  Henry  Godolphin,  Esq., 
fkther  of  the  first  earl).  He  was  subsequently  sworn 
lord  privy-eeaL  His  lordship  espoused  Lady  Hen- 
rietto  Churchill,  eldest  daughter  and  co-heir  of 
John  Churchill,  the  great  Duke  of  Marlborough, 
which  lady,  upon  her  illuatrious  father's  decease, 
became  Duchess  of  Marlborough,  by  virtue  of  the 
act  of  parliament  which  entailed  his  grace's  honours 
upon  his  daughters.  By  this  lady  the  earl  had 
issue, 

William,  Marqueia  of  Blandford,  M.P.  for 
Woodstock.  His  lordship  m.,  in  1799, 
Maria-Catherine,  daughter  of  Peter  D'Jong, 
of  the  province  of  Utrecht,  but  died  without 
iMue,  84th  August,  1731. 
Henry,  dledVoung. 
Henrietta,  m,  to  Thomas  Pelham  HoUes,  Duke 

of  Newcastle,  and  died  «.  p. 
Margaret,  died  young. 

Mary.  m.  to  Thomas  Osborne,  fourth  Duke  of 
Leeds,  K.G.,  of  which  marriage,  George- 
William,  present  Duke  of  Leeds,  is  grand- 
son. 
Her  grace  died  84th  October,  1733,  and  his  lordship, 
on  the  17th  January,  1766,  when  the  barldom  op 
Oodolphin,  tibcovntyof  Railton,  and  barony 
OP  Godolphin,  of  Railtan,  became  bxtinct  ;  but 
the  barony  of  Godolphin,  of  Hblbton,  devolved, 
according  to  the  limitation,  upon  his  first  cousin, 

FRANCIS  GODOLPHIN,  Esq.,  of  BayUs,  in  the 
county  of  Bucks,  aa  second  baron,  who  had  pre- 
viously represented  Hdaton  in  parliament  His 
lordship  m.  first,  in  1734,  Lady  Barbara  Bentlnck, 
daughter  of  William,  Earl  of  Portland.  Heespoused 
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GOR 


MOODdly,  t«^y  Anne  FlU-WlUittn,  daughter  of 
John*  Earl  FIts-WiUlam :  but  dying  without  iiaue, 
in  178S,  the  BAmoKY  ow  Oodolphim,  of  Hblstoic* 
also  nxpiRKD. 

Abm8<— Gulcs,  an  eagle  with  two  heads  dtiplayed 
between  thzee  fleur-d»-lia  ar. 

OOROES-^ARON  GOROES. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  datad  4th  March,  1309» 
8  Edward  IL 

Xincagc. 

In  the  41st  of  Henry  III., 

RALPH  DE  GOROES  had  a  military  sum- 
mons to  march  against  the  Welch,  and  in  a  few 
years  afterwards  was  made  governor  of  Sher- 
burne and  Exeter  Castles.  He  was  likewise  sheriff 
of  the  county  of  Deron*  In  the  Mth  of  the  same 
reign,  he  attended  Prince  Edward  to  the  Holy  Land, 
and  dying  within  the  two  next  years,  was  «.  by  his 


RALPH  DE  GORGES,  who,  in  the  Slst  Ed- 
ward  L,  was  marshal  of  the  king's  army  in  Gas- 
cony,  and  the  next  year,  continuing  in  those 
parts,  was  made  prisoner  and  carried  to  Paris.  He 
was  not  detained  long,  however,  in  captivity,  for 
we  Und  him  loon  after  again  in  active  service 
upon  the  same  Add,  and  subtequcntly  engaged  in 
the  wars  ot  Scotland;  in  consideration  of  which 
services  he  was  summoned  to  parliament,  as  a  ba- 
BOK,  by  King  Edward  II.,  on  the  4th  of  March, 
1309,  and  ftx>m  that  period  to  the  18th  Septem- 
ber, 1SS8  {  but  his  deioendants  enjoyed  no  similar 
honours.    His  lordship  was  «.  by  his  ion, 

RALPH  DE  GOROES,  who,  dying  without 
issue,  was  «.  by  his  sister, 

ELEANOR  OE  GORGES,   who   m.   Theobald 
Rusiel,  son  of  Sir  WiUiam  Russel,  of  Kingston- 
llusiel,  in  the  county  of  Dorset,  andhad  issue, 
Thbobald,  of  whom  presently. 
Ralph  (Sir),  of  Kingston- Russdl  and  Derham, 
m.  ,  and  left  issue. 


-diedissuelf 


Theobald,! 
John,         j 
Maurice  (Sir),  of  Kingston-Ruaiel,  who 
had  issue, 

Thomas-Fitimaurfee,  whose  daugh- 
ter, 

Mary,  died  «.  p, 
Isabel,  m.  to  Sir  Stephen  Heytfield. 
Margaret,  in.  first  to  Gilbert  Denys, 
Esq.,  and  woondly  to  John  Ke- 
mys,  Esq. 
Thedderion, 

SIR  THEOBALD  RUSSEL,  assuming  hU  ma^ 
temal  surname,  became  Sir  Thbobald  GoBoaa. 
He  a^  adopted  the  armorial  bearings  of  the  £i- 
mily,  which  occasioned  a  dispute,  in  the  Slst  Ed- 
ward III.,  between  him  and  Warburtoo  of  Che- 
shire, for  bearing  also  those  armst  but  the  latter 
established  his  right  thereto  in  the  court  of  the 
Earl  Marshal,  Henry,  Earl  of  Lancaster,  and  Gorges 
had  than  asrigned  him,  a  dksvroft  gulM  on  Ms  lo- 
amg9  or.  amd  cs.,  for  diflbrence  i  whldi  his  poste- 
rity bore  fbr  some  time,  until  they  agafai  resumed 


} 


their  andent  and  hereditary  coat,  namely,  <*  Jr»  m 
gurge*  or,,  whirlpool  as." 

Sir  Theobald  died  in  the  4th  of  Richard  IL,  leav. 
ing  four  sons, 
Ral^h, 

Bartholomew,  >-«U  of  whom  d.  issudess. 
William, 
And 

THOMAS  GORGES,  who  sncoaeded  his  bro- 
then,  and  carried  on  the  line  of  the  ikmlly  i  and 
dying  in  the  Ath  of  Henry  IV.,  was*,  by  his  son, 

JOHN  GORGES,  who  died  in  minority,  and  was 
«.  by  his  brother, 

THEOBALD  GORGES,  who  had,  by  his  first 
wife, 

WAX.TBB  OoBOBB,  who  oootinued  the  Wraxal 
linei 
And,  by  his  second, 

Richard  Goaotfa,  who,  and  his  descendants, 

hdd  lands  for  some  time  in  Sturminster 

Marshall,  in  the  county  of  Dorset. 

NoTB.— There  were  other  branches  of  this  fiunily 

in  the  counties  of  Heieford,  Somcnet,  and  Wilts, 

particularly  at  Langford,  in  the  latter  thirej  one  of 

which  was  created  a  iMuonet  in  the  reign  of  James  L, 

and  an  Irish  peer,  by  the  title  of  Lord  Dundalk. 

GORING  —  BARONS  GORING.  OF 
HURST  PIERPONT,  IN 
THE  COUNTY  OF  SUS- 
SEX. EARLS  OF  NOR. 
WICH. 

Barony,    l  by  Letters/  14th  April,  16S2. 
Earldom,  j    Patent,    t  9lh  November,  1644. 

Xintagc. 

GEORGE  GORING,  Esq.,  of  Hurspierpont  and 
Ovingdene,  both  in  the  county  of  Suflblk,  m.  Anne 
Denny,  eldest  sister  of  Sir  Edward  Denny,  Baron 
Denny,  and  Earl  of  Norwidi,  (an  earldom  that  ex- 
pired in  1830,)  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR  GEORGE  GORING,  KnL,  who  was  ele- 
vated to  the  peerage  on  the  14th  April,  1639,  as 
Babom  Gobivo,  qf  Hurt  Piorpont,  in  the  county 
of  Sussex,  and  in  two  years  afterwards  obtained  a 
giant  of  the  ofllces  of  secretary,  clerk  of  the  signet, 
and  dark  of  the  council  within  the  principality  of 
Walei.  His  lordship  subsequently  rendering  the 
highest  services  to  King  Charles  I.,  after  the  break- 
ing out  of  the  civil  wars,  was  advanced  to  the  di|p- 
nity  of  Eabl  op  Nobwicb,  by  letters  patent, 
dated  8th  November,  1644.  He  m.  Mary,  daughter 
of  Edward,  Lord  Bergavenny,  by  whom  he  had 
issue, 

Gsobob,  so  gallantly  distinguished  in  the  dvU 
wars  as  General  Goring.  This  heroic  perw 
sonage  fought  to  the  last  in  the  cause  cf  his 
royal  and  unfortunate  master  end  after  the 
surrender  of  Oxfdrd,  retiring  to  the  Nether- 
lands, he  acquired  ftesh  laureb  as  lieutenant- 
general  of  the  king  of  Spain's  army— he  m. 
Lettice,  daughter  of  Richard,  Earl  of  Cork, 
and  died  «.  ^  hi  1688,  prior  to  his  father. 
Crablbb,  second  earL 


ORA 


ORA 


EUnbeCh,  m.  to  Lord  Brarctoa,  of  Ireland. 
Lucy,  m.  to  Sir  Dm  Done*  of  Maptwtad,  in 

the  county  of  Eaiex,  Knt. 
Diana*  m.  firtt»  to  Thomaa  Covart»  Em|.»  of 
Slangham*  Susmz  ;  and  Mooodiy ,  to  G«»ge, 
eldart  ton  of  Bndymion  Prater,  Esq. 
Catherine,  m.  to  William  Scott,  Eaq.,  of  Scotfs 
HaU,  KenL 
Hia  kndahip  d.  in  108S,  and  waa  «.  by  liii  only  tur- 
▼iTington, 

CHARLES  GORING,  iecond  Earl  of  Norwich. 
His  lordship  m.  ,  daughter  of  Leman, 

Esq.,  and  widow  of  Sir  Richard  Baker,  Knt.,  but 
dyhig  without  i«ue  in  167S,  the  AarBfyr  ^  Qoring 
end  Eabldom  or  Norwich,  became  bxtinct. 

ABMa.p-<Ar.  a  che^ran  betwean  three  annulets, 
gules. 

NoTBii— From  Edward  Goring,  Esq.,  unde  of 
George,  flnt  Earl  of  Norwich,  the  extant  baronets 
Goring,  of  Highden,  in  Sussex,  deriye,  which  are 
now  represented  by  Sir  Charlsa  Fofstcr  Goring. 
Bart. 

ORANDISON-BARON  ORANBISON. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  Slat  September,  U89« 
87  Edward  L 

ICCncagc. 

In  the  fiOth  of  Henry  III., 

OTHO  DE  GRANDISON  attended  Prince  Ed- 
ward into  the  Holy  Land ;  and  after  that  prince 
ascended  the  throne  as  Edward  I.,  he  was  consti- 
tuted governor  of  the  islands  of  Guernsey  and 
Jersey.  In  this  reign  he  appears  to  have  been  a 
person  of  great  note,  and  to  have  held  some  high 
political  employmenL  Amongst  others  that  of 
secretary  to  the  king.  He  was  knitted,  and  do* 
puted  ambassador  to  Rome,  (17th  Edward  I.,)  when 
he  had  the  king's  letters  to  the  merchants  of  Luca, 
to  supply  him  with  money  there,  by  bills  of  ex- 
change: He  had  previously  obtained  grants  from 
the  crown  of  the  town  of  Tipperary,  and  other 
extensive  possessions  in  Ireland,  all  which  he  trans- 
fSarred,  with  the  sanction  of  the  king,  to  his  brother, 
William  de  Grandison.  In  the  S4th  of  the  lame 
reign  Sir  Otho  was  Joined  in  commission  with  the 
Bishop  of  Ely  and- others,  to  treat  of  peace  with  the 
French ;  and  he  was  summoned  to  parliament,  as  a 
BABOH,  on  the  21st  September,  ISSOi  The  period  of 
hb  lordship's  death  is  not  ascertained,  but  in  the 
ISth  Edward  II.  all  those  castles,  manors,  and  lands, 
which  he  held  in  Ireland  for  life,  were  given,  by  the 
king,  to  Prince  Edward,  his  eldest  son,  and  to  his 
heirs,  KiNoa  or  Ewolabd.  He  died  without  issue, 
when  the  Baboky  or  GBANnieoif  became  bx- 
tinct. 

AxM a.— Paly  of  six  ar.  and  vert,  on  a  bend  gules 
three  eagles  displayed  or. 

GRANDISON  >-  BARONS    GRANDI- 
SON. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  6th  February,  1399, 
S7  Edward  1. 

WILLIAM  DE  GRANDISON.  (brother  of  Sir 
Otho  de  Onuidi8on»  secretary  to  King  Edward  L, 


and  afterwards  Lord  OrandlseB,)  being  originally  a 
menial  servant  to  Edmund,  Earl  of  lianraater,  ob> 
tainedftom  that  prince,  in  consideration  of  his  own 
IkithAU  services,  and  the  services  of  his  ancestois, 
a  grant  of  the  manon  of  Radley  and  Menstrewovth, 
in  the  county  of  Gloucester.    In  the  aoth  Edward  I. 
he  procured  licence  to  make  a  castle  of  his  house  at 
Asperton,  in  the  county  of  Herefbrd,  and  in  two 
years  afterwards  he  was  in  the  expedition  made  into 
Gaaoony,  where  he  continued  ftnr  some  time,  and 
while  so  engaged  was  summoned  to  parliament  as  a 
BABOW.    He  was  afterwards  engaged  in  the  Scottish 
wars.    His  lordship  m.  SibiUa.  youngest  daughter 
and  co-helresi  of  Sir  John  de  Tregoa,  and  upon  par- 
tition of  the  lands  of  that  inheritance,  acquired  the 
manors  of  Bumham,  in  the  county  <»r  Somerset, 
and  Eton,  in  Hereftnrdshlre.    He  had  issue  by  this 
lady,  three  sons  and  a  daughter,  via. 
Pbtbr,  his  successor. 
John,  Bishop  of  Exeter. 
Otto,  a  distinguished  soldier  in  the  reigns  of 
Edward  IL  and  Edward  IIL,  m.  Beatrix, 
daughter  and  co-heir  of  Nicholas  Malmains, 
and  had  issue, 

TnoMAa,  who  succeeded  his  uncle,  the 
Bishop  of  Exeter,  in  the  barony  of 
Grandison. 
Elisabeth. 
Agnes,  M.  to  John  de  Northwode. 
His  lordship  d.  ,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldeat 


PETER  DE  GRANDISON,  second  baron,  sum* 
moned  to  parliament  ftom  SSrd  April,  1337,  to 
S8th  March,  1340.  This  nobleman  being  implicated 
in  the  insurrection  of  Thomas,  Earl  of  Lancaster, 
Ifith  Edward  IL.  was  obliged  to  pay  three  hundred 
marks  fine  ftnr  his  pardon.  He  was  afterwards  in 
the  wars  of  France,  and  attained  the  rank  of  ban- 
neret. His  lordship  m.  Blanch,  one  of  the  daugh- 
ters of  Roger  de  Mortimer,  Earl  of  March,  but  had 
no  issue.    He  d.  in  1358,  and  was  «.  by  his  tarother, 

JOHN  DE  GRANDISON,  Bishop  of  Exeter, 
third  baron,  but  never  summoned  to  pailiament  as 
Lord  Grandison,  having  already  a  seat  in  his  epis- 
copal dignity.  Of  this  prelate  it  is  related,  that  he 
got  the  wealth  of  all  the  clergy  in  his  diocese  into 
his  own  hands,  by  Inducing  them  to  leave  him  every 
thing  they  possessed  at  their  death,  for  the  purpose 
of  laying  the  same  out  in  charitable  uses,  in  en- 
dowing churdies,  and  building  hospitab  and  col- 
leges; trusts  which  he  is  said,  however,  very 
piously  to  have  perftmned.  He  d.  in  1370,  and  waa 
«.  by  his  nephew, 

SIR  THOMAS  GRANDISON,  as  fourth  Baron 
Grandison,  but  never  summoned  to  parliament. 
He  died  «.  ^  in  the  4eth  Edward  III.,  and  the 
BABONY  is  now  vcstod  in  the  representatives  of 
Agnes,  daughter  of  William,  the  first  lord.  If  any 
such  exist. 

ABMa.— Paly  of  six  ar.  and  vert,  on  a  bend  gules, 
three  eagles  displayed  or. 

GRANVILLE— EARLS  OF  BATH. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  90th  April,  VKL 

This  noble  Cnnily  claimed  descent  ftom  RoUo, 

997 


GRA 


ORA 


flnt  Duke  of  Nonnandy,  and  its  founder  in  Eng- 
land, RoBBRT  Fitz-Hauon,  wu  nepliew  of  King 
William  the  Conqueror,  and  one  of  hia  oompanioni 
inarms. 

SIR  BEVILL  GRANVILLE,  Knt,  one  of  the 
most  eminent  generals,  upon  the  part  oi  King 
Charles  L,  during  the  ciyil  wars,  after  attidning  the 
highest  reputation  in  several  engagements,  lost  his 
life  at  the  battle  of  Lansdowne,  near  Bath,  and 
left,  by  his  wife  Anne,  eldest  daughter  and  co-heir 
of  Sir  John  SL  Leger,  a  son  and  heir, 

JOHN  GRANVILLE,  Esq.,  who,  pursuing  the 
same  loyal  course  as  his  father,  although  then  but 
fifteen  years  of  age,  first  headed  that  celebrated 
officer's  own  regiment,  and  soon  after,  became  com* 
mander-in-chief  of  five  others,  in  all  the  considera- 
ble fights  and  skirmishes  in  the  west  i  and  in  the 
second  battle  of  Nbwbsiirt,  wherrin  he  receiyed 
several  severe  wounds.  Mr.  Granville,  subsequently, 
withdrew  with  Prince  Charles,  to  whom  he  was 
gentleman  of  the  bedchamber,  and  attended  Mm  in 
France,  Flanders,  Holland  and  the  Isle  of  Jersey. 
He  was  afterwards  mainly  instrumental  In  the  resto- 
ration of  the  monarchy,  by  successfully  negociating 
with  his  near  Iiinsman,  General  Monkt  and  as  a 
reward  for  his  services  and  sufRsrings,  was  elevated 
to  the  peerage  on  20th  April,  1061,  as  Baron  Gran- 
frille,  qf  KUk/Mfnpttm,  in  ComwaH,  and  Bldd^mrd, 
in  Dewmahire,  Viteount  GranviUe,  of  iMUdowne, 
and  Earl  of  Bath;  and  it  being  auggested,  at 
this  time,  that  he  had,  by  inheritance,  a  real  right 
to  the  titles  of  Earl  of  Carboile,  Thorigny  and 
GranviUe,  in  Normandy,  in  as  Aill  and  ample  a 
manner  as  his  ancestors  formerly  enjoyed  those  dig- 
nities, before  that  dukedom  was  lost  to  the  crown 
of  England;  he  was,  three  days  after,  allowed,  by 
his  majesty's  warrant,  under  his  royal  signet,  to  use 
the  same;  the  preamble  to  which  warrant  runs  thus : 
"  Whereas,  it  appears  to  us,  that  our  right  trusty, 
Ac.,  John,  Earl  of  Bath,  &c  is  descended,  in  a 
direct  line,  as  heir  male  to  Robert  Fitx-Haman, 
Lord  of  Gloucester  and  Glamorgan,  in  the  reigns  of 
William  the  Conqueror,  William  Rufus,  and  King 
Henry  I.,  and  who  was  the  son  and  heir  <rf  Hamon 
Dentatus,  Earl  of  Corboile,  and  Lord  of  Thorigny 
and  GrapviOe,  in  Normandy,  which  titles  they  hdd 
before  Normandy  was  lost  to  the  crown  of  England, 
whereby  he  Justly  claims  his  descent  fhmi  the 
youngest  son  of  the  Duke  of  -Normandy,  as  we  our- 
sdves  do  ftom  the  eldest."  His  lordship  m.  Jane, 
daughter  of  Sir  Peter  Widie,  comptroller  of  the 
houiehold  to  King  Charles  I.,  and  ambassador  at 
Constantinople,  by  whom  he  had  issue, 
Charlrb,  his  successor. 
John,  created,  by  Queen  Anne,  9th  March 
1708,  Baron  Granvillr,  of  Potiieridge, 
in  the  county  of  Devon,  m.  Rebecca,  daugh- 
ter ot  Sir  John  Child,  of  Wanstead;  in  Essex, 
and  widow  of  Charles,  Marquess  of  Wor- 
cester, but  had  no  issue.  His  lordship  was 
lord  warden  of  the  stannaries.  He  d.  in 
1707*    when    the    baroky    became    xz- 

TINCT. 

Bevil,  d.  a  bachelor. 

Jane,  m.  to  Sir  William   Gower,   and  thus 
became  great-great-grandmother  to  George 


GranviUe  Leveaon  Gower,  pieient  Marqness* 
of  Stafford. 
Catherine,  m.  to  Craven  Pkytoo,  Esq.,    of 

Lancashire. 
Grace,  m.  to  Sir  George  Carteret,  Bart.,  after- 
wanls    created     Baron     Cartbrbt,     of 
Hawnes,  in  the  county  of  Bedford,  with 
remainder,  in  default  of  male  issue,  to  his 
brothers,  Philip  and  Edward.  Her  ladyship, 
after  the  decease  of  her  husband,  was  herself 
elevated  to  the  peerage,  as  Viscountess  Car- 
teret and  Countess  Granville  (see  Carteret* 
Lord  Carteret). 
(These  ladies  became,  eventually,  co-hdrs  to 
their  nephew,  WiUiam  Henry,  Earl  of  Bath.) 
His  lordship  d.  in  August  1701,  and  was  «.  by  his 
eldest  son, 

CHARLES  GRANVILLE,  second  Earl  of  Bath, 
who  had  been  summoned  to  parliament  in  the  lifb* 
time  of  his  father,  anno  1689,  and  had  been  created 
a  count  of  the  Roman  empire  by  Emperor  Leopold, 
for  bis  eminent  services,  in  the  war  of  Hungary, 
where  he  was  a  volunteer  In  the  army  that  defeated 
the  Turks  before  Vienna,  in  1683,  and  was  the  same 
year  at  the  taking  of  Gran.  His  lordship  m.  first. 
Lady  Martha  Osborne,  daughter  of  Thomas,  first 
Duke  of  Leeds,  by  whom  he  had  no  surviving 
issue.  He  espoused,  secondly,  Isabella,  daughter  of 
Henry  de  Nassau,  Vdt  Marshal  Auverque,  com- 
mander of  the  Dutch  forces  under  the  Duke  of 
Marlborough,  and  had  an  only  child, 

William  Hbmry,  his  successor. 
The  earl  died  in  twelve  days  after  hif  father,  being 
kiUed  by  the  accidental  discharge  of  his  own  pistol, 
at  the  time  he  was  preparing  for  the  interment  of 
that  nobleman.    He  was  «.  by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  HENRY  GRANVILLE,  third  Earl  of 
Bath,  bom  30th  January  1691-2,  but  d„  unmarried, 
of  the  smaU  pox,  in  May  1711 ;  when  the  Earloom 
OF  Bath  and  inferior  dignities  became  bxtinct, 
whUe  his  estates  passed  to  his  lordship's  aunts 
(revert  to  ksue  of  John,  first  earl)  as  co-heiresses. 
Arms.— Gules,  three  sufflues  or  organ  rests  or. 

GRANVILLE  —  BARON  LANS- 
DOWNE,  OF  BIDDE- 
FORD,  IN  THE  COUN- 
TY  OF  DEVON. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  Slst  December,  1711. 

Xiiuagc. 

GEORGE  GRANVILLE,  Esq.,  grandson  of  Sir 
Bevill  Grandville,  (being  second  son  of  his  son, 
Bernard  GranviUe,)  and  nephew  of  John  Granville, 
first  Earl  of  Bath,  was  elevated  to  the  peerage,  on 
the  Slst  December,  1711,  as  Baron  LANSDOvmR,  qf 
Biddefordt  in  the  ctntntif  tf  Devon.  His  lordship  m. 
Lady  Mary  ViUiers,  daughter  of  Edward,  Earl  of 
Jersey,  and  had  issue, 

Mary.  m.  to  William  Graham,  Esq.,  of  Ire- 
land. 
Grace,  m.  to  Thomas  Foley,  Esq.,  of  Stoke,  in 
the  county  of  Hereford,  who  waa  created 


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BAiioir  FoLST*  of  Kiddormimtar,  in  tha 
oounty  of  Worocttcr*  in  1776*  of  which  mar- 
riage, 

TaoMAa,  prmeittLord  Fotey,  is  gnmdfon. 
Eliabeth. 
Ann*. 
Lord  Lanadowna  was  secretary  at  war,  and  comp- 
troller and  treasurer  of  tiie  houaeliold,  in  the  reign 
of  Queoi  Anne.  He  died  in  1734,  when  the  Basom y 
OF  Lansdownb,  in  default  of  a  male  heir,  became 
BXTiMCT,  and  his  estates  deyolved  upon  his  daugh- 
ters as  co-heirs. 

Abms.— Same  as  those  of  Granville,  Earls  of 
Bath,  with  the  necessary  distinctive  Junior  mark. 


GRANVILLE— BARON  GRANVILLE, 
OF  POTHERIDGE,  IN 
THE  COUNTY  OF  DE- 
VON. 

Refer  to  Granville,  Earl  of  Bath, 
(John,  second  son  of  John,  first  Earl.) 


GRENDON— BARON  GRENBON. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  S9th  December,  1S90, 
88  Edward  I. 

Xincasc. 

of  this  famUy,  deriving  its  appellation  fkom  a 
Iklr  lordship  of  that  name  in  the  county  <rf  War- 
wick, where  they  had  originally  their  cliief  resi- 
dence, (and  whereof  there  were  several  knights 
before,)  was 

SIR  RALPH  DE  GRENDON,  Knt,  who  in  the 
26th  of  Edward  I.,  received  command  to  be  at  Car- 
lisle, (amongst  other  great  men  of  that  time,)  well 
fitted  with  horse  and  arms,  to  march  against  the 
Sooto,  and  was  summoned  to  parliament  as  a  barok, 
in  the  S8th,  39d,  and  33d,  of  tiie  same  monarch, 
but  not  afterwards.  His  lordship  m.  — — ,  and  had 
issuer 

RoBSRT,  his  successor. 

Joane,  m.  to  J<dm  de  Rochfort,  and  had  issue. 
Sir  Ralph  de  Rochfort,  Knt.,  who  m.  Jotandt 
daughter  of  Sir  Hugh  MeyniL 
Lord  Grsndond.  in  1331,  and  was  «.  by  his  sod, 

ROBERT  GRENDON^  second  Baron.  This 
being  a  person  of  weak  intdlect.  Sir  Roger  de  Chet- 
wind,  and  Sir  Philip  de  Chetwind,  knights,  with 
John  de  Freford,  who  had  married  his  aunts,  Joane, 
Alice,  and  Margaret  Grenilon,  alleging  that  A.  de 
Clinton,  second  wife  of  old  Sir  Ralph  de  Grendon, 
father  of  the  late  baron,  had  a  Joint  estate  with 
her  husbend  in  all  their  lands,  challenged  the 
whole  inheritance,  and  accordingly  entered  upon 
the  lands;  whereupon  Robsrt  sought  the  pro- 
tection of  Henry,  duke  of  Lancaeter,  yielding  unto 
his  grace  the  entire  mancnr  of  Shenston,  nesr  Lich- 
fldd,  in  the  county  of  Staflbrd,  conditionally,  that 
he  would  protect  him  In  the  possession  cf  Grendon, 
end  certain  other  lands  in  other  places.  In  con- 
sequence of  which  arrangements,  his  unclss  and 
aunts  relinquished  their  pretended  daim.    He  died 


ikboot  the  SSnd  of  Edward  IIL,  when  those  hmds 
descended  to  his  nephew.  Sir  Ralph  Rochfort,  Kot., 
whereupon  Sir  Ralph  entailed  them  upon  the  iisue 
of  his  own  body,  by  Joane,  his  wife,  daughter  of 
Sir  Hugh  Meynil,  with  remainder  to  his  three  sis- 
ters successively,  and  then  to  Sir  Richard  Stafibrd, 
KnL,  and  his  heivs.  According  to  which  settle- 
ment, the  possession  continued  for  divers  years, 
until  Sir  Ralph  Rochfort's  death,  when  Joane,  his 
widow,  marrying,  secondly,  Hugh  de  Ashby,  made 
an  agreement  with  Sir  William  Chetwynd,  Knt, 
(son  and  heir  of  Sir  Philip,)  by  which  Greudon  at 
length  came  into  the  possession  of  the  Chetwynds, 
and  is  now  held  by  Sir  George  Chetwynd,  Bart. 
The  BAaoNY  of  Grbndow,  which  fdl  into  abey- 
ance amongst  the  Rochforts,  lo  continues  with 
their  representatives,  if  such  exist 
ABMa.— -Ar.  two  chevrons  gules. 

ORESLEY— BARON  GRESLEY. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  10th  March,  1308, 
1  Edward  II. 

XincBgc. 

In  the  year  1134, 

.  ROBERT  DE  GRESLEI,  of  Manchester,  in  the 
oounty  of  Lancaster,  having  a  large  proportion  of 
marsh  land,  at  Swincshed  in  Lincolnshire,  founded 
an  abbey  of  Cistertian  monks  there.  To  this 
Robert «.  his  son, 

ALBERT  DE  GRESLEI,  who  m.  first,  Agnes, 
daughter  of  Nigel,  Baron  of  Halton ;  and  secondly, 
a  daughter  of  Thomas  BasseL  He  d.  about  the 
year  118S,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

ROBERT  DE  GRESLEI,  who  in  the  0th  of 
Richard  I.,  being  then  of  fuU  age,  attended 
that  monarch  in  the  expedition  made  into  Nor- 
mandy; but  taking  part  with  the  barons  towards 
the  close  of  King  John's  rrign,  his  lands  were  all 
selaed  by  the  crown.  Making  his  peace,  however, 
in  the  ted  of  Henry  III.,  he  had  restitution  of 
those  lands,  which  lay  in  the  counties  of  Oxford, 
Rutland,  Lincolnshire,  Lancashire,  Norfolk,  and 
Suflblk.  He  m.  — -,  daughter  of  Henry  de  Long- 
champ,  (brother  of  William  de  Longdiamp,  Chan- 
cdlor  to  King  Richard  I.,)  and  dying  in  1830,  was 
«.  by  his  SOB, 

THOMAS  DE  GRESLEI,  who,  in  the  S8th 
Henry  IIL,  had  a  military  summons  to  march  into 
France,  but  paid  one  hundred  marks,  beside  his 
ordinary  scutage,  to  be  fteed  ttam  the  Journey. 
In  the  42Bd  of  the  same  reign,  he  had  another 
military  summons  to  march  against  the  Welch,  and 
the  next  year  he  was  constituted  warden  of  the 
king's  forests,  south  of  Trent.  He  d.  about  the 
year  U61,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

ROBERT  DE  GRESLEI,  who  in  the  8th  of 
Edward  1.,  having  married  Hawyse,  one  of  the 
daughters  and  co*heixs  of  John  de  Buigh,  sod  of 
Hubert,  Earl  of  Kent,  had  livery  of  her  share  cf 
her  father's  lands:  namely,  Waukerley,  Ringee- 
ton,  and  Porteslade.  He  d.  in  1883,  and  was  «.  by 
his  son, 

THOMAS  DE  ORESLEY,  who  in  the  34th  of 


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Edwftrd  L*  was  made  a  knight  of  the  Batii,  and 
was  lummoned  to  parliament  as  a  barow,  flrom  the 
1st  to  the  4th  of  Edward  IL,  tncliuive.  His  lord* 
ship  died  without  issue,  in  1347f  when  the  Babont 
or  Orbslby  became  bxtimct,  but  tM*  gnat  estates 
devolved  upon  his  only  sister  and  heiress, 

JoAWB  DB  GRBSLBYt  who  married  John,  son 
of  Roger  de  la  Wane,  and  brought  her  noble 
Inhoitance  into  that  family. 
Abji  8.— Vairte,  ermines  and  gulest 

OREY-BARONS  OREY,  OF  WIL- 
TON, IN  THE  COUNTY  OF 
HEREFORD. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  23rd  June,  1295, 
23  Edward  I. 

SIR  JOHN  DE  OREV,  second  son  of  Henry  de 
Grey,  of  Thurrock,  in  the  county  of  Essex,  (see 
Grey,  of  Codnor,)  served  the  office  of  sheriiT  for 
the  counties  of  Buckingham  and  Bedford,  in  the 
23d  of  Henry  III.,  and  had  summons  to  attend  the 
king,  in  the  26th  of  the  same  reign,  with  horse  and 
arms,  upon  the  expedition  then  made  into  Flanders. 
In  four  years  afterwards.  Sir  John  was  made  con- 
stable ot  the  Castle  of  Gannoc,  in  North  Wales, 
and  in  the  33d  of  Henry,  being  then  Justice  ci 
Chester,  had  a  grant  of  all  the  king's  lands  in 
Cheshire,  and  North  Wales,  to  hold  ftom  the  feast 
of  the  Purification  of  our  Lady,  for  one  whole  year, 
rendering  to  the  king  five  hundred  marks  at  the 
feast  of  St.  John  Baptist,  and  the  Nativity  of  Our 
Lord,  by  equal  portions.  The  next  year  he  had  a 
similar  grant :  but  Wales  being  then  subjugated, 
Alan  la  Zoudie  supplanted  him,  and  gave  a  higher 
rent:  vis.,  eleven  hundred  marks  per  annum,  for 
those  lands.  <*  In  the  35th  Henry  III.,**  says  Dug- 
dale,  •*  the  Lady  Joane  Peyvre,  widow  of  Pauline 
Pevere,  (a  great  man  in  that  age,)  being  possessed 
of  all  her  husband's  estate,  sold  to  this  John,  the 
marriage  of  her  son,  for  five  hundred  marks ;  he 
undertaking  to  discharge  her  of  any  fine  to  the 
king :  whereupon  he  married  him  to  his  own 
daughter ;  and  when  this  Joane  heard  that  the 
king  had  given  her  in  marriage,  (as  she  was  a  widow,) 
to  oDfi  Stephen  de  Salines,  an  alien,  she  by  the  ad- 
vice of  her  friends,  (being  then  in  London,) 
matched  herself  to  this  John  de  Grey,  whidi  being 
told  to  the  king,  he  grew  much  oflhnded,  but  at 
length  accepted  of  a  fine  of  five  hundred  marks 
from  him,  for  that  transgression.**  In  the  37th 
Henry  III.,  Sir  John  de  Grey  was  made  govcmor 
of  Northampton  Castle,  and  the  next  year  con- 
statuted  steward  of  all  Gascony  s  but  in  three  years 
afterwards,  "  being  an  aged  knight,  much  esteemed 
for  his  civility  and  valour,  as  also  chief  of  the  king's 
council,**  yet  weary  of  the  vanities  of  the  court,  he 
withdrew  from  public  life,  in  the  very  next  year, 
however,  we  find  him  nominated  to  the  governor- 
ship of  Shrewsbury  Castle,  and  soon  after  appointed 
constable  of  that  of  Dover.  In  the  47th  Henry  IIL, 
he  was  sheriff  of  Herefordshire,  and  governor  of 
Hereford  Castle.  The  next  year  he  had  the  cua- 
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tody  of  all  the  lands  of  Anker  de  FreBcheTilla,  in 
the  counties  of  Nottingham  and  Derby.  And  was 
one  of  those  barons  who  undertook  that  the  king 
shouU  aUde  the  arbitration  of  Lewis,  King  oi 
France,  touching  the  misunderstanding  with  the 
barons.  Remaining  subsequently  loyal  to  the  king, 
he  was  appointed,  after  the  victory  of  Evesham, 
sheriff  for  the  counties  of  Nottingham  and  Derby. 
Sir  John  de  Grey  had  issue, 

RBOINAX.O,  his  successor. 

■>  m.  to  Robert  de  TatshalL 
He  d.  in  1265,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

REGINALD  DE  GREY,  who.  In  couBlderatian 
of  his  fUthfUl  services  to  the  king,  obtained  special 
livery  of  all  his  father's  lands,  although  he  had  not 
then  done  his  homage.  In  the  9th  of  Edward  I., 
he  was  made  Justice  of  Chester,  and  molted  so  w^, 
that  for  his  manifold  services,  be  had  part  of  the 
honour  of  Monmouth  conferred  upon  him  by  the 
king  {  and  in  further  recompence  of  his  services, 
obtslned  the  Castle  of  Ruthyn  and  other  lands.  In 
22d  of  Edward  I.,  he  received  command  to  be  at 
Portsmouth,  to  attend  the  king  in  Gascony,  then 
menaced  by  the  French,  and  the  next  year  was  sum- 
moned to  pariiament  as  a  babox.  In  two  years 
afterwards.  King  Edward  going  into  Flanders, 
committed  the  government  of  England  in  his 
absence,  to  Prince  Edward,  and  appointed  Lord 
Grey  the  princess  assistant ;  and  the  same  year  his 
lordship  was  one  of  the  sureties  on  the  part  of  the 
king,  for  the  observance  of  the  charters;  after  this 
we  find  him  in  the  wars  of  Scotland.  His  lordship 
m.  Maud,  daughter  and  heiress  of  William,  Lord 
Fits-Hugh,  by  Hawys,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Hugh 
de  Longchamp,  of  Wilton  Castle,  in  the  county  of 
Hereford,  which  came  Into  the  Cunily  of  Grey  by 
thb  marriage— by  whom  be  had  issue, 

John,  his  successor. 

Joane,  m.  to  Ralph,  Lord  Basset 
The  baron,  who  had  b^  summoned  to  parliament 
ftom  23d  June,  1295,  to  26th  August,  1307*  died  in 
1308,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  DE  GREY,  second  Baron,  summoned  to 
parliament,  from  9th  June,  1309,  to  18th  September, 
13S2.  This  nobleman,  who  at  the  decease  of  his 
father  was  forty  years  of  age,  had  been  previously 
distinguished  in  the  service  of  the  king;  and  we 
find  him  afterwards,  constantly  employed  in  the 
Scottish  wars.  In  the  10th  Edward  II.,  he  was 
constituted  Justice  of  North  Wales,  and  Governor 
of  the  Castle  of  Caernarvon.  His  lordship  m.  first, 
Anne,  daughter  of  William,  Lord  Ferrers  of  Groby, 
and  had  issue, 

Hbhbt,  his  successor. 
He  m.  secondly,  Maud,  daughter  of  Ralph,  Lord 
Basset,  and  had, 

Roger,  who  was  summoned  to  parliament,  as 
Lord  Grey,  de  Ruthyn,  in  the  18th  Edward 
II.,  a  dignity  enjoyed  by  his  descendant, 
Barbara    Yelverton,    present    Baroness 
Grey  de  Ruthyn. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1323,  seised,  amongst  other  pos- 
sessions, of  the  manor  of  Eston  Grey,  In  Wilts,  and 
the  Castle  of  Ruthyn,  in  North  Wales,  and  wa 
«.  by  his  elder  son, 
HENRY  DE  GREY,  third  Banm*  summoned  to 


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parliamant  ftomaoth  December,  1S94,  to  12th  Sep- 
r,  1348:    Thie  noblemen  being  abroed  in  the 


at  the  time  of  hii  fhthei't  death,  and 
therefore  not  able  to  oome  to  daim  his  inherilpMe 
lo  goon  ae  he  should,  aeoording  to  autom,  haye 
done.  King  Edward  III.,  in  the  llrat  year  of  his 
reign,  in  ooorideration  of  his  eminent  serf  Ices, 
remitted  him  a  debt  he  owed  to  the  exchequer.  His 
lordship  M.  Anne,  Anghter  and  heiress  of  Ralph 
Hockley,  by  Eliabeth,  his  wife,  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam Clare,  (a  younger  son  ot  Robert,  Earl  of  Clare,) 
and  dying  in  1342,  was«.  by  his  only  son, 

REGINALD  DE  ORE  Y,  fourth  Baron,  summoned 
to  parliament  flrom  Mth  February,  1343,  to  90th 
Norember,  1300i  His  lordship  m.  Maud,  daughter 
and  co-heir  of  John  Botetourt,  of  Weoly,  and  dying 
in  1370*  was  succeeded  by  his  son, 

SIR  HENRY  DE  GREY,  fifth  Baron,  sum- 
moned to  parliament  ae  '*  Henry  Grey,  of  Shir- 
land,  1st  December,  1376,  and  as  **  Henry  Grey,  of 
Wilton,**  from  4th  August.  1377>  toflOth  November, 
13CM.  This  ndUcman,  during  the  lif»-time  of  his 
fMher,  was  in  the  immediate  retinue  of  John  of 
Gaunt,  in  the  expedition  made  by  that  prince  into 
Geeoony,  in  40th  Edward  III.  His  lordship  m. 
Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Thomas,  Lord  Talbot,  and 
had  issue, 

RicRAED,  Us  successor. 
Maigaxet,  m.  to  John,  Lord  Darcy. 
Lord  Grey  d.  in  1386,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

RICHARD  DE  GREY,  sixth  Baron,  but  nerer 
summoned  to  parliament  This  nobleman,  at  the 
decease  of  his  father,  was  but  three  years  of  age,  so 
that  nothing  occurs  regarding  him,  until  the  3rd  of 
Henry  V.,  when  he  appears  to  have  been  in  the 
retinue  of  Thomas,  Earl  of  Dorwt,  imcle  of  the 
king,  and  goremor  of  Normandy,  in  an  expedition 
made  thither.  His  lordship  m.  first,  Blanche, 
daughter  and  oo-heiresi  of  Sir  Philip  de  U  Vacche, 
K.G.,  by  whom  he  had  ason, 

RCOINA1.D,  his  successor. 
He  M.  secondly,  Margaret —,  and  had  another  son, 

WiUiam. 
His  lordship  d.  In  1442,  and  was  «.  by  his  dder  son, 

SIR  REGINALD  DE  GREY,  seventh  baron, 
summoned  to  parliament  from  13th  January,  1445, 
to  Uth  October,  I486,  as  "  Reginaldo  Grey  de 
Wilton,  chevalier."  His  lordship  m.  Taclna,  daugh- 
ter of  Sir  Owen  Tudor,  by  the  Queen  Dowager, 
Katherine,  widow  of  King  Henry  V.,  and  young- 
est daughter  of  Charles  YI.  of  France,  and  dying 
in  1406,  was  «.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  DE  GREY,  eighth  baron,  summoned  to 
pexUament  as  "Johanni  Grey  de  Wilton,"  16th 
January,  1407.  In  the  1st  of  Richard  IIL,  this 
nobleman  obtained  a  grant  from  the  crown  of  the 
manor  of  Wilsemstede,  in  the  county  of  Bedford  t 
and  tik  the  llth  of  Henry  VIL,  he  fought  stoutly  at 
Blackheath  against  the  Comlshroen,  then  In  re^ 
bdlion,  under  James,  Lord  Audley.  In  the  next 
year  he  was  in  the  wars  of  Scotland,  under  Giles, 
Lord  D'Aubeny.  His  lordship  m.  Lady  Anne  Grey, 
daughter  of  Edmund.  Earl  of  iCent,  lord-tieesurer, 
and  dying  befora  1606,  was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR  EDMUND  DE  GREY,  nteth  baron,  sum- 
to  parlianMnt,  as  «•  Edmundo  Grey  de  Wil- 


ton, Chl'r,"  17th  October,  1600.  His  lordship  m. 
Florence,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Sir  Ralph  Has- 
tings, third  brother  of  William,  first  Lord  Has- 
tings, l>y  whom  he  had  issue, 

George,  '^ 

Thomas,  f  all    succeuively  Lords   Grey,   of 

Richard,  f    Wilton. 

WlUiam,J 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  John   Brydges,   first  Lord 
Chandos. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1611,  and  was  •  by  his  eldest  son, 
GEORGE  DE  GREY,  tenth  baron,  who  tf.    in 
minority,  and  was  «.  by  Us  brother, 

THOMAS  DE  GREY,  eleventh  baron,  at  whoee 
decease,  also  in  minority,  the  title  devolved  upon 
Us  brother,  • 

RICHARD  GREY,  twelfth  baron,  likewise 
a  minor  at  his  decease  when  the  title  devolved 
upon  Us  brother, 

SIR  WILLIAM  GREY,  thirteenth  baron,  sum- 
moned to  periiamcnt  from  3d  November,  1620,  to 
6th  November.  1668,  as  "  WiUlefano  Grey  de  Wil- 
ton, CU'r."  This  nobleman  was  one  of  the  com- 
manders in  the  expedition  made  into  France  in 
the  36th  of  Henry  YIIL,  under  John.  Lord  RusseUs 
and  in  the  first  year  of  Edward  VI.,  bdng  then  a  ileld- 
marshal  and  captain-general  of  horse  In  the  army 
sent  into  Scotland,  he  phused  himself  at  its  head, 
and  in  that  position  maide  the  first  charge  against 
the  enemy.  In  the  next  year  his  lordaUp  fortified 
Haddington,  fired  Dalkeith,  and  won  the  castle, 
spoiling  much  of  the  country  around  Edinburgh ; 
after  which,  upon  the  commotions  raised  In  England 
against  the  Reformation,  he  marched,  at  the  head  of 
fifteen  hundred  horse  and  foot,  into  Oxfordshire, 
and  Immediately  restored  tranquillity.  His  lord- 
sUp  was  afterwsrds  committed  to  the  Tower  as 
one  of  the  partisans  of  the  Protector  SomerMt,  but 
was  restored  to  hh  liberty  after  the  decapitation  at 
that  unfortunate  nobleman,  and  the  next  year 
made  deputy  of  Calais,  and  governor  of  the  castle  of 
Guisnes,  in  Picardy.  Lord  Grey  Joined  the  Duke 
of  Northumberland  in  his  abortive  effort  to  place 
Lady  Jane  Grey  upon  the  throne;  and  It  was  to 
him  the  duke  observed,  in  reference  to  the  multi- 
tude of  people  that  stood  gasing  at  them  when 
about  to  mardi  Arom  London,  *<  Do  you  see,  my 
Lord,  what  a  confiux  of  people  here  is  drawn  to- 
gether to  see  us  march?— end  yet.  of  all  this  multi- 
tude, you  hear  not  so  much  as  one  that  wisheth  us 


As  governor  of  the  castle  of  Guisnes,  his  lordsUp, 
after  a  gallant  defence  of  that  fortress  against  the 
French,  was  obliged  to  surrender  it,  and  became, 
with  aU  his  officers,  prisoner  to  the  Duke  of 
Guise,  then  commander-ln-cUef  of  the  Frendi 
army,  by  whom  he  was  transferred  to  Marshal 
Stony,  and  finally  passing  to  Count  Rouchefou- 
calt,  he  continued  In  captivity  until  ransomed  for 
twenty  thousand  crowns,  wUch  considerably  im- 
paired his  fortune.  **  How  he  came  to  be  attainted.** 
says  Dugdale,  "  I  have  not  seen;  but  in  the  1st  of 
Elfambeth  he  was  restored  in  blood;"  and  the  next 
year,  being  then  a  Kniort  of  the  Gartsr,  he 
was  constituted  governor  of  Berwidi-upon-Tweed, 
and  warden  of  the  east  and  middle  mardies  towards 

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Scotlcnd.  Hii  lordahip  m.  Lady  Mary  Somerwt* 
daughter  of  Charles.  Earl  of  Woroettar,  and  had 
inue, 

ARTHrR,  hia  mcceiior. 

William.^ 

Honora,  m.  to  Henry  Denny,  Esq. 
Lord  Grey  d,  in  1562>  at  Cheston,  in  Hertfordshire, 
the  house  of  his  son-in-law,  Denny ;  and  It  was  re- 
marked, **  that,  on  the  same  day  died  the  greatest 
scholar  and  the  greatest  soldier  of  the  nobility,** 
namely  Henry  Manners,  Earl  of  Rutland,  and 
William  Grey,  Lord  Grey,  of  WUton.  His  lord- 
ship was  «.  by  his  elder  son, 

SIR  ARTHUR  GREY,  fourteenth  baron,  sum- 
moned to  parliament,  as  **  Arthuto  Grey  de  Wil- 
ton, Chl'r.,"  ttcm  30th  September,  1M6,  to  19th 
February,  IdOS.  Thk  nobl^nan  was  lord-lieutenant 
of  Ireland  in  1580,  and  acquired  great  fiune  by 
suppressing  the  rebellion  of  Desmond.  He  was 
subsequently  one  of  the  commissioners  who  sate 
in  Judgment  on  the  unfortunate  Mary,  Queen  of 
Scots,  at  Fotheringay,  and  he  afterwards  de- 
■  fended  secretary  Davison  ftom  the  accusation  of 
delivering  the  warrant  of  execution  without  the 
knowledge  of  Elixabeth,  and,  in  a  long  speech.  Jus- 
tified the  foul  murder  of  the  Scottish  princess. 
In  the  31st  of  Elisabeth,  he  was  one  of  the  council 
of  war,  ftor  the  defence  of  the  ports  and  havens 
against  the  celebrated  Armada.  His  lordahip  m. 
first,  Dorothy,  natural  daughter  of  Richard,  Lord 
Zouch,  of  Haningworth,  by  whom  he  had  an 
only  daughter, 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  Sir  Francis  Goodwin,   by 
whom  she  had  a  son, 

Arthur  Goodwin,  whose  daughter  and 
heiress, 

Jane,  m.  Philip,  Lord  Wharton. 
Lord  Grey  espoused,  secondly,  Jane^ibylla,  daugh- 
ter of  Sir  Richard  Morison,  KnL,  and  Countess 
Dowager  of  Bedford,  and  had  iMue* 

Thomas,  his  successor. 

William,  died  «.  p.  in  160S. 

Bridget,  m.  to  Sir  Rowland  Egerton,  Bart. 
His  lordship,  who  was  a  Kwioht  of  the  Gartcb, 
d,  in  1303,  and  was  «.  by  his  dder  son, 

SIR  THOMAS  GREY,  fifteenth  baron,  sum- 
moned to  parliament  flrom  Mth  October,  15S7,  to 
a7th  October,  IQOl.  TJiis  nobleman  being  involved 
in  what  has  been  termed  *'  Raleigh's  Conspiracy," 
was  arrested  on  the  19th  July,  1003,  and  tried  with 
Lord  Cobham,  at  Winchester,  on  the  29th  and  26th 
November  following.  Sir  Dudley  Carleton  says, 
that  alter  the  al^Ject  defence  of  Cobham,  '*  Grey, 
quite  in  another  key,  began  with  great  assurance 
and  alacrity,  telling  the  lords,  the  Judges,  and  the 
king's  council,  their  duties  in  a  long  speech,  and 
kept  them  the  whole  day  to  sulitle  traverses  and 
Bubterliiges  I  but  the  evidence  that  he  was  ac- 
quainted with  the  surprise  of  the  king,  was  too 
eonsplcuous,  by  Brokers  and  Markham*s  confes- 
sions. The  lords,"  (continues  Sir  Dudley,)  "  were 
long  ere  they  could  agree,  and  loth  to  come  out 
with  so  hard  a  censure  against  him  \  most  of  them 
strove  with  themselves,  and  would  fain,  as  it  seems, 
have  dispensed  with  their  consciences,  to  have 
shewn  him  fkvour.    After  sentence,  when  he  was 


asked  what  he  would  say  against  its  being  de* 
nounoed  ?  he  replied,  *  I  have  nothing  to  say,  yet 
a  word  of  Tacitus  comes  in  my  mouth : 

'  Non  eadem  omnibus  decora.' 
The  house  of  Wilton  have  spent  many  lives  in  their 
prince's  service,  and  Grey  cannot  ask  his.' "  His 
lordship  was  removed  to  the  Tower,  where  he  died 
0th  July,  1014,  having  received  a  pardon  so  Ikr  as 
the  remission  of  the  capital  part  of  the  sentence: 
but  the  barony  of  Gac  y  or  Wilton  expired  under 
his  lordship's  attainder,  and  his  estates  became  for- 
feited. Those  at  Whaddon,  in  Buckinghamshire, 
were,  after  his  attainder,  leased  out  to  his  widow, 
and  after  his  death  granted  in  fee  to  the  favourite 
George  Villiers,  Duke  of  Buckingham.  Wilton  Cas- 
tle, on  the  banks  of  the  Wye,  in  Herefordshire,  had 
been  sold  in  the  reign  of  Eliabeth,  to  the  Hon. 
Charles  Brydges,  ancestor  to  the  Dukes  ot  Chan- 
dos— and  upon  the  decease  of  the  first  duke  it  was, 
together  with  other  large  estates  in  the  neighbour- 
hood, sold  to  Guy's  HospltaL  Lord  Grey  having 
died  without  Inue,  and  his  only  brother,  William, 
previously  also  issudess,  his  sister  of  the  whole 
blood,  Bridget,  wife  of  Sir  Rowland  Egerton,  of 
Egerton,  in  Cheshire,  became  his  heir.  Her  lady- 
ship's interest  in  the  estates,  acomding  to  Carte,  was 
purchased  by  Villiers  for  £ll,0(NX,  and  the  procur- 
ing a  baronetcy  for  Sir  Rowland.  Villiers  was  sub- 
sequently himself  created  Baron  Whaddon.  the 
mansion  of  the  Greys. 

From  Sir  Rowland  Egerton,  and  Bridget  Grey,  his 
lady,  descended  lineaUy, 

Sir  Thomas  Egerton,  the  seventh  baronet,  wbo 
was  elevated  to  the  peerage  on  15th  May, 
1784,  as  Baron  Grey,  of  WilUm  Castle,  in 
the  county  of  Hereford,  and  advanced,  on 
the  26th  June,  1801.  to  the  dignities  of  Vit- 
couni  Greg  da  WUion  and  Earl  of  Wil- 
ton, with  remainder  to  the  second  and 
younger  sons  of  his  daughter  Eleanor,  who 
had  married  Robert,  Viscount  Belgrave— 
now  Earl  Grosvenor  and  the  said  honours, 
at  his  lordship's  decease  in  1814,  were  inhe- 
rited by  his  grandson  (according  to  the 
limitation). 

The  Honourable  Thomas  Grosvenor,  who 
assumed  the  name  of  Egerton,  and  is 
the  preient  Earl  of  Wilton. 
ARM8. — ^Barry  of  six  ar.  and  aa.  in  chief  three 
Ibrteaiixes.  a  tile  of  three  p<^ts  ar. 

OREY  —  BARONS  GREY,  OF  RO- 
THERFIELD,  IN  THE 
COUNTY  OF  OXFORD. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  26th  January,  1997» 
25  Edward  L 

Xincagc. 

ROBERT  DE  GREY,  fourth  son  of  Henry  de 
Grey,  of  Thurroc,  (see  Barons  Grey,  of  Codnor.) 
obtained  ftom  his  brother,  Walter  de  Grey,  Ardi- 
bishop  of  York,  a  gift  of  the  mi^or  part  of  the 
lordship  of  Rotherfield,  in  the  county  of  Oxford, 
and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

WALTER  DE  GREY,  to  whom  the  same  pre- 


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latt  extondwl  hit  bounty  by  a  grant  of  all  his  lands 
in  OilBifonl*  in  Kent*  Brighthdmstone,  in  Suaer, 
with  Herdewyke  and  Cogn»  in  the  county  of  Ox- 
Ibrd*  which  he  had  by  assignment  ttom  Joan  and 
Alice,  the  daughten  and  co-hein  of  Robert  de 
Aruc,  Baxon  of  Coge>,  and  likewise  the  residue  of 
the  manor  of  Rotherfleld,  together  with  dlven 
other  lorddiipe.  This  Walter  d.  in  A9nd  Henry  III., 
and  waa  «.  by  his  ton, 

ROBERT  DE  OREY,  who  m.  Ayice,  daughter 
of  William  de  St.  Lit,  and  dying  in  19M,  waB«.  by 
hie  too* 

JOHN  DB  GREY*  then  twenty^our  yean  of 
age,  wiio,  ioon  after  doing  his  homage,  had  livery 
of  his  inheritancei  and  in  the 85th  Edward  1.  had 
sonunons  to  the  parliament,  then  held  at  Westmin- 
ster, as  asABON.  Tills  nobleman  appeen  to  haye 
taken  part  in  the  Soottish  wan  of  Edward  I.  His 
lordship  m.  Haxgaiet*  daughter  and  eo-heiren  of 
William  de  Odingsdk,  cf  Maxtock,  in  the  eounty 
of  Warwick,  and  dying  in  5th  Edward  II.,  was  «.  by 
his  son, 

JOHN  DB  OREY.  iODond  baron,  who,  hi  the 
15th  Edward  II.,  making  proofof  hisage,  had  livery 
of  his  hmds;  and  in  the  1st  of  Edward  IIL  was  In 
the  wan  of  Scotland.  In  the  8th  of  the  same  reign, 
upon  some  diflbrenoe  between  his  lordship  and 
WilHam  le  Zouch,'of  Haryngworth,  another  great 
banm,  which  was  heard  before  the  k^.  Lord  Grey, 
under  the  irritation  of  the  moment,  drew  his  knilb 
upon  Lord  Zoudi  in  the  royal  presence,  whereupon 
both  lords  were  committed  to  prison  t  but  the  Lord 
Zoudi  was  soon  afterwards  released,  while  Lord 
Orey  was  remanded,  and  his  lands  seised  upon  by 
Che  crown.  He  was,  however,  within  a  short  time^ 
upon  making  submission,  restored  to  fiavour:  and 
in  three  yean  afterwards  we  Und  his  lordship  in 
Scotland  upon  the  king^  service,  being  of  the 
retinue  with  Henry,  Earl  of  Lancaster.  From  this 
period,  for  several  yean,  he  was  engaged  in  the 
French  wan,  and  in  the  90th  of  Edward's  reign  he 
obtained  licence  to  fortify  his  houses  at  Rother- 
lldd  Orey,  in  the  county  cf  Oxford,  and  Sculcotes, 
in  the  coonty  of  York,  with  embattled  walls  of 
lime  and  stcne;  The  next  year  there  being  a  tour- 
nament held  at  Eltham,  in  Kent,  amongst  other 
aoDOutrcments  prepared  for  that  military  exercise,  his 
lordship  had  a  hood  of  white  doth,  embroidered 
with  dandng  men,  in  blue  habits,  buttoned  before 
with  large  pearls,  presented  to  him  by  the  king. 
In  the  96th  Edward  III.  he  was  one  of  the  commis- 
alonen  in  the  counties  of  Oxford  and  Berks,  for 
anaytaig  and  arming  all  men  of  ability  within  those 
ahires,  and  leading  them  against  the  king's  enemies. 
Invasion  bdng  at  that  time  threatened  by  the 
Prendk  In  the  next  year  he  was  steward  of  the 
king's  housdiold,  and  had  summons  to  parliament 
tram  the  1st  to  the  89th  of  Edward  III.  inclusive. 
Hia  lordship  m.  lint,  Katherine,  daughter  and  co- 
heir of  Bryan  Fits-Alan,  of  Bedall,  in  the  county  of 
York,  and  had  issue, 
JoHK,  his  successor. 

Maud,  M.    first,   to  John  de  Botetourt,  of 
Weolcy,  and  secondly,  to  Thomas  de  Har- 
oourt. 
He  m.  secondly,   Avice,  daughter  and  co4ielr  of 


John,  Lord  Mannlon,  and  had  two  sonst  John  and 
Robwt,  who  both  assumed  their  mother's  name  of 
jiarmion  (see  Barons  Marmion). 
Lord  Grey  d.  in  USO,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 
JOHN  DE  GREY,  third  baron,  summoned  to 
parliament  as  "Johanni  de  Grey  de  Rotherfeld." 
from  80th  November,  1300,  to  4th  October,  1373L 
His  lordship  m.  — ,  and  had  issuoi 

JoHif,  who  m.  Elisabeth,   daughter  of   Sir 
Richard  de  Poynings,  Knt.,  and  dying  be- 
fore his  ftither,  left  issue, 
BAXTHOLojiaWtWho  succeeded  his  grand- 
father. 
Robert,  who  succeeded  his  brother. 
Richard,  died  «.  j>. 
Robert,  who  died  without  male  issue,  in  the 
41st  Edward  IIL 
Lord  Grey  d.  in  1S75,  and  was  «.  by  his  grandson, 

BARTHOLOMEW  DE  GREY,  fourth  baron, 
but  never  summoned  to  parliament.  This  noUa* 
man,  dying  in  1976,  unmarried,  the  title  and  estates 
devolved  upon  his  brother, 

ROBERT  DE  GREY,  fifth  baron,  summoned 
to  parliament  in  the  1st  Richard  II.,  but  not  after- 
wards. His  lordship  m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  and 
co-heir  of  William  de  la  Plaunche,  of  Haversham, 
in  the  county  of  Bucks,  and  dying  in  13e7»  left  an 
only  daughter  and  heiress, 

Joan ■,  who  m.  Sir  John  Deincourt,  Knt.,  and 
by  him  left,  at  her  decease,  two  daughters, 
via., 

Alice,  who  IN.  first,  William,  Lord  Lovel, 

and  secondly,  Sir  Ralph  Boteter. 
Margaret,  m.  to  Ralph,  LordCromwdl, 
of  Tattersall,  and  died  «.  fi. 
The  barony  of  Grcv,  or  RoTBanrisLO,  vested, 
eventually,  in  John,  Lord  Lovd,  son  and  heir  of 
the  abov»-mentloned  Alice  Deincourt,  by  William, 
Lord  Lovel,  and  passed,  at  his  decesse,  to  his  son 
Francis,  Viscount  Lovel,  K.G.,  under  whose  at-  - 
tainder,  in  1487,  it  HXPinnn. 
AnMa.— Same  as  Grey,  of  Codnor. 

OREY  —  BARON  OREY,  OF  COD- 
NOR, IN  THE  COUNTY 
OF  DERBY. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  8th  FObruary,  1989, 
97  Edward  L 

In  the  sixth  year  of  King  Richard  L,  that  mo- 
narch conferred  the  manor  of  Thurrock,  in  the 
county  of  Essex  (afterwards  called  Thukrock  Grey), 
upon 

HENRY  DB  GREY,  which  grant  was  confirmed 
by  King  John,  who  voudisalM,  by  spedal  charter, 
to  permit  the  s^d  Henry  de  Grey  to  hunt  the  hare 
and  fox  in  any  land  bdonging  to  the  crown,  save 
the  king's  own  demeBne>parks.  In  the  1st  Henry 
IIL  he  had  also  a  grant  of  the  manor  of  Grimston, 
in  the  county  of  Nottingham,  and  having  .after- 
wards married  Isolde,  niece  and  heiress  of  Robert 
Bardolf,  shared  in  the  inheritance  of  hto  brnds.  By 
this  lady  Henry  de  Grey  had  issue, 

RicBABO,  of  wlMm  presently. 

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John,  WHne  Umo  justice  of  ChMter,  progenttor 
of  th«  Grays  of  Wilton,  and  Greys  of 
Ruthyn. 

William,  of  Landford,  in  the  county  of  Notts, 
and  Sandiacre,  in  the  county  of  Derby. 

Robert,  of  Rotherfield. 

Walter,  Archbishop  of  York. 

This  prelate  lies  buried  in  the  cathedral 
church  of  York,  undtfr  a  tomb  of  curious 
gothic  workmanship,  having  the  bishop's 
effigy  at  full  length,  with  his  crotier  lying 
at  the  bottom  part. 

Henry. 
RICHARD  DE  GREY,of  Codnor,  in  the  county 
of  Derby,  the  ddest  son,  having  adhered  to  King 
-Jxrfm,  had  the  lands  of  John  de  Humes,  In  Eeices- 
tershire,  and  Simon  de  Cancl,  in  Lincolnshire,  two 
of  the  rebellious  barons,  conferred  upon  him ;  and 
in  the  10th  Henry  III.  he  was  made  governor  ot  the 
Isles  of  Guernsey,  Jeney,  Aldemey  and  Sarke;  of 
which.  In  the 96th  of  the sanw  king,  hehad  agrant, 
in  fee  farm,  for  400  marks,  to  be  paid  yearly  into 
the  king's  exchequer.  In  which  year  the  king, 
intending  a  pilgrimage  to  the  Holy  Land,  and 
causing  the  bishops  of  Worcester  and  Chichester  to 
preach  a  similar  course  to  the  people,  this  Richard 
and  John,  his  brother,  came  forward,  although, 
generally  speaking,  the  discourses  of  the  prelates 
had  but  little  eflbct,  which  so  pleased  the  king,  that 
he  embraced  them  in  his  arms,  kissed  them,  and 
called  them  brothers.  In  a  few  years  afterwards 
(4M  Henry  III.)  we  And  Richard  de  Grey  constable 
of  Dover  Castle  and  warden  of  the  cinque  ports, 
ahd  being  both  diligent  and  trusty  in  those  offices, 
discovered  much  treaaure,  which  the  Poictovins 
(then  in  hi^  fkvour  with  the  king)  had  rekdy  to 
convey  into  Prance.  **  But  about  this  time,"  says 
Dugdale,  ''there being  no  little  contest,  touching 
Athelroure,  the  king's  brother,  by  Uie  mother,  then 
elect  Biriiop  of  Winchester  i  divers  of  the  great 
barons  opposing  him.  In  r^ard  he  was  of  that  party, 
against  whom  they  took  high  exception,  for  mis- 
leading the  king,  and  consuming  the  wealth  of  the 
land.  Whereupon  he  fled  to  Rome,  and  by  Arise 
'  suggestions*  procured  the  pope's  letters  for  his  insti- 
tuticm,  which  were  sent  by  Walescho,  a  grey  friar, 
who  landed  at  Dover.  The  barons  grew  so  incensed, 
that  they  forthwith  sent  Hu^  Bigot,  then  Justice 
of  England,  thither,  to  inquite  by  what  authority 
he  was  sullied  to  come  on  shore;  who  went  to  this 
Richard  (then  conatable  of  the  castle)  and  said, 
*  Have  you  been  trusted  by  the  people  of  England, 
as  a  Csithftil  warden  of  the  ports,  and  su  Ared  this 
person  to  land,  without  our  knowledge,  to  the 
manifest  violation  of  your  oath  ?  We  think  you, 
not  only  unworthy  of  this  place  any  longer,  but  to 
be  farther  questioned,  for  so  great  a  transgression, 
tending  to  Uie  public  damage  of  the  whole  realm.' 
And  thereupon  took  the  custody  of  the  castle,  and 
of  all  the  ports  into  his  own  hands."  Subsequently 
to  tUs  p«riod  Richard  de  Grey  arrayed  himsdf 
under  the  baronial  standard,  and  being,  with  his 
son  John,  in  the  army  of  young  Simon  de  Montfort, 
at  Kenilworth,  was  surprised  In  the  night-time  by 
a  party  from  Prince  Edward's  army,  and  taken 
prisoner,  with  several  other  barons.  For  this  treason 

93A 


his  lands  #ere  seiaed  upon  by  the  crown:  but  were 
afterwards  restored,  upon  the  payment  of  a  fine 
under  the  decree,  denominated  *'D<ctt<mde  Kenil- 
worth,**  Riduurd  de  Grey  m.  Lucia,  daughter  and 
heiress  of  the  John  de  Humes  mentioned  above,  and 
was  9,  at  his  decease  by  his  son, 

JOHN  DE  GREY,  who  died  in  1371 «  and  was «. 
by  his  son, 

HENRY  DE  GREY,  who  being  in  the  king's 
army  in  Wales;  in  the  10th  Edward  I.,  had  scutage 
Uova  all  his  tenants,  in  the  counties  of  Norfolk^ 
Suffi^lk,  Kent,  Nottingham  and  Derby,  that  held 
of  him  by  military  service,  and  had  summons, 
in  the  a2d  of  the  same  monarch,  amongst  other 
great  men,  to  repair  forthwith  to  the  king,  to  con- 
sult about  the  urgent  afiUrs  of  the  realm,  as  also  to 
be  at  Portsmouth,  upon  the  first  of  the  ensuing 
September,  with  horse  and  armi,  to  attend  the  king 
in  his  expedition  into  Oasoony.  After  which  he 
had  summons  to  parliament  as  a  baron,  Arom  6th 
February,  1299,  to  6th  August,  1308.  His  kHdship 
was,  for  several  years,  actively  engaged  in  the 
French  and  Scottish  wars ;  in  the  latter  of  which  he 
formed  one  of  the  immediate  retinue  of-  Prince 
Edward.  He  d.  in  1906,  and  was  «.  by  his  elder  son, 
RICHARD  DE  GREY,  second  baron,  sum- 
moned to  parliament  ftom  4th  If  arch,  1309,  to  3d 
February,  1335.  This  nobleman  was  seneschal 
of  Gascony  in  the  6th  Edward  IL  In  the  18th  of 
the  same  reign  he  was  in  the  wars  of  Scotland,  and 
again  the  next  year,  when  he  was  in  the  retinue  <rf 
Thomas  of  Brotherton,  Earl  of  Norfolk.  In  four 
yean  after,  he  was  constituted  steward  of  the 
duchy  of  Aquitaine,  and  within  two  years  appointed 
constable  of  Nottingham  Castle.  In  the  7th  of  Ed- 
ward IIL,  he  had  summons  to  attend  the  king 
at  Newcastle,  with  horse  and  arms,  to  march 
against  the  Scots,  but  had  a  special  dispensatiatt 
from  the  service  in  consequence  of  his  bodily  in^ 

flrmities.    His  lordship  m. »  and  had  issue. 

John,  his  successor. 

Robert,  of  Cherlton-Grey,  in  the  county  of 
Somerset,  which,  with  other  lands,  he  inhe- 
rited from  Robert  Fits-Payn.  and  in  oonse' 
quence  assumed  the  surname  of  Fitx-PainA 
He  m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  and  co-heir  of 
Sir  Guy  de  Bryan,  and  left  an  only  daugh- 
ter and  heiress, 

ISABxx.,  who  m.  Richard,  Lord  Poynlnga. 
Riduurd,  Lord  Grey,  d.  in  1335,  and  was  «.  by  bis 
elder  son, 

JOHN  DE  GREY,  third  baron,  summoned  to 
parliament  tnaa  1st  April,  1335,  to  8th  September* 
139S,  as  '*  Johanni  Grey  de  Codcnore."  This  no- 
bleman, during  the  lifie-time  ci  his  father,  attained 
distinction  in  the  Scottish  wan,  and,  after  his  ac- 
cession to  the  title,  was  engaged  in  those  of  Flan- 
ders; and  so  eminent  were  his  services  esteemed  by 
the  king,  that  his  lordship  received,  about  the  90th 
year  of  Edward's  reign,  fkom  the  hands  of  the 
monarch  himself,  a  hood  of  white  doth,  embroil 
dered  with  blue  men,  buttoned  before  with  great 
pearls ;  and  being  to  perform  divers  military  exerdaes 
in  a  tournament  at  Canterbury,  had  certain  accoutre- 
ments of  Indian  silk,  whereon  the  arms  of  Sir 
Stephen  Cosyngton,  Knt.,  were  painted,  beMowed 


ORfi 


ens 


apoD  him  by  the  king.  In  two  jtm  ■ftenrards, 
he  again  went  Into  France,  continuing  in  the  re- 
tinue of  Henry,  Earl  ef  Lancaster;  and  in  four 
yeart  tufaaequently,  we  ind  him  joined  in  commia- 
•lon  with  Lord  D'Elncourt,  to  amy  all  the  knights, 
eM]uiree,  and  otlier  able  peraons  residing  in  the 
counties  of  Nottingham  and  Derby,  and  to  con- 
duct them  to  such  places  as  should  be  needftil  fbr 
the  defence  of  the  reahn,  there  being  an  invasion 
threatened  at  thet  time  by  the  Prendi.  In  the  S9th 
of  Edward  III.,  his  lordship  was  once  more  in 
Franee,  as  he  was  again  in-  the  33d.  But  after  all 
these  military  senrlces,  he  obtained  licence,  ta  the 
3Bth  Edward  III.,  to  goon  e  pHgrimage;  and  in 
the  4fith  of  the  same  reign,  being  then  very  aged, 
and  not  able  to  andure  the  fatigues  of  txavdling, 
he  had  a  special  dispensation  from  the  king 
(wherein  his  great  and  manifold  services  were 
gratefully  acknowledged),  to  exempt  him  from 
coming  to  parliament  and  councils,  and  likewise 
flfom  being  charged  with  setting  forth  any  soldiers 
whatsoever  in  the  wars  of  that  king,  his  hdrs,  or 
His  lordship  m.  ',  and  had 


Half  RT,  m. 


and  dying  In  the  life-time 


of  his  father,  left  a  son, 

RicHAao,  who  inherited  the  title. 
John. 

Alice,  m.  to  William  de  Everingham. 
John,  Lord  Grey,  of  Codnor,  Kniort  of  the  Oab- 
raa,  d,  about  the  year  1308,  and  was  «.  by  his  grand- 


RICHARD  DE  OREY.  fourth  baron.  This 
noUeman,  who  was  in  the  French  wars  in  the  17th 
and  21st  of  Richard  II.,  was  made  admiral  ot  the 
king's  fleet  tnm  the  mouth  of  the  Thames  to  the 
northward,  in  the  2d  of  Henry  IV.,  and  soon  after- 
wards constituted  joint-governor  of  the  castle  of 
Rozborough,  in  Scotland,  with  Sir  Stephen  le 
Scxopa  In  the  neatt  year  he  was  again  in  France 
upon  the  king's  service;  and  in  the  8th  of  the 
same  monarch,  his  lordship  -was  constituted  con- 
stable  of  the  castle  of  Nottingham,  and  chief  ranger 
of  Shirewood  Forest,  fbr  life.  After  this  we  find 
him  constantly  employed  upon  confidential  mis- 
sions to  the  courts  of  France  and  Scotland,  and  he 
had  summons  to  parliament,  as  **  Riduurdo  Grey  de 
Codenore,**  from  13th  November,  1308,  to  Sd  Sep- 
tember, 1417,  being  also  a  Kwioht  of  the  OAaTaa. 
HIa  lordship  in.  Elisabeth,  one  of  the  daughters  and 
ea-heirB  of  Ralph,  Lord  Basset,  of  Sapcoate,  and 


JoBir,  his  successor. 
Henry,  successor  to  his  brother. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Sir  John  Zouche. 
Eleanor,  m.  to  Thomas  Newport 
Lucie,  m.  to  Rowland  LenthaU. 
His  hmlahip  d.  In  1418,  and  was  «.  by  his  elder 


JOHN  DE  OREY,  fifth  baron,  summooed  to 
parliament  flpom  98th  February,  1420,  to  3d  August, 
1488,  as  John  Orey,  of  Codnor.  This  nobleman  d. 
in  1490,  ».  p.  and  was  «.  by  his  brother, 

HENRY  DE  GREY,  sixth  baron,  summoned 
to  parliament,  as  Henry  Orey,  of  Codnor,  from  27th 
November,  1430,  to  3d  Deoambec,  1441.    His  kird- 


BAROWV  OP  Oanv,  OF 

CoBMoa,  fcU  Into 
▲BB  YAWca,  as  U  con- 
tinues  with  their  de- 
scendants. 


ship  in.  Hargaret,  one  of  the  danghters  and  eo-helfs 
of  Sir  Henry  Percy,  of  Athol,  by  whom  (who  m., 
after  his  decease.  Sir  Richard  Vera,  KnL)  he 
had  an  only  son,  his  successor,  at  his  decease  i» 
1443, 

HENRY  DE  GREY,  seventh  baron,  summoned 
to  parliament,  as  ••  Henrico  Grey.  Milltl,"  but 
never  with  the  addition  of  Coifaior.  This  nobleman 
muchaflbcting  the  study  of  chembtry,  obtained,  in 
the  3d  of  Edward  IVk,  a  licence  IWnn  the  crown  to 
practise  the  transmutation  of  metals.  His  lordship 
d.  In  1405,  and,  leaving  no  legitimate  issue,  his 
estates  reverted  to  his  aunts, 

Elisabeth,  wife  of  Slr^  amongst  whom,  the 

John  Zouche; 
Eleanor,  wife  of  Tho- 
mas Newport; 
Lucie,  wifeof  Sir  Row- 
land Lenthall ; 
Lord  Orey  left  two  ill^timate  sons, 

Richard  Grey,  to  whdm  he  devised  the  manor 
of  Raddlflb-upon-TreDt,  in  the  county  of 
Notts. 
Henry  Grey,  from  whom  the  Greys  ot  Langleyi 
in  the  county  of  Leicester,  descended. 
Abma^— Barry  of  six,  ar.  and  as.,  in  chief  three 
torteauxes. 

NoTB«— '*  The  last  Lord  Orey,  of  Codnor,"  says 
Leiand,  **  left  three  daughters,  whereof  one  was 
married  to  Sir  Rowland  Lentalle,  of  Nottyngham- 
shire;  another  to  Newport,  in  Shropshire;  and  the 
third  to  one  Souche,  a  younger  brother  of  the  house 
of  the  Lord  Souches.  These  three  had  the  Lord 
Greyes  landes  in  oopartion,  whereof  the  lordship 
of  Allesfbrd,  In  Kent,  and  How  Hundred,  was 
partei  There  were  some  of  the  Lord  Greyes,  cf 
Codnor,  byrled  at  Ailesford  Freres." 

*«  Lentalle,  dying  without  issue  male,  left  two 
daughters,  whereof  one,  called  Catherine,  was  mar- 
ried to  one  of  the  Lord  Zouches ;  the  other  to  Com- 
wale.  Baron  of  Burford  ;  and  so  cam  they  to  be  co- 
partiners  In  the  Lord  Grey  of  Codnor's  lands.** 

OR£Y— BARONS  OREY,  OF  6ROBY, 
MARQUESSES  OF  DORSET, 
DUKE  OF  SUFFOLK. 

Barony,  by  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  80th  Sept.,  1300, 
28  Edward  I. 

Marquisat^  l.«^*^  /  ^^^  April,  147flw 
Dukedom,    /  "**"°*  \  11th  October,  IML 

Xincagt. 

SIR  EDWARD  GREY,  Knt.  (eldeit  son  of 
Reginald,  Lord  Orey,  of  Ruthyn,  by  Joan,  his 
second  wifb,  daughter  and  heir  of  Sir  William'  da 
Astky,  son  and  heir  of  Thomas,  seventh  Lord 
Astley,)  espoused  Elisabeth  Fecrers,  grand-daughter 
and  heir  of  William  Ferrers,  Lord  Fecrers,  of 
Oroby,  and  was  summoned  to  parliament  In  her 
right,  as  Baron  Ferrers,  of  Oroby,  from  14th  De- 
cember, 1446,  to  2nd  January,  1448,  and  as  Loan 
Grby,  of  Oboby,  firom  23rd  September,  1440,  to 
26th  May,  14ftft.  That  his  lordship  bore,  in  1446, 
the  former  title  is  evident,  ftom  a  special  dlspensa- 
tioQ,  which  he  obtained  on  8th  November  in  that 


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ORE 


ORB 


r/ftom  Join  Staflbrd.  Umb  ATchbiahopt>r  Cn^ 
terbory*  wbortby.  In  cwmcqwrnce  of  the  di»tiinf»  of 
the  mmor  boiue  of  Gioby  t^om  the  p«rteh  church, 
and  «fottbMM  of  the  ways  thereto*"  he  had  licenoe  to 
hxlsten  the  child,  of  which  his  hidy  was  then  pfcg- 
naatf  hy  the  vicar  of  liis  chapeL  The  dispouatioa 
being  addressed  thos  — *'NoM]i  Tiro  Edmundo 
Domino  de  Ferrers  de  Oroby."  His  lordship  had 
iasucit 

JoBjf  (Sir)*  his  luccessor. 
Edward,   who  m.  Eliaabeth  Talbot,  eUest 
daughter  of  Thomas,  Lord  L'lsle,  and  was 
created  Vibcouxt  L*Iai.B. 
lUgtaiald,  slain  at  the  battle  of  WakelieU. 
Anne,  ■•.  to  Sir  Edward  Hungerftnd. 
Had.  in  1407>  and  was  ».  by  his  eldest  son, 

SIR  JOHN  GREV,  second  baron,  bat  never 
■ammoned  to  iMrliameptt  who  m.  Ei.iaABBTH 
WiDyiia.B,  daughter  of  Richaid  WidviUe,  Earl 
Rivers,  and  had  issuer 

Thom Aa  (Sir),  his  saceessor. 
RidMod  (Sir),  beheaded  hi  the  Itt  of  RIdiard 
IIL 
Sir  John  Gray  lUl  in  the  a9th  Henry  VL,  at  the 
battle  of  St.  Albans,  fighting  under  the  ooloun  of 
Lancaster.  His  widow  becoming  subsequently  a 
suitor  to  King  Edward  IV.,  for  some  lands  which 
had  been  given  to  her  in  Jointures  the  king  was  so 
anamoured  of  her  beauty  and  graoeftilncss,  that  he^ 
upon  his  part,  became  a  suitor  to  the  bdy.  But 
she,  it  is  said,  wisdy  answered  him  when  he  became 
importunate,  "  that  as  she  did  account  herself  too 
base  to  be  his  wife,  so  she  did  think  herself  too  good 
to  be  his  harkM."  The  result  Is  well  known.  The 
king  manied  her,  and  thereby  focuned  the  wrath 
of  the  Earl  of  Warwick,  which  had  nearly  kMthim 
hb  crown.  In  roneagnnifffi  of  this  gnatalHaace  her 
eldest  son, 

SIR  THOMAS  GREY,  was  created,  on  the 
4th  August,  1471,  Karl  ^  Hiiiif<iMi<0M,*  and  ad- 
vanoed,  on  the  18th  April,  147A,  to  the  ICanoixiaATB 
ov  Donanr,  en^  "  per  Cinctnram  Gladil  at  Cap« 
Honoris  impositionem."  On  which  day  he  sate  in 
bis  habit  at  the  upper  end  of  the  table,  among  the 
knights,  in  St.  Edward^  chambers  and  in  the  82nd 
Edward  IV.,  had  livery  of  his  lands  without  making 
proof  of  his  age.  But  on  the  death  of  King  Edward 
he  was  attafaited  of  high  treason,  1st  Ridiard  III., 
owing  to  his  near  relationship  to  the  young  King 
Edward  V.;  he  was,  however,  fortunate  enough  to 
make  his  escape  into  Britanny,  and  Joined  the  Earl 
of  Richmond,  who,  after  the  battle  of  Bosworth- 
fidd,  having  ascended  the  throne,  as  UsivnY  VII., 
sent  for  the  Marquess  of  Dorset,  and  restored  hhn 
to  all  his  honours.  His  lordship  subsequently  en- 
Joyed  the  fivoar  of  the  king,  although  at  one  time 
he  was  committed  to  the  Tower.  In  the  7th  of 
Henry  VII.  he  was  with  the  army  sent  to  assist  the 
Emperor  Maximilian  agataist  the  French;  and  in 
four  years  afterwards  we  find  him  one  of  the  com- 
menders  who  vanquished  Lord  Audley  and  the 
rebels  at  Blaekheath.    His  knrdship  m.   Cedlie, 


a  Thisdignity  he  ralioquiahed  upon  behig  created 
Marquess  of  Dorset. 
«6 


dangjhter  waA  hair  of  William,  Lad  BoBTlla,  of- 
Harrington,  and  had,  with  other  Isaue, 

Tromab,  hissuooeseor. 

Leonard,  created  Viscount  Grancy  of  the 
kingdom  of  Irdand,  executed  31st  Henry 
VIIL 

George,  in  holy  (wders. 

Dorothy,  m.  first,  to  Robert,  Lord  Willooghby 
de  Broke,  and  seoondly,  to  William  Bkmnt, 
Lord  Mountjoy. 

Cecily,  m.  to  John  Sutton,  Lord  Dudley. 

Eleanor,  m.  to  John  Arundel,  of  Lanhen,  in 
the  county  of  ComwalL 

Elisabeth,  m,  to  Gerald  Fita-Gcnld,  Earl  of 
Kildaia. 

Mary,  m.  to  Walter,  Lord  Ferm,  of  Chartley. 

Margery,  m.  to  Richard  Wake»  of  Bltoworth. 

Ann^  M.  to  Richard  Clement. 
The  Marquess,  who  was  a  Knight  of  the  Garter,  d. 
in  IMl,  and  was  e.  by  his  eldest  son, 

THOMAS  GREY,  who  was  summoned  to  par- 
liament on  the  17th  October,  1M0,  as  Lord  Ferrers, 
of  Groby,  but  in  the  second  parliament,  in  Ull,  aa 
MABounaa  or  Donanr.  This  noMeman,  in  the 
ard  Henry  VIIL,  was  oommander-in-diief  of  the 
army  sent  about  the  beginning  of  May  into  Spain, 
consisting  of  ten  thousand  men,  wheraof  a  moiety 
were  archers,  who,  akmg  with  their  bows  and 
arrows,  carried  halberts,  whidi  they  pitdud  in  the 
ground  until  their  arrows  were  shot,  and  then  r^ 
sumed  them  to  charge  the  enemy.  In  this  expedi- 
tion were  also  his  lordship's  brothers.  Lord  Thomaa 
Howard,  son  and  hefar  of  the  Earl  of  Suney,  and 
the  Lords  Brooke,  WiUoughby,  and  Ferrers.  TlUa 
armament  returned,  however,  to  England  without 
performing  any  servloa.  It  was  designed  as  an  aug- 
mentatioB  of  the  forces  of  the  Emperor  Ferdinand 
In  the  invasion  of  Guyenae,  but  that  monarch  pro* 
posfasg  another  deilgnataon,  not  warranled  by  the 
oommlsBion  whIdi  the  general  had  received,  ha 
thought  It  his  duty  to  re^Bbark,  not,  however* 
before  he  had  lost  some  of  his  soldien  by  sirkness, 
and  suflhred  indiapositiqa  hfanseU:  In  two  years 
afterwards  the  marquess  and  hto  brotheta  wen  with 
the  Duke  of  Suflblk  hi  Francek  at  a  Just  at  St. 
Denis,  where  he  acquired  singular  honour,  as  also 
In  those  celebrated  tournaments,  the  Iflth  Henry 
VIIL,  at  the  interview,  hi  Pioardy,  between  the 
Ei^lish  and  French  monarchs.  In  the  14th  of  the 
same  reign  his  lordship  was  sent  to  Calais,  to  attend 
the  Emperor,  Charles  V.,  into  England,  who  was  ai 
that  period  so  sumptuously  entertained  by  Kinf 
Henry,  being  himself  kMlged  in  Black  Friers,  and 
his  train  hi  the  king's  (then  newly  baautifled,) 
palace  at  BridewelL  •*  This  Thomas,  Marquess  of 
Dorset,  was  esteemed  thebest  genatalof  those  times 
for  embattling  an  army,  always  observing  the  num- 
ber, strength,  and  experience  of  his  camp,  and  the 
nature  and  extent  of  the  place,  as  well  as  the  time* 
ground,  persons,  and  quality  of  his  enemies.  And 
he  was  ever  careftil  of  good  pay,  lest  his  soid&ara 
mutinied;  of  good  diet  and  quarters,  lest  they 
fkiled;  and  of  order,  discipline*  and  tsraparanceA 
lest  they  should  be  confused  by  sudden  attacks,  or 
enfeebled  by  sickness  and  distemper.  His  speedi 
was  soUier-lika,  pkOn*  short,  smart,  and  material: 


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UDdiMHwithittnflfag  the  timai  eonM  not  tndun  hte 
virtues,  nor  he  their  vicest  he  died  full  of  honour 
"at  court,  and  applause  in  the  oountryf  with  this 
monument  flrom  the  king,  (Henry  VIII.,)  '  That 
hooatt  and  good  man.'  The  Collegiate  Church  of 
Astley,  in  the  county  of  Warwick,  (founded  by 
Thomas,  Lord  Astky,  whose  heiress  general  mar- 
ried the  ancestcv  of  this  marquess,)  a  moat  rare  and 
heautiful  piece  of  workmanship,  having  fallen 
down,  a  new  chancel  wss  erected  by  the  parishioners. 
When,  on  opening  the  vault  where  the  body  of  the 
marquess  was  laid«  a  large  and  long  ooflln  of  wood 
was  found,  which,  at  the  curious  desire  of  some, 
being  burst  open,  the  body,  which  had  Isln  there 
aeventy^^ght  years,  appeared  perfect  in  every  re- 
spect, neither  perished  nor  hardened,  but  the  flesh, 
in  colour,  proportion,  and  softness,  alike  to  any 
ordinary  corpse  newly  intcned.  The'  body  was 
about  five  Ibet  eight  inches  fax  length,  the  Hco 
broad,  and  the  hair  ydlow.  All  which  seemed  so 
vidl  preserved  ftom  the  strong  embalming  thereof.** 
The  marquess  was  one  of  those  lords  who,  in  the 
aStad  Henry  VIII.,  signed  the  celebrated  letter  to 
Pope  Clement,  touching  the  king's  divorce:  and 
was  also  one  who  subscribed  the  forty-four  articles 
of  impeadiment  against  Cardinal  Wolsey.  His 
lordship  m.  first.  Eleanor,  daughter  of  Oliver,  Locd 
St  John,  but  had  no  issue.  Hecspoused,  secondly, 
Margaret*  daughter  of  Sir  Robert  Wotton,  Knt., 
of  Bacton,  in  Kent,  by  whom  he  had  (with  other 
iMue), 

HsMnT,  his  successor. 

John,  of  Pergo,  from  whom  the  present  Earl  of 

Stamford  derives. 
EliadMth,  m.  to  Thomas,  Lord  Audley. 
Catherine,  m.  to  Henry,  Earl  of  ArundeL 
Anne,  m.  to  Henry  WlUoughby,  of  WoUaton* 
Notts. 
This  eminent  personage  died  in  1590,  and  was  «.  by 
lilsddestson, 

HENRY  GREY,  third  Marquess  of  Dorset, 
who  in  the  1st  Edward  VI.,  was  constitute)!  lord 
kl^  onwsl-ahie  of  England,  for  three  days  only,  by 
reeaon  of  the  solemnity  of  the  king's  coronation. 
In  thefowth  of  the  same  reign,  he  was  made  Jus- 
tioe  in  eyre*  of  all  the  khig's  forests;  and  the  next 
year  warden  of  the  east,  west,  and  middle  Marches, 
tgiwards  Scotland.  His  lordship  was  created  Ditkb 
or  Sv9woLKt  on  the  11th  October,  1561,  and  in- 
stalled a  Knight  of  the  most  noble  order  of  the 
Garter.  He  m.  first,  Katharine,  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam.  Earl  cf  Arundel,  but  by  her  had  no  issue. 
His  grace  espoused  secondly,  the  Lady  Frances 
Brandon,  ddest  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Charles, 
Duke  of  Suffolk,  by  Mary,  dowager  Queen  of 
France,  and  sister  of  King  Henry  VIII.,  by  whom 
he  had, 

Jahb,  who  m.  Loan  OtriLDFonn  DtmLSY, 
and  having  ifspired  to  the  crown,  at  the 
decease  of  Edward  VI.,  suflbred  decapitation 
for  high  treasCT*  with  her  husbend.  Lord 
Guildford  Dudley.  In  Walpole^  Catalogue 
of  NoUe  Authors,  he  terms  the  Lady  Jane 
Grey,  •*  this  admiral  young  heroine,'*  and 
thefaircstomamentof  her  sex.  **  The  works 
of  thia  lovcty  scholar's  writing,**  he  says. 


"are four  Latin  epistlet  I  thrertoBuIUnfsr,' 
and  one  to  her  sister,  the  Lady  Katharine, 
which  was  written  the  night  before  her 
death,  in  a  Greek  Testament,  in  which  she 
had  been  reading,  and  sent  to  her  sister.  Her 
conference  with  Feckanham,  Abbot  of  West- 
minster, who  was  deputed  to  convert  her 
to  the  Catholic  rdigion.  A  letter  to  Dr. 
Harding,  her  Csther's  chaplain,  who  had 
apostatised  a  prayer  for  her  own  use,  under 
imprisonmenL  Four  Latin  verses  written 
in  prison,  with  a  pin.**  Her  speech  on  the 
scaffold ;  and  various  others,  of  which  men- 
tion is  made  by  Baker  and  HoUlngshed. 
Katherine,  m.  first,  Henry,  Lord  Herbert, 
eldest  son  of  William,  Earl  of  Pembroke, 
from  whom  she  was  divorced.  Her  lady- 
ship espoused  secondly,  Edward  Seymour, 
Earl  of -Hertford,  but  not  having  the  per- 
mission of  Queen  EUaabeth,  she  was  com- 
mitted, as  well  as  her  husband,  to  the 
Tower,  where  she  died,  SBth  January,  1M7 ; 
having  had,  by  her  second  husband,  three 
sons:  Edward,  the  eldest,  who  died  young t 
Th<mias,  the  youngest,  who  m.  Isabel, 
daughter  of  Edward  Onley,  Esq.,  of  Catesby, 
in  the  county  of  Northampton,  and  died 


EnwABD,  Lord  Beawdkemp,  whoee  male 
Ime  failed  with  William,  third  Duke 
of  Somerset  t  but  the  youngest  sister 
of  that  nobleman,  Elisabeth,  having 
espoused  Thomas  Bruce,  first  Earl  of 
Aylesbury,  had  issue, 

Charlbb,  Eari.  or   ATLBaBunT, 
whose  eldest  daughter   and  oo- 
.heir,     Mary,     eapoiued    Henry 
Chandos,   Marquess  of  Caernar- 
von;    and   her  grand-danghter* 
Abnb       Elixabbth,       present 
Dudiess    of    Buckin^am    and 
Chandos,  is  now  sole  represent** 
tive  of  this  branch  of  the  Grey 
family  I  and  of  Frances,   eldest 
daughter   of    Charles    Brandon, 
Duke  of  Sufiblk,  and  his  wife, 
Mary,  Queen  Dowager  of  France, 
sister  of  King  Henry  VIII. 
Mary,  m.  to  Martin  Keys,  Groom  Porter  to 
Queen  Elisabeth,  and  died, «.  p. 
Upon  the  demise  of  King  Edward  VI.,  the  Duke  of 
Suffolk,  at  the  instigation  of  Dudley,   Duke  of 
Northumberland,  (fktherof  Lord  Guildford  Dudley,) 
proclaimed  his  daughter,  the  Lady  Jakb  Gnsv, 
Qdbbm  of  Eitolaivd,  upon  the  allegation  that  the 
deceased  monarch  had  so  designated  her  ladyship 
in  his  wilL     This  attempt  proving  abortive,  the 
unhappy  lady  and  her  youthful  husband,  with  her 
fiither-in-law,  the  ambitious  Northumbbrland, 
were  brought  to  the  block,  while  SuflUk  himself 
was  reserved  for  a  subsequent  Ikte,  for  Joining  in 
Wyat's  rebellion;  he  made  an  eflbrt  to  talse  the 
people  in  the  counties  of  Warwick  and  Leicester, 
but  being  pursued  by  the  Earl  of  Huntingdon,  at 
the  head  of  some  forces,  he  was  obliged  to  conceal 
himself  wiM>inahoUow  tree,  in  his  perk,  at  Astley, 

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vliai  belag  betrayed  by  Underwood,  one  of  the 
keeperi  in  whom  he  had  confided,  he  wm  deliTered 
up  to  his  enemies,  and  beheaded  on  Tower  HiU, 
sard  February,  1M4  ;  being  also  attainted,  his 
honours,  vis.,  the  Dukboom  or  Suffolk,  the 
Barony  of  Grby,  of  Grobt,  the  Marouisatb 
of  Dorsbt,  and  the  Baronies  of  Astlby,  Bok- 
viLB  and  Harrinoton^  became  bxtinct. 

ARBia.— Barry  of  six  ar.  and  as.  three  torteauxes 
in  chief,  and  a  labtA  of  three  points  ermine. 

GREY— BARONS  GREY,  OF  POWIS. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  SSth  July,  1313, 
7  Edward  IL 

Xiiuajjc. 

EDWARD  CHERLETON,  LoreT  PowUt  whose 
ancestor  had  been  summoned  to  parliament  in  that 
dignity,  in  the  7th  year  of  Edward  II.,  died  in 
14fl9j  leaving  two  daughters,  his  oo-heirs,  (between 
whom  the  barony  fell  into  abeyance,)  namely, 

JoAiv,'  m.  to  Sir  John  de  Grey,  of  wh<Mn  we 

are  about  to  treat. 
JoYCB,  fM.  to  John,  Lord  Tiptoft,  and  had 
issue, 
JoHB,  created    Eari.  of  Worcbbtbr, 
who  was    attainted  of  treason,  10th 
Edward  !¥.,  147& 
The  husband  of  the  elder  daughter, 

SIR  JOHN  DE  GREY,  KnL,  who  was  son  of 
Sir  Thomas  Grey,  of  Berwyke,  in  the  county  of 
Northiunberland,  by  Jane,  daughter  of  John,  Lord 
M<Mibray,  was  a  very  eminent  military  character  in 
the  time  of  Henry  V.  In  the  2nd  of  that  monarch's 
icelgn,  he  was  with  the  king  at  the  siege  of  Caen, 
and  bdiaved  himself  so  valiantly,  that  he  had  a 
grant  of  the  castl^  and  lordship  of  Tilye,  in  Nor- 
mandy, then  forfeited  by  Sir  William  Harcourt,  an 
adherent  of  the  king's  enemies.  He  was  subse- 
quently sent  with  a  guard  Into  Powisland,  where 
Sir  John  Oldcastle,  the  chief  of  the  Lollards,  had 
been  taken,  to  bring  that  unfortunate  personage 
before  parliament  The  next  year,  <6th  Henry  V.,) 
being  egain  in  the  French  wars,  we  find  him  Captain 
of  Maunt,  and  obtaining,  in  further  oonsideratlon  of 
his  servloes,  a  grant  of  the  Earldom  of  Taw kbb- 
TiLLB,  in  Normandy,  to  hold  by  homage,  and 
delivery  of  a  bassinet,  or  hdmet,  at  the  Castle  of 
Roan,  on  the  feast  oi  St.  George,  yearly.  Conti- 
nuing in  those  wars,  his  lordship  had  several  further 
granu,  and  was  made  governor  of  the  castle  of 
Toumay.  But  he  was  soon  alter  slain,  (at  tlEe  bat- 
tle of  Baugy  Bridge,)  in  fording  a  river,  near  the 
Castle  of  Beaufort,  with  the  Duke  of  Clarence,  and 
diven  others  of  the  English  nOUlity.  His  lordship 
was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR  HENRY  GREY,  Knt,  as  Earl  of  Tanker- 
viUaii  This  nobleman  being  young  at  the  time  of 
his  flUher's  decease,  (9th  Henry  V.)  had  not  livery 
of  his  lands,  until  the  90th  Henry  VL,  yet  the 
fourth  year  oi  that  reign,  he  was  knighted,  by 
John,  Duke  of  Bedford:  at  which  time,  the  king 
himsdf  reoei  ved  the  same  honour,  at  Leicester.  He 
m,  Antsgaut,  natural  daughter  of  Humphrey  Plan- 


tageneC,  Duke  of  Gloucester,  and  dying  lib  the  SBtb 
Henry  VI.,  (1440,)  left  issue,  ^ 

RiCHARi>,  his  successor. 
Humphrey,  who  tf.  Issueless. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Sir  Roger  Kynaston,  KnL, 
from  whom  lineally  descended, 

John  Kynaston,  Esq.,  who  claimed  the 
Barony  of  Grby  db  Ppwia,  in  1792. 
He  d.  in  1733,  and  was  «.  by  his  elder 
surviving  son, 

Edward    Kynaston,    Esq.,  who 
died  «.  p.,  in  1972,  and  was  «.  by 
his  brother, 
RooBR  Kynaston,  Esq.,  who  m. 
Mary,  only  diUd  of  Henry  Powell, 
Esq.,  of  Worthin,  in  tbo  county 
of  Salop,  and  dying  in  1788,  was 
«.  by  his  eldest  son, 
John  Kynaston, whoassumed, 
by  sign  manual,   the  addi- 
tional surname  of  Powbll. 
This  gentleman  claimed,  un- 
successfully,   in    1800,    the 
Barony  of  Powts.    He  was 
subsequently  created  a   ba- 

RONBT. 

The  elder  son, 

RICHARD  GREY,  Earlof  Tankerville,  adhering 
to  the  house  of  York,  was  attainted,  with  diven 
others,  in  the  S8th  of  Henry  VI.  He  was  with  the 
Earl  of  Warwick  at  the  siege  of  Alnwick  Castle,  in 
the  2nd  of  Edward  IV.  **  It  does  not  appear,"  says 
Nicolas,  «*  that  this  nobleman  was  ever  summoned 
to  parliament,  but  strong  evidence  exists  that  he  sat 
in  that  assembly  as  a  baron  of  the  realm,  in  14S5.'* 
His  lordship  m.  MArgaxet,  daughter  of  James,  Lord 
Audley,  and  dying  6th  Edward  VIv  l«t  issue, 

John,  of  whom  hereafter.  ' 
And  a  (presumed)  daughter, 

Elisabeth,  who  m.  Sir  John  Ludlow,  of  Hod- 
net,  in  the  county  of  Salop,  and  had  issue, 
Annb,  m.  to  Thomas  Vxrnon,  Esq.,  of 
Stokesley,     ttom     whom     descended 
through  his  daughter, 

Elbanor  Vbrnon,  who  m.  Frances 
Curaon,  Esq.,  ot  Kidleston, 
Sir      Natranibl     Corson, 
Bart.,  who  opposed  the  claim 
of  Mr.  Kynaston,  to  the  Ba- 
rony OF  Powis,  and  from. 
whom    the  Lobdb  Scars- 
DALB  derive. 
Alice,  m.  to  Humphrey  Vemon,  Esq., 
(brother  of  the  above  Thomas,)  ftom 
whom  descended. 
Sir   Hbrry  Vbrnon,    BarL,   (so 
created  in  1660,)  who  was  «.  by 
his  son. 
Sir  Thomas  Vbrnon,  se- 
cond Baronet,  who  d.  in 
1684,  leaving  two  daugh- 
ters, Diana  and  Harriot, 
who  both  died  unmarried, 
and  a  son,  his  successor. 
Sir  Richard  Vbrnon, 
third     Baronet,     at 


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married,     hii     Utl« 
and  line  became  sx- 

TIWCT. 

The  EarkUnn  of  TankerriUe,  fell  not  'only  by  the 
attainder  of  the  earl,  but  Fnmce  being  loet  to  the 
English  crown,  it  shared  a  similar  Cste.  His  lord- 
ship's son, 

JOHN  OREV.  who  obtained  livery  of  his  lands, 
in  the  90th  Edward  IV.,  without  making  proof  of 
his  ag^  was  summoned  to  parliament  as  a  baboiv, 
under  the  designation  of  *'  Johanni  Grey  de  Powes," 
from  lAth  Norember,  1482,  ttd  Edward  IV.,  to  16th 
January.  1497,  ISth  Henry  VII.  Hb  lordship  m. 
l^ady  Anne  Herbert,  daughter  of  William,  Earl  of 
Pembroke,  and  dying  in  1404,  was  •.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  GREY,  second  Baron  Grey,  of  Powis, 
but  never  summoned  to  parliament.  This  noble> 
man  m.  Margaret,  daughter  of  Edward,  Lord  Dud- 
ley, and  d3ring  in  lAM,  was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR  EDWARD  GREY,  third  Baron  Grey,  of 
Powis,  summoned  to  parliament,  Arom  3d  Novem- 
ber, 1029,  to  83d  January,  1558.  This  nobleman 
accompanied  the  Dukeof  Suflblk,  15th  Henry  VIII., 
in  theexpedition  then  made  into  France,  and  was 
at  the  taking  of  Bray  and  other  places,  woo,  at  that 
time,  ttom  the  French.  His  lordship  IM.  Lady  Anne 
Brandon,  daughter  and  oo-heir  of  Charles,  Duke  of 
Suflblk,  by  whom  (who  m.,  after  his  decease, 
Randle  Hauworth,  Esq.)  he  had  no  issue.  He  had 
illegitimate  children  by  one  Jane  Orwell,  namely, 

Edward,  Anne,  Jane  and Grey,  upon  whom  he 

entailed  the  greater  part  of  his  estates,  composing 
the  Barony  of  Powis.  His  kwdship  d.  in  1558,  when 
the  Babony  or  Gkby  db  Powia  fell,  it  is  sup- 
posed, into  ABBYANCB,  but  between  whom,  has  not 
been  determined.  Mr.  Harris  Nicolas,  In  hi#  able 
Synop^  of  the  Peerage,  to  which  the  author  of 
this  work  has  been  much  indebted,  de^ms  the 
Baboby  or  Gbby  db  Powia  created  by  the  sum- 
mons of  Edward  IV.,  not  a  continuation  of  that  of 
CRB|iXiBTov  or  POWIS,  but  a  new  and  distinct 
peerage,  and  if  he  be  right,  the  roBMBB  is  bz- 

TIWCT. 

Banks  says,  **  Since  this  time  (the  death  of  Ed- 
ward, the  last  lord)  much  uncertainty  has  prevailed 
respecting  the  right  to  the  inheritance  to  the  title; 
it  being  contended,  on  the  one  hand,  that  Richard, 
Earl  of  TankerviUe,  who  d.  eth  Edward  tV.,  besides 
his  son  and  successor  Johb ,  left  a  daughter  Elisa- 
beth, who  fM.  Sir  John  Ludlow  i  who  by  her  had 
issue,  two  daughters  and  co-heirs,  Anne  and  Alice 
Ludlow,  who  m.  the  brothers,  Thomas  and  Hum- 
phry Vemoa ;  but  on  the  other  hand  it  is  objected, 
that  the  said  Richard,  Earl  of  Tankerrille,  had  not 
a  daughter  Eliaabeth,  in.  to  Ludlow,  but  had  a 
sister  Elisabbth,  m.  to  Sir  Roger  Kynaston,  Knt 
It  appears,  however,  that  anno  1564  (which  is  the 
flrst  notice  of  Elisabeth  in  the  herald's  books)  Henry 
Vernon  (descended  ftom  the  aforesaid  Vemons) 
petitioned  Qeeen  Elisabeth,  setting  forth  his  claim 
to  the  barony  of  Powis ;  the  matter  was  referred  to 
the  Lord  Treasurer  Burghley  and  the  Earl  of  Leices- 
ter. Those  two  lords  join  in  a  letter,  dated  88d 
September,  1564,  to  Cooke,  Clarendeux,  (garter 
being  then  vacant,)  and  Glover,  Somenet  Herald, 


requiring  them  to  examine  into  the  proof  of  Mr. 
Vernon's  daim,  and  to  certify  their  opinion.  And 
by  a  report,  dated  28d  October,  1584,  they  certified 
that  they  had  examined  into  the  descent  of  the 
Powis  family,  and  after  searching  all  the  records 
andbooksof  office,  they  find  that  none  of  the  Lords 
Grey,  of  Powis,  had  a  daughter,  except  Henry,  who 
had  a  daughter,  named  Eliaabeth,  m.  to  Sir  Roger 
Kynaston,  from  whom  the  Kynastons,  of  Hordley, 
are  descended. 

**  After  this,  via.  in  March  1731-8,  John  Kynaston, 
Esq.  laid  daim  to  this  liarony,  as  Jineal  heir  of  Ed- 
ward Kynaston,  of  Hordley,  next  cousin  in  blood 
and  heir  of  Edward,  the  last  Lord  Grey,  of  Powys ; 
but  he  was  opposed  by  Sir  Nathaniel  Curson,  Bart., 
(descended  from  the  Vemons,)  and  resting  his  pre- 
tensions on  the  ground  of  being  nearer  in  blood  to 
the  said  Edward,  Lord  Powyt;  that  is,  flrom  Elisa- 
beth, daughter  and  at  length  heir  of  Richard,  Lord 
Powis  I  whereas  Mr.  Kynaston  claimed  flrom  Eliaa- 
beth, sister  of  the  said  Richardi  snd  in  support  of 
the  position.  Sir  Nathaniel  adduced, 

1.  Three  inquisitions,  postmortem. 

8.  Tliree  verdicts  in  actions  at  law.  ' 

3,  EiOo]rmentof  part  of  the  Powys  estate. 

4.  Printed  books,  herald's  books  and  pedigrees. 
"  To  the  first  it  was  answered,  by  Mr.  Kynaston, 

that  in  hilary  term,  87th  Eliabeth  1585,  in  a  cause 
in  the  court  of  wards,  (inter  Vernon  and  Grey,  the 
bastard,)  that  court,  by  a  solemn  decree,  redting, 
that  the  said  three  inquisitions  had  been  traversed,' 
and  in  due  form  avoided,  declared  all  these  inquisi- 
tions insuffldent. 

**  To  the  second  head  it  was  observed,  that  itwaa 
apprehended  these  verdicts  would  not  aflbct  Mr. 
Kynaston,  as  the  then  Mr.  Kynaston,  nor  any 
person  under  whom  he  daims,  axe  not  made  parties 
to  the  suits,  and  as  such,  the  verdicts  were  to  bo 
considered  as  *  res  inter  alios  acta.' 

«« On  the  third  head  it  was  asserted,  it  did  not 
appear  that  the  Vemons,  (Arom  whom  Sir  Nathaniel 
derived  himsdf,)  by  any  of  their  disputes,  enjoyed 
any  part  of  the  Lord  Powys*  estate,  excepting  a 
small  portion,  part  of  which  being  in  the  neighbour'* 
hood  of  Cunon,  might  probably  be  purchased,  as 
was  the  other  part. 

*«  And  in  relation  to  the  last  head,  it  was  alleged, 
that  none  of  the  old  heralds'  books  made  any  men- 
tion of  this  daughter  Eliaabeth,  and  the  first  visita- 
tion book,  wherein  mention  is  made  of  her,  is  above 
118  years  after  the  death  of  Richard,  her  supposed 
father.  Whereas,  Mr.  Kynaston's  famUy  hath  his 
marriage  regularly  entered  in  the  herald's  books 
according  to  the  time;  and  though  the  name  of 
John  Ludlow  be  entered  in  the  books  of  the  time, 
yet  a  blank  is  left  for  his  marriage  t  which,  if  it  had 
been  with  Elisabeth  Grey,  is  the  more  remarkable, 
as  the  Greys  were  one  of  the  most  considerable 
families  of  those  days;  and  further,  the  last  book, 
(G  15  Sakyp,)  a  visitotion  book,  Satop  1584,  page  61, 
has  a  pedigree  of  the  Ludlows,  and  in  one  circle  is 
entered,  John  Ludlow,  of  Stokesay,  county  of 
Salop,  Esq.,  and  in  the  drcle  adjoining  is  entered, 
Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Richard  Grey,  Lord  Powys  i 
but  these  last  words  are  of  a  diflbrent  hand  and  ink 
from  the  rest  of  the  pedigree,  and  were  not  the 

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original  entry  in  that  circle,  but  the  fint  words  were 
•  D.  of  Robert  Corbet,  Knt.,'  which  were  croned 
out." 

In  1800,  JoHK  KvKASTON  PowxLL,  gnmd«»  of 
the  aforeiaid  John  Kynaston,  became  a  new  peti- 
tioner for  the  barony ;  but  his  case  never  came  to  a 
decision. 

Abmb.— Ou.  a  lion  rampant*  within  a  border 
ingrailed,  ar. 

OREV  —  BARONS      L'ISLE,      VIS- 
COUNTS L'ISLE. 


Barony, 


ity,;   P 


Letters  f 


-,  1475. 


Viicountyy  j    Patent,   \  B8th  June,  1483; 

6IR  EDWARD  GREY,  Knt„  second  son  of  Ed- 
ward Orey,  Lord  Ferrers,  of  Oroby,  having  mar- 
ried Elisabeth  Talbot,  elder  daughter  of  John 
Talbot,  Viscount  L'Isle,  snd  sister  and  co-heir  of 
Thomas  Talbot,  hMt  Yiacount  L'Isle  of  that  ftonily, 
was  created  in  the  Iffth  Edward  IV.,  Babon  L'Isle, 
the  patent  redting  to  the  eflbct  of  the  preamble  in 
that  granted  to  John  Talbot,  (see  Talbot,  Viscount 
L'Isle,)  and  farther  stating,  «<  that  the  said  John 
Talbot  had  issue,  Thomas,  late  Viscount  L'Isle, 
and  Elisabeth,  thai  the  wife  of  Edward  Grey,  Lord 
L'Isle,  and  M aigaret,  late  the  wife  of  George  Vere } 
Chat  the  manor  of  Kingston  L'Isle,  descended  to 
Thomas,  late  Viscount  L'Isle,  and  that  he  dying 
s.  p,  the  manor  descended  to  Elisabeth  and  Mar- 
garet, as  his  heirs,  and  Margsiet,  dying  without 
issue,  Edward  Orey,  Lord  L'Isle,  and  Elisabeth, 
his  wUls,  were  seised  in  fee  ctf  the  manor,  in  right  of 
Elisabeth,  and  had  issue,  John  and  others  i  the 
king,  thereAnre,  considering  the  premises,  and  that 
Warine  L'Isle  before  mentioned,  by  reason  of  the 
lordship  and  manor  of  Kingston  L'Isle,  aforesaid, 
had  the  dignity  ot  Baron  and  Lord  de  L'Isle,  &c., 
recognised  the  right  to  the  dignity  of  Edward  Orey, 
and  the  heirs  of  his  body,  by  the  aforesaid  Elisabeth, 
and  granted  the  said  Bakoky  to  him,  and  the  heirs 
of  his  body  by  the  said  Elisabeth."  His  lordship 
was  subsequently  created  ViscouirT  L'Iaz.B,  also  by 
patent,  dated  28th  June,  1483L  This  nobleman  in 
the  14th  Edward  IV.,  was  retained  by  indenture  to 
serve  the  king,  in  his  «  Dudiy  of  Normandy  and 
realm  ot  France,**  for  one  whole  year,  with  seven 
spears  and  fifty  ardMrs.  In  the  4th  Henry  VII., 
he  was  one  of  the  commissioners  for  choosing 
aicbcn  in  the  county  of  Warwick,  for  the  r^ef  of 
the  Duchy  of  Britanny.  By  the  heiress  of  Talbot, 
his  kwdship  had  issue, 
John,  his  successor. 
Anne,  m.  to  Jirim  WiUoughby. 
EUsabeth,  m.  first,  to  Edmund  Dudley,  so 
notorious  in  the  reign  of  Henry  VIL,  and 
had,  with  other  issue, 

JoHK  DDDI.ST,  created  Viscouttt  L'Isi.s, 
(see  Dudley,  Viscount  L'Isle). 
Muriel,  m,  to  Henry  Stafbrd,  Earl  of  Wilt- 
shire, and  died  «.  p. 
The  Viscount  had  a  second  wife,  Jane,  who  survived 
him,  but  he  had  no  issue  by  her.    Hetf.  in  1491>and 
was  «.  by  his  ion, 
MO 


JOHN  GREY,  second  Viscount  L'Isle,  who  m. 
the  lady  Muriel  Howard,  daughter  of  Thomas, 
Duke  of  Norfolk,  and  dying  in  151S,  left  an  only 
daughter  and  harass, 

Elisabkth  Grbv, 
Upon  the  decease  of  Lord  L'Isle,  the  VrscoVNTV  oi^ 
L'ISLB  expired,  but  the  banmy  must  have  devolved 
upon  his  daughter,  ss  his  sole  heiress,  and  likewise 
tenant  of  the  manor  of  Kingston  ^'Islcu  This  lady 
wss  contracted  to  Charles  Brandon,  (afterwards 
Duke  of  Suflblk,)  who  was  therefore  created  Vis- 
count Lisle,  but  refusing  when  at  m^orlty  to  fiilfll 
the  contract,  the  patent  was  cancelled.  She  after- 
wards m.  Henry  Courtenay,  second  Earl  of  Devon, 
but  died  s.  p,  before  1598,  leaving  ha  aunt  Elisa- 
beth, her  father's/only  surviving  sister,  her  heir, 
and  who  being  seised  of  the  msnor  of  Kingston 
L'Isle,  and  heir  general  of  John  Talbot,  Viscount 
L'Isle,  is  presumed  to  be  legally  entitled  to  the 
Barony  of  L'Isle,  both  under  that  patent,  of  98th 
June,  1443,  and  under  that  to  Edward  Grey,  her 
fkther;  at  her  decease  both  these  qualifications 
devolved  upon  her  son,  (by  her  Ant  husband,)  John 
Dudley,*  but  who  never  enjoyed  the  dignity  t  he 
was  however  created  Viscount  L'Isle,  (see  Dudley, 
Lord  L'Isle). 

ARjffa.— Barrule  of  slzi  ar.  and  as.  in  diief  three 
torteauxes,  a  labdar. 

GREY  —  EARLS  OF  KENT,  VIS- 
COUNT GOODERICH,  OF 
GOODERICH  CASTLE,  IN 
THE  COUNTY  OF  HERE. 
FORD,  EARL  OF  HAROLD, 
IN  THE  COUNTY  OF  BED- 
FORD,  MARQUESS  OF 
KENT,  DUKE  OF  KENT, 
MARQUESS  DE  GREY. 

Earldom  of  Kent,  ard  May,  140S. 

Dukedom,  28th  AprU,  1710^ 
Msrquisate,  9th  May,  1740. 

ICincasc. 

EDMUND  OREY,  fourth  Lord  Grey,  of  Ruthyn, 
having  espoused  the  cause  of  the  Yorkists,  after  the 
battle  of  Northampton,  obtained  from  King  Ed- 
ward IV.,  the  estate  of  Ampthill,  in  the  county  of 
Bedford,  and  other  lands,  which  had  bdoaged  to 
the  Lord  Fanhope,  and  was  subsequently  made 
Loan  Tbbasubbb  or  Enojuabo.     Ldand  gives 

*  Sir  John  Dudley,  sold  the  manor  of  Kingston 
L'Isle,  to  Mr.  Hyde,  horn  whom  it  passed  in  lineal 
succession  to  John  Hyde,  Esq.,  who  died  seised 
thereof,  in  May.  1745,  and  his  vridow  sold  the  same 
in  the  following  year  to  Abraham  Atkins,  Esq.,  of 
Clapham,  in  Surrey,  whose  esse,  as  claimsnt  to  the 
Barony  of  L'Isle,  as  possessor  of  the  manor  of  King- 
ston L'Isle,  snd  consequently  assignee  of  J<din 
Talbot,  first  Viscount  L*Isle,  was  drawn  up  by  the 
Hon.  Hume  Campb^,  in  1790,  under  the  title  of 
*<  Case  of  the  Barony  of -L'tsla" 


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the  iUlowing  aooount  of  this  nobknum't  oonduct 
upon  that  occasion.  '*  In  the  time  of  the  ciyll  war 
betwixt  King  Henry  VL,  and  King  Edward  IV.. 
there  waa  a  battd  fought  without  the  louth  tuburba 
of  Northampton.  The  Lord  Fanhope  tooii  totally 
King  Henry's  part.  The  Lord  Grey,  of  Ruthyn, 
did  the  same  in  oountenanoe ;  but  a  little  afore  the 
Held,  hepractised  with  King  Edward.  Othen  say- 
ing that  he  had  a  title  to  the  Loid  Fanhope'k  lands 
at  Antdiille,  and  thereabout,  or  dqpraving  him  with 
Cslse  amiiariont,  so  wrought  with  King  Edward, 
that  he,  with  all  his  strong  band  ot  Walschemen, 
fell  to  King  Edward's  part,  upon  promise,  that  if 
Edward  wan  the  field,  he  should  have  Antehille, 
and  Budi  lands  as  Fanhope  had  there.  Edward  wan 
the  field,  and  Grey  obtained  Antehille,  eum  perH- 
nentU*,"  &«.•  His  lordahip  appears  to  have  irttaintd 
in  a  very  great  degree  the  fkyour  of  King  Edward, 
who  bc^des  oonliBRing  the  tieaiureship  upon  him, 
acated  him,  <he  then  bearing  the  titles  of  Lord 
Hastingi,  Weaford,  and  Ruthyn,)  Earl  or  Kbnt, 
with  Hmitafion  to  his  hebs  ma]&  Which  dignity  was 
oonflnned  by  King  Richard  IIL,  and  afterwards  by 
Henry  VIL,  so  that  his  lordship  seems  to  have 
played  the  part  of  the  Vicar  of  Bray,  kmg  balbre 
that  celebtatwi  divine  is  supposed  to  have  existed! 
and  to  hare  reposed  In  equal  security  upon  a  bed  of 
tpMte  or  red  rotet.  The  earl  married  the  Lady 
Katheiina  Percy,  daughter  of  Henry,  Earl  of  Nor- 
thnmberland,  nd  had  surviving  issue. 

GnoaoB,  his  successor. 

John. 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  Sir  Robert  Greyitock,  Knt, 
son  and  heir  of  Ralph,' Lord  Greystock. 

Anne,  m.  to  John,  Lord  Grey,  of  Wilton. 
His  lordship  d,  in  1488,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  sur- 
▼ivingsaa, 

GEORGE  GREY,  fifth  Baron  Grey  de  Ruthyn, 
and  second  Earl  of  Kent,  who,  being  a  military 
oommander  of  Ugh  reputation,  was  one  of  the 
principal  persons  in  the  army,  sent  the  7th  Henry 
VII.  into  France,  under  Jasper  Tudor,  Duke  of 
Bedibrd,  to  the  assistance  of  the  Emperor  Maximi- 
lian, but  n^iich  army  returned  in  a  short  time, 
without  achieving  any  memorable  action,  by  reason 
that  Maximilian,  for  want  of  money,  was  unable  to 
make  his  appearance.  The  earl  was  afterwards  the 
chief  commander  against  the  Cornish  men,  who 
had  risen  under  Lord  Audley,  and  defeated  those 
inenrgents  at  Blackheath.  His  lordship  m.  first, 
Axme,  daughter  of  Ridiard  WidviUe,  Earl  Rivers, 
and  widow  of  William,  Viscount  Bouchier,  by 
whom  he  had  an  only  son,  Ricbard,  his  successor. 
He  espoused  seconcUy,  Lady  Katharine  Herbert, 
daughter  of  William,  Earl  of  Pembroke,  and  had 
issue, 

Hbitby  (Sir>,  of  Wrest,  who  inherited  as 
fourth  earL 

George,  d,  unmarried. 

Anthony,  of  Branspeth,  whose  grandson,  the 


*  This  account  seems  however  quite  erroneous, 
for  Lysona,  in  his  "  Magna  Britannia,"  rdates,  that 
the  Lord  Fanhope  died  in  peace  at  Ampthill,  seven- 
teen years  before  the  battle. 


Rev.  Anthony  Grey,  Rector  of  Burbache, 

inherited  as  bintb  xari« 
Anne,  m.  to  John,  Lord  Husaey. 
The  earl  d.  in  1W4,  and  was*,  by  his  eldest  son, 
'  RICHARD  GREY,  sixth  Baron  Grey  de  Ruthyn, 
and  third  earl  of  Kent,  K.G.    This  nobleman  at- 
tended  King  Henry  VIIL,  at  the  siege  of  The- 
rouennei  but   becoming  an  inveterate  gamester, 
he  wasted  the  whole  of  his  estate,  and  died  in 
poverty  at  the  sign  of  the  George,  in  Lombard- 
street,  within  the  dty  of  London,  anno  litta.    He 
m.  Eliiabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  William  Hussee,  Knt., 
Chief  Justice  of  the  King's  Bench,  and  sister  of 
John,  Lord  Hussey,   but  having  no  Issue,   the 
honours  devolved  upon  his  half  brother, 

SIR  HENRY  GREY,  of  Wrest,  in  the  county 
of  Bedford,  who  should  have  been,  seventh  Baron 
Grey  de  Ruthyn,  and  fourth  Earl  of  Kent,  but 
iVom  the  narrowness  of  his  estate  he  deriined  as- 
suming the  peerage;  He  m.  Anne,  daughter  6f 
John  Blanerhasset,  Esq.,  by  whom  he  had  an  only 


Hbnry,  who  d.  in  the  life-time  of  his  flsther, 
anno  154ft.    This  gentleman  m.  Margaret, 
daughter  of  John  St.  John,  Esq.,  of  Bletsbo, 
by  whom  he  had  issuer 
Regtaald,) 

Henry,      vsucoeesively  Earls  of  Kent. 
Charles,    j 
Katharine,  m.  first,  — —  Spcnoer,  Esq.,  and 

secondly, Slayton,  Esq.,  but  died  «.  p. 

Sir  Henry  Grey,  d.  in  IMS,  and  was  «.  by  his  grand- 
son, 

REGINALD  GREY,  eighth  Baron  Grey  de 
Ruthyn,  and  fifth  Earl  of  Kent,  whidi  honours, 
havii^  by  ftugality  much  improved  his  fortune, 
he  assumed  in  1571,  and  sate  as  one  of  the  peers  on 
the  trial  of  the  Duke  of  Norfolk  In  two  years  after- 
wards. Hb  lordship  m.  Susan,  daughter  of  Ridiard 
Bertie,  Esq.,  and  KAtherine,  Duchess  of  Suflblk, 
but  dying  «.  p.  in  157M,  was  «.  by  his  brother, 

SIR  HENRY  GREY,  as  ninth  Baron  Grey  de 
Ruthyn,  and  sixth  Earl  of  Kent.  This  nobleman 
was  (me  of  the  peers  on  the  trial  of  the  unhappy 
Mary,  of  Scotland,  (S9th  Blix.,)  and  "  evinced," 
saye  Dugdale,  '*  much  moreseal  for  her  destruction, 
than  befitted  a  person  of  honour."  His  lordship  m. 
Mary,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Cotton,  and  widow  of 
Edvnud,  Earl  of  Derby,  by  whom  he  had  no  issue, 
and  d3ring  in  1015,  was  «.  by  his  brother, 

CHARLES  GREY,  tenth  Baron  Grey  de  Ruthyn, 
and  seventh  Eari  of  Kent.    His  lordship  m.  Susan, 
daughter  of  Sir  Richard  Cotton,  of  Bedhampton,  in 
the  county  of  Hants,  and  had  issue, 
Hbnbv,  his  successor. 

Susan,  heir  to  her  brother,  m.  Sir  Michael 
LongueviUe,  and  her  son, 

Chablbb  Lokoubtillb,  was  confirmed 
in  the  Babory  or  Gbby  i>b  Ruthyit, 
in  1640.  Hb  lordship  d.  in  1643,  leaTing 
an  only  daughter  and  heiress, 

SvsAN  LoNOUBviLLB,  BsToness 
Grey  de  Ruthyn,  who  m.  Sir 
Henry  YelTerton,  BarL,  and  from 
thu  marriage  descends 

Babbaba   Ybltbbton,  pre- 
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It    Dtfowiii    GUsY    Ds 

RUTBTV. 

The«wld.  in  MM*  and  was*,  bf  hb  Mm, 

HENRY  GREY,  el«T«Bth  Baroa  Grcy  de 
ILvthyB,  and  eighth  Earl  of  Kaot,  who  m.  EHaa- 
baUw oneof  the  daughten  and  eo-hein  of  Gilbert 
Tallx>t,  Earl  of  Shxewalmry,  bat  died  In  1(00,  with- 
oat  iHue.  Whoi  the  BABomr  of  Obsv  nn 
RVTBYN*  derolyed  v|ion  hit  sitter*  Suaan,  Lady 
Lcafftterlllek  and  has  atace  bean  enjoyed  by 
deMeadaats  i  whUe  the  Eam.dom  or  Ksitt 
aeoocdiog  to  the  llmitnClon  to  hiadtetaatralatioa, 
(rerert  to  diildna  of  Oeorga»  Mooad  eari») 
The  Revwead 

ANTHONY  GREY,  Rector  of  Barbaoa,  in  the 
eoanty  of  Letceater,  as  ninth  Eahl  ov  Rbht.  This 
BObiamaa  reiiatad  atreaaonaly  the  daim  of  Charlei 
Longueville,  to  the  Baraay  of  Gnsv  nn  Rotbtw, 
upon  the  ]»lea,  *«  that  when  a  baraay  by  writ  was 
oaee  InTolved  in  an  earldom.  It  slnmld  wait  vpon 
each  earUoBft,  and  might  not  be  nibieqaeatly  tnaa- 
ferred  to  another  family,  by  a  daughter  and  heireaa, 
io  long  at  the  earidom  ooatlnued  in  theaudep**  But 
the  dedakm  waa  against  hit  lordAip,  and  it  etta- 
Idiahed  the  poAnt,  that  an  earldom,  or  other  supe- 
rior dignity,  doet  not  attract  a  barony  in  flte.  The 
earl  m.  M agdelcne,  daughter  of  WilUam  Purefoy, 
Esq.,  of  Caldeoote,  in  the  -county  of  Warwick,  by 
whom  he  had,  with  other  issue, 

HairnT,  his  suooessor. 

Groee,  m.  to  James  Ward,  Esq. 

Magdrica,  m.  to  John  Brown,  Esq. 

Christian,  m.  to Burdet,  Esq. 

Patienoe,  m.  to Wood,  Esq. 

His  lordship  d.  in  144S,  aad  was  «.  by  Ms  eldest  son, 
(there  were  four  othsr  soas,  Joha,  Job,  Thaophilus, 
aad  Nathaniel,) 

HEN  R  Y  GREY,  tenth  Eari  of  Kant,  who  m.  first, 
Mary,  daughter  of  Sir  William  Oourteea,  Knt.,  by 
whom  he /had  a  soa, 

Usary,  who  dUed  young.  In  the  carfs  life* 


Hia  lordship  espoused,  seooadly,  Aaubel,  daughter 
of  Sir  Anthony  Bean,  lecuidai  of  Loadoa,  aad 
widow  of  the  Hoa.  AnAaay  Fane,  a  younger  soa  of 
Eari  of  WestBMTlaBd,  by  whom  he  had 


Amthovv,  his  successor. 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  Baaastre  M  aynard,  third  Lord 


The  earl  d.  in  16A1,  and  his  lady,  who,  fkom  her 
numeroas  acts  of  benevolence,  was  called  the 
•«  Good  Gountass,*'  lived  to  the  advanced  age  of 
ninety-two,  surviving  bar  husband  fttrty^eevea 
years.     The    Earl    was   succeeded    by  his  only 


ANTHONY  GREY,  eieveath  Eari  of  Kent.  His 
lordship  m,  Mary,  daughter  and  halreiB  of  John, 
first  Baron  Lucaa,  of  Sliiaifiiilil,  in  the  county  of 
Essex,  whidi  lady  was  created,  on  the  7th  May, 
1683,  BAaoHsaa  LocAa,  ^fCnt^weUin  theeountp 
If  PFIftt,  with  remainder  to  her  hein  male  by  the 
aaid  earlt  failli«  which,  *«  the  title  not  to  be  sus> 
pended,  but  to  beeq)oyed  by  sudi  of  the  daughters 
and  co-heirB,   If  any  dudl  be,  as  other  Indivisi- 

by  the  commoa  law   of  this 


I,  are  uanaily  posiSina.**  The  eari  had  lame  by 
her  ladyship, 

Hbvbt,  his  successor. 
Amabel,  who  d.  uamairied. 
Hb  lordship  d.  in  1708,  and  was*,  by  htooaly  soa, 

HENRY  GRS  Y,  Lord  Lucas,  (adignfty  which  he 
had  inherited  at  the  deceaseof  his  mother,  in  1700,) 
as  twelfth  Earl  of  Kent.  His  lordship  was  created, 
OB  the  14th  December,  1706,  VUoomni  Geodric*,  ^f 
GoadHeh  Gsstfe,  in  tke  oonmt^  pf  H^nfgrd  /  Kari  tf 
HmroU,  in  Oi^eountif  of  Btififrd,  and  MABQCBaa  ov 
Kbht.  OntheSMAprU,  1710,  his  lordship  obtafaMd 
a  dukedom,  as  Dubb  ov  Kbkt,  and  in  three  years 
afterwards  was  Installed  a  Kxiubt  of  the  Gabtbb. 
At  the  demise  ot  Queen  Anne,  he  was  one  of  the 
lords  entrusted  with  theadmhiistratlonof  the  king- 
dom, until  the  arrival  of  his  m^lesty,  KingGeorge  L« 
by  whom  he  was  received  with  90  nuidi  tevour  as 
to  have  several  of  the  most  honourably  and  impoi^ 
tant  plaom  and  oAces  at  court  contared  upon  him* 
Nor  was  he  less  esteemed  by  King  George  IL,  at 
whose  coronation  he  carried  St.  Edward's  staC  and 
was  afterwards  constituted  lord-Ueutsnant  and 
taa-rotuk>rum  of  the  county  of  Bedfbrd.  His  i 
m.  first,  Jeminaa,  ridest  daughter  of  Thoosas,  Lord 
Crewe,  of  Steane,  by  whom  he  had,  with  two  othor 
who  both  died  young, 

AHTHoirv,  Eari  of  Harold,  who  was  earn- 
moaed  to  parHament  as  Lord  Lucas,  of 
Crudwell,  in  1719,  and  the  nest  year  ap* 
pointed  one  of  the  lords  of  the  bed-duunber. 
Hislordshlpm.  Lady  Mary  Tufton, daughter 
of  Thomas,  Earl  of  Thanet :  but  d.  without 
issue  in  17».  His  death  is  mentioned  as 
having  arisen  Arom  an  ear  of  barley  which 
hb  lordahlp  had  inadvertently  put  into  Ms 
mouth,  by  which  he  was  choked. 
Henry,  d.  in  the  twenty-first  year  of  hb  age, 

in  1717. 
Amidwl,  Nt.  John,  VIecount  Otaiorchy,  eon 
and  heir  of  John  Campbdl,  Earl  of  Pioad- 
altaanet   and  dying  in  17S7«  left  an  only 
daughter. 

Lady  Jemima  Campbdl,  iriw  m.  Philip, 
seeoad  Earl  of  Hardwire,  aad 
twodaughteiB, 

Amabel,  who  «.  as  BarcsMS 
and  was  ersated  Coinmna 
Grbt. 
Mary-Jemima,  m.  to  Thomas 

Lord  GranUiam,  and  hod 


Thomas-PhiHp,  inwsanl  Lona 

Gbahtbam. 
F)rederick-Ji4m,   created   Vio- 
couHT  GooaninR. 
Jemima,  m.  to  John,  third  Lord  Aririmmham, 
and  became  grandmother  of 

George,  present  Earl  of  Ashbamhaau 
Anne,  m.  to  Lord  Charles  Cavcadidi.  brother 

of  William,  Duke  of  Devonshirsb 
Mary,  m.  to  Dr.  Gregory,   Dean  of  Chrbt 
Church. 
Hb  grace  espooaed,  secoadly,  Sophia,  daughter  of 
William,  Duke  of  Devoaahlie,  by  whom  he  had  a 
soa,  who  died  in  Infincy,  aad  a  daughter. 


GRB 


GRE 


M.  to  Om  Right  B«v.  Jolm 
It  Lofd  Miho|^  of  Duiteni. 


,  Lady  Jcndma  GampMl,  with  th*  Hon. 
Phmp  Yovk,  Mm  «ad  hiir  of  I%Uip,  LonI  Hai^ 
wIdDi,  wncTMtod  Mabovbm  »■  Orbv  oa  thoStli 
May,  1740»  vltli  ttmitatkm  to  Unwlf  and  hUi«a« 
»i  oMtindeflnilttlMraof.  to  thoMM  Lady  Jo. 
XaapbalUaBdhorlaraomaliu  Hligraetdiad 
Ho«n.«  Im  BodftMddiln^  on  tha  «th  Juno^ 
to  tha  fbitoiriBf  yoar,  whan  aue.  ma  noyooaa 
hi  rami  ncTiircT*  aara  tha  UAMQvnATU  db  Qmrnr 
and  tha  Babokv  or  Locao,  whidi  darolTad  upon 
hii  BJBiiaald  giand-dauf htar,  than  Lady  Jamlma 
y  oth»  at  wheaa  daoma,  to  1770*  wtthont  mala  imaa, 
tha  MABiH"*AV*  alaobaeame  ncniicTi  tout  har 
hidyahip^  aMait  daiiflhtar.  Lady  Aatiabal  York, 
iriw  m.,  to  177SU  AlaMBdar*  Lord  PoHvaftht  (oaatod 
a  Britkh  pa«,  at  Lord  Huma»  of  Barwick,)  one- 
naadad  to  tha  BAnoirv  of  Lucab,  and  «m  craatod, 
<th  Octohar,  181C,  Cooimaa  oa  Oaar,  with  ra- 
to  dairalt  of  aula  liaaa,  to   har  atatar, 

and  har 


Amiia.— Bairy  of  tlz,  ar.  and  aa. )  to  ddaf  three 


OREY-^BARONS  OREY,OFWERK£, 
EARL  OF  TANKERVILLE. 

Barony,  /  hy  Laitan  \  11th  Fabruary,  lOM. 

Sarldoni,&a,t    Patant,    j  11th  Juno,  1098b 

Xiitcagt. 

SIR   THOMAS   GREY,   of  Barwyko,    to   tha 
county  of  Northumberland,  m,  Janab  (or  Anna*) 
daughter  of  John,  Lord  Moubray,  and  had  Imua^ 
Jommp  from  whom  daKondad  the  Bammtb 

Gbst  on  Powia  1  tea  that  dignity. 
Tiiomaaa  (Sir)  erf  whom  pimcntly. 
Henry,  (Sir)  of  Kettringham,  to  Suflhik. 
William,  Biahop  of  London. 
If  and,  m.  to  Sir  Hanry  Oglo,  Knt. 
From  tha  laeond  aoQ, 
SIR  TUOlf  AS  GREY,  of  Haton,  daMended 
RALPH  GREY,  who  m,  Imhal,  daughter  and 
hair  of  Sir  Thonuw  Gray,  of  Horton,  and  had  imua, 

•  Wbbbt  Houan,  BM(/tonliMr««~^t  thia  andcnt 
aaat  of  tha  Gray  fiunUy,  now  to  poaNmian  of  Ama> 
hal,  Countaai  daGrey,  Lyaou  ralataa,  that  there  laa 
great  number  of  portraita,  fonning  nearly  a  Mriei 
of  the  Grey  flunily  firom  Hanry,  Earl  of  Kent,  who 
aeeietad  at  the  trial  of  Mary,  Queen  of  Soote,  down 
to  the  ptaient  time  1  aiwingrt  which  ia  one  of  Ett- 
Bihelh,  CottBtam  of  Kent,  who,  to  her  widowhood, 
Ttoiding  at  Wraet,  there  padoniaad  Butler  the 
poet,  and  frequently  entertained  the  learned  SeUen 
aa  har  guest.  The  Duke  ot  Kent,  who  was  raty 
partial  to  thie  mat,  adorned  the  gardana  with  obe> 
Usks  and  various  other  buildings,  particularly  a 
magniflrmt  banqueting-housej  and  a  large  room 
whava  he  spent  many  oouTiTial  hoars  with  some 
great  *tt*fT^  irtio  were  his  contamporarlas,  after 
e^loying  his  Dsvoniito  amnsement  to  the  a4)o*ntag 


WILLIAM  ORCY,  Eef.,  of  ChiQIi^iham,  who 
reated  a  baronet,  on  Iflth  June^  161i^  and  eie- 
TBtod  to  the  paan«aw  on  llth  rebniary,  lOM,  m 
Babon  Gbbt  or  Vbbxb,  to  the  county  of 
Northumbedand.  His  lordship  m.  Anna,  dauf^ta* 
and  co-heir  of  Sir  John  Wentworth,  of  OoefleM,  to 
the  oouBty  of  Essen,  and  had  snrriTiBg  Isaue^ 
Ra]*ph,  hiseuccoseor. 
EUBShelh.  4.  to  IflH. 

Kathertaav  m.  flrst,  to  Sir  Edward  Moaelay, 
Bart,  of  Hough,  to  the  county  of  Lancw- 
tert  and  secondly,  to  Charlaa,  eldast  son  of 
l>udley.  Lord  NortiL 
LordGrey*  died  in  M74,  and  was  «.  hy  his  son, 

RALPH  GREY,  second  Lord  Grey,  of  WerkOt 
who  m.  Cathertoe,  daughter  of  Sir  Edward  Fordob 
Kat.,  of  Hartltag,  to  the  county  of  Suseex,  and 
widow  of  Alexander,  eldest  son  of  John,  Lord  Colo* 
peper,  by  whom  he  had  issue, 
FoBDB,  Ma  successor. 
Ra]*pb,  who  succeeded  hla  brother. 
Charles. 

Catherine,  m.  to  Richard  Nerllle,  Esq.,  and 
had  issue, 
Grbv,  m.   Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Sir 

John  Boteler,  and  died  «.  jk,  to  17S91 
HBKBV,*who  assumed  the  aumame  of 
Grey,  and  died  «.  fi.,  to  1740,  leaving  a 
widow,  EHaaheth,  who  ra>marrled 
John  Wallop,  Earl  of  Portsmouth. 
Catherine,  m.  Ridiard  Aldworth,  Esq.,  of 
Stanlake,  in  the  county  of  Oxibrd,  and 
dying  in  1740,  left  a  son, 

RioHABo,  who  assumed  the  sur- 
name and  arms  of  Nbtil]*b,  and 
wasfrtherof 

RicHARn  Aldwobtb  "Sm- 
yiLLB,  who  succeeded,  aa 
second  Lobd  Bbatbbookb. 
His  lordship  A  to  107A,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 
FORDE  GREY,  third  Lord  Grey,  of  Werke. 
This  nobleman  Jotatog  in  the  rebellion  of  the  Duke 
of  Monmouth,  commanded  Uie  horse  at  Sedge, 
moor,  where  he  is  accused  of  hoTlng  treacherously 
dmcited  his  post,  and  oi  flytog  at  the  first  diarget 
esvtato  it  is,  that  he  subsequently  made  terms  tor 
himarif,  aB4  preserred  his  Uto  by  giving  evidence 
against  his  associates.  After  the  revototion,  hie 
lordship  obtained  the  flivonr  of  King  William,  and 
was  creeled  by  letters  patent,  dated  llth  June, 
ie05,  FIscMMiT  Orsy,  qT  Otomlato,  and  Eabi.  or 
TAirKBByii.LB.  He  was  afterwards  a  lord  of  the 
treasury,  sworn  of  the  privy  coundl,  and  to  1790, 
Lofd  Privy-eeaL  He  m.  Mary,  daughter  of  George, 
Lord  BerMey,  and  had  an  only  daughter, 

Mary,  m,  to  Charles  Bonnet,  second  Lord  Oa- 
sulston,  who  was  created,  after  the  extin^ 
tion  of  the  male  line  of  tha  Greys,  Eabb  or 
TAmcBBTiLLB.     Hb  lordship 


•  Whsn  the  Lord  Keeper  Lyttlaton,  deserted  the 
Hoiweof  Lords,  to  1M9,  end  carried  the  great  seal 
to  King  Charles,  at  Oxftod,  this  William,  Lord 
Grey,  of  Werke,  was  elected  Speaker  Mat  the  Houae, 
at  WestaaiMter. 

913 


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gnat  gnndftthfer>  of  tbe  pretent  Earl  of 
Tankerville. 
His  lordship  d.  In  1701,  when  the  Ettldom  of  Tan- 
kerville and  Viiooanty  of  GlendaJe,  became 
■XTINCT,  while  the  Barony  of  Grey,  of  Werke, 
devolved  upon  hit  hrotheri 

RALPH  GREY,  aa  fourth  Baron.  Thia  noble- 
man attended  King  William  in  most  of  his  cam- 
paigns, and  was  made  governor  of  Barbadoes,  in 
1608.  He  died  In  1706,  when  the  Barony  of  Gkst, 
OF  WsRKS,  nxriKBD.  His  lordship  devised  a  con- 
lidorable  estate  te  his  coushi,  William,  Lord  North 
and  Grey,  son  of  Charles,  Lord  Grey,  of  RoUeston. 

Aiuis.^Guks,  a  lion  rampant  within  a  border 
ingrailedar. 

GBEYSTOCK   —  BARONS      GREY- 
STOCK. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  23rd  June,  lS9ff, 
S3d  Edward  L 

This  ftunily  derived  its  surname  from  the  Manor 
of  Orbybtoks  in  Cumberland,  at  which  place, 

THOMAS  DE  GREYSTOKE  obtained  a  royal 
charter,  S9th  Henry  III.,  to  hold  a  weekly  market 
and  yearly  fUr.  This  Thomas  m.  Christian, 
daughter  of  Roger  de  Vipount,  and  was  «.  by  his 
son, 

ROBERT  DE  GREYSTOCK,  who  dyhig  hi  the 
S8th  Henry  III.,  was  «.  by  his  brother, 

WILLIAM  DE  GREYSTOCK,  whopaying  £100. 
for  his  rdief,  and  doing  his  fealty,  had  livery  of 
the  lands  of  his  hiheritance.  This  William  had  a 
military  summons  to  attend  the  king,  at  Chester, 
42nd  Henry  II L,  in  order  to  restrain  the  hostilities 
of  the  Welch.  He  m.  Mary,  the  eldest  of  the  three 
daughters  and  co-heirs  of  Roger  de  Merlay,  an 
eminent  baron  of  the  north,  by  whom  he  acquired 
the  Manor  of  MonrsTB,  in  Northumberland,  and 
had  issue,  two  sons,  Jobh,  and  William,  and-  a 
daughter,  Margaret,  m.  to.  Sir  Robert  de  la  Val, 
Knt.  This  feudal  lord  died  in  1288,  and  was  «.  by 
his  elder  son, 

JOHN  DE  GREYSTOCK,  who  in  the  29d  Ed- 
ward L,  had  summons  with  other  great  men,  to 
attend  the  crown  to  advise  upon  certain  Imponant 
aflkirs  of  the  nation,  and  in  pursuance  of  that 
advice,  went  with  the  king  into  Gascony,  the 
French  monarch  having  then  invaded  those  ter- 
ritories ;  where  distinguishing  himself  In  arms,  he 
was  the  next  year  summoned  to  parliament  as  a 
BABOW,  and  subsequently  to  all  the  parliaments  of 
his  time.  In  two  years  afterwards,  we  And  his 
lordship  ag^n  in  the  wars  of  Gascony,  and  then  In 
the  retinue  of  Anthony  Bee,  Bishop  of  Durham, 
and  Patriarch  of  Jerusalem.  In  the  28th  and  29th 
ot  Edward  I.,  he  was  in  the  wars  of  Scotland.  His 
lordship  d.  issueless,  in  1305,  when  he  settled  his 
Manor  and  Barony  of  Gbbtstock,  upon  his  cousin 
RAX.PH,  son  of  William  Fita>RaIph,  Lord  of  Grim- 
thorpe,  in  Yorkshire,  son  of  the  baron's  aunt, 
Joane;  his  brothers  and  uncles  being  then  all  dead, 
without  issue  male,  which 

RALPH  FITZ-WILLIAM,  in  tbe  10th  Edward  L, 
844 


paid  a  flae  to  the  king  of  one  hnndied  marki,  ft»r 
Uoence  to  marry  Margery,  Widow  of  Nicholas  Cor^ 
bet,  and  daughter  and  heir  of  Hugh  de  Bolebec; 
and  in  the  24th  of  the  same  reign,  as  brother  and 
heir  of  Geffery  Flta-William,  of  Yorkshliek  had 
livery  of  the  said  Geffery's  lands,  upon  doing  his 
homage.  This  nobleman  was  much  engaged  in  the 
wan  of  Scotluid;  and  In  the  7th  of  Edward  IL,  we 
find  him  governor  of  Berwick,  and  joined  In  com- 
mission with  John,  Lord  Moubray,  and  others,  in 
the  wardensfaip  of  the  Marches.  He  was  the  next 
year  governor  of  Carlisle,  and  founded  a  diantry  at 
Tinemouth,  for  the  soul  of  John,  Lord  Oieystock, 
his  kinsman,  and  all  his  aaoeston.  His  lordship 
died  in  1316,  having  had  summons  to  parliament  aa 
a  BABOB,  under  the  designaalon  of  "  Ralp  Five* 
William,**  Arom  23rd  June,  129S,  to«th  October, 
13U.    He  was  «.  by  his  second,  but  eldest  surviving 


ROBERT  FITZ-RALPH,  second  Baron,  but 
never  summoned  to  parliament,  who  m.  Elisabeth, 

daughter  of NeviU,  of  Stahiton,  in  the  county 

of  Lincoln,  and  dying  the  year  after  his  flither,  was 
«.  by  his  son, 

RALPH  DE  GREYSTOCK,  which  surname  he 
assumed,  and  was  summoned  to  parliament  by  that 
designation,  from  15th  May,  1321,  to  17th  Septem- 
ber, 13^  His  lordship  by  virtue  of  a  special  dis- 
pensation from  the  Pope,  espoused  Alice,*  daughter 
of  Hugh,  Lord  Audley,  they  befaig  within  the  third 
and  fourth  degrees  of  consanguinity:  and  had  an 
(mly  son,  William.  Lord  Greystock  having  been 
a  principal  in  seising  Sir  Gilbert  de  Middleton,  tai 
the  Castle  of  Mitftnrd,  Ibr  treeson,  was  soon  after- 
wards poisoned,  while  at  breakfost,  through  the 
contrivance  of  that  person.  His  death  occurred  in 
1223,  when  he  was  «.  by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  GREYSTOCK,  fimrth  Baron, 
summoned  to  parliament  fttnn  20th  November, 
1348,  to  15th  December,  1357.  This  nobleman 
shared  in  the  martial  glories  of  Edward  III.'s  reign, 
and  served  in  France  under  the  Black  Prince.  He 
obtained  permission  to  make  a  castle  of  his  manor 
house,  at  Greystock,  and  was  constituted  governor 
of  Berwidc;  but  during  his  governorship,  being 
commanded  to  attend,  perMnaUy,  King  Edward 
Into  Prance,  Berwick  fSdl  bito  the  possession  of  the 
Soots,  whereupon  the  king  was  much  oflteded;  it 
being  clearly  proved,  however,  that  Lord  Grey- 
stock  was  absent  upon  no  other  occasion,  he  ob- 
tained his  pardon  at  the  request  of  Queen  Phillppa. 
His  kndship  m.  first,  Lucy  de  Lude,  daughter  of 
Lord  Lude,  ttcm  whom  he  was'divoroed,  without 
issue.  He  espoused,  secondly,  Joane,  daughter  of 
Lord  FitB^Hugh,  by  whom,  (who  married  after  hia 
decease,  Anthony  de  Lude,  and  Sir  Matthew  Red- 
man, Knt.)  he  had  issue,  Ralph,  his  successor, 
Robert  and  William,  and  a  daughter,  Alice,  m.  to 
Sir  Robert  de  Harrington.  He  died  in  1366,  and 
was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 


•  Dugdale  in  one  place,  calls  this  lady,  "  AUce  de 
Audeley,**  daughter  of  Hugh,  Lord  Audeley,  and 
in  another,  *' Alioe,**  daughter  ot  Ralph,  Loid 
I  NeviU. 


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RALFH  DB  OREY8TOCK,  fifth  tauoB,  sum- 
moned to  piiriimiMnt  from  flBth  NoT«mlwr»  l37At  to 
Ath  October,  1417,  ••  *'  Radulfo  Boionl  de 
OraysttA.**  ThU  nobleman  was  conctitttted  in  the 
SfOi  Sdwaid  III.,  governor  of  Loughmeben  castle, 
tai  Scotland,  and  one  of  the  commissioners  for 
guarding  the  west  marches.  Moreover,  in  the  1st 
Richard  II.,  he  was  joined  in  commission  with 
Henry,  Duke  of  Northumberland,  and  others,  for 
gnaniUng  the  east  and  west  marches,  and  the  next 
year  he  assisted  the  earl  in  talcing  the  casUe  of 
Warwick,  of  which  the  SooU  had  posiesied  them- 
seives,  by  surprise.  In  the  4th  Richard  II.  his 
lorMiip  had  the  direction  of  the  military  expedi- 
tion against  the  Sootsi  but  was  made  prisoner  by 
George,  Earl  of  Dunbar,  at  Horsetidge,  in  Olen- 
dalL  His  ransom  cost  3,000  marlu.  Hb  brother 
William  want  as  a  hostage  ft>r  him  to  Dunbar,  and 
died  there  of  the  pestilence.  After  his  enlargement 
he  was  agidn  constituted  one  of  the  commlaBiflners 
tor  guarding  the  west  marches.  His  lordship  m. 
Catherine,  daughter  of  Roger,  Lord  Cliflbrd,  and 
dying  in  1417,  was  «.  by  hb  son, 

SIR  JOHN  DE  OREYSTOCK,  sixth  banm, 
summoned  to  parliament  from  Mth  August,  1419,  to 
Uh  July,  1436w  This  nobleman  was  constituted, 
8th  Henry  V.,  goveiuoi  of  Roxborough  Castle,  in 
Scotland,  Ibr  four  years,  with  an  allowance  of  a 
thousand  pounds  per  annum  in  time  of  peace,  and 
two  thousand  in  war.  In  the  1st  of  Henry  VI.  he 
was  joined  in  commission,  with  the  Bishop  of  Lon- 
dcm,  and  others,  to  treat  of  peace  with  James,  king 
of  Scotland ;  and  was  twice  subsequently  in  a  simi- 
lar commission.  In  the  lath  of  the  same  reign  hb 
locdahip  was  one  of  the  chief  commanders  sent  with 
the  fbress  to  the  rdief  of  Berwick,  then  bssieged  by 
the  Scots.  He  m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  and  co-heir 
of  Robert  Ferrers,  of  Wemme,  and  had  issue, 
Ralvh,  hb  succeisor,  with  three  other  sons,  Wil- 
Bam,  Richard,  and  Thomas,  and  a  daughter, 
Bliaaboth,  married  to  Roger  Thornton,  whose  only 
child  and  heirsM,  EUaabeth  Thornton,  espoused  Star 
George  Lumky,  Lord  Lumley,  from  whom  the 
pisstint  Earl  of  Scarborough  collatacally  descends. 
Lord  Oreystock  d.  in  143S,  and  was  «.  by  hb  eldest 


SIR  RALPH  DE  OREYSTOCK,  seventh  ba- 
Ton,  summoned  to  parliament  from  89th  October, 
MM,  to  lAth  September,  148S.  Thb  nobleman, 
who  was  frequently  in  commissions  to  treat  with 
the  Soots,  IN.  EUsabeth,  daughter  of  William,  Lord 
Fits-Hugh*  and  had  an  only  son, 

RoamikT,  who  m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Ed- 
XBund  Grey,  Earl  of  Ksnt,  and  dying  in  the 
Hfi^time  of  hb  father,  1st  Richard  III.,  left 
an  infimt  dauj^ter  and  hairsM, 

EusABBTH,   who   in.    Thomas,    Loan 
Dacrs,  0/  GilhtUmd,  K.O.,  and  con- 
veyed the  Baeoitv  op  ORKTarocK  to 
her  husband,  when  it  became  united 
with  that  of  OiLx.n8i.AivD. 
Lord  Oreystock  died  in  1487,  and  was  succeeded  by 
hb  grand-daughter   Elisabeth,   who  married,   as 
stated  above.  Lord  Dacre,  of  Oinesland--by  thb 
marriage,  as  also  stated  above,   the  baronies  of 
Dacre  and  Gieystock  beaune  united,  and  so  oon- 


William-Pranccs,  Lord 

ParxR, 
William,  Lord  Stour- 

TON, 


. 


tinned  until  the  deceais  of  George,  filth 
Dacre,  of  Gillesland,  and  Baron  Oreystock,  in  l/W, 
when  it  fell  into  absvancs  between  hb  lordship's 
three  sisters  and  co-heirs,  vis. 

Anne,  m.  to  Philip  Howard,  Earl  of  Arundel, 

ancestor  of  the  Dukes  of  Norfolk. 
Mary,  m.  to  Thomas,  Lord  Howard,  of  Wal* 

den,  and  died  «.j>. 
EUaabeth.  m.  to  Lord  William  Howard,  ances- 
tor of  the  Earb  of  Carlisle. 
And  between  the  rsprmcntatives  of  these  co-heirs 
the  Barony  op  ORBvaTOCK  b  ptasumed  still  to  be 
inABBYANcB.    Thoso  representatives  are, 

Representatives 
of  Anne  Dacre, 
through  Winifred 
Howard,  who  mar- 
ried WiUiam,  fif- 
tesnth'  Lord  Stour- 
ton,  and  Anne 
Howard,  who  m, 
Robert  -  Edward, 
ninth  Lord  Petre, 
sisters  and  co-heirs 
of  Philip  Howard, 
brother  of  Ed- 
ward, ninth  Duke 
of  Norlblk. 

George,  Earx.  op  Carlxblb,  Tepiceeutative  of 
Elisabeth  Dacre. 
Arms.— Barry  of  six  ar.  and  as.  over  all  thrse 
chaplets  gules. 

GRIFFIN  —  BARONS  GRIFFIN,    OF 
BRAYBROKE    CASTLE, 
IN    THE    COUNTY    OF 
NORTHAMPTON. 
By  Letten  Patent,  dated  9rd  December,  10881 

By  a  pedigree  attested  by  air  Richard  at.  Osofye, 
and  the  learned  Osmden,  it  appears,  that  hi  the  xeign 
of  Edward  IL, 

SIR  JOHN  GRIFFIN  married  the  heiiess  of 
the  fiunily  of  the  Favells,  of  Weston-Favel,  in  the 
county  of  Northampton,  and  obtained  that  seat, 
which  became  the  place  of  hb  abode,  and  of  hb 
posterity,  until  the  time  of  Henry  IV.,  when 

SIR  THOMAS  GRIFFIN  married  Elisabeth 
Latimer,  only  daughter  of  Warine,  Lord  Latimer, 
of  BraybrOke,  by  Katharine,  sister  and  heir  of  John, 
Lord  La  Warr,  and  was  «.  by  hb  son, 

RICHARD  GRIFFIN,  who  m.  Anne,  daughter 
of  Richard  Chamberlain,  and  was  «.  by  hb  son, 

JOHN  GRIFFIN,  Esq.,  who,  in  the  ISth  of 
Henry  IV.,  upon  the  death  of  his  great  uncle, 
Edward,  last  Lord  Latimer  of  Braybroke,  was 
found  to  be  hb  next  heir,  and  had  livery  thereupon 
ot  the  manor  of  Warden,  and  the  castle  of  Bray- 
broke, in  the  county  of  Northampton,  with  divers 
other  lands  in  other  shires.  In  the  4th  of  Henry  VI. 
he  was  also  found  to  be  next  heir  to  Thomas,  the 
last  Lord  La  Warr,  but  by  virtue  of  an  entaU,  made 
by  the  said  Lord  La  Warr,  Sir  Reginald  West  was 
heir  to  hb  lands,  being  son  of  Sir  Thomas  West, 

849 


GRI 


OBI 


Kiit.»  by  Jotn,  hk  miit»  dang|it«r  of  Ruffir,  Loud 
Lft  Wan«.  To  Jobn  OriiBa,  who  dted  withont 
lisao»  luooaeded  hii  bfotlior, 

SIR  NICHOLAS  GRIFFIN,  of  B»ybroko,  who 
waft  fthortff  of  Northaiitptoiuliire»  in  •the  35tii 
Henry  VI.  Thift  fentlcnuui  m.  Catheriae,  daughter 
of  John  CuiBon,  Eiq.»  and  was  «.  by  his  waa, 

JOHN  GRIFFIN.  Eiq.,  of  Braybroke,  who  m. 
Emmott  daughter  of  Richard  WheathUI.  Eiq.,  of 
Callis,  and  had  iaftuo* 

NicaoLAS  (Sir),  his  successor, 
Bfary,  m.  to  John  Toudiet,  Lord  Aadley. 
He  was  «.  at  his  decease  by  his  son, 

SIR  NICHOLAS  GRIFFIN,  who  was  made  one 
of  the  Knights  of  the  Bath  at  thenuuriageof  Prince 
Arthur,  eldest  son  of  King  Henry  VIL,  17th  No< 
▼ember,  1001,  and  was  sheriff  of  Northamptonshire 
in  1504.  Sir  Nicholas  m.  Alice,  daughter  of  John 
Thombocough,  Esq.,  and  had  two  tons, 

1.  TnoMAa  (Sir),  who  succeeded  his  fkther, 
and  was  sheriff  of  the  county  of  Northamp- 
ton hi  the  98th  and  aeth  of  Henry  YIII. 
Sir  Thomas  m.  Jane,  eldest  daughter  and 
co-heir  of  Richard  Newton,  Esq.,  and  was  «. 
by  his  son, 

Rica  (Sir),  who  m.  Elisabeth,  daughter 
of  Sir  Thomas  Brudenel,    Knt.,   of 
Dean,  In  the  county  of  Northampton, 
and  left  an  only  daughter  and  heiress, 
Mary  Gnippilr,  who  m.  Thomas 
Markham,    Esq.,     of    Allerton. 
Thus  terminated  this  branch  of 
the  family. 
S.  Edward. 
The  younger  son, 

SIR  EDWARD  GRIFFIN  havhig  pursued  the 
study  of  the  law,  was  constituted  solicitor-general 
in  the  a7th  Henry  VIII.,  and  retained  in  that  ottce 
till  0th  Edward  VI.,  when  he  was  adyanoed  to  the 
attorney  generalship ;  which  he  continued  to  hold 
during  the  reign  of  Mary.  Sir  Edward  m.  first,  Eli- 
sabeth, daughter  of  •— -  Palmer,  Esq.,  of  Bowden, 
in  the  county  of  Northampton,  by  whom  he  had 
(with  four  daughters), 

EowAEO,  his  successor. 
He  m,  secondly,  Anne,  daughter  of  Mr.  Baron 
(John)  Sakith,  of  the  exchequer,  but  had  no  lasue: 
and  he  espoiMod  thirdly,  Sliaabeth,  daughter  and 
heireas  of  Gcffirey  Chambers,  Esq.,  of  Stanmore,  in 
the  county  of  Middlcscs,  and  widow  of  -—  Coniera, 
Esq.,  of  Wakerley,  in  the  county  of  Northampton ; 
of  Lord  St.  John,  and  of  Sir  Walter  Stoner,  Knt., 
by  whom  he  had  a  son. 

Rice  (Sir),  of  BidLmaish,  who  left  a  son, 
Edward,  who  d,  in  1050,  leaving, 
Nicholas. 
Lucy. 
The  attorney-general  was  «.  by  his  elder  son, 

SIR  EDWARD  GRIFFIN,  of  DIngley,  K.a, 
who  m.  Lucy,  daughter  of  —  Coniers,  Esq.«  of 
Wakerley,  by  his  step-mother,  (the  Attomey-Geno< 
rai  Orlffln's  last  wife,)  and  had  Issue, 
TaoMAi,  his  successor, 
Edward  (Star). 

Francas,  m.  to  Sir  Gregory  Cromwd*  KnI. 
Elisabeth, «.  to  Cedl  HaU,  Esq. 
MS 


Aaaab  m.  to  Sir  wmtaa  YUHmi, 
Sir  Edward  waa  «.  by  Us  eUest  SOB, 

SIR  THOMAS  GRIFFIN  6.  in  lAM^  m.  EHm- 
bsth,  daughter  of  George  Toudiet,  Lord  Aiattay, 
and  widow  of  Sir  John  Stawal,  K.B.,  and  was  a.  by 
his  SOB, 

.  SIR  EDWARD  GRIFFIN,  Knt,  of  Braybsoko 
and  DIngley,  treasurer  of  tho  daaaber  to  King 
Charles  II.  This  giBlleniaii  mu  ,  daughHr  of 
Uvedale,  Esq.,  and  dying  in  lau,  was  «.  by  hie 


SIR  EDWARD  GRIFFIN,  UouU-Coload  ot 
the  Duke  of  York's  regiment  of  foot  guards,  (now 
called  the  Coldstream,)  in  the  reign  of  King  GhariM 
IL,  who  was  adyanoed  to  the  peerage,  by  letters 
patent,  dated  at  SaUsburySrd  December,  KM,  in 
the  dignity  of  Babom  Gbxvfin,  of  Braybsokcu  Hia 
lordship  m.  the  Lady  Essex  Howard,  only  daughter 
aad  heiress  of  James,  third  Earl  of  Sufblk,  aad 
BaroB  Howard,  of  Waldca.  Lord  Grifla  i<»m«ng 
to  the  Ibrtunes  of  King  James  IL,  ■^♦^^^Uit  that 
monarch  upon  his  abdication  into  France,  and  was 
outlawed.  He  remained  abroad  until  1706,  when, 
upon  an  intended  invasion  of  Scotland,  he  embariied 
on  the  Salisbury  man  of  war  at  Dunkirii ;  and  was 
taken  prisoner,  with  several  others,  by  Sir  John 
Byng,  Knt.,  off  the  ooest  of  North  Britain.  Hia 
lordship  was  then  committed  to  the  Tower  of  Lob* 
don,  where  he  died  in  November,  1710^  and  was  «. 
by  his  son, 

JAMES  GRIFFIN,  second  Baxon  GriAn,  of 
Braybroke,  who  m.  Anne,  daughter  and  sole  heiress 
of  Riduurd  Rainsford.  Esq.,  eldest  son  of  Sir  Ridiard 
Ralosford,  of  Dallington,  in  the  county  of  Nor- 
thampton, lord  chief  Justice  of  England,  by  whom 
he  had  issue, 

Edward,  his  successor. 


RiSuSd.  }*»**»*•* '-P- 


Elisabeth,  m.  first,  to  Henry  Grey,  Esq.,  of 
BltUngbear,  in  the  county  of  Berks,  and 
seooadly,  to  John  Wallop,  Earl  of  Ports* 
mouth,  but  d,  issueless. 
Anne, «.  to  William  WhitweU,  Baq.,  of  Oundle, 
in  the  couaty  of  Northamptoa.  This  lady 
succeeded  eventually  as  sole  heiress  of  her 
brother,  Edward,  Lord  Oriflla. 
Her  eldest  son, 

Jobh  GRxrnN-WBfTWBi.1.,  having  ob> 
tained  from  his  aunt  the  Countess  of 
Portsmouth,  her  share  of  the  estate  of 
SaAron  Walden,  in  Essex,  assumed  the 
surname  and  arms  of  Gairpia,  and 
having  his  claim  to  the  ancient  Barony 
of  Howard,  of  Walden,  admitted,  (as 
grsat-grandson  of  Lady  Essex  Howard, 
only  chUd  of  James,  Earl  of  Suflblk 
and  Lof<d  Howard,  of  Walden,)  was 
summoned  to  parliament  in  that  dig- 
nity. He  was  afterwards  created  Barov 
Bratbrokb,  with  a  special  reooain- 
dcr,  and  that  BARoaY  is  now  tsttmt 
under  the  limitation. 
His  kxrdship  4,  hi  October,  17Uf  taoA  was  «.  by  his 


EDWARD  GRIFFIN,  third  Baron  CrliBn,  who. 


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an  the  UtfMmwry.  ITO^.tooktlMMMhiM 
■Mt  In  parUamait*  iWTtaw  oonfomMA  to  the 
bitolMdchiuch.  Hli  tofdihlp  m.  Mary.  dMichtar  of 
AntlMMiy  WaUflo,  Esq.,  of  Well,  In  the  oounty  of 
Lincoia*  aone  ttine  Goreraor  of  Bengal*  hy  whon 
he  had  an  only  daai^ter,  Eaasx.  who  d,  unmarried 
in  17ML  He  4.  Wmaeif  in  1748,  when  the  BABomr 
or  QwamwiK,  9f  Bmt/brolu,  iMcane  sktihct,  and 
hia  lordihlp't  eatalea  davolTed  upon  hie  lialen*  as 
oo-bein  (rate  to  the  danghtam  of  Ji 


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GUELPH  — IKJKE  OF  CAMBRIDGE. 

By  Lettcn  Patent,  dated  9Ch  November,  1706. 

Xineasc 

GEORGE  AUGUSTUS  OUELPH,  Prlnoe  Eleeto- 
nd  of  Hanover,  only 'ton  of  Hit  Mujetlw  Kino 
Gnomon  I.,  waa  created  a  pear  of  Oient  Britain,  9th 
November,  1706,  in  the  dlgnitiea  of  Baron  Tewkw 
•wry,  1^  Twokettntnf,  in  the  c^umty  itf  Glou€09ter, 
Vi»eou$tt  NarthaOerlvH,  in  M«  anmtaf  qf  York,  EaH 
t(f  MUfbrd  Haven,  and  MABOVsaa  and  Dunn  or 
CAMsniDon.  (Hia  Royal  Highneta  waa  created 
Prince  of  Wales,  2Snd  September,  1714).  The 
prince  succeeded  to  the  throne  as  King  Gnonon  II., 
on  the  demise  <3i  his  fiather,  11th  June,  1717,  when 
9Si  these  honours  merged  in  the  cnoww. 


GUELPH  —  DUKE  OF  CUMBER. 

LAND. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  S7fh  July,  176S.    . 

WILLIAM  AUGUSTUS  GUELPH,  second  son 
of  W»  MmiMtif  Kino  Ononon  II.,  was  created  e 
peer  of  Gnat  Britain  by  his  grandfkthar,  Gnonon  I., 
fTth  July,  ITOB,  as  Bmron  i^f  the  loh  i^Aldeme^, 
Vieeotmt  IVeimieN,  In  Comwali,  EartpfKennktg^ 
isn,  Mmrqueee  ^  Berkhampeted,  and  Dunn  or 
CuMBcnjLAND.  His  royal  highness,  who  adopted 
eariy  In  UDs  the  piuJbsslon  of  anns,  attained  a  very 
high  miUtery  reputation,  ftir  courage,  conduct,  and 
ability.  He  was  with  his  Ibther  at  the  battle  of 
Dettingcn,  and  there  displaying  great  gallantry,  re* 
cei'ved  a  wound  in  the  brunt  of  the  engagement.  In 
tUs  conflict  the  British  arms  were  victorious ;  but, 
eubaequently,  sustained  e  defiBat  under  hVi  royal 
highness  at  Fontsnot,  owing,  in  a  great  measure, 
to  the  irreslatlUe  valour  of  the  cdetarated  laieH 
BnioADB,  whidi  fbrmed  the  rear  guard  of  Maredial 
SaaLe^sanny.  It  was  upon  ttuit  memorable  occasion 
thotthe  Eni^lshmonardiissaidtohaveeKdaimed 
in  the  MttcnMss  of  Ms  ftMTtnne, «  curst  be  those  laws 
that  array  my  own  sublects  againet  me."  The  duke, 
in  1746,  commasuled  the  English  troops  against  ttie 
CnnvALisn,  and  terminated  that  very  formidable 
rebelUon  by  hia  dedalvo  victory  of  Cullodcn. 


Thedttte,*  who  was  a  Kirianr  of  the  maatnoUe 
order  of  the  Gastba,  died  unmarried  in  176ft,  when 
all  his  honours  became  extinct. 

GUELPH  —  DUKE  OF  CUMBER. 
LAND  AND  STRATHERN. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  18th  October,  1786. 

HENRY-FREDERICK  GUELPH,  thiid  son  of 
His  Royal  Highness,  Frederick,  Prince  of  Walaa, 
and  brother  of  Hie  Majeet^  Kino  Gnonon  III.,  was 
created  a  pear  of  Great  Britain,  as  Dunn  ow  Cvm- 
Baai.AND  AND  STnATBBNN,  and  of  Irdand,  as 
Earl  of  Dublin,  on  the  18th  October,  1706.  His 
Royal  Highness  was  likewise  installed  a  Kniobt  of 
the  moat  noble  order  ot  the  GAnrna.  This  prinos^ 
after  flguring  In  the  annals  of  gallantry,  eqMuaed, 
in  1771,  the  Lady  Anne  Horton,  widow  of  Chrlalo. 
pher  Horton,  Esq.,  of  Cotton  Hall,  in  the  county  of 
Derby,  and  daughter  of  Simon  Luttxeil,  flrst  Eart 
of  Carhampton.  This  marriage  waa  received  very 
un£svourably  at  court,  and  gave  rise  to  the  law  soon 
after  passed,  known  as  the  novAL  MAaaiAon  act, 
by  which  the  subsequent  marriages  of  the  royal 
flunily  were  confined  within  speciflc  Hmitatinsis 
His  royal  highness  died  in  1790,  without  issue, 
all  his  honours  became  nxrufCT. 


GUELPH  —  DUKE  OF  YORK  AND 
ALBANY. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  SDth  June,  171& 

Xhuagc. 

Hie  Majeetw  Kino  Gnonon  L,  soon  after  his  ac- 
cession to  the  throne,  created  hia  brother, 

EARNEST  AUGUSTUS  GUELPH,  Bishop  of 
Osnaburgh.  DuKn  or  Youc  and  Aj.bany,  in  the 
peerage  of  Great  Britain,  and  Earl  of  Ulster,  in  that 
of  Ireland.  HU  royal  highness  was  likewlw  hi« 
vested  with  the  OAnrnn.  He  died,  unmarried,  in 
1798»  when  his  honours  became  nzxiNcr. 

GUELPH  —  DUKE  OF  YORK  AND 
ALBANY. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  1st  April,  1780^ 

lintagc. 

EDWARD  AUGUSTUS  GUELPH,  second  son 
of  His  Royal  Highness,  Frederick,  Prhice  of  Wales, 
and  brother  of  Hie  Majeety  Kino  Gnonon  111., 
was  created  Ducn  or  York,  and  Albany,  in  the 
peerage  of  Great  Britain,  and  Earl  of  Ulster  in  Ire< 
land,  on  1st  April.  1780,  but  at  the  decease  of  this 
promising  youth  in  1787»  those  honours 
again  bxtinct. 


•  There  Is  a  pedestrian  statue  of  this  prince  upon 
a  pillar  of  considerable  altitude  in  the  town  of  Birr, 
King's  County,  Ireland. 

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6UELPH  -.  DUKE  OF  YORK  AND 
ALBANY. 

By  Letter*  Patent,  dated  S7th  Noyember,  1784. 

FREDERICK  OUELPH,  lecand  Mm  of  His  Ma- 
Jeity  King  George  III.,  bom  16th  August,  1763,  was 
dected  the  following  year  Bishop  of  Osnabuiio, 
and  chosen  a  Knight  of  the  Bath  in  1767.  In  June. 
177It  he  wai  elected  aKuriGUT  of  the  most  noble 
order  of  the  Oabtsr,  and  installed  at  Windsor, 
SBth  of  the  same  month.  His  royal  highness  was 
created  a  peer  <3€  Great  Britain,  as  Duks  of  York 
AKO  Alkawt,  and  of  Irdand,  as  Earl  of  Ulster, 
S7th  November,  1764.  The  prince  adopting  the  pro- 
fession of  arms,  attained  the  rank  of  r  ixlo-mabshax. 
and  hdd  for  several  years  the  high  and  important 
oAceof  coMMAiTDXB-iir-cHiBF  of  all  the  king's  land 
forces  in  the  united  kingdom ;  during  which  pe- 
riod, and  greatly  owing  to  the  efficiency  of  his  royal 
highness's  government,  the  British  army  acquired 
an  unprecedented  degree  of  glory,  and  the  military 
banner  of  Great  Britain  waved  as  triumphantly  as 
her  naval  pennant.  The  Duke  of  York  espoused, 
S9th  September,  1791,  Princess  Frederica  Charlotte, 
ridest  daughter  of  Frederick,  King  of  Prussia,  by 
whom,  (who  died  6th  August,  1820),  he  had  no 
Issue.  His  royal  highness  died,  deeply  lamented, 
Mh  January,  1887,  when  all  his  honours  became 

SXTIlfCT. 

GUELPH  —  DUKE  OF  KENT  AND 
STRATHERN. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  nrd  AprU.  1790. 

ICiiuagc. 

EDWARD  GUELPH,  fourth  son  of  Hi«  Ma- 
jettif  Kino  Gsonoa  III.,  bom  8nd  November, 
1767t  was  created  a  peer  of  Great  Britain,  as  Duk« 
OF  KsifT  AKD  Stratbsbh,  and  of  Ireland,  as 
Earl  of  Dublin,  on  SSd  April,  1799.  His  royal  high- 
ness was  a  Kbioht  of  the  Gabtbb,  and  of  St.  Pa- 
trick, a  Knight  Grand  Croes  of  the  Bath,  a  field, 
marshal  in  the  army,  and  colonel  of  the  first  re- 
giment of  foot  The  duke  espoused,  in  1818,  Her 
Serene  Highness  Victoria-Mary-Louisa,  daughter  of 
Francis,  Duke  of  Saxe-Coburg-Saalfleld,  by  whom 
he  had  an  only  daughter, 

Ai.BXANO»iivA-VicToaiA,  bovn  84th  May, 
1819L 
His  royal  highness  died,  deeply  lamented,  SSd  Ja- 
nuary, 1890,  when  all  his  honours  bwme  bxtinct  ; 
but  his  daughter  is  now  bbir  prbbumftitb  to  the 
crown. 

HACCHE— BARON  HACCHE. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  6th  February,  1990, 
87  Edward  I. 

i:llU89C. 

EUSTACE  DE  HACCHE,   originally  a  menial 
servant  to  King  Edward  I.,  obtained  l^tmi  that  mo- 
narch a  charter  of  free-warren  In  all  his  demesne 
lands  at  Hacche,  in  the  county  of  Wilts,  as  also  at 
948 


NoitOD-Meriittll  and  Cestreton,  In  Warwickshire 
He  was  afterwards,  92nd  Edward  I.,  made  governor 
of  Portsmouth,  in  which  year  he  aooompanied  Ed- 
mund. Earl  of  Lancaster,  In  the  expedition  then 
made  into  Gasonny.  In  two  years  afterwards  he 
received  command  to  attend  the  king  at  Carlisle, 
thence  to  march  into  Scotland  against  Robert 
Bruce,  who  had  at  thattlmeassumedthesoverelgnty 
of  that  kingdom.  In  the  S6th  of  Edward  I.,  he  was 
at  the  memorable  battle  of  Fawkirk,  and  he  conti- 
nued for  several  years  subsequently  in  the  Scottish 
wars.  He  was  summoned  to  parliament,  as  a  ba- 
BON,  from  6th  February,  19B9,  to  99nd  January, 
1800.  His  lordship  tf.  in  the  foUowing  year,  leaving 
an  only  daughter  and  heiress, 

Julian,  m.  to  John  Hansard,  in  whose  repre. 

sentaUves,  if  such  are  in  being,  the  Ba- 

BOKY  OF  Hacchb  Is  vested. 
ABiia.— Or.,  a  cross  engrailed,  gules. 

HARCLA— BARON  HARCLA.  EARL 
OF  CARLISLE. 

Barony,  by  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  15th  May,  laSL 

14  Edward  IL 
Earldom,   by   Charter,   dated  9Bth  March,   13S9. 

ANDREW  DE  HARCLA,  (son  of  Mkhael  de 
Harda,  Sheriff  of  Cumberland,  fttMn  Idth  to  the  16th 
of  Edward  I.,  inclusive,)  having  distinguished  him- 
sdf  in  the  Scottish  wars,  was  oonstitutad  by  King 
Edward  IL,  governor  of  the  castle  of  Carlisle,  wardfn 
of  the  marches,  and  elevated  to  the  peerage,  by 
writ  of  summons,  dated  15th  May,  1821,  as  BABOsr 
Habcla  ;  in  which  year  his  lordship  had  the  good 
fortune  to  completdy  rout  the  insurgents  under 
Thomas  Plantegenet,  Earl  of  Lancaster,  at  Borou|^- 
bridge,  and  to  seise  the  earl  himself,  whom  he  con- 
veyed a  prisoner  to  the  king  at  York,  and  had  soon 
afterwards  executed  at  Pontefract.  In  oonsidera- 
tion  of  this  eminent  service,  his  lordship  was 
created  an  earl,  under  the  title  of  Eabl  of  Cab- 
I.I8LB,  by  the  girding  of  a  sword,  accompanied  by 
a  charter,  in  which  it  was  covenanted,  that  for  the 
better  support  of  the  dignity,  he  should  have  to 
himself,  and  the  heirs  male  of  his  bodyi  lands  and 
rents  in  the  counties  of  Cumberland  and  West- 
moreland, of  a  thousand  marks  per  annum  value, 
and  five  hundred  marks  per  annum  more,  in  the 
marches  of  Wales,  and  until  such  provision  should 
be  made,  that  he  should  receive  a  thousand  marks, 
per  annum,  out  of  the  exchequer.  Besides  these 
substantial  records  of  royal  fevour,  this  charter, 
for  the  first  time,  in  such  a  grant,  set  forth  In 
the  preemble,  a  detail  of  the  merits  of  the  dig- 
nified person  t  it  was  dated  at  Pontefiact,  9Sth 
March,  15th  Edward  IL.  anno  1332.  •'  Thus  ele- 
vated," sajrs  Dugdale,  "from  a  mean  condition,  for 
he  was  merdy  a  knight  of  small  fortune,  he  grew 
so  lofty,  that  he  began  to  manifest  the  hatred  pub- 
licly, which  he  had  long  privately  borne,  towards 
Hugh  le  Despencer,  (the  greatest  and  most  power- 
ful favourite  of  his  time,)  whom  the  king  had 
recently  advanced  to  the  Earldom  of  Winchester." 


HAM 


HAN 


TUf  Ibeling  towsrdi  D«qMncMr,  ]0d  tlw  earl  to 
make  private  overturei  to  the  Scots*  which  bdog 
oommuiiicatad  to  the  kingt  1m  waa  ealKed  (by 
Anthony  de  Lud«)  at  Carlialet  and  brought  to  trial 
there,  by  yirtue  of  a  commiaiioD*  dated  at  Knarea- 
boaough,  a7th  February*  10th  Edward  IL»  and 
directed  to  Edmund,  Earl  of  Kent*  John*  Lord 
Hastings*  Sir  Ralph  Basset*  Sir  John  Peche*  Sir 
John  Wisham*  and  Geflhey  le  Scrope*  Esq.  Before 
this  court*  his  lordship  was  accused  of  having  con- 
q[»ired  with  James  Douglas*  a  Scot*  whereby  the 
king*  for  ladc  of  his  assistance*  was  defeated  in  a 
battle*  near  the  Abbey  of  Biland*  in  Yorkshire :  so 
that  he  was  necessitated  for  the  security  of  his 
parson*  to  fly  to  York;  and  the  earl  being  found 
guilty*  sentence  was  then  and  there  pronounced 
against  him:  via.*—'* That  his  sword  should  be 
taken  from  him*  and  his  gilt  spurs  hacked  from 
his  heels.  That  he  should  then  be  drawn  and 
hanged  by  the  nedc;  his  heart  and  bowels  taken  out 
of  bis  body,  burnt  to  ashes  and  winnowed;  his 
body  cut  into  quarters ;  one  to  be  set  on  the  princi- 
pal tower  of  Carlisle  Castle;  another  upon  the 
tower  at  Newcastle-upon-Tyne;  a  third  upon  the 
bridge  at  York;  and  the  fourth  at  Shrewsbury; 
while  his  head  was  to  be  placed  upon  London 
Bridge;"  which  judgment  was  executed  up<n)  the 
unhappy  nobleman  accordingly,  on  the  morroF* 
after  St.  Chad's  day*  (3rd  Maich*)  1382,  and  all 
his  honours  became,  of  course*  roaFSiTso. 

Hia  lordship  had  a  brother*  John  de  Harda*  who 
died  the  same  year*  seised  of  the  Manor  of  White- 
hatt*  in  the  county  at  Cumberlsnd,  leaving  a  son 
and  heir,  AKoaaw*  then  three  years  ot  age. 

Aniia.->-Ar.  a  croes  gules*  in  the  llrst  quarter*  a 
martlet  sa. 

HAMILTON  —  EARLS     OF     CAM- 
BRIDGE. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  16th  June,  1619. 

ICincagc. 

Trs  EARX.OOM  OP  Cambridob  meiged  in  the 
crown,  in  1461,  upon  the  accession  of  King  En- 
WARO  IV.,  who  had  previously  borne  that  dignity, 
and  it  remained  dormant  ftom  that  period,  until 
conferred*  lOth  June*  1619*  by  King  James  I.* 
upon 

JAMES  HAMILTON*  second  Marquess  of  Ha- 
milton, in  Scotland,  who  was  then  created  by 
letters  patent.  Boron  </  Ennsrdato,  in  CunJberhtnd, 
and  Earl  ov  Cambridob,  and  was  installed  a 
knight  of  the  Garter,  at  Windsor,  7th  July,  1683. 
His  lordship  was  lord  steward  of  the  housdiold. 
He  m.  Anne,  daughter  of  James,  seventh  Earl  of 
Olencaime*  by  whom  he  had  issue* 

Jambb,  his  successor. 

William,  Earl  of  Lanark. 

Anne,  m,  to  the  Earl  of  Crawford* 

Margaret. 

Mary. 
His  Icwdship  d.  in  1625*  and  was  #.  by  his  elder 
sob, 

JAMES  HAMILTON,  second  Earl  of  Cambridge. 
This  nobleman  carried  the  sword  of  state*  at  the 


ooranatloo  of  King  Charlei  I.*  and  was  advanced 
by  that  noonarch*  to  the  Scottish  Dukedom  of 
Hamilton.  His  grace  espousing*  activdy,  the 
cause  of  his  royal  master,  was  defeated  and  taken 
prisoner,  by  Cromwdl,  at  the  battle  of  Preston, 
and  suillered  decapitation*  in  old  Palace  Yard,  9th 
March,  1648.  He  m.  Mary,  daughter  of  William 
Fielding,  Earl  ot  Denbigh,  by  Susan,  his  wife* 
sister  of  George  ViUiers.  Duke  of  Buckingham*  and 
had  surviving  inue, 

Anitb*  who*  upon  the  decease  of  her  uncle* 
became  Duchess    of    Hamilton,  in  Soot- 
land. 
Susanna*  m.  to  John*  Earl  of  Cassilis. 
The  duke  dying  thus*  without  male  issue*  was  a.  ii| 
all  his  honours,  by  his  brother* 

WILLIAM  HAMILTON*  Earl  of  Lanark*  thus 
third  Earl  of  Cambridge.  This  nobleman  in.  Eli- 
sabeth* daughter  and  co-heir  of  James  Maxwell* 
Earl  of  Dirleton*  by  whom  he  had  four  daughters* 
via.;  Anne,  Elisabeth,  Mary,  and  Margaret.  His 
grace  fell  like  his  brother,  in  the  royal  cause,  having 
received  a  mortal  wound,  at  the  unfortunate  battle 
of  Worcester*  in  16S1,  when  the  Earldom  or  Cam- 
bridob* AND  Barony  or  Emkbrdalb,  became 
BXTiNCT ;  his  own  Scottish  honour  shared  a  similar 
fate,  while  the  Dukedom  of  Hamilton,  in  Scotland, 
devolved,  according  to  special  limitation  in  the 
patent,  upon  his  niece*  the  Lady  Ankb  Hamilton* 
who  married  William  Douglas*  Earl  of  Selkirk*  and 
from  this  union  the  present  Duke  of  Hamilton 
lineally  descends. 

Armb.— <}ules*  three  dnque-foils  ermine  pierced. 


HAMPDEN  —  VISCOUNTS     HAMP- 
DEN. 

See  Trbvor*  Viscounts  Hampden. 


HANDLO-^ARON  HANDLO. 

By  Writ  of  Summons*  dated  mth  February*  1342, 
16  Edward  III. 


JOHN  DE  HANDLO  was  summoned  to  par- 
liament, as  a  BARON*  on  Sath  February*  134S,  but 
never  afterwards.  His  lordship  m.  Maud*  widow  of 
John  Lovel*  and  sister  and  heir  of  Edward  BumeU. 
He  d,  in  1346,  leaving  his  grandson, 

EDMUND  DE  HANDLO*  his  heir.  This  Ed- 
mund died  before  he  attained  majority,  anno  ISfiff* 
leaving  two  daughters,  his  co-heirs,  via., 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  Sir  Edmund  de  la  Pole. 
Margaret,  m.  to  Gilbert  Chastlein. 

Both  these  ladies  having  died  without  issue, 
were  succeeded  in  the  estates  by  their  kinsman, 
Hugh,  Lord  Bumell,  son  and  heir  ot  Nicholas 
de  Handlo,  second  son  ot  John,  Lord  Handlo  i 
which  Nicholas  assumed  his  mother's  name 
of  BumelL 
As  only  one  writ  of  summons  was  ioued  to  John, 
Lord  Handlo,  the  barony  or  Handlo  is  pre- 
sumed to  have,  at  his  lordship's  decease  in  1346, 
become  bxtinct. 

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HARCOURT— BARONS  HAROOURT, 
OF  STANTON  HAR- 
COURT,  IN  THE  COUN- 
TY OF  OXFORD,  VIS- 
COUNTS HARCOURT, 
EARJiS  HARCOURT. 


Baraoy: 

Viscountyi 

Earldom 


'     )  by  Letten  f 

*^'  f  Patent,  i 


4M  S«pCcmber,  1711. 
24th  July,  1781. 
lat  DMember,  1749. 


Thia  andaat  and  aminent  ftmUy  traced  its  pedi- 
gree to  Bamtamd,  a  nobleman  tf  the  royal  blood 
of  Saxony,  who  acquired,  in  879»  when  Rojllo,  the 
Dane*  made  himwiif  nutter  of  Normandy,  die  hnd- 
■hSps  of  Hmramrt,  Cailerille,  and  Beauflod,  in  that 
prindpaUty.    From  this  nobleman  dcaoended 

ERRAND  DE  HARCOURT,  commander  of 
the  anhen  of  Val-de-Ruel,  in  the  army  which  luc- 
ceaeftilly  invaded  England  in  1066,  under'the  Duke 
of  Normandy.  The  seoond  ton  of  thij  warrior, 
Robert  de  Haioourt,  it  laid  to  be  the  anoettor  of 
the  present  Earl  of  Harcourt ;  but  the  immediate 
founder  of  the  honoort  of  the  family  wat 

SIMON  HARCOURT,  Eaq.,  (grandaon  of  Sir 
Simon  Haicourt,  Knt.*  a  military  officer  of  high 
lenown,  who  was  appointed  governor  of  Dublin 
fai  UM3,  and  immediately  raited  the  blockade  of 
tbatdty,  then  inveited  by  the  rebelt,  but  fdl  toon 
after,  before  the  cattle  of  Carrick-Main,  in  the 
anmty  of  WlcUow,)  a  lawyer  of  eminence,  who 
filled  the  officet  of  tolidtor  and  attorney-general, 
with  little  interruption,  from  1709  until  1710,  when 
Jiewaa  nominated  lordrkeepcr  of  the  great  teal,  and 
twom  a  member  of  the  priTy-counciL     In  the  fol- 
lowing year,  3rd  September,  1711,  he  wat  elevated 
to  the  peerage,  by  the  title  of  Baboit  Harcourt, 
.  ttfStanton-Hareourt,  in  the  county  (^  (k^fifrd  /  and  on 
the  7th  April,  1719,  declared  xx>rd  hioh-chancri.- 
u>B  OF  Grbat  Britaim,  which  great  office heconti- 
nued  to  fill  until  the  accetiion  of  George  I.,  in  1714. 
On  the  94th  July,  1791,  hit  kxrdthip  wat  created 
fUeount  Harcowrtt  and,  in  the  following  month, 
again  called  to  the  ooundl-board.  The  viscount  wat 
^pointed  one  of  the  lordt-Juttioet  in  1793, 172S,  and 
1797.    Hi*  lordthlp  m.  thrice,  but  had  ittue  only  by 
hit  firtt  wife,  Rebecca,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Tho- 
maa  Ciark,  M.A.,  vis.,  one  surviving  ton  and  two 
daughtert.    He  A  on  the  90th  of  July,  1797,  and 
was  «,  by  his  grandton,  (the  ton  of  the  Honourable 
;5imon  Harcourt,  M.P..  by  Elisabeth,  daughter  of 
John  Evelyn,  Eiq.,  of  Wotton,) 

SIMON  HARCOURT,    tecond   vltcount,  who 
wat  created,  on  the  91st  December,  1740,  VUcount 
fiuneham,  9f  Nim«A«m-Cnir«fMy,  and  EarIi   op 
Hargovbt,  nf8t«uiton-Haretntrt,    Hit  loidthlp  wat 
the  twenty-seventh  in  paternal  descent  tnan  Ber- 
nard, Lord  of  Harcourt,  in  Ncwmandy.    He  m.,  in 
178S,  Rebecca,  only  daughter  and  heirest  of  Charlct 
Le  Bats,  Esq.,  of  Pipwell  Abbey,  in  the  county  of 
Northampton,  by  whom  he  had  itsue, 
OsoROR-Sixoif,  hit  tncoettor.    * 
Wi  LILIAN,  sucoettor  to  hit  brother. 
Elisabeth,  who  wat  one  of  the  ten  young  ladiet, 
960 


daughters  of  duket  and  earis,  who  supported 
the  train  of  Queen  Charlotte,  at  her  m^Jes- 
ty't  nuptialt,  8th  of  September,  1761.    Her 
Indythip  m.,  in  1703,  Sir  W.  Lee,  Bart.,  and 
d.  in  1811,  leaving  issue. 
The  earl,  who  had  flUed  some  high  dipknutic  sta- 
tions during  the  reign  of  King  George  II.,  was 
constituted.  In  17S1,  governor  to  his  late  m^esty. 
King  George  HI.,  then  Prhice  of  Wales;   and  in 
1761,  his  tordship  wat  nominated  ambattador-«K- 
traordinary  to  demand  the  Prlnoets  Charlotte,  of 
Meeklenburgfa  Strdits,  in  marriage  for  that  mo- 
nardi.    In  1779  he  was  appointed  viceroy  of  Ireland. 
His  lordship  lost  his  life,  on  the  lOth  September, 
1777,  by  unfortunatdy  foiling  into  a  wdl  in  his  own 
park,  at  Nuncham,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  ton, 

GEORGE  SIMON  HARCOURT,  second  earl, 
who  died  without  itsue,  in  April,  1609,  when  the 
honours  devolved  upon  hit  brother, 

WILLIAM  HARCOURT,  third  carl.  ThIa  no- 
bleroan  was  bom  90th  March,  1743,  and,  adopting 
theprofottion  of  armt,  attained  the  high  rank  of 
FisLD-MARaHAJU  He  wss  colond  of  the  10th 
regiment  of  dragoons,  and  a  Knight  Grand  Cross 
of  the  Bath.  Hit  lordship  m.,  in  177B,  Msry,  rdict 
of  Thomas  Lockhart,  Esq.,  and  daughter  of  the 
Rev.  William  Danby,  D.D..  of  Marhamshire,  in 
the  county  of  York}  but  dying  «.  p.  18th  June, 
1630,  ALL  Hia  HOMOURS  became  bztinct. 
Arms.— Ou.,  two  bars,  or. 


HARINOTON  —  BARONS  HARINO- 

TON. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  30tb  December^  1394, 
18  Edward  II. 

The  family  of  Harinotoh  derived  thdr  surname 
from.  Havsrinotoh,  in  the  county  of  Cumber- 
land, a  lordship  which  they  very  andently  pot- 
tested  ;  but  from  the  time  of  Edward  I.,  their  chief 
teat  and  reiidence  wat  at  Aldinoham,  in  Lanca- 
shire, whtdi  manor  wat  acquired  by 

ROBERT  0E  HARINGTON,  with  his  wifo, 
Agnes,  sister  and  hdr  of  William  de  Cancefidd,  son 
and  hdr  of  Richard  de  Cancefidd,  by  Alice  his 
wife,  sister  and  hdr  of  Michael  Flamcng,  Lord  op 
Aldinoham.  To  this  Robert  succeeded  his  ddest 
ion, 

JOHN  DE  HARINGTON,  who,  hi  the  S4th 
Edward  I.,  amongst  the  rest  of  thoee  stout  young 
soldien  which  were  then  to  attend  the  king  into 
Scotland,  recdved  the  honour  of  knighthood,  with 
Prince  Edward,  by  bathing  and  other  lacred  cere- 
moniet.  Sir  John  had  a  military  summons,  in  the 
4th  of  Edward  II.,  for  the  Scottish  wart.  In  the 
the  19th  of  the  same  xdgn  he  had  a  charter  of  free- 
warren  in  all  hia  deraetne-landt  in  the  oountiet  of 
York  and  Lancatter,  and  in  the  14th  of  Edward  III., 
a  licence  to  impark  dx  hundred  acres  of  wood, 
moor,  and  marsh,  within  the  predncts  of  hte  lord- 
ship of  Aldingham.  He  was  summoned  to  parlia- 
ment, aa>a  baron,  from  30th  December,  1394,  to 
13th  November,  1345w    His  kMrdshIp  m.  Margaret, 


UAB 


HAB 


or  Sir  Rkluml  BaittfliiMM,  Knt>  aodlMd 
an  oolyioD, 

RoMBT,  who  4M  in  the  HAMtee  of  hit  tk. 

tbm,  iMiHnf  i«ae,  by  liJ«  wifB^  BliMtaCh, 

out  of  the  dflufhtcn  end  oo-hein  of  John  de 

M  niton,  of  Bfiemaod, 

John,  succeMor  to  hit  gfamAhOmr. 

Bohert,  fitom  whom  ikeriwitoil  the  Loids 

Harington,  of  Exton. 
Simon,  ttcaMor  of  the  HKiia^toiM,  of 
BIditOB. 
Lord  Huingtoa  died  in  1347,  and  «n  «,  bjr  bis 


JOHN  DE  HARINGTON,  Moond  banM,  turn- 
mooed  to  perliament  fhnn  14th  Ftfbniary,  iai8»  to 
lOtb  Marefa.  Uia  Tbi*  noblmnen  d.  hi  138S»  Mimd 
of  the  tbiid  part  of  the  manor  of  MnUon.  fat  the 
county  of  UneobH-of  the  manon  of  AJdini^Mm, 
TUmoni,  and  a  aaoiety  of  the  manor  of  Ulvea- 
ton,  in  Lonanbim— of  the  manor  of  Anstwyke^  in 
the  ommty  of  York,  and  of  thoie  of  MlUum,  Mo- 
•mrgbe,  Havortaicton,  with  Its  msmbers,  and  a 
thiid  part  of  the  manor  of  Egremond,  In  Cmnber^ 
liad.    He  was  «.  by  his  ton,  then  inmlnority, 

ROBERT   DE    HARINGTON,     third    baron, 
summoned  to  parliament  from  4th  August,  1377* 
daring  the  remainder  of  his  life.    This  nnWemin 
recei?ed  the  honour  of  knighthood  at  the  oonma- 
tion  of  Richard  IL.  and  ww  the  mme  year  em- 
Ftoyed  In  that  monarch's  service  at'  Cahus.     Hb 
lordship  m,  Isabd,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Sir  Nigel 
Lerync  K.G.,  and  bad  ismue, 
JoHw  (Sir),  his  succcMor. 
William,  lucctmot  to  his  brother. 
He  died  bk  14as,  and  was  «.  by  his  elder  son, 

SIR  JOHN  DE  HARINGTON,  fburth  baran, 
summoned  to  parliament  uwler  the  misnomer  of 
Rennar,*  &om  bis  accession  to  the  peerage  until 
3rd  September.  1417.  This  nobleman  wm  in  the 
espedition  made  Into  France  in  the  Srd  Henry  V. ; 
and  ibp  next  year,  being  retained  by  indenture  to 
scrre  the  king  in  thow  wars,  he  reeeiTed  £396,  in 
hand,  towards  his  wages,  upon  that  account  But 
soon  sAer,  purposing  to  travel  into  foreign  parts, 
hedeebwed  bis  testaamnt,  8th  June,  1417,  bequeath- 
ing his  body  to  be  buried  wheresoever  he  should 
happen  to  die,  and  leaving  to  Elisabeth,  Us  wiH^ 
one-half  of  all  his  silver  venels;  after  which  be 
survived  not  a  year,  for  the  probate  of  that  will 
bears  date  S7th  April,  nest  ensuing  year.  Leaving 
no  Issue,  his  lordship  was  «.  by  his  brother, 

SIR  WILLIAM  DE  HARINGTON,  fifth  baron, 
summoned  to  parliament  flrom  96th  February,  14S1, 
to  6th  September,  1439.    This  nobleman  lerved  the 

•  The  name  of  JIo6«rf  de  Harington  occurs  regu- 
larly in  thesummonsw  to  parliament,  from  1st  Rich- 
ard U.  to  4th  Henry  V.  t  but  m  Robert,  the  laat  ba- 
ron, died  in  1406,  (twelve  years  before  the  bitter 
period,)  and  as  John,  Baron  Harington,  is  stated 
in  the  RoUsof  Parliament  to  have  been  present  on 
the  a&d  December,  8th  Henry  IV.,  1406,  it  may  be 
inllHred  timt  all  the  writs  after  the  7th  Henry  IV. 
were  directed  to  this  baron,  and  that  the  dnistian 
lof  Aefterton  the  rolls,  after  that  yeas 
r^— NicoJbAS. 


oflce  of  sbcvUr  for  Vorkahira,  and  was  fDvenor  of 

the  castle  at  York,  in  the  10th  Henry  V..  he  was 
afterwards  leveol  years  inmail  in  the  wss  of 
France  in  the  reigns  of  Henry  V.  and  Henry  VI. 
His  kwdsMp  m.  Margaret,  the  rister  of  Tbonuw,  ion 
of  Sir  Robert  NeviU,  of  Tbonby.  Knt,  and  bad  an 
only  child, 

Elisauctb,  (who  died  bi  her  fbthei's  Ufc^ 
time,)  m.  to  Willten,  Lord  BonviUek  and 
had  aeon, 

WIJ.J.IAM  BmrriixB,  who,  in  her  right, 
became  Lord  Hartegton,  died  in  the 
life-time  of  his  iMher,  leaviug  a  daugh- 
ter, 

Cbcily  BoifyiLx.n,  who  m.   first, 
ThomasGtey,  Marquessof  Dorset, 
and  secondly,  Henry  SmAvd,  Earl 
ofWUtablie. 
Lqrd  Harii«ton  d.  in  1407*  leaving'  hb  gnndsoo, 
WiLjuiAM  BONTII.I.B,  abovo-msntioiied,  hb  heir. 
Cxcuuv  BoNTiia.s,  the  daaghter  and  heliess  of  the 
said  William,  having  espoused  Thomas  Oivy.  first 
Marquem  of  Dorset,  for  her  ftrrt  busbend,  she  con- 
veyed the  BAnoNina  or  BomriUAM  Ann  Habuto- 
TOM  to  the  noble  bouee  of  Greyi  where  they  con* 
tinued  until  the  attainder  in  1564  of  Henry  Grey, 
Duke  of  SuiUb*  grandson  of  the  mid  Cecily  Bob- 
ville,  and  the  mid  Thomas,  Marquem  of  Dormt, 
when  those  dignitim,  ahmg  with  hb  grace's  other 
high  honours,  became  bbtimct.     By  her  moond 
husband,  Henry  Staflbrd,  Barl  of  Wiltshire,  Cecily 
Bonville  bad  no  issua 
Abms.— Sa.  a  fret,  ar. 

HARINGTON  —  BARONS  HARINO- 
TON,  OF  EXTON,  IN 
THE  COUNTY  OF 
RUTIiAND. 

By  LetterB  Patent,  dated  21st  July,  lOOS. 

Thb  b  a  branch  of  the  ancient  flanily  of  Haring- 
ton, barons  by  writ,  ipriuging  from 

SIR  ROBERT  DE  HARINGTON,  grandson  of 
Sir  John  de  Harington,  %he  bad  been  summoned  to 
psiliaBifiBt  in  the  reign  of  Edward  II.,  and  mcond 
son  of  Robert  de  Harington,  and  hb  wife.  £Iia». 
bath,  daughter  and  oo-heir  of  Joho  de  Mutton*  of 
Bgremond.    Thb  Sir  Robert  left  a  son, 

JOHN  DE  HARINGTON,  whom.  AgBM,  daagh- 
ter of  Lawrence  Fbte,  Esq.,  of  Flete,  in  the  county 
of  Lincohi,  and  dying  In  1421,  was  «•  by  hb  ion, 

ROBERT  DE  HARINGTON,  who  wedded  one 
of  tbf  dauglUcrs  and  co-heirs  of  John  de  hi  Laund, 
and  wm  r.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  DE  HARINGTON,  who  bavbig  married 
Catherine,  dluighter  and  heir  of  Sir  Thomm  C(rfe- 
peper,  acquired  thereby  the  manor  of  Extob,  in 
Rutlandshire,  and  fixed  hb  residsnme  thara  He 
was  s.  by  hb  son, 

ROBERT  HARINGTON,  Esq.,  of  Exton,  who 
served  the  oflloe  of  sheriff  for  the  county  of  Rut- 
land bi  1482  and  1488.  He  m.  Maud,  daughter  of 
Sir  John  Priseit,  Kat,  chief  justice  of  the  court  of 

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CommoB  Plew.  and  dying  la  1001,  mm  «.  by  hi« 
•on, 

SIR  JOHN  HARINGTON,  Knt.,  of  Exton, 
whoMBon* 

SIR  JOHN  HARINGTON,  KnL,  m.  EUnbeth, 
danghur  and  heir  of  Robert  Hoton,  of  Peckleton, 
in  the  county  of  LeloeBter.  This  Sir  John  was  trea- 
surer of  the  army  at  Boulogne,  temp.  Henry  VIII., 
he  was  «.  at  his  decease  by  his  son, 

SIR  JAMES  HARINGTON,  Kjat.,  of  Exton,  who 
m.  Lucy,  daughter  of  Sir  William  Sidney,  of  Pens- 
hurst,  and  sister  of  Sir  Philip  Sidney,  K.6.,  by 
whom  he  had  three  sons,  via. 
JoHW,  h|s  successor. 
Henry,  (Sir). 

James,  of  Ridlington,  in  the  county  of  Rut- 
land, who  was  created  a  babowkt,  29th 
June,  1611;  a  dignity  now  enjoyed  by  his 
descendants.  Sir  John  Edward  Harino- 
TON,  Bart.,  of  RidUngton. 
Sir  James  d,  in  UOS,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

SIR  JOHN  HARINGTON,  Knt.,  who  was  ele- 
vated to  the  peerage  by  letters  patent,  dated  Slst 
July,  1603,  as  Barow  Harimotoh,  qf  Jtrton.  His 
knrdship  was  tutor  to  the  Princess  Elisabeth,  daugh- 
ter of  King  James  L,  until  her  marriage  with  the 
Blectoral-Palatine,  when  he  attended  her  royal 
highness  into  Germany.  He  m.  Anne,  only  dau^- 
ter  and  heiress  of  Robert  Kelway,  Esq.,  surveyor 
of  the  court  oi  wards  and  liveries,  and  had  issue, 
John,  his  successor. 
Lude,  m.  to  Edward  Russell,  third  Earl  of 

Bedford,  and  died  «.  p, 
Frances,  m.  to  Sir  Robert  Chichester,  K.B., 
and  had  an  only  daughter, 

Anne,  m.  to  Robert,  Lord  Kinlosse,  by 
whom  she  was  mother  of 
Robert.  Earl  of  Aylesbury. 
His  lordship  d,  in  1613,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  HARINGTON,  second  baron,  at  whose 
decease  In  the  following  year,  (1614,)  the  Barony 
or  Harinoton,  or  Exton,  became  kxtinct,  and 
his  lordship's  estates  devolved  upon  his  sisters.  The 
Countess  of  Bedford,  Dugdale  says,  notwithstand- 
ing her  large  fortune,  wasted  by  her  profUseness, 
not  only  her  own  estate,  but  some  portion  of  her 
husband's.  Pennant,  in  describing  the  pictures  at 
Wobume  Abbey,  notices  "  a  full  length  of  that 
fantastic  lady,  Lucy,  Countess  of  Bedlbrd,  dressed 
in  as  ftntastic  a  habit,  with  an  immense  veil  dis- 
tended bdiind  her.  Her  ladyship  was  a  patroness 
of  literature,  and  there  are  several  Epistles  of 
Daniel,  the  poet,  and  the  celebrated  Doctor  John 
Donne,  dedicated  to  her." 

Nicholas  Stone,  statuary  to  King  James  I.,  made 
a  tomb  for  her  father,  mother,  brother,  and  sister, 
and  for  which  the  countess  paid  him  £1020,  and 
had  it  erected  at  Exton. 
Arxb.— Sa.  a  f^t,  ar. 

HASTANO— BARON  HASTANO. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  IPth  December,  1311. 
5  Edward  II. 

Xincagc. 

Of  this  family  (whose  chief  seat  was  at  Lcming* 


ton,  in  the  county  of  Warwtck,  and  thence  catted 
LemingtonHastaaig),  was 

ATROP  H  ASTANG,  wlio  gave  to  the  canons  of 
Nostril,  in  the  county  of  York,  the  churches  of 
Lemington  and  NewboM;  and  bestowed  on  the 
canons  of  Kenilworth  the  church  of  Whitnash.  To 
this  Atrop  succeeded  his  son, 

ATROP  HASTANG,  who  was  succeeded  by  hia 
son, 

HUMPHREY  HASTANG,  who  Joining  the  re- 
bellious barons  against  King  John,  had  his  lands 
seised,  but  returning  to  his  allegiance,  they  were 
restored  in  the  Ist  Henry  III.  This  Humphrey  was 
«.  by  his  son, 

ROBERT  HASTANG,  who  m.  Joane,  dau^ter 
and  co-heir  of  W  illiam  de  CurlL  This  Robert  gave 
ajnark  in  gold,  in  41st  Henry  III.,  for  respiting  his 
knighthood.  But  afterwards  taking  part  with 
Montford,  Earl  of  Leicester,  he  was  one  of  those 
who  held  out  the  castle  of  Kenilworth,  for  which 
his  lands  were  seised,  and  given  to  Sir  James  de 
Aldithley,  and  Sir  Hugh  de  TurbervilL  He  had 
restitution  of  them,  however,  upon  paying  a  fine 
under  the  «« Dictum  de  Kenilworth."  Robert  de 
Hastang  was  «.  by  his  son, 

ROBERT  DE  HASTANG,  who,  in  the  10th 
Edward  II.,  was  constituted  one  of  the  commis- 
sioners to  treat  with  Robert  de  Brus,  and  his  party 
in  Scotland,  upon  a  truce  betwixt  both  realms;  and 
was  summoned  to  parliament  as  a  raron  in  Ath 
Edward  II.,  but  not  afterwards,  nor  was  his  son, 

JOHN  DE  HASTANG,  second  baron,  but  his 
son, 

THOMAS  DE  HASTANG,  third  baron,  had 
summons  25th  February,  and  80th  November,  IMS, 
but  not  afterwards.    His  lordship  had  a  son. 

Sir  John  dx  Habtano,  who  m.  first,  Blanch 

,  but  had  no  issue,  and  secondly, 

Maud,  daughter  of  Sir  William  Trussel, 
KnL,  by  whom  he  had  two  daughters,  his 
co-heirs, 

Maud,  m.  to  Ralph  Staflbrd,  of  Grafton. 
Joane,  m.  to  Sir  John  Salisbury,  Knt 
In  the  representatives  of  those  ladies,  the 
Baront  or  Hastano  Is  now  vested. 

Arms.— As.  and  a  chief  gules,  over  all  a  lion  ram- 
pant,  or. 

HASTINGS  —  BARONS   HASTINGS, 
EARLS  OF  PEMBROKE. 

Barony,  by  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  14th  Oct.,  1264, 

49  Henry  III. 
Earldom,  by  Letters  Patent,  dated  13th  Oct.,  1339i 

Xlncage. 

This  noble  family,  derived  its  surname  from 
HASTiNoa,  (one  of  the  Cinque  Ports,)  in  Sussex, 
the  lastage  of  which  they  fkrmed  for  a  considerable 
period  fhmi  the  crown. 
ROBERT,  Portreve  of  Hastings,  was  «.  by 
WALTER  DE  HASTINGS,  who  held  the  office 
of  steward  to  King  Henry  I.,  by  Sergeantie,  in  re- 
spect of  his  tenure  of  the  manor  of  Ashde,  In  the 
county  of  Norfolk,  vis.,  by  tlie  service  of  taking 
charge  of  the  naperie,  (table  linen,)  at  the  solemn 


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conmation  of  the  Ungi  of  this  realm.    Thii  Welter 
was  «.  by  hU  idi, 

HUGH  DE  HASTINGS,  Lord  of  FUlongley,  in 
the  county  of  Warwick*  who  m.  Emeburga,  daugh- 
ter of  Hugh  de  Flamville,  and  niece  and  heir  of 
Robert  de  FlamviUe,  of  Aston-FlamviUe,  in  the 
county  of  Leicester,  by  whom  he  acquired  that 
tOMaoT,  ai  well  as  Grissing,  in  Norfolk,  and  the 
stewardship  of  the  abbey  of  St.  Edmundsbury,  and 
had  two  sons  and  a  daughter,  riM. 
WiLhiAu,  his  successor. 
Richard,  a  priest,  rector  of  Barewell,  in  Lei- 
cestershire. 
Mahant,  to  whom  he  gave  the  manor  of  Arke, 
in  Devonshire  on  her  marriage  with  Robert 
de  Wyford :  Aom  this  Udy  descended, 
Sir  Geflbry  de  Anke,  or  Hanke,   who, 
temp.  Henry  IIL,  conveyed  that  estate, 
in  marriage  with   his  daughter,    to 
Michael  Davyll. 
Hugh  de  Hastings  was  «.  by  his  elder  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  HASTINGS,  steward  to  King 
Henry  II.,  from  whom  he  obtahied  a  confirmation 
of  all  the  hmds  which  William,  his  grandihther,  and 
Hugh,  his  fiither,  had  ei^oyed  in  the  reign  of 
Henry  I.,  as  also  Aston-Flamville  and  the  other 
lands,  which  Robert  de  LimesI,  Bishop  of  Coventry, 
with  the  consent  of  the  chapter,  and  approbation  of 
King  Henry  I.,  gave  to  the  above  mentioned  Robert 
de  Flemville.  This  lieiidal  lord  m.  first,  Margery, 
daughter  of  Roger  Bigot,  Earl  of  Norfolk,  and  had 
issue,  Henry,  who  died  issueless,  and  William, 
who  became  heir  to  his  brother.  He  espoused,' 
secondly,  Ida,  daughter  of  Henry,  Earl  of  Eu,  by 
whom  he  had  two  other  sons,  of  which  Thomas,  the 
elder,  was  fkther  of  Hugh  de  Hastings,  progenitor 
of  the  Hastings,  Earls  of  Huntingdon.  The  younger 
son  of  the  Arst  marriage,  and  the  heir  upon  the  de- 
cease of  his  elder  brother,  in  1194, 

WILLIAM  DE  HASTINGS,  in  the  6th  of 
Richard  f.,  paid  one  hundred  marks  for  his  relief 
of  those  lands  held  in  serjeanty,  which  had  de- 
scended to  him,  and  a  hundred  marks  more  to 
obtain  the  king's  Ikvour,  in  r^ard  that  he  did  not 
at  that  time  attend  him  into  Nonpandy.  This 
William  de  Hastings  was  one  of  the  peers  in  the 
parliament,  held  at  Lincoln,  1st  of  King  John, 
wherein  William,  king  of  Scotland,  did  homage  to 
the  English  monarch.  In  the  Iffth  of  the  samereign 
he  was  with  the  king  in  Poitou  ;  but  in  three  years 
afterwards  we  find  him  in  the  ranks  of  the  insur- 
rectionary barons,  and  his  lands  at  that  timegranted 
by  the  crown  to  William  de  Roeley,  and  Eleas,  his 
uncle,  for  their  support  in  the  service  of  the  king. 
He  seems,  however,  to  have  made  his  peace  in  the 
beginning  of  Henry  IIL's  reign,  and  was  with  the 
royal  army  at  the  sl^ge  of  Bitham  Castle,  in  Lin- 
colnshire.   He  died  in  1225,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

HENRY  DE  HASTINGS,  who,  upon  paying  a 
fine  of  fifty  marks,  and  doing  his  homage,  had 
livery  of  his  lands  in  the  counties  of  Warwick, 
Leicester,  Salop,  Bedford,  Norfolk,  and  Suilblk. 
This  Henry  espoused  Ada,  fourth  daughter  of 
David,  Earl  of  Huntfaigdon,  and  of  Maud,  his 
wife,  daughter  of  Hugh,  and  one  of  the  sisters  and 
co-heirs  of  Ranulph,  Earl  of  Chester;  and  through 


her  he  eventually  shared  in  the  great  estates  of  the 
Earls  of  Chester.  By  this  lady  he  had  issue, 
Hsxrav,  his  successor,  and  two  daughters,  Mar- 
gery and  Hillaria,  who,  at  the  time  of  his  decease, 
were  in  the  nunnery  of  Alneston,  and  th^  tuition 
was  then  committed  to  William  de  Cantelupe.  This 
Henry  de  Hastings  attending  King  Henry  into 
France,  in  the  26th  of  that  monarch's  rrign,  was 
taken  prisoner  at  the  great  defeat  which  the  English 
army  then  sustained  at  Zante,  but  was  soon  after- 
wards released.  In  a  few  years  subsequently  he 
accompanied  Richard,  Earl  of  Cornwall,  with  divers 
other  of  the  principal  nobility,  into  France,  whither 
the  said  earl  proceeded  at  that  period  with  a  splendid 
retinue,  but  for  what  purpose  does  not  appear. 
About  the  close  of  the  same  year  (12B0)  Henry  de 
Hastings  died,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

HENRY  DE  HASTINGS,  then  In  minority, 
whose  wardship  was  granted  to  Guy  de  Lusignan, 
Kbig  Henry  III.'s  half  brother.  This  Henry,  in  the 
44th  Henry  III.,  had  a  military  summons  to  be  at 
Shrewsbury,  with  hone  and  arms,  to  march  against 
the  Welsh ;  and  the  next  year  had  a  similar  sum- 
mons to  be  at  London.  But  very  soon  afterwards 
we  find  him  in  arms  with  Simon  de  Montfort,  Earl 
of  Leicester,  and  other  turbulent  spirits,  against  the 
king,  and  with  those  excommunicated  by  the  Arch- 
bishop of  Canterbury.  After  which  he  became  one 
of  the  most  sealous  of  the  baronial  leaders,  and  dia- 
tinguishing  himself  at  the  battle  of  Lewes,  wherein 
the  king  was  made  prisoner,  received  the  honour  of 
knighthood  at  the  hands  of  Mmtfort ;  and  was  con- 
stituted gqyemor  of  Scarlwrough  and  Winchester 
Castles.  Moreover,  after  the  deftet  of  the  barona 
at  Evesham,  being  then  appointed  governor  of  the 
strong  castle  of  Kenilworth,  by  the  younger  Simon 
Montfort,  he  hdd  it  out  stoutly  against  the  victo- 
rious army  for  the  taU  space  of  six  mmths;  and 
when  the  king  sent  his  messenger  to  him  with  gra- 
dous  otfors,  in  case  he  should  surrender,  he  caused 
the  envoy  to  be  maimed,  and  made  much  havoc 
amongst  the  besiegers,  by  casting  fbrth  huge  stones 
flrom  the  engines,  and  by  occasional  bold  and  daring 
sallies,  not  at  all  daunted  by  the  anathema,  which 
Ottobon,  the  pope's  legate,  then  there,  thundered  out 
against  him:  he  was  eventually,  however,  troai 
want  of  supplies,  compelled  to  submit,  but  upon 
honouraUe  terms,  via.,  «'  to  march  out  of  the  for- 
tress with  bag  and  baggage,"  which  he  accordingly 
did  upon  the  eve  of  St.  Thomas  the  apostle.  In 
consequence  of  this  stubborn  resistance  he  was  ex- 
cluded tnm  the  benefits  of  the  Dictum  Oe  JCmtf- 
tocr^,  and  condemned  to  seven  years'  imprisonment, 
or  submisaion  to  the  king's  mercy.  But  within  two 
years  he  was  admitted,  through  the  mediation  of 
Prince  Edward,  to  the  full  advantages  of  the  said 
decree  of  Kenilworth.  The  period  of  the  decease  of 
tlus  stout  baron  has  not  been  ascertained,  but  he 
was  t,  by  his  son, 

HENRY  DE  HASTINGS,  who  m.  Joane,  sister, 
and  at  length  co-heir,  of  George  de  Cantilupe,  Ba- 
ron of  Bergavenny,  and  had  issue, 
John,  his  successor. 

Edmund,  who  had  summons  to  parliament,  as 
a  BARON,  from  29th  December,  1299,  28th 
Edward  I.,    to  2IRh  July,   1313,   7th  Ed- 

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ward  IIo  Iml  oothliiff  i«  kJBown  of  his 

•oeodAnti. 
And  three  daug htcnf  Audra»  Lora»  and  J( 
This  feudal  lord  was  mnmioned  to  parliamant*  at 
Baron  HAaTUfos*  on  Uth  DeoamlMr»  1964.  Had. 
in  laSS,  and  waa  «.  by  kia  ton, 

JOHN  HASTINGS,  Mcond  banm,  iumnumad  to 
parllaBMBt  aa  Lobs  HAaruioa,  fSrom  23rd  Junot 
1»0»  to  asnd  May,  1313,  altlMMfh  in  right  of  hia 
mother,  and  the  tenure  of  the  caatla  of  Defgavonny, 
he  was  unquestkmahly  Babov  or  BBneATBNinr. 
Thb  BoMeman  waa  la  the  expedition  to  Scotland  in 
the  19th  Edward  I.,  and  in  three  years  aftarwarda 
attended  Edmund,  Earl  of  Cornwall,  r^ent  of  the 
kingdom  during  the  king's  sojourn  in  Gascony,  into 
Wales.  He  waa  sobsequantly  in  an  expedition  to 
Irebmd,  and  again  in  Scotland,  98th  Edward  I., 
where  he  petfbtmad  military  serrice  for  flye  knights' 
fees.    The  next  year  he  continued  in  the  Scottish 


wan,  under  Edward.  Prince  of  Wales,  and  in  the 
31st  Edward  L  he  assisted  at  the  oelehnted  sl^e  of 
Kabblatbbock.  His  lordship  had  afterwards, 
34th  Edward  I.,  a  grant  from  the  king  of  the  whoto 
QOUBty  of  Menteth,  with  the  isles,  as  also  of  all  the 
manors  and  lands  of  Alan,  late  Earl  of  Menteth, 
then  declared  an  enemy  and  rebel  to  the  king.  He 
was  likewise  seniwrhal  of  Aquitaine,  and  one  of  the 
competitors,  in  1990,  for  the  crown  of  Scotland,  in 
right  of  his  descent  from  Ada,  daughter  of  David, 
Earl  of  Huntingdon,  brother  of  Makotan  and  Wil- 
Mam,  kings  of  Scotland.  His  lordship  at.  Arst,  Isabd, 
daughter  of  William,  and  sister  and  co-heir  of 
Aifmarde  VaitmM,  Eablof  Pbmbbokb,  by  whom 
he  had,  with  other  ianie, 

JoHB,  hia  successor. 

Eliaabeth,  «k  to  Roger,  Lord  Grey,  of  Ru- 
thyn. 
Lord  Hastings  eqioused,  secondly,  Isabd,  daughter 
of  Hugh  Despenoer,  Earl  of  WfaKhaster,  and  had 
two  other  sons,  via.,  Huob,  of  Grossing  Hall,  in  the 
county  of  Noifolk,  and  ThomaSi  From  the  elder 
son  lineally  descended  Eowabd  HAarivas,  of 
whom  in  the  sequel,  as  competitor  with  Lord  Grey 
de  Ruthyn,  for  thearms  of  Uastii^[a..  Hia  loxdahip 
d.  in  1313,  and  was  «.  by  his  eMcst  soo^ 

JOHN  HASTINGS,  third  beron,  summoDed  to 
parltamiait  as  Lobo  HABTiBee,  flpom  96th  Norem- 

1313,  to  90th  February,  1398.    This  noUaman 

activtf  y  engaged  in  the  wars  of  ScoUaad  from 
the  4th  to  the  19th  Edward  IL,  and  the  next  year, 
upon  the  insurrection  of  the  lords,  whan  they  be>. 
nished  the  two  Spencers,  his  lordship  being  one  of 
their  adherents,  deserted  the  baions,  and  johMd  the 
king  at  Cirencestsr.  Moieover,  te  was  the  same 
year  again  in  the  Scottish  waiai  and  in  the  16th 
Edward  II.  he  was  aaade  governor  of  Keailworth 
Castle.  Lord  Hastings  espoused  JuUan,  gnmd- 
daughter  and^  heU  of  Thomaa  de  Leyboume,  Bacon 
Leyboume,  ud  dying  in  132S,  was  «.  by  his  son, 

LAURENCE  HASTINGS,  iburth  baron,  tten 
but  five  yean  of  ags^  who,  upon  attaining  majority, 
was,  by  royal  favour,  by  lattan  patent  dated  13th 
October,  1330,  declared  Eabi,  or  Pbikbbobb  :  and 
about  the  same  time,  was  in  the  expedition  made 
into  Flanden.  The  next  year,  he  attended  King 
Edward  IIL,  in  the  notmUe  adveptuxe  at  sea  against 


the  French,  where  he  participated  fat  the  glory  of 
the  victory  achieved  near  Slidia.  He  was  afterwards 
constantly  in  the  Frsnch  wwn,  wherein  he  displayed 
great  valour.  Theearl  m.  Ag•e^  denghter  of  Roger 
Mortimer,  Earl  of  March,  and  dyii^  in  137^^  was  «. 
by  his  only  son, 

JOHN  HASTINGS,  second  Earl  of  Pembroke, 
K.G.,  who.  iB  the  46th  Edward  UL,  bdiy  selected 
for  hia  experienoe  and  valour,  was  sent  Beutenant 
into  Aquitaine,  and  arrived  at  the  port  of  Rochel. 
then  besieged  by  the  French,  on  the  eve  of  St  John 
the  Baptiat.  But  mo  sooner  had  he  got  hia  ships 
within  the  harbour,  than  being  suddenly  attacked 
by  the  Spaaiah  fleet,  befbre  he  had  been  able  to 
form  Us  lineof  battle^  he  suflbred  so  signal  a  defeat 
that  few  of  his  men  eecapfd.  His  squadron  was 
entirely  consumed,  himself  and  his  princip^  offlcen 
made  priaraiors,  and  treasure  to  the  amount  of 
twenty  thousand  marks,  which  King  Edward  had 
sent  over  to  maintain  the  war,  became  a  prise  to  the 
enemy.  Hesubeequently  endured  four  years'  harsh 
captivity  in  Spain,  from  which  he  was  eventually 
releesed  through  the  interference  of  Bertrand 
Clekyn,  Constable  of  France,  but  died  on  his  Jour- 
ney from  Paris  (whither  he  had  removed  ftom  Spain) 
to  Calais,  being  considered  to  have  been  poisoned  by 
the  Spaniards,  anno  1373.  His  lordship  «k  fint.  the 
Lady  Margaret  Plantagenet,  fourth  daughter  of 
King  Edward  III.,  by  whom  he  had  no  issue.  He 
espoused  secondly,  Anne,  daughter,  and  at  length 
sole  heir  of  Sir  William  Manny,  K.O.,  by  whom  he 
had  an  only  SOB, 

JoBN,  his  successor. 
This  John,  Earl  of  Pembroke,  according  to  Dugdale, 
in  the  4Sd  Edward  HI.,  having  obtained  the  king's 
licsBce  frar  so  doiag,  mede  a  feoAnent  of  all  his 
castles,  lordships,  asenon,  Ac  in  England  aqd 
Wales,  to  certain  uses.  Which  ieoifineBt  upon  hia 
decease,  was,  by  the  feoflhes,  delivered  to  the  king'a 
council  at  Westminster  to  be  opened;  when  it  was 
found,  that  iu  case  he  died  without  issue  oS  his 
body,  the  town  and  castle  of  Pembroke  should  come 
to  the  king,  his  hein  and  sucopsson ;  and  the  castle 
and  locdship  of  Bergavenny,  with  other  lands  in 
England  and  Wales,  tohiscousin,  William  de  Beau- 
chan^  (his  mother'ssisler's  son),  in  fise,  provided  he 
should  bear  tlie  arms  of  Hastings,  and  endeavour  to 
obtain  the  title  of  Earl  of  Pembroke  to  de£)Milt 
thereof,  then  to  his  kinsman,  William  de  CUnton, 
upon  similar  conditions.  This  Earl  of  Pembroke  ^ 
was  the  flnt  English  subiect  who  foUowed  the  ex-  v^ 
ampleofKtogEdwaidllL,  in  quartering  of  aims  I  ' 
as  may  be  seen  in  his  escutcheon  on  the  north<iSide 
oi  that  monarch's  tomb^  in  Westminater  abbey, 
whereon  he  beareth  quarterly.  Or  «  Meuitdk  guUtt 
for  HABTiMoa,  and  Barry  or.  end  as.  on  Oris  ^ 
MartiM*  gwfas,  for  Valbncb.  His  lordship  d.  in 
1386*  and  was  «.  by  his  kon, 

JOHN  HASTINGS,  third  Earl  of  Pembroke, 
then  but  two  yean  and  a  half  old.  At  the  oorana- 
tioB  of  Ricfaaid  IL,  thia  nobleman  (not  having  at- 
talBMd  hia  flfth  year)  diimed  to  ca^y  the  great 
golden  spun;  and  proving  his  right  to  thai  honoor- 
abie  sarvloe,  it  was  a4)udged,  that  by  reason  of  hU 
minority,  another  should  be  appointed  in  hia  behalf; 
via.  Edmund  Morthnar*  Earlof  March,  whoaedangh- 


HAS 


HAS 


ter,  Phillpyft,  he  nuRtod,  atthough  vvy  yonng. 
The  Idth  Richard  IL,  that  monarch  keeping  his 
Christmai  at  Woodstock,  his  kndship,  only  then 
serentMB  yean  of  age*  advaituring  to  tilt  with  Sir 
John  SL  John,  was  so  severely  wounded*  by  an  un- 
lucky slip  of  Sir  John's  lance,  in  the  abdomen,  that 
he  died  almost  immediately,  30th  December,  1389, 
when  leaving  no  issue,  the  Eaiu.dom  or  PnMnaoKn 
became  bxtinct.  At  his  lordship's  thus  premature 
decease,  Reginaid,  Loan  Gbxy  dm  Ruthyw,  (grand- 
son of  Roger,  Lord  Grey,  and  his  wifie,  Elisabeth 
Hastings,  daughter  of  Jolm,  second  Baron  Hastings,) 
was  found  to  ho  his  heir  of  the  whols  blood. 
And  Hugh,  Baron  Hastings,  eldest  son  of  Hugh 
Hastings,  of  Giessing  Hall,  in  the  county  of  Norfolk, 
(eldest  son  of  the  said  John,  second  Baron  Hastings, 
by  hk  second  wife,  Isabel,  daughter  of  Hugh  de 
Spenser,  Earl  of  Winchester,)  his  heir  of  the  half 
tujoao  i  between  the  son  of  this  Lord  Hastings  of 
Gresshig  Hall,  Edward  Hastings,  and  Reginald 
Lord  Grey,  there  was  a  memorable  competition  in 
the  court  military,  before  the  constable  and  mar- 
shals of  England,  for  the  right  of  bearing  the  arms 
of  HastlngB,  which  lasted  the  full  period  of  twenty 
yean,  and  was  eventually  decided  against  Hastings, 
who,  besides  being  condonned  in  the  heavy  costs  of 
JC970. 17«>  Id,  was  imprisoned  sixteen  yean  for  dis- 
obeying thejudgmenti 

«•  Unless  the  BAaoK y  or  HASTiNoe,**  says  Nico- 
las, *•  be  considered  the  same  as  Bergaveuny,*'  (and 
he  proves  that  It  was  totally  unconnected  with  the 
feudal  tenure  of  the  castle  of  Bergavenny,)  ••  it  must 
be  vested  in  the  Ascendants  and  representatives  of 
the  said  Edward  Hastings.** 

Nol».— The  supentition  of  the  period  attributed 
the  untimely  fate  of  the  last  and  youthful  Earl  of 
PembrtAe  to  a  divine  Judgment  upon  the  fiunily,  in 
regard  that  Ai/mer  de  Vmlenee,  Eabl  or  Pbmbbokb, 
his  ancestor,  was  one  of  thoee  who  passed  sentence 
of  death  upon  Thomas  Plantegenet,  Earl  of  Lan- 
caster at  Pontefract :  for  It  was  observed,  that  sub- 
sequently to  that  Judgment,  none  of  the  Earls  of 
Pembroke  saw  his  listher,  nor  any  flither  of  them 
took  delight  in  seeing  his  children. 

ABjia.— Or,  a  M annch  gules. 

HASTINGS-^BARON  HASTINGS,  OF 
GRESSING  HALL,  IN 
THE  COUNTY  OF  NOR- 
FOLK. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  SSth  February,  19tt, 
18  Edward  IIL 

Xiiuage. 

JOHN  HASTINGS,  second  Lord  Hastings, 
(grandfather  by  his  lint  wife  of  Laurence  Hastings, 
Earl  of  Pembroke,)  m.  for  his  second  wife,  Isabel, 
daughter  of  Hugh  Despencer,  Earl  of  Windiester, 
and  had,  with  a  younger  son, 

HUGH  HASTINGS,  of  Grassing  HaU,  in  the 
cxMmty  of  Norfolk,  whose  grandson, 

HUGH  HASTINGS,  of  Greasing  HaU,  having 
distinguished  himsdf  in  arms,  In  Flanden,  was 
summoned  to  parliament  as  a  baron,  by  King 
Edward  IIL,  on  the  8Bth  February,  134S.    In  the 


iOthof  theMue  reign,  befaig  designated  0ke JHi|^# 
eemain,  his  lordship  was  constituted  lieutenant  of 
Flanden,  and  conomander  of  all  the  king's  ftwon 
there,  against  the  French.  At  this  period,  he  took 
three  hundred  prisonen,  and  brought  them  all  to 
England.  In  1300,  Lord  Hastily  was  In  the  wan  of 
Gasoony,  and  in  some  yean  afterwards,  he  attended 
John,  Duke  of  Lancaster,  into  Spain ;  bat  ftuther 
nothing  is  mentioned  of  this  nobleman,  because 
neither  himsdf  ndr  any  descendants  ware  subse- 
quently summoned  to  parliament.  His  son,  and 
eventual  heir, 

EDWARD  HASTINGS,  who  assumed  the  title 
of  LoBO  HA8Tiirea  Ann  Stottii.i.b,  but  by  what 
authority  remains  to  be  established,  is  the  person 
mentioned  in  the  account  of  the  Hastings,  Earis 
of  Pembroke,  as  having  tweity  years'  litigation 
with  the  Lord  Grey  de  Ruthyn,  regarding  the  right 
to  bear  the  arms  of  Hastings,  (vis. :  or,  a  maunch 
gu).  This  celebrated  cause  was  heard  and  decided, 
in  the  court  military,  by  the  constable  and  manhal 
of  England,  and  it  went  finally  sgainst  Hastings,  who 
was  also  condemned  in  heavy  costs,  and  imprisoned 
sixteen  yean  for  disobeying  the  judgment  of  the 
court.  Edward  Hastings,  having  likewise  ques- 
tioned the  entail  of  John  Hastings,  second  Earl  of 
Pembroke,  by  which  the  BergaTenny  and  other 
estates,  passed  to  William  de  Beauchamp.  "  Beau- 
champ  invited,"  says  Dugdale,  **  his  learned  counsel, 
to  his  house  in  Pater-Noster-Row,  in  the  city  ot 
London;  amongst  whom  were  Robert  Charlton, 
(then  a  Judge,)  William  Pinchebek,  William  Brei- 
chesley,  and  John  Catesby,  (all  learned  lawyen ;) 
and  after  dinner,  coming  out  of  his  chappel,  in  an 
angry  mood,  threw  to  each  of  them  a  piece  of  gold, 
and  said,  *Str;l  deHre  peu,  Jbrthwith  to  tea  me, 
whether  I  have  any  right  and  title  to  Habtinos' 
lordships  and  lands?'  whereupon  Pinchebek  stood 
up,  (the  rest  being  silent,  fearing  that  he  suspected 
them,)  and  said,  *  No  fnon  here,  nor  in  J^igiand, 
dare  My  that  you  have  any  right  in  them,  except 
Hastings  do  quit  hie  etaim  herein  /  and  thoutd  he 
do  it,  being  now  under  age,  it  would  be  ctf  no  vaii- 
ditie:  ••Perhaps,"  (continues  the  same  authority,) 
**  there  had  been  some  former  entail,  to  settle  them 
upon  the  heir,  male,  of  the  £uaily;  but  whatever 
it  was,  Habtikos  apprehended  the  injury  thereby 
done  to  him,  to  be  so  great,  that  with  extreme 
anguish  of  mind,  at  his  latter  end,  he  left  God's 
curse  and  his  own,  upon  his  descendants,  if  they 
did  not  attempt  the  vindication  thereof." 

Nicolas  considen  the  Babony  or  .Habtinos, 
which  had  belonged  to  the  Earls  of  Pembrokef  to 
be  vested  in  the  representatives  of  this  Edward 
Hastings. 

HASTINGS- BARON  HASTINGS,  OF 
LOUGHBOROUGH,  IN 
THE  COUNTY  OF  LEI- 
CESTER. 

By  Letten  Patent,  dated  19th  January,  1A58. 

Xlncagc. 

GEORGE  HASTINGS,  first  Earl  of  Hunting- 
don, espoused  Lady  Anne  Herbert,  widow  of  Sir 

98ft 


HAS 


HAT 


Walter  Herbert,.  KnL,  and  daughter  of  Hairy 
Staflbrd  Duke  of  Buckingham,  by  whom  he  had, 
with  leveral  other  children,  Francis,  hit  sucoenor 
in  ttie  Earldom  of  Huntingdon,  and 

SIR  EDWARD  HASTINGS,  a  rery  eminent  per- 
son in  the  time  of  Queen  Mary.  In  the  4th  Edward 
VI.,  he  wrred  the  office  of  sheriff  for  the  counties 
of  Warwick  and  Leicester;  and  the  same  year,  he 
was  sent  with  his  brother,  the  Earl  of  Huntingdon, 
to  dislodge  the  French  tram  a  position  which  they 
had  taken  up  between  Bologne  and  Calais.  Upon 
the  -accession  of  Mary,  he  was  constituted  receiver 
of  the  honour  of  Leicester,  pared  of  the  Duchy  of 
Lancaster,  in  the  counties  ot  Leicester,  Warwick, 
Nortliampton,  and  Nottinghamshire;  and  being 
the  same  year  made  a  privy  counsdlor  to  the  queen, 
and  master  of  her  horse,  was  appointed  collector 
general  to  all  her  revenues  within  the  city  of  Lon- 
don, and  the  counties  of  Middlesex,  Essex,  and 
Hertfordshire.  He  obtained  a  grant  at  this  time, 
of  the  Manor  cf  Bosworth,  in  the  county  of  Lei- 
oester;  and  was  subsequently  made  a  Knight  of  the 
Garter.  In  the  4th  and  6th  of  Philip  and  Mary. 
Sir  Edward  was  constituted  lord  chamberlain  of  the 
household,  and  was  elevated  to  the  peerage,  by 
letters  patent,  dated  I9th  January,  1&S8,  as  Barow 
Hastinos,  qf  LougMorough,  in  the  eountjf  iff  Lei- 
enter.  His  lordship  died  at  Stoke  Pogis,  in  the 
county  of  Bucks,  (where  he  had  built  a  chapel,  and 
founded  and  endowed  an  hospital,)  in  Ifi68,  when 
leaving  no  male  issue,  the  barony  became  kxtivct. 

Arms.— Ar.  a  maunch  sa. 


HASTINGS— BARON  HASTINGS,  OF 
LOUGHBOROUGH. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  8Snd  October,  1643. 

HENRY  HASTINGS,  fifth  Earl  tif  Huntingdon, 
married  Elisabeth,  third  daughter  and  co-heir  of 
Ferdinand  Stanley,  fifth  Earl  of  Derby,  and  had, 
besides  two  daughters,  Ferdinando,  who  succeeded 
as  sixth  Earl  of  Huntingdon,  and 

HENRY*  HASTINGS,  who,  having  espoused, 
lealously,  the  cause  of  King  Charles  I.,  at  the 
breaking  out  of  the  rebellion,  and  become  one  of 
the  most  distinguished  in  arms,  amongst  the  gal- 
lant cavaliers,  was  elevated  to  the  peerage  by  the 
lU-fated  monarch,  on  the  28d  October,  1643,  as  Ba- 
ron Hastings,  of  Loughborough,  in  the  county 
of  Leicester,  a  dignity  which  had  been  borne  by, 
and  expired  with  his  gallant  ancestor.  Sir  Edward 
Hastings,  K.O.,  in  the  reign  of  Queen  Mary.  His 
lordship  had  the  gratification  of  living  to  witness  the 
restoration  of  the  monarchy,  but  dying  unmarried, 
la  January,  16S6-6,  the  Barony  or  Hastings,  </ 
Idmghbcrought  for  the  second  time,  sxriRSo. 

Arms.— Ar.  a  maunch,  sa. 

HASTINGS— BARON  HASTINGS,  OF 
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HATTON  —  BARONS  HATTON,  OF 
KIRBV,  IN  THE  COUN- 
TY  OF  NORTHAMP. 
TON,  VISCOUNTS  HAT. 
TON,  OF  GRETTON. 

Barony,      1  by  Letters  f  29th  July,  1643. 
Viscounty,  J    Patent,    \  17th  January,  1682. 

Xineage. 

This  family  which  derived  its  surname  from 
the  Lordship  of  Halton,  in  Cheshire,  deduced 
iu  pedigree  from  Higel,  Baron  or  Halton  in 
that  county,  and  constable  to  the  old  Earls  of 
Chester. 

The  principal  branch  of  the  Hattons,  in  the  days 
ot  Queen  Elisabeth,  was, 

CHRISTOPHER  HATTON.  Esq.,  then  of  Hol- 
denby,  in  the  county  of  Northampton,  **  who," 
say^  Dugdale,  **  being  a  private  gentleman  of  the 
Inns  of  Court,  was  for  his  activity  and  comdiness, 
taken  into  favour.  *'  Besides  those  accomplish- 
noents,"  continues  the  same  author,  **  and  the  grace 
of  dancing,  he  had  likewise  the  addition  of  a  strong 
and  subtle  capacity,  so  that,  soon  learning  the  disci- 
pline and  garb  of  the  times  and  court,  he  first 
became  one  of  the  queen's  gentlemen  pensioners; 
afterwards  gentleman  of  the  privy  chamber,  cap- 
tain of  the  guard,  vice  chamberlain,  and  one  of  the 
privy  coundl,  lastly.  Lord  Chancbljuor  or  Eng- 
land, and  a  Knight  of  the  most  noble  Order  of  the 
Garter." 

Of  this  eminent  person,  the  following  character 
is  given.  *'  He  had  a  large  portion  of  gifts  and  en- 
dowments ;  his  features,  his  gait,  his  carriage,  and 
his  prudence,  strove  to  set  him  ofll  Every  thing 
he  did,  wss  so  exactly  Just  and  discreet,  and  what 
he  spoke  so  weighty,  that  he  was  chosen  to  keep 
the  queen's  conscience,  as  her  chancellor,  and  to 
express  her  sense  as  her  speaker.  The  courtiers 
that  envied  him,  were  forced  by  his  superior  power, 
to  own  themselves  in  error  \  and  the  seijeants,  who 
at  first  refiued  to  plead  bttTore  him,  could  not  at 
length  but  confess  his  abilities.  His  place  was 
above  his  law,  but  not  above  his  parts,  which  were 
infinitdy  pregnant  and  comprehensive.  His  station 
was  great,  but  his  hiunllity  was  greater;  giving  an 
easy  access  to  all  addresses.  He  was  so  Just,  that 
his  sentence  was  a  law  to  the  subject,  and  so  wise, 
that  his  opinion  was  an  oracle  with  the  queen." 
Sir  Christopher  Hattou  died  a  bachdor,  20th  No- 
vember, IMl,  of  a  broken  heart,  it  is  staled,  in 
consequence  of  his  royal  mistress  having  demanded 
rigorously,  an  old  debt,  which  he  owed  her.  He 
adopted  (his  sister  Dorothy's  son,  by  her  husband, 
John  Newport,  Esq.,)  his  nephew, 

SIR  JOHN  NEWPORT,  Knt.,  who  thereupon 
assumed  the  name  of  Hatton.  This  gentleman  m. 
Elisabeth,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Sir  Francis 
Gpwdy,  d^ef  Justice  of  the  court  of  Common  Pleas, 
and  left  an  only  daughter,  FRAHcna,  who  married 
Robert  Rich,  Earl  of  Warwick.  Upon  his  decease, 
the  greater  part  of  the  estates  of  the  Lord  Chancel- 


HAT 


HAY 


lor  HattfOOt  <levolf«d  by  yfttam  of  n  entail  upon 
the  gmt-great  nephew  of  that  eminent  IndWl- 
dual, 

SIR  CHRISTOPHER  HATTON.  K.B.,  vho 
IN.  Alice*  daughter  of  Thomas  Fanihaw*  Em|.»  of 
Ware  Park,  and  dying  in  1619^   wai  «.  by  his 


SIR  CHRISTOPHER  HATTON.  who  wai 
made  a  Knight  of  the  Bath  at  the  ooronation  of 
King  Charlee  I.,  and  afterwards  distinguishing  him> 
aelf  by  Ms  ardent  seal  In  the  royal  cause,  he  was 
elevated  to  the  peerage  on  the  89th  July,  1643,  as 
Baboh  Hattoh,  t^f  Kirltif,  in  <Ae  oowia^f  qf  Nor- 
than^ton.  Upon  the  restoration  of  King  Charles 
II.,  Ms  lordship  was  sworn  of  the  privy  oouncUf  and 
constituted  governor  of  Guernsey.  Lord  Hatton 
M.  Elisabeth,  ddest  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Sir 
Charles  Montagu,  and  niece  of  Henry,  Earl  of  Man- 
diester,  by  whom  he  had  Issu^ 

CHRiavonoM,  his  suooessor. 

Charles. 


Alice. 
Had.  in  1670,  and  was  #.  by  his  eldeat  son, 
-  CHRISTOPHER  HATTON,  seeond  baron. 
This  notateman,  like  his  Ibther,  was  governor  of 
Guernsey,  and  while  in  that  govcnuncnt  had  one  of 
the  most  angular  escapes  fhim  death,  probaldy  upon 
record.  During  his  residenceat  ComK  Castle^  the 
magaiine  of  powder  caught  flie  at  midni|^t  by 
Ughtningi  and  his  lordship,  while  sleeping  in  his 
bed*  was  blown  out  of  the  window,  and  remained 
ior  some  time  struggling  on  the  ramparts,  without 
sustaining  any  ii^ury.  His  lady,  and  several  of  her 
ftmale  attendants  perlshedt  but  one  of  his  diildren, 
an  iaAnt»  was  found  the  next  day  alive^  sleeping  in 
its  oadle,  under  a  baem.  His  lordship  was  ad- 
vanced in  168S,  to  the  dignity  of  Viacouirr 
HArro]r,^Or«MM,  in  the  county  of  Northamp- 
ton. He  IN.  first.  Lady  Cecilia  Tufbon,  daughter 
of  John,  Earl  of  Thanet,  and  had  one  surviving 
daughter, 

Anns,  who  m.  Danid  Finch,  second  Earl  of 
Nottingham,  and  sixth  Earl  of  Winrlwlsea. 
and  had,  with  three  dder  sons. 

The  Hon.  EDWAno  Fin cb,  wbo  essiimed 
theadditiooal  surname  of  Hattok,  and 
his  grandson, 

QnoRoa  Finch-Hattoit,  Esq.,  in- 
heriting, in  laaSi  the  Earldoms  of 
Wtaichatoea  and  Nottingham,  is 
the  preient  earL 
The  viscount  espoused,  secondly,  Frances,  only 
daughter  of  Sir  Henry  Yelverton,  of  Gaston  Man- 
duit,  in  the  county  of  Northampton,  Bart.,  by 
iriiom    he    had    no    surviving    issue.     He   in. 
thirdly,  Elisabeth,  daughter  and  oo4ielr  of  Sir  Wil- 
liam Haslewood,  of  MaidweU*  in  the  county  of 
Northampton*  and  had  tlireesons,  William,  Chwlesb 
and  John,  and  three  daughters,  Elisabeth,  Penelope^ 
and  Anna    His  lordship  d»  in  1706>  and  was  «w  by 
bis  eldest  son, 

WILLIAM  HATTON,  second  viscount.  This 
Qobleroan  dying  unmarried  in  1769,  and  his  brothen 
having  deceaard  pieviouely  without  male  ianie,  the 


Baromy  avo  Viaoooirrv  or  Hattok  liecane  ■]&> 
TUioT.     The  estates   eveotuaUy   devolved  upon 
the  Honourable  Edward  Finch  Hatton,  mentioned 
above. 
Anna.— Aa.  a  chevron  betw.  three  garbs  gu^ 

HAUSTED— BARON  HAUSTED, 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  90th  July,  1339, 
6  Edward  IIL 

ZincBgc. 

JOHN  DB  HAUSTED,  In  the  first  year  of  Ed* 
ward  II.,  obtained  a  grant  to  himself  and  the  bein 
of  his  body,  of  the  manor  of  Deusangre,  and  divers 
other  lands  in  the  county  of  Northumberland  i  he 
was  subsequently  engaged  in  the  wars  of  Scotland; 
and  was  invested  with  the  power  of  receiving  into 
protection  all  thoee  who  in  the  county  of  Northnm- 
berland,  and  parts  adjacent,  submitted  to  the  au« 
thority  of  the  king.  In  the  lAth  of  the  same  mo- 
narch he  had  the  cestle  and  honour  of  Clare,  in  the 
county  of  SuflUk,  committed  to  his  chargei  and 
afler  the  aooeisioa  of  Edward  III.  he  was  made 
ifnfsrhel  of  Qeecony.  For  all  these  services  he  ob- 
tained a  grant  of  two  hundred  marks  sterling,  to  be 
reoeivedyesrly  during  his  ttfe  out  of  the  customs  of 
Boardeaux,  untU  sudi  time  as  provision  should  be 
made  for  the  payment  thcreo(  within  tUs  realm ; 
and  he-  was  summoned  to  parliament  as  a  BAaoir 
from  the  90th  July,  1339,  to  the  99nd  January,  1989, 
but  never  afterwards,  and  nothtaig  fiftther  is  known 
of  his  lordship  or  his  descendanta. 

Aniffa.^-Gttlee,  a  diief  componde,  or.  and  aa. 

HAY— BARONS  HAY,  OF  SAWLEY, 
VISCOUNTS  DONCASTER, 
EARLS  OF  CARLISLE. 


Barony 

Viscounty, 

Earldom, 


ity,K 


piitri*'^''"^y'*«^«- 

^    1 13th  Sept.,  1699. 

Xincagf. 


Amongst  the  natives  of  Scotland  who  accompanied 
King  Jambb  L  into  Enghmd  was  a  gentleman  of 
the  name  of  Hay,  whom  Sir  Anthony  Weldon  thus 
describes:  "  The  king  no  sooner  came  to  London, 
but  notice  was  taken  of  a  rising  fisvourlte,  the  first 
meteor  of  that  nature  appeering  in  our  climate; 
as  the  king  cast  his  eye  upon  him  for  ailtetion* 
so  did  all  the  courtiers,  to  adore  him,  his  name 
was 

Mr.  JAMES  HA Y,  a  gentleman  that  long  Uved 
in  France,  and  some  say  of  the  Seottith  guard  to  the 
French  king  i  this  gentleman  coming  over  to  meet 
King  James,  and  share  with  him  in  his  new  con- 
quest, (according  to  the  Scottish  phrase,)  it  should 
seem  had  some  further  acquaintance  with  the  then 
leiger  embessadour  in  Scotland  for  the  French  mo- 
narch, who  coming  with  his  mi^esty  into  Eqgland, 
preeented  this  gentleman  as  a  well  acoompUshoi 
person  to  the  king,  in  such  high  commendation  as 
Migendered  such  a  liking  as  produced  a  favourite ) 
9L  S57 


HAV 


HSK 


in  thaokftil  admowMfemcnt  whereof;  he  did  hfan 
many  fair  ofllcea  for  the  prawnt,  and  eomfaig  after- 
wards an  eKtraordittary  embaasador  to  our  Ung, 
made  him  the  most  aumptaoaa  feaat  at  E«ex  Hoaae» 
that  ever  was  Men  before,  nerer  equalled  ainoe,  in 
which  was  such  plenty,  and  fish  of  that  immensity, 
brought  out  of  Museoria,  that  dishes  were  made  to 
contain  them,  (no  dishes  in  all  England  before  eould 
neTre  hold  them,)  and  after  that  a  costly  roydee, 
and  after  that  a  mask,  of  choyse  noUe-men  and 
gentlemen,  and  after  that  a  most  costly  banquet,  the 
king,  lords,  and  all  the  prime  gentlemen  then  about 
London  bebig  invited  thither.  Truly,  he  was  a 
roost  oompleat,  and  well  aocompUshed  gentleman, 
modest  and  court-like,  and  of  so  lUr  a  demeanour, 
as  made  him  be  generally  beloved;  and  for  his  wis- 
dom, I  shall  give  you  but  ooe  diaracter  for  all :  he 
was  ever  great  with  all  the  Cavcmrites  of  his  time, 
and  although  the  king  did  often  change,  yet  he  was 
{aemper  idem),  with  the  king,  and  favourites,  and 
got  by  both ;  for  although  fkvourites  had  that  exor- 
bitant power  over  the  king,  to  make  him  gnoe  and 
disgrace  whom  they  pleased,  he  was  out  of  that 
power,  and  the  only  exception  to  that  general  rule; 
and  for  his  gettings,  it  was  more  than  almost  the 
Ihvourites  of  his  time,  whidi  appeared  in  those  rest 
expenses  of  all  sorts,  and  had  not  the  bounty  of  his 
mind  exceeded  his  gettings,  be  might  have  left  the 
greatest  estate  that  ever  our  age  or  climate  had 
heard  of;  he  was,  indeed,  made  for  a  courtier,  who 
wholly  studied  his  master,  and  underrtood  him 
better  tlian  any  other." 

•'  He  was  employed  in  rery  many  of  the  most 
weighty  aflkirs,  and  sent  with  the  most  statdy  em- 
bassies of  our  times,  which  he  performed  with  that 
wisdom  and  magnifloency,  that  beseemed  an  honour 
to  his  king  and  country,  for  his  carriage  in  state 
aflUn."  This  celebrated  favourite  having,  by  the 
influence  of  his  royal  master,  obtidned  Honora,  sole 
daughter  and  heir  of  Edward,  Lord  Denny,  in  mai^ 
riage,  had  a  grant  of  the  name  and  titte  of  Lobd 
Hay;  with  precedence  next  to  the  batons  of  Eng- 
land, but  no  place  or  voice  in  parliameiL  On  99th 
June,  IGlft,  he  was,  however,  advanced  to  the  dig- 
nity of  a  baron  of  the  realm,  under  the  title  of  Lono 
Hay,  tffSauletf,  in  the  eountp  ntf  YbrXr,  without  any 
solemn  investiture,  his  lordship  being  the  first  ever 
so  created,  the  lawyers  then  declaring  that  the  de- 
livery of  the  letters  patent  was  sufflcient  without 
any  ceremony.  He  was  the  next  year  sent  ambasiar- 
dor  to  the  court  of  Prance;  In  March,  1617*  his 
lordship  was  sworn  of  the  privy  ooundl,  and  created 
Viscount  Doncaster  on  the  itth  July,  1618,  prepara- 
tory to  his  proceeding  upon  an  embassy  faito  Crer- 
many.  In  16B9  he  was  again  employed  as  ambassa- 
dor in  France,  and  was  adYanoed  on  the  13th  Sep- 
tember in  that  year  to  the  Earldom  or  Cahlislk. 
Besides  all  these  high  honours  and  trusts  he  was 
master  of  the  great  wardrobe,  gentleman  of  the 
robes  to  King  James  I.,  and  Knight  of  the  most 
noble  order  of  the  Garter.  *  He  was  also  first  gentle- 
man of  the  bed-chamber  to  King  Charles  L  His 
lordship  m.  as  already  stated,  Honora,  only  daugh- 
ter and  heiress  of  Edward,  Lord  Denny,  and  after 
her  decease  he  espoused  the  Lady  Lucy  Percy, 
youngest  daughter  of  Henry,  Earl  ot  Northurober- 


land.  He  tf.  »th  April,  1636,  and  was  «.  by  Ms 
only  sarviving  son, 

JAMES  HAY.  second  Earl  of  Carlisle,  who  m. 
Lady  Margaret  Rnssdl,  daughter  of  Frands,  Earl 
of  Bedford,  but  dying  «.  ji.  in  1680,  aix  Us  aovouna 
became  bxtihct. 

Anna.— Ar.  three  escutcheons  gules. 

HENLEY  —  BARONS  HENLEY,  OF 
ORAINGE,  EARLS  OF 
NORTHINGTON. 

Barony,  1  by  Letters  f  27th  Mardi,  1760L 

Earldom,  &c  J    Patent,    \  UMi  May,  1784. 

ANTHONY  HENLEY,  Esq.,  m.  Mary,  daugh- 
ter  and  co-heir  of  the  Hon.  Peregrine  Bertie,  a 
younger  son  of  Montagu,  Earl  of  Lindaey,  and  waa 
flither  of 

SIR  ROBERT  HENLEY,  Knt,  a. lawyer  of 
great  eminence,  who  was  appointed,,  in  1736, 
attorney-general,  when  he  received  the  customary 
honour  of  knighthood,  and  the  next  year  he  was 
constituted  keeper  of  the  great  seaL  In  1760  Sir 
Robert  was  devated  to  the  peerage  as  Barom  Hbk- 
I.BT,  1/ Grainy,  <«  Cktf  co«M^  ^  SonCtamjiCMi,  and 
jippolnted  iiomn  cbavcbliiOE  or  Englahd  In 
1781.  In  three  years  afterwards  he  waa  advanced 
to  the  dignities  of  Viatnunt  Hmleif,  and  Eael  or 
NoRTRiMOTOir.  His  lordship  officiated  as  lord 
high  steward  at  the  trial  of  Earl  Ferrers.  He  m. 
Jane,  daughter  of  Sir  J6bn  Huband,  of  the  county 
of  Warwick,  and  had  surYiving  iasne, 
RoBBBT,  hissucoeisor. 

Bridget,  m.  first,  to  Robert,  only  son  of  Lord 
Bingley;  and  secondly,  to  the  Hon.  John 
Talmash,  but  had  no  issue. 
Jane,  m.  to  Sir  Willoughby  Aston,  Bart 
Mary,  m.  to  the  Earl  of  Legonier,  and  died 

#.p. 
Catherine,    m.  to  George,   Viscount   Deer- 
hurst. 
Elisabeth,  m,  to  Frederick  Morton  Eden,  Esq., 
a  diplomatist  of  the  first  grade,  who  was 
crested  a  peer  of  Ireland,  as  Babow  Hbn- 
LBY,  <t^  Chardtto€k,  and  had,  with  other 
issue, 
itOBXBT,   present  Babok  Hbitlby,  <^ 
Ckardttodt, 
The  earl  d.  in  177S»  and  was  #.  by  his  son, 

ROBERT  HENLEY,  second  Earl  of  Northing- 
ton,  who  was  constituted  lobd-libutbhaivt  or 
iBBLAiro  in  1783,  but  filled  the  vice-regnl  oAce 
until  the  next  year  only.  His  lordship,  who  was  a 
Knight  of  the  Thistle,  died  unmarried  in  1706, 
when  the  Babont  and  Viacouwrv  or  Hbklby, 
with  Eabloom  or  Nobthinotok,  became  mx- 
nircT,  while  his  estates  devolYed  upon  his  sisters 
as  co-heirs. 

Abms  Quarterly  first  and  fimrth  as.  a  lion  ram- 
pant ar.  ducally  crowned  or.  within  a  border  ar. 
charged  with  eight  forteauxes,  for  HBiri.BY  second 
and  third,  ar.  three  battering  rams  bar-ways  ppr. 
(Brown)  armed  and  garnished  as.  for  Bbbtis* 


H£R 


IBER 


H£ABfiRT--BAllONS  HERBERT,  OF 
HERBERT,  AND  OF  CHEP. 
STOW,  EARLS  OF  PEM- 
BROKE, EARL  OF  HUN. 
TINGDON. 


Buony,  bjWritof  Summona,  dated  90th  July,  1461, 

1  Edward  IV. 
Earldom  of  Pembioke,   by  Letteri  Patent,  a7th 

May.  1408. 
Earldom  of  Hiintingrton,  by  Charter,  4th  July,  147SL 

Xiniafit. 

.   The  lint  of  this  fiunily  nUeed  to  the  rank  of  an 
earl  was. 

SIR  WILLIAM  DB  HERBERT,  Knt.,  Lord  of 
Reghmd,  la  the  comity  of  Mommmth,  an  estate 
which  he  derived  fkom  Maud,  his  graadmother, 
daughter  and  heiress  of  Sir  John  Morley,  Knt. 
Sir  William  Herbert  is  said  by  some  to  have-de- 
dueed  his  line  Atom  Henry,  the  son  of  Herbert, 
diamberlain  to  King  Henry  I.,  but  by  others,  from 
Henry  Pita*Roy,  one  of  the  nat^^  sons  of  that 
king.  He  was  a  staundi  supporter  of  the  house  of 
York,  and  Cor  his  flddity  and  serrioes.  King  Ed- 
ward IV.,  soon  after  his  srcssiion,  oonstituted  him 
chief  Justice  and  duunlierlain  of  South  Wales,  and 
made  him  likewise  steward  of  the  cistle  and  lordship 
of  Brsfcknock,  and  of  all  other  the  castles  of  Hum- 
phrey, Duke  of  Buckingham,'  in  the  same  part  of 
the  principality.  Sir  WiUiam  was  summoned  to 
parliament,  as  Baron  HaasBBT,  i^HtHMrt,  on  the 
98th  July,  1461,  and  by  letters  patent,  bearing  date 
the  3d  of  February  following,  wherein  his  manifold 
services  and  eminent  deserts  are  recorded,  (such  as 
hasardiiig  his  life  in  nuifierous  oonflictsagainst  King 
Henry  VI.  and  the  LancMtrians,  particularly  against 
Henry  Hirtland,  Duke  of  Exeter,  Jasper  Tudor, 
Earl  of  Pembroke,  James  Butler,  Earl  of  WlltahiTe, 
&C.,  reducing  castles,  fortresses,  4ec.»)  obtained  a 
grant  in  general  tail  of  the  castle,  town,  and  lord- 
ship of  Pembroke,  with  all  its  appurtenances.  His 
lordalilp  had  subsequently  other  extcnsire  grants; 
was  oonstituted  chief  Justice  of  North  Wales  for 
life,  and  created  Eari.  or  Prmbrokr  on  the  97th 
May,  146a  He  was  afterwards  appointed  chief 
forester  of  Snowdon,  and  constable  of  Conway  cas- 
tla  In  the  August  ensuing  the  earl  won  the  castle 
of  Harlow,  one  of  the  strongest  forts  in  Wales,  by 
fawnlt,  and  he  was  shortly  alter  elected  a  Kniobt 
or  Tnn  Oartsr.  "  Whereunto  I  shall  add,"  says 
Dugdale^  **  what  I  find  Airther  memoraUe  of  him, 
fhm  a  certain  manuscript  book  in  the  custody  of 
Edward,  now  Lord  Herbert,  of  Chirbury,  \\m^^ 
Upon  the  advancing  of  William  Hrrbrrt  to  be 
Eerl  of  Pembroke  and  his  instalment  at  Windsor, 
King  Edward  IV.  commanded  the  said  earl,  and  Sir 
Richard,  his  brother,  to  take  their  surnames  after 
their  first  progenitor,  Hbrbbrt  Fits-Rov,  and  to 
forcfo  the  British  manner,  whose  usage  is  to 
call  every  man  by  father's,  grandfather's,  and  great- 
grandlkther's  name.  And  in  regard  the  English 
hvalds  were  ignorant  of  the  Welch  dcMmts,  the 
king  was  pleased*  under  his  great  seal,  unto  Vvam 


v*. . 


'  -AP  KvYHRkch  AP  Evan  Llhoyd,  of  Oaidlgan- 
shire.  Esq.,  to  summon  before  him.  at  the  castle  of 
Pembroke,  the  eldest  heralds  and  bards  in  South 
Wales,  to  oertlfie  the  lhu«e  and  stock  of  the  said 
earl  and  his  brother,  which  wae  accordingly  done 
the  29th  day  of  August,  1469,  by  Howsl  ap  David, 
AF  EtAR  1p  Ricb,  Evar  Brrcva,  Evan  Du- 
LiuR,  and  HowBLL  Swbrdwall,  the  chief  men 
of  skill  in  pedigrees  in  all  South  Wales :  who,  being 
M  by  warrant  of  old  doctors'  books,  records  of 
court  barons,  histories  and  wars  of  princes,  books  of 
remembrances  found  in  the  ancient  abbies  of  StraU 
Florida,  booksof  pedigreeaof  HowcU  Morthey.  of 
CastlsDolwyn.  Esq..  the  roll  of  Morgan,  the  abbot, 
and  several  other  books  end  warrants  of  authority, 
as  ako  by  the  evidence  of  thU  earl,  they  preeented 
to  his  m^lesty  their  certificate  in  three  several  km- 
gueges,  Brittlsh,  Latine,  and  French/ via. 

*•  The  said  Hon.  rarl  Is  named  William  Hrr- 
BBRT,  a  noUe  knight,  son  of  Sir  William,  son  of 
Thomas,  son  of  GuilUm,  son  of  Jenkyn,  son  of  ^ 
Adam,  son  of  Reginald,  son  of  Peter,  son  of  Her- 
bert,  the  son  of  Hbrbbrt,  a  noble  lord,  descended 
of  the  royal  blood  of  the  crown  of  Ekolard.  for  he 
wesson  natural  to  Kiro  Hrrrt  I.,  son  of  Wil- 
LLAM,  commonly  called  the  Corqurimr." 

Upon  the  breaking  out  of  the  insurrection  anno 
14flB,  9th  Edward  IV.,  in  the  north,  on  behalf  of 
the  Lancastrians,  heeded  by  Sir  John  Conirrs. 
KMghtt  and  Rorbrt  Hilltard,  who  called  him- 
self Robin  of  Riddesdale,  the  Earl  of  Pembroke 
was  despatched  by  the  king,  with  his  brother.  Sir 
Richard  Herbert,  of  Colebrook,  in  command  of 
eighteen  thousend  Wetehmen,  to  meet  the  rebels, 
but  being  deserted  by  Humphrey  Staflbrd.  Earl  of 
Devonshire,  who  had  joined  him  with  six  thousand 
archers  at  Banbury,  he  was  compelled  to  give  the- 
insurgents  battle  with  an  inivior  fbrce,  and  expe- 
rienced  a  signal  defoat  at  Danesmore.  Northampton-, 
shire,  when  himeelf  and  his  brother  fell  into  the' 
hands  of  their  enemies,  and  were  immediately  exe- 
cuted at   Northampton,   with   Rkhard  WidevUe, 
Lord  Rivrbr.  and  his  son.  by  order  of  the  Duke  of 
CUveuce.  and  the  Earl  of  Warwick,  who  had  le- 
cently  revolted  from  the  banner  of  York.     His 
lordship  m.  first,  Anne^  daughter  of  Sir  Walter     k,^ 
Devereux.  and  sister  of  Walter,  Lord  Fenren,  of    ' 
Chartley.  by  whom  he  had  issue, 

William,  his  successor. 

Walter  (Sir). 

George  (Sir),  of  St.  Glllians,  who  succeeded 
eveitually  to  a  portion  of  the  estates  of  the 
Earl  of  Pembroke ;  and  his  descendant  and 
inheritor  of  those  estates,  Mary  Herbert, 
married  the  celebrated  Edward,  Lord  Hrr- 
RRRT.  of  CMrbttfy. 

Philip,  of  LanyhangeL 

Cedlie,  m.  to  Lord  Greystock. 

Maud,  m.  to  Henry  Percy,  Earl  of  Northum- 
berland. 

KaUierine,  m.  to  George  Grey,  Earl  of  Kent. 

Anne,  m.  to  John  Grey,  Lord  Powis. 

Isabel,  fN.  to  Sir  Thomas  Cokesey,  Knt. 

Margaret,  m.  first  to  Thomas  Talbot,  Viscount 
L'Isle,  and  secondly  to  Sir  Henry  Bodring- 
hami  Knt. 

9B0 


HER 


HEE 


The  ewl  evpoiiMd,*  leooDdly,  M«ud,  davghtMriad 
belros  of  AdMn  ap  Howell  Gnrant*  and  had  baue* 
RicHAKO  (Sir),  of  Ewyae,  ftom  whom  the  «v- 

«■»«  Earls  of  Pembroke,  derira 
George  (Sir),  of  Swanaey. 
His  lordship  wm  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

WILLI  A  Bi  HERBERT,  second  Earl  of  P«m- 
tooke.  King  Edward  IV.  wishing  to  eonfer  the 
EarldoBS  of  Pembroke  upon  his  son,  Prinet  Eo- 
WAiiD,  this  nobleman  madearceignatioot  thereof 
to  the  crown,  and  was  created  in  stead  Earl  or 
UuHTiireooM,  by  charier,  bearing  dat^  at  York, 
4th  July,  14791  In  the  1st  Richard  IIL.  his  kvd- 
eliip  was  oonstitated  justice  of  South  Wales,  and  in 
the  FMiruary  ensuing,  he  entered  Into  covenants 
with  that  king,  to  take  Dame  Katherine  Plantage- 
net,  his  daughter,  to  wifis^  beftite  the  test  of  St. 
Michael  foUowingt  as  also  to  make  her  a  certain 
Jointure  and  the  king  to  settle  jands  and  ksdships 
of  a  large  annoal  value  upon  them,  and  the  hein 
male  of  their  bodieib  The  king  further  undertaking 
to  be  at  the  expense  of  the  wedding.  But  this  lady 
dying  in  her  early  yesrs,  the  nuniage  did  not  take 
eflbct.  His  kMPdship  afterwartls  espoueed  lady  Mary 
WidviK  daughter  of  Richard,  aiMl  sister  end  ov 
heir  ot  Richard,  Earl  Rivers,  by  .whom  he  had  an 
only  daughter  and  heireee, 

EusABSTB   Hbubbrt,  who  HI.  Sir  Charlee 
Somenet,  Knt,  illegitimate  eon  of  Henry 
Beaufort,  third  Duke  of  SomerMt,  of  that 
fkunily  (the  deecrndenfii  of  John  of  Gaunt, 
by  Catherine  Swinlbrd),  whidi  Charles  was 
created  in  1513-14,  Eabk.  or  WoacBarsR, 
and  from  thie  union  the  preeent  ducal  Cs* 
mily  of  Beaufort  datives. 
Intheadyeerof  Henry  VIL,  his  kwdship obtained 
from  the  crown  a  conllrmaiion  of  the  Earldom  of 
Huntingdon.    Hed.— —  whentheBABOwrorHsB- 
BBBT,  areated  by  the  writ  of  Edward  IV.,  devolved 
upon  his  daughtsr,  and  theEABLixni  or  Hmrnwo- 
son  became  bxtinct. 

Ajuia.— Per  pale  aa.  and  gu.  three  lions  rsmpent, 
ar.  OB  a  border  eompon4^  or*  and  of  the  seooiid 
beeanty* 

HERBERT— BARONS  HERBERT,  OF 
CHIRBURY. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  7th  May,  1680. 

Xincagc. 

Of  the  fiunily  of  the  9rirt>tated, 

EDWARD  HERBERT,  flrit  Loid  Hevbert,  of 
Chirbury,  we  ihall  speak  In  the  wordsof  that  chi- 
valrous and  enoinent  pereon  himsdt  *'  My  flither 
was  Richard  Herbert,  Esq.,  eon  of  Edward  Herbert, 
Esq.,  and  grandchild  of  Sir  Ridiard  Herbert,  KnL, 
of  Colebrook,  in  Monmouthshire,  of  all  whom  I 
shall  lay  a  littla:  And  lint,  of  my  father,  whom  I 

•  This  marriage  is  doubtAil,  and  the  branch 
springing  from  it  is  generally  deemed  iUegitimate. 

t  Resolutions  of  the  House  of  Lords  in  1640  and 
ie78»  dedan  that  no  suxrcnder  of  a  patent  can  be  a 
bar  to  a  claim  of  the  dignity  so  fiwreudercdi  but 
previously  such  surrenders  were  not  uncommon. 
900 


Mmember  to  have  been  black-bsired,  and  bearded, 
asallmyanoeston  of  his  ride  are  said  to  have  been, 
of  a  manly  or  somewhat  stem  look,  but  withal  very 
handscnne,  and  wdl  copapact  in  his  Umbs,  and  ot  a 
great  dcnirage,  whereof  he  gave  proof,  when  he  was 
so  barbarously  assaulted  by  many  men,  in  the 
diurch-yard  at  Lsnervil,  at  what  time  he  would 
have  apprehflsided  a  man  who  denied  to  appear  to 
Justice;  for,  defending  himself  against  them  all,  by 
the  help  only  of  one  John  ap  Howdl  Corbet,  he 
diaoed  his  adversaries,  until  a  villain  coming  be* 
hind  him,  did  over  the  ehoulden  of  others,woond 
him  on  the  head  behind,  with  a  forest-bill,  until  he 
fell  down,  though  vecoveiiqg  himself  again,  not- 
withstanding his  skull  was  cut  through  to  thepte 
master  ot  the  brain,  he  saw  his  sidvenaries  Hy  away, 
and  alter,  walked  home  to  his  house  'at  Llyssyn, 
where,  alter  he  was  cured,  Keoflteed  a  sin|^  combat 
to  the  dnef  of  the  Ikmily,  by  whose  procurement  ft 
thought  the  mischief  was  committed}  but  he 
whoUy  the  action  arnot  done  by  his 
consent,  my  Csttaer  desisted  ftom  prosecuting  the 
businees  further.  My  giandfisther  was  of  a  various 
lifel  beginning  first  at  court,  when,  after  he  had 
qient  moet  part  of  his  means,  he  became  a  stridler, 
and  made  his  fortune  with  his  eword,  st  the  siege  of 
St.  Qndntens  in  France,  end  other  wars,  both  in  the 
north,  and  in  the  rebeiiions  happening  in  the  times 
of  King  Edward  VL,  and  Queen  Mary,  with  eo  good 
suoeesB,  that  he  not  only  came  off  still  with  the  bet- 
ter, but  got  so  mudi  mon«r  and  wealth,  as  enabled 
him  to  buy  thegreatest  paiTof  that  livelihood  which 
is  descended  to  me.  My  grsndfiuher  was  noted' to 
be  a  great  enemy  to  the  outlawysand  thieves  of  his 
tfane.  who  robbed  in  great  numbers  in  the  mottn« 
teins  of  MonteomeryshirB,  Ibr  the  suppresstaig  of 
whom  he  went  often,  both  day  and  night,  to  the 
places  where  they  were;  edhoesning  whidi,  though 
many  particulars  have  been  told,  I  shall  moitioa 
one  only.  Some  outlaws  being  lodged  in  aa  ale> 
houee,  upon  the  hills  of  Uandlnam,  my  grand- 
taOuT  and  a  few  eervanto  coming  to  apprdMBd 
them,  the  principal  ontkrw  shot  an  arrow  against 
my  grandCMher,  which  tteikct  in  the  pummd  of  hie 
saddle;  whereupon  my  gnmdfiither  comhig  up  to 
him  with  his  sword  in  his  hand,  and  taking  Mm 
prisoner,  he  shewed  him  the  said  arrow,  bidding 
him  look  what  he  had  done;  whereof  the  outlaw 
was  no  tether  swlble^  than  to  eay,  he  was  sorry 
that  he  left  his  better  bow  at  hosne,  whkli  he  con- 
odved  would  have  carried  his  shot  to  his  body;  but 
the  outlaw  befaig  brought  to  Justice,  suiteMi  te  it; 
Mygrandtehcr's  power  was  m  great  in  the  coimtry, 
thatdivere  ancestors  of  the  better  tenlUesnewin 
Montgomeryshire  were  hisservaats,  and  ndsed  by 
him.  He  delighted  dso  much  in  hospitality  i  as  hav« 
ingaverylong  table  twice  covered  every  meal,  with 
the  best  meats  that  could  begotien,  and  every  gnat 
flsmiiy.  It  was  an  ordinary  eaying  in  the  country  at 
that  time,  when  they  saw  any  Ibwl  rise^  /kf  when 
tkouwiUttkouwiUHghiamtBlmdthmllt  which wasa 
low  bttikUng,  but  of  great  capacity,  my  grsndteher 
erected  in  his  age;  hisfather  and  himself,  in  temer 
ttmes,  havteg  lived  in  Montgomery  Castle.  Not- 
withstanding, yet  these  expenses  at  home,  he 
brought  up  his  ohiMvctt  well,  marrying  Us  daugfa- 


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tanr  to'  tlM  btCtir  MVt  of  pcnoiw  imr  Una',  and 
Maa^tog  up  hit  youngar  boos  m  tho  uxdionniity  i 
ftom  wlMnoaldBMn  Matthaw  w«nt  to  the  low  ooon- 
tey  want  ami,  aflar  loma  time  •pent  theM^  came 
bmao,  and  ttvad  in  the  oountry,  at  Dolegaof » upoo 
a  house  and  iUr  liring,  whidi  my  grandAther  be- 
atowed  upon  him.  His  son  alio,  Charlei  Ileitert, 
aflar  he  had  paaed  aoma  tioM  in  the  low  countries, 
likewise  returned  home,  and  was  after  married  to  an 
Jnheretriz,  whose  ddest  son*  called  Sir  Edward 
Herbert,  KnL,  Is  the  king's  attorney-general.  His 
son,  George,  who  was  of  New  Coll^,  in  Oxford, 
was  rery  learned,  and  of  a  pious  life,  died  in  a  mid- 
dle age  of  a  dropey.  My  grandfather  died  at  the 
age  of  fourseoiek  or  thaieahouts,  and  was  buried  in 
Montgamery  diurdi,  without  having  any  monu- 
ment made  for  him,  whidiyet  lior  my  faAer  Is  there 
set  up  in  a  fidr  manner.  My  great  grandfather.  Sir 
Ridiaid  Herbert,  was  steward,  in  the  time  of  King 
Henry  VIII.,  of  the  lordships  and  marches  of 
North  Wales,  East  Wales,  and  Cardiganshire,  and 
had  power,  in  a  marshal  law,  to  asecute  oflhndersi 
in  the  using  thereof  he  was  so  Just,  that  he  acquired 
to  Mmsrif  a  singular  reputation;  as  may  appear 
upon  the  records  of  that  time,  kept  In  the  paper 
dumber  at  Whitehall,  soma  touch  whereof  I  have 
made  in  my  history  of  Henry  VIII. ;  of  him  I  can 
say  little  more,  than  that  he  likewise  was  a  great 
aapprasBor  of  relyels,  thieves,  and  outlaws,  and  that 
he  wes  Just  and  consdonahle.  He  Ueth  buried  like- 
wise in  Montgomery ;  .the  upper  monument  of  the 
two  placed  in  the  dftneel  being  erected  tut  him. 
My  great  grandfather.  Sir  Riehard  Herbert,  of 
Cotebrook,  was  that  inoompanMe  hero,  who  (in  the 
HIalary  of  Hall  and  Gtafton,  as  it  appeals),  twice 
passed  thioni^  ngveat  army  of  northern  men  alone, 
with  his  poleaz  in  his  hand,  and  returned  without 
any  mortal  hurt  TVs  Sir  Richard  Herbert  Ueth 
buried  in  Abeigaveiy,.  in  a  sumptuous  monument 
for  those  times;  whereas  his  brother,  the  Barl  of 
Pembroke,*  being  buried  bi  Tintime  Abbey,  his 
monument,  together  with  the  church,  lie  now 
whtrily  debced  and  ruined.  TMs  Barl  ot  Pem- 
broke had  a  younger  son,  who  had  a  daughter, 
irliich  married  the  eldest  son  of  the  Barl  of  Worces- 
ter, who  carried  away  the  fair  castle  of  Ragland, 
mUh  many  thousand  pounds  yearly,  fkom  the  heir^ 
male  of  that  house,  which  was  the  second  son  of  the 
•aid  Earl  of  Pembroke,  and  ancestor  of  the  ftmily 
«r  St.  OiUiina,  whose  daughter  and  hair  1  after 
married,  as  shall  be  told  in  its  places  My  mother 
^cas  Magdalen  Newport,  daughter  of  Sir  Richard 

*  In  the  0th  Edward  IV.  an  insurrection,  headed 
by  Sir  John  Conlers  and  Robert  Riddesdale,  in 
Ihvour  of  Henry  VI.,  having  broken  out,  this  earl 
and  his  brother.  Sir  Ridutfd  Herbert,  being  sent  to 
suppress  it,  were  Joined  by  the  Earl  of  Devonshire, 
but  a  dispute  arising  between  the  two  earls,  the  Earl 
of  Devon  separated  from  Pembroke,  who,  engaging 
the  enemy  at  Danesmoore,.near  Edgcote,  in  Nor- 
thamptonshire, wes  defeated  and  taken  prisoner, 
with  his  brother,  and  Iwth  were  put  to  death,  with 
Richard  WidviUe,  Earl  Rivers,  fisther  of  the  queen, 
by  command  of  the  Duke  of  Clarence  end  the  Earl 
of  WarwMi*  wba  had  revolted  flmn  Edward.  ■ 


Newport, ind'  MarfeMt»hli  wif^  daughfer  and  heir 
of  Sir  Thomas  Bromley,  one  of  the  privy  council, 
and  eaecutors  of  King  Henry  VIII.  By  these  anees- 
tors  I  am  descended  of  Talbot,  Devoreux,  Qnj, 
Corbet,  and  many  other  noble  fomiUes,  as  may  be 
seen  in  their  matches,  extsnt  in  the  many  fidr  coata 
the  Newports  bear.  The  names  of  my  brothen  end 
sisters  were,  Richard,  William,  Charles,  George, 
Henry,  Thomas,  Elisabeth,  Margaret,  and  Fiances 
<I  was  myself  the  eldest).  My  brother  Richard, 
after  he  had  been  brought  up  in  learning,  went  to 
the  low  countries,  where  he  continued  many  years 
with  mudt  reputation,  both  in  the  wan,  and  for 
fighting  single  duds,  which  were  many ;  insomuch, 
that  between  both,  he  carried,  as  I  have  been  told, 
the  scan  of  four-and-twenty  wounds  upon  him  to 
his  grave,  and  Ueth  buried  in  Bergenopsoom.  My 
brother  William,  also  a  person  of  great  bravery,' 
died  a  miUtary  man  in  the  low  countries.  My 
brotfasr  Charles  was  fbllow  of  New  CoUege,  Oxftwd, 
where  he  died  young.  My  brother  George,*  was  so 
esodlent  a  scholar,  that  he  was  made  the  pubUc 
orator  of  the  University  of  Cambridge.  Henry 
came  to  court,  and  was  made  gentleman  of  the 
king's  privy  chamber,  and  master  of  the  revels;  by 
which  means,  asalso  by  agood  marriage,  he  attained 
to  great  fortunes  Ibr  himsdf  and  posterity  to  eqjoy. 
Thomas  was  a  naval  ofllosr,  who  won  a  very  high 
reputation,  but  finding  himsdf,  after  many  eminent 
services,  as  he  thought  undervalued,  he  retired  to  a 
private  and  melancholy  lifls,  being  much  discon- 
tented to  find  othen  preferred  to  him;  in  which 
suUsn  humour  having  Uved  many  yean,  he  died, 
and  was  buried  in  London,  ii&  St.  Martinfs,  near 
Charing  Crass.  EUaabeth,  my  eldest  sister,  was 
married  to  Sir  Hbvbt  Jonee,  of  Albenaarie^  Mar- 
garet was  married  to  John  Vaoghan,  son  and  heir 
of  Owen  Vanghen,  of  Llwydiait.  Frances,  my 
yonngast  rieter,  was  manied  to  Sir  John  Brown, 
Knt,  ot  the  county  of  Lincoln,  who  had  by  her 
diven  children ;  the  eldest  son  of  whom,  although 
young,  fought  diven  duels.  In  oneof  whidi  it  was 
Us  Ibrtune  to  kill  one  Lee,  of  agreatfiunlly  in  Lan- 
csshira.  I  shall  now  come  to  myself.  1  was  bom  at 
Eyton,  in  Shropshire,  in  IMI;**  but  es  our  limits 
prevent  our  proceeding  farther,  so  much  In  detaU  ■ 
we  shaU  state  at  once  that  Mr.  Herbert  married 
about  the  time  that  he  had  attained  his  flftesnth 
ynsr,  his  kinswoman,  Mary,  daughter  and  heir  of 
Sir  WiUlam  Herbert,  of  St.  OUttans,  in  the  county 
of  Monmouth,  (the  lady  had  been  enjoined  by  the 
will  of  her  flither  to  marry  a  Herbert,)  then  twenty, 
one  yean  of  age,  and  had  issue,  Riohabd,  Edward, 
Beadtix,  and  Florenesb  About  the  year  1006  he  re- 
solved to  travel,  and  for  that  purpose  came  to  court 
and  obtained  Ucenoe  to  go  beyond  sea.  In  his 
sotfoum  upon  the  Continent  he  became  a  proficient 
In   military  efterdses,  and  a  most  accomplished 

•  George  took  orden,  and  was  rector  of  Bamer- 
ton,  near  Salisbury.  He  died  between  1630  and 
164a  His  poems  were  printed  at  London  in  1638, 
under  the  Utle  of «'  The  Temple;'*  and  his  "  Priest 
to  the  Temple,"  in  1698.  Lord  Bacon  dedicated  to 
him  a  translation  of  some  Psalms  into  English 
Verse. 

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cmvftlier.  H6  was  iumIa  a  KnJght  of  the  Bath  at  tb6 
ccirouatioD  of  King  Jam«  I.,  and  waa  aft«rwardi  of 
that  mouarch'c  council  for  military  aflUis.  and  his 
majeaty's  ambaitador  to  Lewis  XIII.  of  France,  to 
mediate  for  the  relief  of  the  protestants  of  that 
kingdom,  in  which  service  he  continued  more  than 
five  years ;  managing  the  high  trust  with  so  mudi 
fidelity  and  discretion*  that  he  was  advanced  to  the 
dignity  of  a  hanm  of  Irdand,  (where  he  had  a  fair 
estate,)  by  the  title  of  Lord  Herbert,  of  Castle 
Island  I  and  afterwards  proving  himsdf  a  faithful 
servant  of  King  Charles  I.  in  the  council  and  the 
Add,  his  lordship  was  created  a  peer  of  England  by 
letters  patent,  dated  7th  May,  1689,  as  Babor  Hsit- 
aaaT,  </  CMrburp,  in  Vie  county  ef  Salop,  **  This 
noble  lord"  (says  Dugdale,)  '*  waa  author  of  that 
learned  Philosophical  Tract  (in  Latin),  de  VeHtate, 
printed  in  1658,  and  since,  as  I  have  heard,  translated 
into  sundry  languages."   As  also  <tf  these  other»~ 

Be  Cautii  Brrvrum,  et  de  RtiigUme  Loiei,  EdiL 
Lon.l66a 
De  EgpedUkmg  in  Rtam  Intulam,  Edit.  Loo.  1648. 
The  L4/b  and  Reign  ef  King  Henry  VIIL,  Edit 
Loo.  1649. 

Be  Religione  GentUiHum,  4c.,  Ed.  Amstdodami, 
16Ba 

The  history  of  Hanry  YIIL'a  reign  was  undertaken 
by  command  of  King  James  I.,  and  is  mudi  esteem- 
ed. His  lordship's  historical  coUections  are  pre- 
served in  the  library  of  Jesus  College,  Oxford.  This 
so  celebrated  Lord  Herbert,  of  Chirbury,  died  In 
1948,  and  was  #.  by  his  eldest  son, 

RICHARD  HERBERT,  second  Lord  Herbert, 
of  Chirbury,  who,  during  his  father's  life-time, 
being  a  person  of  great  courage  and  valour,  served 
King  Charles  I.  as  captain  of  a  troop  of  horse,  in 
the  first  engagement  against  .the  Scotch :  and  after- 
wards in  England  against  the  parliamentarians.  His 
kxrdahip  m.  Mary,  daughta  of  John,  Earl  of  Bridge- 
water,  and  had  issue, 

Edwabo,  his  sucoeasor. 

John,  who  d.  young. 

Henry,  captain  in  the  servioeof  King  Charles  I. 

Thoeoasyd.  unmarried. 

Fiances,  m.  to  William  Brown,  Esq. 

Fknenoe,  m.  to  Ridiard   Herbert,  and  her 
grandson, 

Hbitrt  Abthub  Hbbbbrt,  had  the  dig- 
nity of  Hbbbbbt,  or  Chibbuby, 
revived  in  his  favour  in  1743 1  see  Her- 
bert, Earl  Powis. 

Arabell,  d.  unmarried. 

Alice,  m.  Paul  Berrard,  Esq. 
His  lordship  d,  in  16S5,  and  was  «.  by  hU  eldest 
aon, 

EDWARD  HERBERT,  third  Lord  Herbert,  of 
Chirbury.  This  nobleman,  like  his  predecessors, 
was  aealously  attached  to  the  fortunes  of  King 
Charles  I.,  and  had  the  gratification  to  witness  the 
restoration  of  the  monarchy.  His  lordship  espoused 
first,  Anne,  daughter  of  Sir  Thomas  Mlddleton, 
KnL,  of  Chirk  Castle,  in  the  county  of  Derby,  and 
secondly,  Elisabeth,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  George, 
'Lord  Chandos,  but  having  no  issue,  the  honours,  at 
his  lordship's  decease,  in  1G78,  devolved  upon  his 
brother, 

9G9 


HENRY  HERBERT,  ftniiUi  Lord  HertMTt,  of 
Chirbury,  whom.  Lady  Catherine  Newport, daun^- 
ter  of  Francis,  Earl  of  Bradford,  but  having  no 
issue,  the  Irish  barony,  and  that  of  Hbbbbbt,  or 
Chibbuby,  at  his  lordship's  deceaae,  in  16B1,  became 

BXTINCT. 

Abmb.— Party  per  pale,  as.-  and  gu.  three  lions 
rampant,  ar.  armed  and  Umgiied,  or. 

HERBERT  —  BARONS  POWIS,  OF 
POWIS  CASTLE,  IN  THE 
COUNTY  OF  MONTGO- 
MERY,EARLS  OF  POWIS, 
MARQUESSES  OF  POWIS. 


Barony, 

Earldom, 

Marquisate, 


by  Letter.  rS?^PJ\*«^ 


}  by  Letters  ( 
I  Patent,  \ 


4th  April,  1674. 
94th  March,  1687. 


The  Honourable 

SIR  EDWARD  HERBERT,  Knt.,of  RedCartle, 
anciently  called  Poole  Castle,  but  now  Powia 
Cabtlb,*  second  son  of  William  Herbert,  first  Earl 
of  Pembroke,  of  the  existing  peerage,  espoused 
Mary,  only  daughter  and  heiress  oi  Thomas  Stan- 
ley, Esq.,  of  Standen,  in  the  couuty  of  Hertford, 
Master  of  the  Mint,  in  1070,  by  whom  he  had 
issue, 

Wii.LiAif ,  his  successor. 
George,  d.  unmarried. 
John  (Sir),  died  «.  p. 
Edward,  d.  unmarried. 

Anne,  in.  to  William,  son  and  heir  of  Sir  Wil- 
liam Stanley,  of  Hocton,  in  the  county  of 
Chester. 
Catherine,  m.  to  Sir  William  Massey,  of  Pud- 
dington,  in  Cheshirai 
Theddestson, 

WILLIAM  HERBERT,  was  made  a  Knight  of 
the  Bath,  at  the  coronation  of  King  James  I.,  and 
elevated  to  the  peerage,  as  Babon  Powia,  ^  Pewie 
Oaetle,  on  9nd  April,  16891  His  lordship  m.  Eleanor, 
daughter  of  Henry  Percy,  Earl  of  Northumberland, 
and  had  issue, 

Pbbcy,  who  was  created  a  baronet,  in  the  life- 
time of  his  father. 
Katharine,  m.  first,  to  Sir  Robert  Vaughan, 
Knt.,  c^  Lydlard,  in  the  county  of  Mont> 
gomery :  and  secondly,  to  Sir  James  Palmer, 
Knt.,  of  Domey  Court,  Bucks,  father  of 
Roger,  Earl  of  Castlemain. 
Lucy,  m.  to  William  Abington,  Esq.,  of  Htai- 
lop,  in  the  county  of  Worcester. 
His  lordship  d.  at  the  advanced  age  of  dghty- 
three,  on  the  7th  March,  16S5,  and  was  «.  by  his 
son, 

SIR  PERCY  HERBERT,  Bart,  second  Lord 
Powis.  This  nobleman,  m.  Elisabeth,  daughter 
of  Sir  William  Craven,  an  alderman  of  London, 


•  This  castle,  anciently  the  seat  of  inheritance  of 
the  Cherletons  and  Greys,  Barons  Powis,  was  pur- 
chased by  the  Herberts,  in  thereign  of  Eliaabeth. 


HER 


HER 


and  iltCHr  of  WfiUam,  Earl  Cnren,  by  whom  he 
had, 

William,  hto  mieefliaor. 
Mary,  m,  to  Oaorga*  Lofd  Talbot,  ddait  ion 
of  John,  Eail  of  Shrewsbury. 
His  tonbhip  d.  in  1006,  and  waf#.  by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  HERBERT,  third  Lord  Powis,  who 
was  craatcd,  4th  April,  1074,  B^u.  or  Powiai  and 
vpon  the  aooeasion  of  Kinf  James  II.,  Mth  March, 
168S,    riwoMftf  M^ntgimenft  and  MAngusaa  ov 
Powia.     This  m^leman  attadiing  himself  to  the 
fortunes  oi  his  royal  master,  withdrew  with  his 
mi^esty  into  France,  at  the  rerolatlon,  and  was 
subsequently  created  by  the  fsllen  monarch.  Mar- 
quess of  Montgomery,  and  Duke  of  Fowls,  but 
those  dignities  were  never  recognised  in  England. 
His  lordship  was  outlawed  Ibr  not  returning  within 
a  certain  pniod,  and  submitting  to  the  new  gorem- 
ment.    He  m.  Lady  Elisabeth  Someiset,  daughter 
of  Edward,  Marquess  of  Woroester,  and  had  issue, 
William,  his  suoosssor. 
Mary.  m.  first,  to  Richard,  son  of  Carrll,  Vis- 
count Molineaux,  in  Ireland  t  and  secondly, 
to  Fnnds,  Viscount  Montague. 
Fiancas,  m.  to  Kenneth  Mackensle,  Earl  of 

Sealtorth. 
Anne,  m.  to  Francis  Smith,  Lord  Canington. 
Winifted,  m.  to  William   Maxwell,  Earl  of 
NitUsdalcb 
The  marquess  itted  at  St.  Germans,  on  Snd  Junew 
1696,  and  his  son, 

WILLIAM  HERBERT,  was  restored  to  the  dig- 
nities of  Viscount  Montgomery,  and  Earl  and  Mar- 
quess of  Powis,  and  took  his  seat  in  the  House  of 
Lords,  fai  ITS.  His  lordship  m.  Mary,  daughter 
and  co-heir  of  Sir  Thomas  Preston,  Bart,  of  Fur- 
ness,  in  the  county  of  Lancasterj  by  whom  she  had 
issue, 

William,  his  successor. 
Edward,  who  m.  Henrietta,  daughter  of  the 
Earl  of  Wak^grave,  and  dying  in  1734,  left 
his  lady  tmeeinte,  who  was  ddivered  of  a 
dau^ter,  Barbara  Hbrbbrt,  who  m. 
Hbnry-Arthur  Hbbbbrt,  Esq.,  created 
Lord  Hbrbbrt*  or  Chirbury,  in  1743; 
see  that  dignity. 

Mrs.  Herbert  manied  secondly,  Mr.  Beard, 
the  comedian. 
The  marquess  died  in  1745,  and  was  #.  by  his  dder 


WILLIAM  HERBERT,  third  Marquess  of 
Powis.  This  ndUeman  dying  unmarried,  tiie  Mar- 
omsATB  ABD  Earldom  or  Powia,  with  his  other 
honours,  became  bxtibct  i  but  he  devised,  the 
whole  of  his  estates  to  the  husband  of  his  niece, 
Hbhry-Arthur.  Lord  Hbrrbrt,  ofChMntn/* 

Arms.— Pirty  per  pale,  aa.  and  gu.  three  lions 
rampant,  ar.  a  cresent  for  diflkrence. 

HERBERT  —  EARL  OF  TORRING- 

TON. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  SMh  May,  lOBft. 

Xiiuagt. 

ARTHUR  HERBERT,  EK|.i  gnndson  of  Charles, 


uncle  of  Sir  Edward  Herbert,  the  eslebrofsd  Lord 
Hbrbbrt,  qfCTkirbtiry*  was  derated  to  the  peerage 
by  King  William  III.,  on  the  S9th  May,  10B9,  as 
Baron  TVtoy,  and  Earl  or  Torriicotok,  in  the 
county  of  Devon.  His  lordship,  who  was  brought 
up  to  the  naval  service,  had  the  command  of  a  fleet, 
temp.  Charles  II.,  before  Tangier,  and  afterwards 
against  Algiers ;  but  being  removed  from  his  com- 
missions by  King  James  II.,  he  retired  into  Holland, 
and  was  graciously  reodved  by  the  Princeof  Orange. 
«'  He  was  a  man  of  good  understanding,  but  pro- 
fusely luxurious,  and  on  every  occasion  so  sullen 
and  peevish,  that  it'  was  plain  he  valued  himsrif 
much,  and  expected  the  same  flrom  others;  and  it 
was  thought,  his  private  quarrel  with  Lord  Dart- 
mouth, for  having  more  of  the  king's  confidence 
than  himsdf,  was  the  root  of  his  resentment  agataist 
his  m^lesty.  The  reputation  he  had  gained  with 
the  people  in  England,  and  his  skill  in  sea  aflUrs, 
made  it  necessary  to  endeavour  to  keep  him  in 
good  temper,  so  fitf  as  homage  and  observance  could 
do  it" 

His  kffdship  was  admiral  of  the  Dutch  fleet,  on 
the  coming  over  of  the  Prince  of  Orange,  and  was 
sabsequently  flrst  commistdoner  of  the  admiralty, 
and  oommander-in-diief  of  the  Britislf  fleet.  In 
1090,  he  engaged  the  French  fleet,  near  Beechy 
Head,  but  although  6e  fought  most  gallantly  against 
a  superior  force,  yet  not  achieving  a  victory,  sub- 
jected him  to  considemble  reprdiension,  deprivation 
<tf  his  command,  and  committal  to  the  Tower  He 
was  eventually  tried  by  court-martial,  and  acquitted, 
but  never  again  employed. 

His  lordship  m.  flrst,  Miss  Anne  Hadley;  and 
secondly,  Anne,  daughter  of  Sir  William  Airmine, 
and  widow  of  Sir  Thomas  Woodhouse,  but  having 
no  issue,  the  Earldom  or  Torrihotob  and  minor 
dignity,  at  his  lordship's  decease,  I4th  April,  1716, 
became  bxtihct. 

ARMS.— Party  per  pale,  aa.  and  gtu  three'  lions 
rampant,  ar.  a  mullet  for  difltarenoft 


HERBERT— BARONS  HERBERT,  OF 
CHIRBURY. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  28th  April,  1694. 

ICincase. 

HENRV  HERBERT,  only  son  and  heir  of 
Henry  Herbert,  gentleman  of  the  king's  chamber, 
and  master  of  the  reveb,  and  nephew  of  the  cele- 
brated Edward,  Lord  Herbert,  of  Chirbury,  was 
elevated  to  the  peerage  by  King  William  HI.  on 
nth  April,  Ui94,  as  Barob  Hbrbbrt,  qf  ChMmnf. 
His  lordship  m.  Anne,  daughter  and  co-heir  of 
Mr.  Alderman  Ranney,  of  the  dty  of  London ;  and 
dying  in  1700,  was  «.  by  his  only  son, 

HENRV  HERBERT,  second  benm.  This  uon 
bleman  m.  Mary,  daughter  of  John  Wallop,  Esq.,oir 
Farley,  in  the  county  of  Southampton ;  but  dying 
in  1738,  without  issue,  this  babom v  ow  Hbrbbrt, 
or  CaiRBURY,  became  bxtinct. 

ARMa.— Party  per  pale  aa.  and  gu.,  three  lions 
rampant,  ar.,  armed  and  langued,  or. 

963 


HER 


HER 


HERBERT— BARON  SHERBERT.  OF 
CHBRBURY,  EARLS  OF 
POWIS,  &c,  BARONS 
HERBERT,  OF  CHER- 
BURY  AND  LUDLOW. 


EarMimif  tec, 
Banny* 
with     ipedal 


by  Letters 
Patent, 


• 


81st  Deb,  174S. 
87th  May,  174& 
7th  OcL,  1740. 


Xineagc. 


HENRY  ARTHUR  HERBERT,  Emj.,  grand- 
MMi  of  Ricllard  Herbert,  and  wo  of  the  Hon.  Flo- 
rence Herbert,  (one  of  the  daughters  and  oo-heira  of 
Ridurd,  second  Lord  Herbert,  of  Cherbury,  and 
grand-daughter  of  EnwAiin,  the  celebrated  Lord 
HsHBKBT,  or  Cbbbbury,)  was  created  Baron  Her* 
bert,  of  Cherbury,  8lst  December,  1743»  and  was 
advanced,  in  three  years  afterwards,  to  the  barony 
of  Powis,  of  Powis  Cattle,  the  viscounty  o/ Ludlow, 
and  the  sarloom  or  Fowia,  having  espoused  Bak- 
lURA,  niece  of  William  Herbert,  third  and  last 
Marquess  of  Powis,  and  succeeded,  under  the  will 
of  that  noUeman,  to  his  large  estates.  The  earl  ob- 
tained another  peerage,  7th  Octolier,  1749,  as  Ba- 
son Hbrbbrt,  op  Cbbbbury  AMD  LuDiow,  with 
UmitBtioD,  in  defiuilt  of  issue  male  of  his  own 
body,  to  Ms  next  brother,  Fbahcib,  and  his  issue 
malci  His  lordship  d.  in  1749,  and  was  «.  by  his 
son, 
^  GEORGE  •  EDWARD  -  HENRY  -  ARTHUR 
HERBERT,  second  Earl  of  Powis,  Who  d.,  with- 
•  out  issue,  in  1891,  when  the  babony  or  Hbb- 
bbbt,  <^f  Cherbwv,  the  BABI.00M  or  Powia  and 
its  minor  dignities,  with  the  baboity  op  Hbbbbbt, 
qfChertunf  and  Ludlow,  (his  lordship's  uncle  hav- 
ing predeceased  him,  unmarried,  |o  whom  the  last 
barorfy  was  in  reversion,)  became  bxtinct,  while 
tlie  earPs  estates  passed  to  his  sister,  Ladt^  Hbn- 
bibtta-Antoitia  Hbbbbbt,  who  m,  in  1784,  £d> 
ward,  Lord  CUve,  of  the  kingdom  of  Irdand, 
which  nobleman  was  advanced  subsequently  to  the 
BABLDOM  or  Powifl,  Ac.,'  Bod  is  the  present 
earL 

Abms.— Party  per  pale  ai.  and  gu.,  three  lions 
rampant,  air.,  armed  and  langued,  or. 

HERVEY  — BARON  HERVEY,  OF 
KIDBROKE,  IN  THE 
COUNTY  OF  KENT. 

By  Lettan  Patent,  deted  7th  February,  1698. 

WILLIAM  HERVEY,  Esq.,  of  Idcworth,  in  the 
county  of  Sullblk,  (said  to  have  descended  from  Ro- 
bert Flta-Herv«y,  b  younger  son  of  Hervey,  Duke 
of  Orleans,  who  came  over  with  the  Conqueror,) 
died  in  IfiSS,  leaving,  with  other  issue, 

John  Hervey,  ancestor  oi  the  present  Marquess 

of  Bath,  and 

SIR  NICHOLAS  HERVEY,  of  the  privy-cham. 

bar  to  King  Henry  VIII.,  and  ambasaador  from 

that  monarch  to  the  emperor's  court  at  Ghent. 

864 


This  eminent  penoa  «.  first,  EUaabeth,  daughter 
of  Sir  Thomas  Fits- Williams,  and  widow  of  Sir 
Thomas  Maleverer,  by  whom  he  bad  an  only  son, 

Thomas  (Sic),  Icnight-manhal  to  Queen  Mary. 
Sir  Nicliolas  espoused,  secondly,  Bridget,  daughter 
and  heiress  of  Sir  John  Wiltshire,  of  Stone  Casticb 
in  the  county  of  Kent,  and  relict  of  Sir  Richard 
WtaigAeid,  of  Kimboiton  Castle,  in  the  county  of 
HuntfngdoB,  by  wliom  he  had  two  sons,  via., 

Hbnbv,  his  successor. 

George,  ancestor  of  the  Hcnreys,  of  Marshal,  in 


Sir  Nidiolas  was  #.  liy  his  elder  son, 
HENRY  HERVEY,  whose  son  and  heir, 
WILLIAM  HERVEY.  Esq.,  of  Kidbcoke,  in 
the  county  of  Kent,  obtained  great  eminence  aa  b 
military  chaxacter  in  the  reigns  of  Queen  Elisabeth, 
King  James  L,  and  King  Charles  I.  Mr.  Hervey 
first  signalised  himself  in  the  memorable  conflict 
with  the  Abhada,  having  boarded  one  of  the  gal* 
leons,  and  killed  the  captain,  Hugh  Mongade,  with 
his'own  hand.  He  was  subsequently  knighted; 
and  beiBg  employed  succjessftilly  in  Ireland,  was 
created  b  baronet,  Slst  May,  1619,  and  in  the  follow- 
ing year  elevated  to  the  peerage  of  that  kingdom, 
in  the  dignity  of  Baron  Hervey,  of  Roes,  in  the 
county  of  Wexford.  Hit  lordship  continuing  his 
eminent  public  services,  was  created  a  peer  of  Eng- 
land, on  the  7th  February,  1628,  as  Babom  Hsbvb  v, 
HfRidbroke,in  the  county  qfKemt.  Heak  first,  Mary, 
relict  of  Henry,  Earl  of  Southampton,  and  daughter 
of  Anthony,  Viscount  Montacute,  by  whom  he  had 
no  issue.  His  lordship  espoused,  secondly,  Cordelia, 
daughter  and  co-heir  of  Brian  Analow,  Esq.,  of 
Lewisham,  in  Kent,  and  had  issue, 
William,  kiUed  in  Oennany. 
John,  who  died  in  Inland. 
Henry,  died  young. 

Eliiabbtb,  in.  to  John  Hervey,  Esq.,  of  Ick- 
wofth,  who  died  in  1079,  «.  p.,  when  liis 
estate  devolved  upon  hk  brother.  Sib  Tho- 
hab  Hbbtby,  whose  eUest  surviving  son, 
JoBM  Hbbvby,  was  created  Baron  Her- 
vey, of  Ickworth,  and  Earl  of  Bristol, 
dignities  eiOoyed  by  the  present  Mab- 
QUBSa  or  Bbistol. 
Lord  Hervey  died  in  164S,  and  his  sons  having  pre- 
deceased him,  the  Irish  berony  of  Hervey,  of  Ross, 
with  the  baronetcy  and  En^sh  berony  of  Hbbtby, 
or  KioBBOKB,  became  bztinct,  while  his  estates 
devolved  upon  his  only  surviving  child,  Blisabbth 
Hbbtbt. 

Abii8<— Ou.  on  B  bend  ar.,  three  trefbUs  dipped 
vert. 

HERON  —  BARON  HERON. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  deted  8th  January,  \S7h 
44  Edward  III. 

HUncage. 

About  the  beginning  of  King  John's  reign, 

JORDAN  HAIRUN  possessed  a  barony  in  Nor- 
thumberbmd,  which  he  held  by  the  service  of  qne 
knight*!  tM,  m  his  ancestors  had  dona  fkom  the 


HER 


HOE 


time  oi  King  Hanty  L,  who  enlbollbd  them  thereof. 
He  wai «.  by  his  Km, 

WILLIAM  HERON,  who,  tn  theSSnd  Henry  IIL, 
was  made  goveraor  of  Bamburgh  Castle,  in  the 
oounty  of  Northumberland,  and  in  the  39th  of  the 
seme  reign  was  governor  of  the  castle  of  Picliering, 
faft  Yorkshire,  and  warden  of  the  forests  north  Of 
Trent.  The  next  year  he  filled  the  office  of  sheriff 
of  Northumberland,  and  was  constituted  governor 
of  Scarborough  Castle.    He  m.  ,  daughter  and 

heir  of  Odonel  de  Ford,  and  was  ».  by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  HERON.  ThU  feudal  lord  was  one 
of  the  barons  on  the  part  of  the  king  at  the  battle 
of  Lewes )  and  was  summoned  by  Edward  I.,  with 
the  other  northern  barons,  to  meet  him  at  Norliam, 
with  horse  and  arms,  when  he  went  to  give  Judg- 
ment between  the  competitors  for  the  crown  of 
Scotland.  WiQiam  Heron  m.  Christian,  daughter 
and  heir  of  Roger  de  Notton,  and  had  issue, 

WAI.TJBB,  who  m.  Alicia  de  Hastings,   and 
dying  before  his  father,  left  an  only  daughter 
and  lieir,  EefMBLiNS,  m.  to  John,   Lord 
Darcy,  steward  of  the  household   to  Ed- 
ward IIL,  and  who,  on  the  decease  of  her 
grandfisther,   was   his  heir,    whereby  the 
Darcy  family  became  possessed  of  the  an- 
cient barony  of  Hxbov,  and  of  the  manors 
of  SiLKBSTOif  and  Nottom,  in  the  county 
of  York. 
Roger,  of  whom  presently. 
OdoneL 
At  the  decease  of  his  father,  his  elder  brother  hav- 
ing died  previously,  as  stated  above,  therepresenta- 
ti<m  of  the  family  devolved  up<m 

ROGER  HERON,  who  inherited  the  manors  of 
Ford  and  Bokenfield,  in  the  county  of  Northum- 
berland t  and  with  his  brother  Odonel,  attended 
King  Edward  L,  as  one  of  his  knights,  to  the  siege 
of  Stirling. Castle.  In  the  10th  of  Edward  1 1,  he  was 
governor  of  Bamburgh  Castle,  and  was  «.  at  his  de- 
cease by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  HERON.  This  feudal  lord  obtained 
Hcence,  in  the  ISth  Edward  IIL,  to  make  a  castle 
<tf  his  house  at  Ford— and  was  summoned  to  parlia- 
ment, as  a  BABON,  on  the  8th  January,  1371,  but 
Bfever  afterwards.  The  Babont  or  Hbbon  became 
therefbre*  at  his  decease,  bxtiivct. 
AB«s.^-.-Gu]es  a  chevron  between  three  herons  ar. 


HERON  -^  BARON  HERON. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  13th  November,  1393, 
17  Richard  II. 

SIR  WILLIAM  HERON,  of  Applynden,  grand- 
son of  Odond  Heron,  and  grand  nephew  of  the 
Lord  Heron,  of  Ford,  having  m.  Elisabeth,  widow 
of  John  de  Falvesley,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Wil- 
liam, Baron  Say.  and  cousin  and  heiress  of  Thomas 
de  Brewose,  had  summons  to  parliament,  f^om  13th 
November,  1303.  to  SSth  August,  1404,  as  "  Wil- 
lielmo  Heron,  Chl'r,"  although  it  is  certain  that  he 
was  generally  considered  as  Lord  Say,  jure  \uwri»  s 
for  in  a  charter  of  1st  Henry  lY.,  to  which  he  was  a 
witness,  he  is  styled  <*  Willlebno  Heron^  Dominus 


de  Say,  Seaeacballua  HoepItU  Regis."  This  nobl»> 
man  was  a  gallant  soldier,  and  eminent  diploma* 
tist.  He  died  30th  October,  1404,  without  issue, 
when,  if  his  barony  be  deemed  a  distinct  dignity 
from  that  of  Say,  it  became  bxtinct. 
ABM8.--Gules  a  chevron  between  three  herons  ar. 

HILTON  —  BARON  HILTON,  OP 
HILTON,  IN  THE  COUN- 
TY OF  DURHAM. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  83rd  June,  1S96, 
83  Edward  I. 

IClncage. 

ROBERT  DE  HILTON,  of  HUton  CasUe,  in 
the  county  palatine  of  Durham,  was  summoned  to 
parliament,  as  a  babon,  in  the  Krd,  84th,  and  SItth 
of  Edward  I.    His  lordship  m.  Margaret,  one  of  the 
three  co-heirs  of  Marmaduke  de  Thwenge,  by  whom 
lie  acquired  large  estates,  and  left  two  daughten, 
Isabel,  m.  to  Walter  de  Pedwardyn. 
Maud,  m.  to  Sir  John  Hothum,  KnL 
At  his  lordship's  decease  the  Babont  or  Hilton 
fell  into  abbtancb  between  those  ladies,   as  it 
continues  amongst  their  representatives,  should  any 
exist. 

Abmb.— Ar.  two  bars  as.  and  fleur  de  lis  or. 

HILTON— BARON  HILTON. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  87th  January,  1332, 
6  Edward  III. 

ICincage. 

ALEXANDER  DE  HILTON,  who  served  in 
the  Scottish  wars  under  Ralph,  Lord  Nevill,  had 
summons  to  parliament,  as  a  babow,  from  S7th 
January,  1338.  to  BSnd  January,  1336.  But  of  this 
nobleman,  or  his  descendants^  nothing  fiirther  is 
known. 

Abms.— Ar.  two  bars  ai.  and  fleur  de  lis  or. 

HOESE-^ARON  HOESE. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  8%d  June,  1895, 
83  Edward  I. 

ICiiuage. 

In  the  4th  year  of  King  Henry  III. 

HENRY  HOESE,  of  Herting,  in  the  county  of 
Sussex,  gave  ninety  marks  for  livery  of  his  father's 
lands,  and  dying  in  fifteen  years  after,  was  «.  by  his 
son, 

MATTHEW  HOESE,  who  thereupon  gave  seven 
hundred  marks  for  livery  of  his  inheritance.  This 
Matthew,  in  the  37th  Henry  III.,  entered  into  cove, 
nants  with  John  Maunsell,  provost  of  Beverley,  that 
Henry,  his  son  and  heir,  should  espouse  Joane 
Fleming,  niece  of  the  said  John.  Matthew  died  in 
two  years  afterwards,  and  was  «.  by  his  aforesaid 
son, 

HENRY  HOESE,  for  whose  wardship,  and  cus- 
tody of  his  lands,  the  above  named  John  Maunsell 
paid  six  hundred  marks.  This  feudal  lord  took  up 
arms  with  the  other  baronsj  in  the  48th  Henry  IIL, 
SM  98» 


HOB 


HDL 


afdiwtthekliigi  but  triien  he  dle^  do«  iMii  «|»iiear. 
He  wu  ».,  however»  toy  hli  ttmt  another 

HENRY  HOBSB,  who  d.  In  1380,  end  was  #.  by 
hlaioBy 

HENRY  HOBSB.  Thii  feudal  lord  had  fum- 
mona  in  the  2SBd  Edward  I.»  upon  the  8th  June  in 
that  year,  to  attend  the  klng«  with  divers  other 
penons  of  note,  to  adviie  concerning  the  important 
aflUn  of  the  realm;  and  the  next  year  he  was  sum- 
moned to  parliament,  as  a  babon «  under  the  desig- 
nation of  *'  Henrico  Husee.'*  and  from  tliat  period 
to  the  10th  October.  ias»  (19th  Edward  II.^  Hli 
lordship,  who  was  engaged  in  the  wan  of  Scotlmd, 
d,  in  1338.  and  was  s.  by  hl«  son. 

HENRY  HOBSE.*  second  baron,  summoned  to 
parliament,  ftom  18th  August,  1337.  to  lOth  March, 
1MB.  This  nobleman.  In  the  81st  Edward  III.,  on 
the  marriage  of  Hentfy,  his  son  and  heir,  with 
Bliaabeth,  the  daughter  of  John  de  Bohun,  settled 
certain  estates  upon  him  and  her,  and  thdr  issue, 
deftalt  to  Riduud,  another  son,  with  remainder  to 
the  issue  of  himsdf,  by  Catherine  his  then  wife, 
and  in  defkult  of  such  issue,  on  Elisabeth,  his 
daughter.  His  lorddiip  appeers  to  have  survived 
this  settleBMBt  but  two  yeata*  when  he  was  t.  by 
his  son, 

HENRY  HOESE.  but  neither  this  penon,  nor 
any  of  his  desoouiahts,  were  afterwards  summoned 
to  parliament. 

Anif  8.~Barry  of  six,  ermine  and  gulea. 


HOESE  OR  HUSEE -BARON  HOESE, 
OF  BEECHWORTH,  IN  THE 
COUNTY  OF  SURREY. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  80th  November,  1348, 
88  Edward  III. 

Xiiuage. 

ROGER  HOESE,  or  HUSE,  prceumed  to  be 
of  the  same  Ikmily  as  the  Lords  Hoese  of  Herting, 
in  Sussex,  having  distinguished  himself  in  the  wan 
of  Scotland,  was  summoned  to  parliament  as  a 
Babon,  from  80th  November,  1348,  to  10th  Maich, 
1349L  His  lordship  d.  in  1361,  seised,  amongst  other 
lands,  f>f  the  manor  oi  West  Beechesworth.  and 
H^ercourt,  in  the  county  of  Surrey ;  RIngstede, 
in  Dorsetshire!  a  moiety  of  Burton  Sacy,  in  the 
county  of  Southampton  i  and  Northinktoo,  and 
Kingston  Deverell,  in  Wilts.    He  was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR  JOHN  HUSEE,  of  Beechworth  Castle,  who 
had  livery  of  his  inheritance,  but  was  never  sum- 
moned to  parliament.  The  only  daughter  of  this 
baron,  Alice,  is  said,  by  Collins,  to  have  married 
Richard  de  Wallop,  ancestor  of  the  Earls  of  Ports- 
mouth, and  the  lady  is  called  heir  of  Robert  Husee, 
her  brothen  but  Vincent  mentions  her  as  sister  of 
Sir  John,  and  daughter  of  course,  of  Roger,  Lord 
Huscb  It  would  appear  by  both  authorities,  how- 
ever,  that  the  Earls  of  Portsmouth  represent  this 
branch  of  the  old  baronial  house  of  HoBas,  or 

HUHBBB. 

ABMSy— Barry  of  alx,  cnnine  and  guka. 


HOLAND--BARONS  HOLAND. 

By  Writ  of  SuBmMma,  dated  a9th  July,  1314, 
8  Edward  II. 

Xittcasc. 

That  this  Csmily  was  of  great  antiquity  in  the 
county  of  LancMter,  Is  evident  fhmi  the  register  of 
CoKBBaAxo  Abbby,  to  wMdi  religious  house  some- 
of  its  memben  were  benefscton,  in  King  John'e 
time.    The  flrst  person  of  any  note,  however, 

ROBERT  DE  HOLAND,  who  was  fat  the  wan 
of  Scotland,  in  the  31st  Edward  I.,  owed  his  ad^* 
vancement  to  his  bermning  secretary  to  Thomas, 
Earl  of  Lancaster,  Ibr  previously  he  had  beat  but  a 
"poor  kntght.**     In  the  1st  Edward  IL,  he  ob- 
tained btfge  territorial  grants  from  the  crown,  vis. 
the  manocs  of  Melbume,  Newton,  Oamundeston, 
Swarkeiton,  Chdardeston,  Normanton,  and  Wy* 
bdeston,  in  the  county  of  Derby,  and  the  same 
year  had  a  military  summons  to  mardi  against  the 
Scots.    In  the  8th  Edward  II.,  he  was  fint  sum- 
moned to  parliament  as  a  Baboit  t  and  in  the  10th 
and  18th,  he  was  again  in  the  wan  of  Scodand,  in 
which  latter  year  he  had  liesnoe  to  make  a  castle  of 
his  manor  house  of  Bagworth,  in  the  county  of 
Leicester.    Upon  the  insurrection  of  Us  old  master, 
Thomas,  Earl  of  Lancsster,  (15th  Edward  II.)  his 
lordship  promised  that  nobleman,  to  whom  he  owed 
his  fint  rise  in  the  world,  all  the  aid  In  his  powert 
but  fsiling  to  fulfil  hi^  engagement,  Lancaster  was 
forced  to  fly  northwards,  and  was  finally  taken  pri- 
soner at  Boroughbridge,  when  Lord  Holand  rsn- 
dered  himself  to  the  king  at  Derby,  and  was  sent 
prisoner  to  Dover  Castle.    For  which  duplldty  he 
became  so  odious  to  the  people,  that  being  after<^ 
wards  made  prisoner  a  second  time,  anno  1388,  In  a 
wood,  near  Henley  park,  towards  Windsor,  he  waa 
beheaded  on  the  nones  of  OdDbar,  and  his  hsad 
sent  to  Henry,  Earl  of  Lancaster,  then  at  Wal« 
tham  Croas.  in  the  county  of  Essex,  by  Star  Thomaa 
Wythar,  and  some  other  private  friends.    His  lord- 
ship m.  Maud,  one  of  the  daughters  and  co-hein  of 
Alan  le  Zouch,  of  Ashby.  and  had  issuer 
RoBBBT,  his  successor. 
Thomas,  who  became  Earl  or  Kbitt,  see 

Holand,  Earl  of  Kent. 
Alan,  who  had  the  manors  of  Dalbury,  and 

Weeksworth.  In  the  county  of  Derby. 
Otho.  a  pevsoD  of  great  valour  in  the  reign 
of  Edward  III.,  and  one  of  the  origimd 
KNiOHTa  ov  THJB  Gabtbb.  He  fdl  into 
disgrace,  however,  by  sofllBrlng  the  Earl  of 
Ewe,  (a  prisoner  at  war,)  who  had  bean  com- 
mitted to  his  custody,  to  go  at  Uvge  armed  t 
and  was  committed  to  the  Ifarshelsey,  after 
being  examined  in  the  presence  of  the  Lord 
Chancellor,  and  other  noblemen.  He  died 
soon  after  in  Britanny,  (33d  Edward  III.) 
where  he  was  engaged  in  his  military  capa^ 
dty :  and  having  no  iasue,  his  eldar  brother. 
Sir  Robert  Holand,  by  his  last  will, 
his  heir. 
Robert,  Lord  Holand,  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

SIR  ROBERT  HOLAND,  second  ban 
moned  to  paiUamant  from  29th  February,  U48,  to 


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fth  Ottchm,  ISU9,  ThiinobkoitD  was  wgafed  Ibr 
•ereral  yean  in  the  Fiench  wan  of  King  Edward 
]II.»  part  of  the  time  under  Thomas  de  Beaudiamp* 
Karl  of  Warwiek,  and  thft  remainder  in  theretlnue 
of  hit  btotfaer,  Thomas  Holhmd.  His  lordship  d, 
in  1379.  leaving  his  grand-slaughter* 

UAim  HoLiJLNn,  tlicn  serenteen  yean  of  age. 
his  sole  heir;  who  m.  John  Lovd,  filUi 
IiOnn  LovxL,  of  Tichmxhsb*  and  carried 
the  Baboh T  ov  HoUiAjro  Into  that  fsmily, 
(see  Lord,  Barons  Lovel.  of  TichmenhK 
Arii8.~Ai.  ft  lion  rampant  gnardant«  between 
six  flenr-deJis,  ar. 

HOUiAND  —  BARONS  HOLLAND, 
EARLS  OF  KENT,  AND 
BAJIONS  WOODSTOCK 
AND  WAKE,  DUKE  OF 
SURREY. 

Barony,  by  Writof  Summons,  dated  16th July,  iaS3, 

S7  Edward  III. 

Earldom,  &c,  by  marriage,  with  JoanePlantagenet, 

the  Fair  Maid  of  Kent. 

Dukedom,  SOth  September,  1997. 

SIR  THOMAS  DE  HOLLAND,  second  son  of 
Robert  de  Holand,  Lord  Holland,  having  been  en- 
gaged ftom  the  14th  to  the  90th  Edward  IIL,  in  the 
wan  of  France,  and  in  the  last  year  commanded  tiie 
▼an  of  Prince  Edward's  army,  at  the  fismous  battle 
of  CnnseY,  was  made  a  Knioht  or  tbb  Gartbb, 
and  summoned  to  parliament  as  a  Baboit.  At  the 
siege  of  Caen,  Sir  Thomas  had  the  good  fortune  to 
m^e  prkoner  of  the  Eaul  op  Ews,  then  Constable 
of  France,  whom  he  d^verod  up  to  King  Edward, 
for  the  sum  of  four  thousand  florens :  and  he  (Sir 
•Thomas)  sttbsequenUy  assisted  at  the  siq^e  of 
Calais.  His  lordship  m.*  Joane  Plantagenet,  cde- 
bnted  for  her  beauty,  under  the  name  of'*  th§  Fair 
Maid  nf  Kenti**  only  daughter  of  Edmund  Planta- 
genet, sumamed  «  of  Woodstock,"  Earl  of  Kent, 
second  ion  of  King  Edward  IST  This  distinguished 
woman  inherited,  upon  the  decease  of  her  brother, 
JOHW,  third  Earl  of  Kent,  that  dignity,  with  the 
Barony  of  Woonerocx,  honours  of  her  firther,  and 
the  Basowt  oy  Waks,  •  dignity  of  her  mother's  i 


•  It  is  said  by  some  that  this  Thomas,  being 
steward  of  the  household  to  William  de  Montacute, 
Earl  of  Salisbury,  married  his  mistress,  vis.,  Joane, 
daughter  of  Edmund,  and  sister  and  heir  <rf  John, 
Earls  of  Kent  But  herein  there  b  a  mistake :  for, 
by  his  petition  to  Pope  Clement  VI.,  representing 
that  the  said  Earl  of  Salisbury  had  a  puipoie  to 
have  wedded  her,  had  not  a  precontract  with  her 
by  him  been  formerly  made,  and  carnal  knowledge 
ensued:  also  that  nevertheless  the  Hune  earl, 
taking  advantage  of  his.  absence  in  foreign  parts, 
made  a  second  contract  with  her,  and  ui^ustly  wlth- 
hdd  tier.  His  holineis,  upon  a  full  hearing  of  the 
cause,  gave  ■entence  for  himi  in  which  the  Earl  of 
Salisbury  acyiieaiied.  DvoDAJbx. 


flrom  which  latter  peentge*  she  ityledhfliMlf '•  Last 
OP  Waks." 

In  the  88tb  Edward  IIL,  his  kndship  was  made 
lieutenant,  and  captain  general  of  the  Dukedom  of 
Britanny,  and  he  was  constituted,  in  two  yearsaffear* 
wards,  governor  of  the  islands  of  Jersey  and  Guam* 
ley.  He  had  summons  to  parliament  as  Loud 
HoLX^AND,  ttma  the  87th  to  the  31st  Edward  IlLt 
but  in  theMth,  (anno  19»,)  he  assumed  the  title  of 
Eam.  op  Ksnt,  and  was  so  summoned  on  the  flOth  ~ 
November,  in  that  year,  in  right  of  his  wifo,  for  it 
does  not  appear  that  he  had  any  other  sort  of  ore*- 
tion.  In  this  year  his  lordship  was  appointed  the 
Kino's  LiauTBKANT  Awn  Captain  GsNniiAi.  in 
FnANcs  ANn  NoaiiANDY.  He  did  not  long,  how- 
ever, eoy>Y  that  high  office,  for  he  died  on  the  88th 
December,  in  the  lame  year,  leaving  issue  by  the 
great  heireis  of  Kent,  (who  espoused,  after  his  lor^ 
ship's  decease,  Edward  the  Bteck  Prince,  and  was 
mother  of  King  Richard  IL,)  three  sons,  and  a 
daughter,  via., 

Thomas,  his  succesior. 

Edmund. 

Jcdm,  created  Eabi.op  Huntinodon,  Air» 
DUKB  op  Bzbtbb  (see  Holland,  Duke  of 
Exeter). 

Maud,  m.  Hugh,  son  of  Hu|^  de  Courtney, 
Earl  of  Devon. 
Thomas  Holland,  Eabl  ow  Kbnt,  was  «.  by  his 
eldest  ion, 

THOMAS  HOLLAND,  lecond  Earl  of  Kent, 
Baron  Woodstock,  Baron  Wake,  and  Baron  Ho^ 
land.  This  nobleman  was  engaged  in  the  French 
wars  in  the  immediate  retinue  of  his  gallant  step- 
father, Edward,  the  Bladt  Prinett  and  attained 
distinction  at  the  battle  of  Castile.  Upon  the  aooss- 
sion  of  his  half-brother.  King  Richabd  IL,  his 
lordship  obtained  a  grant  of  £900  per  annum  out  of 
the  exchequer,  end  was  constituted  general  warden 
of  all  the  foresto  south  of  Trent  In  the  9th  of  the 
mme  reign,  at  the  decease  of  his  mother,  Joanb, 
PrincM*  <^  WalM,  he  had  special  livery  of  all  the 
lands  of  her  inheritance;  having  had  previously  his 
grant  out  <^  the  exchequer  extended  to  £loiM>  a 
year.  He  was  also  constituted  MABanAL  op  Eng- 
land, but  he  was  afterwards  discharged  of  that 
office,  whidi  was  conferred  upon  Thomas  Mow- 
bray, Eirl  of  Nottingham ;  and  appointed  governor 
of  Cabisbbokb  Cabtlb  for  life.  His  lordship 
m.  the  Lady  AUoe  Fits-Alan,  daughter  of  Ridiard, 
Earl  of  Arundel,  by  whom  he  had«  with  other 
issue, 

Tbomas,  Igucc^giy^yEABLB  OP  Kbnt. 
Edmund,  J  ' 

Alisnore,  m.  first,  to  Roger  Mortimer,  Earl  of    Cjtfi 

March,  and  secondly,  to  Edward  Charlton.    '2^\tji  ^ 
Lord  Fowls.  wLUi  ^^Cfir^^sJj^fy^t^'lf^' 

Margaret,  m.  first,  to  John  Beaufort,  Marquess  '  ^  \Mf^^^ 
of  Dorset,  and  lecondly,  to  Thomas  Planta-'fl.((i{f  i  jM, ' 
genet,   Duke  of  Clarmce,  son  of  King — <«V*  /**^7^ 
Henry  IV. 

Joane,  m.  first,  to  Edward,  Duke  of  York, 
secondly,  to  William,  Lord  Willoughby, 
and  thirdly,  to  Sir  Henry  de  BromfletSk 

Eleenor,  m.  to  Thomas  Montacute,  Earl  of 
Sallsbary. 

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EUaabeth,  m.  to  Sir  John  Neril],  Knt 
Bridget,  a  nun  at  Barking. 
The  earl  d.  in  13B7«  and  was  #.  by  hi«  ddest  ion, 
•  THOMAS  HOLLAND,  third  Earl  of  Kent  This 
noUeman,  upon  the  attainder  of  Thomas  de  Beau- 
champ,  Earl  of  Warwick,  82nd  Richard  IL,  had  a 
grant  in  special  tail  of  the  castle,  manor,  and  lord- 
ship of  Warwick,  with  sundry  other  manors: 
having  been  created  Dukx  of  Sukut,  the  pre- 
ceding year,  by  his  uncle.  King  Richard,  sitting  in 
parliament,  with  the  crown  upon  his  head.  He 
was  also  constituted  marsbai.  or  ENoi^ifD,  aad 
about  the  same  time  appointed  LisurairAXT  ov 
lajKLAN D.  The  earl  was  likewise  a  Knioht  of  the 
Gartsk.  But  all  his  honours  terminated  with  the 
power  of  his  unhappy  and  royal  kinsman;  for 
being  engaged  In  a  conspiracy  to  subvert  the  go- 
vernment, after  the  accession  of  the  Duke  of  Lan- 
caster, as  Heury  IV.,  he  was  taken  prisoner  and 
beheaded,  with  the  Earl  of  Salisbury,  by  the  popu- 
lace, at  Cirencester,  in  1400,  when  his  head  was  sent 
to  London,  and  placed  upon  the  bridge  there,  and 
parliament  passed  an  act  of  attainder,  by  which  his 
noirouRa  and  lands  became  roRrxiTSD.  His 
lordship  m.  the  Lady  Joane  Staflbrd,  daughter  of 
Hugh,  Earl  of  Staffbrd,  but  had  no  issue.  Not- 
withstanding the  attainder,  (although  no  reversal  is 
upon  record,)  the  earl's  brother  and  heir, 

EDMUND  HOLLAND,  appears  to  have  suc- 
ceeded to  the  Earldom  of  Kent,  and,  of  course,  to 
the  Baronies  of  Woodstock,  Wake,  and  Holland. 
He  had,  subsequently,  a  special  livery  at  certain 
castles,  manors  and  lands,  which  had  devolved  upon 
him  by  virtue  of  tn  old  entail  made  of  them  by  his 
ancestors.  In  the  9th  Henry  IV.  his  lordship  was 
appointed  one  of  the  commissioners  to  treat  of 
peace,  between  the  king  and  the  Duke  of  Britanny, 
and  was  constituted  lord  admiral  ov  England. 
But  soon  after  that  besieging  the  castle  and  isle  of 
firiak,  in  Britanny,  he  received  a  mortal  wound  in 
his  head  by  an  arrow  from  a  cross  bow,  on  the  lAth 
September,  1407*  His  lerdship  m.  Lucy,  daughter 
of  the  Duke  of  Milan,  but  havfaig  no  legitimate 
issue,  his  sisters,  or  their  representatives,  became 
lUs  heirs,  (revert  to  the  children  of  Thomas,  second 
earl,)  and  amongst  those,  the  Baronibs  of  Wood- 
stock, Wakk,  and  Holland,  are  in  absyanck, 
supposing  them  unaflbcted  by  the  attaindor  of  Tho- 
scas,  Duke  of  Surrey. 

With  Edmund,  Earl  of  Kent,  who  was  a  Knight 
of  the  Garter,  that  karldom  bxfirbd  in  the  Hol- 
land family. 

Arms.— As.  semy  de  Us,  a  lion  rampant  guardant, 
or. 

HOLLAND  —  EARL  OF  HUNTING- 
DON, DUKE  OF  EXETER. 

Earldom,  Snd  June,  1337.         ^ 
Dukedom,  S9th  September,  13^. 

Xincage. 

JOHN  DE  HOLLAND,  third  son  of  Thomas 
de  Holland,  Earl  of  Kent,  by  the  celebrated  heiress, 
JoANB  Plantaoknbt,  "  the  Fair  Maid  of  Kent," 
(see  Holland,  Earls  of  Kent,)  was  in  the  exiiedition 
made  into  Scotland  in  the  29th  Edward  III.,  and 


after  the  accessioD  of  hishalf-brotlier.  King  Ridiardt 
II.,  was  constituted  justicb  of  Chbstbr.  From 
which  period  we  seldom  find  him  oat  of  some  great 
public  employment.  In  the  7th  Richard  he  attend- 
ed the  king  in  the  expedition  then  made  into  Scot- 
land, when  having  some  dispute  with  Ralph  de 
Stallbrd,  ekler  son  of  the  Earl  of  Staflbrd,  he  slew 
the  said  Ralph  with  his  dagger,  and  fled  to  sanctu- 
ary at  Beverley.  But  the  king  becoming  highly 
incensed  at  this  foul  murder,  caused  the  aswaiiiin  to 
be  indicted  and  outlawed  for  the  crime,  and  seised 
upon  all  his  lands  and  ofltos. 

It  is  said  that  the  Princess  Joane,  his  mother, 
hearing  that  the  king  had  vowed  that  Holland 
should  suflbr  according  to  law,  sent  earnestly  to 
him.  Imploring  hisikvour,  (she  being  their  common 
parent,)  and  that  upon  return  of  the  messenger  to 
Wallinglbrd,  where  she  then  was,  finding  that  her 
request  availed  not,  she  became  so  absorbed  in 
grief,  that  she  died  within  five  days.  De  Holland, 
however,  eventually  made  his  peace  through  the 
mediation  of  the  Duke  of  Lancaster,  and4>ther  no- 
blemen, and  was  pardcmed  by  the  Earl  of  Staflbrd. 
The  year  after  this  unlbrtunate  aflkir  he  was  re- 
tained to  serve  the  king  in  his  Scottish  wars  for 
forty  days,  and  the  next  year  being  in  Castile  with 
the  Duke  of  Lancaster,  he  tilted  at  Besanoes  with 
Sir  Reginald  de  Roy,  In  the  presence  of  the  King 
of  Portugal,  being  then  constable  of  the  duke^s 
host.  About  this  time,  being  also  in  the  wars  of 
Fiance,  he  obtained  a  grant  of  Ave  hundred  marks 
per  annum  during  his  life.  And,  at  length,  in  ex- 
piation of  the  murder  he  had  the  misfortune  to 
commit,  he  came  to  an  agreement  with  the  Earl  of 
Staflbrd  to  find  three  priests  to  oeletarate  divine 
service  every  day,  to  the  world's  end,  for  the  soul 
of  Ralph  Staflbrd,  in  such  place  as  the  king  should 
appoint.  In  the  llth  of  the  same  reign  he  was 
sgain  in  the  wars  of  France,  as  also  in  Spain,  with 
John  of  Gaunt,  Duke  of  Lancaster,  and  upon  his 
return  was  created  Earl  of  Huntingdon,  at  the 
especial  desire  of  the  Commons  in  parliament 
assembled,  having  therewith  a  grant  of  £S0  per 
annum  out  of  the  profits  of  the  county:  as  also 
lands  of  two  thousand  marks  per  annum,  to  him- 
self and  Elisabeth,  his  wife,  and  to  the  heirs  male 
of  their  bodies.  Shortly  after  which  he  w^s  made 
admiral  of  the  king's  fieet  westwards,  and  consti- 
tuted governor  of  the  csstle,  town,  and  Bastile  of 
Brest,  in  Britanny,  for  three  years,  where  he  ac- 
cordingly went  to  reside.  He  subsequently  obtained 
large  grants  ftom  the  crown,  and  was  constitnted 
orbat  chambbrlain  of  England  for  life.  His 
lordship  was  one  of  those  nobles  who  impeached  the 
Duke  of  Gloucester,  in  the  parliament  held  at  Not- 
tingham, and  he  is  accused  of  having  assisted  at  the 
execution  of  his  grandfather,  Richard,  Earl  of 
ArundeL  He  was  advanced  in  13G7  to  the  Dukb- 
DOM  OF  ExBTBR,  by  King  Richard,  In  open  par- 
liament, being  at  the  time  captain  of  Calais :  and 
he  accompanied  that  monarch  soon  afterwards  into 
Ireland.  Upon  the  accession,  howevtt,  of  the 
Duke  of  LancBster,  as  Henry  IV.,  his  grace  was 
doomed  to  a  reverse  of  fortune,  and  parliament 
adjudged  that  he  should  lose  his  honours  and  lands. 
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whidi,  with  liii  whole  Mtate,  he  might  probebly 
have  continued  to  ei^oy,  bed  he  not  Joined  with  hii 
hrother,  the  Earl  of  Kent.  In  e  oontpiracy  to  over- 
ittrn  the  new  government.  Ttie  plot  lieving,  how- 
ever, ftiled*  he  cndeevoured  to  eicepe  beyond  lee, 
but  wae  driven  becl^  by  oontnury  windi  to  the  coast 
of  Eaaex*  wliere  he  landed,  and  was  made  prisoner 
-by  the  populace  while  at  supper  at  the  house  ot  a 
fHend.  He  was  immediately  conveyed  to  Chelms- 
ford, and  thence  to  Plessy,  where  he  was  beheaded 
by  the  common  people  on  the  very  spot  where  the 
Duke  of  Gloucester  had  sufhred  in  the  rsign  of  his 
brother.  King  Richard.  His  gmce  died  In  1400,  and 
Was  subsequently  attainted.  He  had  married  the 
Lady  Elisabeth  Plantagenet,  daughter  of  John  of 
Gaunt,  and  had  issue, 

JtletanI,  d.  unmarried. 

John,  his  heir,  created  Duxa  or  Exxtbr 
(see  Holland,  Duke  of  Bxeier). 

Edward  (Sir). 

Constance,  m.  first,   to  Thomas  Mowbray, 
Duke  of  Norfolk ;  and  afterwards  to  John, 
Lord  Grey,  of  Ruthven. 
By  this  alliance,  John,  Earl  of  Huntingdon,  and 
Duke  of  Exeter,  was  brother-in-law  to  King  Henry 
IV.,  the  monarch,  Ibr  conspiring  against  whom  he 
lost  his  Hfe.     The  bahldom  and  ockboom  Ml 
under  the  attainder  of  his  grace. 
AnM4.— Of  England,  and  a  bordure  of  France. 

fiOLLAND— DUKES  OF  EXETER. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  6th  January,  1443L 

Xlncagc. 

.  JOHN  HOLLAND,  second  but  eldest  surviving 
son  of  John  Holland.  Earl  of  Huntingdon  and  Duke 
of  Exeter,  (attainted  and  beheaded  in  1400,)  was 
restored  in  Uood,  as  heir  to  his  Ikther  and  brother, 
in  the  4th  Henry  V.,  and  the  next  year  made  ge- 
neral of  all  the  men  at  arms  and  archers  at  that 
time  employed  in  the  king's  fleet  at  sea,  in  which 
capacity  he  essisted  at  the  siege  of  Caen.  He  did 
not,  however,  make  proof  of  his  age  until  the  en- 
suing year,  when  it  was  stated  by  the  witnesses  then 
examined,  that  the  abbot  of  Tavestoke,  in  the 
county  of  Devon,  being  one  of  his  godfathers,  gave 
him,  immediately  after  the  baptism,  a  cup  of  gold, 
with  a  circle  about  it,  firamed  after  the  fashion  of  a 
lilley,  and  with  ten  pounds  in  gold  therein,  and  to 
the  nurse  twenty  shillings.  That  ttie  prior  of  Plimp- 
ton, being  the  other  godfather,  gave  him  twenty 
pounds  in  gold}  and  that  Joane,  the  wife  oi  Sir 
John  Pomeraie,  KnL,  carried  him  to  the  church  to 
be  christened:  her  htuband,  and  Sir  John  Dynham, 
Knt,  conducting  %er  by  the  arms.  Likewise,  that 
twenty-four  men  did  precede  them,  bearing  twenty- 
taCa  torches,  which  torches,  as  soon  as  the  name 
was  given,  were  kindled. 

This  John  Holland  was  engaged,  during  the  whole 
reign  of  Henry  V.,  In  active  warfare  upon  the 
French  soil,  and  displayed  extraordinary  skill  and 
Talour.  He  was  at  the  siege  ot  Roen  i  and  the  next 
year,  upon  the  taking  of  Pontoise  by  the  Captain  de 
la  Boucher  he  intercepted  those  of  the  garrison  who 
endeavoured  to  get  to  Parist  and  he  was  in  that 
great  fight  against  the  French  who  came  to  raise 


the  siege  of  Fieney,  wherein  five  thousand  were 
slain  and  six  hundred  made  prisoners.  He  was  sub* 
sequently  commissioned  to  reduce  all  the  castles 
and  strong  places  in  Normandy  that  continued  to 
hold  out  against  the  king  i  and  he  was  soon  after, 
in  consideration  of  his  eminent  services,  constituted 
constable  of  the  Tower  of  London.  In  the  reign  of 
Henry  VI.,  he  continued  his  gallant  career  In 
France,  and  assisted,  in  1431,  at  the  coronation  of 
that  monarch,  then  solemnised  at  Paris.  In  the 
11th  of  the  same  reign,  he  had  a  grant  of  the  office 
of  Marsmaxi  ov  Bnolano,  to  hold  during  the 
minority  of  John,  son  and  heir  of  John,  late  Duke 
of  Norfolk ;  and  two  years  afterwards,  being  sent 
ambassador  to  the  dty  of  Arras,  to  treat  of  peace 
with  the  French,  he  had  licence  to  carry  with  him 
gold,  silver,  plate,  jewels,  robes,  twenty-four  pieces 
of  woollen  doth,  and  other  things,  to  the  value 
of  six  thousand  pounds  sterling.  In  the  14th,  be 
was  joined  in  commission  with  the  Earl  of  North- 
umberland for  guarding  the  eest  and  west  marches 
towards  Scotland,  and  at  the  same  time  consti- 
tuted admiral  of  England  and  Aquitaine.  He .  was 
afterwards  in  a  commission  to  try  all  manner  of 
txeasons  and  sorceries  which  might  be  hurtfol  to  the 
king's  person;  and  was  created,  by  letters  patent, 
dated  at  Windsor,  6th  January,  1445,  Dukb  or 
ExBTnn*  with  this  special  privilege,  ••  that  he  and 
his  heirs  male  should  have  place  and  seat  in  all 
parliaments  and  councils,  next  to  the  Duke  of 
York  and  his  heini  male." 

His  grace  wes  constituted  lord  high-admiral  of 
England,  Ireland,  and  Aquitaine,  for  life.  In  the 
^94th  Henry  VI.,  his  son,  Henry,  being  joined  In  the 
grant,  and,  the  next  year,  made  constable  of  the 
Tower  <rf  London,  his  son,  Henry,  being,  in  like 
manner,  joined  with  him.  His  lordship  m.  first, 
Anne*  widow  of  Edward  Mortimer,  Eari  of  March, 
and  daughter  of  Edmund,  Earl  of  Staflbrd»  by 
whom  he  had  an  only  son, 
Hbkbt,  his  successor. 
He  espoused,  secondly.  Lady  Anne  Montacute, 
daughter  of  John,  Earl  of  Salisbury,  and  had  a 
daughter, 

.Anne,  m.  to  John,  Lord  Nevil,  son  and  heir  of 

Ralph,  Earl  of  Weitmoreland,  which  Lord 

Nevil  fell  at  Towton-Feld,  and  died  «.  p. 

Her  ladyship  espoused,  secondly.  Sir  John 

Nevil,  KnL,  uncle  of  her  first  husband,  and 

by  him  was  mother. of  Ralph  Nevil,  third 

■  Earl  of  Westmoreland. 

His  grace,  who  was  a  Kn iobt  of  the  GabtbBj  died 

in  1446,  and  was  «.  by  hie  only  son« 

HElNRY  HOLLAND,  second  Duke  of  Exeter, 
who,  in  the  S8th  Henry  VI.,  In  consideration  of  his 
father's  services,  had  livery  of  all  his  castles,  manoo, 
and  lands,  both  in  England  and  Wales,  although  at 
that  time  he  had  not  accomplished  his  full  agei 
after  which  (33rd  Henry  VI.)  the  Yorkists  then 
prevailing,  his  grace  having  fied  to  sanctuary  at 
Westminster,  he  was  forced  thence,  and  sent  pri- 
soner to  Pontef^act  Castle.  We  find  him,  however, 
at  the  battle  of  Wakefield,  sharing  the  triumph 
of  the  Lancastrians;  when  King  Henry  VI.,  being 
re-established  in  power,  his  grace's  flddity  was  re- 
warded by  a  grant  of  the  office  of  constable  ot  Fo- 


ROh 


UOh 


Charlagsy  Cattle.  But  the  tide  agelii  tttrninf ,  tile 
duke  lied  from  Towton-Fleld,  with  the  Duke  of 
.Somenet  and  lome  othen,  to  York,  where  the 
king  and  queen  thih  were,  and  thene>  proceeded 
with  the  royal  fugltlTef  into  Scotland.  In  the  par- 
liament mciiibled  upon  the  aocenkn  of  King  Ed- 
ward IV.,  hie  grace,  with  the  other  leading  Lan- 
caatriana,  waa  attainted  i  but  nothing  Airther  la 
reeordad  of  him  nntil'he  appeared  again  in  arma 
under  the  red  banner  of  Lancasts  at  Bamet-FMd, 
where  his  perty  mttained  lo  aignal  a  defeat.  In 
thia  oonllict  the  Duke  of  Exeter  fought  with  ex- 
traordinary courage  and  xeMhition,  andi  being  ae- 
▼ereiy  wounded,  waa  left  for  dead,  AnMn  aeven 
o^dock  in  the  morning  until  four  in  the  affcemoon, 
when,  being  conveyed  to  the  houae  of  one  of  Ma 
aervanta,  called  RutUand,  he  had  the  aMlatance  of 
•  eurgeon,  and  waa  than  carried  for  mnctuary  to 
WettmlwtBr :  but  in  the  19th  Edward  IV.  1479.  he 
wea  found  dead  in  theiea between Calaia  and  Dover  t 
by  what  accident,  however,  waa  never  atcertained. 
ComtitM  reporta  that  he  mw  thia  unhi^py  noblenum 
in  such  deep  diitreai,  (alter  the  defeat  aft  Bamet,  it 
la  preaumed,)  that  he  ran  on  foot,  baro-legged,  alter 
the  Duke  of  Burgundy^  train,  bagging  hia  fareid 
for  Ood'a  aake,  but  that  he  uttered  not  hia  names 
and  that  whan  he  waa  known,  the  duke  oonfaried 
upon  him  a  amaU  penaion.  Hia  grace  «i.  Anne, 
daughter  of  Richard,  Duke  of  York,  and  aiater  of 
King  Edward  IV.,  by  whom,  according  to  Sandfttd, 
he  had  an  only  daughter, 

Anhc,  m.  to  ThonuB  Oiey,  Marquenof  Donet. 
From  hia  lady  the  Duke  of  Exeter  waa  divorced,  at 
her  tuU,  and  his  oukbdom  fell  under  the  attainder, 
in  1461,  twelve  year*  before  hia  melancholy  death. 
Thua  terminated  one  of  the  ataunchcat  partitana  of 
ihe  hottie  of  Lancaater,  althoogh  brother-in-law 
to  Ring  Edward,  the  auocenftil  monarch  of  the 
houae  of  York.  Such  waa  the  heart-rending  dia- 
aenalon  which  that  terrible  quarrel  had  town 
amongst  the  nearest  and  dearest  oonneetiona,  and 
auch  the  misery  and  wretchedness  it  cntaUad  upon 
a  great  nuO^ity  of  the  moat  illiiatrioua  houioi  In 
England. 
'   ABMa-xOfBngiand,  andaborduieof  France. 

HOLLES  —  BARONS  HOUGHTON, 
£ARLS  OF  CLARE, 
I>UKES  OF  NEWCAS- 
TLE. 

B«rony,      "I  ^  wtters  f  ^^  ^^^'  ^^^ 


Earldom 
Dukedom, 


»•} 


alderman  of 
Thia  opulent 


Patent*  1      -  *'•"••  »"«» 
"^*'    1 14th  May,  IdM. 

*  3Ciitc«tc. 

The  first  of  thia  fiunOy  who  became  of  note  waa 

SIR  WILLIAM  HOLLES.  i 
London,  and  lord  mayor  in  IMOl 
dtlaen  left  three  aona,  via. 

Thomaa  (Sir),  who  suooeeded  to  aooasiderable 
estate,  but  squandered  the  whole,  and  died 
Inpriaon. 
William,  of  whom  praaently. 
Francis,  died  «» p. 
The  second  son, 
WILLIAM  HOLLES,  inherited  the  manor  of 
S70 


Houghton,  in  the  county  of  Nottiofham,  and  took 
up  his  abode  there.  He  m.  Anne,  daughter  and 
co-heir  of  John  Danadl,  Esq.,  of  Danadl,  in  Cam- 
wall*  and  had,  with  other  iaeu^  DA«a«.i.,  who  m. 
Anne,  sister  of  John  Sheffield,'  Lord  Sheffield,  and 
dying  before  his  father,  left  a  eon  (who  eventually 
succeeded  to  the  estates), 

JOHN  HOLLES,  of  Houghton,  who  waa  ele- 
vated to  the  peerage  by  King  James  I.,  on  9th 
July,  IGIG,  (through  the  influence  of  the  Duke  of 
Buckingham,  to  whom  he  paid  £lOkO(Nk«)  in  the 
dignity  of  BABoir  Houohtom,  of  HouonvoR,  and 
was  created,  undea  the  same  powerful  patronages 
for  the  additional  sum  of  £fi,O0a,  Eabl  of 
Ci.AaB,o  on  the  Snd  November,  1024.  Hb  hirdship 
m.  Anne,  daughter  of  Sir  Thomaa  Stanhope*  of 
Shdford,  in  the  county  of  Nottingham*  and  had 
surviving  issuoa 

John,  his  successor. 

Danxu.!.,  created  Basom  Hou.Ba»  t^Ifrild 

(see  that  dignity). 
Eleanore,  m,  to  Oliver  Fita-WiUiams,  Earl  of 

Tirconnel,  in  Irdand. 
Arabella,  m.  to  Thomas  Wcntworth,  fliat  Lord 
Straftnd. 
His  lordship  d.  4th  October,  1897*  and  was  a.  by  his 
eldest  son, 

JOHN   HOLLES,  second  earl,   who  espoused 
Elisabeth,  eldest  daughter,  and  one  of  theco-heira 
of  the  celebrated  General  Sir  Horatio  Vere*  Lord 
Vere,  of  Tilbury,  and  had  issue, 
OiJLBJiHT,  his  successor. 
Anne,  m.  to  Edward  Clinton,  Lord  Clinton, 
ddest  son  of  Theophilus,  fourth  Earl  of 
Lincoln,  and  was  mother  of  Edward,  fifth 
Eabj.  o^  LiNCOJLir. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Wentworth,  Earl  of  Kildarab 
Arabella,  m.  to  Sir  Edward  Rosseter,  Knt.,  of 

Someriey,  in  the  ooimty  of  Lincoln. 
Susen,  m.  to  Sir  John  Lort,  Bart.,  of  Stodc* 

pole  Court,  in  the  county  of  Pembroke^ 
Diana,  m.  to  Henry  Bridgea,  son  and  heir  of 
Sir  Thomas  Bridges,  of  Keynsham,  In  the 
county  of  Somerset. 
Penelope,  «•.  to  Star  Jamea  Langham,  Bart.* 
of  Colasbmke,  in  theoounty  of  Northamp> 
ton. 
Of  thia  nobleman.  Lord  Clarendon  mya,  '<  he  waa 
a  man  of  honour  and  of  couragek  and  would  have 
been  an  excellent  pereon.  If  his  heart  had  not  been 
too  much  set  upon  keeping  and  improving  hia 
estate."    His  lordship  H»pears  to  have  lived  In  re- 
tirement at  hia  country  houses  during  the  nsorp*. 
tion.    He  survived  to  witness  the  lestoration  of  the 
monarchy,  and  dying  ind  Janualy,  Ifl85>  was  a.  by 
his  son, 

GILBERT  HOLLES,  tUrdEarlof  Clarei  This 
nobleman  opposed  strongly  the  meaaurca  of  the 
Stewarts,  and  was  a  strenuous  supporter  of  the 
revolution.    He  m.  Grace*   daughter  of  WilBam 


•  This  dignity  had  been  just  before  refiiaed  to 
Robert  Rkh,  Earl  of  Warwick,  on  a  wlenm  dechi- 
ration  by  the  crown  lawyars,  that  it  waa  a  title 
peculiar  to  the  royal  blood,  and  not  to  be  oonftrred 
uponaaubiecu 


HOL 


HOL 


Ptarpont*  ofThomby,  In  the  comatj  4»f  NotUiif- 
httni  woond  ton  of  Robcrtt  Earl  of  Kiiigitoo,  and 


JOSH,  vhomoowdtd  to  tht  honoun. 

WlUam,  who  Ml  Jit  LummoltnM^  In  thn 
tw«nty-flnt  yw  of  his  agfti 

Dfludl*  died  unnuoried. 

EllnbeUi,  m.  to  Star  Chrirtophar  Vane,  Knt., 
who  was  created  BAnoM  Baiuiam>»  of 
Barnard  Cattle,  in  the  county  of  Durham. 
Vrom  thia  mnnrlago  wnotmrn'^murp,  praiont 
lfjft.BgD>88  or  CLnrnjuunn,  la  fourth  In 


r 


Mary,  m.  to  Hugh  Boacawen,  Eiq. 
Ann. 

Grace,  m.   to  Sir   Thomaa  Pelham,  Bart., 
created  nflerwaida    BxnoN    Pblhami  tf 
.  l^n^fMMi,  in  the  county  of  Suaaex,  and  had, 
with  other  issue,  a  ion  Thomab,  who  inhe- 
rited the  greateat  part  of  the  HoUei  ettstea, 
and  liad  the  honoun  of  the  family  partly 
revived  in  hit  person,  (see  Pklbam-Hoi.- 
i.>8.  Earls  of  Clare). 
His  todship  iL  10th  January,  1080,  and  was  «•  by  his 
ddesteon, 

JOHN  HOLLBS,  fourth  Eari  of  Chve.  This 
nobleman  having  married  Lady  Margaret  Cavcn- 
dbb»  third  daughter  and  oo4iair  of  Henry,  second 
Duke  of  Newcastle^  inherited  the  grentae  part  of 
his  gracc^s  estates  upon  his  deceese  In  ld91,  and  was 
ciented,  on  the  14th  May,  IdM,  Marqu4*t  qf  dan 
and  DvKB  ov  NnircAaTUi.  He  likewise  aucoeMed 
to  the  Cortnne  of  his  kinsman,  DanaeU,  Lord  HoUes» 
of  UUId,  and  thus bacameone  of  the  richestsnlK 
Jecta  in  the  kingdom.  His  grace  enjoyed  several 
high  ofllcss  St  court,  and  was  a  Kkioht  of  tmb 
OABTnn.  He  died  from  the  eflhcts  of  a  fUl  while 
stag-hunting,  on  15th  July>  17II#  leaving  an  only 
daughter, 

Laot  HxirnxxTTA  Catskoibh  Hollss,  who 
m.  in  1713*  EriMortl,  Lonn  HAnLSY,  son 
and  hair  of  Robert,  Earl  of  Oxford,  to  whom 
she  conveyed  s  very  considerable  estate, 
and  by  whom  she  had  an  only  surviving 
dsEUghter, 
Lauy  MAnoAnnrCArnNDisH  HAnLST, 
who  espoused  WUUmm  Bentinek,  second 
Dtncn  or  Portlaits,  K.O. 
At  the  decease  of  the  Duke  of  Newcastle  ai.l  sis 
nosrovBs  became  bxtivct.    He  had  adi^>ted  hia 
nephew,  Thomas  Pai.iiAM,  eldest  son  of  Thomas, 
Lord  PsOam,  who  succeeded  to  a  portion  of  his 
great  estates,  and  assumed  the  surname  and  arms 
ofHoi.i.ns  (see  Pelhsm-HoUes,  Earl  of  Clan). 
AniiBiP— Brm.  two  piles  In  prtnt  sa. 

HOLLES.PELHAM  —  BARONS  PEL. 
HAM,  EARLS  OF  CLARE, 
DUKE  OF  NEWCASTLE. 


Baronyi 

Earldom 

Dukedom 


S9th  December,  17O0L 
aeth  October,  1714. 
2nd  August,  171& 

SIR  THOMAS  PBLHAMf  Bwt,  was  elevated  lo 


1700*  aa  BAfeMT  Pntt* 
BAM,  </ JLoMgAJsM,  in  Me  eowimr  ^5ti«M».  He  had 
married,  previously.  Lady  Onkce  Hollee»  youngest 
dan^tar  of  Ottbert,  dUid  Easl  of  Claie^  and  dying 
in  171s,  was  A  by  hia  eldest  son, 

THOMAS  PELHAM.HOLLB8,  aa  aecond  Barao 
Pdham.  This  nobleman  hsving  been  adopted^  l>y 
his  nnde»  John  HoUes,  fburth  Earl  of  Clare,  and 
first  Duke  of  Newcastle,  aasnmed  the  ^MJIditi^'^' 
surname  and  arms  of  Hoi^lbb,  upon  the  decease  of 
his  gracei  and  was  created,  98th  October,  1714^ 
FUeomni  PtOtann  ot  Houghton,  and  Eabi.  ov 
Ci^BB.  His  lordship  was  advanced  the  next  year, 
to  the  dlgnltieB  of  Hapvuees  ^  Clare,  and  Dukb  ob 
NawcAaTLB,  with  remainder,  de&ult  of  male 
issue,  to  his  brother,  the  Right  Honourable  Hbxbt 
Pbusav.  His  gnoa,  under  the  three  flrst  sove- 
reigns of  the  house  of  BrunswidK,  ftiUllled  the 
several  posts  of  lord  chamberlain  ot  the  housdiold  « 
secratary  of  state  t  t»t  lord  of  the  treasury,  and 
one  of  the  lords  Justices,  during  the  temporary 
rtsences  of  Kings  GeorgeLandIL  Tfaednkewas 
likewise  chancellor  of  the  University  of  Cambridge, 
a  privy  couaaeilor,  and  a  kmiobt  of  the  Gabtbb. 

Hia  grace  wu  Lady  Haniet  Oodolphin,  daughter 
of  Francis.  Earl  of  Godolphin*  by  Henrietta,  Ma 
wife,  daughter  of  the  celebrated  John  Clnu«hill» 
Duka  of  Marlborough,  but  had  no  issue. 

The  duke  was  •created.  In  17M,  Dukb  of  Nanr* 
CASTLB  VBDBB  Lyhb,  with  spedal  iwnalndar  to 
his  nephew,  Henry  Fiannee  Clinton,  ninth  Earl 
of  LlnoQln.  K.Q..  son  of  his  graceTs  stoter.  the  Ho. 
noumhle  Lucy  Pelham*  by  Hanrr.  sewth  Eail  of 
Lbicofai  {  and  be  was  also  created  Babom  Pbi.hamv 
«lf  AOmNerv,  to  Sttmu,  with  remainder  to  his  kins- 
m«B.  Thomaa  Pelham.  Esq.,  of  Stanmera,  (grand' 
eon  of  Henry  Pdham,  youngar  brother,  of  the  flrat 
Lord  Pelham,)  which  honoun  devolved,  at  hie 
graosTs  deceaae,  in  1781,  according  to  the  said 
Umitatiana,  and  an  now  enjoyed  by  the  Dukb  or 
NBWCASTiiB  and  the  Eabl  of  CeicHBaTBa,  (sea 
those  dignities,  in  Bwlfc«*«  XXcMoMwy  *^th9  Fem^g9 
end  aaron0iagitf)  while  au.  bis  own  BOBOuna» 
including  the  Dukxdom  or  NBWCAerjLB,  in  re* 
raaindcr  to  his  brother,  the  Right  Honourable 
Henry  Prilram,  (that  gentlaaaan  having  pradeoseeed 
his  graces  Iraving  daughters  only,)  became  mat* 
tiBcr. 

Aaiia.— Quarterly,  flrst  and  fourth,  aa.  three  peli- 
cana  ar.  vulnlng  thfmislvws  in  the  breast,  gib 
second  and  third,  erm.  two  piles  in  point  aa. 

HOLLES  —  BARONS  HOLLES  OF 
IFIELD,  IN  THE  COUN- 
TY  OF  SUSSEX. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  fiOth  April,  1<»1. 

Tha  HoBonrable 

DANZILL  HOLLES,  second  son  of  John,  first 
Earl  of  Clare,  by  Anne,  tf  dest  daughter  and  co-hrtr 
of  John  Danaill.  of  Danall],  hn  Cornwall,  Setjeant 
at  Law,  waa  elevated  to  the  peerage,  at  the  resto- 
ration, by  letters  patent,  dated  aoth  April,  1081,  aa 
Babom  Hou.B8,  of  Ijuid,  in  the  county  if  Aimm*. 
This  nobleman,  in  the  beginning,  opposed  the  aa- 
'  f71 


HOI^ 


HOO 


■anted  prarogatiTe  of  Chivies  I.  and  hie  miaieten ; 
carrying  up  the  impeadunent  agaimt  Laud;  suf- 
fering a  eerere  impriMmment*  and  being  marked 
by  the  king  in  that  wild  attempt  of  accuaing  the 
ilTe  memben.  When  brought  before  the  privy 
eouncU,  with  Sir  Henry  Hammond  and  othen,  in 
those  times  of  arbitrary  power,  Mr.  Holies  de- 
ported himself  with  a  more  than  ordinary  degree  of 
firmness,  and .  as  characteristic  of  the  epoch,  we 
give  the  following  passage  Arom  his  examination. 
<'  Why  did  you  sit  above  some  of  the  privy  coundl, 
so  near  the  speaker's  chair  ?"  *'  I  seated  myself 
there,  some  other  times  before,  and  took  it  as  my 
due,  there  and  in  any  place  whatsoever,  on  account 
of  my  noble  Urth,  as  son  of  the  Earl  of  Clare !" 
continuing  to  state,  '*  that  he  came  into  the  house, 
with  as  much  seal  as  any  other  person,  to  serve  his 
majesty ;  yet,  finding  his  majesty  was  offended,  he 
humbly  desired* to  be  the  sut)()ect,  rather  of  his 
mercy  than  of  his  power."  To  which  the  treasurer 
Weston,  answered;  "You  mean  rather  of  his 
miO^ty's  mercy  than  of  his  Justice."  Mr.  Holies  re- 
plied, emphatically,  <«  I  say  of  his  majesty's  power." 
Subaequently  discovering  the  designs  of  the  repub- 
lican party,  and  diigusted  with  them,  he  exerted 
himself  aealously,  at  the  decease  of  Cromwell,  in 
Airtherance  of  the  restoration ;  and  for  some  time 
after  the  accomplishment  of  that  great  event,  ac- 
cepted employments  and  embassies  ttom  the  court. 
In  1063,  his  lordship  was  ambassador  extraordinary 
to  France,  and  afterwards,  plenipotentiary  to' 
the  treaty  of  Breda;  but  he  again  Joined  the 
ranks  of  opposition,  and  maintained  the  consistency 
of  his  patriotic  character. 

Burnet  thus  describes  this  patriotic  personage  :— 
•'  He  was  aman  of  courage,*  and  as  great  pride.  The 
headof  the  Presbyterian  party,  for  many  years;  and 
who,  during  the  whole  course  of  his  Uf  e,  never  once 
changed  side.  He  had  indeed,  the  soul  of  an  old 
stubborn  Roman  in  him;  was  a  Csithful,  but  a 
rough  firiend;  and  a  severe,  but  open  enemy.  His 
tense  of  religion  was  Just ;  his  course  of  life  regu- 
lar ;  and  his  Judgment,  where  pMsion  did  not  bias 
him,  sound  enough.  He  was  weU  vwsed  in  the 
Tecords  of  parliament;  and  argued  well  but  too 
▼dienien,tly ;  for  he  could  not  bear  any  contradic- 
tion." 

His  lordaMp  m.  first,  Dorothy,  only  daughter  and 
hetreis  of  Sir  Frauds  Ashley,  of  Dorchester,  by 
wliom  he  had  one  surviving  eon,  Fbancis,  wlio 
was  created  a  baronet  Heespoused,  secondly,  Jane, 
ddest  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Sir  John  Shirley,  of 
IsviUe,  in  Sussex;  and  thirdly,  Esther,  second 
daughter  and  co-heir  of  Gideon  de  Lou,  Lord  of  the 
manor  of  Columbiers,  in  Normandy,  but  had  no 
other  issue.  He  d.  17th  February,  1679-80>  and  was 
s.  by  his  son, 

SIR  FRANCIS  HOLLBS,  Bart,  of  Whiter, 
bourn  St  Martin,  in  the  county  of  Dorset,  as  second 

•  A  remarkable  instance  of  his  spirit  was  his 
challenging  General  Ireton,  who  pleading,  "  That 
bis  oonsdence  would  not  permit  him  to  fight  a 
duel  ;**  Holies  puUed  him  by  the  nose;  tdling  him, 
"  That  if  his  consdcnce  would  not  let  him  give 
redress,  it  ought  to  prevent  his  oBMxig  injuries.** 


Lord  HoUei.  His  lordship  m.  fint,  Luey,  youngest 
daughter  of  Sir  Robert  Carr,  of  Sleford,  in  the 
county  of  Lincoln,  Bart,  by  whom  he  had  two 
daughters,  who  both  died  young.  He  espoused 
secondly,  Anne,  eldest  daughter  and  co-heir,  of  Sir 
Francis  Pile,  Bart,  of  Compton  Beauchamp,  in  the 
county  of  Berks,  and  had  a  son,  Dansix.,  his  suc- 
cessor, and  daughter,  Jane,  who  died  in  infsncy. 
His  lordship  tf.  1st  March,  168»«0,  and  was  «.  by  his 
son, 

DANZILL  HOLLES,  third  baron.  ThU  noble- 
man died  in  his  nineteenth  year,  <anno  1604,) 
unmarried,  when  the  Baroky  of  Hollxs,  or 
IriKLD,  with  the  baronetcy,  became  bxtIkct, 
while  his  lordship's  estates  devolved  upon  his  heir 
at  law,  John  Holies,  Dukecrf  Newcastle. 

ABM8.— Exm.  two  piles  sa.  a  crescent  for  diflbr- 
enccb 

HOO  —  BARON  OF  HOO,  IN  THE 
COUNTY  OF  BEDFORD, 
AND  OF  HASTINGS,  IN 
THE  COUNTY  OF  SUSSEX. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  2nd  June,  1447. 

Of  this  family,  whose  chief  seat  was  at  Hoo,  in 
Bedfordshire,  were  divers  persons  of  note,  prior  to 
its  devatkm  to  the  peerage. 

ROBERT  DE  HOO,  obtained  the  king's  charter, 
SOtlf  Edward  I.,  for  a  weekly  market,  and  an  annual 
fsir,  at  his  manor  of  Knebbeworth,  in  the  county  of 
Hertford.  As  also  free-warren  in  all  his  desmesne 
lands,  within  his  respective  lordships  of  the  atwve- 
mentioned  Knebbeworth,  and  Harpeden,  in  the 
same  shire ;  of  Hoo  and  other  estates  in  the  coimty 
of  Bedford;  of  Clopton,  in  Cambridgeshire,  and 
Sivethorpe,  in  the  county  of  Oxford.  The  next  of 
the  fiunily  we  meet  with, 

SIR  THOMAS  HOO,  Knt,  had  similar  grants 
for  fairs  and  markets,  upon  his  different  Estates,  in 
the  11th  Edward  IIL    He  was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR  WILLIAM  HOO,  Knt,  who,  'in  the  10th 
Richard  IL,  assisted  Michael  de  la  Pole,  Earl  of 
Suilblk,  in  eSbcting  his  escape  to  Calais,  in  which 
garrison  Sir  William  afterwards  served  (8th  Henry 
IV.)  imder  John,  Earl  of  Somerset,  then  captain 
thereon  Sir  William  Hoo  m.  Alice,  daughter  and 
heir  of  Sir  Thomas  St  Maur  <by  Jane,  his  wife^ 
daughter  and  heir  of  Nicholas  Malmains),  and  waa 
«.  by  his  son, 

SIR  THOMAS  HOO,  who,  having  been  employed 
in  the  suppreisiim  of  a  rebdlion  in  Nocmandy,  ob- 
tained a  grant,  SOth  Henry  VI.,  in  consideratltm  of 
his  special  services,  and  great  expenses  in  the  wars, 
of  eleven  pounds  a  year  during  his  life,  out  of  the 
revenues  in  the  county  of  York*  In  the  S4th  of  the 
same  reign,  having  again  distinguished  himsdf  in 
the  French  wars,  he  was  elevated  to  the  peerage, 
by  letters  patent,  dated  find  June,  1447,  by  the  titles 
of  LoKD  Hoo,  of  Hoo,  in  Me  county  lif  Bedford, 
and  of  Hastikos,  in  the  oounty  of  Sussex,  with 
rwnainder  to  the  hdrs  male  of  his  body.  More- 
over, he  was  made  a  knight  of  the  most  noble  order 
of  theOarter,  His  kMcdship,  married  flift«filisabeth« 


HOP 


HOW 


«tailgliter  and  h«br  of  Sir  TliomM  Felton,  Knt>  by 
whom  he  had  an  only  son,  Thomas,  who  diad  in  hit 
father's  life-time  issueless.  He  espoused,  secondly. 
Elinbeth,  daughter  and  heir  of  Sir  Nicholas  Wich- 
inghem,  KnL,  by  whom  he  liad  an  only  daughter, 
Axjfn,  who  m.  Shr  OeAry  BuUen,  Knt,,  sometime. 
Lord  Mayor,  of  London.  His  lordship  m.  thirdly, 
Ahanore,  daughter  of  Leo,  Lord  Welles,  and  sister 
and  cD-hdr  of  Richard,  Lord  Welles,  by  whom  he 
had  issue, 

Alianore,  m.  to  Sir  James  Caiew,  Knu*  of 

Bedington,  in  the  county  of  Surrey. 
Jane^  m.  to  Sir  Roger  Copley,  Knt.,  from  which 

marriage  the    preaent  Sir  Joseph  Copley 

maternally  descends. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Sir  John  Darenish,  Knt. 
Lord  Hoo  died  about  the  year  14S3,  and  thus  leaT- 
ing  no  male  i8sue>  the  Babohy  or  Hoo  became 

XXTINCT. 

ABM8.— Quarterly,  so.  and  ar. 

HOOD  —  BARON  BRIDPORT,  VIS-, 
COUNT  BRIDPORT. 


Barony,      \  by  Letters  /  13th  June,  I796> 
Viscounty, 


nty,  j    Patent,   \  lOth  June,  1801. 

ICtntagc. 


ALEXANDER  HOOD,  a  very  eminent  naral 
officer,  having  served  as  rear  admiral,  under  Lord 
Howe,  at  the  relief  of  Gibraltar,  in  1782,  was  in- 
vested with  the  military  order  of  the  Bath;  and 
having,  as  second  in  command,  contributed  to  the 
ever-memorable  victory  of  the  1st  June,  1794,  was 
rewarded  with  a  peerage  of  Ireland,  hi  the  dignity 
of  Baron  Bridport,  of  Cricket  St.  Thomas.  In 
179S>  his  lordship  achieved  a  splendid  victory  over 
the  French  fleet,  and  was  made,  in  consequence,  a 
peer  of  Great  Britain,  13th  June,  1796,  as  Barov 
Briopokt,  ef  Cricket  St.  Thoma*,  in  the  county  cf 
Somertet.  In  1801,  he  was  advanced  to  the  dignity 
of  ViacouTTT  Bridport,  being  then  vice-admiral  of 
Great  Britain,  and  general  of  marines.  His  lord- 
ship m.  flrst,  Maria,  daughtes  of  the  Rev.  Dr. 
West,  prebendary  of  Durham ;  and  secondly,  Hari»* 
Sophia,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Thomas  Bray, 
Esq.,  of  Edmonton,  but  dying  without  issue,  3d 
May,  1814,  his  English  honours,  namely,  the  Ba- 
rony AND  Viscounty  op  Bridport,  became  bx- 
TTNCT,  while  the  barony  in  the  Irish  peerage  de- 
volved according  to  a  spedal  limitation  in  the 
patent. 

Armb.— Aju  a  fret,  ar.  on  a  chief  or.  three  cre> 
scents,  sa. 


HOPTON  — 


BARON  HOPTON  OF 
STRATTON,  IN  THE 
COUNTY  OP  CORN. 
WALL. 


By  Letters  Patent,  dated  4th  September,  1643. 

*  ICineage. 

'  ROBERT  HOPTON,  Esq.,  of  Wytham,  in  the 
county  of  Somerset,  m.  Jane,  daughter  and  heir  of 


Rowland  Keymiah,  Esq.,  of  Waidry,  in  the  county 
of  Monmouth,  and  left  a  son, 

SIR  RALPH  HOPTON,  who  was  made  a  Knight 
of  the  Bath,  at  the  coronation  of  King  Charles  I., 
and  became  afterwards  one  of  the  most  aealous  sup^ 
porters  of  that  unfortunate  monarch.  Sir  Ra^h 
represented  Wrllsb.  in  parliament  in  1642,  when, 
poceiving  the  course  of  pubUc  aflhirs,  he  took  up 
arms  in  the  royal  cause,  and  obtained  distinction  at 
Sherl)Oume  Castle,  Lanceston,  Saltash,  and  Bra- 
dock,  but  particularly  at  Stratton,  in  Comwallt 
when,  in  consideration  of  the  gallant  part  he  had  in 
that  victory,  he  was  elevated  to  the  peerage,  on  the 
4th  September,  1643,  as  Baron  Hopton,  op  Strat- 
ton ;  with  limitation,  in  defimlt  of  male  issue,  to 
his  unde.  Sir  Arthur  Hopton,  KnL,  and  the  hdn 
male  of  his  body.  His  lordship  was  subsequently 
constituted  genoal  of  the  ordnance,  in  his  nuO^ty's 
armies,  throughout  the  whole  reahn  of  England, 
and  dominion  of  Wales.  Lord  Hopton  m.  Eliaa< 
beth,  daughter  of  Arthur  Capel,  of  Hadham,  in  the 
county  of  Hertford,  Esq.,  and  widow  of  Sir  Justinian 
Leven,  KnL,  but  had  no  issue.  During  the  usurpa- 
tion, his  lordship  retired  to  Bruges,  where  he  died, 
in  1698,  when  (his  uncle  having  predeceased  him 
also  issueless)  the  Barony  op  Hopton,  ov  Strat- 
ton, became  rxtinct. 
Armb. — Erm.  on  two  bars  sa.  six  mullets  or. 
Sir  Arthur  Hopton,  upon  wh<»n  the  title  was 
entailed,  died  about  the  year  1650,  without  issue, 
when  his  four  sisters,  or  their  representatives,  be- 
came his  heirs.    Those  sisters  were* 

Rache),  m.  to .— —  Morgan,  Esq. 

Mary,  m.  first  to  — ^—  Hartop,   Elsq.,  and 
secondly,  to  Sir  Henry  Mack  worth, 'Bart. 
■    Catherine,  m.  to  John  Windluun,  Esq. 

Margaret,  m.  to  Sir  Baynam  Thn^morton* 
Bart 

HOWARD—BARONS  HOWARD. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  Iftth  October,  1470, 
49  Henry  VL 

The  first  of  this  very  eminent  family,  mentioned 
by  Dvodals,  after  a  fruitless  Inquiry  to  discover 
a  more  ancient  founder, 

SIR  WILLIAM  HOWARD,  was  chief  Justice  of 
the  court  ot  Common  Pleas  txom  li87  to  1306.  This 
learned  person  had  large  possessions  in  Wigenhale, 
in  the  north-west  parts  of  the  county  of  Norfolk  i 
and  he  had  summons  in  the  83rd  Edward  I.  amcmgst 
the  rest  of  the  judges,  and  the  king's  learned  coun- 
clli  to  the  parliament  then  hdd  at  Westminster,  as 
also  to  those  parliaments  of  85th,  88th,  and  38nd  of 
Edward  L,  and  1st  Edward  II.  Sir  William'm.  first, 
Alice,  daughter,  and  eventually  heir  of  Sir  Edward 
Fitton,  Knt.,  by  whom  he  had  two  sons,  John  and 
William.  He  espoused  secondly,  Alice,  daughter  of 
Sir  Robert  UiRnrd,  but  had  no  Issue,  He  was  «.  by 
his  elder  son, 

SIR  JOHN  HOWARD,  of  WiggenhaU,  who.  in 
the  34th  Edward  L,  being  one  of  the  gentlemen  of 
the  king's  bed-chamber,  obtained  the  wardship  of 
the  lands  and  heir  of  John  de  CrOkedale,  a  person 
of  note  in  Norfolk  t  and  on  the  accession  of  King 
Edward  II.  had  oxden  to  attend  his  coronation  at 
2  N  673 


HOW 


HOW 


Wflttminater,  the  Sunday  next  after  the  ftest  of  St 
Valentine.  He  subiequently  dittinguiriied  himself 
te  the  wan  of  Gaicony  and  Scotland ;  and  was  sheriff 
of  the  counties  of  Norfolk  and  Suflblk,  from  the 
11th  to  the  16th  Edward  If.  inclusiTe.  Sir  John  m, 
Joan,  sister  of  Richard  de  Comwall,  and  dying  in 
1391*  was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR  JOHN  HOWARD,  who,  in  the  9th  Edward 
III.,  was  constituted  admiral  and  captain  of  the 
king's  navy  firom  the  mouth  of  the  Thames  north- 
ward, and  the  next  year  had  an  assignation  of 
£1B3. 7#.  6d.  for  the  wages  of  himself,  with  his  men 
at  arms  and  archers  in  that  serrice.  This  gallant 
person  m.  Alice,  daughter  of  Sir  Robert  de  Boys, 
and  sister  and  heir  of  Sir  Robert  de  Boys,  of  Fers- 
fleld,  in  Norfolk,  by  which  marriage  the  whole  in- 
heritance of  the  BoysTs  came  into  the  Howard 
family.    He  had  issue, 

RoBSKT  (Sir),  of  Fersfleld.  This  genUeman 
was  committed,  in  the  Snd  Richard  II.,  to 
the  Tower,  for  detaining  Margery  de  Nar- 
Hord,  from  Alice,  Lady  Nevil,  her  grand- 
mother, with  whom,  on  her  petition  to  the 
king  and  council,  she  had  been  appointed  to 
remain  till  the  cause  of  divorce  between  her 
and  John  de  Brewer  should  be  determined 
in  the  court  of  Rome.  This  Sir  Robert 
Howard  m.  Margoy.  daughter  ot  Robert, 
Lord  Scales,  of  Newcells,  and,  at  length,  one 
of  the  heirs  of  that  family,  by  whom  he  left 
at  his  decease*  (1388,)  prior  to  the  death  of 
his  father, 
JoRH,  successor  to  his  grandfather. 
Margaret,  m.  to  William  de  Lisle. 
Sir  John  Howard  was  «.  by  his  grandson, 

SIR  JOHN  HOWARD,  who  was  sheriff  of  the 
counties  of  Essex  and  Hertford,  Snd  Henry  IV., 
and  again  in  the  3rd  and  7th  Henry  V.,  and  in  the 
9th  of  the  latter  reign  he  was  one  of  the  knights  of 
the  shire  for  the  county  of  Cambridge.  He  m.  first, 
Margaret,  daughter  and  heir  of  Sir  John  Plais,  of 
Tofte,  in  Norfolk,  and  of  Slansted  Mountfitchet,  in 
Essex,  by  whom  he  had  issue, 

John  (Sir),  who  m.  Joan,  daughter,  of  Sir 
Richard  Walton,  and  sister  and  heir  of  John 
Walton,  Esq.,  of  Wyvenhoe,  in  Essex,  by 
whom,  dying  In  the  llfe-dme  of  his  father, 
he  left  an  only  daughter  and  heir, 

Elisabbth,  who  m.  John  Vere,  Earl  of 
Oxfbrd,  whereby  the  Baiony  of  Scales 
centered  in  the  Veres. 
Margaret,  m.  first,  to  Sir  Constantino  Clifton, 
of  Buckinham  Castle,  Norfolk,  and  secondly, 
to  Sir  Gilbert  Talbot. 
Sir  John  Howard  espoused,  secondly,  Alice,  daugh- 
ter and  heir  of  Sir  William  Tendrlng,  of  Tendfing, 
and  had  two  sons,  vis.  * 

1.  RoBSBT  (Sir),  who  sa.  Margaret,  eldest 
daughter  of  Thoasas  de  Mowbray,  Duke  of 
Norfolk,  by  Elisabeth,  his  wife,  daughter 
and  co-heir  of  Richard  Fits-Alan,  Earl  of 
Arundel,  and  cousin  and  co-heir  of  John 
Mowbray,  Duke  of  Norfolk.  By  this  mar- 
riage the  inheritance  of  those  great  ftmiUes 
became  eventually  vested  In  this  of  the 
Howards,  and  by  Isabel,  the  other  co-heir  in 
274 


that  of  Berkeley.   Sir  llobert  dying  beftiili 
his  father,  left  issue  by  this  great  heiress, 
John,  successor  to  his  grandfather. 
Margaret,   m.   to  Sir   William   Daniel, 

Baron  of  Rathwire,  in  Ireland. 
Caths&ine,  the  second  wife  of  Edward 
Nevil,  Lord  Abergavenny. 
S.  Henry,  who,  by  the  gift  of  his  father,  had 
Wigenhall,  and  other  manors,  in  the  county 
of  Norfolk,  IN.  Mary,  daughter  of  Sir  Henry 
Hussey,  and  left  an   only  daughter   and 
heiress, 

Elizabbtb  HoWABn,  who  m.   Henry 
Wentworth,  Elsq.,  of  Codham,  in  Essex. 
Sir  John  Howard  was  «.  by  his  grandson, 

SIR  JOHN  HOWARD,  an  eminent  YorkUt, 
distinguished  not  only  by  his  birth  and  possessions, 
but  by  the  various  places  of  high  trust  which  he 
filled  during  the  reigns  of  Edward  IV.  and  Richard 
III.  He  was  first  summoned  to  parliament  as  a 
BABON  on  the  15th  October,  1470,  and  had  summons 
from  that  period  as  Loan  Howabd,  until  the  Ifttb 
November,  1588.  In  the  next  year  he  was  created 
Duke  of  Norfolk,  and  made  earl  marshal  of  England. 
The  ultimate  fall  of  this  nobleman,  at  Bosworth-field, 
under  the  banner  of  Richard  III.,  is  so  well  known 
that  It  is  hardly  necessary  to  mention  it  here.  From 
the  creation  of  the  Dukedom  of  Norfolk,  in  the 
Howard  family,  the  Babony  of  Howabd  con- 
tinued merged  therein,  and  was  included  in  the 
numerous  forfeitures  and  restorations  which  attend- 
ed that  dignity,  until  the  demise  of  Edwabd 
Howard,  eleventh  Duke  of  Norfolk,  in  1777,  when, 
with  several  other  baronies,  it  fell  into  abbvancb 
between  the  two  daughters  and  co-heirs  of  his  grace^s 
brother,  Philip  Howard,  Esq.,  of  Buckenham,  in 
the  county  of  Norfolk,  namely,  Winifrede,  Lady 
Stourton,  and  Anne,  Lady  Pbtrb,  thus : — 

HENRY  HOWARD,  created  Baron  of  Castle 
Rising,  and  Earl  of  Norwich,  m.  Anne,  daughter  of 
Edward,  Marquess  of  Worcester,  and  left  issue, 

Henry,  who  succeeded  his  uncle,  as  Duke  oC 

Norfolk. 
Thomas,  who  m.  Elisabeth-Maria,  only  daugh- 
ter and  hAx  of  Sir  Henry  Savile,  BarL,  of 
Copley,  in  the  county  of  York,  and  had 
issue, 

Thomas,  who  succeeded  his  uncle  as 

Duke  of  Norfolk. 
Edward,  who  «.  his  brother  as  Duke  of 

Norfolk,  and  died  «.  i».  In  1777* 
Philip,  m.  first,  WiniArede,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Stoncr,  Esq.,  and  bad  an  only 
surviving  daughter, 

WiNirBBOB,m.  to  William,  Lord 
Stourton,  by  whom  she  was 
mother  of 

CHARI.B8-PHILIP,  Lord  Stour- 
ton,  father  of 
William,  present  Lord 
Stourton. 
Mr.  Philip  Howard  espoused,  secondly, 
Hsrriet,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Ed- 
ward Blovmt,  Esq.,  and  had  an  only 
surviving  daughter, 

Annb,  who  m.  Robert-Edward, 


now 


HOW 


LocD  P>TBS,  and  wm  mother 
of 

Robcrt^Bdward,  LordPetre, 
father  of 

IVmUtm  '  Fratui*,  pre- 
■ent  Lono  Pctbs. 
Upon  the  decaaae  of  ROunrd  Howard,  eleTenth 
DuKB  OF  NomroLK»  in  1777*  inueleii,  as  stated 
mbovei  Che  Basokt  of  Howard,  separated  ftrom 
the  dttkedom,  and  fell  into  abcyamcb  between  his 
gnoTs  nleeca,  as  it  still  continues  between  tlieir 
grandsons*  the  Lonna  Psmn  Airo  Stoubton. 

Abmb.— Gules,  on  a  bond  betwesn  six  cross  croa- 
lala>  fltchy,  ar. 

HOWARDuJ>UK£S  OF  NORFOLK. 

The  DoKBOOM  or  Nobfolk  came  into  the 
Howard  fSsmily,  by  the  creation  of  Jobr  Howabo, 
Earl  Marshal,  and  Duke  of  Norfolk,  on  the  iSth 
June,  1483.  The  said  Jolm  Howard  was  son  and 
heir  oi  Sir  Robert  Howard,  by  Margaret,  daughter 
of  Thomas  Mowbray,  first  Duke  of  Norfolk  of  that 
fsmily,  and  cousin,  and  ultimatriy  co-heir  of  John 
Mowbray,  fourth  and  last  Duke  of  Norfolk,  of  the 
Mowbrays.  The  Dukbdom  or  NoBFOXiK  has  since 
been  flrequently  forfeited  by  the  Howards  i  but  as 
it  has  now  continued  uninterruptedly  for  the  greater 
part  of  two  centuries  in  the  family,  it  is  deemed 
more  correct  to  place  it  amongst  sjrftml  than  exti$%et 
honours ;  the  reader  is  therefore  lefeired  to  Burke^s 
Dictionary  of  the  Peerage  and  Baronetage  ton  a  full 
and  accurate  detail  of  the  family  of  Howard,  Dukes 
of  Norfolk. 

Abms.— Quarterly,  first  gu.  on  a  bend  b«tw,  six 
eross-eroaslets,  fitchte,  ar.  an  escocheon  or.  charged 
with  a  demi-lion,  rampant,  pierced  through  the 
mouth  with  an  arrow,  within  a  double  tressure, 
flory,  counterflory,  gu.  for  Howabdi  second,  gu. 
three  lions,  passant,  gardant,  in  pale,  or.  in  chief  a 
label  of  three  poinU,  ar.  for  Brotbbbtok;  third, 
chequy,  or.  and  as.  for  Warbbn  i  fourth^  gu.  a  lion 
rampant,  ar.  armed  and  langued,  ax.  for  Mow- 
bbay  i  behind  the  shield  two  trunchetms,  or  mar- 
shals staves,  in  saltier,  or.  enamelled  at  the  ends,  sa. 
(the  ina^gnu  of  carl  marshal). 

HOWARD- VISCOUNTS  HOWARD, 
OF  BINDON,  IN  THE 
COUNTY  OF  DORSET. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  Uth  January,  ISB9» 

Xincagt. 

THOMAS  HOWARD,  third  Duke  of  Norfolk, 
married,  first,  the  Lady  Anne  Phmtagenet,  one  of 
the  daughters  of  King  Edward  IV.,  by  whom  he  had 
an  only  son,  Thomas,  who  died  young.  His  grace 
espoused,  secondly.  Lady  Elisabeth  Staflbrd,  daugh- 
ter of  Edward*  Duke  of  Buckingham,  by  whom  he 
had  issue, 

Hbnbv,  the  celebrated  Eabl  or  Subbxv, 
who  suflteed  decapitation  in  I647>  leaving  a 
son,  Thomas,  who  inherited  the  honours  of 
the  house  of  Norfolk. 
Thomas,  of  whom  presently. 


Mary,  m.  to  Henry  FIti-Roy,  Duke  of  Rich- 
mond, natural  son  of  King  Henry  VIII. 
The  second  son, 

LORD  THOMAS  HOWARD,  was  restorad  in 
blood,  (his  father  having  been  attainted,  and  only 
saved  ftom  execution  liy  the  death  of  King  Henry 
VIIL,)  in  the  first  year  of  Queen  Mary,  and  wwf 
elevated  to  the  peerage  on  the  13th  January,  1600, 
as  ViBoouiTT  HowABD,  OF  BiNBOB,*  in  the  county 
of  Dorset.  His  lordship  m.  first,  Elisabeth,  younger 
daughter  and  co-heir  of  John,  Lord  Mamey,  by 
Christian,  daughter,  and  eventually  sole  harass  of 
Sir  Roger  Newbuigh,  of  East  LuUworth,  in  the 
county  of  Dorset.  By  this  lady  Lord  Bindon  ac- 
quired very  considerable  estates  in  Dorsetshire, 
amongst  which  was  the  manor  of  Bindon,  and  had 
issue, 

Henry. 

ThOEMib 

Elisabeth,  died  unmarried. 
Grace,  fa.  John,  son  and  bdr  of  Sir  John 
Honey,  of  CUItoB,  in  the  county  of  Dorset, 
but  died  «.  p. 
His  kurdahip  espoused,  secondly,  GertrndOk  daugh- 
ter of  Sir  William  Lyte,  of  Billesdon,  in  Somerset- 
shire, and  had  ason, 

Charles  Lyte  Howard,  who  left  two  daughters, 
vis. 

Catherine,  m.  to  Thomas  Thynne,  Esq., 
and  had  issue. 
Sir  Henry  Thynne,  Bart,  ancestor  of 
the  BCarquess  of  Bath. 
Anne,  m,  to  Sir  William  Thomyhurst, 
KnL,  of  Agenamrt,  in  Kent. 
Lord  Bindon  m.  thirdly,  Mabell,  daughter  of  Nicho- 
las Burtottt  Esq.,  of  Carshalton,  in  Surrey,  by  whom 
he  had  a  daughter,  Frances,  m.  first,  to  Hairy  Pra- 
nel,  Esq.,  of  Barkway,  in  the  county  of  Hertford  t 
secondly,  to  Edward  Seymour,  Earl  of  Hertford; 
and  thirdly,  to  Lodowick  Stuart,  Duke  of  Rich- 
mond, but  had  no  issue.    His  lordship  wedded, 
fourthly,  Margaret,  daughter  of  Henry  Manning, 
Esq.,  of  Greenwich.    He  died  6th  April,  1682,  and 
was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

HENRY  HOWARD,  second  Viscount,  who 
espoused  Frances,  daughter  of  Sir  Peter  Mewtas, 
Knt.»  of  Essex,  by  whom  he  had'an  only  daughter, 
Dougtass,  who  m.  Sir  Arthur  Gorges,  Knt.  His 
lordship  d..in  1600,  and  was  «.  by  his  brother, 

THOMAS  HOWARD,  third  Viscount,  who  was 
instaUed  a  Knight  of  the  Garter  in  May,  1008.  His 
lordship  m.  Grace,  daughter  of  Bernard  Duflleld, 
Esq.,  Imt  died  without  issue  in  1619,  when  the  Via- 
oouNTV  OF  BufDON  became  bxtinct.  His  lord- 
ship deviled  liis  estate  to  his  kinsman,  Thomas, 
Earl  of  Suflblk,  and  entailed  it  on  Henry,  Viscount 
Howard,  Giles  Howard,  Henry,  Earl  of  Northamp- 
ton, WilUam,  Lord  Howard,  and  their  heirs. 

ABiia.--<Same  as  the  other  noble  house  of 
Howard. 

•  DueoAi.B  states,  **  Howard  of  Bindon"  to  have 
been  his  kwdship's  title.  Bbatson,  makes  it  ««  Vis- 
count Bindon,  of  Bindon." 

«7i 


HOW 


HOW 


HOWARD  — EARLS  OF  NOTTING- 
HAM,  EARLS  OF  EF- 
FINGHAM,  IN  THE 
COUNTY  OF  SURREY. 


Eorlddm  of  Not- 
tingham 

Earldom  of 
flngham* 


STot-^ 

Ef-  r  Pi 


8th  December,  1731. 


Lcttew  f^**  ®****^'  ^^^ 
Patent,    J  ^ 

LORD  WILLIAM   HOWARD,   ddcet   Mn  of 
Thomas,  Duke  of  Norfolk,  by  Agnes,  his  second 
duchess,  sister  and  heiress  of  Sir  Philip  Tilney,  of 
Boston,  in  the  county  of  Lincoln,  having  been 
accredited  by  King  Henry  VIII.  and  Edward  VI., 
up<m  numerous  confidential  missions  to  foreign 
courts,  amongst  others,  in  1053,  tu  the  Csar  of 
Muscovy,  (being  the  first  ambassador  fkom  England 
to  Russia,)  was  devated  to  the  peerage  in  the  first 
year  of  Queen  Mary,  on  the  11th  March,  1AM,  as 
Baron  Howaro,   of   ErFiifOHAiff,  and  consti- 
tuted in  the  same  month  lobd  hxoh  adhikal  of 
her  mi^esty*s  dominions.    His  lordship  was  soon 
afterwards  installed  a  Knight  of  the  Garter,  and  in 
the  ensuing  reign  be  was  made  lord  chamberlain  of 
the  household,  and  then  lord  privy  seal.    His  lord- 
ship m.  first,  Katharine,  one  of  the  sisters  and  heirs 
of  John  Broughton,  Esq.,  by  whom  he  had  an  only 
daughter,  Aoxis,  who  nu  William  Paulet,  third 
Marquess  of  Wbichester.  and  died  in  1601.    Lord 
Howard    espoused,    secondly,    Margaret,    second 
daughter  of  Sir  Thomas  Oamage,  KnL,  of  Coity, 
In  the  county  of  Glamorgan,  and  had  issue, 
Crarlvb,  his  successor. 
William  (Sir),  of  Lingfield,  in  the  county  of 
Surrey,  who  fR.  Frances,  daughter  of  Wil- 
Ham  Gouldwell,   Esq.,  of  Oouldwell  Hall, 
Kent,  and  had  issue, 
Edward,  "^ 

Francis,  Vail  knights. 
Charles,  } 
Sir  WiUiam  d.  in  1600,  and  was  s.  by  his 
eldest  son. 

Sin  Edward  Howard,  who  died  s.  |i.  in 

16S0,  and  was  #.  by  his  brother, 
Sir  Francis  Howard,  of  Great  Book- 
ham,  who  m.  Jane,  daughter  of  Sir 
William  Monson,   of  Kinnersley,  in 
Surrey,  and  was  #.  by  his  eldest  son, 
SirCharlbb  Howard.  Thlsgen> 
tleman  m.  Frances,  daughter  of 
Sir  George  Courthorpe,  of  Whi- 
ligh,  in  the  county  of  Sussex, -and 
dying  in  1679,  left  issue, 

Francis,    who  succeeded  as 
fifth  Lord  Howard,  of  Bf- 
finohah. 
George,    whose    great    grand- 
son, 

KXNNRTR  •  AlRXANDBR 

Howard,  Esq.,  suc- 
ceeded to  the  BARONY 
upon  the  decease  of  the 
last  Earl  of  Effing- 
ham, in  1816,  and  is  the 
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present  Lord  Howard, 
of  Effingham. 
Douglas,  m.  first,  to  John,  Lord  Sheffield; 

secondly,  to  Robert,  Earl  of  Ldcester ;  and 

thirdly,  to  Sir  Edward  Staflbrd,  of  Grafton, 

Knt. 
Mary,  m.  first,  to  Edward,  Lord  Dudley,  and 

secondly,  to  Ridurd  Mompesson,  Esq. 
Fiances,  m.  to  Edward,  Earl  of  Hertford,  and 

died«.p.faiia08. 
Martha,  m.  to  Sir  George  Bourchier,  Knt., 
•  third  son  of  John,  Earlof  Bath. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1073,  and  was  «.  by  his  ddest  son, 
SIR  CHARLES  HOWARD,  second  Baron 
Howard,  of  Effingham,  so  celebrated  for  his  glo- 
rious deflMt  of  the  formidable  armada.  This  emi- 
nent person  was  initiated.  In  the  life-time  of  his 
father,  in  the  aflUis  of  state,  having  been  de- 
puted by  Queen  Elisabeth  on  a  special  embassy  to 
Charles  LX.  of  France  Upon  his  return  he  was 
elected  to  parliament  by  the  county  of  Surrey,  and 
was  made  general  of  horse,  in  which  capacity  he 
distinguished  himself  in  suppressing  the  rebellion 
raised  by  the  Earls  of  Northumberland  and  West- 
morland. The  following  year  he  was  sent  with  a 
fieet  of  men  of  war,  to  convey  the  Lady  Anne  of 
Austria,  daughter  of  the  Emperor  Maximilian, 
going  into  Spain,  over  the  British  seas.  In  1974  he 
was  installed  a  Knight  of  the  Garter,  and  appointed 
lord  chamberlain  of  the  household.  In  1586  his 
lotdship  was  one  of  the  commissioners  for  the  trial 
of  the  unhappy  Queen  of  Scotland  \  he  had  been 
previously,  on  the  death  of  the  Eerl  ct  Lincoln  in 
1085,  constituted  lord  high  admiral  of  Eng- 
land, in  which  capacity  he  had  the  high  honour 
of  preserving  his  native  shores  from  the  hostile  toot 
of  the  foreigner,  and  the  dispersion  of  the  Spanish 
armada,  has  stamped  with  immortslity  the  illus- 
trious name  of  Howa  rd  of  Effingham.  For  this 
great  service  his  royal  mistress  not  only  rewarded 
him  with  a  pension,  but  ever  after  considered  him 
as  a  person  bom  for  the  especial  preservation  of  her 
realm.  His  next  achievement  was  the  conquest  of 
Cadis,  for  which  he  was  created,  SSnd  October,  1507, 
Earl  of  Nottingham.  Upon  the  accession  of 
King  James  I.  his  lordship  was  continued  in  the 
post  of  lord  admiral,  and  constituted  for  the  occa- 
sion of  that  monarch's  coronation  lord  high 
8TBWARD  OF  ENGLAND..  We  afterwards  find  the 
earl  taking  a  prominent  part  at  the  nuptials  of  the 
Princess  Elisabeth  with  the  elector  Palatine,  which 
is  thus  recorded  by  Arthur  Wilson.  **  In  February 
(1618)  following  the  death  of  Prince  Henry,  the 
prince  palatine,  and  that  lovely  princess,  the  Lady 
Elisabeth,  were  married  on  Bishop  Valentine's  day, 
in  all  the  pomp  and  glory  that  so  much  grandeur 
ooukl  express.  Her  vestments  were  white,  the  em* 
blem  of  innocency;  her  hair  dishevelled,  hanginv 
down  her  back  at  length,  an  ornament  of  virginity ; 
a  crown  of  pure  gold  upon  her  head,  the  cognisance 
of  m^festy,  being  all  over  beset  with  precious  gems, 
shining  like  a  constellation ;  her  train  supported  by 
twelve  young  ladles  in  white  garments,  so  adorned 
with  Jewels,  that  her  path  looked  like  a  milky  way. 
She  was  led  to  church  by  her  brother.  Prince  Charles, 
and  the  Earl  of  Northampton.    And  while  the  Arch- 


HOW 


HOW 


bishop  of  CMJterfamy  mm  ■otemniiing  the  nuuTl«gt 
lome  Gorufcatloiis  and  lightning!  of  Joy  appeared  In 
her  countenance,  that  exprened  more  than  an  ordi- 
nary smile,  being  almost  dated  to  a  laughtar*  which 
oouJd  not  clear  the  air  of  her  fate,  but  was  rather  a 
forerunner  ot  more  sad  and  dire  events;  which 
shews  how  slippery  nature  is  to  toll  us  alongto  those 
things  that  bring  danger,  yea  sometimes  destruction 
with  them* 

"  She  returned  from  the  diapel  betweai  the  Duke 
of  Lenox,  and  the  Earl  of  Nottingham,  lord  high 
admiral,  two  married  men.  The  city  of  London 
(that  with  high  magnificence  ftaated  the  prince 
palatine  and  his  noMe  retinue,)  presented  to  the 
fidr  bride  a  chain-of  oriental  pearl,  by  the  hand.of 
the  k»d  mayor  and  aldermen,  (in  thcdr  scarlet  and 
gold  chain  acooutrements,)  of  such  a  jahie  as  was 
fit  for  them  to  give,  and  her  to  receive.  And  the 
people  of  the  kingdom  in  general  being  summoned 
to  a  contribution  fi>r  the  marriage  of  the  king's 
daughter,  did  shew  their  allbctions  by  their  bounty. 
And  though  it  be  the  custom  of  our  kings  to  pay 
their  daughters'  portions  with  their  sul^ects'  purses, 
yet  an  hundred  years  being  almost  past  since  such  a 
precedent,  it  might  have  made  them  unwilling  (if 
their  obedience  had  not  been  ftill  ripe,)  to  recal 
such  obsolete  things,  as  are  only  in  ptactice  now  by 
the  meanest  of  the  people." 

In  1619,  the  earl  resigned  the  office  of  lorp  ab- 
M iRAii.  He  was  now  eighty-three  years  of  age,  and 
desirous  of  repose;  but  not  caring  to  lose  the  prece- 
dence which  that  dignity  gave  him,  the  king,  ac- 
cording to  Collins,  confnrred  upon  him,  by  a  special 
patent,  the  privilege  of  taking  place,  as  his  ancestor 
(John,  Lord  Mowbray,  Earl  of  Nottingham)  had 
done  in  the  time  of  Richard  II.  His  lordship  m. 
flnt,  Katharine  Carey,  daughter  of  Henry,  Lord 
Hunsdon,  and  had  issue, 

Wii<iiiAH,  who  was  summoned  to  parliament 
in  his  father's  life-time.  Hem.  Anne,  daugh- 
ter and  sole  heir  of  John,  Lord  SL  John,  of 
Bletso,  but  died  before  his  father,  leaving 
an  only  daughter  and  heiress, 

Elisabeth,  who  m.  John,  Lord  Hordaunt, 
afterwards  Earl  of  Peterborough. 
Cbarlxs,  who  succeeded  his  father  as  second 

earL 
Elisabeth,  m.  first,  to  Sir  Robert  Southwell,  of 
Woodrising,  in  Norfolk,  and  secondly,  to 
John  Stewart,  Earl  of  Carrick,  in  Scotland. 
Frances,  m.  first,  to  Henry,  Earl  of  Kildare, 
and  secondly,  to  Henry  Broke,  Lord  Cob- 
ham. 
Margaret,  m.  to  Sir  Richard  Leveson,  of  Treo- 
tham,  in  Staflbrdshira 
The  earl  espoused,  secondly.  Lady  Margaret  Stew- 
art, daughter  of  James,  Earl  of  Moray,  and  had 
an  only  surviving  son, 

SiB  CHAR1.S8  Howard,  who  succeeded  his 
half-brother  in  the  dignities.    - 
This   great  person    died   at    Haling    House,   in 
Surrey,  on  the  14th  December,  1624,  and  was  #.  by 
his  eldest  surviving  son, 

CHARLES  HOWARD,  second  Earl  of  Notting- 
ham, who  m.  first,  in  lfi07.  Charity,  daughter  of 
Robert  White,  of  Christ  Church,  Hanu,  and  widow 


of  William  Leche,  of  Sheffield,  in  Fletching.  in  Sus- 
sex. He  espoused,  secondly,  Mary,  eldest  daughter 
of  Sir  William  Cockayne,  KnL,  aldennan,  and 
some  time  hnd  mayor  of  London  t  but  had  issue  by 
neither.  He  d.  3rd  October,  1642,  and  was  «.  by  hia 
half-brother, 

SIR  CHARLES  HOWARD,  third  Earl  of  Not. 
tingham.  This  nobleman  m.  Arabella^  daughter  of 
Edward  Smith,  Esq.,  of  the  Middle  Temple,  and 
sister  of  Sir  Edward  Smith,  lord  diief-justice  ot  the 
court  of  Common  Pleas  in  Irdand  t  but  died, «.  p., 
96th  April,  1681,  when  the  xablooh  of  Notting- 
ham became  hxtxhct,  and  the  rarony  or  How- 
ard, or  ErriifOHAM,  devolved  upon  his  kinsman, 
(refer  to  desccndanU  of  Sir  William  Howard,  of 
Langfield,  second  son  of  first  baron,) 

FRANCIS  HOWARD,  Esq.,  of  Oteat  Book- 
ham,  in  Surrey,  as  fifth  Baron  Howard,  or  Er- 
FiNOHAic  This  nobleman  was  governor  of  Vir- 
ginia in  the  reign  of  Charles  IL  His  lordship  m, 
first,  Philaddphia,  daughter  of  Sir  Thomas  Pd- 
ham,  Bart.,  great-grandfiither  of  Thonun,  Duke  of 
Newcastle,  and  had  surviving  issue, 
Thomas,  ) 
Francis,  j  recessive  peeis. 

Elisabeth,  m.  first,  to  William  Roberts,  Esq.,  ot 
WeUesden,  in  the  county  of  Middloex;  and 
seccmdly,  to  William  Hutcheson,  Esq. 
Lord  Howard  m.  secondly,  Susan,  daughter  of  Sir 
Henry  Felton,  of  Playford,  in  the  county  of  Suf- 
folk, and  widow  of  Thomas  Herbert,  Esq. ;  but  had 
no  issue.  He  d.  SOth  March,  16B4,  and  was  «.  by  his 
elder  son, 

THOMAS  HOWARD,  sixth  baxon  Howard,  of 
Effingham.  This  noUeman,  who  was  one  of  the 
gentlemen  of  the  bed-chamber  to  George,  Prince  of 
Denmark,  m,  first.  Mary,  daughter  and  heir  of 
Ruishe  Wentworth,  Esq.,  son  and  heir  of  Sir  Geoige 
Wentworth,  a  younger  brother  of  Thomas,  Earl  of 
Straftird,  by  whom  he  had  two  daughters, 

Anne,  m.  to  Sir  William  Yonge,  K.B.,  and  B«* 

ronet  of  Escote,  Devon. 
Mary.  m.  to  George- VenaUes  Vernon,  Esq.,  of 
Sudbury  in  Derbyshire,  afterwards  created 
Lord  Vrrnon. 
His  lordship  espoused,  secondly,  Elisabeth,  daugb. 
ter  of  John  Rotheram.  Esq.,  of  Much-Waltham,  in 
the  county  of  Essex,  and  widow  of  Sir  Theophilus 
Napier,  Bart.,  of  Luton-Hoo,  in  the  county  of 
Bedford;  but  had  no  issue.    Hed.  10th  July,  1785) 
and  was  «.  by  his  brother, 

FRANCIS 'HOWARD,  as  seventh  Lord  Howard, 
of  Effingham.  This  nobleman,  who  was  a  military 
officer  of  high  rank,  was  advanced  to  thexARLDOM 
or  ErriNOHAM.  8th  December,  1731,  in  considera- 
tion of  his  gallsnt  professional  services.  In  the 
same  year  he  was  constituted  deputy  earl-marshal 
of  England.  His  lordship  married  first,  Diana, 
daughter  of  MiOor-general  O'Farrel,  by  whom  he 
an  only  son,  * 

Thomas,  his  successor. 
He  espoused,  secondly,  Anne,   sister  of  Robert 
Bristow.  Esq.,  one  of  the  commissioners  of  his 
msjesty's  board  of  green  cloth,  by  whom  he  had  a 
son, 

George,  who  died  young. 

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HOW 


HOW 


The  earl  d,  ISth  February,  174S-3,  tiid  was  «.  by  his 
osly  sunriTing  son. 

THOMAS  HOWARD,  seeond  Karl  of  Efflngham, 
«bo»  on  tba  daoeasc  of  his  IMhar,  was  appointed 
OBFOTY  mABi«-«a.BaBAii  oy  BwofcAirn.  This  no- 
bleman was  also  a  military  character,  and  attained 
tha  rank  of  Bautanant-gcoeral  fai  the  anny.  His 
lordship  m.,  In  1746,  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Peter 
BeetJaed,  Esq.,  of  the  Island  of  Jamaica,  by  whom 
<w|io  espoused,  alter  the  eerPs  decease.  Sir  George 
Howard,  K.B.)  he  had  Issue, 

THOMAa,   Iroccesrive  earls. 

RiCUABO,  j 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  the  Right  Rev.  Henry  Ragi- 
nald  Courtenay,  LL.D.,  Bishop  of  Exeter, 
by  whom  she  had  Issue, 
William  Courtenay,  clerk  assistant  of  the 

l[iarliament 
Thomas  Peregrine  Courtenay,  a  privy* 
coundllor. 
Anne,  m.  to  Lieutenant-oolonel  Thomas  Carle- 
ton,  of  the  29th  regiment  of  foot*  who  died 
In  Canada,  1787* 
Maria,  m.  to  Guy  Carleton,  Lord  Dordiester, 

who  d.  in  1808. 
FtaBCe»>Herring,  d.  unmarried.  In  I796L 
Has  lordship  d,  19th  November,  1763*  and  was  s.  by 
his  elder  son, 

THOMAS  HOWARD,  third  Earl  of  EiBngham, 
who  m..  In  178Bf  Catherine,  daughter  of  Metcalfe 
Proctor,  Esq.,  of  Thorpe,  near  Leeds,  In  Yorkshire, 
by  whom  he  bad  nb  issue.  His  lordship  was  de- 
puty-marshal of  England.  In  1782  he  was  appointed 
treaaurer  ci  the  housdiold,  and,  in  1784,  master  of 
the  mint.  He  was  afterwards  constituted  governor 
of  Jamaica,  in  which  government  he  died,  15th  No- 
vember, 1791,  when  his  lumours  devolved  upon  his 
brother, 

RICHARD  HOWARD,  fourth  Earl  Of  Effing- 
ham. This  nobleman  espoused.  In  1785,  Miss  March, 
daughter  of  John  March,  Esq.,  of  Waresly  Park,  in 
the  county  of  Huntingdon ;  but  had  no  issue.  His 
lordship  d.  11th  December,  1816,  when  the  barowy 
or  Howard,  or  ErriH9BAM,  devolved  upon  his 
liinsman,  Kenneth- Alexander  Howard,  Esq.,  (refer 
to  descendants  of  Sir  William  Howard,  second  son 
of  the  first  lord,)  while  the  babldoh  or  ErriBO- 
HAM  became  bxtibct. 

Abms.— Gu.,  a  bend  between  six  cross  crosslets, 
fitche,  ar.  on  a  bend  t  an  escocheon  or.,  charged  with 
a  demi-lion  rampant,  pierced  through  the  mouth 
with  an  arrow,  within  a  double  tressure,  fiory, 
counterflory  gu. 

HOWARD—  EARL  OF  NORTHAMP. 

TON. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  13th  March,  160t 

lineage. 

HENRY  HOWARD,  the  celebrated  Eari.  ow 
SuRRKY,  beheaded  on  Tower  Hill,  19th  January, 
1547,  laft  by  Frances,  Us  wife,  daughter  of  John  de 
Vere,  Earl  ct  Oxford, 

Thomas,  who  was  restored  to  the  Dukedom 

of  Norfolk. 
Henry,  of  whom  presently. 
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Jane,  m.  to  Charles  Neville,  Barlof  Westmor- 
land. 

Margaret,  m.  to  Heary,  Lord  Serope  of  Bol* 
ton. 

Catherine,  m.  to  Henry,  Lord  Berkeley. 
The  second  son, 

HENRY  HOWARD,  who,  with  his  three  sbtcrs, 
was  restored  In  bk>od,  io  the  first  parliament  of 
Queen  Elisabeth,  during  the  remainder  of  that 
reign,  having  but  a  limited  fortoBe,  lived  in  retire- 
ment, and  made  little  figure  t  but  npon  the  accession 
of  King  James,  he  rose  rapidly  Into  honour,  wealth, 
and  power.  He  was  first  sworn  of  the  privy  ooun* 
dl,  soon  afterwards  constituted  warden  of  the 
Cinque  Ports,  and  constable  of  Dover  Castle,  and 
elevated  to  the  peecage  on  the  13th  March,  1604,  in 
the  dignities  of  Baron  Hmomrd,  of  MamMtt,  and 
Earl  or  North amptoit.  The  nett  year  he  was 
made  one  of  the  commissirmeii  for  exercising  the 
office  of  Earl  Marshal,  and  installed  a  Knight  of 
the  Garter,  and  in  lODB,  he  was  appointed  Lord 
Privy  SeaL 

«  The  character  of  this  nobleman,'*  says  Banks, 
"  is  unnoticed  by  the  Baronaglans  in  geneiml,  though 
other  authors  represent  him  as  the  most  contempti- 
ble and  despicaUe  of  mankind  i  a  wretch,  that  it 
causes  astonishment  to  reflect,  that  he  was  the  son  of 
the  generous,  the  noble,  and  aocomplished  Earl  of 
Surrey !  He  was  a  learned  man,  but  a  pedant,  dark 
and  mysterious,  and  consequently  tax  trom  posses- 
sing masterly  abilities.  He  was  the  grossest  of  flat- 
terers; as  his  letters  to  his  fHend  and  patron,  the 
Earl  of  Essex,  demonstrate.  But  while  he  pro- 
fessed the  most  unbounded  regard  for  Essex,  he  yet 
paid  his  suit  to  the  treasurer  Burghley  i  and  on  the 
fall  of  Essex,  insinuated  himself  so  fkr  into  the 
confldenoe  of  his  mortal  enemy,  Cedl,  as  to  become 
the  instrumcot  of  the  secretary's  correspondenee 
with  the  King  of  Scots,  which  passed  through  his 
hands.  Wherefore,  this  drcumstanoe,  his  intri- 
guing  spirit,  and  the  suflbrings  of  his  fbmily,  for 
Mary,  Queen  of  Scoto,  may,  in  some  measure, 
account  for  the  very  great  favour  he  experienced  on 
the  accession  of  King  James  I."* 

His  lordship  died  unmarried,  15th  June,  1614,  at 
the  palace  he  had  erected  at  Charing  Cross,  (the 
present  Northumberbmd  House,)  when  the  Barony 
or  Howard,  or  Marnhill,  and  theEARi.DOM  ow 
NoRTHAMPTOir,  becsme  bxtiwct. 

AnM8.~Gu.  on  a  bend  between  six  cross,  fitch^, 
ar.  an  escucheon  or.  charged  with  a  demi-lion,  vul- 
neiBted  in  the  mouth  with  an  arrow,  all  within  a 
double  tressure  counterflory,  gu.  a  crescent,  for 
difference. 

HOWARD— BARONS  HOWARD,  OF 
ESCRICK,  IN  THE 
COUNTY  OF  YORK- 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  29th  April,  16S8. 

lineage. 

SIR  EDWARD  HOWARD,  K.B.  (seventh  son 
of  Lord  Thomas  Howard,  who  had  been  created 
Earl  or  SvrroLX,  in  ieu3),  having  derived  the 
Lordship  of  Escrick,  from  his  mother  Cath^ne, 


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eldest  fUughter»  end  co*heiren  of  Sir  Henry  KneHt,  i 
and  heir  of  ber  uncle,  Thonue,  Lord  Knevlt,  of 
Eecrick,  waa  elev»ted  to  the  peerage  on  the  S9th 
April,  16B8,  as  Baaon  Howard,  of  Egerick,  Thia 
ooUeman  acquired  an  infamous  immortality  by 
his  betrayal  of  the  cdebnited  patriots,  Lobi>  Rus< 
BKis,  and  AtMSBMOS  SiDif  xv.  His  lordship,  who  j 
was  involved  in  the  conspiracy  for  which  these 
illustrious  personsmifered  in  the  reign  of  Charles  1 1., 
was  the  chief  evidence  against  Russel,  and  the  only 
one  against  Sidney,  and  thus  made  his  own  peace 
with  thecourt.  Lord  Howard  m.  Mary,  daughterand 
co-heir  of  John,  Lord  Butler,  of  Bramfleld,  and  had 
issue, 

nouAB,    Ituccessors  to  the  barony. 

Cecil  (Sir),  had  an  only  daughter,  who  died  in 

infancy. 
Edward,  UUed  befiiM  Dunkirk,  d.  t,  p. 
Anne,  m.  to  Sir   Charles  Howard,   Earl  of 
Carlisle. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1675*  and  was  s.  by  his  ddest  son, 

THOMAS  HOWARD,  second  baron.  This  no- 
bleman m.  first,  Eltabeth,  daughter  of  J<dm,  Earl 
at  Peterborough,  by  whom  he  had  no  surviving 
issue;  He  espoused,  secondly,  Joane,  daughter  of 
'-:-^  Drake,  Esq.,  but  had  no  issue.  His  lordship 
d.  in  1683,  and  was  «.  by  his  irothei', 

WILLIAM  HOWARD,  thifd  baron,  who  m. 
Frances,  daughter  of  Sir  Jamas  Bridgman,  of  CasUe 
Bromwich,  in  the  county  of  Warwick,  and  niece  of 
the  Lord  Keeper,  Sir  Orhmdo  Bridgman,  by  whom 
he  had  Charles,  with  three  other  sons,  and  two 
dau^ters,  who  ail  deceaaed  issueless.  His  kvdd&ip 
d.  in  1604,  and  was  #.  by  his  eldest  son, 

CHARLES  HOWARD,  fourth  baron.  Thb  no- 
faleinan  m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  and  oo-htir  of 
Gaorge  Brydges,  Lord  Chandos.  widow  of  the  Earl 
of  Inchiquin,  and  of  Lord  Herbert,  of  Cherbury, 
but  dying  without  issue  in  1714,  the  Barokt  or 
Howard,  of  Ebcrick,  became  nxriNcr. 

Arms.— Gu.  on  a  bend  between  six  cross  croaslets 
fitchte  ar.  an  esoocheon  or.  theraon  a  demi-llon 
rampant,  pierced  through  the  mouth  with  an  arrow, 
within  a  double  treasure  oounterilory  gu.  with  a 
fleur-de-lis  for  diAsenoe. 

HOWARD— VISCOUNT  STAFFORD, 
EARLS  OF  STAFFORD. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  12th  September,  1640. 

The  Barowy  of  Stafford  having  been  sur- 
rendered by  Roger  Staflbrd,  the  last  male  hrir  ot 
that  illustrious  family,  to  King  Charles  I.,  (see  Staf- 
ford, Barons  Staflbrd,  Earls  Staflbrd,  9cc,)  that 
monarch  created,  by  letters  patent,  dated  12th 
September,  1040b 

SIR  WILLIAM  HOWARD,  K.B.,  (younger 
son  of  Thomas,  Earl  of  Arundel,)  and  his  wife, 
Mary  Staflbrd,  only  sister  and  hdresa  of  Henry 
Staflbrd,  Lord  Staflbrd,  who  d.  in  16S7,  Baron 
and  BAROfTRBB  Stafford,  with  remainder  to  the 
heira  male,  of  their  bodies,  fisiUng  of  which,  to  the 
hebr*  ftmaie;  and  in  two  monthi  after,  11th  No- 
vember, hia  tordshlp  was  advanced  to  the  Via- 


comtTY  OF  Stafford.  The  ui^ust  fate  of  tfris 
nobleman  is  so  well  known,  that  it  were  a  waste  of 
time  and  space  to  particularise  it  here,  fUrther 
than  his  having  been  tried  at  Westminster  Hall, 
for  high  treason,  as  a  participator  in  the  mock 
popish  plot,  and  his  becoming  the  last  victim  of 
Titus  Oates  and  his  peijured  associates.  His  lord* 
ship  suOired  death  by  decapitation,  on  Tower  Hill, 
in  December,  1670— and  having  been  attainted,  hia 
honours  became  forfritrd,  while  the  rarony  of 
his  lady  was  placed  pretty  much  in  a  similar  situ- 
ation, owing  to  the  bar  raised  by  that  penal  act,  to 
the  inheritance  of  her  children.  The  viscount  left 
Issue, 

Hrnry,  of  whmn  presently. 
John,  m.  first,  Mary,  daughter  of  Sir  John 
Southcote,  Knt.,  of  Merstham,  inthecounty 
of  Surrey,  and  had  issue, 
William,  who  «.  his  unctoi 
John-Paul,  who  succeeded  his  nephew. 
Mary,  m.  to  Francis  Plowden,  Eaq.,  and 
had  issue,  an  only  daughter  and  heiress, 
Mary  Plowdbn,  who  m.  Sir  George 
Jemingham,  and  waa  mother  of 
Sir  William  Jemingham,  whose 
son  and  heir,  Sir  George  William 
Jemingham,  waa  restored  -to  the 
Barony  of  Stafford,   created 
in  1640,  by  the  reversal  of  the  ini- 
quitous attainder  of   Viscount 
Stafford,  in   1638,   and  is  the 
present  Lord  Staflbrd. 
John  Howard,  m.  secondly,  Theresa,  daugh- 
ter of  Robert  Strickland,  Esq.,  and  had  a 
son  and  daughter,  Edward,  and  Harriott. 
Frauds,  m.  Eleanor,  daughter  of  Henry  Stan« 
fbrd  Esq.,  and  had  a  son, 
Henry,  who  died  #.  p. 
Isabella,  m.  to  John  Paulet,  Marquess  of  Win- 
chester. 
Anastasia,  m.  to  George  Holman,   Esq.,   of 
Warkworth,  in  the  county  of  Northamp- 
ton. 
After  the  decease  of  the  viscount,  die  viscountess 
was  created,  on  Ath  October,  1688,  counteai  'of  Staf- 
ford, for  life,  (a  dignity  that  esfired,  in  1099).  Upon 
the  same  day  that  her  ladyship   had  this  new 
honour,  her  eldest  son, 

HENRY  STAFFORD  HOWARD,  was  created 
Earl  of  Staflbrd,  with  remainder,  default  of  male 
issue,  to  his  brothers.  Upon  the  tflidication  of 
King  James  II.,  his  lordship,  following  the  fbrtunes 
of  the  fallen  monarch,  retired  Into  France,  and 
there  married,  3rd  April,  16M.  CUude-Chark>tte« 
eldest  daughter  of  Philibert,  Count  de  Gramont, 
and  EUsabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  George  Hamilton, 
Knt,  but  dying  in  1619,  without  issue,  was  «.  by  his 
nephew, 

WILLIAM    STAFFORD    HOWARD,    second 
Earl  of  Staflbrd,  who  m.  his  first  cousin,  Anne, 
daughter  of  George  Holman,  Esq.,  and  had  issue, 
William  Mathias,  his  successor. 
Mary,  m.  to  Count  Chabot,  of  the  house  of 
Rohan,  in  Francew 

An"t"»«aNuns. 
Anne,        j 

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Hit  lordship  d,  in  Franer*  in  Januaiy,  l733-4»  and 
was  «.  by  his  soot 

WILLI AM-MATHIAS STAFFORD  HOWARD, 
tiiird  Earl  of  StaJIbrd.  This  nobleman  m.  in  1743, 
Henrietta,  daughter  of  Richard  Cantillon,  Esq., 
and  dying  issueless,  in  February,  1750-1,  was  «•  by 
his  ande, 

JOHN-PAUL  STAFFORD-HOWARD,  fourth 
Earl  of  Staflbrd,  who  m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  of 
"—  Ewen,  Esq.,  of  the  county  of  Somerset,  but 
having  no  issue,  the  EAnLDOM  of  STArrono,  at 
his  lordship's  decease,  in  1702,  became  xxtinct. 

The  Barony  of  Stafford,  created  in  1640,  has 
since  been  restored,  in  the  person  of  Sir  George 
William  Jemingham,  Bart.,  (see  issue  of  the  first 
Visct.)  by  the  reversal  of  the  uzOust  attainder  of 
Sir  William  Howard,  first  Baron  Stallbrd. 

Armii.— Gules,  a  bend  betw.  six  crosslets,  AtcMt 
ar.  a  crescent  for  difftrenoe. 

HOWARD— BARONS  HOWARD,  OF 
CASTLE  RISING,  IN  THE 
COUNTY  OF  NORFOLK, 
EARLS  OF  NORWICH. 

Berony,    1  by  Letters  (  27th  March,  16G0L 
Earldom,  f   Patent,    \  19th  October,  1678. 

Itiiuagc. 

HENRY  HOWARD,  second  son  of  Henry-Fre- 
derick Howard,  Earl  of  Arundel,  Surrey,  and  Nor- 
folli,  who  d.  in  16A2,  was  created  on  the  27th  March, 
1669,  Baron  Howard,  of  Castle  Rising,  and  advanced, 
19th  October,  1672,  to  the  EARLooxf  of  Norwich. 
His  lordship  succeeded  his  brother,  Thomas,  (who 
had  been  restored  to  the  dukedom,)  as  Dukb  of 
Norfolk,  in  1677«  His  grace  was  likewise  created 
Earl  Marshal  of  England.  He  m.  first,  Anne, 
eldest  daughter  of  Edward,  Marquess  of  Worcester, 
and  had  issue, 

HxNRT,  his  successor. 

Thomas,  of  Worksop,  in  the  county  of  Not- 
tingham, who  m.  Mary-Elisabeth,  daughter 
and  s<^  heiress  of  Sir  John  Seville,  Bart., 
of  Copley,  in  the  county  of  York,  and  had, 
with  other  issue, 

Thomas,   ^^who  succeeded  in  turn  to 
Edward,  j  the  honours. ' 
Philip,  of  Buckenham,  in  the  county  of 
Norfolk,  who  left  two  daughters  and 
co-bdrs,  namely : — 

WmiFRBD,  m.  to  William,  Lord 

Stourtoh. 
AvNR,  m.  to  Aoftfit  Edward,  Lord 
Prtrx. 
His  grace  espoused  secondly,  Jane,  daughter  of 
Robert  Bickerton,  Esq.,  and  had  four  sons,  all  of 
whom  died  issudess,  and  three  daughters.  He  d. 
in  1684,  and  was  «.  by  hb  dder  son, 

HENRY  HOWARD,  seventh  Duke  of  Norfolk, 
and  BBOOND  Earl  of  Norwich.  His  grace,  m. 
Mary,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Henry  Mordaunt, 
Earl  of  Peterborough,  Arom  whom  he  was.divQrced, 
In  1700.  He  died  in  the  following  year,  and  leaving 
no  issue,  the  honours  devolved  upon  his  nephew, 
THOMAS  HOWARD,  eighth  Duke  of  Norfolk, 
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and  third  Earl  of  Norwich.  His  grace  m.  Mary, 
daughter  and  sole  heiress  of  Sir  Nicholas  Shire* 
buzne,  of  Stoneyhurst,  in  the  county  of  Lancaster, 
but  dying  #.  p.,  in  1732,  was  s.  by  his  brother, 

EDWARD  HOWARD,  ninth  Duke  of  Norlblk, 
and  FOURTH  Earl  of  Norwich,  and  Baron  How- 
ard, OF  Cabtlb  Risino.  This  nobl&nan,  m. 
Mary,  second  daughter  and  oo-heiress,  of  Edward 
Blount,  Elsq.,  of  Blagdon,  in  the  county  of  Devon, 
but  dying  without  issue,  90th  September,  1777,  the 
Baronies  of  Mowbray,  Howard,  &c,  f^  into  abey- 
ance, between  his  two  nieces,  the  daughters  and 
co-heirs  of  Philip  Howard,  of  Buckenham,  as  they 
still  continue  with  their  representatives.  The 
DuKRDOM  OF  Norfolk,  &c.,  passed  to  the  heir 
at  law,  while  the  Barony  of  Howard,  of  Castlb 
Risino,  and  Earldom  of  Norwich,  became  hz- 
tiwct. 

Arms.— Quarterly :— 4rst,  gu.  on  a  bend,  betw. 
six  cTOss<rossiets,  fltchte,  ar.  an  cscocheon  or. 
cliarged  with  a  demi-Uon,  rampant,  pierced  through 
the  mouth  with  an  arrow,  within  a  double  tressure, 
flory,  counterflory,  gu.,  for  Howard  ;  second  gu. 
three  lions  passant,  gardant,  in  pale,  or  in  chief  a 
labd  of  three  pcdnta  ar.  for  Brothhrtoh  ;  third, 
diequy,  or.  and  as.  fbr  Warrrn{  fSourth  gu.  a 
lion  rampant,  or.  armed  a  langued  as.  for  Mow- 
bAay  ;  bdiind  the  shield  two  truncheons,  or  mar- 
shal's staves  in  saltier  or.  enamriled  at  the  ends  sa. 
(the  insignia  of  Earl  Marshal). 

HOWARD  —  EARLS  OF  BINDON. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  SOth  December,  1706. 

ICintagc. 

THOMAS  HOWARD,  VISCOUNT  BINDON, 
at  whose  decease,  #.  p.  in  1619,  Mof  dignity  expired, 
devised  his  estate  to  his  kinsman,  Thomas  Howard, 
Earl  of  Suffolk :  fhMn  whom  lineally  descended, 

HENRY  HOWARD,  fifth  Earl  of  SuflUk,  who 
married  the  Hon.  Mary  Stewart,  only  daughter  and 
heiress  of  Andrew,  Lord  Castle  Stewart,  of  Ireland, 
and  had,  with  other  issue, 

HENRY  HOWARD,  <the  eldest  son,)  who  was 
elevated  to  the  peerage  in  the  life-time  ot  his  Ikther, 
by  letters  patent,  dated  30th  December,  1706,  as 
Boron  ChewierfieU,  in  the  eoutU^  ofJStoojt,  and  Earl 
OF  Bin  dojb.  His  lordship  was  likewise-  constituted 
deputy  Earl  Marshal,  and  in  that  capacity  he  held 
a  Court  of  Chivalry,  96th  September,  1707.  The 
Earl  Suffolk  dying  in  1709,  Lord  Bindon  succeeded 
as  sixth  Earl  of  Suffolk.  His  lordship  m.  first, 
Pendope,  daughter  of  Henry,  Earl  of  Thomond* 
and  had  issue, 

Charlbs- William,  his  successor. 

James,     1 

Thomas,  Vail  died  unmarried, 

Arthur,   } 

Sarah,  m.  in  1721,  to  Thomas  Chester,  Esq.,  of 

Knoole  Park,  in  the  county  of  Gloucester, 

and  died  in  the  following  year. 

The  earl  espoused,  secondly,  Henrietta,  daughter 

of  Henry,  Duke  of  Beaufort,  but  had  no  issue.    He 

d.  9nd  October,  1718,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

CHARLES-WILLIAM  HOWARD,  ievenlhF.arl 


HOW 


HUM 


of  Suilblkf  u  weoad  Eari«  ov  BimMir.  ThSf  no- 
bleman egpouMd  Arabdla,  daughter  and  co-heir  of 
Sir  Samuel  Astry,  Knt.,  hut  had  no  iMuee  His 
lordship,  who  was  Lord  Lieutenant,  and  Gustos 
Rotulorum  ot  the  county  of  Essex,  died  In  Febru- 
ary, 17S2,  when  the  Earldom  of  SuflbUc  devoWed 
upon  his  uncle,  and  the  Baromt  or  CHsaTVA- 
riBLnand  Earldom  of  Bxndok,  became  rxtiitct. 
ARMa^ — Same  as  those  of  the  other  members  of 
the  Howard  ftmily. 

ilOWARD— BARONS  FURNIVAL. 

See  FvRNiVAL. 

HOWE— BARONS  CHEDWORTH. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  ISth  May,  1741. 

This  is  a  branch  of  the  family  of  Hows,  Earls 
Howe,  in  the  esisting  peerage. 

JOHN  HOWE,  Esq.  of  Stowell,  succeeded  to  the 
estates  of  Sir  Richard  Howe,  Bart,  of  Compton,  in 
the  county  of  Gloucester,  and  Weshford,  Wilts,  at 
the  decease,  without  issue,  of  that  gentleman,  in 
1730,  and  was  derated  to  the  peerage  on  ISth  May, 
1741,  as  Baron  Cbbdworth,  qf  Chedworth,  in  tha 
ooun^  q/'  Gioueetter,  His  lordship  m.  Dorothy, 
daughter  of  Henry  Frederick  Thynne,  Esq.,  grand* 
father  of  Thomas,  Viscount  Weymouth,  by  whom 
he  had  surri-ving  issue, 

Jorn-Thynitb,  his  successor. 
HcnryTFrederick,  successor  to  his  brother. 
Thomas,  m.  Frances,  daughter  of  Thomas 
White,  Esq,,  and  left  Johw,  who  inherited 
as  fourth  baron. 
Charles,  who  d,  a  bachelor,  in  1640. 
James,  m.  Susan,  daughter  of  Sir  Humphrey 

Howarth,  but  died  «.  p. 
Willi«m,  died  in  1782. 
Mary,  m.  to  Alexander  Wright,  Esq. 
Anne,  m.  to  Roderick  Gwynne,  Esq. 
His  lordship  d.  in  174S,  and  was  #.  by  his  eldest  son, 
JOHN  THYNNE  HOWE,  second  Baron  Ched- 
worth.    This  nobleman  m.  Martha,  daughter  and 
co-heir  of  Sir  Philip  Parker-arMorley  Long,  Bart., 
of  Arwartoo,  Suflblk,  but  dying  #.  p.  in  176S,  the 
title  devolved  upon  his  brother, 

HENRY  FREDERICK  HOWE,  third  Baron 
Chedworth,  whod.  unmarried,  in.  1781,  and  was«. 
by  his  nephew, 

JOHN  HOWE,  fourth  Baron  Chedworth,  at 
whose  decease,  unmarried,  in  1804,  the  barony  be* 
came  xxtinct. 

ARM8.>-Or,  a  fesse  between  three  wolves'  heads, 
couped  sa.  a  crescent  for  difRsrence. 

HOWE  —  VISCOtTNT  HOWE,  EARL 

HOWE. 

Viscounty,  \by  Letters/  30th  January,  1782. 
Earldom,    J    Patent,    (.  I9th  August,  1788. 

Xfneagc. 

RICHARD  HOWE,  so  celebrated  as  Admiral 
Howe,  succeeded  his  brother  General  Gborob  Au- 
9VBTVB  HowB,   Viscount  Howe,  of  Ireland,  in 


that  dignity  In  1708,  and  was  created  tbir  his  own 
gallant  achievements  a  peer  of  Great  Britain,  on 
30th  January,  1782,  as  Viscourt  Howr,  qf  han- 
gar, in  the  county  of  Nottingham,  and  on  the 
19th  August,  1788,  he  was  advanced  to  the  Earl- 
DOK  or  HowB,  bring  at  the  same  time  created 
Baron  Howe,  ef  hangar,  with  remainder  of  the 
latter  dignity  in  fkilure  of  male  issue,  to  his  daugh- 
ters and  their  male  descendants  respectively.  His 
lordship  was  elected  a  Krxoht  of  thb  Oartbr 
in  1797.  He  IB.  in  1758,  Mary,  daughter  of  Chiver- 
ton  Hartopp,  Esq.,  ai  Wriby,  in  Nottinghamshire, 
by  whom  be  had  three  daughters,  vis. 

S0PHIA-CRARZ.0TTR,  who  Inherited  the  ba- 
rony at  his  lordship's  decease  (Me  BurMe 
roerage  ana  uaronetageja 
MariarJuliana,  d.  unmarried. 
Louisa-Catherine,  m.   first,  to  John-Dennis, 
Marquess  of  Sligoi   and  secondly,   to  Sir 
William  Scott,  KnL,  Lord  Stowell. 
His  lordslyp  d.  5th  August,  1790,  when  the  Vis- 
county and  Earlsok  or  HowB  BzriRBD.    The 
Barony  or  Hows  passed,  according  to  the  UmitaF 
tion,  to  his  eldest  daughter— and  his  Irish  honours 
devolved  upon  the  General,  Sir  William  Howe,  with 
whom  they  also  expired. 

Arms.— Or,  on  a  ftese  between  three  wolves* 
heads  erased  sa. 

HUME —  BARON  HUME,  OF  BER- 

WICK- 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  7th  July,  1604. 

ICtncagt. 

SIR  GEORGE  HUME,  Knt,  sprung  ttom  one 
of  the  most  ancient  fiupiiies  in  Scotland,  having 
accompanied  King  James  L  into  England,  ww 
elevated  to  the  English  peerage  on  the  7th  July, 
1604,  as  Baron  Hums,  if  Berwick,  He  had  pre- 
viously succeeded  Lord  Elphinston  in  the  treasurer- 
ship  of  Scotland,  and  was  created  a  peer  of  that 
kingdom  subsequently  in  the  dignity  of  Earl  or 
Dunbar.  His  lordship,  who  was  in  great  favour 
with  his  royal  master,  was  a  Knioht  ow  tbb  Gar- 
TBR,  chanceUor  of  the  exchequer,  and  master  of  the 
wardrobe.  He  is  characterised  by  the  Archbishop  of 
St,  Audrews  *<  as  a  person  of  deep  wit,  few  words  1 
and  in  his  mi^estys  service,  no  less  faithful  than 
fortunate.  The  most  difficile  aflUrs  he  compassed 
wiUiout  any  noise,  never  returning  when  he  was 
employed,  without  the  work  performed  thAt  he  was 
sent  to  do,"  He  d.  in  1611,  leaving  a  daught^  md 
heiress, 

Ladif  EZ.IZABBTH  Hum K>  who  m.  Theophilus 
Howard,  second  Earl  of  Suffolk. 
Upon  his  lordship's  decease  the  Barony  ov  Hum b, 
of  Bbrwick  became  bxtinct. 

ARMB.-Or,  a  lion  rampant  r^guardant  vert. 

HUME-CAMPBEJiL^BARON  HUME, 
OF  BERWICK. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  SOth  May,  1779. 

ICintagc. 

HUGH  HUME,  third  Earl  of  Marcfamont  in  tho 
90  98 


HUN 


HUN 


ft  OV  m  0»BAT 

Smaju  in  that  Uogdoan*  fjom  Jsnuary,  1764»  to  Msy* 
ITQS-'CipouMd,  flztt.  InlTSl,  A]iiw«dsii^tarof-~ 
Warttm,  Biq.*  by  wImnd  h«  had  thrce  dsughtan, 
vis. 

AmM»  «•.  to  JohB  FfttenoBi  Eaq.,  eldait  ton 
•ad  mwemm  of  Sir  ^ohn  PaMsaoo,.  Bart., 
oTEeclai. 
Itogarat,  m.  toColanel  JaoMi  Stuart 
Diana,  m.  to  Waltar  Soot,  Biq.,  of  Ardou 
Hit  kndahip  «k  Meondly,  EHsalMth,  daughtar  of 
Jir.  WlndnlU  Ctompton,  ot  Loodon,  by  whom  ba 
had  an  only  md, 

ALEXANDER  HUME,  (by  ooiurtaiy  Viaoount 
Polwarth,)  who  m.  in  I77S*  Amabd,  aldar  daughter 
and  co-heir  of  Lady  ^anaima  Campbril,  Mar- 
chiooeH  Gray,  by  her  huataand,  Philip,  Earl  of 
Haidwicka,  and  was  craatad  a  peer  of  Bn^and  on 
theSOth  May,  177^  as  Babov  Hum>,  ^  Berwick, 
His  lorddiip  aasumed  the  addltJonal  surname  of 
CAurBMisiM  He  died  without  iasue  in  17B1,  wImb 
the  Babohy  of  Hums  beoame  sxriucr.  (See 
Counteis  doGiey,  BurM*  Dtetimmrw  <tf  Me  Baerage 
SMitf  B&niuttgemJ 

Anjiai  Qutarty,  irst  grand  <|Baiter,  countor 
quartered  t  1st  and  4th  Tert»  a  lion  nnnpant  ar.  Ibr 
Udiui  jkid  and  flrd.,  ar.  thrae  poplngays  of  the 
Urst  for  PxPDia  ;  Snd.,  ar.  three  piles  ingnUsd,  gu. 
for  PoLWABTH  I  3rd.,  ar.  a  cross  ingrailed,  sa.  for 
SutcLAiWii  the  4th  grand  quarter  as  the  first;  and 
over  all,  as  a  surtout,  an  escutcheon,  ar.  charged 
with  an  orange,  enslgned  with  an  imperial  crown, 
all  ppr.  as  a  ooat  of  augmentation,  given  by  King 
William  IIL,  when  he  created  his  lordship's  ances- 
tor. Sir  PatriclL  Hume,  Lord  Polwarth. 

HUNOERFORD— BARONS  HUNOER. 

FORD. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  7th  January,  1491^ 
4  Henry  VL 

Xincatc. 

Ilia  antiquity  of  this  flunlly  in  tito  county  of 
Wilts  is  proved  by  tht  sheriff's  accounts,  rendered 
the  11th  of  Henry  IL,  wherein 

EVBRARD  DE  HUNOERFORD  is  mentioned, 
by  reason  of  a  fine  of  twenty  pounds  having  been 
tikcn  levied  upon  him.  From  this  Everard  we  shall 
past  to 

SIR  ROBERT  DB  HUNOERFORD,  who,  in 
the  1st  year  of  Edward  III.,  was  constituted  one  of 
tfM  commissioners  to  inquira  and  certify  to  the 
barons  of  the  exchequer  what  lands  and  tenements, 
Jec.,  Hugh  le  Despenser,  Earl  of  Winchester,  and 
Hugh,  hi»  son,  (with  others,  who  sufltered  death  in 
the  last  year  of  King  Edward  Il.'s  reign.)  wen  pos- 
sessed ot  This  Sir  Robert,  who  was  distinguished 
by  his  piety,  gave  to  the  warden  of  the  hospital  of 
St.  John,  at  Calne,  lands  of  considerable  value,  to 
maintain  a  priest  to  pray  for  the  soul  of  Joane,  his 
wife,  for  the  health  of  his  own  soul,  and  those  of  < 
his  parents,  benefactors,  and  all  the  Csithful  de> 
But  in  the  event  of  the  laid  warden  failing 


to  fMfil  the  traat  thus  aepoaad  in  Um,  tte  said 
knds  wera  to  devolve  upon  his  brother  WAX.TBa. 
Sir  Robert  died  in  the  18th  Edward  III.,  and  was  «. 
by  his  said  brother, 

SIR  WALTER  DE  HUNOERFORD,  who  m. 
Bliiaiwth,  daughter  of  Sir  Adam  Fits-John,  and 
was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR  THOMAS  DB  HUNOERFORD,  who,  in 
theaoth  Edward  IIL,  WM  cachealDr  fortheeouaty 
ot  WilU :  and  in  the  51st  of  the  same  reign,  filled 


the  chair  of  the  House  of  Commons  as  BPnABLxa^ 
being  the  first  person  elected  to  that  l^gh  aUcet 
the  Commons  not  having  had  previously  such  an 
offlcer.  In  the  3rd  Richard  II.  Sir  Thomas  obtained 
a  confirmation  of  the  ofllce  of  forester  of  Sdwood, 
which  he  had  formerly  acquired  from  Roger  de 
Sturton.  In  the  0th  of  the  same  monarch  lie  pur- 
chased from  Elisabeth,  tlie  widow  of  Edward,  Lord 
Spenser,  the  manor  of  Haytesbury,  called  the  Wegi 
Oomrt,  together  with  the  hundred  of  Haytesbury. 
The  next  year  having  fortified  his  house  at  Fahlb- 
MoiTTFoaD,  In  the  county  of  SomerMt,  without 
licence,  he  obtained  a  pardon  for  the  aatae,  and  soon 
alter  procured  a  charter  for  free  warren  in  all  his 
demesne  lands.  Sir  Thomas  m.  Joane,  daughter 
and  co-heir  of  Sir  Edmund  Husde,  KnL,  and  dying 
3rd  December,  1306,  was  #.  by  his  son, 

SIR  WALTER  HUNOERFORD,  Knt.,  who, 
in  consideration  of  his  eminent  services  obtained, 
upon  the  accession  of  King  Henry  IV.,  a  grant  of 
£100.  per  annum,  to  be  received  out  of  the  lands  of 
Margaret,  Duchess  of  Norfolk.  In  three  years 
afterwards  Sir  Walter  was  engaged  in  the  wars 
of  France,  and,  subsequently,  for  his  expenses 
in  those  wars,  and  especially  at  Caleb,  where  he 
acquired  great  honour  by  encountering  a  knight  of 
France,  he  had  a  further  grant  of  one  hundred 
marks  per  annum,  payable  out  of  the  town  and 
castle  of  Marlboroug^,  in  Wilts,  and  the  same  year 
was  constituted  sheriff  of  that  county.  In  the  13th 
Henry  IV.,  upon  the  death  of  Joane,  his  mother,  he 
had  livery  of  the  manors  of  Haytesbury  and  Tea- 
fount-Ewyas,  in  the  county  of  Wilts,  and  of  Farle- 
Mountfort,  and  others  In  Somersetshire,  his  homsge 
being  respited.  In  the  4th  Henry  V.  Sir  Walter 
was  c<mstituted  admiral  ot  the  whole  fleet  under 
John,  Duke  of  Bedford,  and  during  that  and  the 
next  two  years  he  appears  to  have  been  been  entirely 
engaged  in  the  wars  of  France.  In  the  latter  year, 
being  at  the  time  steward  of  the  king's  household, 
and  in  his  service  at  the  si^ge  of  Roan,  he  obtained 
a  grant  in  special  tail,  of  the  Barony  of  Hornet,  in 
Normandy,  which  had  formerly  been  enjoyed  by 
Sir  William  de  Montney,  Knt }  rendering  to  the 
king  and  his  heirs  one  lance,  with  a  fox-tail  hang- 
ing thereat  yearly,  upon  the  feast  day  of  the  exa]t»< 
tion  of  the  Holy  Cross  i  and  finding  ten  men  atarms 
and  twenty  archers,  to  serve  him,  or  his  lieutenant 
during  his  wars  with  France.  About  this  time  Sir 
Walter  was  chosen  a  Knioht  of  the  Gartbb.  Con- 
tinuing to  acquire  ftesh  laurels  on  the  French  soil, 
this  gallant  soldier  obtained  a  further  grant  for  his 
services  in  the  9th  of  the  same  reign,  of  the  castle  of 
Neville,  and  territory  of  Breant,  In  Normandy, 
with  divers  other  lands,  which  had  been  the  posses- 
sions of  Sir  Robert  de  Braant*  Knt.  Sir  Walter  waa 


HUN 


HUir 


on*  of  the  OMcaton  to  tli»  will  of  Hnry  V.»  md  ia 
the  Snd  of  theeMuing  reign Jie  waeoonstituted*  by 
adTioe  of  the  lorde  then  sitting  in  parUement, 
•teward  of  the  homehofci  to  the  young  king;  «id 
in  two  yeen  afterwaidi  he  wee  ^ipointed  treemver 
of  the  exchequer,  la  the  6th  Henry  VI.,  heering 
then  the  title  of  *«  Sir  Walter  Hungerfoid.  KnL, 
Lord  of  Heightnebury  and  Hornet,  and  treaaurar  of 
England;'*  he  gave  to  the  dean  and  canons  of  the 
Free-Roya^Chapelof  SL  Stephen,  within  the  king's 
peleoe  of  Westminster,  divers  houses  and  shops  in 
the  perish  of  St.  Anthony,  within  the  dty  of  Lon- 
don, in  consideration  whereof,  they  covenanted  to 
■nak^him  partaker  of  all  their  masias  end  sufllages, 
during  his  lil^  and  after  his  death  to  celebrate  his 
out  annually,  with  Haetbo  and  IMHge,  and  maas  of 
JU0ifi«m,  and  to  make  distribution  thereat,  of 
twenty  pence  to  the  dean,  to  every  canon  twdve 
pence,  to  every  vicar  sixpence,  to  every  clerk  fbur- 
pence,  and  to  the  virger  sixpence.  In  three  years 
afterwards,  being  still  lord  tteeeuiei  of  Bnglend,  his 
lordship  had  licence  to  traneport  duee  thouaand 
marks  for  the  ranaom  of  Sir  Walter  Hungerised,  his 
son,  then  a  prisoner  in  Franoati  His  lordship  m, 
first,  Catherine,  one  of  the  daughters  and  co-heirs 
of  Thomas  Pevecell,  by  his  wife.  Maigarct,  daugh- 
ter of  Sir  Thomee  Coortcney,  Knt..  by  whom  he 
had  issue, 

Walter  (Sir),  who  d.  in  Piovenoe,  before  his 
father. 

RoBaax  (Sir),  of  whom  presently. 

Edmund  (Sir),  m.  Margery,  daughter  and  eo- 
heir  of  Edward  BumeU,  and  grand-daughter 
and  co-heir  of  Hugh,  Lord  Bumdl,  between 
whom  and  her  sisters,  the  Babony  of  Bua- 
Mxu.  fril  into  abeyance  la  1400,  and  so  re- 
mains with  their  rcpreseatatives. 

EUaabeth,  m.  to  Sir  Walter  Courtanay,  Kat. 

Maigaret,  «k  to  Sir  Walter  Rodenay,  Kat. 
Lord  Hungerford  espoueed,  secondly,  Alianoae, 
Countess  of  Arundel,  daughter  of  Sir  ioha  Berke- 
ley, Knight,  but  had  no  issue.  He  was  summoned 
to  parliament  as  a  BAaoa,  from  the  4th  to  the  S6th 
of  King  Henry  Vl.*s  reign  iaduslvsk  By  his  testa- 
ment bearing  date  1st  July,  1449,  wherein  hestyleth 
himsrif  Lord  Hungerlbtd,  Heytesbury,  and  Hornet, 
he  directs  his  body  to  be  burled  in  a  certain  chapel 
in  the  cathedral  church  at  Salisbury,  in  whidi  he 
had  fSounded  a  perpetual  chantry  for  two  chaplains, 
and  wherein  Cattieriae>  hAs  first  wilb  lay  buried ; 
and  alter  some  pious  bequests,  heleaves  to  AUanore, 
Countess  of  Arundel,  his  thea  wife,  all  his  plate, 
both  of  silver  and  gold,  and  likewise  all  those  other 
goods  and  chattels,  whidi  weee  hen  while  ehe  wee 
unmarried.  .To  Sir  Robert  Hungerford,  his  son, 
his  best  Dorser  of  Arras.  To  the  Lady  Maigaret, 
wife  of  his  said  son,  his  best  legend  of  the  lives  of 
saints,  written  in  French,  and  covered  with  red 
doth.  To  Robert  Hungerford,  Lord  MoUnes,  his 
grandson,  his  best  pair  of  curaaies,  with  aU  bdong- 
Ing  thereto;  to  be  made  choice  of  by  him,  out  of 
the  armory  at  Failey-Hvagerford.  To  his  son.  Sir 
Edmund  Hungerford,  KbL,  a  cup  of  gold,  with  a 
cover,  and  a saplrireoo  the  heed  thaeeol  To  Eli- 
sabeth, his  daughter,  a  cup  of  gold.  T<f  Maigaret, 
his  other  daughter,  a  bed  of  silk,  of  black  aad  green 


celour.  Aod  beeaase  hie  mudi  hflBonied  lord,  thd 
Viscount  Beaumont,  was  lineally  deecended  ftoaa 
die  Dukes  of  Leneester,  he  heiniealheil  uafeo  him  a 
cup  of  silver,  with  a  cover  bordered  with  gold,  with 
wUch  cup  the  most  noUe  Prince  ^ohn,  Duke  of 
Lencaster,  was  often  served;  andinwhidihedldoae 
to  drink  so  long  as  he  lived.  And  lastly,  for  the  better 
advancement  of  Amulph  and  William  Hungerford 
(lona  of  the  said  Sir  Robert  Hungerford.  Knt.,  hie 
son),  in  their  marriages,  and  Mary,  daughter  of  tha 
said  Sir  Robert,  he  heqiieethe  to  them  eevea  hun- 
dred merks  sterUng.  His  hwdship  d.  la  1440^  and 
was  #.  by  his  ddest  surviving  son, 

SIR  ROBERT  HUNGERFORD,  Knt,  as  se- 
cond  Benm  Hungerford,  summoned  to  parHimeni 
from  Ath  September,  14fiO.  to  89th  May,  140&  Of 
this  nobleman  very  honourable  m«ktian  ia  made 
regarding  his  services  in  France,  during  the  life-time 
of  his  fother,  under  the  Regent  Bedford.  In  the 
17th  Henry  VI.  he  inherited  the  esUtcs  of  his  aunt, 
Alianore  Talbot,  the  only  sister  of  his  mother,  end 
the  co-heir  of  Thomee  PeverdL  Hie  locdaUp  m. 
Margaret  Botraaux,*  only  daughter  aad  hdz  of 


e  «*  Of  this  Margaret,"  says  Dugdale,  ««  beeides 
her  being  so  great  an  hefar,  and  that  she  lived  to  be 
very  aged,  I  find  much  that  Is  memorabla"    After 
recounting  these  numceoua  cheeitabla  end  pious 
bequests  upon  a  moat  Hberal  scale  in  her  ladyship's 
wUl,  which  taoie  date  12th  Jenuary,  1470,  Sir  Wil- 
liam Dugdale  proceeds  with  the  f oUowiag  pertleu- 
lars  of  the  enormous  sums  her  ladyship  expended 
in  procuring  the  redemption  of  her  son  Robert, 
Lord  Hungerford  and  Molines,  who  had  been  taken 
prisoner  at  Chastillon,  aad  eome  other  diebosee- 
ments,  vis.  i— • 

£.  «.d. 
In  tending  Chester-Herald  Into  France, 
sundry  tieaes,  by  the  space  of  seven 
yesrs  and  sixteen  weeks,  to  procnie 
his  enlargement     •    •    .....       149   0   0 

In  gifts  and  rewards  to  those,  who  had 
part  ia  him     .......ii...       73S   6    8 

la  appard  sent  to  him,  with  an  ambling 
hcnse  to  pleese  his  friends;  end  for 

healing  his  wounds 178   00 

For  meat  end  drink  by  the  space  of  seven 
years,  and  sixteen  weeks,  for  himself 
and  his  servants,  before  he  was  put  to 

his  finance     --A. TfiOOO 

For   the  like  boerd  for  himself  end 
his  servants  efter'  he  was  ^ut  to  Ua 
flnffnfi*      .••.....•«       MS  U   4 
Forhli  financOfe  over  aad  above  all  odier 

expences  and  costs 600O   0  0 

For  exchange  of  money  viiidk  by  the 
noble  (for  peyment  of  bis  ransoea, 

bdng  £7aWL)  paid TV  0  0 

In  gifts  to  divers  noblemen,  which  wave 
sureties  for  her,  upon  borrowiag  of 
money  to  pay  tUs  renaom  t  end  toqult 

those  lords  harmless 94ff   6   0 

Lost  in  the  sale  of  plate,  which  sbesold 

towards  that  payment    ...    -    -       160   0   0 
Item— Paid  fa».  her  eon's  1 


HUN 


HUN 


William,  Lord  Botmux*  who  d.  in  I4ttf  and  had 
iwue, 

RoBBKT,  hit  fuoofiMOr,  who   inbcritttf  the 
Babony  ov  Botbbaux,  In  tight  of  hif 
mother. 
Aniulph* 
William. 
Mary. 
Lord  Hungerford  d,  in  1409,  and  waa  «.  hf  hit  eldeit 


ROBERT  HUNGERFORD,  third  Baron  Hun- 
garford,  wlio  had  been  mammoned  to  parliament, 
(hBTing  married  tlie  heireai  of  Molinci)  in  the  life- 
time of  his  father,  as  Lobd  MoLnrsa.  This  noble- 
man served  in  the  French  wars,  under  the  great 
captain.  Sir  John  Talbot,  the  gallant  and  renowned 
Earl  of  Shrewsbury,  and  was  with  him  at  the  unfor- 


£.  9.  d, 
the  time  he  landed  In  England,  until 
the  time  he  went  into  Florence,  with 
gifts  and  rewards  to  great  lords  and 
other  after  he  escaped  out  of  the  Tower 
of  London ;  and  for  his  licence  to  go  to 
Florence 7«B13    4 

Paid  fbr  shipping  and  expenoes  -    -    -       265   0   0 

Paid  in  expences  of  his  wife,  diildren, 
and  servants,  by  the  space  of  seven 
yean  and  sixteen  weeks ;  with  the  ex- 
poises  of  Sir  Thomas  Hungerford, 
Knt.,  son  and  heir  of  her  said  son, 
waiting  upon  the  Earl  of  Warwick,  in 
the  king's  service,  (after  the  departing 
of  King  Henry,)  arrayed  and  accompa- 
nied for  the  war 80000 

Paid  to  her  said  son's  creditors  to  whom 
he  was  indebted  before  he  went  out  of 
England -.•-       40000 

Paid  and  spent  for  the  composition  of  the 
lands  of  her  late  husband,  Robert, 
Lord  Hungerford,  which  had  been 
divers  times  seised,  and  given  to  several 
gteat  lords 2150    o   q 

In  the  charge  of  being  under  the  arrest 
of  the  Earl  of  Wiltshire,  by  the  king's 
command;  and  to  be  restored  to  her 
Unds  and  goods  -•.- 40000 

In  the  loss  which  she  sustained,  when  she  ' 
was  put  into  the  abbey  of  Ambresbury 
by  the  lord  chancellor  of  EngUnd,  at 
the  king's  command;  her  moveable 
goods  of  great  value  betaag  there  burnt, 
(vis.  ;~Beds  of  cloth  of  gold,  arras  and 
silk  hangings  for  halls  and  chambers; 
plate,  money,  and  other  stuff,)  to  the 
valueof  £1000  more;  besides  repairing 
the  lodgings  so  burnt flOOOO 

Item— When  the  Duke  of  Clarence  and 
the  Earl  of  Warwick  went  out  of  Eng- 
land against  tlie  king's  will :  she  being 
then  put  in  want  to  theyoung  Duchess 
of  Norfolk :  In  making  means  to  the 
kingtobeatSyon;  cost  her     -      -       200    0    0 

Item— Whereas  Robert,  Lord  Hunger- 
ford, her  husband,  ordained  by  his  bst  - 
964 


tunate  battle  of  Chastlllon,  where  that  illustrious 
soldier  lost  his  life,  and  Lord  Molines  became  a 
piisoner.  Whereupon  Alianore,  Countess  of  Arun- 
del, some  time  wife  of  his  grandfather,  Walter, 
Lord  Hungerford,  bestowed  upon  him  all  the  wool 
then  in  her  manor  of  Haytesbury,  valued  at  an 
hundred  marlu,  towards  Che  payment  of  his  ran- 
som, provided  thet  hi^caxm  alive  out  of  prison. 
By  which,  and  oonaideraUesupplies  from  Margaret, 
Lady  Hungerford  and  Botreanx,  his  mother,  he 
obtained  his  freedom,  after  an  Incarceration  of 
seven  years  and  four  months.  In  the  SSth  Henry 
VL,  his  lordship,  in  consideration  of  his  services 
and  his  suflbrings,  obtained  Ucence  to  transport 
fifteen  hundred  sacks  of  wool  Into  any  foreign 
parts,  without  payment  of  custom  for  the  same; 
as  also  to  travel  beyond  sea,  and  to  take  as  many 


£,  s.  d, 
will  to  have  a  chappel  for  his  sepulture 
builded,  a4)olning  to  oaj  lady  diappel, 
in  the  cathedral  church  of  Salisbury, 
and  two. priests  there  to  be  founded; 
and  livelyhood  amortiaed  thereof;  and 
his  and  her  obit  to  be  kept  solemnly  in 
the  said  church.  Whidi  diappd  she 
did  make  accordingly;  and  removed 
his  body  thither  into  a  vault  of  marble, 
and  made  another  tomb  for  herself:  all 
this  cost 49700 

Item— In  ornaments  foif  said  chappel; 
via.  three  pair  of  candlesticks  of  silver ; 
whereof  one  pair  gilt ;  three  pair  of 
cruets,  whereof  one  pair  gilt;  three 
paxrbiedes;  one  bell  of  silver;  nine 
pair  of  altar  cloths;  nine  pair  of  vest- 
menty  mass  books,  leigers,  and  other 
necessaries  to  the  chappel    -   .    .    .       aoo    0   0 

Item— For  license  to  amortise  the  manors 
of  Immer  and  Homyngton,  in  the 
county  of  Wilts,  and  the  manor  of 
Folke,  in  the  county  of  Dorset,  to  the 
dean  and  chapter  of  Salisbdry;  for 
maintenance  of  those  two  priests,  and 
keeping  the  said  eMf  for  ever  ...       178  13   4 

Item— Whereas  Walter,  Lord  Hunger- 
ford, built  an  alms-house  for  twelve 
poor  men  and  one  woman;  and  ahouse 
for  a  sdiool-master.  being  a  priest,  a^ 
well  to  teach  grammar,  as  to  have  the 
rule  and  oversight  of  those  poor  men 
and  women,  at  Haytesbury,  in  the 
county  of  Wilts,  and  ordained  that  the 
manors  of  Chyverell-Bunell,  and  Chf  > 
verell-Halys,  alias  Chyverdl-Magna, 
should  be  amortised  to  the  said  schoc^ 
master,  poor  men,  4rc.>  and  their  suc- 
cessors. This  being  not  performed  in 
his  days,  she  paid  fbr  the  efftrting 
thereof 80000 

Item— In  other  sums,  upon  other  occa- 
sions which  she  paid,  all  which  com- 
puted,  amounted    to  96,180  marfci 
8f.aad«t  :^4^>1>00 


lt<Si)ljU>. 


HUN 


HUN 


I, 


#ith  him  in  his  comiNmy«  with  gold,  silver,  and 
other  neoBMaries,  «■  should  be  suiutde  to  his 
degree.  Upon  this  occasion*  his  lordship  traTelled 
into  Italy.  But  returning  before  long*  he  espoused 
the  Lancastrian  interests,  and  fought  under  the  red 
banner  at  Towton-pibld,  from  which  conflict, 
alter  the  defeat  of  his  party,  he  fled  to  York,  where 
he  Joined  King  Henry,  |md  thence  accompanied 
the  monarch  into  Scotland.  His  lordship  was, 
in  omsequenoe,  attainted  by  the  parliament  as- 
sembled in  the  1st  Edward  IV.  Notwithstanding 
which,  Ki^g  Edward  regarded  his  wife,  Alianore, 
and  his  younger  children,  with  such  feelings  of 
compassion,  that  he  committed  them  to  the  care  of 
Lord  Wenlok,  to  whom  he  had  granted  the  attainted 
lord's  estates,  for  a  fltting  support.  In  three  yean 
afterwards,  the  Lancastrians  again  making  head. 
Lord  Hungerford  was  in  their  ranks  at  the  battle  of 
Hjixhajt,  and  being  made  prisoner,  he  was  con- 
veyed to  Newcastle,  and  there  beheaded,  anno  1463, 
He  was  buried  in  the  cathedral  church  of  Salisbury. 
Hb  lordship  m»  Alianore,  daughter  and  heir  of 
William,  Lord  Molines,  and  had  issue, 
Thomab  (Sir),  €ft  whom  presently. 
Walter,  ancestor  of  the  Lords  Hungerford,  of 

Hay tesbury,  see  that  dignity, 
Leonard. 

Fridiswide,  who  became  a  nun  at  Sion. 
Upon  the  attainder  of  Robert,  Lord  Hungerford 
and  Molines,  these  honours  became  x^tinct.    His 
lordship's  widow  espoused  Sir  Oliver  Manningham. 
Hb  eldest  son, 

SIR  THOMAS  HUNGERFORD,  sided  for  a 
while  with  Richard  Nevil,  Earl  of  Warwick,  who 
then  espoused  the  cause  of  Edward  IV.,  but  after- 
wards falling  off,  and  exerting  his  influence  for  the 
restoration  of  King  Henry  VI.,  he  was  sriaed,  and 
tried  for  his  life  at  Salisbury,  in  the  8th  Edward  IV., 
and  having  had  Judgment  of  death  as  a  traitor,  was 
executed  the  next  day.  Sir  Thomas  m.  Anne, 
daughter  of  Henry,  Earl  of  Northumberland,  by 
whom  (who  m.  secondly.  Sir  Laurence  Raynesford, 
Knt.,  and  thirdly.  Sir  Hugh  Vaughan,  Knt,)  he 
had  an  only  daughter  and  heiress, 

Mary  Hvkqujlwohd,  who  espoused  EnwAan 
HASTiif  08,  son  and  heir  apparent  of  Wil- 
liam, flrst  Lord  Hastings,  of  Ashby-de-la- 
Zoiiche.  Thb  Mary,  the  attainders  of  her 
fitther  and  grandHsther  having  been  reversed 
in  the  flrst  parliament  of  King  Henry  VII., 
had  restitution  of  the  honours  and  estates  of 
her  family,  and  in  consequence  bore  the 
title  of  Lady  Hungerford,  Botreaux,  and 
Molines.  Her  ladyship's  son  and  su<xessor, 
Geo^e  Hastings,  was  created  Eabz.  op 
HuNTiifODOir,  in  which  Earldom,  those 
baronies  became  merged  until  the  death  of 
Francis,  tenth  earl,  in  1788,  without  bsue, 
when  they  became  vested  in  Elisabeth,  his 
sister  and  heir,  wife  of  John,  Earl  of  Moira, 
of  the  kingdom  of  Ireland,  and  they  are 
now  enjoyed  by  her  ladyshipla  grandson, 
Gborob,  present  Marovbssov  Hastimo8. 
ARM8.~Barry  of  four  ar.  and  gu.  in  chief  three 
plates. 


HUNGERFORD  _  BARON  HUNOER- 
FORD,  OF  HEYTESBURY, 
IN  THB  COUNTY  OF 
WILTS. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  8th  June,  1536, 
S8th  Henry  VIIL 

Xintaffc. 

The  Honourable 

WALTER  HUNGERFORD,  second  son  of  Ro- 
bert, third  Baron  Hungerford,  who  was  attainted 
and  beheaded  in  1463,  having  Joined  the  banner  of 
the  Earl  of  Richmond,  shared  in  the  triumph  ot 
Bosworth,  and  participated  in  the  spoils  of  conquest. 
We  flnd  him  subsequently  again  in  arms  for  his 
royal  master,  against  Perkyn  Warbeck,  and  the 
Cornish  men,  who  had  risen  in  his  behalf,  and  h« 
was  eventtudly  of  the  privy  council,  to  King  Henry 
VI II.  He  m.  Jane,  daughter  of  William  Buistrode, 
and  had  issue, 

Edward  (Sir),  his  successor. 
Elisabeth  m.  to  Sir  John  Bourchier. 
He  was  ».  at  his  decease  by  his  son, 

SIR  EDWARD  HUNGERFORD,  KnL,  of  Hey- 
tesbury,  in  the  county  of  Wilts,  who  m.  Jane, 
daughtor  of  John  Lord  Zouche  of  Haryngworth, 
and  was  «.  by  hU  only  son, 

SIR  WALTER-HUNGERFORD,  who  was  sum- 
moned  to  parliament  as  Baron  Hunobrpord,  qf 
H«y«es6«fy,  on  the  8th  June,  1036,  but  never  after- 
wards. His  lordship  m.  flrst,  Susan,  daughter  of 
Sir  John  Danvers,  Knt.,  and  had  issue, 

William  (Sir),  of  Farley  Castle,  in  the  county 
of>?Uts. 
Lord  Hungerford  espoused,  secondly,  Alice,  daugh- 
ter of  WiUiamt  Lord  Sandys,  by  whom  he  had, 
Edward  tSir),  gentleman-pensioner  to  Queen 

Elisabeth,  died  «.  j>. 
Anthony  (Sir),  of  Burton  Inges,  in  the  county 

of  Oxford. 
Mary,  m.  to  •——  Baker,  Esq.,  of  the  county  of 
Essex. 
This  nobleman  in  the  31st  Henry  VIIL,  being  at- 
tainted in  parliament,  was  breaded  on  Tower  HiU, 
with  Cromwell,  Earl  ot  Essex,  (m  the  a8th  July, 
liMl,  when  the  Barony  of  Hunobrpord  op  Hxv- 
TB8BDRY,  BXPiRBD.  The  crlmes  laid  to  hb  lord- 
ship's charge,  were  "retaining  a  chaplain,  called 
William  Bird,  who  had  called  the  king  a  heieUc.— 
Procuring  certain  persons  to  ascertain,  by  conjura- 
tion, how  long  the  king  should  live;— end  having 
been  guilty  of  unnatural  ofifences."  The  attainder 
of  Lord  Hungerford  was  reversed  by  Queen  Mary- 
in  favour  ot  hb  children,  to  all  intents  and  pur- 
poses, save  the  enjoyment  of  the  peerage.  The 
eldest  son. 

Sir  William  Hunobrpord,  Knl.,  of  Farley 
Castle,  m.  Anne,  daughter  of  Sir  William 
Dormer,  Knt.,  and  had  issue, 
Edward,  who  died  young. 
Susan,  m.  to  Mlduid  Emley,  Esq.,  of 
Cannings,  in  the  county  of  Wilts.    • 


HUN 


HUN 


Lucy*  m.  to  Sir  John  St  Jolbn,  of  Ly- 

dianL 
Jane,  in.  to  Sir  John  Kane,  KnL,  of  the 
county  of  Glamorgan. 
Arms.— Barry  of  four  ar.  and  gu.  in  chief  thrre 
plates. 

HUNTERCOBfBE  —  BARON     HUN- 
TERCOMBE. 

By  Writ  of  Siunmona,  dated  83rd  June,  1S9S, 
S3  Edward  L 

Xlneasc. 

In  the  SSth  Hairy  lU. 

WILLIAM  DE  HUNTERCOMBE  having  mar- 
ried Isabel,  one  of  the  daughters  and  oo-heiia  of 
Robert  de  Muacamp,  hod  liyery  of  the  landa  of  her 
inheritance  In  some  years  after  which  he  had  ram- 
moos  to  be  at  Chester,  well  fitted  with  hone  and 
anna,  to  oppose  the  hostilities  of  the  Welch.  And 
In  the  54th  of  the  same  reign  he  was  signed  with  the 
cross,  in  order  to  accompany  Prince  Edward  in  a 
Toyage  to  the  Holy  Land^  He  died  the  next  year, 
seised  of  the  manor  of  Huntcroombe,  in  the  county 
of  Oxford,  and  other  estates,  and  waa  «;  by  his 
son, 

SIR  WALTER  DE  HUNTERCOMBE,  Knt.« 
who,  in  the  6th  of  Edward  I.,  answered  fifty  pounds 
for  his  relief  of  the  moiety  of  the  barony  of  Mus- 
champ,  which  he  then  possessed.  In  the  10th  year 
of  the  same  reign  we  find  him  in  an  expedition  made 
into  Wales.  In  the  22nd  he  had  summoaa  to  attend 
the  king  at  Portsmouth*  with  horse  and  anna, 
thence  to  sail  into  Gascony,  and  the  next  year  he 
was  summoned  to  parliament  as  a  baron.  In  the 
95th  his  lordship  was  In  the  expedition  made  into 
Scotland,  and  the  SSth  he  was  made  governor  of 
Edinburgh  CasUe.  In  the  27th  he  was  constituted 
lieutenant  of  Northumberland,  and  for  several 
years  subsequently  he  continued  with  the  army  in 
Scotland.  In  the  SSth  he  petitioned  parliament, 
letting  forth  his  being  in  all  the  Scottish  wan,  first 
at  Berwick,  with  twenty  light  horse;  afterwards  at 
Strivelin,  with  thirty-two  in  the  retinue  of  the  Earl 
Warreni  next  at  La  Vaire Ch^pcUe,  with  thirty  in 
the  rethrae  of  the  Blahop  of  Dnrhamt  lastly,  at 
Galloway,  with  sixteen.  And  since  that,  in  the  last 
battle,  that  he  sent  eighteen,  though  absent  him- 
self, being  then  warden  of  the  marches  towards 
Northumberland.  And  his  lordship  prayed  that 
his  scutage  for  all  these  expeditions  might  be  re* 
mitted,  which  request  was  accordingly  conceded. 
Lord  Hnntercombe  m.  AUce,  one  oi  the  daughters 
and  co-heirs  of  Hugh  de  BoMmc,  of  Bolebec,  in  the 
county  of  Northumberland,  and  also  co-heir  of 
Richard  de  Montflchet,  by  reason  that  Margery,  the 
mother  of  the  said  Hugh,  was  one  of  the  sisters  and 
oo-hefars  of  the  said  Richard  His  lordship  d,  in 
1312  without  issue,  when  his  nephew,  Nidiolas,  son 
of  Richard  de  Newbend,  and  Gunmore,  his  sister, 
succeeded  to  hia  lands,  and  the  Baboity  of  Huk- 
THicoMBn  became  bxtihct. 

Anna.— Ermine  two  ban  gameUs  gules. 


UUNTINGFEILD  — BARONS  HUNT- 
INOFEILD. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  flOth  January,  U97, 
25  Edward  L 

In  the  time  of  King  Stephen, 

WILLIAM  DE  HUNTINGFEILD,  with  the 
consent  of  Roger,  his  son  and  heir,  gave  the  whole 
Isle  of  Mendham,  in  the  county  of  Suflblk,  and 
diven  oth^  lands,  to  the  monks  of  Castle  Acre,  in 
the  comity  of  Norfolk.  He  tf.  in  1155,  and  was«. 
by  his  said  sonand  heir, 

ROGER  DE  HUNTINGFEILD,  who  was*,  by 
his  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  HUNTINGFEILD,  who  being 
made  constable  of  Dover  Castle  in  the  5ih  of  King 
John,  obliged  himself,  by  oath  in  the  king's  pre- 
sence, fkithfuUy  to  preserve  the  safe  custody  of  that 
fortress,  so  that  it  should  not  be  surrendered  to  any 
penon,  save  the  king  himself,  or  the  lord  chamber- 
lain, Hubert  de  Burgh,  and  as  hostages  for  his 
loyalty,  delivered  up  his  son  and  daughter,  the 
former  to  remain  in  the  hands  of  the  Earl  of  Arun- 
del, the  latter  in  those  of  the  Earl  Ferrers.  In  the 
8th  of  John  this  William  de  Huntingfeild  paid  a 
fine  of  two  marks  and  two  palfreys,  for  the  ward- 
ship of  the  heir  and  landa  of  Osbert  Fita-Uervie, 
and  the  next  year  obtained  a  grant  of  all  the  pos- 
sessions of  Roger  de  Huntingfeild,  his  brother, 
which  had  been  seiaed  by  the  crown  by  resAon  of 
the  interdict.  In  the  following  year  we  find  him 
Justice4tinerant  for  Lincoln,  and  afterwards  sherifT 
for  the  counties  of  Norfolk  and  Suffolk ;  for  taut 
successive  yean  subsequently,  however,  he  became 
eminent  amongst  the  barons  who  extorted  the 
OKBAT  Cbaetbbs  firom  Jcdm,  and  was  one  of  the 
twenty-five  chosen  to  enforce  their  observance,  for 
which  conduct  he  cuse  under  the  excommunication 
of  the  pope,  and  had  his  lands  in  Lincolnshire 
srised  by  the  crown,  and  transferred  to  Nicbola  de 
Haya  during  the  king's  pleasure.  In  the  reign  of 
Henry  III.,  he  seems  to  have  made  his  peaces 
for  he  then  Journeyed  to  the  Holy  Land  with  a 
Uoence  ftom  the  crown.  This  fieudal  lord  m.  Alice 
de  St.  Lis,  and  had  issue, 
RooBB,  his  successor. 

Alice,  m.  to  Richard  de  Solen,  whom  she  sur- 
vived, and  her  father,  in  the  15th  of  John, 
she  being  then  a  widow,  gave  to  the  king 
six  fair  Norway  goshawken  for  licence  to 
have  the  disposal  of  her  in  marriage,  and 
for  an  assignation  of  her  dowry  out  of  the 
lands  of  her  deceased  husband. 
His  lordship  was  «.  at  his  decease  by  his  son, 

ROGER  DE  HUNTINGFEILD,  who.  in  the 
26th  Henry  III.,  paid  a  fine  of  two  hundred  marks, 
to  be  exempted  from  the  expedition  then  making 
into  Gascony.  He  m.  Joane,  one  of  the  daughten 
and  co-heira  of  William  de  Hobrugg,  and  dying  in 
1256,  was  «.  by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  HUNTINGFEILD,  who,  at 
the  battle  of  Evesham,  49th  Henry  IIL,  waa  <ne 


HUS 


HU8 


of  fliB  prtndiMa  taroM  in  hotdlity  to  the  aowB. 
Ho  d.  in  1S8S,  and  wu  «.  by  his  mm, 

ROGER  DE  HUNTINGFEILD,  who,  in  the 
28nd  Edward  I.«  had  tumffloiM,  with  other  eminent 
perMMM,  to  attend  the  king  with  all  despatch  to 
advise  about  the  important  aflUrs  of  the  realm ; 
and  soon  after  recelTed  command  to  be  at  Ports- 
mouth well  fitted  with  horse  and  arms,  to  sail  into 
Gascony.  In  the  SSth  Edward  I.  (96th  January, 
lflt7#)  be  was  summoittd  to  parliament  as  a  barok, 
but  never  afterwards.  His  lordship  m.  Joyce, 
danghiar  of  John  de  Engaine>  and  dying  in  1301, 
was  «.  by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  HUNTINGFEILD,  second  ba- 
ron, but  never  summoned  to  parliament  This 
nobkman  was  engaged  in  the  Scottish  wars,  temp. 
Edward  I.  and  Edward  II.,  and  died  in  1S13,  being 
then  possessed  of  the  manor  of  Bekesworth,  in  the 
county  of  Cambridge^  and  the  manors  of  Mendham 
and  Huntingfidd,  in  the  county  of  Suflblk,  as  also 
divers  lordships  and  lands  in  other  shires.  His  wife 
Sibell  survived  him,  and  married  William  le  Lati- 
mer.   His  lordship  was  «.  by  his  son, 

ROGER  DE  HUNTINGFEILD,  third  bwon, 
but  never  summoned  to  parliamenL  This  nobie- 
man  m.  Cecilia,  daughter  of  Sir  Walter  de  Norwich, 
Kttt,  and  dying  in  1337,  was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR  WILLIAM  DE  HUNTINGFEILD,  Iburtfa 
baffon,  summoned  to  parliament  flrom  l&Ui  Novem- 
ber, 1351,  to  90th  January,  ISTVL  His  lordship 
served  in  the  French  wars  in  the  33rd  and  S4th  of 
Edward  III.,  bdng  latterly  of  the  retinue  of  Henry, 
Duke  of  Lancaster.  He  tf.  in  1377*  tine  prole,  leav- 
ing his  aunt  Alicia,  daughter  of  WiUiam,  Ms  grand- 
fither,  and  widow  of  Sir  John  N<»wich,  Knt,  his 
heirs  but,  according  to  another  inquisition,  the 
said  Alice,  and  Sir  John  Copledick,  grandson  of 
Jiriuuma,  daughter  of  the  said  WfUiam,  hii  grand- 
IMbflr,  by  Sybilla,  Us  second  wift,  were  his  heirs. 
Amongst  whose  descendants,  if  tlie  writ  of  Ed- 
ward I.  be  that  whidi  created  the  dignity,  the 
BABOirvor  HuMTiirorniLn  is  now  in  ABBVAircn. 

AmuuT—Or,  on  a  tes  gules,  three  plates. 

HUNTINGFEILD  —  BARON  HUNT- 

FEILD. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  14th  August^  1302, 
36  Edward  IIL 

3Cinca0(. 

JOHN  DE  HUNTINGFEILD,  was  aummoned 
to  parliament  as  a  baron,  ftom  14th  August,  1388, 
to  6th  April,  1369,  but  nothing  further  is  known  ot 
his  lordship  or  his  desoandanta. 
.  Anic8.^-Or.onal(Baaegttles,  three  plates. 

HU6SEY— BARON  HU88EY,  OF  SLE- 
FORD,  IN  THE  COUNTY 
OF  LINCOLN. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  Ath  January,  1X94, 
M  Henry  VIIL 

XincBSc. 

SIR  WILLIAM  HUSSEY,  Knt.,  an  enlMnt 


rtatlietime  of  Edwvd  IV.,  after  fllllng  the 
(rffeeof  attorney-general,  and  having  been  called  by 
writ,  to  the  d^ree  of  seijeant  et  law,  was  coaati- 
tutad  LoBO  Chibv  Justicb  of  the  Court  of 
King's  Bendi,  In  the  17th  of  that  mooardi's  reign, 
when  he  received  an  allowance  of  one  hundred 
and  forty  marks,  for  greater  state.  He  was  living 
temp.  Henry  VII.,  as  is  evident  by  this  inscription 
otM  his  aims,  in  the  semidrcttlaT  or  bow  window, 
of  Grey's  Inn  Hall,  visv— 

«'  W.  House  miles  capitalis  JnsticiaiiBs  de  baneo 
regis,  temp.  R.  Henry  VII." 

In  one  of  the  windows  of  the  diapel,  brionging 
to  the  same  inn,  are  his  arms  iiApaUng  those  of  his 
wifb,  with  the  following  inscription : — 

«« WiU.  Hussee  miles  capitalis  justic  ad  placita 
oaram  rege,  et  Eliaabetha  uxor  4vs  filla  Thonue 
Berfcdey  arm.** 

The  lady  mentlaned  above,  was  of  the  Berkeleys 
of  Wymondham,  and  Sir  William  had  issue  by 
her, 

JoRW,  his  successor. 

Robert  <Sir),  whose  grandson.  Sir  Edward 
Hussey,  Bart.,  of  Honington,  in  tho 
county  of  Lincoln,  (so  created  by  King 
James  L,)  was  grandfother  of  Sir  Thomas 
Hussey,  with  whom  the  baronetcy  expired. 
Sir  Thomas  left  two  surviving  daughters, 
his  co-heirs,  vis. 

Elisabeth,  nu  to  Rldutfd  EUls,  Esq.*,  and 

died  «.  p, 
Sarah,  m.  to  Robert  Apreece,  Esq.,  of 
WMhingley,  In  the  county  of  Hun- 
tingdon, and  had  issue, 
Thomas  Aprbbgb,  whoae  son  and 
heir, 

TBOMAB-HuaaxY  Aprbbgb, 
Esq.,  of  Waskingky,  was 
created  a  baronet,  4tfa  June, 
1782,  and  is  now  (1831)  liv- 
ing. 
WflUam,  fkom  whom  descended  the  Huaseys  of 

Yorkshire. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Richard  Grey,  Earl  of  Kent 
Mary,  m.  to  William,  Lord  WiUoughby. 
The  eldest  son, 

SIR  JOHN  HUSSEY,  Knt.,  in  the  tad  Henry 
VIL,  was  in  arms  for  the  king,  at  the  battle  of 
Stoke,  against  John,  Earl  of  Lincoln,  and  his  adhe- 
rents; and  in  the  13th  of  Henry  VIIL,  was  made 
diief  butler  of  England.  In  the  2l8t  of  the  same 
reign,  l^e  was  one  of  the  knights  of  the  king's  body  i 
and  being  summoned  as  Baron  HnaaBv,  of  Sz.b- 
roRD,  in  the  county  of  Lincoln,  (where  he  had 
erected  a  noble  mansion,)  to  the  parliament  b^gnn 
at  Westminster,  3rd  November,  In  that  year,  was 
admitted  into  the  house  upon  the  1st  December 
following ;  but  his  lordship's  name  does  not  occur 
in  the  list  of  summonses  for  that  year,  nor  before 
the  Mi  January,  1534,  yet  It  is  dear  that  he  was 
summoned;  for  the  year  after,  (89d  of  Henry,)  he 
had,  under  the  title  ot  Lord  Hussey,  a  grant  of  the 
custody  of  the  Manor  of  Harewoole,  In  the  county 
of  York;  and  he  was  one  ot  the  kirds,  who  at  that 
time  signed  the  declaration  to  the  pope,  r^ardlng 
the  king's  divorce;    In  1033,  being  then  a  lotd  of 

987 


HUS 


HVD 


the  council,  he  had  a  grant  of  the  wardahip  and 
marriage  of  Thomas,  the  Km  and  heir  of  Christo- 
pher Wymbushe,  deceased;  but  in  a  few  yean 
afterwards,  engaging  in  the  common  insurrection, 
(anno  1537,)  when  the  fiBuds  and  differences  about 
religion  broke  out,  he  was  attainted  of  high  trea- 
son ;  hb  Manor  oi  Sleford,  with  lands  adjacent, 
worth  £fiOOOi  a  year,  conilscated,  and  he  himsdf 
^teheaded  at  Lincotai,  when  the  Barony  or  Hus- 
aav,  or  Slbpord,  bzpirbo.  His  lordship  m.  first. 
Lady  Anne  Grey,  daughtor  of  George,  Earl  of  Kent, 
and  had  issue, 

Bridget,  m.  first,  to  Sir  Richard  Morison, 
Knt,  by  whom  she  had  issue, 

Charles,  whose  son.  Sir  Charles  Morison, 
Bart.,  of  Cashiobury,  in  the  county 
of  Herts,  left  an  only  daughter  and 
heiress,    ElibabstiI,    who   espoused 
Arthur,  Lord  Capxl,  or  Hadham, 
fivm   whom    the  present  Earl    or 
Eaasz,  descends,  and  inherits  Cashio- 
bury Park. 
Elisabeth,   m.   first,    to   Henry  Norris, 
Esq.  \  and  secondly,   Henry  Clinton, 
Earl  of  Lincoln. 
Mary,  m.  to  Berth  Hales,  Esq. 
Jane-Sibilla,  m.  first,  to  Edward,  Lord 
.  Rusad ;  and  secondly,  to  Arthur,  Lord 
Grey,  of  Wilton. 
Bridget,  Lady  Morison,  espoused  secondly, 
Henry,  Earl  of  Rutland ;  and  thirdly, 
Francis,  Earl  of  Bedford,  but  had  issue 
by  neither. 

Elisabeth,  m.  to Hungerford,  Esq. 

Anne.  m.  first,  to  Sir  Humphrey  Browne,  Knt, 
cme  of  the  Justices  of  the  Court  of  Com- 
mon Pleas  t  and  secondly,  to Dimock, 

Esq. 

Dorothy,  m.  to Dockwray,  Esq. 

LordHussey,  m.  secondly,  Margaret^  daughter  and 
heir  of  Sir  Simon  Blount,  of  Mangerfleld,  in  the 
county  of  Gloucester,  and  had  issuer 
William  (Sir),  of  whom  presently. 
Giles  (Sir),  of  Caythorpe,  in  the  county  of 

Lincofau 
Gilbert  (Sir). 
Reginald. 
Elisabeth. 
The  attainder  of  his  lordship  was  rerened  in  par- 
liament, the  Ath  of  Elisabeth,  and  his  children 
restored  In  blood,  but  neither  the  estate  or  honour 
granted  to  the  heir,  which  heir, 

SIR  WILLIAM  HUSSEY,  was  sheriiT  of  the 
county  of  Linootai,  in  the  S8d  Henry  VIIL.  He 
m,  — ,  daughter,  and  ercntually  sole  heir,  of 
Sir  Thomas  Lorell,  Knt.,  and  left  two  daughters, 
via,— 

Nella,  m.  to  Richard  Disney  Esq.,  of  Norton 

Disney, 
Anne,  a*,  to  William  Gell,  Esq.,  of  Darley,  In 
the  county  of  Derby. 
Sir  William  d.  in  the  9rd  and  4th  of  Philip  and 
Mary. 
ARMa.— Or.  a  cross  vert. 


HYDE  —  BARONS  HYDE,  OF  HIN* 
DON,  EARLS  OF  CLAREN- 
DON,  BARONS  HYDE  OF 
WOTTON  BASSETT,  VIS- 
COUNTS  HYDE,  OF 
KENELWORTH,  EARLS  OF 
ROCHESTER. 


Barony  of  Hyde,  of 
Hindon, 

Earldom  of  Claren- 
don, 

Barony  of  Hyde,  of 
Wotton  Basset, 


Viscounty  of  Hyde, 
of  Kenilworth, 

Earldom  of  Roches- 
ter, 


i 
I 


[  Srd  November,  I0SO. 
aoth  April,  1061. 

SSrd  ApriL  16BL 
S9th  November,  168BL 


Xincagc. 

SIR  EDWARD  HYDE,  Knt,  a  person  oni- 
uently  learned  in  the  law,  and  as  eminent  ftnr  his 
attachment  to  the  CRARLBaas ,  was  made  chancellor 
of  the  exchequer  and  a  privy  ooundllor,  by  the 
first  monarch  of  that  name ;  and  having  shared  the 
fortunes  of  the  second,  was  declared  by  his  miOe>ty, 
while  in  exile,  at  Bruges,  in  Flanders,  Lord  Hior 
Chaitcbllor  or  England,  in  the  year,  1657v 
which  office  he  hdd,  until  1687,  when  he  was  suc- 
ceeded by  Sir  Orlando  Bridgman.  Sir  Edward  was 
elevated  to  the  peerage,  by  letters  patent,  dated  9d 
November,  1660,  as  Boron  Ht/de,  (^  Hindon,  in  the 
county  of  Wilts;  and  created,  80th  April,  1061, 
Viaeount  Combvnf,  and  Earl  or  Clarbndon.* 
His  lordship  obtained  celebrity,  not  only  as  a  law- 
yer and  stateunan,  but  aa  a  man  of  letters.  By 
command  of  King  Charles  II.,  he  wrote  his  popular 
*'  History  of  the  Rebdlion,**  and  he  produced  save, 
ral  other  works,  which  are  enumerated  in  Walpole's 
Catalogue  of  Royal  and  Noble  Authon.  **  One 
may  pronounce,**  says  Walpole,  **Qn  my  Lord 
Clarendon,  in  his  double  capacity  of  statesman  and 
historian,  that  he  acted  for  llboty,  but  wrote  tat 
prerogative;"  and  Burnet  characterises  him,  *'  as 
a  good  minister,  Indefktigable  In  business,  but  little 
too  magisterial,  and  not  wdl  enough  acquainted 
with  foreign  aAdn.**  "  He  was  a  good  chancellor/* 
contfaioes  the  same  authority,  **aud  impartial  in 
the  administration  of  Justice ;  but  a  little  too  rough. 
He  had  a  levity  in  his  wit,  and  a  loftiness  in  his  car- 
riage, that  did  not  well  become  the  station  he  waa 

•  CI.ARBNDON.  This  title,  first  ei^oyed  by  Sir 
Edward  Hyde,  was  derived  from  a  spacious  park, 
near  Salisbury,  formerly  the  site  of  a  royal  palace, 
but  more  remarkable,  as  the  place  where  King 
Henry  IL  summoned  the  great  council  of  peers  and 
prdates,  in  1164,  fhmi  which  *«wnatt^  the  cde- 
brated  regulations,  so  wdl  known,  as  <*  the  Con- 
ariTiiTioNa  or  Clarbndon,"  by  whidi  the  clergy 
were  made  amenable  to  the  Jurisdiction  of  the  dvU 
power.  From  those  regulations,  arose  the  subse- 
quent hostility  between  Henry  IL,  and  Thomas  h 
Becket. 


HYD 


HYD 


in :  for  thaw  that  addnaied  him,  and  thow  that 
thought  themselves  neglected,  he  was  apt  to  r^ect 
with  contumely,  and  some  disparagement  of  their 
services,  which  created  him  many  enemies,  and  at 
last  procured  his  faU."  Upon  his  disgrace,  the  earl 
retired  into  France,  and  died  at  Roan,  in  Nor- 
mandy, 19th  December,  1074  Hb  lordship  m. 
Frances,  daughter,  and  eventually  sole  heir,  of  Sir 
Thomas  Aylesbury,  Bart,  and  had  four  sons  and 
two  daughters,  via. 

1.  HaiTET,  VUe»tmt  Qtmbur^,  his  succciaor. 

2.  Laurence,  Master  of  the  Robes  to  King 
Charles  II.,  who  was  advanced  to  the  peer- 
age, on  the  23d  April,  IfiBl,  as  Boron  H^de, 
of  WotUm  Baaaet,  in  the  county  of  Wilts, 
and  rucount  Hydt,  of  Kenilworth,  in  the 
county  of  Warwick,  and  was  created  Earl 
or  RocRBaTiR,  on  99th  November,  1688. 
This  nobleman  concurred  in  the  revolution 
of  1688,  and  was  constituted  Lord  Libutb- 
TSWANT  or  IRSLAND,  in  1700.  He  was  a 
person  of  great  natural  parts,  and  esteemed 
as  a  statesman,  incorruptible:  indeed  his 
disposition  was  deemed  too  warm,  to  be 
insincere.  He  married  Lady  Henrietta 
Boyle,  daughter  of  Richard,  Earl  of  Bur- 
lington, and  had  issue, 

HxifRY,  his  successor. 
Anne,  m.  to  James,  Duke  of  Ormonde. 
Henrietta,  m.  to  James,  Earl  of  Dalkeith, 
tidest  son  oi  the  unfortunate  James, 
Duke  of  Monmonth,  and  Arom  this 
marriage,   the    Dukes  of   Bucdeugh 
descend. 
Mary,  m.  to  Francis  Seymour,  Lord  Con- 
way, ancestor  of  the  extant  Marquesses 
of  Hertford. 
Catherine,  died  unmarried. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1711,  and  was  buried  \n 
Westminster  Abbey.    He  was  j.  by  his  son, 
Hjbnrt,  second  Earl  of   Rochester,  of 
whom  hereafter,  as  fourth  Earl  or 
C1.ARBND0K. 
a  Edward,  student  at  law,  died  unmarried. 
4  James,  drowned  on  board  the  Gloucester 
frigate,  in  his  passage  to  Scotland,  with 
several  other  persons  of  distinction,  in  the 
train  of  the  Duke  of  York. 
1.  Anhb,  married  to  Jambs,  Diike  q^  York, 
afterwards  Kino  JAMsa  II.    This  lady  was 
maid  of  honour  to  the  princess  royal,  and 
her  marriage  with  the  duke  was  concealed, 
^        untU  her  pregnancy  compelled  an  avowal. 
The  prince  is  accused  of  using  both  promises 
and  menaces,  to  deter  her  from  claiming 
him  as  a  husband,  but  her  ladyship  had  the 
spirit  to  declare,  that  it  should  be  known 
she  was  his  wife,  be  the  consequences  what 
they  might. 
S.  Frances,  m.  to  Sir  Thomas  Knightley,  K.B., 
of  Harlingfordbury,  in  the  county  of  Herts. 
Edward,  Earl  of  Clarendon,  was  «.  by  his  eldest 
son, 

HENRY  HYDE,  second  Earl  of  CUrendon,  who 
in  the  flrst  year  of  King  James  II.,  was  lord  privy 
seal,  but  retired  from  office  the  next  year.    At  the 


) 


revolution,  he  refused  to  act  with  the  new  govern- 
ment, and  lived  subsequently,  in  retirement.  His 
lordship  espoused  first,  the  Honourable  Theodosia 
Capel,  daughter  of  Arthur,  flrst  Lord  Capel,  by 
whom  he  had  an  only  son,  Edward,  VUamnt  Cwm' 
burjft  his  successor.  He  espoused  secondly.  Flower, 
daughter  and  sole  heir  of  William  Backhouse,  Esq., 
of  Sallowfleld,  but  had  no  issue.  Hb  lord^p  if. 
Slst  October,  1709,  and  was  ».  by  his  son, 

EDWARD  HYDE,  third  Earl  of  Clarendon. 
This  nobleman,  in  the  lifetime  of  his  father,  was 
master  of  the  horse  to  Prince  George,  of  Denmark, 
and  in  the  reign  of  Queen  Anne,  his  lordship  was 
governor  of  New  York.  He  m.  Catherine,  daugh- 
ter of  Henry,  Lord  O'Brien,  eldest  son  of  Henry, 
Earl  of  Thomond,  which  Catherine,  at  the  decease 
of  her  mother,  became  Baronbbs  CLirroN.  By 
this  lady  he  had  issue, 

Edward,  Viscount  Combury,  who  died  un- 
married, at  the  age  of  twenty-two,   18th 
February,  1718-13. 
Catherine,  d.  unmarried. 
Theodosia,  m.  to  John  Bligh,  Esq.,  and  from 
this  marriage  the  extant  Earlb  or  Dark- 
lb  y  derive  I  who  eiv)oy  the  Barony  of  Clif- 
ton, through  this  lady. 
His  kffdship  d.  Slst  March,  1723,  and  his  only  son 
having  died  previously,  the  honours  d^olved  upon 
his  kinsman  (revert  to  Laurence,  second  son  of 
Edward,  first  earl). 

HENRY  HYDE,  second  Earl  of  Rochester,  as 
fourth  Earl  or  Clarbndow.  This  nobleman  was 
Joint  treasurer  of  Ireland  with  Arthur,  Earl  of 
Anglesey.  His  lordship  m.  Jane,  youngest  daugh- 
ter of  Sir  William  Leveson-Gower,  and  sister  of 
John,  Lord  Gower,  \)y  whom  he  had  surviving 
issue, 

Hbwrt,  Viscount  Combury,  who  d.  in  17&3, 

before  his  fttther. 
Jane,  m.  to  William   Capel,  third    Earl  of 
Essex,  and  had  four  daughters;  of  whom 
two  lived  to  maturity,  via. 

Charlottb,  who  became  heir  to  her 
grandfather,  Henry,  Earl  of  Clarendon 
and  Rochester.  Her  ladyship  espoused 
the  Hon.  Thomas  Villiers,  second  son 
of  William,  second  Earl  of  Jersey, 
which  Thomas,  was  elevated  to  the 
pterage  on  Slst  May,  17M,  as  Baron 
Hifde,  t^fHindon,  and  created  Earl  or 
Clarbndon  8th  June,  1776.  Hb  lord- 
ship left  at  hb  decease,  with  other 
issue, 

John-Charles,  present  Earl  of  Cla- 
rendon. 
Mary,  m,  in  17fi8,  to  Admiral,  the  Hon. 
John  Forbes,  second  sen  of  George, 
third  Earl  of  Granard. 
Catherine,  m.  to  Charles,  Duke  of  Queens- 
berry  and  Dover.    Thb  lady  was  the  cele- 
brated Duchess  of  Queensberry,  thepatroness 
of  Gray,  the  poet. 
The  earl  d,  175S,  and  his  only  son  deceasing  in  the 
same  year  before  him,  the  Barony  or  Hvdk,  op 
HiNDONf   the   ViBCOUNTY    or    Cornbury,   the 
Earldom  or  Clarbndon,  the  Barony  of  Hydb, 
8P  889 


INO 


J£F 


of  Wottdu  BaiMt.  the  VfacouwTT  op  Hvdb,  of 
Kenilworth,  and  the  Earldom  op  Rochbstbb, 
beaune  all  bxtinct. 
Abmb.— Ai.  a  chevron  batw.  threa  loaaDgci,  or. 

HYDE— EARLS  OF  ROCHESTER. 

See  Hyde,  Earlt  of  Clarendon. 

INOHAM'BARON  INGHAM. 

By  Writ  of  Summona,  dated  16th  June,  ISSK, 
S  Edward  III. 


In  the  9d  year  of  King  John, 

JOHN  DE  INGHAM,  of  Ingham,  fai  the  county 
of  Norfblk,  havhig  m.  Albreda,  one  of  thedaughten 
and  co-heirt  of  Walter  Waleran,  paid  a  line  of  sixty 
marks,  and  one  palf^  to  the  king,  for  livery  of 
the  third  pan  of  his  barony,  and  for  the  relief  due 
thereupon,  excepting  the  seijeanty  of  the  forest, 
which  William  de  NeviU  then  had.  He  d.  in  the 
Ath  of  the  same  reign,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

OLIVER  DE  INGHAM,  who  d.  in  the  lOth  Ed- 
watd  I.,  poasassad  of  estates  in  the  counties  of 
Norfolk,  Southampton,  Doraet,  and  Wilts,  and 
was  «.  by  his  loa, 

JOHN  DJE  INGHAM,  of  Ingham,  who  was  «.  by 
his  bob, 

OLIVER  DE  INGHAM,  of  Ingham,  who  was 
aummoned  to  parliament  as  a  baron,  in  the  8d  year 
of  Edward  III.,  and  Itom  that  period  to  the  leth  of 
the  same  reign.  This  nobleman  was  a  very  eminent 
pawn  during  the  martial  times  in  which  he  lived. 
In  the  beginning  of  Edward  II.'s  reign  he  was  in  the 
wara  of  Scotland,  and  we  4nd  him  for  several  years 
afterwards  actively  engaged  in  that  kingdom.  In 
the  14th  Edward  IL,  he  was  constituted  govemor'of 
the  castle  of  Ellesmere,  in  Slnopshiic,  and  upon 
the  breaking  out  of  the  inauirectioB  under  Tliomaa, 
Earl  of  Lancaster,  he  mmrched  with  the  king  to 
Cirencester,  Gloucester,  Shrewsbury,  and  other 
places^  The  next  year  be  waa  made  governor  of 
thecaatleat  Deviaea.  in  WUts,  and  sheriff  of  Che- 
ahlrei  and  in  two  yean  afterwards  swifsrhal  of 
Aquitaine,  when  he  proceeded  thither  at  the  head  of 
seven  thousand  men.  Upcu  the  depoeition  of  Ed- 
ward IL-,  his  lordship  was  appointed  one  of  the 
twelve  guardians  of  die  young  King  Edward  III., 
and  soon  after  conatituted  Justice  of  Chester  for 
liliB.  In  this  reign,  (Edward  IIL,)  hb  patent  for 
the  senesrhslsy  was  renewed,  and  be  obtained  a 
grant  of  five  hundred  marks  sterling  fbr  his  support 
in  that  service.    His  lordship  had  iasue, 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  John  Cuiaon,  and  d.  before 
her  Ikther,  leaving  a  daughter, 
Mabt  Conaoir. 
Joane,  m-  to  Rogar  le  Strange,  Lord  Strange, 
ofKnokyn. 
Lord  Ingham  d.  in  1344,  when  the  Babobt  ov  Iko- 
8AM  fell  into  ABBYABCB,  betwocn  hb  grand-daugh- 
ter, Mary  Curson,  and  his  daughter  Joane,  Lady 
Strange,  hb  co-heira,  as  it  still  continues  wiOi  their 
representatives. 

Arm8. — Per  pale,  or.  and  vert,  a  cmm  recercele, 
or  moline,  gu« 
290 


JEFFERYS  —  BARONS    JEFFERYS, 

OF    WEM,     IN    THE 
COUNTY  OF  SALOP. 

By  Lettan  Patent,  dated  15th  May,  168Sb 

SIR  GEORGE  JEPPERVS,  Baronet,  was  ele- 
vated to  the  peera^,  in  the  1st  year  of  King  James 
II.,  (15th  May,  10B6,)  as  Babob  Jbppbbvb,  op 
Wbm,  in  Me  eeutttif  qf  Salop. 

Thb  inlbmous  penon  was  a  younger  son  of  John 
Jeflbrys,  Esq.,  of  Acton,  In  the  county  of  Denbigh, 
by  Margaret,  daughter  of  Sir  Thomas  Ireland, 
Knt.,  of  Bewaey,  in  Lancashirck  The  rudhnents  of 
education  be  acquired  at  a  school  in  the  country, 
whence  be  removed  to  Westminater,  and  thence, 
became  a  student  of  the  Middle  Temple.  He  was 
subsequently  a  practising  banister,  in  good  busi- 
ness, ^though  it  b  asserted  that  he  was  never  regu- 
larly caHed  to  the  bar.  Hb  first  offldal  employ- 
ment waa  that  of  a  Wddi  judge,  flrom  which  he  was 
promoted  in  1680  to  the  chief  Justiceship  of  Chester, 
In  1881  be  waa  created  a  baronet,  and  in  two  yean 
afterwards  sworn  of  the  privy  council,  and  consti- 
tuted   LOBO    CHIXP    JUBTICB    OP    THB    COURT    OP 

King's  Bbhch.  The  conduct  of  this  monster  in 
ermine  has  rendered  hb  memory  justly  odious,  and 
made  hb  name  the  moat  opprobrious  epithet  by 
whidi  the  bendi  can  be  aaialted  He  was  partial, 
moroae,  and  cruel,  viidcAt,  savage,  and  blood- 
thirsty. It  would  be,  however,  a  work  too  horrid 
and  disgusting  to  pursue  hb  sanguinary  course, 
did  not  its  notoriety  render  the  task  one  of  supere- 
rogation; hb  deeds  in  the  west,  alter  the  aup- 
pression  of  the  unforttmate  Monmouth's  rebel- 
lion, have  been  so  inddibly  imprinted  in  blood, 
that  the  tide  ot  time  waahes  over  them  without 
removing  a  single  stain ;  and  so  long  as  the  Eng- 
lish language  finds  a  tongue/  Jbppbbyb  will  be  a 
synonyme  Ibr  everything  uqjuat,  cruel,  and  tyranni- 
caL  In  168S  he  was  constituted  lobd  bioh  chan- 
CBLLOB,  and  in  the  same  year  he  presided  as  lord 
steward  of  England  M  the  trial  of  Lord  Ddamere, 
who  waa  acquitted.  Upon  the  landing  of  the  Prince 
of  Orange,  Jeflbrys  attempted  to  withdraw  in  dis- 
guise from  the  kingdom,  and  for  that  purpose  had 
got  on  board  a  Newcaatle  collier,  which  waa  to  con- 
vey him  to  Hamburgh,  but  he  was  discovered, 
seised,  brought  befbre  the  lords  of  the  council,  and 
by  them  committed  to  the  Tower,  where  he  remain- 
ed until  hb  decease  in  1680L    He  m.  first, , 


by  whom  he  had  one  surviving  son,  Johk,  his  suc- 
cessor, and  two  daughters,  vis. 

Margaret,  m.  to  Sir  Thomas  Stringer,  of 
Durance,  In  the  county  of  Middlesex. 

Sarah,  m.  to  Captain  Haimage,  of  the  marines. 
His  lordship  wedded,  secondly.  Lady  Jones,  widow 
of  Sir  J<rim  Jones,  of  Funman,  in  Glamorganshire, 
and  daughter  of  Sir  Thomas  Bloodworth.  Lord 
Jeflbrys  was  «.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  JEFFERYS,  second  baron,  who  espoused 
Lady  Charlotte  Herbert,  daughter  and  heir  of 
Philip,  Earl  of  Pembroke,  by  whom  he  had  an  only 
surviving  daughter. 


J£R 


K£P 


Henri^tar-LouiMi.  who  m.  Thomas,  first  Barl 
of  Pomfret,  and  was  mother  of 

OsoROJi,  second  Earl  of  Pomfret,  flrther 
of 

Thom A8,  present  Eabl  Pomprkt. 
His  lordship  c2.  in  1703,  when  the  Bauosy  op  Jsp- 
PBRYs,  OP  WsM,  became  kxtinct. 

ARMa.— Arm.  a  lion  rampant  and  canton,  sa.  with 
a  m'ttUet  for  dilltarenoe  on  a  canton. 


JERMYN  —  BARONS  JERMYN,  OF 
ST.  EDMUNDSBURY,  IN 
THE  COUNTY  OF  8UF. 
FOLK,  EARL  OF  ST.  AL- 
BANS. 

Barony,    1  by  Letters  f  8th  September,  194S. 
Barldoiii,  J    Patent,    \  S7th  April,  1990. 

Xineagc. 

SIR  THOMAS  DE  JERMYN  m.  A^nes,  sister 
and  co-heir  of  Thomas  da  Rushbioke,  with  whom 
he  acquired  the  manor  of  Rushhroke,  in  the  county 
of  SuflbUL.    From  this  Sir  Thomas  descended 

SIR  THOMAS  JERMYN,  of  Rushhroke,  trea- 
surer of  the  housdiold  to  King  Charles  I.,  whose 
second  son, 

HENRY  JERMYN,  master  of  the  horse  to  the 
queen*  having  devoted  himsdf  with  a  more  than 
ordinary  degree  of  seal  to  the  fortunes  of  his  royal 
master  during  the  civil  wars,  was  elevated  to  the 
peerage  on  the  8th  September,  1643,  ip  Baron  Jsr- 
MYN,  of  St.  Edmundsbury,  in  the  county  of  Suf- 
folk, with  remainder,  deCsult  of  male  issue,  to  his 
elder  brother,  Thomas  Jermyn.  His  lordship  sub- 
sequently attended  the  qi^en  into  France,  and  pre- 
sided over  her  majesty's  small  establishment  for  a 
great  many  years.  While  abroad  he  was  employed 
in  several  embassies  by  King  Charles  IL,  and  in 
consideration  of  aU  his  fUthfiil  services,  his  lord- 
ship, immediately  upon  the  restoration,  was  created 
by  letters  patent,  dated  at  Breda,  S7th  April,  1960, 
Eari.  op  St.  AjoBAxa.  He  was  soon  after  made 
a  Knight  of  the  Garter,  and  constituted  lord  cham- 
berlain ot  the  household.  His  lordship  died  un- 
married in  1683,  when  the^  Earldom  op  St.  Ais- 
BAK8  became  bztinct,  and  the  Barony  of  Jermyn 
devolved  upon  (his  deceased  brother  Thomas's  son,) 
his  nephew, 

THOMAS  JERMYN,  second  Baron  Jermyn. 
This  noUenum  was  governor  of  Jersey.  His  knrd- 
ship  m.  Mary ,  and  had  Issue, 


— ,  m.  to  Xhomas  Bond«  .Esq.,  and  d.  in 

the  life-time  of  her  father. 
Mary,  m.  to  Sir  Robert  Davers,  Bart. 
Merelina,  m.  first,  to  Sir  William  Spring,  and 
secondly,   to  Sir  William  Gage,  Bart.,  of 
Hengrave.  ' 

Pendope,  m.  to  Gray  James  Grove,  Esq. 
Delarivierre,  m.  to  Symonds  D'Ewes,  Bart. 
He  d.  in  1708,  when  the  Barony  op  Jkbuyn,  op 
St.  EoMUNDaauRY,  became  rxtinct. 

Arms.'— Sa.  a  chevron  between  two  mullets  in 
pale  ar. 


JERMYN  —  BARON   JERMYN,   OF 

DOVER. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  13th  May,  168ft. 

ICincagc. 

HENRY  JERMYN,  next  brother  of  Thomas. 
seomd  Lord  Jermyn,  of  St  Edmimdsbury,  was 
himself  elevated  to  the  peerage,  on  the  lath  May. 
168ft,  as  Baron  Jsrmyn,  op  Povbr.  His  lordship 
d.  without  issue  in  1708,  when  the  barony  became 
BXTiNc-r-«nd  his  estates  devolved  upon  hia  nieces, 
the  daughters  of  his  above  mentiooed  brother. 

Arms.— Same  as  Jermyn,  Earl  of  St  Albans,  with 
the  requisite  < 


JERVIS  —  EARL  OF  ST.  VINCENT. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  87th  May,  1797. 

ICincagt. 

JOHN  JERTIS,  Esq.,  second  son  of  Swynfien 
Jervis,  Esq.,  a  lawyer  of  eminence,  (descended  flrom 
James  Jervis,  of  Chatkyll,  in  the  county  of  Staflbrd, 
living  temp.  Henry  VIII.,)  by  Elisabeth,  daughter 
of  George  Parker,  Esq.,  of  Park  Hall,  was  6.  at 
Meaford,  on  the  lOth  of  January,  1734,  and  having 
entered  the  royal  navy  at  a  very  early  period  of  life, 
(in  his  tenth  year,)  attained  the  highest  honours  of 
that  gallant  profession,  and  was  elevated  to  the 
peerage  the  97th  May,  1797,  by  the  titles  of  Baron 
Jervit,  cf  M0e{fbrd,  in  the  county  of  Stoffordt  and 
Earl  of  St.  V incknt,  as  a  reward  for  the  splendid 
victcny  he  had  achieved,  in  that  year,  over  the 
Spanish  fieet,  off  Cape  St  Vincent  His  lordship 
was  nominated  first  lord  of  the  admiralty  in  1801 ; 
and  created,  on  the  97th  April,  in  the  same  year. 
Viscount  St.  Vincbnt,  with  remainder,  in  default 
of  male  issue,  to  his  nephews,  William-Henry 
Rlcketts,  and  Edward-Jervis  Ricketts,  successivdy, 
and  afterwards,  to  these  gentlemen's  sister,  Mary, 
Countess  of  Northesk,  and  her  male  descendants. 
The  earl  m.  In  1783,  Martha,  daughter  of  Lord- 
chief-baron  Parker,  who  (i.  without  issue  in  1816. 
His  lordship  <i.  In  March,  1893,  when  the  Earldom 
AND  Barony  kxpirrd,  but  the  viscounty  devolved 
upon  his  younger  nephew,  (the  elder.  Captain  Wll- 
Uam-Henry  Ricketts,  of  the  royal  navy,  having 
been  unfortunately  drowned  in  180S,  leaving  only 
daughters,)  Edward^brtib,  the  present  viscount, 
who  is  second  son  of  William-Henry  Ricketto,  Esq., 
of  Canaan,  in  the  island  of  Jamaica,  by  the  de- 
ceased earl's  sister,  Mary,  who  d.  in  1888. 

ARM8.— Sa.  a  diev.  erm.  between  three  martlets 
ar. 

KEPPEL  — VISCOUNT  KEPPEL,  OF 
ELVEDEN,  IN  THE 
COUNTY  OF  SUFFOLK. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  82nd  April,  1782. 

Xincage. 

The  Honourable 
AUGUSTUS  KEPPEL,  (second  son  of  WilUam- 

891 


R£R 


KER 


Anne,  second  Earl  of  Albemarle,)  a  naral  officer  of 
eminence,  wa«  constituted  first  lord  of  the  admi- 
ralty ;  and  created  a  peer  of  the  realm,  as  Vibcoitnt 
KsppKi.,  qfSioeden,  in  the  county  i^  8^0o^^  by 
letters  patent,  dated  22nd  April,  1782. 

This  celebrated  officer  was  with  Commodore  An- 
son in  the  South  Seas;  where,  at  the  taking  of 
Faita,  he  had  a  narrow  escape  firom  a  cannon  ball, 
which  shaved  off  the  peak  at  a  Jockey-cap,  then  on 
his  bead,  dose  to  his  temple.  In  1701j  he  was  com- 
modore of  a  squadron  in  the  Mediterranean,  and  he 
took  the  island  of  Goree  flrom  the  French  in  1700. 
The  same  year  he  was  with  Admiral  Hawke,  in  that 
memorable  battle  with  Conflans,  when  at  a  second 
broad-«ide  he  sunk  a  seventy-ftmr  gun-ship,  with  all 
her  crew ;  and  he  accompanied  his  brother,  the  Earl 
of  Albemarle,  in  1762t  at  the  siege  of  Havannah, 
where,  under  Admiral  Pococke,  he  was  greatly  in- 
strumental in  taking  that  important  place  and  its 
depcndendea.  In  177B,  he  attained  the  rank  of 
Admiral  of  the  Blue;  but  haying  then  the  command 
of  the  British  fleet,*  his  conduct  in  the  engagement 
with  the  French,  under  Compte  IVOrvilliers,  was  so 
imsatisfMTtory,  that  he  was  brought  before  a  court 
marshal,  by  which,  however,  he  was  honourably 
acquittel. 

His  lordship  d.  unmarried  in  1786,  when  the 
Barowy  or  KsppsL,  or  Elvsdbm,  became  kz- 

TIWCT. 

ARMB.r-OuIes  three  escballop  shells  ar.  a  crescent 
for  diffinrcnce. 

KER  ^  EARLS    KER,    OF    WAKE- 

FIELD. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  84th  May,  1782. 

Xincagc. 

ROBERT  KER,  who  succeeded  his  father  in  the 
Dukedom  of  Rozburghe,  in  the  peerage  of  Scot- 
land, anno  1741,  had  been  previously  created  a  peer 
of  Great  Britain,  by  letters  patent,  dated  94th  May, 
1722,  as  Baron  Ker  and  Eari.  Ksr,  of  Waktffieid, 
in  the  county  of  York.  Hb  grace  m.  in  1739, 
Esses,  daughter  of  Sir  Roger  Mostyn,  Bart.,  and 
had  issue. 

Jobs,  his  successor. 

Robert,  lieutenant-c(donel,  who  d.  unmarried 

in  1781. 
Essex  (daughter). 
Mary. 
The  duke  d.  in  1755,  and  was  »,  by  his  elder  son, 

JOHN  KER,  third  Duke  of  Roxburghe,  and 
second  Eari.  Krr.  This  nobleman,  who  was  a 
Knioht  or  TRR  Gartsr,  and  a  Knight  of  the 
Thistle,  and  groom  of  the  stole  to  King  George  III., 
died  unmarried  19th  March,  1804,  when  his  Scottish 
honours  passed  to  his  kinsman,  William,  Lord  Bd- 
Icnden,  and  the  British  Earldom  or  Krr,  with  the 
inferior  dignity,  xzpirsd.    • 

AB.U9. — Quarterly  first  and  fourth  vert,  on  a 
chevron  between  three  unicorn's  heads  erased  ar.  as 
many  muUets  sa.  second  and  third  gules  three  mas- 
cles,  or. 


KERDESTON  —  BARONS  KERDES- 

TON. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  27th  January,  1332, 
6  Edward  IIL 

X(nea$c. 

In  the  Ist  year  of  King  John's  reign, 

ROGER  DE  KERDESTON  paid  a  fine  to  the 
crown  of  thirty  marks  to  have  a  conflrmatian  of 
those  lands  which  formerly  bdonged  to  Hubert  de 
Rie.    To  this  Roger  «. 

WILLIAM  DE  KERDESTON,  who  was  sheriff 
of  Norfolk  and  Suffolk,  in  the  2Sth  and  26th  of  Ed- 
ward I.  He  m.  Margaret,  daughter  of  Gilbert  de 
Gant,  Baron  of  Folkingluun,  in  Uncolnahire,  and 
was  «.  by  his  son, 

ROGER  DE  KERDESTON,  who,  in  right  of 
his  mother,  was  one  of  the  co-heirs  of  bis  uncle, 
Gilbert  de  Gant,  Lord  Gant,  who  died  j.  p.  in  1297: 
and  doing  homage,  had  livery  of  the  lands  which  so 
descended  to  him.  In  the  S4th  Edward  I.  this 
Roger  reodved  the  honour  of  knighthood  with 
Prince  Edward,  by  bathing,  dec,  having  his  Uvoy 
of  robes,  and  all  accoutrements  relating  to  that 
solemnity  out  of  ^the  king's  wardrobe.  In  the  0th 
Edward  111.  he  was  made  Aeriff  of  Norfolk  and 
Sulfolk,  and  governor  of  the  castle  at  Norwich.  In 
the  next  year,  (1332,)  he  was  sunmioned  to  pariia- 
ment  as  a  baron,  and  fh>m  that  period  to  the  21st 
June,  1337.  His  lordship  d.  in  the  latter  year,  and 
was  «.  by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  KERDESTON,  second  baran, 
summoned  to  parliament  ttota  2(Hh  December,  1337, 
to  3rd  April,  1380.  This  nobleman  distingubhed 
himself  in  the  French  wars,  and  had  the  honour  of 
partidpating  in  the  glories  of  Crrbsy.  He  d.  in  1361, 
leaving,  according  to  one  inquisition,  Wtluam,  his 
son  and  heir,  then  thirty-«iz  years  of  age ;  but  by  ano- 
ther inquisition,  John,  the  son  of  John  de  Burghersh, 
then  nineteen  yeaia  of  age,  was  found  to  be  his 
cousin  and  hdr.    The  former,  however, 

SIR  WILLIAM  DE  KERDESTON,  Knight,  • 
claimed  part  of  his  father's  lands  as  his  heir,  and 
not  being  opposed,  was  admitted  to  them.  He  was, 
however,  never  summ<med  to  parliament,  and  pro- 
bably some  doubt  hung  over 'his  legitimacy.  In 
Morant's  History  ot  Essex,  which  is  partly  corrobo- 
rated by  apedigree  in  the  college  of  arms,  it  appears 
that  William  de  Ketdeston,  the  last  baron,  left  issue 
by  Alice  de  Norwidi,  his  second  wife,  a  son  Wii^ 
LI  am;  but  by  his  first  wife,  two  daughters,  who  are 
called  in  the  MS.  pedigree  above  dted,  his  co-hein, 
via. 

Margaret^  who  m.  Sir  WiUiam  de  Tendring, 
and  her  son  and  heir. 

Sir'  William  Trworiito,  left  issue, 
Alice,  m.  to  Sir  John  Howard,  ancestor 
of  the  Dukes  of  Norfolk. 
Maud,  m.  to  John  de  Burghersh,  and  left  two 
daughters,  his  co-heirs, 

Margaret,  m.  first,  to  Sir  John  Granville, 

and  secondly,  to  John  ArundeL 
Maud,  m.  to  Thomas  Chaucer,  son  of  the 
poet,  GeoflVey  Chaucer,  and  left  a 
daughter. 


KIR 


KNI 


AUoa  Cbmctar,  who  wm  thrioe  mw^ 
ried. 
Upon  tho  failura  of  ictue  ot  Si(  William  de  Kcrdes- 
toD,  the  reputed  mii  of  the  last  barant  the  Babokt 
OF  Kbrdxstok  fell  into  absyancs  between '^hii 
balf-«isten«  or  their  repreMntativet,  aa  it  ttill  con- 
tinues with  their  deaoendantk 
ABM««--On.  a  laltler  engrailedi  ar. 

BIRKETON--BARON  KIRKETON. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  85th  February,  1342, 
16  Edward  III. 

THOMAS  DE  KIRKETON,  was  summoned  to 
parliament  as  a  baron  on  the  85th  February,  1342, 
but  nerer  afterwards,  and  Dugdale  makes  no  further 
mention  of  himself  or  his  descendants. 

Arms.— Barry  of  six,  gu.  and  ar. 


KIRKETON— BARON  KIRKETON. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  Uth  August,  1388, 
37  Edward  III. 

JOHN  DE  KIRKETON,  of  Kirketon,  in  that 
part  of  the  county  of  Lincoln,  called  Holland,  re- 
ceiTod  the  honpur  of  Knighthood,  in  the  19th  Ed- 
ward II.,  by  bathing,  Ac,  having  had  allowance  of 
his  robes  for  that  solemnity  out  of  the  king's  ward- 
robe: and  being  possessed  of  the  castle  and  manor 
of  Tatshall,  and  manor  of  Tumby  in  the  same  shire, 
with  the  knight's  fees,  and  advowsons  of  churches 
thereunto  bdonging,  made  a  feofffaaent  in  the  I6th 
Edward  III.,  of  that  castle  and  lordship,  to  Adam  de 
Welles,  and  others,  to  stand  feofhd  thereof,  to  the 
use  of  himsdf ,  and  Isabel,  hb  wife ;  and  to  the  heirs 
of  their  two  bodies  lawfully  begotten,  with  divers 
remainders ;  his  lands  at  Kirketon  being  at  the  time 
Talued  at  jSlO.  per  annum. 

In  the  aoth  Edward  III.,  upon  the  danger  of  an 
invasion  by  the  Frendi,  Sir  John  de  Kirketon  was 
constituted  one  of  the  commissioners  of  Array,  in 
the  county  of  Lincoln,  for  arming  all  knights, 
esquires,  and  others,  for  defending  the  sea  coasts  in 
that  shire.  And  in  the  33rd  ot  the  same  reign,  Kiho 
John,  or  Francr,  being  then  prisoner  in  England, 
he  was  one  of  the  persons  appointed  to  remove  that 
prince  from  the  castle  of  Hertford,  to  Somerton 
Castle,  in  the  county  of  Somerset,  and  there  to 
secure  him.  Sir  John  de  Kirketon  was  summoned 
to  parliament  as  a  baron  on  Uth  August,  1302,  and 
1st  June,  1363.  He  d,  in  1367*  without  issue,  when 
the  BARONY  became  bxtinct.  His  lordship  died, 
seised  of  the  manor  of  Tatshall,  by  the  grant  of  Sir 
Ralph  de  Cromwell,  Knt,  ^d  Meud,  his  wife,  as 
also  of  the  manors  of  Turoby,  Kirkeby,  &c,  leaving 
Sir  John  de  Tudenham,  Knt.,  Ricluurd  de  Lina, 
John  de  Tilney,  and  William  de  Sutton,  rector  of 
the  church  of  Whitwell,  his  next  heirs, 

ARMB.'-Barry  of  tix,  gu,  and  ar« 


KIRKHOVEN  —  BARON  WOTTON, 
OF  WOTTON,  IN  THE 
COUNTY  OF  KENT. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  31st  August,  1650. 

ICincagc. 

THOBfAS  WOTTON,  second  Baron  Wotton,  of 

Marley,  in  Kent,  died  in  1630,  without  male  issue, 

when  that  title  became  bxtinct  ;  his  lordship  left, 

however,  by  his  wife,  Mary,  daughter  and  co-heir 

ot  Sir  Arthur  Throckmorton,  of  Paulers-Perry,  in 

Northamptonshire,  four  daughters,  his  co-heirs,  vis. 

Kathxrinb,  who  m.  first,  to  Henry,  Lord 

Stanhope,  son  and  heir  <rf  Philip,  Earl  of 

ChesteriSeld,  by  whom,  who  predeceased  hia 

father,  she  had, 

Philip,  who  succeeded  to  the  Earldom  of 

Chesterfield. 
Mary,  who  cf.  unmarried. 
Katharine,  m.  to  William,  Lord  Alingtoo. 
Her    ladyship    espoused,    secondly,   John 
PoLLiANBBR  KiRXHOYRN,  Lord  of  Hem- 
fieet,  in  Holland,  and  had  a  son, 

Charlrs  Hsnry  Kirkhovbnj  of  whom 
presently. 
She    married,     thirdly.     Colonel    Daniel 
O'Neile,  one  of  the  grooms  of  the  bed- 
chamber to  Charles  II.,  but  had  no  issue  by 
him.     This    lady  was    governess  to  the 
Princess  of  Orange,  daughter  of  Charles  I., 
and  attending  her  highness  into  Holland, 
sent  over  money,  arms,  and  ammunition,  to 
his  mijesty's  aid,  for  which  service  she  was 
created,  at  the  restoration,  Countxsb  or 
CHRBTBRriBLO  foT  life  (see  Wotton,  Coun- 
tess of  Chesterfield). 
Hesther,  m.  to  Baptist,  Viscount  Campden. 
Margaret,  m.  to  Sir  John  Tufton,  Knt 
Anne,  m.  to  Sir  Edward  Hales,  Knt,  of  Tuna- 
tal,  Kent 
The  eldest  of  these  co-heiresses,  Katherine,  had,  by 
her  second  husband,  as  stated  above,  an  only  son, 

CHARLES  HENRY  KIRKHOVEN,  who,  by 
reason  of  his  descent,  was  created  Baron  Wotton, 
<tf  Ff^ottoH,  in  Kent,  by  letters  patent,  dated  3Ist 
August,  1650;  and  was  naturalized  by  act  of  par- 
liament, in  September,  1660.  His  lordship  was  ad- 
vanced to  the  Earldom  of  Bellomont,  in  Ireland,  in 
1677,  but  died  «.  p.  in  1678,  when  all  his  honours 
became  bxtinct,  and  his  estates  devolved,  by  his 
lordship's  bequest,  upon  his  nephew  by  the  half- 
blood,  Charlbs  Stanhopb,  a  younger  son  of  his 
half-brother,  Philip,  Earl  of  Chesterfield,  who, 
upon  inheriting,  assumed  the  surname  of  Wotton. 
Arms.— Ar.  a  saltier,  sa. 

KNIVET— BARON  KNIVET,  OF  ES- 
CRICK,  IN  THE  COUNTY 
OF  YORK. 

By  Writ  of  Sumtoons.  dated  4th  July,  1607, 
5  James  I. 

The  fkmily  of  Knitbt,  anciently  seated  in  Norfolk, 

893 


KNO 


KNO 


came  at  loigth  to  potaeit  BvcniroHAM  Castlb,  in 
that  shire,  by  the  marriage  of 

SIR  JAMES  KNIVET,  with  Margaret  Oifton, 
an  heiress,  to  whom  it  descended  (through  females) 
from  the  founder  in  the  time  of  the  conquest,  Wil- 
liam de  Albini.    From  this  Sir  James  we  paM  to 

SIR  THOMAS  KNIVET,  Knt,  one  of  the  gentle- 
men of  the  privy  chamber  to  King  James  I.,  who,  in 
1005,  upon  the  mysterious  intimation  conveyed  by 
letter  to  the  Lord  Monteagle,  was  sent,  being  a  Justice 
of  the  Peace  in  Westminster,  to  make  search,  with 
others,  in  the  vaults  and  cellers  under  the  House  of 
Lords,  where  Ouydo  Faux  was  discovered,  and  the 
gunpowder  plot  detected  and  prevented.  After 
which,  he  was  summoned  to  the  parliament,  then 
sitting,  4th  July,  IO07,  as  Baron  Knitbt,  op 
EscEicK,  in  the  county  of  York.  His  lordship 
m.  Elisabeth,  widow  of  Richard  Warren,  Esq.,  and 
daughter  cii  Sir  Rowland  Hayward,  an  alderman  of 
London,  but  had  no  Issue.  He  d,  97th  April,  IfiSS, 
when  the  Bahohy  or  Escbick  became  kxtinct. 
His  lordship's  estates  devolved  upon  hb  niece, 
Eliiabeth,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Sir  Henry  Kui- 
vet,  of  Charlton,  in  the  county  of  Wilts ;  which 
Elisabeth,  married  Thomas  Howard,  Earl  of  Suf- 
folk, and  her  seventh  son.  Sir  Edward  Howard,  K.B., 
was  created  Baroiv  Howard  or  Escrick,  on  the 
£9th  April,  10S8  (see  that  dignity). 

ARMS.— Ar.  a  plain  bend  and  a  border  ingrail- 
ed,  sa. 

NoTX.— Of  this  fiimily  was  Jorx  KirrrBT,  Chaw- 
csLLOR  or  England,  in  the  46th  Edward  III. 

KNOLLYS— BARON  KNOLLYS,  VIS- 
COUNT WALLINGFOBD, 
EARL  OF  BANBURY. 

13th  May,  1603. 
I4th  November,  1616. 
18th  August*  1696. 


??*^y'      1  by  Letters  f 
Viscounty,  V  p  -J 

Earldom,    }  \ 


Xincasc. 

In  the  41st  Edward  IIL, 

SIR  ROBERT  KNOLLYS,  K.O.,  having  from 
humble  fortune  attained  great  wealth,  and  high 
reputation,  in  the  Norman  wars,  was  chosen  by  the 
Black  Princx,  to  accompany  him  into  Spain,  in 
aid  of  Don  Pedro,  then  King  of  Castiie  and  Leon, 
against  Henry,  the  bastard  son  of  (his  father)  King 
Alfonsus.  And  in  three  years  afterwards  was  made 
general  of  all  the  forces  then  sent  by  King  Edward 
into  France.  In  the  1st  Richard  II.  Sir  Robert 
was  governor  of  the  castle  of  Brxst,  and  in  the  3rd 
he  went  with  Thomas  Flantagenet,  (of  Woodstock,) 
Earl  of  Buckingham,  and  other  gallant  persons,  to 
assist  the  Duke  of  Brltanny  against  the  French, 
when,  landing  at  Calais,  they  marched  quite  through 
France,  without  resistance.  The  next  year,  upon 
the  breaking  out  of  Jack  Straw's  insurrection.  Sir 
Robert  led  the  citizens  of  London  against  the  rebds. 
Besides  his  military  achievements  which  rendered 
him  famous  in  those  days.  Sir  Robert  KnoUys  left 
other  memorials  behind  him.  He  erected  a  stately 
bridge  ovCT  the  river  Medway,  near  Rochester,  in 
Kent,  called  Rochester  Bridge,  and  he  enlarged  the 
house  of  Friers-Canneliteej  commonly  called  White 
K4 


Friers,  in  the  city  of  London.  He  likewise  founded 
a  coll^^te  church  of  secular  priests,  at  Ponteftract, 
in  Yorkshire.  He  died  at  his  seat  of  Scene  Thorpe, 
in  the  county  of  Norfolk,  anno  1407,  and  was  buried 
with  the  Lady  Constance,  his  wife,  in  the  body  of 
the  church  at  the  White  Friers.  From  this  gallant 
personage  descended, 

ROBERT  KNOLLYS,  who,  in  the  9th  of  Henry 
VIII.,  being  then  one  of  the  gentlemen  uAers  of 
the  privy  chamber,  had  a  lease  for  a  certain  nun^ 
ber  of  years,  from  the  king,  of  the  manor  of  Rother- 
field  Grey,  commonly  called  Grkyb,  In  the  county 
of  Oxford.    He  was  ».  by  his  son, 

SIR  FRANCIS  KNOLLYS,  who  obtained  ftom 
King  Henry  VIII.,  a  grant  of  the  lordship  in  fee  of 
Rotherfleld  Grey,  or  Greys,  and  was  one  of  that 
monarch's  gentlemen  pensioners.  In  the  reign  of 
Edward  VI.,  he  was  so  staunch  an  upholder  of  the 
reformation,  that  he  deemed  it  prudent  upon  the 
accession  of  Mary,  to  retire  into  Germany.  But 
when  Elisabeth  ascended  the  throne,  he  returned 
and  enjoyed  in  a  high  degree,  the  favour  and  confi- 
dence of  the  crown.  He  was  immediately  sworn  of 
the  privy  council*  made  vice-cfaamberhdn  of  the 
household;  next,  captain  of  the  guard;  afterwards 
treasurer ;  and  lastly,  installed  a  Knight  of  tiie  Most 
Noble  Order  of  the  Garter.  In  the  llth  of  Elisa- 
beth, Sir  Francis  Knollys  had  the  custody  of  Mary, 
Queen  of  Scots,  then  confined  at  Bolton  Castle,  in 
Yorkshire,  and  in  eighteen  years  afterwards,  he  was 
one  of  those  who  sat  in  Judgment  upon  he^life. 
Sir  Francis  m.  Catherine,  daughter  of  William 
Carey,  Esq.,  (by  Mary,  his  wife,  daughter  of  Tho- 
mas Boleyn,  Earl  of  Wiltshire,  and  sister  of  Queen 
Anne  Boleyn)  and  was  «.  at  his  decease,  by  his  eldest 
surviving  son, 

WILLIAM  KNOLLYS,  treasurer  of  the  house- 
hold, in  the  reign  of  Elisabeth,  who  was  advanced 
to  the  peerage  by  King  James  I.,  by  letters  patent, 
dated  13th  May,  1603,  in  the  dignity  of  Lord 
Knollys,  of  Greys,  in  the  county  of  Oxford  (his 
chief  seat).  In  1614,  his  lordship  was  appointed 
master  of  the  wards,  and  within  a  short  time 
installed  a  Knight  of  the  Garter.  In  1616,  he 
was  created  Viscount  WALLiNOroRo,  and  ad- 
vanced by  King  Charles  I.,  on  I8th  August,  1696,  to 
the  Earldom  or  Banbury,  with  precedency  of  all 
earls  who  were  created  before  him.  His  lordship 
m.  first,  Dorothy,  daughter  of  Edward,  Lord  Bray, 
sister  and  co-hdr  of  John,  Lord  Bray,  and  widow 
of  Edmund,  Lord  Chandos,  by  whom  b6  had  no 
issue.  He  espoused,  secondly.  Lady  Elisabeth 
Howard,  daughter  of  Thomas,  Earl  of  Suffolk,  and 
dying 25th  May,  1639,  at  the  advanced  age  of  dghty- 
eight,-  was  buried  in  the  church  of  Greys.  The 
subsequent  history  of  this  peerage  is  one  of  the 
most  curious  in  the  whole  record  of  peerage  claims. 
Upon  the  decease  of  the  Earl  or  Banbury,  the 
inquisition  found  that  he  died  without  issue,  but 
leaving  a  widow,  Elisabeth,  his  last  wife.  His 
honours  were  then  deemed  bxtinct,  and  his  estates 
passed  to  his  collateral  heirs,  excepting  such  as  he 
had  devised  to  his  widow,  who  remarried  Lord 
Vaux.  In  a  few  years  this  lady  produced  two 
sons,  bom  during  her  marriage  with  Lord  Banbury, 
her  first  husband.    They  had  at  flnt  been  called 


KNO 


KNO 


Vauz,  but  now  aht  let  UMm  up  m  tteaoM  of  the 
Earl  of  Banbury,  and  gave  to  the  rtdeat  the  title  of 
that  BarUiom.  They  wore  not  of  age  before  the 
dvU  ivan  had  broken  up  the  Houae  of  Lord*.  The 
elder  died.  NiclM»laa,  the  aurrivor.  availing  of  the 
ooBTcntum  parliament  in  1660.  took  hit  seat  Uientn, 
and  during  the  oontinimtimi  of  ita  fittings,  voted 
upon  several  ocoasiona.  It  seems,  liowever,  that 
on  the  13th  July,  lOGOk  it  was  moved,  •<  That 
there  being  a  penon  that  now  sits  in  this  boose  as 
a  pesr  of  the  realm,  via.  the  Earl  of  Banbury,  it 
is  ordered  that  this  business  shall  be  heard  at  the 
bar  by  counsel,  on  Monday  come  sennight."  Whe- 
ther, in  Ibctt  any  sudi  hearing  did  take  place  or 
not,  the  journals  aresilent,  yet  they  famish  abun- 
dant proof,  that  the  doubt  had  been  removed  by 
some  means:  for  they  shew,  that  the  said  Earl  was 
present  in  the  house  every  day  preceding  the  day 
appointed  for  the  hearing.  That  he  was  also  pre- 
sent on  that  very  day  \  and  that  the  day  following, 
he  was  named  of  the  committee  on  the  exdae  bill. 
That  he  was  present  on  the  13th  September,  when 
the  king  was  in  the  house;  and,  in  short,  was  only 
absent  seven  days,  from  the  13th  July,  when  the 
said  motion  was  made,  to  the  Slst  November,  when 
it  was  ordered,  '*  That  the  Earl  ot  Banbury  hath 
leave  to  be  abeent  for  some  time.**  Shortly  alter 
this,  however,  the  parliament  was  diss<rfved,  visr. 
SMi  December,  1660 ;  and  in  the  new  perUamcnt, 
which  met  the  8th  May,  16S1,  the  name  of  the  Earl 
of  Banbury  was  omitted;  his  lordship  presented 
therefore,  a  petition  to  the  king  tor  his  writ  of 
summona,  which  petition  was  referred  to  the  lords 
for  their  opinion,  and  by  them  transferred  to  a 
committee  of  privileges.  Here  a  regular  ei;amln»- 
tion  of  witnesses  took  place,  and  the  attorney- 
general,  who  attended  on  behalf  of  thb  crown,  con- 
fessed the  law  to  be  dear;  when  the  committee  re- 
ported to  the  house,  1st  July,  1661,  "  That  Nicho- 
las, Earl  of  Banbury,  was  a  legitimate  person." 
Upon  receiving  the  reprnt,  the  house  ordered  that 
the  cause  should  be  heard  at  the  bar }  where 
having  been  accordingly  heard,  it  was  again  leflened 
to  the  committee  of  privileges,  with  an  adifitional 
direction,  to  consider  the  matter  of  the  right  of 
precedency  between  the  said  earl  and  several  other 
peers ;  which  committee  once  more  having  taken 
the  matter  into  consideration,  on  the  19th  July, 
1681,  reported,  "  That  the  Earl  of  Banbury,  in  the 
eye  of  the  law,  was  son  of  the  late  William,  Earl  of 
Bauibury;  and  the  House  of  Peers  should  therefore 
advise  the  king,  to  send  him  a  writ  to  come  to  par- 
liament, and  that  he  ought  to  have  a  place  in  the 
House  of  Peers,  according  to  the  date  of  his  patent, 
and  not  according  to  that  part  thereof,  which 
ranked  him  before  the  other  earls  created  before 
William,  Earl  of  Banbury."  This  report  was  made 
on  Friday,  and  the  house  resolved  to  take  it  into 
consideration  on  the  Monday  following;  but  nothing 
appears  to  have  been  done  on  that  day ;  ftum  which 
period  it  was  postponed  day  after  day,  to  the  9th 
December;  when  it  appears  from  the  Joumab,  that 
a  bin  was  brought  in,  and  read  a  first  time,  entitled, 
"  An  act  for  declaring  Nicholas,  called  Earl  of 
Banbury,  to  be  illegitimate."  But  such  a  measure 
was  found  too  unjust  to  beccnne  a  law,  and  the  bill 


thflNfora  dropped.  Nichfrfas*  the  petMoaier,  died 
Uth  Mardi,  1673-4,  without  bringing  the  matter  to 
a  oondusion,  leaving  a  son,  Ghalss,  then  twdve 
years  of  agew  Which  Charles,  in  the  first  perlia- 
ment  after  he  came  of  age,  anno  1685,  presented  a 
petition  to  the  House  of  Peers,  who  retowd  it  to  a 
committee  of  privik^ges,  and  he  was  treated  with 
the  same  procrastinaticm  as  his  tether  had  expe- 
rienced. He  had,  however,  the  misfortune  to  kill 
hb  brother-in-law,  Philip  Lawson,  Esq.,  in  a  duel, 
in  lOBS,  and  that  event  placed  his  right  to  the  peer- 
age in  a  diflbrent  point  of  view,  and  raised  a  new 
questi«m  upon  it.  He  was  indicted  at  the  quarter 
sessions  of  Middlesex,  and  the  indictment  being 
removed  by  certiorari,  into  the  Court  of  King's 
Bench,  the  aasumed  Earl  of  Banbury  petitioned  the 
lords  to  be  tried  by  his  peers.  The  house  having 
again  entered  into  the  Investigation  of  his  father's 
legitimacy,  resolved,  tkmt  he  had  no  rig^t  to  th0 
Earldom  cfBamburif,  and  the  petition  was  ordered 
to  be  dismissed.  Meantime,  the  proceedings  went 
on  in  the  King's  Bench,  and  he  being  indicted  in 
the  name  of  Charies  Knollys,  pleaded  in  abatement 
that  he  was  Earl  of  Banbury.  To  this  the  ftttomey- 
general  rciJoined,  that  he  was  not  Earl  of  Banbury, 
because  the  lords  adjudged  that  he  had  no  right  to 
that  honour.  To  this  he  demurred  as  a  bad  re- 
plication, contending  that  the  lords  had  no  juris- 
diction over  that  question.  And  the  point  which 
the  Court  of  King's  Bench  had  now  to  itetcrmine, 
was  '(whether  the  plea  or  replication  was  good }" 

Lord  Holt,  and  his  brother  judges,  entered  upon 
the  investigation,  with  the  most  profound  labour, 
learning,  courage,  and  integrity;  and  they  finally 
adjudged  «*  Me  roplieatUm  bad,  the  reooiution  qffie 
lords  invalid :"  upon  the  following  grounds. 

First.  That  the  decision  (rf  the  lords  was  no  jud|^ 
ment,  but  only  an  opinion. 

Secondly.  That  it  was  not  the  dedsioo  of  the 
court  of  parliament,  which  consisted  of  king,  Jords, 
and  commons;  and  that  the  lords  had  no  original 
jurisdiction,  but  In  case  of  appeaL 

Thirdly.  That  the  case  was  not  before  the  lords, 
the  petitioner  having  only  prayed  for  hb  privilege, 
and  not  having  submitted  his  right  of  peerage  to 
the  house  at  all. 

Fourthly.  That  there  was  no  relierenoe  firom  the 
crown. 

Fifthly.  That  the  right  to  the  Inheritance  to  the 
peerage  was  as  much  under  the  protection  of  the  com- 
mon law  as  any  other  question  of  legal  inheritance. 
The  defendant,  therefore,  having  exhibited  in 
court  the  patent  of  creation,  and  having  stated  his 
descent  under  it,  the  attorney-general  could  only 
oppose  him,  by  referring  the  question  crf.fact  as  to 
descent  to  a  Jury,  but  dedining  to  adopt  that  course, 
the  plea  was  adjudged  good,  and  the  defendant 
acquitted  accordingly.  The  lords,  enraged  at  this 
derision,  moved  that  the  Chief  Justice  Holt  be 
called  to  their  bar  to  explain  the  grounds  of  his 
judgment,  and  his  lordship  was  consequentiy  sum- 
moned. But  he  calmly  and  firmly  set  them  at  open 
defiance,  telling  thdr  lordships  that  he  owed  it  to 
the  dignity  of  his  place,  and  the  laws  which  he  had 
to  administer,  not  to  account  to  them  in  that  extra- 
judidal  manner :  but  if  the  prosecutors  were  die- 

95 


KNO 


KNO 


MUbficd,  they  might  bring  a  writ  of  error,  and  then 
he  fthould  be  prepared  in  the  r^nibo-  form  to  give 
the  reeeone  of  his  Judgment.  But  so  concluaive  were 
the  argumenti  and  authorities  of  the  court  deemed, 
that  DO  writ  of  error  was  reK>rted  to. 

The  daimant  now  again  petitioned  for  hii  writ  of 
■ummons,  and  the  crown  again  lefaied  it  to  the 
lords,  anno  1693,  who  got  rid  of  the  aAdr,  by  tend- 
ing a  meiuge  to  hie  mi^ty  "  that  they  had  already 
determined  the  question,  of  whidi  they  supposed 
the  king  was  not  aware.**  In  the  reign  ot  Queen 
Anne  the  claimant  ooce  more  petitioned,  and  it 
was  referred  to  the  privy  council,  but  what  became 
eventually  of  the  petition  is  not  known. 

On  the  accession  of  George  IL,  17i7*  he  again 
petitioned.  Sir  Philip  Yorke,  afterwards  Lord 
Hardwicke,  was  then  attorney-general,  and  -  this 
petition  being  referred  to  him,  he  reported,  that 
whether  the  crown  would  refer  it  to  the  lords,  was  a 
matter  of  discretion,  not  of  law :  the  crown  there- 
fore declined  to  interfere.  Thus  the  claim  con- 
tinued to  be  hung  up  from  reign  to  reign.  Lord 
Hardwicke  was  undoubtedly  right :  it  was  a  matter 
of  pure  option  on  the  part  of  the  crown,  whether 
it  would  take  the  opinirai  of  the  lords ;  and  pru- 
dence counseled  the  negative,  after  the  flame  which 
had  been  kindled  between  the  house  of  peers  and 
the  courts  of  law.  At  length,  in  1778,  the  heirship 
devolved  upon  William  Knollys,  an  officer  in  the 
army,  who  has  attained  the  rank  of  general,  now 
living,  who  lirom  that  time  enjoyed,  as  his  ancestors 
had,  since  the  Restoration,  the  titular  honour,  and 
been  so  named  in  all  the  king's  commissions.  The 
awkwardness  of  his  situation,  however,  impdled 
him  to  make  an  eflbrt  in  hb  own  person  to  have  the 
question  of  his  right  to  a  writ  of  summons  finally 
decided.  He  accordingly  petitioned  the  crown; 
and  the  case  was  referred  to  the  attorney-general. 
Sir  Vicary  Gibbs,  in  1808.  That  able  htwyer  re- 
ported that  he  was  bound  by  the  high  authority  of 
the  judgment  of  Lord  Chief  Justice  Holt,  in  1893, 
to  give  it  as  his  opinion,  that  the  resolution  of  the 
lords  on  that  occasion  was  not  conclusive,  because, 
if  that  judgment  had  been  erroneous  it  might  have 
been  reversed  by  a  writ  of  error. 

The  case  thus  i^n  came  before  a  lords'  <»m- 
mittee;  Sir  Samuel  Romilly  was  counsel  for  the 
claimant,  and  his  speech  on  the  occasion  is  said  to 
have  been  his  happiest  eflbrt  t  but  unluckily  no 
note  of  it  has  been  found  among  his  papers:  so  that 
the  memoranda  of  it  were  very  scanty.  There  is 
enough,  however,  to  pronounce  it  unanswerable; 
Two  questions  were  raised,  that  of  lkoitimacy, 
and  that  of  jDmaDtcriON.  The  law  of  the  former 
Sir  Samuel  takes  up,  as  it  had  always  been  held  in 
England,  and  other  countries,  from  the  Roman 
law :  that  the  issue  ot  the  wife  must  be  acknowledg- 
ed in  law  to  be  the  issue  of  the  husband,  where 
there  is  access,  and  no  natural  impossibility :  and 
among  other  authorities  he  cites  the  celebrated 
speech  of  Lord  Chancellor  Nottingham,  in  the  case 
ot  the  Viscounty  of  Purbeck.  The  noble  lords  who 
took  an  active  part  in  this  discussion  were.  Redes- 
dale,  EUenborough,  Erskine.  and  the  Lord  Chan- 
cellor Eldon.  Lord  Redeadale  violently  opposed 
the  claim  upon  both  questions.  On  that  of  Iqgiti- 
898 


macy  his  whole  reasoning  turned  upon  the  drcum- 
stanoes,  which  raised  the  presumption  that  Nicholas 
KnoUys  or  Vaux,  was,  in  fact,  the  son  of  Lord 
Vaux,  bom  in  adultery,  principally  on  account  of 
the  mother's  amcealment  of  his  birth,  and  his  non- 
succession  to  Lord  Banbury's  inheritance ;  whidi, 
according  to  Romilly's  law,  had  no  coocem  with  the 
matter,  it  not  being  allowable  to  enter  upon  sudi 
questions,  where  husband  and  wife  cohabit,  and 
where  no  natural  impoesibUity  exists  on  the  part  of 
the  husband ;  the  concealment  of  the  birth  having 
been  the  act  of  the  wife,  and  no  act  of  the  wife,  not 
even  her  direct  declaration  being  allowed  tobestard- 
iae  the  issue  Lord  Redesdale  could  not  produce  a 
sin^  authority  in  answer  to  this;  but  diose  to  rdy 
upon  his  own  dictum  and  opinion  as  paramount  to 
it.  On  the  point  of  jurisdiction  his  arguments  were 
still  more  contradictory.  He  takes  no  notice  of 
Lord  Holt's  reasonings,  except  to  say,  in  general 
terms,  he  was  wrong,  and  that  the  lords  were  right : 
and  he  insists  on  the  lapse  of  time,  and  the  claimants* 
abandonment,  to  crush  the  claim.  Now  where  is 
the  law,  thiu  lapee  of  time  applies  to  honours  ?  and 
where  was  the  abandonment  in  this  case  7  Did  not 
every  successive  generation  do  all  in  its  power  to 
insist  on  ito  daim  ?  And  was  the  house  to  take 
advantage  of  its  own  wrong  in  having  suspended 
and  acUoumed  and  delayed  the  case.  No  dose  rea- 
soner  would  be  a  convert  to  Lord  Redesdale,  even 
in  one  of  his  propositions  or  arguments.  Next  came 
Lord  EUenborough,  who  having  much  leas  leisure 
than  Lord  Redesdale,  seems  to  have  mainly  bor- 
rowed his  line  of  argument.  He  begins  with  rather 
an  ill-timed  protestation  of  his  enchainment  to  the 
Uw :  and  then,  throughout  his  discourse,  tries  every 
eflbrt  to  discover  reasons  for  overturning  the  law. 
He  dedares  Lord  Chief  Justice  Holt  wrong,  and 
that  he  had  peculiar  notions  on  the  juriuiiction  of 
the  lords.  Now  if  they  were  pecuUar,  why  were 
they  not  reversed  by  a  writ  of  error?  He  finally 
gives  his  dedsion  in  direct  opposition  to  the  solemn 
unrevened  judgment  of  Lord  Holt,  by  which  the 
Attorney-General  Gibbs  had  reported  himself  bound. 
This  was  rather  a  strange  mode  of  shewing  himself 
chained  to  the  law  I  He  doses,  with  using  the  harsh 
terms  of  calling  upon  the  house  to  prevent  the 
daimant  fVom  intrudisti^  himself  upon  them. 

Lord  Erskine  then  rose;  his  great  genius,  his 
beautiful  eloquence,  his  profound  knowledge  of  the 
law  of  evidence,  rendered  his  speech  a  treasure  of 
constitutional  prindples  of  enlightened  axioms,  of 
acute  logic,  of  felidtous  expression,  and  generous 
pleading  for  oppressed  rights.  His  exposition  of 
the  law  in  the  claimant's  favour  was  as  fUll  of  wis- 
dom, as  it  was  of  legal  justice.  He  afterwards  en- 
tered a  long  and  doqueat  fiuitsst  to  the  nune 
efl^  on  the  lords'  journal. 

The  Lord  Chancdlor  Eldon  came  last,  but  he  was 
equally  unable  to  stem  the  tide  of  authority  in  sup- 
port of  the  law,  as  laid  down  by  Sir  Samud  Romilly. 
He  gare  It  as  his  opinion  that  drcumstanoes  might 
rebut  the  inference  of  legitimacy  even  where  there 
was  access,  and  no  natural  imposaibility.  As.  to 
jurisdiction  he  did  not  deny  that  of  the  regular 
courts  of  law,  but  pronounced  that  the  lords  might 
also  have  it  ipddentally  when  questions  of  privilege 


KNO 


KNO 


aroM;  and,  thoreAire,  that  the  court  of  King's 
Bench  ought  to  have  paid  defexcnce  to  the  lords' 
resolution  of  I683i  In  those  speeches  the  applica- 
tion of  the  word  "judgment/*  to  the  resolution  of 
a  lords'  committee,  is  not  becoming  the  precision  of 
legal  lips. 

The  result  was  a  resolution  on  the  part  of  the 
msjorlty  of  theoonunittee  in  1813«  that  the  claimant 
was  not  entitled  to  the  Earldom  of  Banbury.  It 
caimot  be  denied  to  hare  been  a  rexy  hard  case. 
The  opinion  of  the  judges  was  talLen  on  the  abstract 
question  of  hiw  $  and  it  must  be  confessed  that  that 
'oplniao  does  not  exactly  coincide  with  the  law  as 
Jaid  down  by  Sir  Samuel  Romilly  and  Lord  Erskine : 
but  it  surely  does  not  bear  out  the  resolution  of  the 
lordi  in  the  Banbury  esse.  The  judges  say,  that 
evidence  may  be  admitted  to  proTe  that  the  reputed 
father  eould  not  have  been  the  father  of  the  child » 
not  confining  it  to  natural  impossibility;  but  in  the 
Banbury  case  no  evidence  was  even  attempted  to 
prove  that  Lord  Banbury  etmld  not  have  been  the 
fisther  of  Nicholas.  That  the  old  law  was  as  Romilly 
laid  it  down,  seems  to  admit  of  no  question. 

There  never  can  be  wanting  instances  to  prove 
how  dangerous  it  b  to  remove  the  land-marks  of 
the  law.  If  onoe  the  question  of  expedience  or  par* 
ticular  Inconvenience  b  admitted,  there  are  no  ftu- 
ther  guides,  or  pole^tars:  all  is  afloat  in  the  sea  of 
uncertainty ;  and  men's  rights  are  at  the  mercy  and 
oaprioe  of  Individual  opinion.  The  claimant's  an- 
cestor was  bom  under  those  unquestionable  £scts 
which  by  the  law  entitled  him  to  the  inheritance  of 
the  husband  of  his  mother.  Is  not  this  to  be  legiti- 
mate ?  Let  us  admit  private  conviction  as  to  the 
fsct  of  filiation,  and  whither  will  it  lead  7  do  we  not 
continually  in  society  meet  persons  in  possession  of 
honours  and  riches  in  right  of  blood,  which  we  pri- 
vately feel  assured  does  not  belong  to  them,  vii.  the 
children  of  the  wife;  and  not  of  the  husband.  The 
claimant's  ancestor  may  have  been  the  son  of  Lord 
Vaux,  and  probably  was  so ;  but  even  that  fact  is  not 
oonduslv&  • 

They  who  can  look  upon  this  case  without  Interest 
must  have  strange  hearts.  Upon  what  are  we  jus- 
tified in  rdying,  but  on  the  settled  law  of  the  land  ? 
Perhaps  it  will  be  answered— *' but  here  was  the 
jpunuit  of  a  shadow."  A  peerage  is  not  a  sha- 
dow ;  not  a  mean  pursuit  of  wealth,  and  vulgar 
power,  but  the  desire  of  a  high  legislative  and  legal 
Auction.  Was  there,  or  was  there  not,  cause  for 
the  assumption  of  this  peerage,  in  the  outset  ?  It 
has  been  shewn,  that  the  law  was  with  the  claimant 
Why  then  should  he  decline  it?  when  once  em- 
barked, how  could  he  draw  back  ?  Is  it  nothing, 
after  having  enjoyed  the  titular  honour  of  an  earl- 
dom, for  nearly  two  hundred  years,  under  the 
sanction  of  the  highest  court  of  law,  to  be  cast 
amongst  the  undistinguished  crowd ;  to  be  trampled 
on,  sneered  at,  and  triumphed  over  ?  Is  it  nothing 
to  have  been  driven  to  support  the  right,  at  the  bar 
<ii  the  lords,  at  an  enormous  expense,  as  well  as 
great  anxiety,  and  then  to  be  sent  away,  beaten  and 
degraded,  in  defiance  of  the  law  7  Is  it  any  apology, 
■  to  have  it  answered,  when  the  law  is  pleaded, 
*'  Oh,  but  it  was  an  inconvenient  and  foolish  law ! 
we  are  wiser  than  our  ancestors ;  and  wiU  make  a 


new  law  ?*  It  will  perhaps  be  deemed  very  arro- 
gant, to  run  contrary,  in  this  way,  to  great  names  f 
but  have  we  not  great  names  on  our  side  ?  Are  not 
Lord  Holt,  and  Romilly,  and  Lord  Erskine,  and 
Sir  Vicary  Gibbs,  and  Lord  Coke,  and  Lord  Not- 
tingham, and  Sir  Geofffery  Palmer,  great  names  t 
There  is  but  one  on  the  other  side,  which  will  be 
put  in  competition  with  any  of  these  names,  and 
that  is  Lord  Eldon  I  but  Lord  Eldon's  speech  on 
this  occasion,  was  somewhat  wavering  and  inde- 
dsive. 

Lawyers  will  hereafter,  sit  and  study  this  case, 
with  greater  care  than  they  have  hitherto  done. 
We  are  oblige^  to  Mr.  Le  Merchant,  in  his  appendix 
to  the  Gardiner  claim,  for  a  fuller  report  ot  this 
case,  in  1806-1813,  than  had  hitherto  been  published. 
It  is  strange,  that  even  Hargrave  had  not  thoroughly 
investigated  it,  and  the  manner  in  which  the  lords 
argue  the  jurisdictions-eliding  without  notice  over 
the  main  doctrines  and  arguments  of  Lord  Holt^ 
seems  to  call  for  comments  in  which  delicacy  for- 
bears to  indulge^  To  treat  about  extinct  and  dor- 
mant peerages,  and  not  thoroughly  to  discuss  this 
case,  would  be  to  pass  over  the  chief  feature  which 
belongs  to  the  work.  He  who  is  not  completely 
master  of  Lord  Holt's  decision  in  the  Banbury  case, 
knows  nothing  oi  peerage-law !  It  is  a  study 
worth  the  labour;  a  familiarity  with  Lord  Holt's 
doctrines  shews  the  whole  extent  of  this  Inranch, 
in  a  luminous  point  of  view ;  all  connected,  form- 
ing  one  clear  whole;  while  the  modem  usage  of  a 
reference  to  committees,  is  continually  drawing  the 
investigation  into  perplexities,  which  leads  to  all 
sorts  of  defeats  of  Justice.  If  ^  question  of  legi- 
timacy had  arisen  in  a  regular  court  of  law,  it  would 
have  been  argued  in  a  very  different  way;  and  pro- 
bably Lord  Ellenborough  himself  would  not  have 
come  to  the  same  conclusion  in  his  own  Court  of 
King's  Bendk  In  the  courts  of  law,  the  presence  of 
an  intelligent  bar  is  always  a  check  upon  new  and 
speculative  law;  while  a  committee  of  prlvili^^esy 
though  it  sometimes  affects  to  be  govemed  by  the 
same  rules— (at  other  times  it  puts  them  at  defi- 
ance) altogether,  feds  itsdf  firee  and  unfettered,  and 
the  law  lords  are  surrounded,  be  it  remembered,  by 
those,  whose  lack  of  legal  habit*  deprives  them  of 
all  weight  upon  purdy  legal  questions.  Mr.  Le 
Merchant  has  forborne  to  comment  on  the  Ban- 
bury case,  and  taken  on  himself  the  mere  province 
of  a  reporter.  'The  present  observations  may  ap- 
pear bold,  they  have  not  been  ventured  without 
long  and  deep  pondering  on  the  sul]!JecL  Nothing 
of  the  kind  will  be  found  in  "  Oruiae  on  Dignitieg," 
a  work  of  utility,  truly,  but  superficial.  It  is  a 
branch  of  the  law,  which  has  been  hitherto  little 
attended  to ;  but  yet  it  is  very  important.  Of  late 
years,  a  disposition  has  been  evinced,  in  particular 
quarters,  to  apply  more  minute  care  to  it;  but 
unluckily,  in  directions  where  there  is  a  tendency 
to  erect  a  new  tribunal,  with  new  rules  drawn  up,- 
in  a  spirit  that  trenches  cm  those  constitution^ 
customs  and  enactments,  to  which  a  Briton  has 
looked  to  shield  his  rights,  from  the  time  of  Magna 
Charta.  Whatever  removes  questions  of  right  from 
the  courts  of  common  law,  is  a  mischievous  inno- 
vation. 

2Q  897 


KNO 


KKO 


Our  peenct  U  greatly  CDlai^ed :  to  la  extent 
IndMd,  which  many  nge  penons  consider  perilous 
to  the  poise  of  the  constitution.  The  tendency  of 
our  manners  and  political  institutions*  has  been  by 
manufactures,  commerce,  and  taxation,  to  extin- 
guish the  old  families,  more  rapidly  than  in  the 
ordinary  course  of  events.  This  is  not  the  time, 
therefore,  by  new  rules  of  an  ii^utious  effect,  to 
add  still  more  to  the  number  of  those  extinc- 
tions. An  ancient  name  and  house  has  still  a 
hold  upon  the  veneration  of  the  people ;  a  new 
aristocracy  is  what  the  nature  of  the  human  mind 
revolts  at  The  people  will  not  patiently  submit 
to  those,  to  whose  progenitors  their  progenitors 
have  not  bowed.  They  will  not  either  succumb  to 
a  tyrant  or  fool,  because  his  ancestors  were  great 
or  liberal.  Antiquity  must  unite  with  talent  and 
virtue. 

It  Is  as  little  wise  therefore,  as  it  is  generous,  in 
the  state,  to  do  its  utmost  to  dry  up  any  of  these 
few  remaining  fountains,  whence  their  issue  have 
passed  down  the  stream  of  time,  and  collected  tinc- 
tures and  infVision,  grateful  to  the  people.  The 
tribunals  which  were  sufiScient  to  guard  the  rights 
of  the  crown,  in  ages  when  the  greater  part  of  the 
titles  were  ancient,  and  families  still  continued  to 
survive  in  their  numerous  branches,  are  surely 
sufficient  to  preserve  those  rights  against  the  effects 
of  new  grants  of  honours,  where  it  can  rarely  hap- 
pen, that  the  stock  is  removed  at  any  distance  from 
the  memory  of  living  persons.  Lord  Redesdale 
seems  to  have  been  greatly  mistaken,  as  to  the 
duties  imposed  upon  the  lords,  with  regard  to 
questions  of  peerage,  referted  to  them  by  the  crown. 
He  appears  to  hare  assumed,  that  the  lords  Jiad  a 
sort  of  original  Jurisdiction  of  their  own,  over  peer- 
ages, and  that  they  had  an  interest  and  a  right  to 
interfiBre ;  and  were  therefore  enUtled,  to  make 
such  new  rules  and  regulations,  as  would,  in  their 
opinion,  most  efllectually  guard  the  door,  and  render 
the  entry  difficult.  We  may  confidently  assert, 
that  this  b  an  erroneous  view  of  the  sutiiect  The 
lords  have  no  right  of  interference  whatsoever, 
except  as  to  the  order  of  precedence  among  their 
own  body,  tf  tha  crown  allows  a  peerage  with  a 
date  of  precedence,  which  the  lords  can  prove  not 
to  belong  to  it,  they  may  then,  upon  due  inves- 
tigation, revise  that  preoedenco-«  case  not  likely 
to  happen,  but  certainly  possible.  But  if,  when 
the  crown  'demands  the  opinion  6f  the  lords,  and 
the  opinion  which  they  give  is  arrived  at  by  any 
other  means  or  processes,  than  those  which  are 
conformable  to  the  common  law,  and  whidi  in  con- 
sequence of  such  variation  of  means,  are  dlffierent 
ttom  those  which  the  rules  and  customs  of  the 
common  law  would  give,  then  they  mislead  the 
crown,  flbr  the  crown  is  restrained  to  act  according 
to  the  common  law. 

Note,— Tor  these  commentaries  upon  the  cele- 
brated BAirBVEY  Pbsraox,  we  are  indebted 
to  a  gentleman,  whose  literary  works,  particu- 
larly in  genealogy  and  aatiquiUes,  have  attained 
very  high  reputation;  but  we  do  not  hold  our- 
selves responsible  for  all  the  opinions  he  has  ad- 
vanced. 


9M 


Scscmt 

or  Tna  banbvby  pbbbaob  throuoh  thv 

ASSUMBD  SABLS  Or  BAMBUEY. 

NICHOLAS  KNOLLYS,  <or  Yanx,  the  _ 
whose  birth  was  concealed  by  his  mother,  during  the 
life-time  of  her  first  husband,  WtUiam,  Earl  of  Ban- 
bury,)  assumed  the  dignity  of  Karl  of  Banbury, 
and  as  such  voted  in  the  convention  parliament. 
He  m.  first,  IsabeUa,  daughter  of  Mountjoy  Blount, 
Earl  of  Newport,  and  had  a  daughter, 

Anne,  m.  to  Sir  John  Briscal,  Knt. 
His  lordship  espoused  secondly,  Anne,  daughter  of 
William  Shenrd,  hand  Leitrim,  in  Ireland,  and 
had,  with  other  issue,  Ms  ftuoceasor,  in  1873-4, 

CHARLES  KNOLLYS,  who  also  assumed  the 
title  of  Earl  of  Banbury.  He  m.  first,  Blargaret, 
daughter  of  Edward  Lister,  Esq.,  of  Burwell,  in 
the  county  of  Leicester,  antt  had  issue, 

Charlbs.  Viscount  WallingftmL   who  died 
■    «.  p.,  in  the  lifetime  of  his  father. 
His  knrdship    m.   secondly,    Mary,  daughter    of 
Thomas  Woods,  Esq.,  and  dying  in  1740»  was  «.  by 
the  son  of  this  marriage, 

CHARLES  KNOLLYS,  assumed  Earl  of  Ban- 
bury, m.  Miss  Martha  Hughes,  and  had  with  other 
issue, 

WILLIAM,  his  successor. 
Thomab- Woods,  successor  to  his  brother. 
He  died  I3th  March,  1771*  and  was  «.  by  his  elder 
son, 

WILLIAM  KNOLLYS,  assumed  Earl  of  Ban- 
bury, who  died  unmarried,  89th  August  1776>  and 
was  «.  by  his  brother, 

THOMAS-WOODS  KNOLLYS,  aammed  Earl 
of  Banbury,  m.  Mary,  daughter  of  WiOiam  Porter, 
Esq.,  of  Winchester,  and  left,  with  other  issue, 

William  Khollys,  a  general  officer  in  the 

army,   who,  unsucceseftilly,  preferred    hte 

daim  to  the  Earldom  or  Banbuby,  in 

ia0B-18UL 

Arms.— Ai.  a  cross  recercele  voided.    Semee  of 

crooB  crosslets,  or. 

KNOVILL  —  BAKON  KNOVILL. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  SSrd  June,  U9B, 
83  Edward  U 

Xiiuasf. 

BOGO  DE  KNOVILL,  in  the  16th  of  King  John, 
had  livery  of  those  lands  at  Horsed,  in  Cambridge- 
shire,  which  Stephen  of  Oxford  some  time  held. 
But  in  the  18th  of  Henry  III.,  being  involved  in  the 
Insurrection  of  Richard,  Earl  Marshall,  all  his  poe- 
scaaions  were  seised  by  the  crown.  Upon  making 
submiisian,  however,  he  obtained  precepts  to  the 
sherlflb  of  Northamptonshire,  Buckinghamshire, 
Sussex,  Herefordshire,  and  Cambridgeshire,  to 
make  restitution  to  him  of  what  lay  in  their  respeo- 
tive  counties.  To  this  Bogo  succeeded  <his  son  and 
heir  it  is  presumed), 

BOGO  DE  KNOVILL,  who.  In  the  3rd  of  Ed- 
wani  L,  was  constituted  sheriff  of  the  counties  of 
Salop  and  Staflbrd,  and  governor  of  the  castle  «f 


JfYU 


LAC 


BliiMiniiMlBri  (HibMqa«ntly  c«Iltd  Oiwtitra,)  in 
the  fonner  thiza  In  which  ofllo*  h«  coatinued  for 
thrae  ymn,  and  wm  than  mada  gOTamor  of  Dol- 
voron  Caatte*  in  tha  marcbai  of  Waki.  Thb  faudal 
kMrd  wai  aununonad  toparlianMnt  as  a  nAaoif*fktim 
S3rd  Jana.  1905,  to  96th  Auguat,  1307,  in  which 
lattar  yaar  ha  diad*  laaTiag  a  ion  and  hair,  than 
thirty  yaara  of  age, 

BOGO  DE  KNOVILL.  who  doing  homage,  had 
Uvary  of  his  tends,  but*  aoooiding  to  Ougdale,  was 
ncrar  summonfid  to  parliament.  His  name  ^ipeart, 
liowever,  in  tha  rolla  of  the  flnt  year  of  King 
Edward  IL,  amongst  others  therain  mantiooad,  aa 
baring  baanaummoned  to  tiie  pariiament  hdd  at 
that  period.  In  the  4th  of  Edward  IL  this  Bogo 
was  in  the  wan  of  Scotland*  and  in  fSour  yaars  aftar 
ha  had  a  military  summons  ftar  the  same  Held.  He 
was  subsequently  involved  in  the  reballicn  ot 
Thomas,  Earl  of  Lanfiastar,  and  paid  the  vary  large 
fine  of  £l,O0O  to  preserve  his  Ufa  He  tbm  resided 
in  Olouoestenhirak  Of  this  nobleman,  or  hia  d»- 
sosndants*  Dugdala  gives  no  fturther  account. 

Kimber,  in  his  Baniaetiwe,  sUtes.  that  Eleanor, 
daughter  and  co-heir  of  Sir  John  KnoviU,  manied 
abovt  the  Uth  of  Edward  IIL,  Grey  da  St  Aubyn, 
ancestor  of  the  present  Sir  J<dm8t.  Aubyn,  Baronet, 
of  Clowianoa,  in  the  county  of  ComwaU. 

Ann  a«— Ar.  three  eatoUa,  gulaiu 

KYME— BARONS  KYME. 

By  Writ  of  Sunmians,  dated  saM  June,  U95, 
93  Edward  I. 

Of  this  andent  family,  which  assumed  the  aurw 
name  of  Kgmt,  fkom  a  flair  lordship,  the  principal 
place  of  their  residence,  in  Kesteven,  in  the  county 
of  Lincoln,  the  first  mentioned  is 

SIMON  DB  KYME,  (the  son  of  William.)  who 
founded,  tamp.  Stephen,  the  Pnionv  of  Box.iifTOir, 
in  Lincolnshire;  This  Simon  m.  Roeie,  daughter 
of  Robert  J>ep4/br,  (that  is  Steward,  to  Gilbert  de 
Oant,  Earl  of  Lincoln,)  which  lady  was  commonly 
called  Roeie  de  Bulinton.    He  was  «.  by  his  son, 

PHILIP  DE  KYME,  who  was  contituted  sheriff 
of  Lincolnshire  in  the  14th  of  Henry  IL,  and  was 
one  of  the  barons  in  the  great  council  held  at  Lon- 
don in  the  year  1177*  where  he  was  m  subscribing 
witness  to  the  instrument  of  arbitration  there  made 
by  King  Henry  IL,  for  according  the  jlillbrence 
betwixt  Aifmuo,  king  of  Castile,  and  SancHut,  king 
of  Navarrati  This  feudal  lord  was  the  fbunder  of 
the  prknry  of  Kyme,  and  he  granted  twenty  acres  of 
land  to  the  canons  and  nuns  at  Bolinton,  for  sup- 
porting the  charge  of  their  garments.  He  was 
ateward  to  Gilbert  de  Gant,  Earl  of  Lincoln,  and 
was  «.  «t  bis  decease  by  his  son, 

SIMON  DE  KYME,  who,  in  the91stof  Henry  IL, 
was  indebted  to  the  crown  in  the  sum  of  forty  marks, 
na  •  fine  for  not  disclaiming  his  right  to  certain 
lands  after  ha  had  lost  them  upon  a  trial  by  battcL 
In  the  6th  of  Edward  I.  he  paid  a  hundred  marks 
to  be  encused  serving  in  Normandy,  and  in  the  8th 
of  the  same  reign  he  was  sheriff  of  Lincolnshire.  In 
the  reign  of  John  he  took  up  arms  with  the  barons. 


and  was  asoommnnioated  by  the  pope,  when  his 
lands  ware  all  seised,  and  translbrxed  to  Geoflky 
NevilL  He  subsequently  negotiated  for  their  re- 
storation, but  died  before  any  thing  eflbctual  in  the 
matter  could  be  accomplished.  He  died  in  19Q0,  and 
was  «.  by  his  son, 

PHILIP  DE  KYME,  who,  upon  payiqg  one 
hundred  pounds  for  i^  relief,  had  the  lands  of  bis 
fother  restored  to  hhn.  Hem.Agnesde  Wales*  and 
dying  in  1949,  was  «.  by  his  ddeet  son, 

SIMON  DE  KYME,  who  died  «.|i.  in  1947,  and 
was  s«  by  ^**  brothsr, 

WILLIAM  DE  KYME,  who  died  (also)  without 
issue  in  1956,  and  was  «.  by 

PHILIP  DE  KYME.  TUs  Dnidal  km!  iMd  a 
military  summons  In  the  99nd  of  Edward  L,  for  tha 
French  wars*  and  in  three  years  afterwards  he  was 
engaged  in  Gascony.  In  the  98th  of  the  same  reign 
he  olMained  a  grant  for  a  weekly  market  at  hia 
manor  of  Burw^,  in  the  county  of  Lincoln,  and  we 
find  his  lordship  for  several  years  subsequently 
actively  employed  in  the  wars  of  Scotland.  In  the 
10th  of  Edward  IL  ha  had  an  indemnity  granted 
him,  being  then  much  decayed  in  strsngth,  in  con* 
sideration  of  his  great  service  in  the  wars,  in  the 
time  of  King  Edward  I.,  and  the  than  king,  Aram 
any  tiie  Uke  service  in  Aiturs;  Furthermore,  in  the 
Uth  of  the  same  monarch,  he  obtained  a  spedal  dis- 
charge for  a  debt  of  fifty  pounds,  owing  to  the  king's 
exdiequer,  by  a  recognisance^  which  money  had 
been  borrowed  in  the  time  of  King  Edward  L,  as  a 
supply  for  the  charge  of  his  passage  into  Gascony. 
This  eminent  person  was  summoned  to  parliament, 
as  a  BAnoM,  tnm  93rd  June,  1996,  to  96th  Novem- 
ber, 1313.  His  lordship  w.  ,  daughter  of  Hugh 
Bigot,  (to  which  Hugh  he  had  been  a  ward  in  hia 
minority,)  and  dying  in  1389,  was  «.  by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  KYME.  second  baron,  sum- 
moned to  parliament,  tiam  96Ui  December,  13S3,  to 
99nd  January,  1336.  His  tordship  died  without 
issue  in  1338^  leaving  Joane,  his  widow,  who  remar- 
ried Nichobs  de  CantUupe.  Whereupoo  Gilbert  de 
Umfiranvill,  Earl  of  Angus,  who  had  married 
LuciB  ns  Kymb,  his  lordship's  sister,  came  by 
virtue  of  a  fine,  levied  in  the  8th  Edward  IIL,  to 
possess  the  inheritancei  and  amcngst  the  descen- 
dants of  the  said  Gilbert  and  Lude,  the  Babohy 
or  Ktmb  must  be  considered  now  to  be  in  abby- 

▲MGB. 

ABMa.— O.  a  diavroB.   *  Ten  crosslets  are  added. 

LACY— EARLS  OP  LINCOLN. 

By  Chartar  of  Creation,  dated  93ld  November,  UOL 

Two  distinguish^  members  of  this  ancient  family, 
nauMly,  Waltbb  bb  Laci,  and  Ii.bbbt  db  Laci, 
came  into  En^and  with  the  Comoubbor,  but  in 
what  degree  allied,  if  at  all,  has  not  been  ascer- 
tained. From  Ilbbbt  the  noble  house,  of  which 
we  are  about  to  treat,  derived,  end  to  him  and  his 
descendants,  after  diq;Meing  of  the  line  of  Walter, 
we  shall  direct  our  attention. 

WALTER  DE  LACI,  when  the  power  of  hit 
royal  master  was  firmly  established  in  Eugbmd,  was 


LAC 


hAC 


one  of  the  eomxnBnden  whom  William  wot  into 
Wales  to  tubilugate  the  prfaicipality,  and  being  vlc- 
torious»  acquired  large  poieeisiQna  there,  In  addition 
to  those  already  obtained  as  his  portion  of  the  spoil 
of  Hastings.  He  was  killed  in  April,  1084,  by  fitU- 
ing  from  a  ladder,  which  he  had  ascended  to  inspect 
the  compledon  of  the  churdi  of  St.  Peter  in  Here- 
ford, of  which  he  was  the  founder.  Walter  de  Lad 
left  three  sons,  Roosr,  Hugh,  and  Walter,  a  monk 
in  the  abbey  of  St.  Peters,  at  Gloucester.  Theddest 
•on, 

ROGER  DE  LACI,  through  the  bounty  of  the 
Conqueror,  as  well  as  by  inheritance  from  his  fttther, 
had  large  possessions  in  the  counties  of  Berks, 
Salop,  Gloucester,  Worcester,  and  Hereford,  where 
the  castle  of  Ewyas  was  the  head  of  his  barony. 
But  Joining  in  the  rebellion  against  William  Ru- 
fu»,  in  favour  of  Robsrt  Curthoae,  he  was  banished 
England,  and  all  his  lands  were  conferred  upon  his 
brother, 

HUGH  DE  LACI,  who,  with  many  other  Nor- 
man soldien  of  fortune,  had  been  permitted  by 
Rufus  to  invade  the  principality  of  Wales,  and  to 
acquire,  by  their  good  swords,  lands  there— which 
lands  Sir  Jt^m  Dodderidge,  Knt>  one  of  the  Justices 
of  the  Court  of  King's  Bench,  a  learned  antiquary 
as  well  as  lawyer,  describes  as  becoming,  when  con> 
quered,  Baronie*  Marckert,  held  in  captte  of  the 
crown— wherein  the  barons  enjoyed  a  kind  of  pala- 
tine jurisdiction,  with  power  to  administer  Justice 
to  the  tenants  in  each  of  their  territories,  holding 
courts,  invested  with  divers  privileges,  franchises, 
and  immunities,  so  that  the  king*s  writs  were  not 
current,  unless  the  whole  barony  had  been  in  ques* 
tion.  Such  was  the  state  of  the  government  of  the 
marches  of  Wales  down  to  the  reign  of  Henry  V HI. 
This  Hugh,  who  upon  all  occasions  liberally  sup- 
ported the  church,  was  the  founder  of  the  prioey 
of  Lakthonv,  in  Wales.  He  died  without  issue, 
bequeathing  his  great  inheritance  to  his  two  sisters, 
EaMBLiifs,  who  had  no  children,  and  Emme, 
whose  son, 

GILBERT,  assumed  the  surname  of  Laci.  This 
feudal  lord.  In  the  conflict  between  STBPHxif  and 
thesMPRBsa,  espoused  the  cause  of  the  latter.  He 
eventually  became  a  Knight  Templar,  and  was  suc- 
ceeded by  (whether  son  or  brother,  not  known,) 

HUGH  DE  LACI,  who  was  employed  iu  the 
conquest  of  Ireland,  and  for  his  services  there  ob- 
tained ftom  King  Henry  II.  the  whole  county  of 
Meath.  He  was  subsequently  constituted  governor 
of  Dublin,  and  Justice  of  Ireland.  But  incurring 
the  displeasure  of  his  royal  master  by  marrying  with- 
out licence  the  king  of  Connaught*s  daughter,  he  was 
divested,  in  1181,  of  the  custody  of  the  metropolis. 
In  four  years  afterwards  he.  was  murdered  by  one 
Malvo  Miadaich,  a  mean  person,  in  revenge  for  the 
severity  with  which  he  had  treated  the  workmen 
employed  by  him  in  erecting  the  castle  of  Lurhedy. 
He  left  issue, 

Waltsr,  his  successor. 
Hugh,  constable  of  Ireland,  who,  according  to 
Matthew  Paris,  a  most  fkmous  soldier,  ob- 
tained the  Earldom  of  Ulster  from  King 
John,  by  betraying  and  delivering  into  that 
monarch's  power  the  celebrated  John  de 
300 


OMmy,  Earl  of  Ulstsr,  aaoealor  of  the 
Lords  Kinsale.  He  subaequently,  however, 
incurred  the  displeasure  of  the  king,  and 
was  himsdf  driven  out  of  Irdand.  His  wife 
was  Emeline,  daughter  and  heir  of  Walter 
de  Ridelesford,  by  whom,  at  his  decease, 
96th  Henry  IIL,  he  left  issue,  an  only 
daughter  and  heir, 

Maud  db  Lact,  who  espoused,  first, 
Walter  Bourke,  Lord  of  Connaught, 
and  secondly,  Stephen  de  Longespe. 
Ekyne,  m.  to  Richard  de  Beaufo. 
The  elder  son, 

WALTER  DE  LACI,  paid,  in  the  10th  Richard  I., 
two  thousand  marks  for  the  king's  fttvour,  and  to 
have  livery  of  his  lands,  but  this  being  the  last 
year  of  that  monarch's  reign,  his  brother  and  suc- 
cessor, John,  exacted  no  less  than  £  1200  for  similar 
favour  of  livery.  In  the  9th  of  the  latter  king's 
reign,  Walter  de  Laci  obtained  a  confirmation  of 
his  dominion  of  Meath,  to  be  held  by  him  and  his 
heirs  for  the  service  of  fifty  knights*  fees  {  as  also 
of  all  his  fees  in  Fixoall,  in  the  valley  of  Dublin, 
to  be  held  by  the  service  of  seven  knights'  fees. 
But  in  three  years  afterwards.  King  Johh  pasaing 
into  Ireland  with  his  army.  Lad  was  forced  to  de- 
liver up  himself  and  all  his  possessions  in  that  king- 
dom, and  to  ahiure  the  realm.  He  was  subse- 
quently banished  tram  England,  but  in  the  IGth  of 
the  same  reign,  he  seems  to  have  made  his  peace, 
for  he  was  then  allowed  to  repossess  Ludlow,  with 
the  Cabtlk  :  and  the  next  year  he  recovered  all  his 
lands  in  Ireland,  except  the  castle  and  lands  of 
Drogheda,  by  paying  a  fine  of  four  thousand  marks 
to  the  crown.  After  this  we  find  him  sheriff  of 
Herefordshire,  in  the  18th  of  John,  and  8nd  of 
Henry  IIL,  and  in  the  I4th  of  the  latter  king. 
Joined  with  Geflkey  de  Marisco,  then  Justice  of 
Ireland,  and  Richard  de  Burgh,  in  subduing  the 
King  of  Connaught,  who  had  taken  up  arms  to 
expel  the  English  ftom  his  territories.  So  much 
for  the  secular  acts  of  this  powerful  feudal  baron. 
Of  his  works  of  piety,  it  is  recorded  that  he  con- 
firmed to  the  canons  of  Lanthony,  all  those  lands 
and  churches  in  Ireland,  granted  to  them  by  his 
father,  Hugh  de  Lad ;  and  of  his  own  bounty,  gave 
them  the  church  of  our  lady  at  Drogheda,  with 
other  valuable  gifts.  To  the  monks  of  Creswil,  in 
Herefofdshire,  he  was  a  special  bendlsctor,  having 
conferred  upon  them  two  hundred  and  four  acres  of 
his  wood,  called  Ham ;  as  also  six  hundred  acres, 
with  the  woods  to  them  belonging  t  and  common 
pasture  for  their  cattle,  in  New  Forest,  and  in 
divers  other  pasturages.  Moreover  the  ninth  sheaf 
of  wheat  and  other  com,  except  oata,  throughout 
all  his  lordships  of  England  and  Wales.  Likewise 
the  tithe  of  all  the  hides  of  those  cattle  which  were 
yearly  sold  at  the  larder  of  his  caatle  at  Ewyas.  In 
Ireland,  he  founded  the  abbey  of  Bsaubkc,  which 
was  first  a  cell  to  the  great  abbey  of- Bee,  in  Nor- 
mandy, and  afterwards  to  Fumeise,  in  Lancashire. 
Walter  Lad  married  Margaret,  daughter  of  William 
de  Braose,  of  Brecknock,  and  in  the  year  1241, 
being  then  infirm  and  blind,  departed  this  life, 
"  I'ir,  inter  onmee  nobilee  Hibemi^,  emimentieti- 
mw,"  leaving  his  great  inheritance  to  be  divided 


LAC 


LAC 


amoagtt  fimialet,  Ti&,  the  dsughtcn  of  Oilbsht 
vu  Lacy»  his  Km>  (who  died  hi  his  liib>tlme,)  and 
Iwbel,  hifl  wife,  lUtcr  of  JcHm  Bigod.  Which 
dAnghfcen  wete* 

Maud,  wife  of  Peter  de  Genera,   who  had 
livery  of  Ludlow  Castle  in  her  rif  ht,  and 
after  this,  in  38th  Henry  III.,  of  Gefltoy  de 
GeneriU,  who  had  livery  of  the  castle  of 
Trim,  in  Ireland,  as  part  of  her  inheritance. 
Margery,  m.  to  John  de  Verdon,   and  had 
for  hu  share  of  the  property,  the  castle  of 
Webbdey.     The  lioAour   of   Bwyas-Lacy 
having  been  assigned  for  the  dower  of  Isa- 
bel, her  mother. 
Having  thus  brought   the  line  of  Waltsr  ds 
LrACY,  the  companion  of  the  CoifQusaoa,  to  a 
duie,  we  return  to  his  fellow-soldier,  if  not  klns- 


ILBERT  DE  LACI,  to  whom  King  William 
gave  the  castle  and  town  of  Brokenbrldge,  in  the 
county  of  York,  which  he  afterwards  denominated, 
in  the  Norman  dialect,  PoitTFitACT.  He  had  be- 
sides other  territorial  grants  of  vast  extent ;  and  at 
the  time  of  the  general  survey,  possened  nearly 
an  hundred  and  fifty  lordships  in  Yorluhire,  ten  in 
Nottingham,  and  four  in  Lincolnshire.  This  Ilbert 
left  two  sons,  Robert  and  Hugh.    The  elder, 

ROBERT  DE  LACI,  otherwise  Robert  de  Pont- 
fract,  had  a  confirmation  firom  King  Willtam 
JZhAm*  of  an  thoie  lands  whereof  Ilbert,  his  father, 
died  poisesied.  Attaching  himself,  however,  to  the 
intereit  of  Robert  Curthose,  after  the  death  of 
Rufus,  himself  and  his  ton,  Ilbcrt,  were  expelled 
the  realm  by  King  Henry  I.,  and  the  honour  of 
Pontfract  beitowed  upon  Henry  Traverse;  which 
Henry,  having  shortly  after  been  mortally  wounded 
by  one  Pain,  a  servant  of  his  own,  caused  himielf 
to  be  shorn  a  monk,  and  so  died  within  three  days. 
After  which  the  king  gave  this  honour  to  Guy  de  U 
Val,  who  held  It  until  King  Stephen's  time,  when. 
It  is  stated  by  an  (dd  historian,  that, 

ILBERT  DE  LACY,  (the  personage  mentioned 
above  as  exiled  with  his  ftther,)  by  the  special  Ih- 
vour  of  Stephen,  re-obtained  his  Babowy  op 
PoivTPBACT,  and  was  ever  afterwards  one  of  the 
staunchest  adherents  of  that  monarch.  In  the  3d 
year  of  whoie  reign  he  was  a  principal  commander 
at  the  celebrated  battle  of  the  Stanoabd,  fought 
at  Northallerton,  where  the  Scou  sustained  lo 
signal  a  defeat  from  the  northern  barons.  He  sub- 
sequently obtained  a  pardon  on  behalf  of  his  ser- 
vants, for  all  forflBitures  whatsoever ;  and  especially 
for  the  death  of  WUUam  Maltravers.  This  feudal 
lord  m.  Alice,  daughter  of  Gilbert  de  Gent,  but 
dying  «.  |x.  he  was  «.  by  his  brother, 

HENRY  DE  LACY,  who  was  received  into  fa- 
vour by  the  empress,  and  her  son.  King  Henry  II., 
and  obtained  ttom  them  a  remission  of  the  dis- 
pleasure which  Ktaig  Henry  1.  bore  towards  Robert, 
his  fkther ;  as  also  of  the  forfeiture,  which  he  him- 
self had  made  before  he  did  his  homage;  with  full 
restitution  of  his  whole  honour  of  PontAract,  and 
all  other  his  lands  in  England  and  Normandy.  He 
was  «.  by  his  son, 

ROBERT  DE  LACY,  who  attended  as  one  of 
the  barons  at  the  coronation  of  King  Richard  I. 


This  Ibiidal  lord  died  without  Issue,  In  1188,  when 
(the  dau^ter  of  his  mother,  Altarlda,  by  her  second 
husband,  Endo  de  LIsours),  his  half  sister, 

ALBREDA  LISOURS,  thsn  the  wife  of  Richard 
Flts-Eustaoe,  feudal  baron  of  Helton,  and  constable 
of  Chester,  possessed  herself  of  the  Barony  of 
Pontfract,  and  all  the  other  lands  of  her  deceased 
brother;  under  pretence  of  a  grant  from  Henry  de 
Lacy,  her  first  husband.  By  Fltx-Eustaoe,  she  had 
a  son,  John,  who  becoming  heir  to  his  half  uncle, 
Robert  de  Lacy,  assumed  ttutt  surname,  and  in- 
herited, as 

JOHN  DE  LACY,  the  Baronies  of  Helton  and 
Pontfract,  with  the  cunstableship  of  Chester.  This 
feudal  lord  espoused  Alice  de  Vere,  and  dying  in 
the  Holy  Land,  anno  1179,  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

ROGER  DE  LACY,  Constable  of  Chester.  This 
nobleman  assisted  at  the  siege  of  Acoif,  in  llflt, 
under  the  benner  of  the  Hon-Aeorled  Richau),  and 
shared  in  the  subsequent  triumphs  of  the  chivalrous 
monarch.  At  the  accession  of  John,  he  was  a  per- 
son of  great  eminence,  for  we  find  him  shortly  after 
the  oonnation  of  that  prince,  deputed  with  the 
Sheriff  of  Northumberland,  and  other  great  men, 
to  conduct  William,  King  of  Scotland,  to  Lincoln, 
where  the  English  king  had  fixed  to  give  him  an 
interview ;  and  the  next  year  he  was  one  of  the 
barons  present  at  Lincoln,  when  David  of  Scotland 
did  homage  and  fealty  to  King  John.'  In  the  time 
of  this  Roger,  Ranul/k,  Earl  of  Chkstsr,  having 
entered  Wales  at  the  head  of  some  forces,  was  com- 
pelled, by  superior  numbers,  to  shut  himself  up  in 
the  castle  of  Rothelan,  where,  being  closely  be* 
sieged  by  the  Wdch,  he  sent  to  the  Constable  of 
Chester,  who  forthwith  marched  to  his  rdiief,  at  the 
head  of  a  concourse  of  people,  then  collected  at  the 
fair  of  Chester,  consisting  of  minstrels,  and  loose 
characters*  of  all  descriptions,  forming  altogether 
so  numerous  a  body,  that  the  besiegerB,  at  their 
approadk,  mistaking  them  for  soldiers,  immediately 
raised  the  siege.  For  this  timdy  service,  the  Earl 
of  Chester  conferred  upon  De  Lacy  and  his  heirs, 
the  patronage  of  all  the  minstreta  in  those  parts, 
which  patronage  the  constable  transferred  to  his 
steward,  Dutton  and  his  heirs;  and  it  isep)oyed  to 
this  day  by  the  fkmlly  of  Dutton.  It  is  doubtful, 
however,  whether  the  privilege  was  transllBrred  to 
the  Duttons  by  this  constable  or  his  successor.  The 
privilc^  was,  **  That  at  the  midsummer  Ihir  held 
at  Chester,  all  the  minstrels  of  that  country,  re- 
sorting to  Chester,  do  attend  the  heir  of  Dutton, 
from  his  lodging  to  St.«lohn's  church,  (he  being 
then  accompanied  by  many  gentlemen  of  the  coun- 
try, one  of  them  walking  before  him  in  a  surooat  of 
his  arms,  depicted  on  tallkta ;  the  rest  of  his  fellows 
proceeding  two  and  two,  and  playing  on  their  seve- 

•  Hugh  Lupus,  first  Earl  of  Chester,  in  his 
charter  of  foundation  of  the  abbey  of  St.  Werburg, 
at  Chester,  gave  a  privilege  to  the  frequenters  of 
Chester  ftur,  "That  they  should  not  be  appre- 
hended for  theft,  or  any  other  oflbnce  during  the 
time  of  the  fair,  unless  the  crime  were  committed 
therein."  Which  privilege  made  the  fklr  of  course 
the  resort  of  thieves  and  vagabonds  ftom  all  parts 
of  the  kingdom. 

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I^AC 


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nd  torts  of  muaical  iutijanMnti.  WImb  dlTliie 
sorvloe  t<nnin«tc«,  the  likeattcndanoe  upon  DuUon 
to  hit  lodging,  whore  a  court  beiog  kept  by  hit 
steward,  aad  all  the  miattreb  formally  called,  cer- 
tain ordert  and  laws  are  made  fbr  the  gorenuDent 
of  the  tociety  of  minttrelt. 

JOHN  DE  LACY,  CooataUe  of  Cherter,  who,  in 
the  16th  year  of  King  John,  undertook  the  pay- 
ment of  teren  thoutand  markt  to  tlie  crown,  in  the 
tpace  of  four  yeart,  for  liTery  of  the  laadt  of  liit 
inheritance,  and  to  be  ditdiarged  of  all  hit  Ikthei^ 
debtt  due  to  the  exchequer:  ftirther  obliging  hlm- 
lelf  by  oath,  that  in  caee  he  ihoold  ever  awerve 
from  hit  allegiance,  and  adhere  to  the  king't  eno- 
mlet,  all  hit  pnttiwtlont  thould  devolTe  upon  the 
crown ;  promiting  alto,  that  he  would  not  marry 
without  the  king's  lioenoe.  By  thit  agreement,  it 
waa  arranged,  that  the  king  thould  retain  the  Ca»- 
Ti.Ba  or  PowrrnACT  and  DiriririiieTOir,  ttill  in 
hit  own  handt;  and  that  he^  the  laid  Jdtut,  thould 
allow  £40  per  annum,  Ibr  the  outtody  of  thoee 
toitiettet.  But  the  next  year,  he  had  Dunnington 
Mttored  to  him,  upon  hottaget.  About  thit  period, 
be  J<rfxied  the  baronial  ttandard,  and  wai  one  of  the 
cdebrated  Twrnrrv-rrrn  baront,  appointed  to  en- 
force the  obtenranoe  of  Maoka  Chaeta.  But  the 
nekt  year,  he  obtained  lettMt  of  tafe  conduct  to 
oome  to  the  king  to  make  hit  peace,  and  he  had 
timllar  letts*,  upon  the  acoettion  of  Henry  IIL, 
in  the  9d  year  of  which  manarch't  reign,  he  went 
with  divert  other  nobleman  into  the  Holy  Land. 
He  married  Maboarst,  daughter  aad  heir  of 
Robert  de  Quincy,  Earl  of  Winchetter,  by  Hawyte, 
ftmrth  titter  and  co-heir  of  Ranulph  de  Met- 
chinet.  Earl  of  Chatter  and  Lincoln,  which 
Ranulph*  by  a  formal  charter  under  hit  teal, 
gruted  the  'EAU.ooir  or  Likoolk,  that  It,  to 
much  at  he  could  grant  thereof,  to  the  taid  Hawyte, 
*'  to  the  end  that  the  might  be  a  oounteei^  and  that 
her  heirt  might  alto  cq)o7  the  earldom ;"  whidi 
grant  wat  confirmed  by  the  king,  and  at  the  eqpe- 
dal  requett  of  the  oountett,  thit  John  de  Lacy, 
Conttable  of  Cherter,  waa  created,  by  charter,  datod 
at  Northampton.  83d  November,  1238,  Eabl  or 
LiwooLir,  with  remainder  to  the  heixa  of  hit  body, 
by  bit  wife,  the  above  mentioned  Margaret  In  the 
contait  whicfa  occurred  during  the  teme  year,  be* 
tween  the  king  and  Richard  Manhal,  Earl  of  Pem- 
broke, Earl  Marahal,  the  Earl  of  Lincohi,  Matthew 
Parit  ttntei,  wat  brought  over  to  the  ki]ig*t  party, 
with  John  le  Scot,  Earl  of  Chatter,  by  Peter  de 
Rupibut,  Bithop.of  Winchetter.  Ibr  a  bribe  of  one 
thoutand  marfca.  In  1837,  hit  lordthip  wat  one  of 
thote  appointed  to  prohibit  Oto,  the  popeTi  l^gate^ 
ftom  etublithing  any  thing  derogatory  to  the  Ung't 
crown  and  dignity,  in  the  council  of  prelatet  then 
atiembled ;  and  the  tame  year  he  had  a  grant  of  the 
therlAlty  of  Chethire,  beii«  likewise  coottituled 
governor  of  the  Cattle  of  Chester.  The  earl  died  la 
1840,  leaving  Margaret,  hit  wife,  turviving,  who 
re<manied  WilUem  Marshal,  Earl  of  Pembroke^ 
HUkMdthipleftlttue, 

EoM UKO.  hit  eaccettor, 
and  two  danghten ;   whldi  ladiet,  in   the  87th 
Henry  III.,  were  removed  to  Windtor,  there  to  be 
educated  with  the  king't  own  daughlen;  of  thcse^ 

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Maud,  m.  Richard  de  Clan^  Earl  of  OloucMter. 
The  earl  wat «.  by  hit  ton, 

EDMUND  DE  LACI,  (praeumed  tecond  Earl  of 
Lincoln).  Thit  young  nobleman  married,  in  1847. 
"an  outlandish  lady,"  (tayt  Dugdale,)  "fkom  the 
paru  of  Savoy,  brought  over  putpotely  for  him,  by 
Peter  de  Savoy,  uncle  to  the  queen,  which  occa- 
tioned  much  ditcontent  amongtt  the  noblet  of 
EngUmd."  The  lady  thut  detignated,  wat  Ax^ics, 
daughter  of  the  Marquess  of  Saluoes,  in  Italy,  and 
cousin  of  the  queen.    By  her,  his  lordship  had  issue, 

Ubitbt,  his  sucoetsor. 

John. 

Margaret,  m.  to  George  de  Cantllupe,  Baron 
of  Bergaveany. 
As  to  the  title  of  Earl  or  Lxkooln,  this  nobleman 
never  used  it,  nor  wat  it  ever  attributed  to,  him  in 
any  charter,  by  reeson  that  he  died  before  hit 
mother,  through  whom  the  dignity  came;  but  as 
he  eq)oyed  the  TerHum  Ds$¥Mrium  of  that  county, 
he  must  nevcrtheleie  be  esteemed  the  second  earl, 
and  Nicolas  so  places  him.  His  lordship  d,  in 
1857,  and  was  9.  by  his  elder  son, 

HENRY  DE  LACY,  third  Earl  of  Lincohi,  who, 
having  espoused  Margaret,  daughter  and  co-heir  of 
William  de  Loqgespee,  son  of  William  de  LoQges- 
pee.  Earl  of  Salisbury,  became  /un  usorit,  Eari« 
or  SAJ.I8BUBY.  TUs  nobleman  was  one  of  the 
most  eminent  of  the  period  in  which  he  lived,  and 
e^)oyed  the  highest  favour  of  King  Edward  I.,  in 
whose  Welch  wart  he  had  early  a  distinguished  part, 
and  obtained  from  the  king  the  land  of  DenUgfa, 
upon  which  he  began  the  town  of  that  name,  walling 
it  in  and  protecting  it  by  a  castle,  upon  the  ftont 
whereof  was  his  statue  in  long  robes.  In  the  81st 
year  of  Edward  I.,  his  lordship  was  sent  amhaisi- 
dor  to  the  King  of  France,  to  treat  concerning  the 
restraint  of  pirates ;  and  the  next  year  he  attended 
the  king  into  Wales,  where  he  experienced  a  great 
repulse,  not  fsr  fkom  the  Castle  of  Denbigh.  He 
was  subsequently,  for  some  years,  engaged  in  the 
French  wars:  first  under  Edmund,  Earl  of  Lancas- 
ter, but  after  the  decease  of  that  prince,  he  had  the 
sole  command  of  the  army  himself.  In  the  87t|i 
and  asth  of  the  same  reign,  his  lordship  was  in  the 
wart  of  Scotland;  in  the  89th  he  wat  oonttituted 
governor  of  Corlf  Cattle,  and  two  yean  afterwardt. 
Joined  in  commission  with  the  Bishop  of  Winches- 
ter and  others,  to  treat  of  peace  with  the  Court  of 
France.  In  1306,  the  earl  was  deputed  with  the 
Bishops  <rf  Lichfield  and  Worcester,  to  the  solemn 
inauguration  of  the  POPS  at  Lions,  and  presented  hit 
holincit  with  divers  veetels  of  pure  goid,  from  hit 
royal  master.  After  thit,  we  again  find  him  in  the 
wart  of  Gatcony  and  Scotland;  and  in  the  3rd  Ed- 
ward II.,  upon  that  monarch't  march  into  Scotland, 
the  Earl  of  Lincoln  wat  oonttituted  governor  of 
England,  during  the  king's, #bscncei  His  lordship 
died  in  1318,  "at  his  mansion  house,  called  Lim- 
coLii'a  iHir,  in  the  suburbs  of  London,  which  he 
himsdf  had  erected,  in  that  place,  where  the  BtACK- 
raxABa  habitation  andenlly  stood.**  Immediatriy 
before  his  deceese,  he  called  hit  ton-ia-law,  the 
Earl  of  Lancatter,  to  hit  bedtide,  and  addressed  him 
in  words  to  the  following  eflbct.— «'  Seett  thou  the 
church  of  Engtamd,  heretofore  honouxable  and  free, 


LAN 


LAN 


cMitoired  by  Romlih  opprewloni,  aad  the  king's 
mojuft  exactSont?  Saett  thou  the  comnKm  people 
inpoverithed  toy  trilmtei  and  Uxat,  and  from  the 
ooDdltlon  of  freemen,  reduced  to  servitude  ?  Sent 
thou  the  noMlity,  fnmerly  venerable  through 
Chrtitendom,  viUiled  by  aliens,  in  their  own  na- 
tlve  oountry?  I  therefore  charge  thee.  In  the 
name  of  Christ,  to  stand  up  Hke  a  man ;  for  the 
honour  of  God,  and  his  ehurdi,  and  redemption  of 
thy  country  i  associating  thyself  to  that  valiant, 
noble,  and  prudent  person,  Ouy,  Earl  &r  War- 
wick, when  it  shall  be  most  proper  to  discourse  of 
the  pubHc  aflkirs  of  the  kingdom  {  who  is  so  Judi- 
cious in  counsel,  and  mature  in  Judgment.  Fear 
not  thy  opposeis,  who  shall  contest  against  thee 
in  the  truth.  And  if  thou  pursuest  this,  my  advice, 
thou  Shalt  gain  eternal  Heaven  !**  This  great  earl 
left  an  only  daughter,  and  heiress, 

ALicn  nn  Lacy,  who  m.  first,  Thomas  Plan- 
tagenet.  Earl  of  Lancaster,  who  is  said  to 
have  been  Earl  of  Lincoln,  in  her  right ;  she 
espoused  secondly,  Eubold  le  Strange  i  and 
thirdly,  Hugh  le  Frenes.    Her  ladyship  as- 
sumed the  title  of  CouNraaa  or  Liwcoln 
Airn  SAZ.iaBi7RT,  but  died  without  issue, 
in  1348,  when  those  honours  became  bz- 
TTWCT,  in  the  family  of  Lacy. 
Armb. — Or.  a  lion  rampant,  purpura 
Nsfe.— One  important  service  of  the  last  earPs, 
we  had  nearly  omitted.    In  1190,  (18th  Edward  I.,) 
his  lordship  was  appointed  the  chief  commissioner 
for  rectifying  and  discovering  abuses  and  briberies 
amongst  the  Judges,  complained  of  in  parliament : 
when  THOMAa  Wbtlawd,  Chief  Justice  of   the 
Common  Pleas,  was  banished,  and  all  his  estates 
forfeited  t  Sir  Johw  Lot btot,  compounded  for  five 
hundred  marks;   Rookr  Lbicbstbr,  (clerk,)  for 
one  thousand :  Sir  William  Brompton  for  six  thou- 
sand, with  several  others,  who  were  also  fined  t  a 
proof  that  the  Judgment-seat  is  not  always  as  imma- 
culate, Mix  it  at  aa  tintet  represented  to  be. 

LANCASTER  —  BARON  LANCAS- 

TER. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  S9th  December,  1S90, 
28  Edward  L 

Xincagc. 

'TheLAHCABTBRa,  feudal  Lords  of  Kendal,  de- 
duced their  descent  firom  Ivo  Tailboyb,  brother 
of  Fulk,  Earl  of  Ai^ou,  through  his  great  grandson, 
William,  who  assumed,  Dufdale  presumes,  fkom 
being  governor  of  Lancaster  Castle,  the  surname 
of  Lancaster.    Tliis 

WILLIAM  DE  LANCASTER,  Baron  of  Ken- 
dal, m.  Gundred,  daughter  of  William,  second  Earl 
of  Warren,  and  widow  of  Roger,  Earl  of  Warwick } 
by  whom  he  had  issuer  William,  his  successor,  and 
B  daughter,  married  to  Richard  de  MorevilL  He 
was  «.  at  his  decease  by  his  son,  called 

WILLIAM  DE  LANCASTER,  the  second,  who 
was  steward  to  King  Henry  II.  This  William  m. 
Hdewise  de  SluteviUe,  and  left  an  only  daughter 
Bad  heiress, 

Hblbwisb    db    Lakcastbr,    whom    King 
Richard  L,  shortly  after  his  ooronatian  gave 


In  marriage  to  (tke  son  and  heir  of  Roget 
Fits-RetaifHde,  one  of  the  Justices  of  the 
King^  Bench) 
GILBERT  FITZ-REINFRIDB,  and  in  consi- 
deration of  a  fine  of  sixty  marks  of  silver,  rdSeved 
him  and  his  heirs  from  a  certain  tribute,  called 
NuTBOBLD,  which  ussd  to  be  paid  liy  his  lands  in 
Westmoretand  and  KendalL  This  Gilbert  obtained 
a  grant  of  ^the  honour  of  Lancaster  for  life  ftom 
King  John,*  and  filled  the  oiBce  of  sheriff  of  Lanca- 
shire ftom  the  7th  to  the  17th  year  of  the  same 
reign.  But  we  find  him,  notwithstanding,  taking 
up  arms  with  the  other  barons,  and  only  reduced  to 
allegiance  by  the  capture  of  his  son  and  heir,  Wil- 
liam, by  the  royalists,  upon  the  fldl  of  Rochester 
Castle.  This  event  compelled  the  haughty  baron 
to  sue  for  pardon,  which  the  king  granted  with  the 
freedom  of  the  captive,  in  consideration  of  the  sum 
ot  twelve  thousand  marks,  the  custody  of  some  of 
his  castles,  and  hostages  for  ftiture  good  conduct. 
This  Gilbert  d.  in  1S19,  leaving  issue, 

William,  his  heir,  who  assumed  his  maternal 

sumime,  of  Lancaster. 
Helewise,  m.  to  Peter  de  Brus,  of  Skelton,  and 
left  a  son,  Peter,  who  died  «.  p.,  and  four 
daughten, 

.  1.  Margaret,  m.  to  Robert  de  Ros,  whose 
dCBoendant,  in  the  fifth  degree,  and 
representative  of  the  fkmily. 

Elisabeth  de  Ros,  m.  Sir  William 
Par,  Knt,  the  great-great-great 
grand-diildren,  of  whidi  iiiBr> 
riage  were, 
William  Parr,  Baron  of 
Kendall,  and  Marquess 
of  Northampton. 
Cathxrinb    Parr,  last 
Queen  of  King  Henry 
VIIL 
Anne  Parr,  wife  of  Wil- 
liam Heitert,  first  Earl 
of  Pembroke. 
S.  Agnes,  m.  to  Walter  de  Fauoonberg, 

(see  Nevill,  Lord  Fauoonberg.) 
a,  Lucy,  m.  to  Robert  de  Tweng. 
4.  Laderine,  m.  to  John-de  Bcila-Aqua. 
Alice,  m.  to  William  de  Dndesey,  whose  de- 
scendant. 

Christian  de  Lindesey,  m.  Ingleram  de 
Ghisnes,  Lord  of  Courcy,  in  France. 
Serota,  m.  to  Allan  de  Multon,  and  died  «.  p. 
Gilbert  Fits-Reinfride,  was  «.  Iiy  his  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  LANCASTER,  called  the  third. 
This  foudal  lord  was  sheriff  of  Lancashire  fkom  the 
18th  to  the  30th  Henry  III.  inclusive,  and  had  like- 
wise the  custody  of  the  honour  of  Lancaster.  He 
d.  about  the  year  1M6  «.  jk,  when  his  estates  de- 
volved upon  the  representatives  of  his  two  dder 
sisters,  the  youngest  sister  having  died  without 
issue,  and  were  thus  divided.  The  Brus's  had  what 
was  called,  the  Marquis  and  Lumley  fee;  the  Linde- 
says,  the  Richmond  fceii  Thus  terminated  the  legi- 
timate line  of  the  Lancasters,  Barons  of  Kendall; 
but  the  last  baron  had  a  bastard  brother,  called 

ROGER  DE  LANCASTER,  who  held  the  manor 
of  Barton,  in  the  county  of  Westmorlaad,  by  gift  of 


LAN 


LAN 


hU  brother*  at  alto  that  of  Patterdale,  In  the  tune 
•hire,  and  wat  theriff  of  Lancashire  in  4fMi  Henry 
III.  He  m.  Philippe,  ddect  daughter,  and  one  of 
the  oo-hein  of  Hugh  de  Bolebec,  of  ■  ■  ,  in 
the  county  of  Northumberland,  and  dying  in  1290* 
was  «.  by  Ilia  ton, 

JOHN  DE  LANCASTER.  ThU  ftudal  lord 
having  distinguished  himsdf  in  the  wars  of  Soot- 
land,  temp.  Edward  I.,  was  summoned  to  parliament 
as  a  BAaoir  ftom  99th  December,  U99,  to  18th  De- 
cember, 13Q6.  His  lordship  d.  in  1334,  without  issue, 
when  the  Baroky  or  Lai«cA8tbr  became  mx- 
TiNCT,  while  his  estates,  which  included  the  feudal 
Barony  of  Rydale,  in  Westmoreland,  with  divers 
other  lordships,  in  the  counties  of  Northumberland 
and  Essex,  devolved  upon  his  heir  at  law,  Richard, 
the  son  of  Richaxd  de  Plaia,  then  twdve  years  old. 

Arm  a. — Ar.  two  bars  gemds,  on  a  canton  of  the 
second,  a  lion  passant  guardant,  or. 

LANODALEU.BARONS  LANODALE, 
OF  HOLME. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  4th  February,  1658L 

Xlncagc. 

The  family  derived  Its  surname  from  the  town  of 
Lawodals,  in  the  hundred  of  Pickering,  in  York- 
shire, of  which  they  wjere  loidt  prior  to  the  time  of 
King  John. 
In  the  rdgn  of  Edward  IL 

PATRICK  DE  LANODALE  espoused  Amanda, 
daughter  and  heiress  of  Lawrence  de  Elton,  and  was 
«.  by  his  son, 

PATRICK  DE  LAN6DALE,  who  m.  Helen, 
daughter  and  heir  of  Sir  Thomas  Houghton,  of 
Houghton,  county  of  York,  and  with  her  acquired 
that  estate;  from  this  Patrick  descended, 

ANTHONY  LANODALE.  of  Houghton,  who 
d.  in  the  I9th  Elisabeth,  leaving  with  other  issue. 
Rich  A  no,  his  successor,  at  Houghton,  and 

PETER  LANODALE,  who  was  seated  at  Pig- 
hill,  near  Beverley,  and  having  m.  Anne,  daughter 
of  Michael  Wharton,  Esq.,  of  Beverley  Park,  was  «. 
by  his  son, 

SIR  MARMADUKE  LANODALE,  of  Holme, 
in  Spaldingmore,  Yorkshire.  This  gentleman  re- 
ceived the  honour  of  knighthood  from  King  Charles 
I;  at  Whitehall,  in  1027,  "  and  was  esteemed,**  says 
Banks,  "  a  serious  and  wise  man,  of  most  scholar- 
like aooomplishments,  and  of  good  husbandry." 
During  the  dvil  wars  Sir  Marmaduke  became  cne 
of  the  moat  distinguished  amongst  the  cavalier 
generals.  At  the  head  of  a  corps  raised  by  himself, 
consisting  of  three  companies  of  foot,  and  a  troop 
of  seventy  horse,  he  encountered  and  defeated  the 
Soots  at  Corbridge,  in  Northumberland;  and  next, 
being  oommander-in-chief  of  the  troops  sent  by  the 
king  into  Lincofauhire,  he  there  encountered  the 
rebeb  under  Colood  Rosseter.  Thence  marching 
against  the  Lord  Fairfax,  and  putting  that  oflScer 
to  the  rout,  he  relieved  Pontefract  Castle,  then 
bdeaguered  by  a  numerous  body  of  the  northern 
insurgents.  He  tubtequently  betieged  and  reduced 
Berwick-upon-Tweed,  and  the  strong  castle  of  Car- 
lisle. But  afterwards  involved  in  the  defeat  uf  the 
Duke  of  Hamilton  and  the  Scotch  army  at  Preston, 


Sir  Mannaduke  wat  made  prisoner ;  he  was  foitu* 
nate,  enough,  however,  to  eflbct  his  escape,  and  le- 
tiring  abroad,  became  one  of  the  attendants  of  King 
Charles  II.  in  hit  exile,  by  whom  he  was  elevated 
to  the  peerage,  on  the  4th  February.  1698,  as  Baroit 
Lanodalr,  Iff  Holme,  in  Spaldittgrnon,  in  the  county 
<^  York.  Hit  lordship  m.  Lenox,  daughter  of  Sir 
John  Rhodes,  of  Barborough,  in  Derbyshire,  by 
whom  he  had  surviving  issue, 

Marmadukk,  his  successor, 

Philip. 

Lenox,  m.    to  Cuthbert  Harrison,  Esq.,  of 
Alaster  Selby,  in  the  county  of  York. 

Mary. 

Anne. 
Lord  Langdale  returned  to  England  at  the  Restora- 
tion,  and  d,  at  his  seat.  Holme,  on  the  5th  August, 
1061.  His  lordship  is  thus  mentioned  by  Lloyd : 
"  He  was  a  very  lean  and  much  mortified  man.  so 
that  the  enemy  called  him  ghost  (and  deservedly, 
they  were  so  haunted  by  him;)  and  carried  that 
gravity  in  his  converse,  that  integrity  and  generosity 
in  his  dealings,  that  strictnea  in  his  devotion,  that 
experience,  moderation,  and  vrarinea  in  his  counsel, 
and  that  weight  in  his  discourse,  as  very  much  en- 
deared strangers  to  his  royal  master's  cause,  and  to 
his  own  person,  in  all  the  countries  he  travelled,  as 
he  did  in  many ;  and  to  all  the  armies  he  engaged 
in,  as  he  did  in  most  then  afoot  in  Europe,  till  he 
waa  restored  with  his  miO^tty  in  1060 ;  when,  after 
appearing  in  parliament  as  Baron  Langdale,  of 
Holme,  he  returned  to  his  considerable  estates  in 
Yorkshire;  having  lost  £100,000.  in  his  majesty's 
service,  without  any  other  recompenoe,  thui  the 
conscience  of  having  suflierod  in  a  good  cause,  ac- 
quitted himself  bravely,  and  played  the  man."  He 
was  «.  by  his  elder  son, 

MARMADUKE  LANGDALE,  second  baron, 
who  wedded  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Thomas  Sa- 
vage, Esq.,  of  Beeston,  in  the  county  of  Chester,  and 
niece  of  John,  Earl  Rivers,  by  whom  he  had  issue, 

Marm ADUKS,  his  successor. 

pS^!' }•»""»«"•'• 

Jane,  m.  to  Michael  Amne,  Esq.,  of  Frickley, 

Yorkshire. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Sir  Hugh  Smithson,  BarL, 
and  was  grandmother  of  Sra  Huoh  Smith- 
aoir,  first  Earl  or  Nortbcmbkrland,  of 
that  family. 
Bridget,  d.  unmarried. 
This  nobleman  was  governor  of  Hull  in  the  reign 
of  James  II.,  where,  upon  the  landing  of  the  Prince 
of  Orange,  he  was  surprised  and  made  prisoner  by 
Colonel  Copeley.    His  lordship  d.  in  1703,  and  was  », 
by  his  eldest  son, 

MARMADUKE  LANGDALE.  third  baron.  This 
nobleman  espoused  Frances,  daughter  of  Richard 
Draycott,  Esq.,  of  P^nesley,  in  thecounty  of  York, 
and  had  issue, 

Marmadukk,  his  successor. 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  Peter  Middleton,  Esq.,   of 

Stoekeld,  in  Yorkshire. 
Frances,  m.  to  Nicholas  Blundell,   Esq.,   of 
Crosby,  in  the  county  of  Lancaster. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1718,  and  was  «.  by  his  son. 


LAg 


LAS 


Walter  Vavaaor* 
Thon&u  \K9wam, 


IfARMAOUKE  LANODALE,  fourth  ImkAi, 
who  M.  EUnbcth*  yooDgait  daughter  ot  William, 
hard  Widrington*  and  had  iwuef 

Mabmaovki*  who  suoceedad  to  the  title. 
Alatbea,  d.  unmarried. 

Dorothy,  m.  to  Sir  Walter  Vavasor,  Bart,  of 
Haadwood,  in  the  county  of  York,  and  had 
two  tons, 

•ucceMi  ve  baronetfl, 
with  the  Utter  of 
whom  the  haronetcy 
expired,  and  Sir 
Thomas  hequeath- 
ed  his  estetes  to  his 
cousin,  the  HaH. 
Edward  Marma- 
DUKX  Stourton, 
who,  assuming  the 
name  of  Vavasor, 
is  the  present  Sir 
Edward  Vava- 
sor, Bart. 
Elisabeth. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1771*  and  was  «.  hy  liis  only  son, 

MARMADUKE  LANODALE,  iifth  baron.  This 
BoUeman  m.  Constantia,  daughter  of  Sir  John 
Smythe,  Bart.,  of  Acton-Bumrt,  in  the  county  of 
Salop,  by  whom  he  had 

Marmadvkr,  who  diied  young,  and  before  his 

fitther. 
Constantia,  died  young. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Robert  Butler,  Esq.,  of  Bally- 

ragget,  in  Irdand. 
Mary,  m.  to  Charles-Philip,  sixteenth  Lord 
StourtoB,  and  had,  with  other  issue, 
W11.1.IAM,  present  Lord  Stourton. 
Edward-Mannaduke  Stourton,  who  as- 
sumed the  surname  of  Vavasour,  as 
stated  above,  and  was  created  a  bR- 
ronetinlSBB. 
Charles  Stourton,  who  assumed  the  sur- 
name of  Langdalb  oft/jr,  in  compU- 
aocewith  the  testamentary  ii^unction 
of  Philip  Langdale,  Esq.,  of  Houghton, 
in  the  county  of  York. 
Apolonia,  m,  to  Hugh-BOward-Hmr^,   sixth 
Lord  CLirvoRD,  qf  ChudMgh,  and  was 
grandmother  of  Ht^MTMrlM,  present  Lord 
CLirroRD. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1777*  when  the  BARomr  or  Law o- 
DAi<B,  qfHolmt,  became  bxtinct. 
Arms.— Sa.  a  chevron  between  three  estoils  ar. 

LA8C£LS>-BARON  LASCELS. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  23rd  June,  ISOS, 
83  Edward  I. 

Xiiuasc. 

«  Of  this  ancient  ftmily,  seated  in  the  county  of 
York,  were  divers  penons."  says  Dugdale,  "  of 
great  note  many  agss  sinca'*    The  chief  of  whom 


ROGER  DE  LASCELS,  who,  in  the  88Bd  Ed- 
ward L,  had  summons,  with  several  of  the  peers  of 
the  realm,  and  other  eminent  persons,  to  attend  the 
king,  and  to  advise  touching  the  most  important 


allkirsofthekfaigdom.  Nicolisdoubte  whether  thii 
writ  could  be  deemed  a  baronial  summons  to  par- 
liament, as  he  observes,  that  none  of  the  higher 
temporal  nobility,  nor  any  of  the  spiritual  peers, 
were  included  in  it,  and  that  no  regidar  day  wwi 
fixed  for  the  meeting.  The  same  learned  authority 
further  remarks,  "  that  the  writ  in  question  is  the 
earliest  on  record,  excepting  that  of  the  49th 
Henry  IIL;  that  the  minority  of  the  persons  sum- 
mooed  by  it  were  never  again  summoned  save  in  th* 
83lrd  of  Edward  L ;  that  several  of  those  person* 
were  not  considered  as  barons  by  tenures  and  that 
of  those  who  were  barons  by  tenure,  and  sum- 
moned on  thoseoocasions,  many  werenever  induded 
in  any  subsequent  summons  to  parliament.  The 
writ  has,  however,  (continues  Mr.  Nicolas,)  on  one 
occasion  (in  the  case  of  the  Barony  of  Roos,)  been 
admitted  as  a  writ  of  summons  to  parliament  at  the 
har  of  the  House  of  Lords  [  but  the  last  '  General 
Report  of  the  Lords'  Committee,'  appointed  to 
search  for  matters  touching  the  dignity  of  a  peer  of 
the  realm,  appears  to  confirm  the  objections  thus 
raised."  Roger  de  Lascels  was,  however,  summoned 
in  the  following  year,  on  the  83rd  June,  30th  Sep- 
tember, and  Snd  November,  and  on  the  88th  Au- 
gust, 1S9&  His  lordship  d.  about  the  year  1897, 
leaving  four  daughters,  his  co-heirs,  amongst  whom 
the  Baroby  op  LAscBi.a  fell  into  abbvamcb,  and 
it  still  continues  in  that  state  with  the  represents 
tives  of  those  ladies. 

*•*  ThenoUe  house  of  LasoeUes,  Earls  of  Hare- 
wood,  claims  descent  firom  this  ancient  baronial 
flunily. 

Arms.— Ar.  three  chaplets  gu. 

LASCELLES— BARON  HAREWOOD. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  9th  July,  1790. 

Xincasc. 

HENRY  LASCELLES,  Esq.,  of  Harewood,  In 
the  county  of  York,  M.P.,  and  an  East  India  Di< 
rector,  m.  Janet,  daughter  of  John  Whetstone,  Esq., 
of  Barbadoes,  and  was  «.  at  his  decease,  in  17M,  by 
his  son, 

EDWIN  LASCELLES,  Esq.,  who  was  elevated 
to  the  peerage  on  the  9th  July,  1790,  as  Barow 
Harbwood,  of  Harewood,  in  the  county  of  York. 
His  lordship  married  twice,  but  dying  without  issue, 
8Sth  January,  1795,  the  Baroby  op  Harbwood 
became  bxtibct,  while  his  kndshipli  estetes  passed 
to  his  heir  at  law,  Edward  Lacbllbs,  Esq.,  who 
was  created  Baron  Harewood  the  next  year,  and 
was  father  of  the  present  Earl  of  Harewood. 

Arm s.— Sa.  a  cross  flory,  within  a  bordure  or. 

LATIMER— BARONS  LATIMER,  OF 

DANBY. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  a9th  December,  1890i 
88  Edward  I. 

Xliuagc. 

The  surname  of  Latimbr  is  remarked  from  an 
old  inquisition  to  have  been  attributed  to  Wrenoc, 
the  son  of  Meirric,  who  held  oertidn  lands  by  the 
service  of  being  latimar,  that  is  interpreter  between 

8  R  aos' 


LAS 


LAS 


tiieW«WkaaMlBiig|toli.    Of  thU  nanw.  Englbh 
tory  hM  •inos  boMted  of  lereral  diaringiriihod  per- 
■oiuigak    In  Um  Sod  Richard  L, 

WILLIAM  LE  LATIMER  paid  one  hundnd 
•hilling*  to  have  a  trial  at  law  with  G«ffiry  de  Va- 
loina.  who  had  iiowf  ni  hinwalf  of  part  of  hit  park 
at  BiUancat.  in  tha  county  of  York.    TothU  Wil- 


WILLIAM  LE  LATIMER,  who,  in  the  38th  of 
Honry  IIL,  waa  mada  iheriir  of  YorkiUra,  and 
goyamor  of  tha  OMitla  at  York,  and  the  next  year 
governor  of  Pickering  Castle.    In  this  sherWUty  he 
oontinned  tat  nearly   five  yean*   during   which 
period  he  had  a  military  mBiinooa  to  march  into 
Sootland  in  aid  of  (th»  minor)  King  Alexander, 
(Henry  IIL's  ton-in-Uw,)  against  bis  reMlious  sub- 
jects:  and  he  was  ooostltuted  esdieator-fineral 
througliout  all  the  counties  of  England.    In  the 
47th  Henry  IIL,  he  obtained  the  king's  precept  to 
the  conserrators  of  the  peace,  in  the  counties  of 
York,  Cumberland,  Northumberland,  Lincoln,  and 
Northampton,  to  make  restitution  to  him  of  all  his 
lands  which  had  been  seind  in  the  baronial  war. 
He  appears,  however,  in  those  contests  to  have 
sided  with  tlM  crown,  Ibr  we  And  him  upon  the  fiill 
re-establishment  of  the  power  of  the  king,  again 
filling  the  office  of  the  sheriff  of  Yorkshire,  and 
again  governor  of  the  castles  at  York  and  Scar- 
borough.   He  also  received  a  compensation  of  one 
hundred  marks  for  the  expenses  he  had  incurred. 
In  the  Mth  of  Henry  III.,  he  was,  amongpt  others, 
signed  with  the  cross,  to  aceompany  Prince  Edward 
to  the  Holy  Land.    In  the  10th  of  Edward  I.,  he  waa 
in  an  expedition  against  the  Wdsh,  and  in  several 
years  after  he  accompanied  the  famous  soldier,  John 
SL  John,  in  an  expedition  into  Gascony.  From  this 
period  he  seems  to  have  been  almost  uninterruptedly 
employed  in  the  wart  of  Scotland  and  Qascony, 
and  for  his  services  waa  summoned  to  parliament  as 
a  BAROir,  from  the  S9th  December,  1299,  to  SSnd 
January,  laOBk    He  obtained,  about  the  same  time, 
a  grant  fh>m  the  crows,  of  the  manor  of  Danby,  in 
the  eounty  of  York.    His  hwdshl]^  m.  Alice,  daugh- 
ter and  co-heir  of  Walter  Ledet,  by  whom  he 
acquired  a  moiety  of  the  Barony  of  Warden,  in  the 
eoonty  of  Northampton,  and  a  moiety  of  the  town 
and  whole  hundred  of  Corby,  in  the  same  shire. 
He  had,  with  other  issue, 
WII.LIAM,  his  suooeeior. 
John  (Sir),  who  m,  Joane,  daughter,  and  at 
length  heir  of  Sir  WlUiam  de  Oouis,  KnL, 
by  whom  he  acquired,  emongit  other  estates, 
the  manor  of  Duntish,  In  the  county  of 
Dorset;    where  he  and  his  posterity  con- 
tmued  to  flourish,  eminent  for  several  ge- 
nerations, until  the  attainder  of 

Sir  NtcHouka  Latimbr,  in  the  reign 
of  Edward  IV.,  but  that  attainder  was 
subsequently  reversed.  Sir  Nicholas 
died  In  IA05,  leaving  an  only  daughter 
and  heiress,* 

e  By  a  MS.  in  the  British  Museum,  in  a  coUeo- 
tion  of  miscellaneous  pedigrees,  by  William  Pen- 
non. Lancaster  herald,  it  is,  however,  stated  that 
Sir  Nicholas  Latimer  left,  by  another  wife,  another 
306 


EofTB  Latimsr,  whetai.  Sir  John 
Mordaunt.  Knt.*  ancertoi-  of  the 
Earls  of  Pelerboiough,  by  which 
alliance  those  (now  estinct)  noble- 
men acquired  Duiman,  and  other 
eoBMideiRble  lorMilps»  hi  the 
county  of  Dorset. 
Lord  Latimer  d.  in  1305,  and  was  a.  by  his  ddest 


WILLIAM  LE  LATIMER,  who  had  hhnself 
been  summoned  to  parliament  as  a  baroh,  under 
the  designationof «'  Wllliehno  de  Latimer,  juniori," 
from  6th  February,  U80.  to  S2nd  January,  1308, 
and  alloyed  precedency  of  his  fkther.  After  the 
decease  of  that  nobleman,  he  was  aunundned  with- 
out the  addition  of  Junior.  His  lordship  was  an 
experienced  soldier,  and  highly  distinguished  in  the 
Scottish  wars  of  Edward  1.  and  Edward  II.  In  the 
latter  reign  he  fought  at  Baicxockbcrk,  and  was 
made  prisoner  theret  He  waa  subsequently  in- 
vc4ved  in  the  treason  of  Thomas,  Earl  of  Lancaster, 
but  obtained  a  pardon  t  and  In  three  years  after- 
wards, (15th  Edward  II.,)  upon  the  breaking  out  of 
the  grand  insurrectipn  of  that  prince.  Lord  Letimer 
was  one  of  the  principal  commanders,  by  whom  he 
was  defsated  at  BonovoBBRinon  :  for  ^Mth  wet" 
vice  his  lordship  was  the  next  year  made  guvemoi 
of  the  city  of  York.  He  m.  first,  Lucie,  daughter 
and  heir  of  Robert  de  Thweng,  md  grand-danghter 
of  Marmaduke,  Baron  Thweng.  This  lady  seems 
to  have  proved  unfaithftil,  for  during  one  of  his 
lordship's  campaigne  in  Scotland,  she  was  taken 
away  from  his  manor  house  of  Bnuvif  n,  in  York- 
shir^  and  the  king's  precept  to  the  sheriff  of  the 
shire  immediately  issued,  directing  a  strict  search  to 
be  instituted  after  her.  His  lordship  was,  however, 
eventually  divorced,  and  her  ladyship  married 
Robert  de  Evsriaghsas }  and  after  him  she  espoused 
BarthokmMw  de  Fancourt.  Lord  Latimer  wedded, 
secondly.  SibiU.  widow  of  William  de  Huntingfleld, 
and  dytaig  in  1387*  was  «.  by  his  son  (by  his  second 
wife), 

WILLIAM  LB  LATIMER,  third  baron,  sum- 
moned to  parliament  from  8th  August,  1327,  to  1st 
April,  1335.  This  nobleman  having,  without  li« 
cenoe,  purchased  the  oflloeof  eoinage  In  the  Tower 
of  London,  and  city  of  Canterbury,  ftom  Maud,  the 
widow  of  John  de  Botetourt,  (who  hdd  it  by  in- 
heritance of  the  king  in  capite,)  obtained  pardon  for 
that  ofltece  in  the  3rd  of  Edward  IIL  His  lordship 
M.  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Lord  Botetourt,  anA 
dying  in  1331,  was  «.  by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  LATIMER,  fourth  baron,  summoned 
to  parliament  from  94th  February,  1388,  to  SOth. 
October,  1379.  This  nobleman  was  one  of  the  emi- 
nent warriors  of  the  martial  times  of  Edward  III. 
At  the  period  he  succeeded  to  the  repreeentation  of 
his  family,  he  was  in  minority,  and  did  not  make 
proof  of  his  age  until  the  year  1351,  when  his  ho- 
mage was  respited  in  consequence  of  his  being  the« 
engi^ed  in  the  king's  service  at  (Calais.    His  lord- 


daughter,  EX.ISABSTB  Lattmbr,  who 
William  Apreece,  Esq.,  of  Waahingley,  hi  theooiB»' 
ty  of  Huntingdon,  lineal  ancestor  of  the  present  Sir 
Thomas  Huasey  Apreece,  Bart. 


LAS 


LAT 


0Mp  cdartwud  for  «evtnd  raeenOng  ywn  in 
Fnaov,  pmtaaaimg  aiuiftBcotta  fillait  aploiu;— 
amoogit  othen,  he  b  oelelyrated  for  a  victory 
■chtevod  of«  CsARUU  OB  BU>tu,  at  tbe  tiaga  of 
DovflTOf]  where,  with  only  IfOO  men,  (EngliBh 
and  BritouB,)  heeacountaed  that  prince,  who  had 
ooBMto  the  rdief  of  the  place  at  the  head  of  8S0O 
tarn,  and  defeated  and  ilew  him,  with  nearly  a 
thoiuaad  knights  and  eiqiilres;  taUng  prlaoMn, 
two  eer&i*  twenty-eevoi  lorde,  and  fifteen  hundred 
men  at  arms.  In  the  49d  Edward  III.,  his  lordship 
was  again  in  the  wars  of  France,  heing  at  that  time 
steward  of  the  king's  household;  and  the  next  year 
he  was  constitutod  lieutenant,  captain,  and  govcaor 
of  the  castle,  town,  and  viscounty  of  St.  Saviour^ 
in  Normandy.  Neverthdesi,  In  a  few  yean  after- 
wards, we  ted  him,  with  the  Ooke  of  Lancaster, 
AlUag  under  the  displeasure  of  the  commons,  snd 
impeached  by  the  parliament  then  (AOth  Edward 
III.)  assembliad  at  Westminster,  of  peculation,  and 
of  squandering,  whilst  bekmglng  to  the  king's  coun- 
cil the  royal  tveesure.  Being  convicted  of  these 
ofltacei,  he  was  deprived  of  all  his  pubUc  offices, 
and  sentenced  to  pay  a  fine  of  twenty  thousand 
and  to  be  Imprisoned  during  the  king's 
hut  the  tee  and  impriaoamant  were 
both  remitted  by  the  kfaB«.  The  parliament  roll  of 
that  year  states,  that  the  km  of  the  town  of  St. 
Saviour's,  in  Normandy,  and  BechcreU,  in  Britanny, 
wmn  laid  to  his  charge:  but  afterwards  that  the 
lords  and  mmmnns,  rrprf seining  to  the  king,  that 
he  had  been  deprived  of  his  offices,  aaderasedftmn 
the  privy  council  by  untrue  suggestion,  he  was  re- 
inststod  in  thoMoffioes  again.  Upon  the  death  of 
King  Sdward  IIL,  Lord  lAtimer  waa  one  of  those 
whom  King  Richard  IL  deputed  to  aoquahit  the 
dtiasns  of  London  with  the  event:  and  for  the  re- 
mainder of  his  ttfe,  he  enjoyed  the  fuUoonfldence  of 
the  new  monarchi  was  of  his  privy  council,  a 
fcni^t  of  the  garter,  Ac  dee.  In  this  reign  his 
k»dBhip»s  bwt  ssrvke  was  at  the  siege  of  Nantes, 
with  ThOBoaa  of  Woodstock,  being  then  constable 
of  the  Host.  He  m.  the  lady  Eliabeth  Fits-AUm, 
danghter  of  Bdmond*  Earl  of  Arundel,  and  dying 
in  laao,  left  en  only  daughter  and  heiress, 

ElisAbxtb  Latimsk,  who  espoused  John  de 
NeviU,  Lord  Nevill  of  Raby,  (his  lordship's 
second  wiib,)  and  had  issue, 
JoHM  NsviLX.,  of  whom  presently. 
Elisabeth  NeviU,  m.  to  Sir  Thomas  Wil- 

loughby,  Knt. 
Margaret,  died  issudeas. 
She  married  secondly,  Robert,  Lord  Wil- 
kmghby  de  Erasby,  and  died  in  the  7th  of 
Richard  IL 
The  son  of  the  above  Elisabeth  Latimer, 

JOHN  NEVILL,  was  summoned  to  parliament 
la  right  of  his  mother,  as  Babon  Latimbr,  firom 
Sftth  August,  1404,  to  87th  November,  1430.  His 
knrdship  m.  Maud,  daughter  of  Thomas,  Lord  Clif. 
fbrd,  and  widow  of  Richard  Plantagenet,  Earl  of 
Cambridge-taut  died  •.  p.,  in  1480,  when  the  Ba- 
'  BOWY  or  Latimbb  devolved  upon  his  only  surviv- 
ing sister  of  the  whole  bkMd,  EliMbeth,  Lady 
WiDoughby,  and  was  chdmed  In  the  reign  of  Henry 
VIIL,  by  her  ladyship's  great  grandson,  Jtotorf, 


LoBB  WfixouoBBT  DB  Sbokb,  lyiuet  Richard 
NeviU,  second  Lord  Latimer,  (under  a  new  writ. 
10th  Henry  VL.)  and  thou^  his  hirMiip  did  not 
pro8«»tohis  claim,«  theorigfanl  Baboivt  or  Lati- 
mbb must  atiU  be  inmiJimiil  as  vested  iu  hie 
deaccndaat,  Hbbby,  praseat  Lobo  WUkMighby  de 
Broke. 

Arms.— Gu.  a  cross  patonce,  or. 

LATIMER— BARON  LATIMER,  OF 
BRAYBROOKE. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  fl9th  Decembv,  ISM, 
»  Edward  L 

XIrcsjc. 

JOHN  LE  LATIMER,  brothor  of  WiUlam,  flist 
Lord  Latimer,  of  Daaby,  espoused  Christian, 
second  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Walter  Ledit,  (Lord 
Latimer,  of  Danby,  m.  the  other  daughter,)  and 
dying  in  the  Uth  Edward  L,  was  «.  by  hU  son. 
(then  IS  years  of  age.) 

THOMAS  LATIMER,  who  took  up  his  abode 
at  Braybroke,  in  the  county  of  Northampton,  (part 
of  his  mother's  inheritance,  that  lady  having  been 
greatignmdchild  and  co-beix  of  Henry  de  Bray- 
broke,) and  In  the  3tad  Edward  L,  obtained  Ucenoe 
to  make  a  castle  of  his  manor  house  thereu  In  the 
18th  of -Edward  IL,  being  then  caUed  Thomas  le 
Latimer  Bochard,  he  was  in  the  expedition^  made 
at  that  time,  into  Scotland;  and  he  was  summoned 
to  parliament,  as  a  babok,  from  89th  December, 
1899,  to  18th  June,  Ull.  He  died  in  1334,  seised, 
amongst  other  manon,  of  thoseof  Warden  and  Bray- 
Inoke,  in  the  county  of  Northampton,  and  was  «. 
by  his  son, 

WaRINE  LATIMER,  who,  being  subsequently 
a  banneret,  waa  in  the  expedition  made  into 
France,  in  the  lIHh  of  Edward  III.,  and  died  in 
four  years  afterwards;  never  having  been  sum- 
moned to  pariiBBMBt.  He  m.  CatheriBe,  sister  of 
john«  Lord  de  la  Warre,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest 
son, 

JOHN  LATIMBR,  who  died  «.  p.,  and  was  «.  by 
his  brother, 

SIR  THOMAS  LATIMER,  who,  in  the  aoth  of 
Edward  HI.,  was  of  the  retinue  of  Prince  Edward 
in  Gaacony.  This  Sir  Thonaas  is  deemed  the  same 
pemn  whom  historians  mention  as  a  leader  in  the 
rdigions  sect  so  wdl  known,  as  "  Lsflwrfr,"  in  the 


*  To  end  this  contest,  the  Lord  Broke  was  in* 
formed  by  an  herald,  that  Sir  George  NeviU,  grend- 
ISither  to  Richard,  had  been  created  Lord  Latimer, 
by  a  new  title,  which  therefore  HneaUy  descended 
to  Richard,  by  Henry,  son  and  heir  of  the  said 
George;  and  that  the  Lord  Broke  had  made  a 
wrong  claim,  who  should  have  claimed  his  style 
from  WiUlam  Latimer,  first  created  Lord  Latimer, 
of  Danby,  (the  head  of  his  barony,)  temp.  Edward  I. 
On  this.  Lord  Broke  perceiving  his  error,  and 
having  a  title  of  his  own,  was  contented  to  conclude 
a  match  between  their  children ;  and  Richard  suf- 
teed  a  reeovery  on  certain  manors  snd  lordships, 
demanded  by  the  Lord  Broke ;  with  iHiich  aiUust- 
ment  both  parties  were  weU  satisAed.— Babkb. 

307 


LEE 


LEE 


reign  of  Richard  II«   H«  d.  without  iante,  and  wm 
«.  by  hifl  brother, 

EDWARD  LATIMER,  who  died  ».  p,,  in  1411, 
then  leiicd  of  the  nunor  of  Warden,  and  Caatle  of 
Braybroke,  with  diven  other  ertatet  in  Northamp- 
ton and  other  tbires,  which  derolved  upon  (hit 
sister,  Elisabeth's,  son,)  his  nephew,  JoHir  Gair- 
FiN,  whose  descendant, 

EnwARD  Gnipriiv,  was  created  in  1688,  Babon 
Gaimir,  of  Bra^mOce  Cattle,  a  dignity 
that  expired  with  his  grandson, 

EnwARD  GairriK,  third  baron,  in  174S. 
Amnc  Grippin,  his  lordship's  younger 
sister,  and    eventuaUy,   sole  heiress, 
married  William  WhitweU,   Esq.,  of 
Oundle,  and  her  son, 

John.  Grippih  Writbwbi.l,  Esq., 
haTing  assumed  the  name  of 
Grippiw  only,  and  eitabHshed 
his  claim  to  the  Barony  of 
Howard  or  Watdsit,  was  sum- 
moned to  parliament.  In  that  dig- 
nity. He  was  afterwards  created 
Baron  Braybrokx,  with  special 
remainder,  under  which  that 
barony  has  passed  to  the  present 
Lord  Braybrokr. 
Arm  8.— Gu.  a  croas  patonoe,  or. 

LEA— BARON  DUDLEY. 

SeeSuTTOM,  Barons  Dudley. 

LECHMERE  ~  BARON  LECHMERE, 

OF  EVESHAM,  IN 
THE  COUNTY  OF 
WORCESTER. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  86th  August,  1781. 

indicate. 

NICHOLAS  LECHMERE,  Esq.,  an  eminent 
lawyer,  having  filled  the  office  ot  solicitor  and 
attomey-genersl,  was  elerated  to  the  peer^e  by 
King  George  I.  in  the  dignity  of  Baror  Lrcrmrrr, 
e/  AreaAam,  in  the  ctntntif  ef  Worcetter,  by  letters 
patent,  dated  86th  August,  1781.  His  lordship  was 
likewise  chancellor  of  the  Dudiy  of  Lancaster.  He 
m.  Lady  EUsabeth  Howard,  daughter  of  Charles, 
Earl  of  Carlisle,  but  dying  issueless  in  1787,  the  Ba- 
ROMY  OP  Lrchhbrr  became  xxtirct 

Armb. — Quarterly,  first  and  fourth  gules,  a  fesse 
and  in  chief  two  pecans,  or.  vulning  themselves 
sanguine;  second  vert  frett^ee,  or.t  third  ar.  a 
chevron  Ingrailed  between  three  chess  rooks,  sa. 

LEE— EARLS  OF  LITCHFIELD. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  Ath  June,  1674. 

lineage. 

This  family  derived  its  surname  ftrom  the  lord- 
ship of  Lrx,  in  Cheshire,  where  resided  in  the 
time  of  Edward  IIL# 
308 


SIR  WALTER  LEE,  KbL,  w1u>  was  fbther  of 
SIR  JOHN  LEE,  of  Lee  HaU,  whose  gnat-grand* 


JOHN  LEE,  of  Lee  Hall,  m.  Margaret,  daoghtci 
of  Sir  Ralph  Hodinel,  and  had  iseue,  Joair,  his 
successor,  at  Lee,  with  a  younger  son, 

BENEDICT  LEE,  who,  in  the  reign  of  Edward 
IV.,  became  seated  at  QuaroidaB,  in  the  county  of 
Bucks.  This  gentleman  m.  Elisabeth,  daughter 
and  heir  of  J(Hm  Wood,  Esq.,  of  Warwick,  and  was 
a,  by  his  son, 

RICHARD  LEE,  of  Quaxendon,  who  altered  his 
aims  to  '*  ArgvHt.  a  fame  between  Arse  ereeeente, 
JO.,**  and  marrying  EUabeth,  dau^ter  and  coJieir 
of  William  Sanders,  Esq.,  of  the  county  of  Oxford, 
had  issue, 

RoBRRT  (Sir),  of  Burston,  in  the  county  of 
Bucks,  grandbther  of  Sir  Henry  Lee,  VLQ,, 
temp.  Elisabeth. 
Benedict,  of  Huloote, 
Roger,  of  Pickthom. 

John,  from  whom  the  Lees,  of  BlnflM,  in  the 
county  of  Berks,  derived. 
The  second  son, 

BENEDICT  LEE,  Esq.,  of  Huloote,  m.  Elii». 
beth,  daughter  of  Robert  Cheney,  Esq.,  of  Ches- 
ham-Boyes,  in  the  county  of  Butks,  and  was  tether 

Ov  ^ 

SIR  ROBERT  LEE,  whose  son,  '^"^  f'-\^    ^ 

HENRY  LEE,  Esq.,  of  Quarendon,  was  cousin 

and  heir  of  Sir  Henry  Lee,  K.G.,  and  was  knighted. 

In  the  9th  James  I.  this  gentleman  was  created  a 

baronet  rand  was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR  FRANCIS-HENRY  LEE,  of  Ditchley,  in 
the  county  of  Oxford,  and  of  Quarendon,  Berks,  as 
second  baronet.    This  gentleman  m.Anne,  dau^-   « 
ter  of  Sir  John  St.  John,  of  Lidiard-Tregoa,  in  the 
county  of  Wilts,  Bart.,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR  EDWARD  LEE,  third  baronet,  who  was 
devated  to  the  peerage,  by  letters  patent,  dated  Ath 
June,  1674,  as  Boron  qf  SpeUeebwy,  in  the  cowN<y  qf 
(kfjhrd,  Viteount  Quarendon,  But^e,  and  Earl  or    /■ 
LrrcHPiBLD.    His  lordship  m.  Lady  Charlotte  Fits-  / 
Roy,  natural  daughter  of  King  Charles  II.,  by  Bar* '    y-^ 
bara  ViUieiB,  DudMM  of  Cleveland,  and  had  surri  v« 
ing  Issue, 

Edward,  who  tf.  unmarried. 

James,  m.  Sarah,  daughter  of  John  Bagshaw, 

and  d.  in  1711. 
Charles,  d.  unmarried. 
Groror-Hrnrv,  who  «.  his  Ather. 
Fitsroy-Henry,  died  «.  p.  in  1780. 
RoRRRT,  who  inherited  as  fourth  eart 
Charlotte^  fn.  to  Benedict  Calvert,  Lord  Balti. 

more. . 
Annei 

Ellaabeth,  m.  first,  to  Colonel  La»»  and  ee- 

condly,  to  George,  son  of  Sir  George  Bvoon, 

Bert. 

His  knrdship,  who  refused  to  swear  allegiance  to  the 

new  government  of  the  Rrtolutiok,  d.  in  171fi^ 

and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  surviving  son, 

GEORGE-HENRY  LEE,  second  Earl  of  Litch- 
field, who  took  his  seat  in  the  House  of  Lords  soon 
after  his  aooession  to  the  peerage^  His  lordship  m. 
France*,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Hales,  of  St.  Stn> 


LEG 


LEI 


pbflia*  TidMtaD,  and  Woodclivich,  in  ILmu  aid 
hadiattt^ 

GaoBOB-HsNAT,  hit  fttcoeMor. 
Jmum,  d.  in  174flL 
CkarlM-Rcnry,  d,  in  1740> 
Charlotte,  m,  to  Houy,  eteranth  ViMOunt 
DiUon.  This  lady  beauneeroitiuJly  hclMM 
of  her  fothar,  and  th«  fortune  is  now  enjoyed 
hy  her  grandion,   Hmtnt-Augvattu  JMUom 
JjBfi,  thirteenth  Vibcount  Dxi.iK>ir, 
Mary»  m,  to  Coemas  Neville,  Eaq. 
Franoei,  d.  unmarried. 
Hanriot»  m.  to  John,  Lord  Bellew. 
Anne,  m.  to  Hugh,  fifth  Baron  Cliflbid,  of 
Chudleigh. 
The  earl  d.  in  1743,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

GEORGE-HENRY  LEE,  third  earL  This  no- 
bleman was  chancellor  of  the  university  of  Oxford, 
captain  of  the  band  ot  gentlemen  pensionen,  and 
custoe  brevlum  in  the  Common  Pleas.  His  loidship 
m,  Diana,  only  daughter  and  heir  of  Sir  Thomas 
FranUand,  Bart.,  of  Thirkdby,  in  the  county  of 
York,  but  dying  «.  p.  in  177^,  the  honours  reverted 
to  his  uncle, 

ROBERT  LEE,  as  fourth  earL  This  gentleman 
represented  the  dty  of  Oxford  for  some  time  in 
parliament.  He  m.  Katherlne,  daughter  of  Sir 
John  Stonehouse,  of  Radley,  Berks,  but  had  no 
issue.  His  lordship  d.  in  1776,  when  the  Eabuwm 
ow  LiTcarisLn,  and  minor  honours,  became  xx- 

Ajufs.— Ar.  a  fesse  betw.  three  crescents,  sa. 


liEOOE— BARONY  OF  STAWEL. 
By  Letten  Patent,  dated  90th  May,  176a 

For  the  Una  of  the  SxAWKLa,  refer  to  Stawbl, 

BABONa  Stawbl,  qf  SshmtAmi. 

EDWARD  STAWEL,  fourth  LoBO  Stawbl, 

^  a»m«rtoM,  left  at  his  decease,  in  17U,  when  his 

peerage  beoune  bxtimct,  an  only  daughter  and 


▼loualy  obtained  the  dignity  of  Baboitbm  Stawbi., 
iifSomn'tmt  in  tike  oewn^  qfSamtntt,  for  his  lady, 
with  remainder  to  the  heirs  male  of  her  body  by 
himself:  and  dying  Slst  August,  1764,  left  an  only 


MARY  LEGGE,  then  the  wlf^s  of  the  Hoiuwtw&fo 
Hbitby  BiLaoB  Lboob,  (whom  she  had  espoused, 
3rd  September,  17iiO,)  fourth  son  of  William,  first 
Earl  of  Dartmouth.  Mr.  Legge,  who  was  one  of 
the  most  prominent  statesmen  of  his  time,  sat  in 
the  eighth  parliament  of  Great  Britain  for  one  of 
the  Cornish  boroughs,  at  which  period  he  was  » 
comndssioner  of  the  navy,  and  soon  afterwards 
Joint  seonttary  to  the  treasury.  He  subsequently 
represented  the  county  of  Hants,  was  app<4Bted  a 
lord  of  the  admiralty  in  1746,  and  the  next  year  a 
lord  ef  the  treasury.  In  1748  he  was  accredited 
envoy  extraordinary  to  the  court  of  Berlin,  and 
upon  his  return,  in  1749,  was  oomtituted  treasurer 
of  the  navy.  In  1764  he  was  appointed  chancellor 
of  the  exchequer,  and  sworn  of  thft  privy  council, 
and  he  was,  subsequently,  twice  removed  from,  and 
twice  re-appointed  to  the  same  important  ofllce, 
from  which,  however,  he  was  finally  dismissed,  m, 
to  use  his  own  exprrssion,  tvmed^eui,  upon  th« 
change  of  admlaistntlon  in  iTtt,    He  had  pro- 


Hbnbt-Stawbu 
The  baroness  re-married  in  176B,  with  the  Right 
Hon.  Wills  HiU,  Earl  of  Hillsborough,  afterwards 
Marquess  of  Downshire,  but  had  no  issue.  Her 
ladyship  d.  in  1780,  when  the  Barony  of  Stawd  de- 
volved upon  her  only  child, 

HENRY  STAWEL  LEGGE,  as  Banm  StaweL 
This  noUeman  m.  in  1778,  the  Hon.  Mary  Curion, 
youngest  daughter  of  Ashetoo,  first  Viscount  Cur- 
aoD,  by  whom  (who  ^  d.  in  1804)  he  left  an  only 
daughter  and  helrcBS, 

Ma  BY,  who  espoused  John  Dutton,  present 
Earl  of  Sherborne. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1880,  when  the  Baboitt  of 
Stawbl  became  extinct. 

ABMa.— Gu.  a  cross  of  loaenges,  ar.  for  Stawbi.^ 
a  buck's  head,  caboased,  ar.  for  Lcggeii 

LEIGH  —  BARONS  LEIGH,  OF 
STONELEIGH,  IN  THE 
COUNTY  OF  WARWICK. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  1st  July,  1648. 

Xiiuagt. 

The  ancestors  of  this  noble  fomily  assumed  their 
surname  Atom  the  town  of  Hioh-Lbzoh,  in  Cheshire, 
where  they  were  seated  before  the  conquest. 

HAMON,  Lord  of  the  mediety  of  High-Leigh, 
temp.  Henry  II.,  was  fother  of 

WILLIAM  DE  LEIGH,  of  WeM-Hall,  in  High- 
Leigh,  whose  grandson, 

RICHARD  DE  LEIGH,  left  an  only  daughter 
and  heiress, 

Aombb-Lbioh,  who  espoused,  first,  Ridiard  de 
Lymme,  and  had  a  son, 

Thomas,  who  had  half  of  thesaid  mediety 
of  HighpLeIgh,  and  taking  the  surname 
of  Lbiqh,  left  a  son, 

Thomas  Lbioh,  who  was  patriarch 

of  the  Lbiobs,  of  West-Leigh,  in 

High-Leigh. 

A0NB»  Lbioh,  married,  secondly,  WUUam 

Venables,  of  Bradwell,  second  son  of  Sir 

William  Venables,-Baron  of  Kinderton, 

aod  had  a  son, 

Johh,    who   assumed   tho  name  of 
Lbioh,  and  of  him  presently. 
She  wedded,  thirdly,  William  de  Hawardyn, 
and  had  a  eon, 
Ralph  db  Hawabdvh,  who  had  the 
other  half  of  the  mediety  of  High- 
Leigh,  and  sold  it  to  Sir  Richard 
Massey,  of  Tatton,  In  U86. 
The  son  of  Agnes  Leigh,  by  her  second  husband, 

JOHN  LEIGH,  IN.  Ellen,  daughter  of  Richard 
Dent,  of  Cheshire,  and  had  issue, 
John  (Sir),  of  Booths. 
Robert,  of  Adlington. 

Peter,  of  Beckington,  whose  only  daughter 

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LEI 


I4EI 


■Bdhcir 


m.  Tbfvuu  Fittoa,  of  Osw>- 


worih.  In  Chflibiie. 
The  Moood  mo, 

ROBERT  LEIGH,  of  AdUnfton,  in  CheriiiM,  m. 
SibU>  daughter  of  Henry  Handford,  of  Handfordi 
in  Che  same  county,  and  had  iMue, 

RoBXBT  ^Sir),  his  Buooenor,   at  Adiidigton, 
and  progenitor  of  the  Lsiobb,    of  that 
place. 
Feto-  (Sir),  of  whom  preiCDtly. 
AUce 
Joan. 
The  eecond  eon, 

SIR  PETER  LEIGH,  of  MaxfieM  and  Lyme, 
m.  Margaret,  widoir  of  Sir  John  Savage,  of 
Clifton.  Kent,  and  daughter  and  heir  of  Sir  Thomas 
Danyert.  Jua..  of  Bradley  and  Cliflon,  and  had  a 
•on  and  heir, 

SIR  PETER  LEIGH,  who  lerving  under  the 
victorious  Henry  V..  in  his  French  wan,  wm  made 
f  knight  banneret,  and  was  sbdn  at  the  bottle  of 
Agincourt.  Mth  October,  UlS.  This  gaUant  person 
m.  first,  Joan,  daughter  and  heir  of  Sir  Gilbert 
Haydock,  Knt,  by  whom  he  had, 

Pktsr.  who  was  knighted  at  the  battle  of 

Wakefldd,  by   Richard,   Duke  of  York. 

31st  December,  I4M.    Fxmn  this  Sir  Peter 

Leigh,  tiie  Leighs  of  Lyme  descend. 

Ho  m.-Meoadly.€eciHe.  daughter  of  John  del  Hagh. 

and  heir  to  Thomas ;  and  in  her  right  was  styled  of 

Ridga    By  thi»  buly  he  had  a  son  and  two  daugh- 

tMi,  via. 

John,  of  whom  presently. 
Agues,  m.  to  Ricluvd  Levenage. 
AUoe»  m.  to  William  Clayton. 
Thescm. 

JOHN  LEIGH,  who  inherited  his  mother's  estate, 
of  Ridge,  was  eschealor  of  Cheshire  for  seven  years, 
flrom  the  ISth  Henry  VL.  and  was  living  in  ItfS, 
being  then  also  escheator.  He  m.  Alice,  daughter 
and  heir  of  Thomas  Alcock,  and  had  Issue, 

RooxR.  who  by  Ellen,  his  wife,  daughter  of 
Robert  Leigh,  Esq.,  of  Adliagtoo.  was  an- 
eestor  of  the  Leighs  of  Ridge. 
Richard,  of  whose  line  'we  are  about  to  treat 
John,  ftom  whom  descended  Sir  John  Leigh. 
K3..  of  Stockwell,  In  Surrey. 
The  second  son. 

RICHARD  LEIGH,  was  seated  at  Rushall.  in 
Stallbrdshire,  in  14M.  and  was  «.  by  his  son. 

ROGER  LEIGH,  of  Wellington,  in  Shropshire 
and  Rushall.  In  the  county  of  Staflbrd.  This  gen- 
tleman had  issue, 

William,  who  sucoeedsd  to  the  estates,  and 
marrying  Elisalieth,  daughter  of  Sir  John 
Harpur,  Knt.,  and  co4ieir  of  her  brother, 
was  progenitor  of  the  Leighs,  of  RushalL 
This  William  Leigh,  was  gentleman  usher 
to  Kiwo  HnrmT  VIL 
•  And  a  younger  son, 

THOMAS  LEIGH,  who  was  bnraght  up  under 
Sir  Rowland  HUl,  a  ridi  merchant  of  London,  and 
Lord  Mayor  oi  that  dty ;  by  whom,  fm  his  know- 
ledge and  industry,  he  was  made  his  tector  beyond 
sea :  and  in  that  trust  deporUng  hliMsIf  with  the 
highest  Integrity,  Sir  Rowl«nd  bestowed  upon  him 
310 


Ike  hand  ofhbftvauitteiiiooe,  KMo^  danghtcrof 
John  Barker,  alias  Coverall,  of  Wolvertoo,  in  the 
county  of  Salop,  by  EMaabedk,  his  wife,  daoi^ter  of 
Thomas  Hill,  and  upon  the  Issue  of  the  marriage 
he  entailed  the  greater  part  of  his  estato.  Thomas 
Leigh  subsequently  served  the  oflico  of  Sheriff  of 
London,  and  was  Lord  Mayor  at  the  death  <rf  Queen 
Mary.  He  was  knitted  during  his  mayoralty, 
and  dying  in  1371*  was  buried  in  Meroat's  Cliapel, 
London,  with  this  epitaph  upon  his  tomb: 

Sir  Thomas  Leigh  bi  civil  life. 
All  offices  did  beare. 

Which  in  this  city  worshlpftiU 

Or  honourable  were : 
Whom  as  God  blessed  with  great  wealth. 
So  losses  did  he  feele ; 
Yet  never  changed  he  constant  minde, 
Tho'  fortune  tum'd  her  wheele. 

Learning  he  lov*d  and  helpt  the  poore 

To  them  that  knew  him  deere; 
For  whom  this  lady  and  loving  wife 
This  tomb  hath  builded  here. 

His  widow  lived  at  Stoneleigh  to  a  very  advanced 
age.  having  seen  her  children'schildren  to  the  fbuvth 
generation.  She  died  in  1303,  and  was  buried  at 
Stondeigh,  where  she  had  ftnmded  an  hospital  for 
five  poor  men,  and  five  poor  women,  all  of  them  to 
be  unmarried  pcraons,  and  nominated  alter  her 
decease  by  Sir  Thomas  Leigh,  her  son,  and  his  heira 
for  over.  Sir  Thomas  Leigh  had  issue  by  tliis 
lady. 

Rowland,  who  was  largely  provided  for  at 
Longborough,  in  Glouoastershire.  by  Sir 
Rowland  Hill,  his  godfkther.    Hem.  first. 
Margery,  dau^tar  of  Thomas  Lawe.  of 
London,  vintner,  and  secondly. .  daugh- 
ter of  Sir  Richard  Berkeley,  Knt.  of  Stoke^ 
Gifibrd.  In  Gloooaatonhirei 
Richard,  diod  «.  jv. 
TnoMAs.  of  whom  presently. 
William  (Sir),  of  Newnham-Rcgb,  in  War- 
wickshire.  who  fa.  Frances,  daughter  of  Sir 
James  Harrington,  of  Exton.  in  Rutland- 
shire, and  left  a  son. 

Fbancis  <Sir.  K.B.),  whom.  Miary.  daugh- 
ter of  Lord  EUaamave.  Lord  Chancellor 
of  Ellwand,  and  left  a  son. 

FaAJNcia.  who  was  flevatcd  to  the , 
peerage    as    Earl  of   Chichester 
(see  Leigh,  Earl  of  Chichester). 
Mary,  m.  first,  to  Robert  Andrews,  of  London, 
and  secondly,  to  Cobb. 


AUce,  m.  to  Thomas  Coonye,  of  Linoohiahire. 
Katharine,  m.  Edward  Barber,  of  Someraet- 

shire,  Seijeant  at  Law. 
Winifred,  m.  to  Sir  George  Bond,  Lord  Mayor 
of  London. 
The  second  surviving  son, 

THOMAS  LEIGH,  was  knighted  by  <^Men  Eli- 
sabeth, and  created  a  baronet,  upon  the  InatitutioB 
of  that  order,  S9th  June.  1611.  Sir  Thomaa  m; 
Catherine,  fburth  dAighter  of  Sir  John  Spencer, 
Knt.,  of  WoimleightOB,  in  tlie  county  of  Warwick, 
and  had  Issue. 

John  (Sir),  who  married,  fiiat,  Ursula. 


L£I 


Ii£I 


ter  of  Sir  Cbsiaitaphat  HoMwtAnn,  Kni, 
lord  of  the  manor  of  UtAghUm,  ia  B«dfk>rd< 
■liiA»  by  whom  be  had  a  ton, 

THOKAa,  racMMor  to  hU  grandfitther. 
Sir  John  etpoQied,  Moondly,  Aiiiie»  eldest 
daushter  of  Star  John  Cope,  Bart.»  of  Han- 
well,  In  Oitlbrdshlre,  bat  had  no  inua    He 
died  bdbie  his  ftthar. 

Ferdinando,     j 

Alice,  m.  to  Sir  Robert  Dudlef,  Kni.,  and  was 
created  Duchess  of  Dudley  for  Ufe  (see  Dud- 
ley, Duchess  of  Dudley). 
Sir  Thomas  d,  in  February,  IflBB,  and  was  «.  by  his 
grandfather, 

SIR  THOMAS  LEIGH,  second  bsronel,  M.P. 
fbr  theeoimty  of  Warwick,  tensp.  Charles  I.,  wiM>, 
for  his  seat  in  the  royal  cause,  wasdevated  to  the 
peera«e  by  letten  patoit,  dated  at  Oxibrd,  1st  July, 
I043»  as  Babow  Lbiob,  ^ffStonOeight  in  the  etnmtp 
tf  WanoMt*  Before  the  king  set  up  his  standard 
at  Nottingham  his  m^esty  marched  to  Coventry, 
but  finding  the  gates  shut  against  Um,  and  that  no 
eould  prevail  with  the  mayor  and  magis- 
ta  open  them,  he  went  the  same  ni^t  to 
Stonelelgh,  the  house  of  Sir  Thomas  Leigh,  whore, 
M  Clarendon  obsarres,  he  was  well  saceiTed.  Sir 
Thomas  was  afterwards  an  antent  supporter  of  the 
royal  cause,  and  at  one  time  paid  no  less  than 
£^JB05f  as  a  eompensation  Ibr  his  estate.  He  had 
the  gratiflcation,  however,  of  seeing  the  monarchy 
restoreda 

His  lordship  m.  Mary,  one  of  the  daughters  and 
oo-heirs  of  Sir  Thomas  Egerton,  eldest  son  of  the 
Lord  CfaaacdOor  EDfamere,  by  whom  he  had,  with 


TnoHAa  (Sir),  who  m.  first,  Anne,  daogbter 

and  sole  hdr  of  Richard  Bingham,  Esq. ,  of 

Lambeth,  In  Surrey,  by  whom  be  had  an 

only  daughter,  Annc.  who  d,  yonng.    Sir 

Thomas  espoused,  secondly,  Jane,  daughter 

of  Patrick   Fits-Maorlce,  Lord  Kerry,  in 

Iralaiid,  and  dying  before  his  fiither,  left 

Thomas,  who  succeeded  his  grandfather. 

HoDora,  m.  ArsC,  to  Sir  W.  Egerton,  and 

secondly,  to  Hugh,  Lord  Willoughby, 

of  Parham. 

Mary,  m.  to  Arden  Begot,  Esq.,  of  Pipe 

Hall,  in  the  county  of  Warwick. 
Jane,  m.  to  William,  Viscount  Tracy. 
Charles,  ci  Lei^on,  who  m.  twice,  but  sur- 
vMBg  his  children,  left  his  estates  to  his 
grand-nepiiew,  the  Hon.  Charles  Leigh. 
EBaabetb,  m.  to  John,  Lord  Tracy. 
Vere,  m.  to  Sir  Justinian  Isham,  of  Lamport, 

Notts,  BarL 
Ursula,  m,  to  Sir  WflBam  Bromley,  K.B.,  of 
Baglngton,  in  the  county  of  Warwick. 
Lord  Leigh  A  ttnd  February,  1071  >  uad  was  «.  by 
Ms  grandson, 

THOMAS  LEIGH,  second  baron*  This  noble- 
man m.  first,  Elisabeth,  daughter  and  heir  of 
Richard  Brown,  Esq.,  of  Shingleton,  but  had  no 
Issuoi.  He  espoused,  secondly,  Eleanor,  ddest 
daughter  of  Edward,  Lord  Rockingham,  by  whom 
he  had  surviving  issue. 


EnwAmo,  his  suecessor. 
Charles*  who  succeeded  to  the  esutes  of  his 
uncloiy  the  Hon.  Charles  Leigh,  of  Leighton. 
and  m.  Lady  Barbara  Lumlcy,  hot  died  «,.  p. 
in  1748. 
Anne,  d.  unmarried  in  1734. 
Eleanor,  m.  to  Thomas  Vemey,  Esq.^  and  d. 
inI7M. 
His  lordship  d,  in  1710»  and  was  «.  by  his  elder  son, 

EDWARD  LEIGH,  third  baron,  who  espoused 
Mary,  only  daughter  and  heiress  of  Thomas  Hol- 
becke,  Esq.,  of  Flllongley,  in  the  county  of  War- 
wick, and  heir  also  by  Elisabeth,  her  mother,  to 
Bernard 'Panlet,  Esq.,  by  whom  he  had  Issue, 

Edward,  who  d.  In  the  IlfS'time  ot  his  fkther, 

anno  1737* 
Thomas,  his  successor. 
Mary. 

Eleimor.  |     „„„^^ 
AnnOt      j 
His  lordship  d.  9th  March,  1737'^  and  was  «.  by  his 
only  surviving  son, 

THOMAS  LEIGH,  fourth  baron.     This  nohl*' 
man  m.  first,  Maria-Rebecca,  daughter  of  tte  Hon. 
John  Craven,  and  sister  of  WilUam,   fifth  Lord 
Craven,  by  whom  he  had  surviving  Issuer 
Edward,  his  successor. 
Mary,  d,  unmarried. 
His  kndship  espoused,  secondly,  Catherine,'  daugh- 
ter  of  Rowhmd  Berkeley,  Esq.,  of  Cotheridge,  U» 
the  county  of  Worcester,  and  had  a  dangbter  Amuh, 
who  m.  Andrew  Hesket,  Esq.    He  d.  Mth  Movem- 
ber,  1749.  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

EDWARD  LEIGH,  fifth  baron.  ThisnoblesBaa 
dying  unmarried  in  17W>  the  Basomy  or  Lbioh, 
or  Stokblbzoh,  Is  presumed  to  have  bxpibbd. 

Arms.— Gu.  a  cross  ingralled  ar.  a  loaenge  tan  the 
dexter,  chief  of  the  second. 

LEIGH— BARON  DUN8MORE,  EARL 
OF  CHICHESTER. 

Barony,    1  by  Letters  f  3l8t  July,  lOfS. 
'    Earldom,  /   Patent,    \  3rd  June,  1M4. 

Xfncagc. 

SIR  FRANCIS  LEIGH,  BanmeC,  of  Newnham 
Regis,  in  Warwickshire,  was  elevated  to  the  peerage 
on  the  3lst  July,  1(88,  hi  the  dignity  of  Baroh 
DmrsMOBB,  of  Dunsmore,  In  the  county  of  War- 
wick. His  kndship  espoused  Audrey,  dauf^ter  and 
co-heir  of  John,  Lord  Butler,  of  Bonafiekl,  (by 
Elisabeth,  sbter  of  George  Timers, .  Duke  of  Bu<^ 
Ingham,)  and  widow  of  Sir  FroMds  Anderson,  KM., 
by  whom  he  had  issue, 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  Thomas  Wriothesley,  Earl  of 
Southampton  (his  lordship's  second  wllb). 

Mary,  m.  to  George  VUliers,  Viscount  Grandl- 
soD,  in  the  peerage  of  Irdand. 
Lord  Dunsmore  having  distinguished  Mmseif  by 
hU  seal  in  the  royal  cause  during  the  dvll  wars,  was 
advanced,  on  the  9rd  July,  UM4.  to  the  Earidom  of 
Chichester,  with  remainder  to  the  Earl  of  So«th- 
ampton,  and  his  Issue  male  by  his  lordship's  above, 
mentlened  daughter  EUsabeth.  He  d.  Stat  De- 
cember, 1603,  when  the  Barobt  >or  DraasfORB 

311 


LEK 


LEN 


becime  sxtiitct,  and  the  Earldom  of  CMdioftcr 
derolved  according  to  the  limitation  (tee  Wriothea- 
ley.  Barl  of  Southampton). 

AnifB.— O.  a  croaa  ingraUed,  aad  in  the  lint  quar- 
ter a  loaenge  ar. 

LEIOH-JDUCHESS  DUDLEY. 

By  Letten  Patent,  (for  Ufe  only»)  dated  83rd  May, 

1644. 

(See  DuDLKT,  Duchbs»  Dudlby.) 


LEKB  —  BARONS  DEINCOURT,  OF 
SUTTON,  EARLS  OF  SCARS- 
DALE. 

Barony,    \  hy  Letten  f  96th  October,  1684. 
Carldom,  J    Patent,   \  11th  November,  1649. 

Xincast. 

Upon  the  institution  of  the  order  of  barokkt, 

SIR  FRANCIS  LEKE,  Knt,  of  Sutton,  hi  the 
eounty  of  Derby,  being  a  perMm  of  very  ancient 
fiunily  in  thoae  parts,  and  of  ample  fortune,  was 
advanced  to  that  dignity  by  patent,  dated  SSnd 
May,  1611,  and  devated  to  the  peerage  on  the  96th 
Octoiier,  1684,  as  Barok  DaiNcouRT,  i^f  Sution,* 
His  lordihip  taking  an  active  part  during  the  civil 
mur  in  the  royal  cauie,  under  whose  banner  two  of 
his  sons  laid  down  their  lives,  was  created  by  King 
Charles  I.,  11th  November,  164A,  Eabi.  op  Scars- 
DALR.  He  m.  Anne,  daughter  of  Sir  Edward  Ca- 
rey, Knt,  of  Berkhampstede,  in  the  county  of 
Hertford,  and  sister  of  Henry,  Viscount  Falkland, 
by  whom  he  had  Issue,  via. 

Francis,  slain  in  France. 

NicHOLAa,  his  successor. 

Edward,  1  fell  fighting  under  the  royal  ban- 
Charles,   J     ner. 

Henry,  d.  unmarried. 

Anne,  m.  Henry  HiUyard,  Esq. 

Catherine,  at.  Cuthbert  Morl^,  Esq. 

S^^f'^' U  unmarried. 
Murid,      J 

Frances,  m.  the  Viscount  Gocmanstonf  of  Ire- 


Penelope,  m,  Charles,  Lord  Lucas. 
His  lordship  became  so  much  mortified,  it  is  said, 
by  Che  murder  of  King  Charles  I.,  that  he  clothed 
himself  in  sackdoth,  and  causing  his  grave  to  be 
dug  some  yean  before  his  death,  laid  himself  therein 
every  Friday,  exercising  himself  frequently  in  divine 


•  This  manor  was  acquired  by  the  marriage  of 
Richard  de  Grey,  (son  of  William  de  Grey,  of  Land- 
fbrd  Notts,  and  Sandiacre,  in  Derbyshire,  a  younger 
son  of  Henry  de  Grey,  of  Thurrock,)  with  Lucy, 
daughter  and  heir  of  Robert  de  Haxeston,  Lord  of 
Sntton,  in  the  Dale;  which,  with  dlven  other  lord- 
■hips,  by  issue  male  failing,  came  by  a  female 
brandi  to  the  Hilarys,  who  took  the  name  of  Grey; 
by  a  tanale  heir  of  which  line,  married  to  Sir  John 
LefcOh  in  the  reign  of  Henry  IV.«  the  larae  came  to 
this  flimily.— Bamiu. 
8lt 


meditation  md ptayer.    Had. in  16B6,  and  was  r.  by 
his  ddest  surviving  son, 

NICHOLAS  LEKE,  second  Earl  of.Scandale, 
who  espoused  Lady  Frances  Ridi,  daughter  of 
Robert,  Earl  of  Warwick,  and  had  issue, 

ReBRRT,  Lord  Ddnoourt,  fab  successor. 
Richard,  who  m.  Mary,  daughter  of  Sir  John 
Molineaux,  BarL,  and  had  issue, 
Nicholas,  who  «.  as  fourth  earL 
Robert,  d.  young. 


Lucy. 
Mary. 

His  lordship  d.  in  1680,  and  was  r.  by  his  dder  son, 

ROBERT  LEKE,  third  Earl  of  Scamialeu  ThU 
nobleman,  in  the  idgn  of  Jamss  IL,  was  lord- 
lieutenant  of  the  county  of  Derby,  colond  of 
horse,  and  groom  of  the  stole  io  Prince  George  of 
Denmaik.  His  lordship  m.  Mary,  daughter  and 
co-heir  of  Sir  John  Lewis,  Bart,  of  Ledstone,  in 
the  county  of  York,  by  whom  he  had  no  surviving 
issue.    He  died  in  1707*  and  was  «.  by  his  nephew, 

NICHOLAS  LEKE,  fourth  Earl  of  Scarsdale. 
This  nobleman  dying  unmarried  in  1736,  the  Ba« 
RONY.or  Drincourt  and  Earx.dom  of  Scarr- 
DALR  became  xztirct. 

ARMa.— Ar.  on  a  saltier  ingrailed  ea.  nine  annu- 
lets or. 

LENNARD-EARL  OF  SUSSEX. 
By  Letten  Patent,  dated  ftth  October,  1674» 

ILincagt. 

THOMAS  LENNARD,  fifteenth  Baron  Dacrc. 
(see  Baron  Dacre,  Burktfa  Dieti«nmnf  i^  the  Peerag9 
amd  Baronetage  J  was  created  Earl  or  Suaanz,  on 
5th  December,  1674.  His  lordship  m.  Anne,  daugh- 
ter of  Barbara,  Duchess  of  Clevehmd,  prior  to  her 
formal  separation  ftom  her  husband,  Roger  Pal- 
mer, Earl  of  Castiemain,  which  Anne  was  admow- 
ledged  by  King  Charles  II.  as  his  natural  daughter, 
and  his  nuO^ty  assigned  her  the  royal  arms,  with 
the  Batton  sinister.  By  this  lady  the  Earl  of  Sussex 
had  two  sons,  who  both  died  in  inlkncy,  and  two 
daughten,  via. 

Barbara,  who  m.  Lieutenant  General  Charles 
SkeUon,  of  the  Frendi  eervioe,  (eldest  son  of 
Bevii  Skelton,  son  and  hdr  of  Sir  John 
Skelton,  Lieutenant-Governor  of  Plymouth, 
which  Bevil  was  envoy  extraordinary  to  the 
states  general,  temp.  James  IL,  and  followed 
the  fortunes  of  his  fiUlen  master  into  France.) 
Lady  Barbara  Skdton  died  without  ieiue  in 
174L 
Anne,  who  m.  flnt,  Richard  Barrett  Lcnnard, 
by  whom  she  had  an  only  son, 

TnoMAa  Barrrtt  Lrkmard,  who  suc- 
ceeded as  seventeenth  Lord  Dacre. 
Lady   Anne  Lcnnard  espoused,  secondly* 
Henry,  eighth  Lord  Teynham,  by  whom 
she  bad,  with  other  diildren, 
Charlrr  Roprr,  whoee  son, 
TRRvoR-CMARLRa  RorRR,  sucoeeded 
as  d^teenth  Baron  Dacre. 
Her  ladyship  wedded,  thirdly,  the  Hon. 


LEY 


LEY 


fiobart  Uoean,  mm  of  Henry,  third  Earl  of 
Drogheda,  by  wham  ■heabo  had  iamift^ 
The  Karl  of  Suaiex,  who  was  one  of  the  lords  of 
the  bed-chamber,  enteriiif  deeply  into  the  dinip*- 
tioaa  of  the  court,  oonaldnably  impaired  his  estate; 
a  great  part  of  which  he  was  obliged  at  diflbrent 
times  to  dispose  of,  perticularly  the  fine  seat  at 
Herstmonceeux,  in  Sussex.  He  d.  in  1715,  when, 
leaving  no  male  Issue,  the  Eamudou  ow  Suaesx 
became  nzriircT,  and  the  Barony  of  Dacre  fdl  into 
▲BaTAircn  between  his  daughtere— but  thedder. 
Lady  Barbara  Skdton,  dying  «.  p,  in  1741,  the 
younger.  Lady  Anne  Lennard,  became  then  jKile 
beirBss,  and  BAnoKsae  Dachb. 

Anica.— Or.  on  a  fesse  gules,  three  fleur  de  lys  of 
the  first. 

LEY  —  BARONS  LEY,  OP  LEY,  IN 
THE  COUNTY  OF  DEVON, 
EARLS  OF  MARLBOROUGH. 

Barony,    \  by  Letters  /  31st  December,  IfiSft. 
Earldom,  J    Patent,   1 5th  February,  16a& 

Ximagc. 

JAMBS  LEY,  sixth  son  of  Henry  Ley,  Esq.,  of 
Teflbnt  Evias,  in  the  county  of  Wilts,  having 
been  bred  to  the  bar,  and  having  attained  great 
eminfnce  in  his  learned  profession,  was  raised  to 
|he  coif,  in  the  1st  of  James  I.,  and  the  next  year 
constituted  chief  Justice  of  the  Court  of  King's 
Bench,  in  Irdend.  In  the  17th  of  the  same  reign, 
his  lordship  then  residing  at  Westbury,  in  Wilts, 
was  crested  a  BABomrr,  having  previously  had  the 
honour  of  knighthood ;  and  the  next  year  was  ap< 
pointed  cUef  Justice  of  the  Court  of  King's  Bench, 
in  England,  In  tiiree  yeers  afterwards,  he  was  con- 
stltnted  Lono  TnaAeuRKR,  and  upon  the  last  day 
of  the  same  year,  elevated  to  the  peerage  as  Baboit 
Lbv,  qfLetf,  in  U»e  emmt^  <nf  Dmion,  In  the  1st  of 
Charles  I.,  his  lordship  was  created  Earl  op  Mau.- 
Bonotren;  end  was  soon  after  appointed  president 
ot  the  counciL  He  m.  first,  Mary,  daughter  of 
John  Pettey,  Esq.,  of  Stoke-Telmage,  in  the  county 
of  Oxford,  end  had  issue, 

Hbmbv,  his  successor. 

James,  who  d,  in  1618,  unmairled. 

William,  successor  to  his  nephew. 

Bllsabetfa,  m.  to  Morioe  Carant,    Esq.,    of 
Toooer,  in  the  county  of  Somerset. 

Anne,  m.  to  Sir.  William  Long,  of  Drayoot, 
WUts. 

Mary,  m.  to  Richard  Erisey,  Esq.,  of  Erisey, 
inComwalL 

Dionyaia,  m.  to  John  Harington,  Esq.,  of  KdU 
neyton.  In  Somersetshire. 

Maigaiet,  m.  to  — —  Hobson,  Esq.,  of  Hert- 
Ibidshlre. 

Esther,  m.  to  Arthur  Fuller,  Esq.,  of  Brad< 
field,  Hertfordshire^ 

Martha,  d.  unmarried. 

Phoebe,  m.  to Biggs,  Esq.,  of  Hurst,  in 

the  county  of  Berks. 
His  lordship  wedded  secondly,  Mary,  widow  of  Sir 
WilUam  Bower,  Knt. ;  and  thirdly,  Jane,  daughter 


of  John,  Lotd  Butler,  of  Bramfleld,  but  had  no 
issue  by  either  of  theee  ladiea. 

This  noblemen,  who  was  esteoned  a  peieon  of 
talents,  and  integrity,  and  who  left  bdUnd  fatan 
several  learned  works,  both  in  law  and  Idstory-^ 
died  on  the  14th  March,  1028,  and  was  «.  by  his 
ddest  son, 

HENRY  LEY,  second  Earl  of  Marlborough, 
wbo,  m.  Mary,  daughter  of  Sir  Arthur  Capel,  of 
Hadham,  in  Hertfordshire,  by  whom  he  had  a  son. 
Jambs,  his  successor,  end  a  daughter,  Elisabeth, 
who  died  unmarried.  His  lordship  was  «.  at  his 
deceese,  by  his  son, 

JAMES  LEY,  third  Earl  of  Marlborough.  This 
nobleman,  who  was  an  eminent  mathematician  and 
navigator,  was  app<^ted,  being  a  naval  ofllosr, 
lord  admiral  of  all  his  mi^esty's  ships  at  Dart- 
mouth, and  parts  adjacent.  In  160S,  he  was  em- 
ployed in  the  American  plantaticms.  But  in  1065, 
commanding  "that  huge  ship,  called  the  Old 
JantMt  in  that  great  fight  at  sea,  with  the  Dutch, 
upon  the  Srd  June,  was  there  slain  by  a  cannon  bul- 
let.** His  lordship  dying  ».  p.,  his  honours  reverted 
toUsunde, 

WILLIAM  LEY,  fourth  earL  This  nobleman 
m.  Miss  Hewet,  daughter  of  Sir  William  Hewet, 
Knt.,  but  dying  without  issue,  in  IG79,  the  Baroitv 
OP  LxY,  and  EAXLnoM  op  Mablbobouoh,  became 

BZTIWCT. 

Abhb.— Ar.  a  chevron  betw,  three  seal  heads 
couped  sa. 

LEYBURN— BARON  LEYBURN. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  9th  February,  U80, 
87  Edward  L 

Xincase. 

In  the  10th  of  Richard  I.,  Robbbt  ob  LsBBimir 
being  deed,  Stephen  de  Tumham  paid  three  hun- 
dred marks  to  the  king,  for  the  wardship  and  mar* 
riage  of  his  son  and  heir, 

ROGER  DE  LEIBURN.  This  feudal  h>rd 
cspoualng  the  cause  of  the  barons,  at  the  commence- 
ment of  the  contest,  in  the  reign  of  John,  was  made 
prisoner  with  several  of  his  associates,  at  Rochester 
Castle,  and  committed  to  the  custody  of  John 
MaxesdialL  In  the  time  of  Henry  III.,  we  find  him 
first  mentioned,  in  the  36th  year  of  that  king's  reign, 
as  slaving,  presumed  accidentally,  but  shrewdly 
suspected,  designedly,  through  revenge.  Sir  Enutuld 
de  Mountney,  in  a  tournament,  hdd  at  Walden,  in 
Essex.  Thenext  year,  after  this  unhappy  aflUr,  he 
attended  the  king  in  an  expedition  into  Oescony .  In 
the  44th  of  the  same  reign,  he  was  constituted  con- 
stable of  the  Castle  at  Bristol,  but  before  two  years 
elapsed,  again  siding  with  thebarons»  he  was  one 
of  those  prohiUted  by  royal  precept,  to  meet  at  any 
tournament,  without  especial  Uoence  i  and  soon 
after  included  in  the  excommunication  of  the  Arch- 
bishop of  Canterbury.  Within  a  very  short  period, 
however,  he  forsook  the  baronial  banner,  (drawn 
off,  it  was  said,  by  promised  rewards,)  and  was 
made  warden  of  the  Cinque  Ports.  He  was  sub- 
sequentiy  one  of  the  most  aeelous  commanders  in 
the  royal  army^-at  the  taking  of  the  town  and  Caa- 
9S  3U 


LEV 


LID 


tic  of  NorthampCOfr— ia  defending  Rodiebtcr,  when 
asMuIted  by  the  iniumctionary  lordi,  where  he 
wa*  eeverely  wounded,  aad  at  the  battle  of  Lewes, 
tar  which  MTTloes,  after  the  khig's  reitoration  to 
power,  by  the  Tictory  of  Evoham,  he  wat  made 
warden  of  all  the  Horeets  beyond  the  Trent ;  ehetiff 
of  Cumberland  and  Kent,  and  wardea  of  the 
Cinque  Ports.  He  obtained  Ukewiae,  a  grant  of 
Oie  wardship  of  Idonea,  younger  of  the  two  daugh- 
ters and  co-heirs  of  Robert  de  Vlpount,  a  great 
baron  Inthanortht  and  In  the  Mth  of  Henry  HI., 
joining  with  Robert  de  Clifford,  the  guardian  of 
Isabel,  the  dder  oo-heir,  he  procured  the  king's 
pardon  Ibr  those  ladies,  for  the  rebdiious  proceed- 
ings of  their  fhther,  in  the  time  of  the  grand  Insur- 
rection of  Montfort,  Earl  of  Leicester,  and  his 
adherenls.  He  was  afterwards  re-appolnled  sherlflT 
of  Cumberland  and  Kent,  and  governor  of  the 
Castle  of  Carlisle,  This  great  fieudal  lord,  m.  first, 
Eleanore,  daughter  of  his  guardian.  Stephen  de 
Tumham  i  and  secondly,  Bleanore  de  Vaux,  widow 
of  Robert  de  Quind,  Barl  of  Winchester.  He  d. 
in  the  fi0th  Henry  III.,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  LEYBURN,  who,  in  the  10th 
Edward  L,  was  in  the  expedition  then  made  into 
Wales.  In  the  Sd  of  the  same  reign,  he  was  made 
constable  of  the  Castle  of  Pevenseyt  and  about  this 
period,  the  king  having  concluded  a  league  with 
Rodulph,  King  of  the  Romans,  and  sending  In  con- 
formity with  its  provisions,  an  army  Into  Gascony, 
this  William  de  Leybum  was  appointed  admiral 
of  the  fleet,  lying  at  Portsmouth,  upon  which  one 
third  of  the  expeditkm  was  to  embark.  In  three 
years  afterwards,  he  attended  the  king  into  Flan- 
ders t  and  he  was  summoned  to  parliament  as  a 
BABON,onthe6thFeliruary,  1S99.  His  lordship  was 
subsequently  engaged  in  the  Scottish  wars.  He  died  in 
1309,  leaving  his  grand-daughter  Julian,  (daughter 
of  his  son,  Thomas  de  Leybum,  who  hadpredeoeaeed 
him,)  his  heir.  This  lady,  afterwards,  became  the 
wife  of  John  de  Hastings,  Lord  Hastings,  fitther 
of  Laurence,  first  Earl  of  Pembroke  of  that  fkmily, 
and  subeeqilently  of  William  de  Clinton,  Earl  of 
Huntingdon  i  her  Issue  by  her  fint  husband  lUled, 
in  1389,  and  having  none  by  her  second  marriage, 
the  BAsoirv  or  Lxraunir,  in  that  year,  became 
sznwcr. 

AKMa.— Ai.  six  lionods  rampant  ar. 


LEYBURN-JBARON  LEYBURN. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  9Ist  June,  1337, 
11  Edward  IIL 

ICintagc. 

•  SIR  JOHN  DE  LEYBURN,  of  the  county  of 
Salop,  havmg  been  involved  In  the  insurrection  of 
Thomas,  Earl  of  Lancaster,  In  the  lAth  Edward  IL, 
had  all  his  lands  in  the  county  of  Northumberland 
seiaed  by  the  crown  t  but  paying  afine  in  two  yean 
afterwards,  he  had  full  restitution  of  those  estates. 
The  next  year  he  aooompenied  John  de  Felton  in 
the  expedition  then  made  into  Gascony :  and  in  the 
<th  Edward  1 1 1.,  upon  the  death  of  John  le  Strange, 
of  ClMBwardyae,  In  the  county  of  Salop,  he  was 
found  to  be  Maaest  heir;  that  isj  son  of  Lufda,  sister 
314 


of  the  said  John.  In  ttiree  yens  aftemodi^  he  had 
summons  to  attend  the  king  in  his  Seottiah  wan ; 
but  being  prevented  by  some  unforeaeen  drcnm- 
stances,  he  obtained  pardon  for  hb  absence,  upon 
his  humble  petition  setting  forth  the  cause  In  th* 
9th  of  Edward  IIL  The  next  year  he  was,  how- 
ever, in  those  wars.  In  the  19th  of  the  same  reign, 
being  then  a  banneret,  and  residing  In  Shropshire, 
he  had  a  military  summons  to  attend  the  king  into 
France,  and  the  next  year  distinguished  himself  in 
the  celebrated  battle  of  Durham,  wherein  David, 
king  of  Scotland,  was  vanquished  and  made  pri- 
soner. Sir  John  was  summcned  to  parliament  as  a 
BARON,  from  21st  June,  1387,  to  14th  Februaryr 
1348,  in  the  Utter  of  which  years  he  died  lasoelass, 
when  the  Barony  or  Lkyburn  became  azriircT.- 


LIDDELL    -^    BARON 
WORTH. 


RAVENS. 


-    By  Letters  Patent,  dated  89th  June,  1747. 

Xhuagc. 

THOMAS  DE  LIDDEL.  or  LYDDALE,  m. 
Margaret,  daughter  of  John  de  Layburne,  and  was 
».  by  his  son, 

THOMAS  LIDDELL,  Esq.,  an  alderman  of 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne,  who  m.  Barbara,  daughter 
and  heiress  of  Richard  Strangeways,  Esq.,  and  had 
four  sons  and  two  daughters.  This  gentleman  ac- 
quired by  purchase,  in  1807,  RRvensworth  Castle* 
and  other  estates.  In  the  county  of  Durham,  in 
which  he  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

THOMAS  LIDDELL,  Esq.,  of  Raveuworth 
Castle,  who  d,  in  1619,  and  waa  •;  by  his  eldest  son, 

THOMAS  LIDDELL,  Esq.,  of  Ravcnsworth 
Castle,  who  was  created  a  baronet,  on  the  tad  No- 
vnaber,  164S,  in  consideration  of  hia  gallant  de- 
fence of  Newcastle  against  the  Scots,  during  the 
civil  wan.  Sir  Thomas  m.  Isabd,  daughter  of 
Henry  Anderson,  Esq.,  and  was  «.  at  his  decease,  in 
1650,  by  his  grandson, 

SIR  THOMAS  LIDDELL,  second  baronet.  This 
gentleman  m.  Anne^  daughter  of  Sir  Henry  Vane, 
the  dder,  of  Raby  CasUe,  In  the  county  of  Dur- 
ham, and  dying  in  1687,  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

SIR  HENRY  LIDDELL,  third  baronet,  who  m. 
Catherine,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Sir  John  Bright, 
of  Badsworth,  in  the  county  of  York,  by  whom  he 
had  several  children.  The  eldest  son,  TaoMAii^m. 
in  1707,  Jane,  ddest  daughter  of  James  Clavering, 
Esq.,  of  Greencroft,  in  the  county  of  Durham,  and 
djring  before  his  father,  left  a  son,  Hrkbv,  who 
succeeded  to  the  title  {  and  another  son,  ThoIiab, 
whose  son,  by  Margaret,  daughter  of  Sir  William 
Bowes,  ot  Gabside,  HnNny-GnoRos  inherited  as 
fifth  baronet.  The  second  son  of  Sir  Henry  Lyddel 
having  been  adopted  by  his  grandfather.  Sir  John 
Bright,  assumed  the  surname  of  Bright,  and  was 
seated  ttt  BadswofUi.  This  gentleman's  son,  Tho- 
mas Bright,  left  an  only  daughter  and  heiress, 
Margaret,  who  m.  Charles-Wataon  Wentwdrth, 
Marquess  of  Rockingham. 

Sir  Henry  Llddell  d.  in  1783,  and  was  «.  by  his 
eldest  son, 

SIR  HENRY  LIDDELU  fourth,  baraaet.  who 


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h*ia 


.WM  elerated  to  tte-  p«enffe,  S9tb  June,  l747i  m 
Barou  ILAVBirsiroBTH,  4^  JtavMJurorM  Catti*. 
Hto  lordcbip  m.  in  1736,  Ann«,  only  dftugbtcr  of 
-Sir  Peter  Debne,  Knt.,  aldemum  and  lord  mayor 
•of  London,  by  wbom  be  bad  en  only  daughter, 

Anne,   wbo  «•.   Auguttiu-Henry,    Duke  of 
Grafton,  from  wbom  gbe  wa*  divorced,  end 
afterward!  espoused   tbe  Earl  of    Upper 
I  Oiiory. 

His  lordship  d.  in  1749,  and  leaving  thus  no  male 
issue,  the  Baaony  of  RAvzivBwoaTH  became 
BXTiHCT,  while  the  baronetcy  devolved  upon  bis 
nephew,  Hsstbt  Obobob  Lix>obi.l,  Esq.,  as  fifth 
baronet. 

Abmb.— Ar.  a  ft'etle  gu«  on  a  chief  of  the  second, 
three  leopards  fisces  or. 

LIGONIER— BARON  LIGONIER,  OF 
RIPLEY,  IN  THE  COUN- 
TY OF  SURREY,  EARL 
LIGONIER. 

Barony,    )  by  Letters  (  27th  April,  17631 
Saridom,  J    Patent,    I  lOtb  September,  I7fi6. 

Xixua%t. 

Of  the  ancient  French  family  of  L^gwiier,  the  two 
bcotben,  Francis  and  John  Lioonibb,  members 
of  the  churdi  of  England,  entered  into  the  British 
military  service,  and  attained  very  high  distinction 
therein.  The  elder,  Fbabcis,  was  colonel  of  dra^ 
goons,  and  in  that  rank  fought  at  the  battle  of  Fal- 
kirk, in  1745s.  To  attend  his  duty,  however,  npon 
that  occasion,  he  rose  ftom  a  sick-bed,  and  died 
eoon  after  the  sngagement,  tnm  the  combined 
effects  of  disease  and  Cstigue,  A  monument  has 
been  erected  to  his  memory  in  Westminster  Abbey. 
The  younger  brother, 

■  JOHN  LIGONIER,  having  disdnguished  him- 
self under  the  Duke  of  Marlborough,  in  Flanders, 
and  afterwards  attaining  high  reputation,  temp. 
Oeorge  II.,  in  Oemiany,  was  made  a  Kkioht  Ban- 
nbbbt,  under  the  royal  standard,  at  the  battle  of 
Dettingen,  in  1748.  Sir  John  was  created  an  Irish 
Peer,  fai  1797,  as  Viscount  Ligonier,  of  Enniskillen, 
in  the  county  of  Fermanagh :  and  in  1762,  he  ol>. 
tsined  a  new  patent  in  the  same  kingdom,  confer- 
ring upon  his  lordship  the  Viscounty  of  Ligonier,  of 
Clonmen,  with  remainder  to  Us  nephew,  Edward 
'Ligonier,  Esq.  In  the  next  year  he  was  made  a 
peer  of  Great  Britain,  as  Baron  Lioontbb,  ^  JN^ 
ittt,  M  the  eomO^  4/  SMrrsy,  and  created  Eabi.  of 
LioONiBR,  on  the  10th  September,  176&  His  lord- 
ebip,  after  filling  the  first  military  oflkes,  and  esta- 
blishing the  highest  military  reputation,  died  at  the 
advanced  age  of  ninety-one,  1770,  and  was  buried  in 
Westminster  Abbey,  whoi,  leaving  no  issue,  the 
jRiTtSH  Barony  ano  £ABi«MUi  of  Lioonibr, 
became  bxtinct.  While  the  Irish  Barony  of  Li- 
gonier, of  Clonmell,  passed  according  to  the  patent, 
to  (the  son  of  his  brother,  Colonel  Ligonier)  his 
nephew,  Edward  Lioonibr,  Esq.,  who  married, 
first,  Penelope,  dauf^ter  of  George  Pitt,  Lord 
Rivers,  ftom  whom  he  was  divorced,  and  seooBdly, 
Mary,  dau^ter  of  Robert,  Earl  of  Northington, 


but  dying  «.  |i.  in  ITtt,  the  Barony  of  Ligonier,  of 
Clonmell,  also  expired. 

ABiia.— Gu.  a  lion  rampant  ar.  on  a  chief  of  the 
saoond,  a  crescent  between  two  muUeto, 


I/ISLE-BARONS  L^ISLE. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  15th  December,  1347, 
31  Edward  III. 

Of  this  surname  wen  several  families,  siwiaging 
originally  ftom  two ;  which  had  derived  the  desig- 
nation, one  from  the  Isle  of  Ely,  the  other  from  the 
Isle  of  Wight  This  first  person  of  rank,  upon 
record,  was, 

BRYAN  DE  L'ISLE,  who,  in  the  beginning  of 
King  John's  reign,  paid  one  hundred  and  twenty 
marks,  and  a  palftey,  for  the  wardship  and  marriage 
of  the  heir  of  William  Briston;  and  in  a  few  years 
afterwardSf  married  Maud,  daughter  and  heiress  of 
Thomas,  son  of  William  de  Seleby.     This  Bryan 
adhering  to  King  John  in  his  dispute  with  the 
barons,  was  reputed  one  of  the  evil  advisers  of  the 
crown.    He  was  governor  of  Boleeover  Castle,  in 
the  county  of  Derby,  and  a  principal  omunander  of 
the  royal  army  raised  in  Yorkshim    At  that  time 
King  John  conferred  upon  him  the  lands  of  tbe 
Barons,  Robert  de  Percy,  and  Peter  de  Plumpton. 
In  the  rdgn  of  Henry  III.,  remaining  stedCsst  to 
the  cause  be  bad  espoused,  be  bad  a  command  at 
the  siege  of  Montsorel,  and  tbe  sutaeequent  battle  of 
Lincoln.    In  the  6th  of  Henry,  he  was  made  warden 
of  all  tbe  forests  throughout  England:  and  he  was 
afterwards  sheriiT  of  Yorkshire^    He  d,  about  the 
18th  Henry  III.,  possessed  of  the  manor  of  Brian- 
ston,  otherwise  Blandford  Brian,  in  the  county  of 
Dorset-^* « which,"  says  Hutchins,  in  his  history 
of  that  shire,  "  is  called  Brientius  town,  by  Cam- 
den 1  and  very  properly  derived  its  a^M^in^%]  d«. 
ncMnination  of  Brian,  from  Brian  de  loaula,  of 
L'Isle,  its  ancient  lord.** 
"  I  now  come  (says  Dugdale)  to 
WARINE  DE  L'ISLE,  son  of  Robert,  eon  of 
Alice,  daughter  of  Henry,  a  younger  son  of  Warine 
Fitz^rald,  as  the  descent  sheweth."    Which  Warine 
was  in  tbe  Scottish  wars,  temp.  Edward  I.,  -and  in 
the  beginning  of  Edward  IL's  reign,  was  consti- 
tuted governor  of  Windsor  Castle,  and  warden  of 
the  forest.     For  years  subsequently,  be  was  en- 
gaged in  Scotland,  but  Joining  Thomas,  Earl  of 
Lancaster,  against  the  Spencers,  Uth  Edward  II., 
and  sharing  in  the  disomifliare  of  his  chief,  he  was 
taken  prisoner,  and  hailed  at  York,  with  the  Lord 
Mowbray,  and  several  others.    After  which,  it  was 
Ibund  in  the  1st  Edward  IIL,  that  be  died  seised  of 
the  manors  of  Bouden,  Kingston,  and  Fanflore,  in 
Berks  t  Mundiford,  In  Norfolk ;  and  Kiatingbury, 
in  Northamptonshire;   leaving  Gerard,   his  son, 
twenty-three  years  of  age,  and  Alice,  bis  wife,  sister 
and  heir  of  Henry,  Baron  Tayes,  surviving,  which 
GERARD  DE  LISLE,  having  become  eminent 
in  tbe  Scotch  and  French  wars  of  Edward  III.,  was 
summoned  to  parliament  as  a  baron,  by  the  desig- 
nation of  "  Gerardo  de  Insula*"  ion  the  iAth  Deceaf^ 

3ia 


L'lS 


LOM 


ter,  13I7>  but  ntnm  aftonnids.    Hto  loidiliip  d,  in 
1360.  and  ww  «.  by  hit  ion, 

WARINE  UK  L'ISLE,  Moond  btn»>  sunimoned 
to  parliament  from  0th  April,  130Q>  to  Mth  May, 
1388.  This  noblaman,  Uk«  his  father,  participated 
in  the  great  martial  achievements  of  King  Edward 
III.  In  the  1st  of  Richard  II.  he  was  also  in  the 
wars  of  France— and  in  two  years  afterwards  he 
went  to  Ireland.  From  King  Edward  be  obtained 
licence  to  make  a  castle  of  his  house  at  Shirboume, 
in  the  county  of  Oxford.  His  lordship  m.  Margaret, 
daughter  of  William  Pipard,  by  whom  he  left,  at 
his  dereair  in  U81,  an  only  daughter, 

Margaret  de  L'Isle,  who  m.  Thomas,  Lord 
Berkeley,  and  had  an  only  daughter  and 


Elisabeth  Berkeley,  who  m.  Ridiard 
Beauchamp,  twdhh  Earl  of  Warwick, 
by  whom  she  had  three  daughters,  her 
oo-heirs,  via. 

Margaret,  second  wife  of  John  Tal- 
bot, fliBt  Earl  of  Shrewsbury. 
Eleanor,  m.  first,  to  Thomas,  Lord 
Ros,  and  secondly,   to  Edmund, 
Duke  of  Somerset. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Ctoorge  Nerill,  Lord 
Latimer. 
Amongst  the  representatives  of  which  descendants 
of  Margaret  de  L'Isle,  the  Barony  of  L'Islx,  is 
presumed  to  be  now  in  absyancb. 
AaMB.— Ou.  a  lion  passant  ar.  crowned  or. 

L*ISL£  —  BARONS  DE  L*ISLE,  OF 
ROUGEMONT. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  19th  December,  1311, 
5  Edward  IL 

ROBERT  DE  L'ISLE,  of  Rougemont,  in  the 
eounty  of  Bedford,  haviug  married  Rohese  de 
Tatshall,  widow  of  Robert  de  Tatshall,  and  daugh- 
ter and  co-heir*  of  John  de  WahuD,  feudal  Lord  of 
Wahttll,  (now  Wodhull,)  in  the  county  of  Bedford, 
bad  Hvery  of  the  lands  of  her  inheritance  upon  pay- 
ing his  rdief  in  the  Ist  Henry  III.,  at  which  period 
he  had  restitution  of  his  own  estates,  in  the  coun- 
ties of  Lincoln,  Kent,  York,  Norfolk,  and  Suilblk, 
which  had  been  seised  by  the  crown  in  the  pre- 
ceding reign  during  the  baronial  contest.  After 
this  feudal  lord  came  another, 

ROBERT  DE  L'ISLE,  who,  in  the  48th  of 
Henry  III.,  was  constituted  governor  of  the  castles 
of  Marlborough  and  Lutgareshull :  and  the  next 
year  taking  part  with  the  barons,  was  made  by  them 
governor  of  Newcastle-upon-Tyne^  *'  From  this 
Robert,"  says  Dugdale,  *'  I  must  make  a  large  leap 
to  another," 

ROBERT  DE  L'ISLE,  who  was  summoned  to 
parliament,  as  aBAaoN,  tnm  19th  December,  1311, 
to  Sftth  February,  1S4S.  This  nobleman  was  in  the 
expedition  made,  13th  Edward  III.,  into  Flanders, 
but  he  subsequently  took  holy  orders,   having, 

•  Aoima  Wahul,  the  other  daughter  and  co-heir, 
married  Robert  de  Baselngham. 
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before  doing  so,  settled  the  oianon  of  Ramptor, 
Gotenham,  West-Wike,  with  the  advowson  of  the 
church  of  Wtnpole,  in  the  county  of  Cambridge, 
upon  Alice,  daughter  of  Robert  de  L'Isle,  Elisabeth 
Peverdl,  and  Richard  Bayeaux,  for  life,  with  n» 
mainder  to  John,  son  of  Robert  de  L'Isle,  and  his 
heirs.  He  was  also  then  seised  of  the  manors  of 
Hayford-Warin,  in  Oxfordshire,  and  Pishlobury, 
in  Hertfordshire.  His  lordship  d.  in  1348,  and  was 
«.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  DE  L'ISLE,  second  baron,  summoned  to 
parliament  as  **Johanni  de  InsulA  de  Rubeo 
Monte."  from  SSth  November,  1380,  to  15th  Dft* 
ccmber,  1357.  This  nobleman,  in  the  19th  of  Ed- 
ward III.,  had  obtained  a  grant  Aram  his  father  of 
the  manor  of  Harwoob,  in  the  county  of  York* 
valued  at  four  hundred  marks  per  annum,  to  enable 
him  the  better  to  serve  the  king  in  his  wan.  In 
three  years  subsequently  be  was  in  the  English 
army,  then  drawn  up  to  encounter  the  French  at 
Vircmfosse  and  we  find  him  soon  after  engaged  In 
an  expedition  made  into  Gascony.  In  the  16th  of 
the  same  reign  he  was  one  of  the  commanders  at 
the  siege  of  Nantes.  In  the  18th  he  was  again  in 
Gascony,  and  in  the  90th  he  had  a  pension  tnm 
the  king  of  £800  per  annum,  to  be  paid  out  of 
the  exchequer,  to  enable  him  to  sustain  his  rank 
of  BAMNXRBT.  It  is  Said  by  some,  that  in  the 
90th  Edward  III.,  Sir  Thomas  Dagworth,  Knt., 
with  eighty  men  at  arms,  and  a  hundred  archen, 
wcxrsting  Charles  de  Bloys,  and  the  great  men  of 
Britanny,  who  had  a  thousand  horse,  the  king 
thereupon  made  two  herons,  vli.,  Alan  Zouche,and 
John  L'Isle,  as  also  fifty  knights  {  but  others  aflbnn, 
that  this  was  at  the  battle  of  Crbsby,  which  hap- 
pened the  same  year.  John  L'Isle  was,  however,  so 
highly  esteemed  by  King  Edward  III.  for  his 
courage  and  martial  prowess,  that  he  was  made  one 
of  the  Knights  Companions  of  the  Gabtbb,  at  the 
institution  of  that  order.  He  subsequently  ob- 
tained tnm  the  crown  a  grant  for  life  of  the 
sheriflUty  of  the  counties  of  Cambridge  end  Hunt- 
ingdon, with  the  govemonhip  of  the  castle  of 
Cambridge:  and  the  year  before  he  died  (99th  Ed- 
ward III.,)  he  was  again  with  Prince  Edward  in  the 
wars  of  France.  His  lordship  tf.  in  1356,  and  was  •> 
by  his  son, 

ROBERT  L'ISLE,  third  baron,  who  was  sum- 
moned to  parliament  as  Loan  L'Islb,  ^  Rauge- 
momi,  on  90th  November,  1300,  but  never  afterward: 
and  of  his  lordship  or  his  descendants  nothing  fa- 
ther is  known. 

ARM8.— Gu.  a  lion  passant  guardant  or.  crowned 
ar. 

LONOESPEE  —  EARL    OF     SALIS- 

BURY. 

(See  D'Evereux,  Earl  of  Salisbury.) 

LONOVILLIERS  —  BARON    LONG- 
VILLIERS. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  9ftth  February,  1349, 
16  Edward  IIL 

Xincasf. 

In  the  96th  Edward  L 
JOHN  DE  LONG  VILLIERS  died,   seised  of 


hOV 


hOV 


themaaen 


of  Cukadatd,  in  the  county  of  Nott*. 
!,  in  YorkshliOt  tad  was  «^  by  hia 


THOMAS  DE  LONOVILLIERS,  who  had  sum- 
■KMia  to  parUamant*  aaabanm,  on  85th  Febniary, 
134S»  but  never  aftarwarda.  His  lordship  died  in 
1II74»  whan  the  Basony  of  LoNOTiLLixka  became 
nxTiNGT.  According  to  Dugdale,  his  lordship  left 
an  only  sistar,  AoNnat  wife  of  Robert*  son  of  Ralph 
Cromwell,  his  next  heir.  Under  the  head  of  Evfr- 
ingham,  however,  the  same  authority  states,  that 
Agnes,  dau^ter  of  John  LongviUiers,  married 
Raginald  de  Everlngham.  And  Collins  says,  that 
Agnea,  the  wife  of  Everingham,  was  daughter  and 
co-heir  of  Sir  John  LongvUers,  whose  sister,  Elian- 
bath,  was  mother  of  Stephen  Mnulovel,  whose 
dangfatar  and  heir,  BUaabeth,  espoused  John  de 
Stanhope,  ancestor  of  the  Earls  of  Chesterfield. 

AMia^"'Sa.  n  bend  between  six  cross  croeslets  ar. 

L'ORTI— BARON  L'ORTI. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  6th  February,  1280, 
27  Edward  I. 

ICincagc. 

In  theeth  of  Henry  III., 

HENRY  DE  ORTRAI,  (which  is  the  same 
with  L'Ortit  or  De  Urtiao,)  having  married  Sablna, 
dau^tar  and  hear  of  Richard  Revel,  (a  person  of 
great  note  tn  the  west,  via.,  sherilf  of  the  counties 
of  Devon  and  Cornwall,  from  the  7th  to  the  end  of 
King  Richard  I.'s  reign/)  and  of  Mabel,  his  wife, 
sister  and  heir  of  Walter  de  Essetogh,  of  Esselagh, 
in  the  county  of  Wilts,  had  livery  of  the  lands  of 
the  inheritance  of  the  said  SaUnn,  and  in  some 
years  afterwards  obtained  licence  to  Impark  his 
woods  In  the  county  of  Somerset,  so  that  he  might 
be  free  of  any  regard  of  the  king's  forests.  Had.  in 
1241,  and  was  #.  by  his  son, 

HENRY  L'ORTI,  who,  having  been  engaged  in 
the  Welch  and  French  wars,  was  summoned  to  par- 
liament, as  a  BAKOir,  on  the  0th  February,  1286i 
His  lordship  was  »•  at  his  decease  by  his  son, 

JOHN  L'ORTI,  second  baron,  but  never  sum- 
moned to  parliament.  This  nobleman  left,  at  his 
decease,  two  daughters,  via. 

SyUl,  wife  of  Sir  Lewrence  de  St.  Martin. 
Margaret,  wife  of  Henry  de  Esturmie. 

Amongst  whose  descendants  and  representatives 
the  Babont  of  L'Onri  is  now  In  absvaitcb. 

ABMa«^Vert  a  pale  m. 

LOVEL— BARON  LOVEL,  OF  KARV. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  20th  November,  1348, 
22  Edward  HI. 

ICiitcagc. 

The  first  of  this  family  that  came  into  Enghmd 
waa 

ROBERT,  Lord  of  Brehfrval,  &c.,  in  Normandy, 
(where  he  likewise  held  the  castle  of  Yvery,  by  the 
service  of  three  knights'  fees,)  a  younger  son,  as  it 
is  said,  of  Eudes,  sovereign  Dukeof  Britanny.  This 
nobleman  accowpwMart  the  Conqueror  in  1006,  and 


rewarded  with  the  lordships  ot  Kary  and  Har- 
petre,  in  the  county  of  Somciiet;  but  returning 
into  Normandy,  and  betaig  there  attacked  by  a 
severe  illness,  he  became  a  monk  in  the  abbey  of 
Bee,  and  died  soon  after,  about  the  year  1069f  leav- 
ing three  sons,  of  whom  the  eldest, 

ASCELIN  GOUEL  DE  PERCEVAL,  succBeded 
his  father.  This  feudal  lord,  like  hie  predecessor, 
hrid  a  distinguished  place  in  the  Norman  army  of 
the  conquest,  and  for  his  services  had  a  grant  of 
divers  manors,  particularly  of  Weston  and  Stawri, 
in  the  county  of  Somerset  He  was  a  man  of  vio- 
lent temper,  and  hence  acquired  the  surname  of 
LupuB,  or  the  Wolf.  OdeHeut  ViuUit  gives  the 
partiGulars  of  a  long  and  extraordinary  dispute 
which  this  Ascelin  had  with  the  Earl  of  Bretevil,  in 
Normandy,  and  which  terminated  by  his  obtaining 
his  own  terms,  after  sustaining  a  siege  of  two 
months  in  his  castle  of  Brdierval,  against  a  power- 
ful army,  commanded  by  the  ablest  captains  of  the 
age-— which  terms  Included  the  retention  of  the 
fortress,  and  the  hand  of  Isabella,  the  Earl  of  Bra* 
tevil's  only  daughter,  in  marriage.  This  lady, 
although  illagltimate,  upon  the  failure  of  the  earPs 
legitimate  issue,  became,  through  the  fevour  of 
Henry  I.,  heir  in  part  to  her  father,  and  her  hus- 
band AacBLiN  was  established  in  the  Earldom  of 
Yvery  in  1119.  The  issue  of  the  marriage  were 
seven  sons,  and  a  daughter,  married  to  Radulftu 
RuAis,  a  noble  Norman.  Of  the  sons,  three  alone 
have  been  handed  down  to  us,  namtfy,  Robbbt, 
William,  and  John,  whereof  the  youngest,  John, 
acquired  from  his  fether  the  manor  of  Harpetr^, 
and  assumed  that  as  a^  surname,  but  it  waa  after- 
wards changed  by  his  descendants  to  Goubwat. 
Ascdin  died  soon  after  his  aooeesion  to  the  Earldom 
of  Yvery,  and  was  #.  by  his  eldest  son, 

ROBERT,  Earl  of  Yvery,  who  died  «.  p.  in  1121, 
and  was  «.  in  his  Nrarman  and  Engliah  estates  by 
his  brother, 

WILLIAM,  Earl  of  Yvery.  ThU  noMeman  waa 
nicknamed  iMpeUu*,  ot  the  little  wolf,  which  de- 
signation waa  softened  into  Lupti,  and  thence  to 
LuvBX.,  and  became  the  surname  of  moat  of  his  de- 
scendants. He  defended  his  castle  of  Kary  in  1163 
against  King  Stephen,  but  died  In  two  years  after- 
wards. He  m.  Auberlc,  sister  of  Walleran  de  Belle- 
monte.  Earl  of  Mellent,  in  Normandy,  and  had 
five  sons,  namely, 

Walbbaw,   who  succeeded  to  the  Norman 
dominions,  and  waa  Baron  of  Yvery,  bat 
the  title  of  earl  never,  subsequently,  occurs. 
His  line  continued  until  the  fifteenth  OA- 
tury. 
Ralph,  of  whom  presently. 
Henry,  successor  to  his  brother  Ralph. 
William,  ancestor  of  the  Loveb,  of  Ticb* 

marsh,  &c. 
Richard,  who  retained  the  original  surname 
of  Pbrcbval,  and  from  him  descend  the 
Percevals,  Earls  of  Egmont  t  the  second  son 
having  adopted  the  surname  of  Lovri,  and 
inherited  the  estate  of  Caatle  Kary,  became 
RALPH  LOVEL,  Lord  of  Castle,  of  Kary.    He 
m.  Maud,  daughter  of  Henry  de  Newmarch,  but 
dying  without  issue,  waa  a.  by  Ids  brother, 

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Lo\r 


LOV 


HEKRY  LOVEL.  This  feudal  lord,  upon  the 
coltoctlon  of  the  fcutifoiii,  Mi  Henry  II.,  paid  five 
marks;  and  in  wven  years  after,  upon  the  anew- 
ment  in  aid  of  marrying  the  king's  daughter,  cer- 
tified his  knighfs  fees,  de  veteH  Jboffamento,  to  be 
eighteen,  and  de  novo,  one.  In  the  2Sud  Henry  II. 
he  was  ameroed  for  trespassing  in  the  king's  forests 
at  a  hundred  marks.  He  d,  before  the  year  11S6> 
and  was  «.  by  his  son  and  h^r, 

RALPH  LOVEL,  who,  in  the  1st  year  of  King 
John,  paid  sixty  pounds  for  livery  of  his  Barony  of 
Kary,  and  afterwards  bestowed  the  lands  of  Ethel- 
"berge  on  the  monlu  of  Montacute.  He  d.  in  1807 
without  issue,  and  was  «.  by  his  brother, 

HENRY  LOVEL.  This  feudal  lord,  in  the  I3th 
King  John,  gave  three  hundred  marks,  and  seven 
good  palflries,  for  permission  to  go  into  Ireland.  He 
d,  in  1918,  and  was  #.  by  his  son, 

RICHARD  LOVEL,  who,  fai  the  Snd  Henry  IIL, 
giving  £100  as  a  security  for  payment  of  his  relief, 
had  livery  of  his  Barony  of  Kary,  and  all  his  other 
lands  in  Somersetshire.  In  the  98th  of  the  same 
king  he  paid  a  fine  ci  fifteen  marks  to  be  exempted 
flrom  going  into  Gasoony,  and  In  twelve  years  after- 
wards, upon  the  collection  of  the  aid  for  making 
the  king's  eldest  son  a  knight,  he  answered  for 
'rteven  knights'  fees  and  a  half  for  the  honour  of 
Moreton.  He  died  In  this  latter  year,  (19S3,)  and 
was  s.  by  his  son, 

HENRY  LOVEL,  who,  the  ensuing  year,  paid 
£100  for  his  relief,  and  had  livery  ci  his  lands ;  but 
enjoyed  the  estates  only  a  shwt  period.  He  d.  in 
19fB,  then  seised  of  the  manor  of  Castle  Kary,  held 
in  capita  from  the  crown,  by  barony,  and  the  service 
of  finding  two  soldiers  in  the  king's  army  at  his 
own  charge  for  forty  days,  and  was  :  by  his  elder 
son, 

RICHARD  LOVEL.  This  feudal  lord  died  «.  p. 
the  year  after  his  father,  and  was  «.  by  his  brother, 

HENRY  LOVEL,  who  died  about  the  year  IS80, 
leaving  a  daughter,  Oliva,  m.  to  John  de  Goumay, 
and  his  successor, 

HUGH  LOVEL,  against  whom  his  brother-in- 
law,  John  de  Ooumay,  instituted  a  suit  at  law  In 
the  time  of  Edward  I.  for  the  fortune  of  his  wife, 
Oliva :  which  fortune,  in  the  8th  of  that  reign,  the 
ndd  Hugh  entered  into  a  stipulation  to  pay.  He  d. 
in  1981,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR  RICHARD  LOVEL,  who,  in  the  9th  Ed- 
ward III.,  in  coiOunction  with  Muriel,  his  wife,  had 
the  custody  of  the  castles  of  Corf  and  Purbeck,  in 
the  county  of  Dorset,  and  was  summoned  to  par- 
liament as  a  bahon  from  SOth  November,  1348,  to 
9Ath  November,  13fl0.  His  lordship  m.  Muriel, 
daughter  of  William,  first  Earl  Douglas,  in  Scot- 
land, and  had  issue, 

jAMsa,  who  predeceased  the  baron,  anno  1349, 
leaving  issue, 

Richard,  who  «!.  in  the  same  year  issue* 

less. 
MuBiBL,  fN.  to  Sir  Nicholas  df  St.  Maur, 
Lord  St.  Maur. 
Joan,  m.  to  John  de  Moels. 
Elianore,  m.  to  Sir-  Roger  Ruhaut. 
Lord  Lovel  rf.  in  1351,  seised  of  the  manor  of  Win- 
Ared  Egle,  In  the  county  of  Dorset,  and  of  Castle 
818 


Kary  and  Merah,  in  the  county  of  Somerset.  Upon 
the  decease  of  his  lordship  the  BARomr  of  Lovbl, 
ow  Castlb  Kary,  and  his  estates,  devolved  upon 
his  grand-daughter,  Muaiai.  Lovbl,  who  conveyed 
them  to  the  family  of  her  husband,  Nidiolas,  Lord 
St  Maur  (see  St.  Maur). 

Arms. — Or.  seme  of  cross  crosslets,  a  lion  ram- 
pant, aa. 

LOVEL— BARONS  LOVEL,  OF  TICH- 
MERSH,  IN  THE  COUNTY 
OF  NORTHAMPTON,  VIS- 
COUNT LOVEL. 

Barony,  by  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  96th  Jan.,  1197* 

£6  Edward  I. 
Viscounty,  by  LeCten  Patent,  dated  4th  Jan.,  1483. 

This  branch  of  the  femily  of  Lovel  was  founded  by 
WILLIAM  LOVEL,  fourth  son  of  William,  Earl 
of  Y  very,  in  Normandy,  and  brother  of  Ralph  and 
Henry  Lovel,  feudal  lords  of  Castle  Kary.  This 
William,  who  was  lord  of  Minster  Lovel,  in  the 
county  of  Oxford,  died  previously  to  the  year 
1196,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

WILLIAM   LOVEL,  who,  in  the   13th  John, 
held  Dockinges  by  barony.    He  was  «.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  LOVEL,  Lord  of  Dockinges,  and  of  Min- 
ster LoveL  This  feudal  baron  was  a  minor  at  the 
period  of  his  fethei's  decease,  and  under  the 
guardianship  of  Alan  Basset,  of  Mursdewall  and 
Wycombe,  in  Surrey,  whose  daughter,  Aliva,  by 
Aliva,  daughter  of  Stephen  Gay,  he  eventually 
espoused,  (as  was  frequently  the  case  in  thoae  times,) 
and  settled  upon  her  the  manor  of  Minater  Lovd. 
On  his  marriage  he  quitted  the  ancient  coat  of  arms 
of  his  own  femily,  and  assumed  that  of  the  Bassets, 
the  colours  only  changed  ftom  ai  and  sa.  to  or.  and 
gules.  He  had  issue, 
John,  his  successor. 

Philip,  who,  In  the  9Sth  Henry  III.,  being 
then  guardian  to  the  Jews,  was  charged  with 
great  bribery,  in  taking  plate  of  much  value 
to  exempt  some  of  them  from  the  tallage 
then  imposed,  and  he  Incurred  thereby  the 
high  displeasure  of  the  king.  He  made  his 
peace,  however,  and  through  powerftil  in- 
terest at  court  got  off  with  a  fine  of  a  thou- 
sand marks.  He  was,  subsequently,  so  wdl 
established  In  royal  fevour  that  he  was  con- 
stituted treasurer  ef  Eni^and.  But  In  the 
43d  of  the  same  reign,  the  barons  caused  him 
to  bebrou^  to  trial  for  the  offence  above- 
mentioned,  and  had  him  removed  from  the 
treasurership ;  he  was  likewise  sul^ected  to 
a  heavy  penalty,  and  his  estates  were  srised 
by  the  crown,  until  that  penalty  should  be 
discharged.  This  persecution  so  aflbcted 
him  that  he  Is  supposed  to  have  died  in  the 
following  year,  1258,  of  grief  and  vexatkm, 
at  his  rectory  (having  taken  orders,)  at 
HamestablCi  He  Is  stated  to  have  married, 
before,  of  ooutae,  he  became  a  priest,  the 
widow  of  Alexander  de  Arslc,  and  had  two 


LOV 


LOV 


J«hii  (Sir),  who  left  an  only  dlughter  and 


Margaret,  who  m.  Thoroaa  de  Bote^ 
tourt. 
Henry,  a  priest. 
FiJco,  Archdeacon  of  Colchester. 
Agnef,  m.  to  Adam  de  Chetwynd,  ancestor  of 
the  Viscounts  Chetwynd,  of  Ireland. 
William  Lovel  was  «.  at  his  decease  by  his  eldest 


JOHN  LOVEL.  who  in  the  4lBt  Henry  IIL,  had 
a  military  summons  to  march  against  the  Welsh, 
and  in  four  years  afterwards  was  constituted  sheriff 
of  the  counties  of  Cambridge  and  Huntingdon.  In 
the  48th  of  the  same  reign  he  was  made  goTcmor  of 
the  castle  of  Northampton,  and  subsequently  go- 
vernor of  Marlborough  Castle.  He  espoused  Maud 
Sydenham,  a  great  heiress,  by  whom  he  acquired 
the  lordship  of  Tichmersh,  and  had  issue, 

John  (Sir),  his  successor. 

Thomas  (Sir),  of  Tickwell. 
He  dL  in  128S,  and  was  «.  by  his  dder  son, 

SIR  JOHN  LOVEL,  who  performing  hu  fealty 
had  livery  ot  his  lands  in  the  year  of  his  tether's 
deeeasep  In  the  29d  Edward  I.  Sir  John  attended 
the  king  in  his  wars  in  Gascony,  and  was  summoned 
to  parliament  as  Babon  Lovbl  on  96th  January, 
I8S7,  and  afterwards  as  Baron  Lord,  o9  Tick* 
MBBSH.  His  lordship  was  subsequently  engaged  in 
the  Scottish  wan,  and  deserved  so  well  for  his  ser- 
vices there,  that  he  was  rewarded  with  a  licence 
firom  the  king,  SIst  Edward  I.,  permitting  him  to 
make  a  castle  of  his  house  at  Tichmersh,  also  for  a 
market  to  be  held  there  weekly,  and  a  fair  annually. 
He  m.  first,  Isabel,  daughter  of  Emald  de  Bois,  of 
Thorpe  Emald,  and  sister  and  heir  of  William  de 
Bois,  by  whom  he  had  an  only  daughter, 

Maud,  m.  to  William,  Lord  Zouch,  of  Haryng- 

worth,  and,  as  heir  to  her  mother,  carried 

with  her  the  manor  of  Dockinges,  which 

had  been  settled  on  that  lady. 

His  lordship  espoused,  secondly,  Joan,  daughter  of 

Robert,  Lord  Rocs,  of  Hamlake,  and  had  two  sons, 

vis. 

JoBN,  his  successor. 

James,  who  left  a  son. 
Sir  Ralph  Lovel,  KnL 
Lord  Lovd  died  1311,  and  was  «.  by  his  elder  son, 

JOHN  LOVEL,  second  Baron,  summoned  to  par- 
liament, as  LoBD  Lovzx.,  or  Ticumbbbh,  fkom 
8th  January,  1313,  to  89th  July,  1314.  His  lordship 
m.  Maud,  daughter  of  Sir  Philip  Bumell,  IQit., 
and  sister  and  heir  of  Edward,  Lord  Bumell,  by 
whom  he  had  an  only  son,  his  successor  at  his  de* 
cease,  in  1314, 

JOHN  LOVEL,  third  Baron,  but  never  sum> 
moned  to  parliament.  Tliia  nobleman  was  engaged 
for  several  yean  in  the  wan  of  Scotland  and 
France,  temp.  Edward  III.  His  lordship  is  said  to 
have  noarrled,  Isabel,  daughter  of  William,  Lord 
Zouch,  but  the  fliet  is  doubtful )  he  had  issue,  how- 
ever, 

John,  his  successor. 

Jonif,  successor  to  his  brother. 

Isabella,  m.  to  Thomas  Greene. 
Hi«  lordship  d,  in  1347,  and  was  s.  by  his  elder  son. 


JOHN  LOVEL,  fourth  Baron,  who  dying  in 
minority,  issueless,  anno  1361,  was  «.  by  his  brother, 
JOHN  LOVEL,  fifth  Baron,  summoned  to  par- 
liament as  LoBoLovKi.,  opTichmbbsh,  from  88th 
December,  137A,  to  96th  August,  1407.  This  noUe* 
man,  in  the  4fld  Edward  IIL,  being  then  a  knight, 
was  in  the  wan  of  France,  and  of  the  retinue  of 
Liond,  Duke  of  Clarences  he  continued  in  this 
service  for  some  yean,  and  was  ctmstituted  governor 
of  the  Castle  of  Banelyngham,  in  Frances  In  the 
reign  of  Ridurd  III.,  when  the  infiuenoe  ezerdsed 
by  Robert  de  Vere,  Duke  of  Ireland,  caused  so 
much  discontent  amongst  the  nobility,  he  at  first 
espoused  the  populace  side,  but  afterwards  going 
over  to  the  king,  he  was  one  of  those  expelled  the 
court  by  the  confederated  lords.  His  lordship,  who 
was  a  Knight  of  the  Garter,  m.  Maud,  daughter* 
and  heir  of  Robert  de  Holand,  Lord  Holand,  and 
dying  in  1408,  (in  his  testament,  he  styles  himself 
Lord  Lovel  and  Holand,)  was  «.  by  his  only  son, 

SIR  JOHN  LOVEL,  Babon  Holano,  in  right  of 
his  mother,  and  summoned  to  parliament  as  Lobd 
LovBi.,  of  TicHjf BRSH,  from  90th  October,  1400, 
to  96th  September,  1414.    This  nobleman  espoused, 
Alianore,  daughter  of  William,  Lord  Zouch,  of 
Haryworth,  and  had  issue, 
William,  his  suocessM'. 
William,  m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  and  co-heir 
of  Thomas  St.  Clere,  of  Barton  St.  John, 
in  the  county  of  Oxford. 
His  lordship  died  In  1414,  and  was  «.  by  his  dder  son, 
SIR  WILLIAM  LOVEL,  Barom  Lovbl   and 
Holand,  summoned  to  parliament,  from  94th  Fe- 
bruary, 1425,  to  80th  January,  1453.    This  noble- 
man was  engaged   in   the  French  wan  of  King 
Henry  V.    His  lordship  m.  Alice,  widow  of  Ralph 
Butler,  of  Sudley,  and  daughter  and  eventual  heir 
of  John,   L<nrd  Deincourt,  by  Johanna,  daughter 
and  sole  heir  of  Robert,  Lord  Grey,  of  Rotherfleld, 
by  which  alliance  the  Baronies  of  Dbincovrt  and 
Grby,  or    RoTBBBriBLO,    became  imited    with 
those  of  Lovbl  and  Holand.    Of  this  marriage 
there  were  issue, 

John,  his  successor. 

William,  m.  Alianore,  daughter  and  heir  of 
Robert,  Lord  Morley,  and  was  summoned 
to   parliament,   as   Lord  Morlby.     (See 
Lovel,  Baron  Morley.) 
Robert  died  «.  p, 
William. 
His  lordship  'd,  in  1454,  and  was  «  by  his  elder  son, 

SIR  JOHN  LOVEL,  Baron  Lovel  and  Holand, 
summoned  to  parliament,  flnom  9th  October,  1430, 
to  28th  February,  1463.  This  nobleman,  in  consi* 
deration  of  his  good  services,  obtained  a  patent 
from  the  king,  38th  Henry  VI.,  appointing  him 
chief  forester  of  the  forest  of  Whichwoode,  in  the 
county  of  Northampton ;  but  before  the  end  of  that 
year,  the  face  of  public  aflUn  suddenly  changed : 
for  upon  the  hmding  of  the  Duke  of  York,  this 

•  This  lady,  in  the  printed  pedigrees  produced 
before  the  House  of  Lords,  in  a  committee  of  pri- 
vil^es,  on  the  claim  of  the  late  Sir  Cetil  Bisshop, 
to  the  Barony  of  Zouch,  is  called  the  grand-daugh- 
ter and  heir  of  Robert,  Lord  Holand. 

319 


LOV 


LOV 


John,  Lord  Lovel,  proceeding  to  London,  with  tlie 
Lords  Scales  and  Hunferford,  for  the  purpose  of 
raising  the  good  citiaensin  Hivour  of  King  Henry, 
was  forced  to  talLe  refuge  in  the  Tower,  as  a  place 
of  security.    Soon  after  wliich,  the  Yorkists  pre> 
vailed  in  idl  parts  of  the  kingdom,  to  the  total  ruin 
of  the  unfortunate  Henry,  and  his  faithful  adhe- 
rents.   Of  this  nobleman,  nothing  farther  is  related, 
than  his  death,  which  happened  in  the  4th  of  Ed- 
ward IV.,  being  then  seised  among  divers  other 
considerable  lordships,  of  the  Manors  of  Minster 
Lovel,  in  the  county  of  Oxford;  Bainton,  other- 
wise Deincourts  Manor,  in  Yorkshire;  Tichmenh, 
Northamptonshire;    Holgate  Bumell,  and  Acton 
Bumell,  in  Shropshire;  and  likewise  of  the  moiety 
of  the  Manor  of  Askham-Bryan,  in  the  county  of 
the  city  of  York.    His  lordship  had  married  Joane, 
only  sister  and  heir  of  William,  Viscount  Beau- 
mont, by  whom  he  had  issue, 
FnANCia,  his  successor. 
Joane,  who  m.  Sir  Brian  Stapleton,  of  Carlton, 
Knt.,  and  from  her  lineally  descended, 
GIX.BK1IT  STAPX.STON,  who  left  issue, 
Richard,  died  «.  p. 
Gregory,  a  monk,  died  «.  p. 
Miles,  created  a  BARoifar,  and  had 
two  daughters,  both  of  whom  died 
in  infancy ;  died  himself,  in  1707. 
John,  died«.  p.,  in  1644. 
Mary,  a  nun,  died  in  1688. 
AKJf  s,  m.  to  Mark  Errington,  Esq.,  of 
Conteland,  and  her  son, 

Nicholas  took  the  name  of  Sta- 
PLBTON ,  and  left  a  son, 
Nicholas  Stapblton,  whose 
ton, 

Thomas  Staplbtow, 
Esq.,  of  Carleton, 
claimed  the  Baroky 
OF  BsAUMOiTT,  in 
17B6,  when  the  House 
of  Lords  came  to  a 
resolution,  that  the 
Baroivy  or  Bbau- 
MONT  remains  in 
ABZYANCH,  between 
the  co-heirs  of  WU- 
liam.  Viscount  Beau- 
mont, (in  whom  it 
was  vested  by  des- 
cent, from  his  father, 
John,  Lord  Beau- 
mont, who  was  sum- 
moned to  and  sat 
in  parliament,  2nd 
Henry  VL,  as  a  ba- 
rony in  fee;)  de- 
■cended  £rom  his 
lordship's  sister, 
Joane,  and  that  the 
petitioner  is  one  of 
these  oo-hein.'* 
rridlswide,  m.  to  Sir  Edward  Norris,  Kntw 
and  had  issue, 

Jchn  Norris,  Esq.,  of  the  body  to  King 
Henry  VIIL,  4.  without  legitimate  issue. 
•380 


HBvmv  NoRBia,  who  Ml  a  sacriflce  to 
the  supidous  temper  of  Henry  VIII., 
and  under  the  charge  of  a  criminal 
intercourse  with  the  unhappy  Queen, 
Anne  Boleyn,  was  tried,  condemned, 
and  executed,  14th  May,  28th  Henry 
VIIL  Mr.  Norris  being  attainted,  it 
is  presumed,  that  the  moiety  of  the 
Barony  of  Beaumont,  to  which  he  was 
heir,  became  vested  in  the  crown. 
From  this  Henry  Norris,  descends  the 
present  Earl  of  Abihodok. 
His  lordship  was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR  FRANCIS  LOVEL,  ninth  Baron,  sum- 
moned to  parliament  as  such,  on  the  l£th  Novem> 
ber,  1482,  and  created  on  the  4th  January,  1483, 
Viscount  Lovbl.  This  nobleman  being  in  high 
favour  with  King  Richard  III.,  was  made,  by  that 
monardi,  chamberlain  of  the  household,  constable 
of  the  Castle  of  Wallmgford.  and  chief  butler  of 
England.  He  subsequently  fought  under  the  ban- 
ner of  his  royal  master,  at  Bosworth,  and  was  for- 
tunate enough  to  escape  with  life,  from  the  field ; 
whence  flying  to  St.  John's,  at  Colchester,  he  there, 
for  some  time,  took  sanctuary,  but  deeming  that 
no  place  of  permanent  security,  he  removed  pri- 
vately, to  Sir  John  Broughton's  house,  in  Lan- 
cashire, and  thence  efltocted  his  escape  into  Flanders, 
where  he  was  gracioudy  received  by  Margaret, 
Duchess  of  Burgundy,  the  late  king's  sister ;  by 
whom,  with  two  thousand  soldiers,  under  the  con- 
duct of  the  eminent  Gennan  General,  Martin 
Swarti,  he  was  sent  into  Irdand,  to  uphold  the 
pretensions  of  Lambert  Simnell,  and  thence  inva- 
ding England,  his  lordship  is  said  to  have  fallen  at 
the  battle  of  Stoke,  in  1487.  That  circumstance, 
however,  admits  of  doubt,  for  after  the  battle,  he 
was  certainly  seen  endeavouring,  on  horseback,  to 
swim  the  river  Trent;  yet  from  this  period,  no 
fVuther  mention  is  made  of  him,  by  any  of  our 
historians.  A  rumour  prevailed,  that  he  had,  for 
the  time,  preserved  Us  life,  by  retiring  into  some 
secret  place,  and  that  he  was  eventually  starved  to 
death,  by  the  treachery  or  negligence  of  those  in 
whom  he  had  confided.  Which  report,  (says 
Banks,)  in  later  days  seems  to  be  confirmed  by  a 
very  particular  circumstance,  related  in  a  letter 
fh>m  William  Cowper,  Esq.,  Clerk  of  the  Parli*- 
mcnt,  concerning  the  supposed  finding  of  the  body 
of  Francis,  Lord  Lovel,  vis. 

«•  Hertingfordbury  Park,  9th  August,  1737. 
*•  Sir, 
'*  I  met  tfother  day  with  a  memorandulto  I  haA 
made  some  yean  ago,  perhaps  not  unworthy  of 
notice.  You  may  remember,  that  Lord  Baoon,  in 
his  history  of  Henry  VIL,  giving  an  account  of  the 
battle  of  Stoke,  says  of  the  Lord  Lovdl,  who  was 
among  the  rebds,  that  be  fied  and  swame  over  the 
Trent  on  horseback,  but  could  not  recover  the 
further  side,  by  reason  of  the  steepnesse  of  the 
bank,  and  so  was  drowned  in  the  river.  But  an- 
other report  leaves  him  not  there,  but  that  he 
lived  long  after,  in  a  cave  or  vault. 

"  Apropos  to  this;  on  the  0th  May,  XfiB,  the 
present  Duke  of  Rutland  rdated  in  my  hearing, 
that  about  twenty  years  then  befbre,  vis..  In  1708, 


LOV 


liOV 


upon  otearicm  of  ii«#  laying  a  chimney  at  Mfnttar 
LuTd,  then  was  dlMovered  a  lai^ge  vault  under- 
ground, in  which  waa  the  entire  skdeton  of  a  num, 
aa  having  been  sitting  at  a  table,  which  waa  before 
hfan,  with  a  book,  p^ier,  pen,  &c ;  in  another  part 
of  the  room  lay  a  cap,  all  much  mouldered  and  de- 
cayed. Which  the  fiunily  and  others  Judged  to  be 
thJa  Lord  Lovel,  whoie  exit  has  hitherto  been  so 
nncertain." 

From  hcnoe^  (continues  Banks)  it  may  be  .con- 
cluded, that  it  was  the  ftte  of  this  unhappy  lord, 
to  have  retired  to  his  own  house  after  the  battle, 
and  there  to  have  entrusted  himself  to  some  servant, 
by  whom  he  was  immured,  and  afterwards  ne- 
glected, either  through  treachery,  fear,  or  some 
accident  which  befel  that  person.  A  melancholy 
period  to  the  life  and  fortunes  of  one  of  the  greatest 
and  moat  active  nobleman  of  the  era  wherein  he 
bMlUved. 

To  complete  the  tragedy.  King  Henry  VII., 
aspiring  after  the  vast  Inheritance  of  this  flunily, 
oonflscated,  by  an  act  of  attainder,  the  whole  estate, 
then  inferior  to  few  or  none  in  the  kingdom  t  and 
which,  by  grants  at  different  times  from  Henry 
VIII.  to  James  L,  has  passed  to  the  families  of 
Compton,  Earls  of  Northampton;  Cedl,  Earls  of 
Salisbury,  and  other  great  houses  now  existing. 
Under  this  attainder,  the  Bahonibb  or  Lovsl,  or 
HOX.AND,  OP  Dbincourt,  and  of  Gb.by  or  Ro- 
TBB]irisi.D,  f(dl,  and  could  not  be  inherited  by  his 
lordship's  sisters  and  co-heirs ;  but  thoae  ladies  be^ 
came  heirs  to  their  maternal  uncle,  William,  Vis- 
count Beaumont,  in  the  ancient  Barony  or  Bkau- 
VON T,  which,  as  already  stated,  continues  in  abxy- 
AKcn  amongst  their  descendants. 

Armb.— Barry  nebule  of  six  or.  and  gu. 

Nof«.— The  title  of  Baron  Lovell,  of  Mhister 
ifOveO,  in  the  county  of  Oxford,  was  revived  in  the 
person  of  Sir  Thomas  Coke,  (maternal  ancestor  of 
the  present  T.  W.  Coke,  Esq.,  ot  Holkham),  in 
1788,  bi)t  expired  with  that  nobleman  for  want  of  a 
male  heir. 

The  Barony  of  Lovell  and  Holland  was  conferred 
in  ITBBf  upon  John  Perceval,  second  Earl  of  Eg- 
mont,  in  Ireland,  the  representative  of  Richard 
PsRCBVAi,,  youngest  son  of  William,  Earl  of 
V  very,  and  brother  of  the  founders  of  the  houses  of 
LovBi.  or  CAaTLz  Kary,  and  Loybl  or  Tich- 
MBRBH  (see  Lovel  of  Castle  Kary). 

LOVEL— BARONS  MORLEY. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  89th  December,  1899, 
98  Edward  I. 

See  MoRLBY,  Babons  Mohlzy. 
LOVELACE  —  BARONS  LOVELACE, 

OF  hurLey,  in  the 

COUNTY  OF  BERKS. 
By  Letters  Patent,  dated  31st  May,  1M7. 

XincBStt 

SIR  RICHARD  LOVELACE,  Knt,  son  of 
Richard  Lovdace,  Eaq.,  of  Hurley,  (which  place  had 
been  a  religious  house  of  Benedictine  monks,  and  a 


oeir to  Weecninster  Abbey)  waatievatedtothepeer.' 
age,  Slst  May,  1687*  as  Ba  ron  Lovblacb,  ^Hurlap. 
His  lordship  m.  lint,  Katharine,  daughter  of  George 
HiU,  Esq.,  and  widow  of  WiUiam  Hide,  Esq.,  of 
Kingston  L'lale,  Berks,  but  had  no  Issue.  He 
espoused,  secondly,  Margaret,  only  daughter  and 
heir  of  William  Dodsworth,  dtlaen  of  London,  and 
had  two  sons  and  two  daughters,  via., 
John,  his  successor. 
Francis,  whose  son, 

William,  m.  Mary,  daughter  of  WUliam 

King,  Esq.,  of  Iver,  Bucks,  and  left  a 

son,  John,   who  inherited  as  fourth 

baron. 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  Henry,  son  and  heir  of  Sir 

Henry  Martini  Knt. 
Martha,  m.  to  Sir  George  Stonehouse,  Bart. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1870,  and  was  «.  by  his  son,' 

JOHN  LOVEL AC^,  second  baron,  who  m.  Lady 
Anne  Wentworth,  daughter  of  Thomas,  Earl  of 
Cleveland,  (which  lady,  upon  the  decease  of  her 
niece,  Henrietta^Maria  Wentworth,  Baroness  Went- 
worth, in  1686,  succeeded  to  that  Barony,)  and  had 
issue, 

John,  his  successor. 
Anne,  d.  unmarried. 

Margaret,  m.  to  Sir  William  Noel,  Bart.,  of 
Kirby-Malory,  in  the  county  of  Leicester, 
and  her  great  grandson. 

Sir  EonvARn  Nobl,  Bart.,   eventually 
succeeded  in  her  right  to  the  Babont 
or  Wbntworth. 
Dorothy,  m.  to  Henry,   son  of  Sir  Henry 
Drax,  Knt. 
His  lordship  tf.  in  1670,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  LOVELACE,  third  baron.    This  noble- 
man, an  early  and  zealous  promoter  of  the  Revolu- 
tion,  was  in  the  habit  of  assembling  the  leading 
friends  of  that  measure,  in  a  vault  beneath  the  hall 
of  his  splendid  mansion  at  Lady  Place,  in  Berk- 
shire ;  a  council  chamber  into  which  he  had  after- 
wards the  pleasure  of  introducing  King  WilUam,' 
when  that  monarch  honoured  him  with  a  visit. 
His  lordship  was  captain  of  the  band  of  pensioners. 
He  lived  in  so  much  splendour  and  profuseness, 
however,  that  a  great  portion  of  his  estates  came  to' 
the  hammer,  under  a  decree  of  the  Court  of  Chan- 
cery.   He  m,  Margery,  one  of  the  daughters  and 
co-heirs  of  Sir  Edmund  Pye,  Bart.,  of  Bradenhamr 
in  the  county  of  Bucks,  by  whom  he  had  severiU 
diiUren,  one  of  whom  opily  survived  hlmsdf,  via., 
Martha,  who,  upon  the  deoeese  of  her  grand- 
mother, Annb,  Lady  Wentworth,  and  Dow- 
ager Lady  Lovelace,  (who  survived  her  son, 
Lord  Lovelace,)  succeeded  to  the  Barony  of 
Wentworth.     Her  ladyship  m.  Sir  Henry 
Johnson,  an  opulent  ship-builder,  but  died 
without  issue,  in  174ft»  when  the  Babony 
or  Wbntwortr  passed  to  her  kinsman.  Sir 
Edward  Noel  (refer  to  Margaret,  daughter 
of  the  second  lord). 
His  lordship  d.  before  his  mother.  Lady  Wentworth, 
in  1683,  when  the  Barony  of  Lovelace  passed  to  his 
Cousin  (refer  to  the  second  son  of  first  lord), 

JOHN  LOVELACE,  fourth  baron,  who  m.  Char- 
lotte, dau^ter  of  Sir  John  Clayton,  Knt,  by  whom 
9  T  »1 


LOW 


LOW 


he  left  two  lUMlflag  wm,  John  tad  NcvQ.  Hb 
loiMipwMgOTcnMir  of  New  York,  and  dl«d  in  Ms 
fOTcnuncnt,  6Ui  May,  17OQ,  when  he  wu  «.  Iiy  hto 


JOHN  LOVELACE,  flfth  biiOB,  who  nirrlred 
Ufl  father  but  a  fortBight,  whan  tba  banmy  da- 
volvad  wpoB  Ms  only  brochar, 

NEVIL  LOVELACE*  aizth  baran.  ThU  aobla- 
man  d.  in  1736,  without  laaua,  whan  the  Baiumiy  or 
LOTSLACZ  or  HUBLBY,  beCBBM  BZTiirfrr. 

A9Jn.^-Gtt.  on  a  cbtaf  indantad  iw  three  mart- 
laU,ar. 

LOWTHBR  —  VISCOUNTS     LONS- 
'     DALE. 

By  Letten  Patent,  dated  88th  May,  KKML 

7*he  tanily  of  LoimuB  is  of  great  antiquity  in 
the  eonaties  of  Westnorland  and  Cumberland, 
hsviflf  been  sealed  at  Lowthar-Hall  in  the  ftmner, 
from  a  period  too  remote  to  be  spedfled. 

SIR  RICHARD  LOWTHSR,  KnL.  was  aherilT 
of  Cumberland  hi  the  8th  and  the  aOth  years  of 
Queen  BlifldwCh.  He  tucoaeded  his  undo,  Henry, 
Lord  Sooop,  as  warden  of  the  wast  mardies,  and 
was  thrice  commissioner  In  the  great  aflhirs  between 
England  and  Scotland  in  the  same  reign;  when 
Mary,  of  Scotland,  saelring  safety  In  England, 
arrived  at  Workington,  in  May,  1568,  Sir  Richard, 
baing  than  sheriff,  was  directed  to  convey  the 
Scottish  Queen  to  Carlisle  Castlet  but  while  the 
princess  remained  In  his  aaatody  the  sheriff  incurred 
the  displeasure  of  Eliiabeth.  by  permitting  the 
Duke  of  Norfolk  to  visit  his  fair  prisoner.  Sir 
Ridiard  tf.  in  1607*  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

SIR  CHRISTOPHER  LOWTHER,  Knt.,  who 
wasfetherof 

SIR  JOHN  LOWTHER,  M.P.  for  the  county 
of  Westmorland,  in  the  rrigns  of  James  I.  and 
Charles  I.    He  d.  in  ISSf,  and  was.  «.  by  his  eldest 

JOHN  LOWTHER,  who  was  created  a 
of  Nova  Sootia  in  1640,  and  was  «.  at  Ms  de- 
tn  1675  by  his  grandaon, 
SIR  JOHN  LOWTHER,  aeoond  baronet.  This 
gantlemaa  was  the  thirty-flrst  knight  of  the  finnUy, 
In  almost  regular  succession.  He  was  returned  to 
perliamsnt  by  the  county  of  WestmOTland  in  167ff» 
and  he  oontlnuad  to  represant  that  shire  so  long  as 
he  remained  a  commoner.  At  the  accession  of  King 
William,  Sir  John  was  sworn  of  the  privy  coundL 
In  16»  he  was  constituted  lord  lieutenant  of  West- 
morland  and  Cumberiands  in  16D0  appointed  first 
of  the  treasury,  and  elevated  to  the 
88th  May,  1606,  in  the  dignities  of  Banm 
LsurlMr,  ^  Letvttsr,  4n  tke  commtg  ^  Wtatmorlmmlt 
and  Viaoourr  LonanALB.  In  16B8  he  was  made 
lord  privy  seal  t  and  was  twice  one  of  the  lords 
Justieas  te  the  govenuncnt  of  the  kingdom  during 
his  mal«ty's  abaanca.  Hla  kudship  m,  Cathatine, 
daughter  of  Sir  Fiedariflr  Thynne,  and  sister  of 
ThoouM,  Viaoonnt  WeyBMWth,  by  whom  he  had 
iavue. 


RfCHABD, laBoomabn  In  tttm  to  the  via* 

Hbmbv,     j     county. 

Anthony,  a  commiaBloner  «>f  the  revaine  in 
Irdand,  d.  unmarried  in  1741. 

Mary,  m.  to  Sir  J(4m  Wentwoitii,  Bart.,  of 
North-Efansal  and  Broadswartk,  Yorkshire. 

Jane,  d.  umnarried. 

Margarat,  ai.  to  Sir  Joaaph  Pennington,  Bart., 
of  Muncaster,  in  Cumberland. 

Bat-ban,  mu  to  Thonus,  son  and  heir  of  Wil- 
liam Howard,  Esq.,  of  Corby,  In  Cumber- 


The  viaoount  4, 6th  July,  1700,  and  was  «.  by  Ua 
eldest  son, 

RICHARD  LOWTHER,  aeoond  Vbcount  Lons- 
dale, who  died  of  the  smalHiox,  the  aame  year  that 
hehadattataiad  his  maloilty,  (17l3>)and  bahignn- 
married,  was  §,  by  his  brothar, 

HENRY  LOWTHER,  third  Viscount  Lonsdalau 
Of  this  nobleman.  Banks  thus  speaka:  •'  If  consi-* 
dared  in  his  attadunsnt  to  the  protestaat  suoeea> 
sion,  his  love  to  the  king,  and  his  iviadlnfSB  to  co- 
operate with  his  ministers  whanever  he  thought 
them  right,  he  was  a  pmi^tt  cvturtUr.  But  if  wa 
ragard  his  oonstant  adhennoe  to  the  imereat  of  his 
country,  his  contempt  of  honours,  and  advantage 
to  hlmsdf ,  and  his  steady  opposltian  to  every  mea- 
sure whidi  he  considered  detrimental  to  the  public, 
then  k€  wot,  indted,  a  patriot,  Bdoved  by  hie 
friends,  respected  even  by  his  enemies,  he  was  in 
the  senate  honoured  with  attention  from  both: 
courted  by  all  parties,  he  enlisted  with  none,  but 
preserved  throu^  life  a  remarkable  independency. 
These  public  virtues  aroae  from  the  exodlence  of 
his  private  disposition,  from  the  benevcdence  of  his 
heart,  from  the  uprightness  of  his  intentions,  from 
his  great  parts,  and  unoommon  penecradon."  His 
lordship  d.  unmarried  Uth  May,  I750-I,  when  the 
Beronjr^LowCkerand  ViacouKrr  09  LowaoALn 
became  bbtiitct  :  while  the  estates  and  baronetcy 
devolved  upon  his  kinsman,  and  heir  at  law. 

Jambs  Lowtrbb,  Eag.,  as  fifth  baronet,  (sea 
Lowther,  Eari  of  Lonsdale). 

Abmb.— Or.  six  annuleu  three,  two,  and  ons^  sa. 

LOWTHER— EARL  OF  LONSDALE. 
By  Letters  Patent,  dated  SMth  May,  1784. 

Xfiuage. 


Upon  the  decease  of  Sir  Henry  Lowther,  Bart, 
Viscount  Lonsdale,  18th  May,  1751,  unmarried,  the 
baronetcy  and  estates  of  the  fiunily  psssed  to  his 
heir  at  law, 

JAMES  LOWTHER,  Esq.,  as  flfth  baraneL 
This  gentleman  was  son  and  heir  of  Robert  Low- 
ther, Esq.,  Governor  of  Barbadocs,  by  Catherine, 
daughter  of  Sir  Joseph  Pennington,  Bart.  Sir 
James,  who  rspiesanted  the  counties  of  Cumberland 
and  Westmorland  for  several  yeers  in  parliament* 
was  devated  to  the  pesrage  on  the  Mth  May,  1784, 
as  Baron  Lowther,  tf  LewtfUr,  In  the  county  of 
Cumberiand,  Baron  of  the  Barony  of  Kendal,  fin 
the  anne  county.  Baron  of  the  Barony  of  Bury,  In 
the  oooMty  of  Westmorland,  Viaoount  fionsdaW,  !■ 
the  county  of  Weatmorland,  and  county  Palatine  of 


LUC 


LUC 


9AU 


E4»L  69  LONt- 

His  Icfrdririp  m.  in  17n>  Lady 
itaiiglUM  of  Jolai»  Earl  of  Bntt^  but 
In  1797  haobcatnad  a  nawpafcaati  mufwitan 
MpQO  hia  tha  dttfDltiai  of  Avwi  and  FlMowK  liMa- 
%  ^f  WhUtkmtm,  with  lanudndar  to  the  haln 
tof  hit  conrin,  the  Rar.  Sii  WUham  LowtlMr, 
Bart.»ofSiri]Uagti»i.  His  lordship  d.  in  1809»  whin 
kha  EAB].soig  of  LoitsDaiji,  and  arfaor  kammr^t 
craatad  In  17M»  bacame  BXTiitcr»  wUla  tha  paaraga* 
oaatad  in  1797*  davolTCd  aooonUng  to  tha  limita* 
tk»»  and  !•  v^foyad  by  tha  praMUt  Eabi.  or  Loira- 

OALB. 

I  aa  Lowthw,  Viaoounta  fionadala 


LUCAS-BARON  LUCAS,  OF  SHEN. 
FIELD,  IN  THE  COUNTY 
OF  ESSEX. 

By  Lettan  Patant,  dated  3rd  January,  1644. 

Tha  fiunily  of  Lucas  flourished  tor  many  afss 
in  tha  oountles  of  Suflblk  and  Sssex*  and  was  ea- 
BOhtad  in  tha  person  of 

SIR  JOHN  LUCAS.  Knt.,  one  of  the  most  fUth- 
ful  and  saakms  supportenof  the  royal  cause,  during 
tha  dTil  wars,  who  waseierated  to  tha  pesrate  by 
King  Charles  I.  on  tha  ard  January.  1044,  in  the 
dignity  of  Babob  Lucas,  q/'SJksi^/leM,  in  the  eommti/ 
qfS§»et,  with  remainder,  delkult  of  nule  issue  to 
Us  brothers.  Sir  Charles  Lucas.*  and  Sir  ThomM 
Lucas,  his  lordship's  galUnt  companions,  in  arms 
in  those  unhsypy  times. 

Lord  Lucas  m.  Aane^  dau^ter  of  Sir  Christopher 
NaviU,  K.B.,  of  Newton  St.  Lo,  in  the  county  of 
SomarNt,  by  whom  he  had  an  only  dau^tar, 

Mabv  LrcAS,  who  Ml.  Anthony  Grey,  etarcDth 
Earl  of  Kent,  snd  wss  created.  7th  May, 
1069,  BABONBaa  LucAa,  ^CmdwM,  WHu, 
with  remainder  of  the  dignity  of  Baron 
Lucas,  of  Crudwdl,  to  her  hairs  male,  by 
the  Earl  of  Kent,  falling  which,  "  the  title 
not  U>  be  suspended,  but  to  be  eiOoyed  by 
sudi  of  the  daughters  and  oo-hairs,  if  any 
dMil  be,  as  other  indlTisible  inheritances  1^ 
tha  conunon  law  of  this  realm  are  usually 
possemed.**  Her  Udyship  d.  in  1700,  and  her 
SOB  snd  heir, 

Hbbbt  Obbt,  twelfth  Earl  of  Kent,  in- 
herited the  Barony  of  Lucas.     This 
nobknoan  waa  afterwards  crsatsd  Mab- 
QUBsa  OB  Obby,  with  remainder  to 
his  grand-daughter,  and  sole  heir. 
Lady    Jbhima    Campbbu.,    and 
dying  in  1740,  tha   said    Lady 
Jemima  succeeded  as 
Jbmxma,  Marchioness  de  Grey, 

•  Sib  Cbablbs  Lucas.  This  gaUaat  person 
haying  become  pre«ninently  distinguished  in  the 
lanksof  the  caralieis,  was  shot  tai  cold  blood,  with 
Sir  George  Lisle,  by  order  of  Cromwdl,  upon  the 
sunender  of  Colchester  to  the  pariiamantarians  in 


snd  BABOBBsa  Locas.  She 
espoused,  Philip,  second 
Earlof  Hardwidc,  and  dying 
in  1797f  was  s.  In  the  Barony 
of  LucBS,  (the  Buvquisate 
bacoasing  extinct,)  by  her 
eldest  daughter, 

ABBABBU  HUMB-<7AMr- 

BBi.,  rabct  of  Lord  Pal- 
warth,  as  BABOBaaa 
Lucas.  This  lady 
wss  afterwards  created 
CouBTBaa  DB  Obby 
(ssa  BurkeTt  Dictionary 
of -the 


HislordshlpA  te  ld70,SBd  his  celebrated  brother. 
Sir  Charles  Lucas,  baring  predacaaaed  him,  aa  well 
as  bis  rider  brother.  Sir  Thosnas  Lucss,*  he  was  «. 
by  the  son  of  the  latter,  his  nephew, 

CHARLES  LUCAS,  second  baron.  This  noble- 
man  ai.  Penelope,  daughter  of  Francis  Lake,  Earl 
of  Scarsdala,  but  dying  without  nule  issue,  the  title 
jlerolYed  upon  Ms  brother. 

THOMAS  LUCAS,  third  benm,  who  d.  unaur- 
ried  in  170S»  when  the  Baboby  ov   Lucao,  tf 

BZTIBCT. 

betw.  six  annolsls,  gu. 

LUCY— BARONS  LUCY. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  Uth  May,  laW, 
14  Edward  IL 

Ximage. 

The  first  mention  of  this  fiunily  is  ia  a  rsndsr 
made  by  King  Henry  I.,  of  the  lordship  of  Dicb,  in 
Norfolk,  (whether  in  requital  of  serrless.  or  as  an 
inheritance,  the  record  saith  not)  to 

RICHARD  DE  LUCIE,  who  was  goreCBor  of 
Falds,  in  Normsndy,^  temp.  King  Stephen,  and 
defended  that  place  with  great  Yalour,  when  be> 
sieged  by  Oeofl^,  Earl  of  Ai^ou  t  for  which  heroic 
conduct  he  had  a  grsnt  of  Isnds,  in  the  county  of 
Essex,  with  the  ssrvioes  of  dlYors  persons,  to  bold 
by  ten  knights'  fees.  In  the  subsequent  contest 
between  Stephen  and  the  Empress  Maud,  he  re- 
mained steady  hi  his  allegisnce  to  the  former,  and 
obtained  a  Tictory  of  scNme  importance  near  Wsl- 
Ungford  Csstle.  Upon  the  adjustment  of  the  dis- 
pute, the  tower  of  London,  and  the  castle  of  Win- 
Chester,  were  by  the  advice  of  the  whole  claigy, 
placed  in  the  hadds  of  this  feudal  hwd,  he  binding 
himself  by  solemn  oath,  and  the  hostage  of  his  son, 
to  ddlTor  them  up  on  tha  death  of  King  Stephen, 
to  King  Henry.  Which  being  eventually  ftilfilled, 
Richard  de  Lucy  was  constituted  shcrilT  of  Essex 
and  Hertfordshire,  in  the  Snd  of  Henry  IL,  snd  in 
three  years  afterwards,  bsing  with  the  king  in 
Normandy,  he  was  daspstrhed  to  England  to  pro- 
cure the  election  of  Thomas  k  Becket,  then  Lord 

•  SiB  Tbomas  Lucas.  This  gentleman  was 
illegitimate,  having  been  bom  prior  to  the  marriaie 
of  his  parents}  the  other  brothers.  Sir  John  and  Sir 
Chsrlas,  wsie  bom  subsequently. 


LUC 


LUC 


ChaaoeUor,  to  tbe  arcbteplfloopal  Me  of  Canterbury, 
vacant  by  the  death  of  Theobald,  Abbot  of  Beooo. 
Soon  after  this  he  was  appointed  to  the  high  office 
of  J  V8TICS  OF  England.  In  the  12th  of  this  reign, 
upon  the  aid  then  aseesaed  for  marrying  die  king's 
daughter,  he  certified  his  knights'  fees,  (lying  in  the 
counties  of  Kent,  Suflhlk,  and  Norfolk)  de  veteri 
feoflkmento,  to  be  in  number  seven,  and  that  his 
ancestors  performed  the  service  of  Castlx  Guard 
at  Dover,  for  the  same,  as  also  that  he  held  one 
knight's  fee  more,  de  novo  feoflkmento,  in  the 
icounty  of  Devon.  About  this  time  Becket  having 
fled  into  Normandy  from  the  power  of  King  Henry, 
came  to  Wicellac  to  celebrate  the  feast  of  the  ascen- 
sion, and  observing  several  persons  of  distinction 
present,  amongst  whom  was  this  Richard  de  Lucie, 
be  ascended  the  pulpit,  and  there  with  lighted 
candles,  pronounced  the  sentence  of  cxoommunica- 
.tion  against  them  all,  as  public  incendiaries  betwixt 
the  king  and  himself,  but  being  neither  convicted 
nor  called  to  answer,  they  appealed  and  entered  the 
church.  Soon  after  this,  (13th  Henry  II.)  during  a 
temporary  absence  of  the  king  beyond  sea«  de  Lucie 
was  constituted  Lixutbnant  okr  Enozjlnd,  and 
again  in  1173,  when  the  Earl  of  Leicester  and  others 
|iaving  reared  the  standard  of  rebellion  in  behalf  of 
Prince  Henry,  he  besieged,  in  conjunction  with 
Reginaldt  Earl  of  Cpmwall,  the  town  of  Leicester, 
and  having  reduced  it,  demolished  its  walls,  and 
laid  it  in  ashes. 

In  1178,  he  founded  the  priory  of  Westwode,  in 
the  diocese  of  Rochester,  in  honour  of  St.  Thomas, 
of  Canterbury,  the  martyr :  and  began,  about  the 
same  time  the  foundation  of  the  priory  of  Lesnes, 
in  Kent,  which  he  munificently  endowed.  In  this 
priory  he  subsequently  assumed  the  haUt  of  a 
canon  regular,  and  departing  this  life  soon  after, 
•(about  22nd  Henry  IL)  was  buried  in  the  chapter- 
house there.    He  m.  Rohais ,  and  had  issue, 

GeArey,  who  died  in  his  father's  life-time, 
leaving, 

Richard,  his  son  and  heir,  who  de- 
parting this  life,  9.  p.,  the  inheritance 
devolved  upon  his  aunt,  Roraib. 
Hubert,  who  had  the  lordship  of  Stanford, 
in  Essex,  and  hundred  of  Anorx,  for  his 
livelihood,  but  died  issueless. 
Kaude,  in.  first,  to  Walter  Fiti-Robert,  to 
whom  she  brought  the  lordship  of  Diacx, 
and  secondly,  to  Richard  de  Repariis,  and 
d.  27th  Henry  III.,  leaving  issue, 
Rohais,   m.  to  Fulbert  de  Dovor,  Lord  of 
Chilham,  in  Kent.    This  Rohais,  upon  the 
decease  of  her  nephew,  succeeded  to  the 
esutes  of  her  dder  brother,  and  upon  the 
death  or  her  younger  brother,  Hubert,  she 
had  livery  of  the  whole  barony,  on  paying 
a  fine  to  the  crown,   in  the  9th  of  King 
Jcrim. 
Having  thus  disposed  of  the  celebrated  Richard 
DB  LuciR,  and  his  family,  we  come  to 

REGINALD  DE  LUCIE,  whose.parentage  Dug- 
dale  dedares  his  inability  to  discover,  but  who. 
upon  the  rebeUion  of  the  Earl  of  Leicester,  in  the 
reign  of  Henry  II.,  was  governor  of  Nottingham 
for  the  king ;  and  attended  at  the  oorooation  of 
3M 


Richard  I.,  with  the  rest  of  the  biwoiM.  Thiiffeudd 
lord  espoused  Annabell,  second  of  the  three  dau|^ 
tel%,  and  co-heirs  of  William  Fits-Duncan,  Earl  of 
Murray,  in  Scotland,  by  Alice,  daughter  and  heir 
of  Robert  de  Rumeli,  Lord  of  Skypton,  with  whom 
he  acquired  the  Honour  of  Eorbmont,  in  the 
county  of  Cumberland,  and  by  whom  he  had  isauo, 
his  successor* 

RICHARD  DE  LUCIE,  who,  in  the  1st  of  John, 
paid  a  fine  to  the  crown  of  three  himdred  marks  for 
livery  of  his  lands,,  and  licence  to  marry  with  whom 
he  should  think  proper.    In  four  years  afterwards, 
he  paid  five  marks  and  (me  palfrey  to  the  king, 
that  he  might  have  Jargrs  to  inquire  what  cuatoms 
and  services  his  tenants  had  used  to  perform,  and 
to  do,  him  and  his  ancestors  for  their  lands  in 
Coupland.    And  the  same  year  he  obtained  a  gnnt 
from  the  king  to  himself  and  Ada,  his  wife,  daugh- 
ter and  co-heir  of  Hugh  de  MorviU,  of  the  forester- 
ship  of  Cumberland.    The  next  year  he  paid  nine 
hundred  marks,  and  five  palfreys,  to  have  livery  of 
the  property  of  the  said  Ada,  and  to  enjoy  the 
forestership  of  Cumberland  as  amply  as  Hugh  de 
Morvill  had  it,  without  any  partition  whatssoever. 
By  an  ample  charter  about  this  period,  he  granted 
to  the  burgesses  of  Egremont,  divers  immunitica 
and  privileges;  namely,  «'that  they  should  not  go 
beyond  the  gates  of  the  castle  there,  upon  any  sum- 
mons, either  with  the  lord,  or  his  steward,  to  take 
distresses  in  Coupland.    That  in  time  of  war  they 
should  not  be  obliged  to  flind  any  more  than  twdve 
armed  men  for  forty  days,  for  the  defence  of  the 
castle,  at  the!  r  own  proper  costs.    That  they  should 
not  give  aid,   unless  for  making  his  eldest  son 
knight,  marrying  one  of  his  daughters,  or  towards 
his  own  ransom*  in  case  he  were  taken  prisoner, 
and  at  such  other  times  as  his  tenants,  by  military 
service,  gave  aid.    Moreover,  thai  they  should  be 
quit  of  pawnage  for  their  hogs  in  certain  of  his 
woods.**    But  by  this  charter  he  obliged  them  to 
grind  at  his  mills,  and  to  give  the  thirteenth  part 
for  toll  of  thdr  own  cam,  and  of  that  whidi  they 
should  buy,  the  sixteenth  part    Upon  the  purchaae 
of  any  burgage,  the  buyer  to  give  him  four-pence 
at  the  taking  possession.    He  died  on  or  before  the 
15th  of  King  John,  for  then  Ada,  his  widow,  gave 
a  fine  of  five  hundred  marks  for  livery  of  her 
Inheritance;  as  also  for  her  dowry  of  his  lands,  and 
that  she  might  not  be  compdled  to  marry  again. 
She  espoused  without  oompublon,  however,  and 
without  the  king's  licence,  Thomas  de  Multon,  in 
consequence  of  which  the  castle  of  Egremont,  and 
her  other  lands,  were  selaed  by  the  crown.     But 
upon  paying  a  compensation  they  were  reatored, 
and  she  had  livery  of  them  agdn.    Her  first  hus- 
band, Richard  de  Lude,  left  two  daughters,  his  oo- 
hdrs,  who  became  wards  to  her  second  husband, 
and  were  married  to  his  sons,  thus, 

Annabbli.  db  Lucib  espoused  the  eldest  son, 

Lambert  de  Multon,  and  conveyed  to  him 

the  Lordship  of  Egremont  <see  Multon  of 

Egremont). 
Alicb  d%  Lucib,  married  the  younger  son, 

Alan  db  Multok,  and  had  a  son, 
Thomas  db  Multon. 
The  son  of  the  younger  co-heir,  Alice,  Thomas  de 


liUC 


LUM 


MttUoo*  hATiiig  iMumed  the  sunianM  of  hit  mater- 
aal  family*  became, 

THOMAS  DE  LUCIE,  and  in  the  16Ui  Edward  I., 
had  liTcry  of  all  the  lands  which  were  of  the  in- 
hfOltaBoe  of  Alice,  his  mother. 

-  He  m.  Isabell,  one  of  the  daughters  and  co-heirs 
«>f  Adam  de  Bolteby,  by  whom  he  acquired  the 
jooaaor  of  l.angley,  in  the  county  of  Northumber- 
land, and  dying  in  1304,  was  «.  by  his  son, 

THOMAS  DE  LUCV,  who,  in  the  34th  of  Ed- 
«nvd  1.,  was  in  the  wars  of  Scotland ;  and  dying  in 
130B,  without  issue,  was  «.  by  his  brotlier, 

ANTHONY  DE  LUCY,  who  had  been  com- 
panion in  anna  of  his  deceased  brother  in  the  wars 
of  Scotland.  In  the  10th  Edward  II.,  this  Anthony 
•  was  Joined  in  commission  with  William,  LordDacre, 
Sm  dateiding  the  counties  of  Cumberland  and  West- 
noriand  against  the  incursions  of  the  Scots.  The 
.  uext  year  he  was  made  sheriff  of  Cumberland,  and 
constituted  sole  guardian  of  that  county,  and  of 

-  Westmorland,  and  again  sheriff  of  Cumberland  the 
ensuing  year,  when  he  was  appointed  governor  of 
the  castln  of  Carlisle  and  Cockermouth.  He  was 
summoned  to  parliament  soon  after,  as  a  aahon, 
and  flrom  that  period  to  the  17th  of  Edward  III.  In 
the  16th  Edward  II.  he  obtained  a  grant  from  the 
crown  of  the  honour  of  Cockermouth,  with  the 
manor  of  Hapcastre,  pertaining  thereto,  to  hold  by 
the  service  of  one  knight's  fee.  Amongst  the  other 
actions  of  this  nobleman  was  the  surprisal  and  cap- 
ture of  Andrew  de  Harda,  Earl  of  Carlisle,  who  had 
gone  orer  to  the  Scots;  wliom  he  tent  up  to  Lon- 
don a  prisoner,  where  he  was  degraded  and  sen- 
tenced to  death.  Lord  Lucy  was  subsequently 
appointed  jtubtics  of  Irblano,  and  governor  of 
the  town  and  castle  of  Berwick-upon-Tweed.  His 
knrdship  m. ,  and  had  issue, 

Thomab,  his  successor. 

Joane,  m.  to Melton,  and  had  issuer 

Sir  William  Melton,  Knt. 
He  d.  in  1343,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

THOMAS  DE  LUCY,  second  baron,  summoned 
to  parliament  SSth  February,  134S,  in  the  lifetime  of 
his  father,  and  afterwards  from  8nd  April,  1344,  to 
4th  December,  1364.    This  nobleman,  prior  to  the 
(leceaae  ot  his  fiuher,  had  attained  high  eminence 
in  arms,  particularly  in  Flanders,  and  at  the  siq[e 
of  Loughmaban  Castle,  17th  Edward  III.    He  was 
afterwards  constantly  employed  to  defend  the  north- 
jfxn  marches  towards  Scotland,  and  had  a  part  in  the 
victory  of  Durham,  wherein  David,  King  of  Scot- 
land,' was  made  prisoner.    His  lordship  m.  Mary, 
akster  and  co-heir  of  John  de  Multon,  of  Egremont, 
by  whom  he  acquired  considerable  estates  in  the 
county  of  Cumberland,  and  had  issue, 
Antbony,  his  successor. 
Maud,  m.  first,  to  Gilbert  de  UmAraviUe,  Earl 
of  Angus,  who  died  «.  p.,  and  secondly,  to 
Henry,  first  Earl  of  Northumberland.  Upon 
the  marriage  of  this  Udy,  then  sole  heiress 
of  the  Barons  Lucy,  with  the  earl  of  North- 
umberland, it  was  stipulated  that  the  castle 
and  honour  of  Cockermouth,  part  of  her  in- 
heritance, should  be  settled  upon  the  earl 
and  herself,  and  the  heirs  male  of  their 
two  bodies;  fUling  which,  upon  the  heirs  of 


her  body  i  and  in  case  she  should  die  with- 
out issue,  then  upon  Henry,  Lord  Percy, 
the  earl's  son  and  heir  by  his  firH  wife,  and 
the  heirs  male  of  his  body,  upon  condition 
that  the  said  Henry  and  his  heirs  male  should 
bear  the  arms  of  Percy  quarterly  with  the 
arms  of  Lucy,  vis.  "  gules,  three  lucies  ar.," 
in  all  shields,  banners,  6lc.\  and  notwith- 
standing the  said  Maud  died  without  issue, 
the  descendants  of  the  said  earl  were  often 
styled  Barons  Lucy,  their  pretensions  to 
that  dignity  being  manliiBstly  without  a 
shadow  of  foundation.  In  1&S7,  however, 
Thcnnas  Percy,  brother  and  heir  of  Henry, 
the  sixth  earl,  was  created  Baron  Percy,  of 
Cockermouth  and  Petworth,  Baron  Poy- 
ninga,  Lucv,  Bryan,  and  Fitcpayne— all 
which  honours  expired,  in  1670,  upon  the 
decease  of  Joceline,  Earl  of  Northumber- 
land, without  issue. 
His  lordship  d,  in  1360,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

ANTHONY  DE  LUCY,  third  baion,  but  never 
summoned  to  parliament.  This  nobleman  was 
Joined  with  Roger  de  Cliffbrd  in  the  guardianship 
of  the  marches  towards  Cumberland  and  Westmor- 
land. In  the  41st  Edward  III.,  his  lordship,  with 
divers  other  noble  persons,  procured  licence  to  tra- 
vel beyond  sea,  and  died  the  ensuing  year,  1368, 
leaving  an  infant  daughtor,  Joane,  by  his  wife,  Joane, 
widow  of  William,  Lord  Greystoke,  which  infant 
daughter  died  the  next  year,  when  her  aunt,  Maud, 
then  Counten  of  Angus,  succeeded  to  the  sAitoNy 
or  Lucy  and  the  honour  of  Cockermouth,  with  the 
other  estates.  (Refer  to  issue  of  Thomas,  second 
baron.)  This  Udy  m.  subsequently  the  Earl  of 
Northumberland,  and  made  the  settlement  already 
stated ;  but  she  died  issueiessy  when  the  babon y 
or  Lucy  reverted  certainly  to  the  descendant  of 
her  aunt,  Joane,  (refer  to  issue  of  Anthony,  first 
baron,)  Sir  William  Melton,  Knt,  and  it  is  now 
vested  in  his  representatives,  should  any  such  exist. 
Anns.— Oules,  three  ludes  hauriant^  ar. 

LUMLEY— BARON  LUMLEY. 

■ 

By  Writ  of  Sunmions,  dated  S8th  September,  |384» 
8  Richard  II. 

ICincagc, 

The  surname  of  Lvklby  was  assumed  from 
Lumley  on  the  Wear,  in  thebishoprick  of  Durham, 
and  the  family  deduced  its  lineage  flrom 

LIULPH,  (son  of  Osbert  de  Lumley,)  who  m.  Al- 
githa,  daughter  of  Aldred,  Earl  of  Northumber- 
land, by  Edgina,  daughter  (rf  King^  Ethblrzd  II. 
This  Liulph,  who  was  a  nobleman  of  great  popula* 
rity  in  the  time  of  the  CoNraaaoa,  was  murdered 
by  means  of  Leoferin,  chaplain  to  Walcber,  bishop 
of  Durham ;  a  crime  that  the  populace  of  Durham 
soon  after  avenged  by  sacrificing  both  the  chaplain 
and  the  prelate  to  their  just  resentment.  The  eldest 
son  of  Liulph.  and  Edgina,  assuming  the  surname  of 
Lumley,  succeeded  as 

UCHTRED  DE  LUMLEY,  and  from  him  line- 
ally descended 

ROGER  DE  LUMLEY,  who m.  Sybil,  one  of  ifae 

J98S 


UJH 


LUM 


dmglitin  and  co-htkn  of  Um  gemt  NorthumtMr- 
laid  feudal  Baron,  Hv«h  du  Mobxwic,^  and  waa 
«.  by  Us  aon, 

SIR  ROBERT  DB  LUMLBY,  who  «.  Lnda, 
ona  of  th«  three  ilBtan  end  oo-heirs  of  William. 
Robert,  and  Thomaa  de  Thweng,  Barons  Thweng, 
of  Kihon  Castle,  in  the  county  of  York,  (Robert 
and  Thomas  wcrepriests,)  and  was  «« by  his  son, 

SIR  MARMADUKB  DE  LUMLEY,  who  as- 
nuned  the  arms  «>fThwcBg,  and  was  «.  by  his  rider 


ROBERT   DE   LUMLBY.     This  Ibndal   loid 
died  hi  the  48th  Edward  IlL,  and  was  «.  by  his 


SIR  RALPH  DE  LUMLEY,  who.  In  the  9th  of 
Richaid  II.,  was  in  the  expedition  then  made  into 
Seotland,  in  the  retinae  of  Hngh  de  Percy,  Earl  of 
Northumberland.  In  the  10th  of  Edward  II.  he  was 
-  made  goremor  of  Berwick-upon-Tweed,  end  con- 
tinued therein  untU  the  ISth,  whoi  he  was  taken 
prisoner  by  the  Soots.  In  three  yean  after  he  was 
deputy  goTemor  of  the  same  place  dnder  the  Earl 
of  Northumberland,  and  the  next  yeor  had  licence 
to  make  a  castle  of  his  manor  house  at  Lumley.  Sir 
Ralph  was  summoned  to  parliament,  as  a  baboit, 
flpom  the  8th  of  Richard  IL  to  the  1st  of  Henry  IV.. 
taMtuslve.  In  which  latter  year,  joining  in  tiie  in- 
ennectkm  of  Thomas  de  Holand,  Earl  of  Kent,  for 
the  restoration  of  the  former  monardi.  he  was  slain 
fai  a  skirmish  at  Cirencester,  and  bdng  attainted  in 
1400,  his  lands  were  selaed  by  the  crown,  and  the 
Babowy  or  LUMLBT  Ml  under  the  attainder.  HJs 
lordship  left  issue  by  his  wife,  Eleenor,  daughter  of 
John,  Lord  Nerill,  of  Raby,  four  sons  and  three 
daughters,  of  whom  the  youngest,  Marmaduke  de 
Lumley.  was  suoccesivdy  master  of  Trinity  Hall, 
Cambridge,  and  chancellor  of  the  UniTcrsity ;  Bishop 
of  Carlisle  (1430),  tremurcr  of  Ehgland  (1446),  and 
Bfahop  of  Lincoln  (1491).  Lord  Lumley  was  «.  by 
his  eldest  son, 

THOMAS  DE  LUMLEY,  who  had  been  at- 
tainted  with  his  fiuher.  and  dying  without  issue  In 
1404,  was  «.  by  his  brother, 

SIR  JOHN  DE  LUMLBY,  who,  fai  the  6th  of 
Henry  I^'»  doing  his  homage,  had  livery  of  all  the 
castles,  manors,  and  lands,  whereof  his  father, 
Ralph,  Lord  Lumley,  was  lelsed  at  the  time  of  his 
attainder;  and  was  restored  in  blood  by  act  of  par- 
liament in  the  13th  of  the  uune  reign.  He  was  sub- 
sequently, temp.  Henry  V.,  distinguished  m  the 
wan  of  France,  and  fell  at  the  battle  of  Baugy,  in 
Ai^oo,  anno  14S1.  Sir  Jcrfm  m.  Feiida,  daughter 
of  Sir  Matthew  Redman,  goremor  of  Berwidi,  and 
was  «.  by  his  only  son. 

SIR  THOMAS  DE  LUMLBY,  who,  in  the  33rd 
ot  Henry  VL,  was  governor  of  Scabborouob  Cas- 


•  The  male  line  of  this  nobleman  terminated  at 
his  deoeese  in  1S61.  when  his  eatetes  devolved  upon 
his  tliree  daughten,  aa  co-heirs.  Those  daughten 
were, 

Sybil,  who  m.  flnt,  m  stated  above,  Roger  de 
Lumley.  and  aecondly,  Roger  de  St.  Mar- 
tin. 
Theophania.  m.  to  John  de  Bulmer. 
Beatrice,  IN.  to  John  de  Roaelcs. 


TLB,  and  upon  the  aeeeaaian  of  Klag  Bdwnd  IV. 
having  petitioned  the  parliamwit  for  the  revenalof 
the  attainder  of  hisgrandlhther,  Ralph,  Load  Lnm- 
ley,  and  that  prayer  being  giamtad  by  theiapaal  of 
the  aaid  attainder,  was  snmmnnfd  to  parlianMBt*  aa 
Babom  Lum&jiy,  on  theSSth  July,  1481,  and  ftom 
that  period  to  16th  January,  1407.  His  kxdshlp  ■». 
Margaret,  daughter  of  Sir  James  Harrington,  KbL* 
and  was  a.  at  his  deceaae  by  hia  only  son, 

SIR  GEORGE  LUMLEY,  third  baron,  but  i 
aunnnonod  to  parliament.  Tliia  nobhrnan  « 
beth,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Roger  Thornton,  Baq., 
an  opulent  aaerchant  of  Newcaatlo-ttpoo-Tyna^  by 
hie  wife,  BUaabeth,  daiighfrr  of  John*  Lord  Grey- 
stoke^  and  had  issue, 

Thomas,  who  ai.  Bliaabeth  Plant^enet,  na- 

tufal  daughter  of  Kuro  Edwabd  IV.,  by 

,      Lady  Elisabeth  Lucy,  nd  dying  hi  thaHfe- 

>    .  time  of  his  father,  (anno  1487,)  left  a  son 

\  •    and  hair,  and  three  daughters,  via. 

.\         RicHABo,    who   succeeded    his 


n 


Anne,  ai.  to  Ralph,  Lord  Ogl& 
t       SyWL  m,  to  William,  Banm  Hilton. 

Eliabath,  ai.  to CroowelL 

Roger. 
Ralph. 
Lord  Lumley  acquired  by  hb  marriage  the  loni- 
ships  of  Wilton,  in  Northumberland,  and  Lui.- 
wt>BTH,  and  Isle,  in  the  Uahoprick,  but  had  a 
great  oonteat  regarding  thoae  landa  with  Oilei 
Thornton,  the  baatard  eon  of  hia  fiather-in-law, 
which  quarrel  terminated  by  hia  lordahip's  killing 
his  antagonist  in  the  ditch  of  Windsor  CasU&  The 
baron,  who.  In  the  7th  of  Henry  VIL,  was  in  the 
rrpeditioB  then  made  into  Scotland  under  the  com- 
mand of  Thomas,  Earl  of  Surrey,  when  Norham 
Castle  was  besieged,  diedin  IMS,  and  was «.  by  his 
grandson, 

RICHARD  DE  LUMLEY,  Iburth  baron,  aum- 
moned  to  parliament  from  I7th  October,  1MB,  to 
98th  November,  1511 ;  to  the  laat  writ  the  following 
edition  ia  made  on  the  roU,  «*  Mortnua  eat,  ut  did- 
tur."  His  lordship  ai.  AnnOk  daughter  of  Sir  John 
Coolers,  K.G.,  of  H<miby  Castle,  in  the  county  of 
York,  and  sister  of  William,  first  Lord  Coniers»  by 
whom  he  had  two  sons, 
JoHX,  his  sucoeesor. 

Anthony,  who  m.  a  daughter  of  Richard  Gray, 
Esq.,  of  the  county  of  Northumberland*  and 
left  a  son, 

Richard  Lumley,  whose  eon. 
Sib  Rigbabb  Lumlby,  waa  litiialed 
to  the  peerage  of  IreiaikU  as  Vis- 

GOOVT  LCMX.BY,    OV    WATBBFOBAk 

and  from  thia  nobleman  lineally  de- 
aoend  the  atfanf  EABLa  or  Scab- 

BOBOOOB. 

Hia  lordship  d.  in  Ull,  and  waa  «.  by  hia  elder  ioot 
JOHN  DE  LUMLEY,  fifth  baron,  eummnned 
to  parliament  on  the  iSrd  November,  1514.  Thia 
nobleman  #as  at  the  cdebratad  battle  of  FLoooBit 
FiBLO,  under  the  Earl  of  Surrey.  His  lordship  m, . 
JoenOf  daughter  of  Henry,  Lord  Scroop,  of  BoUoo, 
and  had  isHie, 

Gbobob,  who,  being  umtaiutd  in  an  inaur- 


LUM 


LUM 


netion  with  Lord  Darcy  and  othen.  wu 
appichended,  committed  to  the  Tower,  and 
being  convicted  of  high  treaaon,  waa  exe-  ^ 
cated  and  attainted  in  the  S9th  Henry  VIII. 
(his  Iktiier  then  living.)    He  m.  Jane,  ucond 
daughter  and  co-heir  of  Sir  Richard  Kuight- 
ley.  of  Faualey,  in  the  county  of  Northamp- 
ton, and  left  itnie, 
JoHK,  who  was  restored  in  blood,  and 
created  Babon  Lumlby.      (See  that 
dignity.) 
Jane,  m.  to  Geffrey  Markham,  Bsq.»  and 

died  «.  jp. 
Barbara,  m.  to  Humphrey  Lloyd,  Esq., 
of  Denbigh,  and  had  issue, 

Splandinian  Lloyd,  who  died  «.  p, 
Hbhry  Lloyd,  of  Cheam,  who  m. 
Mary,  daughter  of  Robert  Brome, 
of  BromeAdd,  Essex,  and  was  s. 
by  his  son. 

Hbxry  Lloyx»,  who  m.  Isa- 
bella, daughter  of  Sir  laham 
Parhyns,  Bart.,  and  was  «.  by 
his  son, 

Hbnby  Lloyd,  who  m. 
Elisabeth,  daughter  of 
Be^jm.  Goodwin,  Esq., 
of  Stretham,  and  had, 
(with  three  daughters,) 
Rby.    Db.    Robbbt 
Lloyd,  who  claim- 
ed the  Barony  of 
Lumley  in  1723. 
Lord  Lumley,  in  the  S8th  of  Henry  VIII.,  was  im- 
plicated in  the  insurrection,  called  the  "  Pilgrimage 
of  Grace;**  when  a  pardon  being  ottered  by  the 
Duke  of  Norfolk,  who  commanded  the  army  sent 
agaiast  the  rrtwb,  hb  Cmrdship  was  deputed  to  treat 
with  the  duke,  and  succeeded  so  wdl,  that  all  con- 
cerned in  the  affidr  were  allowed  to  return  home 
without  being  Airther  molested.    Upon  his  decease 
his  only  son,  Gbobob  Lumlby,  having  been,  aa 
Itated  above,  previously  attainted,  the  Baboby  or 
Lumlby  became  extinct.    It  was  claimed,  however, 
in  170,  by  the  Rev.  Ro)>ert  Lloyd,  as  lineal  de- 
scendant ot  Babbaba  Lumlby,  sister  of  the  at- 
tainted George,  when  the  House  of  Lords  came  to 
the  restdution,  "  That  the  petitioner  had  no  right 
to  a  writ  of  summons  in  parliament,  as  prayed  by 
his  petltaoB"-— which  resolution  was  founded  upon 
the  previous  report— 

"  That  by  Uie  act  of  parliament*  of  1st  Ed- 
ward VI.,  anew  Barony  of  Lumley  was  created,  and 
limited  by  expreas  words  to  J<dm,  Lord  Lumley,  in 
toil  male;  and  that  upon  his  death,  without  issue 
male,  the  said  barony  became  extinct 

'*  That  the  attainder  of  George  Lumley  is  not 
reversed  by  the  said  act,  but  remains  yet  in  foroei 
and  that  the  restitution  of  J<riin,  Lord  Lumley,  in 
blood  only,  while  the  attainder  remains  unreversed, 
eould  not  possibly  revive  the  ancient  barony,  which 
waa  befbre  merged  in  the  crowUf  in  oonsequenoe  of 
that  attalndan* 

•  Which  conflwied  the  barony  upon  John  Lum- 
ley, son  and  heir  of  the  attaiated  Oeisrgeu 


ABM9.-Orlginal]y.    Gu.  six  martlets  ar. 

After  the  alliance  with  de  Thweng,  ar. 

a  liBsae  betw.  gules,  three  panrots^  ppr. 

collared  a^  the  second, 
NoTB. — In  omsequence  of  the  marriage  of  Sir 
Robert  Lumley  with  Lucia  de  Thweng,  one  of  the 
co-heirs  of  the  Lords  Thweng,  a  third  of  the  Ba- 
BONY  or  Thwbno  devolved  upon  the  Lumleyt, 
which  third,  it  is  presumed,  merged  in  the  crown 
under  the  attidnder  of  Gbob«b  Lumlby  Ib  the 
reign  of  Henry  VIIL 

LUMLEY— BARON  LUMLEY. 
By  Act  of  Parliament,  anno  1M7. 

Xincagc. 

JOHN  LUMLEY,  only  son  of  the  HOBOuiaUe 
George  Lumley,  who  had  been  attainted  and  exe* 
cuted  for  high  treason,  in  the  fl9th  of  Henry  VIIL» 
having  petitioned  parliament,  in  the  1st  Edward  VL* 
praying  that  the  attainder  might  be  reversed,  "  It  ■ 
was  enacted,  that  the  said  John  Lumley,  and  the 
h0Urt  mal0  <tf  hU  Aetfar,  should  have^  lukd,  enjoy, 
and  bear  the  name,  dignity,  state,  and  pre-eminence 
of  a  baron  of  the  realm.**  By  this  law,  a  new  B*< 
rony  of  Lumley  was  created,  the  old  one  having 
merged  in  the  crown  under  the  attainder ;  nothing 
but  a  positive  appeal  of  that  statute  could  have 
restored  it,  and  the  new  act  did  not  effect  that 
object.  His  lordship  m.  first,  Jane,  dder  daughtar 
and  co-heir  of  Henry  Fits-Alan,  Earl  of  Arundel* 
by  whom  he  had  a  son  and  two  daughters,  who  died 
all  in  infsncy.  He  espoused  secondly,  Eliaabeth> 
daughter  of  John,  Lord  Darcy,  of  Chichi  but  had 
no  issuer  Of  Lord  Lumleyj  Camden  says,  *<  That 
he  was  of  entire  virtue.  Integrity,  and  innooenoet 
and  in  his  old  age,  a  complete  pattern  of  true  nobi* 
lity.  Having  so  great  a  veneratioB  for  the  memory 
of  his  ancestort,  that  he  caused  monuments  to  be 
erected  for  them,  in  the  coUegiata  churdi  of  Chester 
le  Street,  (opposite  Lumley  Castle,)  in  the  order  aa 
they  succeeded  one  another,  fhxn  Liulphus  down 
to  his  own  time:  which  he  had  cither  picked  out 
of  the  demolished  monasteries,  or  made  new.  He 
also  took  care  that  his  estates  should  descend  to  one 
of  his  own  name  and  blood,  by  his  last  will  and 
testament ;  in  which  he  bequeaUu  to  his  kinsman 
and  heir  male,  Richard,  ddest  son  and  heir  appa- 
rent of  Roger,  the  son  of  Anthony  Lumley,  brother 
to  John,  Lord  Lumley,  his  grandfather,  his  Castle 
of  Lumiley,  together  with  divers  manors,  lands, 
tenements,  Ac.** 

Hiskurdship  4, 11th  AptiL  1600,  and  was  interxed 
in  the  Churdi  of  Cheam,  having  a  noble  monument 
of  white  marble  erected  to  his  memory.  With  his 
lordship  the  new  Babohy  of  Lumlby  bzpibbd. 

Abms.— 'Ar.  a  fesse  gu.  betw.  three  parroU»  ppr» 
ooUared  as  the  second. 

Note.^The  Sir  Richard  Lumley,  who  inherited 
the  estates  under  the  will  of  John,  Lord  Lumley, 
(aa  stated  above^)  was  created  in  IdSS,  Viscount 
Lumley,  of  Waterford.  He  waa  the  great^real? 
great  grvndikther  of  the  preeent  Richard  Lumley 
Saunder»on«  Earl  of  Scarborough. 

»7 


LUT 


LYT 


LUTEREL— BARON  LUTEREL. 

Bjr  LetUn  Patent,  dated  94th  June,  U9S. 
83  Edward  I. 

ICincagt. 

In  the  time  of  Richard  I.,  the  lands  of 
GEOFFREY  DE  LUTEREL,  In  the  coantiet  of 
Nottingham  and  Derby,  were  Mised  by  the  crown, 
ftxr  his  adherence  to  the  Earl  of  Moreton,  but  he 
waa  compensated,  upon  tlie  accewion  of  that  per- 
wmage  to  the  throne,  as  King  John,  by  extensive 
territorial  and  other  grants.  He «!.  in  the  2nd  year 
of  Henry  tiL,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

ANDREW  DE  LUTEREL,  who,  in  the  14th  of 
Henry  HI.,  upon  the  collection  of  the  scutage,  for 
the  first  Journey  of  that  king  into  Britanny,  ac- 
counted j^ao.  for  fifteen  knights'  fees.  In  this  year, 
he  laid  claim  to  lands  in  the  county  of  Somerset, 
as  well  as  the  Manor  of  Berham,  in  the  county  of 
Lincoln,  which  formerly  belonged  to  Maurice  de 
Oant,  and  had  descended  to  him,  by  right  of  inheri- 
tance :  and  the  next  year  he  had  livery  of  the 
same,  upon  paying  one  hundred  marks  to  the  crown. 
He  subsequently  served  the  office  of  Sheriff  of  Lin- 
Gt^nshire,  and  dying  in  1264,  was  «.  by  his  elder 


GEOFFREY  DE  LUTEREL,  feudal  Baron  of 
Imham.  This  Oeoffirey  being  insane,  his  brother, 
Alexander  Luterd,  had  the  custody  of  his  person, 
and  William  de  Gray,  whose  daughter  he  had  mar- 
ried, the  education  ot  his  children.    To  thcte  sue- 

ROBERT  DE  LUTEREL,  who,  in  the  fith  of 
Edward  L,  was  in  the  expedition  then  made  into 
Wales,  and  had  summons  amongst  other  great  men, 
in  the  22nd  of  the  same  reign,  to  attend  the  king, 
touching  the  important  alBurs  of  the  realm.  He 
was  summoned  to  parliament  as  a  baboit,  on  the 
94th  June,  and  2nd  of  November,  1290,  and  dying 
In  the  following  year,  possessed  of  Imham,  in  the 
county  of  Lincoln,  and  Hoton  Painell,  in  the 
county  of  York,  left  a  son  and  hdr, 

GEOFFREY  DE  LUTEREL,  feudal  Lord  of 
Imham,  but  never  summoned  to  parliament  as  a 
baron,  nor  were  any  of  his  descendants. 

Abm s.— Or.  a  bend  betw.  six  martlets  sa. 

Note.— There  were  two  other  branches  of  the  Lute- 
vris,  of  distinction  t  ons,  seated  at  Dunster,  in  Somer- 
setshire,«-4m  honour  and  castle  inherited  fhnn  the 
MohuBs,  once  Lords  of  Dunster,  and  reputed  B:arls 
of  Somerset;  and  which  came  by  a  sole  heiress,  to 
Henry  Fownes,  Esq.,  who  assumed  the  surname  ot 
LuttrelL  This  gentleman  m.  in  1782,  a  Miss  Drew, 
and  was  «.  at  his  decease,  by  John  Fownes  Lnt- 
trell,  Esq.,  ot  Dunster  Castle,  M.  P.  for  Minehead, 
in  the  county  of  Somerset. 

The  other  branch  was  of  Luttrell's  town,  in  the 
ooiuty  of  Dublin,  of  which  the  late  Earl  of  Car- 
hampton,  of  the  Irish  peerage,  who  was  also  Baron 
trnhmm,  was  the  chief.  His  lordship  died  17th 
March,  1729,  when  all  his  honours,  in  defisult  of 
male  issue,  became  bxtiitct  ;  he  left  an  only 
daughter. 

Lady  Mary  Saunderson,  wife  of  Mi^r  Saum 
derson,  of  tiie  Granadier  Guards,  son  of 


Francis  Saunderson,  Esq.,  of  Castle  Saun- 
derson, in  Irdand. 

LYTTLETON  —  BARON  LYTTLE- 
TON,  OF  MO  WNSLO  W, 
IN  THE  COUNTY  OF 
SALOP. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  18th  February,  1840. 

The  tenily  of  Luttelton,  of  Lyttlbtoh,  is  of 
long  standing  in  the  county  ot  Worcester,  where 
it  possessed  lands  in  the  vale  of  Evesham,  parti- 
cularly at  South  Lyttlkton,  (whence  the  sur- 
name, )  in  the  beginning  of  the  I3th  century. 

THOMAS  DE  LUTTELTON.  m.  about  the 
19th  of  Henry  IIL,  Emma,  only  daughter  and  heir 
of  Sir  Simon  de  Frankley,  Knt.,  by  whom  he  hak 
an  only  daughter,  Emma,  who  wedded  Augerus  de 
Tatlyston  j  he  espoused,  secondly,  Anselm,  daugh- 
ter and  heiress  of  William  FiU- Wanen,  of  Upton, 
in  the  county  of  Worcester,  one  of  the  Justices-Iti- 
nerant, and  Judges  of  the  Common  Pleas,  in  the 
12th  of  Henry  III.,  by  whom  he  had  three  sons, 
and  was  «.  by  the  eldest, 

EDMUND  DE  LUTTLETON,  who  dying  «.  p,, 
was  «.  by  his  brother, 

THOMAS  DE  LUTTLETON,  M.  P.  for  the 
county  of  Worcester,  from  9th  Edward  IL,  to  34th 
Edward  IIL     This  Thomas  was  «.  by  his  eldest 


THOMAS  DE  LUTTLETON,  who  recovered 
the  Manor  of  Frankley,  by  writ  of  right,  on  fiiiluie 
of  the  issue  of  his  cousin,  Thomas  de  Tatlynton; 
this  Thomas  was  Esquire  ot  the  Body,  to  Richard 
IL,  Henry  IV.,  and  Henry  V.  He  died  in  the  1st 
of  Henry  YL,  leaving  an  only  daughter  and  heiress, 

ELIZABETH  DE  LUTTELTON,  whocepoused 
Thomas  Westcote,  Esq.,  providing,  prior  to  her 
marriage,  that  her  issue  should  bear  her  own  sur- 
name. By  this  gentleman  she  had  four  sons  and 
four  daughters :  of  whom  succeeded  to  the  estates, 
the  eldest  son, 

THOMAS  LUTTELTON,  (or  LYTTLETON, 
as  he  began  to  write  it).  This  gentleman  being 
bred  to  the  bar,  was  called,  in  1454,  to  the  degree 
of  sergeant-at-law,  and  was  constituted  next  year, 
king's  sergeant,  when  he  rode  Justice  of  the  assise 
in  the  northern  circuit.  In  1464,  he  was  raised  to 
the  bench,  in  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas,  and  was 
made  a  knight  of  the  Bath.  Sir  Thomas  Ly  ttleton 
wrote  his  celebrated  <«  Treatise  on  Tenures,"  after 
he  had  become  a  Judge;  a  book  which  lord  Coke 
has  described,  <«  as  the  ornament  of  the  common 
law,  and  the  most  perfect  and  absolute  work  that 
ever  was  wrote  in  any  human  science.*'  This  cele- 
brated person  m.  Joan,  widow  of  Sir  Philip  Chet- 
wynd,  of  Ingestrie,  in  the  county  of  Staflbrd,  and 
daughter  and  co-heiress  of  Sir  William  Burley,  of 
BromscrofI  Castle,  in  the  county  of  Salop,  by 
whom  he  had  issue, 

William,  his  successor,  ancestor  of  the  Lorda 

Lyttleton,  of  Frankley  (see  that  dignity). 
Ilichard,  to  whom  the  treatise  was  addressed, 
and  who  followed  his  father's  profession. 


LYT 


LYT 


From  tbUgeUtknau  dmemAti.  Um  Lirrts- 
TONS  of  Pillalon  Hall,  In  SUflbrdahiret 
which  family  continued  without  intomip- 
tion,  alwayv  through  Sir  Edwards,  at  flrat 
knights,  afterwards  haroneti,  until  tha 
death  uf  Sir  Edward  Littlatoo,  Bart.,  in 
ma,  when  theTiTLB  became  extinct,  and 
the  estates  passed  to  his  grandnephew,  the 


Si>WAKD  JoRir  LiTTLBTON,  Esq.,  M.P. 

forthecountyofStaiRMrdi  which 

tleman  Is  grandson  of  the 

barooet's  sister  — ^—  by  Moreton 

Walhouse,  Esq.,  of  Hatherton,  in  Staf- 

foidahirei 

Thomas,  of  whose  dcMtndants  we  are  about  to 

treat. 

This  great  Uwyer,  "  to  whose  tenures,"  says  Dr. 

JMolaod,  in  Us  additions  to  Camden,  •«  the  students 

of  the  common  law  are  no  leas  beholden,    than 

the  civilians  are  to  Justinian's  Institutes,"  died 

at  Franldey,  8Sd  August,  1481,  and  was  «.  by  his 

eldest  son.  Sir  William  Lyttleton,  of  Frankley  (see 

Barons  Lyttleton  of  Frankley).     The  youngest 


THOMAS  LYTTLETON,  was  seated  at  Specb- 
ley,  near  Worcester,  and  m.  Anne,  daughter  and 
sole  heir  of  John  Botreaux,  Esq.,  of  Botreaux  CMde, 
in  Cornwall,  tnm  whom  descendMd  Sir  Thomas 
Lyttleton,  speaker  of  the  house,  temp.  William  IIL, 
and  an  elder  branch, 

SIR  EDMUND  LYTTLETON,  of  Mounslow, 
in  the  county  of  Salop.  This  gentleman,  like  his 
great  ancestor,  attained  fisme,  honours,  and  for^ 
tune,  by  the  profession  of  the  law.  In  the  10th 
year  of  King  Charles  I.,  Mr.  Lyttleton  was  ap- 
pointed solicitor-general,  when  he  received  the 
honour  of  knighthood.  In  five  years  afterwards, 
he  was  made  lord  chief  Justice  of  the  court  of  Com- 
mon Pleas,  and  the  next  year  constituted  Lobd 
KnapxR  or  the  oesat  sxal  ;  when  he  was  el»> 
rated  to  the  peerage,  18th  February,  1640,  as  Baron 
Lyttlbton,  of  Mountlow,  in  the  county  of  Salop. 
At  the  commencement  of  the  civil  wars,  when 
Cbamlma  retired  to  the  city  of  York,  the  lord 
keeper  immediately  followed  his  mi^^ty  with  the 
great  seal,  and  continued  afterwards  in  attendance 
upon  him.  His  lordship  m.  Anne,  daughter  of 
John  Lyttleton,  Esq.,  of  Frankley,  M.P.  for  the 
county  of  Worcester,  by  whom  be  had  an  only 
daughter  and  heiress, 

Axnn,  who  m.  her  second  cousin.  Sir  Thomas 
Lyttleton,  Bart. 
Of  this  eminent  person.  Banks  says :  "  his  learning 
was  various  and  uaeftil ;  his  skill  in  the  maxims  of 
government,  and  of  the  fundamental  statutes  and 
customsof  the  kingdom,  was  particular}  as  was  his 
experience,  kmg  and  observing.  His  eloquence  was 
powerful  and  miOotic:  in  fhct,  such  a  man  was 
worthy  of  that  honour  to  which  he  was  advanced ; 
namely,  of  a  peer  of  the  realm."  His  k>rdship  d.  in 
1645,  when  the  Barony  or  Lyttlston,  of  Mouns- 
.  i<ow,  became  bxtinct. 

Armh.— Ar.  a  chevron  between  three  eichaUop 
shdls,  sa. 


LYTTLETON  —  BARONS  LYTTLE- 
TON, OF  FRANKLEY. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  liHh  Novcmberj  1757. 

Thecdebrated 

SIR  THOMAS  LYTTLETON,  one  of  tlM  Jus- 
tices of  the  court  c»f  Common  Pleas,  and  author  of 
the  «•  Treatise  on  Tenures,"  (see  Baron  Lyttleton, 
of  Mownslow,)  d.  83d  August,  1481,  and  was  «.  by 
his  eldest  son, 

SIR  WILLIAM  LYTTLETON,  of  Frankley^ 
who  wis  knighted  by  Henry  VII.,  for  his  conduct 
at  the  battle  of  Stokeu  He  m.  first,  EUyn,  widow  of 
Thomas  Fidding  Esq.,  and  daughter  and  heir  of 
William  Walsh,  Esq.,  of  Wanslip,  in  the  oopnty  of 
Leicester,  by  whom  he  had  an  only  daughter,  Joen, 
who  fM.  Sir  J(dm  Aston,  of  Hairwood,  in  Staflbrd- 
shire,  and  carried  the  manor  of  Tixhale,  in  that 
county,  and  Wanlip,  iiito  the  Aston  family.  Sir 
William  espoused,  secondly,  Mary,  daughter  of 
William.  Whittington,  of  Pauntley,  in  the  county  of 
Gloucester,  and  had  issue, 
John,  his  successor. 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  Th<»naa  Rouse,  Esq.,  of 
liouse>Lench,  in  Worcestershire,  a  family 
now  represented  by  Sir  Wixj.iaii-Bdward 
Rouan  Bouobton,  Bart. 
He  d.  at  Frankley,  in  1507*  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  LYTTLETON,  Esq.,  of  Frankley,  who 
endowed  his  fkmily  (saith  Habington,  in  his  MS. 
Antiquities  of  Worcestenhire,)  with  abundance  of 
noble  blood,  by  having  in  marriage,  Elisabeth,  the 
daughter  and  co-heir  of  Sir  Gilbert  Talbot,  of 
Orafton,  by  Anne,  his  wife,  the  daughter  and  co> 
heir  of  Sir  William  Paston,  by  Anne,  third  sister 
and  co-heir  ot  Skimund  Beaufbrt,  Duke  of  Somer- 
set By  this  lady  he  hed  a  numerous  funily,  and 
dying  17th  May,  1A3S,  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

JOHN   LYTTLETON,   Esq.,   then  a  minor, 
whoae  wardship  was  granted  by  the  king  to  Sir  John 
Packington,  Knt.,  of  Hampton  LovdL    Mr.  Lyttle- 
ton m.  Bridget,  the  daughter  and  heir  of  his  guard- 
ian, and  acquired  a  considerable  increaae  of  fortune 
by  the  alliance^    He  was  thus  enaMed  to  rebuild,  in 
a  magnificent  manner,  his  seat  at  Frankley,  and  to 
purchase  other  estates.  In  lAfiS  Queen  Mary  granted 
him  for  life  the  office  of  Constable  of  Dudley  Castle, 
in  the  county  of  Staflbrd,  together  with  the  ranger^ 
ship  of  the  old  and  new  parks  there.    The  same 
year  he  was  chosen  one  of  the  knights  fbr  Worce»- 
tershlre,  and  served  the  office  of  sheriff  once  in  the 
xeign  of  Mary,  and  twice  in  that  of  Elinbeth ;  in 
which  latter  reign,  although  a  Ronum  Catholic,  he 
e^loyed  places  of  honour  and  trust.    In  1666  he  was 
knighted  by  the  queen,  with  other  gentlemen  of  greet 
distinction,  at  Kenllworth  Castle,  when  her  mi^esty 
honoured  the  Earl  of  Leicester  with  a  visit  there. 
Sir  John  Lyttleton  had,  with  other  issue, 
GiLRBRT,  his  successor. 
William,  m.  to  Margaret,  only  daughter  and 
heir  ot  William  Smyth.  Esq.,  of  Sherford, 
in  the  county  of  Warwick,  but  d.  before  the 
age  of  consummation,  by  a  fall  f^om  hit 
horse  in  hunting. 
George,  settled  at  Hqlbeach,  in  the  county  of 
2  1;  32y 


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MAd 


Stafford*  who   m.  Margsret,  hit  lirothei's 
wi4ow. 
Elisalieth,  m.  to  Francis  Willoughby,  Esq.,  of 

WollatoD,  in  the  county  of  Nottingham. 
Margaret,  m.  to   Samuel  Marrow,  Eiq.,  of 

BerketweU,  in  the  county  of  Warwick. 
AmphiHs,  m.  to  William   Bameby,  Esq.*  of 
BockleUm,  in  WorcaBtershire. 
He  d.  16th  February,  1AB9-90,  and  was  «.  by  his 
eldest  son, 

GILBERT  LYTTLETON,  Esq.,  M.P.  for  the 
county  ot  Worcester.  This  gentleman  resided 
chiefly  at  Prestwood,  in  that  shire,  where  his  father 
had  erected  a  large  mansion.  It  was  purchased  by 
Sir  John  LyttleCon,  ftom  Sutton,  Lord  Dudley; 
but  there  was  great  contention  between  the  two 
families,  before  the  Lyttletons  could  obtain  quiet 
possession  of  the  estate.  In  the  month  of  October, 
1509,  Lord  Dudley  armed  one  hundred  and  forty 
persons,  and  coming  by  night  to  Prestwood,  forcibly 
carried  off  341  sheep,  14  kine,  1  bull,  and  8  fat  oxen, 
which  they  drove  to  Dudley,  and  there  kept.  Re^ 
plevinswere  immediately  ts^en,  but  not  delivered 
by  the  bailifft,  for  fear  of  being  cut  to  pieces.  After 
Lord  Dudley  had  killed  and  eaten  part  of  those 
cattle,  the  remainder  were  sent  towards  Coventry, 
accompanied  by  sixty  armed  men,  in  order  to  be 
sold :  but  his  lordship  changing  his  mind,  he  raised 
the  inhabitants  of  several  villages  to  the  number  of 
six  or  seven  hundred,  who  brought  them  back  to 
Dudley  Castle,  when  they  roasted  them  alL  Upon 
this  violent  proceeding,  a  bill  was  filed  in  the  Sur 
Chamber  against  Lord  Dudley  and  his  adherents; 
where,  on  full  proof  of  these  illegal  outrages,  a  refer- 
ence was  proposed,  and  accepted,  and  articles  were 
signed  84th  May,  1£95,  whereby  Lord  Dudley  agreed 
to  pay  one  thousand  marks  to  Mr.  Lyttletoa,  and 
all  fVirther  suit  to  cease.  This  Gilbert  m.  Elisabeth, 
daughter  of  Humphrey  Coningsby,  Esq.,  of  Nyend- 
Solers,  in  Shrop^re,  and  of  Hampt(m  Court,  in 
the  county  of  Hereford,  and  dying  in  IB09,  was  «. 
by  his  eldest  son, 

JOHN    LYTTLETON,    Esq.,   M.P.   for   the 
county  of  Worcester,  temp.  Elisabeth.    This  gen- 
tleman (to  use  the  words  of  Sir  Francis  Bacon) 
being  much  respected  for  his  wit  and  valour,  and  a 
Roman  Catholic,  was  courted  by  Lord  Essex  and 
his  flriends,  and  in  some  measure  drawn  in  by  Sir 
Charles  Danvers  to  that  conspiracy  which  cost  Essex 
hte  head,  and  Lyttleton  his  estete :  for  he  was  tried 
and  convicted  of  high  treswm  at  the  queen's  bench 
bar  on  SOth  February,  1601,  and  d.  in  prison  the 
July  following.     He  m.  Muriel,  daughter  of  Sis 
Thomas  Bromley,  which  lady  obtained,  upon  the 
accession  of  James  I.,  a  reversal  of  the  attainder  of 
her  late  husband,  and  a  grant  of  the  whole  of  his 
estate.    She  was  a  person  of  so  much  prudence,  that 
she  was  enabled  not  only  to  discharge  debts  cf  her 
husband  and  his  father  to  the  amount  of  £9000,  but 
to  acquire  a  high  reputation  for  benevolent  and 
hospitality.     She  survived  Mr.  Lyttleton  a  great 
many  years,  and  brought  up  her  children  in  the  re> 
formed  religion.    The  eldest  son, 

SIR  THOMAS  LYTTLETON,  Knt.,  M.P.  for 
the  county  of  Worcester,  was  created  a  baronet  in 
1618,  and  from  him  we  pass  to  the  fifth  baronet, 
330 


SIR  GEORGE  LYTTLETON,  M.P.,  who,  in 
1737f  was  app<rinted  secretary  to  the  Prince  of 
Wales;  in  1744,  one  of  the  commissioner  of  the 
treasury;  in  1754,  coflbrer  of  the  household,  when  he 
was  sworn  of  the  privy  council ;  and  in  1755  he  was 
constituted  chancellor  and  under  treasurer  of  the 
exchequer.  Sir  George  was  elevated  to  the  peerage 
19th  November,  1757,  as  Bahoit  Ltttlbton,  qT 
FranMey,  in  the  eountif  qf  Worcester.  This  noble- 
man acquired  the  reputation  of  an  exratUent  scholar, 
and  a  great  patron  of  literature.  He  was  also  Justly 
esteemed  as  an  author,  andl^s  works  are  still  highly 
valued;  his  Persian  Letters,  Dialogues  of  the  Dead, 
History  of  the  Age  and  Reign  of  Henry  II.,  dec.  &c 
His  lordship  m.  first,  Lucy,  daughter  of  Hugh 
Fortescue,  Esq.,  of  FiUeigh,  in  the  county  of  Devon, 
by  whom  he  had  issue, 

Thomas,  his  successor. 

I^cy,  m.  to  Arthur  Annesley,  Viscount  Va- 
lentia,  in  Ireland. 
He  espoused,  secondly,  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Sir 
Robert  Rich,  Bart.,  but  had  no  child  by  that  lady. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1773,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

THOMAS  LYTTLETON,  second  baron.  This 
nobleman  was  a  person  of  great  eccentricity,  and 
the  vision  which  is  said  immediately  to  have  pre- 
ceded his  dissolution,  has  ever  been  a  subject  of 
interest  and  marvel,  to  those  who  place  implicit 
reliance  upon  narratives  of  that  description.  His 
lordship  m.  in  1772,  Apphia,  second  daughter  of 
Broome  Witts,  Esq.,  and  widow  of  Jos.  Peach,  Esq., 
Governor  of  Calcutta,  but  dying  s.  p.  in  1779,  the 
Baboky  or  Lyttleton,  cfFrankleif,  became  sx- 
TiifCT,  while  the  baronetcy  reverted  to  his  uncle, 
William  Henry  Lyttleton,  Baron  Westcote,  in  Ire- 
land, in  whom  the  expired  dignity  was  revived. 
Armb.— Ar.  a  chevron  betw.  three  eachallops,  sa. 

MACARTNEY  —  BARON  MACART- 
NEY, OF  PARKHURST, 
IN  THE  COUNTY  OF 
SURREY,  AND  OF  AU- 
CHINLECK,  IN  THE 
8TEWARTRY  OF  KIRK. 
CUDBRIOHT. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  8th  June,  1796> 

Xincsgc. 

GEORGE  MACARTNEY,  K.B.,  Earl  Macart- 
ney, in  the  peerage  of  Ireland,  was  created  a  baron 
of  Great  Britidn,  by  letters  patent,  dated  8th  June, 
1796f  as  Lord  Macartney,  qf  Parkhuret,  in  tike 
county  qfSurretf,  and  t/AuOtinJeek,  in  the  etewmrtnf 
of  Kirkeudbright,  This  nobleman  was  employed 
upon  several  important  diplomatic  missions,  and 
particularly  in  an  embassy  to  the  emperor  of  China* 
of  which  his  secretary,  the  late  Sir  George  Staun- 
ton, puUisbed  a  very  full  narrative.  His  lordship 
m.  Lady  Jane  Bute,  daughter  of  the  Earl  of  Butei 
but  died  without  issue  in  1806»  when  alz.  Bia  ho- 
Nocaa  became  bxtinct. 

ARM8.^0r.,  a  buck  trippant  within  a  borduiw 
gules. 


AIAI 


MAI 


MACKENZIE  —  BARON  SEAFORTH, 
OF  KINTAIL,  IN  THE 
COUNTY  OF  ROSS. 

By  Letten  Patnt.  dated  fl6th  October,  1797. 

COLONEL  ALEXANDER  MACKENZIE,  third 
■on  of  Kenneth,  third  Earl  of  Seeforth,  in  Scotland, 
^wbote  peoage  was  forfeited  in  1715*)  by  Iiabel, 
daughter  of  Sir  J.  Maclienaie,  of  Tarbat,  wae  father 
of 

MAJOR  MACKENZIE,  who  in.  Mary,  daughter 
of  Matthew  Humberstoo,  Etq.,  and  had  iMue, 

ThoinasF<FTederick-Huinber8Um,  a  colonel  in 

the  army,  and  actively  engaged  in  the  Eait 

Indies,  where  he  died  of  wounds  received  in 

action.  , 

FRAWcia-HuMBSBSTOH,  of  whom  presently. 

FFsnces-Ceijet»  m.  Sir  Vicary   Oibbs,  chief 

baron  of  the  exchequer. 
Maria-Rebecca,  m.  to  Alexander  MadKcniie, 

Esq. 
Eiiaabeth. 

Helen,  m.  to  Colonel  Alexander  Mackeniie. 
The  second  but  eldest  surviving  son, 

FRANCIS- HUMBERSTON  MACKENZIE, 
Esq.,  having  inherited  the  family  estates,  and  dis- 
Unguished  himself  as  a  military  officer,  was  elevated 
to  the  peerage,  HOth  October,  1791,  as  Bahon  Sba- 
FORTH,  vf  KhttttU,  in  th«  00un|y  <if  Row.  His  knd- 
thtp  m.  Mary,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Baptist  Proby, 
Dean  of  Lichfield,  and  had  issue, 

_„,,,,      „ ,__.  .  (  who  both  prede- 

William-Frederick,  J  g^,,^  his  lord- 

Francis-John,  Midsh.,  R.N.l  ^ 

Mary. 

fiedericarElix.    m.   to  Admiral  Sir  Samud 
Hood. 

Frances-Catherineb 

Caroline 

Charlotte-Elix. 

Augusta- Anne. 
Lord  Seaforth  was  a  lieutenant-general  in  the 
army,  and  governor,  successively,  of  Barbadoes, 
(iu  1800,)  and  Berbice.  His  lordship  was  lord- 
lieutenant  of  the  county  of  Ross.  He  died  in  1814, 
when  the  Baromy  of  Skaforth,  qf  Kintail,  be- 
came EXTINCT. 

Arms.— Ai.  a  deer's  head  carbossed,  or. 

MAITLAND  —  EARL    OF    GUILD- 

FORD. 

By  Letten  Patent,  dated  S5th  June,  1674. 

Xincagc. 

JOHN  MAITLAND,  second  Earl  of  Lauderdale, 
In  the  peerage  of  Scotland,  having  distinguished 
himself  by  his  lealous  support  of  the  royal  cause 
during  the  civil  wars,  was  advanced  to  the  Scottish 
dukedom  of  Lauderdale  in  1672,  and  created  a  peer 
of  England  on  the  S6th  June,  1674,  as  fiaron  Pettr- 
tham,  and  Earl  of  GuinoFORD.    This  nobleman 


was  a  conspicuous  public  character  in  the  reign  of 
Charles  II.,  and,  under  the  title  of  Lauderdale,  sup- 
plied the  letter  l  to  the  caral  administration. 
His  grace  was  a  Knight  of  the  Garter,  and  high 
oommisrioner  of  the  churchof  Scotland.  The  duke 
espoused  first,  Anne,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Alex- 
ander, Earl  of  Hume,  and  had  an  only  daughter 
and  heiress, 

Airif  a,  who  m.  to  John  Hay,  second  Marquess 
of  Tweeddale. 
He  m.  secondly,  Elisabeth,  Countess  of  Dysart, 
daughter  and  h^r  of  William  Murray,  Earl  of  Dy- 
sart, and  widow  of  Sir  Lionel  ToUemache,  BarL ; 
but  had  no  issue. 

His  grace  d.  In  1682,  when  the  English  rarony 
OF  PxTKRaBAM  and  rarldom  of  Guildford, 
with  the  Scottish  dukedom  of  Lauderdale,  became 
BXTiNCT,  and  his  other  honours  devolved  upon  his 
brother,  the  Hon.  Charles  Maitland,  as  third  Earl 
of  Lauderdale. 

Burnet,  speaking  of  the  Duke  of  Lauderdale,  thus 
charactariaes  him:— 

"  For  many  years  he  was  a  aealous  covenanter, 
but,  in  1647,  turned  to  the  king's  interest,  and,  at 
the  battle  of  Worcester,  was  taken  prisoner,  and 
detained  in  custody  tiU  the  restoration.  In  his  per- 
son he  made  a  very  ill  appearance:  he  was  very 
big ;  his  tongue  was  too  large  for  his  mouth,  which 
made  him  bedew  all  that  he  talked  to;  and  his 
whole  manner  was  rough  and  boisterous,  and  very 
unfit  for  a  court. 

«'  He  was  very  learned,  not  only  in  Latin,  in 
which  he  was  a  great  master,  but  in  Greek  and  He- 
brew.   He  had  read  a  great  deal  of  divinity,  and 
almost  all  the  historians,  ancient  and  modem,  lo 
that  he  had  a  great  store  of  materials.    He  was  a 
man  (as  the  Duke  of  Buckingham  caUed  him)  of 
a  blundering  understanding.    He  was  haughty  be- 
yond expression,  abject  to  those  he  saw  he  must  ■ 
stoop  to,  but  imperious  to  all  others.    He  had  a 
violence  of  passion  that  carried  him  often  to  fits 
like  madness,  in  which  he  had  no  temper.    If  he 
took  a  thing  wrong,  it  was  a  vain  thing  to  study  to 
convince  him :  that  would  rather  provoke  him  to 
swear  he  would  never  be  of  another  mind.    He  was 
to  be  let  atone;  and,  perhaps,  he  would  have  forgot 
what  he  said,  and  come  about  of  his  own  accord. 
He  was  the  coldest  friend,  and  the  violentest  enemy 
I  ever  knew.  He,  at  first,  seemed  to  despise  wealth ; 
but  he  afterwards  delivered  himself  up  to  luxury 
and  sensuality,  and  by  that  means  ran  into  a  vast 
expense,  and  stuck  at  nothing  that  was  necessary  to 
support  it.    In  his  long  Imprisonment,  he  had  gxeat 
impressions  of  religion  on  his  mind ;  bUt  he  wore 
these  out  so  entirely,  that  scarce  any  trace  of  them 
was  left    His  great  experience  in  aflUrs,  his  ready 
compliance  with  every  thing  that  he  thought  would 
please  the  king,  and  his  bold  offering  at  the  most 
desperate  counsds,  gained  him  such  an  interest  in 
the  king,  that  no  attempt  against  him,  nor  com- 
plaint, could  ever  shake  it,  till  a  decay  of  strength 
and  understanding  forced  him  to  let  go  his  hold. 
He  was  in  bis  principles  much  against  popery  and 
arbitrary  government,  and  yet,  by  a  fatal  train  of 
pasrions  and  interesU,  he  made  way  for  the  former, 
and  had  almoet  eatablished  the  latter ;  and  whereas 

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HAL 


lome.  by  tmooth  deportmoit,  made  the  ilrat  be- 
ginningi  of  tyranny  IfiM  diaeeniible  and  unaccept- 
able, he,  hy  the  fury  of  hit  behayiour,  heightened 
the  severity  of  his  ministryt  which  was  more  like 
the  cruelty  of  an  inquisition,  thaa  the  legality  of 
Justice.  With  all  this,  he  was  a  Presbyterian,  and 
retained  his  avcnion  to  King  Charles  and  his  party 
to  his  death." 

.  A«Ma— Or.,  a  lion  rampant  dcchauite,  within  a 
double  tressure,  ilory,  oounter-ilory,  gu. 

MALTRAVERS— BARON  MALTRA- 

VERS. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  5th  June,  1S30, 
4  Edward  III. 

-  Although  none  of  this  fsmily  were  barons  by  te- 
nure, nor  had  summons  to  parliament  before  the 
time  of  the  third  Edward,  yet  were  they  anciently 
persons  of  noteu  In  the  reign  of  Henry  1.,  Hugh 
Maltravers  was  a  witness  to  the  diarter  made  by  that 
monarch  to  the  monki  of  Montacute,  in  the  county 
of  Somerset ;  and  in  theAth  of  Stephen,  MaltraTcn 
gave  a  thousand  marks  of  silver,  and  one  hundred 
pounds,  for  the  widow  of  Hugh  de  la  Val,  and  lands 
of  the  same  Hugh,  during  the  term  of  fifteen  years, 
and  then  to  have  the  benefit  of  her  dowry  and  mar- 
riagCi 

JOHN  MALTRAVERS  took  up  arms  with  the 
barons  against  king  John ;  but  in  the  1st  Henry  III., 
returning  to  his  allegiance,  was  of  the  retinue  cX 
William,  Earl-Mareschall,  and  had  summons  (96th 
Henry  IIL)  to  attend  the  king,  with  hoise  and  arms, 
into  France.  He  died  In  the  84th  Edward  I.,  at  an 
advanced  age,  seised,  amongst  others,  of  the  manors 
of  Lychet  and  Wychampton,  in  the  county  of  Dor- 
set, leaving  his  son  and  heir, 

JOHN  MALTRAVERS,  then  thirty  yea^of  age, 
who,  upon  doing  homage  in  the  SSth  Edward  I.,  had 
livery  of  his  lands;  and  in  the  34th  of  the  same 
reign,  was  made  a  knight,  with  Prince  Edward  and 
others,  by  bathing,  Ac.,  whereupon  he  attended  that 
prince  into  Scotland,  being  of  the  retinue  with  Mau- 
rice de  Berkeley ;  and  the  same  year  he  obtained  a 
charter  for  free  warren  In  all  his  demesne  lands  at 
Lychet-Maltraven,  in  the  county  of  Dorset  In  the 
7th  Edward  II.  he  was  again  in  the  wars  of  Scot- 
land, and  the  next  year  had  a  military  summons  to 
attend  the  king  with  hoise  and  arms  at  Newcastle^ 
upon-Tyne,  to  restrain  the  incursions  of  the  Scots : 
in  which  year  he  had  a  grant  tat  a  maiket  weekly 
on  the  Tuesday  In  lAnmitk,  in  Ireland,  but  where- 
fore does  not  appear ;  for  although  large  possessions 
of  his  are  enumerated  In  the  counties  ot  Dorset, 
Somerset,  Wilts,  Gkmcester,  and  Berks,  none  are 
mentioned  as  lying  out  of  Enghmd.  After  this  we 
find  him  again  in  the  wars  of  Scotland,  and  upon 
the  deposal  of  the  unhappy  Edward  II.,  being  in 
high  estimation  with  those  who  were  then  in  power, 
he  was  summoned  to  the  parliament  held  in  the 
4th  Edward  III.,  as  **  John  Maltravers,  sen."  The 
infamous  part  which  this  nobleman  subsequently 
took  in  the  cruel  murder  of  the  unfortunate  Ed- 
ward, is  too  well  known  to  need  recitation  here 
^<Dough  that  the  wretched  monarch  was  removed 
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ftom  the  custody  of  Lord  Berkeley,  who  had 
treated  him  with  some  degree  of  humanity,  and 
placed  under  Lord  Maltravers  and  Sir  Thomas 
Goumay,  for  the  mere  purpose  of  destruction,  and 
that  those  rufllans  ultimately  fulfilled  their  diabo- 
lical commission.  In  the  most  horrible  manner  pos- 
sible, in  one  of  the  chambers  at  Bericeley  Castle.  So 
conscious  was  Maltravers  of  guilt,  that  he  fled  im- 
mediately after  the  foul  deed  into  Germany,  where 
he  remained  for  aevend  years,  having  had  Judgment 
of  death  passed  upon  him  in  England— but  In  the 
I9Ch  of  the  same  rdgn.  King  Edward  being  in 
Flanders,  Lord  Maltravers  came  and  made  a  volun- 
tary surrender  of  himadf  to  the  king,  who,  in  con- 
sideration of  his  services  abroad,  granted  him  a  safe 
convoy  into  England  to  abide  thededsion  of  par- 
liament ;  in  which  he  had  afterwards  a  full  and 
free  pardon,  (Sfth  Edward  III.,)  and  was  sum- 
moned as  a  BAmoM  to  take  his  seat  therein.  That 
waanot,  however,  cufllclent— King  Edward  consti- 
tuted the  murderer  of  his  father,  soon  after,  gover- 
nor of  the  Isles  of  Guernsey,  Jersey,  Aldemey,  and 
Sarke.  His  lordship  m.  first*  Ela,  daughter  of 
Maurice  Berkdey,  and  had  issue, 

John,  who  was  knighted,  and  In  the  rdgn  of 
Edward  IIL  had  summons  to  parliament  aa 
a  BABOir,  butd.  in  the  lifb>time  of  his  Ikther, 
leaving 

HaifRT,  died«.  p. 

Joan,  m.  first,  to  Robert  Rous,  and  se- 
condly, to  Sir  John  Kynes,  but  died 
issueless. 
Eleanor,  m.  first,  to  John  Flta-Alan,  se- 
cond son  of  Richard,  ninth  Earl  of 
Arundd,  and  had  issue, 
^  John  Fits-Alam,  who  succeeded  to 
the  Barony  of  Maltravers,   and 
eventually   aa   eleventh   Earl  of 
Arundel  (see  Fits-Alan,  Earls  of 
Arundel). 
She  married,  secondly,  Reginald,  Lord 
Cobham. 
Lord  Maltravers  espoused,  secondly,  Agnes,  daugh- 
ter  of  William  Bemeford,  and  relict  of  Sir  John 
Argentine,  Knt.,  by  whom  he  had  a  son, 

JoHM,  who  m.  EHiabeth,  daughter  and  heir  of 
Robert  CeArewast,  of  Hooke,  in  the  county 
of  Dorset,  and  Crowd,  in  the  county  of  Ox- 
ford, by  whom  he  had, 
John  (Sir),  of  Hooke  and  Crowel,  who 
m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  and  co-heir  of 
Sir  William   Aumerle,   and  left  two 
daughters,  via. 

Matilda,  m.  first,  to  Peter  de  la 
Mare,  and  secondly,  to  Sir  John 
Dynham,  Knt.,  and  died  «.  p. 
11th  Henry  IV. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Sir  Humphrey  Staf- 
ford, Knt.,  whose  grandson  and 
heir. 

Silk  HUMPHUBY  STAFFonn,  of 
Hooke,  was  slaih  by  Jack 
Cade's  mob.  leaving  a  son, 

HUMPHRKV       StAV^ORD, 

who  died  «.jk,  and  was 
«.  by 


MAK 


MAN 


HUMPBKSV       STAP- 

roMD,  of  Sttthwlke 
<Me  Staflbrda,  of 
Suthwik«). 
After  the  liifwm  of  JdhB»  Lord  llaltnTon,  the 
jBAroity  pawwi  to  hit  giand-daoghtet*  (the  eren- 
tiMl  lole  beiran  of  hii  pradeoeaiad  too.  Sir  John 
llaltny«n,)  Elemor,  wife  of  the  Hon.  John  Fiti- 
AMn,  whoee  Mm  Jobh  w«s  mmunoned  to  perlJa- 
ment  ae  Lord  llaltraven,  and  mooeeded  u  eleroith 
Earl  of  Arundel— and  the  Barony  of  llaltraven  has 
lince  merged  in  that  tnperior  dignity.  Lady  Mary 
Ftta- Alan,  the  dau^tar»  and  ultimately  aoke  helram 
of  Henry,  eighte«ith  Earl  of  Anindd,  married 
Thomas  Howard,  Duke  of  Norfolk,  and  brought 
the  barony  and  earlrtnm  into  the  Howard  fkmily. 
Thoie  dignitiet  defended  to  her  ion,  Philip,  who 
was  ATTAiirraD  in  the  SSnd  Eliaabeth,  when  the 
barony  Ml  under  the  attainder,  but  it  was  restored 
to  his  son,  Thomas  Howard,  twentieth  Earl  of 
Arundel  I  and  by  act  of  parliament,  Srd  Charles  I., 
the  BABONV  OP  MAI.TRATBB8,  together  with  those 
of  Fits -Alan,  Clun,  and  Oswaldcstie,  was  annexed 
to  the  title,  dignity,  and  honour,  of  Arundxi.,  and 
settled  upon  Thomas  Howaid,  then  Earl  of  Arun- 
4el  (see  Fita-Ahm,  Earls  of  Arundel). 

ABMa.—^a.  a  fret,  or.  with  a  file  of  three  points, 
crm* 

MANDEVILliE— EARLS  OF  ESSEX. 
By  Special  Charter  of  King  Stephen. 

XincBge. 

Upon  the  first  arrival  in  Englsnd  of  Duke  Wil- 
liam, the  Norman,  amongst  his  companions  was  a 
famous  soldier,  called 

GEFFREY  DE  MAGNAVIL,  so  designated 
from  the  town  of  MagnavU,  in  the  duchy,  which  he 
then  possessed,  who  obtained  as  his  share  in  the 
spoil  of  conquest,  divers  fidr  and  widcspreading 
domains,  Ln  the  counties  of  Berks,  SuA>Ik,  Middle- 
sex, Surrey,  Oxford,  Cambridge,  Herts,  Northamp- 
ton, Warwick,  and  Essex  i  whereof  Waldukm  was 
one,  which  afterwards  became  the  chief  seat  of  his 
descendants.  He  was  subsequently  made  constable 
of  the  Tower  of  London,  and  continued  to  execute 
the  du  ties  of  that  important  ofllce  for  the  remainder 
of  his  life.  This  GeflPkey,  among  other  benefactions 
to  the  churdi,  founded  a  Benedictine  Monastery  at 
Hurley,  in  Berkshire,  conferring  upon  it  the  whole 
lordship  of  that  place,  and  the  woods  «4)oining 
thereto.    He  was  «.  at  his  liscease  by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  MAGNAVIL,  corrupted  into 
MAirOBViLi.s,  who  m.  Margaret,  only  daughter 
and  hcireSB  of  Eudo  E>apifer,*  and  had  issue, 

Geoffrey,  who  inherited  from  his  mother  the 

stewardship  of  Normandy. 
Beatrix,  m.  first,  Hugh  Talbot,  flrom  whom 
she  was.  divorced,  and  secondly,  William  de 
Say. 
He  was  «.  at  his  decease  by  his  son, 

GEOFFREY  DE  MANDEVILLE,  who  in  the 

•  Dapifer,  M  4$t,  steward  to  Kmg  William  for 
Normandy. 


ffth  year  of  King  Stephen,  had  livery  of  his  mhe- 
ritanoe,  upon  paying  the  sum  of  j£80B.  ISt.  id,  to 
the  crown ;  and  was  advanced  by  that  monarch, 
from  the  degree  of  baron,  (by  special  charter,  dated 
at  Westminster,)  to  the  dignity  of  Earl  op  thb 
COUNTY  OP  Eaaxx,  unto  which  charter  were  wit- 
nesses: «' William  de  Ipre,  Henry  de  Essex,  John, 
the  son  of  Robert  Fita- Walter.  Robert  de  New- 
burgh,  William  de  St.  Ckir,  William  de  Dammar- 
tha,  Richard  Fits-Urse,  and  WilUam  de  Owe;"  but 
notwithstanding  this  high  tumour  ccmferred  upon 
him  by  King  Stephen,  the  Empress  Maud,  by  a 
more  ample  charter,  made  at  Oxford,  allured  him 
to  her  party;  for  she  not  only  conferred  whatsoever 
Geoffrey,  his  grandfkther,  or  WiUiam,  his  father, 
ever  enjoyed,  either  in  lands,  forts,  or  castles,  par- 
ticularly the  Tower  of  London,  with  the  castle 
under  it,  to  strengthen  and  Ibrtliy  at  his  pleasure  i 
but  bestowed  upon  him  the  hbrbditart  Shb- 
BiPPALTY  of  London  and  Midblbsbx,  as  also  that 
of  HBRTPORoaHiRB,  with  the  s(de  power  of  trying 
causes  in  those  counties :  for  which  offices  and  pri- 
vileges he  paid  the  sum  of  £9Sfi.  Moreover  she 
granted  him  all  the  lands  of  Eudo  Dapifer,  In 
liTormandy,  with  his  office  of  steward,  as  his  right- 
fril  inheritance,  and  numerous  other  valuable  im- 
munities, in  a  covenant  witnessed  by  Robert, 
Earl  of  Ofcmoester,  and  several  other  powerful 
nobles -» which  covenant  contained  the  singular 
clause,  "  that  neither  the  Earl  of  Ai\Jou,  her  hus- 
band, nor  hers^,  nor  her  children,  would  ever 
make  peace  with  the  burgesses  of  London,  but 
with  the  consent  of  him,  the  said  GeffVey,  because 
they  were  his  mortal  enemies."  Besides  thb,  he  had 
a  second  charter,  dated  at  Westminster,  re-creating 
him  Eabl  op  Esbbx,  to  hold  to  himself  and  his 
heirs,  and  to  have  the  third  penny  of  the  pleas  of 
the  sherifiUty,  as  an  earl  ought  to  ei^oy  in  his  earl- 
dcmi.  Of  which  proceedings  King  Stephen  having 
information,  sdied  upon  the  earl  in  the  court, 
then  at  St.  Alban's,  some  say  after  a  bloody  aAray, 
in  which  the  Earl  of  Arundel,  being  thrown  into 
the  water  with  his  horse,  very  narrowly  escaped 
drowning ;  certain  it  is,  that  to  regain  his  liberty, 
the  Earl  of  Essex  was  constrained,  not  only  to  give 
up  the  Tower  of  London,  but  his  own  Castles  of 
Walden  and  Blessey.  Wlmfore,  being  transported 
with  wrath,  he  fell  to  spoil  and  rapine,  invading 
the  king's  demesne  lands  and  others,  plundering  the 
Abbeys  of  St.  Alban's  and  Ramsay  ;  which  kst 
having  surprised  at  an  early  hour  in  the  morning, 
he  expelled  the  monks  therefrom,  made  a  fort  of 
the  church,  and  sold  their  religious  ornaments  to 
reward  his  soldiers;  in  which  depredations  he  was 
assisted  by  his  brother-in-law,  William  de  Say,  a 
stout  and  warlike  man,  and  one  Daniel,  a  counter- 
feit monk.  At  last,  befaig  publicly  excommunicated 
for  his  many  outeages,  he  besieged  the  Castle  of 
Burwell,  in  Kent,  and  going  unhelmed,  in  conse- 
quence of  the  heat  of  the  weather,  he  was  shot  in 
the  head  with  an  arrow,  of  which  wound  he  soon 
afterwards  died.  This  noble  outlaw  had  m.  Roh»- 
sia,  daughter  of  Alberic  de  Vera,  Earl  of  Oxford, 
Chief  Justice  of  England,  and  had  issue,  Eruulph, 
Geofflwy,  William,  and  Robert;  and  by  a  former 
wife,  whose  name  is  not  mentioned,  a  daughter, 

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MAN 


AHc«,  who  m.  John  de  Lacy,  ConiUble  of  Cheiter. 
Of  hit  dMth,  Dugdala  thui  ipaUu  :—*«  Ako  that 
for  then  outraget,  haTing  iDcurred  the  penalty  of 
excommunication,  he  h^»pened  to  be  mortaUy 
wounded,  at  a  little  town,  called  Burwdl ;  where- 
upon, with  great  contrition  for  hii  tins,  and  making 
what  MtiBfoction  he  could,  there  came  at  last  some 
of  the  Knights  Templan  to  him,  and  putting  oo 
him  the  habit  of  their  order,  with  a  red  croea,  car- 
ried his  dead  oorpae  into  their  orchard,  at  the  old 
Temple,  in  London,  and  oofllning  it  in  lead,  hanged 
it  on  a  crooked  tree:  Likewiae,  that  after  eome 
time,  by  the  industry  and  expenaea  of  William, 
whom  he  had  constituted  Prior  of  Walden,  his 
absolution  was  obtained  ftom  Pope  Alexander  IIL, 
so  that  his  body  was  leoeiTed  among  christians,  and 
diTers  oflloei  celefatmted  for  him;  but  that  when 
the  prior  endeaTOured  to  take  down  the  coflin  and 
carry  it  to  Walden,  the  templan  being  aware  of 
the  design,  buried  it  privatdiy  in  the  church-yard 
of  the  New  Txmpi.b,  vis.  in  the  porch  before 
the  west  door.** 

After  the  dffeane  of  this  Earl  Geofftey,  his  son, 
Ernulph,  within  the  same  year,  was  taken  pri- 
soner in  the  Castle  of  Ramsey,  which  he  had  forti- 
fled,  and  banished,  when 

GEOFFREY,  sumamed  the  younger,  (the 
second  son,)  was  restored  by  King  Henry  IL,  to  all 
the  lands  of  his  ancestors,  and  confirmed  in  the 
Earldom  op  Esbbz.  This  nobleman  being  an 
eloquent  and  accomplished  person,  was  associated 
with  Richar4  de  Lacy,  to  march  against  the  Welsh, 
then  near  Chester,  at  which  city  fiUling  sick,  it 
happened  that  his  senrants  being  all  gone  to  dinner, 
and  nobody  left  with  him,  he  died.  Whereupon 
divers  ancient  knights  then  assembled  there,  who 
had  served  his  father,  and  enjoyed  large  possenions 
through  his  bounty,  consulting  together,  resolved 
to  cairy  his  corpse  to  Waldsn,  there  to  be  intored 
as  patron  of  that  house:  and  for  that  purpose 
having  taken  out  his  brain  and  bowds,  and  commit- 
ted them  to  holy  sepulture,  with  honour  and  alms, 
they  seasoned  the  rest  of  his  body  with  salt,  then 
wrapt  it  in  a  good  hide,  and  coffined  it :  and  thua 
proceeds^,  accompanied  by  the  earl's  servants, 
towards  Walden ;  but  upon  the  way,  one  of  the 
deceased  lord's  chaplains,  named  Hasculf,  took  out 
his  best  saddle  horse,  in  the  night,  and  rode  to 
Chickband,  where  the  O»w»if0M  AoA«m  then  resided 
with  her  nuns,  and  having  acquainted  her  with  the 
death  of  her  son,  advised  her  to  send  speedily, 
whatever  force  she  could,  to  intercept  the  corpse, 
and  to  bring  it  thither,  to  the  end  that  the  kin- 
dred and  friends  of  the  deceased,  might  become 
benefactors  to  the  Convent  of  Chicksand ;  of  which 
design  the  conductors  of  the  corpse  having,  how- 
ever, been  apprised,  they  immediately  drew  their 
swards,  and  thus  brought  the  noble  remains  in 
safety  to  Walden,  where  they  were  most  magni- 
ficently interred.  His  lordship  m.  Eustachia,  a 
kinswoman  of  King  Henry  IL,  but  did  not  live 
long  with  her,  and  the  lady,  thereupon,  making 
a  complaint  to'  her  royal  relative,  the  king  is  said 
to  have  caused,  in  great  wrath,  a  divorce  betwixt 
them.  The  earl  d.  on  the  I8th  November,  1107, 
and  leaving  no  issue,  was  «•  by  his  brother, 
934 


WILLIAM  DB  MANDEVILLE,  as  thiid  Earl 
OP  Esaxx.  This  nobleman  attended  King  Henry 
1 1,  into  France,  in  the  19th  of  that  monarA's  reign, 
as  one  of  the  generals  of  his  army.  In  two  years 
afterwards,  (117^,)  his  lordship  was  one  of  the  wit- 
nesses to  the  agreement  made  at  Windsor,  heliraeu 
the  English  monarch  and  Roderic,  King  of  Con- 
naught.  In  1177,  the  earl  made  a  pilgrimage  to  the 
Holy  Land,  and  upon  his  return,  repairing  to  Wal- 
OBM,  was  received  by  the  whole  convent  in  aoleran 
procenion,  •<  all  of  them  singing  with  one  heart  and 
voice,  Benedietut  qui  venit  in  nomine  Domini,*' 
After  whidi,  ascending  to  the  high  altar,  and  there 
receiving  formal  benediction  from  the  prior,  he 
oflhred  divers  precious  rriics,  some  of  which  he  had 
acquired  in  the  Holy  Land,  and  others  fkom  the 
Emperor  of  Constantinopla,  and  the  Earl  of  Flan- 
den.  Then  standing  before  the  altar,  the  prior 
began  the  hymn  of  To  Deum  LawdammB,  which 
being  ended*  he  went  into  the  chapter  house,  and 
saluted  all  the  monks,  and  thence  into  the  abbey, 
where  he  was  feasted  honourably.  His  lordship  ns. 
first,  Hawise,  daughter  and  heiress  of  William  le 
Gross,  Earl  of  Albemarle,  in  whose  tight  he  bore 
that  additional  title;  and  secondly.  Christian, 
daughter  of  Robert,  Lord  Fits-Walter,  (who  wed- 
ded after  the  earl's  decease,  Reymond  de  Bu^h,) 
but  had  issue  by  neither  of  those  ladies.  The  earl 
being  a  person  dilefly  engaged  in  military  aflkin, 
spent  the  greater  part  of  his  life  in  Normandyr. 
where  he  was  entrusted  with  diven  forts  and  castles, 
by  King  Henry.  He  d.  in  lUO,  when  the  Earl- 
dom must  have  xxpirrd,  but  the  feudal  lordship 
and  estates  dev(Hved  upon  his  aunt,  Bxatrix, 
wift  of  William  de  Say,  whose  eldest  son.  William 
de  SAy,  dying  in  the  life-time  of  his  father,  left 
twodaughten,  via.  # 

Beatrix,  m.  to  Oeoftey  Fits-Pien. 

Maud,  fN.  to  William  de  Bodand. 
Upon  the  decease  of  William  de  MandeviUe,  Earl 
of  Essex,  as  mentioned  above,  much  dispute  arose 
regarding  the  inheritance ;  Beatrix,  his  aunt  and 
heir,  in  the  first  place,  preferring  her  claim,  sent 
Geofl^  de  Say,  her  younger  son,  to  transact  the 
business  for  the  livery  thereof;  but  Oeoftey  Fits- 
Pien  insisted  upon  the  right  of  Beatrix,  his  wifo; 
nevertheless,  Geofltey  de  Say,  in  consideration  of 
seven  thousand  marks,  promised  to  be  paid  on  a 
certain  day,  obtained  an  instrument  in  right  of  his 
mother,  under  the  king's  seal,  for  the  whole  of  the 
barony,  but  the  said  Geolftey  de  Say,  making  de- 
fkult  of  payment,  this 

GEOFFREY  FITZPIERS,  being  a  man  of  great 
wealth  and  reputation,  made  representatioo  that 
the  barony  was  the  right  of  his  wifo;  and  pro- 
mising to  pay  the  money,  obtained  livery  thereof, 
and  procured  the  king's  confirmation  of  his  title. 
One  of  the  earliest  acts  of  this  foudal  lord,  was  to 
dispossess  the  monks  of  Walden,  of  certain  Umds 
which  they  had  derived  from  his  predecesson.  a  pro- 
ceeding followed  by  a  long  oontroveny,  which,  after 
being  referred  to  the  pope  and  the  king,  was  finally 
compromised.  Upon  the  removal  of  Hubert,  ardi- 
bishop  of  Canterbury,  fVom  the  ofllce  of  Justice  of 
England,  by  Richard  I.,  this  Geoftey  was  appointed 
to  succeed  him;  and  at  the  coronation  of  King 


MAN 


MAN 


John*  he  wm  girt  with  the  tword,  es  Eakl  or 
Kbbmx,  and  then  aenred  at  the  king's  table.  Being 
nominated  patron  of  the  monastery  of  Waiden,  Im 
appears  soon  after  to  be  received  with  great  cere- 
mony b>.the  monks,  and  to  be  perfectly  reconciled 
to  those  holy  fathers.  In  the  7th  of  King  John,  he 
had  a  grant  of  the  castle  and  honour  of  Berkham- 
stcad,  with  the  knights'  fees  thereunto  belonging,  to 
hold  la  him  and  the  heirs  of  his  body,  by  Aveline, 
his  second  wife.  His  lordship  espoused  first,  as 
already  stated,  Beatrix  de  Say,  by  whom  he  had 
Issue, 

OxorrnaT,  his  successor.-^ 
.    William,  successor  to  his  I  TheseaJl  assumed 
brother.  Mhe  name  of  Man- 

Henry,  Dean  of  WoWer-  I  dxtills. 

hamptOR* 
Maud,  m,  to  Robert  de  Bohun,  Earl  of  Here- 
ford, whose  son  and  heir  became  eventually 
Bari.  or  EesBx,  as  wdl  as  Earl  of  Here- 
ford. 
He  m.  secondly,  Aveline       '     and  had  an  only  son, 
John  Fitspiers,  Lord  of  Berkhamstead.    His  lord< 
ship,  of  whom   Matthew   Paris  characterises   as 
'*  ruling  the  reins  of  government  so,  that  after  his 
death,  the  realm  was  like  a  ship  in  a  tempest  with- 
out a  pilot."    He  (i.  in  1218,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest 
son, 

GEOFFREY  DE  MANDEVILLE,  who,  in  the 
lAth  of  King  John,  had  livery  of  the  lands  of  his 
inheritance,  and  the  same  year,  bearing  the  title  of 
Eari.  op  Essax,  the  king  gave  him  to  wife,  Isabel, 
Countess  of  Gloucester,  third  daughter  and  co-heir 
of  William,  Earl  of  Okmcester,  (which  Isabel  had 
first  been  married  to  King  John  himself,  but  re- 
pudiated on  account  of  consanguinity).  -This 
noblemailhfterwards  distinguished  himself  amongst 
the  barons,  who  rebelled  against  the  tyrannical 
power  of  John,  and  was  one  of  the  twenty-five 
kirds  chosen  to  enforce  the  observance  of  Maoka 
Charta  :  about  which  period,  attending  a  tourna- 
ment at  London,  he  received  a  wound  from  a  lance, 
which  proved  mortaL  His  lordship  d.  in  1819,  and 
leaving  no  children,  was  succeeded  by  his  brother, 

WILLIAM  MANDEVILLE,  as  Eari.  or  Eaasx. 
This  nobleman,  like  his  deceased  kinsman,  espoused 
the  cause  of  the  barons,  and  stoutly  maintained  it 
even  after  the  decease  of  King  John ;  being  one  of 
those  who  then  assisted  Lewis  of  France,  in  the 
siege  of  Berkhamstead  Castle,  occupied  by  the 
king's  jCoroes.  A  saOy  having  been  made,  however, 
ftrom  the  garrison,  mudi  of  the  baggage  of  the  be- 
sl^Ecrs  was  captured,  and  amongst  other  things  the 
banner  of  this  Earl  William.  His  kirdship  seems  to 
have  nuule  his  peace  soon  after,  for  we  find  him 
engaged  in  the  Wdah  wars.  He  d.  in  the  fiower  of 
his  age,  anno  18S7,  and  leaving  no  issue,  the  Bari- 
ooM  OP  EasKX  devolved  upon  his  sister,  Maud, 
Countess  of  Hereford,  (see  Bohun,  Earl  of  Here* 
ford,)  while  the  lands  which  he  inherited  passed  to 
his  half  lwother» 

John  FiTi-PiSRa,  who  was  sheriff  of  York- 
shire, in  the  18th  Henry  III.  He  m.  Isabel,  sister 
of  John  Bigod,  and  was  «.  by  hit  son, 

John  Pits-John  Fita-GeoArey,  whose  son 
and  hetr« 


John  Fitz-Jorn,  was  summoned  to 
parliament  as  a  baron,   temp. 
Henry  HI.  (see  Fit»Nlohn). 
Arms.— Quarterly  or.  and  gules. 

MANNY— BARON  MANNY. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  ISth  November,  1347, 
81  Edward  IIL 

ICincBse. 

WALTER  DE  MANNY,  (an  alien,  bdm  in  the 
diocese  of  Cambray ,)  being  a  person  of  high  military 
repute,  was  made  a  knight  of  the  Bath,  in  the  5th 
Edward  III. ;  after  which  we  find  him  one  of  the 
most  gallant  and  enterprising  characters  of  the 
martial  period,  in  which  he  had  the  fortune  to 
fiourish.  In  the  8th,  9th,  and  10th,  of  the  same 
reign.  Sir  Walter  was  engaged  in  the  Scottish  wars, 
and  in  the  lltb,  he  was  constituted  admiral  of  the 
king's  fieet,  northwards,  being  the  same  year  sworn 
of  the  privy  counciL  *«  Shortly  after  this,"  says 
Dugdale,  "  he  was  in  the  battel  of  Cagant,  against 
the  French ;  and  seeing  Henry,  Earl  of  Derby,  son 
to  Henry,  Earl  of  Lancaster,  felled  to  the  ground, 
he  brought  him  out  of  danger,  and  cryed,  lanauter 
for  the  Earl  <^f  Derby."  In  the  week  also,  that 
defiance  was  made  to  the  French  king,  he  rode 
through  Brabant  night  and  day,  with  forty  spears, 
until  he  reached  Hainault ;  having  pledged  himself 
to  divers  **  ladies  fair,"  previotuly  to  leaving  Eng- 
land, that  he  should  be  the  first  to  invade  France, 
and  to  win  some  town  or  castle  there :  in  redemp^ 
tion  of  which  chivalrous  promise,  he  entered  Mor- 
taigne,  with  his  penon  borne  him,  through  the 
high-street;  but  coming  to  the  great  tower,  found 
the  gate  closed  against  him.  Upon  which,  causing 
the  watch  of  the  castle  to  sound  his  horn,  and  cry, 
Treaeon,  tretuon,  he  retraced  his  steps,  and  fired 
the  adjoining  street.  Thence  he  proceeded  to 
Conde,  and  on  to  Valencienes,  ftrom  which  place  he 
marched  to  Chins,  and  took  by  assault,  the  strong 
castle  there :  whereof,  making  it  a  garrison,  he  ap- 
pointed his  brother,  Giles  Manny,  governor.  He 
thence  joined  the  king  at  Machlinx.  In  about 
two  years  after  this,  Sir  Walter  Manny  was  in  an 
expedition  made  into  the  north  of  Franra,  and  there 
his  usual  fortune  attended  him-— he  spoiled  the 
oountxy,  slew  more  than  a  thousand  soldiers,  and 
burnt  three  hundred  villages.  In  t)ie  same  year 
(14th  Edward  III.)  he  was  in  the  great  sea  fight, 
between  the  Frendi  andCnglish,  before  Sluce,  in 
Flanders  t  and  for  his  disbuzsements  in  that  and 
other  services,  had  an  assignation  of  two  thousand 
pounds,  payable  by  the  receiver  of  the  subsidy  then 
levied  in  Essex.  In  the  16th  Edward  III.,  he  at- 
tended the  king  to  the  siege  of  Nantxb  ;  and  in 
oonsideration  of  four  thoussnd  pounds,  which  he 
remitted  ot  the  sum  of  eight  thousand  pounds,  then 
due  to  him  fhnn  the  crown,  he  obtained  a  grant  for 
life,  of  the  sheriflUty  of  Merionethshire;  and  an 
assignation  of  sixty-eight  sacks,  and  one  quartern 
of  the  king's  wools  in  Sussex,  for  the  support  of 
himself,  and  fifty  men  at  arms,  with  fifty  archers  on 
horselnck,  in  the  expedition  then  made  into  France. 
Hit  own  wages  as  a  baaneretj  being  fear  shillings 

385 


MAN 


MAN 


per  day;  Um  knights,  (twelTe  in  number,)  two 
•hillings  each,  per  day;  the  esquires,  one  shilling, 
and  the  archers,  sixpence.  In  two  years  afterwards, 
beingoneof  thenuoshalsof  the  host  to  the  Earl  of 
Derby,  when  he  went  to  assault  Bergerath,  he  said 
to  his  lordship,  as  he  sate  at  dinner,  **  Sir,  if  we 
were  good  men  at  arms,  we  should  drink  this  even- 
ing with  the  Frendi  lords  at  BBmoxRATB."  Where- 
upon all  that  heard  him,  cried,  "  to  arms,"  and  the 
town  being  immediately  assaulted,  surrendered  to 
its  gallant  assailants. 

*'  Amongst  other  towns,**  saith  Dugdale,  '*  then 
won  by  the  Earl  of  Derby,  Rvol  bung  one ;  this 
Walter  found  the  tombe  of  his  father,  who  had  been 
buried  there  Of  whose  death,  Froimrd  makes  this 
relation ;  vis.  "  That  at  a  certain  toumeament  be- 
fore Cambray,  (there  being  on  both  parts,  five 
hundred  knights,)  he  tourneyed  with  a  knight  of 
Gasooine,  a  kinsman  to  the  bishop  of  Cambray; 
and  wounded  him  so  sore,  as  that  he  died  soon 
alter.  Whidi  so  incensed  the  kindred  of  that 
knight,  that  upon  a  padflcation  made,  he  was,  for 
expiation  of  the  knight's  death,  to  go  on  a  pilgrim- 
age to  SL  James:  and  chat  upon  his  return  thenoe, 
finding  Rtol  besieged  by  Count  Chakjusb,  op  Va- 
1.01a,  brother  to  King  Philip,  (it  being  then  in  the 
hands  ot  the  English,)  coming  back  at  night  to- 
wards his  lodging  ftom  a  visit,  which  he  had  made 
to  that  count,  he  was  murthered  by  some  of  the 
knight's  kindred,  who  lay  purposdy  in  wait  for 
him.  And  that  upon  tidings  brought  to  the  count, 
he  caused  his  body  to  be  buried  in  a  little  chiqppel 
without  the  town;  which  when  the  town  came  to 
be  enlarged,  was  encompassed  by  the  walls." 

Sir  Walter  Manny  was  subsequently  one  of  the 
most  conspicuous  heroes  of  Cnxsav,  having  a 
principal  command  in  the  tan  of  the  English  army. 
From  this  c^brated  field  he  repaired  to  the  siege 
of  Calais,  where  King  Edward  and  his  victorious 
son,  the  Bi.ack  PaiNcn,  condescended  to  array 
themselves  under  Sir  Walter's  banner,  and  fighting 
beneath  it  reduced  that  strong  and  important  place. 
About  this  period,  in  reward  of  all  those  heroic 
achievements.  Sir  Walter  Manny  was  suiqmoned  to 
parliament  as  a  baron,  and  thenceforward  during 
the  remainder  of  his  life.  He  had  likewise  large 
grants  ftom  the  crown,  and  was  made  a  Knioht 
of  the  Gabtsb.  His  kwdship  continued  actively 
engaged  in  the  French  war,  untU  the  peace  con- 
cluded with  France  in  the  4Sd  Edward  III.,  when 
he  was  one  of  those  who  swore  to  observe  the 
articles  of  the  treaty.  His  lordship  espoused  the 
Lady  Margaret  Plantegenet,  styled  Countess  of 
Norfolk,  ddest  dau^ter,  and  eventually  oo-heiress 
of  Thomas  of  Brotherton,  Duke  of  Norfolk,  and 
widow  of  J<4w,  Lcnrd  Segrave,  by  whom  he  left  an 
only  daughter  and  heiress, 

Annx  Manny,  who  m.  John  de  Hastings, 
Earl  of  Pembroke^ 
This  great  and  gallant  nobleman  d.  in  \20%.  His 
will  bears  date  at  London,  upon  St.  Andrew's  Day, 
in  the  preceding  year.  By  that  testament  he  ht* 
queathed  his  body  to  be  buried  in  the  midst  of  the 
quire  of  the  GorMiM^MW,  (commonly  called  the 
Charter  -  house,)  near  West  Smithfield,  in  the 
suburbs  of  London,  of  his  own  foundation,  but 


without  my  great  pomp ;  appointing  that  hit  execu- 
tors should  cause  twenty  masses  to  be  sung  for  his 
soul;  and  that  every  poor  body  coming  to  his 
ftineral,  should  have  a  penny  to  pray  for  him,  and 
for  the  remission  of  his  sins.  To  Mary,  bfa>  sister, 
(at  that  time  a  nun,)  he  bequeathed  £10.  To  his 
two  bastard  daughters,  nuns  also,  (namely,  Mailosel 
and  Malplesant,)  the  one  two  hundred  franks,  the 
other  one  hundred.  To  Margaret,  his  wife,  all  his 
silver  vessels;  Ukewise  his  girdle  of  gold,  with  all 
his  girdles  and  knives.  Also  his  beds,  and  drossers 
in  his  wardrobe;  excepting  his  folding  bed.  pale  of 
blue  and  red,  which  he  gave  to  his  daughter  of 
Pbmbbokb.  Moreover,  he  ordained,  that  a  tomb 
of  alabaster,  with  his  image  as  a  kiUght,  and  his 
arms  thereon,  should  be  made  for  him,  like  unto 
that  of  Sir  John  Beauchamp.  in  the  cathedral  of  St 
Paul,  at  London,  as  a  remembrance  of  him,  and 
that  men  might  pray  for  his  souL  And  whereas 
the  king  did  owe  him  an  old  debt  of  a  £1000,  by 
bills  of  his  wardrobe;  he  appointed,  that  if  it  could 
be  had,  it  should  be  given  to  the  prior  and  monks 
of  the  Chabtxb-houbb,  whereof  he  was  founder. 
And  wheceas,  there  was  due  to  him  fh>m  the  prince, 
from  the  time  he  had  been  Prince  of  Wales,  the 
sum  of  one  hundred  marks  per  annum  for  his 
salary,  as  governor  of  Harddagh  Castle,  he  be- 
queathed a  moiety  thereof  to  the  said  prior  and 
monks  of  the  Charter-bouse  before-mentioned,  and 
the  other  moiety  to  his  executors,  (of  which  he  con- 
stituted Sir  Guyde  de  Bryene  one,)  for  the  per- 
formance of  his  testament. 

Upon  the  decease  of  Lcurd  Manny,  the  Babont 
OP  Manny  devolved  upon  his  daughter,  Anne, 
CouNTxss  OP  Pbmbbokb,  and  at  the  decease  of 
her  son,  Jirfm  Hastings,  third  Earl  of  Pembroke, 
without  issue,  it  became  bxtinct. 

Abmb.— S&  a  cross  voided,  ar. 

MANSELL— BARONS  MANSELL  OF 
MAROAM  IN  THE  COUN- 
TY OF  GLAMORGAN. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  31st  Deoemberj  1711> 

Xincage. 

The  family  of  Manbbll,  according  to  genealo- 
gists, sprang  from  an  ancient  stock ;  whereof 

PHILIP  MANSEL  is  said  to  have  come  over 
with  the  Conqueror :  and  from  his  eldest  son, 

HENRY  MANSEL  descended 

JOHN  MANSELL,  who,  in  the  reign  of  Henry 
III.,  being  chancellor  of  the  church  of  St.  Paul's, 
was  appointed  keeper  of  the  king's  seal,'  and  was  a 
very  eminent  person  at  that  period.  This  John  m, 
JoKDit,  daughter  of  Simon  Beauchanqi,  of  Bedford* 
and  was  fkther  of 

SIR  HENRY  MANSELL,  whose  son, 

HENRY  MANSELL  settled  in  Glamorganshire, 
temp.  Edward  I.,  and  from  him  descended 

THOMAS  MANSELL,  Esq.,  who  was  created  a 
baronet,  at  the  lostitutiou  of  the  order,  in  1611. 
Prom  Sir  Thomas  we  pass  to  his  lineal  descendant 

SIR  THOMAS  MANSELL.  fourth  baionei,  who 
was  elevated  to  the  peerage  on  31st  December,  171 1, 
as  Babon  Mansbll,  qf  Margam,  in  tht  county  <tf 


MAR 


MAR 


GtefMfivfi.  Hig  lordfhip  m.  llarth*.  daufhtw  and 
heiress  of  Fisacis  MeUiogton.  Eiq.»  of  the  dty  of 
LoBdoD,  merchant,  by  whom  he  hud,  (with  three 
daughters,) 

Hqbsiit,  who  m.  Amie,  daughter  and  eo-heir 
of  the  odebnted  Admiral  Sir  Cloudesley' 
Shovel,  Knt,  and  dying  befoce  his  father, 
<a9th  April,  1783,)  left,  with  one  daughter, 
Tbomab,  successor  to  his  grandAtther. 
Christopher,  \  who  both  succeeded  eventually 
Buawy,         j  to  the  title. 
His  lordship  A  in  17S3,  and  was  «.  by  his  grand- 


THOMAS  MANSELL,  second  baron.  This  no- 
Ueman  d,  unmarried  in  1743,  when  the  honours 
reverted  to  his  uncle, 

CHRISTOPHER  MANSELL,  third  baron,  who 
d.  in  the  ensuing  year  unmarried,  and  was  «.  by  his 
brother, 

BUSSEY  MANSELL,  ftnuth  baron.  TUs  noble- 
man espoused,  first.  Lady  Betty  Hervey,  daughter 
of  John,  Earl  of  Bristol,  by  whom  he  had  no  issue. 
He  m.  secondly,  Barbara,  widow  of  Sir  Walter 
Bbckct,  Bart,  and  daughter  of  William,  Earl  of 
Jersey,  and  had  an  only  daughter  and  heirc«, 

Loui&4-BA&BAAa  Makbull,  who  m.  Oewge, 
second  Baitm  Vernon,  by  whom  she  had 
two  daughters,  who  both  d,  in  infancy,  and 
a  third,  Louiba,  who  d.  unmarried  in  1786. 
Her  ladyship  d.  in  the  same  year. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1750,  when  the  Babony  of  Man- 
UKLh  became  kxtiii  or. 
Anna.— A  chevron  betw.  three  maunches,  sa. 


MARE— BARON  LA  MARE. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  6th  Frt)ruary,  USO, 
27  Edward  I. 

Families  of  the  surname  of  Dn  la  Mars  flou- 
rished simultaneously  in  the  counties  of  Wilts, 
Somerset,  Hereford,  and  Oxford,  whereof 

HENRY  DE  LA  MARE,  (of  the  Oxfordshire 
House,)  upon  the  demise  of  his  £ither,  in  the  5th 
year  of  King  Stephen,  paid  a  fine  of  £88.  6§.  Qd., 
that  he  might  eiOoy  his  office  of  vtitrare,  or  hunts- 
man to  the  king ;  for  so  he  was,  holding  the  post  by 
petty  seijeanty.    To  this  Henry  succeeded 

ROBERT  DE  LA  MARE,  who  was  sheriff  of 
Oxfordshire  in  the  S4th  Henry  IL,  and  of  Oxford 
and  Berks,  in  the  1st  and  8d  years  of  Richard  I. 
He  was  «.  by 

GEFFER  Y  DE  LA  MARE,  who  gave  a  fine  of 
one  htmdred  marks,  and  one  palf^  for  warranty 
of  his  lands  at  Dudercote,  in  Uie  county  of  Berks. 
From  this  OefllBry  descended 

JOHN  DE  LA  MARE,  of  Gersyndon,  afterwards 
called  Gartyngton,  in  the  county  of  Oxford,  who, 
having  been  engaged  in  the  French  and  Scottish 
wars  of  King  Edward  L,  was  summoned  to  parlia- 
mentas  a  Baroo  from  eth  February*  1899,  toa6th 
July,  1313.  But  of  his  kndahip  nothing  fttrther  is 
known,  and  Dugdale  says,  that  his  descendants  had 
never  afterwards  summons  to  parliament. 

AiMa,— GokSf  two  Uooa  paisant  In  pale,  ar. 


MARMYON,  OR  MARMION  — BA- 
RONS  MARMYON. 

FEUDAL. 

[Although  it  is  not  intended  that  this  work  shall 
embrace  personages  who  were  mer^tf  feudal  lords* 
the  present  family,  as  that  from  which  the  Cham- 
pionship OP  EnoLAND  is  inherited,  demands  to 
be  noticed.] 

ICintagc. 

At  the  period  of  the  Norman  conquest, 

ROBERT  DE  MARMYON,  Lord  of  Fontney, 
in  Normandy,  having  by  grant  of  King  William  the 
castle  of  Tarn  worth,  in  theoounty  of  Warwick,  with 
the  acUacent  lands,   expdled  the  nuns  ftom  the 
abbey  of  Polesworth,  to  a  place  called  Oldbury, 
about  four  miles  distant.    '*  After  which,*'  (writes 
Sir  William  Dugdale,)  "within  the  compass  of  a 
twelvemonth,  as  it  is  said,  making  a  costly  enter- 
tainment at  Tamworth  Castle,  for  some  of  hia 
friends,  amongst  whom  was  Sir  Walter  de  SomeN 
vile.  Lord  of  Whichover,  in  the  county  of  Staflbrd, 
his  sworn  brother :  it  hi^pened,  that  as  he  ley  in 
his  bed,  St.  Edith  appeand  to  him  in  the  habit  of  a 
veiled  nun,  with  a  crosier  in  her  hand,  and  adver- 
tised him,  that  if  he  did  not  restore  the  abbey  of 
Polesworth,  which  lay  within  the  territories  belong- 
ing to  his  castle  of  Tamworth,  unto  her  successors, 
he  should  have  an  evil  death,  and  go  to  hdL    And, 
that  he  might  be  the  more  sensible  of  this  her  admo- 
nition, she  smote  him  on  the  side  with  the  point  of 
her  crosier,  and  so  vanished  away.    Moreover,  that 
by  this  stroke  being  mudi  wounded,  he  cryed  out 
so  loud,  that  his  friends  in  the  house  arose;  and 
finding  him  extremely  tormented  with  the  pain  of 
his  wound,  advised  him  to  confess  himself  to  a 
priest,  and  vow  to  restore  the  nuns  to  their  former 
possessions.    Furthermore,  that  having  so  done,  his 
pain  ceased;  and  that  in  accomplishment  of  his 
vow,  accompanied  by  Sir  Walter  de  Somervile,  and 
the  rest,  he  forthwith  rode  to  Oldbury ;  and  craving 
pardon  of  the  nuns  for  the  injury  done,  brought 
them  back  to  Polesworth,  «*f*r*ng  that  himself,  and 
his  friend  Sir  Walter  de  Somervile,  might  be  re- 
puted their  patrons,  and  have  burial  for  themselves 
and  their  heirs  in  the  abbey— the  Marmions  in  the 
chapter  house— the   Somervlles   in    the  doyster. 
However,  (continues  Dugdale)  some  circumstances 
in  thb  story  may  seem  fUxilous,  the  substance  of  it 
is  certainly  true;  for  it  axpreesly  appeareth  by  the 
very  words  of  his  charter,  that  he  gave  to  Osanna 
the  priorees,  ybr  Me  mteMUMng  <tf  the  rMgUm  ^ 
thote  ntnu  Mere,  fJb«  dhtirdk  of  St.  JBcUlft,  qf  PdIss- 
worfJk,  toMk  iU  appurtenmnet^  00  llbcf  Me  eometu  tf 
OUburp  *hcmU  remain  in  f/kof  plaee.    And  likewise 
bestowed  upon  them  the  whole  lordship  of  Polet- 
worth :  whidi  grant  King  Stephen  afterwards  con^ 
finned.**    The  castle  and  manor  of  Tamworth,  in 
Warwickshire,  and  the  manor  of  Scrivdsby,  in  the 
county  of  Lincoln,  were  granted  by  the  Conqueror 
to  this  Robert  de  Marmion,  to  be  hdd  by  grand 
serjeeaty,  <*  to  perform  the  office  ot  champion  at 
the  king's  coronation,**  (the  Marmiona,  it  is  saM, 
were  hereditary  champions  to  the  Dukes  of  Nor- 
mandy, prior  to  the  conqueit  of  Englwd).    Robert 
SZ  387 


HAR 


HAB 


llamiQB  wm  wmeoatied  al  his  deonse  by  hit 
madluit, 

ROBERT  DE  MARMYON,  Lord  of  Fontney, 
in  Normandy,  where  he  poMWicd  a  fortifled  cutle» 
which  wm  bericeed  by  GeofMy,  of  Anjou,  Ja  the 
4th  of  Kfaif  Stephen,  and  demolidied.  This  Robert 
having  a  great  enmity  to  the  Earl  of  Charter,  who 
had  a  noble  eeat  at  Coventry, 'entered  the  priory 
there  in  the  8th  of  Stephen,  and  expelling  the 
monks,  turned  it  into  a  fortifloition,  digging  at  tlie 
same  time  divers  deep  ditches  in  the  adjacent  fields, 
which  he  caused  to  be  covered  over  with  earth,  in 
order  to  secure  the  approaches  thereto;  but  the 
Earl  of  Chestei's  forces  drawing  near,  as  he  rode  out 
to  reconnoitre^  he  fell  into  one  of  those  very  ditches, 
and  brolie  his  tliigh,  so  that  a  common  soldier, 
presently  seising  him,  cut  otT  his  head.  He  was  «. 
by  his  son, 

ROBERT  DE  MARMION,  who,  fai  the  31st 
Henry  IL,  being  constituted  sheriff  c^  Worcester- 
shire, continued  in  that  ofllce  until  the  end  of  the 
ffour-aad-thirdeth  year.  He  was  also  justice  itine- 
rant in  Warwickshire^  and  some  other  counties— 
and  again  sheriff  of  Worcestershire  in  the  let  of 
Richard  L  In  five  years  afterwards  he  attended 
that  monarch  into  Normandy,  and  in  tlie  Iftth  of 
King  John  he  was  hi  the  expedition  then  made  into 
Poictou.  Tliis  feudal  lord  died  about  the  year  1217, 
leaving  issue,  by  diftarent  mothers, 
RoBSBT,  his  successor. 

Robert,  jun.,  who  had  die  estates  of  Witring- 
ham  and  Coningsby,  in  the  county  of  Lin- 
coln (see  Marmion,  Barons  Maimion,  of 
Witrington).  ' 

William,  of  Torington  (see  Marmion,  Barons 
Marmion). 
He  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

ROBERT  DE  MARMION,  who  appears  to  have 
sided  with  the  French,  when  they  setsed  upon  Nor- 
mandy in  the  beginning  of  King  John's  rdgn,  for 
the  murder  of  Arthur,  Duke  of  Britanny;  but 
afterwards  malcing  his  peace,  for  in  the  5th  of  Henry 
III.  he  had  Uvery  of  Tamworth  Castle,  and  his 
fiithei's  other  lands.  He  is  supposed  to  have  re- 
tnmed  to  Normandy  in  twelve  years  afterwards, 
■nd  to  have  died  there  in  1S41,  when  he  was  «.  by 


PHILIP  DE  MARMION,  who  was  sheriff  for 
the  counties  of  Warwick  and  Leicester,  twm  the 
aSrd  to  the  SSth  of  Henry  IH.  In  the  latter  of 
wUdi  years  he  was  questioned  for  sitting  with 
Richard  de  MundevUl,  and  the  rest  of  the  justices, 
fbr  gad-ddivery  at  Warwick,  having  no  commis- 
sion so  todo.  Thenext  year  he  attended  the  king 
iatoGascony;  upon  his  return  wlienoe  he  was  taken 
prisoner  by  the  French  at  Pontes,  in  Poictou,  with 
John  de  Plessets,  then  Earl  of  Warwick,  notwlth- 
ahmding  they  had  letters  of  safe  conduct  from  the 
king  of  France.  In  the  49th  of  the  same  rdgn  this 
ftndal  lord  had  summons  to  be  at  London  with 
divers  of  the  nobility,  upon  the  morrow  after 
Mmen  and  Jud^tda^/  in  which  year  the  defection 
of  numy  of  the  barons  began  further  to  maniflsst 
ItMlf,  by  their  assuming  the  royal  prerogative,  in 
pladag  sheriA  throughout  diflfennt  shires.  In  this 
period  of  diflculty  PhiUp  d#  Marmion,  being  of 


lofalty,  had,  by  ipedal  pMent  i 
the  king,  thecouoties  of  SulMk  and  Norfolk  com- 
mitted to  his  custody,  with  the  castles  of  Norwich 
and  Oxford :  a  well-judged  confidence,  ibr  through 
an  the  subsequent  fortunes  of  Henry  IIL  he  never 
once  swerved  flrom  his  aUcgisnce.  He  was  present 
at  the  battle  of  Lewee— and  his  fidelity  was  rewarded 
after  the  royal  victory  of  Evesham,  by  some  valua^ 
ble  grants  for  life,  and  the  govemonhip  of  Kenll- 
worth  Castle.  He  m,  Josne,  youngest  daughter,  and 
eventually  sole  heiress  of  Hu|h  de  Kllpec,  by  whom 
he  had  four  daughters,  his  co-heirs,  vis. 

Joane,  m.  to  William  Mosteyn,  and  died  «.  p. 

telS94. 
Masera,  m.  to  Ralph  Cromwdl,  and  had  an 
only  daughter  and  heiress, 

Joane,  m.  to  Alexander,  Baron  Freville, 
whose  grandson, 

Sir  Baldwin  de  Freville,  Lord  Fre- 
ville, claimed  the  championship  in 
the  1st  Richard  1 1.,  by  the  tenure 
of  Tamworth  Castle,  but  the  mat- 
ter was  determined  against  him  in 
favour  of  Sir  John  Dymoke. 
Maud,  m.  to  Ralph  Botiller,  and  died  «.  p. 
Joane,  m.  to  Sir  Thomas  de  Ludlow,  Knt.,  and 
had  issue, 

John  de  Ludlow,  who  died  «.  p. 
Margaret  de  Ludlow,  sole  heiress  at  the 
decease  of  her  brother,  m.  Sir  John 
Dymoke,  Knt,  and  brought  into  the 
femily  of  her  husband  the  manor  nt 
ScRivaiARv,  in  Lincolnshire,  by  which 
the  Dymokes  have  from  the  accession 
of  Richard  II.  exercised  the  chivalrous 
office  of  CHAMPION  at  the  corona- 
tions of  the  KiNoa  or  England  : 
and  have  intermarried  with  the  most 
eminent  femilics.  Our  space  compels 
us  to  psss  over  the  various  champions 
to  John  Dtmokk,  champion  to  King 
George  IIL,  who  d.  in  17M»  leaving 
issue,  by  his  wife,  Martha,  daughter  of 
Josiah  Hobaes,  Esq., 
Lewis. 

John,  Prebendary  of  Lincoln. 
Catherine,  m.  to  John  Bradshaw,  Esq. 
Elisabeth,  died  «.  p. 
Sophik,  m.  John  Tyrwhit,  Esq. 
Lewis  Dymoke  succeeded  his  fatlier  at 
Scitvesby,  and  served  the  ofllce  of 
sheriff  of  Llnorinshire.  He  was  #.  by 
his  brother, 
Thb    Rmv.    John    Dymokb,    who 
was  called  upon  to  act  as  dunn- 
pion  at    the   coronation   of    King 
George  IV.,  but  owing  to  his  cle- 
rical station,   he  deputed  his  son, 
Hbnut  Dtmokb,  Esq.,  who  execut- 
ed the  office  accordingly.    The  re- 
verend gentleman  d.,  we  believe,  itt 
100,  and  has  been  succeeded  by  hie 
son  above-mentioned,  who  is  now 
in   his  own   right  champion    op 
Enoland. 
Upon  the  decease  of  Philip  de  Marmion,  hisesUtet 


HAft 


MAB 


tohiico-hrirfnw,  nd  •fmntaaUj  A*  btnmj 
and  manor  of  Tamworth  to  Fiwila^  and  Scrtvakbif 
toDymoka 

At  the  tonmtitaaat  King  Ridwrd  II.  Sir  Bald- 
win  Fraville*  than  Lord  of  Tamworth,  axMMtad 
hia  claim  to  ba  Un^a  rhampinn  that  day*  and  to  do 
Iho  Mrriet  appertaining  to  that  offlea^  by  raaaon  of 
hia  taaora  of  Tamwmth  Caada^  Tis. 

"  To  ride  uauplataly  araaad  upon  a  barbed  hone 
into  Wettmlnater  Hall,  and  Chare  to  dMUaage  the 
eombat  with  whomaoererriioiUd  dare  lo  oppose  the 
hing's  title  to  the  crown.** 

Which  wrrioe  the  Banna  de  Marmion,  hia  ancea- 
ton,  lorda  of  that  caatle*  hed  thaiatofare  paaformed. 
Bnt  Sir  John  Dymofce  connterrieimad  the  lame 
•flea  aa  Lord  d  ScriTalaby.  Wherenpon  the  con- 
BtaMeand  manhal  of  Eni^d,  appoinled  the  aaid 
Sir  John  Dymoke  to  peifoim  the  eAee  at  thattima 

The  chief  part  of  ScriTalaby  Court,  the  andent 
baioaiel  seat,  was  deatroyed  by  An  lixty  or  seventy 
yean  ago.  In  the  pert  consiiwed  was  a  vary  large 
haU,  on  the  penela  of  the  walnscotlag  of  which  was 
dspictad  the  favftoua  ama  and  alUaneas  of  the 
Ikaily  throogh  all  ita  nmnenma  and  ter^raoe^ 
Tbo  hMi  has  been,  in  some  dsgtee,  com- 
,  by  the  addition  which  the  late  proprleton 
'  to  thoae  parts  whkh  escaped  the  ravages  of 
the  flamaa.  Againat  the  south  wall  of  the  chaneel 
in  the  paarlsh  diuichof  Scrlvelsby,  is  a  vary  hand- 
aome  marble  aaottumflnt,  oanamSBted  with  a  boat 
of  the  Hon.  Lewia  Dyrndke^  dnmplon  at  the  cortK 
nstkm  of  the  tjro  Unt  sovevsigns  of  the  House  of 
Brunswick.  On  the  noeth  side  of  the  chancel  is  a 
Bsarble  tablet  to  the  aaemory  of  the  Hon.  Jtjtoa 
Djvaiokm,  who  performed  the  duties  of  champion  at 
thccovonationof  King  George  I IL  On  the  floor  of 
the  south  side  of  the  communion  table  ia  a  plate  of 
copper,  on  which  is  an  inscription  to  the  memory 
of  Sir  Charles  Dymoke,  Knt.,  who  was  champion 
at  the  coronation  of  King' James  II.  At  the  eastern 
end  of  the  aisle  are  two  tombs,  on  one  of  which  is 
41m  figure  of  a  knight  tai  cfaahiarmour,  ernes  laggf  rt, 
on  the  other  that  of  a  lady  with  a  lion  at  her  feet 
By  the  side  of  these  ia  the  tomb  of  Sir  Robert 
Dymoke,  who  was  champion  at  the  coronationa  of 
Richard  lU.,  Henry  VIL,  and  Henry  VIIL  On 
the  floor  of  the  aisle  is  iriao  a  stone  which  once  con- 
tained a  bnaa  figure,  with  comer  shleida,  and  an 
inscription,  all  of  which  are  now  goneu 

In  July,  1814,  Lewia  Dymoke,  Esq.,  undo  of  the 
present  chempion,  presented  a  petition  to  the 
crown,  praying  to  be  declared  entitled  to  the  Ba- 
aoMir  ov  MARMtOM,  of  Scrivelsby,  in  virtue  of  the 
seisttxe  of  the  manor  of  Scrivebby ;  which  petition 
was  reteiied  to  the  attomey-geaeral,  who  having 
reported  thereon,  the  same  was  lefeiied  to  the 
House  of  Lords,  where  evidence  was  received  at  the 
ber,  and  the  claimant's  counsel  summoned  up,  when 
the  attorney-general  was  heard  in  reply,  and  ten- 
dered some  documenta  on  the  part  of  the  crown ; 
but  the  claimant  died  beDore  the  Judgment  of  the 
house  was  given. 

'*  With  respect  to  this  daim,"  says  Mr.  Nicolaa, 
"  it  ia  to  be  observed,  that  though  the  manor  of 
Scrivebby  was  held  by  the  service  of  performing 
the  ofltoe  of  Ung't  champlen  by  Robert  de  Mar- 


I,  in  the  reign  of  WHMam  the  ConqveMr,  ha 
was  not  by  seisure  theieef  a  baren,  but  by  aatmra 
of  the  barony  and  castle  of  Tamwoktm,  wUch  he 
held  of  the  Ung  in  capita  by  knights'  aarvlee;  so 
aiat,  if  at  tUa  period  beeeniea  by  tenure  wwe  ad- 
mitted, the  possessor  of  the  manor  and  kirdahip  of 
Tamworth,  (which  in  the  diviakon  of  Ida  property 
fell  to  the  share  of  Joane,  his  eldeet  daughter,  wife 
of  WUHam  Mostayn,  and  on  her  death  «.  p.  to 
Alexander  Frevifle,  hnaband  of  Joan,  daughter  and 
hair  of  Ralph  CromweD,  by  Maasn.  the  next  sister 
of  the  said  Joan  de  liuetsyn»)  would  possen  the 
daim  to  thebarony  «^)oyad  py  Robert  de  Marmyon* 
he  having  derived  hia  digni^  ftom  that  barony  in- 
stead of  firom  the  seieureof  the  menot  of  Seriv«Mi|k 
r,  if  PhiHp  Memyon,  tiie  hst  banm,  had 
ofabaranyin  fte,  Lewie  Dymoke  w«a 
not  even  a  co-heir  of  the  said  Philip,  though  ha 
was  the  deerendant  of  one  of  hia  daughtewaad 


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MARMYON,  OR  MARMION  — BA. 
RONS  MARMION  OF 
WETRINGTON,  IN  THE 
COUNTY  OF  LINCOLN. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  96th  January,  1S97* 
85  Edward  I. 

3Cinc80e. 

ROBERT  DE  MARMYON,  ddeat  son  by  hia 
second  wife,  of  Robert  de  Marmyon,  third  flntdal 
Lord  of  Tamworth,  had  the  lordthips  of  Witring- 
ham,  and  Coningsby,  in  the  county  of  Lincoln ; 
Dueinton,  in  the  county  of  Gloucester;  and  Ber- 
wick, in  the  county  of  Suflblk  i  by  capedal  grant  of 
his  father :  end  in  the  10th  of  King  John,  he  gave 
to  the  king,  three  hundred  and  fifty  marks,  and  five 
palfteys,  for  licence  to  marry  Amice,  the  daughter 
of  Jemeygan  Fitx-hugh.  After  whidk,  being  in 
arms  with  the  rebellious  bexons,  he  obtained  letten 
of  safe  conduct  fbr  coming  in  to  the  king,  to  make 
his  peace.  He  again,  however,  took  up  arms  in  the 
baronial  cause,  in  the  ensuing  reign,  along  with  hia 
brother  William,  and  appean  to  have  hdd  out  to 
the  last.  This  Robert  acquired  a  large  aeoession  of 
landed  property  with  his  wift,  Alice  Fita-hugh,  and 
waa«.  at  his  deeeese,  by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  MARMION,  who  m.  Lore* 
daughter  of  Roese  de  Dovor,  by  whom  he  acquired 
the  town  of  Ludington,  in  Northamptonshire,  and 
was  «.  by  bis  son, 

JOfiN  DE  MARMION,  who,  in  the  SSnd  of 
Edward  I.,  had  summons,  with  other  great  men,  to 
attend  the  king  to  advise  upon  the  aflkin  of  the 
realm:  and  was  summoned  to  perllament  aa  a 
BABON ,  firom  seth  January,  U97«  to  the  14th  March, 
1382.  In  the  4th  of  Edward  IL,  hia  lordship  had, 
licsnce  to  makea  caatle  of  his  house,  called  the  Her- 
mitage, in  the  county  of  York.  He  d.  in  laSS,  and 
was  «.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  DE  MARMION,  second  beroiw  suup 
moned  to  parliament,  firom  3d  December,  1988,  to 
1st  April,  133ft.    This  nobleman  was  engage  ht  the 


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SooCtbh  wan.    Hb  larddiip  m.  Hand,  daugbttf  of 
L<ird  Furnival,  and  had  ianie, 
RoBBKTt  his  fuooeiior. 
Joane,  m.  to  Sir  John  Barnack,  KnL 
Alice,  seooDd  wife  of  Sir  John  de  Grey*  Lord 
Grey,  of  Rotherfleld,  and  had  iiane, 
John  de  Grey,  who  aaaamed  the  iomame 

of  Mannioa,  d. «.  p.  in  138ft. 
Robert  de  Grey  aawimed    the  name  of 
Marmion— m.  Lore,  daughter  and  oo- 
•  '  heirof  Herbert  de  St  Quintin,  and  had 

an  only  daughter  and  heireM» 

EUaabetli  MarmloD,  who  m.  Henry, 
Lord  Fits-hugh,  K.G. 
The  baron  d,  in  193ft,  and  wai «.  by  hia  son, 

ROBERT  DE  MARMION,  third  baron,  but 
never  sununoned  to  parUament.  Thia  nobleman 
being  of  infirm  constitution,  and  luiTing  no  iatue, 
married  Ui  younger  sister,  Alioe,  by  the  advice  of 
his  fHends,  to  Sir  John  Grey,  Lord  Grey  of  Rother- 
lldd,  upon  condition  that  the  ianae  of  the  said  Sir 
Jolbn  Grey  and  Alice,  slumld  bear  the  surname  of 
Marmion.  At  the  decease  of  Us  lordship,  the  Ba- 
BONY  OP  Makmion,  of  Witriugtott,  fell  into  absy- 
AKCB  between  his  sisters  (refer  to  children  of  second 
baron).  The  elder  of  whom,  Joane,  Lady  Bemack, 
died  without  issue.  The  younger  Alice,  as  stated 
•bore,  espoused  Lord  Grey,  and  her  grand-daughter, 
Elisabeth,  m.  Henry,  Lord  Fita-hugh,  amongst 
whose  representatives,  this  BABOiry  continues  sus- 
pended. 
ABJca.— Vairte  ar.  and  as.  a  fesse  gules. 


MARMYON,  OR  MARMION— BARON 
MARMION. 

By  Wilt  of  Summons,  dated  S4th  December,  l»i, 
49  Henry  IIL 

WILLIAM  DE  MARMYON,  youngest  son  of 
Robert  de  Marmyon,  third  feudal  Had  of  Tam- 
worth,  having  taken  a  leading  part  in  the  baronial 
war  against  King  Henry  IIL«  was  summoned  as  a 
BABoir  to  the  parliament  called  in  the  king's  name, 
by  those  turbulent  lords,  after  their  triumph  at 
Lewes,  but  never  subsequently.  His  lordship  ap- 
pears to  have  d,  without  issue,  when  the  baboity 
became,  of  course,  bxtutct. 

Abms.— Yalrte  ar.  and  ai.  a  fesse  gules. 

MARNEY  —  BARONS  MARNEY,  OF 
LEYR.MARNEY,  IN  THE 
COUNTY  OF  ESSEX. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  9th  April,  im 

In  the  9th  Edward  IIL, 

WILLIAM  DE  MARNEY  obtained  a  charter 
for  ftee  warren  in  all  his  demesne  lands,  at  Leyr- 
Mamey,  in  the  county  of  Essex.  To  this  William 
#.  another 

WILLIAM  DE  MARNEY,   who,   in   the  3rd 
Henry  lY.,  was  constituted  sheriff  of  the  counties 
of  Essex  and  Hertford.    He  d.  in  the  Snd  Henry  Y., 
fad  was  «.  by 
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SIR  THOMAS  MARNEY,  Knt.,  who  left  an 
only  dau^ter  and  heir, 

MARGARET  MARNEY,  at  whose  decease  in 
miuOTity,  and  unmairied,  the  estates  reverted  to 
her  uncle, 

JOHN  MARNEY,  who  was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR  HENRY  MARNEY,  Knt.,  whobetaiff  ««• 
person  of  great  wisdom,  gravity,  and  of  singular 
fidelity  to  that  prudent  prince  King  Henry  VIL," 
was  made  choice  of  for  one  of  his  privy  council, 
in  the  fiiet  year  of  his  reign,  and  the  next  year  he 
commanded  against  the  Earl  Lincoln,  at  the  battle 
of  Stokeu  He  was  subsequently  engaged  against 
Lord  Audky  and  the  Cornish  rebels,  at  Blackheath. 
Uppn  the  accession  of  Henry  VIIL,  he  was  re-sworn 
of  the  privy  ooundl,  and  soon  afterwards  installed  • 
Knight  of  the  Garter.  Sir  Henry  was  subsequently 
appointed  captain  of  the  guard  to  the  king,  and 
upon  the  attainder  of  Edward  Staflknrd,  Duke  of 
BuAingham,  he  had  grants  of  a  large  proportion  of 
that  nobleman's  estates.  He  was  appointed  keeper 
of  the  privy  seal  in  Fdteruary,  1A83,  and  elevated  to 
the  peerage  in  the  April  fbUowing,  as  Babow 
Mabkby,  qfLoyr-Afenisr,  in  the  eou$air<ffE»90M. 

His  loidahip  m.  first,  Thomasine,  daughter  of 
John  Arundd,  Esq.,  of  Lanheme,  In  Cornwall,  by 
whom  he  had  two  sons,  John,  his  successor,  and 
Thomas,  who  died  young,  and  a  daughter  Elisa- 
beth, who  m,  Thomas  Bonham,  Esq.  He  espoused, 
secondly,  Eliaabeth,  daughter  of  Alderman  Nicholas 
Wifleld,  Lord  Bfayor  of  London,  and  had  a  daogh- 
ter,  who  m.  Sir  Henry  Bedingfield.  His  hndahlp 
d.  in  IftSi,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  MARNEY,  second  baron.  This  noble- 
man  in  the  time  of  his  fkther,  was  one  of  the 
esquires  of  the  body  to  King  Henry  VIIL,  and 
governor  of  Rochester  Castle.  His  lordship  m. 
first.  Christian,  daughter  and  heir  of  Sir  Refer 
Newburgh,  by  whom  he  had  two  daughters,  via. 
Katherine,  m.  first,  to  George  Ratdiflb,  Esq., 

and  secondly,  to  Thomas,  Lord  Poynlngs. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Lord  Thomas  Howard,  after- 
wards created  Viscount  Bindon. 
Lord  Mamey,  espoused,  secondly,  Margaret,  daugh- 
ter of  Sir  William  Waldcgrave,  Knt.,  and  widow  of 
Thomas  Flndeme,  Esq.,  but  had  no  issue.  He  died 
in  IMS,  when  the  Babowy  or  Mabhby  becaaae 
BXTiNCT,  and  his  estates  devolved  upon  his  daugli- 
ters  as  co-heirs. 

Abmb.— Gu.  a  lion  rampant,  guardant  ar. 

MARSHAI>— BARONS  MARSHAL. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  9th  January,  1300* 
2  Edward  U. 

ICincagc. 

The  earliest  notice  of  this  liunily  occurs  In  the 
time  of  Henry  I.,  when  Gilbbbt  Mabbbchall, 
and  JoBir,  his  son,  were  impleaded  by  Robert  de 
Venois,  and  William  de  Hastings,  for  the  oflloe  of 
Mabbbhall  to  the  king,  but  without  snoeeas. 
The  son,  (bearing  the  same  surname,  derived  ftom 
hlsofllce,) 

JOHN  MARESCHALL,  attacbinc  hinielf  to  the 


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fortuBM  of  Maud*  agftiiitt  King  SCtphHit  wm  with 
RoBSRT,  the  GmmwI,  Eu-1  ot  GkmemtBr,  at  the 
■lege  of  Wlnchetter  Castle,  when  the  party  of  the 
emprew  wtalned  m>  signal  a  defeat.  Upon  the 
acoeMlon  of  Henry  II.,  however,  his  fldellty  was 
amply  rewarded  by  oonslderaUe  ^grants  In  the 
county  of  Wilts ;  and  In  the  10th  of  that  monarch's 
reign,  being  then  marshal,  he  laid  claim,  for  the 
crown,  to  one  of  the  manors  of  the  see  of  Canter- 
bury, tnm  the  odebrated  prelate,  Thomas  k  Becket, 
who  about  that  period  had  commenced  his  contest 
with  the  king.  To  this  John  succeeded  his  son 
and  heir, 

JOHN  MARESCHALL,  to  whom  Ung  Henry 
II.,  conflnraed  theofBceof  marshal,  and  the  lands 
which  he  hdd  of  the  crown  In  England,  and  dse- 
whersb  At  the  coronation  of  Ricbaro  I.,  this  John 
Blaresdiall  bore  the  great  gilt  spurs,  and  the  same 
year  obtained  a  grant  flrom  the  crown  of  the  manor 
of  BosBHAM,  in  Sussex,  In  fte  Ihrm,  paying  forty- 
two  pounds  yearly,  to  the  exchequers  with  other 
eKtansive  lordships.  He  died  soon  after,  and  It 
appears  Issueless,  for  his  brother,  William  Mart*- 
thaU,  Eabl  or  PnMsmoKS,  succeeded  as  his  heir. 
We  now  come  to  the  nephew  of  the  said  William, 
Earl  of  Pembroke, 

SIR  JOHN  MARSHAL,  who  marred  Aliva, 
dder  dau^ter  and  co-heir  of  Hvbsiit  db  Rib, 
ibudal  Lord  of  Hinoham,  in  the  county  of  NorfUk, 
by  whom  he  acquired  that  lordship.  Espousing  the 
cause  of  KUtg  Johw  against  the  babomb.  Sir  John 
Marshal  acquired  fkom  tfte  crown,  all  the  forfeited 
lands  of  the  Earl  of  Evreux,  In  England,  as  also 
the  lands  of  Hugh  de  Oomai,  lying  In  the  counties 
of  Norfolk  and  Suilblk,  whereof  the  said  Hugh 
was  possessed,  when  he  deserted  the  royal  banner; 
and  he  likewise  obtained  a  grant  in  fee,  of  the 
office  of  Mabbbai.  or  Ibblabd.  He  was,  subse- 
quently, in  the  same  reign,  constituted  guardian  of 
the  Marches  of  Wales,  and  Sheriff  of  LIncohishire, 
and  afterwards  Joined  with  John  Fits-Robert,  In  the 
SherlflUty  of  the  counties  of  Norfolk  and  Suilblk, 
and  the  custody  of  the  Castles  of  Norwich  and 
Orford.  He  was  likewise  made  governor  of  Dor- 
chester Caatle;  moreover,  he  had  the  same  year, 
livery  of  the  office  of  marshal  of  Irdand,  and  what- 
soever did  appertain  thereto  t  so  that  he  should 
appoint  a  knight  to  execute  its  duties  effectually. 
Continuing  steadfast  In  his  allegiance  to  King  John, 
he  was  made  sheriff  of  W<»oestershire,  and  go- 
vernor of  the  Castle  of  Worcester  t  and  he  was  one 
of  those  who  marched  with  the  king  Into  the  north, 
to  waste  the  lands  of  the  insurrectionary  barons 
there;  Upon  the  accession  of  Henry  III.,  Sir  John 
Marshal  was  constituted  sheriff  of  Hampshire,  and 
governor  of  the  Castle  of  Devises,  in  Wilts,  and 
retained,  during  the  remainder  of  Us  life,  the  favour 
of  that  monarch.  Hed.  lnU34,  andwas«.  byhisson, 

WILLIAM  MARSHAL,  who,  adopting  a  dlifer- 
ent  line  of  politics.  Joined  the  baronial  standard,  in 
the  40th  of  Henry  IIL,  and  died  about  the  same 
period,  leaving  two  sons,  Jobn  and  William, 
then  under  age,  who,  the  next  year,  through  the 
Intercession  ot  William  de  Say,  obtained  the  king's 
pardon  for  their  father's  tra«^;reBslon,  and  had 
pennlsslon  to  e^Joy  hl»  lands,  wiHi  whatever  pos- 


they  had,  by  gift  of  AUva,  their  graad- 
mother.    The  elder  of  these  sons, 

JOHN  MARSHAL,  died  In  the  Iflth  Edward  L, 
and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  MARSHAL,  who,  in  the  84th  Ed- 
ward I.,  was  in  the  wars  of  Scotland,  and  was  sum- 
moned to  parliament  asaBABov,  fkom  9th  January, 
laOO,  to  fl6th  November,  1913.  His  kwdship  d.  hi 
the  next  year,  and  was  «.  by  bis  son, 

JOHN  MARSHAL,  second  Baron,  but  never 
summoned  to  parilament.  In  the  7th  of  Edward 
IL,  this  John  attended  Queen  Elisabeth  Into  Soot- 
land,  and  the  ensuing  year  doing  his  homage,  had 
livery  of  his  lands,  lying  m  the  counties  of  Norftalk 
and  Lincoln.  He  died  soon  after,  about  the  year 
1316,  leaving  his  sister,  Hawysb,  wife  of  Robert, 
Lord  Moblby,  his  heir,  who  carried  the  Baboby 
OP  Mabsbal  into  the  Moblby  femlly,  from  which 
it  passed  into  that  of  Lovbl,  and  thence  to  the 
Pabkbbb,  when  it  finally  fell  Into  abbyabcb, 
upon  the  dffeene  of  Tbomab  Pabkbb,  Lobo 
Moblby,  In  1086,  between  the  Issue  of  that  noble- 
man's aunts, 

Katharine,  •wife  of  John  Savage,  second  Earl 
Riven. 

EUaabeth.  wife  of Cranfleid.  Esq.,  and 

amongst  whose  desoendantt  it  so  continues, 

Abms.— Ou.  a  bend  kwengtfe,  or. 

MARSHAL— EARLS  OF  PEMBROKE. 

Eabldom,  conferred  upon  the  femily  of  Clabb* 

in  1138. 
Conveyed  to  the  Mabbbalb  by  an  heiress. 

ISABEL  DE  CLARE,  only  child  and  heiress  of 
RicBABO  DB  Clabb,  (sumBmed  Slnngbow,)  Eabl 
OP  Pbmbbokb,  who  had  been  under  the  guardian- 
ship of  Henry  II.,  was  given  in  marriage  by  Ki$»g 
RiCBABD  I.,  to 

WILLIAM  MARSHAL,  of  the  great  baionial 
femlly  of  Marischal,  (see  Marshal,  Barons  Mar- 
shal,) Marshal  to  the  King.  This  William  U  first 
noticed  as  receiving  ftom  Prince  Hbhby,  the  rebel- 
lious son  of  Henry  1 1.,  upon  the  prince's  death- 
bed, his  cross,  as  his  most  confidential  friend,  to 
convey  to  Jerusalem.  He  espoused  the  great  heiress 
of  the  Clabbb,  in  118B,  and  with  her  acquired  the 
Eabldom  op  Pbmbbokb— in  which  rank  he  bore 
the  royal  sceptre  of  gold,  surmounted  by  the  cross, 
at  the  coronation  of  King  Richard  I. ;  and  he  was 
soon  afterwards,  on  the  king's  purposing  a  Journey 
to  the  Holy  Land,  appointed  one  of  the  asslstanta 
to  Hugh,  Bishop  of  Durham,  and  William,  Earl 
of  Albemarle,  Chief  Justice  of  England,  in  the 
government  of  the  realm.  Upon  the  decease  of  his 
brother,*  John  Mareschall,  Marshal  of  the  Khig's 

•  He  was  brother  and  heir  male,  of  John  Mar- 
shal, otherwise  Mareschall  (for  whose  descent,  see 
Marshal,  Barons  Marshal).  This  femlly  e^)oyed 
the  office  of  Mabbbal  of  the  King's  House,  and 
firom  that  post  assumed  its  surname:  which  gave 
occasion,  says  Banks,  to  their  bung  often  styled 
Earls  Marshal,  as  well  as  Earls  of  Strigull  and 

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Houie,  in  1190^  lie  bccMM-loid  nankalt  mi 
the  day  of  the  coroiMtioa  of  King  John,  he 
Uvesttd  with  the  tword  of  the  Earidora  of  Pem- 
Ivoke,  being  then  oooilnned  In  the  ponenlon  of 
the  mid  taiheritaooab  In  the  fiiaC  year  of  this 
monard^e  lelgn.  hit  kmiihip  was  appointed  sheriff 
of  Gloueestenhixe,  and  likewise  of  Svsscx,  wherein 
he  was  eontinned  foe  sercral  years.  In  the  Mh  he 
had  a  grant  of  0<»>nicn  CAaTi.B»  in  the  oonnty 
of  Hereford,  to  hold  by  the  senrice  of  two  knights' 
fees;  and  in  foar  years  afterwarda,  heobtained.  by 
giant  fkom  the  orown,  the  whole  paoTiMcn  ov 
LxiNarnn,  in  Ireland,  to  hold  by  tlie  senrioe  of  one 
hundred  knigfatsT  feei^  Upon  the  breaking  out  of 
the  lTm««*«i  insurrection*  the  Earl  of  Peashrake 
was  dqputed,  with  the  Archbishop  of  Cantsrbnry, 
by  the  king,  to  asesttain  the  grterances  end  do- 
mends  of  those  tuxbnknt  lords  t  and  at  thedsmiee 
of  King  John,  hn  was  so  powerful,  as  to  prevaii 
upon  the  herons,  to  appoint  a  day  for  the  eonma> 
tion  c^  Henry  IIL,  to  whom  he  was  conatitnted 
guardian,  by  the  rest  of  tiie  nobility,  who  hsd 
remained  firm  in  their  allfgiancp.  He  subsequently 
took  up  arms  in  the  royal  eause,  and  after  adiiev> 
ing  a  victory  over  the  barons,  at  Linooln,  proceeded 
directly  to  London,  and  investing  that  great  city, 
both  by  land  and  water,  reduoed  it  to  extremity, 
for  want  of  provisions.  Peace,  however,  belBg 
soon  after  concluded,  it  was  relieved.  His  lordship, 
at  this  period,  executed  tlie  office  of  sheriff  for  the 
counties  of  Essex  and  Hertford.  This  eminent 
nobleman  was  no  Iom  distinguished  by  his  wisdom 
in  the  council,  and  valour  In  the  field,  than  by  his 
piety  and  his  attachment  to  the  church,  of  whidi 
his  numerous  munificent  endowments  bear  ample 
testimony.  His  lordship  had,  by  the  Hxiaxss  op 
Clarb,  prvn  sows,  who  succeeded  each  other  in 
his  lands  and  honours,  and  five  daughters,  vis. 

Maud,  m.  first  to  Hugh  Bigot,  Earl  of  Norfolk ; 
iff  secondly,  to  William  de  Warren,  Earl  of 
"^^  ^  Surrey :  and  thirdly,  to  Walter  de  Dunstan- 
viUe.  This  lady,  tipon  the  deceese  of  her 
youngest  brother,  Anselm,  Earl  of*  Pem- 
broke, t.  p.,  in  1S45,  and  the  division  ot  the 
estates,  obtained,  as  her  share,  the  manor 
of  Hempsted-Marshall,  in  Berks,  with  the 
ofilce  of  BfARSRAL  oi  Eifoi.AND,  whicfa  wss 
inherited  by  her  son,  Aoflwr  Blgott  fourth 
Earl  ow  Nobpolk,  and  surrendered  to  the 
crown  by  her  grandson,  Roger  Bigot,  fifth 
Earl  of  Norfolk. 

Maud,  Countess  of  Norfolk,  had  likewise 
the  manors  of  Chepstow  and  Carlogh. 
Josne,  m.  to  Warinede  Montchensy. 
Isabri,  m.  to  Gilbert  de  Clare,  Earl  of  Glouces- 
ter ;  and  secondly,  to  Richard,  Earl  of  Com- 
walL  This  lady  had,  as  her  portion,  Kil- 
kenny. 

Pembroke  I  but  such  donomination  was  matter  of 
eurkMi^  more  than  of  realitjf.  The  Manor  of 
Herapated-Marshal,  in  Berkshire,  belonging  to  the 
Marshals,  was  held  of  old  by  grand  seijeanty  of 
the  Kings  of  Engfamd,  to  be  the  kni|^ts  mar- 
shals, as  the  offices  ot  steward,  constable,  die, 
were  in  thoee  times  granted. 
34t 


SyMUM.toWiiliamdeFeR«n.  Eirlof  DatbTt 

to  whom  she  brought  Kihtea 
Eve,  m,  to  WilUsm  de  Ilioeee,  of  Brecknock. 
The  earl  died  in  1919,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  i 

WILLIAM  MARSHAL,  Earl  of 
who,  in  the  tiiAe  of  his  ftther,  was  asstrenuous  n 
supporter  of  the  baranial  cause  as  that  noMeinaw 
was  of  the  royal  interests,'  and  was  constituted  one 
of  the  celetnnted  rwmicTY-piTn  babomb  apiwdntsid 
to  enforce  the  ofaservaneeof  Maova  Cbabta,  1»< 
ing  then  styled  «*  Omms  Mmrmdui,  J«a.**  After 
the  liifease  of  King  John,  however,  he  made  hie 
peace,  and,  ?««''*>"»*ng  loyally  attadied  to  thenew 
monarch,  obtained  grants  of  the  fotMted  lands  of 
his  former  mmpeninne.  Sate'  de  ^incgr.  Earl  of 
Winrhseter,  and  David,  Earl  of  Hantfa^don.  Hie 
kedship  wte  subsequently  engaged  against  the 
Welch,  and  defoeted  their  Piinee,  Lbolikb,  widft 
great  slaughter;  and  in  the  14th  Henry  IIL,  he  waa 
ceptsin-gcneral  of  the  king's  farces  In  Britanny.  Ha 
Mb  first,  Alioe,  daughter  ot  Beldwin  de  Betun,  Earl 
of  Albeirarle;  and  seeondly,  the  Ledy  AHanoi* 
Plantageliet,  daughter  of  King  John,  and  stater  of 
Henry  IIL,  but  had  issue  by  neither.  He  d.  in 
llSl,  and  was  «.  by  his  next  brother, 

RICHARD  MARSHAL,  Earl  of  Pembroke.  Thie 
nobleman  returned  to  England  upon  the  decease  of 
his  brother,  and  repairing  to  the  king,  then  In 
Walts,  oflhred  to  do  hoaaage  for  his  iidMrltanoe; 
but  Henry,  at  the  suggestion  of  Hubbbt  db 
BoBon,  Justiciary  of  Fngland,  dedined  reedving 
it,  under  the  plea  that  the  late  earl's  widow  had 
been  left  In  a  state  of  prsgnaaey ;  and  the  king, 
at  the  same  time,  commanded  Marshal  forthwith 
to  depart  the  realm  within  fifteen  days;  upon 
whidi  he  repaired  to  Ireland,  where  his  bcotbere 
then  were,  who,  with  the  army,  received  him  cor> 
diaUy,  and,  ddiveris^  up  the  castlce  to  hlra,  did 
their  homage.  He  immediately  afterwards  took 
possessionof  the  castle  of  Pembroke,  and  prepared 
to  enforce  his  rights  by  arms;  bnt  the  king,  fearing 
to  disturb  the  public  tranquillity,  accepted  his 
fealty,  and  aeknowtodgedhhnEABZ.  op  Pxmbbokb. 
This  reconciliation  was  not,  however,  of  long  en- 
durance,  for  we  find  Urn  soon  afterwards  in  open 
hostility  to  the  king,  defending  his  own  casdes, 
storming  and  taking  others,  fighting  and  winning 
pitched  battles,  until  his  gallant  career  was  finally 
arrested  by  the  treachery  of  his  own  foUowos  in 
Irdand,  where,  being  inveigled,  under  the  pretext 
of  entering  into  a  league  ot  amity,  he  was  assailed 
by  superior  numbers,  and  mortally  wounded.  His 
lordship,  who  is  termed  by  Matt.  Paris  "  the  fiower 
of  chivalry,*' died  hi  1S34,  and  was  buried  in  the  ora- 
tory of  the  Fliers  Minors,  at  Kilkenny.  Dying  un- 
married, his  estates  and  honours  devolved  upon  hie 
btother,' 

GILBERT  MARSHAL,  fourth  Earl  of  Pem- 
broke, who  was  restored  to  the  whole  of  the  late 
eerTs  hmds,  by  the  king,  although  he  had  taken 
part  in  the  proceedings  of  that  nobleman.  But  not- 
withstanding this  act  of  graces  his  lordship  never 
appears  to  have  been  cordially  reconciled  to  the 
crown.  His  death  ooeurred  In  1241,  and  was  ocea- 
sioned  by  a  isU  trotn  his  horse  at  a  tournament. 
He  had  «.  first,  Maiguet,  dati^ter  of  WUliam, 


MAB 


A(M.S 


King  0/ S«otkBd»ca<  Moondly,  llaadde  Utoratey  t 
bat  having  no  inuc*  he  was  «.  by  his  brother, 

WALTCE  H ARSHAL,  fifth  Earl  of  Pembroke. 
This  noblenMa  had  no  little  difficulty  in  obtaining 
lirery  of  his  inhsritaace,  for  when  he  came  to  do 
his  homage,  the  king  upbraided  him  with  the  in- 
Juries  he  had  soatalned  from  his  predecessors.  Firsti 
that  JEari  William,  his  liirtfaer,  had  traitorously 
suftred  Lewis  of  France  to  escape  out  of  England. 
Next,  that  Earl  Richard,  his  brother,  was  a  public 
enemy,  and  slain  in  fight  as  his  enemy.  That 
Gilbert,  his  brother,  to  whom  at  the  instance  of 
Edmund,  archbishop  of  Canterbury,  he  had  more 
through  grace  than  favour,  vouchsafed  livery  of 
his  lands,  had  against  his  express  prohibition,  met 
at  the  tournament,  wherein  he  was  killed.  **  And 
thou,'*  continued  the  king,  "  in  coatcsEfpt  of  me, 
wast  also  there.  With  what  fisce,  therefore,  canst 
thou  lay  claim  to  that  inheritance?'*  Whereupon 
Walter  replied:  "  Though  I  could  give  a  reasonable 
answer  to  what  you  have  said«  nevertheless  I  refer 
myself  solely  to  your  highness  You  have  hitherto 
been  gracious  to  me,  and  reputed  me  as  one  of  your 
flunily,  and  not  amongst  the  meanest  of  your  ser- 
vants. I  never  demerited  your  fkvour,  but  now,  tn 
being  at  this  tounuuneat  with  my  brother,  whom  I 
oouU  not  deny :  and  if  aU  who  were  there  should  be 
thus  disinherited,  you  would  raise  no  small  dia- 
turbence  in  your  reafan.  Far  be  it  ftom  a  good 
king,  that  Ishould  sufflbr  for  the  fimlu  of  all,  and 
that  amongst  so  great  a  number  be  the  first 
punished."  The  king  soon  after,  through  the  in- 
tercession  of  the  Bishop  of  Durham,  voudisafBd 
him  livery  of  the  earldom  and  marshal's  office^  His 
lordship  m.  Marguret,  daughter  and  heir  of  Robert 
de  Quincy,  but  dying  issueless  in  1946,  was  «.  by  his 
only  remaining  brother, 

ANSELHE  MARSHAL,  fifth  Earl  of  Pern- 
brok^  who  ei^oy^  ^be  honours  but  eighteen  days. 
He  4.  Mb  December,  IMS,  when  leaving  no  issue  by 
his  wife,  Maud,  daughter  of  Humphrey  de  Bohun, 
Earl  of  Herefbrd,  alx.  his  homourb  became  kx- 
riNCT— end  his  great  inheritence  devolved  upon 
his  sisters,  as  co-heirs— (refer  to  issue  of  the  first 
earl). 

ABii8.-^FBrty  per  pale  or.  and  vert,  a  lion  ram- 
pant gu.  armed  and  langued,  ax. 

These  arms  were  not  borne  untn  the  Ikmily  came 
to  be  Marshals  of  England,  prloc  to  which  period 
the  coat  was,  "  Or  a  bend  loaengfe  o^,^^ 

MARTIN- BARONS  MARTIN. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  nrd  June,  1295, 
S3  Edward  t. 

ICincage. 

The  first  of  this  family  upon  record,  is 

MARTIN  DE  TOURS,  a  Norman,  who,  mak- 
ing a  conquest  of  Kemyst,  in  Pembrokeshire, 
founded  a  monastery  for  benedictine  monks,  at  St. 
Dogmaels.  which  his  son  and  successor, 

ROBERT  MARTIN,  endowed  with  lands  in  the 
time  of  Henry  I.  This  Robert  m.  Maud  Peverell, 
and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  MARTIN.    This  feudal  lord  m.  the 


dgughter  of  RhMe  ap  Oiiflfai,   Prteoe  of  South 
Wales,  and  dying  in  1309,  was«.  by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  MARTIN,  who,  upon  the  decease  of 
his  CsthMBr,  paid  300  merits  for  livery  of  his  lands, 
and  dying  in  1915,  was  «.  by  his  son, 

NICHOLAS  MARTIN.  Thisfisudalkardespouaed 
Maud,  daughter  of  Guy  de  Brien,  and  Ev«,  his  wife, 
daughter  and  heir  of  Henry  de  Tracy,  Lordoffiara- 
staple,  in  the  county  of  Devon,  by  which  alliance  he 
acquired  that  lordship.  In  the  89th  Henry  IIL  this 
Nicholas  received  command  to  assist  the  Earl  of 
Glooester,  and  other  barons  mardhers,  against  the 
Wekh.  He  died  in  1282,  and  was  #.  by  his  grand- 
son, 

WILLIAM  MARTIN,  who,  being  in  the  Scot- 
tish wars,  was  summoned  to  parliament,  as  a  aARON, 
from  83rd  June,  1295,  to  10th  October,  1386.  His 
lordship  m.  Eleanor,  daughter  of  William  de  Mohun, 
and  had  issue, 

William,  his  successor. 
Eleanor,  ai.  to  William  de  C<^mberB. 
Joan,  m.  first,  to  Henry  de  Lacy,  Earl  of  Lin- 
oolnt  and  secondly,  to  Nicholas  de  Audley, 
by  whom  she  had  a  son, 
Jamxb  db  AuDLxy. 
He  d.  in  1385,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  MARTIN,  second  baron,  but  never 
lummoned  to  parliament.  His  lordship  d.  the  year 
after  he  inherited,  seised  of  the  whole  territory  of 
KjEMBTft,  which  he  held  of  the  king,  in  empitt,  by 
the  fourth  part  of  one  knight* s  tee.  Upon  the 
baron's  deoeaae  the  Babort  or  Mahtin  fdl  into 
ABXYAircx  between  his  heirs,  Eleanor  Columbers, 
his  sister,  and  James  de  Audley,  his  nephew,  as  it 
still  continues  with  their  representatives. 

AiiMB.-»Ar.  two  bars  gules. 

NoTB.— Of  this  femlly  the  MABTiwa,  ^  Lomg 
Mel/ord,  now  represented  by  Sir  Roger  Martin,  Ba- 
ronet, is  said  to  be  a  branch. 

MASHAM  -  BARONS  MASHAM,  OF 
OTE8,  IN  THE  COUNTV 
OF  ESSEX. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  31st  December,  1711. 

XtlUB^K. 

SIR  WILLIAM  MASHAM,  of  High-Laver,  in 
the  county  of  Essex,  (created  a  baronet  on  the  20th 
December,  1681,)  m.  Winifred,  daughter  of  Sir 
Frauds  Barrington,  Bart,  of  Barrington  Hall,  son 
of  Sir  Thomas  Barrington,  by  Winifred,  his  wife, 
widow  of  Sir  Thomas  Hastings,  and  second  daugh- 
ter and  co-heir  of  Henry  Pole,  Lord  Montagu,  (at- 
tainted and  beheaded  in  1539,)  eon  and  heir  of  Sir 
Ridurd  Pole,  K.G.,  by  his  wife  Blargaret,  Countess 
of  Salisbury,  daughter,  and  eventually  co-heir  of 
George  Plantagenet,  Duke  ot  Clarence,  younger 
brother  of  King  Edward  IV.  By  this  marriage  the 
fkmily  of  Masham  allied  itself  with  the  noblest 
blood  iu  the  reabn.  From  Sir  William  we  pass  to 
his  great  grandson, 

SIR  SAMUEL  MASHAM,  fourth  baronet,  who 
m,  Abigail,  daughter  of  FluncU  HID,  Esq.,  a  turkey 
merchant,  and  sister  of  Genersl  John  HilL  This 
lady  was  nearly  rdated  to  the  odebrated  Sarah, 

34» 


MAU 


MAU 


DadMN  of  llttlborouf  h,  and  «ai  introduced  by 
her  grace,  whom  ihe  eventually  lupplanted,  to  the 
notice  ct  Queen  Anne.  Sir  Samuel,  who  was  an 
eighth  §oa,  was  originally  a  page  to  the  queen, 
wliilst  Princev  of  Denmark,  and  alio  one  of  the 
equerries,  and  gentlemen  of  the  bed-chamber  to 
Prince  George.  Upon  the  discomflture  of  the 
Marlborough  party,  and  the  eetabliahment  of  his 
wife  as  tlie  reigning  fivourite,  he  was  elcTated  to 
the  peerage  3lst  December,  1711*  as  Babon  Ma- 
BHAM,  cfOtu,  in  the  eountif  Iff  E»a«M !  and  having 
had  a  grant  in  reversion  of  the  ofllce  of  remem- 
brancer of  the  exchequer,  succeeded  to  that  post  on 
the  death  of  Lord  Fanshaw  in  17I&  His  lordship 
had  issue, 

Oeoige,  who  died  #.  pu  in  the  Ufe-time  of  his 

father. 
Samvbl,  successor  to  the  title. 
Francis,  died  «.  pu   in  the  life-time  of  his 

father. 
Anne,  m.  to  Henry  Hoere,    Esq.,  and  had 
issue, 

Susannah,  m.  first,  to  Charles,  Viscount 
Dungarvon,  and  secondly,  to  Thomas, 
first  Earl  of  Aylesbury. 
Anne,  m.  to  Sir  Richard  Hoare,  Bart. 
Elisabeth,  d.  unmarried  in  1724. 
Lord  Masham  died  in  1758,  and  was  «.  by  his  <»ily 
surviving  son, 

SAMUEL  MASHAM,  second  baion.  This  noble- 
man m.  first,  Harriet,  daughter  of  Salway  Winning- 
ton,  Esq.,  of  Stanford  Court,  in  the  county  of  Wor- 
cester, by  whom  (who  d.  in  1761,)  he  had  no  issue. 
He  espoused,  secondly.  Miss  Dives,  one  of  the 
maids  of  honour  to  the  dowager  Princess  of  Wales, 
but  had  no  issue.  His  lordship,  who  filled  several 
public  employments,  died  in  1776,  when  the  Ba- 
rony OP  Masham  became  sxtiitct. 

ARMa.— Or.  a  fesse  humette  gu.  between  two  lions 
passant  sa. 

MAUDUIT— EARL  OF  WARWICK. 

See  Newburgh,  Earls  of  Warwick. 

MAUDUIT— BARON  MAUDUIT. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  ISth  September,  1348» 
16  Edward  III. 

Of  the  seme  family  as  William  Mauduit,  Earl  of 
Warwick,  was  (according  to  Dugdale,) 

JOHN  MAUDUIT,  who,  in  the  8th  of  Ed- 
ward  IL,  had  a  military  summons,  amongst  other 
great  men,  to  march  against  the  Scots,  and  was 
engaged  for  some  yeers  afterwards  in  the  wars  of 
Scotland.  In  the  3rd  Edward  IIL  he  was  consti- 
tuted sheriff  of  Wiltshire,  and  governor  of  the  castle 
of  Old  Sarum;  and  was  summoned  to  parliament 
as  a  BARON  on  the  12th  September,  1342,  but  not 
afterwards.  In  the  Uth  of  the  same  reign  his 
lordships  obtained  a  charter  for  fkee  warren  in  all 
his  demesne  lands  at  Faxnhull,  Somerford,  Maduit, 
Funtel,  and  Uptde,  in  the  county  of  WUts,  as  also 
344 


at  Stanlake  and  BroughUm,  in  OxHordshlie^    His 
lordship  d.  in  1347,  leaving  a  son  and  heir, 

JoBN  Maubuit,  but  neither  this  John,  nor 
any  of  his  posteritya  were  ever  summonal 
to  parliament,  nor  deemed  barons  of  the 
realm. 
The  Babony  op  Mavdvit  is  therefore  presumed 
to  have  become  bxtinct  upon  the  demise  of  the  said 
John,  Lord  Mauduit. 
Arus.— Ar.  two  bars  gules. 

MAULEY— BARONS  MAULEY. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  28rd  June^  UW, 
83rd  Edward  L 

The  first  mention  of  this  name  and  funily  occurs 
shortly  after  the  decease  of  King  Richard  I.,  when 
his  brother  John,  Earl  of  Moreton,  to  clear  his 
own  way  to  the  throne,  employed  PetCT  de  Mauley, 
a  Poictovin,  his  esquire,  to  murder  his  nephew. 
Prince  Arthur,  of  Britanny,  and  in  reward  of  the 
foul  deed,  gave  to  the  said 

PETER  DE  MAULEY,  in  marriage,  Isabel, 
daughter  of  Robert  de  Tumham,  and  heiress  of 
the  Barony  of  Mulgraveu  This  Peter,  throughout 
the  whole  reign  of  King  John,  adhering  to  his  royal 
master,  obtained  considerable  grants  from  the 
crown,  and  was  esteemed  amongst  the  evil  advisers 
of  the  king.  In  the  hei^t  of  the  baronial  war, 
moat  of  the  prisoners  of  rank  were  committed  to 
his  custody,  and  he  was  constituted,  (18th  John,) 
sheriff  of  the  counties  of  Dorset  and  Somenet.  In 
the  4th  of  Henry  III.,  upon  the  coronation  of  thitt 
monarch,  Peter  de  Mauley  had  summons  to  assist 
thereat,  and  to  bring  with  him  the  regalia,  then  in 
his  custody,  at  Corfe  Castle,  which  had  been  en- 
trusted to  him  by  King  John ;  and  the  next  year, 
being  again  sheriff  of  the  counties  nt  Somerset  and 
Dorset,  he  ddivered  up  the  Castle  of  Corfe  to  the 
king,  with  Alianore,  the  king's  kinswoman,  and 
Isabel,  sister  to  the  king  of  Scots,  as  well  as  all  the 
jewels,  military  engines,  and  ammunition  there^ 
which  the  late  monarch  had  formerly  committed 
to  his  custody.  Soon  after  this,  he  was  made  go- 
vernor of  Sherburne  Castle,  in  the  county  of  Dorset, 
and  d.  in  1221,  was  «.  by  his  son, 

PETER  DE  MAULEY,  who  givfaig  one  hun- 
dred marks  for  his  relief,  had  livery  of  his  lands. 
Amongst  the  causesof  discontent  avowed  by  Richard 
MareschaiDn  his  contest  with  Henry  III.  was,  that 
the  king  by  the  advice  of  foreigners,  had  dlspoaseseed 
Gilbert  Basset,  a  great  baron  of  the  time,  of  the 
manor  of  Nether-Haven,  in  the  county  of  Wilts* 
end  conferred  it  upon  this  Peter  de  Mauley.    The 
king,  nevertheless,  continuing  his  favour  to  Peter* 
constituted  him  governor  of  the  castle  of  Devises* 
and  the  next  yeer  (90th  Henry  III.),  made  him 
sheriff  of  NorUiamptonshire.    Moreover,  in  1839« 
he  was  one  of  the  godfathers,  at  the  baptismal  font 
to  Prince  Edward,  (the  king's  ddest  son,)  and  in 
1241  he  accompanied  William  de  Fortibus,  Earl  of 
Albemarle,  and  divers  other  noUe  persons,  to  the 
Holy  Land.    This  feudal  lord  m.  Joane,  daughter 
of  Peter  de  Brus,  of  Skelton,  and  d.  in  1S48.    Upon 
his  decease  Gerard  le  Grue,  paid  five  hundred  marka 


MAt; 


MEI 


for  thb  fm»9'f>t  hit  lands,  and  had  the  custody  of 
the  castle  of  MulgraTe}  maintaining  his  widow 
with  necessaries;  keeping  the  buildings  in  repair; 
and  not  committing  waste  in  the  woods.  Peter  de 
Maukj  was  •,  by  his  son, 

PETER  DE  MAULEY,  (commonly  called  the 
TBiRD,)  who  doing  his  homage  in  the  31st  Henry 
III.,  had  UTery  of  his  lands.  In  the  48nd  oi  the 
same  reign,  the  Scots  having  made  a  prisoner  of 
their  King  Alexander  III.,  (son-in-law  (XT  the  English 
monarch,)  Peter  de  Mauley  receiTed  summons 
with  the  other  northern  barons  to  fit  himself  with 
horse  and  arms,  for  the  relief  of  the  Scottish  prince. 
He  m.  Nidiola,  dau^ter  of  Gilbert  de  Gant,  son  of 
Gilbert,  Earl  of  Lincoln,  end  had  issue, 
PsTSB,  his  successor. 

Edmund,  a  very  eminent  person  in  the  reigns 
of  Edward  I.  and  II.,  and  greatly  distin- 
guished in  the  Scottish  wars.  He  had  a 
grant  of  the  manor  of  Seton,  in  the  county 
c€  York.  He  was  successively  governor  Ol 
the  castle  of  Bridgenorth,  of  the  town  and 
castle  of  Bristol,  and  the  castle  of  Cocker- 
mouth.  He  fell  at  the  battle  of  Bannock- 
bum,  and  dying  «.  jk,  his  estates  passed  to 
his  nephew, 

Petier  de  Mauley. 
He-was  «.  at  his  decease  by  his  elder  son, 

PETER  DE  MAULEY,  (called  the  fourth,)  who, 
in  the  7th  Edward  I.,  doing  his  homage,  and  paying 
£100  for  his  relief,  had  Uvery  of  aU  his  lands,  which 
he  held  of  the  king  in  capiie,  by  barony  of  the 
Inheritance  of  William  Possard  (whose  grand-daugh.- 
ter  and  heir,  Isabel  de  Tnmham,  was  wife  of  the 
ttnX  Peter  de  Mauley).  This  fisudal  lord  havtaig 
been  engaged  in  the  Welsh  and  Scottish  wars,  was 
summoned  to  parliament  as  a  babon  by  King  Ed- 
ward I.  on  the  8Srd  June,  1295,  and  he  had  regular 
summons  from  that  period  to  the  18th  December, 
laoa  In  the  26th  Edward  I.  his  lordship  was  in  the 
expedition  then  made  into  Gascony,  and  in  con- 
sideration of  his  good  services  there,  obtained  from 
the  king,  a  grant  of  the  marriage  of  Thomas,  the 
son  and  heir  of  Thomas  de  Multon,  of  GiUesland, 
deceased.  For  several  years  after  this  he  was  activdy 
employed  in  the  warlSue  of  Scotland.  His  lordship 
m.' Eleanor,  daughter  of  Thomas,  Lord  FumivaL 
and  dying  in  1310,  was  s.  by  his  too, 

SIR  PETER  DE  MAULEY,  K.B.,  second  baron, 
summoned  to  parliament  trcm.  UHh  December,  1311, 
to  15th  March,  1354.  This  nobleman  was  for  several 
years  actively  engaged  in  the  wars  ot  Scotland,  and 
was  a  commander  at  the  battle  of  Durham,  (20th 
Edward  III.,)  wherein  the  Scots,  under  their  king, 
David  Brus,  sustained  so  signal  a  defeat,  the  mo- 
narch himself  being  made  prisoner.  His  lordship  m. 
Margaret,  daughter  of  Robert,  Lord  GUHbrd,  and 
dying  in  1365,  was  s.  by  his  son, 

PETER  DE  MAULEY,  third  baron,  summoned 
to  parliament  fhmi  SOth  September,  1365,  to  7th 
January,  1383.  This  nobleman,  in  the  30th  Edward 
IIL,  shared  in  the  glorious  victory  of  Poxctibbs, 
and  in  three  years  afterwards  he  was  in  the  expedi- 
tion then  made  in  Gascony.  In  the  41st  of  the  same 
reign  he  was  Joined  in  commission  with  the  Bishop 
of  Durham,  Henry,  Lord  Percy,  and  others,  for 


guarding  the  marches  of  Scotland  i  and  again,  in 
the  3d  Richard  II.,  with  the  Earl  of  Northumber- 
land.  His  lordaUp  m.  flrst,  in  the  31st  Edward  III., 
BUaabeth,  widow  of  John,  Lord  Darey,  and  daugh- 
ter and  heir  of  Nicholas,  Lord  MeiniU,  without 
licence,  for  which  office  he  paid  a  fine  of  £100,  and 
obtained  pardon.  He  espoused,  secondly,  Constance, 
one  of  the  daughters  and  co-heirs  of  Thomas  de 
Sutton,  of  Sutton,  in  Holdemess,  and  had  issue,  (by 
which  wife  not  known,) 

Peter,  who  m.  Margery,  one  of  the  daughteti 
and  co-heirs  of  Sir  Thomas  de  Sutton,  Knt., 
and  dying  in  the  life-time  of  his  father,  left 
issue, 

Pbtbb,  successor  to  \i^  grandflither. 
Constance,  m.  flrst,  to  wmiam  Fairlkx, 
by  whom  she  had  ho  issue,  and  se- 
condly, to  Sir  John  Bigot. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  George  Salvia,  Esq., 
ftom  whom,  we  believe,  the  present 
WiUiam    Thomas    Salvln,    Esq.,    of 
Croxdale,  in  the  county  of  Durham, 
(one  of   the   most  ancient  Catholic 
fiunilies,)  derives. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1383,  seised  of  the  manor  and 
castle  of  Mulgrave;  the  manor  of  Doncaster  with 
its  members  I  and  a  moiety  of  the  manor  of  Helagh, 
all  in  the  county  of  York.    He  was  s.  by  his  grand- 
son, 

PETER  DE  MAULEY,  fourth  baron,  who, 
making  proof  ot  his  age  in  the  29d  Richard  II.,  had 
livery  of  the  Isndsof  his  inheritance,  as  well  as  those 
derived  ftom  his  grandfather,  as  Arom  Thomas,  his 
uncle.  This  nobleman  was  made  a  Knight  of  the 
Bath  at  the  coronation  of  King  Henry  IV.,  and  was 
summoned  to  parliament  ftom  18th  August,  13B9, 
to  19th  August,  1415.  His  lordship  m.  the  Lady 
Maud  Nevil,  daughter  of  Ralph,  Earl  ot  Westmor- 
land, but  d.  in  1415,  without  issue,  when  his  sisters 
(reflsr  to  issue  of  third  baron)  became  his  heirs, 
and  between  thoee  the  Baboitt  or  Mavlbv  foil 
into  abbtakcb,  as  It  still  continues  amongst  their 
represenutives.  In  the  distribution  of  the  Mauley 
estates,  Leland  sayi,  "  Bigot  had  the  castle  of 
Maugreve,  (Mulgrave,)  with  eight  tounelettes  ther- 
about  the  se  cost  kmgging  to  it,  whereof  Seton 
thereby  was  one.  Saulwayne  had,  for  his  part,  the 
Barony  ia  Eggeston  on  Eske,  not  for  fhmi  Whitby  i 
also  Lokington-Barugh,  not  for  flrom  Watton-on- 
Hull  ryver;  Nesseark,  and  the  lordship  of  Dohcas- 
ter.- 
Abm B.*— Or.  a  bend  sa. 

MEINILI^BARON  MEINILL. 

By  Writ  oi  Summons,  dated  8Srd  June,  18M« 
83  Edward  I. 

Xittcagf. 

About  the  close  ol  King  Henry  T.*s  reign, 

ROBERT  DE  MEINEL,  bestowed  certain  lands 
upon  the  monks  of  St.  Mary's  Abbey,  at  York, 
which  his  son  and  successor, 

STEPHEN  DE  MEINEL,  ratified.  In  the  85th 
Henr^  II.  this  Stephen  was  fined  £100  for  trespass- 
ing in  the  forests  o£  Yorkshire.  He  d,  about  the 
8d  Richard  I.,  and  was  s.  by  his  elder  son, 

8  Y  SIS 


JlfEI 


11JB8 


..  ROBERT  DE  MBiNEL.  who  m.  Bntne»  dMa^ 
tec  of  Richard  de  MMXtime,  and  hadawD,*  Stb- 
ramn,  who  piaAecaiMd  Um,  laaTiikg  a  m», 

NICHOLAS  DE  MBINEL,  who  «.  hia  gmid- 
Ikthar  in  thaBth  Kiag  John.-  This  NieholM  wa»  in 
the  Wdah  wan*  and  in  comidnation  of  hitatrvins 
liad  a  dabt  of  one  hundred  marks  remitted  by  Kiaf 
Edward  I.,  beddei  obtainiag  grants  of  free  warzeft 
thMyughoutall  hia  lends  and  lordships  in  the  county 
of  York.  In  the  year  1290  he  brought  a  chacge 
against  Christian,  hto  wife,  of  an  intent  to  poiion 
Mm,  and  although  she  dearly  established  her  inno- 
(Bence,  he  relWed  ever  afterwards  to  be  reconciled 
to  her.  In  the  SSd  Edward  III.  he  had  summons, 
amongst  many  otlwr  pemons  of  note,  to  attend  the 
king,  to  adTise  about  the  aflhirs  of  Uienedm;  and 
he  was  sununened  to  parliament  as  a  raron  from 
the  a3d  June,  1S95,  to  6th  February,  1399,  during 
whidi  inttfral  he  took  a  prominent  part  tn  the  wars 
of  Scotland.  His  lordahtp  dL  in  1290,  without  legiti- 
mate issue,  when  Jomr  liaiKiLi.,  his  brother,  was 
found  to  be  his  heir,  and  the  9AnoHY  or  Mkinill 
became  nzTiircT. 

AaMS.— As.  three  bats  gemels,  ami  a  chief,  or. 

M£INILI>-.BARON  MEINILL. 

By  Writ  ci  Summons,  dated  SSnd  May,  1313, 
6  Edward  II. 

NICHOLAS  DE  MEINILL,  Baron  MciniU,  who 
dL  in  1290  without  legitimate  issue,  when  his  SAaoNy 
expired*  left  by  Lucie,  hie  concubine,  daughter 
and  heir  to  Robert  de  Thweng*  a  natural  son, 

NICHOLAS  DE  MEINILL,  who  doing  his 
homage,  had  livery  of  divers  lordships  and  lands 
which  had  been  settled  upon  him.  This  feudal 
lord  was  frequently  in  the  Scottish  wan  in  the 
reigns  of  Edward  I.  and  Edward  IL,  and  was  sum- 
moned to  parliament  as  a  babok  by  the  latter  mo- 
narch from  22d  May,  1313,  tu  14th  March,  1322.  His 
knrdship  d.  in  the  latter  year  without  issue,  when 
the  Babomy  or  Mbiivii.x.  became  again  axTiircT. 
His  estates  devolved  upon  his  brother, 

Joan  Hmmihh,  whese  gnnd-daai^iler, 
▲Lien  Mbinill,  eventually  conveyed  them 
to  her  husband,  Jonir  om  Boubtov. 
three  bars  gemels,  and  a  chid^  or. 


MEINILL— BARON  MEINILL. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  22nd  January,  1330, 
9  Edward  III. 

ICimaQf. 

NICHOLAS  DE  MEINILL.  called  by  Dugdale. 
the*"  chief  of  the  family,**  but  how  related  to  the 
other  Barons  Meinin  does  not  appear,  was  sum- 
moned to  parliament «  a  barok  from  22d  January, 
1396,  to  25th  Fefaruaiy.  1342.  This  nobleman  pee- 
large  estatm  tn  Yorkshires  one  of  w4»icfa.  the 


of  WlMMTOv,  he  hdid  ^  the  AtckUsbap 
ef  Canterbury,  by  the  teauieof  mrving  him  vAA 
the  cup,  in  whIdi  he  should  drink  upon  the  day  of 
his  inthronisation,  snd  receiving  the  fem  fc«'*Migt*'g 
to  that  office.  His  lordship  m.  AUoe,.  danghlcr  of 
William,  Lord  Roe,  of  Hamlake,  end  left  an  only 
daughter  and  hetrem, 

Elisabbth^  who  espoused,  flnt.  John,  aeoond 
Baron  Darcy,  and  conveyed  the  BAnectv  ow 
MBiirii.1.  to  the  Dercy  fimiily,  in  whkh 
it  remained  until  the  deceam  of  PUHp, 
ricventh  Baron  Darcy»  in  1418,  when,  wiA 
the  Barony  of  Darcy,  it  fell  into  ABBTAircn 
between  his  lordship's  danghten  snd  co- 
heirs. 
Elisabeth  MeiniU  eipoused,  secondly,  Feter, 

sixth  Baron  Mauley. 
Her  ladyship  d.  In  the  42d  Edward  III. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1342,  when   the   BAneMV  or 
MBiirii.1.  devolved  as  stated  aboive  upon  his  daugh- 
ter, ELisABBTfl,  who  espoused  Lord  Darcy. 

«*  Although,"  mys  Nicolas,  *'  the  abeyance  of  the 
Baronim  of  Meinill  and  Daicy  has  never  been  ter- 
mineted,  yet  Conyen  Darcy,  second  Baron  Darcy, 
under  the  patent  of  10th  August,  1641,  and  Baron 
Craiyers,  in  right  of  hia  gnndmodier,  probable, 
under  the  presumption  that  the  said  ]|atent  not 
only  restored  the  ancient  barony  ef  Darcy,  but  alao 
that  of  Meinill,  wm  styled,  in  the  writs  of  summons 
to  parUament  of  7th  October,  31  Car.  2, 1679^  and 
1st  March,  3Ut  March,  1680,  '  Conyen  Daacie  de 
Dmde  and  MeiniU,  Chl'r.'  He  wm  cxeated  Bad  of 
HoMecnem  in  16B2,  which  title,  as  weU  m  the 
Barony  of  Darcy,  created  by  the  patent  of  1641, 
became  azTiircT  in  1778;  but  it  is  manifmt  that 
theamumption  of  the  title  of  the  Barony  of  MeinlU 
was  without  any  legal  foundation." 
ABxa.— As.  three  ban  gemels,  and  a  diief  ,  or. 

MESCHINES,  EARLS  OF  CHESTE&. 
By  Inheritanca*  anno  IIUL 

HUGH  <LUPUS,)   DB  ABRINCIS.   the 
brafeed  Earl  of  Chmter,  had  four  sisters,  via. 
1.  Judith,  m.  to  Richard  de  Aqulta. 

S. ,  m.  to  WilKera»  Earl  of  Ewe. 

&  Isabel,  m.  to  Gllbeit,  a  younger 


•  He  had  alio  a  naturali 

koBsnT  Mnmu.,  who  m,  Agnm,  lister  and 
heir  of  Adam  de  HiUon,  of  Hi]mo,in  Cleve- 
land, from  whom  the  MeiaiUa  in  them 
pa^ 
4«l 


of 

Richard,  Earl  of  Corboil,  in  Normandy, 

andhedianie, 

RoBsnT,  who,  for  his  attadment  to 
Robert  deStaflbrd,  and  the  king's 
vice  in  those  parts^  u  also  **  latii 
consanguinitaif'  held  PeshaH*  in 
county  of  Stsflbrd,  with  its  appnrtfr 
nances,  anno  1088,  from  whither  he 
*asBumed  that  surname,  and  is  said  ta 
have  been  ancestor  to  the  family  al 
PsaaAUb,  created  baronet  in  ltl9. 
4  Ma«d»  mu  to  Ralph  de  Ma 


RANULPH  DE  MESCUINES,  auzaamed  ds 
BHsnaerd,  Viseount  Bayenx,  in  Normandy*  upon 
whom  King  Henry  I.  oonfoned  the  Eabubom  ov 
Cnaarnn,  at  the  deeeaaaof  hiaftrst  cousin,  Richard 
deAbrinds,  second  Earl  of  Cheatm  of  that  tenlly. 


JiE8 


\  vritfaovt  ftnvflw  By 
MiMiWMn  to  styted  Eari  of 
ftomiaiiaiag ia  that  dtyt  and  they  Anther 
that  ha  oane  over  in  the  tram  of  the  Oon^i 
aaatoted  in  the  eal^igatton  of  England,  and  ahared, 
mi  ooucie,  hi  the  i|»aU  ot  oonqneat.  He  waa  Lord 
of  Cumhcitond  and  Carlisle,  by  daioent  ftom  hfa 
AnImt,  bnt  haiTiiy  ■■imJtiil  hto  two  bratfaera,  Wil- 
liam, of  Ooopland,  and  Oeflhry,  of  GittBaland,  hi  a 
large  portkm  thereof,  he  wrrhaogeil  the  EarUom  of 
Cnaaberland  for  that  of  Charter,  on  oondition,  that 
Ahoae  whom  he  had  fetttedthMe^  should  hold  their 
taods  of  the  Ung  "  to  oap<«>."  Hto  lordship  m. 
Luda,  widow  of  Roger  de  Romera,  Earlcrf  Linoofai, 
and  daughter  of  Algar,  Sarlof  Merda,  and  had  issue* 

RajtoiiPH,  hto  succenwr* 

WUUam,  styled  £ail  of  CanHnUge,  but  of  hto 


m.  to  Richard  nt»JOiUMrt, 
of  the  (rid  Earto  of  Clare. 

I,  m.  to  Robert  de  CSrenteoiaiaBU. 
rlA  In  llflB,  and  was  «.  by  hto  elder  eon, 
RANULPH  DE  MBSCHINBS.  (sumamed  de 
On  imw,  f lom  being  been  in  Gemon  Castle,  in  Nor> 
naandy,)  as  Eakl  or  Cnnsrsn.  Thto  noUeman, 
)  a  laartfag  military  ehacactar,  tooii  an  active 
wMh  the  Empren  Maud,  and  the  young  Primee 
Hawnr  agataat  Kfaig  Stephen,  in  the  early  part 
of  the  oonteet,  and  baring  defeated  the  king,  and 
made  hhn  prisoner  at  the  battle  of  Unooln,  oem- 
mltted  him  to  the  castie  of  BristoL  He  snbse> 
qneatly.  however,  sided  wkh  the  king,  and  flnaHy. 
dtotmeted  by  all,  died,  mnder  exooramuaication,  ia 
11J8,  snpposed  to  have  been  poisoned  by  William 
Feverdl,  liord  of  Notdaghsan,  who  being  snspecled 
of  the  crime,  to  said  to  have  tamed  monk*  to  avoid 
its  puniriuneat.  The  eari  m.  Maud,  daughter  of 
Robert,  samamwi  «b«  eoiMtil,  Earl  of  GloaosBtar, 
aatuial  son  of  King  Henry  I.,  and  had  issue, 

Hven,  hto  suooessor,  sumamed  KeMffoXr,  ftom 

the  place  of  hto  birth,  hi  Maionethshire. 
Richard. 

Beatrix,  m.  to  Ralph  de  Malpas. 
Hto  lordship  w«  «.  by  hto  elder  eon, 

HUGH  (Kevillok),  third  Earl  of  Chester.  Thto 
nobleman  joined  in  the  rebellion  of  the  Earl  of  Lei- 
oaster  end  the  king  of  Scots,  against  King  Henry  II., 
and  hi  sappoit  of  that  moBardi*B  aoa,  iVines 
HajraTla  pretensions  to  the  crown.  In  which  pro- 
ceediag  he  was  taken  prisoner,  with  the  Earl  of 
d;«eioesler,  at  Alnwick,  but  obtained  his  flnedom 
eoon  afterwards,  vpon  the  king's  reeondliatlon  with 
the  yoong  prince.  Again,  however,  hoisting  the 
ataadard  of  revolt,  both  in  Eni^and  and  in  -Nor- 
maady,  with  as  little  saooess,  he  was  again  seiaed, 
and  then  detained  a  prisoner  for  some  years.  He 
eventually,  however,  obtalnedt  hto  liberty  and  re- 
storation of  hto  lands,  when  public  tranquillity 
became  completely  re-established  s<»ie  time  about 
the  twenty-third  ymr  of  the  kfaig*STcign.  Htolord- 
Bhip  fM.  Bertred,  daughter  of  Sfanon,  Earl  of  Eve- 
teux.  In  Normandy,  and  had  issue, 
Raitulph,  hto  suooessor. 
Maud,  m.  to  David,  Earl  of  Huntii^don, 
brother  of  William,  king  of  Scotland,  and 
kad  one  eon  and  foar  daughters,  via. 


L  JoflM,  eamamed  Lt  ««*., 

oeeded  to  the  EaiMom  of  Cheshire. 
1.  Maigavett  m.  to  Alan  de  Galloway,  and 
had  tome, 

Divorgal,  m,  toJohndeBaliol,aBd 
w»  mother  of  Jobk  ds  BjosIM^ 
<lecto>od  Idag  of  Sootland  in  the 
reign  of  Edward  I. 
Chitotiaa,  in.to  William  de  Fovti- 
bas.  Earl  of  Albemarle,  and  died 
«.p. 

m.  to  Robert  de  Brus,  and  wm 
aaother  of  Robbbt  na  Bam.  who  con- 
tended fbr  the  crown  of  Scotland  temp. 
Edward  I. 

Maud,  d,  unmarried. 
Ada,  Ml.  to  Henry  de  Hastings,  and  had 


9.  Isabel, 


a. 

4. 


HannY  na  HAoriMoa,  one  of  the 
oompetitonfor  the  Scottish  crown 
temp.  EdwMcd  I. 
Mabili.  «.  to  Wflliam  de  AJUai,   Earl  of 

AruadeL 
Agnes,  m,  to  WUUam  de  Ferrers,   Earl  of 

Derby. 
Hawise,  m.  to  Ririiert,  son  of  Sayer  de  Quincy, 
Earl  of  WhKhester. 
The  earl  had  another  daughter,  whose  legitimacy 
to  questionablek  namely, 

Amicia,  m.  to  Ralph  de  Mesallwaria,  Justioe  of 
Chester,  ««a  person,"  says  Dugdale.  "of 
very  ancient  Ibmily,"  fnm  which  union  the 
Meinwarlngi,  of  Over  Peovcr.  in  the  oounty^ 
of  Chester,  derive.  Dugdale  considers  Ami> 
da  to  be  a  daughter  of  the  eerl  by  a  fbrmer 
wife.  But  Sir  Peter  Lrioester,  in  hto  Anti- 
quities of  Cheddre,  totally  denies  her  legiti- 
macy. *«  I  cannot  but  midike,**  says  hOb 
*'  the  boldness  and  ignorance  of  that  herakU 
who  gave  to  Mainwarlng,  (late  of  Peover.} 
the  elder,  the  quarteriag  of  the  Earlof  Chee- 
tar's  arms ;  for  if  he  ought  of  right  to  quai^ 
ter  that  coat,  then  must  he  be  descended 
flrom  a  co-heir  to  the  Earl  of  Chester :  but 
he  was  not  t  for  the  co-heirs  of  Earl  Hugh 
■serried  four  of  the  greatest  peers  in  the 
kingdom."* 
The  Earl  d.  at  Leeke.  in  Staflbidshire,  in  1181,  and 
was  «.  by  hto  ooly  sod, 

RANULPH,  sunuuned  BlwndnU,  <or  rather 
Blandevil,  tnm  the  place  of  hto  birth,  the  town  cT 
jMum  MmMiterium,  modem  Oswestry,  ia  Powis,) 
»  fourth  Eakx.  op  CHaaTsa.  Thto  nobleman  wm 
made  a  knight  ia  1188,  by  King  Henry  IL,  and  the 
seme  monarch  bmtowed  upon  him  in  marriage. 
CoaaTAvca.  Countess  ot  Bzitaany,  daughter  and 


•  Upon  the  question  of  thto  lady's  legitimacy 
there  wm  a  kng  paper  war  between  Sir  Peter  Lei- 
cester end  Sir  Thomas  Mainwaring— and  eventually 
the  matter  was  referred  to  the  Judges,  of  whose  de- 
cision Wood  mys,  "  At  an  asslu  hekl  at  Chester 
1675,  the  coutrovCTsy  was  dedded  by  the  Justices 
itinerant,  who,  m  I  have  heard,  a4h><lf«d  the  right 
of  the  matter  to  Mainwariag." 


UES 


of  Gtomm,  EAmb  or  Bbitam kt,  and  wldov 
of  Uag  Hearf*  ton  (Mbmf,  with  the  whole  of 
Bituony*  and  the  Earldom  of  Richiaond,  whercfoce 
he  It  deiignatwl  hi  most  chaiten,  <*  Duke  of  Bri- 
tanay  and  Eail  of  Ridunond.**  In  the  4th  of 
JEUchard  I.  we  find  his  lordship  aiding  David.  Earl 
ci  Huntingdon,  and  the  Earl  Ferren*  In  the  siege 
of  Marlborough,  then  held  fbr  John,  Earl  of  More- 
ton,  the  king's  hrother;  and  in  xwo  years  after- 
wards with  .the  same  parties,  besiaging  tliecasUeof 
Nottingham.  In  which  latter7car  he  was  also  with 
the  army  of  King  Richard  in  Normandy,  and  so 
■highly  was  he  anefimml  by  the  Hoo-heartfd  mo- 
narch, that  he  was  selected  to  Vmx  one  of  the  three 
swords  at  his  seoood  oorooatiOD.  In  the  oommenoe- 
uent  of  King  John's  reign  his  lordship  dlToroed  his 
Wilis  Constance,  «*  by  reason,"  saith  Dugdale,  **  that 
the  king  haunted  her  company,"  and  espoused  de- 
mentia, daughter  of  Ralph  de  Fuegers,  widow  oi 
Alan  de  Dinant,  and  niece  of  William  de  Humet, 
constable  of  Normandy,  with  whom  he  acquired 
not  only  a  large  accession  of  landed  propeity  in 
France,  but  some  extensive  manors  in  England.  In 
the  6th  of  John  his  lordship  had  a  grant  from  the 
crown  of  ail  the  lands  belonging  to  the  honour  of 
Richmond,  in  Richmondshire,  excepting  a  small 
proportion,  which  the  king  retained  in  his  own 
hands ;  and  he  gare  in  the  same  year  to  the  king  a 
palfrey  for  a  lamprey,  whidi  shews  the  Talue  of  that 
description  of  fish  in  those  days. 

This  was  the  earl,  who,  marddng  into  Wales  too 
slenderly  attended,  was  compelled  to  take  refuge  in 
Rothelan  Castle,  in  Flintshire;  and  being  there* 
closely  invested  by  the  Wdsh,  was  ddivcred  fkom 
his  precarious  situation  by  the  rabble,  whidi  then 
happened  to  have  been  assembled  at  the  Csir  of 
ChMter.  For  sending  to  Roger  de  Lacy,  Baron  of 
Helton,  Ms  constable  of  Cheshire,  to  come  with  aU 
speed  to  his  succour,  Roger,  (suraamed  Hell,  from 
his  fiery  spirit,)  gathered  a  tumultuous  rout  of  fid- 
dlers, players,  cobblers,  debaudied  penons,  both 
men  and  women,  and  mardied  immediately  towards 
the  earl ;  when  the  Wdsh,  descrying  so  numerous 
a  multitude  advancing,  at  once  raised  the  siege,  and 
sought  safety  in  flight  Wherefore  the  carl  con- 
ferred upon  the  constable  patronage  over  all  the 
fiddlers  and  shoemakers  in  Chester,  in  reward  and 
memory  of  this  service.  Of  which  patronage  De 
Lacy  retained  to  himself  and  his  heirs  that  of  the 
shoemakers,  and  granted  the  fiddlers  and  players  to 
his  steward,  Dvttoiv,  of  Dvtton,  whose  heirs  still 
eqjoy  the  privilagew  For  upon  Midsummer-day, 
annually,  the  fair  of  Chester,  a  Duttoo,  or  his 
deputy,  rides  attended  through  the  city  of  Cheater, 
by  all  the  minstrelsy  of  the  county,  playing  upon 
their  several  instruments,  to  the  church  of  St. 
John's,  where  a  court  is  hdd  for  the  renewal  of 
their  licences. 

In  the  conflicts  between  John  and  the  barons  the 
Earl  of  Chester  remained  stoutly  attached  to  the 
former,  and  It  was  through  his  exertions  chiefly 
that  Henry  III.  ascended  the  throne.  Of  which  an 
old  HoivK  or  PsTnaBoaouoB  gives  the  following 
narrative;— 

<•  Upon  the  death  of  King  John,  the  great  men  of 
England  fearing  that  the  son  would  toUlow  his 
34« 


CMhai's  stape  la  tyxamiy  over  the  people,  resolved 
to  extirpate  him,  and  aU  of  his  blood,  not  oonaidap> 
ing  that  saying  of  the  prophet,  via.,  *  That  ths 
won  8HAL1.  MOT  aurmn  roa  trs  migmrT  or 
THs  raTHSB.'  And  to  that  end  determined  to  sot 
up  Lnwas,  son  to  the  king  of  France,  <a  youth 
than  but  fourteen  years  old,)  in  his  steed;  whom, 
at  the  instance  of  the  rebellious  barons,  that  king, 
for  the  purpooe  alleged,  sent  over  into  En^and,  la 
the  last  year  of  King  John,  under  the  tuition  of  the 
Earl  of  Perdi,  and  other  great  men  of  that  realm. 
Who  having  landed  himself  in  En^and  aooardta^(ly, 
and  received  homage  of  the  Londoners,  expecting 
the  like  ttom  the  southern  noMUty,  advanced  to 
LIncolne.  Which  being  made  known  to  the  Eari  of 
Chester,  who  did  abominate  any  cogtunction  with 
them  in  that  their  ooasplracy,  he  convened  the  rest 
of  the  northern  peers;  and  being  the  chief  and  most 
potent  of  them,  taking  with  him  young  Henry,  son 
of  King  John,  end  right  heir  to  the  crown,  raised  a 
puissant  army,  and  mardied  towards  Linoolne.  To 
which  place,  at  the  end  of  four  days  afto-  Lewes  got 
thither,  expecting  him,  he  came.  To  whom  the 
Earl  of  Perch,  observing  his  stature  to  be  anmll, 
said,  *  Have  westaid  aU  this  while  for  such  a  little 
man,  such  a  dwarf.'  To  which  disdainful  expres- 
sion he  answered,  *  I  vow  to  God  and  ow  kidw, 
tvJbese  cAurc*  Okioio,  thatb^fitrt 
I  wiU  teem  to  thoe  to  be  otromgor, 
tmOor  than  tkat  ttoopU*  Thus  parting  with 
other,  he  betook  himsdf  to  the  caatle. 

«i  And  on  the  next  morning,  the  Earl  of  Perch, 
armed  at  all  parts,  except  his  head,  having  entered 
the  cathedral  with  his  forces,  and  left  Lewes  there, 
challenged  out  our  carl  to  battle :  who  no  aoooer 
heard  thereof,  but  causing  the  ceatle  gates  to  be 
opened,  he  came  out  with  Ms  scddicn,  end  made  so 
fierce  a  charge  upon  theedverse  party,  that  he  slew 
the  Earl  ot  Perdi,  and  many  of  his  ftiUowers;  and 
immediately  seising  upon  Lewes  in  the  church, 
caused  him  to  swear  upon  the  gospel  and  relics  of 
those  saints  then  placed  on  the  high  altar,  that  he 
would  never  lay  any  daim  to  the  kingdom  of  Eng- 
land, but  speedily  hasten  out  of  the  realm,  with  aU 
\dM  followers:  and  that  when  he  should  be  king  of 
France,  he  would  restore  NoaaANOT  to  the  crown 
of  England.  Which  being  done,  he  sent  for  young 
Henry,  who  during  that  time  lay  prlvatdy  In  a 
cow-house,  belonging  to  BAaoNBY  Abbby,  (near 
Liaoolne,  towards  the  west,)  and,  setting  him  upon 
the  altar,  delivered  him  seisin  of  this  kingdomr  as 
Ms  hiheritance  by  a  white  wand,  instead  of  a 
sceptre;  doing  his  iMMnage  to  Um,  as  did  all  the 
rest  of  the  nobility  then  present 

**  For  which  signal  service,  the  king  gave  him  the 
body  ot  Gilbert  de  Oant,  Ms  enemy,  with  aU  his 
possessions:  wMch  oabcrtwaa  a  great  baron,  and 
founder  of  Vaudey  Abbey,  in  Kesteven."  Thus  far 
for  the  monk  of  Peterborough.  Further,  it  ap- 
pears that  after  the  coronation  of  the  king,  the  Earl 
of  ChesMre  brought  aU  his  resources  to  bear  upon 
the  rebellious  barpns;  fint  in  the  slage  of  Mount- 
sorell,  in  Leicestershire,  and  afterwards  at  IJneoln, 
*'  The  castle  whereof,"  says  Dugdale,  *«  was  then 
beleaguxed  by  a  great  strength  of  baroBSt  which  in 
that  notable  battle  there,  were  utterly  vaD^ttished." 


MES 


MS8 


la  the  couTM  of  the  tame  year  lilt  kKdfhip  had  tiM 
Bttldpm  of  LiiMohi,  forfeited  by  OUtMrt  de  Onnt, 
coufeiied  upon  htm,  to  which  dignity  he  had  e 
cieiiD,  in  right  of  hit  great  grandmother,  who  bore 
the  title  of  CounteH  of  Lhiooln.  Hit  lordship 
aubaequently  awnimed  the  eroM,  for  the  Moond 
time,  and  embarked  for  the  Holy  Land,  hnving 
prarioualy  granted  to  hie  Cheshire  barons  a  very 
ample  diartcr  of  liberties.  As  a  soldier,  the  stout 
Earl  of  Chester  was  not  less  distinguished  abroad 
than  at  home,  and  the  laurds  which  he  had  so 
gallantly  won  upon  his  native  soil,  were  not  tar^ 
nished  in  the  plains  of  Patostine.  His  losdship  had 
n  oonunand  at  the  oelebcated  siqge  of  Damieta, 
"  where,"  saith  Henry,  ardideaoon  of  Huntingdon, 
**  being  general  of  the  Christian  army,  he  did 
l^ious  things."  UH  Dtu  Chrittimm  CohartU  prm- 
wUtit  ghriom.  Immediately  upon  his  return  to 
Bnglaad*  anno  U90,  the  earl  b^gun  the  structute  of 
Chabtlst  Cabtls,  in  Staflbrdahire,  and  of 
BnnaTOM  Cabtlb,  in  Cheshire,  as  also  the  abbey 
of  DnuukORKa,  for  white  monks,  near  Ledi,  in 
the  former  shire  t  which  monastery  he  had  been 
Incited,  it  was  said,  to  found  by  the  ghost  of  Earl 
Ranulph,  his  grandfather,  whi^  appeared  to  him 
one  night  while  he  was  in  bed,  as  the  story  went, 
and  "  bede  him  repair  to  a  place  called.  Cholpvs- 
DAI.B,  within  the  territory  of  Leek,  and  there 
found  and  endow  an  abbey  of  white  monks," 
adding,  **  ihin  shall  be  Joy  to  thee^  and  many 
others,  who  shall  be  saved  thereby:  for  there, 
quoth  he,  shall  be  a  ladder  erected,  by  which  the 
prayers  of  angels  shall  ascend  and  descend,  and 
▼owa  of  men  shall  be  ofibred  to  Ood,  and  they  shall 
give  thanks,  and  the  name  of  our  Lord  shall  be 
called  upon  in  that  place,  by  daily  prayers  s  and 
the  sign  of  this  shall  be,  when  the  pope  doth  in- 
terdict England.  But  do  thou  in  the  m^an  time, 
go  to  the  monks  of  Pulton,  where  Robert  Butler 
hath  in  my  name  built  an  abbey,  and  thou  ,shalt 
there  be  partaker  of  the  sacrament  of  the  Lord  t 
for  sudi  privileges  belong  to  the  servants  of  the 
foundation.  And  in  the  seventh  year  of  that  in- 
terdict, thou  shalt  translate  those  monks  to  the 
place  I  have  foretold."  The  carl  having  communi- 
cated this  dream,  or  ^loat-mandate,  to  his  wifo, 
the  Lady  Clementia,  she  exclaimed  in  French, 
Di0u  sficre*,  which  exclamation  his  lordship  deem- 
ing propitious,  declared  should  give  name  to  the 
pto|ected  monastoy:  hence  the  designation  cf 
DauukcnsB. 

After  this  period  we  And  the  earl  coinciding  with 
the  barons  rather  than  the  king,  in  some  misunder- 
standing regarding  the  charters,  which  was,  how- 
ever, peaceably  settled  in  the  11th  of  Henry's  reign. 
The  most  remarkable  subsequent  event  of  his  lord- 
ship's life,  was  his  resistance  to  one  Stephen,  a 
oommiasary  ttaax  the  pope,  who  was  deputed  to 
collect  the  tenths  ftom  the  bishops,  and  aU  rdigious 
ordses}  and  did  so  throughout  England,  Irdand, 
and  Wales,  except  within  the  Jurisdiction  of  the 
Earl  of  Chester,  where  his  lordship's  procbunation 
intecpoeed.  This  potent  nobleman  d.  at  Walling- 
ford*  in  the  November  of  1831,  after  governing  the 
county  palatine  of  Chester  for  more  than  half  a 
century  i  and  as  a  proof  of  the  simpUclty  of  the 


age,  to  fir  as  foith  in  supematoial  events  may  be 
so  characteriaed,  we  give  the  following  story,  which* 
according  to  Henry  Huntendon,  met  with  general 
credence^    **  It  is  reported,"  saith  our  author,  **  of 


■ 


this  carl,  that  when  he  died,  a  great  company  in 
the  likeness  of  men,  with  a  certain  potent  person, 
hastily  passed  by  a  hermite's  cell,  neer  Walhngford  t 
and  that  the  hermite  asking  one  of  them,  what 
they  were?  and  whither  they  went  so  fiwt?  he 
saswered,  W9  art  deviU,  end  ere  making  »pa9d  to 
<ft«  daoM  of  Earl  Randulph,  to  Me  end  wo  may  eccMse 
him  of  his  oin*.  Likewise  that  the  hennites  there- 
upon enuring  the  devil,  that  he  should  return  the 
same  way,  within  thirty  days,  and  relate  what  was 
become  of  this  earL  He  came  accordingly,  and 
told  him.  That  ho  woo,  for  hit  inUptMoo,  oonAommod 
to  tho  tormenfw  ^  hf^;  but  that  tho  groat  dogo  qf 
Dovlaeroo,  and  with' thorn  mantfothor,  did  bark  se 
ineoooantfy,  and  JIU  tKoir  haibitaHono  with  tfwejk  a 
fioice,  Mof  thoir  prineo,  boing  troubled  with  it,  com* 
mandod  ho  jAohM  bo  ottpoUod  hU  dominiono  ;  who  io 
now,  «B«A  ho,  boeomo  a  groat  onomtf  to  uoi  boeauoo 
»eir  omffragoa,  togo^or  wiOk  other;  hath  released 
man^  eouiofrom  purgatorg"  So  mudi  for  the  inge- 
nuity of  the  good  monks  of  Deulacres. 

His  lordship  never  having  had  issue,  his  great 
possessions  devolved,  at  his  deoeaee,  upon 

John  Scott,  (son  of  Maud,  Countess  of 
Huntingdon,  the  earrs  ddest  sister, 
then  dead,)  who  succeeded  to  the  Eerl- 
dom  of  Chester,  (see  Scot,  Earl  of 
Chester,)  with  the  whole  county  pala- 
tine, and  the  advowson  of  the  priory 

of  COVKNTBY. 

Hugh  de  Albany,  Eabx*  ov  Abuitdbl* 
(son  ot  M abd,  the  earl's  second  sister, 
then  dead,)  who  succeeded  to  Covbb- 
TBT,  as  his  chief  seat,  with  the  manors 
of    Campobn,    in    Gloucestershire; 
DiNBY,    in    Burkinghamshire ;    and 
Lboxs,  in  Yorkshire. 
*  Agnes,  CouKTBaa  or  Dbbby,  who,  with 
her  husband,  William  de  Ferrers,  Earl 
of  Derby,  had  the  castle  and  manor  of 
Chabtlby,  in  Stafltodshixe,  with  all 
the  lands  belonging  to  her  late  brother, 
which  lay  between  the  rivers  Kibble 
and  Mcne,  together  with  a  manor  in 
Northamptonshire,   and    another    in 
Lincolnshire. 
Hawise,  wife  of  Robert  de  Quincy,  who 
had  the  castle  and  manor  of  Bolimo* 
BBOKB,  in  the  county  of  Lincoln,  and 
other  large  estatee  in  that  shire.     It 
appears  that  her  brother,  in  his  life- 
time, had  granted  to  this  lady,  the 
Earldom  of  Lincoln,  tn  order  that  she 
might  become  countess  thereof,  and 
that  her  heirs  might  also  enjoy  ^ 
Whidi  grant  seems  to  have  been  con- 
firmed by  the  crown  so  for,  that  at  her 
ladyship's  desire,  the  king  conferred 
the  dignity  of  Earl  of  Lincoln  upon 
John  Lacy,  Constable  of  Chester,  and 
the  heirs  of  ^is  body,  by  Margaret  de 
Quincy,  the  Lady  Hawiae's  daughter. 

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MILDMAY  —  BARONS    FITZ-WAL- 
TBB,  EARL  FITZ-WALTER. 

I'Ozlgiiuiny  by  Writ  of  Sununoni,  dated 
n^  J  S3rd  June,  IS9S,  83  Edward  I. 

MAaoHT,^  To  the  Hlldmayf,  by  Writ  of  Sum- 

\^      moiu,  dated  10th  February,  1060. 
EAEUKyv J  by  Letters  Patent,  dated  14th  May,  1790. 

Tintagc. 

LADY  mANCBS  RATCLIPFB.  only  ^mffik- 
l«,  by  hli  aeoand  wifei,  of  Hewy,  tUrd  Load  Fits. 

Earl  of  SiiaMK,  (iwert  to 

Fita-Waher,)  manied  Sir  Tbtmam 

miilmay,  Knt.«  of  Moulshaoi^  In  the  oovnty  of 

Thomao  <Sir),  created  a  Banmetf  and  dtted 

«.|kinl69Q. 
HaiiBT,  of  whoa  pieiently. 
The  Mcond  lOD, 

SIR  HENRV  MILDMAY,  KnL,  beoomhiff  at 
the  deoeaae  of  his  bvodier  npreicntativo  of  the 
fMoily,  and  hie  sMther*  at  the  death  of  her  nephew, 
by  the  half  blood,  Robert  BatcUlIb,  sixth  Lord 
FIta-Walter,  and  ifth  Earl  of  Sussex,  having  be- 
come sole  heiress  of  that  ancient  barony,  preferred 
Ua  dalm  in  her  right*  by  petition  to  the  loaf  par- 
Uament,  fai  1640;  bat  the  dvU  war  breaking  out 
iounediately  after,  he  was  unable  to  aoooaspliah 
anything  In  the  aflUr.  Sir  Henry  wk  Eliiabeth, 
daa^iter  of  John  Darcy,  Esq.,  of  Toleshuxst  Darcy , 
In  the  county  «f  Essex,  and  dying  in  1664,  left 
issue, 

RomcitT,  who  HI.  Mary,  daughter  and  co-heir 
of  Sir  Thoaias  Edmonds,  ILnt.,  and  had  two 
sons  and  a  danghter,  via. 

1.  Hnrnr,  who  petitioned  for  theboronty, 
but  died  a.  p.,  before  there  was  any 


f.  Bei^amin,   of    whom    presently,   as 

Lono  FiTX-WAi«raB. 
a  Mary,  m.  to  Henry  Mildmay,   Esq., 
of  Oraoos,  and  had  ive  daughters, 
namely—- 
Mary,  m.  to  Charles  Goodwin,  Esq. 
Lucy,  m.  to  Thomas  Gardener,  Esq. 
Bliaabeth,  m.  to  Edmund  Waterson, 

Esq. 
Frances,  m.  to  Christopher  Fowler, 

Esq. 
Katiierine,  m,  to  Colond  Thomas 


Henry,  died  «.  p. 

(%arloi,  Ml.  to  Martha,  daughter  and  heiress 
of  Sir  Cranmer  Harris,  Knt.,  and  left  an 
only  daughter, 

Mary,  m.  to  Sir  Charles  Tyrrell,  Bart,  ot 
Thocotoii. 
aau  ' 


SlrHettiylliMliwirs^ 
BENJAMIN   MILDMAY. 

rifeed  the  estates  of  the  CsoBily,  upon  the 

hie  hvother  Henry,  without  issue,   pursued 

claim  to  the  Babosty  or  Fxra-WALrnm 

by  his  grandCsthar  and  brother:  but  he 


M41, 


son  of  Henry  Checkc,  Esq.,  by 
dawghtw  of  Sir  Humphrey  RatdMfc,  of 
andslBtec  of  Sir  Edwaid  RatdMb,  < 
aa  sixth  Earl  of  Soasex,  and  died  «.  pu,  in 
tiiat  earldom  expiced.    <See 
Fhs- Walter,  issue  of  Robert 

of  Snawx.)  Mr.  CheekePe  cWmcfaiefly 
on  the  question,  wfaedssr  than  could  be  a 
yv«<H«iB  digidty;  and  aftsr  aevcal  hear- 
ings at  the  bar  cTtlM  Houae  of  Loida.  theparlte. 
aseatt  was  iworogued.  and  nothing  further  < 
Inthataessian;  baton  thettth  t^^*— »»^ 
big,  Mr.  Mildmay  i«ain  peUtioned  the  ktaig.  and 
his  majesty  was  then  plassed  to  otder,  that  the 
oause^jhould  be  heard  by  the  privy  anmcil.  in  UMi 
Jasmary,  166D,  on  which  day  the  two  chief  justices, 
and  the  chief  baron,  were  directed  to  attend. 

•«  The  Qownsei  for  the  said  Roben  Chewks  af- 
firmed, tiiat  the  same  was  a  barony  by  tenure,  and 
oo^tt  to  go  along  with  the  land;*  which  the  coun- 
uA  of  the  petitioiier  denied,  and  oflkred  to  aigue  on 
the  same;  upon  which  both  parties  being  ordered 
to  withdraw,  the  nature  of  a  barony  by  tenure  being 
discussed,  it  was  found  to  have  been  diaoontinued 
fbr  many  ages,  and  not  to  being,  and  so  not  At  te 
be  revived,  or  toadmitany  pretence  of  right  of  sne- 
OBssion  thereto;,  and  the  other  points  urged  by 
Mr.  Cheekef  being  over-ruled,  it  was  ordered  Iqr 
his  melesty  in  council,  that  the  petirinwir  is  ed- 
mitted,  humbly  to  address  hiaaself  to  his  majesty, 
for  his  writ,  to  ^t  in  the  House  of  Peen,  as  Baron 
Fita-Widter,  and  he  wee  ao  summoned  aoooni* 
ingly."^  There  being,  after  this,  some  doabU.  as 
to  the  place  and  psecedsncy  of  the  Lord  Fita- Wal- 
ter, it  was  ultimately  eettled,  that  his  hirdship 
diouU  be  pteoed  the  last  baron  of  the  reign  of  King 
Edward  L  This  Benjemin,  first  Lord  FiU- Walter, 
at  the  Mildmay  fiuaily,  m.  Catherfaie,  daughter 
andcoJielressof  John,  Viscount  Fairiisz,  of  the  king- 
dom of  Ireland,  and  had  surviving  iasue»  two  i 


e  It  does  not  eppear  ea  what  grounds  Ma. 
Cheeke'e  counsel  claimed  the  Benny  of  Fita-Walter 
by  tenure,  tot  that  barony  was  originally  attached 
to  the  possession  of  the  Manor  ofttlttie  Dvimow, 
in  Essex,  granted  to  Robert  FBwalter,  fai  the 
reign  of  Henry  I.;  and  at  the  pelted  when  tids 
claim  WM  disnissed,  it  wa^  not  tlie^  yiopettf  «f 
either  of  the  daimants^— Nieoiaa. 

t  Fltat,  half  blood  hi  MUdmay;  and  aeoomUy, 
that  the  Barony  or  Titleof  Lord  Fita-Walter,  was 
merged  in  the  Earldom  of  Sussex,  and  became 
extinct  with  that  dignity.  Upon  which  it  was  do- 
dded.  that  the  half  blood  could  not  be  any  impo> 
dimentlnthecaseof  a  dignity;  and  that,  although 
a  baron  in  fee  simple  be  created  an  aAni.,  the 
berony  shall  desnend  to  the  heir  general,  whether 
or  not,  the  earldom  ooDtibue,  or  be  extinct^ 

t  ColUns's  Freoedentk 


Mom 


HfOS 


CiiAM.»i  out  Kaimy»  wla  feibarltod,  ncoMMwIy;' 
ttetavMy.  Hli  ImMlpdL  te  117%  «ulwa«.b9r 
tiM  titer, 

.  CHARLES   MILDM AY»    wmmd   Bwon    Fiti- 
His  lortWiip  Mb  Bliabetb,  drntghtm  of 
Chukft   Bcrtto,    of 


youngwt  SOB  of  MoBCagu«»  Earl  of  IJadatj,  bat 
dtod  in  17M>  without  imat,  and  «■  «.  by  kit  Ivo- 
ther, 

HENRY  MILdMAY,  thii4  Buon  Fit»-Walt«r. 
who  was  craatsd  by  letlan  pattsot,  dataA  Uth  Xsy, 
1790,  FisBMMitf  HarMrfek,  and  Eam.  Pm-WAi*Tsa. 
In  1736,  his  lordriiip  wasswoni  of  the  priry  cownctt, 
irsc  lard  comnrissio— r  of  trada  and 
ii  and  ooMtitttfeed,  in  1737,  trcaavrar  of 
the  household.  He  m.  Frederfca,  tidast  dawghtar 
and  cohelT  of  Metaihatdt,  Duke  of  Scomhergh,  aad 
widow  of  Robert,  Earl  of  HoUameas,  by  whom  he 
had  an  only  son,  RonBRT^>ScoMBnMB,  who  died  in 
infhncy:  Hla  kmlrikip  d.  9th  Febrnary,  17BB,  whan 
tlM  Vfacouirrr  or  Habwich,  and  Babi.dom  ov 
FITB-WAX.TBB,  became  BximcT,  buC  the  aBciant 
Baboitt  or  Fitv-Waltsb  fell  tailo  abbtaiccb, 
betwean  hto  aunts  ind  their  iifpusBimUf  s,  (revert 
to  descendants  of  Star  Henry  MUdmay,)  as  It  atfll 
longst  thak  deseendHits. 
r.  three  lienerampent  aa; 


MOELS— BARONS  MOELS. 

By  Writ  of  SmnnKHia,  dated  ath  Febraary,  mv. 
87  Edward  I. 

Xincagc. 

In  the  thne  of  Henry  III., 

NICHOLAS  I>B  BIOELS.  in  right  of  Hawyse, 
hb  wifb^  danghter  and  co-heir  of  Jasnea  de  New- 
merdi,  possessed  the  lordshkpe  of  CADBBvmT,  and 
SAPBBTOir,  In  the  eoonty  of  Semerset,  part  of  the 
ISeudal  barony  of  the  said  Jamea»  In  the  same 
reign,  this  NichohM  waa  made  sheriff  of  Hampshire, 
and  goTemor  of  the  caetle  of  Winchester,  and  con- 
thiued  In  oOce  for  four  years.  He  had 
quently  the  islands  of  Guernsey,  Jersey,  Serke, 

(AUemey,)  committed  to  hia  care,  and 
constituted  shertfT  of  HanpshirOk  aftoer 
which  he  was  sheriff  of  Yorkshire,  and  held  that 
ofllce  nntfl  the  »th  Henry  III.  The  next  year  he 
WM  deputed  with  Ralph  Fit»-NidMrias, 
to  France,  ftnr  the  purpoee  of  dononncing 
againet  the  king  of  that  roafan ;  and  hl»  was  soon 
after  appointed  seAschal  of  Gescony.  Beingatthe 
ttaeapenottio  highly  regarded  by  the  king,  that 
jAMna,  Ma  sen  and  heir,  wee  by  special  command, 
ndmltled  to  haTO  Ma  edncation  with  Prince  Ed- 
ward :  the  princess  tutors,  Hugh  de  (Sflad  and 
Beiard  de  Savoy,  having  directions  to  recelTe  Mm, 
with  one  servant,  and  to  provide  Mm  witti  naces 
sariea.  In  the  Stth  of  the  same  reign,  he  obtained 
«  signal  victory  over  the  king  of  Navarre, 
letntning  to  Bagland  the  ensuing  year,  he 
employed  in  the  Wei*  wars,  and  constituted  go^ 
Temor  of  the  easties  of  Cierinai  ihsa  andOsuHgan 
-He  wee  sobeequently  appointed  Censtabisof  Dover 
€astie»  and  warden  of  the  dn^ue  Foetst  and  the 
March  IbUowing, 


of  tfaif 
Thia  cdrtfBtad 


and' Canterbury, 
k  by  his 


of 

and  gallant 


ROGER  DB  MOELSk  who  sewed  In  the  Welsh 
and  hi  the  beginning  of  Bdwaid  I.'s  reign, 
had  the  honour  and  caada  of  Laaspadervaur,  in 
Cardlgauahii^  comaaltted  to  hia  custody.  He  m. 
Aliee,  danghtar  and  heir  oT  William  *  Preux,  and 
dyin«  in  U9<  waa  s.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  DB  MOELS,  who,  dofaig  his  homage  in 
the  same  year,  had  livery  of  his  lands.  This  feudal 
lecd  havi^  diatfngukiied  himself  in  the  Sooltisir 
wars  of  Edwsad  L,  wss  sunoraoned  to  pazliament  as 
» BABnir,  fk«m  0th  February,  1S90,  to  Idth  Juna^ 

131L  Hislonkhlpfli. daughtarofLocdOsey 

de  Ruthyn,  and  dying  in  1311,  was  s.  hy  his  son, 

NICHOLAS  DE  MOELS,  second  baroo,  sum- 
monad  to  parliamanr  from  19th  October,  1311,  to 
0th  October,  I31A.  This  nobleman.  Hke  his  pre- 
decessors, distinguished  himeelf  in  arms,  and  wm 
engaged  In  the  Sootdi  ware.  Bla  lordship  ai.  Mar- 
garet, daui^tar  of  Six  Hu^  Courtsnay,  Knt.,  and 
sister  of  Hugh,  Earl  <ff  Devon,  by  whom  he  had 
teue^ 

RovBB,  his  successor. 
John,  who  succeeded  his  brother. 
His  lecdship  d.  in  1316,  and  was  «.  by  hie  dder  son, 

ROGER  DE  MOELS,  third  baaon,.  who  pnytaig 
an  hundred  marks  fine,  and  doing  homage,  had 
livery  of  his  lands  the  same  year,  through  the  king's 
especial  favour,  being  at  the  time  not  of  full  agoi 
His  lordship  <L  in  the  lAth  Edward  II.  «.  p.,  and 
was  «.  by  his  brother, 

JOHN  DE  MOELS,  fourth  baron,  but  never 
summoned  to  parUament.  This  nobleman  was 
created  a  knight  of  the  Bath,  90th  Edward  IL,  and 
in  the  7th  Edward  lIL,  he  was  in  the  expedition 
then  made  into  Scotland.  His  lordsfdp'm.  Joene, 
one  of  the  daughters  and  co-heirs  of  Sir  Richard 
Luvtri,  Knt.,  of  Castle  Csry,  and  had  issue, 

MvBiBi.,  Ml.  to  Sir  Thomas  Courtenay,  Knt., 
a  younger  sen  of  the  Earl  of  Devon,  and  had 


•♦. 


Kvoa  CoonTBNAY,  who  died  «.  p. 
tenay,  m.  to  Sir 
»1,  and  had  issuer 
Katherlne  Peverel,  m.  to  Sir  Walter 

Hungerford. 
Alianore  Pevere^  mk  to  — ^  Tal- 
bot. 
Muriel  Courtenay,  m,  to  John  Denhara. 
kabel,  m,  to  WllUam  de-  Botreaux,  Lord  Bo- 
trmux,  and  her  great  grand-daughter, 
MAnoABBT  BemBAm,  m.  to  Shr  Robert 
Rungerford,    Knt.,   and   carried  the 
Barony  of  Botreaux,  with  the  moiety 
of  that  of  MoBi«a,  to  Robert,  second 
Lord  Hungerisrd,  whose  mother,  Ka- 
therlne, Lady  Hungerford,  dilighter, 
and  eventually  sole  heir  of  Sir  Thomea 
Peverel,  and  Margaret,  daughter  and 
co>heir  of  Sir  Thomm  Courtenay,  by 
MnniBi.  BB  Mo«.a,  Ms  wMb^  above 
nns  also  the  co-heir  of  the 
moiety    of   the   RABomr  or 
wM^  vspiesentatlon,   viL» 

351 


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MOH 


MOH 


of  ono  moiaty*  aad  luilf  of  the  other 
molaty.  U  now  Tested  in  the  pneeiit 
Mabqubbb  or  Habtinos.  Banm  Hun- 
gtrfoHL,  Mollnu,   and  Botnaus,   the 
heir  general  of  the  body  of  the  Mid 
Robert,    Lord  'Hungerford.    and   of 
Margaret,  daughter  and  hcircM  of  Lord 
Botreaux,  his  wife.    The  other  half 
moiety  of  the  Barony  of  Mosls.  is 
▼ested  in  the  representatives  of  the 
Lords  Dinham. 
His  lordship  A  in  1337»   when  the  Babohy  or 
lIoBi«8  fell  into  absyamcs*   between  his  daugh- 
ters* as  it  still  continues*  as  stated  abore*  with  their 
representatives.    His  lordship's  estates  passed  like- 
wise to  his  daughters*  and  were  divided  thus : 

MuRUL*  Ijadif  Onutenaif,  had  the  numor  of 
'  of  King's  CresweD*  with  the  hundred  of 
Haytore*   in   the  county  of  Devon;   the 
numor  of  Stoke-Mods*  in  the  county  of 
Oxford*  with  one  hundred  shillings  rent* 
out  of  the  manor  of  Langford,  also  in 
Devonshire^ 
laABSL*  lad^  Botreatut,  had  the  manor  of 
North-Cadbury*  in  the  county  of  Somerset, 
and  Duppleford,  Langeford*  and  the  hun- 
dred of  Stanburgh*  in  the  county  of  Devon. 
Arms.— Ar.   two  bais  gu.  in  chief  three  tor- 
teauxes. 

MOHUN— BARONS  MOHUN. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  6th  February,  U90, 
S7  Edward  L 

XilU80C. 

The  first  of  this  family  upon  record  is, 

SIR  WILLIAM  DE  MOHUN,  one  of  the  com- 
panions in  arms  of  the  CoNQUXBoa,  who  had  no 
less  than  forty-seven  stout  knights  of  name  and 
note  in  his  retinue,  at  the  battle  at  Hastings ;  and 
for  the  good  services  rendered  to  his  royal  master, 
in  that  celebrated  conflict,  obtained  the  Castlx 
DUN8TBB*  with  fifty-flve  manors,  in  the  county  of 
Somerset,  besides  several  other  lordships  in  Wilts, 
Devonshire,  and  Warwickshire.  Sir  William  was 
«.by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  MOHUN,  Lord  of  Dunster,  who, 
with  Anne,  his  wife,  granted  the  Church  of  Which- 
ford,  to  the  canons  of  Bridlington,  K<n^  Hxmbt  I. 
confirming  the  grant.  This  WiUam  was  «.  by  his 
son, 

WILLIAM  DE  MOHUN*  who,  espouilng  thefor- 
tunes  of  the  Empress  Maude,  fortified  his  Castlx 
or  DuNarxB  on  her  behalf,  and  breaking  out 
into  open  rebellion  against  Kin^  Stephen,  laid  the 
country  waste  around  him.  He  subsequently,  in 
coQ)unction  with  David,  Kiwo  or  Scotlamd,  Ro- 
bert, Earl  of  Gloucester,  and  the  other  partisans 
of  Maude,  besi^ed  Henry  de  Bloys,  (Stephen's 
brother,)  Bishop  of  Winchester,  in  the  castle  at 
that  placet  and  in  consideration  of  these  eminent 
services,  is  said  to  have  been  created  Eabl  or 
DoBsar,  by  the  Empress.  He  founded  the  Priory 
of  Bruton,  in  the  county  of  Somcnet,  and  endowed 
3S2 


It  iBi^ely  with  lands;  in  Engtand  and  Nomflody.' 
He  died  before  the  year  1165,  and  wasj.  by  his  eon, 

WILLIAM  DE  MOHUN,  suxnamed  MescAyn. 
In  the  Uth  Henry  IL,  this  feudal  lend,  upon 
levying  the  aid  for  marrying  the  king's  daughter, 
certified  his  knights*  fees,  dt  weteri  Jitqghtmento,  to 
be  in  number,  forty,  and  those  de  noeo,  torn.  He 
confirmed  his  fisthec's  grants  to  the  Priory  of  Bru- 
ton,  and  like  him  was  buried  there.  He  d.  about 
the  year  1208,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

REGINALD  DE  MOHUN,  who*  in  the  sixth  of 
John,  espoused  Alice,  (or  Joene,)  one  of  the  dstera 
and  co-heirs  of  William  de  Briwere,  by  whom  he 
acquired  consideraUe  estates  in  the  counties  of 
ComwaU,  Devon,  and  Somenet.  He  d.  in  HIS, 
and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

REGINALD  DE  MOHUN,  then  in  minority, 
whose  wardship  was  committed  to  Henry  Fits- 
Count,  s(m  of  the  Earl  ot  ComwalL  In  the  i6th 
Henry  III.,  this  Reginald  was  constituted  Chief 
Justice  of  all  the  forests  south  of  Trent :  and,  in 
some  years  afterwards,  governor  of  Saubeye  Castle, 
in  Leicestershire.  In  the  41st  of  the  same  rdgn, 
he  had  a  military  summons  to  march  against  the 

Welsh.    He  im.  first, .  sister  of  Humphrey  de 

Bohun,  Earl  of  Hereford,  and  had  a  son,  John, 
his  successor.  He  espoused  secondly,  Isabel,  daugh- 
ter and  co-heir  of  William  de  Ferrers,  Earl  of 
Derby,  (and  co-heir,  likewise,  to  Sibilla,  her  mother, 
sister  and  co<heir  of  Ansblm  MARaiXAir,  last  JBoW 
qf  Pmtbroke,  of  that  family,)  by  whom  be  had  a 


William,  who,  by  the  gift  of  his  father,  had 
the  Manors  of  Ottery,  Stoke-Flsming, 
Monkton,  and  Galmeton,  with  the  Manor 
of  MildenhaU,  in  the  county  of  Wilts, 
and  Oreylkdl,  in  the  county  of  Southamp*' 
ton.  He  m.  Beatrix,  daughter  of  Reginald 
Fits-Piers,. and  left  two  daughters,  his  co- 
heirs, via. 

Elinor,  m.  to  John  de  Carru. 
Mary,  m.  to  John  de  Meryet. 
Reginald  Mohun  d.  in  12S6,  and  was  «.  by  his  elder 
son, 

JOHN  DE  MOHUN,  idio  wedded  Joane,  daugh- 
ter of  Sir  Reginald  Fits-Piers,  and  dying  U78,  was 
«.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  DE  MOHUN  (caUed  John  de  Mohun 
the  second).  This  feudal  lord,  at  the  decease  of  his 
father,  was  but  ten  years  of  ageu  He  was  after- 
wards distinguished  in  the  wars  of  Gascony  and 
Scotland,  and  was  summoned  to  parliaifient  as  a 
BABON,  Aram  6th  February,  1900,  to  SSrd  October, 
1330.  In  the  27th  Edward  I.,  he  exchanged  with  th» 
crown,  all  his  lands  in  Ireland,  for  the  Manor  of 
Long  Compton,  in  Warwickshire.  His  lordsh^  m. 
Auda,  daughter  of  Sir  Robert  de  Tibetot,  and  dying 
in  1330,  was  «.  by  his  grandson, 

JOHN  DE  MOHUN,  second  banm,  summoned 
to  parliament  from  Sftth  February,  1349;  to  4th  Octo- 
ber, 1373  (the  latter  part  of  the  time,  as  Bab^ 
MoRUN ,  of  Dunster).  tBIs  nobleman  was  one  oNbe 
martial  heroes  of  the  reign  of  Edward  IIL,  and  was 
ot  the  retinue  of  the  Black  Pbincb,  and  subse- 
quently, of  that  of  John  of  Gaunt.  His  lordship  m. 
Joane,  daughter  of  his  guardian,  Bartbotanew  die 


MOH 


MOL 


f 


SniglMnh*  and  dying  •*»»  left  three  d«igiit«n»  hi« 
co-]iela»  Til. 

Philippe,  m,  to  Edward  Plentagenet,  Duke  of 
York,  and  secondly,  to  Sir  Welter  Fits- 
Welter,  Knt 
Eliaebeth,  m.  to  WiUiem  de  Montacate,  Eerl 

of  Seliabury. 
Mead,  m.  to  John,  Lord  Strange,  of  Knock- 
ing. 
Upon  the  deceese  of  his  lordship,  the  Baroity  of 
Motivir,  fell  into  abxtancb,  amongst  those  ladies, 
and  so  continues  with  their  desoendaats  and  repre- 


'  Ani(B.^-Ou.  a  maunch  ermine,  the  hand  ppr. 
holding  aFleur  de  Lis,«r. 

MOHUN  —  BARONS  MOHtJN,  OF 
OKEHAMPTON,  IN  THE 
COUNTY  OF  DEVON. 

By  Lettos  Patent,  dated  15th  AprU,  16S8. 

Xineagc. 

REGINALD  MOHUN,  Esq.,  of  Boconnoc,  in 
Cornwall,  lineally  descended  firom  Reginald  de 
Mobun,  younger  son  of  John,  first  Baron  McAun, 
of  Dunster,  (a  di^ty  that  fell  into  abeyance,  in 
the  time  of  Edward  IIL,)  was  created  a  baronet 
by  King  James  I.  He  m.  Philippe,  daughter  of 
John  Hele,  Esq.,  and  waa«.  by  his  son, 

SIR  JOHN  MOHUN,  second  baronet,  who  wes 
elerated  to  the  peerage  on  the  15th  April,  IfiSS,  in 
the  dignity  of  Babon  Mohun,  ^  Ofc«*ampAm,  in 
0b«  etuntar  ^  DtfOQft.     His  lordship,   during   the 
dvil  wars,  was  one  of  the  chief  cavalier   com- 
manders in  Cornwall,  and  the  west  of   England, 
and  did  essential  service  to  the  royal  cause.     He 
m.  Ccwdelia,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Stanhope,  of 
Sbel/ord,  in  the  county  of  Notts,  and  widow  of  Sir 
Roger  Aston,  by  whom  he  had  issue, 
John,  his  successor. 
Warwick,  heir  to  his  brother. 
Chailes,  slain  at  Dartmouth,  fighting  under 

the  royai  banner. 
Cordriia,  m.  to  John  Harris,  Esq.,  of  Heane, 

in  the  county  of  Devon. 
Theophila,  m.  to  James  Campbell,  Esq.,  son 
•  iA  Mr.  Alderman  Campbell,  of  London. 
Philadelphia. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1644,  and  was  «.  by  his  ddcst  son, 
JOHN  MOHUN,  second  baron,  who  died  un- 
married, and  was  «.  by  his  brother, 
WARWICK  MOHUN,  third  baron.    This  no- 

Ueman  m.  Catherine,  daughter  of Welles,  Esq., 

of  Brember,  in  the  county  of  Southampton,  and 
dying  in  1666,  was  «.  by  his  son, 

CHARLES     MOHUN,     fourth     baron,     who 
espoused  Lady   Philippe  Annesley,  daughter  of 
Arthur,  first  Earl  of  Anglesey,  and  had  issue, 
ktmL    CBARLsa,  his  successor. 
IP    Elisabeth,  who  d.  unmarried,  in  1700. 
HlfWdship  d.  before  the  year  1682,  and  was  «.  by 
his  son, 

.  CHARLES  MOHUN,  fifth  baron.  This  noble- 
man was  of  a  vehement  and  passiohate  temper, 
which  led  him  into  many  ezocsses  in  his  youth* 


and  sul^ieeted  him  to  he  twieeamlgned  im  murder* 
but  he  was,  upon  both  occasions,  honourably  ac- 
quitted. Having  had  a  dispute  with  James,  Duke 
of  Hamilton,  regarding  an  estate  left  him  by  the 
Earl  of  Macclesfield,  he  challenged  that  nobleman, 
and  a  duel  ensued  in  Hyde  Park,  on  the  15th  No- 
vember, 1712,  wherein  both  the  combatants  were 
slain.  His  tordship  m.  first,  Charlotte,  daughter  of 
—  Malnwaring,  Esq.,  by  Lady  Charlotte  Gerard, 
sister  of  Charles,  Earl  of  Macclesfield,  and  secondly, 
Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Dr.  Thomes  Lawrence,  and 
widow  of  Colonel  Orifilth,  but  had  no  issue,  in 
ccmsequence  of  which  the  Baboky  or  Mohow* 
9f  OXcetomplon,  at  his  deosase,  became  ■xriii ct. 
Akm 8.— Or.  a  cross  ingrailed  sa. 

MOLINES— BARON8  MOLINES. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  I8th  February,  1347* 
21  Edward  IIL 

Xineagc. 

This  fiunily,  which  was  of  French  extraction, 
assumed  its  surname  from  a  town  so  called,  in  the 
Bourbonnois :  but  no  member  of  the  house  became 
of  note  in  England,  before  the  reign  of  Edward  IIL, 
when 

JOHN  DE  MOLINES  attained  high  rank,  and 
great  importance,  as  well  flrom  eqioying  the  favour 
of  the  king,  as  by  his  large  possessions  in  several 
counties,  but  particularly  in  Buckinghamshire: 
In  the  beginning  of  King  Edward's  reign,  he  wes 
one  of  those  who  surprised  the  castle  of  Notting- 
ham, and  seised  the  person  of  Mortimer,  Earl  of 
March,  for  which  act,  he  shortly  afterwards  re- 
ceived a  pardon.  In  the  14th  of  the  same  reign,  he 
had  several  grants  from  thejrown,  and  was  sum* 
moned  to  parliament  as  a  baron,  00 18th  February, 
1347,  but  never  afterwards.  His  lordship  had  been 
treasurer  of  the  chamber  to  King  Edward,  and 
amassed  a  very  large  estate  by  the  favour  and  grants 
of  that  monardL  He  was  engaged  in  the  wars  of 
France,  and  received  the  honour  of  knighthood  for 
his  services.  He  nuMaHim  Egidia,  heir  of  John 
Mauduit,  of  Somerford,  in  WilU,  and  seawndty, 
Margaret,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Roger  Pogeys,  of 
Stoke-Pogeys,  in  the  county  of  Buckingham,  and 
was  «.  by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  MOLINES,  second  heron,  who  m. 
Mergery,  daughter  and  heir  of  Edmund  Bacoun, 
and  dying  in  the  reign  of  Richard  II.,  was  «.  by  his 
son, 

RICHARD  MOLINES,  third  baron,  who  was  «. 
by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  MOLINES,  fourth  baron,  who, 
dying  in  the  3d  of  Henry  VL,  was  «.  by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  MOLINES,  fifth  baron.  This  noble- 
man was  slain  at  the  siege  of  Orleans,  in  the  reign 
of  Henry  VI.,  leaving  an  only  daughter  and  heiress, 
Aliamors  M0X.IMKS,  who  espoused  Robbrt 
HuNOBRVORD,  sccoud  Lord  Hungerford, 
who  had  summons  to  parliament,  as  Lord 
Molines,  in  1446. 

Armb.— Paly  of  six  wavey,  or  and  gules. 

Note.—- Nicolas  is  of  opinion,  although  the  title 
of  Lord  Molines  was  attributed  to  each  olt  the 
8  Z  353 


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dMottidiBtiorJolm,  the  lint  taron,  that  tlMdlf- 
nlty  becuM  bztiiigt,  at  the  demiee  of  that  nohle- 
taan,  becauMUheebeeadeddedUieta«<fi«i0euiii- 
mom  to  perliemeBt,  without  proof  of  tittliig,  doci 
sot  conetitute  a  berany  in  fM 

MONK  —  DUKES  OF  ALBEMARLE. 
By  Lettea  Pateat,  dated  7th  July,  U90. 

.  The  flunily  of  La  MoTir>»  or  Moiix«  waa  of 
fraet  antiquity  in  the  eounty  of  Deroo^  and  in 
that  ihixe  thay  had,  ftoln  a  remote  period,  poe- 
the  MANon  or  Porannioos,  which  lineally 
to 

GEORGE  lIONK,e  the  celebrated  genend  under 
the  uturpert  Cboicwsll,  who,  for  hit  exertions  in 
reetoring  the  monardiy,  waa  created  by  King 
Charles  II.,  on  the  7th  July,  107Ot  Bsron  JfMiAr,  4/' 
Po^^Hdgitt  Baron  B&nuhamp,  nfBrnmOiamp,  Bonn 
t^f  Tflfif,  Eorf  ^  TvnintgUtnt  att  in  €hM  eotmtif  of 
DevMt,  and  Dusa  or  Ai«bbm Ani.x :  and  shortly 
alter  was  inatallwl  a  kni|^t  of  the  farter.  To  ex- 
plain his  graoa's  titles,  it  is  neceemry  to  state,  that 
^llaabeth  Grey,  the  wife  of  liia  anomtor,  Arthur 
Plantagenet.  was  sbter  and  heir  of  John  Grey, 
Viscount  L*Isle,  and  daughter  of  Edward  Grey,  by 
SUaaheth,  daughter  and  heir  of  John  Talbot, 
eldest  son  of  John,  Earl  of  Shrewabury,  by  his 
aeoood  wife,  Margaret,  eldest  daughter  and  co-heir 
of  Richard  Beaucfaamp,  Eaxl  or  Waxwicx,  and 
AI.BXMAXI.X,  by  Eliaabeth,  his  wife,  daughter  and 
heiress  of  Tliomaa,  Lord  Berkeley,  by  Margaret, 
his  wife,  daughter  and  heircas  of  Gerard  Warlne, 
Lord  L'lale,  by  AUce^denghter  and  heiress  of  Henry 
iKmlTeyes. 


•  This  eminent  person  wes  lineally  descended 
from  Arthub  Plawtaobkbt,  Vitoowtt  It'Jeto, 
natunl  son  of  King  Edward  IV.,  thus : 

AxTRUB  PiJkiTTAoxxBT  M.  Eliaabeth,  rister 
end  co-heir  of  John  Grey,  Viscount  L'Isle, 
and  widow  of  Edmund  Dudley,  and  left, 
with  other  issue, 
FxAKCxa  Plaxtaobnbt,  who  espoused,  for 
her  second  husbend,  Thomas  Monk,  Esq., 
of  Potheridge,  and  was  mother  of 
AxTaoirv  Monk,  who  m.  Mary,  daughter  of 
Richard  Arsoot,  Esq.,  and  was  «.  by  his  son. 
Sib  Thomab  Mohx,  Knu,  who  wedded  Eliaa- 
beth, daughter  of  Sir  George  Smith,  Knt., 
and  had  issue, 

Thomas,  who  m.  Mary,  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam Gold,  and  had  a  son,  Thomab,  who 
d.  in  his  twelfth  yeer,  and  two  daughters. 
GxoBox,  created  Duxa  ov  Albsmablx. 
Nichoba,  who  m.  Susanna,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Paine,  Esq.,  and  had  issue, 
Mary,  m.  to  Arthur  FalrweU,  and 

had  sereral  children. 
BUaebeth,  m.  to  Curwen  RxwUnaon, 
and  had  issue. 

Monk  Rairiinson,  A  unmanied, 

inlOM. 
Chrlalopher  RawUnsen. 
SM 


The  militiry  and  aa^  adklereoMBU  of  Monk 
have  shone  so  conspicuously  in  history,  that  any 
attempt  to  dqpict  them  ina  work  of  Uiis  description 
eouU  have  no  other  eflKt  then  that  of  dimming 
their  liutre.  He  crowned  his  reputation  by  the 
oourse  he  adopted  after  the  death  of  Cromwei],'in  re- 
storing the  monarchy,  and  thus  healing  the  wounds 
of  his  distracted  country.  To  the  gioomy  end  Jealous 
mind  of  the  usurper,  general  Monk  was  at  times  a 
cause  of  uneeeiness  and  distrusts  and  to  a  letter  ad* 
dressed  to  the  general  himadf  ,  Cromwell  once  added 
the  following  singular  postscript :  **  There  be  that 
teU  me  there  is  a  certain  cunning  follow  in  Scotland, 
called  George  Monk,  who  is  said  to  lie  in  wait  there 
to  introduce  Charles  Stuartt  I  pray  you  use  your 
diligence  to  apprehend  him,  and  send  him  up  to 
me."  From 'the  time  of  the  restoration  to  that  of 
his  death,  his  Grace  of  Albemarle  preserred  the 
oonAdanoe  and  esteem  of  the  restored  monardi,  and 
his  brother,  the  Duke  of  York;  the  former  always 
calUng  him  his  *<  political  fisthcr."  With  the  peo- 
ple, Monk  always  enjoyed  the  highest  degree  of 
popularity,  and  his  death  wss  lamented  es  a  national 
mislbrtune.  His  obsequies  were  public,  and  his 
eahes  were  deposited  in  Henry  VIIL's  chapd,  at 
Westminster,  with  the  remaina  of  royalty.  The 
Duke  espoused  Anne,  daughter  of  John  Clerges, 
end  sister  to  Sir  Thomaa  Clargas,  Bait.,  by  whom 
he  had  an  only  son, 

CaxieMpaan,  hla  sncoasaor. 
His  grace  d.  in  1670,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

CHRISTOPHER  MONK,  second  Duke  of  Albe- 
merle.  This  nobleman  was  made  a  kxiobt  of  the 
Gabtxb,  In  1671,  and  sworn  of  the  priry  ooundL 
His  grace  espoused  Lady  Eliaabeth  Cavendish, 
daughter  and  co-heir  of  Henry,  Duke  of  Newcas- 
tle, by  whom  he  had  an  only  son,  that  died  imme- 
diately after  his  birth.  The  duke  went  out 
ooTaBXOB-oxxBBAi.  to  Jamaica,  in  1687,  aooom- 
penied  by  Sir  Hana  Sloane,  and  died  there  in  the 
next  year,  ^hen  all  aia  aoxouaa  became  xx- 

TIKCT. 

AxMaf— Ou.  a  chevnm  betw.  three  llan*s  heads 
heads  erased,  ar. 

MW9^~The  followiug  singular  drenmatance  oc- 
curred during  the  trial  of  an  action  of  trespaaa, 
between  William  Sherwin,  plaintiff,  and  Sir  Walter 
Clarges,  Baronet,  and  others,  defondants,  at  the 
bar  of  the  King's  Bendi,  at  Westminster,  15th  No- 
vember, 1700. 

"The  plaintiff,  as  heir  and  repreecntatlve  of 
Thomas  Monk,  Esq.,  dder  brother  of  George, 
Duke  of  Albemarle,  claimed  the  Manor  of  Sutton, 
In  the  county  of  York,  and  other  lands,  as  heir  at 
hiw  to  the  said  duke,  against  the  defondant,  devisee 
under  the  will  of  Duke  Christopher,  his  only  child, 
who  d.  in  1688,  «.  p.  Upon  this  trial  It  appeared, 
that  Anne,  the  wife  of  George,  Duke  of  Albemarieb 
was  daughter  of  John  Clarges,  a  Ikrrler  in  Savoy» 
and  fkrrier  to  Colonel  Monk.  In  16SS,  die  wae 
married  at  the  Churdk  of  St.  Lawrence  Pouatney, 
to  Thomas  Ratford,  son  of  Thomas  Ratford,  late 
a  farrier's  servant  to  Prince  Charles,  and  resident 
in  the  Mews.  She  had  a  daughter,  bora  In  16M, 
who  d.  In  16981  her  husband  and  she  lived  at  the 
three  Speaish  Gipsies,  in  the  New  BxdMBge, 


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said  wtth-balli,  powiter,  glov«i,  and  Midi  thingt, 
■ad  the  Uught  girb  plain  work.  About  I6l7t  ■he 
being  tempstreM  to  Monk,  uied  to  carry  him  linen. 
In  1648,  her  fkther  and  mother  died ;  in  1640,  ahe 
and  her  husband  fell  out,  and  parted ;  but  no  cer- 
tiflcate  ftom  any  parish  icgiater  appean,  reciting 
his  burlaL  In  16BB,  she  was  married  in  the  Chuich 
of  St.  Oaorge,  Southwark,  to  Generti  George 
Monk,  and  in  the  following  year,  was  deiiTered  of 
e  son,  CHniaropHaii,  who  wa»  nuMtd  by  Uonomt 
MWt,  who  sold  afpl09,  *«rb»,  oifottn,  4^.,'*  which 
son,  CHmaropHnn,  succeeded  his  fhthsTf  as  stated 
in  the  text 

MONTALT  —  BARONS  MONTALT. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  SSM  Junai  U96* 

2S  Edward  L 

By  Writ  of  Sununons,  dated  6th  February,  UMt, 

S7  Edward  L 

Upon  the  foundation  of  the  Abbey  of  8L  War- 
burg, in  the  dty  of  Chester,  temp.  William  Rufvai, 

HosHa  the  son  of  Norman,  being  at  that  time 
oneof  the  barans  to  Hugh,  Earl  of  Chester,  graatad 
eeitala  lands  to  the  monks  of  that  house,  Ralph 
and  Roger,  his  brothers,  being  witnesses.  To  Ralph 
succeeded  his  son  and  heir, 

ROBERT,  who  assumed  the  surname  of  Mon- 
talt*  ttom.  the  chief  plaoe  of  his  lesidenosi,  an  elera- 
tion  in  the  county  of  Flint,  where  he  erected  a 
eastte.  This  Robert*  betog  steward  to  the  Earl  of 
Chester,  was  also  one  of  his  barons.  After  the 
death  of  Raaulph  de  Gemons,  Earl  of  Chester,  the 
lands  of  that  great  earldom  were.  It  ^pean,  for 
sometime  in  the  king's  hands,  for  in  the6Uiof  Henry 
IL.  this  Robert  de  Montalt  was  one  of  thoae,  who 
aoooi^ted  in  the  king's  exchequer  fior  the  farm 
of  them  t  and  likewise  for  what  was  then  expended, 
in  building  the  Castle  of  Chester.  This  Robert 
was  «.  by  his  son  and  heir, 

ROBERT  DE  MONTALT,  Lord  of  Montalt, 
in  the  county  of  FUnt,  wbo  was  «.  by  his  son, 

ROGER  DE  MONTALT,  who  ww  desmed  one 
«f  the  greatest  feudal  barons  in  the  realm,  temp. 
Henry  IIL,  and  aooompanied  Prince  Edward  to  the 
Holy  Land.  This  feudal  lord  was  constantly  em- 
ployed against  the  Welsh,  and  in  the  44th  Henry 
III.,  he  had  command  to  repair  to  the  borders,  with 
the  otfier  Barons-Marches  and  there  to  reside  for  the 
dsAnee  of  the  country.  He  m.  Cecilia,  second 
sister,  and  one  of  the  oo>helrs  of  Hu^  de  Alblni, 
Earl  of  Arundel,  and  had  issue, 
Joniv. 
Robert. 

Leucfaa,  m.  to  Philip  de  Oneby,  the  younger. 
He  d.in  1990,  and  was  «.  by  his  elder  son, 

JOHN  DE  MONTALT,  who  nk  first,  Elene. 
widow  of  Robert  de  Sttickport;  and  secondly, 
MUisent*  daughter  of  William  de  CaatUupe,  but 
dying  without  issue,  was  «.  by  his  brother, 

ROBERT  DE  MONTALT,  who  had  two  sons, 
Roger,  and  Robert,  and  was  «.  by  the  elder, 

ROGER  DE  MONTALT*  who  was  one  of  the 
inxsbailloa  i^aiaet  Henry  III.,  but  return- 


ing to  his  aUagiance^  he  subesquentlf  daftnded 
Cambridge  for  the  king.  In  the  rdgn  of  Edward  I., 
he  was  in  the  wars  of  Oasoony,  and  was  sumaioned 
to  parliament  as  e  baroit,  on  the  SSrd  ^une,  IttS^ 
His  lordship  m.  Julian,  daughter  of  Roger  de  Clif- 
fiml,  but  dying  without  issue,  in  1907*  the  barony 
expired— his  lands  derolTBd,  howerer,  upon  hla 
brother, 

ROBERT  DE  MONTALT.  This  gallant  per. 
son  having  distinguishsd  himself  in  the  wars  e€ 
Scotland  and  Oascony,  temp.  Edward  I.  and  Ed. 
ward  II.,  was  summoned  to  parllameDt  by  the 
former  numarch,  on  6th  February,  109,  and  he 
had  summons  Ikom  that  period,  to  the  13th  June, 
ia89.  In  whidk  year  he  died  without  issue,  when  the 
BAjtovY  or  MoiTTALT  became  sztikct,  and  his 
extanslTe  estates,  according  to  a  settlement  made 
by  the  deceased  lord,  passed  to  Isabel,  Queen  Caor 
sort  of  En^and,  mother  of  Edward  III.,  for  lifs, 
andafterwards  to  John,  of  Bltham,  brother  to  the 
king,  and  his  heirs  for  ever. 

Abmi*— Aa.  e  lion  rampant,  ar. 

MONTFORT  _  BARONS       MONT- 

FORT. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  «rd  June,  IflM. 

ICiiuagc. 

HUGH  DE  MONTFORT,  commonly  caUed 
Hugh  with  a  Beerd,  son  of  Thurslan  de  Basten- 
burgh,  aoeompanied  William  the  Conqueror  into 
England,  and  aided  that  princess  triumph  at  Has-  ' 
tings,  for  whidi  eminent  service  he  obtained  divers 
fidr  lordships,  and  at  the  time  of  the  general  sur- 
vey, was  posseesor  of  twenty-eight  in  Kent,  with 
a  large  portion  of  Romney  Marsh)  sixteen  in 
Essex  I  fifty-one  in  Suflblk,  and  nineteen  in  Nor- 
folk. This  gallant  soldier  eventually  lost  his  life 
in  a  dud,  with  Wakheline  de  Ferrers*  and  was  su 
by  his  son, 

HUGH  DE  MONTFORT,  who  had  issue  by 
his  first  wifo,  two  sons,  via. 

Robert,  general  of  the  army  to  King  William 
RuAis,  but  flavouring  the  title  of  Robert 
Curtbose,  in  opposition  to  Henry  I.,  he  was 
impeached  for  his  disloyalty,  whereupon, 
being  oonsdoua  of  guilt,  he  got  permission 
to  go  to  Jerusalem,  and  left  all  his  posses. 
sions  to  the  king ;  he  died  s.  pu 
Hugh  died  in  a  pilgrimage  alao, «.  jk 
Hugh  de  Montfort,  senior,  had,  besides  these  sons, 
a  daughter  by  his  second  wife,  who  m.  Gilbert  de 
Gent,  and  had  issue, 

HuoH,  who,  on  account  of  his  mother  being 
so  great  an  heiress,  assnmed  the  name  of 
Montfort. 

■*  m.  to  Simon,  Earl  of  Huntingdon. 
Which 

HUGH  DE  MONTFORT,  (Olim  Gent,)  inhe- 
rited  all  the  possessions  of  his  grandfother,  and  was 
called  Hu^  0bs  Fourth,  This  Hugh,  having  mar- 
ried Adeline,  daughter  of  Robert,  Earl  of  Mellen^ 
joined  with  Waleran,  her  brother,  and  all  thoee  who 
endeavoured  to  ndvanoe  William,  son  of  Robert 
Curthote^  i«alaBt  King   Henry  L,  In   1184. 

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cnttrlng  Normandy  tat  that  purpoae,  he  was  mad* 
pritooer,  with  the  laid  Waleran,  and  confined  for 
the  fourteen  yean  enauing.  The  time  of  his  death 
is  not  ascertained,  but  he  left  issue, 

Robert. 

Thurstan. 

Addine,  m.  to  WiDlam  de  Brltolia 

,  m.  to  Richard,  son  of  the  Earl  of  Olou- 


He  was  ».  hy  his  elder  son» 

'  ROBERT  DE  MONTFORT.  This  lieudal  Lord 
having  in  1183,  charged,  Henry  de  Essex,  the  King's 
Standard  Bearer,  with  cowardice*  in  fleeing  from 
his  colours,  vanquished  him  in  a  subsequent  trial 
hy  battle.  He  does  not  not  appear  to  have  had  any 
Issue,  for  he  was  «.  at  his  decease,  by  his  brother, 

THURSTAN  DE  MONTFORT,  who,  being 
'enfeoflM  of  divers  fair  lordships,  by  Henry  de 
■Newburgh,  the  first  Earl  of  Warwick,  erected  a 
stony  castle,  called  Beldesert,  at  the  chief  seat  of 
his  family,  in  Warwickshire,  which  it  continued 
for  several  subsequent  ages.  To  this  Thurstan 
succeeded  his  son, 

HENRY  DE  MONTFORT,  who,  in  the  Snd  of 
Richard  I.,  regained  the  manor  of  Wellesboume,  in 
the  county  of  Warwick,  commonly  called  Welles- 
boume-Montfort,  whereof  he  had  been  dispossessed 
by  King  Henry  II.    He  was  «.  by 

THURSTON  DE  MONTFORT,  who  had  great 
law  suits  in  King  John's  time,  with  Eustace  de 
Stutevin  and  Nlchobts  de  Stutevill,  regarding  a 
portion  of  the  lordship  of  Cotingham,  in  the  county 
of  Vork.    He  rf.  in  1216,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

PETER  DE  MONTFORT.  This  feudal  tord 
tor  several  years,  in  the  reign  of  King  Henry  III., 
took  an  active  part  in  the  wars  of  that  moiuuvh, 
but  at  length,  on  the  breaking  out  of  the  barons*  itf> 
surrection,  he  became  one  of  the  most  sealous 
amongst  those  turbulent  lords,  and  after  the  battle 
of  Lewes,  was  of  the  nine  nominated  to  rale  the 
kingdom — ^in  which  station  he  ei^oyed  and  exer- 
cised more  than  r^gal  power— but  of  short  duration, 
for  he  fell  at  the  subsequent  conflict  of  Evesham, 
so  disastrous  to  the  baronial  cause.  Peter  de  Mont- 
fort  m.  Alice,  daughter  of  Henry  de  Aldithley,  a 
great  Staffordshire  baron,,  and  had  issue, 
Peter,  his  successor. 

William,  who  by  gift  of  his  father  had  the 
manor  of  Uppingham,  In  the  county  of  Rut- 
Robert,  who  had  lands  alao  In  the  county  of 
Rutland. 
The  eldest  son, 

PETER  DE  MONTFORT,  participated  in  his 
tether's  treasons,  and  was  taken  prisoner  at  the 
battle  of  Evesham,  but  betaig  allowed  the  benefit  of 
the  dictum  of  Kenilworth,  he  was  restored  to  his 
paternal  inherltance>-and  afterwards  ei^oyed  the 
fevour  of  King  Edward  I.,  in  whose  Welsh  wars  he 
took  a  very  active  part.  He  d.  in  1887,  leaving  a 
daughter  Elisabeth,  (who  m.  first,  William,  son  and 
heir  of  Simon  de  Monticute,  and  secondly.  Sir 
THbmas  de  Fumivall,)  and  a  son  and  heir, 

JOHN   DE  MONTFORT,   who,   in   the  89nd 
Edward  I.,  being  in  the  wars  of  Gasoony,  was  the 
next  year  summoned  to  parliament  as  a  bahon. 
306 


His  lordship  nk  Alice,  daughter  of  WilUam  de 
Plaunch,  and  had  issue, 

^^  I  successively  barons. 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  Sir  Baldwin  de  Freville,  Knt. 

Maud,  m.  to Ludley. 

He  <i.  In  U96,  and  was  «.  by  his  elder  son. 


JOHN  DE  MONTFORT,  second  bann,  mm- 
moned  to  parliament  SOth  July,  1313,  In  which  year 
he  received  pardon  for  his  participation  in  the  mur- 
der of  Piers  de  Gaveston— and  afterwards  marddng 
with  the  English  army  Into  Scotland,  was  killed  at 
the  battle  of  Stryvelin,  when,  leaving  no  Issue,  he 
was  «.  by  his  brother, 

PETER  DE  MONTFORT,  third  baron,  sum- 
moned to  parliament  fromSSnd  January,  1338,  to 
10th  March,  1349.  This  nobleman,  prior  to  the 
decease  of  his  brother,  was  in  priest's  orders,  but 
upon  inheriting  the  honours  of  his  Amily  the 
sacred  ftinctlon  was  dispensed  with.  In  the  IMh 
Edward  II.  he  was  Joined  in  commission  with  Wil- 
liam de  BeauchampV  and  Roger  de  AHesbury,  in 
the  custody  ot  the  city  of  Worcester,  and  five  yeaix 
afterwards  was  constituted  governor  of  Warwick 
Castle,  then  vested  in  the  crown,  by  reason  of  the 
minority  of  the  Earl  of  Warwick.  His  kvdshlp  m. 
Margaret,  daughter  of  the  Lord  Fumival,  and  had 
a  son. 

Guv,  who  m.  Margaret,  one  of  the  daughters 
of  Thomas  de  Beauchamp,  Earl  of  War- 
wick, but  died  in  the  life-time  of  his  fether, 
without  issue. 
Peter,  Lord  Montfort,  d.  in  1367t  when  the  barany 
fell  into  ABBYANCx  botwecn  his  sisters,  (refer  to 
children  of  John,  flnt  lord,)  as  It  still  continues 
amongst  thrir  representatives. 
Arms. — Bendy  of  ten,  or  and  as. 
NoTB.— Peter,  last  Lord  Montfort,  had  by  a  con- 
cubine, called  Lore  de  Ullenhale,  daughter  of  one 
Richard  Astley,  of  Ullenhale,  In  the  county  of  War- 
wick, a  son. 

Sir  Jorw  MoirrroRT,  Knt.,  whose  posterity 
fiourished  in  the  male  line  for  several  subse- 
quent ages,  at  Coleshlll,  in  the  county  of 
Warwick,  until  the  attainder  of  Sir  Simon 
Montfort,  Knt,  temp.  Henry  VII.,  whose 
descendants  continued  at  Bescote,  in  the 
county  cf  Staflbrd. 

MONTFORT  —  EARLS  OF  LEICES- 
TER. 

Creation  of  King  John,  anno  1906. 

HUntogc. 

The  first  of  this  family  that  settled  fai  England 
was 

SIMON  DE  MONTFORT,  sumamed  the  Bald, 
great  grandson  of  Almaric,  an  illegitimate  son  of 
Robert,*  king  of  France.    Which  Simon  having 


«  Thus, 

RoBBRT,  king  of  France. 
Almaric,  who  had  the  town  of  Montfort  by 


MON 


MON 


cipovMd  Amicto*  oim  of  the  two  ttitm  and  avheln 
of  RoBaUT  Bbavmoitt,  sarname  Fits-Panel, 
fourth  and  laat  Earl  of  Leiceiter  of  that  Cunlly, 
obtained  a  grant  of  the  Earldom  or  Lbicbstsb 
Ikom  King  John,  with  a  conilrmatiOD  of  the 
,8T>WABD8Bip  of  England,  which  lie  acquired  hj 
tht  poneMdoD  of  the  honour  of  Hiiru.By,  a  portion 
of  the  immenee  ftntune  of  hla  wife.  But  notwith- 
■landing  thcae  marlu  of  royal  teTOur,  the  earl, 
within  a  brief  period,  revolted  ftom  the  king  of 
England  to  the  king  of  France,  for  whidi  act  of 
trwaann  the  Earldom  of  Leieester  waa  transferred  to 
Ranulph,  Earl  of  Chester,  the  honoun  of  Hinkley 
•elaed  upon  by  the  crown,  and  De  Montlbrt  himself 
banished  the  realm.  Soon  after  this  (1909)  we  find 
him,  under  the  title  of  Earl  of  Montfort,  a  com- 
mander in  the  papal  crusade  against  the  primitive 
christians,  called  AOtignuet,  and  in  nine  years  sub- 
sequently a  leader  in  the  besieging  army  of  Lewis, 
king  of  France,  before  the  walls  of  Tholouse,  where 
be  was  slain  by  a  slinger  tnm  the  battlements.  His 
lordship  had  two  sons  by  the  oo-heiress  of  Beau- 
mont, namely,  Almaric  and  Simon,  the  younger  of 
whom, 

SIMON  DE  MONTFORT,  U  said  to  have  flrst 
sought  an  asylum  in  England  tnm  the  hostility  of 
Blanch,  queen  of  France,  and  to  have  obtained  a 
restitution  of  the  Earldom  op  Lbicbstbr,  and 
stewardship  of  England,  tnm  Ring  Henry  III., 
through  the  petition  of  his  brother  Almaric,  then 
Earlof  Montfort,  and  constable  of  France.  Certain 
it  is,  however,  that  in  1382,  (16th  Henry  III.,)  he 
bore  the  title  of  Earl  of  Leicester,  and  had  obtained 
a  grant  of  all  his  mother's  inheritance  in  England 
tnm  his  brother.  In  1996  his  lordship  officiated  as 
steward  at  the  nuptials  of  Henry  III.,  and  held  the 
ewer  in  which  the  king  washed.  And  in  two  years 
afterwards  he  obtained  the  hand  of  the  king's  sister, 
Eleanor,  widow  of  William  Marshal,  Earl  of  Pem- 
broke; the  marriage  ceremony  being  perfosmed  by 
Waiter,  one  of  the  royal  chaplains  at  Westminster, 
«  within  a  Uttle  chappel  at  the  comer  of  the  king's 
chamber."  This  marriage  was,  however,  opposed 
by  the  princess's  other  brother,  Riduurd,  Earl  of 
Cornwall,  (afterwards  king  of  the  Romans,)  and  the 
kingdom  at  large,  because  the  lady  had  made  in  her 
widowhood  a  vow  of  chastity,  in  the  presence  of 
Edmund,  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  and  several  of 
the  nobility.  And  so  strongly  did  public  discontent 
manifest  itself,  that  the  earl  was  obliged  to  repair 
in  person  to  Rome  for  the  purpose  of  obtaining  a 
dispensation,  which  with  considerable  difficulty  he 
at  length  accomplished ;  and  returning  to  England 
was  most  gradLously  received  at  court  by  the  king, 
who  appointed  him  his  chief  counsellor.  Notwith- 
standing this,  however,  William  de  Ablndon,a  Domi- 
nican Mar,  and  many  other  of  the  dergy,  continued 
to  exclaim  against  the  marriage.  The  birth  of 
Prince  Edward,  the  king's  eldest  son,  occurring 
soon  after,  the  earl  was  chosen  one  of  the  spon- 


sors of  the  royal  Infknt,  and  td  such  officiated 
at  the  baptismal  font     But  before  the  dose  at 
the  same  year,  he  fdt   the  influence  of  one  of 
those  douds  which  so  constantly  hang  over  the 
brightest  beams  of  royal  sunshine:  for  the  king  ob- 
serving him  and  his  countess  amongst  the  nobility 
who  attended  the  queen  at  her  purification,  called 
him  an  excommunicated  person,  and  proliiblted  his 
entering  the  church.     **  Which  sudden  unkind- 
ness,"  (says  Dugdale,) ««  much  dismaying  him,  he 
went  away  by  water  to  Winchester  House,  which 
(the  bishop  being  dead),  the  king  had  lent  him. 
But  there  he  could  not  be  permitted  to  stay,  the 
king  in  great  wrath  causing  him  to  be  put  out  of 
doors.     Whereupon  he  returned  sorrowing  and 
weeping,  yet  could  not  appease  his  anger,  the  king 
plainly  telling  him,  that  he  had  abused  his  sister 
before  marriage:  and  that,  though  he  afterwards 
gave  her  to  him  for  a  wife,  it  was  unwillingly,  and 
to  avoid  scandal.    Upbraiding  him,  that  to  ratify 
this  his  unlawful  marriage,  he  went  to  Rome,  and 
there  corrupted  that  court  with  large  bribes  and 
promises :  adding,  that  having  fUled  in  payment  of 
the  money,  he  ought  Justly  to  be  excommunicated." 
This  storm  ultimately  drove  his  lordship  flrom  the 
kingdom,  butonly  ftnr  a  short  period,  as  we  find  him 
returning  in  1940,  and  having  then  an  honourable 
reception  tnm  the  king  and  all  his  court.    Soon 
after  this  he  made  a  Journey  to  Jerusalem,  having 
previously  disposed  of  one  of  his  woods  to  the 
knights  hospitallers  and  canons  of  Leicester  for 
somewhat  less  than  a  £1000  to  deAray  part  of  the 
expenoes  of  the  undertaking.     Hence* 


gift  of  his  royal  father,  and  thence  as- 
sumed that  surname. 
Simon  de  Montfort. 
Almaric,  Earl  of   Montfort,  father 
of  SimoD»  above-maitloned. 


forward  he  appears  for  a  series  of  years  to  have  en- 
Joyed  the  high  fovour  of  the  king,  and  to  have 
fully  merited  it  by  his  eminent  services.  In  the 
39d  Henry  III.  his  lordship  was  appointed  comman- 
der-in-chief at  the  forces  in  Gasoony,  and  in  the  end 
of  that  year  he  sate  in  the  «reat  convention  of  par- 
liament held  at  London;  about  which  time  he  ob- 
tained from  the  king  a  grant  of  the  custody  of 
Kenilworth  Castle,  f6r  Eleanor,  his  wife,  to  hold 
during  her  life;  and,  returning  into  Gasoony,  he 
forced  Guaston  de  Beame,  who  had  raised  the 
standard  of  rebellion,  to  an  honourable  truce.  The 
earl  came  back  to  England  the  next  year,  and  was 
received  at  court  with  great  honour.  Soon  after 
which,  in  fulfilment  of  a  vow  he  had  made  aa 
penance  for  his  marriage,  he  began  a  Journey  to 
the  Holy  Land,  and  in  the  34th  of  the  same  reign 
returned  safely,  with  his  brother-in-law,  Richard, 
Earl  ot  Cornwall,  and  others.  For  the  two  follow- 
ing years  he  was  actively  and  victoriously  employed 
in  Gesoony,  until  the  king  hearkening  to  oomplainta 
against  him  for  cruelty  end  oppression,  which  ap- 
pear to  have  been  unsustainable,  removed  him 
firom  the  seneschalship  of  that  country.  Upon  the 
subsequent  insurrection  of  the  barons  against  the 
king,  the  Earl  of  Leicester  siding  with  the  former, 
was  appointed  their  genccal-in-chief  ,  in  which  cha- 
racter he  fought  the  great  battle  of  Lewes,  where 
the  royal  army  sustained  so  signal  a  defeat,  the 
king  himself  iMdng  made  prisoner  with  Prince  Ed- 
ward, his  son,  his  brother,  Richard,  king  of  the 
Romans,  and  many  other  personages  of  eminence, 
attached  to  his  cause.    This  victory  placing  the 

3ft7 


BION- 


MOir 


ifoTOTniiMBt  in  tlw  handf  of  the  Mrl  and'hltf  Mdht- 
intsi   HIM8BI.V,  the  Bishop  of  Chicheiter,  the 
Bftrl  of  GloueeBter»  and  a  few  othen  of  lev  note, 
wtn  nominated  to  discharge  the  exeeotiTe  func- 
ttona.    One  of  the  earliest  acta  of  the  nsnrpatiOB 
was  to  sammon  a  parUament  in  the  king's  name, 
hr  writs  dated  Mth  Deosmbar,  40di   Henry  III., 
directed  to  the  hishops  and  abbots,  and  to  such  Uy 
lords  as  could  be  reiied  upon;  by  which,  signifying 
•'  the  realm  to  be  then  in  peace  and  quiet,  and  the 
desire  of  the  king  to  establiah  the  same  to  the 
honour  of  God,  and  beoefit  of  his  people;"  they 
were  summoned  to  meet  at  London,  on  the  octaTes 
of  St.  Hilary,  there  to  sit  in  parliament,  «<  to  treat 
and  give  their  advice^"    At  the  same  time  precepts 
were  issued  to  the  sheriflk,  ordering  them  to  return 
two  knights  for  eadi  county;   to  the  cities  and 
boroughs  the  like  number  of  dtlaens  and  burgesses ; 
and  to  the  barons  of  the  cinque  ports,  a  osrtaln 
number  of  their  diacreetest  men  for  the  same  pur- 
pose.   This  is  deemed  the  first  precedent  of  a  par- 
liament, such  as  aver  since  has  been  established, 
and  Sir  William  Dugdale  thus  speculates  upon  the 
causes  of  the  revolution.    "  If  I  may  be  so  bold  as 
to  give  my  opinion,  what  reasons  these  potent  rebels 
then  had,  thus  to  alter  the  former  andent  usage,  I 
shall  take  leaTe  to  oo^)ecture,  that  it  was,  becatise 
they  discerning  what  large  retinues  the  noUlity  and 
Other  great  men  In  those  elder  times  had ;  as  also 
the  great  number  of  the  king's  tenants  in  capita, 
then  called  fterems  minoru,  it  might  haTe  prored 
dangerous  to  themsdTes  to  permit  sudi  a  multitude 
to  come  together."    The  new  goTemment  did  not, 
however,  endure  kmg,  for  a  breadi  taking  place 
beiween  the  two  chiefr,  Leicester  and  Ohracester, 
the  arms  of  those  powerftil  persons  were  directed 
against  each  other,  and  Prince  Edward  effecting  his 
escape  about  the  same  time»  the  Earl  of  Gloucester 
Teared  the  royal  standard,  and  formed  a  Junction 
with  the  forces  of  the  princa    With  this  army, 
tnardUng  towards  Kenilworth,  they  surprised  young 
Simon  Montfort,  the  earl's  son,  and  made  prisoners 
of  no  less  than  thirteen  of  his  chier  adherents, 
driving  hlmeelf  withhi  the  walls  of  the  castle  for 
protection.    Elated  with  this  triumph  they  pro- 
ceeded to  EweHAM,  where  the  Earl  of  Leicester 
and  his  great  force  lay,  expecting  the  arrival  of  his 
son ;  whose  banners  the  royal  army  as  a  stratagem 
of  war  alone  displayed,  and  thereby  completdy  de- 
ceived this  able  commander.    His  lordAip  undis- 
mayed, however,  drew  out  his  army  in  order  of 
-battle,  and  fighting  gallantly  to  the  hvt,  fell  in  the 
midst  of  his  enemies,  when  victory  declared  for  the 
royal  cause.   It  Is  said,  that  when  the  earl  discerned 
the  form  of  his  adversaries  batagiia,  he  swore  «<  by 
the  arm  of  Sl  James,  <his  usual  exrlamation,)  they 
have  done  discreetly  i  but  this  they  learned  ftom 
sm:  let  ns  therefore  commend  our  souls  to  God, 
because  our  bodies  are  theirs.*    Nevertheless,  en- 
«ounglng  his  men,  he  told  them,  <*  it  was  for  the 
laws  of  the  land,  yea,  the  canae  of  God  and  Justice, 
that  they  were  to  fight"    The  principal  perHms 
aWn  in  the  memorable  engagement  wera,  the  earl 
himself,  Henry  de  Montfort,  his  eldest  son,  Hugh 
Despenser,  thenjusdceof  England,  Ralph  Baaset, 
<of  Drayton.    Amongst  the  prtoonera,  were  Guy  de 


Montfort  a  yoouger  aon  of  the  earls  Jolto  Fits* 
John;  Humphrey  de  Bohun,  the  younger;  John 
de  Vesd,  Peter  de  Montfort,  Junr.,  and  Nicholas  de 
OegiaVi  TIm  body  of  the  earl  was  removed  fimn 
the  Add  of  battle  by  some  of  his  ftiends  upon  an 
old  ladder  covered  with  a  poor  torn  doth,  and  thua 
conveyed  to  the  id>bey  of  Evesham,  where»  folded  In 
a  sheet,  it  was  committed  to  the  grave.  But  within 
a  short  time,  some  of  the  monks  alleging,  that  thn 
earl  being  an  esoommunicated  person,  andattainted 
of  treason,  his  remains  were  unworthy  duristian 
burial,  the  body  was  taken  up,  and  interred  In  a 
remote  place,  known  but  to  few.  Thus  fell,  in 
1M4,  Shnon  de  Montfort,  Earl  of  Leicester  t  one  of 
the  meet  eminent  soldiers  and  statasBaen  of  the 
period  in  whidi  he  lived,  and  being  attainted,  the  * 
nABLDOM  became  ■XTiNCT.  Of  hia  widow,  Eleanor, 
the  king'a  sbter^  it  Is  stated,  that  after  the  fetal 
battle  of  Evediam,  she  fied  into  France,  and  took 
up  her  abode  in  the  nunnery  of  the  order  of 
preachers,  at  Montarges,  which  had  been  founded 
by  her  husband's  sister.    Of  his  issue, 

Hbnet  fell  at  Evesham,  leading  the  van  of 

the  baronial  army. 
Simon,  who  foir  some  time  gaOantly  defended 
the  castle  of  Kenilworth,  was  eventually 
made  prisoner  in  the  Isle  of  Ely,  by  Prince 
Edward;  afterward^eflhcting  his  escape  he 
fled  into  France,  and  in  1S70  being  at  Viter- 
buirm,  in  Italy,  he  Joined  with  his  brother, 
Guy,  in  the  murder  of  their  cousin,  Henry, 
ddest  son  of  Richard,  king  of  the  Romans, 
In  the  dmrcfa  of  St  Silvester,  as  the  prince 
flrrlttTil  at  mass. 
Guy,  fought  in  the  van  of  the  heronial  army  at 
Evesham,  and  being  made  prisoner,  was 
oonflned  in  Dover  Castle,  Anom  which  escap* 
lng»he  fled  into  Tuscany,  and  there  acquir- 
ing high  reputation  as  a  soldier,  he  obtained 
the  daughter  and  heiieaa  of  the  Earl  Ruftis 
for  his  wife.  Meeting  with  Prince  Henry, 
aon  of  the  Idng  of  the  Romans,  hlmadf,  and 
his  brother,  Simon,  slew  him  In  revenge,  in 
the  church  of  St  Silvester,  at  Ylterbuirm. 
For  which  barbarous  act,  being  first  excom* 
mnnicaled  by  Pope  Chegory  X.,  he  was 
thrown  into  prison ;  but  relcesed  in  IS83  by 
Pope  Martin  IL,  and  placed  at  the  head  of 
an  army,  in  which  situation  he  displayed 
his  diaractarlstic  prowess.  He  subsequently, 
at  the  decease  of  his  wlfe^s  fether,  returned 
to  Tuscany,  and  inherited  a  very  consider- 
able fortune.  He  is  said  to  have  been  Earl 
of  Anglsria,  in  Italy,  and  progenltar  of  the 
Montforts,  of  Tuscany,  and  of  the  Earl  of 
Campobachi,  in  Naples. 
Amaric,  who,  when  conveying  his  sister  feom 
France  to  be  married  to  Leoline,  Prince  of 
Wales,  was  taken  prisoner,  with  her  at  ssa. 
and  suflhred  a  long  impriaonment  He  was 
at  last,  however,  restored  to  liberty,  and  his 
posterity  are  said  to  have  flourished  in  Eng- 
land under  the  heme  of  Wdkbumew 
Eleanor,  m.   to  Leoline^   Prince  of    North 


Arms.— <2ttlBs.  a  Hon  rampant*  quevA  forch^  ar. 


MOK 


HON 


MONTACUTE  —  BARONS  MONTA- 
CUT£»  EARLS  OF  SALISBURY. 

Btxcnj,hf  Writ  of  Summonst  d«ted96tli  Sq>L»  1300* 

flSEdvmnlL 
Earldom,  hf  C1i«rtflr,  dated  Iflth  March,  1337. 

Tlie  aneeatar  of  this  oelebnUed  fiunlly, 

Dbo«o,  fomamad  De  Moitts-acuto,  Mowta- 
OUTB,  or  IfoMTAous,  came  Into  England  with 
Rohert.  Earl  of  Moraton,  at  tha  coifQusar,  and 
^>pcan*  by  Domaiday  Book,  to  have  hrid  of  him 
diTera  manors  In  Somanetihba,  wharaof  Soaptone, 
or  Shipton>Montacut^  was  ona,  and  Sntone,  othar- 
wiae  Sutton-Montacuto*  warn  aoothar.  The  grand- 
ion  of  this  Drogo, 

RICHARD  DE  MONTACUTB,  ]>ald  twenty 
marka  Cor  hla  knighta'  Cms,  upon  the  ooUection  ot 
the  icutage,  levied  in  the  7th  of  Henry  II.  He  was 
«.  by  hit  aon, 

DRU  DB  HONTACUTE,  (oommonly  called, 
tumng  Dru,)  who,  in  the  19th  of  Htery  III.,  upon 
the  aaMHment  of  the  aid  for  marrying  the  king^ 
daughter,  certifted  hla  knighti'  Uses  to  be  in  num- 
ber, nine,  an  half,  and  third  part,  da  vettri  frntgH^ 
tmtnio,  and  one  da  naeo,  basMaa  one,  wharaof  he  waa 
diipoiwaied  by  Henry  LoveL  Thia  f^dal  lord  m. 
Aliva,  daughter  of  Alan  BaMet,  of  Wycombe,  and 
hadiaaue, 

Dau,  whooe  line  terminated  in  two  grand* 
daughters  and  hairs,  via. 

Margarat,  m.  to  William  da  Edilngham. 
Isabel,  m,  to  Thomaa  de  Audham. 
William. 
The  younger  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  MONTACUTE,  was  aherllf  of 
Dorsetshire,  in  the  time  of  King  John,  and  was  «. 
by  his  only  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  MONTACUTE.  This  Uradal 
lord  had  military  summonses  in  the  41st  and  48nd 
of  Henry  IIL,  to  march  agalnat  the  Welch.  He 
waa  «.  at  hla  deceaae,  by  his  son, 

SIMON  DE  MONTACUTE,  one  of  the  moat 
eminent  persona  of  the  period  in  which  he  Ured. 
In  the  10th  of  Edward  L,  he  waa  in  the  expedition 
made  into  Wales,  and  within  a  fbw  years  after,  re> 
cclTad  conaldanble  grants  tmok  the  crown.  In  the 
8Sd,  he  was  in  the  wars  of  France,  where  he  appears 
to  haTe  been  engaged  for  the  two  or  three  following 
yean,  and  then  we  find  him  fighting  in  Scotland. 
In  the  97th  he  waa  oonstltutad  governor  of  Corfe 
Castle^  and  summoned  to  parliament,  next  year, 
aa  a  saboit.  In  the  4th  of  Edward  II.,  his  lord- 
ship waa  appointed  admiral  of  the  kingis  fleet,  then 
employed  against  the  Scots;  and  he  obtained,  in 
three  years  afterwards,  Ucenoe  to  make  a  caatle  of 
his  mansion  house,  at  Pertynton,  in  SomersetBhire^ 
Hem.  AuMdi,  daughter  of  Fergus,  and  sister  and 
hair  of  Orry,  King  of  the  Isle  of  Man,  and  had 
issue, 

William,  his  sucoaasor. 
Simon,  m,  to  Hawlae,  daughter  of  Atanarie, 
LordSL  Amend. 
His  lordship d.abo«t  the  year  1316,  and  wast,  by 
his  elder  son. 


SIR  WILLIAM  DE  MONTACUTE;  V.  B.  se- 
cond baron,  summoned  to  parliament,  tnm  flOth 
November,  1317»  to  9Sth  August,  131&  This  noble- 
man had  distinguished  himself  in  the  Scottish  wars, 
in  the  life-time  of  hisflsther,  and  was  made  a  Kni^t 
of  the  Bath.  In  the  11th  Edward  IL,  being  then 
of   the  king's    household,   his  hxdship 

constituted  senesrhal  of  the  Duchy  of  Aqul- 
talne,  and  bad  licence  to  make  a  castle  of  his 
house  at  Kenyngton,  In  Oxlbrdshlra.  He  subse- 
quantlj^  obtained  other  extenalve  grants  tnm  the 
crown.  He  m.  BUaabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  Peter 
de  Montfort,  of  Beaudesert,  by  whom  (who  ea> 
pouaed  secondly,  Thomas,  Lord  Fmnival,)  he  had 
surviving  issue, 

WiLLUkM,  his  successor. 

Simon,  in  holy  orders.  Bishop  of  Worcester, 
translated  to  the  see  of  Ely,  in  1336,  and 
knii^ted  about  two  years  after,  by  Edward 
the  Black  Prince. 

Edward  (Sir),  summoned  to  parliament  as  a 
BAROM,  temp.  Edward  IIL«  (see  Montacule, 
Baron  Montacute). 

Katharine,  im.  to  Sir  William  Carrlngton* 
Knt 

Alic^  m.  to  — —  Auberie. 

Mary,  m.  to  Sir Cogan. 

Elisabeth,  Prioress  of  HaUweU. 

Hawise,  m.  to  Sir  — —  Bavent. 

Maud,  Abbess  of  Barking. 

Isabel,  a  nun  at  Barking. 
His  lordship  d.  in  Gascony,  but  was  buried  at  SL 
Frideswide,  now  Christ  Church,  Oxford,  in  189a 
He  waa  s.  by  his  eldest  surviving  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  MONTACUTE,  third  baron, 
who,  the  next  ensuing  year,  although  in  minority, 
obtained  a  grant  from  tfie  king,  of  the  wardahlp  of 
all  his  own  lands  t  and  in  the  16th  Edward  IL, 
making  proof  of  his  age  and  doing  his  homage,  had 
livery  thereof  In  three  years  afterwarda,  he  waa 
made  a  Kni^t  of  the  Bath,  and  had  an  allowance 
of  robes  for  that  solenmity,  as  a  banneret.  In  the 
4th  of  Edward  IIL,  his  lordship  was  deputed  am- 
bassador to  the  pope*  with  Bartholomew  de  Burgb» 
ersh,  to  return  thanks  to  ma  noLiimaa,  Ibr 
oonflrming'a  bull  of  Pope  Honoiiua,  IV.,  touching 
certain  fisvoura,  by  him  granted,  to  the  monks  at 
Westminster  t  moreover,  before  the  end  of  the 
year,  aparliamant  being  then  hdd  at  NorrxiroHAjf » 
he  was  theprindpai  penon  who  apprsbanded  Roger 
de  Mortimer,  Eabl  or  Maeoh,*  tai  the  night«tlmeb 


e  A  perliamant  bdng  hdd  at  Nottingham,  In  ]390» 
Sir  William  Montacute,  (Lord  Montacute,)  waa 
the  diief  person  who  laid  the  conduct  of  Roger 
de  Mortimer,  Earl  of  March,  before  the  king,  who, 
Immedlatdy,  thereupon,  taking  into  consideration 
his  own  dishonour  and  damage,  aa  also  the  impo  veiw 
ishment  of  his  people,  and  revealing  his  mind,  prl« 
rately,  to  Sir  William  Montacute,  gave  him  com* 
mand  to  take  to  his  assistance,  some  tnuty  and 
resolute  persons,  which  he  accordingly  did,  by 
sdecting,  as  his  aasodatea.  Sir  Humphrey  Bohuit» 
John,  Lord  Molines,  Robert,  Lord  Uflbrd,  Ralph, 
Lord  Staflbrd,  WUBam,  Lord   CUnton,  and  Sit 


MON 


MON, 


within  th«  quett't  lodging!  there,  and  tent  him 
priton«r  to  Londoo*  whan  he  was  aoon  aftarwards 
axecutad  for  high  treatoo.  For  tills  sarriee.  Lord 
Montacute  had  a  grant  in  tail,  to  himself,  and 
Katherine  his  wife,  of  the  Castle  of  Slierbuine,  in 
the  county  of  Dorset,  and  of  sareral  other  manors  in 
Southampton,  Berkshire,  Budringhamshire,  end 
Cambridge;  part  of  the  poesessions  of  the  attainted 
fiarlof  March.  In  the  8th  of  Edward  III.  his  lord- 
ship was  coDStituted  goremor  of  the  Isles  of 
Ouemsey,  Jersey,  dec,  and  the  next  year  made 
oonatalile  of  the  Tower  of  London. 

About  this  time  Lord  Montacute  acquired  great 
distinction  in  the  Scottish  wars,  but  at  the  ezpence 
of  one  of  his  eyes,  which  he  lost  in  tlie  campaign. 
In  the  10th  of  Edward  III.,  he  was  appointed 
admiral  of  the  king's  fleet,  westward,  and  the  next 
year,  in  consideration  iji  his  numerous  gallant 
achievements,  he  was  advanced  in  ftiU  parliament 
held  at  London,  to  the  title  and  dignity  of  Earl  of 
SALiaBUHT,  with  a  grant  of  twenty  pounds  out  of 
the  protf U  of  that  county.    Shortly  after  this,  he 

-    —  —         -  I. 

John  Nevil,  of  Homeby.  While  these  noble  per- 
sons were  consulting  how  to  selM  on  Mortimer, 
he  was  at  the  same  time  holding  a  council  in  the 
Castle  of  Nottingham,  with  Isabel,  the  Queen 
Mother,  Henry  Burwash,  Bishop  of  Lincoln,  Sir 
Simon  Beresford,  Sir  Hugh  Turplington,  Sir  John 
Monmouth,  and  others,  his  creatures,  how  to  bring 
to  utter  ruin  all  those  that  accused  him  of  treason 
and  Mony.  But  the  Lord  Montacute,  and  those  of 
the  council  concerned  with  him,  not  being  ad- 
mitted to  take  up  their  lodgings  in  the  castle,  had 
a  suspicion  that  Mortimer  designed  their  destruc- 
tion :  and  thereupon  his  lordship  told  the  king, 
"  That  since  neither  he  nor  any  of  his  partakers, 
were  admitted  to  lodge  in  the  castle,  they  should 
nerer  be  able  to  sdae  Mortimer,  without  the  con- 
sent and  assistance  of  the  Constable,  Sir  William 
Bland."  '•  Now,  surely,"  said  the  king,  '*  I  lore 
you  wdl,  and  therefore  advise  you  to  go  to  the 
oonataUe  in  my  name,  and  command  him  to  be 
aiding  and  assistant  to  you,  in  taking  Mortimer, 
all  other  things  laid  aside,  on  peril  of  Ufe  and  limb." 
*'  Sir,"  aaid  Montacute,  "  then  God  grant  success }" 
thereupon  he  want  to  the  said  constable,  and  tdling 
him  the  king's  will  befSore  the  rest  of  his  aooom- 
plioes,  in  general  terms ;  the  constable  answered, 
that  «<  The  king's  will  should  be  obeyed ;"  and 
thereupon,  he  was  sworn  to  be  constant  and  secret 
to  the  Lord  Montacute,  and  Montacute  to  him, 
in  the  hearing  of  all  the  assistants.  '*  Now,  surely, 
dear  friend,"  said  Lord  Montacute  to  the  constable, 
'"  it  behoved  us  to  gain  your  acquaintance,  in  order 
to  selM  on  Mortimer,  since  you  are  keeper  of  the 
castle,  and  have  the  keys  at  your  dispose."  **  Sirs," 
replied  the  constable,  *«you  shall  understand,  that 
the  gates  of  the  castle  are  locked,  with  the  locks 
that  Queen  Isabell  sent  hither,  and  at  night,  she 
hath  all  the  keys  thereof,  and  layeth*  them 
under  the  piUow  of  her  bed,  until  the  morning : 
and  so  I  may  not  help  you  into  the  castle,  at  the 
gates,  by  any  means;  but  I  know  an  hole  that 
stretcheth  out  of  the  ward,  under  earth,  hito  the 
caatle,  beginning  on  the  west  side;  which  hole, 
360 


was  Joined  in  command  of  the  army  in  Sootland» 
with  Richard,  Earl  of  Arunddt  and  pursued  hie 
victorious  career  as  wdl  in  Scotland  as  in  France, 
for  the  two  ensuing  years,  when  in  storming  the 
town  of  L'Isle,  he  had  the  misfortune  to  be  made 
prisoner  with  Robert  de  Uflbrd,  Eari  of  SuflUk, 
and  conveyed  in  fetters,  amidst  the  acclamations  of 
the  places  through  whidi  he  passed,  to  Paris,  where 
the  Frendi  king  would  have  put  him  to  death,  but 
for  the  interference  of  tlie  King  of  Bohemia.  His 
lordship  and  his  fellow-captive,  the  Earl  of  Suffolk, 
were  soon  after,  however,  delivered  up  in  exchange 
tor  the  Count  of  Munef,  (a  Scotchman)  and  the 
sum  of  three  thousand  pounds  sterling.  With  his 
liberty,  he  recommenced  his  martial  career,  and 
won  fresh  laureb  on  the  Prendi  soiL  In  the  16th 
of  Edward  III.,  having  conquered  the  Isle  of  Man, 
he  was  crowned  king  thereof,  by  his  royal  master. 
His  lordship  m,  Katharine,  daughter  of  William, 
Lord  Grandison,  and  had  Issue, 

William,  his  successor. 

JoHir  (Sir),  a  distinguished  warrior,  and  one 


neither  Isabid,  the  Queen,  nor  Mortimer  hlmsdf, 
nor  none  of  his  company,  know  anything  of;  and 
through  this  passage  I  shall  lead  you,  till  you  come 
into  the  castle,  without  the  espial  of  any  of  your 
enemies."  That  same  night.  Sir  William  Mon- 
tacute, (Ixnrd  Montacute,)  and  all  the  lords,  his 
assistants,  with  the  constable,  Uxdi  horse,  pretend- 
ing to  go  out  of  town,  which  when  Mortimer  heard 
of,  he  thought  they  fled  away  for  fear  of  him,  and 
devised  how  to  entrap  them.  But  about  midnight, 
on  Friday,  19th  October,  returning  bads  again,  they 
all  came  to  the  passage  aforesaid,  and  firihming  the 
direction  of  Sir  William  Eland,  entered  a  dional 
cave,  which  went  under  the  castle,  dug  unequally, 
through  stony,  and  other  sort  of  ground,  till  it 
came  to  the  rock  on  which  the  castle  stood,  through 
which  it  also  passed  with  stain,  tiU  it  opened  itself 
above,  within  the  keep,  or  chief  tower.  This  won- 
derful passage  had  been  hewed  and  dug,  during  the 
Danish  Invasions,  by  some  of  the  Sax<m  kings,  tat 
their  better  security  In  case  of  a  siege ;  but  since 
the  action  of  this  night,  it  hath  the  name  of  Mor- 
timer's Hole;  whom,  without  any  great  noise,  and 
with  little  resistance,  they  at  kst  took,  not  in  the 
queen's  chamber,  but  in  another,  not  ftr  tntm  it, 
in  the  company  of  the  said  Bishop  of  Lincoln^ 
Bef (ne  he  could  be  seised,  Montacute  finding  some 
resistance  from  the  earl's  attendants,  slew  Sir  Hugh 
Turplington,  Steward  of  the  King's  Housdiold, 
and  Sir  John  Monmouth,  and  at  last  secured  Mor* 
timer's  person,  to  be  reserved  for  a  more  public 
death.  The  queen  mother,  then  in  bed,  heard  the 
noise  of  this  rencontre,  and  supposing  what  the 
matter  really  was,  and  that  the  king  himself  must 
needs  be  there,  she  called  out  to  him  in  these 
words,  "  Bel  FUt,  Bel  Fits,  iqw*  pUie  dm  gmtO 
Mortimer  r  Mortimer  was  hurried  thence;  and 
brought  before  the  king,  who  imjnediatrty  com* 
mended  him  into  safe  custody  in  the  castle,  the 
keys  thereof  being  put  into  the  Ung's  hands,  that 
none  might  issue  out,  to  discover  what  hath  been 
done,  till  the  rset  of  Mortimer's  abettors  had  been 
secured^— CoLLiMS. 


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of  tlte'liWOM  of  CSA04V,  wfio  m.  Ittrgaret, 
dnaghter  and  h«lr  of  Thomas,  Lord  Moo- 
Uwrmcr,  and  was  a luamoned  to  parKamant 
as  a  BAttoir,  tnm,  lAth  Fetaruair,  13S7*  to 
athOaoamber.iaaB.  HisIordsliiphadiMue, 
JoHK,  aaooad  bavon,  who  tucoeaded  his 

undef  as  third  Eari  of  SaUslrary. 
Thoaaas,  Dean  of  SaHsbury,  d.  in  1404. 
.   Robert,  c/t  Suttoa-MaBta^e,  in  Somo^ 
•etshire.    The  issue  of  this  gentleman, 
according  to  Banks,  flourished  there 
until  William  Montague,  the  last  of 
the  family,  left  three  daughtcm  and  co- 
heirs, of   whidi,   Eanu   m.   James 
Dupote,  who,  in  her  right,  possessed 
one  moiety  of  Sutton-Montague,  whose 
son,  Thomas,  was  fkther  of  Henry 
Duport,  Esq.,  of  Leicestershire,  and 
John  Duport,  D.D.,  Master  of  Jesus 
College,  Cambridge. 
.Simon   (Sir),*  from  whom  the  ejrtineC 
Dukes  of  Mont^^e,  and  the  Bxtant 
Dukes  of  Manchester,  .end  the  Earls  of 
Sandwidi,  are  said  to  have  derived. 
Eleanor. 
Sibyl,  a  nun. 
Katharine. 
*  Margaret,  a  nun. 

•  Sib  Simow  MoHTAcm-a.    The  fifth  in  direct 
lineal  descent  ftom  this  gentleman, 

TnoMAa  MoiVTAooc,  m.  Agnes,  dangler  of 
William  Dudley,  of  Clopton,  Northamp- 
tonshire* and  issue, 
JoBir,  his  successor. 
And 

Sib  Bowaro  Montaoub,  Knt.,  one  of  the 
most  celebrated  lawyers  of  the  period  in 
which  helived.   Inther^gnofHenry  VIIL, 
he  was  speaker  of  the  House  cH  Commons, 
and  not  a  little  obsequious  to  his  royal 
master.    Upon  one  occesion,  a  bill  of  sub- 
sidies not  passing,  Mr.  Speaker  was  sent  for 
by  the  king,  and  thus  addressed,  while  upon 
his  knees,  in  the  royal  presence,  *'Ho! 
•will  they  not  let  my  bill  pass  ?'*  and  Uying 
h»  hand  on  the  head  of  Montague,  his 
Highness  continued,  *<  Get  my  MU  to  pass 
by  such  a  time  to-monow,  or  else  by  such 
a  time  this  head  of  yours  shall  be  off.'* 
The  speech  was  brief  but  condusive)  for 
we  are  told  that  Sir  Edward  <«  wrought  so 
cffoetually,  that  before  the  time  prescribed, 
the  bill  passed  with  the  approbation  of  the 
house,   and  the  sovereign's  satisfaction.** 
Sir  Edward  was  afterwards  Cbibf  of  the 
Court  of  King's  Bench,  and  then  of  die 
ComaAon  Pleas.     He  was  likewise  of  the 
privy  couttdL    He  was  «.  by  the  eldest  son 
of  his  third  marriage. 

Sir  Edward  Momtaou,  who  was  fkther  of 
Sir  HrhRy  Montaou,  M.P.  for  London, 
temp.  James  I.,  and  subsequently  created 
Eari.  or  MAVCBBaTBR.  His  lordship  was 
great^prandfatho'  of  the  first  Duke  of  Man- 
chester, who  was  great-great-grandiisther  to- 
the  present  Duke. 


RdberL 

Sibyl,  m.  to  Edmund,  son  of  Edmund,  Earl  of 

ArundeL 
PhlUppa,   m.  to  Roger  Mortimer,  Earl  of 

HardL 
ElisriMth,  m.  to  (Hies,  Lord  Badleimere. 
Anne,  contracted  to  John,  son  of  Roger,  Lord 
Grey. 
This  great  earl  d.  in  1343,  of  brulaes  received  in  a 
tilting  at  Windsor,  and  was  «.  by  his  ddcst  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  MONTACUTE,  second  Earl  fd 
Salisbury.  This  nobleman,  in  1346,  attended  Kinf 
Edward  IIL,  into  Prance,  and  was  at  the  siege  of 
Caen,  and  the  glorious  battle  of  CRBeav.  From 
this  pcHod  he  was  seldom  idiaent  ftom  the  theatre 
of  war,  so  that  his  whole  life  may  be  denominated 
one  continued  campaign.  At  the  battle  of  Poio- 
TIBR8,  he  commanded  the  rear-guard  of  the  En- 
glish army,  and  is  said  to  have  contended  with  the 
Earl  of  Warwick,  in  the  heat  of  action,  as  to  which 
should  shed  most  French  blood.  His  lordship  was  one 
of  the  original  Kn iorts  of  thb  Gartbr,  thefoun- 
dation  of  which  noble  order,  tradition  attributes  to 
the  love  which  King  Edward  bore  to  his  lordship's 
countess.  The  earl  m.  first,  Joane,  daughter  of 
Edmund  Plantagenet,  Earl  of  Kent,  finom  whom  he 
was  divorced,  on  account  of  the  lady's  precontract 
with  Sir  Thomas  H<riland  (this  was  the  cdebrated 
Fair  Maid  or  Kbnt,  who  eventually  became  the 
wife  of  Edward,  the  Black  Prince).  His  lordship 
espoused,  secondly,  Elixabeth,  daui^ter  and  co- 
heir of  John,  Lord  Mohnn,  of  Dunster,  and  had  an 
only  son, 

William,  who  m.   EliaabiBth,   daughter  of 
Richard,  Earl  of  Arundel,  and  died  before 
YiiA  father, «.  p.  in  1383. 
The  earl  d,  in  1307,  when  leaving  no  issue,  his 
honours  devolved  upon  his  nephew, 

SIR  JOHN  DE  MONTACUTE,  Baron  Monta* 
cute  and  Monthermer,  as  third  Earl  ^  Salisbury. 
This  nobleman  was  not  leas  distinguished  in  ther 
field  than  his  martial  predeceiaors.    In  the  21st  of 
Richard  II.,  he  did  Ms  homage,  and  had  livery  of 
the  lands  which  he  inherited  flrom  his  uncle,  "  and 
being,"  says  Dugdale,  *<  a  great  fsvourlte  of  the 
king,  he  was  one  of  those  whom  that  monarch* 
suborned  to  impeach  Thomas,  of  Woodstock,  Duke 
of  Gloucester,  as  also  the  Earls  of  Warwick  and 
Arundel,  in  the  ensuing  parliament."    The  next 
year  his  lordship  was  constituted  marshal  of  Eng- 
land, in  the  absence  of  Th<muM  Holand,  Duke  of 
Surrey,  then  employed  in  Ireland :  and  he  re- 
mained feithftil  to  the-fortunes  of  King  Richard,' 
when  almost  every  body  else  deserted  him,  upon-the 
invasion  of  Henry,  Duke  of  Lancaster,  who  even- 
tually drove  that  weak  monarch  firom  the  thronew 
*«  It  is  reported  of  this  earl,"  says  Dugdale,  '« thpt, 
though,  upon  the  deposal  of  Ring  Richard  II., 
(to  whom  he  had  been  most  obsequious)  he  had 
such  fiOr  respect  firom  King  Henry  IV.,  that  his 
life  was  not  brought  in  question ;  neverthdess,  he 
confederated  with  the  Earls  of  Huntingdon  and 
Kent,  in  designinghis  destruction;  and  accordingly 
came  with  them  to  Windsor  Castle,  under  the 
disguise  of  Christmas  players,   with  purpose  to 
murder  him  and  his  so«it»  and  to  restore  King 
3  A  381 


MON 


MON 


Richard.  But  finding  that  their  plot  was  dis- 
covered, they  fled  by  night  to  Cirencester,  in  the 
county  of  Gloucester.  Whereupon  the  townsmen, 
being  much  afflrighted  at  their  coming  thither  with 
such  numbers,  at  that  unseaonable  time ;  stopping 
up  all  the  avenues,  to  prevent  their  passage  out, 
there  grew  a  sharp  fight  betwixt  them,  which  held 
trom  midnighl,  until  three  of  the  clock  next  morn- 
ing; so  that  being  tired  out,  they  yidded  them- 
selves, desiring  that  they  might  not  suflisr  dJeath 
till  they  could  speak  with  the  king,  which  was 
granted :  but  that  a  priest  of  their  party  setting  fire 
to  the  town,  to  give  them  an  opportunity  for 
escape,  so  irritated  the  inhabitants,  that,  (neglect- 
ing to  quench  the  fire)  they  brought  them  out  of 
the  abbey  in  great  fury,  and  beheaded  them  about 
break  of  the  day."  His  lordship  had  m.  Maud, 
daughter  of  Sir  Adam  Francis,  Knt.,  of  London 
(widow  of  John  Aubrey,  son  of  Andrew  Aubrey, 
citisen  of  London,  and  of  Sir  Alan  Buxhull,  Knt.), 
by  whom  he  had  issue, 

Thomas,  who  was  restored  to  the  Earldom  of 
Salisbury,  and  the  other  honours. 

Richard,  d,  *.  p, 

Anne,  m,  first  to  Sir  Richard  Hankford,  Knt, 
secondly,  to  John  Fits-Lewis,  and  thirdly  to 
John  Holland,  Duke  of  Exeter,     i-^'^    r\r. 

Elisabeth,  m,  to  Robert,  Lord  Willoughby, 
ofEresby.  , 

Margaret,  m.  to  WllHam,  Lord  Ferrers,  of 
Groby.  4 

This  John,  Earl  of  Salisbury,  was  one  of  the  most 
lealous  of  the  sect  caUed  Lollards.  His  death  as 
stated  above,  occurred  upon  the  6th  January,  1400, 
and  ALL  BI8  HONOURS  expired  under  the  subse- 
quent attainder.  But  King  Henry  taking  compas- 
sion upon  his  widow  and  children,  restored  some  of 
the  late  earl's  manors  in  Devonshire  for  their  sup- 
port }  and  to  the  elder  son, 

THOMAS  DE  MONTACUTE,  he  also  granted 
a  large  proportion  of  his  father's  estates:  and 
within  a  few  years  restored  him  to  the  Earldom 
OF  Salisbury,  and  the  other  honours.  "  This 
nobleman,**  in  the  words  of  Banks,  "  was  concerned 
In  so  many  military  exploits,  that  to  give  an 
account  of  them  all,  would  be  to  write  the  history 
of  the  reign  of  Henry  V.  Suffice  it  then  to  say, 
that  as  he  lived,  so  he  died  in  the  service  of  his 
country ;  being  mtvtally  wounded  when  command-^ 
Ing  the  English  army  at  the  siege  of  Orleans  in 
1488."  His  lordship  m.  first,  the  Lady  Eleanor 
Plantagenet,  daughter  of  Thomas,  and  sister  and 
co-heir  of  Edmund,  Earl  of  Kent,  and  had  an  only 
daughter, 

Alicx,  who  m.  Richard  Nevill,  second  son  of 
Ralph,  first  Earl  of  Westmorland  (see  Ne- 
vill, Earls  of  Salisbury). 
The  earl  espoused,  secondly,  Alice,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Chaucer,  Esq.,  and  widow  of  Sir  John 
Philipps,  Knt.,  but  had  no  issuei    Upon  the  decease 
of  ills  lordship,  who,  with  his  other  honours,  was  a 
Kniobt  or  TBB  Oartbb,   the  Earldom  op  Sa- 
lisbury became  bxtibct,   but  the  Baronies  of 
MoBTACUTB,  created  by  writ  in  1300,  of  Monta- 
cuTB,  created  by  writ  in  1307*  and  Montbbrmbr, 
devolved  upon  his  daughter  aiid  heiress, 
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Lady  Alicb  Mobtacutb,  and  tras  conveyed 
by  her  to  the  Nbyills. 
Arms.— Ar.  three  fusils  in  fesse,  gu. 
NoTB. — The  illustrious  house  of  Montacute  is 
now  represented  by  the  Dukes  of  Manchester  and 
the  Earls  of  Sandwich,  who  descend  from  Sir  Simon 
Mentacute,  a  younger  son  of  Sir  John  M<nitacute, 
Lord  Montacute,  second  son  of  William,  first  Earl 
of  Salisbury,  and  fisther  of  John,  third  earL 

MONTACUTE  —  BARONS  MONTA- 

CUTE. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  lAth  February,  I3S7, 
31  Edward  III. 

[See  MoBTAcuTB,  Earls  of  Salisbury,'  Sir 
John  Montacute,  second  son  of  William,  first  Earl 
of  Salisbury.] 

MONTACUTE  —  BARON  MONTA- 

CUTE. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  S5th  February,  134S, 
86  Edward  III. 

r  Xineagc. 

SIR  EDWARD  DE  MONTACUTE,  youngest 
brother  of  William,  first  Earl  of  Salisbury,  in  the 
4th  of  Edward  III.  had  a  grant  from  the  crown  for 
his  good  services,  and  to  support  his  rank  as  a 
knight,  of  £100  per  annum :  and  was  summoned  to 
parliament  as  a  baron,  from  86th  February,  1348, 
to  80th  November,  1360.  His  lordship  was  an  emi- 
nent soldier,  and  served  with  high  reputation  in 
the  wars  of  Scotland  and  France,  having  at  one 
time  in  his  train  nine  knights,  fifteen  esquires,  and 
twenty  archers  on  horseback,  when  his  banner  bore 
the  following  arms,  vis.,  "  Ar.  three  fusils  in  fesse, 
on  each  an  eagle  displayed  with  a  label  of  three 
points."  He  m.  the  Lady  Alice  Plantagenet,  daugh- 
ter and  co-heir  of  Thomas,  of  Brotberton,  Duke  of 
Norfolk,  by  whom  he  had  an  only  child, 

JoANB,  who  m.  William  UlTord,  Earl  of  Suf- 
folk, and  died  issudess. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1391,  when  the  Barony  of  Mon- 
TACUTB  devolved  upon  his  daughter  Joane,  and  at 
her  decease  it  became  bxtinct. 

Arms.—- Ar.  three  fUsils  in  fesse,  on  each  an  eagle 
displayed,  with  a  lable  of  three  points. 

MONTAGUE  —  BARONS  HALIFAX, 
EARL  OF  HALIFAX, 
EARLS  OF  HALIFAX. 


Barony, 
First  Earldom, 
Second  Earldom, 


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Patent,   I 

Xinca0c. 


4th  Dec.,  170a 
14th  Oct.,  1714. 
I4th  June,  1713. 


The  Honourable 

GEORGE  MONTAGUE,  eldest  son  of  Henry, 
first  Earl  of  Manchester,  by  his  third  wife,  Mar- 
garet, daughter  of  John  Crouch,  Esq.,  m.  EUsa- 
beth,*daughter  of  Sir  Anthony  Irby,  Knt.,  and  was 
father  of 


MON 


MON 


I 


► 


CHARLES  MONTAGUE,  (a  youncer  son,)  who 
became  one  of  the  most  eminent  etatcnnai  of  the 
important  period  of  King  William  III.  Mr.  Mon- 
tague WW  returned  to  parliament  by  the  city  of 
Durham,  and  afterwardB  by  the  city  of  Westmin- 
ster. In  1688  he  was  appointed  one  of  the  commis- 
sioners of  the  treeeury,  and  in  two  yeen  aiterwardfl 
chancellor  of  the  exchequer,  in  which  office  he  pro> 
Jected,  and  caused  to  be  executed,  the  great  re- 
coinage  of  silver  in  1605.  In  1666  he  a4)usted  the 
allUrs  of  the  East  India  Company  to  universal 
satis&ction:  and  was  elevated  to  the  peerage,  in 
compliance  with  the  recommendation  of  the  House 
of  Commons,  on  4th  December,  1700,  in  the  dignity 
of  Babon  Halivaz,  tf  Hali/h:t,  in  ^e  county  qf 
York,  with  remainder,  fkiling  his  issue  male,  to  his 
n^hew,  GaoRoa  Momtaou,  son  and  heir  of  his 
elder  brother,  Edward  Montagu.  In  the  reign  of 
Queen  Anne  his  lordship  was  constituted  a  commla- 
sioner  for  the  uni<ni  between  England  and  Scotland  { 
and  was  created,  14th  October,  1714,  Fiteount 
Sunburp,  in  the  county  of  Middleoos,  and  Earl  of 
Halifax.  His  lordship  waa  not  more  distinguished 
as  a  politician'  than  as  a  wit  and  man  of  letters. 
"  Addison,"  says  Banks,  *'  has  celebrated  this  no- 
bleman in  his  account  of  the  greatest  English  poets. 
Sir  Richard  Steel  has  drawn  hia  character  in  the 
dedication  of  the  second  volume  of  the  Spectator, 
and  of  the  fourth  of  the  Tatler;  but  Pope  in  the 
portrait  of  Bullb.  in  the  Epistle  to  Arbuthnot,  has 
returned  the  ridicule  which  his  lordship,  in  con- 
Junction  with  Prior,  had  heaped  on  Drydea's  Hind 
and  Panther;  besides  which  admirable  travestie. 
Lord  Halifkx  wrote  divers  other  works,  moet  of 
which  have  been  published  together  in  an  octavo 
volume,  with  memoirs  of  his  lordship's  life  (1716) ; 
and  are  noticed  by  Walpole  in  his  catalogue  of 
NoUe  Authora.'* 

The  earl  m.  Anne,  countess  dowager  of  Manches- 
ter, daughter  of  Sir  Christopher  Yelverton,  Bart., 
of  Easton  Mauduit,  Notts,  but  had  no  issue.  His 
lordship,  who  was  a  Khioht  op  trb  Oartrr,  d. 
in  1715,  when  the  barlimm  bzpirbd,  but  the  ba- 
rony devolved,  according  to  the  ljmitati<»,  upon 
hia  nephew, 

GEORGE  MONTAGUE,  second  Baron  HaUAuc, 
who  was  created,  on  the  14th  June,  1715,  Vi*count 
Sudburtf  and  Earl  or  Halifax.  This  noblenum 
was  made  a  Knight  of  the  Bath  upon  the  revival  of 
that  order  in  1789»  His  lordship  m.  first,  Richarda- 
Poathuma,  daughter  of  Richard  Saltenstale,  Esq., 
of  Chippen-Warden,  in  ihe  county  of  Northampton, 
by  whom  he  had  an  only  daughter, 

Lucy,  m.  to  Francis,  Lord  Guilford. 
The  earl  espoused,  secondly.  Lady  Mary  Lumley, 
daughter  of  Richard,  Earl  of  Scarborough,  and  had 
issue, 

Gbobob,  his  sucoeasor. 

Frances,  m.  to  Sir  Roger  Burgoyne; 

Anne,  nu  to  Joseph  Jekyll,  Esq. 

Mary,  m.  to  Sir  Danvers  Osbom,  Bart. 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  Henry  Archer,  brother  of 
Lord  Archer. 

Barbara,  d,  unmarried. 

Charlotte,  m.  to  CoL  Johnston. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1739,  and  waa  «.  by  his  son. 


GEORGE  MONTAGU,  second  Earl  of  Halifax. 
This  noUeman  espoused  Anne,  daughter  of  William 
Richards,  Esq.,  and  that  lady  having  succeeded  to 
the  estates  of  Sir  Thomas  Dunk,  of  Tonges,  in 
Kent,  his  lordship  aasumed  the  surname  of  Dunk. 
He  had  iasue, 

Anne,  d.  unmarried  in  1761. 

Frances,  d.  unmarried  in  1074. 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  John,  fifth  Earl  of  Sandwich. 
His  lordship  filled  the  offices  of  first  lord  of  the 
admiralty,  and  secretary  of  state.  He  died  in  1771* 
when  ALL  RI8  HoirouRa  became  bxtinct. 

Arms.— As.  three  losenges  in  fesae  gules,  within 
a  border  s.  a  mullet  for  diflference. 

MONTAGU  — BARONS  MONTAGU, 
OF  BOUGHTON,  EARLS 
OF  MONTAGU,  DUKES 
OF  MONTAGU. 


5^^'      lt»y  Letters/ SJ!*/'l?^,12f' 
Earldom,    J-  p-t-_^    -{  9th  April,  1680. 

Dukedom,)    '^•w">«»    ( ISth  April,  I705w 

IQncagc. 

SIR  JOHN  MONTACUTE,  brother  of  William, 
first  Earl  of  Salisbury,  m.  Margaret,  daughter 
and  heiress  of  Thomas,  Lord  Monthertner,  and  had, 
with  other  issue,  John,  who  inherited  as  third  Earl 
of  Salisbury,  (see  Montacute,  Earls  of  Salisbury,) 
and 

SIR  SIMON  MONTACUTE.  who  m.  EUsabeth, 
daughter  and  heir  of  William  Boughton,  Esq.,  of 
Boughton,  in  the  county  of  Northampton,  end  firom 
this  marriage  lineally  descended 

SIR  EDWARD  MONTAGU,  Knt.,  chief  justice 
ot  the  King's  Bench,  and  afterwards  of  the  Common 
Pleas,  (temp.  Henry  VIII.,)  having  previously  filled 
the  chair  of  the  House  of  Commons.  This  cde- 
brated  person  was  in  such  favour  with  King  Henry 
VIII.,  that  he  was  appointed  by  that  monarch  one 
of  the  executors  to  his  wilL  He  m.  Helen,  daughter 
at  John  Roper,  Esq.,  of  Eltham,  and  had  several 
sons.  He  was  «.  by  the  second,  but  eldest  surviv- 
ing, 

SIR  EDWARD  MONTAGU,  who  espoused 
Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  James  Harington,  of 
Ezton,  HI  the  county  of  Rutland,  and  had  issue, 

Edwaro  (Sir),  his  successor. 

Walter  (Sir). 

Henry  (Sir),  progenit<»  of  the  ducal  housb 
OF  Mancrbbtbr. 

Charles  (Sir). 

James,  Bishop  iji  Winchester. 

Sydney  (Sir),  anceator  of  the  Eablb  or  Sand- 
wich. 
Sir  Edward,  who  served  the  office  of  sheriff  for 
Northamptonshire  in  1567,   was  «.  by  his  eldest 
son, 

SIR  EDWARD  MONTAGU,  K.B.,  who  was 
elevated  to  the  peerage,  29th  June,  1691,  as  Baron 
Montagu,  of  Boughton,  in  the  county  of  Nor- 
thampton. His  lordship  m.  first,  Elisabeth,  daugh- 
ter and  heir  of  Sir  John  Jeflries,  Knt.,  of  Chitting- 
Lelgh,  in  the  county  of  Sussex,  chief  baron  of  the 
exchequer,  by  whom  he  had  an  only  daughter, 

363 


MON 


MOV 


Bi.nAB«TK,  who  m.  Robert*  Lord  Willough- 
by,  ist  Ereiby»  aftorwrnrds  Eabx.  ov  Liiro- 

BBT. 

■His  knrdflhip  Mpouiad,  Moondly,  Franco,  daughter 
of  Thomas  Cotton*  Eaq.,  of  Conington,  in  Hunting- 
donshire, and  sister  of  Sir  Robert  Cotion»  Bart,,  by 
whom  he  had, 

Christopher»  who  predeceased  his  father,  dying 
in  the  twenty-fourth  year  ot  his  age,  anno 
1641. 
Edwaro,  successor  to  the  titla 
William,  lord  chief  baron  of  the  exchequer  in 
1687*  from  which  he  was  removed  by  King 
James  II.  He  liTOd*  subsequently*  in  ro- 
tirement.  By  Mary*  his  wife,  daughter  of 
Sir  ^ohn  Aubrey*  Bart.,  he  had  a  son  and 
daughter, 

William*  who  m.  Anne*  daughter  and 
heir  of  Richard  Evelyn*  Esq.,  of  Wood- 
cot*  in  Surrey. 

,  m.  first,  to  — —  Drake,  Esq., 
and  seocmd,  to  Samuel  Totsman,  Esq., 
of  System*  in  Gloucestershire. 
Frances,  m.  to  John,  Earl  of  Rutland. 
This  nobleman  is  characterised  '<  as  a  person  of  a 
plain*  downright  English  spirit ;  of  a  steady  cou- 
rage* «  devout  heart  I  and  though  no  puritan* 
pevere  and  regular  in  his  life  and  manners.  That  he 
lived  amongst  his  neighbours  with  great  hospitality  i 
was  very  knowing  in  country  aflUrs*  and  exceed- 
ingly beloved  in  the  town  and  county  of  Nor- 
thamptom  That  he  was  no  firiend  to  changes 
rtther  in  church  or  state}  that  when  the  civU  wars 
began*  he  was  brought  prisoner  to  town  by  the 
parliament  party,  and  confined  In  the  Savoy: 
where  he  d.  in  the  eighty-second  year  of  his  age, 
anno  1644.'*  His  lordship  was  «.  by  his  eldest  sur- 
viving son, 

EDWARD  MONTAGU,  second  baron,  who  m. 
Anne,  daughter,  and  eventually  heir  of  Sir  Ralph 
Winwood,  of  Ditton  Park,  principal  secretary  of 
state  to  King  James  I.,  by  whom  he  had  issue, 

Edward*  who  was  appointed  by  King  Charles 
II.  master  of  the  bouse  to  the  quevu  After- 
wards going  to  sea  with  his  gallant  kinsman* 
the  Earl  of  Sandwich,  he  was  slain  in  an 
attack  upon  the  Dutdi  East  India  fleet*  in 
the  port  of  Bergen,  3d  August,  1660. 
Ralph,  successor  to  the  title. 
EUaabeth*  m.  to  Sir  Daniel  Harvey*  Knt.*  am- 
bassador at  Constantinople  in  1668. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1683*  aqd  was  «.  by  his  only  sur- 
viving son* 

RALPH  MONTAGU,  third  baron,  who,  in  the 
life-time  of  his  ISsther*  represented  the  county  of 
Huntingdon  in  parliament,  and  was  a  very  distin- 
guished member  of  the  house.  He  was  an  active 
and  aealous  promoter  of  the  Revolution*  and  in 
consequence,  upon  the  accession  of  King  William 
and  Queen  Mary*  he  was  created  9th  April*  1680* 
Viseomnt  Manthevmer,  uiMi  Earl  op  Montagu. 
In  1669  his  lordship  was  ambassador  to  the  court  of 
France*  and  then  formed  that  taste  in  building  and 
Undscape  gardening,  which  he  afterwards  acted 
upon*  in  erecting  his  mansion  at  Boughtoo*  as  much 
after  the  model  of  Versailles*  as  the  extent  would 
364 


pennit.  Hie  town  houae  was  la  BlooBulHify*  and 
is  now  the  Brbtmb  Musbum.  In  1706  he  wm 
advanced  by  Queen  Anne  to  the  Mmrqtdmite  ^Mm^ 
thermer,  and  Dukedom  of  Momtaou.  His  grace 
JN.  first*  Lady  Elinbeth  Wriothesley*  daughter  of 
Thomas,  Earl  of  Southampton,  and  widow  of 
Joceline*  Earl  of  Northumberland*  by  whom  he  had 
issue* 

Ralph*       1  who  both  d.  in  the  life-time  of  the 
Winwood*  jduke. 
John*  his  successor. 

Anne*  m.  first,  to  Alexander  Popham,  Esq.* 
and  secondly*  according  to  CoUins,  to  Lieut.- 
General  Hervey,  but  by  EdnMudsoo,  to  Ed- 
ward* Viscount  Hindiinbroke. 
The  duke  espoused,  secondly*   Lady   Elisabeth 
Cavendish*  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Henry*  Duke 
of  Newcastle*  widow  of  Christopher  Monk,  Duke 
of  Albemarle,  but  by  her  had  no  issue.    His  grace 
d.  in  1709,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  MONTAGU*  second  duke.    This  noble- 
man officiated  as  lord  high  constable  of  England  at 
the  coronation  of  King  George  L    His  grace  m. 
Mary*  daughter  and  co-heir  of  the  celebrated  Gene- 
ral* John,  DuKX  OP  Marlborough*  and  had  three 
sons*  John,  George*  and  Edward-Churchill,  who  all 
d.  young,  in  his  life-lime,  and  three  datighters*  vis. 
Isabella,  m.  first,  to  William,  Duke  of  Man- 
chester, by  whom  she  had  no  Issue,  and 
secondly*  to  Edward  Huasey*  Earl  of  Beau- 
lieu. 
Eleanor,  d,  young. 

Mary,  m.  to  George  Brudenell,  fourth  Earl  of 

Cardigan,  who,  after  the  decease  of  his 

Ikther-in-law*  was  created  Marqueta  itf  Jfsn- 

th^rmmr,  and  Dukx  op  Montagu. 

In  the  reign  xk  George  I.  the  Duke  ct  Montagu 

filled  several  puUic  situations  of  the  highest  honour. 

He  was  a  Knight  of  the  Garter,  and  a  Knight  of  the 

Bath.    At  the  accession  of  King  (Teorge  II.  he  was 

continued  in  favour,  and  at  the  coronation  of  that 

monarch*  he  carried  the  sceptre  with  the  cross.   His 

grace  cf.  in  1748,  when  all  bis  honoubs  beoune 

BZTINCT. 

Anuft.— Quarterly,  first  and  fourth*  ar,  three 
losenges  ooi\)oined  in  fesae  gules  within  abonler,sa. 
for  Montagu.  Second  and  third,  or.  an  eagle  dl»> 
played  vert*  beaked  and  membered  gules*  for  Mow* 

THBRMBR. 

MONTAGU  —  BARON     MONTAGU, 
OF  BOUGHTON. 

By  Lfttcct  Patent*  dated  8th  Mardv,  176& 

The  Honourable 

JOHN  MONTAGU,  only  son  of  John,  ftmrth 
Earl  of  Cardigan,  by  Lady  Mary  Montagu*  daugh- 
ter and  co-heir  of  John*  seoond  Duke  of  Montagu, 
(who  d.  in  1749,)  was  created  by  letters  pdtent, 
dated  8th  March*  1769*  Baron  Montagu*  ^fBni^- 
ton,in  the  county  of  Northampton,  but  dying  un- 
married in  the  life-time  of  his  father  the  dignity 
became  bxtinct. 

Arm  v-Same  as  the  Dukes  of  Montagu. 


BON 


BON 


MONTAGU— DUKE  OF  MONTAOU. 

By  Letten  Patent,  dated  5th  NoTember,  1766L 

GEORGE  BRUDENELU  fourth  Earl  of  Car- 
digan, having  eepouied  Lady  Mary  Montagu,  one 
of  the  daughters  and  oo-helrs  of  John«  second 
Duke  of  Montagu,  (who  d.  in  1749,  when  his  ho- 
nours expired,)  assuined  the  surname  and  arms  of 
Montagu,  and  was  created  6th  November,  1766» 
Marqu4m  ^lfi»ntih«rm«r,  and  Dukx  of  Montagu. 
His  grace  was  governs  of  Windsor  Castle,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  privy  ooimcil,  and  a  Knight  of  the 
Gabtbb.    He  had  issue, 

John,  created  Baron  Montagu,  q/'Bo«igMon, 
but  d,  unmarried  in  1770,  in  the  life-time  of 
his  father. 
Elizabeth,  m.  in  1767,  to  Henry,  third  Duke  of 
Bucdeuch,  by  whom  she  had«  with  four 
daughters,  two  sons,  vis. 

Charlxb  -  WIL1.IAM  -  HxNRY,  Iburth 

Duke  of  Bucdeuch. 
Hxnry-Jamxs,  who  «.  his  grandfather 
as  Baron  Montagu,  of  Boughton. 

J*  "'y;         I  both  d.  unmarried. 
Henrietta,  j 

The  duke  was  created  in  1786,  Baron  Montagu, 
OP  Boughton,  with  remainder  to  Henry,  second 
son  of  his  daughter,  Elizabeth,  Duchess  of  Buc- 
deuch. His  grace,  who  was  governor  to  the  Prince 
of  Wales,  (George  IV.,)  and  Prince  Frederick, 
(Duke  of  York,)  sons  of  King  George  III.,  d.  SBrd 
•May,  1790,  when  the  Earldom  of  Cardigan  devolved 
upon  his  brother,  the  Hon.  James  BrudeneU.  The 
•Barony  of  Montagu,  of  Bougtiton,  psssed  according 
to  the  limitation,  and  the  Marquisats  or  Mon- 
THXRMSR  and  Duxidok  op  Montagu  became 

■ZTINCT. 

Arms.— Same  as  the  Duke  of  Montagu,  who  d.  in 
1749. 

KfONTHERMER  —  BARON  MON- 
THERMER,  EARL  OF 
GLOUCESTER  AND 
HERTFORD, 

Earldom,  Jur0    Vsorit,    by  Writ  of  Summons, 

6th  February,  laSO,  S7  Edward  I. 

Barony,  by  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  4th  March,  U09, 

S  Edward  II. 

ICincage. 

RALPH  DE  MONTHERMER,  «'  a  plain  Es- 
quire," having  espoused  the  Ladif  Joanx  Planta- 
•XNXT,  (commonly  called  Joane  of  Acres,)  daughter 
a  King  Edward  I.,  and  widow  of  Gilbert,  Earl  of 
Clare,  Gloucester  and  Hertford,  had  the  title  of 
Earl  o#  Gx.oucs8txr  and  Hxrtpord,  in  her 
tight,  and  was  summoned  to  parliament  as  **  Comiti 
Gloucester*  et  HertL"  from  6th  February,  1299,  to 
9d  November,  1806.  In  the  9Bth  year  of  Edward  I. 
his  lordship  was  in  the  expedition  then  made  into 
Scotland,  and  behaved  so  vaUantly,  that  the  king 
rendered  to  him  and  his  wife,  the  said  Joane,  the 
castle  and  honour  of  TondNrugge,  with  othetJands 


Itt  Kent.  Svrrey,  and  SimeK ;  as  abo  tfaa  lile  of 
Portland,  and  divers  other  eitatcs  bdonging  to  the 
■aid  Joane,  whidi  had  been  seised  by  the  crown  in 
consequence  of  her  marriage  without  licence  with 
the  laid  Ralph ;  and  the  king  became  eventually 
mudi  attadied  to  his  son-in-law,  to  vdiom  he  had 
been  recandlod  through  the  iateroession  of  Anthony 
Beke,  the  celebrated  Bishop  of  Durham.  In  the 
Slst,  S9d,  and  34th  of  his  father-bi-law,  the  eerl  was 
again  in  Scotland,  and  in  the  contest  with  Bmoe, 
King  Edward  conferred  upon  him  the  whole  of 
Anandale,  with  the  title  of  Earl  of  AthoU,  the 
Scottish  nobleman  who  hdd  thAt  dignity,  having 
espoused  the  fortunes  of  Bruca  But  it  was  not 
long  after  this  that  Joane  of  Acres  departed  this 
life,  (vis.  1  Edward  II.,)  and  he  never^subsequently, 
assumed  the  title  of  Earl  of  Gloucester  and  Hert- 
Ibrd,  although  he  lived  for  several  years ;  iri  a  grant 
of  considerable  landed  property  miade  to  him  and 
his  sons  in  two  years  afterwards,  he  is  styled  Ralph 
de  Monthermer  only.  Nor  is  he  otherwise  denomi- 
nated, in  the  ffth  Edward  IL,  at  which  time,  in 
reoompenoe  of  his  service  in  Scotland  the  king  gave 
him  three  hundred  marks,  part  of  the  six  hundred 
marks  which  he  was  to  have  paid  for  the  wardship 
of  John  ap  Adam,  a  great  man  of  that  age.  Nor  in 
two  years  afterwards,  when  again  in  the  wars  of 
Scotland,  he  was  made  prisoner  at  Bannockbum, 
but  he  then  found  Ikvour  ttom  his  former  Ikmlli- 
arity  with  the  king  of  Scotland,  at  the  court  of 
England,  and  obtained  his  freedom  without  paying 
raneom.  He  was,  however,-  summoned  to  parli- 
ament as  a  BARON  flrom  4th  March,  1309,  to  30ch 
October,  13S4.  His  lordship  espoused,  secondly, 
Isabel,  widow  of  John  de  Hastings,  and  sister 
and  co-hdr  of  Aymer  de  Valence,  Earl  of  Pem- 
broke, by  whom  he  had  no  issue  But  by  his 
first  wife,  the  Princess  Joan^  he  had  two  scms, 
vis. 

TBOMAa,  who  d.  before  his  flsther,  (bdng 

killed  in  a  sea  light  with  the  French  in  1340,) 

leaving  an  only  daughter  and  heiress, 

Maroarxt  db  Montbbrmxr,  who  m: 

Sir  John  de  Montacute,  and  conveyed 

the   Barony  op    Monthbrmbr  to 

the  family  pf  Montacute    Her  eldest 

son, 

John,  Boron  Mcnttieute  and  Jlfon- 
thermer,  ».  as  third  Earl  of  Salis- 
bury   (see    Montacute,   Earl   of 
Salisbury). 
Edward,  who  was  summoned  to  parliament 
as  a  baron  on  the  93rd  April,  1337,  1 1th 
Edward  III.,  but  never  afterwards,  and 
nothing  ftirther  is  known  of  him  or  his  de- 
scendants. 
ARM8.-Or.  an  eagle  displayed,  vert  membered- 
and  beaked,  gu. 

MONTGOMERY  —  BARON    MONT- 
OOMERY. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  Sfith  February,  1349, 
16  Edward  III. 

In  die  flOth  Edward  III., 

.  JOH9  DE  MONTGOMERY  was  in  the  great 


MOR 


MOR 


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tepeditkm  then  made  into  Vnaoe,  ttd  tlie  next 
year  was  made  captain  of  CalaU,  ai  alao  admiral  of 
the  king's  whole  fleet*  from  the  mouth  of  the 
Tluunes,  westward!.  He  had  nunmons  to  parlia- 
ment at  a  BA.XON,  on  Sftth  February,  1342,  but 
nerer  afterward*,  and  the  dignity  is  presumed  to 
have  become  nxTiit ct,  at  his  lordship's  decease. 
Anna.— Or.  an  eagle  displayed,  as. 

MORDAUNT  —  EARLS  OF  PETER- 
BOROUGH, VISCOUNTS 
MORDAUNT  OF  AVA- 
LON,  EARLS  OF  MON- 
MOUTH. 


EarUom  of  Peter- 
borough, 

Viscounty,  &c. 

Earldom  of  Hon 
mouth« 


C  Patent,    J 


Xincagc. 


9th  March,  ie28L 
lOth  July,  165a 
9th  April,  1689. 


It  appears  from  the  records  of  this  fiunily,  col- 
lected in  the  reign  of  King  Charles  II.,  and  printed 
at  the  charge  of  Hanty,  Eabl  of  ParanBOBOuoH, 
that 

SIR  OSBERT  LE  MORDAUNT,  a  Norman 
knight,  was  possessed  of  Radwell,  in  Bedfordshire, 
by  the  gift  ot  his  brother,  who  derived  it  from  the 
CoNQUXRon,  in  recompense  of  his  own  and  his 
ISsther's  good  services.  The  grandson  of  this  suc- 
cessful soldier, 

EUSTACH  LE  MORDAUNT,  m.  AUce,  eldest 
daughter  and  co-heir  of  Sir  William  de  Alneto, 
modemly  called  Dauney,  and  acquired  by  her  the 
lordship  of  Turvey,  in  Bedfordshire.  He  was  «.  by 
his  son, 

WILLIAM  MORDAUNT,  who  became  Lord  of 
Turrey,  Radwell,  Asthull,  and  other  manors.  He 
was  «.  by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  MORDAUNT.  This  feudal  lord  had 
licence  to  inclose  his  pasture  of  Wolesey,  his  field 
called  Turvey-Lees,  his  pasture  of  Maselgrove,  and 
other  lands  in  Turvey,  to  form  a  park.  He  m. 
Rose,  daughter  of  Sir  Ralph  Wake,  and  was  «.  by 
his  eldest  son, 

ROBERT  MORDAUNT.  who  was  knight  of 
the  shire  for  the  county  of  Bedford,  In  the  parlia- 
ment held  at  Westminster  in  the  lAth  Edward  IIL 
From  this  gentleman  we  pass  to  his  descendant, 

SIR  JOHN  MORDAUNT,  Knt,  of  Turvey, 
in  the  county  of  Bedford,  who  was  one  of  the  royal 
commanders  at  the  tattle  of  Stoke,  16th  4une,  1484. 
Being  likewise  learned  in  the  laws,  he  was  consti- 
tuted king's  seijeant  in  the  11th  of  Henry  VII.. 
Jttstioe  of  Chester  in  four  years  after,  subsequently 
chancdlor  of  the  duchy  of  Lancaster,  and  made  one 
of  the  knights  of  the  sword  at  the  creation  of  Henry, 
Prince  of  Wales,  18th  February,  IBfas.  T&s  gal- 
lant and  learned  person  d.  in  the  SIst  year  of  Henry 
VII.,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

WILLIAM  MORDAUNT,  Esq.,  who  died  «.  ji., 
when  the  estates  devolved  upon  his  brother, 

SIR  JOHN  MORDAUNT,  who  was  sheriif  of 
Bedford  and  Bucks  in  the  1st  year  of  Hemry  VIIL,  I 
3SB 


and  in  the  5th  of  the  same  reign  was  one  of  the 
commissioners,  appointed  by  act  of  parliament, 
for  assessing  and  collecting  the  Poll-Tax.  He  was 
knighted  before,  4th  June,  1590,  whan  he  was  one 
of  those  appointed  to  attend  the  queen  at  the  inter- 
view with  Francis  L  of  France:  and  in  May,  1529, 
he  waited  upon  the  king  at  Canterbury,  at  his 
second  meeting  in  England  with  the  Emperor 
Charles  V.  In  1530  he  was  appointed,  with  others, 
to  inquire  into  the  landed  possessions  of  Cardinal 
Wolsey,  and  he  was  summoned  to  parliament,  as  a 
BARON,  ftom  4th  May,  1589,  to  5th  November, 
1558.  In  the  year  1551,  a  great  dearth  df  provi- 
sions being  in  the  nation,  his  lordship  was  the  first 
in  commission,  with  other  persons  of  rank  in  the 
county  of  Bedford,  to  prevent  the  enhancing  the 
prices  of  com,  Ac.,  and  to  punish  oflfanders  therein. 
as  also  to  supply  the  said  county.  He  m.  Elisabeth, 
daughter  and  co-heir  of  Sir  Henry  Vere,  Knt,  of 
Drayton  and  Adington,  in  the  county  of  Northamp- 
ton, and  had  issue, 

John,  his  successor. 

William,   m.  Agnes,  daughter  and  heir  of 

Charles  Booth,  Esq. 
George,  of  Oakley,  in  the  county  of  Bedford, 
m.  Cedlia,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  John 
Harding,  Esq.,  of  Harding,  in  Bedfordshire, 
and  was  father  of 

Edmund  Mordaunt,  Esq.,  of  Thunders- 
ley,  in  Essex. 
Anne,  m.  first,  to  James  Rodney,  Esq.,  and 
secondly,  to  John,   son  and  heir  of  Sir 
Michael  Fbher. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Silvester  Danvers,  Esq.,  of 

Dauntsey,  Wi^ts. 
Margaret,  m.  to  Ed^irard  Fettiplace,  Esq.,  of   f: ;  i,> 

Blesslls-Lee,  Bucks. 
Winifrid,  m.  to  John  Cheyney,  of  Chesham- 

Boys. 
Editha,  m.  to  John  Ehnes,  Esq.,  of  Hunting- 

dondiire. 
Dorothy,  m.  to  Thomas  More.  Esq.,  of  Had- 
don,  in  Oxfordshire.  ' 

His  lordship  d.  in  1569.  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest' 
son, 

JOHN  MORDAUNT,  second  baron,  summoned 
to  parliament  from  llth  January,  1563,  to  8th  May, 
1579:  This  nobleman,  in  the  life-time  of  his  father, 
was  made  one  of  the  Knights  of  the  Bath  at  the 
coronation  of  Queen  Anne  Boleyn,  Ist  June,  1563; 
and  was  sheriff  for  Essex  and  Hertfordshire  in  154a 
At  the  demise  of  Edward  VI.  he  was  one  of  the  first 
in  arms  on  behalf  of  Queen  Mary;  whereupon  he 
was  sworn  of  the  privy  council ;  and  in  her  majesty's 
reign  served  in  four  parliaments  for  Bedfordshire. 
His  lordship  m.  first,  Ellen,  cousin  and  heir  of  Sir 
Richard  Flta-Lewes,  of  West^Thomdon,  in  Essex, 
by  whom  he  had  issue, 
Lxwia,  his  successor. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Geoige  Monnenx,  Esq..  of 

Walthamstow. 
Anne,  m.  to  Clement  Tanfleld,  Esq.,  of  Ebor- 

ton. 
Margaret,  m.  to  William  Acklam.  Esq..  of 

Moreby,  in  Yorkshire. 
Uinila.  m,  to  Edward,  son  of  Sir  Nicholas 


MOB 


KOR 


.  Fairfex,  of  OUling  CisHe^  in  tlw  oount^  of 
York. 
Lord  Mordaunt  m.  Moondly,  Jocn,  daughter  of 
Robert  Wilford,  Esq.,  of  Kent,  Imt  had  "no  Iwue 
by  that  lady.  He  d.  in  USffS,  and  was  «.  by  hia 
ion, 

LEWIS  MORDAUNT,  third  baron,  •ummoned 
to  parliament  ftrom  8th  February,  1A76»  to  24th 
October,  lfi07*  This  nobleman  received  the  honour 
of  knighthood  from  Quean  Eliaabeth,  in  Ifi67»  and 
was  one  of  the  peers  who  sate  in  Judgment  upon 
Thomas,  Duke  of  Norfolk ;  and  upon  the  unhappy 
Mary,  of  Scotlakd.  His  lordship  espoused  Eli- 
sabeth, daughter  of  Sir  Arthur  Darcy.  KnL,  second 
son  of  Thomas,  Lord  Darcy,  and  had  issue, 
Hbnry,  his  successor. 
Mary,  m.  to  Thomas  Mansel,  Esq.,  ddest  son 

of  Sir  Edward  Mansel,  Knt 
Katherine,  m.  to  Jolm  Hereningham,  Esq., 
ddest  son  of  Sir  Arthur  Hereningham, 
Knt. 
Elisabeth. 
He  d,  16th  June,  1601,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

HENRY  MORDAUNT,  fourth  baron,  sumr 
moned  to  parliament  from  27th  October,  1601,  to 
fith  November,  1615.  This  nobleman,  under  sus- 
picion of  being  concerned  in  the  gunpowder-plot* 
was  committed  to  the  Tower,  and  fined  by  the  star- 
chamber  before  he  obtained  his  liberty.  He  m. 
Margaret,  daughter  of  Henry,  Lord  Compton,  by 
whom  he  had  issue, 

JoHif ,  his  successor. 

Henry. 

Francis,  m.  Frances,  daughter  of  Sir  Edward 

Oostwick,  Bart. 
Lewis. 
Frances. 

Eliaabeth,  m,  to  Sir  Thomas  Nevil,  K.B. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1608,  and  was  9,  by  his  son, 

JOHN  MORDAUNT,  fifth  baron,  summoned 
to  parliament  firom  30th  January,  1680,  to  17th 
May,  1626.  This  nobleman,  who  was  bred  a  Ro- 
man Catholic,  is  said  to  have  been  converted  to  the 
established  church  by  a  disputation  which  occurred 
in  his  own  house,  between  Bishop,  then  Dr.  Usher, 
and  a  Catholic  churchman.  His  lordship  was  ad- 
vanced to  the  dignity  of  Earl  or  Prtkrborouoh, 
by  letters  patent,  dated  9th  March,  1698.  He  m. 
Eliaabeth,  4>uly  daughter  and  heir  of  William 
Howard,  Lord  Effingham,  urn  and  heir  of  Charles, 
Earl  of  Nottingham,  by  whom  he  had  (with  Eliaa- 
beth, who  m.  Thomas,  son  and  heir'  of  Edward, 
.  LOTd  Howard,  of  Escricfc),  two  sons,  via. 
HsNRY,  his  successor. 

John  ;  this  gentleman  obtained  great  fame  by 
his  seal  in  the  cause  ist  King  Charles  II., 
and  stood  a  trial  during  the  usurpation  for 
his  exertions  in  behalf  of  the  exiled  mo- 
narch, but  upon  which  he  was  acquitted, 
by  the  connivance  chieflV*  as  stated  by  Lord 
Clarendon,  of  the  celebrated  John  Liblr, 
the  presiding  Judge.  The  other  Judges 
were  equally  divided  as  to  the  guilt  or  inno- 
cence of  Mr.  Mordaunt,  and  the  president 
gave  the  casting  vote  in  his  favour.  He 
sttbiequently  made  several  daring  but  fruit- 


less attempts  to  restore  the  king,  and  for 
all  those  faithful  services  was,  eventually, 
elevated  to  the  peerage  10th  July,  16S0,  as 
Baron  Mordaumt,  i^fR^gat9,  in  ffie  eotifuy 
qf  Surr^,  and  Viscount  Mordaunt,  ov 
Ataion,  in  Somanet^ire,  His  lordship 
and  Sir  John  Greenvile  were  the  bearers  of 
the  letters  which  the  king,  prior  to  his 
restoration,  addreued  to  Monk,  to  parlia- 
'meht,  and  to  the  coriwration  of  London. 
In  the  latter  of  which,  his  m^esty  says : — 
*<  How  desirous  we  are  to  contribute  to  the 
obtaining  the  peace  and  happiness  of  our 
subjects  without  eflVuion  of  blood,  and  how 
far  we  are  from  desiring  to  recover  what 
bdonga  to  us  by  war,  if  it  can  be'otherwise 
done,  wiU  appear  to  you  by  the  indoaed 
dedsmtion  i  which,  together  with  this  our 
letter,  we  have  intrusted  to  our  right  trusty 
and  well-beloved  cousin,  the  Lord  Viscount 
Mordaunt,  and  our  trusty  and  wdl-beloved 
servant,  Sir  John  Orcenvile,  Knt,  one  of 
the  gentlemen  of  our  bed-duanber,  to  de- 
liver to  you,  to  the  end,  die"  His  lordship, 
after  the  restoration,  was  constituted  Con- 
stable at  Windsor  Castle,  and  iqppointed 
Lord  Lieutenant,  and  Custos  Rot  of  the 
county  of  Surrey.  He  m.  Elisabeth,  daugh- 
ter md  sole  heiress  of  Thomas  Carey, 
second  son  of  Robert,  Earl  of  Monmouth, 
by  whom  he  had  five  sons  and  three  daugh- 
ters. 

1.  Charlbs,  his  successor. 

2.  Harry,  M.P.  lieutenant-general  in  the 
army,  and  treasurer  of  the  Ordnance, 
to  which  last  office  he  was  appointed 
in  1609.  General  Mordaunt  m.  first, 
Margaret,  daughter  of  Sir  Thomas 
Spencer,  of  Yamton*  in  the  county  of 
Oxford,  Bart,  by  whom  he  had,  with 
other  children, 

John  (Sir),  K.B.,  a  general  officer  in 

the  army. 
Eliaa-Lucy,  m.  to  Sir  Wilfred  Law- 
son,  Bart,  of  Iscll,  in  Cumber- 
land. 
General  Mordaunt  espoused,  secondly, 
Penelope,  daughter  and  heir  of  Wil- 
liam Tipping,  Esq.,  by  whom  he 
had, 

Penelope,  m.  to  Sir  Monoux  Cope, 
Bart 

3.  Lewis,  a  brigadier-general  in  the  army, 
who  died  in  1712-13,  leaving  issue  by 
two  wives. 

4.  Osm(md,  slain  at  the  battle  of  the 
Boyne. 

6.  George,  in  holy  onters.    This  gentle- 
man m.  thrice,  and  left  by  his  second 
-      wife, 

Anna-Maria,  m.  to  Jonathan  Ship- 
ley, D.D.,  Bishop  of  St  Asaph ; 
and  by  his  third  consort, 

Mary,  m.  to  Valentine  Maurice, 
Esq.,  of  Penfield,  Monmouth* 
shire. 


HOR 


MOB 


EUUbeCfa,  tN.  to  Sir  WHUaB'Milner, 
But. 
1.  Charlotte*  m.  to  Bei^amin  AlUn*  Esq. 
8.  Sophia,  m.  to  James  Hamilton,  Esq., 

of  BangOT,  in  Ireland, 
a.  Anne,  m.  to  James  Hamilton,  Esq.,  of 
TuUamore,  in  Irdand. 
His  lordship  d.  Ath  June^  1678,  ai^d  was  «.  by 
his  eldest  son, 

CHAnLBB  MonDAvmr,  second  viscount, 

who  was  created  Earl  or  Moitmouth, 

9th  April,  M8B,  and  succeeded  to  the 

Earldom  of  Prtbrborouoh,  at  the 

doceaee  of  his  uncle,  in  WSfJ, 

The  Earl  of  Peterborough  was  Ocoeral  of  Ordnance, 

and  orfonel  of  a  regiment  of  foot,  in  the  army 

raised  in  -1642,  by  order  of  parliament,  under  the 

command  of  Robert,  Earl  of  Esaex.    His  lordship 

d.  in  the  same  year,  and  was  «.  by  his  elder  son, 

HENRY  MORDAUNT,  second  Earl  of  Peter- 
borough.   This  nobleman  was  distinguished  during 
the  civil  wars  by  his  leal  in  the  royal  cause.    He 
ndsed  a  regiment  at  his  own  expeoae,  was  woimded 
at  the  battle  of  Newbury^  and  often  imprisoned  for 
his  loyal  exertions.    In  1648,  he  was  in  the  rising 
with  the  Earl  of  Holland  to  release  the  king  ftom 
his  confinement;    and  on  their  defeat,    though 
Holland  was  taken  and  beheaded,   Peterborough 
with  his  brother,  escaped,  tmt  they  were  voted 
traitors  to  the  oommoowealth,  and  tbehr  estates 
sequestered*  His  lordsUp  was,  after  the  restoration, 
of  the  privy  council  to  King  Charles  IL,  and  en- 
trusted with  several  honourable  embassies.    At  the 
coronation  of  King  James  IL,  he  carried  the  sceptre 
with  the  cross,  and  was  elected,  in  the  same  year,  a 
Krioht  ov  thr  Gartrr.    After  the  accession  of 
William  and  Mary,  the  oommooa  resolved  (96th 
October,  1689)  that  the  Earl  of  Peterborough,  and 
the  Earl  of  Salisbury,  should  be  impeached  for 
high  treason,  for  deputing  ftom  their  allcf^ance, 
and  being  reconciled  to  the  church  of  Rome;  but 
the  impeachment  was  dropped.    His  lordship  m. 
Penelope,  daughter  of  Barnabas,  Earl  of  Thomond, 
in  Ireland,  by  whom  he  had  issue,   • 
Eliaabeth,  d.  unnuunied. 
Mary,    who  became  sole  hdress,  m.  first, 
Henry,  Duke  of  Norfolk,  from  whom  she 
was  divorced  in  1700,  and  then  married  Sir 
John  Germain,   Bart,  but  had  issue  by 
neither.     Her  ladyship  inherited  the  Ba- 
RONT  OT  MoRDAVKT,  of  TuTMy,  at  the 
decease  of  her  father,  but  the  dignity  again 
attached  to  the  Earldom  of  Petirborough, 
at  her  own  decease,  in  170ft.    Her  ladyship 
bequeathed  her  whole  estate  to  her  second 
husband* 
The  earl  d,  in  1697,  when  the  Barony  or  Mor- 
OAURT,  of  Twrsty,  devolved  upon  hia  only  sur- 
viving daughter,  as  stated  above,  and  the  Earldom 
of  Peterborough  peked  to  hia  nephew  (revert  to 
issue  of  the  first  earl), 

CHARLES  MORDAUNT,  first  Earl  of  Mon- 
mouth, as  third  Earl  of  Peterborough.  This  no- 
bleman, who  had  distinguished  himself  as  a  military 
character  prior  to  the  revolution,  was,  upon  the 
accession  of  William  and  Mary,  iwom  of  the  privy 


couBdl,  and  made  one  of  the  lords  of  flie  bed- 
chamber, and  in  order  to  attend  at  their  oonmaticm 
as  an  earl,  was  raiaad  to  the  Earldom  of  Monmouth; 
having,  the  day  before,  been  oaostttuted  first  kmi 
commissioner  of  the  treasury.  In  1609,  his  lordship 
made  the  campaign  of  Flandera,  under  King  William  { 
and  soon  after  the  aocession  of  Queen  Anne,  he  was 
declared  obhrral,  ajtd  coiiMAHi»RR-iV'«Ri>r, 
of  the  FORCRB  sent  to  Spaix  ;  in  which  command 
he  acquired  great  military  flunf,  by  the  capture  of 
Montiovi— by  driving  the-Duke  of  Ai^ou,  and  the 
French  army,  consisting  of  twenty-five  thousand 
men,  out  of  Spain,  with  a  force  not  exceeding  ten 
thousand,  and  by  acquiring  possession  of  Catalonia* 
of  the  kingdoms  of  Valencia,  Arragon,  M^Josca,  dtc 
His  lordship  was,  however,  recalled  from  the  scene 
of  those  gallant  achievements,  and  his  conduct  sub- 
sequently examined  by  parliament ;  when  a  vote 
passed  the  House  of  Lords,  12th  January,  1710-11, 
that  duriqg  the  time  he  had  the  conunand  in  Spain, 
he  performed  many  great  and  eminent  services  ;** 
and  his  lordship  received  the  thanks  of  the  house, 
through  the  knd  chancellor.  In  1710,  and  1711,  he 
was  employed  in  embassy  to  the  Court  of  Turin, 
and  other  Italian  states,  on  eqpecial  missions;  and 
in  1713,  he  was  installed  Knight  of  the  Garter.  In 
the  reign  of  King  George  L,  his  lordship  was  con- 
stituted general  of  all  the  marine  forces  in  Great 
Britain.  The  earl  espoused,  first,  Carey,  daughter 
of  Sir  Alexander  Fraser,  of  Dotes,  N.B.,  and  had 
issue, 

John,  Lord  Mordaunt,>-«  military  officer— 
Colonel  of  the  Grenadier  Guards,  at  the 
ceMvated  battle  of  Blsnbrix,  18th  Au- 
gust, 1704,  wherein  he  lost  one  of  his  armi. 
His  lordship  m.  Lady  Frances  Powlett, 
daughter  of  Charles,  Duke  of  Bolton,  and 
dying  of  the  small-pox,  6th  April,  1710,  left 
two  sons, 
CHARLsa,  who  «.  his  grandHsther  in  the 

honours  of  the  fiunily. 
John,  a  Lieutenant-Colonel  in  the  army, 
M.P.,  m.  first,  in  1735,  Mary,  sister  of 
Scroop,  Viscount  How,  and  widow  of 
Thomas,  Earl  of  Ponbrokei    He  ea- 
poused,  secondly,  Elisabeth,  daughter 
of  Samud  Hamilton,  Esq.,  but  died 
Issudess,  in  1767* 
Henry,  a  naval  ofliev  of  high  character,  and 
a  member  of  parliamentr-<(.  unmarried,  (of 
the  small-pox,)  97th  February,  1709-lOi. 
Henrietta,  m.  to  Alexander  Gordon,  second 
Duke  of  Gordon,  fkom  whom  lineally  d»> 
scended, 

Alrxanorr,  fourth  Duke  of  Gordon, 
who,  upon  the  decease  of  lady  Mary- 
Anastada-Grace  Mordaunt,    daughter 
of  Charles,  fourth  Earl  of  Peterbo- 
rough, in  1819,  inherited  the  Barony 
of  MoRDAUKT,  ^f  IWvey. 
Hia  lordship  m.  secondly,  in  1735,  Anastasia  Robin- 
son, and  going  to  Lisbon  for  the  recofisy  of  his 
health,  died  there,  on  the  25th  October,  in  the  same 
year.     Upon  the  decease  of  Us  lordshlpPs  cousin, 
Mary,  Baroness  Mordaunt,  of  Tnrvey,  (nvert  to 
Isaueof  seQond  EarLof  Fetorboroiigh,)  be  inherited. 


MOB, 


MOR 


that  ancient  dignity  of  the  family.    He  mu  «.  In  aU 
Ub  honoun,  by  his  grandson* 

CHARLES  MORDAUNT,  fourth  Earl  of  Peter- 
Ixmmgh,  and  leeond  Earl  of  Monmouth.  His  lord- 
ship m.  first,  Mary,  daughtar  of  John  Cox,  Esq.,  of 
London,  and  had  issue, 

Frances,  who,  m.  the  Rev.  Samud  Bulkaley, 

of  Hatfield,  in  Hertfordshire,  and  died  a.  p, 
MABT-ANAaTABiA-GRACK,    who    succeeded, 

eventually,  to  the  Barony  op  MoRPAViirT, 

qf  TYiTMy. 
The  Earl  espoused,  secondly,  RoMniana,  daughter 
of  Cokmel  Brown,  and  d.  In  1779,  was  «.  by  his  only 
surviving  son,  by  that  lady, 

CHARLES  HENRY  MORDAUNT,  fifth  Earl 
of  Peterborough,  and  third  Earl  of  Monmouth, 
bom  in  17fi8f  and  d.  unmarried,  in  1814,  when  the 
EABi.ooif  OP  PBTnasoRouoH,  and  the  Earldom 
OP  MoN MoiTTH,  with  the  Viscounty  of  Mordaunt, 
and  Baiony  of  Mordaunt,  of  Ryegate,  became 
■xTiircT,  while  the  Barowy  op  MoanAirirT,  op 
TtTRVBY,  devolved  upon  his  lordship's  half  sister, 
Lod^  Mary-Ana8TA8IA-Oracb  Mobdaunt,  as 
BABONB88  Mobdadkt,  and  at  her  ladyship's  de- 
cease, in  1819, «.  p.,  it  passed  to  Alexander  Gordon, 
Iburth  Duke  of  Gordon,  as  heir  general,  of  Charles, 
third  Earl  of  Peterborough,  and  b  now  a^oyed  by 
his  present  Grace  of  Gordon. 

Arm a.^Ar.  a  chevron  betw.  three  estoils  of  dx 
points,  sa. 

MORDAUNT  —  VISCOUNTS  MOR- 
DAUNT, OF  AVALON, 
EARLS  OF  MONMOUTH. 

S9»  Mordaunt,  EARLaop  Fbtbrbobouor. 


MORETON,  or  (more  correctly,)  DE 
BURGO,  EARLS  OF  CORN- 
WALL. 

Creatioii  of  William  the  Conqueror,  in  1008. 

ICiiuagc. 

HARLOWEN  DE  BURGO,  founder  of  the 
abbey  of  Gresteim,  in  Normandy,  m.  Arlotta,  the 
mother  of  the  Conqueror,  and  dying  befme  his 
Ikther,  John,  Earl  of  Comyn,  left  two  sons, 

Robbrt,  Earl  of  Moreton,  in  Normandy, 

Odo,  Bbhop  of  Bayeux, 
who  both  acoompenled  their  illustrious  brother  in 
his  expedition  against  England,  and  were  aggran- 
dised after  his  triumph.    Odo  being  created  Earl  of 
Kent*  and 

ROBERT  DE  MORETON,  Earl  of  ComwaU, 
with  a  grant  of  seven  hundred  and  ninety-three 
manors.  In  the  time  of  William  Rufus,  this  noble- 
man Joining  his  brother,  the  Earl  of  Kent,  raised, 
the  standard  of  rebellion  in  favour  of  Robert  Cur- 
those,  and  held  the  castle  of  Pevensey  tm  that 
prince.  He  delivered  it  up,  however,  upon  its 
being  invested  by  the  king,  and  made  his  peace 
His  lordship  m.  Maud,  daughter  of  Roger  de  Mont- 


gomery, Earl  of  Shrewsbury,  and  had  issue,  Wil- 
liam, his  successor,  and  three  daughters,  whose 
christian  names  are  unknown:  the  eldest  m.  An- 
drew de  Vitrei;  the  second  m.  Guy  de  Val,  and  the 
youngest  m.  tl)e  Earl  of  Tholousep    The  time  of 
the  Earl  of  Cornwall's  death  has  not  been  ascer- 
tataied,  '« but  if  he  lived,"  (lays  Dugdale,)  '<  after 
King  William  Rufus  so  fatally  lost  his  life  by  the 
glance  of  an  arrow  in  New  Forest,  fh>m  the  bow  of 
Walter  Tirelli  then  was  it  unto  him,  that  this 
strange  apparition  happened,  which  I  shall  here 
speak  of;  otherwise,  it  must  be  to  his  son  and 
successor.  Earl  William,  the  story  whereof  is  as 
foUoweth.     In  the  vary  hour  thi^  the  king  re- 
ceived the  fistal  stroke,  the  Earl  of  ComwaU  being 
hunting  in  a  wood,  at  a  distance  finom  the  place, 
and  left  alone  by  his  attendants,  was  accidentally 
met  by  a  very  great  black  goat,  bearing  the  king  all 
black,  and  naked,  and  wounded  through  the  midst 
of  his  breast    And  a4)uring  the  goat  by  the  Holy 
Trinity  to  tell  what  that  was  he  so  carried ;  he  an- 
swered, I  am  carrying  your  king  to  Judgment,  yea» 
that  tyrant,  William  Rupub,  for  I  am  an  evil 
spirit,  and  the  revenger  of  his  malice  which  he  bore 
to  the  church  of  God;  and  it  was  I  that  did  cause 
this  hb  slaughter  i  the  protomartyr  of  England,  St« 
Alban,  commanding  me  so  to  do ;  who  complained 
to  God  <^  him  for  his  grievous  oppressions  in  the 
Isle  of  Britain,  which  he  first  hallowed.    All  which 
the  earl  soon  after  related  to  hia  foUowers."    His 
lordship  was  «.  by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  MORETON,  second  Earl  of 
Cornwall,  in  England,  and  Earl  of  Moreton,  in 
Normandy.  This  nobleman  being  ftom  childhood 
at  an  arrogant  and  malevolent  disposition,  envied 
the  glory  of  King  Henry  I. ;  and  not  contented  with 
the  great  honours  he  had  derived  ttma  his  fkther, 
demanded  the  Earldom  of  Kent,  which  had  been 
borne  by  his  uncle  Odo  ;  giving  out  secretly,  that 
he  would  not  put  on  his  robe,  unlen  the  inheri- 
tance, which  he  challenged  by  descent  fkom  his 
uncle,  might  be  restored  to  him.  In  this  demand 
the  king  revising  to  acquiesce,  the  earl  fled  to 
Normandy,  and  with  Robert  de  Bdesma  reared 
the  standard  of  revolt  in  the  Duchy ;  which  caused 
Henry  to  selae  upon  his  possessions  in  England, 
to  rase  his  castles  to  the  ground,  and  to  banish  htm 
the  kingdom.  He  subsequently  led  the  van  at  the 
battle  of  Tenerchebray,  and,  after  displaying  great 
personal  valour,  fell  into  the  hands  of  his  opponents, 
and  was  sent  prisoner  to  England,  where  he  was 
treated  with  great  crudty,  the  king  causing  his  eyes 
to  be  put  out,  and  detaining  him  in  captivity  for 
life.  His  honours  became,  of  oourw,  pobpbitxo. 
The  period  of  his  decease  has  not  been  recorded: 
uor  does  Dugdale  mention  either  his  wife  or  Issue^ 
but  in  Archdale's  edition  of  Lodge's  Peerage  of 
Ireland,  (voL  1.,  in  the  article  regarding  the  house* 
ot  Clanricazde)  it  is  stated  that  the  unfortunate 
earl  left  two  sons,  via.— 

Adblm,  from  whom  the  noble  house  of  Clab- 

BicARDB  derives. 
John,  who  was  Aithcr  of  the  celebrated  Hubert 
de  Burgo,  Earl  of  Kent,  Justiciary  of  Eng- 
land, temp.  Henry  III. 
ABM8.~Erm.  a  chief  indented  guleii 

SB  .309 


MOR 


HOR 


MORLEY— BARONS  MORLEY. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  29th  December.  1S99« 
S8  Edward  I. 

XilUBgC. 

In  the  25th  Edward  I.. 

WILLIAM  DE  MORLEY,  was  in  the  expedi- 
tions made  in  that  and  the  next  year,  into  Scotland, 
and  had  summons  to  parliament  as  a  baron,  from 
S9th  December,  1299,  to  3rd  November,  13U6.  His 
lordship  was  «.  by  his  son, 

ROBERT  DE  MORLEV,  second  baron,  sum^ 
moned  to  parliament,  from  20th  November,  1317, 
to  15th  Feimiary,  1357.  This  nobleman  was  one 
of  the  eminent  warriors,  of  the  martial  times  rtf 
King  Edward  III.  In  the  13th  of  that  monarch's 
reign,  after  previously  distinguishing  himself  in 
the  wars  of  Scotland,  he  was  constituted  admiral 
of  the  king's  whole  fleet,  from  the  mouth  of  the 
Thames,  northwards ;  and  the  next  year,  achieved 
the  greatest  naval  victory,  up  to  tliat  period,  ever 
won,  over  the  French,  near  Slugs,  m  Flanders; 
subsequently  sailing  to  Normandy,  he  burnt  four- 
score ships  of  the  Normans,  with  three  of  their 
sea-port  towns,  and  two  villages.  The  next  year, 
<16th  Edward  III.),  being  still  admiral,  he  was  in 
the  great  expedition  then  made  into  France,  and  in 
Ibur  years  afterwards,  his  banner  waved  amongst 
the  victorious,  up<m  the  plains  of  CRsaav.  His 
lordship  continued  admiral  several  years  after- 
wards, and  in  each  successive  year,  reaped  fresh 
laurels.  In  the  29th  Edward  III.,  he  was  made  con- 
stable of  the  Tower  of  London.  In  the  SSrd.,  he 
was  again  in  arms  on  the  French  soil,  and  died 
there  the  next  year,  while  in  immediate  attendance 
upon  the  king.  His  lordship  m.  Haw3rse,  daughter 
and  heir  of  Sir  William  Mareschall,  Knt.,  and  had 
issue, 

William  (Sir),  his  successor. 
He  espoused  secondly,  Joane  ■,  and  had, 

with  other  issue, 

RoBKRT  (Sir),  who,  in  the  41st  Edward  III., 
attended  Prince  Edward  into  Aquitaine; 
and  in  the  reign  of  Richard  II.  was  in  the 
wars  of  France.    Sir  Robert  had  issue. 
Sir  Robert  Morlby,  father  of 

Sir  Tromab  Morlby,  whose  daugh- 
ter and  heiress, 

Maroarbt  Morixy,  m.  Sir  Oef- 
fsry  Ratclifb,  KnL 
Hia  lordship  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 
-  SIR  WILLIAM  MORLEV,  third  baron,  sum- 
moned to  parliament  from  4th  December,  1364,  to 
Sd  December,  1378.  This  nobleman,  in  the  time  of 
his  fsther,  was  in  the  wars  of  France,  with  Robert 
de  Ullbrd,  Earl  of  Suflblk ;  and  in  the  38ch  Edward 
III.,  he  had  licence  to  travel  beyond  sea.  As  als^  to 
grant  the  office  of  marshal  of  Ireland  (which  he  had 
inherited  ftrom  his  mother)  to  Henry  de  Ferrers,  to 
liold  during  good  conduct.  His  lordship  m.  Cicily, 
daughter  of  Thomas,  Lord  Bardolph,  and  had  an 
only  son,  Thomas,  his  successor.  Lord  Morley  d. 
■in  1380,  and  by  his  last  testament,  bequeathed  his 
body  to  be  buried  In  the  church  of  the  Frin^-Auguw- 
tinet,  at  Norwich.  Appointing  that  two  of  his  best 
170 


horses  should  be  disposed  of  for  mortuaries,  vis., 
his  l)est  black  horse  to  those  friers,  on  the  day  of 
his  funeral:  and,  his  palfrey,  called  Dow,  to  the 
Rector  of  the  church  of  Hallingbury.  He  likewise 
left  large  sums  for  masses  for  his  soul,  as  all  the 
great  personages  of  that  period  were  in  the  habit  of 
bequeathing.    He  was  «.  by  his  s(m, 

SIR  THOMAS  MORLEY,  fourth  baxoo,  sum- 
moned  to  parliament  from  16th  July,  1381,  to  3d 
September,  1417.  This  nobleman  in  the  4th  of 
Richard  II.,  arriving  at  Calais,  with  divers  other 
English  lords,  rode  with  his  banner  displayed. 
And  in  the  15th  of  the  same  reign  (being  marshal  of 
Ireland)  was  in  the  expedition  then  made  into 
France,  as  he  was  again  in  the  3d  of  Henry  V.  s 
and  the  next  year  he  was  i^pointed  lieutenant  and 
captain-geoeral  of  all  the  forces  assembled  at  Lon- 
don from  the  diflbrent  ports,  in  order  to  proceed  to 
Prance.  His  lordship  m.  Anne*  daughter  of  Ed- 
ward, Lord  Despenser,  (by  Elisabeth  de  Burghersh, 
his  wife)  and  widow  of  Sir  Hugh  de  Hastings,  KnL, 
by  whom  he  had  a  son, 

Thomas,  who  died  in  the  life-time  of  his 
father,  leaving  by  Isabel,  his  wife,  daughter 
of  John,  Lord  Molines,  a  son, 

Thomas,  successor  to  his  grandfather. 
He  d.  in  1417*  and  was*,  by  his  grandson, 

THOMAS  MORLEY,  fifth  bacon,  who,  in  the 
6th  Henry  V.,  being  then  marshal  of  Ireland,  was 
in  the  expedition  made  into  France,  and  so  lik^ 
wise,  in  the  9th  of  the  same  reign.  His  lordship 
being  in  the  service  of  King  Hbnry  V.,  when  that 
gallant  prince  died  in  France,  bore  one  of  the 
banners  of  saints,  which  were  carried  at  the 
monarch's  solemn  obsequies.  His  lordship  es- 
poused Lady  Isabel  de  la  Pole,  daughter  of  Michael, 
Earl  of  Suflblk,  and  dying  in  1435,  was  «.  by  his 
son, 

ROBERT  MORLEY,  sixth  bsron,  summoned 
to  parliament  3rd  December,  1441.  This  noble- 
man IN.  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  William,  Lord 
Roos,  and  dying  in  144S,  left  an  only  daughter  and 
heir, 

Alianorb  Moklby,  who  espoused  WiLxjAM 
LovBL,  second  son  of  William,  Baron  Lovd, 
of  Tichmersh,  and  he  was  summoned  to 
parliament.  Jure  usorU,  as  Lord  Morlby. 
Of  this  marriage  there  were  issue, 

Hbnry  Lovxl,  Lard  MoH^,  who  died 

#.  p. 
Alicb  Lovxl,  m.  to  Sir  William  Parker, 
Knt.,  standard  bearer  to  Richard  III. 
Upon  the  death  (tf  her  brother  this 
lady  inherited  the  babony,  and  her 
son, 

Hbvry  Parkbr,   was  summoned 
as  Lord   Morlby  (see  Parker, 
Lords  Morley). 
Upon  the  decease  of  this  Robert,  last  Lord  Morley, 
the  male  line  of  that  family  expired:  while  his 
daughter,  Alianorb   Morlby,  carried   the  Ba- 
rony OF  Morlby  into   the  family  of  Lovbl, 
whence  it  passed,  as  stated  above,  to  that  of  Pab/- 
KBR  (see  Parker,  Lords  Morley). 
Arms,'— Ar.  a  lion  rampant,  sa,  crowned  or. 


MOR 


MOR 


MORTIMER  ~  BARONS  MORTI- 
MER,  OF  WIGMORE, 
EARLS  OF  MARCH. 

Barony,  "by  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  8th  June,  1294, 

2S  Edward  I. 

Earldom,  by  Charter,  dated  anno  I3S& 

ICineagc. 

*rhe  first  of  this  name  upon  record, 

ROGER  DE  MORTIMER,  Is  deemed  by  some 
to  have  been  son  of  William  de  Warren,  and  by 
others,  of  Walter  de  St.  Martin,  brother  of  that 
William.  Which  Roger  was  founder  of  the  abbey 
of  St  Victor,  in  Normandy.  *'  It  is  reported," 
says  Dugdale,  "  that  in  the  year  1054,  (which  was 
twelve  years  before  the  Norman  Conquest,)  when 
Odio,  brother  of  Henry,  King  of  France,  invaded 
the  territory  of  Evreux,  Duke  'William  sent  this 
Roger,  then  his  general,  (with  Robert,  EZarl  of  Ewe, 
end  other  stout  soldiers,)  to  resist  his  attempts; 
who  meeting  with  Odo  near  to  the  castle  of  Mor- 
timer, gave  him  battle,  and  obtained  a  glorious  vic- 
tory. It  is  further  observable  of  this  Roger,  that 
he  was  by  consanguinity  allied  to  the  Norman 
duke,  (afterwards  king,  by  the  name  of  William  the 
Conqueror,)  his  mother  being  niece  to  Ounnora, 
wife  of  Richard,  Duke  of  Normandy,  great-grand- 
mother to  the  Conqueror.**  The  presumed  son  of 
this  Roger, 

RALPH  DE  MORTIMER,  accompanying  the 
Duke  of  Normandy  in  his  expedition  against  Eng- 
land, was  one  of  his  principal  commanders  at  the 
-  decisive  battle  of  Hastings ;  and  shortly  after,  as  the 
most  puissant  of  the  victor's  captains,  was  sent  into 
the  marches  of  Wales  to  encounter  Edric,  EZarl  of 
Shrewsbury,  who  stlU  resisted  the  Norman  yoke. 
This. nobleman,  after  much  difficulty,  and  along 
siege  in  his  cabtlk  of  Wiomobx,  Mortimer 
subdued,  and  delivered  into  the  king's  hands. 
When,  as  a  reward  for  his  good  service,  he 
obtained  a  grant  of  all  Edric's  estates,  and  seated 
himself  thenceforward  at  Wzomork.  Independ- 
ently of  these  great  Welsh  territorial  possessions, 
Ralph  Mortimer  enjoyed  by  the  bounty  of  his  royal 
master  sundry  lordships  and  manors  in  other  parts 
of  the  realm,  which  he  hdd  at  the  time  of  the  gene- 
ral survey.  In  the  beginning  of  Rurua'a  reign 
Mortimer  took  part  with  Curthote,  but  he  subse- 
quently changed  sides,  and  being  constituted  gene- 
ral of  the  farces  sent  to  oppose  that  prince  in  Nor- 
mandy, by  ft.lng  Henry  I.,  he  totally  routed  the 
enemy,  and  brought  Cukthoss  prisoner  to  the 
king.  This  gallant  person  m.  Milioent,  daughter  of 
• —,  by  whom  he  had  issue, 

HiTOH,  his  successor. 

William,  Lord  of  Chdmersh,  and  afterwards 
of  Netherby. 

Robert,  ancestor  of  the  Mortimers,  of  Richard's 
Castle  (see  Mortimer,  Baron  Mortimer,  ot 
Richard's  Castle). 

Hawise,  m.  to  Stephen,  Earl  of  Albemarle. 
He  was  «.  by  his  son, 

HUGH  DE  MORTIMER,  who  being  a  person 
of  a  proud  and  turbulent  spirit,  opposed  strenu- 
ously the  accession  of  King  Henry  II.  upon  the 


demist  of  Stephen,  and  Induced  Rogert  Earl  of 
Hereford,  to  fortify  his  castles  of  Gloucxbtbr  and 
HcRKroRD  against  the  new  monarch;  himself 
doing  the  same  with  his  castles  of  Cleobury,  Wig* 
more,  and  Brugges  (commonly  called  Bridgenorth). 
Whereupon  Gilbert  Foliot,  at  that  time  Bishop  of 
Hereford,  addressing  himself  to  the  Earl  of  Here- 
ford, (his  kinsman,)  by  fUr  persuasions  soon 
brought  him  to  peaceable  submission.  But  Morti- 
mer continuing  obstinate,  the  king  was  forced  to 
raise  an  army,  and  at  the  point  of  the  sword  to 
bring  him  to  obedience.  Between  this  rude  baron, 
and  Joceas  de  Dynant,  at  that  time  Lord  of  Lud- 
low,  existed  a  feud,  carried  to  so  fierce  a  pitch,  that 
Dynant  could  not  pass  safely  out  of  his  castle  for 
fear  of  being  taken  by  Mortimer's  men.  But  it  so 
happened,  that  setting  his  spies  to  take  all  advan- 
tages  of  Dynant,  he  was  surprised  himself,  and 
carried  prisoner  to  Ludlow,  where  he  was  detained 
until  he  paid  a  ransom  of  three  thousand  marks  of 
silver.  He  was  oftentimes  engaged  against  the 
Welsh,  and  he  erected  some  strong  castles  in 
Wales.  He  likewise  finished  the  foundation  of  the 
ABonv  OP  Wiouoiin,  begun  by  his  father,  and  in 
his  old  age  became  a  canon  of  that  house.  He  m. 
Maud,  daughter  of  William  Loogespe,  Duke  of 
Normandy,  and  had  four  sons» 

Roosa,  his  successor. 

Hugh,  who  m.  Priida  de  Sancto  Sydonio,  and 
had,  by  gift  of  his  fsther,  the  manors  of 
Sudbury  and  Chelmers. 

Ralph. 

William. 
He  d.  in  1183,  and  was  $.  by  his  eldest  son, 

ROGER  DE  MORTIMER,  Lord  of  Wigmore. 
This  feudal  lord,  like  his  predecessors,  was  in  con- 
stant strife  with  the  Welsh.  At  one  time  he  sus- 
tained a  great  defeat  in  coQJunction  with  Hugh  de 
Say,  but  in  the  end  he  was  victorious,  and  took 
twelve  of  their  principal  leaders  in  one  battle.  He 
also  enlarged  considerably  his  territories,  and  drove 
thieves  and  robbers  from  those  parts.  Being  at  one 
time  present  at  the  solemn  anniversary  of  his 
father,  he  confirmed  all  his  grants  to  the  canons  of 
Wigmore;  adding,  of  his  own  gift,  a  spacious  and 
fruitful  pasture,  lying  adjacent  to  the  abbey,  called 
the  Trwuurt  ef  Mortimer,  Upon  which  occasion 
his  steward  remonstrating  with  him  for  parting  with 
so  valuable  a  treasure,  he  replied}  "  I  have  laid  up 
my  treasure  in  that  field,  where  thieves  cannot 
steal  or  dig,  or  much  corrupt.'*  This  Roger  m. 
first,  Milisent,  daughter  of  — —  Ferrers,  Earl  of 
Derby,  and  had  issue,  Hugh,  his  successor,  and 
two  daughters  I  the  xldsr,  married  to  Stephen  le 
Gross  ;  the  vounoxr,  to  Walkeline  de  Beauchamp. 
He  espoused,  secondly,  Isabd,  sister  and  heir  of 
Hugh  de  Ferrers,  of  Oakham,  in  Rutlandshire, 
and  of  Lrchxladx  and  Laoxbiry,  in  Gloucester- 
shire. All  which  lands  he  inherited  upon  the  death 
of  the  said  Hugh  Ferrers ;  and  by  the  lady  he  had 
three  sons,  Ralph,  Robert,  and  Philip.  He  d.  in 
1215,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

HUGH  DE  MORTIMER.  This  feudal  k>itl  In 
the  baronial  war  adhered  with  unshaken  fidelity  to 
King  John.  In  the  16th  of  that  monarch's  reign  he 
had  a  military  summons  to  attend  the  king  at  Ciren- 

3?l 


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MOR 


cCBt^r,  with  th«  6ther  Batons  Marchen.  Mtf  m- 
poused  Annora,  daughter  of  William  de  Braow, 
and  had  one  hundred  shillings  in  land  with  her. 
But  having  been  srrerely  wounded  in  a  tournament* 
departed  this  life  in  November,  1827.  leaving  no 
issue,  when  he  was  «.  by  his  half-brother, 

RALPH  DE  MORTIMER,  who,  in  the  ISth 
Henry  III.  paying  £100  for  his  rdief,  had  Uvery  of 
all  his  lands,  lying  in  the  counties  of  Gloucester, 
Southampton,  Berlu,  Salop,  asd  Hereftird.  This 
nobleman  being  of  a  martial  dispodtion,  erected 
several  strong  castles,  by  which  he  was  enabled  to 
extend  his  possessions  against  the  Welsh :  so  that 
Prince  Lewelin,  seeing  that  he  could  not  success- 
fully cope  with  him,  gave  him  his  daughter,  Gla- 
duse  Duy,  widow  of  Reginald  de  Braoee,  in  mar- 
riage, and  by  this  lady  he  had  issue,  Rooxk,  his 
successor ;  Peter  John,  a  ^rey  friar  at  Shrewsbury ; 
and  Hugh,  of  Chelmersh.  He  d.  in  1246,  and  was  «. 
hy  his  eldest  son, 

ROGER  DE  MORTIMER,  who,  in  theSlstof 
Henry  HI,  paying  two  thousand  myrks  to  the  king, 
had  livery  of  all  his  lands,  excepting  those  whereof 
Gladuse,  his  mother,  then  surviving,  was  endowed. 
In  six  years  afterwards  he  attended  the  king  in  his 
expedition  into  Gascony,  and  in  a  few  years  subse- 
quently, when  Lewelin,  Prince  of  Wales,  began 
again  to  make  incursions  upon  the  marches,  re- 
ceived command  to  assist  Humphrey  de  Bohun, 
Earl  of  Hereford,  in  the  defence  of  the  country 
lying  between  Montgomery  and  the  lands  of  the 
Earl  of  Gloucester.  In  the  4Snd  of  the  same  reign 
he  had  another  military  summons  to  march  with 
the  king  against  the  Welsh ;  and  being  in  tliat  ser- 
vice, had  a  special  discharge  of  his  scutage  for  those 
twenty-six  knights'  fees,  and  a  sixth  part  which  he 
held  in  right  of  Maud,  his  wife,  one  of  the  daugh- 
ters and  co-heirs  of  William  de  Braoee,  of  Breck- 
nock. In  two  years  afterwards  he  was  made  cap- 
talo-general  of  sJl  the  king's  forces  in  Wales,  all  the 
barons  marchers  receiving  command  to  be  attendant 
on  him  with  their  whole  strength ;  and  he  was  the 
same  year  constituted  governor  of  the  castle  at 
Hereford.  But,  notwithstanding  this  extensive 
power,  and  those  great  resources,  he  was  eventually 
worsted  by  hewetin,  and  constrained  to  sue  for  per- 
mission to  depart,  whidi  the  Welsh  prince,  owing 
to  his  consanguinity,  conceded.  After  this  he  took 
an  active  part  in  the  contest  between  Henry  III. 
and  the  insurrectionary  barons,  in  favour  of  the 
former.  He  was  at  the  battle  of  Lewes,  whence  he 
fled  into  Wales,  and  afterwards  suocessAiUy  planned 
the  escape  of  Prince  Edward.  The  exploit  is  thus 
detailed  by  Dugdale:  *'  Seeing  therefore  his  sove- 
reign in  this  great  distreo,  and  nothing  but  mine 
and  misery  attending  himsdf,  and  all  other  the 
king's  loyal  subjects,  he  took  no  rest  till  he  had 
contrived  some  way  for  their  deliverance;  and  to 
that  end  sent  a  swift  horse  to  the  prince,  then  pri- 
soner with  the  king  in  the  castle  of  Hereford,  with 
intimation  that  he  should  obtain  leave  to  ride  out 
for  recreation,  into  a  place  called  Widmersh  t  and 
that  upon  sight  of  a  person  mounted  on  a  white 
horse,  at  the  foot  of  Tulington  Hill,  and  waving  his 
ix>nnet,  (which  was  the  Lord  of  Cnorr,  as  it  was 
Aaid.)  he  should  haste  towards  him  with  all  possible 
,372 


speed.  Which  bfeing  accordingly  done,  (tiiough  all 
the  country  thereabouts  were  thither  called  to  pre- 
vent his  escape,)  setting  spurs  to  that  horse  he  over- 
went them  all.  Moreover,  that  being  come  to  the 
park  of  Tulington,  this  Roger  met  him  with  five 
hundred  armed  men;  and  seeing  many  to  pursue, 
duued  them  back  to  the  gates  of  Hereford,  making 
great  slaughter  amongst  them.**  Having  thus  accom- 
plished his  prince's  ft«edom,  Mortimer,  directing 
all  his  energies  to  the  embodying  a  sufficient  force 
to  meet  the  enemy,  soon  placed  Prince  Edward  in  a 
situation  to  fight,  and  win  the  great  battle  of  Evss. 
BAM,  (4th  August,  1265,)  by  which  the  king  was 
restored  to  his  freedom  and  his  crown.  In  this  cele- 
brated conflict  Mortimer  commanded  the  third  divi- 
sion of  the  royal  army,  and  for  his  faithAil  services 
obtained,  in  the  October  following,  a  grant  of  the 
whole  earldom  and  honour  of  Oxford,  and  all  other 
the  lands  of  Robert  de  Vere,  Earl  of  Oxford,  at  that 
time,  and  by  that  treason,  forfeited.  The  dictum 
or  KxNiLWORTH  followed  soon  after  the  victory  of 
Evesham,  by  which  the  defeated  barons  were  suf- 
fered to  regain  their  lands  upon  the  payment  of  a 
stipulated  fine;  but  this  arrangement  is  said  to  have 
caused  great  irritation  amongst  the  barons  marchers, 
(Mortimer  with  the  rest,)who  had  acquired  grants 
of  those  estates.  He  was,  however,  subsequently 
entrusted,  by  the  crown,  with  the  castle  of  Here- 
ford, which  he  had  orders  to  fortify,  and  was  ap- 
pointed sheriff  of  Herefordshire.  After  the  acces- 
sion of  Edward  I.  he  continued  to  enjoy  the  sunshine 
of  royal  favour,  and  had  other  valuable  grants  ftom 
the  crown.  He  married,  as  already  stated,  Maud, 
daughter  and  co-heir  of  William  de  Braose,  of 
Brecknock,  and  had,  with  other  issuet  three  sons, 
Edmdnd,  William,  and  Geffrey :  upon  whom,  hav- 
ing procured  the  honour  of  knighthood  to  be  con- 
ferred by  King  Edward  I.,  he  caused  aToumrAMSNT 
to  be  held,  at  his  own  cost,  at  Kknilwobtr,  where 
he  sumptuously  entertained  an  hundred  knights 
and  as  many  ladies,  for  three  days,  the  like  whereof 
was  never  before  Imown  in  England;  and  then 
began  the  round  tablb,  so  called  ftom  the  place 
wherein  they  practised  those  feats,  which  was  en- 
compassed by  -a  strong  wall,  in  a  circular  form. 
Upon  the  fourth  day  the  golden  lion,  in  token  of 
trtamph,  having  been  yielded  to  him,  he  carried  it 
(with  all  that  company,)  to  Warwick.  The  Came 
whereof  being  sproul  into  fordgn  countries,  occa- 
sioned the  queen  ot  Navarre  to  send  him  certain 
wooden  bottles,  bound  with  golden  ban  and  wax, 
undor  the  pretence  of  wine,  but  in  truth  filled  with 
gold,  which  for  many  ages  after  were  preserved  in 
the  abbey  of  Wigmore  Whereupon,  for  the  love  of 
that  queen,  he  had  added  a  carbuneie  to  his  arms. 
By  his  wife  he  had  several  sons,  whereof 
Ralph  (Sir),  d.  in  his  life-time; 
Edmund  (Sir),  was  his  successor. 
Roger,  was  Lord  of  Chikkb,  which  lordship 
his  grandson  sold  to  Richard  Fits-Alan,  Earl 
of  ArundeL  It  subsequently  passed  to  the 
family  of  Middlxton  (see  Mortimer,  of 
Chirke). 
William  (Sir),  an  eminent  soldier,  who  m. 
Hawyse,  heir  of  Robert  de  Musegross,  but 
ri.  issueless. 


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MOR 


Q^BUj  (Sir),  di«d  «.  p.  in  bis  fothet'ft  1UI»- 
time; 
This  celebrstad  feudal  lord  d,  in  1988,  and  wis  «.  by 
his  eldflit  flurriTing  ion, 

-  SIR  EDMUND  MORTIMER,  Lord  of  Wig- 
mora,  who  m.  Maxgarat,  daughter  of  Sir  WiUiam  de 
Faodles,  a  Spaniard,  Idntwomau  to  Quean  Eleanore* 
the  wedding  being  kept  at  the  court  at  Winchester, 
at  the  king  and  queen's  charge.  In  the  10th  of 
Edward  I.  he  succeeded  his  father,  and  the  next 
year  doing  his  lunoage,  had  livery  of  his  lands.  He 
was  afterwards  constantly  employed  in  the  Wdsh 
wars,  and  was  summoned  to  parliament  as  a  baboit, 
from  8th  June,  1994,  to  Snd  June,  1308.  His  lord- 
ship was  mortally  wounded  in  1903  at  the  battle  of 
BusLT,  against  the  Welsh,  and  dying  almost  imme- 
diately, at  Wigmore  Castl^  was  buried  in  the  abbey 
there.    He  left  issue, 

RooBB,  his  suooauor. 

John,  accidentally  slain  in  a  tournament  at 
Worcester  Uth  Edwaid  II.,  by  John  de 
Leybume,  being  not  more  than  eighteen 
years  of  age,  and  unable  to  wield  his  lance. 

Hugh,  a  priest,  rector  of  the  church  at  Old 
Radnor. 

Waiter,  a  priest,  rector  of  Km oston. 

Edmund,  a  priest,  rector  of  Hodnet,  and  trea- 
surer of  the  cathedral  at  York. 

Maud,  m.  to  Theobald  de  Verdon. 

Joan,         1 

Eli«ibeth.  1°^*°^ 
His  lordship  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

ROGER  'MORTIMER,  second  banm,  sum- 
moned to  parliament  from  6th  February,  1299,  to 
%d  December,  1986,  (ftom  tlM  accenion  of  Ed- 
ward IL,  with  the  addition  of  "  De  Wigmore^). 
Tills  nobleman,  so  notorious  in  our  histoiiei  as  the 
paramour  of  Ibabxl,  queen  consort  of  the  unfor- 
tunate Edward  II.,  was  in  his  sixteenth  year  at  the 
time  of  his  father's  decease,  and  waa  placed  by  the 
king  (Edward  I.,)  in  ward  with  Pibbb  GATBaToir, 
so  that  to  redeem  himself,  and  for  pennission  to 
many  whom  he  pleased,  be  was  obliged  to  pay 
Gaveston  two  thoiuand  five  hundred  marks,  and 
thereupon  espoused  Joone,  daughter  of  Peter  de 
Geneviil,  son  of  GeflRrey  de  GeneviU,  Lord  of 
Trim,  in  Ireland.  In  the  34th  of  Edward  I.  he  re- 
ceived the  honour  of  Knighthood,  and  the  same 
year  attended  the  king  into  Scotland;  where  we 
find  him  again  in  the  3rd  of  Edward  II.,  and  the 
same  year  he  was  constituted  governor  of  the  castle 
of  Buelt,  in  Brecknockshire.  In  the  7th,  8th,  and 
loth  years  he  was  likewise  in  Scotland,  and  was  then 
appointed  LOBn-LiBUTBNAirT  of  Ibbland.  Dur- 
iug  the  remainder  of  the  imhappy  Edward's  reign 
he  attached  himself  to  the  interests  of  the  queen, 
and  at  length  fled  with  her  and  Prince  Edward  into 
FranccL  Returning,  however,  and  his  party  tri- 
umphing, he  was  advanced  to  the  dignity  of  Eabl 
OP  Mabch  soon  after  the  accession  of  King  Ed- 
ward III.,  and  he  held  a  round  table  thie  same  year 
at  Bedford.  But  hereupon  becoming  proud  beyond 
measure,  (so  that  hb  own  son,  Geffrey,  called  him 
the  King  of  Folly,)  he  kept  a  round  table  of  luiights 
in  Wales,  in  imitation  of  King  Arthur.  *'  Other 
particulars,"  says  Dugdale,  '<  of  bis  haughtiness  and 


insoleaee  were  these,  via.,  that  with  quaen  I«hib«t 
he  cauaed  a  parliament  to  be  held  at  Northampton, 
where  an  unworthy  agreement  was  made  with  the 
Soots,  and  Ragman's  Roll  of  Homage  of  Scotland 
was  traitorously  delivered,  as  also  the  blade  cross, 
which  King  Edward  I.  brought  into  EngUnd,  out  of 
the  abbey  of  Scone,  and  then  accounted  a^precioua 
rdique.  That  (with  the  queen,)  he  caused  the 
young  l(ing  to  ride  twenty-four  miles  in  one  night, 
towards  Bedford,  to  destroy  the  Earl  of  Lancaster 
and  his  adherents,  saying  that  they  imagined  the 
king's  death.  That  he  followed  Queen  Isabd  to 
Nottingham,  and  lodged  in  one  house  with  her. 
That  he  commanded  the  treasure  of  the  realm,  and 
assumed  the  authority,  whidi  by  common  consent 
in  parliament  was  conferred  upon  Henry,  Earl  of 
Lancaster,  at  the  king's  ovonation."  His  career 
was  not,  however,  of  long  continuance,  for,  the 
king  becoming  sensible  of  his  folly  and  vices,  had 
him  suddenly  seiaed  in  the  castle  of  Nottin^am, 
and  conveyed  priaoner  to  London,  where*  being  im- 
peached before  parliament,  he  was  convicted  under 
various  charges,  the  first  of  which  was  privity  to 
the  murder  of  King  Edward  II.  in  Berkdey  Castle ; 
and  receiving  sentence  of  death,  was  hanged  at  the 
common  gallows,  called  Ehnes,  near  Smithfleld, 
where  his  body  was  permitted  to  hang  two  days 
and  two  nights  naked,  before  it  was  interred  in  the 
Grey-Friers  i  whence  in  some  years  afterwards  it  waa 
removed  to  Wigmore.  This  great  but  unfortunate 
man  left  issue,  four  sons  and  seven  daughters,  via. 

EDMiTiro  (Sir),  of  whom  presently. 

Roger  (Sir). 

Gefflrey  (Sir),  Lord  of  Towyth. 

John,  slain  in  a  tournament  at  Shrewsbury. 

Katharine,  m.  to  Thomaa  de  Beaucfaamp,  Earl 
of  Warwick. 

Joane,  fa.  to  James,  Lord  Audley. 

Agnes,  m.  to  Laurence,  Earl  of  Pembroke. 

Margaret,  m.  to  Thomas,  son  and  hdr  of  Mau- 
rice, Lord  Berkeley. 

Maud,  m.  to  John  de  Charlton,  son  and  h^  of 
John,  Lord  Powis. 

Blanch,  m.  to  Peter  de  Grandison. 

Beatrix,  ra.  first,  to  Edward,  son  and  heir  o£ 

Thomas,  of  Brotherton,   Earl  Marshal  of 

England,  and  secondly,  to  Sir  Thomas  de 

Braoseu 

Upon  the  execution  and  attainder  of  the  earl  ali. 

ma  HONOUBS  became  roBVBiTBD.    But  his  eldest 

son, 

SIR  EDMUND  MORTIMER,  although  he  did 
not  succeed  to  the  earldom,  was  summoned  to  par* 
liament,  as  Loan  Mobtimxb,  on  90th  November, 
1331.  His  lordship  espoused  Elisabeth,  one  of  the 
daughters,  and  at  length  co-heirs  of  Bartholomew, 
(commonly  caUed  the  Rich,)  Lord  Badleamere,  <rf 
Ledes  Castle,  in  Kent,  by  whom  (who  married,  after 
his  decease,  William  de  Bohun,  Earl  of  Northamp- 
ton,) he  had  an  only  surviving  son,  his  successor  in . 
1331, 

ROGER  MORTIMER,  summoned  to  pariia^ 
ment  as  Babon  Mobtimbb,  and  Baron  Mortimer, 
OF  WiOMOBx,  fkom  80th  November,  1348,  to  lAth 
March,  13fi4.  This  nobleman,  at  the  time  of  his 
father's  decease,  was  only  three  years  of  age,  and 

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MOR 


during  hit  minority  Us  CMtles  in  the  marehet  of 
Wales  were  committed  to  the  custody  of  WiUiem^ 
Earl  of  Narthampton»  who  had  married  his  mother. 
In  the  90th  Edward  III.  he  aocompenied  the  king 
into  France,  and  then  received  the  lumour  of  linight- 
hood.  In  the  96th  he  was  in  a  similar  expedition, 
and  in  two  years  afterwards,  obtaining  a  rerersal  of 
the  attainder  of  his  grandfather,  lie  was  restored  to 
the  Eabldoit  or  Mabcb,  and  to  his  forfeited 
lands.  His  lOTdship  the  next  year  was  constable  of 
Dover  Castle,  and  warden  of  the  cinque  ports,  and 
for  some  years  afterwards  he  was  in  the  wars  of 
France.  He  m.  Philippe,  daughter  of  William  de 
Montacute,  Earl  of  Salisbury,  and  had  issue, 

Roger,  who  d,  in  his  life-time. 

Edmund,  his  successor. 

Margaret,  m.  to  Robert  Vere,  Earl  of  Oxford. 

Margery,  m.  to  John,  Lord  Audley. 
His  lordship  d.  at  Romera,  in  Burgundy,  In  1360, 
being    then    commander   of   the    English   forces 
there,  and  a  Knight  of  the  Garter.    He  was  «.  by 
his  son, 

EDMUND  MORTIMER,  third  Earl  of  March. 
This  notdeman,  at  the  time  of  his  father's  death, 
was  in  minority,  yet  by  reason  of  his  singular  know- 
ledge  and  parts,  he  was  employed  at  eighteen  years 
of  age,  to  treat  with  the  commissioners  of  the  King 
of  France,  toudiing  a  peace  betwixt  both  reahns. 
In  the  1st  of  Richard  II.,  he  was  sworn  to  the  privy 
council,  and  in  two  years  afterwards,  constituted 
LOBD  LiBUTKiffAKT  OF  Ihblawd,  in  which  govern- 
ment he  died  in  1381.  His  lordship  m.  the  Lad^ 
Philippa  Plantagknct,  daughter  and  heir  of 
Lionel,  Duke  of  Clarence,  (by  EUaabeth,  his  wife, 
daughter  and  heir  of  William,  son  and  hdr  of  John 
de  Burgh,  Earl  of  Ulster,)  by  whom  he  had  issue, 

RoosR,  his  successor. 

Edmund  (Sir),  m.  the  daughter  of  Owen  Olen- 
dour. 

John  (Sir),  who,  being  arraigned  in  parlia- 
ment, temp.  Henry  VI.,  for  treasonable 
speeches,  was  condemned  and  executed. 

Elisabeth,  m.  to-  Henry  Percy,  the  celebrated 
HoTSPun* 

Philippe,  m.  first  to  John,  Earl  of  Pembroke ; 
secondly,  to  Richard,  Earl  of  Arundel,  and 
thirdly,  to  John  Poynings,  Ixnd  St.  John. 
His  lordship  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

ROGER  MORTIMER,  fourth  Earl  of  March, 
who  being  but  seven  years  old,  at  the  decease  of  his 
father,  was  committed  in  ward,  by  the  king,  to 
Richard,  Earl  of  Arundel;  and  when  he  came  of 
age,  found,  by  the  care  of  those  who  had  the 
management  of  his  estate,  all  his  castles  and  houses 
in  good  repair,  and  amply  stored  with  rich  ftimi- 
ture,  while  his  lands  were  cMnpletely  stocked  with 
cattle,  and  in  his  treasury,  no  lew  than  forty  thou- 
sand marks.  This  Roger  being  a  hopeful  youth, 
and  every  way  accomplished,  was,  soon  after  his 
flither's  death,  made  lieutenant  of  Irdand ;  and  in 
parliament,  held  9th  Richard  II.,  was  dedared,  by 
■  reason  of  his  descent  from  Lionel,  Duke  of  Cla- 
rence, heir  apparent  to  the  crown.  His  lordship  m. 
Allanore,  daughter  of  Thomas  Holland,  Earl  of 
Kent,  sister  of  Thomast  Duke  of  Surrey,  and  rister 

374 


and  co-heir  of  Bdmand,  Earl  of  Kent,  by  whom  he 
had  issue, 

Edmukd,  his  successor. 
Roger,  died  «.  p. 

Anne,  m.  to  Richard  Plantagenet,  Duke  of 
Cambridge,  younger  son  of  Edmund,  Duke 
of*  York,  (fifth  son  of  Ktaig  Edward  III.,) 
and  conveyed  the  right  to  the  crown  to  the 
HocsB  OP  York.  ^ 
Alianore,  m.  to  Edward,  sun  of  Edward  Cour» 
tenay.  Earl  of  Devon,  but  died  «.  p. 
His  lordship  was  slain  in  battle,  in  Irdand,  In  ISB^ 
and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

EDMUND  MORTIMER,  fifth  Earl  of  March. 
This  nobleman  being  but  six  years  of  age,  at  his 
fkthtr'B  death,  was  committed  by  King  Henry  IV., 
to  Henry,  Prince  of  Wales,  his  son;  out  of  whose 
custody,  he  was  shortly  after  stolen  away,  by  the 
Lady  de  Spencer ;  but  being  discovered  in  Chittham 
Woods,  they  kept  him  afterwards,  under  stricter 
guard,  for  he  was  the  rightful  heir  to  the  crown  of 
England,  by  his  descent  Arom  Lionel,  Duke  of  Cla- 
rence. This  nobleman  was  frequently  engaged  in 
the  wars  of  France,  temp.  Henry  V.,  and  in  the  1st 
of  Henry  VI.,  he  was  constituted  lord  lieutenant  of 
Irdand.  His  lordship  m.  Anne,  daughter  of  Ed- 
mund, Earl  of  Staflbrd,  but  died  without  issue,  in 
1494,  when  the  Earldom  op  March  became  bx- 
TiNCT,  but  the  Baronibb  op  Mortimbr,  created 
by  the  writs  of  Edward  I.  and  Edward  III.,  de- 
volved upon  his  lordship's  nephew, 

Richard  Plahtaobbbt,  Duke  of  York,  son 

of  his  sister  Anne,  Countess  of  Cambridge; 

and  upon  the  accession  of  the  son  and  heir 

of  the  said  Duke  of  York  to  the  throne,  as 

Edward   IV.,  these    baronies,   with    his 

other    dignities,  became    meiged   in   the 

crown. 

Thus  terminated  the  male  line  of  the  illustrious 

family  of  Mortimert  Earlb  op  March  ;  and  their 

great  estates,  with  the  right  to  the  throne,  passed 

to  RiOutrdt  DiTKB  OP  York,  son  of  the  last  earfs 

sister,  the  ladj^  Annb  Mortimbr,   by  her  hue* 

bend,  Richard  Plantagenet,  Duke  of  Cambridge. 

Arms.— Barry  of  six,  or  and  ax.  on  a  chief  of  the  1 
first,  three  pallets  between  two  esquires,  bust  dex-  ' 
ter,  and  sinister  of  the  second,  and  in  escutcheon.  * 
ar. 

MORTIMER— BARON    MORTIMER, 
OF  RICHARD'S  CASTLE. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  96th  January,  1997fl 
85  Edward  I. 

miuagc. 

The  founder  of  this  bianch  of  the  Mortimbbb  in 
England,  was 

ROBERT  DE  MORTIMER,  (the  presumed  son 
or  brother  of  the  first  Hugh  de  Mortimer,  of  Wig- 
more,  ancestor  of  the  Earls  of  March,)  who  m. 
Margery,  only  daughter  and  heiress  of  Hugh  de 
Ferrers,  and  grand-daughter  of  Hugh  de  Say,*  Lord 

•  Hugh  db  Say  was  feudal  lord  of  Richard'b 
Cart  LB,  in  the  county  of  Hereford,  one  of  the  poe- 
of   his  ancestor,  Richau>,   (sumamed 


MOR 


3fOR 


of  RicHAR]>*a  Cabtl^,  in  the  county  of  Henftird, 
by  which  alliance  he  acquired  tlutt,  and  other  con- 
sidermhle  manor*,  and  in  the  19th  Henry  II.  he  cer- 
tilled  hie  knight'*  fees  of  this  honour  to  be  in  num- 
ber twenty-threeu  In  the  17th  of  John  he  had  a 
grant  ftom  the  king  of  all  thoae  lands  in  Berwic,  in 
SuMex,  which  had  belonged  to  Mabel  de  Say,  mo- 
ther of  Margery,  hia  wife,  and  then  in  the  poaewion 
ci  Robert  Marmion,  the  younger.  He  d.  about  the 
year  1219,  and  was  «.  by  hia  ton* 

HUGH  DE  MORTIMER,  who,  in  the  43rd 
Henry  III.,  upon  the  death  of  William  de  Stutevill, 
aeoond  husband  of  his  mother,  had  lirery  of  all 
thoae  lands  of  her  inheritance,  upon  the  payment  of 
£100  for  his  leUef,  which  he  the  said  William  held 
•a  tenant  by  the  courtesy  of  England  during  his  life. 
In  the  next  year  Hugh  Mmtimer,  being  one  of  the 
Barons  Marchers,  had  command  to  repair  personally 
to  his  house,  at  Richard's  Castle,  and  there  to 
attend  the  lUrections  of  Rogvr,  Loan  MoariMaa, 
«f  Wigmore,  whom  the  king  had  then  constituted 
cq>tain-general  of  all  his  forces  in  those  parts,  to 
oppose  the  hostilities  of  Lewelin,  Paiivca  op 
Walbb.  In  the  contest  between  Henry  III.  and 
the  barons,  this  feudal  lord  siding  with  the  former, 
was  obliged  to  surrender  Richard's  Castle,  after  the 
defeat  of  Lawaa,  but  he  regained  possession  of 
that  and  all  his  other  lands,  by  the  triumph  of 
Etbbhah.  In  the  1st  Edward  I.,  he  executed  the 
«»fllce  of  sheriff  fbr  the  counties  of  Salop  and  Staf- 
Ibrd,  and  dying  in  two  years  afterwards,  was  «.  by 
hbson, 

ROBERT  DE  MORTIMER,  who  in.  Joice, 
daughter  and  heir  of  William  La  Zouch,  second  son 
of  Roger,  aeoond  Banm  Zouch«  of  Ashby,  and  had 
ianie, 

Hugh,  Us  snceeasor. 

WiUiam,  who,   inheriting  ftom  the  Zouches 

the  Lordship  of  Ashby  de  la  Zouch,  assumed 

the  surname  of  Zouchb  (see  Zovchs,  t^f 

JforMtiMr). 

This  feudal  lord  d,  in  1287*  and  was  «.  by  hia  elder 


HUGH  DE  MORTIMER,  who  was  summoned  to 

parliament  as  a  babok,  on  26th  January,  1997.  and 

from  that  time  to  10th  April,  12B0,  in  which  latter 

year  he  was  in  the  wan  of  Scotland.    His  lordship 

d.  in  1304,  leaving  two  daughters,  his  co-heirs,  Tia. 

1.  JoAJiB  MoBTiMBB,  iM.  llxBt,  to  Thouas  do 

Bikenore,  by  whom  she  had  no  issue,  and 

•eoondly,  to  Richard  Talbot,  (a  younger 

son  of  Ridiard,  Lord  Talbot,  ot  Ecdeswel, 

In  Herefordshire,)  who  thus  founded  the 

House  of  **  Talbot,  «f  Rt^artTt  Casti^b." 

Scrape,)  in  Edward  the  Confessor's  days,  whence  it 
derives  its  denomination.  In  the  92nd  Henry  IL 
this  Hugh  piUd  twenty  marks  to  the  king  for  tres- 
passing in  the  roy4l  forests,  and  in  the  81st  of  the 
same  reign  two  hundred  marks  for  livery  of  his 
lands.  He  m.  Luda,  daughter  of  Walter  de  CUf- 
ioird,  and  left  an  only  daughter  and  heir, 

Mabd,  who  m.  Huoh  na  FaaaBaa,  by  whom 
she  had  an  only  daughter  and  heir, 

MAaoBBY  FaaaBaa,  who  nu  Robert 
Mortimer,  aa  in  the  taxL 


By  this,  her  second  husband,  Joane  Mor- 
timer had  three  sons,  John  (Sir),  Thomas* 
and  Richard,  and  was  i.  by  the  eldest, 
Sia  John  Talbot,  of  mautrd'0  Ckutle, 
who  m.  Joane,  daughter  of  Roger,  Lord 
Grey,  of  Ruthyn,  and  was  «.  by  hta 
elder  son, 

John  Talbot,  cf  RMutrttg  Qutle, 
who  left  two  sons,  Richard  and 
John,  who  bothd.  unmarried,,and 
three  daughters,  his  eventual 
heirs,  via. 

Elizabbth  Talbot,  m.  to  Sir 
Warine  Archdeakene,  of  Lan- 
heme,  in  ComwaU. 
pHiLiPPA  Talbot,  m.  to  Sir 

Matthew  Goumay. 
Elbanob  Talbot,  d,  unmar- 
ried. 
S.  Maroabst    MoBTiifBa,   m.    to    Gefltery 
ComwalL 
Upon  the  decease  of  his  lordship,  the  Barony  op 
MoBTiHSB,  t^f  Riehard'0  Cattle,  fell  into  absy- 
ANCB,  in  whidi  state  it  is  supposed  still  to  remain, 
amongst  the  descendants  and  rq;>rescntatives  of  his 
above-mentioned  daughters. 

Arms.— Similar  to  those  of  the  Earls  of  March, 
with  a  bend  gules. 

MORTIMER— BARON    MORTIMER, 
OF  CHIRKE. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  96th  August,  1307, 
1  Edward  IL 

Xiiuagc. 

ROGER  MORTIMER,  second  son  of  Roger 
Mortimer,  fifth  ftudal  Lord  of  Wigmore,  by  Maud, 
daughter  of  William  de  Braoae,  of  Brecknock,  set- 
tled himself  at  Chirkb,  part  ot  the  territories  of 
Griffith  ap  Madoc,  and  waa  summoned  to  parlia- 
ment, aa  Baron  Mortimbr,  nf  Chirke,  tnm  96th 
August,  1307>  to  15th  May,  1391.  The  manner  in 
which  his  lordsUp  acquired  Chirke,  is  thus  detailed 
by  Powel,  the  Welch  historian  ^-«' Griffith  ap 
Madoc,"  saith  he^  "took  part  with  King  Henry 
III.,  and  King  Edward  I.,  against  the  Prince  of 
North  Wales,  and  died,  leaving  his  diildren  within 
aget  shortly  after  which  Ibilowed  the  destruction 
of  two  oi  them ;  for  King  Edward  gave  the  ward- 
ship of  Madoc,  (the  elder  of  them,)  who  had  for  his 
part  the  Lordship  of  Brom piblo,  ^c,  as  also  the 
Castle  of  Dinas-Bban,  to  John,  Earl  of  Warrant 
and  of  Lewelin,  the  younger,  to  whose  part  the 
Lordship's  of  Chirkb,  Ac.,  fdl,  to  Roger  Morti- 
mer, a  younger  son  <rf  Roger  Mortimer,  Lord  of 
Wigmore  t  whidi  guardians  forgetting  the  services 
done  by  Griffith  ap  Madoc,  their  father,  so  guarded 
these,  their  wards,  that  they  never  returned  to 
their  possessions,  and  shortly  after  obtained  these 
lands  to  themselves  by  charter."  Being  thus  seated 
here,  he  built  the  Castle  of  Chirke;  and  during  the 
reign  of  Edward  I.,  was  constantly  employed  in  the 
wars  of  France,  Scotland,  and  Wales,  of  which 
latter  he  was  constituted  the  king's  lieutenant* 
having   all   the  castles  in  the  principality  conk- 

370 


MOW 


MOW 


mitted  to  his  cuttod'y ;  and  he  wm  suba^ucntly 
made  justice  of  all  Wale*.  In  the  time  <rf  Edward 
II.,  hU  martial  iplrit  continued,  and  we  find  him 
ever  in  the  field*  either  in  Scotland  or  in  Wales;  he 
ended  hi*  aDreer»  however,  in  the  Tower ;  for  heing 
one  of  the  opponents  of  the  Spencers,  and  amongst 
those  lords  who  condemned  them  to  exile,  so  soon 
as  the  king  recovered  his  authority,  his  lordship 
and  his  nephew.  Lord  Mortimer,  of  Wigmore,  sub- 
mitting themselves,  were  committed  to  the  Tower 
of  London,  in  which  confinement  this  nobleman 
is  said  to  have  died,  anno  1336.-  His  lordship  m. 
Lucia,  daughter  of  Sir  Robert  de  Wafre,  Knt,  and 
was  «.  by  his  son, 

ROGER  MORTIMER,  of  Chirke,  but  never 
summoned  to  parliament ;  who  m.  Joane  Turba- 
ville,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  MORTIMER,  never  summoned  to  par- 
liament. This  personage  sold  his  lordship  of 
Chirks,  to  Richard  Fits-Alan,  Eabl  of  Abun- 

Arus. — Same  as  the  Earls  of  March. 

MOWBRAY— BARONS  MOWBRAY, 
EARLS  OF  NOTTINGHAM, 
DUKES  OF  NORFOLK, 
EARLS.MARSUAL,  EARL 
OF  WARREN  AND  SUR- 
REY. 

Barony,  by  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  23rd  June,  1S96, 

23  Edward  I. 
Earldom,  by  Charter,  anno  1377*  snd  recreated  13BSL 
IXikedom,   by   Charter,    29th    September,    1308. 
Earldom  of  Warren  and  Surrey,  89th  Mardi>  1451. 

This  famOy  was  founded  by 

NIGIL  DE  ALBINI,  brother  of  William  de 
Albini,  froip  whom  the  ancient  Earls  of  Arundel 
descended.  The  Albinis,  who  were  maternally  of 
the  house  of  Mowbray,  came  into  England  with  the 
Conqueror,  and  obtained  laige  possessions  after  the 
victory  of  Hastings.  Nigil's  grants  lay  in  the 
counties  of  Bucks,  Bedford,  Warwick,  and  Leices- 
ter, ind  comprised  several  extensive  lordships.  In 
the  reign  of  Ruftu,  be  was  bow-bearer  to  the  king : 
and  being  girt  with  the  sword  of  knighthood  by 
Ring  Henry  I.,  had  the  manor  of  Egmanton,  with 
diveiB  parks  in  the  forest  of  Shirwood,  of  that 
monarch's  gift;  which  lordship  he  transferred, 
however,  to  his  particular  flriend,  Robert  DaviL 
But  when  King  Henry  had  further  experience  of  his 
great  valour  and  military  skiD,  he  augmented  his 
royal  bounty,  and  conferred  upon  him  the  vavas- 
Borles  of  Camvile  and  Wyvile;  whidi  gradons 
mark  of  fkvour  so  attached  AlUni  to  the  interests 
of  his  sovereign,  that  he  espoused  with  the  most 
devoted  seal  the  cause  of  Henry,  against  his  bio-' 
ther,  Robert  Curthoee,  and  taking  a  conspicuous 
part  at  the  battle  of  Tenerchebray,  he  tfiare  slew 
the  horse  of  Curthose,  and  brought  the  prince  him- 
srif  prisoner  to  the  king;  tor  which  eminent  ser- 
vice Henry  conferred  upon  him  the  lands  of  Ro- 
bert, Baron  of  Frontebeof,  namely,  Stutevtie,-  In 
378 


England,  whidi  Frontdwof  had  fbrtified  in  bdialf 
of  Curthoetb    After  which.  King  Henry  besieging 
a  castle  in  Normandy,  this  gallant  Sir  Nigil  first 
entered  the  breach,  sword  in  hand,  and  delivered 
up  the  fortress  to  the  king,  which  achievement  was 
remunerated  by  a  royal  grant  of  the  forfeited  lands 
of  his  maternal  uncle,  Robert  de  Mowbray,  Earl  of 
Northumberland,  both  in  Normandy  and  England : 
as  also  his  castles,  with  the  castle  of  Bayeux  and  its 
appurtenances;  so  that  he  had  no  leas  than  one 
hundred  and  twenty  knights*  fees  in  Normandy, 
and  as  many  in  England;  thus  becoming  one  of 
the  most  powerful  persons  of  the  period  In  which 
he  lived.     Sir  Nigil  de  Albini  m.   first,   Maud, 
daughter  of  Richard  de  Aquila,  by  permission  of 
Pope  Paschali ;  her  husband,  Robert  de  Mowbray, 
Earl  of  Northumberland,  before  mentioned,  being 
then  alive,  and  in  prison  for  rebellion  against  Wil- 
liam   Ruflis:   from    this  lady  he  was,   however, 
divorced,  on  account  of  consanguinity,  and  by  her 
he  had  no  issue.    He  espoused,  secondly,  in  1118, 
Gundred,  daughter  of  Oirald  de  Gomey,  by  the 
especial  advice  of  King  Henry  I.,  and  had  two  sons, 
RooBR,   his  successor,    who,  possessing  the 

lands  of  Mowbray,  assumed,  by  command 

cf  King  Henry,  the  surname  of  Mowbba  v. 
Henry,  who  had  the  Lordship  and  Barony  of 

Camho,  and  was  ancestor  of  the  Albinis, 

Dsudal  lords  of  that  place. 
This  great  feudal  baron  d.  at  an  advanced  age,  and 
was  burled  with  his  ancestors,  in  the  abbey  of  Bee, 
in  Normandy.    He  was  «.  by  his  elder  son, 

ROGER  DE  MOWBRAY,  who,  although  not 
yet  of  age,  was  one  of  the  chief  commanders,  at  the 
memorable  battle  fought,  anno  1138,  with  the  Scots 
near  Northalerton,  known  in  history  as  the  Battlb. 
ow  THB  Standard;  and  adhering  to  King  Ste- 
phen, in  his  contest  with  the  empress,  he  was  taken 
prisoner  with  that  monarch  at  the  battle  of  Lincoln. 
In  1148,  he  accompanied  Lewto,  King  of  France,  to 
the  Holy  Land,  and  there  acquired  great  renown  by 
vanquiddng  a  stout  and  hardy  Pagan  in  single 
combat.  He  was  afterwards  involved  in  the  rebel* 
Hon  ot  Prince  Henry,  against  King  Henry  IL,  and 
lost  some  of  fiis  castles.  His  giants  to  the  church 
were  munificent  in  the  extreme;  and  his  piety  was 
so  fervent,  that  he  again  assumed  the  cross,  and 
made  a  second  Journey  to  the  Holy  Land,  where  he 
was  made  prisoner,  bnt  redeemed  by  the  Knights 
Templars;  he  died,  however,  soon  after  in  the 
east,  and  was  buried  at  Sures.  Some  authorities 
say  that  he  returned  to  England,  and  living  fifteen 
years  longer,  was  buried  in  the  abbey  of  I^Uaud. 
He  m.  Alice  de  Gant,  and  was  s.  by  hb  dder  son, 

NIGEL  DE  MOWBRAY,  who  attended  amongst 
the  bazons,  in  the  1st  of  Ridiard  I.,  at  the  solemn 
coronation  of  that  monarch ;  and  in  the  3d  of  the 
same  reign,  assuming  the  cross,  set  out  for  Pales* 
tine,  but  died  upon  his  journey.  He  m.  Mabel, 
daughter  of  the  Earl  of  Clare»  and  had  issue,  Wix.- 
LiAM,  Robert,  Philip,  and  Roger.  Of  which 
Robert,  having  married  a  countess  in  Sootland« 
acquired  a  feir  inheritance  there,  and  was  ftnmder 
of  the  fkmily  of  Mowbray  in  that  kingdom.  Nigil 
de  Mowbray  was  «.  by  his  ddest  son, 
WILLIAM  DE  MOWBRAY,  whor.in  the  6th  of 


MOW 


MOW 


Ritihafd  Ii»  pcying  £100  ibr  hk  reliei;  had  Uvcry  of 
his  landa.  This  feudal  lord,  upon  the  accession  ot 
King  John*  was  tardy  tai  ptodiiing  his  allegiance, 
and  at  length  only  swore  fealty  upon  condition  that 
the  king  should  lanler  to  every  man  his  right. 
At  the  breaking  out  of  the  baronial  war,  it  was  no 
marvel  then,  that  he  should  be  fbund  on«  of  the 
most  liDrwwd  of  the  discontented  lords,  and  so  dis- 
tinguished, that  he  was  chosen  with  his  brother, 
Roger,  amongst  the  TwavTV-rivB  celebrated 
barons  appointed  to  enforce  the  observance  of  Hao- 
ITA  Chakta.  In  the  reign  of  Henry  III.,  adhering 
to  the  same  cause,  he  waa  at  the  battle  of  Lincohi, 
and  taken  yrisuoer  there,  when  his  lands  were 
•eixed,  and  bestowed  upen  William  Mareriial  the 
younger,  but  he  was  subsequently  allowed  to  re- 
deem them.  After  which  he  appears  to  have 
attached  himself  to  the  king,  and. was  with  the 
royal  army  at  the  siege  of  Bitham  Castle,  in  Lin- 
cobuhirfc  He  m.  Agnes,  daughter  of  the  Earl  of 
Arundel,  and  dying  In  1282,  wns  «.  by  his  eMer  son, 

NIGEL  DE  MOWBRAY,  who,  hi  the  8th  of 
Henry  IIL,  paying  five  hundred  pounds  Ibr  hk 
relief,  had  H  very  of  his  hmda.  He  m,  Maud,  daugh- 
ter  and  heteesa  of  Roger  de  Cam  vU,  but  dying  with, 
out  issue  in  1S88,  was  «.  by  his  brother, 

ROGER  DE  MOWBRAY,  then  tn  minorHy. 
This  feudal  lord  had  several  military  summonses  to 
attend  King  Henry  III.  Into  Scotland  and  Wales. 
He  m.  Maud,  daughter  of  William  de  Beanchamp, 
of  Bedftnrd,  and  dying  in  UOS,  was*,  by  hk  ekhtt 
ion, 

ROGER  DE  MOWBRAY,  who,  in  the  6th  of 
Edward  II.,  upon  making  proof  of  hk  age,  had 
Mvery  of  hk  lands.  He  was  engaged  in  the  wars 
of  Wales  and  Gascony,  and  was  summoned  to  pw- 
llament  as  a  BAnoir,  from  SSid  June,  IfSft,  to  the 
86th  Anguat,  189&  Hk  kinkhip  m.  Rose,  great 
grand-daughter  of  Richard  de  Claia,  Earl  at  Hert- 
ford, and  dying  in  IttS,  was  «.  by  hk  son, 

JOHN  DE  MOWBRAY,  second  banm,  sum- 
moned to  parliament  from  98th  August,  1307,  to 
6th  August,  UB0.  This  nobleman  during  hk  mino- 
rity was  actively  engaged  In  the  Soottkh  wars  oi 
King  Edward  I.,  and  had  Uvery  of  all  hk  lanck 
before  he  attained  minority,  in  consideration  ol 
those  services.  In  the  6th  of  Edward  II.,  being  then 
sheriff  of  Yorkshire,  and  goyeinoi  of  the  dty  of 
York,  he  had  command  ftom  the  king  toseiie  upon 
Henry  de  Perey,  then  a  great  baron  In  the  north.  In 
consequence  of  that  nobleman's  suflbring  Piers  de 
Gaveslpn,  Eatl  ot  ComwaB,  to  escape  trcm  Scar- 
borough Castkb  in  which  he  had  undertaken  to 
keep  him  in  safety.  The  next  year  Lord  Mowbray 
was  in  another  expedition  into  Scotland,  and  he 
was  then  constituted  one  of  the  wardens  of  the 
marches  towards  tiiat  kingdom,  in  the  11th  of  the 
same  reign  he  was  made  governor  of  Makon  and 
Scarborough  Castles,  in  Yorkshire,  and  the  follow- 
ing year  he  was  once  more  in  Scotland,  invested 
with  auChority  to  racaive  into  protection  aB  who 
should  submit  to  King  Edward.  But  afterwards 
taking  part  in  the  insurrection  of  Thomas,  Earl  of 
Lancaster,  he  was  made  prisoner  with  that  noble- 
man and  others  at  the  battle  of  Boroughbridge,  and 
immediately  li^nged  at  Yocky  moo  iau«  when  hk 


lands  were  seiaed  by  the  crown,  and  Aliva,  hk 
widow,  with  her  son,  imprisoned  in  the  Tower  of 
London.  Thk  lady,  who  was  daughter  and  co-heir 
of  William  de  Braoee,  Lord  BtmmB,  of  Gower,  was 
compelled.  In  order  to  obtain  some  aUeviation  of 
her  imhiqypy  situation,  to  confer  ieveral  manors  at 
her  own  inheritance  upon  Hugh  le  Despenser,  Earl 
of  Windiester.  In  the  next  reign,  however,  she  olv 
tained  from  the  crown  a  confirmation  at  Gffwtrkmdt 
in  Wales,  to  herself  and  the  heirs  of  her  body  by  her 
deceased  husband,  remainder  to  Humphrey  de  Bo- 
hun.  Earl  of  Hereford  and  Essex,  and  hk  heirs. 
Lady  Mowbray  tn.  secondly.  Sir  Richard  Peshale, 
Knt.,  and  d.  in  the  5th  of  Edward  IIL  Her  kdy- 
ship's  son, 

JOHN  DE  MOWBRAY,  third  baron,  was  sum- 
moned  to  parliament  fhnn  lOth  December,  1987*  to 
80th  November,  136D«  Thk  nobleman  found  much 
flavour  from  King  Edward  IIL,  who,  in  oonsider»< 
tion  of  die  eminent  services  of  hk  progenitors,  ac- 
cepted of  hk  homage,  and  gave  him  livery  of  hk 
landa  before  he  came  of  full  agcu  He  was  subs»« 
quently  the  conatmit  companion  in  arma  of  thk 
martial  sovertign,  attending  him  In  hk  glorioua 
campaign  In  France,  when  he  assisted  at  the  siege 
of  Nantea,  and  the  raising  tM«  of  Agullkm.  Hewaa 
likewiae  at  the  celebrated  battle  of  Durham,  (iOth 
Edward  IIL,)  and  at  one  time  was  governor  of 
Berwidc-upen-Tweed.  Hk  lovdahip  m.  the  Lady 
Joan  Plantagenet,  daughter  of  Henry,  Earl  of  Lan« 
caster,  by  whom  he  had  issue,  John,  hk  successor. 
Lord  Mowbray,  who  was  styled  in  the  charters,  lord 
of  the  Isleof  Axhoime,  and  of  the  honour  of  Oowet 
and  Bremterv  d.  in  1381,  and  was  «.  by  hk  ton, 

JOHN  DE  MOWBRAY,  fourth  baion,  sum- 
moned to  parliament  from  14th  August,  I3tB,  to 
aoth  January,  1396,  as  •'  John  de  Motrbiay,  of  Ax- 
bohn."  Thk  nobleman  in  the  life>time  of  hk  Ikther 
was  in  the  wars  of  France;  and  he  eventually  fsU 
anno  1868,  in  a  confiict  with  the  Turks,  near  Con- 
•tantlnople,  having  assumed  the  croas^  and  embarked 
in  the  holy  war.  Hk  lordahip  m,  Elkabeth,  daugh« 
ter  and  heiress  of  John,  Lord  Segrave,  by  Margaret* 
Duchess  of  Norfolk,  (daughter,  and  eventually  sole  ^^ 
heiress,  of  Thceaaa  Plantagenet,  of  Kotbarton,  Earl 
of  Norfolk  see  that  dignity,)  whereby  he  acquired 
a  great  iiriierltance  in  lands,  and  the  moat  s|dendM  , 

alliance  in  the  kingdom^   By  thk  lady  he  had  two    f  g^/  ^  JL 
ions,  John  and  Thomaa,  and  a  daughteMAnne,  who    ^  Vr^"  ^    « 
became  Abbesaof  Barking,  in  Easex.   Hk kndahip     J!  \  %  fQ, 
was «.  by  hk  elder  son,  /  i 

JOHN  DE  MOWBRAY,  fifth  baron,  who  waa 
created  Babi.  or  Nottingham,  upon  the  day  at 
the  coronation  of  King  Richard  IL,  anno  1377*  with 
a  special  clause  in  the  charter  at  creation,  that  all 
hk  landa  and  tenementa  whereof  he  was  then  po» 
sessed,  should  be  heU  wib  homm  comlcaM,  and  as 
parcel  of  this  earldom.  Hk  lordship  4,  twtf  years 
afterwards,  stlU  under  age,  and  umnarried,  when 
the  Eabldom  of  NorriifGHAif  expind,  but  the 
Barony  of  Mowbray  and  hk  great  poesaisiona  d^ 
volved  upon  his  brother, 

THOMAS   DE  MOWBRAY,  as  sixth  baron, 

then  seventeen  years  of  age,  who  was  created  Eara 

OF  NoTTiMOHAM,  Bs  hk  brother  had  been,  by 

charter,  dated  In  1383^  awl  three  yean  afUrwank 

SC  877 


MOW 


MOW 


WM  ooottituted  Eari.  MARsaAL,  by  itaton  of  his 
descent  from  Thomas,  of  Brothcrtoii ;  his  loviiship 
being  the  first  who  had  the  title  of  cul  attached  to 
the  officer  In  the  lOth  of  Richard  II.  his  lordship 
participated  in  the  naval  Tictory  achieved  by 
Richard,  Earl  of  Arundel,  orer  the  French  and 
Spaniards,  and  the  subsequent  conquest  of  the 
castle  of  BresL  In  the  I6th  of  the  fame  reign  he 
ma  made  governor  of  Calais,  and  in  four  years 
afterwards  obtained  the  king's  charter  of  conflrmar 
tion  of  the  office  of  earl  manhal  of  England  to  the 
heirs  male  of  his  body,  and  that  they,  by  reaiop  of 
the  laid  office,  should  bear  a  golden  truncheon, 
enamdled  with  black  at  each  end,  having  at  the 
upper  end  the  king's  arms,  and  at  the  lower  their 
own  arms  engraven  thereon.  Moreover,  he  stood  in 
audi  fkvour,  that  the  king,  acknowledging  his  Just 
and  hereditary  title  to  bear  for  hu  crest  a  golden 
leopard,  with  a  urhite  laba,  which  ct  right  belonged 
to  the  king's  etdest  son,  did,  by  letters  patent,  grant 
to  him  and  his  heirs,  authmity  to  bear  the  golden 
leopard  for  his  crest,  with  a  coronet  tif  oUver  about 
his  neck,  instead  of  the  label, •  and  the  same  year 
appointed  him  justice  of  Chester  and  Flintshire  for 
lifiB.  In  the  16th  of  Richard  he  attended  the  king 
into  Iitiand,  but  afterwards  siding  with  the  para- 
sites, who  contsoUed  that  weak  and  unlbrtunate 
prince,  he  not  only  aided  in  the  destruction  of  his 
fkther-in-law,  Richard,  Earl  of  Arundel  being  one 
of  the  chief  persons  that  guarded  the  unhappy 
nobleman  to  the  place  of  execution— but  he  is 
■fio  accused  of  being  an  accomplice  in  the  murder 
of  Thomas,  of  Woodstock,  Duke  of  Gloucester, 
the  king's  uncle.  Certain  it  Is  that  he  was  at 
this  period  in  high  estimation  with  the  prevailing 
party,  and  obtained  a  grant  of  all  the  lands  of  the 
unfortunate  Lord  Arundd,  with  those  of  Thomas 
Beandump,  Earl  of  Warwick,  which  had  also 
vested  in  the  crown,  by  forfeiture.  These  grants 
bore  date  on  the  sath  September,  1596,  and  the  next 
day  he  was  created  Dukb  or  Norfolk  (his  grand- 
mother, Margaret,  Duchess  of  Norfolk,  being  still 
•live).  Prosperous,  however,  as  this  nobleman's 
career  had  hitherto  been,  it  was  doomed,  eventuaHy, 
to  a  disgracefttl  termination ;  and  such  be  the  fate 
of  every  man,  who  attains  elevation  dirough  the 
shedding  of  blood.  Henry,  Duke  of  Hereford, 
(afterwards  Henry  IV.,)  having  accused  his  grace 
of  Norfolk,  of  speaking  disrespectfully  of  the  king, 
a  challenge  ensued,  and  a  day  was  named  tm  the 
combat,  when  the  Hsu  were  accordingly  set  up,  at 
Gosford  Green,  Coventry,  and  the  king  and  court 
Were  present;  but  Just  as  the  combatants  were 
about  to  engage,  and  the  charge  had  been  sounded, 
Aichard  interfiBred,  and  by  advice  of  his  council, 
prohibited  the  conflict,  banishing  the  Duke  of 
Hereford  for  ten  years,  and  the  Duke  of  Norfolk 
for  life— who,  thereupon  going  abroad,  died  at 
Venice,  of  the  pestilence,  but  aeoording  to  Sand- 
fijid,  of  grief,  in  1400.  The  duke,  who,  along  with 
his  other  great  honoars,  was  a  Kkioht  of  the  Gar- 
TXRf  IN.  first,  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  John,  Lord 
Strange,  of  BhKkmere,  but  had  no  issue :  he 
espoused,  secondly,  Lady  Elisabeth  Fits-Alan, 
daughter  of  Richard,  Earl  of  Arundel,  sister  and 
co-heir  of  Thomas,  E«rl  of  Arundd,  and  widow 
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of  William    de  Montacute,  hy  whom   he  had 
issue, 

TH01IA8,  who  simply  bore  the  title  of  Earl 

MaishaL 
JoHv,  of  whom  hereafter,  as  restored  Duke  of 

Norfolk. 
Margaret,  m.  Sir  Robert  Howard,  Knt.    This 

lady  became  eventually  co-heiress  of  the 

Mowbrays— and  her  son. 

Sir  John   Howard,   Knt.,  succeeded  by 

creation  to  the  Dukedom  of  Norfolk 

and  the  Earl  Mardudship— from  whom 

the  existing  Dukes  of  Norfolk  derive. 

Isabel,  m.  to  James,  Lord  Berkley,  ancestor 

of  the  extant  Earls  Berkeley. 
The  elder  son, 

THOMAS  DE  MOWBRAY,  seventh  Baron 
Mowbray,  was  but  fourteen  years  of  age,  at  the 
decease  of  his  father,  and  never  had  the  title  of 
Duke  of  Norfolk,  but  was  simply  styled.  Earl 
Marshau  He  was  beheaded  at  York,  in  1406, 
for  participating  in  the  conspiracy  of  Ri<;tiard 
Scrope,  Ardibishop  of  York,  against  Henry  IT. 
His  lordship  m.  Constance,  daughter  of  John  Hol- 
land, Duke  of  Exeter,  hut  having  no  issue,  was  s. 
by  his  brother, 

JOHN  DE  MOWBRAY,  eighth  Baion  Mowbray, 
who  was  restored,  3rd  Henry  VL,  in  the  parliament 
then  hdd  at  Westminster,  to  the  dignity  of  Dvkk 
OP  NoRroLK,  having  previously  used  only  the 
titles  of  Earl  of  Nottingham,  and  Earl  MarshaL 
This  nobleman  was  engaged  in  the  French  wars  of 
King  Henry  V.,  and  was  only  prevented  by  indis- 
position, sharing  the  Tories  of  Agincourt.  His 
grace,  who  was  a  Knight  of  the  Garter,  m.  the 
Lady  Katharine  Nevil,  daughter  of  Ralph,  Earl  of 
Westmoreland,  (who,  subsequently,  espoused  Tho- 
mas Stiangways,  Esq.,  and  after  his  decease,  Jdbn, 
Viscount  Beaumont,  and  lastly.  Sir  John  Widvile, 
Knt.,)  and  dying  in  1498,  was  «.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  DE  MOWBRAY,  third  Duke  of  Norfolk. 
This  nobleman  attained  m^)ority  in  the  14th 
Henry  VI.,  and  in  three  years  afterwards,  was 
sent  ambassador  into  Pioardy,  to  treat  at  peace, 
with  the  Knig  of  France.  In  the  i3id  of  the 
samerdgn,  upon  obtaining  a  confirmation  oi  the 
Dukedom  ot  Norfolk,  he  had  a  place  assigned  him 
in  parliament,  and  elsewhere,  next  to  the  Duke  of 
Exeter.  His  grace  m.  Eleanor,  daughter  ot  Wil- 
liam, Lord  Bourchier,  and  dying  In  1461,  was  «.  by 
his  son,    * 

JOHN  DE  MOWBRAY,  Earl  of  Warren  and 
Surrey,  (so  created,  fiSHh  March,  I45I,)  as  fourth 
Duke  of  Norfolk,  and  Earl  MarshaL  This  noble- 
man, in  the  I4th  Edward  IV.,  was  retained  to  serve 
the  king  in  his  wars  in  France,  for  one  year— and 
he  was  made  a  Kkiobt  of  the  Gartrr.  His  grace 
m.  the  Lady  Elisabeth  Talbot,  daughter  of  John, 
Earl  of  Shrewsbury,  by  whom  he  had  an'  only 
daughter,  » 

Lady  Anne  Mowbray,  contracted  to  Richard,       / 

son  of  King  Edward  IV.,  but  died  before 

consummation  of  marriage 
The  duke  if.  in  1475,  when  all  his  noivouRS,  except/ 
the  Baronies  of  Mowbray  and  Scgrave,  bxpirro  ; 
but  those,  on  the  decease  of  Lady  Ann«  Mowbny, 


/ 


MUL 


MUL 


above  mtotiaaM,  lUl  into  ABSTAtrcs,  atnoDgst  the 
descendants  of  the  Ladies  Margaret  Howard,  and 
IsMwl  Berkeley,  (refer  to  Issue  of  Thomas,  first  Duke 
of  Norfolk,)  and  so  continued  until  the  suspension 
of  the  Barony  of  Mowbray  was  termiuAted,  by  the 
summoning  of  Henry  Howard,  son,  and  heir  appa- 
nnt,  of  Thomas,  Earl  of  Arundel,  Norfolk,  and 
Surrey,  to  parliament,  ISth  April,  1639,  as  Babon 
MowsBAY.  The  eldest  son  of  that  nobleman  was 
restored  to  the  Dukedom  of  Norfcdk,  and  the 
barony  merged  in  that  dignity,  until  the  death  of 
-Edward,  eleventh  duke,  in  1777*  when,  with  seve- 
ral other  baronies,  it  again  fell  into  abkyancb, 
between  the  two  daughters  and  co-heirs  of  Philip 
Howard,  Esq.*  younger  brother  of  the  said  duke, 
namely, 

Winifred,  m.  to  Charles-Philip,  fifteenth  Lord 

Istourton,  grandfisther  of  the  present  lord. 
Anne,   m.    to    Robert-Edward,    ninth   Lord 
Petre,  grandfather  of  the  present  lord. 
And  it  still  so  remains  with  their  representatives. 
The  Babony  or   Sbobatb,  never  having  been 
called  out  of  abbyaivcb,  continues  yet  in  a  state  erf 
suspension,  between  the  desfcnrtsnts  of  the  Ladies 
Margaret  Howard,  (the  Lords  Stourton  and  Petre, 
as  heir  general,)  and  the  representative  ot  the  Lady 
■Isabd  B^keley,  (the  present  Earl  Berkeley). 
ABMS.—GU.  a  lion  rampant  w. 

MULTON— BARONS  MULTON,  OF 
EOREMONT. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  96th  February,  1S97> 
35  Edward  I.     , 

ICincage. 

In  the  time  of  King  Hbnby  I., 

THOMAS  DE  MULTON,  so  called  from  his  resi- 
dence at  Multoo,  in  Lincolnshire,  bestowed  at  the 
fbnerai  of  his  father,  in  the  Chapter  House,  at  Spald- 
ing, (his  mother,  brothers,  sisters,  and  friends, 
being  present,)  the  Church  of  Weston,  upon  the 
monks  of  that  abbey.    After  this  Thomas,  came 

LAMBERT  DE  MULTON,  who,  in  the  11th 
Henry  II.,  residing  then  in  Lincolnshire,  was 
amerced  one  hundred  marks.  In  the  9th  and  10th 
of  King  John,  flourished  another 

THOMAS  DE  MULTON,  who  at  that  period 
was  sheriff  of  the  county  of  Lincoln,  and  In  the 
15th  of  the  same  rdgn,  attended  the  king  in  his 
•expedition  then  made  into  Poicrou.  This  Thomas 
gave  a  thoiuand  marks  to  the  crown  for  the  ward- 
ship of  the  daughters  and  heirs'  of  Richard  de  Luci, 
of  Egremont,  in  the  county  of  Cumberland,  and 
bestowed  those  ladies  afterwards  in  marriage  upon 
his  two  sons,  Lambert  and  Alan.  In  the  I7th  John, 
being-  in  arms  with  the  rel)eIllous  barons,  and 
taken  at  Rochester  Castle,  he  was  committed  to  the 
custody  of  Peter  de  Mauley,  to  be  safely  secured, 
who  conveyed  him  prisoner  to  the  castle  of  Cortf, 
but.  in  the  1st  of  Henry  III.,  making  his  peace,  he 
had  restitution  of  his  liberty  and  his  lands.  The 
next  year  having  esp<nised  Ada,  daughter  and  co- 
heir of  Hugh  de  Morvill,  widow  of  Richard  de 
Lacy,  of  Egremont,  without  the  king's  licence, 


command  was  sent  to  the  archUshop  of  York,  to 
makeseiiure  of  all  his  lands  in  Cumberland,  and  to 
retain  them  in  Ids  hands  until  Airther  orders. 
Multon  giving. security,  however,  to  answer  the 
same,  whensoever  the  king  should  require  him  so  to 
do,  he  had  livery  of  all  th()se  lands  which  had  been 
seised  for  that  transgression,  with  the  castle  of 
EoBBMoirr.  In  three  years  afterwards  he  paid 
£100  fine  to  the  king,  and  one  palfky  for  the  office 
offorester  of  Cumberland,  it  being  the  inheritance 
of  Ada.  his  wife,  In  the  17th  of  Henry  IIL,  he 
was  sheriff  of  Cumberland,  and  remained  in  office 
for  several  succeeding  years.  Moreover,  he  was  one 
of  the  Justices  of  the  king's  Court  of  Common 
Pleas,  from  the  8th  Henry  III.,  and  a  justice 
itinerant  for  divers  years,  frqm  the  9th  of  the  same 
reign.    Hem.  first ,  and  had  issue, 

Lambbrt,  m.  Annabel,  daughter  and  co-heir 
of  Richard  de  Lude. 

Alan,  m.  Alice,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Richard 
de  Lude,  and  had  a  son, 

Thomas  db  Multon,  who  assumed  the 
surname    ot   Lucib  (see  Lvcr,  of 
Eobbmokt). 
Thomas  de  Multon  espoused,  secondly,  Ada,  daugh- 
ter and  co-heir  of  Hugh  de  Morville,  and  had,  by 
that  lady, 

Thomas  (see  Multons,  of  GOIetfond). 

Julian,  m.  to  Robert  k  Vavasour. 
This  celebrated  feudal  lord,  who  was  a  liberal  bene- 
factor to  the  church,  is  thus  characterized  by  Mat- 
thew Paris :  *'  In  his  youth  he  was  a  stout  soldier, 
afterwards  very  wealthy,  and  learned  in  the  laws ; 
but  overmuch  coveting  to  enlarge  bis  possessions, 
which  lay  contiguous  to  those  of  the  monks, of 
Crowhmd,  he  did  them  great  wrong  in  many  re- 
spects."  He  tf.  in  1840,  and  was  ».  by  his  eldest  son, 
LAMBERT  DE  MULTON,  who,  as  stated  above, 
m.  Annabel,  the  elder  daughter  and  co-heir  of 
Richard  de  Luey,  ot  Egremont,  and  in  1S46,  ob- 
tained by  large  gUtt  from  the  pope,  an  extraordi- 
nary privilege;  namely,  that  no  one  should  have 
the  power  to  excommimicate  hiip,  but  by  a  spedal 
mandate  from  his  holiness.  But  he,  who  had  this 
liberty,  saith  Matthew  Paris,  to  sin  without  punish- 
ment, and  to  do  injury  to  others,  riding  with  rich 
trappings  very  proudly,  from  a  trial  at  law,  no 
sooner  alighted  from  his  horse,  but  (meriting  God's 
Judgment)  was  suddenly  smitten  with  a  grievous 
disease,  of  which  falling  to  the  ground,  he  died  be- 
fbre  his  spurs  could  be  taken  off,  being  then  at  his 
house  at  Multon,  in  Lincolnshire.  By  his  first  wifb 
he  had  a  son,  Thomas,  his  successor.  He  espoused, 
secondly,  Ida,  widow  of  Geoffrey  de  Oilli,  but  had 
no  issue.  His  death  occurred  in  1247*  when  he  was 
«.  by  his  son, 

THOMAS  DE  MOULTON,  designated  of  EoBB- 
MOiTT,  who  was  In  arms  against  the  king,  in  49th 
Henry  III.,  with  the  rebellious  barons  of  that 
period.  In  the  22d  Edward  I.,  he  had  a  grant  of 
fr«e  warren  in  all  his  demesnes  lands,  at  Egrem<mt, 
and  dying  in  1294,  was  «.  by  his  son, 

THOMAS  DE  MULTON,  who  was  summoned 
to  parliament  as  Baron  Multon,  of  Bgremoni, 
from  96th  January,  1297>  to  lAth  May.  13S0.  Dur- 
ing which  Interval,  he  was  almost  constanUy  en- 

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gaged  In  the  Soottbh  wan.     His  lordihip  d,  in 
iaS2.  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  DE  MULTON,  seeondbazon,  sumauaied 

to  parliament  from  S7th  January,    ia38»  to  S4th 

July,  1384.    This  noUeman  m.  Annabel,  daughter 

■nd  heireas  of  Lauienoe  de  HoJbache,  but  dying 

without  issue  in  1334,  his  estates.  Including  the 

nancivs  of    THimaTAMssTOif,    in    SuJfolk,  and 

EonnM02fT  and  Cocks  bmouth,  in  Cumberland, 

were  divided  amongst  his  diree  sisters,  thus,  TiSi — 

Joans,  wife  of  Robert,  Baron  Fits>Walter, 

had  for  her  share  the  Cabtlb  op  Eons- 

MONT,  with  the  third  part  of  that  manor, 

and  the  third  part  of  other  manors. 

Elizabstb,  wife  of  Walter  de  Bermiclian, 

had  certain  lauds  at  Gosford,  parcel  of  the 

manor  of  Egremont,  and  a  proportion  of 

other  manors 

Maroarst,  wife  of  Thomas  de  Lucy,  had 

certain  Isolds  in  Cumberland,  parcel  of  the 

manor  of  Egremont,  besides  a  proportion  of 

other  estates, 

while  the  Barony  op  Molton,  of  Ein'«*'*o'^*t  fell 

into  ABXYANCB  BmoDgst  those  ladies,  as  it  still 

4MitiBue«  with  their  descendants  and  repreaenta- 

Armb.— Ar.  three  ban,  gules. 

MULTON  — BARON   MULTON,    OF 
OILIiESLAND. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  26th  August,  1307, 
1  Edward  II. 

Xincagt. 

THOMAS  DE  MULTON,  Lord  of  Multon.  in 
Lincolnshire,  who  d,  in  UMO,  (see  Multon  of  Egre- 
mont,) espoused,  for  his  second  wife»  Ada,  daughter 
•and  co-heir  of  Hugh  de  MoreviUe,  and  had,  with  a 
daughter,  Julian,  who  manied  Robert  de  Vavasour, 
a  son, 

THOMAS  DE  MULTON,  who  inherited  the 
office  of  f(Mrester  of  Cxunberland  from  his  mother, 
•and  in  the  36th  Henry  IIL,  paid  a  fine  of  fbur 
hundred  marks  to  the  crown,  for  trespassing  in  the 
forest  there,  and  for  the  ftiture  enjoyment  of  all 
the  privileges  which  hie  anoeston  had  possessed 
with  the  forestership.  In  the  49d  of  the  same 
reign,  he  had  a  military  summons  to  march  with 
the  other  northern  barons,  into  Scotland,  for  the 
purpose  of  rescuing  the  Scottish  monarch.  King 
Henry's  son-in-law,  from  the  restraints  imposed 
upon  him  by  his  own  subjects :  and  again  in  the 
A5th,  to  take  up  arms  against  the  Wddi.  This 
feudal  baron  espoused  Maud,  only  daughter  and 
heiress  of  Hubbrt  dx  Vaux,*  Lord  of  Gillbb- 


•  Ranulph  OB  MsacHiNBa,  in  the  time  of  the 
Conqueror,  granted  the  Barony  of  GiLLBai^ANDf 
to  a  Norman  called, 

HuBBBT,  who  was  ever  afterwards  denominated 

t  GUI,  in  the  provincial  dialect  of  Cumberland, 
signifies  a  rfoto  or  valley,  which  corresponds  with  the 
Latin  word,  vaiUt,  whence  the  French  derived  their 
term,  fauU, 
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LAND,  and  with  her  aequked  that  ionkhlp.    HedL 
in  1270,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

THOMAS  DE  MULTON,  who  doing  his  ho- 
mage,  had  livery  of  his  lands,  and  the  ensuing  year, 
upon  the  death  of  Hrtewiae  de  Levinton,  widow  of 
Eustace  de  Balitrt,  waa  found  to  be  her  heir  as  to 
a  moiety  of  the  Barony  of  Bttrgh  upon  f  A«  Sends, 
<healready  enjoyed  the  other  moiety  by  fBheritance^) 
and  diven  other  coudderabie  manors.  He  d.  hi 
IS93— his  mother,  the  heireas  of  OiUeiland,  being 
still  alive    and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

THOMAS  DE  MULTON,  who  dotaig  his  homage 
the  same  year,  had  livery  of  his  lands,  but  died  in 
two  yean  afterwards,  being  then  seised  of  themanor 
of  Donham,  in  Norfolk  t  of  Burgh-upofDhSands;  of 
Kirk-Oswald ;  and  of  the  Barony  of  Oillbsland, 
with  dlven  other  estates,  all  in  theooonty  of  Cum- 
berland.    He  was  «.  by  his  son, 

THOMAS  DE  MULTON.  This  ftudal  lord 
having  been  engaged  in  the  Scottish  wan.  In  the  31st 
and  94th  of  Edward  I.,  was  summoned  to  parlia- 
ment asBABON  MU1.T0N,  OP  GrLLBSLANo,  upon 
the  accession  of  Edward  II.  (ftom  9SCh  August, 
1307,  to  SOth  November,  1313).  After  which  we 
find  his  lordship  again  upon  the  theatre  of  war,  in 
Scotland,  in  the  3d  and  4th  yean  of  the  new  mo- 
narch :  and  he  subsequently  obtained  some  immu- 
nities ftom  the  crown,  in  the  diape  of  grants  for 
fain  and  markets  upon  his  difflerent  manors.  He 
d.  in  1313,  leaving  an  only  daughter  and  hdsess, 

Marbakbt  db  Multon,  who  m.  Ranulph  de 
Daere,  LoRB  Dacrb,  qf  the  North,  and 
conveyed  her  great  estates  with  the  Barony 
OP  Multon,  to  the  Dacrb  fhmily  (see 
Dacrb,  ot^SiOeeland). 

AaliB.— As.  three  ben  gulei. 

MUNCHENSI   —    BARON         IIUN. 

CHENSI. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  S4th  December,  U64« 
49  Henry  III. 

It  was  not  long  after  the  Norman  Conquest,  that 

HUBERT  DE  MUNCHENSI,  made  grants  of 
lands  to  the  monks  of  Eye  and  Thetford,  in  the 
county  of  Suflblk  and  Norfolk.  <'  It  is  said  that 
this  Hubert,"  observes  Dugdala,  *'  had  issueb  IF«. 
fine  de  Mundtenel,  and  he  another  Hubert,  which 
ie  ttkely  enough  to  be  true:  for  in  the  SOd  of  Henry 
II.,  It  appean  that  Hubert  de  Munchenai  was  in 

either  Hubbrt  Vavi^,**  or  Hubbbt  bb  Valli- 
Bua."    He  was  «.  by  his  son  and  hefar, 

Robbrt  db  Vaux,  who  m.  Ada,  daughter  and 
heir  of  William  En^dne,  and  widow  of  Simon  de 
Morvilla,  and  was  s.  by  his  elder  son, 

Robbrt  db  Vaub.  This  baron  ontliving  his 
only  son,  was  s.  at  his  deoease,  by  his  brother, 

Ranulph  na  Vavx,  who  was  fother  of 

Robbrt  ob  Vaux,  one  of  the  barons  who  took 
up  arms  against  King  John.    He  was  «.  by  his  eon, 

Robbrt  vm  Vaux,  who  left  at  his  deoeaae,  an 
only  daughter  and  heir, 

Mauo  db  Vaux,  who  m.,  as  in  the  text,  Tno- 
MAS  DB  Multon,  and  conveyed  to  him  the 

BaBOBY  or  GlLLBBLAMD. 


MUR 


MUS 


wani  to  the  Bishop  of  Ely,  with  his  Ind  at  Stmt- 
ford*  part  of  the  honour  ot  Hmay  da  Essex.  At 
fhe  same  time  also  Agnea  d»  MunehenH  (widow  of 
.Wartiia»  as  I  guess)  daughter  of  Payne  Fits^ohn, 
-then  sixty  years  ot  age»  had  three  sons*  rix.,  Ralph, 
4md  William,  both  knightt.  and  Hubert,  a  derlt ; 
4H  also  two  daughters,  the  one  m.  to  Stephen  de 
OlBBTile,  and  the  other  to  William  Painetl,  her 
lands  at  Holkham,  in  Norfiolk,  being  then  Yalued 
«t  deveo  pounds  per  annum." 

The  next  member  of  the  £unUy  upon  record  is, 

WILLIAM  DE  MUNCHENSI,  who  d.  about  the 
6th  of  John*  and  was  i.  by  his  son, 
,   WILLIAM  DE  MUNCHENSI,  who  was  suc- 
ceeded in  about  seven  years  afterwards,  by  his 
uncle, 

WARINE  MUCHENSI,  a  person  of  military 
icputatian,  temp.  Henry  III.  He  m.  Joan,  daugh- 
ter and  heir  of  William  Marshall,  Earl  of  Pern- 
liroke,  and  had  issue, 

Wu.i.iA]i,  his  successor. 
Joane,  m.  to  Wilham  Valence,  the  king's  half 
brother. 
Warine  d.  in  IflSS,  and  was  ».  by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  MUSCHENSL  This  feudal  lord  was 
one  of  the  leading  persons  who  took  up  arms  against 
Henry  III.,  and  one  of  the  chief  commanders 
at  the  battle  of  Latma.  After  this  victory  he  was 
summoned  -to  parliament  by  the  baronial  govern- 
ment, acting  in  the  name  of  the  king.  His  lordship 
was  subsequently  made  prisoner  at  Kenilworth, 
and  his  lands  being  seised,  were  transferred  to  his 
brother-in-law,  William  Valence.  They  were  soon, 
however,  restored  upon  his  making  the  necessary 
submission.  He  was  eventually  slain,  anno  U89,  in 
battle,  by  the  Welsh.  He  left  a  daughter  and 
heiress, 

DvoiTisiA  MU8CHSN8I,  who  M,  Hugh  de 
Vere,  younger  son  of  Robert,  Earl  of  Ox- 
ford. 
This  dignity  can  hardly  be  deemed,  however,  an 
inheritable  barony.  A  young  brother  of  the  barons, 
William  de  Mundiensi,  m.  Beatrix,  daughter  and 
co-heir  of  William  de  Beauduunp,  Baron  of  Bed- 
ford, and  d.  in  lflB6,  leaving  William,  his  son  and 
heir,  who  d.  in  13Q9,  leaving  male  issue,  but  none  of 
this  branch  were  ever  summoned  to  parliament. 

Armb.— Or.  three  escutcheons  harry  of  six  varde 
and  gules. 

MURRAY  —  VISCOUNTESS  BAYN- 
ING,  OF  FOXLEY,  IN  THE 
COUNTY  OP  WILTS. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  17th  March,  1674. 

Xineagc. 

The  Honourable 

ANirn  BAYituro,  lecond  daughter  of  Sir  Paul 
Bayning,  Ban.,  first  Viscount  BAYirxiro,  qf  AmI- 
bnnft  ia  the  county  of  SuflWlk,  and  sister  of  Paul, 
second  Viscount  Bayning,  was  created  for  life,  after 
the  decease  of  the  latter  lord,  without  male  issue, 
and  the  extinction  of  the  honours  of  her  fkunily, 
yiacovNTBsa  BAvit me,  cfFosleg,  in  the  countp  qf 
iViUt,  on  the  17th  Maccfa,  1074- .  She  had  pre>-i- 


oualy  married  Henry  Mumy,  Esq.,  one  of  the 
Grooms  of  the  Bedchamber  to  King  Charles  I. 
Her  ladyship  d.  in  IflBS,  when  the  dignity  of  ccmrse 
BxpiHXD.  Mr.  Murray's  ddest  daughter  and  co- 
heiress, by  Lady  Bayning, 

The  Honourable  Elisabeth  Murray,  m.  Ran- 
dolph Egerton,  Esq.,  and  had  a  daughter, 
Annb  Eosrton,  (sole  heiress  of  her 
fkther,)  who  m.  Lord  William  Paulet, 
second  son  of  Charles,  first  Duke  of 
Bolton,  by  whom  she  had  an  only 
daughter, 

Hbnbixtta  PAUI.BT,  (heircss  of  her 
father,}  who  m.  the  Honourable 
WiUi^us  Townshend,  third  son  of 
Charles,  second  Viscount  Towns- 
hend, K.  G.,  and  left  a  son, 
Charlbs  Townshbko,  who 
was    created    Baron   Bav- 
KiNO,  of   Foxlby,  on  the 
27th  October,  1797,  and  was 
father  of  the  present  Lord 
Baynino. 


MUSGRAVE-3ARON    BIUSGRAVE. 

By  Writ  of  Summona,  dated  SSth  November,  I3fl0, 
84  Edward  III. 

ICincagt. 

The  MtTSORATBS  are  said  to  have  comeor^inally 
from  Germany,  and  to  have  been  Musoravbb,  or 
Lords  Marchers,  there.  Banks  tells  the  following 
story  of  their  good  fortune  in  obtaining  an  aUianoe 
with  the  imperial  flmiUy.  "  The  emperor  had  two 
great  generals,  who  made  court  to  his  daughter  at 
the  same  time ;  and  as  he  had  experienced  singular 
services  ftrom  both,  did  not  care  to  prcte  one  bcAm 
the  other.  But  to  decide  the  matter,  ciedered  the 
two  heroes  to  run  at  the  ring  for  her  (an  cserdse 
then  in  use) :  it  so  happened,  thet  this  Musgrave 
(one  of  the  contending  genprals)  had  the  fortune  to 
pierce  the  ring  with  the  point  ot  his  spears  by 
which  action  he  gained  hpr  for  »  reward  of  his  gal- 
lantry and  dexterity,  and  had  six  annulets  or.  given 
him  for  his  coat  of  arms :  and  for  his  crest,  two 
arms  in  armoMr,  holding  an  annulet.  From  this 
marriage  issued  that  Musubavb,  who  being  a  man 
of  an  enterprising  genius,  aoeompiniied  William  the 
Conqueror  into  England,  and  was  the  founder  of 
the  Mu«gr*ves  in  this  country." 

SIR  THOMAS  MUSGRAVE,  one  of  the  com- 
manden  in  the  van  of  the  English  army  that  gave 
battle  to,  and  totally  defoated  David,  King  of  Soot- 
land,  at  Durlunn,  iOth  Edward  III.,  was  summoned 
to  parliament  as  a  baron  tnm  SBth  Novemlber, 
laSO,  to  4th  October,  1373.  His  lordship  appean  to 
have  been  generally  employed  upon  the  borders  in 
resisting  the  incursion  of  the  Scotch.  HewasBoado, 
Slst  of  Edward  III.,  governor  of  Berwick-upon- 
Tweed  t  and  sole  justiciar,  through  all  the  lands  in 
Scottand,  whereof  the  king  had  then  possession 
He  was  afterwards  sheriff  of  Yorkshire  and  gover- 
nor of  the  castle  of  York.  His  lordship  im  laabei, 
widow  ot  Robert,  son  of  Robert,  Lord  Cliflbrd.  and 
daughter  of  Thomas^Lord  Berkeley;  but  the  ba- 

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rony  <iJ<l  not  ooatinue  in  his  dMeendants*  nor  have 
any  of  those  been  deemed  babons  of  the  xeelm. 
Descended  from  his  lordship  are  the  thrte  existing 
houses  of  Musgrave,  Baronets,  yis. 

The  MuBOKAVXB  of  Edai  Hall,  In  Cumber- 
land, created  sabon  era  S9th  June,  161 1. 
The  MusoKATia  of    Hayton,   created  ba- 

BONBTB  in  1683. 
The  MuBOBAVBS  of    Myrtle  Orove,  in  the 
county  of  Cork,  created  babok  btb  of  Ire- 
land, in  1789. 
Abmb.— Gu.  six  annulets  or. 

NANSLADRON— BARON  NANSLA- 

DRON. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  89th  December,  1£99, 
28  Edward  I. 

Xineage. 

In  the  29th  Edward  I., 

SERLO  D£  NANSLADRON  was  in  the  expe- 
dition then  made  into  Scotland,  and  had  summons 
to  parliament  as  a  babon,  fh>m  the  28th  to  the 
34th  of  the  same  rei^,  but  nevet  afterwards,  and 
bf  his  lordship  nothing  further  is  known. 
«  Abms.— Sa.  three  chevronels  ar. 

» 

NASSAU  —  EARLS  OF  ROCHFORD. 
By  Letters  Patent,  dated  10th  May,  ie9S. 

Xincagc. 

Thte  noble  family  descended  from 

FREDERICK  DE  NASSAU,  natural  son  of 
Henry-Frederick  de  Nassau,  Prince  of  Orange, 
(grandfather  of  King  William  III.,)  who  was  en- 
dowed by  his  father  with  the  lordship  of  Zuleistein, 
and  thereupon  iMeumed  that  surname;  He  subae- 
quently  commi^ided.the  infantry  in  the  service  of 
tiie  States-Gene^  when  his  country  was  invaded 
by  the  French,  th  WISU  In  that  gloomy  conjunc- 
ture, when  the  iMi^oe  Joi  Ocaage  was  elected  stadt- 
holder,  his  highnoa's  fim  action  was  an  attack  on 
Naerden ;  in  fUrtheranca  of  which  he  detached 
General  Zuleistein,  to  takb  up  a  position  between 
Utrecht  and  the  ol^ect  of  the  prince's  operations ; 
whereupon  the  Duke  erf  Luxemburgh  marched  to 
rdieve  the  besieged,  and  fell  upon  General  Zuleis- 
jtein  with  between  eight  and  nine  thousand  men, 
who  bravely  met  the  aisault*  and  rtfpulsed  his 
assailant.  The  town  was  afterwards  bombarded, 
and  reduced  to  such  extremity,  as  to  be  compelled 
to  offer  terms  of  capitulation  t  in  which  interval  the 
Duke  of  Luxenburgh,  having  been  reinforced, 
marched  through  swamps,  guided  by  peasants,  and 
reattached  General  Zuleistein,  who,  after  a  gallant 
reristance,  fdl,  sword  in  hand,  on  the  12th  erf  Octo- 
ber, 1678.    The  son  of  thi^  brave  soldier, 

WILLV^M-HENRY  DE  ZULEISTEIN,  confi- 
dential friend  of  William  IIL,  accompanied  that 
prince  to  England,  and  was  elevated  to  the  peerage 
on  the  IMi  May,  1696,  as  Baron  nfEnfiOd,  Viteount 
TmnMdget  and  Eabi.  of  RocHVOBJa.  His  lordship 
m.  Jane,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Sir  Henry  Wroth, 
of  Quraast  in  the  county  of  |iiddlciCB«  by  whom 


he  had  four  sons  and  five  daughteia.     He  d.  at 
Zuleistein,  in  1706,  and  wass.  by  his  eldest  son, 

WILLIAM-HENRY  DE  NASSAU,  second  carL 
This  noUeman  was  a  military  officer  of  oonsiderabla 
renown,  and,  participating  in  the  triumphs  of  the 
Duke  of  Marlborough,  was  the  bearer  of  the  d»> 
spatches  announcing  the  glorious  victory  of  Blen- 
heim, on  the  2nd  August,  1704.  His  lordship  fell  at 
the  battle  of  Almanaa,  in  Spain,  on  the  27th  of 
July,  1710;  and,  dying  unmarried,  the  honouis  de- 
volved upon  his  brother, 

FREDERICK  NASSAU,  third  earl,  then  one  of 
the  nobles  of  the  province  of  Utrecht    His  lordship 
m.  Beasey,  daughter  and  heireu  of  Richard  Savage^ 
Earl  of  Rivers,  by  whom  ))e  left  two  sons :  • 
William-Hknry,  his  successor. 
Richard-Savage;  one  of  the  clerks  of  the  board 
of  green-cloth,'  and  M.P. ;  b.  in  1783;  in.  in 
December,  1751,  Elixabeth,  daughter  and 
heiress  of  Edward  Spencer,  Esq.,  <rf  Rend- 
lesham,    Sussex,,  and   Dowager  of  James* 
Duke  of  Hamilton  and  Brandon,  by  whom 
he  had,   (with  a  son  and  daughter,   de- 
ceased,) 

'    Williax-Hbnby. 
His  lordship  tf.  on  the  14th'  of  June,  1738,  and  was 
«.  by  his  elder  son,' 

WILLIAM-HENRY  NASSAU,  fourth  earl,  who 
was  installed  a  Knight  of  the  Garter,  in  1778,  having 
previously  resided  as  ambassador  at  the  courts  of 
Madrid  and  Versailles,  and  filled  the  offices  of 
groom  of  the  stole,,  first  lord  of  the  bedchamber, 
and  secretary  of  state.  His  lordship  m.  Lucy, 
daughter  of  Edward  Yoiing,  Esq.,  of  Dumfocd,  in 
the  county  of  Wilts,  by  whom  he  had  no  issue;  and 
dying  on  ^e  20th  of  September,  1781,'  the  honoun 
devolved  upon  his  nephew, 

WILLYAM-HENRY  NASSAU,  fifth  earl,  at 
whose  decease, '  unmarried,  3rd  September,  1830, 
all  his  honours  became  bxttnct. 

abmb. — Ofuaiterly :  first,  as.  semeeof  billets,  or,  a 
lion,  rampant,  of  the  second,  for  Nassau  ;  second, 
or,-  a  lion,  rampant,  gu.  ducally  crowned  aa.  for 
DiKT% ;  third,  gu.  a  fesse ar^  for  Viandbn  ;  fourth, 
two  lions,  passant,  gardant,  in  pale,  or,  for  Cats- 
nblloobn;  over  all,  in  aa  esoocheon  gu.  three 
sules  ar.  in  chief  a  label  of  three  points  of  the  last, 

for  ZCI.BI8TBIV. 

NASSAU,  ORDE  AUVERQUERQUE— 
EARL  OF  ORANTHAM. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  24th  December,  IdBflL 

Xincagc. 

HENRY  DE  NASSAU,  Lord  of  Auverquerque, 
general  of  Dutch  inAmtry,  and  governor  of  Horto- 
genbosh,  d.  28th  February,  1668,  leaving  by  his 
wife,  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Count  de  Horn,  the 
following  issue, 

Maurice,  Earl  of  Nassau,  being  so  created  by 
the  Emperor  f  **  ^Id,  Lord  of  La  Leek,  in 
Holland,  and  governor  of  Sluce,  d.  in  1683. 
William  Adrian,  Lord  of  Odyke,  Zeist,  &c/ 
was  created  likewise  an  earl  of  the  empire, 
and  was  premier  noblenuui  of  Zealand* 


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Henry,  of  whom  preMoUy. 

EmiUA,  m.  to  the  celebrated  Thomea  Butler, 

Earl  of  Onory,  Km  and  heir  of  James,  Duke 

of  Ormond. 
Inbella,  m.  to  Henry  Bemiet,  Earl  of  ArUng- 

ton. 
Mfturitia,  m,  to  Colin  Lindsey,  Earl  of  Bel- 


Charlotte,  lady  of  the  bed-chamber,  d.  un- 
married, in  I703> 
Anne-Elinbeth,  m.  to  Heer  van  Baron  Rutn- 
burgh,  and  was  mother  of, 

George,  Earl  of  Cholmondeley. 
The  youngest  son, 

HENRY  DE  NASSAU,  Lord  of  AuTerquerque, 
eame  into  England  with  the  Prince  of  Orange,  in 
1070,  and  being  with  his  highness  when  he  visited 
the  university  of  Oxford,  had  the  degree  of  Doctor 
of  Civil  Lew  conferred  upon  him.    He  was  subse- 
quently the  companion  in  arms  of  the  prince,  and  at 
the  battle  of  SL  Dennis,  in  1678,  bed  the  good  for- 
tune to  save  his  life,  by  striking  to  the  ground  an 
oflker  in  the  act  of  charging  his  highness:   for 
which  gallant  achievement,  the  states-general  pre- 
sented him  with  a  swOrd,  whereof  the  hilt  was  of 
massy  gold,  a  pair  of  pistols  richly  inUid  with  gold, 
and  a  pair  of  horse-buckles  of  the  same  valuable 
metaL    Being  captain  of  the  guard  to  the  Prince  of 
Orange,  he  attended  him  in  that  station  into  Eng- 
land, anno  168a    And  upon  the  accession  of  Wil- 
liam and  Mary  to  the  throne,  he  was  naturalised 
by  act  of  parliament,  and  appointed  master  of  the 
horse.    His  lordship  was  at  the  battle  of  the  Boyne, 
and  subsequently  attended  his  royal  master  in  all  his 
campaigns  against  the  French.    At  the  decease  of 
King  William,,  he  returned  to  Holland,  and  was 
appointed  by  the  states,  velt-marshal  of  the  army. 
In  the  qunpaign  of  I7O8,  his  lordship  lost  his  life  in 
the  Add,  as  he  had  always  desired.    He  d.  in  the 
camp  at  Rouselaer,  in  the  67th  year  of  his  age, 
after  a  procrastinated  indisposition,  on  the  17th 
October,  1706,  and  was  interred  with  great  pomp  at 
Anverquerque.   His  lordship  m.  Isabella  van  Arsens, 
daughter  of  Cornelius,   Lord  of  Somerdyke  and 
Placata,  by  whom  he  had  issue, 
Louis,  d.  in  1667* 
Henry,  of  whom  presently. 
Cornelius,  Count  Nassau,  of  Woudflnburgh, 
mMJot-genenl  In  the  service  of  the  States- 
general,  killed  at  the  battle  of  Denaln, 
anno  17IJL 
William-Maurice,  lieutenant-general  in    the 
service  of  the  Statc»>genera],  and  governor 
of  Sluce. 
Francis,  colonel  of  dragoons,  killed  at  the  bat. 

tie  of  Almenara,  in  Spain. 
Isabella,  m.  in  1691,  to  Charles,  Lord  Lans- 
down,  heir  apparent  to  John  Granville,  Earl 
of  Bath,  by  whom  he  had  an  only  son, 
WiUiam-Hcnry,  Earl  of  Bath. 
Frances,  m.  to  Nanfimt  Cote,  Earl  of  Bdla- 
mont,  in  the  peerage  of  Ireland. 
HENRY  DE  AUVERQUERQUE,    the  eldest 
iurviving  son,  had  been  devated  to  the  peerage  in 
the  Ufe-time  of  his  father,  on  the  94th  December, 
1668,  by  the  titles  of  Barm  Afford,  Vitcaunt  Bottw, 


and  Earl  of  Gbantham.  His  lordship  m.  Lady 
Henrietta  Butler,  sister  of  James,  Duke  of  Or- 
monde, and  daughter  .of  the  celebrated  Thomas, 
Earl  of  Ossory,  by  whom  he  had  issue, 

Henry.  Viscount  Boston,  d.  19th  June,  17I8, 
unmarried. 

Thomas,  Viscount  Boston,  d.  a7th  April,  1730, 
unmarried. 

Frances,  m.  to  Captain  Elliot. 

Emilia-Maria,  d.  at  ten  years  of  agei 

HenrietU,  m.  97th  June,  1789,  to  William, 
Earl  Cowper. 
His  lordship  d.   in  17M,   and   having  previously 
buried  both  his  sons,  all  his  honours  sxpiRao. 

Arms.— Quarterly,  first,  as.  semee  of  billets,  and 
a  lion  rampant  or ;  second  or.  a  limi  rampant  guard- 
ant,  gu.,  crowned  with  a  ducal  coronet  as. ;  third, 
gu.  a  fesse  ar. ;  fourth,  gu.  two  lions  passant  guard- 
ant  in  pale  or.,  over  all  in  an  escutcheon,  ar.,  a 
lion  rampant  sa. 

N£R£FORD  —  BARON  NEREFORD. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  26th  January,  1997, 
95  Edward  I, 

Xincage. 

In  the  year  1906, 

ROBERT  DE  NEREFORD,  and  his  wifo,  AUce. 
daughter  of  John  Pouchard,  founded  the  abbey  of 
Pree,  in  the  county  of  Norfolk,  as  also  an  hospital 
there,  for  thirteen  poor  people.  Thu  Robert  was 
goveinor  of  Dovor  Castle,  in  the  1st  of  Henry  III., 
under  Hubert  de  Burgh,  Justiciary  of  England. 
He  was  «.  by 

WILLIAM  DE  NEREFORD,  who  had  been  in 
arms  with  the  barons  against  King  John,  and  had 
his  lands  seised,  but  returning  to  his  allegiance  in 
the  beginning  of  the  next  reign,  they  were  restored 
to  him.  He  m.  PetroniU,  one  of  the  daughters  and 
co-heirs  of  John  de  Vaux,  without  licence,  for 
which  oUSence  he  paid  a  fine  of  two  hundred  and 
thirty  pounds  to  the  crown.  In  the  division  of  the 
lands  of  de  Vaux,  with  William  de  Ros,  who  had 
married  the  other  co-heir,  this  William  de  Nereford 
had  the  manors  of  Sherston  and  Sholesham,  in  the 
county  of  Norfolk,  with  other  lands  in  the  same 
shire,  and  in  the  counties  of  Suflblk  and  Cam- 
bridge. In  the  99d  of  Edward  I.,  he  received  com- 
mand, with  divers  other  great  men,  to  attend  the 
king,  with  his  best  sidvice,  upon  the  great  aflkirs  of 
the  realm,  and  was  summoned  to  parliament  as  a 
RAROiv,  in  the  95th  of  the  same  reign,  but  never 
afterwards.    His  lordship  was  «.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  DE  NEREFORD,  who  was  never  sum- 
moned to  parliament  as  a  baron,  nor  esteemed 
such.  He  d.  without  issue,  and  was  «.  by  has 
brother, 

THOMAS  DE  NEREFORD,  who  was  father  of 

SIR  JOHN  DE  NEREFORD,  Knt,  who  was 
slain  in  the  wars  in  France,  in  38th  of  Edward  III., 
leaving  an  only  daughter  and  heiress, 

Marosry  db  Nrrrford,  then  but  five  years 
old,  who  afterwards  vowed  chastity. 

ARMS.>-^}ules,  a  lion  nunpantj  ermine. 


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NEVILL  —  BARONS  NEVILL,  OP 
RABV,  EARLS  OF  WEST- 
MORLAND. 

Bwtonj,  hj  Writ  of  Summoni,  8th  June,  lS9i, 

22  Edward  I. 
Earldom,  by  Chartor,  datad  29th  September,  1397. 

Xintage. 

This  noble,  ancient,  and  fiur-apnading  fkmily  was 
founded  in  England,  by 

GILBERT  DE  NEVIL,  a  Novman,  one  of  the 
compankme  in  amu  of  the  Coniiueror,  and  called, 
by  some  of  our  genealogists,  his  admiral ;  although 
there  is  no  mention  of  him,  or  of  any  person  of  the 
name,  in  the  general  survey.  The  grandson  of  this 
Gilbert, 

GEOFFREY  DE  NEVILL,  aw  Emma,  daughter 
and  heir  ci  Bertram  de  Bulmcr,  a  great  baxon  of  the 
north,  and  had  issue, 

Hbnry,  who  d. «.  p.  in  1227* 
Isabel. 
By  the  heiress  of  Buhner,  Geoflnrey  de  Nevill  ac- 
quired extensive  estates,  which,  after  the  death  of 
his  son,  as  stated  above,  issueless,  devolved  upon 
his  daughter, 

ISABEL   DE    NEVILL.     ThU    great    heiress 

espoused  Robert  Fits-Maldred,*  Lord  of  Rabv,  in 

the  bishopric  of  Durham,  and  had  a  son,  Gkop- 

•PRBY,  who,  adopting  his  maternal  surname,  and 

inheriting  the  estates,  became 

GEOFFREY  DE  NEVILL,  of  Raby,  and  left 
issue, 

Robbut,  his  successor. 

Gec^Rrey,  who,  in  the  54th  of  Henry  III.,  was 
constituted  governor  of  Scarbokodoh 
Castlx,  and  a  justice  itinerant.  He  m. 
Margaret,  daughter  and  heir  ot  Sir  John 
Longvillers,  of  HomrBT-CASTLa,  in  Lan- 
cashire, and  died  in  the  13th  of  Edward  I., 
being  then  seised  of  the  manor  of  Applbby, 
and  other  lands  in  Lincolnshire;  the  CMtle 
and  manor  of  Hornby,  in  the  county  of 
Lancaster;  and HoTOw-LoNoviLLBBa,  and 
other  manors  in  Yorkshire;  the  entire  of 
which  he  acquired  by  his  wif&  He  left  a 
SOB  and  heir, 
John  Nbvill,  from  whom  descended 
the  NevUls  of  Hornby,  whose  heir- 
female, 

Maroarbt  Nbyill,  m.   TlK>mae 
Beaufort,  Duke  of  Exeter. 
The  dder  son, 

ROBERT  NEVILL,  in  the  38th  Henry  III., 
upon  doing  his  fealty,  had  livery  of  all  the  lands 
which  he  inherited  firom  his  grandfather,  Robert 
Pits-Maldred.  In  the  4SA  ot  the  snae  reign,  he 
had  a  military  svmm<ms  to  march  to  the  relief  of 
the  King  of  Scotland,  and  he  Was  then  constituted 


•  RoBBRT  Fitx-Maldrxd  wss  the  lineal  heir- 
male  of  UcRTRBD,  Earl  of  Northumberland,  in  the 
days  of  King  Edmuitd,  Ironside ;  that  is,  son  of 
Dolfln.  son  of  Earl  Gospatric,  son  of  Maldred  Fitx- 
Crinan,  by  Aloitha,  dsoghter  of  the  said  Ucu- 

TkBD. 

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governor  of  the  CAarLss  or  Novramand 
Wbrkb.  in  the  next  year,  he  was  entrusted  with 
BAMBOBOuelt  Castlb  :  and  two  years  afterwards, 
made  warden  of  all  the  king's  forests  beyond 
Trent  s  which  was  followed  by  the  appointment  of 
Justice-itinerant,  for  the  pleas  of  those  forests.  In 
the  47th,  he  was  one  of  the  banms  who  undertook 
for  the  king's  observance  of  the  ordinances  of  Ox- 
ford ;  and  in  the  same  turbulent  period,  wsa  made 
captain-general  of  all  the  king's  forces  beyond 
Trent,  as  also  sheriff  of  Yorkshire,  and  governor  of 
the  Castle  of  York;  but  notwithstanding  these 
great  trusts,  he  subsequently  joined  the  baronial 
banner,  yet  was  fortunate  enovigh,  after  die  dis- 
comfiture of  his  party,  not  only  to  obtain  his 
pardon,  but  to  be  constituted  governor  of  Picker* 
ing  Castle,  in  Yorkshire.  He  m.  Ida,  relict  at 
Robert  Bertram,  and  had  a  son, 

Robbrt,  who  m.  Mary,  dder  daughter  and 
co-heir  of  Ralph  Fita-Randolph,  Lord  of 
Middleham,  by  which  alliance  he  acquired 
that  manor,  with  the  manor  of  Carleton, 
and  the  forest  of  Coverdale.  He  rf.  ia  the 
lifb-timeof  his  Csther,  leaving  a  sou, 

RANUX.PH,  who   succeeded  his    grand* 
father. 
Robert  de  Nevill  died  in  1282,  and  was  a.  by  hia 
grandson, 

RANULPH  de  NEVILL,  who,  being  in  mi- 
nority,  at  the  time  of  his  grandfather's  decease, 
obtained  liberty  of  the  king,  that  his  friends  might 
plough  and  manage  his  lands;  and  fai  die  13th  Ed- 
ward I.,  had  livery  of  certain  manors,  part  of  hia 
inheritance;  soon  after  this,  he  had  a  warm  con- 
test with  die  Prior  or  Durham,  about  the  pre- 
sentation ot  a  stag,  upon  St.  Cuthbert's  day,  in 
September  ;  "  which,  in  truth,"  <8ays  Dugdale,) 
**  was  rather  a  rent  than  an  obligation,  in  rqgard  he' 
held  Raby,  with  the  eight  adjoining  townships,  by 
the  yeatly  rent  of  £4  and  a  stag.  For,  contrary  to 
the  custom'of  his  ancestors,  he  not  only  required 
that  the  Prior  of  Durham,  at  the  ofibring  of 
that  stag,  ought  to  feast  htm,  and  all  the  company  he 
should  bring,  but  that  the  prior's  own  menial  ser- 
vants should,  for  that  time,  be  set  aside,  and  hia 
peculiar  servants  and  officers  be  put  in  their  stead. 
Whereupmi,  amongst  other  of  his  guests,  he  in- 
vited Jchn  de  Bailkd,  of  Barnard  Castle,  who 
refused  to  go  with  him,  aDeging  that  he  never 
luew  the  Nevills  to  have  such  a  privilege  there; 
Sir  William  de  Brompton,  the  bishop's  chief  jus- 
tice, likewise  acknowledging  that  he  himself  was 
the  first  that  began  that  extravagant  practice;  for 
being  a  young  man,  and  delighting  in  hunting,  he 
came  with  the  Lord  Nevill,  at  the  oAbring  of  the 
stag,  and  said  to  his  companions,  '  C^me,  l€t  ut  go 
int»  th«  abbey  and  wind  our  hom»t*  and  so  they  did. 
The  prior  farther  adding,  that  before  the  time  of 
this  Ranulph,  none  of  liis  predecessors  ever  made 
any  such  claim;  but  when  they  brought  the  stag 
into  the  hall,  they  had  only  a  brericfast,  nor  did 
the  lord  himsrif  ever  stay  dinner,  except  he  were 
invited."  This  Ranulph  was  summoned  to  partla- 
ment  as  a  baron,  on  8th  June,  1294,  and  tnm  that 
period,  to  18th  F^nuny,  1391.  His  lordsMp  waa 
in  die  wan  of  Franco,  temp.  Edward  L,  and  in 


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thoM  of  Scotkuid  in  th«  next  reign.  It  is  said, 
however,  that  he  Uttle  minded  secular  buainev, 
but  devoted  tlie  principal  part  of  hie  time  to  ooo- 
venation  with  the  canons  of  Merton  and  Cover- 
ham,  upon  whom  he  bestowed  some  considerable 
giants.  He  m.  first,  Eufiemia»  daughter  of  Sir 
John  de  Clavering,  and  had  two  sons, 

Robert,  called  the  "  Pmeecslr  vj  the  North,** 

who  died  «.  Ik,  in  Us  flrther's  Ufe-timeL 
Ralph,  his  sucosssor. 
His  lordship  espoused,  secondly,  Margery,  daughter 
€#  John,  son  of  Marmaduke  de  Thweng,  but  had 
no  issue.    He  tf.  In  1331,  and  was  «.  by  his  only  sur- 
viving son, 

RALPH  DE  NEVILL,  second  baron,  summoned 
to  parliament,  from  80th  November,  1331,  to  80th 
January,  1338.    This  nobleman,  in  the  time  of  his 
father,  was  retained   by  indenture,  to  serve  the 
Lord  Henry  de  Percy,  for  life,  hi  peace  and  war, 
against  all  men  except  the  king,  with  twenty  men- 
at-arms,  whereof  five  to  be  knights,  receiving  £100 
sterling  per  annum.    The  dispute  with  the  prior 
of  Durham,  r^arding  the  presentation  of  the  stag, 
was  revived,  a^d  finally  set  at  rest,  in  the  aban- 
donment of  his  daim,  by  this  Lord  NevilL    The 
matter  is  thus  detailed  by  Dugdale :  "  In  this  year, 
likewise,  doing  his  fealty  to  William,  Prior   of 
Duzluun,  upon  Tiammas  day,  for  the  manor  of 
IUbt,  he  told  him,  « that  he  would  oflbr  thestag  as 
his  ancestors  had  done;  saving  that,  whereas  his 
fiOher  required,  that  the  prior's   servants  should 
be  set  aside  at  that  time,  and  his  own  serve  in  their 
stead ;  he  would  be  content,  that  his  should  attend 
together,  with  those  of  the  prior's ;  and  whereas, 
hb  father  insisted,  that  his  servants  should  only 
be  admitted  at  dinner;  he  stood  upon  it,  that  his 
should  be  there  entertained  the  whole  day,  and 
likewise  the  morrow  at  breakfut.'   Whereupon  the 
prior  made  answer,  *  that  none  of  his  ancestors  were 
ever  so  admitted,  and  that  he  would  rather  quit 
the  stag,  than  suflhr  any  new  custom  to  the  preju- 
dice of  their  church.'    But,  to  this  Ralph  replied, 
'  that  he  would  perform  the  whole  service,  or  none, 
and  put  the  trial  of  his  right  upon  the  country.' 
The  prior,  therefore,  knowing  him  to  be  so  power- 
ful, and  that  the  country  could  not  displease  him, 
dedfaied  the  offer ;  howbeit,  at  length,  to  gain  his 
fkvour,  in  regard  he  had  no  small  interest  at  court, 
and  might  do  him  a  kindness  or  a  dipleasure,  was 
content  for  that  one  time,  he  should  perform  it  as 
he  pleased,  so  that  it  might  not  be  dnwn  into 
example  afterwards :  and  to  the  purpose  propoeed, 
that,  that  indentures  should  be  made  betwixt  them. 
Whereupon  the  Lord  Nevill  brought  but  few  with 
him,  and  those  mora  for  the  honour  of  die  prior, 
than  a  burthent  and  so,  shortly  after  dinner,  took 
his  leave,  but  left  one  of  his  servants  to  lodge  there 
all  night,  and  to  take  hte  breakliut  there  on  the 
next  day;  'protesting,  that  being  both  a  son  and 
tenant  to  the  church,  he  would  not  beburtheasome 
to  it,  in  respect  it  would  be  no  advantage  to  him- 
sdf,  but  might  much  damnifle  him,  if  he  should 
bring  with  him  as  great  a  train  as  he  would,'  saying, 
*what  doth  a  bmkfiut  Hgnify  to  mef  nothing. 
And  likewise,  that  if  the  prior  would  shew  that  he 
had  no  right  to  what  be  so  claimed,  be  woukl  terty 


recede  thereftromi  and  if  he  had  a  right,  he  would 
accq;>t  of  a  composition  for  it,  rather  than  be  bur- 
theiMome  to  the  convent;  but  if  they  should  put 
him  to  get  his  right  by  law,  than  he  wouU  not 
abate  anything  thereof.'  Whereupon  inquiry  being 
made  amongst  the  eldest  monks  of  the  house,  they 
afllrmed,  that  being  of  eight  years  standing  when 
his  fkther  was  before  repulsed,  they  had  often  seen 
the  stag  offered,  and  that  henever  staid  dinner,  but 
when  the  prior  invited  him;  and  some  ancient  men 
of  the  country  testified  as  much :  as  also,  that  so 
soon  as  the  stag  was  brought,  they  carried  him  to 
the  kitchen,  and  those  who  brought  him  were 
taken  into  the  hall  to  breakfest,  as  they  that  bring 
their  rents  used  to  be. 

"  Moreover,  when  it  happened  any  of  the  Lords 
NeviU  to  be  desired  to  stay  dinner  with  the  prior, 
his  cook  was  admitted  into  the  kitchen  to  prepera 
a  dish  for  him;  so  likewise,  another  servant  in  the 
cdlir,  to  choose  his  drink,  snd  in  like  manner, 
some  other  at  the  gate,  who  knew  his  servants  and 
followers,  merdy  to  let  them  in,  and  keep  out 
others,  who,  under  pretence  of  being  servants* 
might  then  intrude.  But  this  was  only  done  by  the 
prior,  as  out  of  courtesy  and  respect*  and  not  at  all 
out  of  right** 

In  the  7th  Edward  IIL,  Lord  Nevill  was  one  of 
the  commissioners  sent  into  Scotland,  there  to  see 
that  the  covenants  between  Edward  de  BaiUol* 
King  of  Scots,  and  his  royal  master,  were  ratified 
by  the  parliament  of  that  kingdom ;  and  the  next 
year  he  was  Joined  with  Henry  de  Percy,  in  the  war- 
denship  of  the  Msrcfaes  of  Northumberland,  Cum- 
berland, and  Westmorland.  He  had,  subsequently, 
other  high  and  confidential  employments,  and  was 
eonetantly  engaged  in  the  wars  of  Scotland  and 
France^  His  lordship  m.  Alice,  daughter  of  Hugh 
de  Audley,  and  had  issue, 
JoBM  (Sir),  his  successor. 
William  (Sir),  Gentleman  of  the  Bedchamber 

to  Richard  IL 
Thomas,  m.  Margaret,  daughter  of  William 
Babington,  and  had  a  daughter  and  heir, 
Jane,  m.  first,  to  Thomas  Thurland ;  and 
secondly,  to  Sir  Gervase  Clifton,  Knt. 
Robert  (Sir),  of  Eldon,  eminent  in  arms. 
Alexander,  Archbishop  of  York,  d.  in  1301. 
Ralph,  of  Candall. 
Euphemia,  m,  to  Reginald  de  Lucy, 
Catherine. 

Margaret,  in.  to  Henry  Percy,  Earl  of  North- 
umberland. 
He  d.  in  1387*  >nd  was  buried  in  the  church  of 
Durham,  on  the  south-side  thereof,  being  the  first 
secular  person  that  had  sepulture  there,  which 
fkvour  he  obtained  ftom  the  prior  and  convent,  fbr 
a  vestment  of  red  vdvet,  richly  embroidered  with 
gold,  silk,  great  pearls,  and  images  of  saints  stand- 
ing in  tabernacles ;  by  him  given  to  St.  Cuthbert. 
His  body  being  brought  in  a  chariot  drawn  by 
seven  horses,  to  the  boundary  of  the  churchyard, 
and  thence  conveyed  upon  the  shoulders  of  knights, 
into  the  middle  of  the  churdi,  where  the  abbot  of 
St.,  Mary's,  in  York,  (by  reason  of  the  blshop*s 
absence  and  impotency  of  the  dean,)  performed  the 
office  of  the  dead*  and  odebrated  the  morrow  mass, 
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ftt  which  woe  offered  eight  honei*  viz,,  fott?  for 
the  war»  with  four  men  armed*  and  aU  their  har- 
neu  and  habiliments:  and  four  othenfor  peaoe; 
aa  also  three  cloths  of  gold,  of  blue  colour,  inter- 
woven with  flowers.  Four  of  those  horses  were 
redeemed,  after  the  funeral,  by  Sir  Johm,  his  son 
and  heir,  for  one  hundred  marks.  His  lordship 
was  «.  by  his  ddest  son, 

SIR  JOHN  DE  NEVILL,  third  baion,  sum- 
moned to  parliament  as  Lord  NByix.L,  or  Raby, 
firom  24th  Felmiary,  1368,  to  88th  July,  1388.  This 
nobleman  was  with  his  father  at  the  battle  of  Dur- 
ham, in  the  90th  Edward  III.,  and  received  the 
honour  of  knighthood  some  years  afterwards,  when 
in  arms  before  the  barriers  of  Paris.  In  the  44th  of 
the  same  reign  he  was  again  in  the  wars  of  France, 
and  then  constituted  admiral  of  the  king's  fleet 
from  the  mouth  of  the  Thames  northwards.  During 
the  remainder  of  King  Edward's  reign  he  was  con- 
stantly in  active  servicer  either  in  France  or  Scot- 
land. In  the  2nd  Richard  II.  he  was  constituted 
Ueutenant  of  Aquitaine,  and  he  was  likewise  sene*> 
chall  of  Bordeaux.  It  is  reported  of  this  nobleman 
that  he  was  some  time  employed  against  the  Turks ; 
and  that  lieing  lieutenant  of  Aquitaine,  he  reduced 
that  province  to  tranquillity,  and  that  in  his  service 
in  those  parts,  he  won,  and  had  rendered  to  him, 
eighty-three  walled  towns,  castles,  and  forts.  His 
lordsUp  was  a  Knight  of  the  Garter.  He  m.  flrst, 
Maud,  daughter  of  Lord  Percy,  by  whom  he  had 
issue, 

Ralph,  his  successor. 

Thomas,  who  m.  Joane,  only  daughter  and 
heiress  of  WiUiam  de  Fumival,  Lord  Fur- 
nival,  and  was  summoned  to  parliament  in 
her  right,  as  Lord  FvRiriyAL  (see  Fumi- 
Tal,  Lords  Fumival). 
Maud,  m.  to  William,  Lord  Scroop. 
Alice,  m.  to  William,  Lord  Deincourt. 
Eleanor,  m.  to  Ralph,  Lord  Lumley. 
His  lordship  espoused,  secondly,  Elisabeth,  daugh- 
ter and  heir  of  William,  Lord  Latimer,  K.G.,  and 
had 

John,  who,  in  right  of  his  mother,  was  sum- 
moned  to  parliament  as  Lord  Latimrr 
(see  Latimer,  Barons  Latimer,  of  Danby). 
EUxabeth,  m.  to  Sir  Thomas  Willoughby, 

Knt 
Margaret 
He  <f.  in  1388,  and  was  «.  by  Ms  eldest  son, 

RALPH  DE  NEVILL,  fourth  baron,  summoned 
to  parliament  from  6th  December,  1389,  to  30th 
November,  1396,  This  noUeman  took  a  leading 
part  in  the  political  drama  of  his  day,  and  sus- 
tidned  it  with  more  tlym  ordinary  alrfUty.  In  the 
life-time  of  his  father  (9th  Richard  II. )»  he  was 
Joined  with  Thomas  qilflbrd,  son  of  Lord  ClilTord, 
In  the  governorship  of  the  dty  and  castle  of  Car- 
lisle, and  was  appointed  a  commtssionership.  for 
the  guardianship  of  the  West  Marches.  In  three 
years  after  this  he  succeeded  to  the  title,  and  in 
two  years  subsequently  he  was  one  of  the  commis- 
sioneiB  appointed  to  treat  with  the  kings  of  France 
and  Scotland,  toudiing  a  truce  made  by  them  with 
the  king  of  England.  In  the  21st  Richard  11.  he 
was  made  constable  of  the  Tower  of  London,  and 
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shortly  afterwarda  advanced  in  ftiU  parliattient  to 
the  dignity  of  Earl  of  WB8TitoRx.AND.  His 
lordship  was  of  the  privy  council  to  King  Richard, 
and  luui  much  favour  from  that  monwch,  yet  he 
was  one  of  the  most  active  in  raising  Hknry,  tf 
Laneorter,  to  the  throne,  as  Hbkry  IV.,  and  waa 
rewarded  by  the  new  king  in  the  first  year  of  hia 
reign,  with  a  grant  of  the  county  and  honour  of 
Richmond  for  his  life,  and  with  the  great  office  of 

RARL   MARSHALL  OF  EHOLAND.     SOOD  aftCT    this 

he  stoutly  resisted  the  Earl  of  Northumberland  in 
his  rebellion,  and  forced  the  Pkrcirb,  who  had 
advanced  as  far  as  Durham,  to  fall  back  upon 
Pruohok,  when  the  battle  of  Shrewsbury  ensued, 
in  which  the  gallant  Hotspur  sustained  so  signal 
a  defeat,  and  closed  his  impetuous  careor.  The 
earl  was  afterwards  governor  of  the  town  and  castle 
of  Carlisle,  warden  of  the  West  Marches  towards 
Scotland,  and  governor  of  Roxborough.  He  waa 
also  a  Knioht  of  thr  Gartrr.  His  lordship  m. 
flrst.  Lady  Margaret  Stafibrd,  daughter  of  Hugh, 
Earl  Staiford,  K.G.,  for  which  marriage  a  dispen- 
sation was  obtained  from  Pope  Urban  V.,  the 
Earl  and  his  bride  being  within  the  third  and 
fourth  degrees  of  consanguinity :  by  tlus  huiy  he 
had  issue, 

John,  Lord  Nevill,  who,  in  the  12th  Henry 
IV.,  was  made  governor  of  the  castle  of 
Roxborough  for  ten  years,  and  the  next 
year  constituted  warden  of  the  West 
Marches  towards  Scotland.  His  lordship 
m.  Lady  Elisabeth  Holland,  daughter  of 
Thomas,  Earl  of  Kent,  and  sister  and  oo* 
heir  of  Edmund,  Earl  of  Kent,  by  wlxnn 
(dying  in  1428,  his  father  stiU  Uving)  he  left 
issue, 

Ralph,  who  succeeded  as  second  Earl  of 

Westmorland. 
John,  slain  at  Towton,  in  1461,  in.  Lady 
Ann  Holland,  daughter  of  John,  Duke 
of  Exeter,  and  widow  of  his  nephew, 
John,  Lord  NeviU,  and  left  a  son, 
Ralph,  who  succeeded  as  third  Earl 
of  Westmorland. 
Thcmias. 
Ralph,  who  IN.  Margery,  daughter  and  co-heir 
of  Sir  Robert  Ferrers,  of  Oversley,  and  left 
a  son, 
John,  who  m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  and 
heir  of  Ro6ert  Newmarch,  and  left  an 
only  daughter  and  heir, 

Maroarbt,  m.   to    Thomas   Went- 
worth,  ancestor  of   the  Earls  of 
Straflbrd. 
Maud,  m,  to  Peter,  L(»d  Mauley. 
Philippe,  m.  to  Thomas,  Lord  Dacre. 
Alice,  m.  flrst,  to  Sir  Thomas  Grey,  Knt., 
and  secondly,   to   Sir   Gilbert  Lancaster, 
Knt 
Margaret,  m.  to  Richard,  Lord  Scroop,  of 

Bolton. 
Anne,  m.  to  Sir  Gilbert  UmfiravilL 
Margery,  abbess  of  Barking. 
Elisabeth,  a  nun. 
The  earl  espoused,  secondly,  Joane  de  Beaufort, 
daughter  of  John  of  Gaunt,  by  Kathcrine  Swynford, 


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and  widow  of  Robert,  Lord  Ferren,  of  Wem,  by 
whom  he  had  ianie, 

RicBASD,  who  m.  Lady  Alice  Montacute, 
only  daughter  and  heiren  of  Thomas,  Earl 
of  Salisbury,  and  was  created  Earl  or 
Salisbury  himsdf  (see  Nevill,  Earl  of 
Salisbury). 

William  (see  Nevill,  Lord  Fauoonberg  and 
Earl  of  Kent). 

George  (see  Nevill,  Lord  Latimer). 

Edward  (Sir),  who  m.  Lady  Eliaabeth  Beau- 
champ,  only  daughter  and  heirem  of  Richard 
Beauchamp,  Lord  BsROATaNNV,  and  Earl 
of  Worcester,  and  was  summoned  to  par- 
liament, jure  ujtorUt  as  Baron  Bergavenny : 
a  dignity  enjoyed  by  his  lordship's  lineal 
descendaut,  the  present  Earl  of  Aberga- 
venny. 

Robert,  a  churdiman.  Bishop  of  Durham. 

Cuthbert,  ^ 

Henry,      Vdied«.p.      ,    ch-  t 

Thomas,  j  .  Jl   SCtJ.*^^"-^^ 

Catherine,  m.  first,  to' John  Mowbray,  Duke  of 
Norfolk,  and  secondly,  to  Sir  John  Widvile, 
Knt.,  son  of  Richard,  Earl  Rivers. 

Eleanor,  (or  Elisabeth,)  m.  first,  to  Richard, 
Lord  Spencer,  and  secondly,  to  Henry 
Percy,  Earl  of  Northumberland. 

Anne,  m.  first,  to  Humphrey,  Duke  of  Buck- 
ingham, and  secondly,  to  Walter  Blount, 
Lord  Mountjoy. 

Jane,  a  nun^ 

Cicily,  tM.  to  Richard  Plantagenet,  Duke  of 
York. 
This  great  earl  d.  in  1425,  and  waa  «.  by  bis  grand- 


RALPH  NEVILL,  fifth  Baron  Nevill,  of  Raby, 
and  second  Earl  of  Westmorland.  This  nobleman, 
after  the  death  of  Elisabeth,  his  mother,  had  £40 
per  annum,  allowed  him  by  the  king  for  his  main* 
lenance,  being  then  in  minority.  His  lordship  m. 
first,  EUsabeth,  daughter  of  Henry,  Lord  Percy, 
iUetapur,)  and  widow  of  John,  Lord  CliAnd,  by 
whom  he  had  issue, 

JoHw,  Lord  Nevill,  who  m.  Lady  Anne  Hol- 
land, daughter  of  John,  Duke  of  Exeter, 
and  d.  in  the  lifis-time  of  his  father  «.  p. 
His  widow  r»*married  her  late  husband's 
uncle^  Sir  John  NevilL 
The  earl  espoused,  secondly,  Margaret,  daughter  of 
Sir  Reginald  Cobham,  Knt.,  but  had  no  issueu    His 
lordship  d.  in  1486,  and  was  ».  by  his  nephew, 

RALPH  NEVILL,  sfacth  Baion  Nevill,  of  Raby, 
and  third  Karl  of  Westmorland.  This  nobleman 
m.  Margaret,  daughter  of  Sir  Roger  Booth,  of 
Barton,  in  the  county  of  Lancaater,  and  had  an 
only  son, 

Ralph,  Lord  Nevill,  who  m.  Elisabeth, 
daughter  of  Sir  William  Smidys,  and  dying 
in  the  life-time  of  his  father,  left  a  son  and 
daughter,  vii. 

Ralph,  who  *.  as  fourth  earL 
Anne,  m.  to  Sir  William  Conyen*  Knt. 
The  earl  is  said  to  have  d.  of  grief  for  the  loss  of 
his  son  at  Hornby  Castle,  in  IfiSS,  and  was  «.  by  his 
grandscm. 


RALPH  NEVILL,  seventh   Baron   NeviU,  of 
Raby,  and  fourth  Earl  of  Westmorland.    This  no- 
bleman was  made  a  Knight  of  the  Garter  by  King 
Henry  VIII.,  and  was  one  of  those  who  signed  the 
celebrated  letter  to  Fope  Clbmxnt  regarding  the 
divorce  of  Queen  Katherine.    His  lordship  m.  Lady 
Catherine  Stafford,  dau^ter  of  Edward,  Duke  of 
Buckingham,  and  bad,  with  other  issue, 
HaicRY,  Lord  Neville,  his  successor. 
Thomas  (Sir). 
Eleanor. 

Dorothy,  m,  to  John,  Earl  of  Oxford. 
Mary,  m.  to  Sir  Thomas  Danby,  Knt. 
Joane. 

Margaret,  m.  to  Henry  Manners,  Earl  of  Rut- 
land. 
Saisabeth,  m.  to  Thomas,  Lord  Dacre,  of  Gil- 

lesland. 
Eleanor,  ta.  to  Sir  Bryan  Stapleton,  Knt. 
Anne,  m.  to  Sir  Fulke  Greville,  Knt.,  of  Beau- 
champs  Court,  in  the  county  of  Warwick. 
Ursula. 
The  earl  d.  in  1540,  and  was  «.  by  his  ddest  son, 

HENRY  NEVILL,  eighth  Baron  Nevill,  of 
Raby,  and  fifth  Earl  of  Westmorland;  who  m.  first. 
Lady  Jane  Manners,  daughter  of  Thomas,  Earl  at 
Rutland,  and  had  issue, 

Charlxs,  Lord  NeviU. 

Eleanor,  m.  to  Sir  William  Pelham,  Knt. 

Katherine,  m.  to  Sir  John  Constable,  Knt.,  of 

Kirby  Knowle,  in  the  county  of  York. 
Adeline,  d.  unmarried. 
His  lordship  espoused,  secondly,  Margaret,  daugh- 
ter of  Sir  Riduurd  Cholmondeley,  Knt,  and  widow 
of  Sir  John  Gasooigne,  Knt.,  by  whom  he  had  two 
daughters,  Margaret  and  Elisabeth.  The  earl,  who 
was  a  Knight  of  the  Garter,  d.  in  1549,  and  wase. 
by  his  son, 

CHARLES  NEVILL,  ninth  Baron  Nevill,  of 
Raby,  and  sixth  Earl  of  Westmorland.  This  noble- 
man, joining  in  the  insurrection  of  Henry  Percy, 
Earl  of  Northumberland,  in  the  13th  of  Elisabeth, , 
was  attainted,  and  preaerved  his  life  only  by  first 
flying  into  Scotland, '  and  afterwards  to  the  Ne- 
therlands, where  he  lived  to  an  advanced  age. 
Banks  says,  "  meanly  and  miserably.'*  His  lord- 
ship m.  Anne,  daughter  of  Henry  Howard,  Earl  of 
Surry,  and  sister  of  Thomas,  Duke  of  Norfolk,  by 
whom  he  had  issue, 

Catherine,  m,  to  Sir  Thomas  Grey,  of  Chil- 

lingham. 
Eleanor,  d.  unmarried. 
Margaret,  m.  to  Nicholas  Pudsey,  Esq. 
Anne,  m.  to  David,  bcother  of  Sir  William 
Ingleby,  Knt. 
Under  the  attainder  of  this  nobleman  the  old  Ba- 
rony OP  NaviLL,  OF  Raby,  and  the  Earlooh  op 
WsBTMORLAND  became  both  forpsitrd. 
Armb.— Gules,  a  saltier,  ar. 
Note, — ^In  the  reign  of  James  I.  the  Earldom  of 
Westmorland  was  claimed  by  Edward  Nevill,  and 
tile  case  appears  thus ;— >  - 

In  the  time  of  Richard  II.,  Ralph,  Lord  Nevill, 
of  Raby,  was  created  Earl  of  Westmorland,  to  him 
and  the  heirs  male  of  his  body ;  and  had  issue  by 
his  first  wife  a  sott>  Ralph,  whose  issue  m^e,  dur- 

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ing  wvcnl  iBCcewtoiM,  enjoyed  the  title,  end  to 
him  Charlet,  iMt  Earl  of  WeBtmorlud,  was  heir 
male.  That  Ralph,  the  flnt  eerl,  by  hii  aeoond 
wife,  had  ianie,  George  Nerille,  Lord  Latimer,  of 
whom  the  then  claimant,  Edward  NeriUe,  waa  the 
lineal  defendant,  and  heir  male.  And  that  Charles, 
then  late  Earl  of  Westmorland,  was  attainted  fbr 
high  treason.  It  was,  howerer,  adjudged  that  Ed- 
ward NeriUe  should  not  succeed  to  the  earldom, 
though  heir  male  of  the  first  donea  The  authority 
for  whidi  dedsion  was  grounded  on  the  statute  of 
96  Henry  VIII.,  cap^  13,  whereby,  in  cases  of  high 
treason,  it  is  enacted,  that  theofltender  shall  for- 
fdt  all  such  lands,  tenements,  and  heniUamenU, 
wherdn  he  shall  have  any  ef tote  t^f  JnAeHlonce.— 
Bakks. 

NEVILL  —  EARLS  OF  SALISBURY, 
EARL  OF  WARWICK, 
BARON  MONTACUTE, 
BARON  MONTHERMER. 

Earldom  of  Salisbury,  "I  by  Letters  f  .,^  m..  \aa<» 

Earldom  of  Warwick,  ;   Patent,    |«»"«y'**«- 

Barony  of  Mon-^  fBth  June,  IS94, 

tacute,  f  by  Writ  of  J   S9  Edward  I. 

Barony  of  Mod-  C  Summons,  j  4th  March,  130B» 

thermer«         J  (,    S  Edward  IL 

Xiiuagc. 

RICHARD  NEVILL,  eldest  son  of  Ralph  NeoUl, 
first  Earl  or  WnsTifoni^KD,  by  his  second  wife, 
Joane  de  Beaufort,  daughter  of  John  or  Oauht, 
and  widow  of  Robert,  Lord  Ferrers,  of  Wem, 
espoused  the  Lady  Alice  Montacute,  daughter  and 
heir  of  Thomas,  Earl  of  Salisbury,  (see  Montacute, 
Earl  of  Salisbury,)  and  had  that  bahldom  rerived 
in  his  person,  by  letters  patent,  dated  4th  May, 
1442,  with  remainder  to  the  said  Alice,  and  with 
twenty  pounds  annual  rent  out  of  the  issues  of  the 
county  of  Wilts.  Her  ladyship  inherited  the  old 
Baronies  of  MoNTAcun  and  MoKTHSitMSit,  which 
had  been  so  long  in  her  femily.  This  noUeman 
obtained  ftnom  King  Hsimv  VL  numerous  sub- 
stantial grants,  and  some  of  the  highest  and  most 
important  trusts,  amongst  others  he  waa  appointed 
warden  of  the  marches  towards  Scotland*  andgorer- 
nor  of  Carlisle,  had  had  large  territorial  giits  from 
the  crown,  with  a  grant  of  £9*0631  6«.  Sd.  per 
annum,  out  of  the  customs,  for  thirty  years,  yet  he 
was  one  of  the  earliest  to  espouse  the  cause  of  the 
house  of  York,  and  one  of  the  most  determined  in 
maintaining  it.  His  lordship  fought  and  won,  in 
conjunction  with  the  Duke  of  York,  the  first 
pitched  battle,,  that  of  St.  ALBAira,  between  the 
-contending  Roses;  and  he  followed  up  his  sucoeis 
by  defeating  the  Lord  Audley  at  Blors  Hxath  in 
1468,  and  again  in  1400,  at  NoRraAMPTon,  when  he 
was  constituted  by  the  Yorkists  lord  orrat 
CHAMRSRLAiir  or  EifOLAND.  The  fortuRO  of  War 
changing,  howerer,  in  the  rcry  next  rencounter, 
the  battle  of  WAKxrixLO,  the  Duke  of  York  fdl, 
the  Yorkists  were  routed,  Salisbury's  son.  Sir 
Thomas  Nevill,  slain,  and  the  earl  himself  made 
prisoner,  when  his  head  was  Immediately  cut  oflT, 
and  fixed  upon  a  pole  over  one  of  the  gates  of  the 


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dtyofYork.    His  lordship  had  iaraie  toy  the  iMiiew 
of  the  Montacutes, 

Rtcha  ro.  Earl  ef  Wmnokk,  his  tuooeasor. 

Thomas  (Sir),  m.  Maud,  widow  of  Lord  Wil- 
hnighby,  and  was  slain  et  Wakefleld-dicd 
•.ji. 

John  (Sir),  created  MAROVsae  op  MoirrAon 
(see  that  dignity). 

George,  in  holy  orders,  became  ArdiMshop  of 
York,  and  charcxllor  op  EroIiAvb. 

Ralph, 

Robert, 

Joane,  m.  to  William  Fita-Alan,  Barl  of 
ArundeL 

Cioriy,  m.  first,  to  Henry  Beauchamp,  Duke 
of  Warwick,  and  secondly,  to  John  TiptofI, 
Earl  of  Worcester. 

Alice,  ta.  to  Henry,  Lord  Fits-Hugh. 

Eleanor,  m.  to  Thomas  Staiiley,  first  Earl  of 
Warwick. 

Katharine,  m.  to  William,  Lord  Bonvyie; 

Margaret,  fit.  first,  to  John  de  Vsre,  Earl  of 

Oxford,  and  secondly,   to  William,  Lord 

Hasthigs. 

The  decapitation  of  the  earl  (who  was  a  Knight  of 

the  Garter)  oocttxred  in  December,  1460,  when  Ma 

ddest  son, 

RICHARD  NEVILL,  the  Hwt  Earl  op  War-  -^ 
WICK,  became  second  Earl  <rf  Salisliury«  and  he 
inherited  feom  his  mother  the  baronies  of  Monta- 
cute and  Monthermer.  His  kwdship  married  Lady 
Anne  Beauchamp,  dauglater  of  Richsrd,  fifth  Eatl 
of  Warwick,  and  helrcas  of  the  Beauduunps,  upon 
the  decease,  in  1448,  ot  her  young  niece,  AHn», 
CouHTRaa  OP  Warwick,  deughter  and  hdraM  of 
Henry,  Duke  of  Warwick,  and  had  a  confirmation 
of  the  Earldom  op  Warwick,  with  all  its  pie- 
emincnoes  to  himself  and  his  wife,  the  said  Lady 
Anne  Beaocfaamp,  by  letters  patent,  dated  SSrd 
July,  in  the,  same  year.  This  nOUeman,  so  wtf 
known  in  English  history  as  the  kino  makrb, 
espoused  with  his  fether  the  fortunes  of  the  beoae 
of  York  at  the  Tsry  commencement  of  the  lamenta- 
ble contest  between  the  Roses,  and  was  made  cap- 
TAtw-«B]rsRAL  OP  CALAiaaAcT  the  fint  battle  of 
St.  Albans.  He  subsequently  commanded  the  iran 
of  the  Yorkists  at  Northampton,  where  Maroa- 
RST  OP  Arjov,  sustained  so  signal  a  defeaL  He 
shared,  however,  in  the  reveiees  of  his  party  in  thfc 
ensuing  battles  of  Wakefield  and  St.  Albans,  but 
outgeneralled  the  heroic  M«rg«ret»  in  reaching  Lon- 
don, with  the  young  Earl  of  March,  son  of  the 
Duke  of  York,  before  her  Tictorious  army.  Here 
he  caused  his  prDfogee  to  be  proclaimed  as  Ed- 
ward IV.,  and  following  the  queen  and  LiBcaa- 
trlansinto  the  north, /berf  the  sceptrein  thehand 
of  the  new  monarch  by  the  great  victory  of  Tow- 
TOK  PiCLD.  After  which  he  was  constituted  gene- 
ral warden  of  the  east  marches  towards  Scotland,  ^ 
constable  of  Dorer  Castle,  lord  orxat  oham-  ' 
RRRLAiN  of  England  for  life,  and  lord  hior 
btrward.  He  likewise  obtained  immense  grants 
from  the  crown,  so  that  his  revenues  are  said  to 
have  amounted,  independently  of  his  own  heritable 
estates,  to  the  annual  income  of  >bur  «eore  Osiiseiirf 
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tbk  dincription;  to  enter  into  any  thing  like  a  ^lafi 
of  the  deeda  of  tUs,  probebly  moBt  potent*  noble  in 
the  whole  range  of  English  sto^.  We  muett  there- 
for^ be  omtent  in  briefly  stating,  that  hia  kndthip, 
..boooming  in  a  few  yean  discontented  with  the 
order  of  things  which  he  had  thus  established,  pro- 
jected the  restontion  of  the  Lancastrian  monmrch, 
Henry  VL»  and  having  embodied  an  army  under 
the  sanction  of  hia  former  foe,  Maroarst,  of 
Anjou,  landed  in  the  west  of  England  trom  Nor- 
mandy, proclaimed  King  Henry  VI.,  forced  King 
Edward  to  fly  the  kingdom,  marched  upon  London, 
and  releasing  the  restored  monarch  ftpom  hia  capti- 
vity in  the  Tower,  re-established  him  upon  the 
throne;  when  he  was  himself  constituted  lord 
HioH  ADiuAAi.  OF  Enolaito.  This  rerohition 
was,  however,  but  of  brief  endurance,  for  within 
one  short  year  King  Edward  reappeared  upon  the 
sceoeof  action,  and  soon  found  hima^  at  the  head 
of  a  sufficient  force  to  contend  for,  and  to  recover 
his  diadem.  The  battle  was  fought  on  Eaater-day 
1471«  at  BARirnT-FiBi.D,  when,  notwithatanding  the 
personal  valour,  and  great  martial  prowess  of  the 
Earl  of  Warwick,  and  his  brother,  the  Marquess  of 
Montagu*  victory  declared  for  the  Yorkists,  but  his 
lordship  survived  not  the  defeat— he  fell  in  the 
brunt  of  the  conflict,  with  a  numerous  train  of 
eminent  associates.  The  earl's  remains,  with  those 
of  his  brother,  the  Marquess  of  Montagu,  were  con- 
veyed to  London*  and  there  exposed  to  public  view 
in  the  cathedral  of  St.  Paul,  whence  they  were 
transferred  to  Bitham*  in  Berkshire,  and  in- 
terred in  the  tomb  of  the  MowTAcurna.  Cominet 
reports*  that  the  earl  was  so  popular  at  Calais,  of 
which  he  was  governor,  that  every  body  wore  his 
badge,  no  man  esteeming  himself  gallant  whoae  head 
was  not  adorned  with  his  ra^gfed  Htn^i  nor  no  door 
ftcquented  that  had  not  his  whit9  erou  painted 
thereon.  Moreover,  he  saith,  that  this  earl  never 
usedtoflghtonfoott  but  his  manner  was,  when  he 
had  led  hia  men  to  the  charge,  then  to  take  horsOb 
And  if  the  victory  fell  on  has  side,  to  flght  among 
bis  soldiers,  otherwise  to  depart  in  time.  But  in 
this  last  battle  he  was  constrained  by  his  brother, 
the  Marquess  of  Montagu,  to  alight  and  to  send 
away  his  hone.  Of  his  extraordinary  hospitality  it 
is  recorded,  that*  at  his  house  in  London,  six  oxen 
were  usually  eaten  1  breakfut,  and  every  tavern 
full  <»f  his  meat ;  "  for,  who  thet  had  any  acquaint- 
ance in  his  family*  should  have  as  much  sodden  and 
roast  as  he  might  carry  upon  a  long  dagger."  As 
admiral  to  King  Henry  VI.  his  lordship  was  styled 
GnnAT  Captain  of  thb  Sha,  and  throu^  the 
ikvoui  of  the  same  monarch,  he  had  a  grant  of  pre- 
cedency above  all  the  earls  of  England,  and  to 
augment  his  grandeur,  had  a  peculiar  office  at  arms, 
for  hia  services  in  martial  employments,  called 
.Wabwick  Hbrald.  After  his  kirdship's  death* 
bis  countess*  such  the  mutability  of  human  aflkirs, 
the  4[reat  hdresa  of  the  BsAUCHAMPa,  endured 
the  deepest  distress,  being  constrained  to  take 
sanctuary  in  the  Abbey  of  Beauliew,  in  Hamp- 
'  ahire,  where  she  continued  a  long  time  in  a  very 
mean  condition;  thence  removing  privately  into 
the  north,  she  there  too  abode  in  most  humble 
circumstances*  all  her  vast  inheritance  being»  by 


authority'  of  parliament,  taken  from  her  and  set- 
tled upon  laABKL  and  Anitk,  her  two  daughters 
and  heirs,  as  if  she  herself  had  been  naturally  dead. 
But  upon  the  death  of  these  ladies,  without  sur- 
viving issue*  her  inheritance  was  restored,  3rd 
Henry  VIL,  with  power  to  alienate  the  same  or  any 
part  thereof  This  appears*  however*  to  have  been 
merely  granted,  in  order  that  she  might  transfer 
it  to  the  king ;  for  soon  after,  by  special  deed*  and 
a  fine  thereupon,  she  passed  the  Warwick  estates* 
of  itf>  less  thanone  hundred  and  fourteen  lordahipa, 
together  with  the  isles  of  Jersey,  Ac.,  to  King 
Henry  VII..  and  his  issue  male*  with  remainder  to 
herself  and  her  heirs  for  ever.  When  she  died,  is 
not  exactly  known,  but  she  was  living  in  the  Ath 
of  Henry  VIL  By  this  lady  the  Earl  of  Warwick 
left  two  daughters, 

iBAnnL,  m.  to  Gecnge  Plantagenet,  I>nke  of  1 
.  Clarence,  brother  of  King  Edward  IV.,  and  \^  , 

diedt.ii  Z  eAUdr^T*-  -  y^c   PU*Ji<i»^^'. 

Aimn,  m.  first,  to  Edward  Prince  <rf  Wales*   ^ 
son  of  King  Henry  VI.,  and  secondly,  to 
Richard  Duke  of   Gloucester,  afterwards 
Richard  III.*  who  killed  the  young  prince, 
her  first  husband,  in  cool  blood,  after  the 
battle  of  Tewksbury.    By  Richard  she  had  a 
son, 
Edward     Plawtaoskbt,    who     was 
created  by  his  unde.  King  Edward  IV.* 
Earl  of  Salisbury,  in  the  first  year 
of  his  reign,  and  aflerwarda  Earl  of 
Chester,  and  Princb  of  WALxa.    He 
d,  the  next  year,  1484,  when  all  hia 
honours  became  bxtinct. 
An  attainder  immediately  followed  the  death  of  the 
Hout  Earl  of  Warwick,  and  under  that,  the 
Earldojcb  of  Warwick  and  Salibburt,  with 
the  Baronixsof  Montacutb  and  Monthxrmbr, 
became  forfbitbd. 
Armb.— Gules,  a  saltier*  ar. 

NEVILL  —  BARON  NEVILL,  OF  ^ 
MONTAGU,  EARL  OF  NOR- 
THUMBERLAND,   MAR- 
QUESS OF  MONTAGU. 

Barony,  by  Writof  Summons,  dated  30th  July*  1460, 

38  Henry  VL 

Earldom,      \  by  Letters  f  27th  May,  1467* 

Marquisate,  J    Patent*   \  2Sth  May,  1470. 

SIR  JOHN  NEVILL,  third  son  of  Richard  Nevill, 
Earl  of  Salisbury,  by  the  Lady  Alice  Montacute, 
daughter  and  heir  of  Thomas  Montacute,  Earl  of 
Salisbury,  was  summoned  to  parliament  as  Bahon 
Nbvill,  cfMontaguet  by  King  Henry  VI.,  In  1460, 
and  afterwards  espousing,  with  his  father  and  elder 
brother,  Richard,  the  celebrated  Earl  of  War- 
wick, the  interests  of  the  House  of  York,  he  had 
similar  summons  upon  the  accessi<Ni  of  King  Ed- 
ward IV.,  which  latter  monarch  constituted  him 
general  warden  of  the  cast  Marches  towards  Scot- 
land, and  the  ensuing  year,  (S7th  May,  1467,)  ad- 
vanMdhim  to  the  dignity  of  Earl  of  North um- 

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•BBLAVD  (in  oomeiiiiaMe  of  the  flight  of  Henry 
Ptnj,  Earl  of  NorthtimlMrkiid,  into  SeoCland, 
with  Haary  VL).  Hit  lorddiip  in  this  yvvdofeatod 
tlie  Lanoutrians  uBder  the  Duke  of  Sananet,  at 
HazHAM  s  ami  he  was  subnqucBtly  rewarded  with 
exteatiTO  grantt  ftom  the  forfUted-  laadi  in  tbe 
counties  of  Norfolk*  Leioeiter,  Nottingliam,  Suf- 
folk, and  York.  In  the  lOth  of  Edward  IVo  the 
earl  was  induced  to  resign  the  peerage  of  Northnm- 
borland,  in  order  tliat  tht  Psrey  might  be  restored ; 
and  in  lieu  tliereof,  he  was  created  If  ABoimae  of 
IfoNTAOu.  Soon  after  tltis,  however,  liis  kirdship 
joined  his  brotlier,  tlie  Earl  of  Warwick,  in  the 
reitoratian  of  King  HnifBv  VL,  and  eventually 
shared  tlie  fite  of  that  eminent  nobieman,  at  Ae 
battle  of  Bamet,  14th  April,  M71:  in  that  conflict 
both  brothers  fell,  and  both  were  afterwards  at* 
tainted.  The  marqucw  m.  Isabel,  daughter  of  Sir 
Edmund  Ingoidesthorp,  KnL,  and  had  issue, 
^  Gbobos,  who  was  created  Dukb  of  Bbd- 
""  FOBD,  on  the  5th  January,  I46B,  by  Ki$tgr 

EnwABB  IV.,  with  the  intention  of  bestow- 
lilg  upon  him,  in  marriage,  his  eldest  daugh- 
ter, the  Lady  Elisabeth  Plantagcnet.    After 
the  attainder  of  his  Csther.  and  the  conse- 
quent oonflscation  of  his  heritalde  estates, 
having  no  means  of  sustaining  the  ducal 
dignity,  his  grace  was  degraded  firom  all  his 
^  dignities  and  honours,-  by  parliament,   in 
1477<    He  died  in  1483, «.  p.,  and  was  interred 
at  Sheriff  HoCOB. 
Jcha,  d.  and  was  buried  at  Salston,  in  Cam- 
bridgeshire. 
Anne,  m.   to  Sir  William   Stoner,  Knt,  of 

Oxfordshire. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Lord  Scrope,  of  UpaalL 
r  Margaret,  m.  flrst,  to  Sir  John  If  ortimcr,  and 
secondly,  to  Robert  Home. 
Lncy,  m.  flrst,  to  Sir  Thomas  Fita-WiUiBms, 
of  Aldwarlie.  KnL,  and  secondly,  to  Sib 
AiTTBoiTY  Bbown,  Kut,  Standard-Bcarer 
of  England.    Her  ladyship's  grandson, 
SiB  Antrony  Bbown,  KbL,  was  cre- 
ated Viscount  Montagu. 
Isabel,  m.  to  Sir  William  Huddleston,  Knt,  of 
Salston. 
Under  the  attainder  of  this  noUcman,  the  Babowy 
OP  NBYII.L,  OP  MoxTAOU,  Bud  the  Maboubsatb 
ow  Montagu,  became  pobpbitbd. 

Abms.— Gules,  a  saltier,  ar.  a  labd  gobonny  ar. 
and  as.  a  crescent  for  diAerence. 

NEVILL— DUKE  OF  BEDFORD. 

See  NeviU,  MABQUBse  or  Montaov. 

NEVILL,  AND  FAUCONBERO— 
BARONS  FAUCONBERG, 
EARL  OF  KENT. 

Barony,  by  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  83rd  July,  1396, 

83  Edward  I. 

Earldom,  by  Letters  Patent,  dated  146B. 

Of  this  ancient  family,  the  flrst  upon  record  is 
PETER  DE  FALKEBERGE,  sob  of  Agnci  de 
3D0 


Arches,  fonndress  of  the  heaaa  of  mms,  Nunkd- 
ling,  in  HoMcmess,  in  the  oonnty  of  York.    This 
Peter  liad  three  sons, 
William. 

Walter,  m.  Agnes,  one  of  the  three  daughterB 
and  oo-hdn  of  Simon  Flts^imon,  by 
Isabel,  his  wifo,  daughter  and  heir  of 
Thomas  de  Cukeney,  founder  of  Wdbeck 
Abbey,  in  Nottinghamshire. 
Stephen,  m.  PetroniU,  another  of  the  daugh- 
ters  and  co-hrtrs  of  Simon  Fits-Simon. 
To  Walter  de  Falkebeig,  (the  second  son,) 


PETER  DE  FAUCONBERG.  who  was  «.  by  hk 


WALTER^  DE  FAUCONBERG,  of  Ryse, 
Holdemess,  who,  in  the  8th  of  Henry  III.,  wai 
stitutad  gofernut  of  Plympton  Castle*  in  the  county 
of  Devon.  He  m.  Agnes,  one  of  the  sisters  and 
co-hein  of  Peter  de  Bruss  of  Skelton  Castle,  and 
by  her  he  acquired  that  castle,  with  other  cxtensiye 
lands,  in  ail  of  which  he  obtained  diarter  for  ftee 
warren,  in  the  8th  Edward  I.  In  the  SSd  of  the 
same  reign,  he  had  summons*  to  attend  the  king, 
amongst  divers  other  persons  of  note,  to  advise 
oonceming  the  important  aflUrs  of  the  realm,  and 
soon  after  had  a  military  summons  to  be  at  Ports- 
mouth, in  order  to  sail  with  the  king  into  Franoeb 
He  was  summoned  to  parliament  as  a  babon,  ftom 
S3rd  June,  1890,  to  94th  July,  1901,  and  d.  fai  1908— 
was  «.  by  his  ddest  son, 

WALTER  DE  FAUCONBERG,  second  baron, 
but  never  summoned  to  parliamenL  His  lordihip 
m.  Isabel,  daughter  of  Lord  Roos,  of  Hamlake,  by 
whom  he  had  a  numerous  Amily.  Hed.  — — >  and 
was  «.  by  his  eldest  surriving  son, 

SIR  WALTER  DE  FAUCONBERG,  K.B., 
third  baron,  summoned  to  parliament  flrom  19th 
November,  1903,  to  88th  August,  19ia  This  noble- 
man distinguiahed  himself  in  the  Scottish  wars. 
His  lordship  m.  Anaatasia,  daughter  of  Ralph  de 
Nevil,  and  d.  in  1815— was  s.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  DE  FAUCONBERG,  fourth  baron,  sum- 
moned to  parliament  from  89d  January,  1396,  to 
10th  March,  UM0.  This  nobleman  was  bi  the  wan 
of  ScoUand,  7th  Edward  IIL,  and  he  was  after- 
wards in  the  expedition  made  into  Flanderk  In 
the.lMh  of  the  same  reign,  he  was  constituted 
sheriff  of  Yorkshire,  and  goremor  of  the  Castle  of 
York :  and  the  next  year  he  was  made  governor  of 
Berwick^pon-Tweed.  His  lordship  d.  hi  1949, 
and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR  WALTER  DE  FAUCONBERG,  flfth  ba- 
ron, summoned  to  perliement,  ftom  9Sth  Novem- 
ber, ISfiO,  to  14th  August,  1989.  This  nobleman 
being  a  banneret,  had  an  assignation,  in  the  94th 
Edward  III.,  of  £939.  9il.,  to  be  paid  out  of  the 
exchequer,  for  wages  due  to  him,  for  his  ser- 
vices and  expenses  in  the  wars  beyond  sea.  In 
two  years  afterwards,  upon  an  apprehended  inva- 

*  Nicolas  doubts  whether  tliis  writ  could  be 
deemed  a  regular  summons  to  parliament,  as  none 
of  the  higher  temporal  nobility,  nor  any  of  the 
spiritual  peers  were  included  in  the  summons,  nor 
there  any  day  flzed  for  the  meeting. 


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sioB  by  the  Frtnch,  his  lordchip  vm  appohitod, 
with  the  Lord  Mowbny  and  other  eminent  penont, 
to  guard  the  sea  coast  of  Yorluhire  i  and  he  was 
subsequently  again  in  the  wars  of  France.  He  m. 
flrst,  Maud,  daughter  of  John,  Lord  PateshuU,  and 
sister  and  co-heir  of  William  de  Pateshull,  and 
had  a  son  Thomas,  his  successor.  His  lordship 
espoused^  'secondly,  Isabel,  sister  of  John  Bigot. 
He  d,  in  136B,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR  THOMAS  Df:  FAUCONBERO,  sixth banm, 
but  nerer  summoned  to  parliament.  This  noble- 
man was  with  William  de  Windsore,  in  the  expe- 
dition made  into  Ireland,  in  the  4^  of  Edward 
III.,  and  in  the  fiOth  pf  the  same  rdgn,  he  was  in 
the  wars  of  Franoew  He  d.  about  the  year  137S, 
leaying  an  only  daughter  and  heir«M| 
JOAN  DE  FAUCONBERO.  who  espoused 
SIR  WILLIAM  NBVILL,  Knt,  (youngest 
son  of  Ralph,  first  Earl  of  Westmorland,  by  his 
second  wife,  Joane  de  Beaufort,  daughter  of  John 
of  Gaunt;)  he  was  summoned  to  parliament,  jure 
unrit,  as  Loiu>  FAUooiTBXito,  firam  Svd  August, 
1489,  to  83d  May,  1401.  Hb  loidshlp,  who  was  a 
military  person  of  great  valour,  distinguished  him- 
self at  the  si«ge  of  Orleans,  in  the  9th  of  Henry  VI. ; 
and  subsequently  took  a  leading  part  in  the  wars 
of  France.  He  was  governor  of  the  Castle  of 
Roxboiough,  in  the  same  reign  t  but  being  sent 
ambassador  into  Normandy  to  treat  of  peace,  he 
was  perfidiously  seised  upon  by  the  French,  and 
detained  for  some  time  a  prisoner  in  France.  In 
consideration  of  which  captivity,  he  had  an  assig- 
nation, in  the  90th  of  Henry  VI.,  of  £4160.  then 
in  arrear,  due  to  him  for  his  pay,  whilst  he  was 
governor  of  Roxborough,  to  be  received  out  of  the 
oastoms  of  the  ports  of  Bristol,  Kingston-upon- 
Hull,  and  Ipswich.  Altar  this  he  was  again  con- 
stitnted,  in  ooi^unctlon  with  Sir  Ralph  Grey, 
Governor  of  Roxborough  Castle  fbr  twdve  years, 
and  they  were  to  receive  jointly,  in  times  of  truce, 
£1000  per  annum,  and  in  time  of  war,  douUe  that 
income.  In  the  9Bth  of  the  same  reign,  he  was 
again  in  the  wan  of  France,  In  the  retinae  of  his 
nephew,  Richard,  Earl  of  Warwick,  then  governor 
of  Calais,  and  lieutenant  of  the  Marches  there  His 
lordship  espousing  the  cause  of  Edward  IV.,  and 
fitting  valiantly  for  that  prlnos,  at  the  battle  of 
TovfTOH,  was  rewarded*  alter  the  aooessioB  of  the 
new  monardi,  by  being  raised  to  the  dignity  of 
Eari.  of  KaiTT,  constituted  loud  admiilax.  of 
ENOi.AjrD,  and  nude  a  Knight  of  the  Garter.  But 
those  honours  his  lordship  o^Joyed  a  few  months 
only,  as  he  died  some  time  in  the  same  year,  1469« 
leaving  three  daughters  his  co-heirs,  vis. 

Joane,  m.  to  Sir  Edward  Bedhowing,  Knt 
EUiabeth,  m.  to  Sir  Richard  Strangeways. 

Knt. 
Alice,  m.  to  Sir  John  Coniers,  Knt,  K.G.,  and 
her  ddest  son, 

Sim  W11.X.IAM  CoMYxaa  was  summoned 
to  parliament  by  King  Hbnrt  VI IL 
as  Loan  Coifvana.  Hit  lordship  m. 
Lady  Anne  Neville,  daughter  of  Ralph, 
Earl  of  Westmorland,  and  dying  In 
1^4,  left  issue, 

Chbistofhbr,  his  successor. 


Katherine,  m^  to  Sir  Frands  BIgoda 

ofSettrington. 
Margaret,  m.  to  Richard,  son  of  Sir 
Roger  Cholmelsy,   of    Rockley, 
Knt 
His  lordship  was  «.  by  his  son, 
Sm  CHRiaTOPHBit  CowYSRs,  second  tn^ 
ron,  wlio  IN.  Anne,  daughter  of  WU- 
liam.  Lord  Dacre,  of  Gilleslanda  and 
had  issue, 
JoKN,  his  successor. 
Leonard. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to    George    Playocb 

Esq.,  of  Halnaby. 
Jane,  m.  to  Sir  Marmaduke  Coor 
stable,  Knt 
His  lordship  was  «;  by  his  elder  son. 
Job  IV  CoNYBRa,  third  baron.    This  no- 
Ueman  m.  Maud,  daughter  of  Henry 
Clillbrd,  first  Earl  of  Cumberland,  and 
d.  in  1M7,  leaving  three  daughters,  his 
heirs,  via. 

Anne,  m.  to  Anthony  Kempe,  Esq. 
Elisabeth,  m,  to  Thomas,  son  of  Sir 
John  D'Arcy,  Knt  (see  D'Arcy, 
Barons  Cooyen). 
Catherine,  m.  to  John,  son  and  heir 
of  John  AthertOB,  Esq.,  of  Atber- 
ton,  in  Lancashire. 
Of  these  daughters,  the  descendants  of 
Elisabeth,  Lady  D'Arcy  alone  re* 
main,  and  in  one  of  those,  Wii.t 
2.IAM,   present  Dukb  of   Lxbob, 
the  Baroicy    of     Conybrs  now 
centres. 
Upon  the  decease  of  the  Eari.  of  Kbwt  that  dig- 
nity became  bxtihct,  while  the  Barony  of  Fau- 
ooiTBBRO  fell  into  abbyancb  between  his  three 
daughters,  as  it  still  continues  with  their  bbprb- 

aBNTATIVBa. 

Armb.— 4ia.  a  saltier»  ar.  a  mulleta  sa.  for  dif- 

Nue^— In  an  old  inquisition,  it  was  found  that 
Henry  de  Fauoonberge  hdd  the  manor  of  Cuksoey, 
in  Nottinghamshire,  by  serjeanty,  for  shooing  the 
king's  horses  when  he  came  to  Mansfield,  which 
was  formerly  a  place  where  our  kings  were  wont 
ISrequcnUyto  retire  to  fpr  the  purpose  of  enjoying 
therhatfi 

NEVILL— BARON  LATIMER. 
See  Latimer*  Banna  LBtimer,  of  Danby. 

NEVILL— BARONS  LATIMER. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  Sftth  February,  1439, 
10  Henry  VL 

Upon  the  decease,  without  issue,  of  John  Nevia, 
IxiRD  Latimbb,  of  Danby,  several  of  his  lord- 
ship's estates  pasaed  by  entail  to  his  elder  brother  of 
the  half-blood, 

RALPH  NEVILL,  first  Earl  of  WestmorUnd, 
who  settled  those  lands  by  ftoAnent  on  Sir  George 

991 


NEV 


NEV 


NeviU,  one  ot  hit  mnm  liy  hit  Meond  wift,  Joane, 
dftughter  of  John  of  GauBt.  which 

SIR  GEORGE  NEVILL  was,  thereupoo,  the 
iMRt  ouming  year,  on  the  SMh  February,  1498, 
■ummoned  to  parliament  as  Baron  Latimsb.  In 
the  Idth  Henty  VI.  this  noblemaa  was  one  of  the 
chief  commanders  of  the  king's  forces  then  raised  in 
the  north,  for  the  defence  of  those  parts  against  the 
Scots.  And  tlie  same  year  his  lordship  came  to  an 
agreement  with  Maud,  Countess  of  Cambridge, 
(widow  of  his  half-unde,  John,  Lord  Latimer,  of 
Danby.)  to  this  efltect,  via.  :—Tliat  if  they  should, 
by  advice  <^  their  counsel,  grant  unto  Sir  John 
Willoughby,  Knt,  (for  the  purpose  of  avoiding 
litigation,)  any  of  those  lands  which  formerly  be- 
longed to  the  said  John,  Lord  Latimer,  that  she 
should  give  of  the  said  grants,  two  parts,  and  he. 
Lord  Latimer,  one.  And  in  case  of  any  suit  com- 
menoed  by  Sir  John  Willoughby  against  them  (by 
reason  of  his  being  the  next  heir  of  blood  of  the 
said  John,  Lofd  Latimer,  of  Danby,)  for  any  of 
those  lands,  she  to  pay  two-third  partSj  and  he  the 
other  part  of  the  costs  incurred  thereby. 

Lord  lAtimfr  m.  Lady  EUiabeth  Beaudiamp, 
third  daughter  by  his  first  wife,  of  Richard,  Eatl 
of  Warwick,  by  whom  he  had,  with  a  daughter, 
who  cL  issudess, 

Hbitry  (Sir),  who  m.  Jaanna,^  daughter  of 
John  Bourchier,  Lord  Becners,  and  fklling 
at  the  battle  of  Edgoot,  near  Banbury,  in 
the  9th  Edward  IV..  his  father  still  Uvfaig, 
left  two  sons  and  a  daughter,  via. 

Richard  (Sir),  successor  to  his  grand- 
father. 
Thomas,  of  Mathon,  m.  Anne*  daughter 

of  Robert  GrcnviUe. 
Joane,  m.  to  Sir  James  RatcUllb. 
Thomas,  of  Shenstone*  in  the  county  of  Staf- 
ford. 
Lord  Latimer,  it  appean,  in  the  latter  years  of  his 
life  became  an  idiot,  and  King  Edward  IV.,  in  con- 
sequence, committed  all  his  lands  and  lordships  to 
the  care  of  his  nephew,  Richard  NeviU,  Earl  of 
Warwick.    He  d.  on  the  30th  December,  14S9,  and 
was  «.  by  his  grandson, 

SIR  RICHARD  NEVILL,  second  baron,  sum- 
moned to  parliament  firom  ISth  August,  1408,  to 
9td  November,  IttS.  This  nobleman  was  one  of 
tlie  commanders  (1st  Henry  VII.)  of  the  king's 
army  at  the  battle  of  Stoke,  wherdn  John  de  la 
Pole,  Earl  of  Lincoln,  and  his  adherents,  sustained 
so  signal  a  defeat.  In  the  6th  Henry  VIL  he  had 
special  livery  of  all  the  lands  which  descended  to 
him,  by  the  death  of  his  grandfather  i  and  the  next 
year  he  was  again  a  commander  in  the  English 
army,  under  the  Earl  of  Surrey,  which  marched  to 
the  teUef  of  Noluun  Castle,  then  invested  bylhe 
Scots;  but  the  besiegers  raised  the  siege  and  fled, 
at  the  approach  of  the  English  forces.  In  the  ftth 
Henry  VIII.  Lord  Latimer  acquired  high  reputa- 
tion at  the  battle  of  Flodden  Fidd,  where  the  Scot- 
tish army  was  totally  routed,  and  King  James  IV., 
of  Scotland,  slain.  In  the  98th  of  the  same  reign 
he  was  one  of  the  peers  who  subscribed  tlie  letter  to 
Pope  Clement  VII.,  touching  the  king's  divorce 
firom  Queen  Katherine^     His  lordship  m.  Anne, 


daughter  of  Sir  Humphrey  Staflbrd,  of  Oralton, 
and  had  issuer 

JoBJi,  his  successor. 

William,  of  Penwyn,  m,  EUabeth,  daughter 
of  Sir  Giles  Greville,  Knt.,  and  his  issue 
Iwcame  extinct  in  1031. 
Thomas,  m.  Mary,  daughter  and  co-heir  of 
Thomas  Teys,  Esq.,  and  had  a  son, 
Thomas. 
Marmaduke,  «.  Elisabeth,  daughter  and  co- 
heir of  Thomas  Teys,  Esq.,  and  had  issue, 
Christopher,  who  d.  young. 
Alianore,  who  m.  Thomas  Teys,  Esq.,  of 
Layer-de-la>Hay. 


Cliristopher. 

Margaret,*  m.  to  Edward,  son  and  heir  of 
Robert,  Lord  Broke. 

Dorothy,  m.  to  Sir  John  Dawney,  Knt 

Elisabeth. 

Catherine. 

Susanna,  m.  to  Richard  Norton,  Esq.,  high 
sherilfofVorkshire,  13th  Elisabeth.  From 
a  younger  son  of  this  marriage,  Edmund 
Norton,  the  Lords  GranUey  are  said  to  de- 
rive. 

Joane. 
Lord  Latimer  d.  in  1530,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldeat 


SIR  JOHN  NEVILL,  third  baron,  summoned 
to  parliament  from  5th  January,  1534,  to  i6th  Janu- 
ary, 1548.  This  nobleman,  upon  the  insurrection 
in  Yorkshire,  temp.  Henry  VIIL,  called  the  Pilgrim- 
age of  Grace,  was  one  of  those  deputed  by  the  rebels 
(the  others  were  the  Lords  Scrope,  Lumley,  and 
Darcy,)  to  treat  with  the  Duke  of  Norfolk,  then 
advancing  at  the  head  of  an  army  against  them. 
His  lordship  m.  first.  Lady  Dorothy  de  Veie, 
daughter  and  co-heir  of  John,  Earl  of  Oxford,  and 
had  issue, 

John,  his  sttcoessor. 

Margaret. 
He  espoused,  secondly,  Catherine,  daughter  of  Sir 
Thomas  Parr,  of  Kendall,  Knt.,  by  whom  (who 

•  Memorable,  also,  is  this  Richard,  Lord  Lati- 
mer, for  the  dispute  he  liad  with  Robert,  Lord 
Broke,  touching  the  Barony  of  Latimer;  to  wliidi, 
as  next  heir  in  blood  to  John,  Lord  Latimer,  of 
Danby,  who  died  «.  pi,  the  9th  Henry  VI.,  he 
claimed  a  right.  But  to  end  the  contention,  the 
Lord  Broke  was  informed  by  an  herald,  that  Sir 
George  Nevlll,  grandfather  to  Richard,  was  created 
Lord  Latimer  by  a  new  title,  which  therefore 
lineally  descended  to  Richard,  by  Henry,  son  and 
heir  of  the  said  George;  and  that  the  Lord  Broke 
had  made  a  wrong  claim :  who  should  have  claimed 
his  style  from  William  Latimer,  first  created  Lord 
Latimer,  of  Danby,  (the  head  manor  of  his  barony,) 
temp.  Edward  I.,  on  this,  the  Lord  Broke  per- 
ceiving his  error,  and  having  a  title  of  his  own,  waa 
contented  to  conclude  a  match  between  their  chil- 
dren; and  Richard  sulibred  a  recovery  on  certain 
manors  and  lordships  demanded  by  the  Lord  Broke ; 
with  which  adjustment  both  parties  were  wdl  sacia- 

fied.--BAMK8. 


f 


NEV 

toecana^  alUr  bit  daoeua,  the  kst  wife  of  Kma 
HsNRY  VII L)  he  had  no  iMue.  Hia  lordship  <i.  in 
1542,  and  waa  «.  by  hia  son, 

SIR  JOHN  NEVILL,  fourth  baion,  aununoned 
to  parliaaaent  from  Uth  June,  1548,  to  6th  January* 
1581.  Hia  kndahip.  m.  Lucy,  daughter  of  Henry, 
Karl  of  Wor^aater*  and  had  iiaue> 

Katherine,  m.  to  Henry  Percy,  eighth  Earl  of 

Northumberland, 
porothy.  m,  to  Thomaa  Cecil,  first  Earl  of 
Exeter,  and  had  issue, 

William,  second  Earl  of  Exeter,  who 
left  three  daughters,  via. 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  Thoaoas,  Earl  of 

Berkshire. 
Diana,  m.  first,  to  Thomaa,  Earl  of 
Elgin,  and  secondly,  to  the  Earl 
of  Aylesbury. 
Anne,  m.  to  Henry  Orey,  Earl  of 
Stamford. 
Lucy,  imto  Sir  William  Comwallis,  KnU,  and 
had  two  sons,  who  both  died  «.  p.,  with  four 
daughters,  vis. 

Frances,  m.  to  Sir  Edward  Withipoole. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Thomaa  Sandya,  Esq. 
Cetherine,  m.  to  Richard  Farmer,  Esq. 
Dorothy,  m.  to  Archibald,  Earl  of  Argyll. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Sir  John  Danvers,  Knt,  and 
had  issue, 
Sm  CHABLsa  DANTBRa,  Knt,  attainted 

in  43rd  Elizabeth. 
Sir  Henry  Danvers,  Knt.,  created  Eabl 
OF  Dawby.  His  lorddiip,  who  waa  a 
Knight  of  the  Carter,  d,  in  1644  un- 
married, when  his  honours  became  ex- 
tinct. 
Sir  John  Danvers,  one  of  the  judges  of 

King  Charles  L,  d.  in  16S0. 
Elisabeth  Danvers  m.  Thomaa  Walmaley, 
Esq.,  of  Dunkelhagh,  in  the  county  of 
Lancaater,  and  left  a  daughter, 
Anne,  who  m.  first,  William  Middle- 
ton,   Esq.,  of  Stocked,   in  the 
county  of  York,  and  secondly.  Sir 
Edward  Osbom,  Bart.,  whose  son. 
Sir  Thomas  Osbom,  was  cre- 
ated Viscount  Latimer,  Earl 
of  Danby,   and    afterwarda 
Marquess  of  Carmarthen,and 
DuKX  or  LKBoat  all  which 
honours  are  enjoyed  by  his 
descendant,      the      present 
Duke  of  Leeds. 
Lord  Latimer  d.  in  1577,  when  the  Barony  or 
Latimbr  fell  into  abbyancb  between  his  lord- 
ship's four  daughters  and  co-heirs,  as  it  still  con- 
tinues with  their  descendants  and  representatives. 

ARJca.— <iu.  a  saltier,  ar.  sm  annulet  for  diliter- 
enoe. 


NEVILL— BARON  FURNIVAL. 


See  FuBsriyAL. 


NEV 

NEVILL  -^  BARONS     NEVILL    OF 

ESSEX. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  22nd  January,  1336, 
9  Edward  IH. 

In  tlie  8th  Henry  III., 

HUGH  DE  NEVILL  waa  conatituted  principal 
warden  of  the  king's  forests  throughout  England, 
and  chief  justice  of  the  same.  Thia  Hugh  m.  Joane, 
daughter  and  oo-heir  of  Warine  Fita-Gerald,  by 
Alice,  hia  wife,  daughter  and  heir  of  William  da 
Courcy,  and  paid  one  hundred  marks  for  livery  of 
the  moiety  of  the  manor  of  Stoke  Courcy,  with  the 
caatle  there,  and  moiety  of  the  knight's  fees  there- 
unto belonging,  which  he  had  of  her  inheritance. 
He  founded  the  priory  of  Stoke-Courcy,  in  the 
county  of  Devon,  and  waa  a,  by  hia  aon, 

JOHN  DE  NEVILL,  who,  like  hU  father,  waa 
chief  warden  of  the  foresta.  In  the  a6th  Henry  II  J, 
thia  John  had  a  military  summona^  attend  the 
king  into  France:  but  in  two  years  afterwards, 
being  convicted  of  trespassing  in  the  royal  foreata, 
he  waa  fined  two  thousand  marka  and  dismissed 
from  the  wardenahip  with  disgra<»i  which  so 
aflbcted  him,  thet  he  d.  in  the  same  year  of  a  broken 
heart,  at  his  manor  houae  of  Walperfield.  He  waa 
a.  by  his  son, 

HUGH  DE  NEVILL,  a  minor  at  the  time  of  hia 
father'sdeceaae,  and  theniemovedtoWindaor  Caatle. 
there  to  be  educated  with  other  of  the  king's  warda. 
For  the  cuatody  of  this  Hugh,  and  benefit  of  hia 
marrii^e,  John  de  Courteney  paid  to  the  crown, 
31st  Henry  III.,  two  thousand  five  hundred  marks. 
From  this  Hugh,  Dugdale  sunnisfa,  descepded 

HUGH  DE  NEVILL,  who  waa  father  of 

JOHN  DE  NEVILL,  who,  in  the  9th  Edward 
III.,  upon  doing  his  homage,  had  livery  of  hia 
lands,  and  waa  summoned  to  parliament  aa  a  Babow 
NBVIX.X.,  «/E»$ex,  from  9Snd  January,  1836,  to  10th 
March,  1318.  His  lordship  waa  in  the  wars  of 
France  and  Flanders.  He  d.  in  1358,  seised  of  two 
parts  of  the  manors  of  Great  and  Little  Wakaring, 
in  Essex,  for  life  only,  the  remainder  to  William  de 
Bohun,  Earl  of  Northampton}  and  alao  jointly 
with  Alice,  his  wife,  the  manors  of  Wethers's-fleld, 
Parva,  Halyngbury,  Chigenhale^Zoin,  Chigenhale- 
Tany,  and  Peltingdoii;  the  reversion  of  all  which 
belonged  to  the  said  WlUiam,  Earl  of  Northamp- 
ton. 

Upon  the  decease  of  Lord  Nevill  without  issue, 
the  Barony  of  Nbtill,  or  Eaaxx,  became  bx- 

TINCT. 

^ofa.-— The  connection,  if  any,  between  thia 
family  of  Nevills,  and  the  Nxviljls,  or  Raby, 
does  not  appear. 

NEVILL— BARON  NEVILL. 

By  Writ  of  Summona,  dated  85th  February,  1342, 
16  Edward  III. 

ROBERT  DE  NEVILL  was  summoned  to  par- 
liament, as  a  babon,  on  the  25th  February,  1348, 
3E  308 


NEW 


NEW 


twt  nerer  afterwards— -nor  is  there  any  thing  ftirther 
known  of  hinuelf  or  his  family.  It  is  presumed 
that  the  barony  became,  at  his  decease^  bxtinct. 

« 

NEWBURGH  —  EARLS    OF    WAR- 

WICK. 

Creation  of  William  the  Conqueror. 

XincBge. 

The  first  who  bore  the  title  of  Easl  of  War- 
wick, after  the  Norman  conquest,  was 

HENRY  DE  NEWBURGH.  (so  called  from  the 
eestle  of  that  name  in  Normandy,)  a  younger  son 
of  Roger  de  BeUomont,  Earl  of  Mdlent.  When 
fthto  eminent  person  obtained  the  earldom  Is  not 
ttactly  ascertained,  but  Sir  William  Dugdale  pre- 
sumes the  period  to  be  towards  the  close  of  the 
Conqueror's  reign,  '<  for  theitt**  saith  he,  **  King 
William  having  b^rt  Warwick  with  a  mighty 
ditch,  for  the  precinct  of  its  waUs,  and  erected  the 
gates  at  his  own  charge,  did  promote  this  Henry  to 
the  earldom,  and  annexed  thereto  the  royalty  of  the 
boroui^,  which  at  that  time  belonged  to  the 
crown.**  But,  though  Henry  de  Newburgh  was 
made  Earl  of  Warwick  by  the  first  Norman  sove- 
leign.  he  was  not  inTested  with  all  the  lands  attached 
to  the  earldom  until  the  ensuing  reign,  as  we  find 
WiLLiAit  Ruftu,  soon  after  his  accession  to  the 
throne,  conferring  upon  him  the  whole  inheritance 
of  Turdiil  de  Warwick,  a  Saxon,  who,  at  the  com- 
ing of  Duke  William,  had  the  reputation  of  earl ; 
and  thenceforth  the  «*  bear  and  ragged  staJf,"  the 
derlce  of  Turcfail's  fismUy,  derived  fhnn  the  diiral- 
rous  Guy,  Earl  of  Warwick,  was  assumed  by  the 
first  of  the  Newbuigh  dynasty ;  and  it  has  been  con- 
tinued ever  since  as  a  badge  of  the  successiveEarls 
of  Warwick.  The  name  of  this  Henry,  Earl  of 
Warwick,  appears  as  a  witness  to  the  charter  of 
King  Henry  I.,  whereby  that  prince  confirmed  the 
laws  of  Edward  the  Confisssor,  and  granted  many 
other  immunities  to  the  clergy  and  laity.  His 
lordship  m.  Margaret,  daughter  of  Rotrode,  Earl  of 
Perch,  and  had  issue,  two  daughters,  whose  names 
are  not  mentioned,  and  five  sons,  via, 

RoosR,  his  successor, 

Henry. 

GeAey. 

Rotrode,  Bishop  of  Eureaux. 

Robert,  seneschal  and  Justice  of  Normandy. 

This  Robert  was  a  great  benefactor  to  the 

abbey  of  Bee,  In  whidt  he  was  afterwards 

shorn  a  monk,  and  d.  in  1123L 

This  Earl  Henry  commenced  imparking  Wkdox- 

irocK,  near  his  castle  of  Warwick,  following  the 

example  of  his  sovereign.  King  Henry,  who  made 

the  first  park  that  had  ever  been  in  England,  at 

Woodstock.    His  lordship,  who  was  memorable 

for  pious  foundations  as  for  military  achievements, 

d.  in  lUO,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

ROGER  DE  NEWBURGH.  second  Earl  of 
Warwick.  This  nobleman,  in  the  contest  between 
the  Empren  Maud  and  King  Stephen,  espoused  the 
cause  of  the  former — but  his  lordship  is  much  more 
distinguished  by  his  munificent  grants  to  the  church 

3M 


than  his  martial  deeds.    He  m.  Gundied,  daughter 
of  William,  Earl  of  Warren,  and  had  issue, 
William,   1     .  . 

WAL.RAlf,j~««-»^««^ 

Henry,  who  had  for  his  patrimony  Ckmerland. 

in  Wales— he  died  «.  p,   * 
Agnes,  IN.  to  Qetttrf  de  Clinton,  the  king** 

chamberlain,  son  of  Qetttrf,  founder  of 

KSNILWORTH  CaBTLS. 

The  earl  d.  on  the  Uth  June,  1153,  and  was  s.  by  hia 
eldest  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  NEWBURGH,  third  Earl  of 
Warwick,  who,  in  the  12th  Henry  II.,  upon  the 
assessment  of  aid  for  marrying  the  king's  daughter, 
certified  the  number  of  his  knights'  fees  to  be  one 
hundred  and  five,  and  one  half,  an  enormous  for- 
tune at  that  period.  Hto  lordship  m.  first,  Maud, 
elder  daughter  and  co-heir  of  William,  Lord  Percy, 
and  secondly,  Margaret  D'Eivill.  but  had  no  issue. 
This  noUeman  was  distinguished  by  the  splendour 
of  his  style  of  living,  and,  like  his  fkther,  he  wae 
a  liberal  benefactor  to  the  church.  He  A  in  the 
Holy  Land  15th  November,  1184,  and  was  «.  by  his 
brother, 

WALERAN  DE  NEWBURGH,  firarth  Earl  of 
Warwick.  This  nobleman,  Dugdale  says,  <*  had 
much  ado  a  great  part  of  his  time  toudilng  his 
inheritance ;  there  starting  up  one  who  feigned  hint- 
self  to  be  his  brother.  Earl  William,  deceased  in  the 
Holy  Land,  which  occasioned  him  no  little  trouble 
and  vexation ;  so  that  it  Is  thought  by  some,  that 
the  grant  which  he  made  to  Hubert,  Archbishop  of 
Canterbury,  then  chancdlor  of  England,  of  the 
advowson  of  aU  the  prebendaries  belanging  to  the 
Colkgiate  Church,  In  Warwidc,  to  hold  during  his 
life,  was  to  purchase  his  Ikvour  In  that  weighty 
business.**  His  lordship  m.  first,  Margery,  daughter 
of  Humphrey  de  Bohun,  Earl  of  Hereford,  by  whom 
he  had  issue, 

HcN BY,  his  successor. 

Waieran,  who  had  the  manors  of  Graham 
and  Cotlsmore,  in  the  county  of  Rutland-^ 
diedf.  |K. 
Gundred,  who  took  the  veil  at  Pinley. 
He  espoused,  secondly.  Alice,  daughter  of  John  de 
Haroourt,  and  widow  of  John  de  Limesi,  by  whom 
he  had  an  only  daughter, 

Alicb,  m.  to  William  Mauduit,  feudal  Baron  of 
Hanslape,  (great  grandson  of  William  Mau- 
duit, chamberlain  to  King  Henry  I.,  tj 
Maud,  daughter  and  hriress  of  Michael  de 
HansUpe,)  and  had  issue, 

William  Mauduit,  Baron  of  Hapslape, 
who  eventually  succeeded  to  the  Earl- 
dom of  Warwick. 
Isabel,  m.  to  William  Beauchamp,  Baron 
of  Elmeley.  from  whom  the  Bean- 
duunps.  Earls  of  Warwick,  descended. 
The  earl  d.  in  1206,  and  was  «.  by  his  dder  son, 

HENRY  DE  NEWBURGH,  fifth  Earl  of  War- 
wick, a  minor  at  his  father's  decease,  and  committed 
to  the  guardianship  of  Thomas  Basset,  of  Hedcn- 
don,  who  accordingly  had  livery  of  his  lands,  with 
the  castle  of  Warwick.  Hto  lordship  attained  ma- 
jority in  the  15th  of  King  John,  and,  although  that 
monarch  had,  during  his  minority,  taken  away  hit 


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inheritaace  of  Gower,  in  WiIm,  and  bettowed  it 
upon  William  de  Braoie,  hit  lordihip,  nevarthelen, 
adhered  to  the  royal  cauie  in  all  the  subiaquent 
oonflicfci  between  the  crown  and  the  barons,  in  the 
reigns  of  King  John  and  hit  ion  Henry  III.  Hit 
lordahip  in.  flrtt,  Margery,  elder  daughter  and  co- 
heir of  Henry  D'Oyley,  of  Hoke  Norton,  in  the 
county  of  Oxford,  by  whom  he  had  iatue* 
Thomab,  his  tuccettor. 
Margery,  m.  fint,  to  John  Mareichal,  and 

tecondly,   to   John  de   Plattett,   both   of 

whom,  in  her  right,  aMumed  the  Earldom 

of  Warwiclc. 
The  earl  m.  secondly,  Philippe,  one  of  the  three 
daughters  and  heirs  of  his  guardian,  Tlunnas  Bas- 
set, of  Hedendon,  but  had  uo  issue.  This  countess, 
outlining  his  lordship,  paid  one  hundred  marks  to 
King  Henry  III.  that  she  might  not  be  eompMed  to 
marry  agabi,  but  that  she  might  select  her  own 
husband,  provided  he  were  a  loyal  subject.  She 
afterwards  espoused  Richard  Siward,  a  turbulent 
person,  but  of  a  martial  disposition  from  his 
youth,  who  took  an  active  part  with  the  barons. 
From  this  boisterous  soldier  her  ladyship  was,  how- 
ever, eventually  divorced.  Henry,  fifth  Earl  of 
Warwick,  was  «.  by  his  son, 

THOMAS  DE  NEWBURGH,  sixth  Earl  of 
Warwick.  This  nobleman  m.  Ela,  daughter  of 
William  Longespee,  Earl  of  Salisbury,  but  dying 
without  issue  the  earldom  and  great  inheritance  de- 
volved upon  his  half  sister. 

The  Lady  MaaonnY  db  Njbwbukoh,  then 

wife  of 
WILLIAM  MARESCHALL,  who  assumed  the 
title  of  Earl  of  Warwick,  but  dying  the  following 
year,  1JM3,  without  issue,  the  countess  espoused,  by 
•special  appointment  of  the  king, 

JOHN  DE  PLESSETS,  an  eminent  Norman, 
who  came  to  England  in  the  beginning  of  the  reign 
of  Henry  III.,  and  achieved  a  high  reputation  in  the 
Welsh  wars.  In  the  fi8th  of  the  same  reign  this 
John  was  made  constable  of  the  Tower  of  London, 
but  not  by  the  title  of  Earl  ot  Warwick,  nor  does  it 
appear  that  he  acquired  that  designation  for  some 
time  after  his  union  with  the  heiress  of  Warwick. 
He  eventually  assumed  it,  however,  under  a  clause 
in  a  fine  levied  in  the  31st  Henry  III.,  whereby 
William  Mauduit,  and  Alice,  his  wife,  did,  as  much 
as  in  them  lay,  confer  the  earldom  upon  him  for 
life,  sor  that,  if  he  outlived  the  countess,  his  wife, 
be  should  not  be  forced  to  lay  it  aside.  In  the 
August  ensuing  the  king  granting  to  him  licence  to 
fell  oaks  in  the  forest  of  Dene,  stylet  him  Eari.  of 
Warwick,  and  thenceforward  he  bora  the  dignity. 
His  lordship  appears  to  have  been  one  of  the  first 
favourites  of  King  Henry  IIL,  and  to  have  eqjoyed 
every  honcmr  end  privilege  that  monarch  could  con- 
fer. At  the  commencement  of  the  troubles  between 
Henry  and  the  barons  the  earl  was  appointed  sheriff 
of  the  counties  of  Warwick  and  Lelcaster,  but  he 
lived  not  to  witnets  the  issue  of  those  confiicts,  for, 
falling  sick  in  the  b^inning  of  the  month  of  Fe* 
bcuary,  1963,  he  died  before  its  expiration.  His 
lordship  left  issue  by  his  first  wife,  (see  Plessets,  Ba- 
ron Plessets,)  but  none  by  the  Ck)untess  of  Warwick. 
I<ady  Warwick  survived  her  husband  but  a  short 


time,  when  the  Earldom  of  Warwick,  and  the  great 
inheritance  of  the  Newburghs,  reverted  to  the  ton 
of  her  aimt.  Lady  Alice  Mauduit,  (refer  to  issue  of 
Waleran,  fourth  Earl,)  her  cousin, 

WILLIAM  MAUDUIT,  who  inherited  the  feudal 
Barony  of  Hanslape  at  the  deoeaseof  his  fkther  in  the 
year  1856,  and  upon  suooeeding  the  Countess  of 
Warwick,  assumed  the  title  of  Earl  of  Warwick,  in 
which  dignity  he  had  tummont  to  attend  the  king 
at  Woreetter,  to  march  agakiat  the  Welsh  (47th 
Henry  III.).  During  the  civil  war  between  King 
Henry  and  the  barons  hit  lordthip  waa  turprited  by 
a  division  of  the  baronial  army,  under  JohnGiflkrd, 
governor  of  Kenilworth,  at  his  castle  of  Warwick, 
and  being  taken  prisoner  with  his  counteis,  Alice, 
daughter  of  Gilbert  de  Segrave,  was  detained  at 
Kenilworth  until  tned  by  paying  a  ransom  of  nine- 
teen hundred  marks.  The  earl  d,  in  1267,  without 
issue,  when  his  sister,  Isabel,  wife  of  William  Beau- 
champ,  of  Elmdey,  called  the  Blind  Bacon,  became 
his  lordship's  heir,  (tee  Beaucfaamp,  Earlt  of  War> 
wick,)  and  thut  terminated  the  earlt^of  the  houies 
of  Newburgh,  Pleaiets,  and  MauduiL 
ARM8. — Newbuigh,  Earls  of  Warwick.—- Loaengy 

or.  and  as.  on  a  bordure,  gu.  eight 

plates. 
Mauduit,   Earl  of  Warwick.— Ar.  two 

barsgu. 


NEWMARCH-BARON  NEWMARCH. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  2ith  December,  1264. 

Xiiuage. 

Amongst  the  companions  of  the  Comqusror  was 

BERNARD  DE  NEWMARCH,  who  w<fx  the 
province  of  Breeknode,  in  Wales,  and  settled  there. 
In  this  place  he  founded  a  priory  of  Benedictine 
Monks,  and,  endowing  it  with  extensive  lands  and 
revenues,  giiive  it  to  the  abbey  of  Battel,  which- his 
victorious  master  had  founded  in  commemoration 
of  the  coMQuaaT.  This  Bernard  m.  Nesta»  or 
Agnes,  daughter  of  Griflyn,  son  of  Lewelyn,  Prince 
of  Wales,  and  had  a  son,  Mabbl,  who,  by  the  in- 
fiftmotts  conduct  of  his  mother,  was  deprived  of  his 
inheritance.  She  was  a  woman  of  licentious  habits, 
and  her  son  having  enraged  her  by  offending  one  of 
her  paramours,  she  swore  before  the  king  that  he 
was  not  the  ofBlprlng  of  her  husband,  but  begotten 
in  adultery.  Upon  which,  Mabd  being  excluded, 
the  estates  devolved  to  his  sister,  Sibyl,  and  in  her 
right  to  her  husband.  Miles,  Earl  of  Hereford, 
whose  yriy  sui»ivhig  shiid  and  heiress,  Bbrtba, 
inherited  eventually  the  county  of  Brecknock,  and 
m.  Philip  de  Braose. 

The  next  person  of  this  name  mentioned,  but 
unascertained  how  allied,  if  at  all  to  the  last,  is 

ADAM  DE  NEWMARCH.  And  after  him 
comes 

WILLIAM  DE  NEWMARCH,  who,  in  thel(Hh 
Richard  L,  paid  £lOOfor  his  reUef,  and  £100  for 
livery  of  his  father's  lands.  But  of  him  nothing 
further  is  stated,  than  that  he  became  a  leper,  and 
that  Godfirey  de  St.  Martin  had  custody  of  his 

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laudi  in  Hompdiire.    From  thlf  WiUUin«  we  paia 

to 

HENRY  DE  NEWMARCH,  who,  upon  the 
aMeument  of  the  aid  flor  marryliig  the  king't 
daughter,  18th  Henry  II.,  certified  his  knighto'  fees 
to  be  sixteen,  an  half,  two  thirds,  and  two  fifth 
partsi  for  which  he  paid  £ll  I4«.  2il.  To  this 
fkudsl  lord  succeeded  his  brother  end  heir, 

JAMES  DE  NEWMARCH,  who  d.  about  the 
year  im,  leaTing  twe  daughters,  his  co-heirs,  vis. 
liABSL  Ds  NnwMABCB,  iM.  to  Ralph  Russel, 
who,  in  the  8th  of  Henry  III.,  had  livery  of 
her  lands,   in  the  counties  of  Somenet, 
Wilts,  and  Gloucester. 
HAwraa  oa  NawMAacB,  m.  first  to  John  de 
Botreaux,  who,  in  the  9d  of  Henry  III.,  had 
liyery  of  her  proportion  of  her  father's 
property.    She  espoused,  secondly,  Nicho- 
las deMoels. 
Thus  tenninated  this  branch  of  the  fiunilyt  but 
there  was  another,  of  which  was 

ADAM  DE  NEWMARCH,  who.  Joining  the 
baronial  standard,  tempt.  Henry  III.,  was  sum- 
moned to  parliament  as  a  BABOir,  after  the  iiattle 
of  Lewes,  by  the  lords  who  then  usurped  the  go- 
▼emment :  but  he  was  subsequently  made  prisoner, 
and  compounded  for  his  estates  under  the  Dictum 
DB  Kbnilworth.  He  m.  m  ■  ,  daughter  of 
Roger  de  Mowbray,  and  had  a  son  and  successor, 

ROGER  DE  NEWMARCH,  who  was  never 
esteemed  a  baeoh,  nor  summoned  to  parlia- 
ment. In  the  11th  of  Edward  II.,  he  had  free 
watren  granted  him.  In  certain  demesne  lands.  In 
the  county  of  York  i  and  left  a  son,  Roosa,  but 
nothing  further  is  recorded  ofthe  family. 
Arms.— Gules,  five  losenges  conjoined  in  fesse  or. 

NEWPORT  —  BARONS  NEWPORT, 
VISCOUNTS  NEWPORT, 
EARLS  OF  BRADFORD. 


Barony 

Viscounty 

Earldom 


•      \  by  Letters  f 

^^'  f  Patent,  1 


14th  October,  1649, 
nth  March,  im^ 
nth  May,  10M. 


The  Nawponra  ware  of  gnat  anttqulty  in  the 
county  of  Salop,  and  descended  flrom 

JOHN  DE  NEWPORT,  a  person  of  some  note. 
In  the  time  of  Edward  I.,  ttcnk  whom,  alter  sercral 
generations,  sprang 

THOMAS  NEWPORT,  Esq.,  who  manying 
Anne,  daughter  and  oo4ielrof  John  Brcall,  Esq.,  of 
High  Ercall,  in  Shropshire,  settled  there,  and  made 
it  the  designation  ot  his  fiunily.  From  this  mar- 
riage lineally  descended, 

SIR  RICHARD  NEWPORT,  Knt,  of  High 
Bicall,  who,  tot  his  eminent  serrices  to  King 
Charles  I.,  was  elevated  to  the  peerage  by  that 
monarch,  on  the  14th  October,  1649,  as  Bakon 
NnwPORT,  of  High  ErealL  His  lordship  m. 
Rachad,  daughter  of  John  Levison,  Esq.,  of  Ha- 
ling, and  sister  and  co-heir  of  Sir  Richard  Levison, 
of  Trentham,  in  the  county  of  Staflbrd,  K.B.,  and 
had  issue, 

Francis,  his  successor. 

aw 


Andrew,  a  commissioner  of  the  Customs,  A 

unmarried. 
Beatrix,  m.  to  Sir  Henry  Bromley,  Knt.,  of 
Shiawarden  Castle,  Salop. 
Christian,  tf.  unmarried. 

Mary,  «.  first,  to  John  Steventon,  Esq.,  of 

Dothlll,  in   Shropshire,  and  secondly,  to 

Francis  Forester,  Esq.,  of  Watlingstreet,  fat 

the  same  county. 

Margaret,  in.  to  Richard  Fowkr,. -Esq.,  of 

Hamage  Green. 
Anne, «.  to  Edward  Corbet,  Esq.,  of  Longnor 
Christian,  d.  unmarried. 

Elisabeth,  ni.  to  Henry  Powle,  Esq.,  ofWU- 
liamsthorpe,  in  the  county  of  Gloucester. 
Lord  Newport  having  suflbred  much  during  Che 
civil  wars,  and  being  aged  and  infirm,  retired  Into 
France,  and  d.  there,  8th  February,  1690^  when  ha 
was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

FRANCIS  NEWPORT,  second  Banm  Newport. 
This  nobleman.  In  the  time  of  his  fiither,  fbught 
valiantly  under  the  Royal  bsnner  until  1644,  when  be 
was  taken  prisoner  hy  the  parliamentarians.  Upon 
the  restoration,  he  was  constituted  by  King  Charles 
II.,  first,  comptroller,  and  afterwards,  treasurer  of 
the  household,  and  was  advanced  to  the  dignity  of 
ViscouifT  NawroRT,  of  Brm^fiiir4t  by  letters  pa- 
tent, dated  11th  March,  107A.  His  lordship  m. 
Lady  Diana  Russell,  daughter  of  Fmds,  Earl  of 
Bedford,  and  had  Issue, 

Richard,  his  successor. 
Thomas,  elevated  to  the  peerage,  89th  June, 
1716,  as  Barok  Torrinotom,  In  the  county 
of  Devon,   died  «.  ^  in  1718,  when  the 
barony  became  axnircT. 
Francis,  d.  unmarried. 

Elisabeth,  m.  first,  to  Sir  Henry  Uttelton,  of 

Frankley,  Bart.,  and  secondly,  to  Edward 

Harvey,  Esq.,  of  Combe,  In  the  county  of 

Surrey. 

Catherine,  in.  to  Henry,  Lord  Herbert  of 

Cherbury. 
Diana,  m.  first,  to  Thomas,  son  of  Sir  Robert 
Howard,  Rut.,  of  Ashstaad,  in  the  county 
of  Surrey,  and  secondly,  to  WiUlem  Field- 
ing, hiother  of  Basil,  Earl  of  Denbigh. 
Anne,  d.  unmarried. 
His  lordship,  afler  the  revolution,  was  created  Barl 
OF  Bradpord,  by  letters  patent,  dated  llth  May, 
1604.    He  d.  In  1706,  and  was*,  by  his  eldest  son, 

BICH ARD  NEWPORT,  second  eiri.  This  no- 
bleman m.  Mary,  daughter  of  Sir  Thomea  Wllbra- 
ham,  BarL,  of  Woodhey,  hi  the  county  of  Chester, 
and  had  issue, 

HXNRT,      1 

Richard,  Veuccessivdy  Bails  of  Bradford. 

Thomas,  } 

William,  died  «.  pi 

Mary,  d.  unmarried. 

Etiaabeth,  m.  to  James  Cocks,  Esq.,  te  the 

county  of  Worcester,  end  died  :  p, 
Anne,  m.  to  Sir  Orlando  Brldgeraan,  Batt., 
and  her  eldest  son. 
Sir  Hbhrt  Bridosmast,  was  treated  in 
17M,  Barok  Bradpord.    Hislonlship 
<f.  in  10W,  and  wassi  by  his  son* 


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Orlando  BmoaBifAif,  leeaiid  lMk> 
nm,  who  WW  cmted  Earl  op 
Bhadvord,  in  1815b  Ho  il.  In 
182ft,  sad  was  «.  by  his  ton* 

Georg9-AtiguttU9,  pmaitEABX. 
OP  Braofobd. 
Diaiui»  m.  to  Algernon  CooCe>  Earl  of  Mont- 
nth,  In  Ireland,  by  whom  the  had  an  only 
■on, 

Charlee-Henry,  Earl  of  Montrath,  who 
died  «.  p,  in  1808. 
His  lordihip,  who  was  Lord  Llcntenant,  and  Custos 
Rotulorum,  of  the  county  of  Salop,  d.  in  17S3,  and 
was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

HENRY  NEWPORT,  third  earl,  who  d. without 
legitimate  issue,  te  1734,  and  was  s.  by  his  next 
brother, 

RICHARD  NEWPORT,  ftnirth  earl,  at  whose 
decease,  unmarried,  the  honours  ds^olved  upon  his 
brother, 

THOMAS  NEWPORT,  fifth  earL  This  BoUe^ 
man  d.  a  lunatic,  in  1788,  when,  leaving  no  Issue, 
the  Barony  or  Nswport,  of  High  JBreaU,  the 
yiscouNTY  or  NswTORT,  and  the  Earldom  or 
Bradford,  became  rxtinct. 
Arms.— Ar.  a  cherron  gu.  between  three  leopards' 


NEWPORT  —  BARON      TORRING- 

TON. 

Refer  to  Newport,  Earlr  of  Bradford  (Tho- 
mas, second  ion  of  the  flnt  earl,  was  created  Baron 
Toirington). 

NOEL  —  BARONS  WENTWORTH, 
VISCOUNTS  WENTWORTH, 
OF  WELLESBOROUGH,  IN 
THE  COUNTY  OF  LEICES. 
TER. 

Refer  to  Wrntworth,  Bctoiu  Wentwarffi. 

NOEL  — BARONS  NOEL,  OF  RID- 
LINGTON,  VISCOUNTS 
CAMPDEN,  BARONS  NOEL, 
OF  TITCHFIELD,  EARLS 
OF  GAINSBOROUGH. 


Barony, 
Viscounty 
Barony 
Earldom 


Ity.iby 


f  SSrd  March,  1817. 
.  Letters!  ftth May,  1888. 
Patent,    j  3rd  February,  1881. 

I^lst  December,  1888. 

Xiiuagc. 

It  Is  erldent,  lay  modem  genealogists,  from  tbe 
Hmmdatlon  of  the  priory  of  Raunton,  in  89^f- 
fordtMn,  that  Nosl,  the  ancestor  of  tUs  flunily, 
came  into  England  with  the  CoNguanoR  in  1088, 
and  fer  his  serrices  obtained  the  manon  of  Ellen- 
hall,  Wiversume,  Podmore,  Milnese,  and  other 
lands,  by  grants  tmax  the  new  monarch.  Hte  eldest 
son, 

ROBERT,  was  Lord  of  Ellenhall,  &c,  and  In 
the  reign  of  Henry  I.  had  a  grant  of  the  greatest 
part  of  Granborough,  in  the  county  of  Warwick, 


fkom  Lawrenoe,  the  prior  of  Copeotry,  and  the 
monks  of  that  house.  In  the  reign  of  Henry  IL  he 
founded  the  priory  of  Raunton,  or  Ronton,  near 
Ellenhall,  his  chief  seat,  for  Canons  Regular  of  St 
Augustine.    This  Robert  had  two  sons, 

Thomas,  who  was  sheriff  of  Stallbrdshire  for 
seren  yeers,  in  the  reign  of  Henry  IL, 
and  for  one  year  upon  the  arreMJon  of 
Richard  I.— left,  at  his  dedease,  two  dao^. 
ten, 

Alice,  m.  to  WiUlam  Haroourt,  of  Stan- 
ton Hareourt,  and  had  Ellenhall  and 
other  estatss  as  her   moiety  of  her 
father's  property. 
Joan,  m.  to  William  de  Dunston,  and  had 
for  her  share  Ronton,  && 
Philip. 
The  second  son, 

PHILIP  NOEL,  had  Hiloote,  in  Staflbrdshireb 
from  his  father,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

ROBERT  NOEL,  Lord  of  HUcote,  who  m. 
Joen,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Acton,  KnL,  and  from 
this  Robert  we  pass  to  his  lineal  descendant, 

JAMES  NOEL,  Esq.,  of  Hilcote,  who,  in  t1^ 
5th  Henry  VIII.,  was  nominated,  by  act  of  parlia- 
ment, one  of  the  justices  of  the  peace  fbr  aneating 
and  collecting  the  poll  tax,  Jkc  He  m.  a  daughter 
of  Richard  Pole,  of  Lan^ey,  in  the  county  of 
Derby,  by  whom  be  had  leyen  sons,  of  which  Ro- 
nsRT,  the  ddest,  continued  the  line  at  Hiloote^ 
while  another  branch  was  founded  by  tbe  third 


ANDREW  NOEL,  Esq.,  who,  at  the  dlssolu*> 
tion  of  the  monasteries,  had  a  grant  of  the  manor 
and  sdte  of  the  late  preceptory  of  Dalby-upoii* 
Wold,  in  Ldcestershire,  which  had  belonged  to  the 
knights  of  St  John  of  Jerusalem,  and  of  the  manor 
of  Purybarre^  in  StaflbrdshirsL  In  the  88th  Henry 
VIII.  he  was  sheriff  of  die  county  of  Rutland,  ashe 
was  afterwards,  both  in  the  rdgn  of  Edward  VL 
and  In  that  d  Uaaj,  In  IMS  he  purchased  the 
seat  and  manor  of  Brook,  in  Rutlandshire,  and  was 
elected  for  that  eonnty  in  the  flrat  pariiament  of 
Queen  Mary.  He  m.  first,  Elisabeth,  daughter 
and  heir  of  John  Hopton,  Esq.,  of  Hopton,  in 
Shropshire,  and  widow  of  Sir  John  Petlent,  by 
whom  he  had  Andrbw,  his  heir,  and  sercral  other 
children.  He  espoused,  secondly,  Dorothy,  daugh- 
ter of  Richard  Conyers,  Esq.,  of  Wakorley,  in  the 
county  of  Northampton,  widow  of  Roger  Flower, 
Esq.,  by  whom  he  had  one  scm, 
John,  father  of 

WII.X.IAM  NoBL,  Esq.,  of  Kirby  Mallory, 

high  sheriff  of  Leicester  in  the  8nd  of 

James  I.,  whose  son  and  successor, 

Vrrb  Nobl,  Esq.,  of  Kirby  Mallory, 

was  created  a  baronet  in  1888,  and 

was  ancestor  of 

Sir  Bowaro  Norl,  who  «.  to 

the  Barony  of  Wentworth  in 

1788*  and  was  created  Viscount 

Wrntworth. 

Mr.  Noel  was  s.  at  Ms  deceese  by  the  eldest  eon  of 

his  flrst  marriage, 

SIR  ANDREW  NOEL,  Knt,  of  Dalby,  in  the 
county  of  Leicester,  wtio  was  a  person  of  great  note 

887 


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NOE 


i'o  the  time  of- EUsibcth/ living  In  sudi  magnifl- 
oenoe  n  to  Tie  with  noblcmea  of  the  largest  for- 
tunes Fuller,  in  his  Worthies  of  England,  aaitb, 
that  this  Andrew,  **  for  peison,  parentage,  grace, 
gestvre,  Talour,  and  many  other  excellent  parts, 
^amongst  which  skill  in  music,)  was  of  the  first 
rank  in  the  court."  He  was  knighted  by  Queen 
Elisabeth,  and  became  a  fayourite,  but  the  expences 
in  which  he  waiT  involved  obliged  him  to  sell  his 
seat  and  manor  at  Dalby.  Her  majesty  is  said  to 
have  mad^the  following  distich  upon  his  name— 
"  The  word  of  denial,  and  letter  of  fifty, 
"  Is  that  gentleman's  name,  who  will  never  be 
thrifty.- 
He  was  thrice  sheriff  of  the  county  of  Rutland,  and 
member  for  tliat  shire  in  several  parliaments  dur- 
ing the  reign  of  Queen  Elisabeth.  Sir  Andrew  m. 
Mabd,  sixth  daughter  of  Sir  James  Harrington, 
Knt.,  and  sister  and  heir  of  John,  Lord  Harrington, 
of  Exton,  by  whom  he  had  issue, 

Eovtaud  (Sir),  his  heir. 

Charles,  d.  unmarried  in  1619. 

Arthur. 

Alexander,  of  WhitwdL 

Lucy,  m.  to  William,  Lord  Eure. 

Theodflsia,  m.  to  Sir  Edward  Cecil,  afterwards 
Lord  Wimbledon. 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  George,  Earl  of  Castlehaven, 
in  Ireland. 
He  d.  at  his  seat,  Bbook,  in  Rutlandshire,  9th  Octo- 
ber, ]e07«  end  was  s.  by  his  eldest  son, 

SIR  EDWARD  NOEL,  Knt.,  who  was  created 
«  BAEOHBT  S9th  June,  1611,  and  elevated  to  the 
peerage,  by  letters  patent,  dated  23rd  March,  1616-17, 
as  Baboh  Nobx.,  ef  BidliMirtoH,  in  the  eounttf  ^f 
KMUmd,  His  lordship  m.  Julian,  eldest  daughter 
and  co-heir  of  Sir  Baptist  Hicks,  Bart,  which  Sir 
Baptist  was  created  Baron  BUHu,  t^f  Ilmington,  in 
the  county  <if  Warwick,  and  Viscount  Campdbh, 
in  Gloucastcrshire,  5th  May,  1688,  with  remainder 
to  his  son-in-lew.  Lord  Noel ;  and  upon  his  decease, 
on  the  18th  of  October,  in  the  following  year,  these 
dignities  were  inherited  by  his  lordship.  He  had 
issue. 

Baptist,  his  succwsor. 

Henry,  m.  Mary,  daughter  of  Hugh  Perry, 
Esq.,  of  London,  but  died  «.  p» 

Anne. 

Pendop^  IN.  to  John,  Viscount  Chawmth. 

Eleanor.  « 

Mary,  m.  to  Sir  Erasmus  de  le  Fountain,  of 
Kirby  Bellers,  in  the  county  of  Leicester. 
On  the  breaking  out  of  the  civil  war  Lord  Noel 
raised  forces  for  the  royal  catise,  and  departed  this 
life  in  his  garrison  at  Oxford,  10th  March,  1643, 
when  he  was  e.  by  his  elder  son, 

BAPTIST  NOEL,  second  Baion  Noel,  and  third 
Viscount  Campden.  This  nobleman  was  as  faithful 
B  cavalier  as  his  (kther,  and  raised  a  troop  of  horse 
and  company  of  foot  for  the  service  of  the  king. 
For  his  estates  he  was  obliged  to  pay  to  the  seques- 
trators £9,000  composition,  and  an  annuity  of 
£\B0  settled  on  the  Teachers  of  the  period.  While 
hfl%ustained  the  loss  of  his  princdy  seat  at  Camp- 
den, which  had  been  burnt  down  by  the  royal 
«rmy  to  prevent  its  becoming  a  garrison  to  the  par- 


His  lordship  lived  to  witness  tlie 
restoration  of  the  monarchy,  and  was  made  lord- 
lieutenant  of  the  oounty  of  Rutland.    He  m.  first. 
Lady  Anne  Fielding,  daughter  of  William,  Earl  of 
Denbigh,  by  whom  he  had  no  surviving  issue.    He 
espoused,  secondly,  Anne,  widow  of  Edward,  Earl 
of  Bath,  and  daughter  of  Sir  Robert  Lovet,  Knt., 
but  had  only  one  still-bom  child.    His  lordship 
wedded,  thirdly,  Hester,  daughter  and  co-heir  of 
Thomas,  Lord  Wotton,  by  whom  he  had  issue, 
EowABD,  his  successor. 
Henry,  of  North  Lullbnham,  in  Rutlandshire, 
who  m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  and  heir  of  Sir 
William  Wale,  and  left  an  only  daughter 
and  heir, 
Juliana,  who  m.  Charles  Boyle,  Earl  of 
Burlington. 
Mary,  m.  to  James.  Earl  of  Northampton. 
Juliana,  in.  to  William,  Lord  AUngton. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Charles,  Earl  Berkeley. 
The  viscount  m.  fourthly.  Lady  Elisabeth  Bertie, 
daughter  of  Montague,  Earl  of  Lindsey*.  and  had 
surviving  issue. 

Baptist,  of  Luflteham,  in  the  oounty  of 
Rutland,  M.P.  for  that  shire,  m.  Susannah, 
daughter  and  heir  of  Sir  Thomas  Fanshaw, 
and  left  at  his  decease,  one  son. 

Baptist,  who  inherited,  as  third  Earl  of 
Gainsborough. 
John.  m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Bennet,  Lord 
Sherrard,  and  had  issue. 

John,  M.P.  for  Nozthamptonshire,  who 

dL  unmarried. 
Thomas,  m.  Elisabeth,  widow  of  Baptist, 

fourth  Elarl  of  Gainsborough. 
Bennet,  m.  to——,  daughter  of  Adam, 

Esq. 
Elisabeth,  d.  unmarried. 
Bridget,  m.  to  David,  Lord  Milsington. 
Alice. 
Catherine,  m.  to  John,  Earl  of  Rutland. 

Martha-Pendope,  m.  to Dormer,  Esq. 

His  lordship  died  at  Exton,  S9th  October,  1689,  and 
was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

EDWARD  NOEL,  third  Baron  Noel,  and  fourth 
Viscount  Campden,  who  had  been  created  by  King 
Charles  IL,  by  letters  patent,  dated  3rd  February, 
1681,  Babon  Nobl,  cf  TitdifieU,  with  remainder, 
default  of  male  issue,  to  the  younger  sons  of  his 
Esther,  and  was  advanced  to  the  dignity  of  Eabl 
or  Gainsbobouob,  1st  December,  1682,  with  simi- 
lar limitation.  His  lordship  was  constituted  lord 
lieutenant  of  the  oounty  of  Southampton,  warden 
of  the  New  Forest,  and  governor  of  Portsmouth. 
Hem.  first.  Lady  Elisabeth  Wriothesley.  daughter 
and  co-heir  of  Thomas,  fourth  Earl  of  Southamp- 
ton, by  whom  he  acquired  the  lordship  of  Titcb- 
field,  and  had  issue, 

Wbiothbslby-Baptist,  his  successor. 
Frances,  m.  to  Simon,  Lord  Digby,  and  d.  in 

1684. 
Jane,  m.  to  William,  Lord  Digby,  brother  and 

successor  of  Simon,  Lord  Digby. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Richard  Norton,  Esq.,  of  the 

oounty  of  Southamptoo. 
JuliaiUy  d.  unmarried. 


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The  earl  m.  leoondly,  Mary,  widow  of  Sir  Robert 
Wondey,  of  Appledercomb*  la  the  Itle  of  Wight, 
end  daughter  of  the  Honourable  James  Herbert,  of 
KingMy,  in  BuckinghamBhire.  He  d.  fn  1889,  and 
waa«.  by  his  ton, 

WRIOTHESLEY-BAPTIST  NOEL,  fourth  B»> 
TOO  Noel,  fifth  Viscount  Campden,  and  second 
Eail  of  Gainsborough,  who  m.  Catherine,  eldest 
daughter  of  Fulke  Greville,  fifth  Lord  Brooke,  and 
had  two  daughters,  his  co-heirs,  vii. 

Elisabeth,  m.  in  17M,  to  Henry,  first  Duke  of 
Porthmd. 

Radiel,  m.  in  1705-6,  to  Henry,  second  Duke 
of  Beaufort. 
His  lordship  d.  91st  September,  1600,  when  all  the 
honours  derolved  upon  his  kinsman,  (refer  to  issue 
of  Baptist,  third  Viscount  Campden,  by  his  fourth 
marriage). 

BAPTIST  NOEL,  Esq.,  of  Luflteham,  in  the 
county  of  Rutland,  as  third  Earl  of  Gainsborough. 
His  lordship  m.  Lady  Dorothy  Manners,  daughter 
of  John,  Duke  of  Rutland,  and  had  issue, 

Baptibt,  Viscount  Campden,  his  successor. 

John,  A  in  1718. 

James,  M.P.  for  Rutlandshire,  d.  unmarried, 
in  1762. 

Susan,  m.  to  Anthony,  fourth  Earl  of  Shaftes- 
bury. 

Catherine. 

Mary,  d.  in  1718. 
The  earl  d.  in  1751,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

BAPTIST  NOEL,  fourth  Earl  of  Gainsborough. 
This  nobleman  espoused  Elisabeth,  daughter  of 
William  Chapman,  Esq.,  by  whom,  (who  m.  se- 
condly, Thomas  Noel,  Esq.,  grandson  of  the  third 
Viscount  Campden,)  he  had  issue. 

Baptist,  |  g^^j^  ^^^^j  ^^^^j^  ^^^ 

Charles,  d.  young. 
Elisabeth. 

Jane,  m.  to  Gerard-Anne  Edwards,  Esq.,  of 
Welham  Grove,  in  the  county  of  Essex,  and 
her  only  son,  Gbraro  Edwards,  having 
been  created  a  baronet,  and  assuming  the 
name  and  arms  of  Nobl,  upon  inheriting 
the  estates  of  his  uncle,  Henry,  sixth  Earl 
of  Gainsborough,  is  the  present, 
SirGsraro-NokiiNokl,  Bart. 
Juliana,  m.  to  George  Evans,  Lord  Carberry, 

and  d.  hi  1700. 
Penelope,  d.  young. 
Anne. 

Lucy,  m.  to  Sir  Horatio  Mann,  K.B. 
Mary, 
Susanna. 

Sophia,  m.  to  Christopher  Neville,  Esq. 
His  lordship  d.  81st  March,  1750-51,  and  was«.  by 
his  eldest  son, 

BAPTIST  NOEL,  fifth  Earl,  who  died  in  mi- 
nority, on  his  travels,  at  Geneva,  in  1750,  when  the 
honours  devolved  upon  his  brother, 

HENRY  NOEL,  sixth  earl,  at  whose  decease, 
unmarried,  in  1796,  the  Earldom  or  Gainsbo- 
rough, and  ALL  the  other  honours  became  bx- 
tinct;  while  the  estates  passed  to  his  lordship's 
nephew,  Gerard-Noel  Edwards,  Esq.,  who,  there- 


upon assuming  the  surname  and  arms  of  Nobl,  and 
being  created  a  BARONBT,  became  Sir  Gerard-Noel 
Noel  (refer  to  children  of  fourth  Earl). 
Arms.— Or.  fretty  gu.  a  canton  erm. 

NORTH  —  BARONS  NORTH,  OF 
KIRTLINO. 

m 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  17th  February,  1554. 
1  PhiL  and  Mary. 

This  family  sprang  from 

ROBERT  NORTH,  Eaq.,  who  died  in  the  reign 
of  Edward  IV.,  leaving  issue  by  Alice,  his  wife, 
daughter  of  Jolm  Harcourt,  Esq.,  of  the  county  of 
Oxford, 

THOMAS  NORTH,  Esq.,  of  Walkringham.  In 
the  county  of  Nottingham,  who  was  «.  by  his  son, 

ROGER  NORTH,  Esq.,  who  d.  in  the  reign  of 
Henry  VII.,  Jeaving  two  sons,  via. 

Thomas,  who  continued  the  line  of  Walkring- 
ham. 
And 

ROGER  NORTH,  Esq.     This  gentleman  m. 

Christian,  daughter  of  Ricliard  Warcup,  of  Soo- 

nington,   near  Appleby  in   Kent,   and  widow   of 

Ralph  Warren,  by  whom  he  had  issue, 

EwDARD,  his  successor. 

Joan,  m.  to  William  Wilkinson,  an  Alderman 

of  London. 
Alice,  m.  to  Thomas  Burnet,  Auditor  of  the 
Exchequer. 
Mr.  North  d.  in  1509,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR  EDWARD  NORTH,  a  lawyer  of  eminence, 
who  was  appointed,  in  the  22nd  Henry  VIII.,  joint 
clerk  of  the  parliament,  with  Sir  Bryan  Tuke, 
KnL,  but  that  ofllce  they  surrendered  at  the  expira- 
tion of  ten  years.  Sir  Edward  being  then  treasurer 
of  the  court  of  augmentations,  of  which  he  became 
afterwards  chancellor.  In  the  37th  Henry  VIII.,  he 
was  sworn  of  the  privy  council,  having  some  years 
before  been  made  one  of  the  king's  sergeants,  and 
elected  to  parliament  by  the  county  of  Cambridge  i 
and  having  had  large  grants  of  lands  firom  the 
crown.  Thus,  he  stood  high  in  the  fevour  of  King 
Henry,  but  as  that  monarch  was  remarkable  tat  any 
thing  rather  than  stability  in  his  attachments.  Sir 
Edward  North  felt  the  precariousness  of  his  situ- 
ation, and  was  more  than  ordinarily  cautious  in  his 
deportment  towards  his  royal  master.  One  morn- 
ing, however,  being  sent  for  at  an  unusually  early 
hour  by  the  king,  (he  was  then  residing  at  the 
Charter  House,)  he  was  observed  by  the  servant 
who  delivered  the  command  to  tremble  exceedingly, 
but  he  hastened,  nevertheless,  to  obey  the  sunv* 
mons,  and  brought  the  same  servant  with  him  who 
witnessed  the  subsequent  interview  between  bluff 
King  Hal,  and  the  cautious  politic  lawyer.  Upon 
their  admission,  they  found  the  king  walking  up 
and  down  in  an  apparent  state  of  disquietude,  and 
Sir  Edward  was  received  with  a  scowl  that  boded  90 
good ;  it  was  met,  however,  by  a  very  still  and  sober 
carriage.  At  last  Henry  thundered  out :  "  We  are 
informed  you  have  cheated  us  of  certain  lands  in 


NOR 


NOR 


BffliillrMifnr "  To  which  a  simple  iwgttiye  was  the 
reply.  "  How  is  it  then*  did  we  give  thoee  land*  to 
you  ?"  *'  Yes*  Sir,"  answered  Sir  Edward,  **  your 
miOnty  was  pleased  so  to  do."  The  king  upon  this 
immediately  relaxed,  and  taking  Sir  Edward  into  a 
closet  conferred  with  him  oonfidentialiy  for  some 
time.  From  that  period  his  influence  with  his 
royal  master  increased,  and  the  king  upon  his 
death-bed  nominated  liim  one  of  his  executors,  with 
a  legacy  of  i?300,  and  appointed  him  a  member  of 
the  council  to  his  son  and  succenor.  King  Edward 
VL  Upon  King  Edward's  accession  Sir  Edward 
North  was  re-elected  for  Cambridgeshire,  and  con- 
tinued during  the  reign  one  of  his  majesty's  privy 
council,  but- upon  that  kiiig's  decease  he  was  one  of 
thoee  who  espoused  the  cause  of  Lady  Jane  Qnj, 
yet  he  appears  to  have  played  his  cards  Judiciously, 
for  we  And  him  afterwards  not  only  of  the  privy 
coiindl  to  Quwn  IIaky,  but  summoned  to  par- 
liament by  that  monarch  in  the  1st  year  of  her 
Teign,  as  Baroh  Nokth,  ef  KlrtHng^,  in  Me  eaunttf 
tf  Cambridge,  At  the  accession  of  Elizabeth,  his 
Imrdship  was  constituted  one  of  the  commissioners 
to  decide  upon  the  claims  of  persons  who  were  to 
perform  service  at  her  mi^nty's  coronation,  and 
he  was  appointed  lord  lieutenant  of  Cambridge- 
shire. His  lordship  m.  first,  Alice,  daughter  of 
jOliver  Squyer,  of  Southly,  near  Portsmouth,  and 
widow  of  Edward  MyHfyn,  of  London,  and  of  John 
Brigadine,  of  Southampton.  By  this  lady  he  got  a 
considerable  fortune,  and  was  enabled  to  purdiase 
the  manor  of  Kirtling.    He  had  issue, 

Roov*  (Sir),  his  successor. 

Thomas  (Sir),  m.  first,  Elisabeth,  daughter  of 

C<dweU,  and  relict  of  Robert  Rich* 

Esq.,  but  had  no  issue.     Sir  Thomas  m. 
secondly,  Mrs.  Bridgewater,  and  had  a  son, 
EnwAitn. 

ChrisUan,  m.  to  William,  third  Earl  of  Wor- 


Mary,  m.  to  Henry,  Lord  Scroop,  of  Bolton. 
His  lordship  espoused,  secondly,  Margaret,  daughter 
of  Richard  Butler,  Esq.*  of  London,  and  widow  of  Sir 
pavid  Brooke,  Knu,  Lord  Chief  Baron  of  the  Ex- 
chequer; which  lady  survived  him.  He  d.  at  his 
residenceh  called  the  Charter  House*  in  the  suburbs 
of  London,  31st  December,  1064,  and  was  «.  by  his 
elder  son, 

SIR  RICHARD  NORTH,  second  Baron  North, 
aonunoned  to  parliament  ftomt-  90th  September, 
1906,  to  84th  October,  1097.  This  nobleman,  in  the 
time  of  his  father,  represented  the  county  of  Cam- 
bridge in  parliament;  and  In  the  15th  of  Elizabeth 
was  one  of  the  peen  who  sat  upon  the  trial  of 
Thomas,  Duke  of  Norfolk.  In  a  few  years  after- 
wards Queen  Elizabeth  honoured  his  hntlship  with 
a  visit,  at  his  seat  in  Cambridgeshire,  where  she 
was  entertained,  as  Hollinshed  relates,  not  in  the 
least  b^ind  any  of  the  best,  for  a  frank  house,  a 
noble  heart,  and  well  ordered  entertainment.  In 
the  9Bth  fti  the  same  reign,  having  accompanied  the 
Earl  of  Lmcestcr,  general  of  the  forces,  sent  to  the 
assistance  of  the  states,  he  was  for  his  valour,  made 
a  benneiet*  and  acquired  reputation  in  the  wars  in 
thfe  Netherlands.  He  was  afterwards  ambassador 
flttttordinary  from  Queen  Elizabeth  to  Charles  IX., 


of  Frvoe,  was  sworn  of  her  m^iesty's  privy  coun- 
cil, and  omstituted  treasurer  of  the  hovsdhold.  His 
lordship  m.  Winifred,  daughter  of  Robert,  Lord 
Rich,  of  Lees,  and  widow  of  Sir  Henry  Dudley,  by 
whom  he  had  (with  a  daughter,  Mary,  who  d.  ua- 
married)  two  sons,  namsly, 

JoHJf  (Sir),  member  of  parliamvit  for  the 
county  of  Cambridge,  fn.  Dorothy,  daugh- 
ter and  co-heir  of  Sir  Valentine  Dale,  LL.D., 
and  had  issue, 

DuDLBY,  successor  to  his  grandfisther. 
John  (Sir),  K.B.,  gentleman  usher  of  the 

privy  chamber. 
Roger,  a  naval  officer  of  note,  and  en- 
gaged in  making  nautical  discoveries. 
OUbert. 
EUzabeth,  m.  to  William,  son  and  heir  of 

Sir  Jer.  Horsey. 
Mary,  m.  to  Sir  Francis  Conlngsby,  of 
South  Mymmes*  Hertfordshire. 
Sir  John  North  d.  in  the  lilJe-dme  of  bla 

father,  anno  1097* 
Henry  (Sir),  a  military  man,  who  received 
the  honour  of  knighthqod  from  the  Earl  of 
Ldcester,  in  the  low  countries.  He  was 
seated  at  Mildeu  HaU,  in  Suffolk,  in  which 
he  was  9.  by  his  elder  son. 

Sir   Roosr  North,  Knt.,  of  Mildoi 

Hall,  whose  son  and  successor. 

Sir  Hbnry  North,  was  createdab*- 

ronetin  1600,  and  was  «.  by  his  son. 

Sir  Hrkry  North,  second 

baronet,  who  dieds.p.in  1600; 

when  the  baronetcy  expired, 

and   the    estates    devolved 

upon  his  sisters  as  co-hdrs, 

namely, 

Thomasine,  wife  of  Tho- 
mas Holland,  Esq.,  son 
and  heir  of  Sir  John 
Holland,  Bart.,  of  Quid- 
denham,  in  Norfolic 
Dudley,  m.  to  Sir  Thomas 
Culium,    of    Haslede, 
Sttffblk. 
Lord  North  d.  3rd  December,  1600,  and  was «.  by 
his  grandson, 

.  DUDLEY  NORTH,  third  Baron  North,  who 
IN.  Frances,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Sir  John 
Brocket,  of  Brocket  Hall,  in  the  county  of  Hert- 
ford, and  dying  in  his  eighty-fifth  year,  16th  July, 
1606,  war*,  by  his  eldest  son, 

DUDLEY  NORTH,  fourth  Baron  North,  K.B. 
This  noUeman  m.  Anne,  daughter  and  co-heir  of 
Sir  Charlei  Montagu*  Knt.,  and  niece  of  Henry, 
Earl  of  Manchester,  by  whom  he  had  a  numerous 
family :  of  whidi, 

Charlss,  his  successor,  m,  Catherine,  daugh- 
ter of  William,  Lord  Grey,  of  Werke,  widow 
of  Sir  Edward  Mosely,  Btifft.,  and  was  sum- 
moned to  parliament,  in  1673,  as  Loan 
Grit,  of  RMMton, 
Francis  (Sir),  applying  himself  to  the  study  of 
the  laws,  in  the  Middle  Temple,  became 
one  of  the  great  law  luminaries  of  England. 
In  1679,  he  was  appointed  stdidtor-fBiieral, 


NOR 


NOR 


■Bd  nertyed  th*  honour  of  knighAood. 
Im  167S»  he  b«auiM  attoraey-gonferalt  and 
the  next  yen  wm  ooostltated  Lord  Chief 
Jostlee  of  the  Court  of  Comman  PlMa. 
Upon  the  deeth  of  the  B«rl  of  Ndtttaighen, 
in  1088,  Sir  Frauds  North  was  appointed 
Lonn  KsBran  of  thb  GnsAT  SnAh,  end 
created  97th  Septaaiber,  leSS,  BAnoH  Qvih» 
wou>,  of  GulUbrd*  in  Surrey.  His  loiddUp 
m.  FranosSf  seoond  deughlsr  and  oo-heir  of 
Thomas  Pope*  Earl  of  Down,  and  dying  in 
1885,  was  «.  hy  his  son, 
FRAHGI8,  seoond  Baron  OuUlbvd,  who  d. 

in  ITV^and  was  su  by  his  only  son, 
FBAircia,  third  Baron  Guilford,  who  In- 
herited as  serenth  Baron  North. 
Dudley  (Sir),  d.  in  1681,  toaving  two  sons, 
Dudley,  of  Olenham,  Suflblk. 
Roger. 
John,  D.D.,  derk  of  the  ckMet  to  King  Charlas 
If..  Prebendary  of  Westasinster,  and  Mastse 
of  Trinity  College,  Caaabridge,  d.  uninar- 
ried,  fn  1688. 
Montagu,  d.  in  1710,  toaving  two  sons  and  Ave 

daui^ters. 
Roger,  of  the  Middle  Temple;    This  gantle> 
man  wrote   an    historical  work,    caUed, 
ANiwn,  and  the  life  of  his  brother,  the 
Lord  Keeper. 
Mary,  m.  to  Sir  WIHIam  Spring,  Bart,  of 

Packsnhans,  in  the  county  of  Suflblk. 
Anne,  «m«  to  Robert  Foley,  Esq.,  of  Stour- 
bridge, in  Worcestecshlra 
Elisabeth,  m.  first,  to  Robert  Wiseman,  Knt, 
LL.D.,  Dean  of  the  Arches,  and  leooodly, 
to  William,  Earl  of  Yannouth. 
Christian,   m.   to  Sir  George  Wanyereb  of 
Brettenham,  in  the  county  of  Suflblk. 
His  lordship  d.  in  I8n»  end  was  s;  by  his  eldaat 
son, 

CHARLES  NORTH,  Lord  Grey,  of  RoUeslon, 
as  fifth  Baron  Nobtb,  who  d.  in  1090,  and  was  «.  by 
hisddestsoB, 

WILLIAM  NORTH,  Lord  Grey  of  Rolleston, 
and  sixth  Baboh  Nobtb.  This  noUemen  serred 
under  the  grant  Duke  of  Mariborough,  andloaChis 
hand  at  the  battle  of  Blbxbbiii,  His  lordship  m. 
Marin-Maigaietta,  daughter  of  Mens.  Ehnect, 
receiver-general  to  the  States  of  Holland,  but  had 
no  issue.  He  d.  in  1734,  when  the  Babowv  of 
Gbbt  Rollbbtom  became  bxtibct.  while  that 
of  Nobtb  devolved  upon  his  kinsman, 

FRANCIS  NORTH,  third  Bearon  Guillbrd,  as 
seventh  Baron  Nobtb  (revert  to  Sir  Francis  North* 
seoond  son  of  Dudley,  fourth  beion).  This  noble- 
man was  created  Earl  of  Guilford,  in  1758,  and  the 
babony  continued  merged  in  the  superior  dignity, 
untn  the  decease,  in  1809,  of 

GEOKOE-AUGUSTUS  NORTH,  third  Earl  of 
GoiUbrd,  and  nintii  Lord  Nobtb  (son  and  succes- 
sor of  Frederick  North,  second  Earl  of  Guilford, 
but  better  known  as  a  statesman,  by  the  title  of 
LoBD  Nobtb).  This  nobleman,  ta.  lint.  Lady 
Mari»-Franca»-Mary  Hobart,  daughter  of  George, 
third  Earl  of  Buckinghamshire,  by  whooi  he  had 
one  surviving,  daughter^ 


Mabia,m.  to  John,  seoond  Marqueis  of  Bute. 
He  espoused,  seooadly,  Susan,  daughter  of  the  lata 
Thomas  Coutti,  Esq.,  the  Banker,  and  had  two 
surviving  daui^ttars, 

Susan. 

Gboboiana. 
At  his  lordship's  decease  the  Barldom  of  Goilfovd 
devolved  upon  fau  brother,  Francis  North,  as  fburth 
earl,  while  the  Babony  of  Nobtb,  of  KirHingi 
fell  bito  ABBYANCB,  betweoB  his  daughters,  MoHe, 
MABCRIONB8S  OF  BoTB,  end  the  IjadiM  Susan 
and  Gboboiana  Nobtb,  as  it  still  continues. 

Abms.— Aa.  a  Hon  passant,  or.  between  three 
fleur-de4is  ar. 

NORTH-BARONS  GREY,  OF  ROL* 
LE8TON,  IN  THE  COUNTY 
OF  STAFFORD. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  17th  October.  lOTS^ 
95  CharlSB  IL 

Xituagc. 

The  honourable 

CHARLES  NORTH,  nn  and  heir  of  Dudley, 
fourth  Baron  North,  and  brother  of  the  Lord 
Keeper  North,  first  Lord  Guilford,  having  espoused 
Katherine,  widow  of  Sir  Edward  Moseley,  Bart.,  of 
Hough,  in  the  county  of  Lancaster,  end  dau|^ter 
of  William  Grey,  of  ChiUingham,  first  Lord  Gbby, 
OF  Wbbkb,  was  summoned  to  parliament  in  the 
liiiB-time  of  his  father,  17th  October,  1673,  as 
Baron  Gbby,  of  RoUeHon,  in  the  county  of  Staf- 
ford.  His  lordship  d.  in  1600,  and  was  «;  by  his 
elder  son, 

WILLIAM  NORTH,  sixth  Baron  North,  and 
second  Lord  Grey.  This  noblenum  being  bred  to 
arms,  served  under  the  Duke  of  Marlborough,  in 
all  his  campaigns,  and  had  his  right  hand  shot  off 
at  the  celebrated  battle  of  Blenheim.  He  was  sub- 
aequently  made  lieutenant-general  of  the  forcei, 
andgovemor  of  Portsmouth.  His  lordship  m.  Marla- 
Margaretta,  daughter  of  Mons.  Elmet,  receiver- 
general  to  the  States  of  Hollandt  but  dying  in 
17S4,  without  issue,  the  Barony  of  North  devolvad 
upon  his  cousin,  Frances,  tUrd  Lord  Guilford, 
and  the  Babony  of  Gbbt,  of  Roi^lbbton,  be- 
came BZTINCT. 

NORTHWODE  —  BARONS  NORTH. 

WODB. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  8th  January,  1313, 
5  Edward  H. 

Xincagf. 

In  the  49d  Henry  III.,  upon  the  death  of  Rboi- 
NALD  OB  CoDHAM,  at  that  time  sheriff  of  Kent, 

ROGER  DE  NORTHWODE,  one  of  his  exe- 
cutors, accounted  to  the  exchequer,  for  the  sums  he 
had  reoeited  during  his  sheriflUty.  This  Roger  d. 
In  the  14th  of  Edward  I.,  wheieupon  his  son  and 
heir, 

JOHN  DE  NORTHWODE,  doing  his  homage, 
had  livery  of  his  lands.  This  John  had  summons 
to  attend  the  king,  to  advise  upon  the  afikirs  of  the. 

3  F  m. 


NOR 


0*BR 


mlm,  in  the  89d  of  Edward  I.  He  had  afterwards, 
in  the  same  reign,  a  military  summons,  and  served 
in  the  wan  of  Flanders.  At  the  dose  of  Edward  I.'i 
time,  he  was  sheriff  of  Kent,  fmd  in  the  beginning 
of  Edward  ll.'s,  we  find  him  in  the  wan  of  Soot- 
land,  where  he  was  more  than  once  engaged.  For 
Ms  servicte  on  those  different  public  occasions,  he 
was  summoned  to  parliament  as  a  babok,  from 
8th  January,  1313,  to  80th  March,  1319.  In  which 
latter  year  he  «L  and  was  «.  by  <the  son  of  his  de- 
ceased son,  John  deNorthwode,  by  Agnes,  daughter 
of  William  de  Grandison)  his  grandson,  * 

ROGER  DE  NORTHWODE,  second  baroo, 
summoned  to  parliament,  3d  April,  1300.  This 
nobleman  seryed  in  the  wan  of  Flanden  and 
France,  in  the  14th  and  16th  of  Edward  III.  His 
lordship  m.  Julian,  one  of  the  daughten  of  Sir 
Gefflsry  de  Say,  (he  had  been  in  ward  to  Sir  Gef- 
fery's  widow,  Idonea  de  Say,)  and  dying  about  the 
year  1361,  was  «.  by  his  ion. 

SIR  JOHN  NORTHWODE,  thiid  baron,  sum- 
moned to  parliament  ftom  Ist  June,  1363,  to  SOth 
January,  1378>  This  nobleman  was  in  the  French 
wan  of  King  Edward  III.,  and  participated  in  the 
glory  of  that  martial  reign.  He  m.  Joane,  daughter 
of  Robert  Hart,  of  Fevenham,  in  the  county  of 
Kent,  and  dying  in  1379,  was  «.  by  hii  son, 

ROGER  NORTHWODE,  fourth  baron,  but 
never  summoned  to  parliament.  He  died  «.  p.  and 
was  «.  by  his  brother, 

WILLIAM  NORTHWODE,  fifth  baron,  never 
lummoned  to  parliament.    This  nobleman  (if  he 
ever  assumed  the  dignity)  had  issue, 
JoHif ,  his  lucceuor. 

Elisabeth,   m.  to  Peter  Cat,  but  of  her  de- 
scendants nothing  is  known. 
'  Eleanor,  m.  to  John  Adam,  whose  nude  de- 
scendant, (after  five  generations,) 

Richard  Adam,  although  married  twice, 
appean  to  have  had  no  issue.    But  his 
brother, 
Roons  Adam,  had  five  children,  vis,— 
Richard. 
John. 
WiUiAm. 

Bridget,  m.  to  Adam  Shepherd. 
Margery,  m,  to  William  Hawe. 
Anne. 
This  William,  «L  about  the  year  1406,  and  was  «.  by 
his  son, 

JOHN  NORTHWODE,  sixth  baron,  then  ten 
yean  of  age,  who  died  «.  p.  in  1416,  when  the  Barony 
of  Northwode  fell  into  abbvakcs,  and  is  now 
presumed  to  be  vested  in  the  descendants  of  the 
above  Roger  Adam. 
Abmb.— Ermine,  a  cross  ingrailed  gules. 

NORWICH  —  BARON  NORWICH. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  86th  Fdiruary,  1348, 
16  Edward  IIL 

XCncagc. 

GEOFFREY  DE  NORWICH,  the  flnt person  of 
this  name  upon  record,  was  involved  in  the  baronial 
408 


contest  with  King  John,  and  committed  toiltlsoB  In 
consequence.  From  him  deioended,  it  is  presumed, 

WALTER  DE  NORWICH,  who,  hi  theSthof 
Edward  II.,  was  constituted  one  of  the  Barons  of 
the  Exchequer,  and  at  the  same  time  obtained  a 
charter  of  free  warren  in  all  his  demesne  lands.  In 
lome  yean  afterwards  he  was  made  treasurer  of  the 
exchequer,  and  had  a  grant  of  the  manon  of  Dal- 
ham  and  Bradefleld,  with  the  advowson  of  the 
church  of  Dalham,  in  the  county  of  Suflblk.  To 
this  learned  Judge,  who  d.  in  Snd  of  Edward  IIL, 
succeeded, 

SIR  JOHN  DE  NORWICH,  Knt,  who  was  in 
the  wan  of  Flanden  and  Scotland,  in  the  reign  of 
Edward  IIL,  and  was  summoned  to  parliament  as  a 
BAROif,  ftt>m  85th  February,  ]3tf,  to  3d  April, 
1360. «  His  lordship  had  grants  Arom  the  crown  for 
his  services,  and  licence  to  make  castlee  of  his 
houses  at  Metyngham,  in  Suflblk»  and  at  Black- 
worth,  and  Lyng,  hi  Norfolk.  He  d.  in  1368,  and 
was  «.  by  his  grandson, 

JOHN  DE  NORWICH,  second  baron,  but  never 
summoned  to  parliament.  This  nobleman  d.  in 
1074,  without  issue,  when  the  Barowy  of  Nor- 
wich, became  bxtiitct.  His  lordriiip's  estates  de- 
vfdved  upon  his  cousin,  Kathbrixb  db  Brbwb, 
daughter  and  heir  of  Thomas  de  Norwich,  his 
grand-unde,  but  that  lady  taking  the  veil  at  Dart- 
ford,  William  de  UflPbrd,  Earl  of  Suffolk,  son  and 
heir  of  Robert  de  Uflbrd,  Earl  of  Suflblk,  by  Mar- 
gery his  wife,  dslcr  of  Thomas  de  Norwidi,  fisther 
of  tfie  said  Katherine,  inherited  as  her  heir. 

Arms. — ^Per  pale  gu.  and  as.  a '  li<»  rampant, 
ennine. 

Noftf.'— From  this  fttmily  is  said  to  have  sprung 
that  eminent  one  seated  at  Brampton,  in  the  county 
of  Northampton,  of  which  Sir  Erasmus  Norwich, 
in  the  time  of  William  IIL,  m.  Annabella,  daughter 
of  Thomas  Savage,  Earl  Rivers. 

O'BRYEN— VISCOUNT  TADCASTER. 

By  Letten  Patent,  dated  19th  December,  1714. 

HENRY  O'BRYEN,  (descended  ftom  the  cele- 
brated Hibernian  monarch  Brian  Boiroimhe,)  eigMh 
Earl  of  Thomond,  in  Ireland,  was  created  a  peer  of 
Great  Briuin,  by  letten  patent,  dated  19th  October, 
1714,  in  the  dignity  of  Viscovwt  Taocabtbr.  His 
lordship  m.  Lady  Elisabeth  Seymour,  daughter  of 
Charles,  Duke  of  Somerset,  but  dying  without  iseue 
in  1741,  his  Irish  honoun,  with  the  Viscountt  of 
Tadcastxr,  became  bxtinct. 

Arwb.— Ou.  three  lions  passant,  guardant  in  pale« 
or.  anar. 

O'BRYEN-BARON  THOMOND. 

By  Letten  Patent,  dated  8nd  October,  1801. 

Xincage. 

MURROUGH  O'BRYEN,  flnt  Marquess  of  Tho- 
mond, in  Irdand,  (see  BurM*  DUtionmrp  o/  tha 
Peerq^v  and  Barometag9j  was  created  a  peer  of  the 
united  kingdom,  by  letten  ^trn^U  da^  8nd  Octo« 


ODO 


ODO 


tar/ 1801 »  MBAmdii  Thomokd;  i^Tafhw,  in  ike 
emtniif  qf  Buck:  Hii  lordship  m.  flnt,  Mary, 
CounteM  of  Orkney*  and  had  Mvaral  children,  of 
whom  one  daughter  alone  survived,  namely, 

Habt,  who,  tuooaeding  her  mother,  became 

CouNTSsa  OP  Obknst.     Her  ladyahip  m. 

the  Hon.  TlKNnas  Fits-Mauricei 
The  marqueM  eqiouaed,  aecondly,  Mary,  daughter 
of  John  Palmer,  Esq.,  of  Torrington,  in.  the  county 
of  Devon,  and  niece  of  Sir  Joahua  Reynolds,  but 
had  no  issua  His  lordship  died  in  consequence  of 
a  fkll  ftom  his  horse,  in  1806,  when  his  Irish  ho- 
nours devolved  upon  his  nephew,  William  O'Bryen, 
present  Marquess  of  Th<miond,  while  the  Baboxy 
OF  TaoMoiro  became  ■ztinct. 

AKMa.--Ou.  three  lions  passant,  guardant,  in  pale, 
or.andar. 

ODO- EARL  OF  KENT. 

Creation  of  William,  Ma  CiMifiMror,  aono  1067. 

Xineagc. 

ODO,  BUhop  ^  Baifwu,  in  Normandy,  half  bro- 
ther of  the  CoKOUSROR,  having  with  "  divers  monks, 
and  secular  derks,"  assisted  at  the  battle  of  Hab- 
Tiivoe,  «*  with  their  devout  prayenandcouncHs," had 
the  whole  county  of  Kent  committed  to  his  charge, 
after  the  victory,  and  was  Joined  with  William 
FitsOabome*  one  of  the  principal  generals,  after- 
wards Earl  of  Hereford,  in  the  superintcndency 
of  the  military  forces  of  the  kingdom,  as  wdl  in 
fleld  as  garrison,  fle  was  likewise  a  count  palatine, 
and  a  juariciAnT  or  Enolandi  in  the  former 
capstdty,  he  gave  laws  as  a  sorereign  prince,  having 
power  over  all  other  earis  and  great  men,  throughout 
the  realm;  and  in  the  latter,  he  was  the  chief,  im- 
mediately under  the  king,  of  all  the  oouru  of  Jua- 
tioe:  In  the  hmt  succeeding  his  coronation.  King 
William  having  visited  Normandy,  Odo  and  Fita- 
Oabonie  were  oonatituted  euttodea  Anglitt,  or  r9- 
genu,  during  his  absence,  with  authority  to  erect 
castlea  in  all  ftt  and  proper  places.  Being  thus 
seated  in  Kent,  and  so  powerful  that  no  man  durst 
oppose  him,  he  possessed  himself  of  divers  lord- 
ships, bdonging  to  the  Archbishopric  of  Canter- 
bury; of  which,  when  iM^fiwUM  became  arch- 
bishop, a  complaint  was  made  by  that  prelate  to 
the  king,  who  immediately  ordered  a  convocation 
ot  the  MBIT  OF  KsNT,  versed  in  old  customs  and 
uaages,  to  sit  upon  the  matter  \  a  meeting  took 
place,  accordingly,  at  PaiiBirDBN  Hbath,  G^ffreift 
BiaHor  or  CoicaTANCB,  presiding  for  the  king, 
when  judgment  was  given  In  Ikvour  of  Lanftanke, 
via.—"  That  he  should  ei^oy  the  hmds  belonging 
to  his  church,  asfteely  as  the  king  himself  did  eqjoy 
his  own  demesne  lands."  In  1074,  "Ono,  and  the 
Bishop  of  Constance,  suppressed  the  rebriUon  6f 
the  Earls  of  Hereford  and  Norfolk ;  and  in  four 
years  afterwards,  being  "  naf  #0  Me  Mn^  in  autho- 
rity, he  was  sent  at  the  head  of  an  army,  to  waste 
Northumberland,  by  reason  that  the  men  of  those 
parte  had  risen  in  insurrection,  and  murdered 
Walchbb,  BMop  nfDwham,  The  Karl  of  Kent 
is  accused  of  eiercising  great  crurtty  upon  this  occa* 
sion,  and  of  deqioiling  the  Church  of  Durham  of 


some  rich  ornaments,  amongst  which  was  a  rare 
crosier  of  sapphire;  certain  it  is,  that  his  lordship 
was  not  proof  against  the  seductions  of  unlimited 
power,  and  that  he-  became,^as  most  persons  so  in- 
vested havebecome,  inaolent^proud,  and  oppressive t 
the  more  so,  it  was  alleged,  because  it  had  been  fore- 
told by  certain  soothsayers  of  Rome,  that  he  waa 
destined,  at  no  remote  period,  to  fill  the  papal  chair* 
then  the  first  throne  in  Christendom*  and  nothing 
short  of  that  splendid  dominion  could  now  satisfy  his 
high  ambition.  He  purchased  a  magnlfleent  palace 
at  Rome,  attached  the  senators  to  his  interest  by 
munificent  gifts,  and  induced  Hu^ft,  Earl  of 
CHsaTBR,  by  promise  of  ample  rewards,  to  accom- 
pany him  with  a  chosen  body  of  soldiers,  into  Italy. 
King  William  becoming,  however,  acquainted  with 
the  earl's  proceedings,  hastened  beck  to  England, 
and  casually  meeting  his  lordship  at  the  head  <k 
this  pompous  retinue.  In  the  Isle  of  Wight,  upoa 
his  route  to  Normandy,  assembled  the  nobles  toge- 
gether,  and  in  a  passionate  harangue  Impeached  hia 
conduct,  concluding  by  a  command  that  the  guarda 
should  seize  upon  the  delinquent ;  but  no  one  daring 
to  do  so,  on  account  of  hia  episcopal  character,  the 
king  himsdf  arrested  him ;  when  Odo  ezdaimed, 
'*  That  he  was  a  clerk  and  a  minister  of  God,  and 
that  he  was  amenable  to  the  papal  authority,  by 
which  alone  he  could  be  sentenced."  To  this  the 
king  replied,  <«I  neither  sentence  any  dark  or 
bishop,  but  my  own  earl,  whom  I  made  my  vice- 
gerent In  my  kingdom,  resolving  that  he  shall  give 
en  account  of  that  his  trust"  Odo  was  immedi- 
ately conveyed  into  Normandy,  and  during  the 
remainder  of  the  CowguBROR'a  reign,  he  waa  kept 
close  prisoner  in  the  Caatle  of  Roan.  He  obtained 
his  fteedom,  however,  upon  the  accession  of  Rinri78« 
and  was  restored  to  his  Earldom  of  Kent,  but  not 
to  the  high  oflice  of  jutTiCLARv,  which  had  been 
couftiied  upon  William  de  Karilepho,  Bishop  of 
Durham.  This  latter  circumstance,  with  the  con- 
sequent diminution  of  his  authority,  w^nHHng  hii 
wrath,  induced  him  to  fling  off  his  allegiance  to 
Ruftu,  his  benefactor,  and  to  espouse  the  cause  of 
RoBBRT  CurthoM,  Hence  raising  the  standard  of 
rebellion  in  Kent,  he  wasted,  with  fire  and  sword, 
several  towns  belonging  to  the  king,  and  to  hia 
great  enemy,  Lai^firanke,  Archbishop  of  Canter- 
bury, but  he  waa  afterwards  besieged  by  RuAia 
in  Rochester  Castle^  and  forced,  upon  surraadering, 
to  rdinqulsh  all  Bia  BONOcaa,  and  to  abtfure  the 
kingdom  for  ever.  Thence  he  repaired  to  Nor- 
mandy, where  being  cordially  received  by  OwrMosr, 
he  had  the  entire  government  of  the  Dukedom 
committed  to  his  care.  He  died  at  Palermo,  in 
1000,  and  was  there  interred.  This  very  eminent 
personage  is  thus  diaracterised  by  one  of  the  old 
hlstoriana»"  He  was  eloquent  and  magnanimous, 
courtly  and  (to  speak  according  to  the  world) 
courageous;  he  was  a  great  honourer  of  religious 
men;  his  clergy  he  stoudy  defended,  with  his 
tongue  and  sword,  and  fiimished  his  diurch  with 
rich  ornament,  as  his  buildings,  vestments,  and 
plate  of  gold  and  silver,  which  he  gave  thereto, 
do  testifle.  In  his  youth,  in  regard,  he  was  brother 
to  the  duke,  he  was  advanced  to  the  BIshoprick  of 
BAYBiraCf  in  which  he  sate  more  than  fifty  yi 

409 


OGL 


OGL 


His  canal  aflbctftmi 
he  begot  a  (natural)  Km,  named  John*  who  was 
aftenrards,  by  raasoa  of  his  eloquenee  and  inge* 
nuifcjTf  of  great  esteem  in  the  court  of  King  Hskky 
I.,  and  though  he  was  a  penon  sometimes  addicted 
to  secular  levities,  yet  he  had  a  great  regard  to 
eedesiastick  matten.  The  diurehjof  our  lady,  (at 
Paybuz,)  he  built  from  the  ground,  and  decked  it 
with  divers  costly  ornaments.  In  the  church  of 
St.  VigoB,  (sometime  Bishop  of  Bayeuz,)  which  is 
situate  near  the  wall  of  that  city,  he  placed  monks, 
and  oonetituted  the  rdigiouft  and  prudent  Rouht 
PB  TvMMAhutim,  prior  there,  who,  amongst  the 
rest  of  his  leai  ueil  works,  left  e  short  dear  and 
praHnuBd  comment  upon  the  Cah ticlbs  9  which 
monastery  he  made  e  odil  to  the  Abbey  of  Dijon. 
He  also  sent  young  scholars  to  Liasn,  and  other 
cities,  where  he  knew  the  study  of  philosophy  to 
flourish,  and  gave  them  large  eafdUtions  fbr  their 
support  in  learning.  Of  which  so  by  him  educated, 
ware  Thomab,  AnMbUkop  9f  Ytrk,  and  Sammoit, 
h^  brother,  BisAop  qf  Woreuiwr  g  William  db 
Roa,  Abbot  of  Fiscamp,  in  Normtmd^i  THvna* 
TAB,  Abbot  of  OLAaTBVBUBY,  and  many  othets 
then  living.  So  this  Bishop  Odo,  though  much 
aataqgled  with  worldly  cares,  yet  he  did  numy 
laudable  things;  and  what  he  got  indirectly,  he 
bestowed  upon  the  chuvch  and  poor.  Howbeit,  at 
taigth  leaving  the  world,  he  took  e  journey  to 
RoMB,  with  Duk«  RoBBBT,  his  nephew,  and  died 
•t  PaiiBbmo,  in  Sicily,  and  had  a  sepulture  in  the 
church  of  our  lady  thersk* 

The  Earl  of  Kent  held  alter  the  conquest  in  Eng- 
land, by  the  gift  of  his  brother,  no  less  than  vovm 

HUVOBBD    ABB     THtRTY*BIBB     LOBDeHIM.       In 

Kant,  one  hundred  and  eighty-ibur  t  in 
thirty-nine;  in  Oxftndshire,  thirty-two;  in  H< 
tedshiie,  twenty-three;  in  Burkinghamshireb 
thirty;  in  Woroestsnhire,  two;  in  BedConlshiie, 
ei^t;  in  Northamptonshire,  twelve;  in  Notting- 
hamahiie,  ftve;  in  Noriblk,  twenty-two;  in  War- 
wickshire, six,  and  la  Lincolnshire,  seventy-six. 

Anna.— Gu.  B  lion  rampant  ar.  debmised  with  a 
croalei's  staff  gulea. 

OOLE—BARONS  OOLE. 

By  Writ  of  SuaamoM,  dated  Mth  July,  1461, 
1  Edward  IV. 

Vincagc. 

»  Thisftmaly,  one  of  great  antiquity  ia  the  county 
of  Northumberland*  assumed  its  surname  from  the 
LoEdship  of  OooiL,  its  principal  seat,  and 

ROBERT  OOLE,  in  the  lAth  Edward  II L,  obtain- 
ed licence  to  make  a  castle  of  hia  manor  house  there. 
In  four  years  afterwards  this  Robert  Ogle,  upon  the 
incursion  of  the  Scota  under  the  command  of  Wil* 
liam  Douglas,  when  they  burnt  Cariisle,  Penrith* 
and  other  places,  aooompaaied  John  de  Kirkeby, 
then  Biriiop  of  Carlisle,  in  a  charge  wlaich  he  made, 
upon  a  strong  party  of  these  bold  invaders,  and  an- 
countering  their  chief  commander,  wounded  him  in 
the  side  with  his  lanoe,  being  severely  wounded 
himself;  while  the  bishop  was  unhorsed,  but  gal- 
lantly recovering  his  saddle,  esoved  unhurt.  Robert 
404 


Ogle  M.AaAabella>dan^htar  and  heir  of  SlrRob«t 
Hephall,  (by  Cicily,  daugihtar  and  hetar  of  Sir  Oi^ 
bert  Chartney,  KnL,)  and  was  «.  by  Us  son, 

SIR  ROBERT  OGLE,  who  m.  Helen,  daughter 
and  heir  of  Sir  Robert  Bertram,  Knt.,*  feudal 
Baron  of  Bothall,  by  whom  he  acquired  a  consider- 
able accession  of  property,  and  had  a  son,  Robbrt, 
who  predeceased  him,  leaving  a  son,  RoBBar.  Sir 
Robert  d.  in  theSflth  Edward  IIL,  and  was  «.  by  hia 


SIR  ROBERT  OGLE.  This  feudal  lord  having 
been  made  priaonor  by  the  Soota,  in  the  Sd  of  Henry 
IV.,  «>btained  a  grant  IhMn  the  king,  of  one  hundred 
marka,  towarda  the  payment  of  his  ransom ;  after 
which,  in  the  6th  of  the  same  reign,  heserved  in  the 
garrison  of  Berwick-upon-Tweed,  under  John  Plan- 
tagenet,  afterwards  Duke  of  Bedford,  then  governor 
thereof.  The  neat  year,  upon  the  death  of  David 
de  Holgrave,  the  last  husband  of  his  grandmother, 
HxLBN,  he  had  livery,  upon  doing  his  homage, 
of  the  castle  and  manor  of  Bothall.  Whcraupon 
being  thus  possessed  of  that  manor  and  eastle,  as 
also  of  the  manor  of  Hephall,  and  the  town  of 
Lour-bottU,  he  entailed  the  same  upon  the  heirs 
male  of  hia  body,  upon  condition  that  every  such 
heir>male  should  bear  the  surname  of  (^le^  with 
the  anna  of  Ogle  and  Bertaam  quarterly.  He  m. 
Joan,  daughter  and  oo4ielr  of  Sir  Alexander  de 
Heton,  KnL,  and  had  livary  of  her  property  in  the 
18th  of  Richard  IL  He  d.  hi  1409,  aad  waa  s.  by 
his  eUest  son, 

.  ROBERT  OOLE,  who  fiKcihly  posaeased  himself 
of  the  caatle  and  manor  of  Bothall,  which  had 
been  settled  upon  John,  his  beother,  who  hore  the 
name  of  Bbrtbaw.  Whereupon  complaint  betaig 
aaade  in  paiUamant,  it  was  onlered  that  a  writ 
should  be  sent  to  the  sheriff  of  NorthumberlBBd,  to 
require  all  those  who  then  held  that  castle,  to  depart 
and  to  command  the  aaid  Robert  to  ap- 
at  Weetmlnater  by  a  osrtain  day,  to  make 
to  the  king,  for  this  mlsdameanoiir.  In 
the  5th  of  Henry  V.,  he  was  oonetituted  sheriff  of 
Northumberland;  and  in  the  M  of  Hviry  VL,  he 
was  joined  with  Hmnfp  Earl  of  Northumberland, 
and  other  great  men,  in  thoae  peris,,  to  conduct 
James,  King  of  Sootiaad,  from  Durham,  Into  hia 
own  realm;  that  priace,  being  then,  upon  hostages 


•  RoBBBT  Bbbtbam,  tomp.  Henry  IL,  certified 
his  knighti'  fieaa  to  be  three  in  number,  by  which 
service  his  son, 

Robbbt  Bbbtbam,  held  the  Baboity  or  Bo. 
thall,  in  capita  of  the  king. 

From  this  Robert  sprang. 

Robbbt  Bbbtbam,  feudal  lovd  of  Bothall  who, 
in  the  reign  of  Edward  IIIm  was  sheriff  of  North- 
umberland, and  sheriff  of  Newcastle,  and  was  one 
of  Uie  chief  northern  bamns  who  engaged  the  Scota 
at  Durham,  where  he  was  so  fortunate  as  person- 
ally to  make  WUUapi  Dougtas  prisoner.  He  ai. 
Maigaret,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Constance^  the 
wUbofWilHamFeltan,  and  left  al  his  daoaase,  an 
only  daiighrerjaid  heiiesa, 

Hblbm  Bbmtbam,  who  in;  Sir  Robert  Ogia, 
as  in  the  test. 


OQL 


OGL 


giTeo;  eDlw|g«d  alter  an  impiiaoDmait  of  lonie 
yean.  He  departed  this  life  in  the  lAth  of  Henry 
VL»  leaving  iaiue»*  by  hia  wife*  Maud*  daughter  of  ^ 
Sir  Hobert  Grey,  of  Hortoo.  in  Northumberland, 
according  to  CoUini ,  eight  deughterB,  nuuried  to 
perMnns  of  the  flnt  rank  in  the  county,  and  three 
Booa,  via. 

RonnnT,  Ua  snooeisor* 

John  (Sir). 

WiUiaxn  (Sir),  fhnn  whom  the  Oolbb  of 
Kirkley,  in  the  county  of  Northumberland, 
derive,  and  the  0«La8  of  Worthy,  in 
Hampahire,  Baron  bts  (lee  BwrMa  Die- 
Hmarp  qfOu  Pseroge  mmI  Bannetage). 
He  was  ».  by  his  ddfest  son, 

SIR  ROBERT  OGLE,  who,  in  the  16th  Henry 
VI.,  was  made  sheriff  of  Northumberland,  and  in 
the  38th  of  the  same  reign,  was  in  a  commission  to 
treat  regarding  a  truce  wij:h  the  Sooti.  In  the  Itt 
of  Edward  IV.,  he  waa  made  warden  of  the  east 
mardiCB,  and  in  consideration  of  his  good  serriccs, 
had  a  grant  of  the  offices  of  steward  and  consuble 
of  Ai.nvricK,  and  other  castles,  in  Northumber- 
land. Shortly  after  this,  he  was  snaomoned  to 
parliament  as  a  baboh  (from  90th  July,  1461,  to  7th 
September,  1400),  and  in  the  same  year,  he  ob- 
tained finm  the  crown  a  grant  in  special  title  of 
the  Loordship  of  Redisdale,  and  castle  of  Herbotel, 
then  vested  therein  by  the  attainder  of  Sir  WilUam 
Taltaoys.  In  the  9d  of  Edward  IV.,  his  loidship 
was  with  the  king  in  anna  against  the  Lancastrians, 
and  assisting  at  the  siege  of  Bamburgh  Castle,  was 
made  governor  of  that  fortress  upon  its  surrender. 
Me  M^  Isabel,  dan^tar  and  heir  ef  Alexander  de 
JCirkeby,  of  Kirkeby,  in  the  codnty  of  Lancaater, 
eldest  son  of  Sir  Richard  de  Kirkeby.  Knt.,  by 

,  he  had  ia&ae, 

Owsn,  hie  suooasaor. 

Isabel,  who  m.  first.  Sir  John  Heron,  of 
Chipcbea.  Knt,  and  secondly,  John  Wod^ 


His  lordship  d.  in  1409^  and  wesa.  by  hk  son. 

OWEN  OGLE,  second  baron,  summoned  to  par- 
liament from  15th  November,  1489,  to  15th  Sep- 
tember, 1485.  This  nobleman  was  in  the  battle  of 
Stoke,  2d  of  Henry  VII.,  on  the  part  of  the  king 
against  the  Earl  of  Lincoln,  and  his  adherents,  and 
is  the  same  that  Polydore  Virgil  caBs  by  mistake, 
George.  In  two  years  afterwards,  he  marched  with 
the  rest  of  the  northern  nobles,  under  Thomas, 
Earl  of  Surrey,  to  relieve  Nomham  Castlb,  then 
besieged  by  the  Soola.  His  lordship  m.  Eleanor, 
daughter  of  Sir  WilUanx  Uittan,  Knt.,  and  waa  a. 
by  his  only  son, 

RALPH  OOLE,  third  baron,  summoned  to  par- 
UauMBt  from  I7th  October.  1560,  to  98th  November, 
1511.  Thia  nobleman  m.  Margaret,  daughter  of  Sir 
WilUam  Gasodgne.  Knt.,  and  had  iasue, 

e  Dugdale  enumerates  his  issue  thus  :— 
RoBBBT,  hia  Buooeasor. 
Margaret,  m.  to  Sir  Robert  de  Hasbottle,  Knt. 
Anne*  m.  to  Sir  William  Hennw  Knt. 
Constance,  m.  to  Sir  John  Milford.  Knt. 
Joane,  m.  to  — 


RoBsnT,  Ma  sue 
William  (Sir),  tn.  Margaret,  daughter  of  John 
Delaval,  Esq.,  and  had  issue. 
James,  ot  Cawsey  Park. 
John,  of  Bedayde. 
John. 
Anne,  m.  to  Humphrey,  son  and  heir  of  Sir 

William  Lisle.  Knt. 
Dorothy,  m.  first,  to  Sir  Thomas  Forster,  and 
secondly,  to  Sir  John  Grey,  of  Horton,  Knt. 
Margery,  fa.  to  George  Harbottle.  Esq. 
His  lordship  d,  in  1512,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 
ROBERT  OGLE,  fourth  baron,  summoned  to 
parliament  fhmi  93d  November^  1514,  to  ad  No- 
vember, 15Sili    This  nobleman  waa  in  the  vanguard 
of  the  English  army  at  the  battle  of  Fu>i>dbm. 
where  the  King  of  Scotland  sustained  so  signal  a 
defeat,  but  continuing  in  the  Scottish  wus,  he  fell 
eventuaUy  at  Paunhbbbauob,  in  15B8.    His  lord* 
ship  m.  Anne,  daughter  of  Thomas,  son  and  heir  of 
George,  Lord  Lumley,  by  whom  he  had  three  sons, 
RoBBBT.  George,  and  John,  and  waa  «.  by  the 
eldest, 

ROBERT  OGLE,  fifth  banm.  but  never  sum- 
moned to  parliament.  This  nobleman  m.  first, 
Dorothy,  daughter  of  Sir  Henry  Widderington.  by 
whom  he  had  issue. 

RoBBBT,  his  successor. 

Margery,  m,  to  Gregory  0|^,  Esq.,  of  Chap- 
ington,  in  Northiunberland,  (descended  from 
Sir  W.  Ogle,  brother  of  the  first  lord,)  and 
had  two  sons. 
J^uu 
Robert. 
His  lordship  espoused,  secondly.  Jane,  daughter  of 
Sir  Cuthbert  Ratdillb.  Knt..  of  Chartlngton.  and 
hMi. 

Cdthbbbt,  sttocaisor  to  his  brother. 
Thomas,  d. «.  y. 

Margaret,  m.  to  Robert  Wodrington.  third 
aon  ot  Sir  Jolm  Wodrington,  Knt. 
Lord  Ogle  feU  at  the  battle  of  Halidoh,  in  1544, 
and  waa  «.  by  Ua  ddest  son, 

ROBERT  OGLE,  sixth  baron,  summoned  to 
parliament  14th  August,  1553,  to  5th  November, 
lAWL  His  lordship  m.  Joan,  daughtsr  and  heir  of 
Sir  Thomaa  Maleverer,  Knt.,  of  AI]ert<m  Maleverer, 
in  the  county  of  York,  but  dying  s.  p,  in  1502,  was 
#.  by  his  half  brother, 

CUTHBERT  OGLE,  seventh  beron.  summoned 
to  parliament  fh>m  11th  January,  1563,  to  17th 
October,  1001.  Thia  noUeman  espoused  Catherine, 
daughter  and  co-heir  of  Sir  Reginald  Camaby,  Knt. 
and  bad  issue, 

Joene,  m.  to  Edward  Talbot,  son  of  George, 
sixth  Earl  of  Shrewsbury,  and  afterwards 
eighth  Earl  of  Shrewsbury  himself,  but  died 
*.p,in  1687* 
Catherine,  m.  to  Sir  Charlea  Cavendish,  Knt. 
of  Wdbedc,  in  the  county  of  Nottingham. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1507*  and  the  Babonv  or  Oolb 
fell  into  abbtahcb  between  hto  two  daughters, 
and  so  continued  until  ttiedeceese  of  JoAMB,  0»«m- 
ttt»  ftf  Shrmotburp,  the  dder,  without  issue,  in 
1097,  when  It  waa  called  out  in  iavoOr  of  the 
younger, 

405 


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PAG 


CATHERINE  CAVENDISH,  reUct  of  Sfar  Charles 
CsTondiili,  who  obtaiMd  especial  letters  patent 
under  the  great  seal,  from  King  Charles  I.,  dated 
4th  December,  1088,  declaring  her  ladyship  to  be 
Baronbbb  Oolb,  and  ratifying  the  dignity  to  her 
heirs  for  ever.  Her  ladyship  d,  the  ne&t  yeari  and 
was  «.  by  her  only  sarrlrlng  son, 

SIR  WILLIAM  CAVENDISH,  K.G.,  who  had 
been  created  Baron  Ogle,  and  Viscount  Mansfield, 
in  1680.  (For  the  particulars  of  this  nobleman, 
afterwards  so  celebrated  in  the  civil  wars,  as 
DuKB  or  NawcASTLX,  refer  to  Cavendish,  Bazon 
Ogle,  Duke  of  Newcastle,  &c.) 
His  grace  d.  in  1676,  and  was  «.  by  his  only  son, 
HENRY  CAVENDISH,  second  Duke  of  New- 
castle,  dec,  and  ninth  Babon  Oolb.  This  noble- 
man m.  Frances,  daughter  of  William,  second  son 
of  Robert  Pierpoint,  Earl  of  Kingston,  by  whom  he 
had  a  son,  Hbnry,  who  died  «.j».  in  1680,  and  five 
daughters,  via. 

Elisabeth,  m.  first,  to  Christopher  Monk,  Duke 
of  Albemarle,  and  secondly,  to  Ralph,  Duke 
of  Montagu,  but  d.  issueless. 
Frances,  m.  to  John,  second  Earl  of  Breadal- 

bane,  and  died  «.  p. 
Margaret,  m.  to  John  Holies,  Earl  of  Clare, 
afterwards  created  Duke  of  Newcastle,  by 
whom  she  had  an  only  daughter. 

Lady  Hxnbibtta-Catbndi8R  Hoi.- 
LBB,  who  IN.  Robert  Harley,  second 
Earl  of  Oxford,  and  left  an  only 
daughter, 

Laot  Maboabbt  Catbndibr 
Harlxy,  who  espoused  William 
Bentinck,  second  Duke  of  Port- 
land, and  was  mother  of 

Wii<LiAM,  third  duke,  father 
of  William,  present  Dukb 

or  POBTLAHD. 

Catherine,  m.  to  Thomas,  sixth  Earl  of 
Thanet,  and  had  five  daughters,  to  sur- 
vive, viEi 

Catherine,  m.  to  Edward,  Viscount  Son- 
des, heir  apparent  to  the  Earl  of  Rock- 
ingham. 
Anne,  m.  to  James,  fifth  Earl  of  Salis- 
bury, and  was  great  grandmother  of 
James,  the  present  Maroubss  op  Sa- 

I<I8BURY. 

Margaret,  m.  to  Thomas  Coke,  Earl  of 

Leicester,  but  died  «.  p. 
Blary,  m.   to  Anthony   Grey,   Earl  of 
Harold,  and  secondly,  to  John,  Earl  of 
Gower. 
Isabella,  m.  first,  to  Lord  Nassau  Pau- 
lett,  and  secondly,  to  Sir  Frands  Blake* 
DeUval,  K.B. 
Arabella,  m.  to  Charles,  Earl  of  Sunderland, 
and  left  an  only  daughter, 

Frances,  who  m,  Henry,  fourth  Earl  of 
Carlisle. 
His  graced,  in  1691,  when  all  his  honours  became 
extinct,  except  the  Babon y  or  Oolb,  which  fell 
into  ABBYAKcx,  and  still  continues  amongst  the 
representatives  of  those  who  left  issue. 
Abmb.— Ar.  a  fesse  between  thxee  crescents  gu. 
406 


OLDCASTLB—BARON  GOBHAM. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  8th  January,  13U» 
6  Edward  U. 

XilUBgC. 

For  an  account  of  this  nobleman,  the  cdebrated 
LoLLABD  leader.  Sir  Johw  Oli>ca8tlb,  Baron 
Cobham,  refer  to  Cobkam,  Baboitb  Cobham. 

ORREBY--BAKON  ORREBY. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  4th  March,  1909» 
S  Edward  II. 

Xincasc. 

In  the  22nd  Henry  II. 

HERBERT  DE  ORREBY,  (son  of  Alaid  de 
Orreby,)  with  Agnes,  his  wife,  founded  the  priory 
of  Hagneby,  in  the  county  of  i.i«*/v*in.  To  this 
Herbert  succeeded, 

JOHN  DE  ORREBY,  who  d.  in  the  41st  Henry 
III.,  and  next  after  him  we  find 

FULKE  DE  ORREBY,  justice  of  Cheater  in 
the  44th  Henry  III.,  to  whom  the  custody  of  several 
castles  was  then  committed.  This  Fulke  d.  soon 
after,  for  the  next  year 

THOMAS  DE  ORREBY  was  made  justice  of 
Chester  upon  his  decease.  This  Thomas  was  «• 
by 

JOHN  DE  ORREBY,  who,  in  the  3Ut  Ed- 
ward I.,  was  In  the  Scottish  wars,  and  was  sum- 
moned to  parliament  as  a  babon  in  the  Snd,  3rd* 
and  4th  of  Edward  II.  His  lordship  d.  in  1317 
issudess,  when  the  Babony  or  Orbbby  became 
BXTiNCT,  and  his  lands. were  divided  amongst  his 
next  heirs,  namely,  Edmund  de  Somervill,  Alured 
de  Sulney,  and  Robert  de  Wilioughby. 

Abmb.— Ermine,  five  chevronels  g.  on  a  caBton« 
of  the  second  a  lion  passant  or. 

PAGET— BARONS  BURTON,  EARLS 
OF  UXBRIDOE. 

Barony,    \  by  Letters  /  31st  December,  171 1. 
Earldom,  j    Patent,    1 10th  October,  1714. 

ICiiuasc. 

"  The  first  mention  I  find,"  writes  Sir  William 
Di^dale,  **  of  any  bearing  this  name,  who  arrived 
to  the  dignity  of  the  peerage,  is 

WILLIAM  PAGET,  a  person  endowed  with  eac- 
odlent  parts,  as  mayaedm  from  his  ascent  inm  bo 
low  a  condition  to  those  high  preferments,  wheve- 
unto,  by  sundry  degrees,  he  attained;  being  son  to 

Paget,  one  of  the  seijeants  at  maoe  in  the 

city  of  London,  who  was  bora  near  Wednesbory.  - 
in  Staflbrdshire,  of  mean  parentage,  where  there 
were  some  of  that  generation,  till  of  late  years,  re- 
maining." In  the  23rd  of  Henry  VIIL  this  William 
Paget,  through  his  great  abilities  alone,  obtained 
the  appointment  of  derk  ot  the  signet— in  a  firw 
yean  aflerwaids  he  waa  made  derk  of  the  ooiiiicil; 


PAO 


PAG 


he  utmt  baeame  dttk  of  tbe  privy  m«1,  and  then 
dark  of  the  parliament,  having  the  Utter  office  con- 
ferred upon  him  for  life.  He  subaequently  received 
the  honour  of  knighthood,  waa  employed  by  King 
Hmrnv  VIII.  upon  levaml  diplomatic  occaiiona  of 
high  importance,  and  appointed  one  of  his  ma- 
jeaty's  executorst  and  of  the  council  to  hia  eon,  by 
that  monarch  upon  hia  death-bed.  In  the  find  year 
of  the  new  relgb,  (Edward  VI.,)  Sir  William  Paget 
had  a  grant  in  fee  from  the  crown  of  Bxxtsb 
Houaa,  (formerly  belonging  to  the  bbhopa  of  that 
lee,)  with  a  parcel  of  ground  lying  within  the 
garden  of  the  Middle  Temple,  adjoining  thereto  t 
which  manaion  he  rebuilt  for  hia  own  reaidcnce, 
and  called  it  Paobt  House  But  it  did  not  retain 
that  designation  for  any  length  of  time,  it  being 
afterward*  called  LxicaaTaa  Houax,  and  then 
Eaasx  Houan.  In  the  4th  of  Edward  VI.,  Sir  Ed- 
ward was  accredited  ambassador  extraordinary  to 
the  Anparor  Charles  V.,  and  became  so  great  a 
fiivourlte  with  that  monarch,  that  hU  imperial  m»> 
Jeaty  was  heard  to  say,  "  that  Sir  Edward  Paget 
to  be  a  king  as  well  as  to  represent 
Once,  too,  aa  the  English  ambassador  came 
to  court,  the  emperor  observed,  '*  Yonder  is 
the  man  to  whom  I  can  deny  nothing."  At 
another  time  hia  mi^ty  remarked,  that  England 
sent  three  sorts  of  ambassadors  to  him;  the  first 
waa  WoLaxY,  whoae  great  retinue  promised 
touch,  but  he  did  nothing ;  the  second,  Morisin, 
promised,  and  did  much ;  the  third,  Paget,  promised 
nothing,  and  did  alL  In  the  same  year.  Sir  Edward 
being  then  a  Knioht  of  the  OAnran,  was  consti- 
tuted comptrpller  ot  the  king's  household;  made 
dumceHor  of  the  Dudiy  of  Lancaster,  and  sum- 
moned to  the  House  of  Lords  as  Baron  Paobt,  of 
BMNNlMealk,  in  the  county  ofSH^ffhrd,  by  writ,  dated 
asrd  January,  15A8:  after  which  he  waa  sent  with 
the  Earl  of  Bedford  and  Sir  John  Mason  again  to 
treat  of  peace  with  the  French.  Notwithatanding, 
isowbver,  these  eminent  services,  he  was  accused 
by  his  enemies  upon  the  All  of  the  Photxctor 
SomnaaT  of  divers  olftnces,  and  committed  to  the 
Tower,  deprived  of  the  insignia  of  the  Garter,  and 
fined  £0000,  two  of  which  were  remitted,  on 
condition  tbat  the  other  four  were  paid  within  a 
year.  At  the  demise  of  King  Edward  his  lordship 
espousing  the  cause  of  Mary,  rode  poet  with  the 
Earl  of  Arundel  to  announce  the  event  to  her  ma- 
jesty, and  that  she  had  been  proclaimed  in  the  dty 
of  London;  for  which  loyal  proceeding  he  waa  ever 
afterwards  highly  esteemed  by  her  ma^takj,  and  in 
the  ard  year  of  her  reign  was  made  lord  privy  seaL 
Hia  Iq^dship  m.  Anne,  daughter  and  heir  of  Henry 
PieatMi,  Baq.,  of  the  county  of  Lancwter,  and  had 
iasae, 

HSNXT  (Sir),  his  successor. 
Thomab,  who  succeeded  aii  third  lord. 
Charles.  This  gentleman  waa  attainted  with 
his  brother,  Thomas,  Lord  Paget.  Hol- 
lingshed  relates  that  the  Charles  Paget  was 
prindpal  agent  fbr  the  Roman  Catholics,  as 
It  waa  proved  on  examination  of  the  Earl  of 
Northumberland's  case,  via.:  that  in  Sep- 
tember, IMS,  he  came  privatdy  beyond  sea 
to  the  Earl  of  Northumberland,  at.  Pet* 


wort,  where  the  Lord  Paget  met  Mm ;  and 
that  on  Throgmorton's  bdng  committed  to 
the  Tower,  the  Earl  of  Northumberland 
prevailed  on  the  Lord  Paget  to  quit  the 
reafan,  and  provided  him  a  ship  on  the 
ooeat  of  Sussex,  wherein  he  embarked. 
Ethddreda,  m.  to  Sir  Christopher  Allen,  KnL 
Eleanor,  m.  first,  to  Jerome  Palmer,  Esq.,  and 

secondly,  to  Sir  Rowland  Clerk,  Knt. 
OrisUd,  m.  first,  to  Sir  William  Waldcgrave, 

and  secondly,  to  Sir  Thomaa  Rivet,  Knt. 
Joan,  m.  to  Sir  Thomaa  Kitaon,  Knt. 
Dorothy,  m.  to  Sir  Thomas  Willoughby,  son 
of  Sir  Henry  Willoughby,  of  Woollaton,  in 
the  county  of  Notts. 
Anne,  m.  to  Sir  Henry  Lee,  Knt. 
He  d.  in  IMS,  and  waa  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

SIR  HENRY  PAGET,  second  baron,  summoned 
to  parliament  SOth  September,  1608.  His  lordship* 
m.  Catherine,  daughter  of  Sir  Henry  Lee,  Knt.,  and 
had  an  only  daughter, 

EiiIbabbtr,  m.  to  Sir  Henry  Lee,  Knt.  Thia 
lady  left  no  issue  t  her  uncle  succeeded  to 
the  barony  at  her  decease.  But  in  this  mat- 
ter there  is  a  good  detf  of  confusion.  Col- 
lins says,  her  ladyship  d.  99th  June,  1071, 
but  Thomas  Paget,  the  third  baron,  appears 
to  have  been  summoned  on  the  4th  of  the 
previous  ApriL 
He  d.  in  IMl,  and  was  «.  by  hia  daughter, 

ELIZABETH  LEE,  aa  Banmces  Paget,  at  whose 
decease  succeeded  her  uncle, 

THOMAS  PAGET,  third  baron,  summoned  to 
parliament  fkom  4th  April,  1071 1  to  6th  January, 
1561.  This  nobleman,  being  a  aealous  Roman  Ca- 
tholic, waa  obliged,  in  the  reign  of  Eliaabeth,  to 
seek  personal  security  in  France,  but  he  waa  attaint- 
ed in  parliament  with  hia  brother,  Charles,  as  a  weU- 
wisher  to  the  Queen  of  Soots;  when  the  Bahoky 
OF  PaoXt  became  ponrxiTXD,  and  his  lands  being 
confiscated,  the  Earl  of  Leicester  got  a  grant  of 
Paoxt  Houas.  Hia  lordship  m.  Naaaret,  daughter 
irf  Sir  Henry  Newton,  Knt,  and  left  at  hia  deceaae 
(anno  1189,  at  Brussels,)  an  only  eon, 

WILLIAM  PAGET,  who  waa  with  the  Earl  of 
Essex  in  the  memorable  attack  upon  Cadia,  39th 
Eliaabeth,  and  being  restored  to  the  lands  and 
honours  fbrfdted  by  his  Csther,  was  summoned  to 
parliament  aa  Baxon  Paokt  ftom  6th  November, 

*  William,  Lord  Paget,  of  Beaudesert,  waa  seised 
in  fee  of  the  Baroniea  of  Loogden  and  Haywood, 
and  of,  and  In  the  manors  of  Beaudesert,  Lcnigden, 
Ac  and  being  so  seised,  by  fine,  1st  Mary,  entailed 
the  manors  and  baronies  aforesaid,  to  him  and  the 
heirs  male  of  his  body  issuing;  and  anno,  Ath  of 
Elisabeth,  died,  leaving  Henry,  his  son  and  next 
heir  male,  which  Henry  entered  into  the  baronies 
and  lands  aforesaid,  by  virtue  of  the  aforesaid  fine, 
and  died  theieof  seised,  11th  Eliaabeth,  leavfaig 
Elisabeth,  his  only  daughter  and  heir;  after  whose 
death,  Thomas  Paget,  brother  and  heir  male  of 
the  said  Henry,  entered  Into  the  baroniea  and 
manors  aforesaid,  and  waa  summoned  tothepaiv 
liament  by  Virtue  of  the  aforesaid  fina^CoLLiira' 
Pabliambntaxv  PnscsDSNTa. 

407 


PAG 


PAR 


leOft,  to7th  Marefa»lffi8.  His  lordihip  m.  Lettice, 
daughter  and  oo-heir  of  Henry  KnoUes,  Esq.,  a 
younger  ton  of  Sir  Henry  KnoUfi»  K.O.»  by  whom 
he  had  iMue, 

WiUiiAMy  hie  flucoeMor. 

Tto^,  JbothAiminanied. 

EUaabeth,  m.  to  Sir  WiDiam  Hidu,  Batt.,  ot 

Buckholt*  Emmx. 
Dorothy,  d.  unmarried. 
Catherine,  m.  to  Sir  Anthony  Iihy,  Knt.,  of 
Boatoo,  in  the  county  of  Llnorin,  aaoeitor 
of  the  preient  Lokd  Bobtoit. 
Anne,  m.  flrtt,  to  Sir  Simon  HarDOurt,  Knt., 
of  Stanton  Hareourt,  in  the  county  of  Ox- 
ford, and  secondly,  to  Sir  WilBam  Waller, 
Knt.,  of  Osterley  Park,  Middlesex,  the  cele- 
brated parliamentary  gcoeraL 
He  d.  in  1699,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  sob, 

WILLIAM  PAGET,  fifth  baron,  summoned  to 
parliament  from  13th  April,  1839,  to  8th  May,  1661. 
His  lordship  was  made  a  Knight  of  the  Bath  at  the 
coronation  of  King  Charles  L  He  in.  Lady  Frances 
Rich,  daughter  of  Henry,  EazI  of  HoUand,  and  had 
issue, 

William,  his  suoeessor. 
Henry,  who  settled  in  Ireland,  m.  Miss  Sand- 
ford,  daughter  of  •— ~.  Sandford,  Esq.,  of 
Sandfbrd,  in  the  county  of  Salop,  and  had 
(with  a  daughter,  Dorothy,  who  m.  Sir  Ed- 
ward Irby,  Bart.)  a  son, 
■  Thomas,  a  brigadier  general  in  the  army, 
who  m.  Mary,  daughter  and  co-heir  of 
Peter    Whitcombe,    Esq.,  of   Great 
Btaxted,  in  Essex,  by  whom  he  had  an 
only  daughter  and  heiress, 

CAROLiKn  Paobt,  who  m.  Six 
Nidiolas  Baylay,  Bart.,  and  had  m 
son, 

HnifRY  Batlbt,  who  Inhe- 
rited as  ninth  Bahoit  Paobt. 
His    lordship   assumed  the 
surname  and  arms  of  Paobt, 
and  was  created  Earl  of 
UxBRiDos.    He  was  father 
ci   B»MnhWUHm»,  present 
MARguaaB  or  Aholbbby. 
Themas,  d.  nnaaartied. 
Isabd,  d.  unmarried. 
Lettice,  m.  to  Richard  Hampden,  Esq.,  of 

Great  Hampden,  Bucks. 
Eliaabetb,  d.  unmarried. 
Frances,  m.  to  Roiriand  Hunt,  Esq.,  of  Bor- 

eaton,  in  the  county  of  Salop. 
Penekipe,  m.  to  Philip  Foley,  Esq.,  of  Prast- 

wood.  Stailbrdduraw 
Diana,  m.  to  Sir  Henry  Asharst,  Bart. 
Anne,  d.  unmarried. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1078,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 
WILLIAM  PAGET,  sUth  baron,  summoned  to 
parliament  6th  March,  16791    This  nobleman  m. 
first,  Frances,  daughter  of  Francis  Pierpoint,  and 
grand-daughter  of  Robert,  Earl  of  Kingston,  by 
whom  he  had  two  sons, 

WtUiam,  who  d.  unmarried  in  his  father's  hid- 

time. 
408 


Hbitbt,  sueoessor  to  the  titto. 
His  lordship  espoused,  secondly^  IsabeUa,  daughter- 
of  Sir  Anthony  Irby,  KnL,  <tf  Bocton,  by  whom  he 
had  another  son,  William,  who  d.  young.  This 
nobleman,  <*  the  leputatioB  of  whose  great  abilities 
(says  Banks)  «  wiU  last  as  long  as  themenMny  of 
that  oeiebrnted  peace  of  Carlowita,  condnded  in 
1696,  shall  remain  in  history,"  d.  at  an  adTanoed 
age,  S5th  February,  1713*  and  was  s.  by  his  son, 

HENRY  PAGET,  Boron  Burton,  (a  dignity  to 
which  he  had  been  raised  in  the  Uib-time  of  hU 
father,  by  letters  patent,  dated  Slst  December, 
1711,)  aa  seventh  Baron  Paget  His  lovdihip  waa 
adranoed  to  the  Eablbom  of  Uxbriogx  on  19tb 
October,  1714.  He  filled  many  high  and  important 
offices,  but  reiigned  aU  his  employments  in  171A. 
His  lordship  m,  first,  Mary,  daughter  and  coheir  of 
Thomas  Catesby,  Esq.,  of  Whiston,  in  Northamp- 
tonshire,  and  had  a  son, 

Tbomab-Catbsbt,  Lord  PagvL    This  iiobi»> 
man,  who  was  cofamel  of  a  regiment  of  Coot, 
d.  in  the  lif e-dme  of  his  &ther,  anno  1749, 
leaving  by  his  wifle  Lady  Elisabeth  Bgerton, 
daugfatsr  of  J<dm,  Earl  of  Bridgewater, 
Hbivrv,  who  9,  as  second  Earl  of  Ux- 
bridge 
The  eari  espoused,  secondly,  Elixabeth,  dangfater 
of  Sir  Walter  Bagot,  Knt.,  but  had  no  Issue.    He  cf. 
in  1743,  and  was  «.  by  his  grandson, 

XHOMAS-CATESBY  PAGET,  second  Earl  of 
UxbridgOi  This  nobleman  d.  unmanied  in  1769» 
when  the  Barony  of  Paget  devolved  upon  Us  kins- 
man, Henry  Bayley,  Esq.,  as  ninth  baron,  (rete  to 
issue  of  Henry,  second  son  of  flfUk  kard,)  while  tha 
Barokt  or  Burton  and  Earx.x>om  of  UsuuaiMna 
became  bxtihct. 

ARMMr-^a.  on  a  cross  engrailed  betw.  four  eagles 
diqilayed,  ar.  five  lions  passant  of  the  first. 


PARKER— BARONS  MORLEY,  BA. 
RONS  MONTEAGLE. 

Barony  of^  fdatad  99th  Dec  1999^ 

Morley,       f  by  Writ  ofj  96  Edward  L 

Barony  of  rSummons,]  dated  S9kd  Nov.,  1514» 
Monteagle,i  I.       6  Henry  VIU. 

Xfncast. 


ROBERT  MORLEY,  Bonn  JIbrlsy,  (m  dignity 
created  by  writ  of  Edward  L,  dated  aa  above,)  d. 
in  1449,  IcRTing  a  daughter  and  heiress* 
Aliaborb  Morlby,  wham. 

SIR  WILLIAM  LOVEL.  second  son  of  Wiliiam* 
Lord  Lovel,  of  TIchmendi;  which  WUliam  ww 
summoned  to  parliament  in  right  of  his  wit^  m 
Lord  Morley.    He  d.  in  1476,  and  was  #.  by  his  sen. 

HENRY  LOVEL,  Lord  Morley,  but  never  sum- 
moned to  parliament.  This  nohleman  d.  in  1489 
issueless,  when  his  sister, 

Alicb  Lovbl,  became  his  heir.    Her  ladyship 
espoused,  first, 

SIR  WILLIAM  PARKER,  standard  bearer, 
and  privy  councillor  to  King  Richard  III.,  and 
secondly.  Sir  Edward  Howard,  second  son  of  Tho- 
mm,  Duke  of  Norfolk:  by  the  hitter  she  had  no 
isaoe,  but  by  the  former  she  had  a  son. 


FAR 


PAK 


SIR  HBNRY  PARKBR,  who  WM  MmunoMd 
to  iMrUament  m  Baroii  1Iorj.by  from  Uth  April, 
ms,  to  flSth  October,  IMSw  This  noUcnai  ww 
ona  of  the  pant  who  licnad  the  latter,  ttid  Haw  bt 
VIIL,  to  the  Pope,  reguding  the  king't  divorce 
ftom  Queen  KAtherine.  HU  loitlihip  m.  AIke, 
deaghtet  of  Sir  John  St.  John,  of  Bletaho,  In  the 
county  of  Bedford*  end  had  an  only  aon, 

Hbkbt,  who  was  created  a  Knight  of  the 
Bath  at  the  ooronatlon  of  Queen  Anne 
Boleyn,  and  A  hi  the  ftth  Edward  VL,  hie 
Ikther  then  Uving.  He  m.  flnt,  Grace, 
daughter  of  John  Newport,  £iq.,  and  had 
i«u^ 

Hbhbt,  fucoaMmr  to  hiM  grandflrther. 
.   Jane,  m.  to  George  Boleyn,  LovdRodlltard. 

,  m.  to  Sir  John  Shriton,  Knt 

Sir  Henry  Morley  m.  lecondly,  Elisabeth, 
daughter  and  heir  of  Sir  Philip  Cal- 
thorpe,  Knt.,  but  had  no  imiei. 
In  WalpoWs  Catalogue  of  Noble  Authore,  I^oid 
Morley  ia  mentioned  as  a  voluminous  writer,  and 
Anthony  Wood  says,  he  was  living,  an  ancient  man, 
highly  esteemed  by  the  nobiUty,  in  the  latter  end 
of  Henry  VIIL's  reign.  He  d.  in  the  tfane  of  Philip 
and  Mary,  anno  IMS,  and  was  ».  by  his  grandson, 

HENRY  PARKER,  Lord  Morley,  summoned 
to  parliament  fkom  90th  Janoaryi  1S58,  to  8th  May, 
unz.    ThU  nobleman  m.  Lady  Elisabeth  Stanley, 
daughter  of  Edward,  Earl  of  Derbyi  and  had  iiene, 
EowAAD,  his  successor. 
Alices  m.  to  Sir  Thomas  BarlngtoB,  Knt. 
Mary,  «k  to  Sir  Edward  Leventhorpe,  Knt 
His  lordship  was  «.  at  his  deoeese  by  his  son, 

EDWARD  PARKER,  Lord  Morley,  suaunoned 
to  parliament  ftom  flOth  January,  U01,  to  Ath 
April,  1614.    This  nobieman  was  one  of  the  peers 
that  sat  in  jodgnumt  upon  Mary,  Queen  of  Scots  i 
on  Philip,  Earl  of  Arundel,  and  on  Robert,  Earl  of 
BsMX,  all  in  the  reign  of  Elisabeth  t  his  lordship  m. 
Elisabeth,  only  daughter  and  heiress  of  WlUism* 
Stanley,  Baron  Monteagle,  and  had  issuer 
WiUriAM,  his  sttoocssor. 
Henry. 
Chartaa. 
Mary,  m.  to  Thomas  Abington,  Esq.,  of  Hin- 

lip. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Sir  Alexander  Barlow,  of 

Barlow,  in  Lancashire. 
Frances,  m.  to  Christopher  Danby,  Esq.,  of 
Leighton,  in  the  county  of  York. 
Hed.  in  1018,  and  was«.  by  his  eldest  son, 

WILLIAM  PARKER,  who  had  been  summoned 
to  parliament  in  the  life-tfane  of  his  father,  in  right 
of  his  mother,  as  Baron  MoirTBAOx.B,  and  was 
summoned  as  Loan  Mori.bt  and  Montbaolb 
fhmk  30th  January,  1081,  to  4th  November  in  the 
same  year.  This  is  the  nobleman  to  whom  the 
very  remarkable  letter  was  addressed,  by  which 
the  gunpowder-plot  was  fortunately  discovered. 
It  is  said  to  have  been  written  by  his  sister,  Mary, 
wife  of  Thomas  AUngfeon,  (or  Habington,)  of 
Hinlip,  which  Thomas  had  been  cofllerer  to  Queen 
Elisabeth.  Abington  was  concerned  in  many  pro- 
jects for  the  release  of  Mary,  Queen  of  Scotland,  and 
contrived  various  places  of  concealment  in  his  old 


mansion  at  Hinlip.  He  was  oondenuiad  to  die  for 
conceeling  Garnet  and  OMcom,  the  Jesuits,, but 
was  pardoned,  at  the  intercession  of  his  wife  and 
Lord  Monteaglcb 

Lord  Morley  and  Monteagle  m.  BlIsalMth,  daugh- 
ter of  Sir  Tlunnas  Tresham,  Knt,  and  had  iasaa* 
Hbnby,  his  successor. 
William. 
Charles. 
*  Frances,  d.  a  nun. 
Katharine,  m.  to  John  Savage,  Earl  Rivers. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Edward  Cranflrid,  Esq. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1899,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 
SIR  HENRY  PARKER.  K.B..  summoned  to 
parliament  as  Babok  Moblbt  and  Montbaolb 
ftom  19th  February,  10B4,  to  3rd  November,  1690. 
His  lordship  m.  Philippe,  daughter  and  co-heir  of 
Sir  Philip  Carrel,  of  Shipley,  in  Survey,  and  dying 
in  1655,  was  «.  by  his  only  child, 

THOMAS  PARKER,  snmmonrd  to  parliament 
a*  Babon  Moblby  and  Montbaoub  ftom  8th 
May,  lOSl,  to  19th  May,  168S.  His  lordship  m. 
Mary,  daughter  ot  Henry  Martin,  Esq.,  (tf  Land*, 
worth,  in  the  county  (tf  Berks,  but  d.  without  issue, 
about  the  year  1686,  when  the  BABONiaa  or  Moa- 
LBY  AND  Montbaolb  f^  into  abbyancb  be- 
tween the  issue  of  his  two  aunts,  and  so  continue 
with  their  representatives.    Those  aunts  were 

1.  Katubbinb,  who  m.  John  Savage,  Earl  of 
Rivers,  and  had  Issue, 
Thomas,  who  «.  to  the  Earldom  of 
Rivers,  and  was  #.  by  his  son, 

RiCHABD,  Earl  of  Rivers,  who  d, 
in  1719,  and  was  #.  by  his  cousin» 
John  Sataob,  Earl  of  Rivera* 
with  whose  son, 
John,  the   earldom  ex- 
pired. 
John,  died  s,  p» 
Richard. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  William,  Lord  Petre, 

but  had  no  issue. 
Jane,  m.  first,  to  George,  Lord  Chsndos» 
secondly,  to  Sir  William  Sidley,  Bart., 
and  thirdly,  to  Obobob  Pitt,  Eag., 
q^Slrel^elifMif,  <«  Me  muniif  ^  Hantt, 
Her  ladyship's  great  grandson  by  her 
last  husband,  Obobob    Ptrr,   Esq., 
of  Strathfleldsay,  was  created,  in  1776, 
Babon  Ritbbs,  q^Sfra<i^/leMMV,  and 
in    1809,  Babon    Rivaaa,  ^  Sudieif 
Ossde,  with  a  special  remainder.    His 
lordship  d.  in  1803,  and  was  a.  by  hie 
son, 
GaoBOB  Pitt,   second  baion,  at 
whose  decease,  in  1898,  the  first 
barony  expired,  but  the  second 
devolved,  according  to  the  limita- 
tion, upon  his  nephew, 

HoRACB  -  William  Bbck- 
voBO,  Esq.,  as  thibd  ba- 
ron I  he  d.  in  1831,  and  was 
«.  by  his  son, 

Gbobob,  present  lord. 
Catherine,  m.  to  Charles,  brother  of  Sir 
WiUiam  Sidley. 
3  O  400 


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M«ry.  M.to  WUliam  Kilfigmr,  Eaq. 
«         Pmioei*  dL  joimg. 
8.  Eliiabeth,  m.  to  Edward  Cnmfldd,  Eaq. 
Arms.— Ai.  betw.  two  ban,  la.  charged  with  thrae 
baiants,  a  Uon  paMaat  gulet,  tn  diief  three  budu' 

PARR— BARON  PARR,  OF  KENDAL, 
,,    ^  EARL    OF     ESSEX,     MAR- 

"  "^  QUESS  OF  NORTHAAIPTON. 


J<v  /'  ^^^ 


Barony, 

Earldom, 

Marquisate, 


}  by  Letters  r 
Patent.   I 


1538. 


83rd  December,  1543i 
16th  February,  1587. 
Marquisate  rerlved,  13th  January,  I5SB. 

ICintaftc. 

The  family  of  Park,  although  of  knightly  degree, 
q»pear»  not  to  have  attained  much  cdeinrity  until 
the  reign  of  Richaiid  II.,  when 

SIR  WILLIAM  PARR  m.  Elisabeth  de  Rooe, 
grand-daughter  and  heir  of  Sin  Thomas  Rooa,  i^ 
Kmtdal,*  and  had  livery  of  her  inheritance.    Upon 

*  The  old  fieudal  BARONa  or  Krh oal  deioended, 
as  set  Ibrth  in  the  register  of  Cockemnd  Abbey, 
flrom  Ito  TAiLBora,  brother  ai  Fulke,  Earl  of 
Ai^ou.    The  fourth  in  deMxnt  trom  whom, 

WiLiiiAM  DB  Lawcabtbr,  is  presumed  to  have 
adopted  that  surname  ftom  bring  governor  of  Lan- 
caster Castle.  He  m.  Gundred,  daughter  of  Wil- 
Uam,  second  Earl  of  Warren,  and  widow  of  Roger, 
Earl  of  Warwick,  and  was  #.  by  his  son, 

W11.X.IAM  DB  Lancastbr,  (csUed  the  tecond,) 
who  was  steward  to  King  Hbnry  II.  He  m.  Hele- 
wise  de  Stutevffle,  and  left  an  only  daughter  and 
heir, 

HBI.BW18B  DB  Laitcastbr,  who  espoussd  Gil- 
bert, son  of  Roger  Fltx-Reinfred,  and  had  (with 
three  daughters)  an  only  son,  who  adopting  his 
mothei's  surname, «.  to  her  estates  as 

William    db    Lawcastbr  (called  the  third). 
This  feudal  lord  d.  without  issue,  when  the  lands 
devolved  upon  his  three  listen,  as  co-heirs,  vis. 
Alice,  (the  second,)  tn,  to  William  de  Lindsey, 
and  her  descendant, 
CBRTa:riAir  db  LuroaBT,  m.  Ingelram 
de  Ghisnes,  Lord  of  Courcy,  in  France, 
whose  grandson, 

IKOBLRAM  DB  GHiaNBB,  EARL  OP 

Bbdpord,  left  an  only  daughter 
and  heir, 

Philippa,  who  died  s.  p. 
Scrota  (the  Aird,)  m.  —  Mutton,  and  died 

».p. 
Hblbwibb,  (the  eldest,)  m.  Peter  de  Brus,  of 
Skdton,  and  had  issue,  Peter,  who  d.  issue- 
less,  and  four  daughters,  of  whom   the 
eldest, 

Maroarbt,  m.  Robert  de  Roos,  and  her 
great  grandson. 
Sir  Thomas  db  Rooa,  was  «.  in 
Kendal,  and  his  other  estates,  by 
his  grand-daughter, 

Blizabbth  db  Rooa,  who  m, 
as  in  the  text.  Sib  William 
Parr. 
410 


the  acwBrion  of  the  Dnkeof  Lancaster,  aa  HnirfeY 
IV.,  Sir  William  Pair  stood  so  high  in  theestima- 
tion  of  the  new  monarch,  that  he  was  deputed,  with 
the  Bishop  of  St.  Asaph,  to  announce  the  revolutkm 
to  the  court  of  Spain.  He  d.  In  a  few  years  afler- 
waxds,  (6th  Edward  IV.,)  being  then  seised  of  the 
fourth  part  of  the  manor  of  Rirby,  in  Kendal,  In 
right  of  the  heiress  of  Roos,  and  was  «.  by  his  ddest 
son,  r*  4fMMA  C^^M  <:    %W9f^^ 

JOHN  PARR,  who  d.  within  three  yean  of  his 
father,  and  was  «.  by  liis  son,  -^  Al>ju  J^tU^'W/ 
SIR  THOMAS  PARR,  who,  taking  part  with 
Richard,  Duke  of  York,  was  attainted  in  the  par- 
liament held  at  Coventry,  38th  Henry  VI.  t  he  d.  in 
the  4th  Edward  IV.,  and  was  s.  by  his  son, 

SIR  WILLIAM  PARR.  This  feudal  k>rd  ap- 
pean  to  have  enjoyed  the  fiivour  of  King  Edward 
IV.,  and  to  have  repaid  it  with  great  fidelity.  In 
the  10th  of  that  princess  reign  Sir  William  was  one  of 
the  omimissioners  appointed  to  adjust  with  Jambb 
III.,  of  Scotland,  some  alleged  violations  of  the 
truce  then  subsisting  between  the  two  kingdoms ; 
and  upon  the  return  of  King  Edward,  again  to 
contest  his  right  to  the  crown  with  Maroarbt  or 
Ahjou,  supported  by  the  king^maker.  Earl  or 
Warwick,  Sir  WiQiam  Parr  met  him  at  Nor- 
thampton with  a  considerable  force,  and  thence 
marched  to  Barhbt  Fibld,  where  the  contest  was 
decided  in  favour  of  his  royal  master.  He  waa 
afterwards  a  knight  banneret,  and  a  Kkioht  of  the 
Oartbr.  In  the  SESnd  of  the  same  reign  he  was 
constituted  chief  commissioner  for  exercising  the 
offlse  of  cjowstablb  op  Eholan d,  and  the  same 
year  he  served  in  the  left  wing  of  the  army,  then 
sent  into  Scotland,  under  the  command  of  Richard, 
Duke  of  Gloucester.  Sir  William  m.  Elisabeth, 
daughter  of  Henry,  fifth  Baron  Fits-Hugh,  by 
whom  (who  m.  secondly,  Nicholas,  Ixmi  Vauz,)  he 
had  issue, 

Thomas,  his  successor. 
William,  created  Lord  Parr,  t^Hofton, 
He  was  s.  by  his  dder  son, 

SIR  THOMAS  PARR,  who,  upon  the  decease 
of  his  fint  cousin,  George,  seventh  Baron  Fits- 
HuoR,  in  1512,  was  found  to  be  joint  heir,  with  his 
aunt,  Miet,  (Fits-Hugh)  Lady  Fibbbb,  to  that 
nobleman's  banmy  and  lands.  He  m.  Maud,  daugh- 
ter and  co-heir  of  Sir  Thomas  Green,  Knt.,  and 
had  issue, 

William,  his  successor. 
Anne,  m.  to  William  Herbert,  Earl  op  Pbm- 
BROKB,  and  her  male  descendant  continues 
*  -..'''  to  the  present  time  to  inherit  that  earldom ; 
" .  •     but  Philip,  eighth  Earl  of  Pembroke,  leav- 
ing at  his  decease  an  only  daughter. 

Lady  Charlottb  Hbrbbrt,  who  «m. 
fint,  John,  Lord  JeflHcs,  and  secondly, 
Thomas,  Viscount  Windsor,  the  co- 
heinMp  to  the  Barony  of  Fits-Hu^, 
was  thus  severed  from  the  Earldom  of 
Pembroke.  The  representatives  of  her 
ladyship's  two  marriages  are  the  pre- 
sent Earl  of  PomAret,  and  the  Marquese 
ofButft 
Kathbrimb,  m,  fint,  to  Edward  BoKmgh. 
secondly,  to  John  Neville,  Lord  Latimer. 


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thirdly,  to  Kktg  Hwry  VIII.,  and  fourthly, 
to  Thomas,  Lord  Sayioour,  of  Sudley,  but 
diadv.ji. 
The  ion,. 

WILLIAll  PARR,  wat  brought  to  court  by  his 
tkfeat,  and  roae  rapidly  hito  royal  favour.  H«  waa 
lint  mada.one  of  the  etquJrea  of  King  Henry  VIIl/s 
body,  and  he  attended  hia  royal  nuwter  in  the 
celebrated  Interview  with  FnAxrcia,  King  i^Frane«, 
where  he  took  part  in  the  Jutting  and  feata  of  arms, 
being  amongst  the  challengers  on  the  English  side. 
In  the  30th  of  the  same  reign,  he  was  advanced  to 
the  dignity  of  Ba&oit  Pakr,  of  Kendal;  but  upon 
what  day  or  month,  the  enrolment  of  his  patent 
mentions  not.  He  was  summoned  in  the  next  year, 
and  took  his  seat  in  parliament  on  the  88th  April 
(Ut89).  His  lordship  m.  first,  Lady  Anne  Bour- 
chier,  only  daughter  and  helxess  of  Henry  Bour- 
diler,  second  Earl  of  Essex,  (which  marriage  wae 
diaeolved  by  act  of  parliament,  and  the  issue  bos- 
tardiaed,)  andsoon  after  the  eievatiOB  of  his  sister, 
Katherine,  to  the  dignity  of  Qunnir  Covaonr,  he 
was  craatad,  being  then  a  Knight  of  the  Garter, 
by  letters  patent,  dated  SSd  December,  IMS,  Earl 
OP  Baaax,  with  the  precedency  which  the  late 
Henry  Bowdiier,  Earl  of  Essex,  had  enjoyed.  His 
lordship  was  constituted  by  King  Henry  VIII.,  one 
of  his  executors,  and  upon  the  accession  ot  his 
nephew,  EowAno  VL,  he  was  advanced  to  the 
MABOUiaATx  OP  NoRTBAMpTOM,  by  letters  patent, 
dated  16th  February,  1A47.  In  four  years  after- 
wards, he  was  made  Lord  Grxat  Chambbrlain 
OP  Enolano,  for  life,  and  having  about  this  time 
married,  for  his  second  wife,  Elisabeth,  daughter 
of  George,  Lord  Cobham,  he  obtained  in  the  5th 
Edward  VI.,  an  especial  act  of  parliament  for 
annulling  his  marriage  with  the  Lady  Anne  Bour- 
diler,  as  also  for  ratuying  his  marriage  with  the 
said  Elisabeth,  and  legitimating  the  children  that 
might  be  bom  of  that  lady.  Shortly  after  this  his 
'  lordship  was  sent  ambassador  extraordinary  to  the 
King  of  Prance,  to  present  to  his  mi^l^ty  the  order 
of  the  Garter,  and  to  treat  with  him  touching  cer- 
tain private  alBdrs,  being  accompanied  by  the 
Blahop  of  Ely,  and  other  distinguished  personages. 
Before  the  dose  of  this  year  he  was  one  of  the  peers 
who  sate  upon  the  trial  of  the  protector,  Somerset 
Espousing  the  cause  of  Lad^  Janb  Grby,  and 
Joining  the  Dukb  op  Northumbbrland,  in  pro- 
claiming her  QuxBN  op  Emolaitd,  upon  ttie  de- 
mise of  Khtg  Edward,  the  marquess,  on  the 
total  fkilure  of  the  project,  was  committed  to  the 
Tower,  and  being  afterwards  arraigned,  had  sen- 
tence oi  death  passed  upon  him,  and  all  his 
RoifovRB  became  porpbitbd.  Notwithstanding 
which,  execution  was  forborne,  and  before  the  close 
of  the  year,  he  was  restored  in  blood  by  parliament, 
but  not  to  his  honours,  m  that  he  had  no  other 
title  than  William  Psrr,  Esq.,  late  Marquess  of 
Northampton,  and  stood  in  no  higher  degree,  until 
Queen  EUxabeth  ascended  the  throne,  when  her 
majesty  waa  graciously  pleaaed  to  create  him,  by 
letters  patent,  dated  13th  January,  l&SO,  MARQUBea 
OP  NoRTHAMPToif ,  to  restOTO  him  to  his  lands,  to 
make  him  one  of  her  privy  ooundl,  and  to  reinvest 
him  with  tb«onler  of  th«  oabtbb.   HJa  lordship 


outliving  his  second  wifo,  m.  thirdly,  Hciea,  daugh- 
ter of  WoUkngus  Suavenburgh,  but  had  no  issuei. 
The  delight  of  this  nobleman  is  said  to  have  been 
music  and  poetry,  and  his  exerdee,  war  i  though 
his  skill  In  the  fleU  answered  not  his  industry, 
nor  his  success,  his  skiU.  Yet  Khig  Edwardcalled 
him,  **  his  honest  undei"  and  King  Henry,  *•  hia 
integrity."  HU  lordship  d.  hi  U71>  and  waa  buried 
in  the  collegiate  church  at  Warwick,  where,  about 
half  a  century  before  Sir  William  Dugdale  wrote,  his 
body,  being  dug  up,  was  found  perfoct,  the  skin 
entire,  dried  to  the  honest  and  the  raaemary  and 
bag  lying  in  the  coffin,  fresh  and  green.  His  diil- 
dren  by  his  first  lady,  having  been  illegitimated, 
^pd  having  none  by  his  other  wives,  all  nxa  ho- 
Nouna,  at  his  decease,  became  bztibct. 
Arms.— Ar.  two  bars,  aa.  a  bordef  Ingnlled  la. 

PARR  --  BARON  PARR,   OF  HOR- 

TON. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  S3  December,  1543. 

Xiniagc. 

SIR  WILLIAM  PARR,  of  Horton.  hi  the  county 
of  Northampton,  uncle  of  William,  Marquess  of 
Northampton,  and  of  Qubbn  Kathbrimb,  last 
wife  of  King  Henry  VIII.,  having  been  constituted 
chamberlain  to  her  mi^esiy,  was  advanced  to  the 
peerage,  by  letters  patent,  dated  23d  December, 
1543,  in  the  dignity  of  Baron  Park,  of  Hbrfon. 
His  lordship  m.  Mary,  daughter  of  Shr  William 
Salisbury,  Knt.,  and  had  issue, 

Maud,  m,  to  Sir  Ralph  Lane. 

Anne,  m.  to  Sir  John  Digby,  of  Ketilby,  In 
the  county  of  Leicester. 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  Sir  Nichohw  Woodhall,  Knt. 

Mary,  m.  to  Sir  Thomas  Tresham,  Knt. 
He  d.  in  1540,  when  the  Baroht  op  Pabb,  of 
Horton,  became  bxtinct. 
Arms.— Same  aa  Parr  of  KendaL 

PASTON— VISCOUNTS  YARMOUTH, 
EARLS  OF  YARMOUTH. 

Viscounty,  1  by  Letters/  19th  August,  1673^ 
1,    J    P 


Earldom, 


Patent,   \  30th  July,  1079. 

Xincasc. 


SIR  ROBERT  PASTON,  Bart,  of  an  andent 
and  "  worshipful'*  family,  in  the  county  of  Nor- 
folk, having  devoted  his  fortune  and  energies  to 
the  royal  cause,  during  the  civil  wars,  was  elevated 
to  the  peerage  by  King  Charles  IL,  on  19th  Au- 
gust, 1673,  as  BsTDM  Pttston,  ^  Ptuton^  and  Vta- 
coiTKT  Yarmoutb,  both  in  the  county  of  Norfolk. 
His  lordship  m.  Rebecca,  daughter  of  Sir  Jasper 
Clayton,  Knt.,  of  London,  and  had  issue, 
William,  his  successor. 
Robert,   m.  Anne,  daughter  and  co-heir  ot 

PhiUp  Harbord,  Esq. 
Jasper,  m.  Lady  Falrbom,  widow  of  Sir  Pal- 
mer Fairbom. 
Thomas,  a  colonel  In  the  army,  drowned  in 
16B8,  leaving  by  his  wife,  Dorothy,  daugh- 
ter of  Edward  Darcy,  Esq. 
Robert*  Captain,  R.N. 

411 


PAT 


PAU 


RclMOOi*    m.  to  Admtnl  Sir  Sttftitd 
Fafarbon. 
MMfaret,  m.  to  HtafODlmo  AIk«to  di  Contl, 

mO«niuB. 
TlieoQBt  was  advmoed  to  tte  Eabldom  ov 
Yabmoutb,  aoth  Joly,  1079i    Ho  ww  itiiml  m 
■MS  of  ntetd  tMto  and  lBwmliig»  «id  dylag  te 
MM,  WW  «.  by  hit  aktet  lOB. 

WILLIAM  PA8TON.  aaoond 
ThkBobknan  aqKNuad,  flnt, 
Maria,  natual  dao^ter  of  JCIm^  Chamubb  II.» 
hf  tha  ViaooQBtaH  SImbbod,  wiftof  Fianda  Boyl«, 
ViaeaoDt  ShanBon,  aBd  daughtat  of  Sir  WlUiam 
KiUgicw,  BBd  had  iantOf 

Ckablbb,  Laid  PaaUm,  m  brigadier  la  tha 

army*  who  pradaonaad  IiIbi. 
William,  CkpddB,  ILN.,  dlad  bafon  hU  fiMher. 
Charlotte,  m.  fint,  to  ThomarHenM,  Ew|.» 
of  HarcriBgiaBd.  ia  Noxfolfc«  aBd  laooBdly* 
Mi^Wakiroo. 
IMwoca,  m.  to  Sir  Joha  Holland,  of  Quidcn- 
ham,  Bart. 
Hia  lordihip  m.  taooodlj,  EHoabath,  daugfatar  of 
Lord  North,  and  widow  of  Sir  Robert  Wiaemao, 
but  had  DO  larae    He  d.  In  173S,  when  leaTlng  no 
male  l«u«,  and  the  male  line  of  hit  brothers  hBTlng 
previously  ceased,  the  babony,  TiaooimTT,  and 
BABLDOM,  became  bztikct. 

Abm a.— Ar.  six  fleur-de-lis  (three,  two,  and  one) 
and  a  chief  indented  or. 

PATESHULL-  BAAON  PATESHULL. 

By  Writ  of  SmnmoBS,  dated  flSth  February,  U49, 
16  Edward  UL 

Xincagc. 

ta  tha  time  of  King  Hxitby  IIL, 

SIMON  DE  PATESHULL  hdd  the  manor  of 
Bletsho,  In  the  county  of  Bedford,  of  the  Barony  of 
Bedford,  by  the  senrice  of  one  knl^t's  fee;  In 
the  17th  of  the  eame  reign, 

HUGH  DE  PATESHULL,  aade  to  Mand,  wifo 
of  Nigel  de  Mowbray,  gave  to  Hubort  da  Burgh, 
three  hundred  marks  line  on  behalf  of  tha  said 
Maud,  that  she  might  marry  whom  she  thought 
fit,  and  eq)oy  her  dowry. 

To  either  of  the  aboYO  SlnoB*  or  Hugh*  aac- 


▼ayad  lo  him  the 


BaBtSBO,  irtdch 


of 

toy 
hetress  of  the  Beaudiamps,  to  her  husband. 

Sir  OUrer  St  Joha. 
Alioa,  m.  to  Thoaaaa  Waka, 
Mabel,  M.  to  Walter  da  Fau 
Kathariaa^  Mk  to  Sir  Robert  da 

Knt. 

m 


PAULET— DUKES  OF  BOLTON. 

By  Lettan  Patent,  dated  9th  April,  10891 
XbttSjJC. 


SIMON  DE  PATESHULL.  who  Nk  IsabaU, 
daughter  and  hair  of  John  de  Staingrave,  and  waa 
«>  by 

SIR  JOHN  DE  PATESHULL,  who  had  snmr 
raoBs  to  pBrllammt  as  a  babon ,  oa  25th  February, 
131S,  but  not  afterwards.  He  d.  la  1949,  and  waa  s. 
by  his  SCO, 

SIR  WILLIAM  DE  PATESHULL,  aerar  sum- 
monad  to  parliament,  nor  can  he  have  been  eeteem- 
ed  abaron,  for  his  father  had  but  one  writ  of  sum- 
mons, and  there  is  no  proof  ai  sitting.  The  Ba- 
BOWT  OP  PATsaHVLL  must  therefore  be  considsnd 
as  BZTiMCT,  at  the  decease  of  John,  Lord  PatasfaulL 
William  d.  in  ISBB,  when  his  estates  devolved  upon 
his  sisters  as  co-heirs,  via. 

Sybyl,  m.  to  Roger  de  Beauchamp,  and  oon- 
41S 


JOHN  PAULBT,  fifth  Mai^i 

In  tha  civil  wars,  <i 
pf  tkt  Fttrag9  and  Banmetag9,)  left  by  his 
first  wifo,  Jaae^  dau^rtar  of  Thomas,  Vkcoont 
SBvaga*  aa  oaly  son, 

CHARLES  PAULBT,  sixth  Masquass  of  Wfat. 
chasler,  who,  for  his  aaal  in  ptOBiotiqg  the  revo> 
Intion,  was  created  Ddkb  ov  Bolvon,  by  letters 
patent,  dated  9th  April,  iaB9L  His  grace  m.  first, 
Chrlatiaaa,  daughter  of  Joha,  Lord  Freshville,  by 
whom  he  had  one  son,  Joha,  who  d.  m  iafoacy. 
Tha  duke  espouaed,  saoondly,  Mary,  one  of  the 
iUegitiBiate  daughters  of  Bnunuel  Scroop,  Earl  of 
Snaderlaad,  by  whom  he  aoqnirad  that  consider- 
able estate  at  Boltflii,  in  Yorkshire,  whonoe  he 
derived  the  tltla of  hb  dukedom;  and  had  issue, 
CBABuaa,  Marquess  of  Wincfaestsr. 
WlUiam,  who  okarried  twice,  and  left  isaoe  by 

bothoMiiiagafc 
Jane,  m.  to  Joha,  Earl  of  Bridgewater. 
Mary,  d.  UHWianled. 
EllMbath,  m,  to  Toby  Jenklaa,  Esq. 
His  giaea  d:  99th  February,  iaB9<«,  and  waa  a.  by  hb 


CHARLES  PAITLBT.  second  Dakd,  K.O.,  Lord 
Llautcnaat  of  Irdand  la  1777-  His  gnwe 
first,  Maiiwat,  daaghler  of  George,  Lord  C< 
try,  by  whom  he  had  ao  IseueL  He  «.  secoadly. 
Fraaoes,  daughter  of  William  Ramsdm,  Esq.,  of 
Byrom,  In  tha  oounty  of  York,  and  had 

?"^**'**»  iiurcessively  Dmcma  ow  Boltoh. 
HavBT,     j 

Mary,  m,  first,  to  Charlas  07f eal,  Esq.,  aad 

saoondly,  to  Arthur  Moore,  Esq. 
Fraaoea,  sk  to  J<Ab,  Lord  Mordanat. 
The  duke  wadded,  thirdly,  Hannetu  Crofta*  aata- 
ral  daughter  of  Jaaies  Soot,  Duke  of  MoaoMmtb, 
by  Eleanor,  younger  daughter  of  Sir  Robert  Need- 
ham,  Knt.,  and  had  one  eon, 

Nassau,  who  m.  Tsabnila.  dinghtnf  of  Thmnas, 
Earl  of  Thanet.  Los4  Nassau  Paulet  d. 
ia  1741,  leavlqg  aa  only  daaghtar, 

Isabella,  «k  to  Joha^ames,  third  Earl  of 


Hisgiaea  d:  91st  January,  1791-9,  Md  was  e.  by  his 


CHARLES  PAULET,  third  Duke,  LG-  Con- 
•table  of  the  Tower  of  Loadna.  His  grace  mu  first, 
Abbp,  only  daughiar  aad  heir  of  Joha,  Earl  of  Car- 


PAY 


P£C 


baity,  in  Irthmd,  by  wham  he  had  no  imie;  He 
•tponnd,  eBoandlyf  Lavlnia  Fenton,  well  known  ee 
aa  actreai,  in  the  diancter  of  PoUy  Peechum,  by 
whom  he  had  no  imie  afkor  manlike*  but  had  three 
•ons  preriouily.  He  d.  in  17M»  when  the  hoooun 
devfdved  upon  his  brother,  . 

HARRY  PAULET,  firarth  duke,  an  oiBcer  in 
the  army,  and  aid-de-camp  to  Lord  Galway,  In  Por- 
tugaL  Hi*  grace  m.  Catherine,  daughtor  of  Charles 
Parry,  Esq.,  of  Oakfield,  in  Berluhire,  and  had 


Dukes. 


CBABLxa,  |,uceBisiTely 

Henrietta,  m.  to  Sir  Robert  Colebrook,  Bart. 
Catherine,  m.  first,  to  William  Ashe,  Esq.,  and 
seeoodly,  to  Adam  Drummond,  Esq. 
The  duke  d.  in  1708,  and  was  «.  by  his  dder  son, 

CHARLES  PAULET,  fifth  duke.*  at  whose 
decease,  unmarried,  in  1765, '  the  homcwrs  devolved 
upon  his  brother, 

HARRY  PAULET,  sixth  duke;  This  noble- 
man being  bred  to  the  sea  service,  attained  tlie  rank 
of  admiral  of  the  white.  His  grace  m.  first,  in  1758, 
Henrietta,  daughter  of  ^^  Nunn,  Esq.,  of  Eltham, 
by  whom  he  had  a  daughter, 

Mary-Uenrietta,  m.  to  John,  fifth  Sail  of 
Sandwich. 
Theduka  espoused,  seoondly,  Catherine,  daughter 
ef  Robert  Lowther,  Esq.,  and  sister  of  James,  Earl 
of  Lonsdale,  by  whom  he  had  two  daughtcn, 

Katharine,  «••  to  Henry,  Earl  of  Darlington, 
now  Marquess  of  Cleveland,  and  d.  in  1807« 
Amelia. 
His  giaee  d.  S4th  Deoember,  17M«  and  after  a  oon- 
•iderable  time  consumed  In  establishing  his  right, 
the  Marquisate  of  Winchester  passed  to  Oooige 
Paulet,  Esq.,  of  Amport,  while  the  Duksaom  ov 
BoutoM  became  sxtikct. 

AnMB^<— Sfc  three  swords  in  pile,  points  in  base 
m,  ponels  Mid  hilts  or. 

PAYNEL— BARON  PAYNELL. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  S9th  December,  U89, 
88  Edward  I. 

SIR  JOHN  PAYNELL,  of  Diax.  to  the  county 
ef  York,  was  summdned  to  parliament  as  a  BAnoH, 
ftom  »th  Deoember,  U80,  to  SSCh  August, 
1318L  This  nobleman  is  supposed  to  have  died 
befcie  U98.    No  account  b  given  of  his  iesue,  nor 

•  This  nobleman  entailed  the  mi\ior  pert  of  his 
fMatestates,  should  the  male  issue  of  his  brothers 
lyi,  upon  his  natural  daughter, 

jAifB-llABY  PowLBTT,  fud  that  ovent  taking 
placa,  the  buiy  inherited.  She  m.  in  1778, 
Thomas  Orde,  Esq.,  who  assnmert  the  name 
of  PowLBTT,  and  was  created,  in  1797*  Loan 
BoLTOH,  tf  BotUm  Cattle,  in  Me  eeimly 
or  Yor*.    Ho  d.  in  ia07>  and  was  «.  by  his 


does  Dugdale  In  his  Baronetage,  take  any  notice 
of  him ;  but  in  hie  Writs  of  Summons  to  Parlia- 
ment, the  name  of  «*  Jcrtiannes  Paynell  de  Drax* 
occurs  amongst  the  barons  summoned  to  partly 
ment,  the  88th  and  30th  of  Edward  I.,  and  the  11th 
and  18th  of  Edward  IL  The  same  name  also  occurs 
in  the  aM,  33d,  34th,  and  3Sth  of  Edward  L,  and 
in  the  1st  and  3d  of  Edward  IL,  which  is  presumed, 
by  Nlcobs,  to  be  the  same  penmn. 
AnMa.^Two  bars  with  an  urle  of  martleta. 


PEGHE   — 
By  Writ  of  Si 


BARON      PEGHE,      OF 
BRUNNE. 


YfiLLi/LUi  prM9Ui  Jdtrd  BoIIsm, 


dated  8»th  Deoember,  1880, 
88  Edward  L 

RAMON  PECHE  was  sherliTof  the  county  of  Cam- 
bridge, ftom  the  Sd  to  the  18th  year  of  King  Henry 
II.  He  m.  Alice,  daughter  of  William  PevereU, 
and  one  of  the  co-heus  of  Pain  PevereU,  her  bro- 
ther, as  part  of  the  honour  of  BauKNs,  in  the  same 
shire.    To  this  Hamon  «.  his  son  and  heir, 

GILBERT  PECHE,  who,  in  the  6th  of  Richard 
L,  upon  the  collection  of  the  scutage,  then  assessed 
fi>r  the  king's  redemption,  paid  £89.  U.  9d.,  for  the 
knights*  fees  of  his  parental  inheritance,  and  two 
marks  and  a  half  for  those  of  the  honour  of  Brunne, 
which  descended  to  him  through  his  mother.  He 
d.  before  the  year  1817,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

HAMON  PECHE,  who  d.  in  1941,  in  hU  pilgrim- 
age  to  the  Holy  Land,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest 
son, 

GILBERT  PECHE.  This  feudal  lord  d.  in  1891, 
and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

GILBERT  PECHE,  who,  having  served  in  the 
wars  of  Gasoony,  88d  Edward  I.,  was  summoned  to 
parliament  as  a  baiiok,  ftom  99th  December,  1899, 
to  3d  November,  1308,  and  again  14th  March,  1388. 
His  lordship  m.  first,  Maude  de  Hastings,  by  whom 
lie  had  two  sons,  Johm  and  Bonund,  neither  of 
whom,  however,  were  summoned  to  parliament, 
nor  is  any  account  given  of  their  descendauta 
Lord  Peche  m.  secondly,  Joene,  daughter  of  Simon 
de  Grey,  and  to  his  children,  by  that  hidy,  he  left 
the  greater  part  of  his  property,  making  King  Ed- 
ward L  heir  to  the  rest  of  the  barony.    He  d.  fat 


Anii8.^Ar.  a  ftsse  betw.  two  Aevroneb,  guka. 

PECHE-BARON  P£GUE,  OF  WORM- 
LEIOHTON. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  Uth  May,  UBI, 
14  Edward  IL 

Xincagc, 

This  branch  of  the  house  of  PaoHa  is  said,  by 
Dugdale,  to  have  sprung  ftom 

ROBERT  PECHE,  Bishop  of  Coventry,  in  King 
Stephen's  time^-^ho  is  represented  as  having  two 


OsrrRBT. 

Richard,  Archdeacon  of  Coventry. 


413 


F£R 


P£R 


TteeklCT, 

GEOFFREY  PECHE,  m.  PeCronite,  <Uu|^t«r, 
and  «ventually  heir,  of  Richard  Walsh»  of  Wonn- 
WghtoD*  in  Um  county  of  Wanrick*  and  had  a 


RICHARD  PECHE«  who  suooeeded  to  the  pro- 
pvtics  of  hit  grandfather,  the  biahop,  and  his 
unde  the  dean,  a*  likewiae  to  the  manor  of  Worm- 
LKiOHTOH,  through  his  mother,  and  was  #.  by  his 
■on, 

SIR  JOHN  PECHE,  of  Wormleighton,  who  sided 
with  King  Hbwby  III.  apdnst  the  barons,  and  was 
summoned  to  parliament  as  Baxoit  Pschx,  from 
19th  May,  13S1,  to  22d  January,  1330.  HU  lordship 
was  in  the  wars  of  Scotland,  and  was  goveniar  of 
Warwick  Castle,  in  the  16th  Edward  II.  i  he  was 
afterwards  governor  of  Dover  Castle,  and  warden 
of  the  Cinque  Ports.  He  d.  about  the  year  1S39, 
leaving  liis  grandson, 

SIR  JOHN  PECHE,  Knt,  his  heir.  This  feu- 
dal lord  was  never  summoned  to  parliament,  nor 
esteemed  a  baron,  for  we  find  him  serving  as  one 
of  the  knights  for  the  county  of  Warwick,  in  the 
parliament  held  at  Westminster,  in  the  88th  Ed- 
ward III.,  and  again  in  the  47th  of  the  same  reign. 
He  d.  in  two  years  after,  and  was  «.  by  hb  son, 

SIR  JOHN  PECHE,  (never  siunmcmed  to  par- 
liament, nor  esteemed  a  baron,)  who  attended,  9th 
Richard  II.,  John,  Duke  of  Lancaster,  then  bear- 
ing the  title  of  King  of  Castile  and  Leon,  into  Spain, 
and  is  supposed  to  have  died  there  in  the  same 
year,  leaving  two  daughters,  via. 
Joan B,  who  died  «.  "p. 
Maboabbt,  m.  to  Sir  William  de  Montfort. 

Arms.— Gules  a  fesse  betw.  six  cross  crosslets  ar. 
with  a  label  of  three  points  in  chief. 


PELHAM-HOLLES— DUKE  OF  NEW- 
CASTLE. 

• 

See  Hollbb-Pblham,  Barons  Pelham,  Earls  of 
Clare,  and  Duke  of  Newcastle. 

Nof«.— Thomas  Pelham-Holles,  Duke  of  Newcas- 
tle, died  in  1768,  not,  as  erroneously  printed,  1761, 
in  the  article  to  which  we  refer. 


PERCY— BARON  EOREMONT. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  SOth  December,  144ft. 

Xineagt. 

SIR  THOMAS  PERCY,  Knt.,  third  son  of 
Henry,  second  Earl  of  Northumberland,  was  created 
by  King  Edward  VL,  in  consideration  of  his  good 
services,  Barom  Eorbmont,  ^  Egremmt  Cattle, 
in  Cumberland.  His  lordship  fell  at  the  battle  of 
Northampton,  in  1400,  when  the  king  was  taken 
prisoner.  He  died,  according  to  Dugdale,  ••  with- 
out issue,"  when  the  Barony  or  Eorbmont  be- 
came BXTiNCT.  Other  authorities  state,  however, 
that  he  left  a  son.  Sir  John  Percy,  but  who  never 
assumed  the  title. 

Arms.— Same  as  Percy,  Barons  Percy,  and  Earls 
of  Northumberland. 
414 


PERCY  — BARONS  PERCY,  EARLS 
OF  NORTHUMBERLAND, 
BARONS  POYNINOS,  BA- 
RONS PERCY,  OF  COCKER- 
MOUTH,  EARLS  OF  NORTH- 
UMBERLAND. 

Banny  of  Percy,  by  Writ  of  Summons,   dated 

6th  February,  1299,  8  Edward  II. 

Earldom  of  Northumberland,  by  Charter  of  Crei^ 

tion,  16th  July,  1377* 

Restored,  11th  November,  1414 

Again  restored,  1470. 

Barony    of   Poynfatigs,    by   Writ    of   Summons* 

23rd  April,  1337f  11  Edward  IIL 
Barony  of  Percy,  of  Cockermouth,  dec.,  by  Creation^ 

30th  AprU,  1667. 

Earldom    of  Northumberland,   (New    Creation,) 

1st  May,  1657. 

Xfniagc. 

The  illustrious  Hunlly  of  Psrcy  is  descended  ttom 
one  of  the  Norman  chieftains  (William  de  Percy) 
who  accompanied  William  the  Conqueror  into 
England  in  10GB;  and  it  derives  its  name  fttun  th« 
village  of  Percy,  near  Villedieu.  The  Ikmlly  of 
Percy,  of  Normandy,  deduced  its  pedigree  fkom 
GecrfRrey,  (son  of  Mainfred,  a  Danish  chieftain,) 
who  assisted  RoUo,  in  912,  in  sut^ugath^  that 
principality,  and  acquired  coosidBrable  |iossfisiiuua 
thercL 

WILLIAM  DE  PERCY,  being  high  in  Ikvour 
with  the  victorious  duke,  obtained,  according  to 
Madox,  in  his  *«  Baronia  Ani^lca,"  a  barony  of 
thirty  knights'  fees  tram  that  monssdi,  in  his  new 
dominions,  and  thus  became  a  fiBudal  lord  of  the 
realm  from  the  Conquest.  This  Lord  William  de 
Percy,  who  waa  distinguished  amongst  hia  contem- 
poraries by  the  addition  of  Alsgemons,  (William 
with  the  whiskers,)  whence  his  posterity  have  con- 
stantly borne  the  name  of  Algernon,  restored,  or 
rather  reftmnded,  the  famous  Abbey  of  St.  Hilda, 
in  Yorkshire*  of  which  his  brother,  Serlo  de  Percy, 
became  first  prior.  Accompanying,  however,  Duke 
Robert,  in  the  first  crusade,  1098,  he  died  at  Mount- 
joy,  near  Jerusalem,  the  cdetarated  eminence^ 
whence  the  pilgrims  of  the  cross  first  viewed  the 
Holy  City,  leaving  fdur  sons  and  two  danghtexs^ 
by  his  wite,  Emma  de  Port,  a  lady  of  Saxon  de- 
scent, whose  lands  wen  amongst  those  bestowed 
upon  him  by  the  Conqueror,  and,  acooiding  to 
an  ancient  writer,  "he  wedded  hyr  that  was  very 
heire  to  them,  in  discharging  of  his  ooascience.** 
His  lordship  was  «.  in  his  feudal  rights  and  poa- 
sessicms  by  his  eldest  son, 

ALAN  DE  PERCY,  second  bnron,  somamed 
the  OnmAT  Ai.Air,  who  m.  Emma,  daughter  of 
Gilbert  de  Gaunt;  which  Gilbert  waa  son  of  Bald- 
win, Earl  of  Flanders,  and  nephew  of  Queen  Maud, 
wife  of  William  the  Conqueror,  and  was  «.  by  his 
eldest  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  PERCY,  third  baron  {  at  whose 
decease,  the  eldest  branch  of  the  first  raoeof  Percys, 
from  Normandy,  became  extinct  In  the  male  Une^ 
and  their  great  inharltjnoe  devolved  upon  his  locd- 


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FEB 


ddp*!  two  dMgbtm,  (tuf  AUoe  de  Tunbrtdfle, 
davghler  of  Richard,  Earl  of  Clare,  who  was 
luually  styled  De  Tunbridge,  ftom  Ms  castle  ot  that 
name,)  the  Ladies  Maud  and  Agnes  de  Percy,  suc- 
eessively.  • 

MAUDE  DE  PERCY,  the  senior,  was  second 
wife  of  WiUlam  de  Plesset,  Earl  of  Warwick,  by 
whom  (who  d.  in  the  Holy  Land,  A.  D.  1184)  she 
had  no  iMue.  Her  ladyship  d.  in  1204  or  6,  and 
then  the  whole  possessions  of  the  Percys  desosoded 
to  the  family  of  her  sister, 

AGNES  DE  PERCY,  who  m.  JosoeUne,  of 
Lorain,  brother  of  Queen  Addicia,  second  wife  of 
Henry  L,  and  son  of  Godfirey  Barbatus,  Duke  of 
Lower  Lonrain,  and  Count  of  Brabant,  who  was 
descended  from  the  emperor  Charlemagnei  Her 
ladyship,  however,  would  only  consent  to  this 
great  alliance,  upon  condition  that  Josceline  should 
adopt  either  the  surname  or  arms  of  Percy ;  the 
former  of  which  he  accordingly  assumed,  and  re- 
tained his  own  paternal  coat,  in  order  to  perpetuate 
his  daim  to  the  principality  of  his  father,  should 
the  dder  Une  of  the  reigning  duke  at  any  period 
become  extinct.  The  matter  is  thus  stated  in  the 
great  old  pedigree  at  Sion  House:  *<The  ancient 
arms  of  Hainault  this  Lord  Joceline  retained,  and 
gave  his  children  the  surname  of  Perde."  Of  this 
illustrious  alliance  there  were  sereral  children,  of 
whom, 

HnKsv  Ds  PsRCY,  the  eldest  son,  who  ap- 
pears to  have  died  before  his  mother,  m. 
Isabel,  dau^ter  of  Adam  de  Brus,  Lord  of 
Skelton,  with  whom  he  had  the  manor  of 
Lerington,  for  which  he  and  his  heirs  wen 
to  repair  to  Skelton  Castle  every  Christmas- 
day,  and  to  lead  the  lady  of  the  castle  from 
her  chamber  to  the  chapel  to  mass,  and 
thence  to  her  cluaabac  again,  and  after 
dining  with  her,  to  depart.  This  Henry 
left  two  sons, 

WiLLTAM,  of  whom  presently. 
Henry,  ancestor  of  the  Percys,  of  Hesset, 
Sussex. 
Richard  on  Pxrct,  theyoungest  son  of  Agnes 
and  JosoeUne,  got  possession  of  the  entire 
property  of  his  aunt,  Maud,  Countess  of 
Warwick,  and  evsn  of  a  great  proportion  of 
that  of  his  mother,  and  retained  the  same 
during  the  principal  part  of  his  life:  at 
length,  subsequently  to  infinite  litigation, 
it  was  settled  between  him  and  his  nepliew, 
William  de  Percy,  to  whom  the  inheritance 
belonged,  after  a  sotemn  hearing  before  the 
king  in  person,  on  the  0th  July,  1S34,  (18th 
Henry  III.)  that  the  esutes  should  be 
divided  into  equal  portions  between  the 
parties  during  Richard's  life ;  and  that  after 
his  death,  all  the  ancient  patrimony  of  the 
Percy  family  should  devolve  upon  liis  ne- 
phew, aforesaid ;  a  small  reservation  having 
been  made  for  Richard's  son  and  heir,  Henry 
de  Percy.  This  Ridurd  de  Percy  continued 
liiMr  the  whole  of  his  hte  at  the  head  of  the 
family,  and  enjoyed  all  its  baronial  rights. 
.  He  was  one  ot  those  powerful  feudal  lords 
who  took  up  arms,  in  lilft,  against  John, 


and  having  a  prindpal  hand  in  extorting 
the  Oubat  CBABTsna  of  English  flreedom, 
was  chosen  one  of  the  twenty-five  guardians 
to  see  the  Magna  Charta  duly  observed. 
He  d.  about  1M4,  and  Uien  his  nephew, 

WILLIAM  DE  PERCY,  came  into  Aill  posses- 
sion of  all  those  rights  and  properties  which  had 
been  usurped  at  the  decease  of  his  mother;  but 
did  not  live  long  to  enjoy  them,  for  he  d.  in  184A, 
and  was  «.  by  his  son,  (by  his  second  wife,  Elena, 
daughter  of  Ingelram  de  Balliol,  by  whom  he 
obtained  in  dower,  Dalton,  afterwards  called  Dalton 
Percy,  in  the  bishopric  of  Durham,) 

HENRY  DE  PERCY,  whom.  Eleanor, daughter 
of  John  Plantagenet,  Earl  of  Warren  and  Surrey; 
and  dying  in  1278,  was  #.  by  his  only  surviving  son, 

HENRY  DE  PERCY,  ninth  feudal  lord,  who 
was  summoned  to  parliament  firom  the  6th  of 
February,  1299,  (27th  Edward  I.)  to  29th  July, 
1316,  (8th  Edward  IL)  This  nobleman  obtained,  on 
the  19th  November,  1309,  from  Anthony  Beck, 
Bishop  of  Durham,  by  purchase,  a  grant  of  the 
Barony  of  Alnwick,  in  the  county  of  Northumber- 
land. His  lordship  was  one  of  the  great  barons 
who  subscribed,  in  1301,  the  celebrated  letter  to 
Pope  B(miface  VIII.,  upon  the  attempt  of  his 
holiness  to  interpose  in  the  aiSUrs  of  the  kingdom, 
intimating,  *'  That  their  lUng  was  not  to  answer 
in  judgment,  for  any  rights  of  the  crown  of  Eng- 
land, before  any  tribunal  under  heaven,  &c.,  and 
that,  by  the  help  of  God,  they  would  resolutely, 
and  with  all  thdr  force,  mamtain  against  all  men." 
He  d.  in  131A,  and  was  «.  by  his  ddest  son, 

HENRY  DE  PERCY,  second  Lord  Percy,  of 
Alnwick.  This  nobleman  had  a  grant  ftom  the 
crown  in  the  2nd  Edward  III.,  of  the  reversion  of 
the  barony  and  castle  of  Warkworth,  Ac.  He 
had  summons  to  parliament  ftom  1382  to  the  time 
of  his  death,  the  26th  February,  1351-2,  when  he 
was  ».  by  his  ddest  son,  (by  Idonia,  daughter  of 
Robert,  Lord  Clifibrd,) 

HENRY  DE  PERCY,  third  Lord  Percy,  of 
Alnwick;  who,  in  the  life-time  of  his  father,  had 
partidpated  in  the  glories  of  Cressy,  (26th  August, 
1346.)  His  lordship  m.  first,  in  her  ladyship's  four- 
teenth year.  Lady  Mary  Plantagenet,  daughter  of 
Henry,  Earl  of  Lancaster,  which  Henry  was  son  of 
Edmund,  E^l  of  Lancaster,  Leicester,  &c.,  second 
son  of  King  Henry  III. ;  I>y  this  alliance  his  lord- 
ship had  two  sons, 

HsHRT,  his  successor. 

Thomas,  created  in  1397>  Earl  ^  WoreMter; 

K.G.,  a  very  eminent  warrior  and  statesman 

in  the  reigns  of  Edward  III.,  Richard  IL,  and 

Henry  IV. 

His  lordship  m.  secondly,  Joan,  daughter  and  hdr- 

ess  of  John  de  Orbey,  of  Lincolnshire,  one  of  the 

barons  in  the  reign  of  Edward  III.,  by  whom  he  left 

one  daughter, 

Mary,  who  m.  John,  Lord  Roe,  of  Hamdake, 
but  died  *.  p.  in  1396. 
He  d.  17th  June,  1368,  and  was  «.  by  his  dder  son, 

HENRY  DE  PERCY,  fourth  Lord  Percy,  of 
Alnwick,  a  distinguislied  military  commander  in 
the  rdgn  of  Edward  III.,  who,  assisting  as  marshal 
of  England  at  the  coronation  of  King  Richard  II«» 

416 


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t  advniced,  an  the  fame  day,  10th  July,  1877f  to 
the  BaHdam  ^  Northttmberkmd,  with  ramaioder  to 
his  hein  generally,  and»  like  a  barony  in  fee*  trant- 
'  RiiMlble*  it  would  appear,  to  Dnoale aa  wdlas  male 
heirs.  His  lordship  m.  first,  Margaret,  daughter  of 
Ralph,  Loitl  Nevlll,  of  Raby,  and  had  issue, 

HniTBy  (Sir),  the  renowned  Hotspur,  so  cele- 
brated in  all  our  histories.     He  fought  the 
fkmous  battle   of  Omasovitir,   near  the 
Cheviot  Hills,  in  Northumberland,  <Chevy 
Chace,)  when  James,  Earl  of  Douglas,  waa 
•lain,  and  himself  and  his  brother.  Sir  Ralph 
Perqr,  made  prisoners.  Hem.  Philippe,  da1^fl- 
tar  ot  Edmund  Mortimer,  Earl  of  March,  by 
Philippe,  daughter  and  heir  of  Lionel  Planta- 
genet,  Duke  of  Clarence,  and  falling  at  the 
battle  of  Shrewsbury  lu  1408,  left  issue, 
Hbniit,  who  «^  as  seoond  Earl  of  Northum- 
berland. 
Bliaabeth,  m.  first,  to  John,  Lord  Cliflbvd, 
and  secondly,  to  Ralph,  Earl  of  Weetmor- 
land. 
Thomas  (Sir),  m.  EUaabeth,   elder  daughter 
and  co-heir  of  Darid  Strabolgi,  Earl  of  Athol, 
by   whom  (who    m.  secondly.  Sir    Henry 
Scrope,)  he  had  Issuer 
Henry  Percy,  who  left  two  daughters,  ria. 
Elisabeth,  m.  first,    to  Thomas,    Lord 
Burgh,  and  secondly,  to  Sir  William 
Lucy. 
Margwet,  m.  first,  to  Henry,  Lord  Orey, 
of  Codnor,  and  secondly,  to  Richard, 
Earl  of  Oxford. 
Ralph  (Sir),  wu  Philippe,  the  other  daughter 
and  oo-heif  ot  David  Strabolgi,  Earl  of  Athol, 
but  died  «^pw 
Alan. 
Margaret 
The  earl  m.  secondly,  Maud,  sister  and  heir  of 
Anthony,  Lord  Lucy,  which  Anthony  settled  upon 
his  lordship  and  his  heirs  the  honour  and  castle  of 
Cockermouth,  with  other  great  estates,  on  con- 
dition that  her  arms  should  be  tat  ever  quartered 
with  those  of  the  Percys.    In  the  7th  year  of 
Richerd  IL  the  earl  having  been  elected  one  of  the 
Kni^ts  of  the  Garter,  the  king  bestowed  upon  him 
the  robes  of  the  order  out  of  the  royal  wardrobe. 
In  some  years  afterwards,  however,  being  proclaim- 
ed a  traitor,  and  his  lands  declared .  forfeited  by 
King  Riduurd,  his  lordship,  in  conjunction  with  hii 
•on.   Sir  Henry  Percy,  eumamed  Hotspur,   and 
Henry,  Duke  of  Lancaster,  accomplished  the  de- 
thronement of  that  monardi,  and  placed  the  crown 
upon  the  head  of  Honry,  Duke  of  Lancaster,  under 
the  title  of  Henry  IV.    Again  dissatisfled  with  the 
government,  the  duke  is  diaiged  with  concerting 
the  rebelUon,  in  which  his  son.  Hotspur,  and  his 
brother,  the  Earl  of  Worcester,  o^aged,  in  14(0, 
for  transferring  the  sceptre  to  Mortimer,  Earl  of 
March,  then  a  boy.    Of  these  two  eminent  penons. 
Sir  Henry  Percy,  the  renowned  Hotspur,  fell,  per- 
forming prodigies  of  valour,  at  Battlfr-fldd,  near 
Shrewsbury,  fllst  July,  14108  \  and  Thomas  Percy, 
Earl  of  Woreaster,  was  beheaded,  after  the  battle, 
at  Shrewsbury.    The  Eerl  of  Northumberland  fell 
subsequently,  (S9th   February,   1407-8,)  in  arms 
410 


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agalBBt  the  king,  at  Bramhtm  Moor^ 
wood,  when  his  honoun  becaane  fotfieittd 

,  but  were  nstovad.  in  1414,  to Uei 
(Hotspur's  only  son,) 
HENRY   DE   PERCY,  seoond   Earl  of  Nor- 
thnmberiand,  who  m.  Lady  Eleanor  NevU,  iteigh- 
ter  of  Ralph,  first  Earl  of  Westaorlsod,  and  Jom 
de  Beaufbrt,  daui^ter  of  Joan  or  Gavvt,  and 
aunt  of  King  Henry  V.    Of  this  noUeBsan  and  fain 
oounteis,  and  their  issue,  the  following  aoeount  ia 
given   in  a  very  curious  MS.  preserved  in  thn 
British  Museum*  and  there  said  to  be 
'<  Bm  Rsgittro  M9ma*t9riS  4a  irMffl^w.** 
Percy,  the  aon  of  Sir  Henry  Percy,  that 
at  Shrewsbury,  and  of  Elisabeth,  the  daughterof 
the  Erie  of  Marcfae,  after  the  death  H>f  his  father 
and  grauntsyre.  waa  exiled  into  Scotland,  in  th« 
tlmeof  King  Henry  v.:  by  the  labour  of  Johannes 
the  Countess  of  Westmerland,  (whose  daughlor. 
Alienor,  he  had  wedded  in  coming  Into  EnglaMi,) 
he  recovered  the  king's  grace,  and  the  county  of 
Northumberland,  so  was  the  second  Earl  of  Nor- 
tfaumberhmd.    And  of  this  Alienor  his  wilb^  he 
begat  IX  sonnes  and  III  dauf^ters,  whose  names  be 
Johanna,  that  is  buried  at  Whitbye  \  Thomes  (cre- 
ated) Lord  Egramont ;  KaUieyne  Gray,  of  Ruthyn, 
(wife  of  Edmund,  Lord  Grey,  aftorwarda  Earl  of 
Kent)  t  Sir  Raflli Percy }  William  Percy,  abyshopp ; 
Richard  Percy  {  John,  that  dyed  without  iaeuet 
another  John,  (celled  by  Vincent,  in  Ma  MS.  bero- 
nage  in  the  bccald's  ofllce,  John  Percy,  senior,  of 
Werkworth;)  George  Percy,  derkj  Henry,  that 
dyed  without  issuet  besides  the  eldest  sonne  end 
successor,  Henry,  third  Erie  of  Northamberlend." 
His  hirdship,  who  was  at  the  battle  of  AeiHoounr, 
was  made  lord  high  constable  by  Kii«  Henry  VL, 
and  fell  at  St  Albans,  83rd  May,  14S5,  fighting 
under  the  banner  of  that  monarch,  and  was  «.  by 
his  eldest  surviving  son, 

HENRY  PERCY,third  eerl,  who  had  m.Bleenor, 
daughter  and  sole  heireas  of  Richard  Poyninfi, 
who  d.  in  the  life-time  of  hb  fltther.  Lord  poynings  I 
by  which  marriage,  the  baronies  of  Poynings, 
Fitapayne,  and  Bryan,  came  into  the  fsmily  of 
Percy;  end  Sir  Henry  Percy  waa  summoned  to 
parliament,  while  his  firther,  the  Earl  of  Northum- 
berland, yet  lived,  (S9th  Henry  VL,)  es  Baron  Poyn- 
ings. His  lordship  fell  leading  the  ven  of  the  Lencae- 
trians,  sword  in  hand,  at  the  battle  of  Towton,  on  the 
29th  March,  1401,  and  hto  honours  became  subee- 
quently  forfeited,  by  en  act  of  attainder,  taut  warn 
restored  to  his  only  son, 

HENRY  PERCY,  fourth  earl,  K.G.,  who  was 
confined  in  the  Tower  of  London,  from  the  death 
of  his  father  until  thefl7th  of  October,  1409*  when, 
being  brought  before  Edward  IV.,  at  his  palace  of 
Westminster,  he  subscribed  an  oath  of  allegiance,  , 
and  was  resttyred  to  his  freedom  and  dignity,  al- 
tliou^  the  reversal  of  his  father's  attainder  docs 
not  appear  upon  the  rolls  of  parliament  The  king 
had  previously  created  John,  Lord  Montague,  Earl 
of  Northumberiand,  but,  upon  the  re-establish- 
ment of  the  rightful  earl.  Lord  Montegue  was 
Greeted  Marquess  of  Montague.  This  Henry, 
fourth  earl,  fell  a  victim,  in  1480,  to  the  avarice  of 
King  Henry  VII.    In  that  year,  parliament  having 


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th«  ktaic  ft  MlaUly  ftir  eut^iag  ok  Hm  ihv 
in  BmtagM^  the  Barl  of  Norttnimlnrliiad,  m  lord- 
MmtoMBt  of  hit  eomty,  «m  ompowerod  to  onftnce 
tbo  MUM  I  bat  th«  tax  catulag  •  goenl  comiBO- 
tion,  his  lorddiip  wrote  to  bOavm  the  king  of  the 
diaeonteBt,  end  praying  en  aiwteincnf*  to  whidi 
Henry  peiemplmlly  lepUed,  "that  not  a  penny 
•hould  be  Abated  c"  which  nMiage  betaig  dettvered 
hMBtttiouily  by  the  carl  to  the  popuhux»  who  had 
aaMmUed  to  complain  of  their  grievaneei,  they 
broke  into  his  lioiiae»  (suppoiing  Um  to  be  the  pro- 
noter  at  tlidr  raflbrtegi,)  Coddodge,  in  Yorkshire, 
and  murdered  his  lordship  and  some  of  liis  attend- 
anl%  on  the  flSth  April,  1480.  The  earl  was  <.  by 
his  eldest  son, 
HBNRY-ALGERNON  PERCY,  fifth  earl,  K.O., 
ho  m.  Catherine,  danghter  and  oo-heircss  of  Sir 
Robert  Spcnesr,  Knt..  of  Spenoer-Combe,  Devon, 
by  Bleenor,  his  wife,  daughter,  and  at  length  co> 
heir,  of  Edmond  Beaufort,  Duke  of  Sonunet,  by 
whom  he  had  issue, 

HniTBT,  Ids  sueeeisor. 

Thomas  (Sir),  eseented  for  Ask's  consplraqr, 
99th  Henry  VIII.,  learing  two  sons, 

TnoxAa,  \8uccsasively  Earls  of  Nortb- 
HnvRY,    j     umberlandi 
(Sir).* 
a.  to  Henry  CHibid,  fim  Earl  of 
Cumbarlaid. 
Hand,  m.  to  Lord  Conien. 
His  hadihip  d.  in  1M7>  and  wm  s.  by  his 


HENRY-ALGERNON  PERCY,  sixth  carl, 
K.O.  TUs  nobknan  m.  Mary,  danghter  of  Oeoige 
TalMit,  Barl  of  Shrewsbury;  bat  dying  without 
issue,  in  1037,  and  his  brother.  Sir  Thomas  Percy, 
halving  been  preriousiy  attainted  and  executed,  all 
the  honours  of  the  femily  became  forfeited,  and 
the  Dukedom  of  Northumherlaid  was  oanlierred, 
by  King  Edward  YL,  upon  John  Dudley,  Earl  of 
Warwick ;  but  that  noUcmaa  havfasg  ferioited  his 
life  and  honoun,  by  treason  against  Queen  Mary,  in 
1AS8»  her  nu^esty  was  pleased  to  adnme^  by  letters 
patent,  dated  SOth  April,  18B7, 

THOMAS  PERCY,  son  of  the  attainted  Sir 
Thomas  Percy,  to  the  degree  of  a  baron*  by  the 
titles  of  Baron  Parey,  qf  Codltet  memft  ;  Boron  Pqf- 
ningB,  Lueif  Bryant  and  Fitit-Pt^fne :  and  on  the 
day  following,  his  lordship  was  created  JEBoW  9f 
Northutuberkmd,  with  remainder  to  Henry  Percy, 
his  brother,  &c  This  nobleman,  having  conspired 
against  Queen  Elisabeth,  was  beheaded  at  Vork,  on 
the  99d  August,  1079,  (avowing  the  Pope's  supre- 
macy, affirming  the  realm  to  be  in  a  state  of  schism, 
and  those  obedient  to  Elisabeth  no  better  than 
heretics,)  when  his  honoun  wonld have  fellen  under 
the  attainder,  but  for  the  vevenrionary  dense  in 
fevour  of  his  brother, 

*  Sir  Ingeham  Percy.  From  this  gentlenuDi, 
jAirsa  Pnacv,  known  as  the  trunlumaker,  who, 
so  pertinaciously  dahned  the  honouis  of  the  house 
of  Percy,  about  one  hundred  and  fllty  years  ago, 
deduced  his  deecent,  (see  his  casein  the  Fourth  EA- 
tion  of  BurWi  DUttMmnt  of  th9  V^ermgtmnd  Ba» 
rMMtafe). 


HENRY  PERCY,  who  sueotaAM  es  eighth  eari. 
Hie  kapdriilp  «.  Catherine,  eldest  daughter  «id  co- 
heisess  of  John  Neville,  Lord  Latimer,  by  whom  he 
had  dght  sons  and  three  daughters.  The  earl 
having  been  onnmitted  to  the  Tower,  for  partici- 
pating in  a  suppoeed  plot  in  fevour  of  Mary,  Queen 
of  Scote»  was  found  deed  in  his  bed  there,  wounded 
by  these  buUeto  fkom  a  pistol,  on  the  Slst  of  June, 
1M5,  when  he  was  «.  by  his  ddeet  son, 

HENRY  PERCY,  ninth  carl,  K.O.  This  noble- 
man, after  every  eflbrt  to  invcAve  him  in  the  gunp 
powder  plot  proved  in  vela,  was  **  cast"  (says  Os- 
i)  "  into  the  ster  chamber,"  by  which  he  was 
to  a  fine  of  iC30,000,  with  imprisonment 
in  the  Tower  during  his  nuOesty's  pleesure,  and 
ictnaUy  sn fibred  several  yeaisf  incarcsrarton.  Hla 
lovikhlp  «k  Dorothy,  sister  of  Queen  BHaheth's 
favourite,  Essex,  and  widow  of  Sir  Thomas  Perrot* 
Knt.,  end  dying  fith  November,  I89i,  was  *  by  his 
ddeet  surviving  son, 

ALGERNON  PERCY,  tenth  eari,  K.O.,  who 
had  been  suaomoned  to  parliament  in  the  lifetime 
of  his  father,  as  Aarm  Perttf,  This  nobleman  took 
an  active  part  during  the  dvil  wars,  against  Ring 
Charlm  I.,  but  wsa  entirely  feee  of  any  partidp^ 
tion  in  hie  murder.  He  subsequently  promoted  the 
restoration.  His  lordship  d.  on  the  13th  October. 
MSB,  and  wu  ».  by  his  only  son  (by  Lady  Elisa> 
bath  Howard,  secoml  daughter 'of  Theophilitti 
second  Earl  of  Suflblk), 

JOCELINE  PERCY,  eleventh  cerL  This  no* 
bleman  m.  Elisabeth,  youngest  daughter  of  Thomas 
Wriothesly,  Earl  of  Southampton.  Lord  High 
Tieaaorer  of  Enghmd,  by  whom  he  left,  at  hie  da> 
cease,  Slet  of  May,  1070,  an  only  daughter, 

Ladt  Ei.isAB>Tn  Pnncv,  who  SMCceedsd  tm 
the  baronial  honours  of  her  anoestora,  and 
was.  In  her  own  right,  Beiwiess  J^sfcy,  Ay- 
ningm,  FMs-Aqnie.  Ar|i«fSf  and  LoMffMr. 
Her  ladyship  m.  first,  when  only  fonrteM 
years  of  i^,  (ie7»»)  Henry  Cavendish,  Bart 
of  Ogle,  (son  and  heir  of  Henry,  Duke  of 
Newcastle,)  who  assumed  the  name  of 
Percy  t  but  his  hndship  died  without  issue* 
on  the  let  November,  IflBO^  and  her  lady« 
ship  ei.  in  1682,  (thirdly,  it  Is  stoted,  but 
she  appears  to  have  been  only  contracted  to 
Thoma  Thynne,  Esq.,  of  Longlete,  who 
wes  Msasstaiated,  12th  Februery,  MBl^,) 
Charles  Seymour,  Duke  of  SoBBMnet^  who 
also  assumed,  by  preUmhiary  engagement, 
the  surname  and  arms  of  Percy,  but  tram 
that  stipulation  he  wee  releesed,  when  her 
grace  attained  ma|ority.  By  this  marriagek 
the  duchess  had  thirteen  ohildien,  the  ekket 
surviving  of  whom, 

AuasKMON  SxYMOun,  was  eummoned  to 
parliament,  in  I7S8,  on  the  death  of  hie 
mother,,  as  fionm  Percy.  His  kndship 
«.  to  the  Dukedom  of  Somerset,  in 

1748,  and  was  created  Beron  Work- 
worth,  €f  Warkfwtnh  C4fi*l«,  in  tk€ 
eountif  <^f  NortfimUiertand,  and  Earl  </ 
NerthWHberlattd,  on  the  Sad  October, 

1749,  with  remainder  to 

Sin  ikvon  SwtHsoir,  Bert.,  who 
3  H  *I7         . 


PER 


PHI 


lad maniad hit gno^  ■■■■i^im  , 
the  Lady  Elinteth  Seymoar, 
whd  wicceedad  to  tha 
apoa  the  demise  of  the  duke,  in 
17A0»  ohteinhig,  in  the  Hoae  year, 
•a  act  of  pariiamcBt,  to  allow 
hiaaadf  aad  his  oouatsss  to  se- 
same the  somame  and  anas  of 
Pll^cy.    HislotdsiiipwasiaBtalled 
a  Kaigfat  of  the  Garter,  in  17fi7s 
and  cuaud  MBart  Pwrtg,  and  Dotm 
or   NoaTHuifBBai.Ajrn,  on  tbm 
18th   October,    17C6L     His  grace 
was  grandflrther   to  tlie  prssant 
Dake  of  Northumberland. 
Upon  thedeeaaaeof  his  kxdship.  (Jooaline,  eleventh 
earl,)  atl  tbb  aoaooaa  of  the  Pereya»  save  the 
haionies,  became  axriacr. 

AaM8»— 4}uarterly,  ftmr  grand  quartan:  iist  and 
fourth,  or,  a  lion  rampant,  as.  (being  the  ancient 
arms  of  the  Dtma  or  Bbabamt  avd  Lotaiit;) 
aaeond  and  third,  gu.  three  Indss,  or  pikes,  ban- 
rlent,  ar.  fior  Locy  %  second  gnmd  quarter,  as.  five 
Aisils,  in  tase,  or.  for  Pxacv ;  third,  gu.  on  a  sal- 
tier ar.  a  rose  of  the  field,  barbed  and  seeded  ppr. 
for  NBTfi.i.B :  fourth,  quarterly,  gu,  and  or.  in  the 
fibst  quarter  a  mullet  ar.  for  Vaaa. 
-  Neto.-'NiooLAa,  in  his  very  devar  Sviroma, 
after  lecapitulating  tha  descant  of  the  Bauoitt  or 
PaacY,  which  has  besn  the  sut^ect  of  coosidera- 
hie  controversy,  cornea  to  the  fJoUowing  oondu- 


1st.  That  according  to  the  Csir  deduction  fhim 
ttodem  decisions,  the  ancient  BAnoav  or  Pxncv, 
created  by  the  writ  of  summoas  of  8th  February, 
87th  Edward  I.,  1888,  became  bxtinct  on  the  death 
of  Henry-Algemon,  sixth  earl,  in  1A87. 

-  8nd.  That  the  Baaony  of  Percy,  of  Cockermouth 
and  Petworth,  with  the  Baronies  of  Poyidngs,  Lucy, 
Bryan,  and  Fitapayne*  created  by  the  patent  of  30th 
Apiril,  1587*  became  axriacr  on  the  death  of 
Joceiine,  eleventh  earl,  in  107<K 

3nL  That  Algernon  Seymour,  afterwards  Duke 
of  Somenet,  and  first  Earl  of  Northumberland, 
was  erroneously  placed  in  the  precedency  of  the 
ancient  barony  on  being  summonrd  to  parliament 
In  17881 

-  4th.  That  Hugh  Percy,  grandson  of  the  said 
Duke  and  Baron  Petty,  Jwv  mtatritt  and  Hugh,  the 
present  Duke  of  Northumberland,  were  likewise 
enoneoualy  placed  In  the  precedency  of  the  original 
barony. 

8th.  That  the  only  Barony  of  Percy  now  vested 
la  his  Graoa,  Hugh,  present  Duke  of  Northumber- 
land, is  the  barony  in  fee,  created  by  the  writ  of 
summons,  to  his  great  grandfather,  Algernon  Sey- 
mour, in  1788. 

PERCY-  EARL  OF  WORCESTER. 
Created  88th  September,  13B7. 

ICincagc. 

SIR  THOMAS  PERCY,  a  yooi^er  brother  of 
'Henry,  flist  Earl  of  Northumberland,  haviQg  distia- 

4m 


Edward  IIL, 


In  tfaeeoandlandthei 
1  Ricknd  IL,  was  created  by  tha 
Eaai.  ov  WoncBaraa. 
the  end  of  Edward  lIL's  idgn.  Sir 
the  oompenlon  Inarmsof  the  hcsoie  Biadr  PaiNCB  I 
and  he  had  a  giant  ef  one  hundred  nurks  per 
annum  fnr  ttf^  out  of  the  exchequer,  for  his  good 
with  a  similar  annuity  for  his  fsperisi 
icM  to  the  Black  Prince,  In  the  1st  of  Richard 
II.,  he  Bssii>fd  at  the  coronation  of  that  king, 
his  brother,  Henry,  being  then  manhal  of  Ba|p- 
Tbe  next  yeer,  as  admiral  of  the  north 
he  was  msoristed  with  Sir  Hugh  Calvdey. 
KnL,  and  meeting  with  sevea  ships,  aad  one  man 
of  war,  laden  with  wine,  brought  them  all  into 
BristoL  He  was  subsequently  employed  with  the 
Earl  of  Buckingham,  to  suppress  Jttdt  Straw's 
insurrection :  and  in  the  lOtfi  of  the  same  rsign, 
be  WM  made  admiral  of  the  fleet,  for  the  great 
army  of  twenty  thousand  men  then  sent  into 
Spain,  with  Jobn  or  Gaunt,  to  fsfsbiish  that 
princess  ri^t  to  the  throne  of  CAeriLB  aad  Lbomt. 
In  three  years  afterwards  he  was  constituted  Justice 
of  South  Wales,  and  subsequently  Vicb  Chambbr- 
LAiif  to  the  king.  In  the  18th,  he  was  seat  am- 
bassador to  France,  bong  then  steward  of  the 
king's  housdiold,  and  in  a  few  years  aftarwaida 
appointed  admiral  of  the  king's  fleet  for  Ireland. 
Notwithstanding  his  lordship's  high  position  in 
the  mtimation  of  King  Richard,  upon  the  de- 
podticm  of  that  monarch,  he  seems  to  have  made 
his  ground  good  with  the  new  king,  for  we  find 
him  deputed  with  the  Bishop  of  Durham,  to 
announce  to  the  court  of  France,  the  revolution 
that  placed  the  sceptre  in  the  hand  of  Henry  IV., 
and  reconstituted  soon  afker,  steward  of  the  houae- 
hoUL  Subsequently,  however.  Joining  his  brother, 
the  Earl  of  Northumberland,  and  his 
Hotspur,  in  an  eflbrt  to  restore  the 
monarch,  he  was  asade  prisoner  at  the  battle  of 
Shrewsbury,  where  his  gallant  nephew  feli,  and 
was  beheaded  immediately  after,  anno  1408.  His 
lordship  was  a  Knight  of  the  Garter:  he  died 
without  issue,  when  the  Earldom  of  Worcester, 
became  bxtinct. 
ARMa.— Same  as  Percy,  Barla  of  Northiunber- 


PHIPPS— BARON  MULORAVE. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  Mth  June,  ITM. 

Mintage. 

CONSTANTINE  JOHN  PHIPPS,  secon 
Mulgrave,  of  New  Ross,  in  the  peerage  of  Ireland, 
an  enterprising  naval  officer,  who  made  an  eflbrt 
to  discover  a  north-west  passage,  was  created  a 
peer  of  Great  Britain/  by  letters  patent,  dated  16th 
June,  1790,  in  the  dignity  of  Babon  Mulobavb, 
of  MulgvoM,  <n  th«  cownly  q^  ir«r*.  His  lordship 
fa.  in  1787,  Anne>Elisabeth,  yoongest  daughter  of 
Nathaniel  Chobnocdelcy,  Esq.,  and  had  an  only 
dau^ter, 

AVMB-El.IZABBTH-CHOLilON]>BLBV,    WhO  m. 

LieutenanuGeneral  Sir  John  Mutray,  BarW 


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Xord  Mttlfrsye  d.  In  1790«  tad  was  «.  In  the  Itlih 
Peerage  by  hit  brothert  HnirRY»  while  the  Bi&BONV 
OP  Mni^BATB,  of  Mulgrmve,  In  the  peerage  of 
Greet  Britain,  became  xxtih ct. 

Abmb.— Quarterljr,  flttt  and  fourth,  la.  a  trefbil, 
flipped,  between  eight  mulleta  ar.  for  Pripp8s 
■eoond  and  third,  paly  of  six  ar.  and  aa.  over  aU 
a  bend  gu.  for  ANOLxaBY. 

PIERREPOINT— VISCOUNTS  NEW- 
ARK, EARLS  OF 
KINGSTON  UPON 
HULL,  MARQUESS 
OF  DORCHESTER, 
DUKES  OF  KINGS- 
TON UPON  HULL. 

Vlaeounly,  "i  fSKMx  June,  ldS7« 

Earldom,      f  by  LettenJ  S6th  July,  1688. 
MazqulMte,  f  Patent,    ]  Mth  March,  164ii 
Dukedom,  J  (.Mth  July,  I7IA, 

Xfncase. 

Although  the  family  of  Pibbbxpoiht  did  not 
attain  the  honours  of  the  peerage  until  a  period 
of  eomparatively  recent  date,  yet  were  they  per- 
sons of  distinction  erer  since  the  conquest.  In 
which  erentftil  era, 

ROBERT  DE  PIERREPOINT  was  of  the 
retinue  of  William,  Earl  of  Warren,  and  at  the 
time  of  the  general  survey,  held  lands  in  Suflblk 
and  Sussex,  amounting  to  ten  knights'  fees,  under 
that  nobleman.  The  great  grandson  of  this  Ro- 
bert, another 

ROBERT  DE  PIERREPOINT,  was  a  person 
of -such  extensive  property,  that  being  made  pri- 
soner flghting  on  the  side  of  King  Henry  III.,  at 
the  battle  of  Lewes,  he  was  forced  to  give  security 
for  the  payment  of  the  then  great  sum  of  seven 
hondred  marks  for  his  ransom.  He  was,  however, 
relieved  flrom  the  obligation  by  the  subsequent 
victory  of  the  royalists  at  Evesham.    He  was  «.  by 

his  SOB, 

SIR  HENRY  DE  PIERREPOINT,  a  perwrn 
of  great  note  at  the  period  in  which  he  lived. 
In  the  8th  of  Edward  L,  Sir  Henry  having  lost 
his  seal,  came  into  the  Court  of  Chancery,  then 
at  Lincoln,  upon  Monday,  the  morrow  of  the 
Octaves  of  St  Michael,  and  made  publication 
thereof;  protesting  that  if  any  one  should  And  it, 
and  seal  therewith,  alter  that  day,  that  the  instru- 
ment sealed,  ought  not  to  be  of  any  validity.  He 
M.  Annora,  daughter  of  Michael,  and  sister  and 
hdr  of  Lionel  de  Manvers,  whereby  he  acquired 
an  extensive  land  property  in  the  county  of 
Nottingham,  with  the  Lordship  of  Hofane,  now 
called  HoLMB-PrBBBBpoiBT.  Sir  Henry  d. 
about  the  90th  Edward  I.,  and  was  #.  by  bis  dder 
son, 

SIMON  DE  PIERREPOINT,  who,  in  theSSd 
Edward  I.,  was  one  of  those  that  by  special  writ, 
bearing  date  upon  the  8th  day  of  June,  had  sum- 
BMoe  amongst  the  barons  of  the  realm,  to  repair 


with  all  speed  to  the  king,  wheresoever  he  should 
then  be  in  England,  to  treat  of  certain  weighty 
aflhira,  rdating  to  his  and  their  honour;  the 
sheriflh  of  every  county  having  also  command  to 
cause  two  knii^ts  for  each  shire;  as  also  two 
citiaens,  and  two  burgesses  for  each  >city  and  bo- 
rough, to  attend  the  king  at  the  same  time,  "  to 
advise  and  consent  for  themselves  and  the  com- 
monalty of  their  respective  shires,  clUes,  and 
boroughs,  unto  what  the  Earls,  barodDs,  and  nobles, 
should  at  that  time  ordain."  This  Simon  leaving 
a  daughter  (only),  Sibilla,  who  m.  Edmund  UflRnd. 
was  s.  by  his  brother, 

ROBERT  DE  PIERREPOINT,  a  very  emi- 
nent pefBon  in  the  reigns  of  Edward  I.  and  Edward 
II.,  and  distinguished  in  the  wars  of  Scotland. 
He  m.  Sarah,  daughter,  and  eventually  heir,  of 
Sir  John  Heria,  and  was  »,  by  his  son, 

SIR  EDMUND  DE  PIERRBPONT,  ftom 
whom  we  pese  to  his  lineal  descendant, 

SIR  OBOR6B  PIERREPOINT,  who,  at  the 
dissolution  of  the  monasteries.  In  the  reign  of 
Henry  VIII.,  pnrdiased  large  manors  In  the  county 
of  Nottingham,  part  of  the  possessions  of  the 
Abbot  and  Convent  of  Wribedc;  and  others  in 
Derbyshire,  which  had  belonged  to  the  Monastery 
of  Newsted.  He  d.  in  the  6th  EBsabeth,  and  waa 
#.  by  his  son, 

SIR  HENRY  PIERREPOINT,  who  m,  Franoaa, 
elder  daughter  of  Sir  William  Cavendish,  of  Chats- 
worth,  and  sister  of  WilUam,  Earl  of  Devonshirei 
and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

ROBERT  PIERREPOINT,  who  was  advanced 
to   the  peerage  by  King    Charles   I.,    as  Baboh 
PiBBBBPOiBT,  qf  Holm0  Pierrepolmt,  in  the  county 
of  Nottingham,  and  ViacovBT  Nbwabx,  by  let- 
ters patent,  dated  99th  June,  1687,  and  the  next 
year  was  created  Eabl  op  KiNoeTOiv-uPOV-VIutffM 
At  the  breaking  out  of  the  civil  war,  his  lordship 
was  one  of  the  Ifarst  and  most  asalous  to-  espouse 
the  royal  cause,  and  he  Is  said  to  have  brou^t  no 
leas  than  four  thousand  men  tanmediatriy  to  the 
standard  of  the  king.    He  was  soon  after  consti- 
tuted Ueutenant-gcneral  of  all  his  majesty^  forces* 
in  the  counties  of  Lincoln,  Rutland,  Huntingdon, 
Cambridge,  and  Norfolk  i  and  was  amongst  the 
most  pc^ular  of  the  cavalier  commanders.     His 
lordship  became,  tiierefore,  an  object  of  more  than 
ordinary  watchfulness  to  the  paiiiamentarians,  and 
was  at   length  surprised  and    made  prisoner,  by 
Lord  WiBoughby,  of   Parham,  at  Oalnaborongfai 
whence  he  was  despatched  in  an  open  boat  towards 
Hull.     But  Sir  Charles  Cavendish,  pursuing  the 
boat  and  overtaking  k,  demanded  the  release  of 
the  earl,  which  being  reftised,  his  men  fired,  and; 
unhappily,  killed  Lord  Kingston,  end  his  servant, 
though  they  captured  the  boat  and  put  the  crew  to 
the  sword.     This  mdancholy  event  occurred  on 
the  90th  July,  164S.    His  tordship  bore  so  high  a 
character  for  benevolence,  hospitality,  and  liber- 
ality, that  he  was  usually  styled  by  the  common 
people,   "the  good  Earl   of  Kingston.'*     He  m. 
Gertrude,  daughter  and  oo-helr  of  Henry  Talbot, 
third  son  of  George,  Earl  of  Shrewsbury,  and  had 
issue, 

Hbb  by*  -Viaoount  Newarlu 

419 


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WUiiaiD,  of  TbottMbr,  m,  ESsAtlh,  daugh- 
ter and  ooJicir  of  Sir  TlionM  Hmis,  of 
Tang  CMCle.  ia  ShiopBhiie,  and  had 

BmuuBT,  who  m.  ,  daufhtar  and 

oo4ialr  of  Sir  Jolui  ETdyOt  and  hni 


RoBBET,    1  third  and  fourth 
William,  J  of  KiagMoo. 
Btblth.  flfkheail  Md  tnt  duke 
Oartzttda,  m.  to  Chartaa,  Viaooant 
NewhaTan. 
Gbbtabb,  ocatBd  Banm  Pieiiapuint,  of 

Haaalope. 
Fnooes,  m.  to  HenrTi  Earl  of  Ogle. 
GracB,  m.  to  Gilbert,  Earl  of  Clare. 
Gertrude,  m.  to  Geoige,    Harqunw  of 
Halifio. 
This  William  was  one  of  the  leading  mcm- 
Imh  of  the  Comnuina,  during  the  dvil  wars, 
he  died  after  the  rsMnation,  in  U9a 
Frances,  m.  Bliaabeth,  daughter  end  co-heir 
of  Thomas  Bray,  Eaq.,  of  Eyaan,  in  the 
cooaty  of  Derby,  and  dL  in  1H7,  leering, 
RoCbrt,  who  m.  Anne,  daughter  of  Robert 
Murray,  Esq.,  and  left. 
Frauds,  Ijj^,^ 
George,  j 

Willlero,  whose  sons  died  $.  p, 
Jane,  m.  to  Reverend  Bonard  Gil- 
pin. 
Annet  m,  to  Thomas  Newport,  Lord 
Torrington. 
WUliam. 
Henry. 

Franoes,  m.  to  William,  son  and  heir  of 
LordPi^et 
Robert,  tf.  unmarried. 

Qerraee,  d.  unmerried,  in  Holland,  anno  IdTB* 
bequeathing  £lO,O0e  to'  the  flret  member  of 
his  ISunily  who  diould  obtain  the  honour 
andtitleofadulu. 
George,  of  Old  Cotes,  in  Derbyshire,  m.  lliae 
Jones,  sister  of  Sir  Semuel  Jones,  of  Cor- 
then  Hall,  Notts,  by  whom  he  had  two 


"•^  I  both  d.  unmarried. 
Smuei,  J 

Frances,  m.  Philip  Roileston,  Esq. 
His  locdsbip  was  «.  by  his  eUest  son, 

HENRY  PIERREPOINT,  second  Earl  of  King- 
fton.  This  noUcman  remaining,  like  his  Ikther, 
most  fiithftilly  attached  to  the  fortunes  of  King 
Cherles  L,  was  swum  of  the  privy  council  to  that 
monarch,  and  created,  85th  llardi,  1644*  Mau- 
Qvnee  of  DoncHnsnn.  His  lordship  m.  first, 
Cecilia,  daughter  of  Peul,  Viscount  Bayning,  end 
had  surviving  issue, 

Anne,  m.  to  John,  Lord  Roe,  afterwards  Earl 
of  Rutland,  firom  whmn  she  wm  divorced. 

Grace.  dL  unmerried. 
The  earl  espoused  secondly.  Lady  Katheriae  Stan- 
ley, daughter  of  Jemes,  Eari  of  Derby,  but  had  no 
surviving  issue.  His  lordship,  who  wns  a  man  of 
learning,  particularly  in  law  and  physic,  died  in 
lOBQ,  when  the  MAnguisATs  or  DoncnasTBR 
became  sxtimct,  but  his  other  honours  devolved 

4M 


npott  his  gnpid  nephew,  (vcfor  to  deBeemhnis  at 
WiBiam  PieRepoiat,  ef  Thoicdiy,  second  eon  of 
the  first  eerU) 

ROBERT  PIERREPOINT,  third  Berl  of  King- 
ston. ThM  nobtanuB  d.  unmarried,  white  on  his 
tnvels.  in  France,  anno  IfiU;  and  wm  «.  by  his 


WILLIAM  PIERREPOINT,  fourth  eari.  wfa9 
m.  Anne,  daughter  of  Robert.  Lord  Brooke,  but 
dying  without  Issue,  in  1680,  the  honours  devolved 
upon  his  brother, 

EVELYN  PIERREPOINT,  fifth  eerl,  whoww 
advanced,  on  the  ad  December,  1706,  to  the  Mau- 
goxaATn  ov  DomcHnaraB,  with  remainder  to  hie 
ttnde,  Gervaee,  Lord  Pienrepoint,  of  Henslope,  and 
was  creeled,  on  the  S9th  July,  1715,  Duca  op 
Kiweeroiv-cpon-HuLi..  His  grace  was  subse- 
quently made  a  Kniort  op  tbb  GAaraa,  and 
he  was  constituted,  four  diflbrent  times,  one  of  the 
lords  Justices,  daring  his  miyesty*s  abeence  in  his 
Hanoverien  dominions.  His  grace  m.  first.  Lady 
Mary  Fidding,  daughter  of  Wllliem,  Eeri  of  Den- 
bigh, end  had  issue. 

William,  Marquess  of  Dorchester,  who  d.  la 
the  dukeTs  lifo4ime,  leaving 

EvaLYv,  who  inherited  m  second  duke. 
Freacm,   m,   to   Sydney,    son    of    Sir 
PhiUp  Meadows,  KnL,  and  had,  with 
other  issue, 

CBAaLBB  MBABOwe,  Eeq.,  who 
succeeding  to  the  estatm  of  hie 
undo,  Evelyn,  Duke  of  Kingston^ 
in  1773*  aseiuned  the  surname  of 
PiBBBBPoiirr,  end  wes elevated  to 
the  peerage  as  Baron  Pierrepotat, 
Viscount  Newark,  and  Earl  Men- 
vers.  He  d.  in  1816,  and  was  «.  by 
his  son, 

CHABLsa,  present  Eari 


Mary,  wu  to  Edward  Wortky-Montagu,  Esq.. 
and  became  celebrated  as  Lady  Mary  Wert- 
ley-Montegu. 

Frances,  m.  to  John,  Earl  of  Mar. 

Evdya,  m.  to  J<rfm,  Lord  Oower. 
The  duke  espoused,  secondly.  Lady  Isabella  Ben^ 
tinck,  daughtv  of  William,  Earl  of  Portland,  by 
whom  he  had, 

Carolina,  m.  to  Thomas  Bread,  Esq. 

Anne,  d.  unmairied. 
His  graced.  In  1796,  end  was  «.  by  his  grandson, 

EVELYN  PIERREPOINT,  aeoond  duke.  Thie 
nobleman  eqKMised  Miss  Chudldgh,  one  of  the 
maids  of  honour  to  the  Dowager,  Princess  of  Wslea. 
but  the  lady,  ao  notorious  as  Dudiem  of  Kingston, 
was  afterwards  convicted  by  her  peers  of  bigamy. 
The  trial  took  place  in  1776,  the  Lord  Chancellor 
Apsley  (^Bclating  as  high  steward.  His  giace  d. 
ia  1773*  when,  leaviag  no  Issue,  all  ma  HOBoona 
became  bxthtct,  while  his  mtates  devolved  wgtm. 
his  nephew,  (refor  to  issue  of  William,  Marquees  af 
DordieBter,  eon  of  the  first  duke,)  Charles 
dows.  Esq.,  who  assumed  the  name  of  Pibi 
POivT,  and  was  created  Babl  MAlTvBBa. 

AaM8.<~Ar.  semde  of  dnquifoUs,  gu.  a  lion 
pant,  sa. 


PIN 


PliA 


PIERREPONT  ~  BARON    PI£RRE. 
PONT,  OF  HANSLOPE. 

By  L«tten  Patent,  dated  19th  October,  1714. 

GSRVASE  PIERREPONT.  Mcond  wa  of  tht 
Hon.  WinUm  Plenepoint,  Moond  Km  of  Robert, 
exit  Eail  of  Kiagttoo,  was  created  a  peer  of  Ire- 
Sand  as  Bacon  Pienepont,  of  Ardglaas,  and  of  Great 
Britain,  (19th  October,  17U>)  at  Bakom  Pianan- 
TornXf  4tf  Hmmslopt,  in  !*«  cew^y  qf  Bucks,  His 
lordihip  eepoiued  Lucy,  daughter  of  Sir  John 
Pelham,  Bart.,  of  Loughton,  in  Siusex,  but  d. 
ifleuelew  in  1715,  when  ail  aia  noMocaB  became  mx- 

TIMCT. 

ASM0«— Same  ae  the  Earle  and  Dukes  of  King- 


PINKNEV— BARON  PINKNEY. 

By  Writ  ot  Summons,  dated  6th  February,  IS99, 
97  Edward  I. 

1CinCB0C. 

In  the  time  of  King  Henry  I., 

GILO  DE  PINCHENI  gave  certain  hmds  lying 
at  Wedon,  in  Northamptonshire,  to  the  monks  of 
St*  Lucian,  in  France,  wlio  tliereapon  transplanted 
part  of  their  convent  to  that  place,  and  made  it  a 
cell  to  their  monastery.    To  this  Gik>  succeeded  his 


RAX.PH  DE  PINCHENI,  who  was  «.  by  his  son, 

GILBERT  DE  PINCHENI,  who,  in  the  Srd, 
5th,  and  0th  Henry  II.,  was  sheriiTof  the  county  of 
Berks;  and  upon  the  assessment  in  aid  for  marry- 
ing that  king's  daughter  tan  six  yeem  subsequently, 
ccrtifled  his  knights'  fees  at  fourteen  and  a  half. 
He  was  •.  by  his  son, 

HENRY  DE  PINCHENI,  who  was  «.  by  his 
son, 

ROBERT  DE  PINCHENI,  one  of  the  barons 
who  took  up  arms  against  King  John,  in  conea- 
qiienoe  of  which  hie  lands  ware  seiaed  upon  by  the 
crown,  and  given  to  Waleran  Tyes.  But  mi^Ung 
hie  peam.  they  ware  restored  to  him,  in  the  1st  year 
ofHaHyUI.    He  was  •.  by  his  son, 

HENRY  DE  PINCHENI,  who  m.  Alice,  sister 
and  heir  of  Gerard  de  Liadesey,  and  dying  in  1954, 
aetoed  of  the  Baxony  of  Wedon*  tan  the  county  of 
Nortlmmptoo,  which  he  held  of  the  king  in  cqpite 
by  faarany,  besides  lands  in  Buclcs  and  Essex,  wase. 
by  hie  son, 

HENRY  DE  PINCHENY.  This  baran  had  a 
military  surnmims  to  attend  the  king  against  the 
Walsh,  hi  the  49nd  Henry  III.  He  was  «u  at  his 
deceasa  by  his  son, 

ROBERT  DE  PINCHENY,  who,  in  the  10th 
Edward.  1.,  baing  in  the  king's  senrioe  hi  Wales, 
had  acatafle  of  aU  his  tsnanU  by  mitttary  senrioe,  hi 
the  ooontiee  ef  Northampton,  Bucks,  BedfSord, 
Essex.  Herts,  Warwick,  Oxford,  Berks,  Suflblk, 
Norfolk,  awl  Somenet.  He  was  afterwards  in  the 
wars  of  Qmoonn  9bA  dying  about  the  year  1S97, 
was  «.  by  his  brother, 

HENRY  DE  PINKNEY,  who  was  in  the  wars 


of  Scotlaad,  hi  the  tfth  Edwttd  L,  Md  wmi 
flMMd  to  parliamant  as  a  babon,  in  the  9Sth,  S7th, 
and  seth  of  the  same  reign.  His  lordship  haviiv 
BO  issue,  made  a  surrender  of  his  lands  in  1301  to 
the  king,  and  his  heirs  for  erer.  At  his  deoeese  the 
Babowv  or  PrnKicBY  became  bxtihct. 
ABMa.-Or.  four  f^iails  1b  fesse,  go. 

PIPARIV-BARON  PIPARD. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  6th  February,  1889, 
97  Edward  I. 

Xintagc. 

RALPH  PIPARD,  said  to  be  a  younger  son  of 
Ralph  Fits-Nicholas,  steward  of  the  household  to 
King  Henry  III.,  having  distinguished  himself  in 
the  Welsh  and  Soottish  wan,  temp.  Edward  I.,  was 
siimawmwi  to  parliament  as  a  babob  fkom  6th  Fe- 
bruary, 1990,  to  94th  July,  1902.  In  the  30th  Ed- 
ward I.  his  lordship  was  made  goTemor  for  life  of 
Bolesorer  and  Hareston  Castles,  in  the  county  of 
Derby.  Lord  Pipard  d.  hi  13Q9,  leaving  Johb,  his 
son  and  heir,  Imt  neither  he  nor  any  of  his  de* 
scendants  were  erer  summoned  to  parliament,  nor 


ABJca.-— Ar.  two  bars  gules  an  a  canton,  ai.  a 
dnquefbil,  or. 

PITT— BARONS  CAMELFORD. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  5th  January,  1784. 

ICiiuage. 

THOMAS  PITT,  Eaq.,  of  Boooniock,  eon  and 
heir  of  ThomasJ^elder  son  of  Roliert  Pitt,  brother 
of  WiUlam,  llrtt  Earl  of  Chatlum,)was  eleTated- 
to  the  peerage,  5th  January,   1784,  as  Babob 
Camblfobd,  tf  Boeonnodr,  <n  fke  eoimfy  q^Opm- 
aoeff.    His  lordship  at.  Anne,  daughter  and  oo- 
hehess  of  Pinkney  Wilkineon,  Esq.,  of  Bumham, 
in  Norftilk,  and  had  issuer 
TBOMxa,  his  BuooesBor. 
Aane,  at.  to  William,  Lord  Granville,  unde  of 
the  present  Duke  of  Buckingham. 
He  d.  in  1793,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

THOMAS  PITT,  second  baron,  a  post  captain 
R.N.  This  nobleman  ftU  In  a  duel  with  a  gentle- 
man of  the  name  of  Best,  in  1804,  and  dying  un* 
married,  the  Babovt  of  Camblfobd  became  bx- 
TiBCT,  while  his  estates  derolTed  upon  his  sister, 
Anne,  Lady  GrenviUe. 

ABna.— Sa.  Kssse  cheque,  or.  and  ai.,  beti 
three  beaants  of  the  i 


PLANTAGENET^EARLS  OF  CORN. 

WALL. 

Creation,  30th  May,  1996. 

JOHN  PLANTAOENET,  youngest  son  of  X<ng- 
Hbbbt  II.,  bore  the  title  of  Eabz.  ow  Cobnwai.1., 
(adignity  which  had  reverted  to  the  crown  upon  the 
decease  of  Reginald  de  Donstanvlll,  Earl  of  Corn- 
wall, in  1175,)  hi  the  life-time  of  his  elder  toother, 

491 


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■King  Rich  A  ED  I.»  but  on  nieoeediiig  that  moiisr^, 
in  1199*  at  King  John,  the  Earldom  or  Conir- 
WALL  merged  in  the  crown,  and  to  remuned  until 
it  was  oonfterred  upon  the  lame  monairch's- younger 
•on, 

RICHARD  PLANTAOENET,  who  was  made 
Earl  of  Poictou  aitd  Cork  wall  by  his  brother. 
King  Henry  III.,  on  the  aoth  May,  1298.  This 
prinoe  acquired  high  reputation  in  the  council  and 
the  field,  and  during  the  reign  of  his  brother  was 
oae-  of  the  leading  characters  of  Europe.  In  1941 
he  was  in  the  Holy  Land,  and  then  entered  into  a 
truce  with  the  Soldan  of  Babylon,  upon  condition 
that  the  French  prisoners  there  should  be  released; 
that  Jerusalem,  with  all  the  parts  a4}aoent,  should 
be  firee  from  all  molestation,  and  that  other  immu- 
nities should  be  granted  to  the  christians.  In  ISHS 
the  earl,  journeying  through  France  with  a  pompous 
retinue,  via.,  forty  knights,  all  in  rich  liveries,  five 
waggons,  and  fifty  sumpter  horses,  (his  lady  and  his 
son  Henry  being  also  with  him,)  the  pope  being 
then  at  Lyons,  sent  all  his  cardinab  except  one, 
besides  a  number  of  clerks,  to  meet  the  earl,  and 
conduct  him  thither.  And  receiving  the  prinoe  with 
great  respect,  feasted  him  at  his  own  table.  In  ISU, 
upon  a  full  meeting  of  the  nobles  In  parliament 
assembled  at  Westminster,  the  king  especially  ap- 
plied himself  to  the  Earl  of  Cornwall  in  a  formal 
speech  for  a  large  supply  of  money,  via.,  forty 
thousand  pounds,  the  pope  having  also  written  to 
him  letters  for  that  purpose ;  but  the  prince  ap- 
pears not  to  have  complied  with  the  request.  In 
about  two  years  afterwards  certain  nobles  of  Al- 
MAiNs,  having  arrived  in  England,  stated  to  the 
whole  banmage,  then  met  in  full  parliament,  that, 
by  the  imanimous  consent  of  the  princes  of  the  em- 
pire, the  Earl  of  Cornwall  was  elected  Kino  or 
THB  Romans;  and  those  ambassadors  were  fol- 
lowed by  the  Archbishop  of  Cologne,  and  a  numer- 
ous train  of  nobility,  who  came  for  the  purpose  of 
doing  homage  to  the  new  monarch.  Whereupon 
he  gave  them  five  hundred  marks  towards  their 
travelling  expenses,  and  presented  the  prelate  with 
a  rich  mitre,  adorned  with  precious  stones.  Soon 
after  this  the  eari  repaired  to  his  new  dominions, 
and  was  solemnly  crowned  king  on  ascension-day. 
In  the  contest  which  subsequently  took  place 
between  the  barons  and  King  Hskry,  he  adhered 
with  great  fidelity  to  the  latter,  and  commanded  the 
main  body  of  the  royal  army  at  the  unfortunate 
battle  of  Lewes,  where  he  was  made  prisoner.  But 
he  lived  to  see  the  terminati<m  of  those  troubles, 
and  departing  this  life  in  1S78,  at  his  manor  of 
Berkhamstead,  was  buried  in  the  abbey  of  Hales, 
which  he  had  founded.  The  prinoe  had  nxarried, 
first,  the  Lady  Isabel  ManOwll,  third  daughter  and 
co-hrir  of  William,  E^l  of  Pembroke,  by  whom 
he  had  four  sons  and  a  daughter,  who  all  died 
young,  except 

HsNRY,  who  was  taken  prisoner  with  his 
father  at  the  battle  of  Lewes,  in  which  he 
had  a  principal  command.  Subsequently 
having  embarked  in  the  Crusade,  and  being 
at  Viterbuin,  in  Italy,  on  his  return  he 
was  barbarously  murdered  there  in  the 
church  of  St.  Lawrence^  at  high  mass,  by 

4a 


Guy,  son  of  Simon  Montibttt  EaxI  of  Le£> 

oester,  the  general  of  the  banaial  anny»  in 

revenge  of  his  father's  death,  who  had  hem 

slain  at  the  battle  of  Evesham. 

The  King  of  Almainc  espoused,  secondly,  Sanrhia. 

third  daughter  and  co-hkr*  of  Raymond,  Earl  of 

Provence,  by  whom  he  had  one  surviving  son, 

Edmund,  his  successor. 
He  married  thirdly,  Beatrix,  nieoeof  Connd,  Arcfa- 
bishop  of  Cokyne,  but  had  no  diild  by  that  lady. 
The  prinoe  was  «.  as  Earl  of  Cornwall,  by  his  eon, 

EDMUND  PLANTAOENET,  who  accompllah- 
ing  his  lUll  age.  In  the  A&th  Henry  IIL,  received  the 
honour  of  knighthood,  upon  St.  Edward's  day,  and 
was  invested,  soon  after,  with  the  title  of  EarIp  ov 
Cornwall,  by  dncture,  with  the  sword.  In  thm 
16th  Edward  I.,  he  was  made  warden  of  England, 
during  the  king's  absence  in  the  wan  of  ScoUaad* 
and  then  mardiing  into  Wales,  besi^ed  Drosdaa 
Castle,  and  demolished  iu  walls.  The  nest  year, 
he  was  constituted  sheriff  for  the  county  of  C<NtiiF< 
wall,  in  tee.  His  lordship  m.  Margaret,  daughter 
of  Richard  de  Clare<  Earl  ot  Gloucester,  but  dying 
without  issue,  his  great  inheritance  devolved  upon 
the  king,  as  his  next  of  kin  and  heir-at-law,  while 
the  Earldom  or  Cornwall  became  sxtinct. 
Armb.— ^ame  as  the  other  Plantagenets. 

PLANTAOENET— EARLS  OF  CHES- 
TER,  EARLS  OF  LEICES- 
TER, EARL  OF  DERBY, 
EARL  OF  LINCOLN,  DUKE 
OF  LANCASTER, 

Earldom  of  Cheater,  anno  1203. 
Earldom  of  Leicester,  SSth  October,  U64. 
Earldom  of  Derby,  16th  March,  1387. 
Earldom  of  Lincoln,  90th  August,  1349. 
Dukedom  of  Lancaster,  6th  March,  19S1. 

EDMUND  f  LANTAGBNET,  sunamed  Crmuh- 
back,  younger  son  of  King  Hrnry  III.,  was  bom 
at  London,  in  February  IMS,  and  whan  he  had 
attained  his  eighth  year  was  solemnly  invested  by 
the  pope,  in  the  kingdom  of  Sidly  and  Apulia. 
About  this  time  too,  he  was  made  Earl  or  Casa. 
TSR.  But  neither  of  these  honours  turned  out 
eventually  of  much  value,  for  the  real  Ung  of 
Sicily,  OBiirflMi,  was  then  living;  and  the  Earldom  of 
Chester  is  said  to  have  been  transianred  to  the 
princess  eider  brother,  Edward,  afterwards  Eowar» 
I.  He  soon  obtained,  however,  both  posscssiooaattd 
dignities,  for  upon  the  forfeiture  of  Simon  de  Mont- 
fort,  Earl  of  Leicester,  the  king,  by  letters  patent, 
granted  him  the  inheritance  of  the  Earldom  or 
LaicssTRR,  as  also  the  hcmour  and  stewardship  of 
England;  with  the  lands  Ukewise  of  Nicolas  de  Sa- 
grave,  an  associate  in  the  treason  of  Montlbrt.  And 
the  next  ensuing  year  he  had  another  grant  from 
the  crown  ot  all  the  goods  and  chattels,  whereof 

•  The  other  dsughiers  and  coheirs  were, 
Margaret,  m.  to  Lswia  IX.,  of  Franosii 
Eleanor,  m.  to  Hsnry  IIL,  of  England. 
Beatrix,  m.  to  Cuamlub,  Kiqg  of  Skily.      • 


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Robort  de  FemiB,  Earl  of  Deriyy, 
vpoii  tlM»  day  of  th«  sUnniah  at  Cheitecfleld.  He 
anlwaiimnHy  IDkI  grants  of  tbe  honour  of  Derby, 
with  the  cfMtlM»  manon,  and  lands,  of  the  laid 
Robert  de  Ferreiai  and,  the  honour  of  Leioeater, 
with  aU  the  lands  of  Sfanon  da  Montfort,  late  Earl 
of  Leicester:  toholdtohiniaetf  andthe  heirs  of  his 
body.  About  the  54th  Henry  III.,  the  carl  went 
into  the  Holy  Land,  and  returned  within  two  yean. 
In  the  reign  of  Edward  l„  he  was  in  the  Scottish 
wars  and  had  the  grants  which  be  had  reoeired 
from  his  Usthar  conflnaed,  with  additional  castles, 
oaanora,  and  lands  of  great  extant.  In  the  81st  of 
that  ra^pi,  he  procured  Ucenoe  from  the  crown  to 
make  a  castle  of  his  house,  in  the  parish  of  St. 
Clement's  Danes,  in  the  county  of  Middlesex,  called 
tbe  Satoy.  And  founded  the  nunnery,  called  the 
JfJtiereaMff,  without  Aldgate,  in  the  suburbs  of 
London.  He  was  afterwards  In  the  Welsh  wars; 
and  then  proceeded  to  France,  being  sent  with  the 
Earlof  Lincofaif  and  twenty-six  bannereta,  into  Gas- 
oony.  He  eventually  iitvested  Bordeaux,  but  not 
ittooeeding  in  its  reduction,  the  disappointment 
aflbrted  him  so  severely,  that  it  brought  on  a 
diaessn  which  terminated  his  life  in  the  year 
li90.  The  princess  remains  were  brought  over 
to  England,  and  honourably  interred  in  Westmins- 
ter Abbey.  Upon  hla  death-bed,  he  directed  "that 
his  body  should  not  be  buried  'tiU  his  debto 
were  paid."  This  earl  espoused  first,  AvaLiitB, 
(daughter  of  William  de  Fortibos,  Earl  of  Albe- 
marie,)  CouivTBsa  or  HoxtOBiiNBss,  heir  to  her 
fiither,  and  by  her  mother.  Countess  of  Devon  and 
the  Isle  of  Wight,  but  this  great  heiress  died  the 
following  year,  without  iMucu  The  prince  m,  ie> 
oondly,  Blanche,  daughter  of  Robert,  Earl  of  Artois, 
(third  son  of  Lewis  VIIL,  King  of  France,)  and 
widow  of  H0nnf>  Kixo  or  Navabbb,  by  whom  he 
had  surviving  issue, 

Thom ab,  his  successor. 

Hbb BY,  of  whom  hereafter,  as  restored  Earl 
of  Lancaster. 
His  highness  was«.  by  his  elder  son, 

THOMAS  PLANTAGENET.  Earl  of  Lancaster, 
who,  in  the  96th  Edward  I.,  doing  his  homage, 
being  then  esteemed  of  ftdl  age  by  the  king,  had 
livery  of  his  lands,  except  the  dowry  ot  Blanche, 
his  mother;  and  thereupon  marched  into  Scotland, 
the  king  himsdf  being  in  the  expedition.  The 
earl,  who  was  hereditary  sherilT  ot  Lancashire,  sub- 
stituted JUdbord  da  HoghUm,  his  deputy  in  that 
oflloib  For  tlie  remainder  of  this  reign,  the  Earl 
of  Lancaster  was  constantly  employed  in  the  wars 
of  Scotland.  In  the  4th  Edward  II..  having  es- 
poused Alice,  only  daughter  and  heiress  of  Henry 
de  Lacy,  Earl  of  Lincoln,  he  had  livery  of  the 
Castle  of  Denbii^,  and  other  lands  of  her  inheri- 
tance; his  homage  tat  them  being  performed  the 
ensuing  year,  in  the  presence  of  divers  bishops, 
earb,  and  barons,  and  other  of  the  king's  council. 
In  a  certain  chamber  within  the  house  of  the  Friars 
Preachers,  in  London.  The  earl  is  said  to  have 
home  the  title  of  Eabz.  op  Lincoln,  in  right  of 
this  lady ;  after  his  deoeese,  she  married  Eubold  le 
jStrange,  who  died  #.  p.,  and  thirdly,  Hugh  le 
francs  i  the  which  Bubold  and  Hugh,  are  deemed. 


by  many  writers,  to  have  been  Earls  of  Lincoln. 
The  said  Alice  styled  herself  Countess  of  Lincoln 
and  Salisbury,  and  died  issueless  in  1348.  In  the  6th 
Edward  II.,  the  Earl  of  Lancaster  Jotaied  the  con- 
federation against  Piers  Gav«»tan,  and  was  made 
their  general  by  those  nobles  and  great  personages, 
who  had  united  tot  a  redress  of  grievances.  It  is 
said,  that  his  father-in-law,  Henry  de  Lacy,  Earl 
of  Linoohi,  had  charged  him  upon  his  death-bed,  to 
maintain  the  quarrd  againat  Oaveaton,  and  that 
thereupon  he  joined  with  the  Earl  of  Warwick,  and 
cauaed  the  vavoubitb  to  be  put  to  death.  From 
thia  period,  he  waa  never  fiiUy  reatored  to  the  con- 
fidence of  the  king,  but  waa  eateemed  the  great 
chamidon  of  the  popular  party,  in  whose  cause  he 
eventually  laid  down  hia  life ;  for  taking  up  arma 
againat  the  Spenoera,  he  waa  made  prisoner  in  a 
akirmish  at  Boroughlnidge,  and  being  thence  con- 
veyed to  Pontefiract,  was  beheaded  on  a  plain  with- 
out the  town,  (where  a  beautiful  church  was  after- 
wards erected,  in  honour  of  his  memory,)  in  April, 
laai.  Dugdale  details  the  eventa  that  immediately 
preceded  the  earl'a  untimely  death,  thua— *'That 
being  come  to  Boroughbridge,  he  there  found  Sir 
Andrew  de  Harda,  Warden  of  Carlisle,  and  the 
Marches,  and  Sir  Simon  Ward,  Sheriff  of  York- 
shire, ready  to  encounter  him.  Where  relating  to 
Harda  his  Just  quarrel  to  the  Spencers,  he  (the 
earl)  promised  him,  if  he  would  favour  his  cause, 
to  give  him  one  of  those  five  earldoms  which  he  had 
in  possession ;  and  that  Harda  refusing,  he  told 
him  that  he  would  soon  repent  it,  and  that  he 
should  di«  a  shameful  death  (as  it  afterwards  hap- 
pened). Also,  that  Harcla,  then  causing  hia  archers 
to  ahoot,  the  fight  began,  in  which  many  of  thia 
earl'a  party  being  alain,  he  betook  himadf  to  cha- 
pel, reAiaing  to  yield  to  Harda,  and  looking  to  the 
crucifix,  aaid,  <  Good  Lord,  I  render  mffteHf  to  thee, 
anil  put  mtfte^  into  thp  merep*  Alao,  that  they 
then  took  off  hia  coat  armor,  and  putting  upon 
him  one  of  hia  men's  liveriea,  carried  him  by  water 
to  York,  where  they  threw  balla  of  dirt  at  him. 
Moreover,  that  firom  thence,  they  brought  him 
back  to  the  king  at  Pobtxpbact  Cabtlb,  and  there 
put  him  in  a  tower,  towarda  the  abby,  which  he 
had  newly  made.  Likewiae,  that  aoon  after,  being 
brought  into  the  hall,  he  had  aentence  of  death,  by 
these  justices,  via:— jljrmer,  Eabx.  op  Pbmbbokb, 
Edmu$td,  Eabx.  op  Kbnt,  John  de  Bretaigne,  and 
Sbr  Robert  Malmetherpe,  who  pronounced  the  judg- 
ment. Whereupon,  saying,  *«fta//  I  die  witkmtt 
answer  f*  A  certain  Gaseoigne  took  him  away,  and 
put  a  pill'd  broken  hood  <m  hia  head,  and  set 
him  on  a  lean  white  jade,  without  a  bridle;  and 
that  then  he  added,  *  King  of  Hemeen,  have  mercy 
en  me,  for  the  king  ^f  earth  neus  ad  gitertM.*  And 
that  thus  he  waa  carried,  aome  throwing  pellota  ot 
dirt  at  him,  (having  a  Frper-Preacher  for  hia  con- 
fessor.) to  an  hill  without  the  town,  where  he 
kneeled  down  towards  the  east,  until  one  Hugin  de 
Muston  caused  him  to  turn  his  (kce  towards  Soot- 
land,  and  then  a  villain  of  London,  cut  off  his 
head.  After  which,  the  prior  and  monks  obtaining 
his  body  from  the  king,  buried  it  on  the  right  hand 
of  the  high  altar.  The  day  of  his  death  was  cer- 
tainly Hpon  the  Monday  next*  preceding  the  ^n- 


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ntifMtotiM  <tf  a«  Bteatei  Virgin.  ToadUnf  hit 
meritt,"  ooathni«s  the  mum  aathority,  '« tlMivliBp- 
poMd  afterwutU  Tciy  gmt  dkpateit  mum  tbtek- 
taf  It  fit  th«t  heshovld  teaooountad  •  nlat,  btcauw 
hm  wM  so  diaiiublti  and  to  much  an  taoaonr  of  the 
Mllgloaa;  at  alio  that  he  dtad  in  a  just  eanse; 
hut  chiefly  because  his  penecuton  came  wlfhin  a 
short  period  to  untimely  ends.  On  the  othsr  sid^ 
many  there  were  who  taxed  him  for  adultery,  in 
keeping  of  sundry  women,  notwithstanding  he  had 
a  wife.  Aspersing  him  lllcewlse  tor  cruelty,  in 
putting  to  death  some  persons  for  small  ^Anoesi 
and  protecttaig  some  tor  punishment  who  were 
transgressors  of  the  laws;  aOsging  also»  that  he  was 
chiefly  swayed  by  one  of  his  secretaries;  and  that 
he  did  not  flght  stoutly  for  Justice,  but  ied,aud 
WM  taken  unarmed.  Neverthsless  many  mhrades 
were  reported  to  have  been  afterwards  wrought  in 
the  place  where  his  corps  was  hurled ;  much  con- 
fluence of  people  coming  tiiereto,  in  honour  thereof, 
till  the  ktaig,  through  the  Indlation  of  the  Spe»- 
eers,  set  guards  to  restrain  them.  Whereupon  they 
flocked  to  the  place  where  he  suflhied  death  t  and 
so  much  the  more  eagerly,  as  endeaTOurs  had  been 
used  to  restrain  them,  until  a  cfaurdi  was  emeted 
on  'the  place  where  he  suflbred."  All  nn  no- 
irouna  of  this  prince  became  FORFStrnn  under  Ms 
attainder ;  .yet  his  brother  and  heir,  (having  himself 
no  issue,) 

HENRY  PLANTAOENBT,  being  a  distin- 
guished soldier  in  the  Scottish  wars,  had  liTery  of 
his  lands  in  the  I7th  Edward  II.,  and  was  restored 
to  the  dignity  of  Eabl  ov  LntCBsran.  This 
prince  was  subsequently  one  of  the  leaderi  In  the 
great  confederacy  which  overturned  the  power  of 
the  Spencers,  and  deposed  King  Edwabo  II. 
Upon  the  acesssloB  of  Edwaro  III.,  the  earl  had 
the  honour  of  girding  him  with  the  sword  of  knight- 
hood, and  as  soon  as  the  new  monarch  was  crowned, 
he  was  apptrinted,  the  king  bring  a  minor,  his 
guardian.  After  which.  In  the  parliament  begun 
at  Westminster,  the  attainder  against  his  brother 
being  rerersed,  he  wm  restored  to  sll  the  lands  of 
his  father  and  brother,  with  the  BAn|.noM8  op 
LAiTGAaTBB  AND  LaioaTBB,  and  the  same  year 
<lst  Edward  III.,)  he  was  constituted  captatw- 
OBMBBAL  of  an  the  king's  fmrees  in  the  marches  of 
Scotland.  The  earl  m.  Maud,  daughter  and  heiress 
of  Sir  Patrick  Chaworth,  Knt.,  and  had  imue, 
Hbitbt,  Earl  of  Derby,  his  successor. 
Maud,  m.  first,  to  William  de  Burgh,  Eari  of 
Ulster,  by  whom  she  had  an  only  daughter 
andheirear, 

Elibabbth  db  Buboh,  m.  to  Liond, 
Duke  of  Clarence. 
The  Lady  Maud  espoused,  secondly,  Ralph 
de  Uflbrd,  Justice  of  Irriand,  temp.  Edward 
III.,  and  brother  of  Robert,  Earl  of  Suflblk, 
by  whom  she  had  an  only  daughter, 

Maud,  m.  to  Thomas,  son  of  John  de 
Vere,  Earl  of  Oxitord. 
BlandL  m.  to  Thomas,  Lord  Wake,  of  Lyddl, 

and  <f.  issueless. 
Eleanor,  m.  first,  to  John,  son  and  hrirof 
Henry,  Earl  of  Budian ;  and  secondly,  to 
Richard  Fita- Akn*  Earl  of  AruadeL 


',  m*  to  Join,  Lend  Howteny. 


HisiordsUpd.  In  IMS,  and  was  «.  by  his*«., 

HENRy  PLANTAGEMET,  who,  having  die- 
tinguished  himself  in  the  UfS'timeof  hirfether  ia 
the  Scottish  wars,  was  made  captatn-gaMral  of  all 
the  king'e  forces  there,  had  consMerBble  ganta 
fRmi  the  crown,  and  was  created  Eabl  op  Dbsbv* 
(11th  Edward  IIL)  The  next  year  he  was  with  tho 
king  in  the  wars  of  Fhmders,  as  hewas  in  two  yean 
afteiwaids  in  the  great  naval  engagement  with  the 
French,  off  Slvobsl  In  the  15th  Edward  IIL  w« 
find  the  prince  ageln  in  thewaraof  Scotlnd.bclnff 
then  the  king's  nentenant  for  the  northern  partsof 
Enghnid,  and  general  of  his  army  against  the  Scots  s 
in  whidi  capacity  he  was  authorised  to  treat  of 
peace.  After  this,  as  Eabl  op  Dbbbv,  (Us  fether 
still  aUve,>  he  became  one  of  the  first  and  moat 
snneessftil  captains  of  the  age,  reducing  no  less  thasi 
fifty'Six  Frsnch  cities  and  piaoes  of  note  to  tfm 
donsinion  of  the  king  of  England,  and  taking  ln»- 
mense  treesure  in  gold.  In  the  year  of  those  great 
exploito  his  father  ilied,  so  that  he'wi 
aedstlng  the  deceased  earl's  ftmeraL    He  had 

a  chief  command  at  the  bibob  or  Calais. 
then  the  title  of  Eabl  op  LAircAaTsm, 
Dbbbt,  and  LBiGBersB,  and  SrawAmn  op  Bb«- 
LAWD ;  at  which  time  he  had,  of  his  own  retlnun, 
eight  hundred  men  at  arms,  and  two  thoosaMl 
archers,  with  thirty  banners,  whidi  cost  him,  te 
hospitality,  a  daily  disbursement  of  one  hundred 
pounds.  In  the  9Snd  Edward  111.,  after  havii^  had 
previously  for  his  brilliant  services  extenrive  granta 
ftom  the  crown,  he  was  made  the  king's  Heatenant 
in  Flanders  and  France,  and  the  next  yeai 
created,  by  letten  patent,  Eabl  op  LtivooLir, 
after  wUch  he  was  constituted  the  king's  Ueutsnant 
and  captain-general  In  Poicrov,  made  a  KwroHT 
OP  TBB  Gabtbb,  and  created  Dokb  op  Lawcab- 
TBB.  To  the  latter  high  dignity  he  wee  raised 
In  ftill  parliamCDt,  and  invested  with  power  to 
havea  CHABCBBY  in  the  county  of  Lancaster,  and 
to  enjoy  all  other  liberties  and  royaMm  appertain- 
ing to  a  county  palatine,  in  as  ample  a  manner  as 
the  Earb  of  Chester  did,  in  the  county  palattoe 
of  Chester.  About  this  time,  too,  he  was 
stituted  admiral  ot  the  king's  whole  fleet 
ward.  The  same  year,  having  obtained  licence  to 
go  ainoad  to  fl^t  against  the  infldds,  he  was 
surprised  in  his  Journey,  and  Ibrced  to  pay  n 
large  ransom  for  his  liberty;  whidi  suipileel 
having  occurred  through  the  Duke  of  Brunawtek'a 
means,  the  English  prhice  expressed  his  resent- 
ment in  language  so  unmeasured,  that  the  duke 
sent  him  a  challenge  t  whidi  being  accepted, 
a  day  wm  appointed  for  the  combat  t  but  when  It 
arrived,  the  Duke  of  Brunswick  was  so  panic- 
struck,  that  he  could  not  widd  his  shield,  eword, 
or  lance;  while  tiie  Duke  of  Lancaster,  with  the 
moet  undaunted  flmmcas,  in  vain  awaited  his 
attack.  They  were,  however,  aftei  wards  leoon- 
dled,  by  the  interference  of  the  French  meuMch : 
and  thus  the  Ei^{lidi  prince  acquired  great  renonn 
ftir  persond  vakmr,  while  his  adversary  was  covered 
with  disgrace.  The  close  of  this  heroic  nuhlemaBl 
mnrtlal  career,  was  quite  as  splendid  m  Its  opening. 


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and  alter  a  moat  Mniantoouneof  achtofaoMBts*  ha 
d.  in  1300«  daeply  lamantwl  by  all  claaies  of  hli 
oountrynun,  indudlng  his  gallant  oompanioiis  in 
anna.  He  lived  in  one  of  the  most  glorious  periods 
of  English  history,  and  he  was  himself  the  pmar 
actor  in  that  splendid  era.  Tha  prince  aspoused 
Isahel,  daoghter  of  Henry,  Lord~  Beaumont,  and 
left  two  daughters  his  co-hrtrs :  via. 

Maud,  m.  first,  to  Ralph,  soD'and  heir  of 
Ralph,   Lord   Stafltord,  and  secondly,   to 
Willlaro,  Duke  of  Zealandt  and  died  •.  p, 
Blahch,  m.  to  JoBW  of  Oetcnf,  Earl  of  Rich- 
mond, ftmrth  SOB  of  King  Edwakd  III., 
Which 

JOHN  (PLANTAOBNET).styiad  of  Oemtf,  fkom 
tbm  place  of  his  birth,  who  had  basn  created  Eari. 
or  RicBMOND,  in  1342,  was  advanced  to  the  Dckjb- 
IM»H  o*  LAMCAaraa,  by  his  fkther,  King  EnwAmn 
IIL,  in  the  36th  year  of  his  reign.  After  the  de- 
cease of  his  first  wife,  Blakch,  the  great  heiress  of 
the  Dnke  of  Lancaster,  he  espoused  Constance, 
eider  daughter  and  co>heiress  of  Peitr,  Kino  or 
CAariLS,  and  in  her  right  assumed  Uie  title  of 
King  of  Castile  and  Leon  t  in  whidi  regal  dignity, 
as  wdl  as  in  those  of  Duke  of  Lancaster,  Earl  of 
Ricfam<md,  Derby,  Lincoln,  and  Leicester,  he  had 
summons  to  parliament :  he  was  likewise  Duke  of 
Aquitaine,  and  a  Knight  of  the  Garter.  On  the 
decease  of  Edward  IIL,  this  prince  was  Joined  in 
the  administratidh  of  aihlrs  during  the  minority 
of  his  nephew,  Richard  II.  He  subsequently  at- 
tempted the  conquest  of  Spain,  at  the  head  of  a 
fine  army  t  and  landing  at  the  Groyne,  advanced  to 
Compostella,  where  he  was  met  by  John,  King  of 
Portugal,  between  whom  and  his  eldest  daughter, 
the  Lady  Philippe,  a  marriage  was  conduded. 
Thence  he  marched  into  Castile,  and  there  ratified 
a  treaty  of  peace,  by  which  he  abandoned  his  claim 
to  the  throne  ct  Castile  and  Leon,  in  consideration 
of  a  large  sum  of  money,  and  the  marriage  of 
Hsmy,  Prikcb  o9  Abturias,  with  his  only  daugb- 
by  his  second  wllb,  the  Lady  Katharine  Phm- 
In  the  latter  part  of  his  life  he  dwelt  in 
retirement,  having  incurred  the  displeasure  of 
King  Richard,  by  a  motion  which  he  had  made  in 
parliament,  that  his  son,  Hbicbv  of  BoHngbn^«, 
should  be  dedared  heir  to  the  crown.  He  d,  at 
Ely  House,  Holbom,  in  13Q0. 

JoBB  of  Gaunt  espoused,  first,  as  already  stated. 
Lady  Blanch  Plantagenet,  the  evptual  heiress  of 
the  Duke  of  Lancaster,  and  had  by  her, 

Hbbbv,  sumamed  of  Boi.inobbokx,  who, 
having  m.  Mary,  daughter  and  co-heir  d 
Humphrey  de  B<Aun,  last  Earl  <tf  Hereford, 
was  created  Earl  of  Hereftird,  29th  Septem- 
ber, 1307. 
Philippe,  m.  to  John,  King  of  Portugal 
Eliaalieth,  m.  first,  to  John  Holand,  Earl  of 
Huntingdon,  and  secondly,   to  Sir  Joihn 
CocnwalL 
Hem.  secondly,  CoBstaaoe,  dder  daughter  and  co- 
heir of  Peter  of  Castile,  and  by  her  had  an  only 
daughter, 

Katharine,  m,  to  Hairy,  Prince  of  Asturlas, 
afterwards,  Hbnbt,  the  third  King  of  Cas- 
tile and  LaoB. 


The  duke  m,  thirdly,  Catherine,  daoghtar  of  Sir 
Payn  Root,  alias  Guen,  King  at  Arms,  and  widow 
of  Sir  Otho  de  Swynford,  Knt,  by  whom,  H/brs 
marriage,  hehadisnM, 

JoHiv  oB  Bbaupobt,  Earl  oC  Somerset,  flrom 
whom  the  present  ducal  fiuBily  of  Beaufort 
derives. 
Hbnby  ]>b  Bbaufobt,  Cardinal  pf  St.  Euaa- 

beus,  and  Bishop  at  Wiachestar. 
Thomab  ox  Bbaufobt,  Barl  of  Donat,  and 

Duke  of  Exeter. 
JoAw  Dx  BBAuroBT,  m.  first,  to  Robert*  Lord 
Ferrers,  of  Wemme,  and  secondly,  to  Ralph 
Neville,  first  Earl  of  Westmorland. 
These  children  were  legitimated  by  act  of  parUx- 
ment,  ftir  all  purposes,  save  succession  to  the  throne, 
in  the  20th  of  Richard  II.,  and  derived  their  sur- 
name ftom  the  castle  of  Bbaufobt,  the  place  of 
thdr  birth.    Jobb  of  Gaunt  was  «.  by  his  eldest 

SOB, 

HENRY  PLANTAGENET,  sumamed  of  Bq- 
LiBOBBOBB,  Earl  of  Hereford,  who,  upon  the 
deposition  of  Richard  II.,  was  called  to  the  throne 
as  JCia^  Hbwby  IV.,  whea  his  great  iBheritanceb 
with  the  Ddkboomop  LANCAarxB,  and  theEAXi.- 
BOMB  or  HxBBroBB,  DxBBY,  LiBCOLir,  aad 
Lbioxbtbb,  merged  Ib  the  crowa. 

ABM8.— Gules,  three  Uobs  passant,  guardant  or. 
a  hkbel  of  five  points,  with  fieur^de-lis  gules. 

PLANTAGENET,  Bumamed  DE  BRO- 
THERTON  — EARL  OP 
NORFOLK  and  EARL 
MARSHAL. 

By  Special  Charter,  dated  lOth  December,  131i» 

Xfneagc. 

THOMAS  PLANTAGENET,  eldest  son  of  Kisg 
Edward  I.,  by  his  second  wife,  Margaret,  daugh- 
ter of  Philip  IIL,  or  tito  Hor^r,  of  France,  was  born 
at  Brothcrton,  in  Yorkshire,  anno  1301,  whence  the 
surname,  ••  db  Bbotsbbtob ,"  and  before  he  had 
attained  his  thirteenth  year,  was  advanced,  by  ap^ 
del  charter  of  his  half  brother,  Ktaig  Edward  IL,  (at 
the  dying  request  of  his  predeoenor,)  dated  18th 
-December,  1312,  to  all  the  honours  which  Roger  le 
Bigod,  some  time  Earl  of  Norfolk,  and  Marshal  of 
England,  dd  enjoy  by  thenameof  Earl,  in  thecounty 
of  Norfolk,  with  all  the  castles,  manors  and  lands, 
which  the  said  Roger  possessed  In  England,  Ire- 
land, and  Wales,  which  had  become  vested  in  the 
crown,  by  the  surrender  of  the  said  Roger.  But  in 
some  years  afterwards,  the  king  seised  upon  the 
marshalship  in  the  Court  of  King's  Bench,  because 
the  Earl  of  Norfolk  had  fsiled  to  substitute  some 
person  on  his  behalf,  to  attend  the  Justices  of  that 
court,  upon  their  Journey  into  Lancashire  s  he  had, 
however,  restitution  of  the  high  office,  upon  paying 
a  fine  of  £lW.  This  prince  was  repeatedly  in  the 
wars  of  Scotland,  temp.  Edward  II.  and  Edward 
III.,  in  the  latter  of  which  reigns  he  had  a  confir- 
mation of  the  Earldom  of  Norfolk,  and  the  office 
of  earl  marshal.  He  espoused  first,  Alice,  daugh- 
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t^  of  Sir  Roger  H«ly«,  Knt,  of  Htrwkh,  by  wliom 
be  hadiwue, 

Maroabbt,  of  whom  heraaiter. 
Alice,  m.  to  Edward  de  Montacute*  and  had  a 
daughter, 

JoAH»  who  IN.  William  Ufibrd,  Earl  of 
Suffblk,  and  d.  without  xnale  iwue. 
The  prince  espouMd,  secondly.  Mary,  daughter  of 
WUliam,  Lord  Rooe,  and  widow  of  WUliam  le 
Brus,  and  had  a  wo* 

John,  who  became  a  monk  at  the  Abbey  of 

Ely. 
Thomas  of  Broihertoa  d.  in  1338,  when  the  Earl- 
dom  OP   Norfolk    became  sxtimct.     But  his 
elder  daughter  and  oo-heir,  who  eventually  became 
^le  heiress. 

The  LADY  MARGARET  PLANTAGENET, 
was  created  DucHxas  op  Norfolk  for  life,  by 
King  Richard  II.,  on  the  89th  September,  1307. 
Her  grace,  at  the  time  styled  Countess  of  Nor- 
folk, claimed  the  office  of  earl  marshal,  at  the  coro- 
nation of  that  monarch,  and  prayed  that  she  might 
execute  the  same  by  her  deputy ;  but  her  claim  was 
pot  allowed,  owing  to  the  want  of  sufficient  time  to 
inyestigate  its  merits,  and  the  prior' appointment 
for  the  occasion,  of  Henry,  XA>rd  Percy.  This  illus- 
trious lady  espoused,  first,  John,  Lord  Scigrave*  and 
had  issue, 

Anne,  Abbess  of  Barking. 
Elisabeth,  m.  John,  Lord  Mowbray  (see  Mow- 
bray, Earl  of  Nottingham,  and  Duke  of 
Norfolk). 
The  duchess  m,  secondly.  Sir  William  Manny,  K.O., 
and  had  an  only  surviving  daughter, 

Anne,  m.  to  John   Hastingf,  Earl  <tf  Pem- 
broke. 
Her  grace  d.   in  136^  when   the  dignity  became 

SXTINCT. 

Akm8..-Gu.  three  Vum»  passant  quardant  or.  a 
labdi  for  diflbrence. 


PLANTAGENET  —  DUCHESS   OF 
NORFOLK. 

<Refi*r  to  Pjlawtaokwbt,  sumamed  <*  De  Brother- 
ton,**  Earl  of  Norfolk). 


PLANTAGENET  —  BARONS    OF 
WOODSTOCK,  EARLS  OF  KENT. 

Barony,  by  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  5th  Aug.,  1320, 

14  Edward  II. 

Earldom,  by  Charter,  dated  in  1321. 

EDMUND  PLANTAGENET,  sumamed  of 
Woodttoekt  from  the  p^ace  of  his  birth,  second  son  of 
King  Edward  I.,  was  summoned  to  parliament,  as 
«•  Edmundo  de  Wodestok,*'  on  the  5th  August,  1320, 
about  two  years  beifore  he  attained  minority.  He 
had  previously  been  in  the  wars  of  Scotland,  and 
had  obtained  considerable  territorial  grants  from 
the  crown.  In  the  next  year  he  was  created  Earl 
496 


OP  Kbnt,  and  had  a  grant  of  the  Caatle  of  Okham. 
in  the  county  of  Rutland,  and  shrievalty  of  the 
ootmty.  About  the  same  time  he  was  constituted 
governor  of  the  Castle  of  Tunbridge,  in  Kent;  and 
upon  the  breaking  out  of  the  insurrection,  under 
Thomas  Plantagenet,  Earl  of  Lancaster,  he  waa 
omnmiasioned  by  the  king,  to  pursue  that  rebel- 
lious prince,  and  to  lay  siege  to  the  castle  of  Ponti- 
fract.  The  Earl  of  Lancaster  was  subsequently 
made  prisoner  at  Boroughbridge,  and  the  Earl  of 
Kent  was  one  of  those  who  condemned  him  to 
death.  From  this  period,  during  the  remainder  of 
the  reign  of  his  brother,  Edmund,  of  Woodstock, 
was  constantly  employed  in  the  cabinet  or  the  field. 
He  was  frequently  accredited  on  embassies  to  the 
Court  of  France,  and  was  in  all  the  vrars  in  Gaa- 
cony  and  Scotland.  But  after  the  accession  of  his 
nephew.  King  Edward  III.,  he  was  arrested  and 
sentenced  to  death,  for  having  conspired,  with  other 
nobles,  to  deliver  his  brother,  the  deposed  Edward 
II.,  out  of  prison.  Whereupon,  by  the  manage- 
ment of  Queen  Isabel,  and  her  paramour,  Morti- 
mer, he  was  beheaded  at  Winchester,  (1380,)  after 
he  had  remained  upon  the  scaffold,  from  noon  until 
five  o'clock  in  the  evening,  waiting  for  an  execu- 
tioner ;  no  one  being  willing  to  undertake  the  horrid 
office,  till  a  malefactor  tnxa.  the  Marshalsea  waa 
procured  to  perform  it  The  earl  m,  Margaret, 
daughtw  of  John,  Lord  Wake,  and  sister  and 
heiress  of  Thomas,  Lord  Wake,  by  whom  he  had 
issue, 

Edmuvo,  \  roceessively  Earls  of  Kent 
John,       j 

Margaret,  m.  to  Amaneus,  eldest  son  of  Ber- 
nard, Lord  de  la  Brette,  and  died  9.p, 
JoAMKt  from  her  extraordinary  beauty,  styled 
"  the  Fair  Maid  of  Kent,"  m.  first,  William 
Montacute,  Earl  of  Salisbury,  fhnn  whom 
she  was  divorced  i*  secondly.  Sir  Thomas 
Holland,  K.G.,  and  thirdly,  the  renowned 
hero,  Edward,  the  Black  Prince,  by  whom 
she  was  the  mother  of  King  Richard  IL 
The  unfortunate  earl's  eldest  son, 

EDMUND  PLANTAGENET  WM  restored  in 
blood  and  honours  by  parliament,  the  year  in 
which  his  &ther  suffered,  and  thus  became  BeroM 
Woodstock  and  Eari.  op  KxwT^-but  d.  soon  after 
in  minority,  unmarried,  and  was  «.  by  his  brother, 

JOHN  PLANTAGENET,  third  Earl  of  Kent, 
who  m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  the  Duke  of  Juliers, 
but  died  «.  p.  in  13as,  when  the  Earldom  op  Kxmt, 
and  Baronies  op  Woodstock  and  Wars,  de- 
volved upon  his  only  surviving  sister, 

Joans,  the  Fair  Maid  of  Kent,  who  m.  Sir 
Thomas  Holland,  Lord  Holland,  K.G.  (ace 
Holland,  Earl  of  Kent). 


•  Collins,  in  explanation  of  the  divoree,  states, 
that  the  Earl  of  Salisbury  had  intended  to  have 
married  her,  had  she  not  been  previously  contracted 
to  Sir  Thomas  Holland ;  yet,  during  the  absence  of 
Sir  Thomas,  the  E^arl  made  a  subsequent  contract, 
and  withheld  the  lady,  until  the  Pope  decided 
against  him— whan  acquiescing,  it  was  said*  the  was 
divorced. 


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PLANTAOENET— EARL  OF  CORN- 

WALL. 

By  Patent,  aano  1388. 

XCn<a0c. 

JOHN  PLANTAOENET,  second  mo  of  King 
Edward  II.,  commonly  called  "John  of  Eltham," 
fkom  the  place  of  his  birth,  was  created  by  patent, 
dated  in  1387,  Babl  or  Cornwall.  This  prince 
died  unmarried  in  1S36,  when  the  Easldom  op 
CoRif  WALL  became  kxtinct. 

Arms. — Same  as  the  other  braDches  of  the  House 
of  PlantageneL 

PLANTAGENET—DUKE  OF  CORN- 
WALL. 

By  Patent,  dated  in  1337. 

Xiiuagc. 

EDWARD  PLANT  AG  ENET,  the  gallant  Blaek 
Prince,  eldest  son  of  King  Edward  III.,  was  ad- 
vanced by  patent,  in  1337,  to  the  dignity  of  Duks 
OP  Cornwall,  with  the  following  limitetion: — 
"  Habcnd.  et  tenend.  sibi  et  hcred.  ac  hseredii : 
Buor.  regum  Anglise  flUis  primogenitis,  et  i^usdem 
loci  dudbus  in  regno  Anglise  banreditario  ut  pre- 
dicitur  succcssoris."  He  was  subsequently  created 
Princk  op  Walbb,  and  the  dukedom  merged  in 
the  principality.  Since  the  dignity  was  so  conferred 
upon  Prince  Edward,  it  has  been  vested  in  the  hbib 
APPARKifT  to  the  throne  of  England,  who  at  his 
birth,  or  at  the  decease  of  an  dder  brother,  be- 
comes Dukb  op  Cornwall,  and  he  is  always 
created  Prince  of  Wales.  The  Black  Prince  es- 
poused his  cousin,  JoANB,  commonly  called  the 
Fair  Maid  cf  Kent,  daughter  of  Edmund,  Earl  of 
Kent,  and  wido#  of  Sir  Thomas  Holland,  by  whom 
he  left,  at  his  decease,  8th  July,  1376,  his  father. 
King  Edward  still  living,  an  only  surviving  son, 
Richard,  afterwards  the  unhappy  Kino 
'  Richard  II. 

PLANTAGENET  _  DUKE  OF  CLA- 
RENCE. 

Created,  lAth  September,  1308. 

1Cinca0<. 

GILBERT  DE  CLARE,  Earl  of  Hertford  and 
Gloucester,  who  fell  at  the  battle  of  Bannockbum 
in  1313.  leaving  no  issue,  his  titles  became  extinct, 
while  his  estates  devolved  upon  his  sisters,  as  co- 
heirs, of  whom 

Elicabbtr  db  Clarb,  the  youngest  sister, 
had  married  John  db  Buroh,  son  of 
Richard,  Earl  of  Ulster,  and  through  this 
alliance  the  honour  op  Clarb  came  into 
the  possession  of  the  De  Burghs.  The 
hdreas  of  Clare  left  a  son, 

William  db  Buroh,  Emrl  of  Uhter, 
who  m.  Maud,  sister  of  Henry  Planta- 
genet,  Duke  of  Lancaster,  and  left  an 
only  child  and  heircts, 


ElrlBABHTH       t>B       BU^H,       whO 

espoused 
LIONEL  PLANTAGENET,  third  son  of  King 
Edward  II L,  who  became,  Jure  tutorie.  Earl  of 
Ulster,  and  was  created,  Iftth  September,  1308, 
DuKB  OP  Clabbncb.*  The  prince  was  likewise 
a  Knioht  of  the  Oartbb.  He  had  an  only  child 
by  the  heiress  of  Ulster^ 

Philippa  Plantaobnbt,  who  m,  Edmund 
Mortimer,  Earl  of  March,  and  had,  with 
other  issue. 

RooBB  MoRiTMBB,  Earl  of  March,  who, 
in  the  parliament  held  Mh  Richard  II., 
was  declared  nbzt  hbir  to  the 
THRONB.  This  nobleman  had,  with 
other  issue, 

Edmund,  his  successor. 
Anne,  whom.  RiOtard  nmiagenet. 
Earl  op  Cambbidob.  younger 
son  of  Edmund,  Duke  of  York, 
fifth  son  of  Edward  IIL,  and  had 
a  sou, 

Richard,  Duke  of  York,  who 
fell  at  Wakefield  in  1400^ 
leaving 

Edward,  Duke  of  York, 
who      ascended       the 
throne  as  Edward  IV. 
George,    Duke    of    Clar 

renoe. 
Richard,  Duke  of  Glou- 
ceiter,    who    ascended 
the  throne  as  Richard 

in. 

LiatuA,  Duke  of  Clarence,  m.  secondly,  Yiolante, 
daughter  of  the  Duke  of  Milan,  but  had  no  issue. 
He  d,  in  1368,  when  the  Dukboom  op  Clabbncb 
became  bxtinct. 
Aemb.— Chi.    Three  lions  passant  guardant  or. 

PLANTAGENET  —  EARL  OF  CAM- 
BRIDGE,  DUKES  OF 
YORK,  DUKE  OF  ALBE. 
MARLE. 

Earldom,  ISth  November,  1308. 

Dukedom,  0th  August,  1385. 

Dukedom  of  Albemarle,  99th  September,  1087. 

Xlncasc. 

EDMUND  PLANTAGENET,  sumamed  Lang- 
ley,  from  the  place  of  his  birth,  fifth  son  of  King 
Edward  III.,  was  created  by  his  father,  on  the  13th 
November,  136S,  Karl  op  Cambbidob,  and  by  his 
nephew,  King  Richard  II.,  6th  August,  1386,  Dukb 
OP  York.  This  prince  espoused,  first,  Isabel, 
daughter  and  co-heir  of  Peter,  King  of  Castile  and 
Leon,  and  sbter  of  Constance,  the  wife  of  John  of 
Gaunt,  by  whom  he  had  issue, 

Edward,  his  successor  in  the  Dukedom  of 

York. 
Richard,  of  Conisbui^h,  who  succeeded  to 
the  Earldom  op  Cambridob.  Thta  prince 

•  The  title  of  Clabbncb  was  derived  flrom  the 
honour  of  Clare. 

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Hmuj  lY.  in  1415.  whcD  the  Earl- 
4om  of  Cambridgs  became  fiorfcftted.  He 
had  IN.  Anne,*  aetar  and  co^Mir  of  Edward 
Mdrtimcr,  Earl  of  Maich,  mb  of  Philippa. 
omif  dangfater  and  hetreM  of  Lionel,  Duke 
of  Clarenoe^  eeoond  aoB  of  King  Edward  in^ 
1»7  whom  he  left  an  only  eon  and  a  daufhto'* 
▼ia. 

RiCHABn,  who  iBCceeded  hia  nnde  at 
Dokeof  York. 

Iiabel*  at.  to  Henrr  Bomdiler,  Earl  of 


Edmond,  Duke  of  York,  m.  Meondly.  J< 
daughter  of  Thomae  Holland,  Eari  of  Kent,  end 
sieter  and  eo-hdr  of  Edmund,  Earl  of  Kent,  but 
had  no  ianm.  The  Duke  of  YoriL  attained  the 
higheat  reputatianin  the  caMnK  and  the  6eld,  and 
after  Tainlj  endeaTonring  to  lustain  hit  imbedle 
nephew,  Richard,  upon  the  throne,  he  retired  to 
his  teat  at  Lan^ejr,  upon  llieaM'failon  of  Henry  IV., 
and  died  there  in  1408.  The  prince,  who  wm  a 
Kaiear  of  thb  Gabtbr,  wai  «.  hy  his  ddert 


EDWARD  PLANTAOENET.  as  second  Duke 
of  Yok,  wlw  had  bean  mated  Duke  of  Albemarle, 
S9lh  September,  1397,  and  was  restored  to  the  Duke- 
dom of  York  in  1406,  which  he  bad  been  preriously 
rendered  incapable  of  inheriting— he  wm  also  in- 
vested with  the  Garter.  This  gallant  prince,  who 
had  become  eminent  in  arms,  fdl  at  Asikcourt  in 
1415,  and  his  brother  having  been  previously  put  to 
death,  the  Dukedom  of  York  (the  prince  leaving  no 
issue)  devolved  upon  his  nephew, 

RICHARD  PLANTAOENET,  who  was  restored 
to  the  Earldom  of  Cambridge,  and  aOowed  to  inherit 
as  third  Duke  of  York.  This  prince  becoming 
afterwards  one  of  the  most  powerftil  sultfects  of  the 
period  in  which  he  lived,  laid  daim  to  the  throne  as 
the  descendant  of  Liond,  Duke  of  Clarence,  second 
SOB  of  Edward  HI.,  wherees  the  reigning  monarch, 
Henry  VL,  sprang  from  John  of  Gaunt,  Duke  of 
Lancaster,  third  son  of  the  same  king,  and  thus  ori- 
ginated the  devastating  war  of  the  Roses.  In  his 
pretensions  the  duke  was  supported  by  the  Nevils 
and  other  great  funilies,  but  his  ambitious  projects 
aU  closed  at  the  battle  of  Wakefield  in  1400,  where 
his  party  sustained  a  signal  defeat,  and  he  was  him- 
self slain.  The  prince  had  espoused  Cidly,  daugh- 
ter of  Ralph  Neril,  Earl  of  Westmorknd,  and  left 


AjniB  St.  Lbabb,  who  ak  Sir  Georf* 

of  the  present  ducal 
of  Rutland. 
EUaabeth,  m.  to  John  de  la  Pole,   Duke  of 


Edwabd,  his  successor. 

Edmund,  said  to  have  borne  the  title  of  Earl 

of  Rutland.     This  prince  at  the  age  of 

twelve  was  barbarously  murdered  by  Lord 

CUflbrd,  after  the  battle  of  Wakefield. 
George,  Duke  of  Clarence,  (see  Plantagenet, 

Duke  of  Clarence.) 
Richard,   Duke  of  Gl^ucetter,    (afterwards 

King  Richard  III.) 
Anne,  m.  first  to  Henry  Holland,  Duke  of 

Exeter,  and  secondly,  to  Sir  Thomas  St. 

Leger,  Knt,  by  whom  she  had  a  daughter, 

«  Through  this  alliance  the  house  of  York  de- 
rived Its  right  to  the  crown. 


Ml.  to  Chat]e^  Duke  of  Burgundy, 
bnthadnoisBtte  This  was  the  Duchess  of 
Burgundy,  so  penevering  in  her  hostility  to 
Heny  TIL,  and  her  aeal  in  the  caose  of 
York,  who  set  up  the  pretended  Plsntage. 
nets,  Waibeek  and  SymneL 
Ursnto. 
Richard,  Duke  of  YaA,  was  «.  by  his  son, 

EDWARD  PLANTAGENET,  fourth  Duke  of 
York,  who»  after  varioos  Ibrtunes  at  the  head  of 
the  YorkJala,  finally  established  himself  upon  the 
throne  as  Ebward  IY.,  when  the  Ducboom  ov 
York  merged  in  the  crown. 

PLANTAGENET— EARLS  OF  BUCK- 
INGHAM, DUKE  OF 
GLOUCESTER. 

Earldom,  anno  1377> 
Dukedom,  ISth  Novwnber,  lS85i. 

THOMAS  PLANTAGENET,  bom  at  Wood- 
stock,  7th  January,  1385,  and  thence  sumamed 
**  TaoBf  Aa  or  Woodstocr,"  youngest  son  of  King 
Edward  III.,  espoused  the  Lady  Alianorede  Bohun, 
one  of  the  daughters  and  co-heirs  of  Humphrey,  last 
Earl  of  Hereford.  Essex,  and  Northampton ;  and  in 
consideration  of  that  alliance  was  shortly  afterwards 
made  constablb  or  England  (a  dignity  eqjoyed 
for  nearly  two  centuries  by  the  Bohuns).  At  the 
coronation  of  his  nephew.  King  Richard  II.,  the 
prince  was  advanced  to  the  Earldom  op  Bockino- 
RAM,  with  a  grant  of  a  thousand  marks  per  annum, 
to  be  paid  out  of  the  exchequer,  until  provision  of 
so  much  value  should  be  made  otherwise  for  him* 
and  twenty  pounds  a  year  out  of  the  issues  of  the 
county,  whence  he  derived  his  title.  From  this 
period,  he  was  constantly  employed  as  a  com- 
mander in  foreign  wars,  until  the  9th  of  the  same 
rdgn,  when,  for  his  eminent  services,  he  was  created 
by  patent,  dated  ISth  November,  1385,  Ddkb  ov 
Gloucbbtrb.  In  that  interim,  he  had  been  like- 
wise sent  into  Essex,  at  the  head  of  a  large  force, 
to  suppress  the  insurrection  of  Jack  Straw.  The 
ceremony  of  his  crcatloB,  as  Duke  of  Gloucester, 
was  peitoimed  at  Hobblow  Lodob,  in  Tivzdalb, 
by  girding  with  a  sword,  and  putting  a  cap  with  a 
drcle  of  gold,  upon  the  princess  head ;  the  parlia- 
ment being  then  sitting  at  London,  and  assenting 
thereto.  In  two  yean  afterwards,  he  was  consti- 
tuted JuBTiCB  or  Chbbtbr,  but  he  subsequently 
forfeited  the  favour  of  the  king,  by  his  oppositioa 
to  Robert  de  Vere,  Ditkb  or  Irblabd,  and  Ma 
coalition  with  the  lords  who  assembled  in  arms,  at 
Haringey  Park,  to  put  an  end  to  the  power  ct  that 
celebrated  mlnicm.  After  the  disgrace  and  banirh> 
mcnt  of  De  Vefe,  the  Duke  of  Gloucester  obtained 
some  immunities  ftom  the  crown,  but  the  king 
never  pardoned  the  course  he  had  pursued  in  that 
afflur,  and  eventually  it  coat  the  duke  bis  life.    The 


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•tflvy  of  hb  dMtnictkm  U  thus  told  by  FrolMird— 
•'Th«  klnf  rode  to  Havering,  in  the  oounty  of 
iSMex,  at  it  were  on  a  hunting  party,  and  came  to 
Pleify,  where  the  duke  then  resided,  about  Are 
o^clock,  the  duke  having  just  newly  supped,  who 
heeling  of  his  coming  (with  the  dudiess  and  hii 
diildren*  met  him  in  the  court).  The  king  here- 
upon being  brought  in,  a  table  was  spread  tot  his 
•upper.  Whereat  being  set,  he  told  the  duke,  that 
he  would  have  him  ride  to  London  with  him  that 
night  {  laying,  that  the  Londoners  were  to  be  before 
him  on  the  morrow,  as  also  his  uncles  of  Lancab- 
TSR  and  YoAK,  with  divers  others  of  the  nobles; 
and  that  he  would  be  guided  by  their  counsels, 
wishing  him  to  command  his  steward  to  follow 
with  his  train.  Hereupon  the  duke  suspecting  no 
hurt*  so  soon  as  the  king  had  supp't,  got  on  horse- 
back, accompanied  with  no  more  than  seven  ser- 
vants, (three  eiquires  and  four  yeomen,)  taking  the 
way  of  Bondelay,  to  shun  the  common  road  to  Lon- 
don ;  and  riding  fast,  approached  near  Stratford,  on 
the  river  Thames.  Being  got  thus  far,  and  coming 
near  to  the  ambuscado*  which  was  laid,  the  king 
rode  away  a  great  pace,  and  left  him  somewhat  behind. 
Whereupon  the  earl  marshal  with  his  band,  came 
galloping  after,  and  overtaking  him,  said :  /  arrett 
jwtt  in  the  king's  name.  The  duke  therefore  dis- 
cerning that  he  was  betrayed,  call'd  out  aloud  to  the 
king,  but  to  no  purpose,  for  the  king  rode  on,  and 
took  no  notice  of  it.  This  was  done  about  ten  or 
eleven  o'clock  in  the  night ;  whence  he  was  forth- 
with c^rrjed  into  a  barge,  and  so  into  a  ship,  which 
lay  in^he^Thames,  wherein  they  conveyed  him,  the 
next  day,  to  Calais.  Being  thus  broii^t  thither, 
heaskt  thMarl  marshal  the  cause  thereof,  saying: 
Metkinkspou  hold  me  here  a*  a  prisoners  let  me  go 
iAroadp  mnd  let  me  see  the  fortress;  but  the  earl 
marshal  refused."  Froisard  concludes  by  stating: 
"  That  the  duke  hereupon  fearing  his  liiie,  desired 
to  have  a  priest,  who  sang  mass  before  him,  that  he 
might  be  oonfeised ;  and  lo  he  had.  When,  soon 
after  dinner,  having  washed  his  hands,  there  came 
into  the  chamber  four  men,  who  suddenly  casting  a 
towel  about  his  neck,  strangled  him."  After  this 
violent  death,  the  body  of  the  prince  was  laid  naked 
in  his  bed,  and  it  was  rumoured  that  he  died  of  a 
palsy;  the  earl  marshal  going  into  deep  mourning 
for  his  lamented  cousin.  This  account  of  the 
duke's  death  is,  however,  according  to  Dugdale, 
erroneous,  **  As  appcareth"  (saith  that  celebrated 
antiquary)  «  by  the  deposition  of  John  Hall,  a  ser- 
vant to  the  earl  marshal,  then  present,  and  in  some 
sort  sisiiiting  in  that  most  barbarous  murder,  vis. 
•  That  in  the  month  of  September,  2lst  Richard 
II.,  Thomas,  Earl  Marshal  and  Nottingham, 
whom  the  deposition  calls  Duke  of  Norfolk,'  (by 
reason  he  was  soon  afterwards  advanced  to  that 
honour,  as  a  reward  for  this  bloody  tact,)  '  and  one 
John  Colfox,  his  esquire,  came  in  the  night-time 
to  the  chamber  of  the  said  Hall,  in  Calais;  and  that 
Colfox  calling  him  out  of  bis  bed,  commanded  him 

*  This  plot  to  take  away  the  life  of  the  Duke  of 
Gloucester,  was  previously  concerted  with  Thomas 
Mowbray,  Earl  Marshal,  and  Earl  of  Nottingham, 
Richard's  great  confidant 


to  come  forthwith  to  his  lord.  Also,  that  when  be 
came,  the  Duke  of  Norfolk  asked  him,  <If  be 
heard  nothing  of  the  Duke  of  Gloucester;'  and 
that  he  answered,  *  He  supposed  him  to  be  deqd,* 
Whereupon  the  Duke  of  Norfolk  replied*  *  No,  he 
isnoti  hut  ^e  king  hath  given  charge  that  he  than 
be murthered t*  and  fiuther  said,  'that  he  himsdf, 
with  the  Earl  of  Rutland,'  (afterwards  made  Duke 
of  Aumarle,) '  had  lent  certain  of  their  eiquires  and 
yeomen,  to  be  then  there:'  and  likewise  told  him, 
the  said  Hall,  *  that  he  shouM  also  be  present,  in 
his  (Norfolk's)  name;'  but  that  Hall  laid,  'No/ 
desiring  that  he  might  rather  lose  all  he  had,  and 
depart,  rather  than  be  present  thereat;  and  that 
the  duke  then  replied,  *  He  should  do  so,  or  die  for 
it ;'  giving  him  a  great  knock  on  the  pate. 

*«  *  Moreover,  that  the  said  duke,  with  Colfox  and 
Hall,  went  to  the  church  of  Nostre  Dame,  in  Calais, 

where  they  found  William  Hampsterley  and 

Bradeston,.  (two  esquires  of  the  Duke  of  Norfolk,) 
as  also  one  William  Serle,  a  yeoman  of  the  cham- 
ber to  the  king;  ....  Faunceys,  a  yeoman  of  the 
chamber  to  the  Earl  of  Rutland  ;  William  Rogers 
and  William  Dennys,  yeomen  of  the  said  Duke  of 
Norfolk,  and  another  yeonum  of  the  Earl  of  Rut- 
land's, called  Cock  of  the  Chamber,  and  that  there  it 
was  told  to  this  Hall,  that  all  the  rest  had  made 
oath,  that  they  should  not  discover  anything  of 
their  purpose,  causing  him  in  like  manner,  to  swear 
uppn  the  sacrament,  in  the  presence  of  one  Sir 
William,  a  chaplain  of  St  George,  in  the  church 
of  Nostie  Dame,  that  he  should  keep  counsel 
therein.  Furthermore,  that  after  the  oath  thus 
made,  they  went  along  with  the  Duke  of  Norfolk, 
to  a  certain  hostel,  called  Prince's  Inn ;  and  being 
come  thither,  that  the  said  duke  sent  Colfox, 
Hampsterley,  Bradeston,  Serle,  Fraunceys,  William 
Roger,  William  Dennys,. Cock  of  the  Chamber, 
and  Hall,  into  a  house  within  that  inn,  and 
then  departed  from  them,  with  some  unknown 
persons.  Likewise,  that  so  soon  as  they  were  come 
into  that  house,  there  entered  one  John  Lovetoft, 
with  divers  other  esquires,  unknown,  who  brought 
with  him  the  Duke  of  Gloucester,  and  delivered 
him  to  Serle  and  Fraunceys,  in  an  inner  room  of 
the  house,  and  said,  '  Here  are  Serle  and  Fraun- 
ceys;' and  that  they,  thereupon,  taking  the  duke 
from  Lovetoft,  brought  him  to  a  chamber,  and 
said,  *  They  would  speak  with  him  ;*  adding,  « it 
was  the  king's  pleasure  that  he  must  suflbr  death.' 
Whereunto  he  answered,  *  If  it  be  so,  it  is  welcome,* 
Also,  that  Serle  and  Fraunceys,  forthwith  ap- 
pointed a  priest  to  confess  him;  and  that  being 
done,  made  him  lie  down  upon  a  bed,  and  lajring  a 
feather-bed  upon  bun,  hdd  it  about  his  mouth  till 
he  died,  William  Roger,  William  Dennys,  and 
Cock  of  the  Chamber,  holding  down  the  sides  of 
it ;  and  Colfox,  Hampsterly  and  Bradeston,  upon 
their  knees  all  the  while,  weeping  and  praying  far 
his  soul.  Hall  himself  keeping  the  door.  Which 
being  done,  he  was  attainted  in  the  parliament, 
held  on  Monday  next,  ensuing  the  feast  of  the  Ex- 
altation of  the  Holy  Cross,  of  the  same  year.'"  Of 
those  assassins.  Hall,  in  the  1st  of  Henry  IV..  had 
Judgment  in  parliament,  to  be  drawn  from  Tower 
Hill  to  Tyburn,  and  there  hanged  and  quartered  i 

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and  Strle  being  Ukcn  in  SootUmd,  in  thB  yttr  1404, 
had  a  gimilar  santancok  The  othfgrt,  it  Is  pretumed, 
naver  raturned  into  England.  The  Duke  of  Nor> 
folk  ended  his  day*,  and  died  of  grief,  in  exile  t 
and  Edward  Plantaganet,  Earl  ot  Rutland,  after- 
warda  Duke  of  York,  waa  tlain  at  the  battle  of 
Asincourt.  Thui  the  principal  inttigators  and  per- 
petrator! of  this  ftral  deed,  ail  met  their  deserts. 
The  fiite  of  the  unhappy  Richabd,  himself,  is  too 
well  known,  to  require  particularising  here.  The 
death  of  the  Duke  of  Oloueester  occurred  in  1997' 
He  left  issue, 

HcMPHftBY  PlAWTAOBHBT. 

Anne  Plantagenec,  m.  first,  to  Thomas,  Earl 
of  Stafford,  by  whom  she  had  no  isaue  t  and 
secondly,  by  virtue  of  the  Kii^s  especial 
licence,  <99d  Richard  II.,)  to  the  said 
Thomas's  brother,  Edmund,  Earl  of  Staf- 
ford, by  whom  she  had  a  son, 

Humphrey,  created  Duke  of  Bucking- 


Her   ladyship  espoused,  thirdly,  William 
Bourchler*  Earl  of  Eu,  in  Normandy. 
Joane,  was  designed  to  be  the  wife  of  Gilbert, 

Lord  Talbot,  but  died  unmarried. 
Isabel,  a  nun. 
The  duke*fl  son, 

HUMPHREY  PLANTAGENET,  who  was 
styled  Earl  of  Buckingham,  after  the  murder  of  his 
fkther,  was  oonyeyed  to  Irdand,  by  King  Richard, 
and  imprisoned  in  the  Castle  of  Trim,  where  he 
remained  until  the  accession  of  Henry  IV.,  who 
purposed  restoring  him  to  all  the  honours,  but  he 
died  upon  his  return  to  England,  at  Chester,  in 
190a. 

Arms.— 42uanerly,  France  and  England,  a  bor- 
dure  ar. 

Note,-^Th<mut»  cf  Woodatodk,  Dukb  ovGlou- 
casTKR,  was  summoned  to  parliament  in  1385,  as 
Duke  of  Aumarle,  but  never  afterwards  by  that 
title,  nor  did  his  above  son,  Humphrey,  ever  as- 
sume the  dignity. 

PLANTAGENET  -  EARL  OP  ALBE- 
MARLE, DUKE  OF  CLARENCE. 

Crested,  9th  July,  1411. 

THOMAS  PLANTAGENET,  K.O.,  son  of  King 
Hbniiv  IV.,  was  created  by  his  father,  9th  July, 
1411.  Bariqf  AOtemarle  and  Dvkb  op  Clarbncb. 
This  martial  and  valiant  prince  being  engaged  in 
the  wars  of  Henry  V.,  fell  at  the  battle  of  Bauoy 
in  1421,  and  dying  without  legitimate  issue,*  his 
HONOuna  became  bztinct. 

*  He  had  a  natural  son,  Sia  John  Clarbncb, 
adlcd  the  **  Bastard  of  Clarence."  who  accom- 
panied the  remains  of  his  gallant  father  ttpom  Baugy 
to  Canterbury  for  their  interment.  This  Sir  John 
Clarence  had  a  grant  of  lands  in  Ireland  from  King 
Henry  VI.,  and  according  to  Camden,  he  bore  for 
arms.  **  Party  per  chevron  g.  and  as.  two  Uons. 
adverse  salient  and  gaidant  or.  in  the  chief,  and  a 
fleur-de-lis,  or.  in  base. 
4sn 


PLANTAGENET  —  EARL  OF  KEN- 
DALL,  DUKE  OF  BEDFORD.  . 

By  Letten  Patent,  dated  Oth  May.  1414. 

JOHN  PLANTAGENET,  third  son  of  King 
Heury  IV.,  by  his  first  consort,  the  Lady  Mary  de 
Bohun,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Humphrey,  Earl 
of  Hereford,  was  created  by  his  hroCher,  Kin^ 
Hbnry  v.,  by  letter  patent,  dated  Oth  May,  1414. 
Earl  op  Kbitdall  and  Duicb  op  Bbdpobd, 
befng  designated  previously,  *<  John  de  Lancaster." 
The  achievements  of  this  eminent  person,  form  so 
prominent  an  era  in  the  annals  of  the  Plantagenets, 
and  have  been  detailed  so  mudi  at  length  by  all  our 
great  historians,  thatJt  were  Idle  to  attempt  more 
than  a  mere  sketch  of  his  most  conspicuous  actions, 
in  a  work  of  this  description.  His  first  public  em- 
ployment in  the  reign  of  his  father,  was  that  of 
coNBTABLB  op  Enoland,  and  governor  of  the 
town  and  castle  of  Berwick-upon  Tweed.  In  the 
3rd  of  Henry  V..  he  was  constituted  lieutenant  of 
the  whole  realm  of  England,  the  king  himself 
bdng  then  in  the  wan  of  France,  and  the  next 
year  he  was  retained  by  Indenture,  to  serve  in 
those  wan,  being  appointed  general  of  tlie  king's 
whole  army,  both  by  sea  and  land :  whereupon  he 
set  sail,  and  encountering  the  Frendi  near  South- 
ampton, achieved  a  great  naval  victory  over 
them.  In  the  year  ensuing,  the  king  making  an- 
other expedition  into  France,  the  duke  was  again 
constituted  lieutenant  of  the  kingdom  during  his 
absence  In  the  7th  Henry  V.,  he  sailed  with  large 
reinforcements  to  the  king  in  Nonnandy ;  and  the 
next  year,  assisted  at  the  siege  of  Melon,  which 
hdd  out  fourteen  weeks  and  four  days,  before  it 
surrendered.  Upon  the  accession  of  Hbnmy  VI., 
the  duke  was  constituted  dilef  counsellor  and  pro- 
tector to  the  king,  then  an  infimt,  and  appointed 
at  the  same  time  Rbobxt  op  Fraitcb.  But  all 
his  splendid  achievements  In  •<  the  land  of  the  Gaul,* 
great,  glorious,  and  gallant  as  they  were,  lie  for  ever 
obscured,  beneath  one  dark  deed  of  inhumanity,  his 
crud,  vindictive,  and  savage  treatment,  of  the  most 
undaunted  of  hin  foes->the  enthusiastic  Maid  of 
Orleans,  the  renowned  Joaw  op  Arc 

The  prince,  who.  with  his  other  honoun,  had  been 
invested  with  the  Garter,  espoused  first,  Anne, 
daughter  of  John,  Duke  of  Burgundy,  and  se- 
condly, Jacqudine,  daughter  of  Peter,  of  Luzem- 
buq^h,  Eari  of  St.  Paul,  but  having  no  Issue,  the 
Earldom  op  Kbndall  and  Doxbdom  op  Bbd- 
pobd became  bztinct,  at  his  decease  in  1435. 
The  duke's  remahis  were  Interred  in  tiie  Cathe- 
dral of  Notre  Dame,  at  Roan,  under  a  plain 
tomb  of  black  marble.  He  was  deeply  lamented 
by  the  English  people.  He  had  ever  borne  the 
character  (tf  one  of  the  Ant  captains  of  his  age, 
and  the  greatest  general  of  his  line  His  widow 
Jacqueline  of  Luxemburgh,  espoused,  secondly. 
Sir  Richard  WideviUe,*  and  had,  with  other  issue. 
Elisabeth  WideviUe,  who  espoused,  fint.  Sir 
Jolm  Grey,  of  Oroby,  and  after  his  decease  In  the 
second  battle  of  St.  Albans,  became  QuBBir  Cow- 
SORT  of  King  Edward  IV.       -  * 


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Lewi^  XI.  of  France,  sayv  Banks,  being  eoun- 
lelled  to  deface  the  Duke  of  Bedford's  tomb,  is  said 
to  have  used  the  following  generous  expression : — 

"  What  honour  shall  it  be,  either  to  us  or  you,  to 
break  this  monument,  and  to  rake  out  of  the  earth 
the  bones  of  one,  who,  in  his  life-time,  neither  my 
father,  nor  any  of  your  progenitors,  with  aU  their 
puissance,  were  erer  once  able  to  make  fly  one  foot 
backwards;  that  by  his  strength  or  policy,  k^t 
them  all  out  of  the  principal  domini(ms  of  France, 
and  out  of  this  noble  Duchy  of  Normandy.  Where- 
fore I  say,  first,  God  save  his  soul,  and  let  his  body 
rest  in  quiet;  which,  when  he  was  living,  would 
have  disquieted  the  proudest  of  us  all;  and  as  for 
his  tomb»  which,  I  assure  you,  is  not  so  wtnrthy  as 
his  acts  deserve,  I  account  it  an  honour  to  have  him 
remain  in  my  dominions." 

Arms. — France  and  England,  a  label  per  pale  of 
five  points,  the  first  two  erm.  the  other  three  ai. 
charged  with  nine  fleur-de-lis*  or. 

PLANTAGENET— DUKE  OF  GLOU- 
CESTER. 

Created,  96th  September,  1414. 

ICincafie.  x 

HUMPHREY  PLANTAGENET,  fourth  ion  of 
King  Hbhry  IV.,  by  his  first  wife,  the  Lady  Mary 
de  Bohun,  daughter  and  co-heiress  of  Humphrey, 
Earl  of  Hereford,  Essex,  and  Northampton,  Con- 
stable of  England,  was  made  a  Knight  of  the  Bath, 
at  his  fother's  coronation,  along  with  his  brothers, 
Thomas,  afterwards  Duke  of  Clarence,  and  John, 
Duke  of  Bedford.  In  the  1st  of  Henry  V.,  he  ob- 
tained with  other  grants,  the  Castls  and  Lord- 
ship of  Pbmbrokk  ;  shortly  after  which,  being 
made  Dukb  of  Gloucebtxh,  in  the  parliament' 
held  at  Leicester,  he  had  summons  by  that  title,  as 
well  as  by  the  title  of  Earl  or  Psmbrokb,  26th 
September,  1414.  In  the  3rd  of  the  same  reign,  the 
prince  assisted  at  the  siege  of  Harfieur,  and  he  re- 
ceived soon  after  a  dangeroiu  wound,  in  the  cele- 
brated battle  of  AziNcou  rt.  During  the  remainder 
of  the  reign  of  his  martial  brother,  the  Duke  of 
Gloucester  was  almost  wholly  engaged  In  the  wars 
of  France;  and  upon  the  accession  of  Hkh rv  VI., 
he  was  constituted,  as  he  had  been  twice  before, 
upon  temporary  absences  of  the  king,  lieutenant  of 
the  realm.  In  this  year  it  was,  that  he  was  involved 
in  a  serious  dispute  with  William,  Duke  of  Bra- 
bant, by  reason  of  marrying  that  prince's  wife,  Ja- 
^eline.  Duchess  of  Hainault,  who  had  come  to 
England,  upon  some  disagreement  with  her  hus- 
band. The  matter  led  to  open  hostilities,  and  a 
challenge  to  single  combat  passed  between  the  two 
dukes,  and  was  accepted ;  but  that  mode  of  deciding 
the  affair  was  prevented  by  the  Duke  of  Bedford,  and 
the  contest  was  finally  terminated,  by  the  Duke  of 
Gloucester's  bowing  to  the  decision  of  the  Pope, 
and  withdrawing  from  the  lady.  He  then  espoused 
his  concubine,  Eleanor,  daughter  of  Reginald,  Lord 
Cobham;  and  in  a  few  years  afterwards,  a  com- 
plaint was  made  to  parliament*  against  him,  by  one 
'*  Mistress  Stokes  and  other  bold  woomd,"' because 


be  sullh«d  Jaquaine*  his  wife,  to  be  prisons  to  the 
Duke  of  Burgundy,  and  for  living  himself  with  an 
adultreas.  In  the  14th  of  Henry  VL,  he  obtained 
a  grant  for  life,  of  the  Earldom  of  Flanders,  which 
was  held  of  the  king  in  capite,  in  right  o£  his  crown 
of  France ;  and  he  had  numerous  and  most  valuable 
grants  of  manors  and  lordships  in  England ;  he  had 
also,  an  annuity  of  two  thousand  marks,  out  of  the 
exchequer,  during  the  king's  pleasure.  The  duke 
incurring,  however,  the  Jealousy  of  Maroarst  of 
Anjou,  fell,  at  length,  a  victim  to  her  machinations. 
Attending  a  parliament  which  had  been  called  at 
St.  Edmundsbury,  he  was  arrested  upon  the  second 
day  of  the  session,  by  the  Viscount  Beaumont,  Con* 
stable  of  England,  accompanied  by  the  Duke  of 
Buckingham,  and  som^  others,  and  put  in  ward ; 
all  his  servants  being  taken  from  him,  and  thirty- 
two  of  the  chief  of  them  sent  to  different  prisons. 
The  following  night,  the  prince  was  found  dead  in 
his  bed,  supposed  to  have  been  either  strangled  or 
smothered;  and  his  body  was  exhibited  to  the 
lords,  as  though  he  had  died  of  apoplexy. 

The  duke,  who  received  from  the  people  the 
title  of  Good,  and  was  called  «<the  Father  of  hb 
country,"  had,  with  his  other  honours,  been  invested 
with  the  Garter.  He  was  a  proficient  in  learning ; 
wrote  some  tracts;  laid  the  foundation  of  the 
Bodleian  library,  and  built  the  divinity  schools  in 
the  University  of  Oxford.  The  death  of  the  prince 
happened  in  1446,  and  as  he  left  no  issue,  his  ho-' 
ifouRa  became  bxtinct. 

ARH8.~>Quarterly,  France  and  England,  a  bor- 
der, ar. 

PLANTAGENET— DUKE  OF  GLOU- 

CESTER. 

Created  In  parliament,  1461. 

ICincagt. 

RICHARD  PLANTAGENET,  brother  of  King 
Edward  IV.,  was  created,  according  to  Dugdale, 
anno  1461,  Dtncs  or  Gloucrsthr,  but  he  was  not 
summoned  to  parliament  until  the  10th  August, 
1469.  He  usurped  the  throne,  upon  the  >murder  of 
his  nephews,  Edward  V.  and  the  Duke  of  York,  in 
the  Tower,  under  the  title  of  Richard  III. ;  he 
had  previously  governed  the  realm  as  Protector. 
Richard  Ml  at  Boswokth  Fislp,  find  August, 
1485,  and  his  rival  Henry,  Earl  of  Ridimond, 
succeeded  him,  as  Henry  VII.  When  the  Duke  of 
Gloucester  assumed  the  reins  of  government  as 
king,  the  dukedom  merged  in  the  crown. 

No«».— The  body  of  King  Richard  was  burled  in 
the  chapel  of  the  monastery  at  Leicester,  at  Uie 
dissolution  whereof,  the  place  of  his  burial  hap- 
pened  to  fall  into  the  bounds  of  a  citisen's  garden ; 
which  being  afterwards  purchased  by  Mr.  Robert 
Kerrick,  (some  time  Mayor  of  Leicester,)  was  by 
him  covered  with  a  handsome  stone  pillar,  three 
feet  high,  with  this  hi»cription :  '<  Here  Ilea  the 
body  of  Rkfaard  II L,  some  time  King  of  England." 
This  he  shewed  me  walking  in  his  garden,  161ff. 
(see  Peels'*  CotteetUm  qf  Curieue  HMoriool  Pieeoe, 
p.  85.HBAiixa. 

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PLANTAOENET  —  DUKE  OF  CLA- 
RENCE, EARL8  OF  WAR. 
WICK,  AND  SALISBURY. 

Dukedom  o#  Clamce,  f  S  ^  1 
Ktfldom  o#  Warwick,  f  j  ^  V 


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146L 
ISCh  IUrIi,  1479. 


Xintagc. 

GEORGE  PLANTAOENET,  K.  G.,  aon  of 
Riduud,  Duka  of  York,  and  brother  of  King  E]>- 
WAKO  IV.,  was  created  Dukjb  ov  Cijlbskcs  in 
1481,  and  having  married  the  Lady  Itabd  Neril, 
daughter  and  co-heir  of  Ridiard  Nerill,  Earl  of 
Salisbury,  and  Earl  of  Warwick,  was  advanced  to 
those  dignities  by  letters  patent,  dated  SSCh  March, 
1479L  This  unhappy  prince  was  attainted  of  high 
treason,  and  sullhred  death,  by  being  drowned  In  a 
butt  of  Malmsey,  in  the  Tower,  anno  1477»  when 
all  his  honours  became  FonrsiTSO.  King  Eo- 
wAno  IV.,  assantfd  of  course  to  the  execution,  but 
he  b  said  subsequently  to  hare  most  deeply  lament- 
ed having  done  so,  and  upon  all  occasions  when  the 
lilb  of  a  condemned  person  was  solicited,  be  used 
openly  to  czdaim,  **  Oh,  unhappy  brother,  for 
whose  life  no  man  would  make  suit.**  The  Duke 
of  Clarence  left  issue, 

Edward,  who,  after  his  father's  death,  was 
entilled  Bam.  of  Warwick.     This  un- 
happy prince  was  bom  the  child  of  adver- 
sity, and  spent  almost  the  whole  of  his 
mdancholy  life  in  prison.     After  the  de- 
cease of  his  uncle.  King  Edward  IV.,  bis 
other  unde,  the  Duke  of  Gloucester,  had 
bins  ■■neinil  to  the  Castle  of  SheriiT-Hut- 
ton,  in  Yorkshire,  where  he  remained  until 
the  defeat  of  the  Yorkisu  at  Bosworth, 
placed  him  in  the  bands  of  Henry  VII.,  by 
whose  otder  he  was  transfierred  to  the  Tower 
•TLondon,  and  there  more  closely  confined 
than  before,  soMy  because  he  was  the  last 
male  PLANTAOsirsT  living.     He  was  not 
allowed,  however,  a  protracted  existence,  for 
being  arraigned  for  high  treason,  and  be- 
trayed under  a  promise  of  pardon,  into  an 
acknowledgment  of  guilt,  he  was  condemn- 
ed, and  executed  upon  Tower  Hill,  In  1480l 
Maroarrt.     This  lady  upon  the  atrocious 
murder  of  her  brother,  became  the  last 
member  of  the  royal  and  illustrious  house 
of  PL.AWTAORNBT  (See  Plantagcnet,  Coun- 
tess of  Salisbury). 
ARMa.— Ou.  three  lions  passant,  guardant.  or. 
IfaU, — From  the  period  that  George  Plantagenet, 
DvKS  ow  Clarsrcr,    lost  his  life  in  1477,  the 
DuKRDOM  or  CL.ARRifcn  lay  dormant,  until  re- 
vived in  the  penon  of  His  Royal  Highness  Prince 
Williah-Hrnrv  (Ouelph),  third  ttm  of  his  Ua- 
juty  King  Groror  III.,  who  was  created  Dukr  or 
Clarriccr  and  St.  AwDRswa,  in  the  peerage  of 
Great  Britain,  and  Earl  or  MuwarsR,  in  that  of 
Ireland,  on  the  19th  of  May,  1789,  az.l  which 
HowouRa  merged  in  the  crown,  upon  the  accession 
of  the  duke  in  1830,  as 

IRing  railliom  ti^  §vox^. 

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PLANTAOENET  —  COUNTESS    OF 
SALISBURY. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  14th  October,  VSiX 

MARGARET  PLANTAGENET,  daughter  of 
George,  Duke  of  Clarence,  and  the  Lady  Isabd 
Nevil,  eldest  daughter,  and  eventually  sole  hrir,  of 
Richard,  Earl  of  WarwidE  and  Salisbury,  son  and 
heir  of  Alice,  daughter  and  heir  of  Thomas  Monte- 
cut^  Earl  of  Salisbury,  became  the  LAar  or  thh 
PiJUTTAORif  RTa,  u  pou  the  exocution  of  bcT  brother, 
Edward  PuwHTAOxifrr,  called  Earl  of  Warwick, 
by  Henry  VII.  tai  1409.  and  petitioned  perliament, 
in  the  ftth  of  King  Hrhrv  VIIL,  to  be  restored 
to  the  honours  of  her  mateinal  Cumly.  Whereupon 
she  was  advanced  to  the  dignity  of  Couimaa  or 
SAj.zaRURY  on  the  14th  October,  1513;  end  obtained 
at  the  same  time  letters  patent,  establishing  her  in 
the  castles,  manors,  and  lands  of  Richard,  late  Earl 
of  Salisbury,  her  grandfather,  which  had  fsllen  to 
the  crown  1^  the  attainder  of  her  brother,  Edward, 
called  Earl  of  Warwick.  Notwithstanding  theee 
substantial  marks  of  royal  fbvour,  an  opportunity 
in  several  years  after  was  selxed  upon  to  destroy  the 
only  remaining  brandi  <tf  the  PUntagcnets  in  this 
iUustidotts  lady;  and  at  a  period  of  life  too,  when, 
in  the  natural  progress  of  events,  her  course  was 
nearly  dosed.  At  the  advanced  age  of  seventy 
years,  31st  Henry  VIIL,  her  ladyship  was  con- 
demned to  death,  unheard  by  parliament,  and  be- 
headed on  Tower  HiU  In  two  years  afterwards, 
anno  1541,  when  her  dignity*  as  CouirTRaa  or  Sa- 
LI8RCRY,  fell  under  the  attaimdrr.  Her  ladyship 
had  espoused  Sir  Ridiaxtl  Pole,  K.G.,  and  had 
issue, 

Hrh RY,  summoned  to  parliament  as  Baron 

MowTAov  (see  Pole,  Baron  Montagu). 
Geifery  (Sir),  upon  whose  testimony  his  dder 
brother.  Lord  Montagu,  was  convicted  of, 
and  executed  for,  high  treason.  He  received 
sentence  of  death  himself,  but  did  not 
sttflbr. 
Arthur,  was  charged,  in  the  reign  of  Elisa- 
beth, with  projecting  a  scheme  for  the  re- 
lease of  the  Queen  of  Scots,  and  had 
Judgment  of  death ;  but  by  reason  of  his 
near  alliance  to  the  crown  no  execution  fol- 
lowed. 
Rroinald,  in  holy  orden,  was  educated  at 
Oxford,  and  Obtained  the  Deanery  of  Exe- 
ter by  the  gift  of  King  Henry  VIIL  He 
was  abroad  at  the  period  that  king  abo- 
lished the  papal  authority  in  England,  and 
not  attending,  when  summoned  to  return, 
he  was  proclaimed  a  traitor,  and  divested  of 
his  deanery.  He  was  afterwards,  anno  1536, 
made  a  cardinal,  and,  as  Cardinal  Polr, 
presided  (one  of  three  presidents)  at  the 
celebrated  Council  of  Trent.  When  Queen 
Mary  ascended  the  throne  his  eminence  re- 
turned to  England  as  legate  fkom  Fops 
JcLrua  IIL,  and  had  his  attainder  reversed 
by  special  act  of  parliament.    He  was  made. 


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at  tht  samB  time,  Abcbbibhop  or  Can- 
TBABURY,  in  which  high  episoopal  dignity 
heoontinued  until  his  death,  which  occurred 
on  17th  NoTember*  1AS6;  being  the  very 
day  upon  which  Queen  Mary  hetidf  died: 
the  tidings  of  that  event  are  said  to  have 
broken  the  cardinaTs  heart,  being  at  tlie 
time  much  weakened  by  a  quartan  ague. 
Whereupon  his  remains  were  interred  in  the 
cathedral  at  Canterbury.  Few  churchmen 
luiTe  borne  so  unblemished  a  reputation  as 
this  eminent  prelate,  and  few  have  carried 
themselves  with  so  much  moderation  and 
meekness.  The  friendship  of  such  a  man 
refutes  in  itwlf  much  of  the  obloquy  which 
has  been  cast  upon  Mary  by  tlie  eulogists 
of  ElisasbtA,  and  goes  far  in  the  redemp- 
tion of  her  duuracter. 
Ursula,  m.  to  Henry,  Lord  Staflbrd. 

With  this  noble  lady  expired  the  rovai.  and  ili«u8- 

TBions  aovsn  of  Plaktaqbmxt. 

PLANTAGENET-VISCOUNT  L'ISLE. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  Mth  April,  1A33. 

Xincagc. 

ARTHUR  PLANTAOENET,  natural  son  of 
King  Edward  IV.,  by  the  Lady  Elisabeth  Lucy, 
having  espoused  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Edward 
Grey,  first  Viscount  L'Isle  of  that  fiunily;  sole 
heir  of  her  niece,  Elisabeth,  Countess  of  Devon ; 
and  widow  of  Edmund  Dudley,  (see  Grey,  Viscounts 
L'lale,)  was  created  Viscount  L'Isle,  with  limitation 
to  his  heirs  male,  by  the  said  Elisabeth,  by  letters 
patent,  dated  26th  April,  1533,  upon  the  surrender 
of  that  dignity  by  Charles  Brandon,*  afterwards 
Duke  of  Suffolk.  His  lordship  had  issue  by  the 
heiress  of  Grey, 

Bridget,  m.  to  Sir  William  Garden,  Knt. 
Frances,  m.  first,  to  John  Basset,   Esq.,   of 
Umberleigh,  in  the  county  of  Devon,  and 
secondly,  to  Thomas  Monk,  of  Potheridge, 
in  the  same  shire,   from  whom  the  cele- 
brated General  Monk  is  said  to  have  de- 
scended. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Sir  Francis  Jobson,  Knt, 
Lieutenant  of  the  Tower,  and  Master  of  the 
Jewel  Office  to  Queen  Elisabeth. 
Jn  the  24th  of  Henry  VIIL,  Lord  L'Isle  was  con- 
stituted Lieutenant  of  Cahds,  and  some  time  after, 
incurring  suspicion  of  being  privy  to  a  plot  to  deliver 
up  the  garrison  to  the  French,  he  was  recalled  and 
committed  to  the  Tower  of  Lond<m  1  but  his  inno- 
cence appearing  manifest  upon  Investigation,  the 
king  not  only  gave  immediate  orders  for  his  re- 
lease, but  sent  him  a  diamond  ring,  and  a  most 


«  Elisabeth  Grey,  only  daughter  and  heireu  of 
John,  last  Viscount  L'Isle,  of  the  Grey  fiunily,  was 
contracted  to  Charles  Brandon,  who  was  created  in 
consequence  Viscount  L'Isle,  but  the  lady  refusing, 
when  she  had  attained  maturity,  to  fulfil  the  en- 
gagement,  the  patent  was  cancelled.  She  after- 
wards espoused  Henry  Courtenay,  Earl  of  Devon. 


gracious  message;  which  made  such  impressioa 
upon  the  sensitive  nobleman,  that  he  died  the  night 
following,  3d  March,  IMf,  of  excessive  Joy.  His 
lordship  was  a  Knight  of  the  most  noble  order  of 
the  Garter.  At  his  decease  the  Viscounty  of 
L'IsLx  became  azriNCT. 

Abms.— The  coat  of  his  lordship's  father.  King 
Edward  IV.,  quartered  with  Ulster  and  MOTtimer, 
under  a  baton. 

PLANTAOENET  —  EARLS  OF  SUR- 

REY. 

Refer  to  Warren,  Earls  or  Subbby. 

PLAYZ— BARON  PLAYZ. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  1297* 
25  Edward  I. 

ICilUBSC. 

In  the  17th  of  King  John, 

HUGH  DE  PLAYZ  held  seven  knights'  feel 
in  the  county  of  Sussex,  and  was  one  of  the  barons 
who  took  up  arms  against  that  prince.  He  m.  first, 
Beatrix  de  Say,  widow  of  Hi^  de  Nevill,  but 
was  divorced  from  that  lady,*  and  m.  secondly, 
Philippe,  one  of  the  daughters  and  co-heirs  of 
Richard  de  Montfichet,  by  whom  he  had  his  suc- 
cessor, 

RICHARD  DE  PLAYZ,  who,  in  the  5Sd  of 
Henry  III.,  as  one  of  the  nephews  and  heirs  of 
Richard  de  Montfichet,  paid  his  relief  for  a  third 
part  of  the  said  Richard's  lands.  To  this  Richard 
de  Plays,  succeeded  his  son, 

RALPH  DE  PLAYZ,  who  d,  without  issue,  and 
was  #.  by  his  brother, 

RICHARD  DE  PLAYZ,  to  whom  succeeded, 

GILES  DE  PLAYZ.  This  feudal  lord  had 
summons  to  attend  the  king  on  the  afikirs  of  the 
realm,  in  the  22d  Edward  I.  He  had  afterwards  a 
military  summons  to  proceed  to  Gascony,  and 
ultimately  summons  to  parliament  as  a  babon,  in 
the  2Sth  of  the  same  reign,  but  not  alterwardiu 
He  d.  in  1303,  seised  of  the  manor  of  Fulmere,  In 
the  county  of  Cambridge,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

RICHARD  DE  PLAYZ,  second  baron,  sum- 
moned to  parliament  from  20th  November,  1317* 
to  14th  March,  1322.    This  nobleman  was  «.  by  his 


RICHARD  DE  PLAYZ,  third  baron,  but  never 
summoned  to  parliament.  This  nobleman  was 
found,  in  the  8th  Edward  III.,  heir  to  John  de 
Lancaster,  of  the  county  of  Essex  1  he  d.  in  13flB,  and 
was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR  JOHN  DE  PLAITZ,  fourth  baron,  but 

never  summoned  to  parliament,  who  d.  in  the  3Srd 

Edward  IIL,  leaving  an  only  daughter  and  heiress, 

Maboarbt,  who  m.  Sir  John  Howard,  (his 

first  wife,)  by  whom  slie  had. 

Sir  John    Howard,   whoee  daughter 
and  heir, 

Elisabbth    Howabo,    «.    John 
Vere,  twelfth  Earl  of  Oxford,  in 
which    dignity  the  BaRQNy  ov 
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PLE 


PLU 


Plaits  contlmwMl  wamg&d  ttBtil 
th«  death  of  John,  fooitMuth 
Earl  of  Oxford,  in  ]fi86,  whan  it 
Ml  into  ABjiTAifcs  beCwwn  his 
three  nsten  and  oo-heirt»  Tis. 
Dorothy,  m.  to   John   Nevil, 

Lord  Latimer. 
EUxabeth,  m.  to  Sir  Anthony 

Wingfidd. 
Urnila,   m.   flcst,    to    George 
Windsor,  and  aeeoodly,  to 
Sir   Edward  Knightly,  but 
dled«.iK. 
The  Babohy  of  Plays,  or  Plaits,  Ss  now  in 
ABBYAifCB  between  Francis  Dillon,  Baron  of  the 
Holy  Roman  Empire,  as  representative  of  the  said 
Elisabeth,  Lady  Wingfield,  and  the  descendants 
and  lepresenUtiyes  of  the  abore-mcntioned  Doro- 
thy, Lady  Latimer;  of  which  his  grace,  the  pre- 
sent Duke  <tf  Northumberland,  is  the  ddcst. 

AnMs.— Party  per  pale,  or.  and  gu.,  a  lion  pas- 
sant, ar. 

PLESSETS—  EARL  OF  WARWICK, 
BARON  PLESSETS. 

Earldom,  ^Mre  umHs,  temp.  Henry  III. 
'Bamty,  by  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  6th  Feb.,  1S90, 

S7  Edward  I. 

The  first  of  this  family  mentioned,  is 

JOHN  DE  PLESSETS,  a  domestic  serrant  in 
the  court  of  King  Henry  IIL,  and  a  Norman  by 
birth;  who  having  served  in  the  Wdsh  wars,  was 
constitnted  governor  of  the  castle  of  Devises,  in 
Wiltshire  and  warden  of  the  forest  of  Chippenham, 
in  the  same  shire.  In  the  S4th  of  King  Hbnhy'b 
reign  be  was  sheriff  of  Oxfordshire,  and  in  two 
years  afterwards  he  had  a  ^ant  of  the  wardship 
and  marriage  of  John  Bisset;  and  likewise  of  the 
hein  of  Nicholas  Malesmalnes.  Certain  it  is  that 
he  eqioyed  in  a  high  degree  the  favour  of  his  royal 
master,  for  upon  the  death  of  John  Mareschal,  who 
had  married  Margery,  the  sister  and  heir  of  Thomas 
de  Newbuigh,  Earl  of  Warwick,  the  king  sent  his 
mandate  to  the  Archbishop  of  York,  the  Bishop  of 
Carlisle,  and  William  de  Cantilupe,  requiring  them 
that  they  should  earnestly  persuade  this  opulent 
widow  to  take  John  de  Plessets  for  her  second  hus- 
band. Nay,  so  much  did  he  desire  the  union,  that 
upon  Christmas  day  in  the  same  year,  befaig  then 
at  Bourdeanx,  he  granted  to  John  Plessets  by  pa- 
tent, the  marriage  of  this  Margery,  in  case  he  could 
procure  her  consent;  and  if  not,  that  then  he  should 
have  the  fine,  which  the  lady  would  incur  by  marry- 
ing without  the  king's  licenoei  This  course  of  the 
king's,  however,  preTailad,  and  his  pavoubits 
obtained  the  hand  of  Mabobbt  db  Nbwbvboh, 
Ommlsw  4^  Warwidkf  and  widow  of  John  Mareschall, 
styled  Earl  of  Warwick.  De  Plessets  was  subse- 
quently constituted  cokstablb  op  tbb  Towbb 
of  London,  but  not  by  the  title  of  Earl  ot  Warwick, 
nor  did  he  assume  that  dignity  for  some  time  after- 
wardiu  He  did,  however,  eventually  assume  it,  for 
we  find  him  so  styled  (3Ut  Henry  HI.)  by  the  king 
AM 


in  Bliocnee  granted  him,  to  cat  down  oak  timber  in 
the  fonat  of  Dene;  ever  allcr  whidi  he  is  called 
Eabl  op  Wabwick.  His  lordship  was  appointed 
in  four  years  afterwards  one  of  the|ustioes  itinerant 
to  sit  at  the  Tower,  fSor  hearing  and  determining 
such  i^eas  as  oonoeroed  the  city  of  London :  and 
at  the  breaking  out  of  the  contest  between  Henry 
and  the  barons,  he  was  constituted  sheriff  of  the 
counties  of  Warwick  and  Leicester ;  but  he  lived 
not  to  see  the  issue  of  thoee  troubles.  Hb  lordship 
d.  in  laftS;  not  having  had  issue  by  the  Countess  of 
WarwldL,  the  Earldom  of  Warwidc  passed  at  her 
ladyship's  decease  to  the  heir  at  law  (see  Newburgh, 
Earls  of  Warwick).  But  he  left,  by  a  fbrmer  wife. 
Christian,  daughter  and  heir  of  Hu^  de  Sandford, 
a  son  and  heir, 

HUGH  DE  PLESSETS,  who  doing  his  homage, 
in  the  April  ensuing,  bad  livery  at  the  manors  of 
Oxenardton,  Kedelinton,  and  Stuttesdon,  in  the 
county  of  Oxford,  whidi  were  of  his  mother's  in- 
heritance; the  two  former  bring  holden  of  the  king 
by  barony,  for  which  manors  in  the  48th  Henry  III., 
he  paid  £100  for  his  relief!  This  feudal  lord  m. 
Isabel,  daughter  of  Jtrfm  de  Ripariis,  and  dying  in 
1991,  was  «.  by  his  son, 

HUGH  DE  PLESSETS,  who  being  engaged  in 
the  Scottish  wars,  was  summoned  to  parliament  as  a 
babob  on  the  6th  February,  1990,  but  having  had 
no  other  writ,  and  none  of  his  descendants  being 
esteemed  barons,  Dugdale  gives  no  further  account 
of  the  family. 

Abmb.— Six  annulets  guks,  a  chief  cheque,  or. 
andsa. 

MbDe.— Hutchins,  in  his  History  of  Dorsetshire, 
says,  that  Robbbt  ob  Plbgy,  ob  PLBaaxTa,  son 
of  Sir  Hugh,  brother,  or  a  near  kinsman  of  John 
de  Pleaiets,  Earl  of  Warwick,  in  the  19th  Edward 
I.,  held  Upwibbobivb  Placy,  in  that  county, 
which  paused  through  several  generations  to 

JoAB  DB  Plbgy,  an  heiress,  who  m.  Sir  John 
Hamelyn,  whose  daughter,  and  eventual 
heiress, 

EoiDLA  Hamblyw,  ^N.  for  her  second 
husband,  Robert  Ashley,  and  conveyed 
to  him  the  manor  of  UpwiulMrne- 
Plecy.  The  descendant  of  this  mar« 
riage. 

Sib  Awtboity  Ashlby,  KnL,  of 
Winbome,  St.  Giles,  left  an  only 
daughter  and  heiress, 

Anbb  Ashlby,  who  espoused 
Sir  John  Cooper,  Bart.,  ttota 
which  marriage  the  xxtant 
Eabls  op  Shaptbsbuby 
descend,  and  through  which 
they  inherit  the  -manor  of 
Upwhtbobbb-Plbcy. 

PLUOENET— BARONS   PLtfOENET. 

By  Writ  of  Sunmions,  dated  94th  June,  1996, 
93  Edward  I. 

Uncage. 

In  the  beginning  of  Hbhby  ll.'s  reign, 
HUGH  DE  PLUOENET  had  brnda  given  him' 


POI 


POL 


In  the  county  of  Oxford,  and  in  mmm  ymn  afttts- 
wairda  was  owner  of  JLamfeurne.  in  Berkaliire.  He 
IN.  Sibell*  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Josceut  de 
Dinantrand  had  two  wou^,  AJan  and  Joaceus.  To 
one  ot  whom  aucoeeded 

SIR  ALAN  DE  PLUGENET,  who,  after  the 
battle  of  ETeaham,  in  the  40th  Henry  III.,  waa 
made  governor  of  Dunster  Caatle»  in  the  county  of 
Somenet,  and  in  three  years,  subtaqtiently,  obtidned 
a  grant  flrom  his  maternal  unde,  Robert  Walrond, 
of  certain  manors  in  the  counties  of  Wilts,  Dorset, 
and  Somerset,  wiUi  die  castle  of  Kllpeck,  Ac.,  in 
the  county  of  Hereford,  and  at  the  death  of  the 
said  Robert  without  issue,  in  the  1st  Edward  I., 
hadlireryof  thesame.  This  Sir  Alan  de  Plugenet, 
distinguishing  himself  in  the  Welsh  wars,  and 
being  esteemed  a  person  of  wisdom,  and  of  military 
knowledge,  was  summoned  to  parliament  as  a  babok 
ftom  94th  June,  1S95,  to  96th  January,  1297«  He  d. 
in  1999,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR  ALAN  DE  PLUGENET,  second  ban», 
K.B.,  summoned  to  parliament  UHh  December, 
ISll.  This  noUonan  was  constantly  engaged  In 
the  wars  of  Scotland.    He  A  ,  leaving  his 

sister, 

JOAN  DE  BOH  UN,  heir  to  the  Baboity  or 
Pluobji BT,  at  whose  decease  «.  ^  in  1397/  that  dig- 
nity became  bxtihct. 

Abmb. — ^Ermine,  a  bend  engrailed  gu. 

POINTZ— BARONS  POINTZ. 

By  Writ  of  Summdtas,  dated  94th  June,  1995, 
93  Edward  I. 

Xineafic. 

This  family,  and  that  of  Cuffobd,  is  said  to 
have  sprung  ftrom  a  common  ancestor.  Pons, 
whose  grandson,  Wax.tbb,  derived  his  surname 
from  the  place  of  his  abode,  Clifvobd  Ca8Ti.b, 
in  the  county  of  Hereford,  and  another  of  whose 
descendants  waa  fkther  of 

OSBERT  FITZ-PONZ,  from  whom  sprang 

HUGH  POINTZ,  who,  with  his  Ikther,  Nicho- 
las Points,  taking  part  with  the  revolted  barons, 
had  his  lands,  in  the  17th  John,  in  die  counties  of 
Somerset,  Dorset,  and  Gloucester,  seised  by  the 
crown,  and  given  to  Godftey  de  Crancumbe.  He 
was  afterwards  imprisoned  in  the  castle  of  Bristol, 
but  not  strictly,  as  his  friends  had  permissidn  to 
visit  him,  and  to  supply  him  with  necessaries.  This 
Hugh  wedded  Helewise,  daughter  of  William,  and 
sister  and  co-heir  of  William  Mallet,  of  Cory-Malet, 
in  the  county  of  Suflblk,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 
.  NICHOLAS  POINTZ,  who,  residing  in  Glouces- 
tershire, had  military  summons  from  the  crown  to 
march  against  the  Welsh,  in  the  41st  and  49nd  of 
Henry  III.,  but  afterwards  Joined  the  other  barons 
who  took  up  arms  against  the  king.  He  d.  in  the 
1st  Edward  I.,  seised  of  the  manor  of  Coby-IIalbt, 
in  the  county  of  Somerset,  and  several  other  estates. 
He  was  «.  by  his  son, 

HUGH  POINTZ,  who  having  been  engaged  in 
the  wars  of  Wales,  Gascony,  and  Scotland,  was 
summoned  to  parliament  as  a  babom  by  King  En- 
WABD  I.,  on  the  94th  June,  1990.    Hia  kmlahip  d. 


in  1307>  havtaig  had  regular  summonses  to  that 
year,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

NICHOLAS  POINTZ. 'second  baron,  summoned 
to  parliament  from  4th  March,  1300,  to  16th  June, 
1311.  This  nobleman  was  in  the  Scottish  wars 
before  and  after  his  father's  decease.  He  m.  EUxa- 
beth,  daughter  of  Eudo  de  Zouche,  by  Milicent. 
daughter  of  William  Cantilupe,  Lord  of  Berg»- 
venny,  and  co-heir  of  her  brother,  George;  by 
whom  he  had  the  manor  of  Batecumbe,  in  fkee 
marriage.    He  tf.  in  1319,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

HUGH  POINTZ,  third  baron,  K.B..  summoned 
to  parliament,  flrom  90th  November,  1317,  to  94th 
Fdmiary ,  1943.    This  nobleman  was  #.  by  his  son, 

SIR  NICHOLAS  POINTZ,  fourth  baron,  but 
never  summoned  to  parliament.    This  noUeman 
m.  AUanore,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Erleigfa,  Knt:« 
and  had  two  daughters,  via. 
Amicia,  m.  to  John  Barry. 
Maboabbt,  m.  to  John  Newborough. 

His  lordship  d. ,  when  the  Babont  or  Poimtc 

fUl  Into  ABBYANCB,  between  his  daughters,  as  it 
still  continues  with  their  representatives. 

ABMa.— Barry  of  eight  or  and  gu. 

NoTc— From  John  Points,  the  younger  brother  of 
the  last  lord,  descended  a  family  of  Poikts,  which 
resided  in  Gloucestershire,  when  Sir  William  Dug- 
dale  wrote,  but  is  now  bxtinct  in  the  male  line. 

POLE  —  BARONS  DE  LA  POLE, 
EARLS  OF  SUFFOLK,  MAR- 
QUESS  OF  SUFFOLK,  EARL 
OF  PEMBROKE,  DUKES  OF 
SUFFOLK. 

Barony,  by  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  90th  Jan.,  1999, 

39  Edward  IIL 
Earldom  of  SuHblk,  by  Letters  Patent,  6th  August, 

1385. 
Earldom  of  Pembroke,  9lst  February,  1443. 
Marquess,  14th  September,  1444. 
Dukedom,  9nd  ^une,  1448L 

Xfneagc. 

The  founder  of  this  family,  which  eventually 
attained  such  an  exalted  station,  was 

WILLIAM  DE  LA  POLE,  an  opulent  merchant, 
Bt  Kingston-upon-Hull,  who  left  two  sons, 
Wiiii<iAK,  (rf  whom  presently. 
Richard,  to  whom  King  Edward  III.,  in  the 
11th  year  of  his  reign,  gave,  **  for  his  ex- 
traordinary merits,"  £1000  sterling,  out  of 
the  exchequer.    This  Richard  left  a  son  and 
heir,  William,  who  m.  Margaret,  sister 
and  heiress  of  John  Peverel,    of   Castle 
Ashby,  in  the  county  ot  Northumberland, 
and  had  a  son  and  heir, 

JoRM,  who  left,  by  Joane,  his  wife,  sister 
and  heiress  of  John,  Lord  CoUiam,  aa 
only  daughter  and  heiress, 
JoANB,    who    m.   Reginald    Bray- 
broke,  and  had  a  daughter  and 
helreas, 

JOAHB      BbAVBBOKB,      Ml.      tO 

Thomas  Brooke,   irho    be- 

435 


roh 


POL 


came  ia  her  right*  Lord 

Cobham. 
The  elder  aon, 

WILLIAM  DE  LA  POLE,  wee.  like  his  fotber,  ■ 
mercheDt,  aX  Kingston-upoD-Hull,  and  Mayor  of 
that  Borough.  In  the  10th  year  of  King  Edward 
III.,  this  William  contracted  to  fktmish  the  army  in 
Scotland,  with  wine,  salt,  and  other  proTisioBS,  but 
-•losing  part  of  the  cargo,  in  the  tiransmission  to 
Berwick-upon-Tweed,  lie  had  an  allowance  for  the 
same  in  pawing  his  accounts.  In  three  years  after- 
wards, being  a  person  of  great  opulence,  he  was 
enabled  to  advance  the  sum  of  £lOOO,  in  gold,  to 
the  King,  who  then  lay  at  Antwerp;  for  which 
Important  service,  Edward  being  much  in  want,  at 
the  time,  of  supplies,  he  was  constituted  second 
baron  of  the  exchequer,  and  advanced  to  the  degree 
of  banneret,  with  a  grant  out  of  the  customs  at 
Hull,  for  the  better  support  of  that  rank.  He  was 
afterwards  known  as  Sir  William  de  la  Pole,  Senior. 
He  m.  Catherine^  daughter  of  Sir  John  Norwidi, 
and  dying  in  the  40th  of  Edward  III.,  possessed  of 
extensive  estates  in  the  county  of  York,  was  «.  by 
his  son, 

MICHAEL  DE  LA  POLE,  who,  in  the  Ufe-time 
of  his  father,  had  a  grant  in  reversion,  of  £70  a 
year,  to  himadf  and  his  heirs,  flrom  Edward  III., 
in  cooslderatioo  of  that  qpulent  person's  services, 
whom  the  king  denominated  his  "Beloved  Mer- 
chant;" which  annuity,  William,  his  father,  and 
'Richard,  his  uncle,  had  previously  ei^oyed.  This 
'  Michael  de  la  Pole,  despite  of  Walsingham's  obser- 
vation, *' That  as  a  merchant  himself,  and  the  son 
of  a  merchant,  he  was  better  versed  in  merchan- 
dise, than  skilled  in  martial  matters ;"  was  an  emi- 
nent soldier,  and  distinguished  himself  in  the 
French  wars,  at  the  close  of  Edward  III.'s  reign; 
when  he  served  immediately  under  the  Black 
Prince.  In  the  first  year  of  Richard  II.,  he  ac- 
companied John,  Duke  of  Lancaster,  then  called 
King  of  Castile,  in  his  voyage  to  sea ;  and  the  same 
year  had  the  chief  command  of  all  the  king's  fleet 
to  the  northwurd ;  in  which  his  own  retinue  were 
one  hundred  and  forty  men-at-arms,  one  hundred 
and  forty  archers,  one  banneret,  eight  knights,  and 
a  hundred  and  thirty  esquires.  In  the  next  year, 
he  was  employed  upon  a  mission  to  the  Court  of 
Rome;  and  in  four  years  after,  constituted  chan- 
GXLLon,  and  keeper  of  the  great  seal-  having  had 
summons  to  parliament  as  a  babom,  since  the  39th 
of  King  Edward  III.  In  the  8th  of  Richard  IL, 
hb  lordship  procured  licence  to  castellate  his  manor 
houses,  at  Wyngfleld,  Skemefleld,  and  Hunting- 
fldd,  in  the  county  of  Snflblk,  and  to  Impark  all 
his  woods  and  lands  in  the  vicinity.  And  in  the  9th 
of  the  same  monarch,  being  still  rhancellor,  he  was 
created  by  letters  patent,  dated  0th  August,  1985, 
Earl  or  SurroLK,  with  a  grant  of  a  thousand 
marks  per  annum,  to  be  received  out  of  the  king's 
eschequer.  In  the  parliament  held  at  this  period, 
a  dispute  is  recorded  as  haviqg  taken  place  between 
his  lordship  and  Thomas  Arundel,  Bishop  of  Ely, 
in  consequence  of  the  king's  having  restored,  at  the 
earnest  solicitation  of  that  prelate,  the  temporali- 
ties to  the  Bishop  of  Norwich.  The  chanodUor 
opposing  the  restoration,  thus  interrogated  the 
436 


Ushop,  when  he  moved  that  meaMre:— "  What  is 
this,  my  k»d,  that  you  desire?  Is  it  a  small  matter 
to  part  with  thoee  temporalittos  which  yidd  the 
king  more  than  a  thousand  pounds  per  annum  i 
The  king  hath  no  more  need  of  sndi  advisers  to  his 
loss."  To  which  the  bbhop  answered,  *«  What  is 
that  you  say,  Michael  ?  I  desire  nodiing  of  the 
king  which  is  his  own;  but  that  whIA  belongs  to 
another,  and  which  he  ui^ustly  detains,  by  thy 
wicked  council,  <n  such  as  thou  art,  which  will 
never  be  for  his  advantage ;  (I  think,)  if  thou  beast 
so  much  concerned  tot  the  king's  profit,  why  hast 
thou  covetously  taken  from  him  a  thousand  marks 
per  annum,  since  thou  wast  made  an  eari  l" 

After  this,  in  the  same  year,  we  find  the  earl» 
notwithstanding  his  being  lord  dumcellrar,  retained 
to  serve  the  king,  being  a  banneret,  in  his  Soottbh 
wars,  for  forty  days,  and  obtaining  a  grant  in  con- 
sequence, to  himself  and  his  heirs  male,  of  £500 
per  annum,  lands,  part  of  the  possessions  of  Wil- 
liam de  UiTord,  late  Earl  of  Suffolk,  deceased,  via., 
the  Castle,  Town,  Manor,  and  Honour  of  Eye.  In 
this  3rear,  too,  he  marched  troops  from  aU  quar- 
ters, to  London  and  its  vicinity,  in  order  to  resist 
a  menaced  invasion  of  the  French.  But  he  waa 
soon  afterwards  impeached  by  the  Commons  for 
divers  misdemeanors  and  fhuads,  particularly  for 
purchasing  lands,  while  chanodlor,  *'in  deception 
of  the  king,"  and  being  found  guilty,  was  sentenced 
to  death  and  forfeiture.  Upon  the  dissolution  of 
parliament,  however,  he  seems,  through  the  protec- 
tion of  the  king,  to  have  set  his  foes  for  the  mo- 
ment at  defiance,  and  to  have  rdinquished  the 
chancellorship  only.  But  subsequently,  the  storm 
again  gathering,  he  fied  the  kingdom  with  Robert 
de  Vere,  Duke  of  Ireland,  and  repairing  to  Calais, 
approached  the  castle,  of  whidi  his  brother,  Ed- 
mund de  la  Pole,  was  captaki,  in  the  disgniseof  a 
Fleimsh  poulterer,  havingshaved  his  headend  beard; 
but  it  is  said,  that  Edmund  refused  him  admissioB 
without  the  previous  permisai<m  of  William  de 
Beauchamp,  the  governor.  '*  Brother,"  said  the 
captain  of  the  castle,  **  you  must  know  that  I  dare 
not  be  false  to  the  king  of  En^bmd  for  the  sakeof 
any  kindred  whatsoever ;  nor  admit  you  in  without 
the  privity  of  WiUiam  de  Beauchamp,  governor  of 
this  town."  Whether  this  be  true  or  false,  certain 
it  is  that  the  earl  never  afterwards  came  bndi  to 
England,  but  died  at  Paris,  an  outlaw,  in  1388,  his 
dignities  having  previously  feUen  under  the  out- 
lawry*  His  lordship,  who,  amongst  his  other  ho- 
nours, had  the  Garter,  was,  like  all  the  great  nobles 
of  the  period,  a  benefactor  to  the  church,  having 
founded  a  Cmrthnsian  monastery,  without  the  north 
gate,  at  Kingston-upon-HnlU  and  endowed  it  with 
lands  of  great  value.  He  m.  Kathcrinew  daughter 
and  heiress  of  Sir  John  Wingfleld,  KnL,  and  hnd 


MicRAXi.  (Sir). 
Richard,  died  «.  p, 

Anne,  m.  to  Gerard,  son  of  Wariae^   Lord 
L'Isle. 
Wfaidi 

SIR  MICHAEL  DE  LA  POLE,  in  the  fllst  of 
Richard  IL,  obtataed  the  aanuhnent  of  the  inig- 
me^  agaiSBt  his  father;  and  upon  the  acceseiiin  of 


POL 


POL 


King  Henry  IV.  wm  fatty  rattoMd  to  the  caitte, 
manor*'  and  honour  of  Eye.  with  the  other  hmdt 
of  the  late  lord,  at  abo  to  the  EAni.noM  of  Svv- 
T01.K,  with  a  reTeraionary  pioriso,  that  those  lands 
and  honoars  ihould,  in  dcdEsult  of  his  male  issue, 
devolve  npon  the  male  heir  of  his  deceased  fiither. 
This  nobleman,  who  spent  his  time  chiefly  in  the 
French  wars,  d.  on  the  14th  September,  1419,  at  the 
siege  of  Harfleur.  His  lordship  m.  Lady  Catherine 
de  Staflbrd,  daughter  of  Hugh,  Earl  of  Staflbrd, 
and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

MICHAEL  DE  LA  POLE,  as  third  Ear|  of  Suf- 
folk, but  this  gallant  nobleman  lost  his  life  within  a 
month  of  his  accession  to  the  title,  at  the  celebrated 
battle  of  AeivcouAT,  on  the  9Bth  October,  1415, 
leaving  three  daughters, 
Katherine,  a  nun. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  John  de  Foix,  Earl  of  Kendal, 

and  died  juj). 
Isabel,  fii.  to  Lord  M orley,  and  died  «.  p. 
At  the  decease  of  his  lordship  the  Barony  of  De  la 
Pole  ftU  into  AB>YAHG>  between  those  ladies, 
while  the  earldom  devolved  upon  his  brother, 

WILLIAM  DE  LA  POLE,  fourth  Earl  of  Suf- 
folk, who,   in  the  6th  of  King  Henry  V..  making 
proof  of  his  age.  had  livery  of  his  inheritance,  his 
homage  being  respited.  This  nobleman  was  actively 
engaged  in  the  glorious  wars  of  that  martial  mo- 
narch, and  attained,  the  Oaktbr  by  his  eminent 
services.    Upon  the  death  of  King  Henry  his  lord- 
ship was  left  in  France  with  the  Earl  of  Salisbury, 
to  defend  the  castles  and  towns  which  had  fallen  to 
the  English  arms— and  in  the  1st  year  of  King 
Henry  VI..  his  two  nieces,  Elisabeth  and  Isabel, 
dying  in  minority  without  issue,  and  the  other. 
Katherine,  having  taken  the  veil,  his  lordship  in- 
herited the  entire  property  of  his  deceased  brother. 
Earl  MichaeL    About  this  period  his  lordship,  in 
conjunction  with  the  Earl  of  Salisbury,  achieved  a 
great  victory  over  the  French  at  Vemoil.  and  con- 
tinued for  several  years  afterwards  to  sustain  the 
British  banner  upon  the  same  soiL    In  the  8th  of 
Henry  VI.  his  lordship,  with  his  companion  in 
arms.  Lord  Salisbury,  invested  Orleans,  and  die 
latter  nobleman  being  sbdn.  the  Earl  of  Suflblk  was 
appointed  captain  of  the  siege,  by  the  celebrated 
general,  John  Plantagenet.  Duke  of  Bedford.    In 
this  aflhir  he  appears,  however,  to  have  been  unfor- 
tunate, but  he  afterwards  retrieved  his  reputation  at 
Aumerle,  which  he  carried,  with  its  fortress,  after 
no  less  than  twenty-four  assaults.    In  the  9th  of  the 
same  reign  he  assisted  at  the  solemn  coronation  of 
King  Henry  at  Paris.    In  four  years  afterwards  his 
lordship  was  deputed  ambassador  to  Arras  to  treat 
of  peace  with  the  French,  having  licence  to  take 
wiUi  him  gold,  silver,  plate,  and  Jewels,  to  the  value 
of  two  thousand  pounds  t  and  the  next  year  was 
Jokied.  in  commission  with  the  Duke  of  York,  to 
proceed  in  the  treaty.    From  this  period  the  earl 
continued  actively  engaged  as  a  military  comman- 
der, or  diplomatist,  in  the  secrice  of  the  crown,  for 
which  he  was  most  amply  compensated,  by  nume- 
rous and  valuable  grants,  (amongst  which  was  the 
Teversloa  of  the  Earldom  of  Pembroke,  should 
Humphrey  Plantagenet,  Duke  of  Gloucester  and 
Earl  of  Peaataroke,  the  king's  uncle,  die  without 


Issue,)  until  the  S3rd  year  of  Henry's  reign,  when 
he  was  created  Mabou>bb  or  SuvrotK.   (14th 
September,  1444,)  by  cincture  with  a  sword,  and 
putting  e  coronet  of  gold  upon  his  head.    This 
dignity  was  accompanied  by  a  grant  of  iS36  yearly 
out  of  the  issues  of  the  counties  of  Norfolk  and 
Suffolk.    Being  at  this  period  lord  steward  of  the 
household,  the  marquess  was  sent  into  Sicily,  to 
perform  the  solemnity  of  marriage  with  Margaret 
of  Anjoo,  daughter  of  Regnier.   titular  king  of 
Sicily,  dkc.  and  Duke  of  Anjou.  as  proxy  for  King 
Henry  VI..  and  to  conduct  that  criebrated  woman 
into  England.    In  the  next  year  he  was  employed 
in  negotiating  peace  with  France,  and  he  was  soon 
after  appointed  lord  chamberlain,  and  then  lord 
HIGH  AnmitAi.  or  Enolamo.  Upon  the  death  of  the 
Duke  of  Gloucester,  in  1440,  his  lordship  succeeded 
to  the  Earldom  of  Pembroke,  and  he  was  created 
DcKB  or  SurroLK  on  the  9nd  June,  1448.    Which 
Utter  dignity  is  said  to  have  been  conferred  upon  him 
for  advising  the  murder  of  the  Duke  of  Gloucester  t 
but  be  that  as  it  may.  his  grace's  prosperity  en- 
dured not  many  years  longer.    For  aJlUn  becoming 
disastrous  both  at  home  and  abroad,  the  popular 
voice  became  loud  against  him.    He  was  charged 
with  the  loss  oi  Ai^ou  and  Normandy— 4»f  causing 
the  murder  of  the  good  Duke  of  Gloucester— of 
rapacity — and  of  the  numerous  other  crimes  which 
are  generally  attributed  to  an  unsuccessful  minis- 
ter, in  a  season  of  calamity,  by  a  disappointed  peo- 
ple.    Parliament  soon  after  assembling,   he  was 
r^iularly  impeached  by  the  Commons,   of  high 
crimes  and  misdemeanors,  and  committed  prisoner 
to  the  Tower;  but  released  within  a  month,  and 
restored  to  the  king's  favour.    This  act  of  royal 
clemency  exdting,   however,    universal  clamour, 
the  king  was  obliged  at  length  to  banish  him  the 
realm  t  with  the  intention  of  recalling  him,  how- 
ever, so  soon  as  the  storm  had  abated.    But  the 
unfortunate  nobleman  was  doomed  to  immediate 
destructioa.  for  after  embarking  at  Ipswich  tot 
France,  he  was  boarded  by  the  captain  of  a  ship  of 
war  belonging  to  the  Duke  of  Exeter,  then  Con- 
stable oi  the  Tower  of  London,  called  the  Nidkafas 
<tf  (fte  Tower,  and  being  twought  into  Dover  Road, 
was  decapitated  without  further  trial,  on  the  side 
of  the  Cock  Boat.    It  is  recorded  of  this  gallant 
personage  that  he  served  in  the  wars  of  France,  full 
twenty-four  yean,  seventeen  of  whidi  were  in  unin- 
terrupted suooeseion  without  onoe  visiting  his  native 
coimtry.    He  was  at  one  time  made  prisoner,  whilst 
only  a  knight,  and  paid  twenty  thousand  pounds 
for  his  ranscHn.     His  grace  was  fifteen  years  a 
member  of  the  privy  council,  and  thirty*  one  of 
the  Knights  of  the  Garter. 

It  is  said  that  he  first  espoused,  privatdy,  the 
Countess  of  Hainault,  and  by  her  had  a  daughter, 

who  married Barentine,  but  that  afterwards 

taking  to  wife.  Alice,  daughter  and  heiress' of 
Thomas  Chaucer,  grand-daughter  of  GeoAey  Chau- 
cer, the  poet,  and  of  Sir  John  Philip.  Knt.  that 
daughter  was  proved  a  bastard. 

All  the  Duke^s  honours,  including  the  old  Ba- 
BOKY  or  Dblapolb.  which  he  Inherited  firam  his 
nieces,  became  roBrsiTsn  under  the  attainder, 
but  his  eldest  ton, 

437 


POL 


POL 


JOHMDELAPOLB, 
EHialwth  PtaatafCBet,  iirter  oT  Kii«  B««avd  IV. 
^id  KJSf  Ridiad  IIL.  w  cnatei  Dtkb  of  Svp- 
vouc,  b7  letten  patoa,  dated  2Sd  lUrch,  140. 
After  which,  in  the  11th  oT  the  naeieigB.  lievai 
one  or  the  lords  then  enemhtod  in  inriiJMait,  who 
neognited  the  title  oT  Priacae  Edwud,  ddert  eon 
of  thet  kl^,  ad  mode  oeth  oT  ideUty  to  him. 
Upon  the  aeoarioo  of  Ung  Hcmy  VIL,  his  gnee 
WW  mede  Constable  of  WaDincikrd.     The  dnke 


JoBir,  who,  by  special  charter,   dated  Uth 
March,  14B7»  vas  created  Eabi.  or  Lfir- 
coLH,  ad  ia  the  sod  of  Ridiard  IIL,  was 
appelated    Lord    Ueateaaat   of    Iieiaad. 
After  this,  he  was  dedaied,  by  his  ancle, 
the  sane  mooaich,   heir  apparent  to  the 
crown  of  Eng famd,  ia  the  ereat  of  the  do- 
cease  of  his  owB  son.  Prince  Edward.    His 
lorddiip,  in  the  next  reign,  haviqg  reared 
the  standard  of  revolt,  fell  at  the  battleof 
Stoke,  on  the  10th  Jane,  1487  (see  De  la 
Pole,  Earl  of  Lincoln),    t^^  Co^l^ 
Edmnnd,  who socceeded  his fiuher.     /  ^.Si 
Iluai]riuesr,  a  priest 
Edward,  arcfadeaooa  of  Richmond. 
Richard,  of  iriiom  hereafter. 
Catherine,  m.  to  William,  Lord  Stourton. 
Anne,  a  nun  at  Sion. 
Dorothy,  d.  unmarried. 
Elisabeth,  m.  Henry  Lord,  Lord  Moriey. 
His  grace,  who  was  a  Knight  of  the  Garter,  d.  in 
1491,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  sorriTfng  son, 

EDMUND  DE  LA  POLE,  second  Doke  of  Sof. 
folk.  We  find  this  nobleman,  although  one  of  the 
last  perMus  of  rank  remaining  of  the  house  of 
York,  and  of  a  Cimily  previously  devoted  to  that 
cause,  engaged  in  the  beginning  of  Henry  VIL's 
rdgn,  in  that  monarch's  scrrioes  and  so  late  as  the 
ISth  year,  he  was  In  arms  with  the  Lords  Essex  and 
Mountjoy,  against  Lord  Andley  and  the  Cornish 
men,  who  suflSned  so  memorable  a  defeat  on  Black- 
heath.  But  his  grace  being  sul^ected  to  the  igno- 
miny of  a  public  trial  and  condemnation  (although 
immedlatdy  pardoned),  for  **  killing  an  ordinary 
person  in  wrath,**  became  so  indignant  that  he 
immediately  withdrew,  without  pennission,  to  the 
court  of  his  aunt,  Margaret,  Duchess  of  Burgundy, 
(sister  of  the  Kings  Edward  IV.  and  Richard  IIL,) 
then  the  asylum  for  all  the  discontented  spiriu, 
who  retained  any  feeling  of  attachment  to  the 
House  of  York,  or  had  any  cause  of  dissatisfaction 
with  the  existing  order  of  things  in  England.  He 
returned,  howerer,  soon  after,  and  excusing  him- 
self to  the  king,  assisted  at  the  nuptials  of  Prince 
Arthur,  with  Katherine  of  Arragon.  But  he  again 
departed  for  Flanders,  acoompanled  by  his  brother, 
RIcliard,  and  remained  In  exile,  until  tieacher- 
ously  delivered  up  to  the  English  monarch,  by 
Philip,  Duke  of  Burgundy,  upon  an  express  stlpu- 
Utioo,  however,  that  his  life  should  not  be  en- 
dangered. On  arriving  in  Eughmd,  he  was  im- 
mediately committed  to  the  Tower,  where  he  re- 
miUned  a  close  prisoner  until  the  5th  of  Henry 
VIII.,  when  that  monarch  caused  the  unfortunate 
Duke,  solely  from  being  a  Yorkist,  to  be  deoq^- 
438 


mD. 


AfaO,  m&    His 


leftanealyi 

In  the 
wiUMiBt  Aldgaie,  ia  the  sabinta 
of  the  city  of  L  nadna 
NotwiAsuadtag  the  attahider  of  this  dnke,  and 
the  ooaseqveat  forftftare  of  his  honouis,  the  titles 

RICHARD  DA  LA  POLE,   as  third  Dake  of 
SaflMk,  thea  ttviag  an  exile  in  Frsnoe.     Hiia 

MMuaadFmchat 

Heary  VIIL,  ad  he  fieU  at  the  battle  of  PaTia» 
ia  UM,  where  hie  hemic  ooadact  extorted  the 

of  his  foes:  ^id  theDokeof 

his  lemafaM  with  apleadid 
hi  penoa,  as  oae  of  the  chief 
Thus  tenaiaated  the  male  Bne  of  this  gaUaat  md 
highly  gifted  race;  and  the  Dukedom  of  Snflbik 
passed  by  a  new  creation  to  King  Henry  VIIL's 
biother-ia-law,  the  oeletarated  Charles  Braaden. 

ABM8.^Ar.    a   fesse    betweeu    three  leopards^ 
heads,  or. 

POLE— EARL  OF  LINCOLN. 

By  Special  Charter,  dated  13th  March,  1407. 

Xtncasc. 

JOHN  DE  LA  POLE,  eldest  son  of  John  de  U 
Pole,  Duke  of  Suffolk,  by  the  Lady  Elisabeth  Plan- 
tagcnet,  sister  of  Kings  Edward  IV.  and  Richard  IIL, 
was  creiaed,  in  the  7th  year  of  the  fonner  mooarcfa, 
his  £ftthcr  being  then  living.  Earl  or  Likoolit. 
Upon  the  accession  of  his  uncle,  Richard,  his  lord- 
ship obtained  several  important  grants  of  land  from 
the  crown,  and  was  soon  afterwards  appointed  lord* 
lieutenant  of  Ireland.  Firmly  attached  to  the  house 
of  York,  the  earl  could  ill  brook  the  triumph  of 
King  Henry  VII.,  and  accordingly,  upon  the  acces- 
sion of  that  prince,  removed  to  tlie  court  of  hie 
aunt,  Margaret,  Duchess  ot  Burgundy,  where  he 
entered  sealously  into  the  ailkir  of  Lambert  Sim- 
neU;  in  promotion  of  whose  pretensions  to  the 
crown  his  lordship  returned  at  the  head  of  four 
thousand  German  soldier*,  under  the  immediate 
command  of  Martin  Swart,  and  having  first  landed 
in  Irdand,  and  proclaimed  the  Pretender  there, 
made  a  descent  upon  Lancashire,  whence  marching 
towards  Newark-upon-Trent,  in  the  county  of  Not- 
tingham, he  encountered  the  royal  army  at  Stokx 
on  the  16th  June,  1487,  where  1m  sustained  a  signal  ^ 

defeat,  and  fell  himself  in  theconflict.    His  lordship  >*^r 
died  «.  p.,  when  his  honours  became  xxtikct.  >^'5 

POLE— BARON  MONTAGUE.       Jsa.  ^  tTA^  f  , 


By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  5th  January,  1558> 
04  Henry  VIU. 

The  first  of  this  fismily  of  whom  any  thing  me- 
morable occurs,  is 

SIR  RICHARD  POLE,  Knt,  (son  of  Sir  Jef- 
f^  Pole,  Knt,  of  an  ancient  Welsh  Cunily.)  who, 
bdng  a  valiant  and  expert  conunabder,  was  fint 


.^^M#* 


POV 


POY 


ntained  to  Mrre  Kktf  Hbnht  VII.  in  the  wan  of 
ScoClandf  and  being  a  penon  highly  acoompUsbad, 
was  made  chief  gentleman  of  the  bed-chamber  to 
Prince  Arthur,  and  e  Knight  of  tlie  Garter.  He  m. 
the  Lady  Margaret  Plantagenet,  (afterwards  Coun- 
tcet  of  SaUtbury—Me  Plantagenet,  Counten  of 
Salisbury,)  and  had*  with  Junior  issue,*  a  son  and 
heir, 

HENRY  POLE,  who,  in  the  ffth  of  Henry  VIII., 
had  special  livery  of  the  lands  of  his  inheritance, 
and  Jn  eight  years  afterwards  was  restored  to  the 
'  king's  fiiTour  by  the  title  of  Lord  Montaou.  But 
as  to  any  creation,  by  petent  or  otherwise,  nothing 
appears  until  the  84th  of  the  same  reign,  when  his 
lordship  had  summons  to  parliament  as  **  Henrico 
Pole  de  Montagu.**  He  attended  King  Henry  in  the 
oeltfnrated  interview  with  Francis,  Idng  of  France, 
and  was  made  a  Knight  of  the  Bath  at  the  ooron»- 
tion  of  Anne  Boleyn.  But  in  a  few  years  afterwards 
being  charged,  along  with  the  Marquess  of  Exeter, 
by  his  own  brother.  Sir  Jeffbry  Pole,  with  a  design 
to  devnte  his  youngest  brother,  Rq^inald,  Dean  of 
Exeter,  to  the  throne,  he  was  convicted  of  high 
treason  before  the  Lord  Audley,  (lord  chancellor,) 
acting  as  high  steward  of  England,  at  Westminster, 
and  was  beheaded  on  Tower  HiU  on  the  9th  January, 
1539,  when  the  Barony  op  Momtaou  became  por- 
FsiTRD.  His  lordship  left  by  his  wife,  Jane,  daugb* 
ter  of  George  NeviU,  Lord  Abergavenny,  two 
daughters,  his  co-heirs,  namely, 

Katherine,   m.   to   Francis,   second  Earl  of 
Huntingdon,  represented  now.|>y  the  Mar- 
quess of  Hastings. 
Winiflred,  m.  first  to  Sir  Thomas  Hastings,  a 
younger  brother  of  the  Earl  of  Huntingdon, 
and  secondly,  to  Sir  Thomas  Barrington,  of 
Barrington   Hall,    in   Essex,   tram   which 
latter  union  the  present  Sir  Fits-WiUiam 
Barrington,  of  Barrington  Hall,  descends. 
In  the  first  year  of  Philip  and  Mary,  these  ladies 
being  restored  in  Mood  and  honours,  the  Barony 
OP  Montaou  was  then  placed  in  absyancs,  as  it 
so  continues  to  the  present  period. 

Arms.— Per  pale  or.  and  sa.  a  saltier  engrailed 
counter  changed. 

POYNINGS  —  BARONS   POYNINOS. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  S3rd  April,  1337j 
II  Edward  III. 

Xincasc. 

In  the  time  of  King  Hbnry  II., 

ADAM  DE  POYNINGS,  of  Poynings,  in  the 
county  of  Suisex,  was  a  benefactor  to  the  monks  of 
Lewes.  This  Adam  left  three  sons,  Adam,  William, 
and  John ;  from  one  of  whom,  it  is  presumed,  de> 
Boended 

MICHAEL  DE  POYNINGS,  who,  in  the  17th 
of  John,  adhered  to  the  rebellious  barons,  and  was 
«.  by 

THOMAS    DE    POYNINGS,    who    held   ten 

•  For  the  particulars  of  the  younger  sons,  amongst 
whom  was  the  cdebrated  Cardinal  Polb,  refer  to 
Plantaoxhbt,  Couhtus  op  Salisbury. 


knights  ibes  in  Poynings,  and  had  issue,  two  sons, 
Michael  and  Lucas.    The  elder  of  whom, 

MICHAEL  DE  POYNINOS,  received  summons 
upon  the  8th  June,  1S94,  (9Snd  Edward  I.,)  to 
attend  the  king,  with  other  great  men  of  the  time* 
in  order  to  advise  touching  the  most  important 
aflkirs  of  the  realm  t  and  he  had  military  summons 
immediately  after,  to  proceed  in  the  expedition 
against  France,  which  had  been  the  result  of  that 
oounciL  He  wai  likewise  actively  engaged  in  the 
Scottish  wars,  both  in  the  reign  of  Edward  I.  and 
in  that  of  Edward  II.    He  was  «.  by  his  son, 

THOMAS  DE  POYNINGS,  who  was  sum- 
moned to  parliament,  as  a  baron,  on  the  23nl 
April,  1337.  His  lordship  m.  Agnes,  one  of  the 
co-heirs  of  John,  son  of  Bartholomew  de  Cryol,  and 
was  slain  in  the  great  sea  fight  with  the  French  at 
Sliue,  in  1330.    He  was  «.  by  his  elder  son, 

MICHAEL  DE  POYNINOS,  second  baron, 
summoned  to  parliament  from  85th  February,  134S, 
to  84th  February,  1368*  Upon  the  decease  of  the 
last  lord,  the  king,  by  his  letters  patent,  dated  the 
14th  of  the  same  month,  acknowledging  his  great 
valour  and  eminent  merits,  and  that  he  was  slain  in 
his  service,  received  the  homage  of  the  present 
baron  though  then  under  age;  and  in  recompence 
of  those  his  father's  sufferings,  not  only  granted 
him  livery  of  his  lands,  but  the  fUll  benefit  of  his 
marriage,  taking  security  for  the  payment  of  his 
relief.  This  Michael,  Lord  Poynings,  participated 
in  the  glories  of  the  martial  reign  of  Edward  III., 
and  was  amongst  the  heroes  of  Crbbsy.  His  lord- 
ship IN.  Joane,  widow  of  Sir  John  de  Molyns,  Knt, 
and  d.  in  1360;  was  «.  by  his  son, 

THOMAS  DE  POYNINOS,  third  baron,  but 
never  summoned  to  parliament.  This  nobleman  m. 
Blanch  de  Mowbray,  (who  espoused,  secondly.  Sir 
John  de  Worthe,  Knt.,)  but  d,  without  issue  in  1375; 
was  «.  by  his  brother, 

RICHARD  POYNINGS,  fourth  baron,  sum- 
moned to  parliament  from  7th  January,  1383,  to  3rd 
September,  1385.  This  nobleman  m.  Isabel,  daugh- 
ter and  hnr  of  Robert  Grey,  of  Charlton-Grey,  in 
the  county  of  Somerset,  who  assumed  the  surname 
of  Fitz-Paynb,  (see  Fits-Payne,  Barons  Fits- 
Payne,)  by  his  wife,  Elisabeth,  daughter  and  co- 
heir of  Sir  Guy  de  Bryan ;  which  Isabel  inherited 
eventually  the  estates  of  her  maternal  grandfather, 
as  well  as  those  of  her  father.  Lord  Poynings  ac- 
companied John  i^f  Gaunt  into  Spain,  and  d,  there 
in  1387 1  was  m  by  his  son, 

ROBERT  DE  POYNINGS.  fifth  baron,  sum- 
moned to  parliament  Arom  85th  August,  1404,  to 
13th  January,  144A.  This  nobleman,  who  was  in 
the  French  wars  of  Henry  IV.,  Henry  V.,  and 
Henry  VI.,  feU  at  the  siege  of  Orleans  in  I44fi.  His 
lordship  had  two  sons,  via. 

RiCBARO,  who  m.  Alianore,  daughter  of  Sir 
John  Berkeley,  of 'Beverstone,  KnL,  and 
dying  before  his  father,  left  an  only  daugh- 
ter and  heir, 

Elisabbth  db  PovNtNoa,  who  m.  Sir 

Henry  Percy,  son  and  heir  of  Henry, 

second  Earl  op  Northumbbrland. 

RoBBBT,   of  Est    HaU,   Faukam-Aske,   and 

CheUesfield  (for  whom  and  his  descendants, 

430 


POY 


POY 


■ee  PoYiriiros.  Boron  Fawning*,  by  letten 

patent). 
Upon  the  deoesM  of  Robert,  Lord  Poynlngs,  his 
grand-daughter,  Ei.iiabbtb,  became  heir  to  hii 
estates  and  barony,  and  her  husband, 

SIR  HENRY  PERCY,  was  summoned  to  par- 
liament as  Barow  PoTNiHoa,  from  14th  December, 
1446,  to  flSth  May,  1455,  in  which  latter  year  his 
lordship  succeeded  to  the  Earldom  or  Nobth- 
UMBBRLAiTDs  and  the  Barony  or  Poynimos, 
thenceforward  shared  the  fortunes  of  the  superior 
dignity.  With  the  earldom,  it  was  forfeited  in 
1406— restored  In  1414— forfeited  in  1461— fcstoved 
1471.  On  the  death  of  Henry-Algernon,  sixth  Earl 
of  Northumberland,  issueless  in  15S7«  the  Barony 
of  Poynings,  with  the  Earldom,  became  bxtihct, 
in  consequence  of  the  attainder  of  the  Earl's  bro- 
ther. Sir  Thomas  Percy.  On  the  30th  April,  1557, 
Thomas  Percy,  son  and  heir  of  the  attainted  Sir 
Thomas  Percy,  was  created  bypotmt.  Baron  Percy, 
of  Codcermouth,  and  Petworth,  Baron  Poyhhtos, 
Ac.  dte.  with  remainder,  falling  issue  male,  to  his 
lRt>ther,  Henry  Percy,  and  his  issue  male ;  and  he 
was  shortly  afterwards  advanced  to  the  dignity  of 
Eart  qf  Northumberland,  with  the  same  rerersionary 
grant  This  Henry  Percy,  tjM  person  in  mnainder, 
inherited  the  honours,  and  they  remained  vested 
in  his  docendants,  until  the  demise  of  JoceUne, 
eleventh  Earl  or  Northumbbrland,  without 
male  issue,  in  1670,  when  all  the  hraours  couferred 
by  the  patent,  to  Thomas  Percy,  including  the 
Barony  or  Poyninos,  became  bztinct. 
Arms.— Barry  of  six,  or.  and  vert,  a  bend  gules. 

POYNINGS— BARON  ST.  JOHN,  OF 

BASING. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  S9th  December,  1290, 
28  Edward  I. 

Xincagc. 

LUCAS  DE  POYNINGS,  younger  son  of  Tho- 
mas, first  Lord  Poynings,  under  the  writ  of  Edward 
III.,  having  m.  in  the  23d  Edward  III.,  Isabel, 
widow  of  Henry  de  Burghersh,  daughter  of  Hugh 
de  St.  John,  Lord  St  John  of  Basing,  (a  barony 
created  by  writ  in  the  28th  Edward  L,  see  St  John,) 
and  sister  and  co-heir  of  Edmund,  Lord  St  John, 
had  an  assignation  of  all  the  lands  of  her  inherit- 
ance, and  in  some  years  afterwards,  on  the  death 
of  Margaret,  the  said  Isabel's  mother,  he  had  a 
further  assignation  of  the  manors  of  Basing  and 
Shirebome.  This  Lucas  was  in  the  wars  of  France, 
and  had  summons  to  parliament  in  his  wife's  ba- 
rony (it  is  supposed)  of  St.  John  or  Basing,  from 
S4th  February,  1368,  to  90th  January,  1376.  His 
lordsliip  d,  about  the  year  1385,  and  was  «.  by  his 
son, 

SIR  THOMAS  POYNINOS,  Knt,  who  ob- 
tained licence  in  the  9d  of  Henry  IV.,  by  the  title 
of  Lord  St.  John,  to  go  on  a  pilgrimage  to  Jeru- 
salem, but  was  never  summoned  to  parliament 
His  lordship  had  an  only  son, 

HvoB,  who  <i.  in  his  tether's  life-time,  leaving 
CoNSTANCB,  who  m.  John  Paulet,  and 
was  grandmother  of 
440 


Sir  William  Paulbt,  first  Mar- 
quess of  Winchester,  ancestor  of 
the  present  marquess. 
Alice,  m.  to  John  OrreU. 
Joane, «.  to  Thomas  BonviUe. 
Lord  St  John  <L  about  the7th  of  Henry  VL,  when 
his  grandchildren,  above>mentioned    became    his 
heirs,  and  the  Barony  or  St.  John,  of  Ba§inf, 
fell  iatoARBYANCB  amongst  them,  as  it  ttlll  con- 
tinues with  their  descendants. 

POYNINGS  —  BARON    POYNINGS. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  30th  January,  154A. 

Xincasc. 

ROBERT  DE  POYNINOS,  second  son  of  Ro- 
bert, fifth  and  last  Lord  Poynings,  of  the  family, 
under  the  writ  of  Edward  III.,  (see  Fo^tdngt, 
Babons  Poyninos,  by  summons,)  was  seised  of 
the  manors  of  East  Hall,  Faukam-Ayske,  and 
Chellesfleld,  and  was  «.  at  his  decease,  9th  Edward 
IV.,  by  his  son, 

SIR  EDWARD  POYNINGS,  who,  taking  an 
active  part  in  the  revolution  which  placed  Hbnry 
VI I.  upon  the  throne,  was  sworn  of  the  privy  coun- 
cil to  that  monardi,  and  during  the  whole  of  the 
reign  enjoyed  the  king's  full  confidence.  He  was 
one  of  the  chief  commanders  sent  in  the  5th  Henry 
VII.,  to  the  assistance  of  the  Emperor  Maximilian, 
against  the  French ;  and  he  was  subsequently  de- 
spatched at  the  head  of  a  large  force,  to  put  down 
the  supporters  of  Perk^n  Warbeek,  in  Ireland; 
of  which  realm.  Sir  Edward  (lOth  Edward  VII.) 
was  made  dbputy  in  the  absence  of  Prince  Hbnry, 
the  king's  younger  son,  then  Libutbnant  thereoH 
In  ten  years  afterwards  he  was  constituted  Con- 
stable of  Dover  Castle,  and  was  in  the  same  office 
at  Henry's  decease.  Sir  Edward  was  the  third  of 
eighteen  couns^ors,  bequeathed  by  tlie  king  to 
his  successor ;  a  privy  council,  in  which  it  is  said, 
there  was  not  one  lawyer,  but  a  complete  body  of 
active  and  experienced  men  in  their  own  orb.  In 
the  Ist  of  Henry  VI I L,  being  then  a  Knight  of  the 
Garter,  and  Comptroller  of  the  King's  Household^ 
he  was  again  made  Constable  of  Dover  Castle, 
and  Warden  of  the  Cinque  Ports.  In  the  5th  of 
the  same  reign,  he  was  with  the  king  at  the  siege 
of  Therouene,  at  the  head  of  six  hundred  chosen 
men  in  the  body  of  the  army,  and  upon  the  sur- 
render of  that  place,  he  was  1^  its  governor,  with 
a  strong  garrison.  Sir  Edward  Poynings  m.  Eliaa^ 
beth,'  daughter  of  Sir  John  Scott,  but  had  no  sur- 
viving issue.  He  had,  however,  by  four  concubines, 
three  sons  and  four  dau^ters,  vis. 

Thomas  (Sir),  of  whom  presently. 

Adrian  (Sir),  Governor  of  Portsmouth,  in 
1561.  Sir  Adrian  d,  in  the  13th  Elisabeth, 
leaving  three  daughters,  vis. 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  Andrew  Rogers,  Esq. 
Mary,  m,  to  Edward  Moore,  Es^, 
Anne,  m.  to  George  Moore,  Esq. 

Edward,  slain  at  Boloin,  tai  the  S8th  of  Henry 
VIIL 

Mary,  m.  to  Thomas  Clinton,  Lord  Clinton. 


PUi. 


PUL 


Mvgiret.  m.  to  Edmund  Bany,  of  Sominf- 
toa,  in  the  county  of  Kent 

m.  to  Sir  Thomas  Wilford,  Knt. 

Row*  m.  to  — —  Leukenore. 
Sir  Edward  &  in  the  14th  of  Henry  VIII.     The 
ddett  of  the  above  ill^tlmate  sons, 

SIR  THOMAS  POYNING6,  Knt.  was  with 
ChariM  AraiMiMi,  Duks  op  SvrvoLK,  at  the  siege 
of  Burks,  in  the  36th  Henry  VIII.,  and  was  de- 
spatched with  an  account  of  the  progress  of  the 
si^ge  to  the  king,  who  was  then  before  B0X.01N, 
at  the  head  of  a  powerful  army.  Sir  Thomas  was 
graciously  received,  and,  for  his  gallant  services, 
elevated  to  the  peerage,  by  letters  patent,  dated 
80th  January,  1545,  as  Baron  Poyn inob,  being  at 
the  same  time  app<dnted  genera]  of  the  king's 
whole  army  at  Boloin ;  after  which  nothing  further 
is  recorded.  His  lordship  m.  Katherine,  daughter 
and  co-heir  of  John,  Lord  Marney,  and  widow  of 
George  Ratcliffe,  Esq..  but  had  no  issue.  By  this 
lady  he  acquired  considerable  property  in  the 
county  of  Dorset,  two  parts  of  which  he  entailed 
upon  his  brothers,  successively,  and  after  them 
upon  the  children  of  his  sisters.  He  d.  in  1545, 
when  the  Barony  or  Poynings,  became  bxtinct. 

ARM8.~-Same  as  the  Baronb  PovMiNaa,  by  writ 

PULTENEY— EARL  OF  BATH. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  14th  July,  1742. 

Xincagc. 

The  family  of  Pttltenxy  was  fbunded  by 

ADAM  DE  CLIPSTONE,  who  acquired  the 
manor  of  Pulteney,  in  Leicestershire,  with  his  wife, 
Maud,  daughter  of  John  de  Napton,  and  thence 
adopted  the  surname  of  Pultsnky.  From  this 
Adam  lineally  descended 

SIR  WILLIAM  PULTENEY,  one  of  the  lead- 
ing members  of  the  House  of  Commons,  temp. 
Crarlbs  II.,  and  grandfather  of 

WILLIAM  PULTENEV,  Esq.,  a  gentleman 
equally  distinguished  in  parliament  in  the  reigns 
of  the  two  first  sovereigns  of  the  House  of  Bruns- 
wick. In  1714,  Mr.  Pulteney  was  appointed 
secretary  of  state,  an  office  which  he  resigned  in 
1717*  In  I7S3  he  was  made  cofferer  of  the  house- 
hold, and  sworn  of  the  privy  council;  but  he  re- 
signed again  in  17S5.  In  the  reign  of  Gkorox  II., 
he  was  leader  of  the  opposition  to  the  administra- 
tion of  Sir  Robert  Walpole,  and  so  keenly  was  his 
eloquence  felt  by  the  court,  that  his  name  was 
erased  in  1731  from  the  list  of  privy  councillors. 
That  proceeding  having  no  other  eflfbct,  how- 
ever, than  rendering  Pulteney  more  popular.  Sir 
Robert,  at  length,  discovered  that  the  only  manner 
in  which  he  could  hope  to  triumph  over  so  gifted  a 
rival,  was  to  o^ole  him  into  the  acceptance  of  a 
peerage ;  and  for  that  purpose  the  following  letter 
was  written  to  his  royal  master. 
«<  Most  Sacred, 

*<  The  Violence  of  the  fit  of  the  stone,  which- has 
tormented  me  for  some  days,  is  now  so  far  abated, 
that  although  it  will  not  permit  me  to  have  the 
honour  to  wait  on  your  nu^esty,  yet  is  kind  enough 
to  enable  roe  so  far  to  obey  your  orders,  as  to  write 


my  lentimentfl  ooncaming  that  troublesome  roan, 
Mr.  Pulteney ;  and  to  point  out  (what  I  conceive  to 
be)  the  most  eflfectual  method  to  make  him  per- 
fectly quiet  Your  m^esty  wdl  knows,  how,  by 
the  dint  of  his  eloquence,  he  has  so  captivated  the 
mob,  and  attained  an  unbounded  popularity,  that 
the  most  manifest  wrong  appears  to  be  right,  when 
adopted  and  urged  by  him.  Hence  it  is,  that  he 
has  become  not  only  troublescmie  but  dangerous. 
The  inconsiderate  multitude  think  he  has  not  one 
object  but  the  public  good  in  view;  although,  if 
they  would  reflect  a  little,  they  would  soon  per- 
ceive, that  spleen  against  those  your  mj^esty  has 
honoured  with  your  confidence,  has  greater  weight 
with  him  than  patriotism.  Since,  let  any  measure 
be  proposed,  however  salutary,  if  he  thinks  it  comes 
from  me,  it  is  sufficient  for  him  to  oppose  it  Thus, 
Sir,  yoju  see  the  affidrs  of  the  most  momentous 
concern  are  subject  to  the  caprice  of  that  popular 
man;  and  he  has  nothing  to  do,  but  to  call  it  a 
ministerial  project,  and  bellow  out  the  word/avour> 
ite,  to  half  an  hundred  pens  drawn  against  it.  and  a 
thousand  mouths  open  to  contradict  it  Under 
these  circumstances,  he  bean  up  against  the  minis- 
try (and,  let  me  add,  against  your  majesty  itself) ; 
and  every  useful  scheme  must  be  either  abandoned, 
or,  if  it  is  carried  in  either  house,  the  public  are 
made  to  believe  it  is  done  by  a  corrupted  majority. 
Since  then  things  are  thus  circumstanced,  it  is  be- 
come necessary  for  the  public  tranquillity,  that  he 
should  be  made  quiet;  and  the  only  method  to  do 
that  eflfectually,  is  to  destroy  his  popularity,  and 
ruin  the  good  bdief  the  people  have  in  him. 

"  In  order  to  do  this,  he  must  be  invited  to 
court;  your  mi^estymust  condescend  to  speak  to 
him  In  the  most  favourable  and  distinguished  man- 
ner ;  you  must  make  him  believe  that  he  is  the  only 
person  upon  whose  opinion  you  can  rely,  and  to 
whom  your  people  look  up  for  usefiil  measures. 
As  he  has  already  several  times  refused  to  take  the 
lead  in  the  administration,  unless  it  was  totally 
modelled  to  his  foncy,  your  majesty  should  close  in 
with  his  advice,  and  give  him  leave  to  arrange  the 
administration  as   he  pleases,  and  put  whom   he 
chooses  into  office  (there  can  be  no  danger  in  that, 
as  you  can  dismiss  him  when  you  think  fit);  and 
when  he  has  got  thus  fkr  (to  which  his  extreme 
self-love,  and  the  high  opinion  he  entertains  of  his 
own  importance,  will  easily  conduce),  it  will  be  ne- 
cessary that  your  majesty  should  seem  to  have  a 
great  regard  for  his  health ;  signifying  to  him,  that 
your  affairs  wiU  be  ruined  if  he  should  die;  that 
you  want  to  have  him  constantly  near  you,  to  have 
his  sage  advice ;  and  that,  therefore,  as  he  is  much 
disordered  in  body,  and  something  infirm,  it  will 
be  necessary  for  his  preservation,  for  him  to  quit 
the  House  of  Commons,  where  malevolent  tempers 
will  be  continually  fretting  him;  and  where,  in- 
deed, his  presence  will  be  needless,  as  no  step  will 
be  taken  but  according  to  his  advice ;  and  that  he 
will  let  you  give  him  a  distinguished  mark  of  your 
approbation,  by  creating  him  a  peer.    This  he  may 
be  brought  to:  for,  if  I  know  any  thing  of  man- 
kind, he  has  a  love  of  honour  and  money ;  and, 
notwithstanding  his  great  haughtiness  and  seeming 
contempt  for  honour,  he  may  be  won.  if  it  be  done 
3  L  441 


PUL 


For  «■  tiM 
oU  Chat 


poM 
tha 


UCf, 


wtkh  dOLtMiity* 
•  Flattary  is  « 
ftioL' 

**  If  7«ur  BiajMtf  out  OHM  bring  him  to  accept 
of  a  ooranat.  all  will  ba  over  wHh  him  i  the  chMflliig 
mnlciluda  will  oeaaa  to  hara  aay  ooDfldaaca  ia  him ; 
and  whan  yon  Ma  that,  yoor  aaaiorty  aaajtuni  yoor 
back  tohlm»  dimdaahim  ftiom  hit  post,  tmrn  oat  liia 
maddWng  partiani*  ^id  lattore  tlikigt  -to  quiat : 
for  than,  iflia  caawplalna,  it  will  ba  of  no  a»ail;  the 
bee  will  hare  loat  hia  idng.  and  baooma  an  Idle 
diooa*  whoaa  boailng  nobody  heada. 

"  Your  mi^tjr  will  pardon  ma  for  thafreedom 
with  wUA  I  Im^ glt«n  my  mntimanti  and  adTica; 
wiilch  I  shonld  not  have  dona>  had  not  yonr 
jeaty  ooaunandad  It,  and  had  I  not  been  certain 
your  peace  ft  muc^  diaturbed  by  dM  oontriTaaee  of 
that  tuibulent  man.  I  ihaU  only  add,  that  I  will 
diapoM  Mvenl  whom  I  know  to  wiih  him  wdl,  to 
tolidt  for  Ms  eatabliahmcnt  in  power,  that  you  may 
seem  toyirtd  to  their  entreatiee,  and  the  llname  lie 
lam  liable  to  be  diaooverad. 

«  I  hope  to  have  the  honour  to  attend  your  ma- 
jeaty  in  a  few  daya:  which  I  will  do  privately,  that 
my  public  premnoe  may  give  him  no  umbrage." 

(Signed)         "  RoBxnT  Walpolb.** 
fl4th  January.  1741. 

In  thlaichamethe  king  acquiesced,  the  bait  took, 
and  the  pseudo-patriot,  William  Pultaney,  having 
restored  to  the  privy  council,  was  c reeled  by 
latent,  dated  14th  July,  174S,  Barait  vfH^p- 
doM,  te  Ma  «omMv  qf  VsrJIr,  Vlaeouni  Futtmejf*  <tf 
Wringten,  in  Somarmtahirt ;  and  Earl  or  Bath. 
His  lordship  m.  Anna-Maria,  daughtar  of  John 
Oumley,  Esq.,  of  Isleworth,  in  the  county  of  Mid- 
dleeex,  by  whom  he  had  a  son,  William,  riseo«mf 
Fuiuneif,  wlio  d.  unmarried  in  the  eart's  lilb-time, 
anno  1763;  he  had  likewise  a  daughter,  who  d.  in 
1741,  at  the  age  of  fourteen.  The  earl  A  in  1784, 
when,  feiUng  male  Imue,  all  nia  noivoona  be- 
came BzrnrcT.  His  lordihip'a  great  eetatea  de- 
volved eventually  upon  his  grand-niece,  Henrietta- 
Laura  Johnstone,  who  assumed  the  nameof  Pulte- 
ney,  and  was  created  Couirraaa  op  Bath. 

Armb.— A  fiiBBa  danoetto  gules  lit  chief,  three 
leopards'  heads,  sa. 

PULTBNEY  —  BARONESS   BATH, 
COUNTESS  OF  BATH. 

Barony,    1  by  Letters  f  SSrd  July,  179S>  . 
Earldom,  j    Patent,    \  28th  October,  1803. 

SIR  WILLIAM  JOHNSTONE,  Bart,  of  Wester- 
hall,  in  the  county  of  Dumfries,  m.  Frances,  daugh- 
ter and  heir  of  Henry  Pulteney,  Esq.,  next  brother 
to  William,  Eariof  Bath,  (whidiladywrn  eventually 
heirem  to  his  lordship^s  mtates,)  and  had  an  only 
daughter, 

HENRIETTA  -  LAURA  JOHNSTONE,  who 
suooaedlng  to  the  great  Pulteney  fortune,  assumed 
the  aumame  and  arms  of  Pultsrbt,  and  was 
elevated  to  the  peerage,  SSrd  July,  179S,  as  Baro- 
Hsaa  Batb,  with  limitation  of  the  dignity  of  Baron 
Bath  to  her  issue  malOi  Her  ladyship  was  created 
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QUI 

Commtaa  ov  Blatb,  wKh  a  similar  revewlon  of 
the  Earldom  of  Bath,  by  lettan  patent,  dated  96th 
October,  IflOSL  She  m,  Genenl  Sir  James  Murray, 
Bart.,  who  adopted  likewise  thenameof  PvLTRif  by, 
but  had  no  issoei  The  ceuatem  d.  in  1808,  when 
the  Barobv  abd  Bablooh  ov  Batb  both  be- 
came BXTIBCT. 

ARMa.— A  fosse  daBoatta  guka  hi  dilef,  Chree 
leopards' heads,  sa. 

QUEROUALLE  —  DUCHESS   OF 
PORTSMOUTH. 

By  Letten  Patent,  dated  19th  Attguat,  M73L 

XilMBtC. 

In  the  retinue  of  Hmtrletta,  DucBBsa  op  Ob- 
LBABa,  sister  of  King  Chaklmb  II.,  came  to  the 
court  of  St.  James*k,  a  FYendi  lady, 

LOUISE  RENEB  DE  PBUENCOYET  DE 
QUEROUALLE,  who,  captivaUng  the  English  mo- 
nardi,  Cbarlbs  IL,  was  modier,  by  his  mi^ty,  of 
a  son,  Cbarlbs  Lbbitoz,  Dukb  op  Richmond, 
founder  of  the  present  noUe  house  of  Richmond, 
and  WM  crmted  for  life,  by  letters  patent,  dated  19th 
August,  I67S,  BBytmsst  PetmfiOd,  Counter  qf  Pare- 
ham,  and  DucHsaa  op  Portsmouth.  Her  lady- 
ship being  of  a  noble  family  in  Britanny,  Lewis  XIV. 
conferred  upon  her  the  Duchy  op  Aubiobt,  a 
dignity  still  hdd  by  the  Dukes  of  Richmond.  The 
duchess,  who  ei^oyed  great  influence  during  the 
life  of  her  royal  paramour,  d.  at  an  advanced  age  at 
Paris,  in  the  year  1734. 

ARMa^— As.  tiiree  bars,  ar. 

QUINCY— EARLS  OF  WINCHESTER. 

By  Creation  of  King  John,  about  the  year  19ia 

Xiiuagc. 

In  the  reign  of  King  Henry  IL, 

SAIER  DE  QUINCY  had  a  grant  fkom  the 
crown,  of  the  Manor  of  Bushby  in  the  county  of 
Northampton,  formerly  the  property  of  Aaselme 
de  Concfais.    He  m.  Maud  de  St.  Lis,  and  had  two 


Robtrt,  a  toldier  of  the  croa,  and  one  of  the 
companions  in  arms  of    Liob-hbabt^d 
Richard. 
And 

SAIER  DE  QUINCY,  who  was  created  Eabl  ov 
WiBCHBaTBB,  by  King  John.  This  nobleman  waa 
one  of  the  lords  prment  at  Lincoln,  when  William, 
King  of  Scotland,  did  homage  to  the  English  mon- 
ardi,  and  he  subsequently  obtained  large  grants 
and  immunities  firom  King  Johns  when,  how- 
ever, the  baronial  war  broke  out,  his  lordship^ 
pennant  waved  on  the  side  of  freedom,  and  he 
became  m  eminent  amongst  those  sturdy  chicA, 
that  he  was  chosen  one  of  the  celebrated  twantyw 
five  barons,  appointed  to  enforce  the  observance 
of  Maoba  Crarta.  Adhering  to  the  same  party, 
after  the  aceemion  of  Henry  III.,  the  Bart  of 
Winchester  had  a  principal  command  at  the  battle 
of  Lincoln,  and  there  being  defoated,  he  was  takes 
prisoner  by  the  royalists.    But  mbnittlnff  In  the- 


JtAI> 


RAB 


UOomiaig  Octobor.  he  had  iMftUutkm  of  aU  hi* 
Jandi ;  and  proGcedtd  mod  after,  in  oompany  with 
tlia  Earb  of  Chotar  and  Arun<lal*  and  others  of  tha 
noUUty,  to  tha  Holy  Land,  whaia  ha  avitted  at  tha 
liaga  of  Damxxta,  anno  1219,  and  diad  in  tha  nisa 
year,  in  his  progress  towards  Jerusalem.  His  lord- 
phip  m.  MargBiet,  younger  sister  and  co-hair  of 
Robert  Fita-Pamell,  Earl  of  Leicester,  by  which 
•ikmm^  ]i«  acquired  a  very  ooaaldend»le  inheri- 
tance»  and  had  issue, 

Robert,  whocL  in  the  Holy  Land,  leaTing  issue 
by  his  wife,  Hawyse,  daughter  of  Hugh 
KcreUok,  Earl  of  Chester,  an  only  daugh- 
ter. 

ICargaieC,  m.  to  John  da  Lade,  Earl  of 
Llnodn. 
Rooaa,  successor  to  the  Earldom. 
Robert,  m.  Hekne,  daughtar  of   Lawelyne, 
Prince  of  North  Wales,  and  widow  of  John 
Scot,  Earl  of  Huntingdon,  by  whom   he 
left. 

Annexe  nun. 

Joane,  m.  to  Humphrey  de  B<d&un«  the 

younger. 
Margaret,  m.  to  Baldwin  Wake. 
At  the  decease  of  the  earl,  his  second  son, 

ROGER  DE  QUINCY,  (his  elder  brother  belag 
still  in  the  Holy  Land,)  had  livery  of  his  fbtherl 
estates,  and  he  subsequently  succeeded  to  the  Eau.- 
noM  OF  WiNCHBaTBB.  This  nobleman  marrying 
Hden,  ddest  daughtar  and  co-heir  of  Alan,  Lord 
of  Galloway,  became,  in  her  right,  CoKaTABLi  op 
SooTLANO.    By  this  lady  he  had  issue, 

Margaret,  m.  to  William  dls  Ferrers,  Earl  of 
Derby,  and  brought  to  her  husband  tha 
Manor  and  Barony  of  Groby. 
Elisabeth,  m.  U>  Alexander  Comyn,  Earl  of 

Buchan,  in  Scotland. 
EU,  M.  to  Alan,  Lord  Zouch,  of  Ashby. 
Uia  lordahip  espoused,  secondly,  Maud,  daughter 
of  Humphrey  de  Bohun,  Earl  of  Herelbfd,  (widow 
of  Anarime  Mareschall,  Earl  of  Pembroke,)  and 
thirdly,  Alianote,  daughter  of  William  de  Ferrers, 
Earl  of  Derby,  and  widow  of  William  de  Vaux 
(this  hidy  survived  the  Earl,  and  married,  after  his 
decease,  Roger  de  Leyboume).  Dugdala  says,  that 
the  Eacl  had  another  daughter,  but  by  which  wlft 
he  could  not  discover,  namdy, 

Isabell,  with  whom  a  contract  (rf  marriage  was 
made,  by  John,  son  of  Hugh  de  Nevil»  for 
his  son,  Hugh. 
Hia  lordship  d.  in  1864*  when  the  Eabijm>m  of 
WxncBnaraa  became  bxtimct,  and  his  great 
landed  poasossipns  devolved  upon  his  daughters,  as 
po-heirasscs. 

ABMa^^Robert  de  Qulncy— or  a  fesse  gu.  a  file  of 
eleven  points,  aa. 

Roger  de  Quiacy^-<gu.  seven  masdes,  or 
three,  three,  and  one. 

BADCLYFFE  —  EARLS    OF     DER. 
WENTWATER. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  7th  March,  leSDL 

Xiiuagt. 

SIR  FRANCIS  RADCLYFFB,  Baroa  ot  Dil- 


ston,  in  the  county  d  Northombarland*  waa  elo' 
vated  to  the  peonage,  by  King  JAMsa  IL,  aa  Bamm 
IVttdais,  Vlseount  Raddif^  mnd  Lamgleif,  and  Eabi. 
OF  DaawsNTWATXiu*  Hia  lordship  m.  Catherine* 
daughtar  and  heii  of  Sir  William  Fenwick,  of  MeU 
don*  in  the  county  of  Northumbarland,  and  had 
issue, 

FiiANoia,  FlscettfX  Aoddtfli,  his  sucoaaaor. 

Edward,  d.  unmarried. 

Thomas,  a  military  officer. 

William. 

Arthur. 

Anne,  m.  to  Sir  Philip  Constable^  Kat.,  of 
Flamborough,  in  Yorkshire. 

Catharine. 

KMsnbrth. 

Mary. 
His  lordship  d,  in  lflD6,  and  waa  «.  by  Ue  eldest 


FRANCIS  RADCLIFFE,  second  earl*  who  had 
married  in  his  father's  lifb'time,  Mary  Tudor,  na- 
tural daughter  of  |Ung  Charles  IL,  by  Msh  Davia* 
and  had  issue, 

JAMaa,  Viscount  RadcUft,  his  sacceaaor. 
Franda,  died  «.  p, 

Charles,  who  became  the  second  husband  of 
CHAai.oTTa-MARiA  LiviNoaTOK,  OswnMas 
Hf  Newbw^,  in  fur  9wn  right,  and  had* 
with  other  issue, 
jAMaa-BAnTHOLOMBW,  who  suoceaded 
his  mother,  and  became  third  Earl  oC 
Newburgh. 
Mary,  whom,  in  VJS&t  Francis  Eyre,Eaq.» 
of  Walworth  Castle,  in  the  county  of 
Northampton,  and  had  iasue, 
FRAKCia  Evas,  who  Inherited,  as 
sixth  Earl  of  Newburgh*  and  was 
Ihther  of  the  present  Eari.  op 
NawBuaoH. 
Mary-Tudor. 
Hia  lordship  d.  fai  AprU,  170S,  and  waa  a.  by  his 
eldest  son, 

JAMES  RADCLIFFE.  third  earL  This  noble- 
man, embarking  with  hia  brother,  Charles  RadcUflb* 
in  the  rising   of  17M,   to  place  the  CnaYAiinin 

•  Beyond  Hay  Castle,  in  Cumberland,  the  river 
Dbbwbitt  Ihlls  Into  the  ocean,  which  riaiag  In 
Barrodale,  (a  vale  anrrounded  with  cnxAed  hiBs,) 
mna  among  the  mountains  called  Derwent-Fellsi 
wherein  at  Newlands,  and  some  other  plaoas,  soma 
rich  velna  of  copper  (not  witiiout  a  mixture  of 
gold  and  silver)  were  found  i  about  which,  there 
was  a  nemorabie  trial,  between  Queen  Ellaabetfa* 
and  Thomaa  Percy,  Earl  ef  Northumberland,  and 
Lord  of  the  Manor;  but  in  virtue  of  the  royal  pra- 
rogative,  (there  being  veins  of  gold  and  silver,)  It 
was  detennlned  in  fkvour  of  the  Quam.  Througfa 
these  mountafas,  the  Darwent  spreads  itadf  Into  a 
spacioos  lake,  wherein  aiw  three  Islands :  one  the 
seat  of  the  fomily  of  Ratdiflb,  Kt,  temp.  Henry  V., 
whom.  Margaret,  dauf^ter  and  hdr  of  Star  John  de 
Derwencwatar,  Knt.  i  another  inliaWted  by  miners, 
and  the  tUrd  sapposed  to  be  Aat,  wherehi  Bede 
mentkna  St.  Herbert  to  liapa  lad  a  hermitfalliBb— 
BAJfxa. 

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91*.  OsoROB  upon  the  throne,  waa  made  priaoner, 
■ent  to  the  Tower  of  London,  and  being  lOon  after- 
ward! found  guilty  of  high  treaaon,  waa  beheaded 
on  Tower  Hill,  24th  February,  1719-16,  when  all 
Hia  BONOURB  became  porpsitkd.  The  earl  had 
married  Anne-Maria,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Webb, 
Bart.,  by  whom  he  had  John,  Viteaunt  Raddiffif, 
with  another  ion,  and  a  daughter,  Mary,  who  m. 
RoBXRT-JAMxa,  eighth  Lord  Petre.  Hia  lordship's 
brother, 

CHARLES  RADCLIFFE,  who  had  married,  aa 
stated  above,  the  Countess  of  Newburgh,  waa  made 
prisoner  at  Preston,  14th  November,  1715,  and 
being  transferred  to  London,  waa  condemned  for 
high  treason,  but  eflfected  hia  escape  from  New> 
gate,  and  retired  into  France^  On  the  death  of  his 
nephew,  Jobn,  VUeount  HaddHfe,  in  1731,  he  as- 
sumed the  title  of  Earl  of  Dsrwrntwatxr. 
Still  adhering  to  the  fortunes  of  the  Stuarts,  he 
embarked  with  his  son,  to  Join  Charlsb-Edward, 
in  1745,  but  bdngmade  prisoner  on  board  the  Espe- 
ranee  privateer,  by  the  Sheemess  man-of-war,  he 
was  immediately  committed  to  the  Tower,  and 
beheaded,  under  his  former  sentence,  on  the  8th 
December,  1746.  The  Earldom  op  Drrwrkt- 
WATBR  fell  under  the  attainder  of  Jamrb.  the 
third  Earl;  If  it  had  been,  however,  reatored  to  the 
male  heir  of  Charles  Radcliflb,  Jambb-Bartho- 
lomrw,  third  Earl  of  Newbttrgh,  it  would  have 
become  xxtikct,  upon  the  decease  of  that  noble- 
man's son  and  successor,  Anthony-Jams8,  fourth 
Earl  of  Newburgh,  without  male  issue,  in  1814, 
unless  there  remain  some  male  descendanta  of 
Thomas,  William,  and  Arthur,  the  younger  sons 
of  Fraxcib.  tiiefirtt  Earl. 

Armb.— Aa.  a  bend  ingrailed  sa. 

RAMSEY  ^  EARL     OF     HOLDER- 

NESSE. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  Stod  January,  1681. 

ICiiuagt. 

JAMBS  RAMSEY,  of  an  ancient  Soottiah  family, 

and  one  of  the  pages  of  honour  to  King  Jambb 

(VL)  L,  havingbeen  mainly  instrumental  in  saving 

the  life  of  that  monarch  tram  the  attempt  of  the 

Ruthyiu,  known  as  the  "Gowby  Conspiracy,** 

was  rewarded  with  knighthood,  the  Earldom  of 

Haddington  in  Scotland,  and  an  augmentation  to 

his  arms,  via.:   an  arm  holding  a  naked  sword* 

with  a  crown  in  the  middle  thereof,  and  a  heart 

at  the  point,  with  the  motto,  "  H«e  dsurtra  iHnde* 

principio  et  patritB,"     Upon  the  accession  of  his 

royal  master  to  the  Thronb  op  thb  Tudorb, 

his  lordship  accompanied  him  into  England,  and 

in  some  years  afterwards,  S9d  January,  1081,  was 

made  a  peer  of  the  king's  new  dominions,  by  the 

titles  of  Baron  Kingtton-upon-HuU,  and  Earl  op 

HoLDBRNXBBB,  With  this  especisl  addition  to  the 

honour,  that  annually  on  the  ftth  of  August,  (the 

thanksgiving  day  for  the  king's  deliverai)ce  ftom 

the  Earl  of  Gowry  and  his  brother,)  he  and  his  heira 

male  should  bear  the  sword  of  state  before  the 

king,  in  the  solemniaation  of  that  day's  service. 

His  lordship   m.  first.  Lady  Elisabeth  R«tclilfe, 


daughter  of  Robert,  Earl  of  Suiacx,  by  whom  ha 
had  no  surviving  issue.  He  espoused,  aecondly« 
Martha,  daughter  of  Mr.  Alderman  (Sir  William) 
Cokain,  of  the  city  of  London,  but  had  no  child. 
He  d.  in  16B5,  when  all  hib  honours  became 

BXTINCT. 

Arhb. — Two  coats  per  pale  first  sa.  an  arm  iaauing 
out  of  the  sinister  part  of  the  escutcheon  or.  hold- 
ing a  sword  erected  ar.  piercing  a  crown  gules, 
and  on  the  point  a  heart  ppr.;  seoondlyj  or.  an 
eagle  displayed  sa. 

RATCLIFFE— BARONS  FITZ-WAL- 
TER,  VISCOUNTS  FITZ- 
WALTER,  EARLS  OF 
SUSSEX. 

\  Originally,  by  Writ  of  Summons,  dated 
BaMmv.  S-  *^**  June,  1296,  23  Edward  I. 

^  f  To  the  Ratdiffte,  by  Writ  of  Summona. 
J     dRted  lAth  Sept.,  1485,  1  Henry  VIL 
Viscounty,  \by  Letters  j  dated  18th  July,  1A2S. 
Earldom,    J    Patent,    t  dated  88th  Dec.,  USa. 

XincaBc. 

In  the  7th  of  King  Henry  V., 

SIR  JOHN  RATCLIFFE,  Knt,  Governor  of 
Trounsak,  in  Aquitaine,  had  a  thousand  marka 
per  annum  aUowed  to  him  for  the  guard  thereof, 
and  in  the  1st  of  Henry  VI.,  being  retained  to  serve 
the  king,  as  seneschal  of  that  duchy,  had  an 
assignation  of  four  shillings  per  day  for  his  own 
salary,  and  twenty  marks  a  piece  per  annum  for 
two  hundred  archers.  In  the  4th  year  of  the  same 
monarch.  Sir  John  had  a  grant  of  the  wardship 
of  Ralph,  Earl  of  Westmorland,  in  conaideratioB 
of  two  thousand  marks,  then  due  to  him  by  the 
king,  for  wages  in  his  military  capacity:  and  in 
seven  years  afterwards,  he  had  an  assignation  of 
an  the  revenues  of  the  crown,  issuing  out  of  the 
counties  of  Caernarvon  and  Merioneth,  aa  also  out  of 
the  lordships  of  Chirk,  and  Chirkland,  to  liquidRte 
another  arrear  of  service  money,  to  the  amount 
of  J&7099  IS*.  Id.  This  eminent  soldier,  who  was 
a  Knight  Banneret,  and  a  Knight  op  thb  Gar- 
TBR,  espoused  Elizabeth  Fitz-Waltbr,  only 
daughter  and  heiress  of  Walter  Fits- Walter,  laat 
Baron  Fitz-Waltbr  of  that  family,  (revert  to 
Fits-Walter,  Baton  Fits- Walter,)  and  was  a.  at  hia 
decease  by  his  son, 

SIR  JOHN  RATCUFFE,  who,  in  the  aOth 
Henry  VI.,  obtained  a  purdon  of  intrusion,  for 
entering  upon  the  lands  of  hit  inheritance  without 
livery  I  and  in  the  1st  ot  Henry  VII.,  15th  Septem- 
ber, 1485,  was  summoned  to  parliament,  in  right 
of  his  mother,  aa  Baron  Fitc-Waltbr.  In  which 
year,  being  at  that  time  steward  of  the  king'a 
household,  he  waa  Joined  in  conunisaion  with  Sir 
Kcglnald  Bray,  KnL,  for  exercising  the  office  of 
chief  Justice  of  all  the  forests  beyond  Trent.  And 
at  the  coronation  of  King  Henry's  consort.  Queen 
Elisabeth,  his  lordship  waa  associated  with  Jasper 
Tudor,  Duke  of  Bedford,  for  performing  the  duties 
of  High  Steward  of  Englaffd.  But  afterwards  im- 
plicated  in  the  conspiracy  in  favour  of  Pxrkyn 
Wabbxck,  he  waa  attainted  of  high  treaaon,  and 


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bdng  carried  prisoner  to  Calait,  wlicnce  he  en- 
deavoured to  malLe  his  eicape,  by  corrupting  his 
keepers,  he  was  there  beheaded  in  the  year  1490> 
when  the  B  a  bony  op  Fitc-1¥altxr,  became  pob- 
FxiTBO. ,  Nevertheless  his  son  and  heir, 

ROBERT  RATCLIFFE,  ftmnd  much  tevour 
ttom  King  Henry  VII.,  and  was  restored  in  blood 
and  honours  by  act  of  parliament,  in  the  1st  of 
Henry  VIII.,  when  he  became  second  Lord  Fitz- 
Waltxr  of  the  Ratcliife  family.  In  the  4th  of 
the  same  reign,  his  lordship  attended  the  Idng  in 
the  great  expedition  then  made  to  Therouene,  and 
Toumay;  and  in  ten  years  afterwards,  he  com- 
manded the  van  of  the  army  sent  into  France, 
under  the  Earl  of  Surrey :  for  which  eminent 
services  he  was  created,  by  letters  patent,  dated 
18th  July,  15S5,  Viscount  Fits-Waltbr.  His 
lordship  was  one  of  those  peers,  who,  in  four  years 
afterwards,  subscribed  the  articles  against  Cardinal 
Wolsey.  He  was  subsequently  made  a  Knight  of 
the  Garter,  and  elevated  to  the  Earldom  op  Sub- 
8BZ,  on  28th  December,  1589.  The  next  year  he 
subscribed  the  remonstrance  of  the  peers  to  Pope 
Clement  VII.,  regarding  the  king's  divorce  tram 
Queen  Katherine,  and  he  was  one  of  the  nobles 
who  attended  Hbnrv  into  Prance,  in  1538:  after 
which  he  obtained  an  especial  patent  to  himself, 
and  his  heirs  male  of  the  office  of  Sxwbr,  at  the 
time  of  dinner,  upon  the  coronation-day  of  all 
Aiture  kings  and  queens  of  England,  with  a  fee 
of  twenty  pounds  per  annum  out  of  the  exchequer ; 
and  was  constituted  Lord  Hior  Chambbrlain 
OP  England  for  life,  upon  the  attainder  of  Tho- 
mas Cromwell,  Earl  of  Essetx.  Besides  all  those 
honours,  his  lordship,  in  the  spoliation  of  the 
church,  was  a  considerable  participator,  having 
obtained  from  his  royal  master  grants  of  the  site 
of  the  abbey  of  Cleve,  in  Somersetshire,  with  its 
revenues »  and  of  the  college  and  chantry  of  Attle- 
burgh,  in  Norfolk.  The  earl  m.  first,  Eliaabeth, 
daughter  of  Henry,  Duke  of  Buckingham,  and  had 
issue, 

Hbnry,  his  successor. 

George. 

Humphrey  (Sir),  of  Elnestow,  in  the  county 
of  Bedford,  left  issue, 

Edward,  who  inherited  as  fourth  Earl 

of  Sussex. 
Frances,  m.  to  Henry  Cheeke,  Esq. 
His  lordship  espoused,   secondly.  Lady  Margaret 
Stanley,  daughter  of  Thomas,  Earl  of  Derby,  and 
had, 

Anne,  nu  to  Thomas,  Lord  Wharton. 

Jane,  m.  to  Anthony,  Viscount  Montague. 
He   m.    thirdly,    Mary,    daughter    of    Sir   John 
Arundel*  of  Lanheme,  in  Cornwall,   and  had  an 
only  son» 

John  (Sir),  who  died  without  issue. 
His  lordship  tU  in  154S,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest 

son, 

SIR  HENRY  RATCLIFFE,  K.B.,  as  third 
Lord  Fits- Walter,  and  second  Earl  of  Sussex,  who, 
in  the  1st  of  Edward  VI.,  upon  the  expedition 
then  made  into  Scotland,  had  the  command  of 
sixteen  hundred  demi-lances;  in  which  service, 
being  unhorsed,  he  escaped  very  narrowly  with  his 


life.  At  the  demise  of  King  Edward,  the  Earl  of 
Sussex  was  amongst  the  first  that  declared  for 
Queen  Mary,  and  was  in  consequence  constituted 
by  that  sovereign,  soon  after  her  accession,  warden ' 
and  chief  Justice  itinerant  of  all  the  forests  south 
of  Trent.  He  was  also  made  a  Knioht  op  tbb 
Oartbr.  His  lordship  m.  first.  Lady  Elisabeth 
Howard,  daughter  of  Thomas,  Duke  of  Norfolk, 
and  had  issue, 

Thomas.  \  g„ecessive  Earls  of  Sussex. 
Hbnry,    J 

Francis. 
He  espoused  secondly,  Anne,  daughter  of  Sir  Philip 
Calthorpe,  Knt,  by  whom  he  had  a  son  and  daugh- 
ter, via. 

Egremond,  who,  bdng  a  principal  actor  in 
the  northern  rebellion,  was  attainted  and 
forced  to  fly  the  kingdom.  He  was  after- 
wards put  to  death  at  Namurs,  by  Don 
John  of  Austria,  for  purposing  to  mu^er 
that  prince. 
Frances,  m.  to  Sir  Thomas  Mildmay,  Knt, 
of  Mulsho,  in  the  county  of  Elssex,  and  had 
issue. 

Sir  Thomas  Mildmay,  Bart.,  who  d.  in 

1890. 
Sir  Hbnry  Mildmay,  Knt,  who,  in 
1640,  claimed,  by  petition  to  the  Umg 
parliament,  in  right  of  his  mother,  the 
Barony  op  Fitc-Waltbr,  but  owing 
to  the  civil  wan  nothing  was  done  at 
that  time  therein.  Sir  Henry  m.  Eli- 
zabeth, daughter  of  John  Darcy,  Esq., 
of  Toleshurst  Darcy,  in  the  county  of 
Essex,  and  dying  in  1654,  left  three 
sons,  viz. 

1.  RoBBRT.  m.  Mary,  daughter  and 
co-heir  of  Sir  Thomas  Edmonds, 
Knt.,  and  had  issue, 
Henry,  died«.i>. 
Bbnjamin,  who  was  allowed 
the  Barony  of  Fitz-Wal- 
TBR,  in  1809  (see  Mildmay, 
Barons  Fits-Walter). 
Mary,  m.  to  Henry  Mildmay, 
Esq.,   of  Graces,   and    had 
issue, 

Mary,  m.  to  Charles  Good- 
win, Esq. 
Lucy,     m.     to     Thomas 

Gardener,  E^. 
Elizabeth,  m.  to  Edmund 

Waterson,  Esq. 
Frances,   m.   to    Christo- 
pher Fowler,  Esq. 
Catherine,  m.  to  Colonel 
Thomas  Townshend.  ' 
S.  Henry,  died«.p. 
3.  Charles,  m.  to  Martha,  daughter 
and  heiress  of  Sir  Cranmer  Harris, 
Knt.,  and  left  an  only  daughter, 
Mary,  m.  to  Sir  Charles  Tyr- 
rell, Bart.,  of  Thornton. 
The  earl,  being  divorced  from  his  second  countess^ 
obtained  a  special  act  of  parliament  in  the  2nd  and 
3rd  Philip  and  Mary,  to  debar  her  ttom  Jointure  and 

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dower.    Ii«  (L  17th  February,  16B6,  and  mu  «.  by 
hUeldCitaoa. 

SIR  THOMAS  RATCLIFFE,  fourth  Lord  Fits- 
Walter,  and  third  Earl  of  Suaaez.    Thia  nobleman. 
In  the  life-time  of  hia  father,  waa  deputed  ambaa- 
aador  by  Quean  Mary  to  the  Emperor  Charles  V.  to 
treat  of  a  marriage  between  herself  and  Prince 
Philip,  the  em^peror's eldest  aon;  and  he  proceeded 
afterwarda  to  the  court  of  Spato  to  the  prince  him- 
self to  obtain  a  ratification  of  the  treaty.    In  the 
Snd  and  flrd  of  Philip  and  Mary,  Sir  Thomaa  Rat- 
dillb  waa  constituted  lord  deputy  of  Irelandt  and 
soon  after  hia  Cather's  deoeaM,  his  lordsh^  was 
made  chief  Justice  of  all  the  forests  south  of  Trsnt. 
In  the  4th  and  5th  of  the  same  reign,  the  earl  being 
then  a  Knight  of  the  Garter,  and  captain  of  the 
pensi<mers,  had  his  commission  as  deputy  of  Ire- 
hmd  renewed;  which  high  office  waa  confirmed  to 
him  upon  the  accession  of  Queen  Elixabeth,  with 
instructions  to  reduce  the  revenues  of  Ireland  to 
thei»tandard  of  England.    In  the  3rd  of  Elisabeth 
he  was  canstituted  imku  LinursNANT  of  the  same 
kiagdom,  and  in  six  yean  afterwards  he  had  the 
honour  of  bearing  the  order  of  the  Garter  to  the 
Emperor  Maximilian.    H«  was  aflcrwards  engaged 
in  negotiating  a  matrimonial  alliance  between  his 
royal  miatress,  and  the  Ankduke  Cuamlkb  t^/Atu- 
trio.    In  the  ISthEliaabeth  he  was  lord  president  of 
the  north,  and  the  next  year,  upon  an  incursion  of 
the  Scots,  his  lordship  invaded  Scotland  and  hdd 
several  of  their  towns  and  castles  in  ashes  i  amongst 
which  were  the  castles  of  Anand  and  Caerlaveroc 
He  sate  subsequently  upon  the  trial  of  the  Duke 
of  Norfolk  {  and  he  was  one  of  the  oommissionen 
(a4th  EUsabeth,)  to  treat  regarding  a  marriage  be- 
tween her  miOesty  and  the  Duke  of  Anjou.    His 
lordship   m.  first.    Lady   EUxabeth  Wriothesley, 
daughter  of  Thomaa*  Earl  of  Southampton,  by 
whom  he  had  two  sons,  Henry  and  Robert,  who 
both  d.  young.    He  espoused,  secondly,*  Frances, 
daughter  of  Sir  William  Sidney,  Knt,  sister  of  Sir 
Henry  Sidney,  Knt.,  but  had  no  issue; 

This  Thomas,  Earl  of  Sussex,  Sir  Robert  Naunton, 
in  his  Fragmenta  Regalia,  describes  "  as  a  goodly 
gentleman!  of  a  brave  noble  nature,  and  constant 
to  his  friends  and  servants :"  and  goes  on  to  state, 
**  that  there  waa  such  an  antipathy  in  his  nature  to 
that  of  the  Earl  of  Leicester's,  that  being  together 
at  court,  and  both  in  high  employments,  they  grew 
to  direct  forwardness,  and  were  in  continual  oppo- 
sition ;  the  one  setting  the  watch  and  the  other  the 
sentinel,  each  on  the  other's  actiona  and  motions : 
for  this  Earl  of  Sussex  waa  of  great  spirit,  which 
backed  with  the  queen's  special  fkvour,  and  sup- 
ported by  a  great  and  antient  inheritance,  could  not 
brook  the  other's  empire :  in  so  much  as  the  queen, 
upon  sundry  occasions,  had  somewhat  to  do  to 
appease  and  attain  them,  until  death  parted  the 
competition,  and  1^  the  place  to  Leicester."^  Upon 
his  death-bed  his  lordship  ia  said,  by  the  same  au- 
thority, thus  to  have  addressed  his  friends :  *<  I  am 
now  passing  into  another  world,  and  I  must  leave 


•  This  lady  waa  foundress  of  Sydney 
College,  Cambridge,  andii.  IMh  March,  1SB»,  aged 
fifty-eight. 
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you  to  your  fortunes,  and  the  queaa's  grace  and 
goodness;  but  beware  of  tfut  gipaey,  (meaning 
Leioester,)  for  he  will  be  too  hard  for  you  all ;  you 
know  not  the  beaat  so  well  aa  I  do." — He  d.  in  June, 
1583,  at  his  house  of  Bermondsey,  in  Southwark* 
and  was  buried  atBordiam,  in  Sussex ;  but  leaving 
no  issue  surviving,  waa  «.  by  his  brother, 

HENR  V  RATCLIFFE,  fifth  Loid  Fita-Walter, 
and  fourth  Earl  of  Sussex,  captain  and  chief  gover- 
nor of  Portsmouth,  and  Knight  of  the  Garter.  Hia 
lordship  in.  Honora,  daughter  of  Anthony  Pound* 
Esq.,  of  Hampshire,  and  dying  10th  April,  liSOS,  waa 
«.  by  hia  only  child, 

ROBERT  RATCLIFFE,  sixth  Lord  Fiti-Wal- 
ter,  and  fifth  Earl  of  Sussex.  This  nobleman  waa 
with  the  Earl  of  Essex  in  the  attack  and  sacking  of 
the  city  of  Cadis  in  the  39th  Elisabeth,  and  was  in- 
stalled  a  Knight  of  the  Garter  the  19th  of  the  ensu- 
ing reign  (1621).  His  lordship  m.  first,  Bridget* 
daughter  of  Sir  Charles  Morison,  Knt,  of  Cashio- 
bury,  in  the  county  of  Hertford,  and  had  issue, 

Henry,  who  m.  Jane,  daughter  of  Sir  Michad 
Stanhopot  KnL 

Thomaa. 

Elixabeth,  m.  to  Sir  John  Ramsey,  Knt.. 
Viscount  Hadingtom,  afterwarda  Earl  of 
Holdnnesa. 

Honora. 
All  of  whom,  however,  d.  iMueless  before  himself. 
The  earl  espoused,  secondly,  Frances,  daughter  of 
Hercules  Meutaa,  Esq.,  of  Uame,  in  the  county  of 
Essex,  but  had  no  isaue.  His  lordship  d.  in  16B9» 
when  the  Bahony  of  Fits-Wai*tsr  devolved 
upon  the  descendants  of  bis  aunt,  by  the  half  blood. 
Lady  Frances  Mildmay,  (refer  to  issue  of  Henry» 
third  Lord  Fita-Walter,  and  second  Earl  of  Sussex* 
by  hia  aeeond  marriage ;  and  see  Mildmay,  Lorda 
Fits-Walter,)  and  the  other  honours  devolved  upoa 
(the  son  of  Sir  Humphrey  Ratcliflb,  of  Elneatow  t 
revert  to  issue  of  Robert,  first  Earl  of  Sussex,)  hia 
cousin, 

SIR  EDWARD  RATCLIFFE, aa  sixth  Viscount 
Fita-Walter,  and  Earl  of  Sussex.  This  nobleman 
d,  in  1641  without  issue,  when  those  honoun  became 

SXTIKCT. 

ARM8.— Ar.  a  bend  ingrailed,  sa. 

RAYMOND  —  BARONS  RAYMOND, 
OF  ABBOT'S  LANOLEY, 
IN  THE  COUNTY  OF 
HERTFORD. 

By  Lettena  Patent,  dated  14th  January,  1731. 

Xincagc. 

In^he  reign  of  JCiii^  CiiAftx.x8  IL, 

SIR  THOMAS  RAYMOND,  Knt,  waa  one  oC 
the  Judges  of  the  King's  Bendi,  and  hia  name  ia 
handed  down  to  posterity  by  his  law  reports.  Hia 
lordship  waa  Ikther  of 

ROBERT  RAYMOND,  another  eminent  lasryer, 
who  became  cbibv  jub^icb  of  the  Kxiro'a  Bbxch* 
and  was  elevated  to  the  peerage  by  letters  patent, 
dated  15th  January,  1731,  in  the  dignity  of  Loa» 
Raymonp,  Barow  or  AaaoT'a  Lavouey,  te  Me 
comn^  tifBgnfutrd,    Hia  lordship  m.  Anna,  daugh- 


RIO 


RIO 


t&f  of  9if  BdwMNl  NortlMy*  sttoiBfly«gCMral»  t6inp> 
QiiMB  Aanei  and  King  G«Mf«  I.,  and  dying  in 
1788,  was  «.  by  his  only  ion, 

ROBERT  RAYMOND,  aacond  Iwron.  This 
noblaman  espouaed  ChatwyDd,  daughter  and  co- 
heir of  Montagu*  Vlaeount  Blundell,  in  Irdaad, 
tmt  d,  in  ITilS'without  imvM,  when  the  Baboky  of 
Ravmoito  became  sxtiwct. 

Armb.— Sa.  a  cherroD  beCw.  three  eaglet  dis- 
played, ar.  on  a  chief,  or  a  roae  betipei  two  fleura- 
dahlia,  go. 

REDVERS— EARLS  OF  DEVON. 

See  Conrtenay*  Earb  of  l>evoii. 

RICH— BARONS  RICH,  OF  LEGZE, 
IN  THE  COUNTY  OF  ESSEX, 
EARLS  OF  WARWICK,  BA- 
RONS KENSINGTON.  EARLS 
OF  HOLLAND. 


Barony  of  Rich, 
Earldom  of  Warwick 
Barony  of  Kensington 
Baridom  of  Holland 


16th  Feb.,  1647. 
«th  August,  161& 
8th  Match,  1022. 
94th  Sept.,  1024. 


ICincBgc 

The  founder  of  this  flunily, 

RICHARD  RICH,  was  an  opulent  mercer  of 
London,  who  served  theofBoe  of  sheriff  for  that 
city,  in  1441.    He  d.  in  1469,  leaving  a  son, 

JOHN  RICH,  whose  grandson, 

RICHARD  RICH,  having  studied  htw  in  the 
Middle  Temple,  was  appointed,  in  Uie  2Ist  Henry 
VIII.,  autumnal  reader  to  that  society.  Shortly 
after  which,  he  advanced  through  several  eminent 
employments,  to  great  wealth  and  high  honours. 
In  the  24th  of  the  same  king,  he  was  consti- 
tuted attorney-general  for  Wales,  and  in  the  next 
year,  appointed  the  king's  bolicitoh-obnkiial.. 
In  the  27th,  he  had  a  grant  of  the  office  of  chl- 
rographer  to  the  Common  Pleas;  and  about  that 
time,  visiting  Sir  Thomas  More,  Ex-Lord  Chan- 
cellor, then  a  prisoner  in  the  Tower,  used  his 
utmost  exertions  to  persuade  that  great  and  emi- 
nent person  to  acknowledge  the  king's  supremacy  in 
spiritual  allUrs.  In  this  year,  too,  he  was  appointed 
dumoellor  of  the  Qturt  qf  AugmentatUfta,  a  court 
fbrmed  to  take  cognisance  of  the  revenues  of  the 
monasteries,  which  had  considerably  AuoMsifTSD 
the  flinds  of  the  crown ;  and  he  had  a  grant  of  the 
sdte  of  the  Priory  of  Leew,  with  the  manor  there- 
unto appertaining,  in  the  county  of  Essex.  Upon 
the  accession  of  King  Edward  VI.,  being  then  a 
knight,  he  was  elevated  to  the  peerage,  by  letters 
patent,  dated  18th  February,  104!7,  (the  fourth  day 
before  the  coronation,)  as  Barok  Rich,  of  Leete, 
and  constituted,  on  the  30th  November  following, 
LORD  cuancbllor  OF  Emoland.  But  witMu 
five  years,  observing  the  dangers  of  the  times,  by 
the  Duke  of  Somerset's  fall,  and  other  dreum- 
stances  equally  ominous,  and  having  amassed  a 
rery  large  fortune,  **  like  a  discreet  pilot,"  says 
Dugdale,  '*who  seeing  a  storm  at  hand,  gets  Ms 
ship  into  harbour,  he  made  ivit  to  the  king,  by 


of  some  bodily  fnHrmlties,  that  he  mi^  be 
discharged  of  his  office,  whidi  bdng  granted,  the 
great  seal  was  ddivered  to  Thomas  Ooodrick, 
Bishop  of  Ely:  after  which,  he  (Lord  Rich)  lived 
many  yean,  and  at  his  own  charge  built  the  tower 
steeple  at  Rochford,  in  Essex."  The  cause  of  his 
lordship's  resignation  of  the  cfaancrilorship  is  thus, 
however,  more  feasibly  aooounted  for:  "  The  Lord 
Rich  being  a  fsst  friend  to  the  great  Duke  of  So- 
merset, than  in  the  Tower,  was  endeavouring  to 
serve  him  with  the  king ;  and  for  that  purpose 
had  written  him  notice  of  somediing  designed 
against  him  by  tiie  coundl;  and  being  in  haste, 
directed  the  letter  only  « to  the  duke,*  bidding  his 
servant  carry  it  to  the  Tower,  without  giving  him 
any  particular  direetions  *tofh»  Duke  ^  Somertet,* 
The  servant  not  knowing  that  hia  master  was  inti- 
mate with  Sotaerset,  but  knowing  that  he  was  so 
wltii  the  Duke  of  Ncnrfolk,  (then  also  in  the  Tower,) 
gave  the  latter  noUeman  the  letter  by  mistake. 
When  the  diancellor  found  out  his  error  at  night, 
foarful  that  Norfolk  would  discover  him,  he  imme- 
dlntdy  repaired  to  the  king,  and  desired  to  be  dis> 
charged  his  office,  feigning  illness,  which  was  merdy 
to  raise  pity  for  hims^,  and  prevent  the  malice  of 
his  enemies."  The  reputation  of  Lord  Rich  suf- 
fored  deeply  in  the  opinion  of  all  honourable  men, 
by  the  beseness  of  his  conduct  to  Sir  Thomas  More. 
Upon  the  trial  of  the  ex-chancdlor.  Rich  was  a 
witness  against  him,  as  to  a  pretended  conversation 
in  the  Tower;  and  when  he  gave  his  evidence.  Sir 
Thomas  made  answer :  *'  If  I  were  a  man,  my 
lord,  that  had  no  regard  to  my  oath,  I  had  no  occa- 
sion to  be  here  a  criminal ;  and  if  this  oath,  Mr. 
Rich,  you  have  taken,  be  true,  then  I  pray  1  may 
never  see  God's  face ;  which,  were  it  otherwise,  is 
an  imprecation  I  would  not  be  guilty  of  to  gain 
die  world."  Sir  Thomas  then  proceeded  to  charge 
him  with  being  '*li^t  of  tongue,  a  great  game- 
ster, and  a  person  of  no  good,  in  the  parish  where 
they  had  lived  together,  or  in  the  temple,  where  he 
was  educated."  After  which,  he  went  on  to  shew 
how  unlikely  it  was,  that  he  should  **  impart  the 
secrets  of  his  conscience  to  a  man,  of  whom  he 
always  had  so  mean  an  opinion." 

His  lordship   m.    Elinbeth,   sister  of  William  j  \ 

Jenks,  of  London,  grocer,  and  had  issue,  Robsrt,   tif^^t^jt^ 
his  successor,  with  three  other  sons,  all  of  whom  ^ 

died  issueless,  and  nine  daughters,  vis. 

Margery,  m.  to  Henry  Pigot,  Esq.,  of  Abing- 
don. 

Agnes,  m.  to  Edmund  Mordant,  Esq. 

Mary,  m.  to  Sir  Thomas  Wrothe,  Knt 

Dorothy,  m.  to  Francis  Barley,  Esq. 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  Robert  Peyton.  Esq. 

Winifride,  m.   first,   to   Sir  Henry  Dudley, 
Knt.,  and  secondly,  to  Roger,  Lord  Noi^h. 

Ethddreds,  m.  to  Robert  Drury,  Esq. 

Anne,  m.  to  Thomas  Pigot,  Esq. 

Prances,  m.  to  John,  Lord  Darcy,  of  Chiche. 
Lord  Rich  d.  in  1MB,  and  was  s.  by  his  eldest  son, 

ROBERT  RICH,  second  baron.  This  nobleman 
was  one  of  the  peers  upon  the  trial  of  the  Duke  of 
Norfolk,  in  the  reign  of  Elinbeth,  and  was  after- 
wards employed  by  her  m^esty,  upon  a  diplomattc 
mIsBlon  to  Fraaoe,  as  wtil  as  on  some  oomplf  cated 

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•ffidn  in  IrduuL  HIb  lordship  m.  Elinbeth, 
daughter  and  heir  of  George  Baldry»  Kaq„  son  and 
heir  of  Sir  Thomas  Baldry,  Knt.»  of  Landon,  and 
hadiMue, 

Richard,  m.  to  Katherine,  daughter  "kad  co- 
heir of  Sir  Henry  Knerit,  KnL,  and  died 
«.  p.*  in  the  life-time  of  his  father, 
RoBKRT,  his  successor. 

Edwin  (Sir),  of  Mulbarton,  in  Norfolk,  m. 
Honora,  dau^ter  of  Charles  Worlick,  Esq., 
and  had  issue, 

Robert,  who  died  «.  jr. 

Edwin  (Sir),  of  Lincoln's  Inn,  died  «.  p., 

in  1675. 
Richard,  died  «.  p. 

Charles,  created    a   baronet,    by    King 
Charles  II.,  a  dignity  whidi  expired 
with   Lieutenant-General   Sir   Robert 
Rich,  whose  only  daughter  and  heiress, 
MARY-FRANCsa  RiGH,  m.  the  Re- 
verend Charles  Bostick,   L.L.D., 
of    Shirley  House,    Hants,   who 
assumed  the  surname  and  arms 
of  Rich,  and  was  created  a  ba- 
ROifBT,  in  1791.     He  d.  in  1824, 
and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son. 

Sir    Charlkb  Rich,  present 
Banmet. 
Frances,  m.  to  Nathaniel  Acton,  Esq. 
Margaret. 
Honoria. 
Frances,  m.  to  Thomas  Camock,  Esq. 

Elizabeth,  m  to Castleton,  Esq. 

His  lordship  d.  in  1681,  and  was  ».  by  his  ddest 
son, 

ROBERT  RICH,  third  baron.  This  nobleman, 
in  the  40th  of  Elixabeth,  was  at  the  sacking  of 
Cadis,  under  the  Earl  of  Essex,  and  was  advanced 
by  King  James  I.,  on  the  6th  August,  1618,  to  the 
Eabloom  of  Warwick.  His  lordship  m.  first. 
Lady  Penelope  Devereux,  daughter  of  Walter, 
EUtfl  of  Essex,  and  had  issue. 

RoBBRT,  Lord  Richf  his  successor. 
Hbnrv  (Sir),  K.B.,  Captain  of  the  King's 
Guard,  who  was  elevated  to  the  peenge,  by 
letters  patent,  dated  8th  March,  1628,  as 
Baron  Kensington.  His  lordship  was 
subsequently  employed  to  n^otiate  a  mar- 
riage between  Prince  Chari.B8,  (afterwards 
Charlxb  I.,)  and  the  Spanish  Infantai  and 
when  that  treaty  proved  abortive,  he  was 
sent  into  France  to  sound  the  French  Court, 
regarding  a  consort  for  the  English  Prince. 
He  was  advanced,  on  the  94th  September, 
1624,  to  the  dignity  of  Earl  op  Holland,  in 
the  county  of  lAncoin,  and  installed  shortly 
after,  a  Kniobt  of  the  Gartbr.  His  lord- 
ship m.  Isabel,  daughter  and  heir  of  Sir 
Walter  Cope,  of  Kensington,  in  the  county 
of  Middlesex,  Knt.,  by  whom  he  acquired 
the  Manor  and  Mansion* of  Kensingtcm,  and 
had  issue, 

•  This  ancient  and  venerable  pile,  situated  be- 
yond Kensington,  on  the  road  to  Hammersmith, 
has  since  that  period  borne  the  name  of  Holland- 
448 


Robbrt,  aeoond  Earl  of  Holland,  wiw 
aucoaeded  as  fifth  Earl  of  Warwick. 
Charles. 
Henry. 

Cope,  m.  — — ,  and  had  a  son, 
CoPB,  whose  son, 

Edward,  inherited  eventually,  the 
Earldoms  of  Warwick    and 
Holland. 
Lwd  IloUand,    after    King  Charlbb   I. 
became  a  prisoner  in  the  Isle  of  Wight,  took 
up  arms,  with  other  loyal  persons,  to  eS^ct 
his  restoration,   but  miscarrying  at  King- 
ston-upon-Thames,  7th  July,  1648,  he  was 
pursued,  mad^  prisoner,  and  committed  to 
the  Tower,  where  hf  remained  until  after 
the  execution  of  the  king,  when,   being 
brought  to  trial  with  the  Duke  of  Hamilton, 
the  Earl  of  Norwich,  Sir  John  Owen,  ice, 
he  was  condemned  to  death,  and  executed 
by  decapitation  before  the  gates  of  West- 
minster HaH,  9th  March,  1649. 
Charles  (Sir),  slain  at  the  Isle  of  Rhee,  in 
the  expedition  under  the  Duke  of  Bucking* 
ham. 
Lettice,  m.  first,  to  Sir  George  Carey,  KnL,  of 
Cockington,  in  the  county  of  Devon,  and 
secondly,  to  Sir  Arthur  Lake,  Knt. 
Penelope,  m.  to  Sir  Gervase  Clefton,  Bart,  of 

Clef  ton,  in  the  county  of  Nottingham. 
Essex,  m.  to  Sir  Thomaa  Chedie,  Knt.,  of 

Pirgo,  in  Essex. 
Isabel,  m.  to  Sir  John  Smythe,  Knt. 
The  earl  being  divorced  from  his  first  count4ss, 
(who  remarried  Charles  Blount,  Earl  of  Devon,) 
espoused,  secondly,  Frances,  widow  of  Sir  George 
Paul,  and  daughter  of  Sir  Christopher  Wray,  Knt., 
lord  chief  Justice  of  the  court  of  King's  Bench,  but 
had  no  otlier  issue.  His  lordship  <f.  in  the  same 
year  in  which  he  was  advanced  to  the  earldom,  (anno 
1618,)  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

ROBERT  RICH,  second  Earl  of  Warwick.  This 
nobleman  was  a  very  distinguished  personage  in 
the  time  of  the  civil  war.  He  was  admiral  for  the 
long  parliament— and  during  theiisurpation  enjoyed 
the  full  confidence  of  CromweU.  Lord  Clarendon 
says,  **  That  he  was  a  man  of  a  pleasant  and  com- 
panionable wit  and  conversation  ;  of  an  univenal 
Jolity ;  and  such  a  licence  in  his  words,  and  in  his 
actions,  that  a  man  of  less  virtue  could  not  be 
found  out.  But  with  all  these  foults  he  had  great 
authority  and  credit  with  the  people ;  for  by  open- 
ing his  dooi^,  and  spending  a  good  part  of  hia 
estate,  of  which  he  was  very  prodigal,  upon  them, 
and  by  being  present  with  them  at  his  devotions, 
and  making  himself  merry  with  them,  and  at  them, 
which  they  dispensed  with,  he  became  the  head  of 
that  party,  and  got  the  style  of  a  goodly  man,**  His 
lordship  m.  first,  Frances,  daughter  of  Sir  William 

HousB.  It  is  now  in  the  posseuion  of  the  family 
of  Fox,  Lord*  Holland, •  having  been  purchased  by 
Henry  Fox,  who  thence  assumed  the  title  of  Hol- 
land, from  William  Edwardes,  first  Lord  Ken- 
sington. See  Robert  Rich,  second  Earl  of  Holland, 
and  fifth  Earl  of  Warwick. 


RIC 


BOB 


HattQo.  wUm  Newport,  KoC,  (toy  Elisabeth,  hii 
wife,  dinighter  ead  heir  of  Sir  Fmcie  Gundi,  Knt, 
lord  chief  justice  of  the  court  of  Common  Pleu,) 
by  whom  he  had  inue, 

RoBSAT,  Lard  iUdk,  hit  mccenor. 

Cbauveb,  who  Inherited  a»  fovhtb  mauu 

^JS.  } both* unmarried. 

Anne,  m.  to  Edward  Montagu,  teeond  Earl  of 
Manchester,  the  cdebnted  parliamentary 
general,  dlatingujahed  by  hia  victory  over 
Prince  Rupert,  at  Maraton  Moor. 

Lucy,  M.  to  John  Robartei,  Banm  Robartee, 
of  Truro,  afterward*  Earl  of  Radnor. 

Frances,  nu  to  Nicholas  Lpoke,  Earl  of  Scars- 


The  earl  espoused,  secondly,  Eleanor,  daughter  of 
Sir  Edward  Worttey,  Knt.,  but  had  no  other  Issua 
He  if.  in  16S6,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  ion, 

ROBERT  RICH,  third  Earl  of  Warwick,  who 
was  made  a  Knigh(  of  the  Bath  at  the  COTonatioo  of 
King  CHABX.B8  II.  His  lordship  m.  flrst.  Lady 
Anne  Cavendish,  daughter  of  William,  Earl  of  De- 
vonshire, and  had  issue, 

RoBBBT,  who  m.  in  the  life-time  of  his  grand- 
fiUher,  Frances,  youngest  daughter  of  the 
Protadar  Cbomwbll,  and  d.  in  about  two 
months  after,  16th  February,  16S7-& 
He  m.  lecondly,  Ajme,  daughter  of  Sir  Thomas 
Cheeke,  of  Pargo,  and  had  three  daughters,  via. 
Anne,  m.  to  Sir  John  Barrington.  Bart.,  of 
Barrington  HaU,  in  the  county  of  Essesc^     v 
Mary,  M.  to  Sir  Henr^^S^g^^Ub.  ^,ly6y^ 
Essex,  M.  to  the  Hon.  Daniel  Finch,  son  of 
Hcneage,  Lord  Finch,  fA  Daventry,  and 
eventually  sixth  Eurl  of  Winchclsea. 
The  earl  <f.  S9th  May,  1889,  when,  leaving  no  male 
issue,  the  honours  devolved  upon  his  brother, 

CHARLES  RICH,  fourth  Earl  of  Warwick,  who 
m.  Lady  Mary  Boyle,  daughter  of  Richard,  first 
Earl  of  Cork,  and  had  a  son,  Charlbs,  Lortf  Bith^ 
who  espoused  Lady  Anne  Cavendish,  daughter  of 
William,  third  Earl  of  Devonshire,  but  died  «.  f>.  in 
his  Ikther^  life-Ume.  The  earl  d.  24th  August, 
1073,  when  his  estates,  except  Warwick  House, 
in  Holbom,  passed  to  his  sisters  as  co-heirs,  and  his 
honours  devolved  upon  his  kinsman,  (refer  to 
Robert,  flrst  Earl  of  Holland,  second  son  of  Robert, 
second  Earl  of  Warwick,) 

ROBERT  RICH,  second  Earl  of  Holland,  as 
fifth  Earl  of  Warwick.  This  nobleman  m.  first, 
Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  Arthur  Ingram,  Knt.,  by 
whom  he  had  one  surviving  ion, 

Hemjf,  LoBD  KairaiNOTON,  who  m.  Chris> 
tittia,  daughter  of  Andrew  Riccard,  Esq., 
and  died  «.  j».  In  the  life-time  of  his  father. 
His  widow  m,  John,  Lord  Berkeley,  of 
Stratton.  . 
The  earl  espoused,  secondly,  Lady  Anne  Montagu, 
daughter  of  Edward,  Earl  of  Manchester,  and  had 


Edward,  his  sucoesior. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Francis  Edwardes,  Esq.,  of 
Haverford  West,    whose   only    surviving 


WiiiLiAM  EowAROBi,  Esq.,  inherited 


the  flunily  estates  upon  the  decease  of 
his  cousin,  Bdigard'Henjv  RicA,  fourth 
EABI.OP  Hou«AirD,and  leventh  Eabi. 
OP  Warwick,  and  was  created  a  peer 
of  Ireland  in  1778,  as  Barob  Kbb- 
aiiffOToir. 
'  His  lordship  d.  in  107A,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

EDWARD  RICH,  third  Eari  of  Holland,  and 
sixth  Earl  of  Warwick.  His  lordship  m.  Charlotte, 
daughter  of  Sir  Thomas  Middleton,  by  whom  (who 
espoused,  secondly,  the  Right  Hon.  Joseph  Addi- 
son,) he  had  an  <nily  son,  his  sucoenor,  at  his 
decease  in  1701, 

EDWARD  HENRY  RICH,  fourth  Earl  of  Hoi- 
land,  and  seventh  Earl  of  Warwick,  at  whose 
decease,  unmarried,  in  1781,  hie  fortune  passed  to 
his  cousin,  WiiiiiAM  Edwardbs,  Esq.,  (refer  to 
Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Robert,  second  Earl  of  Hol- 
land, and  fifth  Earl  of  Warwick,)  while  the  honours 
reverted  to  his  kinsman,  (refer  to  Cope,  youngest 
son  of  Henrtf,  first  Earl  of  Hou^bd,  second  son 
of  Hobertf  first  Earl  of  Warwick,) 

EDWARD  RICH,  Esq.,  fifth  Earl  of  Holland, 
and  eighth  Earl  of  Warwick.  This  nobleman  m. 
Miss  Stanton,  daughter  of  Samuel  Stanton,  Esq., 
of  Lyme  Regis,  and  had  an  only  daughter,  Cathe- 
rine. His  lordship  d.  in  17dO,  when  Ai'i*  thb  ho- 
nours of  the  Rich  family  became  bxtixct. 

ARM8. — Gu.  a  chevron  between  three  cross  cross- 
lets  or. 

RIPARIIS,    OR   RIVERS  —  BARON 
RIPARIIS. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  6th  February,  1S90, 
27  Edward  I. 

Xincasc. 

JOHN  DE  RIPARIIS  was  summoned  to  par- 
liament, as  a  barob,  ftom  6th  February,  1299,  to 
26th  August,  1907'  His  lordship  signed  the  cele- 
brated letter  to  the  pope,  fl9th  Edward  I.,  as 
«  Johannes  de  Ripariis,  Domine  de  Angre.".  He 
d.  in  ISII,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  DE  RIPARIIS,  second  baron,  summoned 
to  parliament  from  8th  June,  1313,  to  I6th  October, 
1315,  but  neither  himself  nor  his  descendants  had 
further  summons,  nor  Is  there  any  thing  more 
known  about  them. 

ROBARTE8  —  BARONS  ROBARTES, 
OF  TRURO,  EARLS  OF 
*  RADNOR. 

Barony,    \by  Letters  f  16th  January,  1625. 
Earldom,  j    Patent,    t  S3rd  July,  107% 

Hjincasc. 

RICHARD  ROBARTES,  Esq.,  of  Truro,  in 
Cornwall,  had  the  honour  of  knighthood  conferred 
upon  him  by  King  Jambb  I.,  at  Whitehall,  in 
1616,  and  was  created  a  baronet  in  16B1.  In  four 
years  afterwards  he  was  advanced,  through  the  in- 
fluence of  the  favourite  Buckinghun,*  to  the  peer- 

•  For  which  Sir  Richard  is  said  to  have  paid  ten 

thousand  pounds ;  and  one  of  the  charges  brought 

3  M  448        ' 


ROB 


ROL 


Mgi,  In  the  dignity  of  Bakoit  RoBAnrns,  ^Trtaro. 
Hto  lordship  m.  Fnaoet,  dmigfator  and  on-heir  of 
John  Hender,  Esq.,  of  Botremtx  Cattle,  In  Corn- 
wall, and  had  iwniep 
JoRW,  hii  lucoeMor. 
Mary,  m.  to  William  Rome,  Esq.,  of  Halton, 

in  ComwalL 
Jane,  m.  to  Charlei,  Lord  Lambert,  In  Ire> 
hud. 
His  lordship  d.  in  16S4,  and  was  «.  by  his  ion, 

JOHN  ROBARTES,  second  baron.  Although 
this  nobleman  fought  under  the  parUaroentary  ban- 
ner, he  was  favourably  received  by  King  Craiu.S8 
II.,  after  the  restoration ;  sworn  of  the  privy 
council,  appointed  lord  privy  seal,  and  afterwards 
lord  lieutenant  of  Ireland.  In  1079,  his  lordship 
was  advanced  to  the  dignities  of  FUeount  Bodmin, 
and  Eakl  or  Radmor  (he  was  first  created  Earl  of 
Falmouth,  but  the  title  was  altered  at  the  desire  of 
the  king).  His  lordship  espoused,  first.  Lady  Lucy 
Rich,  daughter  of  Robert,  Earl  of  Warwick,  and 
had  issue, 

RoBRRT,  Vtsamnt  Bodmin,  a  pcjpon  of  eminent 
talents,  who  died  about  the  year  1681«  in  his 
embassy  at  the  Court  of  Denmark.  His  lord- 
ship IN.  Sarah,  daughter  and  heir  of  John 
Bodvile,  Esq.,  of  Bodvile  Castle,  in  Caznar- 
vooshire,  and  left  issue, 
Charlbb    BOOTII.R,    iuooenor    to    the 

honours. 
Ruasel,  one  of  the  tellers  of  the  exchequer, 
m.  Lady  Mary  Booth,  daughter  of  Henry, 
Earl  of  Warrington,  and  had  issue, 
Hrwry,  who  succeeded  as  third  Earl 
or  Radnor. 

Mary,  m.  to Hunt,  Esq.,  of  Chester. 

Isabdla,  m.  to  CoUmd  Leigh,  of  Adlington, 

In  the  county  of  Chester. 
Sarah,  d,  unmarried. 

Lucy,  m.  to  the  Honourable  George  Booth, 
second  son  of  Oeoige,  first  Lord  Del»- 
mere. 
Essex,  d,  unmarried. 
Hender,  M.P.  for  Bodmin,  temp.  Charles  IL 

and  James  II.,  d,  unmarried. 
John,  d,  young. 
The  earl  m.  secondly,  IsabdIa,  daughter  of  Sir  Jdtm 
Smith,  Knight  of  Kent,  and  had  four  other  sons 
and  five  daughten,  via. 

Francis,  M.P.  In  the  reigns  of  Charles  II. 
James  IL,  William  III.,  and  Queen  Anne. 
Mr.  Robartes  was  a  person  f^  great  leaznlng, 
Bnd  vice-president  of  the  Royal  Society.  He 
m.  Anne,  relict  of  Hugh  Boscawcn,  Esq.,  and 
daughter  of  Wentworth,  Earl  of  Kildaie,  by 
idiom  he  had, 
JoHif,  who  succeeded  as  fourth  Earl  ow 

Radnor. 
Francii,  m.  to  Mary,  daughter  of  William 


against  the  Duke  of  Bucldngliam  in  parliament, 
anno  16K,  was,  «*  that,  knowing  him  to  be  rich,  he 
forced  him  to  take  that  title  of  honour;  and  that. 
In  consideratian  thereof,  he  paid  ten  thousand 
pounds  to  the  duke^s  use." 
490 


Wallia,  Esq.,  of  Oraveby,  in  WUtahIre, 
and  died  in  1734,  leaving  one  eon, 
John. 
Mr.  Robartee  died  at  Chelsea,  in  Fcibniary, 
1717-ia 
Henry,  m.  Miss  Prances  Coryton,  and  died  «.  p, 
Warwick. 

Charles,  d,  unmarried. 

Isabella,  m.  first,  to  John,  Lord  Moore,  eon  and 
heir  of  the  Earl  of  Drogheda,  and  secondly  to 
Daniel  Wycherley,  Esq.,  <rfShropehiK. 
Diana,  4.  unmarried. 
Aranintha,  m.  to  the  Right  Reverend  (Bishop) 

Hopkins. 
Olimpia. 

Essex,  m.  to  John  Speccot,  Esq.,  of  Penhaile, 
in  ComwalL 
The  Earl  of  Radnor,  was  •'  a  staunch  presbyterian ; 
sour  and  cynical;  Just  in  his  administiation,  but 
vicious  under  the  semblance  of  virtue;  Irani wl 
above  any  of  his  quality;  but  stiff,  obstinate, 
proud,  and  Jealous,  and  every  Way  intracticable." 
He  d.  In  1685,  and  was  *.  by  his  grandson, 

CHARLES-BODVILE  ROBARTES,  second  earl, 
who  m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  and  heir  of  Sir  John 
Cutler,  Knt,  of  the  city  of  London,  but  died  issue* 
lees  In  17S3,  when  his  honours  devolved  upon  his 
nephew, 

HENRY  aOBARTES,  third  earl,  at  whose 
decease,  unmarried,  at  Paris  in  1741,  the  honours 
pawed  to  his  cousin  (refer  to  Francis,  ddest  son  of 
the  first  RARx.,  by  his  second  wife), 

JOHN  ROBARTES,  Esq.,  as  fourth  earL  This 
nobleman  d.  in  1764,  unmarried,  when  the  Earl<- 
DOM  or  Rasror,  and  minor  honoun,  became  rz- 
TiircT. 

Armb.—As.  three  cstoiles  of  six  points,  and  a 
chief  waved,  or. 

ROBSART— BARON  ROBSART. 

Refer  to  Bourcbirr,  Barons  BourOUer,  and  Bart* 

qfEuiltx. 

Elibarrtb  Bourcrirr,  Barenoot  BBUrdkl^r, 
m.  for  her  second  husband.  Sir  Lewis  Robsart, 
K.G.,  who  assumed  the  title.  Jure  wcorio,  of  Lord 
BouRCHiRR,  but  was  summoned  to  parliament  as 
Lord  Robrart. 

ROLLE  — BARON  ROLLE,  OF  STE. 
VENSTONE. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  8th  January,  1748L 

3Ciiuag(« 

This  funily  was  origfaially  ot  the  county  of 
Dorset,  and  the  first  of  its  members  that  removed 
into  Devon,  was 

GEORGE  ROLLE,  a  merchant  of  great  opulence, 
and  high  reputaticm.  In  the  dty  of  London,  who 
became  an  extensive  purdiaeer  of  abbey  lands. 
Besides  which,  he  bought,  tempi  Henry  VIIL,  the 
seat,  manor,  and  large  demesnes  of  SrRTBireroNB, 
in  Devonshbe,  fkom  the  Ifeyls*,  who  had  ■oquiied 


ROL 


BOM 


ite  praperty  bf  OMRtefft  with  tlia  haivHt  of  the  I 
St0venitoiMi,Uwft)nMr  lords.    This  George  RoUo 
married  thrice,  and  bed  no  loa  then  twenty  diil- 
dien.    By  bis  second  wife,  Bleeaor,  second  daugh- 
ter of  Henry  Dacres,  Esq.,  of  London,  merchant, 
he  bad  (with  two  daughters)  six  sons,  via. 
JoHK,  his  sucosssor. 
George,  ot  whom  presently. 
Christopher,  d.  unmarried. 
Henry,   whose  grandson,    Henry  RoUe,  an 
eminent  lawyer,  beceme  Lord  Chief  Justice, 
and  one  of  the  council  ci  state,  during  tlie 
Hfst  yean  of  the  commonwealth,  from  1648 
totSBS. 
Robert. 
Maurice. 
The  second  son, 

GEORGE  ROLLS.  Esq.,  m.  Margaret,  daughter 
and  heirsss  of  Edmund  Marrais,  Esq.,  of  Marrais, 
In  Cornwall,  and  was  a.  by  bis  son, 
ANDREW  ROLLE,  Esq.,  of  Marrais,  wbose 


SIR  JOHN  ROLLE,  inherited  STSTswsTOirs, 
aiad  became  chief  of  the  fkmily  upon  the  failure 
of  the  male  line  of  John  Rolle,  Esq.,  his  great- 
uade,  hk  1647.  This  gentleman,  who  was  aealously 
attached  to  Kittg  Charlsb  II.,  acoompsnied  that 
m<marchfh>m  Holland  upon  his  restoration,  and 
WM  made  a  Knight  of  the  Bath,  at  the  snsulng 
coronation.  Sir  Jchn  Rolle  afterwards  represented 
Devon  in  parliament,  and  was  a  leading  member 
of  the  House  of  Commons.  He  «n.  Fknrencs,  daugb- 
tor  and  eo>helr  of  Dennis  RoUe,  Esq.,  and  dying 
at  an  adTanced  age,  in  1706*  (the  wealthiest  com- 
moner in  England,)  was  «.  by  bis  grandson, 

ROBERT  ROLLE,  Esq.,  M.P.,  whod.  without 
issue  in  1719.  and  was  «.  by  his  brother, 

JOHN  ROLLE,  Esq.,  M.P.  for  the  county  of 
Deron.  This  gentlsmaa  b  said  to  have  been  oflbred 
an  Eakldom  by  Queen  Anne's  last  ministry,  and 
to  have  declined  IL  He  m.  Isabella,  daughter  of 
Sir  William  Walter,  Bart,  of  Sarsden,  in  Oxford- 
shire, and  grandpdaughter  (maternally)  of  Robert, 
Earl  of  Ailesbury,  by  whom  he  had  issue, 
HavKT,  his  successor. 

John,  who  assumed  the  surname  of  WAX.Taa. 
upon  inheriting  the  estates  of  bis  nnateraal 
uncle,  represented  the  county  of  Devon  in 
parliament,  and  d,  in  1779. 
William,  died  t.  p. 

Dennis,  who  eventually  Inherited  the  estates^ 
and  was  fhther  of 

JoBN  R01.LB,  in  whom  the  title  of  Rolle 
was  revived,  and  who  is  the  present 
Lord  RoQe. 
Mr.  RoUe  41. 6th  May,  1730,  and  was  #.  by  his  ddest 


HENRY  ROLLE,  Esq.,  M.P.  for  the  county 
of  Devon,  who  was  eleviuted  to  the  peenge.  8th 
January,  1747-8,  by  the  title  of  BABOif  Rolls,  of 
AfeeensleiM,  in  tht  eeumtif  tf  JDesen.  His  lordship 
d.  unmarried,  in  17M,  when  the  dignity  became 

■XTINCT. 

ARM8.~Or.  on  a  bar  danoette,  between  three 
billets  as.  charoed  with  as  many  ttons  rampant  of 
the  first,  three  beaants. 


ROMARE^EARL  OF  LINCOLN. 

Created  in  1142. 

Xincagt.. 

The  first  of  this  name  upon  record, 

GERALD  DE  ROMARE,  feudal  Lordof  Boling- 
broke,  in  Lincolnshire,  m.  Luda,  daughter  of 
Algar,  Earl  of  Chester,  and  widow  of  Tvo  Tail- 
boys:  by  whom  (who  espoused  after  his  decease, 
Ranulph,  Earl  of  Chester,)  he  had  a  son  and  sue- 


WILLIAM  DE  ROMARE.  Lord  of  BoUngbroke, 
who,  in  1118,  being  governor  of  the  garrison  of 
Newmarefa,  in  Normandy,  stoutly  resbted  Hugh 
deOoumay.  then  in  rebellion  there  t  and  remafai- 
ing  firm  in  Ms  allegiance  to  King  Henry  I.,  was 
with  that  monarch  at  the  battle  of  Brennevill, 
where  a  glorious  victory  was  achieved  over  Lewis, 
King  of  France.  But  long  after  thb,  however, 
having  laid  claim.  unsuccessAiUy,  to  those  lands 
in  Engbnd,  of  hb  mother's  inheritance,  which 
Ranulph,  Earl  of  Chester,  her  last  husband,  had 
delivered  up  to  the  king,  in  exchange  for  the  earl- 
dom, he  returned  to  Normandy  in  great  indigna- 
tion, and  rearing  the  standard  orrebellion  in  fiivour 
ot  William,  son  ot  Robert  Curthose,  continued  in 
open  hostility  for  two  years,  but  the  king  at  length 
made  him  compensation,  and  restored  him  to  the 
greater  pert  ofhb  right.  Whereupon  being  honour- 
ably reconciled,  Henry  gave  him  in  marriage  a 
noble  lady,  via.,  Maud,  daughter  of  Richard  de 
^Redvers. 

Upon  the  decease  of  Henry  I.,  and  the  accession 
of  Stephen,  this  eminent  person  espoused  thei  cause 
of  the  new  monarch,  who  appointed  him  one  of 
hb  principal  deiegatet  to  administer  Justice  in  Nor- 
mandy ;  but  he  soon  after  went  over  to  the  Em- 
press Maud,  and  Jofaied  his  half  brother.  Ranulph, 
Earl  of  Chester,  in  the  surprisal  of  the  Castle  of 
Lincoln  (anno  1141).    He  had  subsequently  a  com- 
mand at  the  battle  of  Lincoln,  so  disastrous  to 
the  fortunes  o(  Stephen,  and  the  next  year  (1149) 
bore  the  title  of  Earl  or  Lincolit,  in  the  grant 
by  which  he  founded  the  Cistercian  monastery  at 
Revesby.  in  that  county.    Hb  lordship  had  Issue. 
William,  who  <t  in  hb  fkther's  Ufe-thne  (lliS9), 
leaving  by  Hawse,  daughter  of  Stephctta 
Earl  ot  Albemarle,  a  son, 
Wimam. 
Hawye,  m.  to  Gilbert  de  Gant  (see  Oanti  Barb 
of  Lincoln). 
The  earl  was  «.  at  his  decesse,  by  hb  grandson, 

WILLIAM  DE  ROMARE.  Lord  of  BoUngbroke^ 
but  thb  personage  never  assumed  the  title  of  EarL 
In  the  12th  of  Henry  II.,  on  the  assessment  of  aid 
for  marriage  of  the  king's  daughter,  he  certified 
hb  knights'  fees  de  veterl  fooflbmento,  to  be  thirty- 
two,  and  those  de  novo,  twenty-five,  a  fourth  and 
a  third  part.  Thb  foudal  lord  cL  without  issue, 
when  the  male  line  of  the  family  ceased,  but  the 
earldom  passed  through  the  daughter  of  Earl  Wil- 
liam, to  the  house  of  Gant  (see  Gant,  Earb  of 
Lincoln). 

Arms.— Gules  seven  masdes  an^  semte  of  cross- 
lets  or. 

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ROS,  OR  ROOS— BARONS  ROS,  OF 
HAMLAKE. 

By  Writ  of  Suminoiif».dAted  Mtb  December,  19S4, 
49  Henry  III. 

The  ancertor  ci  this  fiunily,  Pstsr,  having  in 
the  reign  of  Henry  L,  sMumed  hit  surname  from 
the  Lordahip  of  Ros,  in  Hoktemew,  where  he  then 
redded,  became 

PETER  DE  ROS,  or  ROOS.  Thia  feodal  baron 
m.  Adeline,  one  of  the  tiatert  and  co-heirs  of  the 
famous  Walter  Espec,  Lord  of  the  manor  of 
Helmesley,  called  sometimes  Helmesiac,  but  oftcner 
HamUk4t  in  the  North  Riding  of  Yorkshire,  and 
was  «.  at  his  decease,  by  his  son, 

ROBERT  DE  ROS,  who,  hi  the  ard  of  Henry 
II.,  paid  a  thousand  marks  of  silver  to  tlie  Icing  for 
livery  of  the  lands  inherited  by  his  mother  from  her 
brother,  Walter  Espec  This  Robert  was  a  munifi< 
cent  benefactor  to  the  knights  templars.  He  m. 
Sybdl  de  Valoines,  (who,  after  his  decease,  wedded 
Ralph  de  Albini,)  and  dying  sometime  about 
the  middle  of  the  twelfth  century,  waa  «<  by  his 
son, 

£VERARD  DE  ROS,  a  xtAaxa,  and  in  ward  to 
Ranulph  de  GhmviL  In  the  19th  of  Henry  II.  this 
fieudal  lord  held  of  the  crown  eight  knights'  fees, 
and  in  two  years  afterwards,  upon  collection  of  the 
aid  for  marrying  the  king's  daughter,  answered,  one 
hundred  and  twelve  shillings  for  those  which  were 
de  v0Uri  fKtgfbmenio,  and  thirty-one  shillings  and 
one  penny  for  what  he  had  de  neeo.  He  m.  RosOi 
one  of  the  daughters  and  oo-heirs  of  William  Tma- 
but,  ofWartre,  in  HoJdemess.  and  had  twosoaa. 
This  Everard  de  Ros  must  have  been  a  very  consi> 
derable  personage  at  the  period,  in  which  he  lived, 
for  we  And  him,  in  the  year  1176,  paying  the  Men 
very  large  sum  ol£8aB  as  a  fine  for  his  lands,  and 
in  four  years  subsequently  £lOO  more  to  have  pos- 
session of  those  which  the  Earl  of  Albemarle  hdd. 
He  d,  soon  after,  and  was«.  by  his  elder  son, 

ROBERT  DE  ROS,  of  Furfhn,  who,  in  the  1st 
of  Ridurd  L,  paid  a  thousand  marks  fine  to  the 
crown  for  livery  of  his  lands.  In  the  8th  of  the 
same  reign,  being  with  the  king  in  Nomumdy,  he 
was  committed  to  the  custody  of  Hugh  de  Chau- 
mont,  for  what  ofltence  appears  not;  with  espedal 
chaige  to  the  said  Hugh,  that  he  should  keep  him 
as  safo  as  his  own  life:  but  Chaumont  trusting 
William  de  Spiney  with  his  prisoner,  that  person 
being  corrupted,  allowed  him  to  escape  out  of  the 
castle  of  BonviUe:  De  Ros  eventually  gained 
nothing,  however,  by  this  escape,  for  Richard 
caused  him  nevertheless  to  pay  twdve  hundred 
marks  for  his  freedom,  while  he  had  the  fUse 
traitor  Spiney  hanged  for  his  breach  of  fsith.  In 
the  next  reign,  however,  Robert  de  Ros  found  more 
fisvoyr,  for  upon  the  accession  of  King  John,  that 
monarch  gave  him  the  whole  barony  of  his  great 
grandmother's  fiUber,  Walter  Espec,  to  ei^joy  in  as 
large  and  ample  a  manner  as  he,  the  said  Walter, 
ever  held  IL  Soop  after  which  he  was  deputed, 
with  the  Bishop  of  Durham,  and  other  great  men, 
4tt 


to  escort  th^hlag  of  SoeUand  totoRnglawd,  ifriiieh 
monarch  coming  to  Lfaicoln,  swore  foalty  there  to 
King  John,  npon  thecnnaof  Hubert,  ArdibidMp 
of  Canterbury,  in  the  presence  of  all  the  people 
About  the  14th  of  Kbtg  John's  leign,  Robert  de  Ros 
assumed  the  habit  of  a  monk,  whereupon  the  cus- 
tody of  all  hu  hmds,  via.,  Werlee  Cattle,  in  the 
county  of  NorthumberlaBd,  with  his  whcde  barony, 
was  committed  to  Philip  de  Ulcote,  but  he  did  not 
oonttnue  long  a  rednse,  for  we  find  him  the  very 
next  yeer  executing  the  olBoe  of  sheriflT  for  the 
oouaty  of  Cnmberiand.  At  the  commencement  <d 
the  struggle  between  the  taarana  and  Jolm,  this 
feudal  lord  took  part  with  the  king,  and  obtained, 
in  consequence,  some  grants  firom  the  crown;  but 
he  subsequently  espoused  the  baronial  cauae,  and 
was  one  of  the  celebrated  TWSNTY-riT>  appcdnted 
to  enforce  the  observance  of  mao>a  chabta.  In 
the  reign  of  King  Henry  III.  he  seems,  however,  to 
have  returned  to  his  allegiance,  and  to  have  been 
in  flsvour  with  that  prince^  fin*  the  yvar  after  the 
king's  accession  a  precept  was  issued  by  the  crown 
to  the  sheriff  of  Cumberland,  ordering  the  resto- 
ration of  certain  manors  gramed  by  King  John  to 
DeRoa. 

Robert  de  Ros  et.  babel,  daughter  of  William  the 
Lion,  king  of  Scotland,  and  had  laauot  two  sosis, 
William,  and  Robert. 

This  feudal  kad  was  the  founder  <rf  the  caaTLB 
or  HcLMBaLBT,  otherwise  Hamlaeb,  in  York- 
shire, and  of  the  castlb  ow  Wsucb,  in  Nor- 
thumberiand-^-tha  former  of  which  he  bequeathed 
to  his  elder  son-^the  latter  to  the  younger,  with  a 
barony  in  Scotland,  to  be  held  of  the  elder  by 
military  service.  In  his  latter  days  he  became  a 
knight  templar,  to  which  order  himsdf  and  his 
predecessors  had  ever  been  munificently  liberal, 
and  d.  in  that  habit,  anno  1287,  was  buried  in  the 
Temple  church.  He  was  «.  ha  hie  barony  by  liia 
elder  son. 

WILLIAM  DE  ROS,  of  Hamlake,  who,  upon 
giving  security  for  the  payment  of  £\W  for  his 
relief,  had  livery  of  hia  hmda.  This  Itedal  k>nl.  in 
the  lifb-time  of  his  fisther,  was  en  active  supporter 
of  the  baronial  cause,  end  was  made  piiaoner  at  the 
battle  of  Lincoln  (let  Henry  HI.,)  by  the  royalists, 
but  soon  after  reiniseil  and  delivered  up  to  his 
father  upon  baiL  He  was  subsequently  engaged  in 
the  wars  of  Gascony,  end  he  had  two  military  sum- 
monses in  the  42ttd  Henry  III.,  to  march  against 
the  Scots  and  Welsh.  By  the  deaths  of  his  two 
great  aunts,  the  sisters  of  his  grandmother,  Roee 
Trusbttt,  without  Isnie,  he  became  eole  hdr  of  the 
beronial  esUte  of  Trusbut  and  Watre.  He  m. 
Lucia,  daughter  of  Reginald  Fiti-Piers,  of  Blew- 
levcny.  in  Waka,  and  tf.  in  IflOe,  waa  a.  by  hia 
son, 

ROBERT  DE  ROS,  who  had  m.  in  the  life- 
time of  his  father,  Isabel,  daughter  and  heiress  of 
William  de  Albini,  feudal  Lord  of  Bdvotr,  by  whom 
he  acquired  BsLVom  Ca8ti.s,  in  the  eounty  of 
Lincofai,  (see  Daubeney,  Barons  Doobeney  and  Earl 
of  Bridgewater,)  end  other  extensive  landed  poe- 
seseions.  This  great  heiress  was  in  ward  to  the 
king,  and  a  mand^e  upon  her  marriage,  bearing 
date  at  Windsor,  17th  May,  1M4,  was  directed  to 


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d«  Ssvoijr  and  Hngh  OifiBd,  to  deliT«r  lur 
to  horhurtnDd,  the  nid  Robart:  "  but  not/'  Myv 
Dofdale,  *<  wkhout  •  nwiid  oompoaitioii*  for  it 
appean  that  both  ha  and  hia  wife*  in  the  asnd 
Bmaj  ni.,  wcte  debtoca  to  the  king  in  no  Ian  than 
theanmof  £3,fll»  Ut.  4d.,andapalfiper;  of  which 
tmn  the  king  waa  then  plaaaad  to  aooapt  by  two 
himdvad  nurfca  a  year  imtil  it  aiiauld  be  all  paid." 
lntfae4ftidof  theaame reign  he  had  two  military 
aummonaaa  with  hia  either*  to  march  againat  the 
Scotch  and  Wekh-^but  aftenrarda  rearing,  with  the 
other  berana,  the  atandaid  of  rerolt.  he  had  a  chief 
command  at  the  battle  of  Lewei,  lo  disaatroua  to  the 
ruy^Uata,  and  to  hia  ooatody.  in  the  caatle  of  Here- 
fbrd*  waa  aapedaily  coanmitted  the  paraon  of  Prinoa 
Edward.  He  waa  at  the  mme  time  aummoaed*  aa 
a  BAnoK*  to  the  perHemant  then  called  in  the  king's 
name  by  the  Tlctociona  lotda.  But  the  fortune  of 
war  dianging  at  the  suhMquant  battle  of  Evediam, 
hia  hmda  ware  all  laiaed  by  the  crown*  and  held 
until  redeamed  by  Ua  lordahip  under  '« the  Diehtm 
</  KmdkoQrthm*  la  two  years  after  thia  he  muat* 
however*  have  ragained  somewhat  a  royal  Cstout, 
for  he  had  then  parmiaslaB  to  raise  a  new  embattled 
waU  around  the  CA8Ti.n  or  Bbltoib.  He  d.  in 
ms»  leaTlng  iasoe  by  the  '<  heiress  of  Belvoir*'* 

WixxxAM ,  Ua  suooassor. 

Roberta 

Isabel*  M.  to  Walter  de  FaucDnbaageu 
His  lordship  was  «.  by  his  elder  son. 

WILLIAM  DE  ROS,  second  baron*  summoned 
to  parliament  as  «« Baaon  Roa,  of  Hamlake,"  firom 
83rd  June.  1295*  to  6th  October*  131A.  Thia  noble- 
man was  one  of  the  competitois  for  the  crown  ot 
Scotland*  in  the  19th  Edward  L*  through  hia  grand- 
mother* Isabel.  daogkMr'  of  William  the  Lion, 
King  of  Sootland.  He  was  aubaaqnantly  engaged 
te  the  wan  of  Gaaoony  and  Scotland;  and  disco- 
▼ering  the  intoitian  oif  his  ni*— if ,  Robert  de 
Ros*  then  Lord  of  Werke.  to  deliver  up  that  castle 
to  the  Soots,  be  lost  no  time  in  apiniaiBg  the  kuig, 
who  thereupon  deapatdied  him  with  a  thousand 
man  to  defend  that  i^ace,  but  the  Soots  attaAing 
this  force  upon  its  march*  cut  it  to  pieont  iriien 
Edward  himself  advancing  from  Newcastle-upon- 
Tyne*  soon  obtained  posscnion  of  the  fort*  and 
appointed  Lord  Ros  its  governor  allowing  him, 
during  his  abaance  in  Oasoony*  to  nominate  his 
brother,  Robert,  Ueutsnant.  In  a  short  time  after* 
he  had  a  grant  of  thia  cwtle,  with  ita  appurte- 
nancn*  forliBited  by  the  treason  of  his  before  men- 
tioned klnamani  and  for  several  subsequent  yean* 
hia  hnrdship  was  actively  engaged  in  Scotland.  In 
the  1st  Edward  IL,  he  was  constituted  the  king's 
Meutenant*  between  Berwick  and  the  river  Forth, 
and  in  six  yean  afterwards*  he  waa  appointed  war- 
den of  the  west  Marches  of  Scotland. 

He  a.  Mande*  one  of  the  daughtara  and  oo-hdrs 
of  John  da  yeans*  who  brooght  Um  the  Manor 
of  Farten,  and  lands  in  Boaton.  in  the  county  of 
liinnolw    andhad'inue^ 

WiuuiAMy  his  successor. 

John*  %  very  eminent  person*  temp.  Edward 
IL  and  Edward  III.  In  the  former  -reign* 
he  took  an  active  part  against  the  Spen- 
cers, and  iqpon  the  aooession  of  the  latter 


king*  he  waa  ^ipolntad  etawtid  of  the 
household,  and  entrusted  with  a  command 
in  Scotland.  He  waa  likewise  constituted 
one  of  the  govemon  of  the  young  monarch. 
In  the  10th  of  the  same  rrign*  he  was  made 
admiral  of  the  sees,  ikom  the  riTsr  Thames* 
northwards;  and  the  neat  year,  he  was  with 
the  king,  in  Gaacony— as  he  was  again  in 
two  yean  afterwards.  He  waa  summoned 
to  perliament  aa  Babov  db  Roa,  fkom  i7th 
January,  133B,  to  UHh  June^  1338,  but4iying 
in  the  latter  year  without  iasua,  the  babont 
became  bxtiitot,  while  hia  property  do> 
▼olved  upon  his  brother,  William.  Lord 
Ros,  of  Hamlake. 
Anne.  m.  to  Paine^  eon  of  Robert  de  Tibetot. 
Hk  hmlship  d.  in  1316,  and  was  a.  by  his 


WILLIAM  DE  ROS,  third  baron,  anmmoned  to 
parliament,  fleam  90th  November,  1317,  to  Uth 
September,  134i.  This  nobleman,  hi  the  Ath  Ed- 
ward  IL,  waa  one  of  the  cnmmlaalnnan  appointed 
to  negotiate  peace  with  Robert  Bmoe,  Kii^  of. 
Scotland ;  about  which  time  he  came  to  an  agree- 
ment with  the  king,  regarding  the  Castle  of  Werke, 
which  he  then  CBchanged  with  the  crown,  fbr  other 
lands.  He  waa  subsequently  much  engaged  in  the 
wan  of  Gaaoony  and  Scotland.  His  lordship  m. 
Margery;  elder  sister*  and  co-heir  of  Oiks  de  Bad« 
tesmerob  of  Ladn  Castle*  in  Kent*  a  great  feudal 
baron,  by  whom  he  had  issue,  William*  Thomas, 
Margaret,  and  Maud.  He  d.  (m  16th  Ftfiruary. 
1349,  and  was  «.  by  his  elder  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  ROS,  fourth  beron.  summoned 
to  parliament,  from  86th  November,  1350,  to  90th 
November,  1351.  This  notdeman  was  one  of  the 
eminent  martial  chaiaUns,  of  the  glorious  reign  of 
Edward  III.  He  was  at  the  memorable  battle  of 
CBBaaT,  a  leader  in  the  second  brigade  <rf  the  Eng- 
liah  army;  he  had  a  command  at  NeircastlB-upon« 
Tyne,  in  the  coniUct,  where  David  Bruce*  King  of 
Scotland,  and  aaany  of  hk  nobles,  after  sustaining 
a  defeat,  fell  into  the  hands  of  the.EngHsh ;  and 
he  waa  subsequently  (Slst  Edward  HI.)  at  the 
siege  of  Cafads,  with  the  Black  Prince.  Hk  lord- 
ship fM.  Margare^,  daughter  of  Ralph,  Lord  Nevill, 
(who  eapoused,  aftar  hk  deoeese,  Henry.  Lord 
Percy.)  but  dying  in  the  Holy  Land,  in  135S,  with, 
out  issue,  he  was  «.  by  hk  brother, 

THOMAS  DE  ROS,  fifth  baron,  summoned  to 
parliament,  ftom  94th  August,  136S,  to  ard  March, 
1384.  Thk  nobleman  was  also  engaged  in  the 
French  wars,  and  k  supposed  to.have  shared  the 
glory  of  Poietlers.  Hk  lordship  «n.  Beatrix,  daugh- 
ter of  Ralph,  Earl  of  StaAnd,  and  widow  of  Mau- 
rice Fita-Morrk,  Earl  <rf  Despiond.  by  whom  he 
had  Inue.  John.  Wlllkm.  Thomas,  Robert*  Eli- 
aabeth,  m.  to  Thomaa,  son  and  heir  of  RAger,  Lord 
Cliflbrd*  and  Margaret.  He  d.  in  1364,  and  was  «. 
by  hk  ddest  son, 

JOHN  DE  ROS,  sixth  baron,  summoned  to  par- 
liament from  ath  Auguat,  1386.  to  13th  November. 
1398.  Thk  ndbleman  was  in  the  naTal  expedition 
in  the  11th  Richard  IL,  under  Richard,  Earl  of 
Arundd ;  and  the  next  year  he  was  joined  with 
Henry,  Earl  oi  Northumberland,  and  Ralph,  Lord 

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NcvUl,  in  th»gofimaunt  of  Carllale,  and  warden- 
■Up  of  the  w«it  MjtfcfaM  of  firoHand.  HU  lord- 
ship, who  WM  not  IcM  dbtiiigUMhad  for  idsty,  than 
yalour.  died  upon  hie  pilgrimage  to  Jcmmlem,  at 
Piq>hoe»  in  the  Isle  of  Cypnu,  anno  13P3^  He  m. 
Mary,  daughter  of  Henry  de  Percy,  but  having  no 
issue,  was  «.  by  his  brother, 

THOMAS  DE  ROS,  lercnth  baron,  summoned 
to  parliament,  from  SOth  November,  1894,  to  t4th 
December,  1413.  This  nobleman  was  appointed 
LORD  TUSAauRBn  of  England,  in  the  4th  Henry 
IV.,  and  in  thegth  lie  obtained,  in  oooslderatim  of 
his  serrices,  agrant  flrom  the  crown,  of  one  hundred 
marks  per  annum,  for  his  life,  to  be  paid  out  of 
the  exchequer.  In  the  16th  of  the  seme  rdgn, 
being  then  one  of  the  king's  council,  and  in  such 
esteem  that  his  residence  near  the  court  was 
deemed  indispensable,  he  had  the  town  of  ChtfngU- 
ford,  in  Essex,  assigned  him,  for  the  abode  of  his 
servants  and  horses.  It  was  about  this  period  that 
his  lordship  prefenred  a  complaint  in  parliament, 
against  Robert  Tlrwhit,  one  of  the  Justices  of  the 
King's  Bench,  for  withholding  firom  him,  and  his 
tenants,  of  the  Manor  of  Mdton  Roos,  in  the 
county  of  Lincoln,  certain  commonage  of  pasture 
and  turbay,  and  with  lying  in  wait  for  him,  with 
five  hundred  men.  To  which  charges,  Mr.  Justice 
Tirwhit  pleading  guilty  in  the  presence  of  the  king, 
and  craving  pardon,  the  case  was  lefetred  to  the 
Chief  Justice,  Sir  William  Oasooine,  who  deter- 
mined that  Tirwhit,  attended  by  all  his  party, 
should  meet  Lord  Ros,  at  the  common  in  dispute, 
and  bring  with  him  two  tons  of  Gascony  ^rine, 
with  two  fkt  oxen,  and  twelve  tat  sheep,  as  provi- 
sion for  a  dinner,  to  be  then  eaten  by  the  assem- 
bled friends  and  adherents  ot  the  disputants,  and 
that  Tirwhit,  in  the  presence  of  aU,  should  make 
Lord  Ros,  a  most  sulmissive  apology,  tendering 
him,  at  the  same  time,  five  hundred  marks,  as 
a  compensation.  To  which,  it  was  also  settled 
by  the  arbitrator,  that  the  baron  should  reply; 
"At  reverence  of  the  king,  who  hath  shewed 
Mmself  to  be  a  good  and  righteous  lordt  I  will 
take  nothing,  but  the  oxen  and  sheep,  for  the 
dinner  of  those  here  collected.**  A  free  and  open 
act  of  forgiveness  was  to  follow  this  speech  to 
Tirwhit  and  his  partisans,  and  thus  the  matter  ter- 
minated. His  lordship  «n.  Margaret,  daughter  of 
Sir  John  Arundel,  and  had  issue,  five  sons,  and 
three  daughters.  He  cL  at'Bdvoir,  1st  Sq^tcmber, 
1414,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

JOHN  DE  ROS,  eighth  baron,  but  never  sum- 
nfoned  to  parliament  His  lordship  was  retained  in 
the  4th  Henry  V.,  to  serve  the  king  in  Prancoi 
being  then  scarcely  eighteen  years  of  age.  In  two 
years  afterwards  he  was  with  the  Dukes  of  Exeter 
and  Clarence  at  the  siege  of  Roan,  where  he  so  gal- 
lantly distinguished  himself,  that  he  had  a  grant  of 
the  castle  of  BasquevlUe,  in  Normandy,  to  himsdf 
and  his  heirs  male  for  ever.  Continuing  in  those 
wars  he  fdl  within  two  years,  anno  14SI,  at  the  flual 
battle  of  Bauois,  with  his  brother,  William,  the 
Duke  of  Clarence,  and  a  great  many  of  the  flower 
of  the  English  nobility.  His  lordship  was  «.  by  his 
next  brother, 

SIR   THOMAS  DE  ROS,  ninth  baxon,  sum- 
4M 


monad  to  parllaaent  lath  July,  and  aid  AugiiaC 
1490.  This  nobleman  m.  Alienor,  daughter  of 
Riduurd  Beauchamp,  Earl  of  Warwick*  and 
at  his  decease,  in  1431,  by  his  son, 

THOMAS  DE  ROS,  tenth  taann,  b.  9th 
tember,  1487.    During  the  mbnority  of  this  noble- 
man, his  great  unde.  Sir  Robert  Ros,  Knt.,  wna 
deputed  by  the  king  to  perform  the  office  of  CbaiiH 
berlain  to  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury  upon  the 
dsiy  of  hb  installation,  which  ofllce  beksnged  to  the 
Lord  Ros,  in  rightof  the  tenure  of  a  certain  manor* 
His  lOTdship,  who  was  in  ward  to  the  crown,  had* 
by  especial  favour,  the  livery  of  his  lands  in  the 
S4th  Henry  VI.    In  the  memorable  contests  oom- 
menoed  in  that  unhappy  monardi's  reign  between 
the  Houses  of  Lancaster  and  YoA,  Lord  Ros  en* 
tared  aealously  into  the  cause  of  the  former,  and 
participated  in  its  disesters,  particularly  at  the 
battle  of  Towton-field:  being  with  the  king  at 
York,  when  tidings  of  the  defeat  readied  the  on* 
fortunate  monarch,  he  fied  with  his  royal  master  to 
Berwic,  and  was  attainted  in  the  1st  Edward  IV.* 
when  his   lands  were  confiscated,  and  BBi.Toin 
Cabtlc  granted  to  the  Lord  Hastings,  who  event- 
ually dismantled  the  splendid  structure,  whidi  re- 
mained, from  that  period  little  better  than  a  heap 
of  ruins  until  the  reigns  of  Henry  VIIL  and  Elisa- 
beth, when  its  renovation  was  commenced,  and 
completed  by  Thomas  and  Henry  Manners,  first 
and  second  Earls  ot  Rutland.     His  lorddiip   m. 
Philippe,  daughter  ot  Jchn,  Lord   Tiploft,  and 
sister  and  co-heir  of  Jobn«  Eatl  of  W<nvester»  and 
had  issue, 

Edmuhd. 

John,  died  «.  jk 

Eleanor,  m.  to  Sir  Robert  Manners,  ancestor 
of  the  Earls  and  Dukes  of  Rutland. 

Isabd,  m.  to  Thomas  Grey,  youngest  son  of 
Sir  Ralph  Grey,  of  Werka,  Imt  died  s,  p^ 

Margaret,  tf.  unmarried. 
Lord  Ros  was  summoned  to  parliament  flrom  the 
find  January,  1440,  to  30th  July,  1400.  He  was 
attainted  4th  November,  1461,  and  d.  in  the  same 
year.  The  Babony  or  Roe  lay  under  the  attain- 
der until  the  complete  triumph  ^  the  Lancastrians, 
by  the  accession  of  King  Henry  VIL,  when  the  dder 
son  of  the  late  knrd, 

EDMUND  DE  ROS*  obtained  (1st  Henry  VIL) 
an  act  of  parliament,  annulling  and  making  entirely 
void,  the  act  by  which  his  father  was  attainted,  and 
restoring  to  him  all  the  estates  and  honours  of  the 
fiunily.  He  was  never,  however,  summoned  to 
parliament.  His  lordship  d.  in  1506  unmarriedf 
when  the  BAnoifv  or  Ros  fell  into  ABXYAircn 
between  his  sisters,  and  was,  eventually,  inherited 
by  George  Manners,  the  son  and  heir  of  Eleanoi^ 
Lady  Manners,  after  her  ladyship's  deceaseL 

Thus  terminated  the  fiunily  of  Ds  Roa,  BanoNa 
Ros,  of  Hamlake,  but  the  barony  has  long  tui». 
vived  its  original  poiseisors,  and  is  now  s^)oyed 
by  Lady  Charlotte  Fits-Gerald,  in  whose  fkvour  it 
was  called  out  of  ABBVANca  in  1806,  after  behig  lo 
situated  for  nearly  a  century  and  a  quarter.  Lady 
Charlotte  assumed  the  additional  surname  of  Dm 
Roa. 
ABMa.— Ou.  three  water  budgets,  ar. 


BOS 


BUP 


M  A^  ROS— BARON  R08>  OF  WERKE. 

,  ^  ISA        By  Writ  ot  Summoni,  dAtad  Mth  June.  IttS, 

S3  Edwaid  I. 


Mintage. 


ROBERT  DE  ROS,  feudid  Lord  of  HcmUlw, 
who  4l.4ii  I8S7*  oonfamd  tht  cwtle  and  Barony 
of  WsBKSf  in  the  county  of  Northvunherhnd, 
which  he  hdd  of  the  crown  by  the  lerrloe  ot  two 
knights'  tern,  upon  his  younger  loa,  (lee  Roe,  of 
Hamlake.) 

ROBERT  DE  ROS,  who,  in  the  21tt  Henry  IIL, 
wet  oomtituted  chief  Justice  of  the  forest  in  the 
counties  of  Nottingham,  Derby,  Yorlc,  Lancaster, 
Northumberland,  and  Cumberland,  which  office  he 
held  for  sereral  years  afterwards.    In  the  a9th  of 
the  lamo  reign  he  made  a  temporary  surrender  of 
his  CABTLV  or  WsEKJi  to  the  Idng,  who  was  then 
advancing  with  an  army  upon  Scotland,  and  deemed 
it  impolitic  to  permit  so  strong  a  fort  to  remain  in 
private  hands.    About  this  time  duurges  were  pre- 
ferred against  Robert  de  Ros,  to  whose  care  and 
guidance,  with  Jcbn  de  Baliol,  the  kingdom  of 
Scotland,  as  well  as  its  King,  Alexander  III.,  and 
the  Queen  Bfargaret,  (daughter  of  the  BngHsh  mo- 
narch,) were  committed,  for  arbitrary  conduct  in 
the  discharge  of  his  duty ;  for  which  he  was,  events 
ually,  fined  no  less  than  one  hundred  thousand 
marks,  but  his  innocence  appearing  afterwards 
mnnitet,  the  penalty  was  entirdy  remitted.    In  the 
82nd  Edward  I.  he  had  summons  with  other  of  the 
barons  to  repair  to  the  king,  to  advise  upon  the 
aflhirs  of  the  realm  s  and  the  next  year  he  was  sum- 
moned to  parliament,  on  the  24th  June,  1st  Octo- 
ber, and  2nd  November,  as  *«  Roberto  de  Roos  de 
Werke,"'  but  never  aftowards.    In  a  short  time, 
subsequently,   however,  fkUing    in  love  with  a 
Scottish  lady,  he  dcMrte^  to  the  Scots,  having  pre- 
viously endeavoured  to  seduce  from  his  alkgianoe, 
his  kinsman.  Lord  Ros,  of  Hamlake.    But  that  no- 
repairing  to   King  Edward   divulged  the 
and  was  forthwith  despatched  at  the  head 
d  a  thousand  men  to  take  powewion  of  Werke, 
whither  he  was  proceeding,  when  Robert  de  Ros, 
with  a  great  body  of  ScoU,  surprised  him  at  the 
village  of  Prestfen,  and  cut  the  whole  English  force 
to  pieces.     King  Edward  very  shortly,  however, 
most  amply  avenged  himself  .at  the  bettle  of  Dun- 
bar, where  no  less  than  ten  thousand  and  fifty-three 
Scotsmen  Ml :  and  Wsrkb  coming  into  the  pos- 
sevion  of  the  crown,  was  coflfeiied  upon  Lord  Ros, 
of  Hamlake. 

Robert,  Lord  Ros,  of  Werke,  m.  Margaret,  one 
of  the  four  sisters  and  co-heirs  of  Peter  de  Brus,  of 
Skelton,  but  regarding  his  hdrs,  the  records  difihr. 
One  inquisition  says,  that  he  had  a  son,  William, 
to  whom  his  mother  gave  the  castle  of  Kendal; 
while  another  asserts,  that  he  had  two  daughters, 
heirs  to  their  mother,  vis. 

Margaret,  wife  of  Jdtm  Salvain. 
Isabel,  m.  to  John  de  Knockther. 
The  BABOicY  expired  under  the  treason  of  the 
baron* 
Abms.»Ou.  three  water  budgets^  sa. 


R08,  OR  ROOS-BARON  ROS. 

By  Writ  of  Summone,  dated  27th  January,  1982* 
9  Edwasd  IIL 

See 
ROS,  Lord  Roa,  ow  Hamlakb. 

John  de  Ros,  second  son  of  William  de  Roe, 
second  Baron  Roe,  of  Hamlake. 

RUPERT  —  DUKE     OF     CUMBER- 

LAND. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  24th  June,  1644. 

Xincagc. 

T%t  Frinceti  ELIZABETH,  of  England,  daugh- 
ter of  K<n^  JAMsa  I.,  espoused  Frederick  V.,  Duke 
of  Bavaria,  elector  palatine  of  the  Rhine,  and  had, 
with  other  issue, 

CBAaLSB  LawiSf  suooasaor  to  the  dukedom 

of  Bavaria. 
RvPBRT,   count  palatine  of  the  Rhine,  of 

whom  presently. 
Maurice,  the  companion  in  arms  during  the 
dvil  wars  of  his  gallant  brother,  Rupert, 
known  in  English  history  as  ««  Prince  Mau- 
rice,**  d.  unmarried  in  16M. 
Sophia,  m.    to    Ernest-Augustus,    Duke  of 
Brunswick-Lunenburgh,  elector  of  Hano- 
ver, and  was  mother  of  Oaoaoa-Lnwis, 
who  ascended  the  British  throne  under  the 
act  of  settlement,  as  Gxorok  I. 
The  second  son, 

IV<ne«  RUPERT,  coming  into  England  in  1642, 
was  elected  a  Kwiort  or  trx  OAarxH,  and  created 
by  his  uncle.  King  Charlxs  L,  24th  June,  1644, 
Baron  9f  KenOaX,  in  the  amntif  <^f  Wetimorland,  Eari 
<^f  Holdammt,  and  Dukc  or  CuMBaauiND.  His 
highness,  with  his  gallant  brother.  Prince  Maubicb, 
was  ever  found  amongst  the  most  intrepid,  enter- 
prising, and  indefktigable  of  the  cavalier  comman- 
ders; RaPBBT,  as  general  of  the  luyalhoise,  and 
Maubicb,  in  command  of  some  forces  in  the  west. 
Indeed  Rupert's  fiery  disposition  appears  frequently 
to  have  outrun  his  better  Judgment,  and  he  has 
acquired  the  reputation  of  a  bold  and  hi|^v«pirited 
officer,  rather  than  of  a  cool  and  able  commander. 
To  his  unbridled  aeal  the  loss  of  Mabstow  Moob 
is  to  be  attributed,  and  upon  that  the  fate  of  the 
unhappy  Cbablbb  mainly  depended.  In  glancing 
at  this  sad  page  of  English  history,  we  find  much  to 
console  us,  and  much  to  retrieve  the  character  of 
the  country,  in  the  gallant  bearing  assumed  by  the 
gentlemen  of  England,  and  the  thorough  devotedness 
of  her  high-minded  nobility.  The  foes  of  royalty 
may  decry,  with  as  much  malignity  as  they  please, 
the  cause  in  which  the  cavaliers  so  noUy  fought 
and  bled ;  but  they  mtut  concede  to  those  chivalrous 
men,  the  meed  at  least  ot  loyalty,  the  most  enthu- 
siastic; fidelity,  the  most  disinterested;  and  valour, 
the  most  heroic.  Prince  Rupbbt  retired  into 
France  when  the  royal  cause  became  hopeless,  but 
returned  at  the  restoration,  and  subsequently  filled 
some  high  official  situations.    In  the  dUSerent  naval 

4M     , 


RUT 


SAI 


flngigemcntf  with  tlM  Dtitch,  hk  W|^nii 
tlcularly  cignaliied  by  hit  able  conduct  and  Ua 
chancterlstic  bnyery.  He  4.  nmnanled  Ib  1(MB, 
wbco  the  DuKXDOM  or  CumbbeiiAhd,  and  mfaior 
honoun,  became  cxTiircT. 

ARMB^-Quarterly  one  and  four  la.  a  lion  non- 
pant  or.  woond  and  third  paly  bendy,  ar.  and  as. 

NoTB.*— IVinev  RuPBKT  had  by  Fbahcsb,  daugh- 
ter and  co-heir  of  Henry  Bard,  Vlacount  Bellamont, 
in  Ireland,  an  Ulegitiniate  ion,  Dudlby  Rdpsbt, 
who  wai  slain  at  the  ilcse  of  Buda,  a  yolunteer 
in  the  imperial  army.  His  higfanen  had  likewise, 
by  Mrs.  Margaret  Huf^es,  a  daughter,  Rupxbta, 
m.  to  Emanu^  Scroope  Howe,  brother  of  Scroope, 
Visooont  Howe,  of  Ireland. 

RUSSELL- EARL  OF  ORFORD. 
By  Letten  Patent,  dated  7th  May,  1QD7> 

Xincasc. 

EDWARD  RUSSELL,  second  son  of  the  Hon. 
Edward  Russell,  fourth  son  of  Francis,  fourth  Earl 
Bedford,  being  bred  a  naval  officer,  attained,  after 
the  rerolutloo,  the  rank  of  admiral ;  and  in  1602, 
as  commander  of  the  fleet,  achieved  a  splendid  vic- 
tory of  the  French  under  Monsieur  de  TourvUle, 
off  La  Hooub,  for  which,  and  his  other  gallant 
services,  he  was  created,  on  7th  May,  1097,  Baron 
op  Shinoay,  in  the  eountif  of  Cambridge,  (with  re- 
mainder to  the  issue  male  of  Lktitia,  his  eldest 
sister,)  Vieeount  Barfteur,  in  the  Diiefty  c/  Nor^ 
mandy,  and  Earl  op  Orporu,  in  the  county  of 
Suffblk.  His  lordship  m.  his  cousin,  Lady  Margaret 
Russell,  daughter  of  William,  first  Duke  of  Bed- 
ford, but  ef.  issueless  in  17S7,  when  (his  sistfer 
Lbtitia  having  deceased  previously  without  male 
issue)  all  HIS  monovrs  became  bztiwct. 

Arms. — Ar.  a  lion  rampant,  gu.  on  a  chief  sa. 
three  eschaUops  of  the  field.  A  crescent  for  dif- 
ference. 

RUTHYN,  OR  RUTHVEN— EARL  OF 
BRENTFORD. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  a7th  May,  1644. 

Xinea^. 

PATRICK  RUTHYN  or  RUTHVEN,  Earl  of 
Forth,  in  the  peerage  of  Scotland,  an  eminent 
soldier  in  the  wars  of  Sweden,  Denmark,  Russia, 
Poland,  Prussia,  and  Germany,  having  drawn  his 
sword  in  the  cause  of  King  Cbarlsb  I.,  and  dis- 
tinguishing himself  at  RdghUl,  BRBirrpoBn,  and 
Newbury,  was  made  general  of  the  king's  army,  and 
created  a  peer  of  England,  by  letters  patent,  dated 
S7th  May,  1644,  in  the  dignity  of  Earl  op  Brbnt- 
poBD.  His  lordship  d.  at  Dundee  fn  16S1,  leaving 
an  only  daughter.  Lady  Jane  Ruthyn,  (who  m. 
James,  Lord  Forrester,  of  Scotland,)  when  the 
Earloom  op  Brbntporo  became  bxtinct. 

Armb.— Paly  of  six  ar.  and  gu.  a  crescent  for 
diflbicuce. 
4M 


RYTHRE—BARON  RYTHRE. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  a9th  Deconber,  13S9, 
S8  Edward  L 

In  the  S5th  Edward  I., 

WILLIAM  DE  RYTHRE,  having  taken  a  part 
in  the  Scottish  and  French  wars,  was  summoned 
to  parliament,  as  a  baron,  by  King  Edward  !.«  on 
29th  December,  1899,  and  he  had  writs  ttaax  that 
period  to  96th  August,  1307.  His  lordship  was  a. 
by  his  son, 

JOHN  DE  RYTHRE,  second  baron,  but  never 
summoned  to  parliament.  In  the  11th  Edward  II. 
he  was  governor  of  Skypton  Castle,  and  in  the  17th 
of  the  same  reign,  had  a  charter  for  free  warren  in 
all  his  demesne  lands  at  Haselwode,  Ac,  and 
Adington,  in  Yorkshire^  Neither  himsdf  nor  any 
of  his  descendants  having  had  summons  to  parlia- 
ment, Dugdale  gives  no  further  account  of  the 
family.  Modem  genealogists  try,  however,  to  con- 
nect this  old  baronial  house  with  the  modem  one 
of  Ryobr,  but  without  a  shadow  of  proofs 

ABJia.— As.  three  crescents  or. 

ST.  AMAND— BARONS  ST.  AMAKD. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  S9th  December,  1289, 
(28  Ed.  I.,)  and  SSnd  March,  1313  (6  Ed.  IL). 

In  the  6th  year  of  Hbnby  IIL, 

ALMARIC  DE  ST.  AMAND  obtained  a  grant 
of  two  parts  of  the  manor  of  Liakaret,  fn  Corn- 
wall, for  his  support  In  the  king's  service,  and  in 
nine  years  afterwards,  being  in  the  expedition 
then  made  into  Wales,  deported  himself  so  gal- 
lantly, that  the  king  remitted  to  him  a  debt,  due 
by  Walter  de  Verdon,  his  uncle,  (whose  heir  he  was,) 
which  otherwise  he  should  have  paid  to  the  exche^ 
quer  by  ten  marks  annually.  The  next  jrear  he  had 
a  grant  of  the  manor  of  Bloxham,  in  Oxfordshire, 
and  soon  afterwards  we  find  him  governor  of  St. 
Brlavil's  Castle,  in  Gloucestershire,  and  waiden  of 
the  forest  of  Dene,  as  also  sheriff  of  Herefordshire^ 
and  governor  of  Hereford  Castlei  In  the  2Ist  of 
the  same  reign,  he  was  again  entrusted  with  the 
same  important  foitt esses  t  and  standing  high  in 
fkvour  at  court,  he  was  one  of  the  sponson  at  the 
font  when  Prince'  Edward  (son  of  Henry  III.) 
was  baptiaed,  by  Otto,  the  popc^  tegate  He  waa 
«.  by  his  son, 

RALPH  DE  ST.  AMAND,  who  m.  Ascdine, 
daughter  and  co-hdr  of  Robort  de  Albini,  son  of 
Robert  de  Albinl,  Baron  of  Caynho,  In  the  county 
of  Bedford,  and  paid  in  the  2ftth  of  Henry  III., 
twenty-five  pounds  for  his  relief  of  one  moiety  of 
the  lands  of  Joane  de  Beauchamp,  another  of  the 
daughters  and  co-hefrs  of  the  said  Robert  AlbinL 
This  Ralph  ef.  in  five  years  afterwards,  and  wastf. 
by  his  son, 

ALMARIC  DE  ST.  AMAND,  for  whose  ward- 
ship, and  the  benefit  of  his  marriage,  Panlyne 
Peyvre,  a  great  personage  at  that  period,  gave  one 
thousand  marks.  In  the  40th  of  Henry  III.,  Al- 
maric,  howersr,  made  proof  of  his  agt^  and  had 


SAI 


SAI 


then  Uvcryof  hif  lMi«a:  ttid  the  noct  yme  lud  a 
military  summon*  lo  mardt  against  the  Webh. 
He  d,  in  the  14th  Edward  L,  and  was  «.  hy  his 
eldest  son* 

GUY  DE  ST.  AM  AND,  who  d.  issbeiess  soon 
after,  and  was  «.  hy  his  hrother, 

ALMARIC  DE  ST.  AMAND.  This  feudal  lord 
disdnguished  Himself  in  the  wars  of  France  and 
SooUand»  was  summoned  to  parliament  by  King 
Edwakd  I.,  as  a  barov,  on  the  29th  December, 
1SB9,  and  he  had  regular  writs  ttonx  that  period 
to  the  10th  June,  1311.  His  lordship  was  at  one 
time  governor  of  Bordeaux.  Hed,  without  issue, 
in  13ia,  when  the  Barony  of  St.  Aiiand  be- 
came BXTiNCT,  but  his  lands  derolTed  upon  his 
brother, 

JOHN  DE  ST.  AMAND,  a  professor  of  the 
canon  law,  and  at  that  time  called  "  MagUter 
Johanna*  d«  Saneto  Anand,**  who,  doing  his  fealty, 
had  livery  of  the  deceased  lord's  lands,  and  was 
summoned  to  parliament  as  a  babon,  from  88d 
March,  1313,  to  10th  October,  138&  His  lordship 
d.  in  ISS6,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

ALMARIC  DE  ST.  AMAND.  second  baron, 
summoned  to  parliament  from  8th  January,  1371, 
to  82d  August,  1381.  This  nobleman  was  in  the 
Scottish  and  French  wars,  temp.  Edward  II.  and 
Edward  III.  In  the  31st  of  the  hitter  king  he  was 
made  Jubtick  of  Ibbland,  and  had  forty  men 
at  arms,  with  one  hundred  archers  on  horseback, 
assigned  to  attend  him  there,  over  snd  above  the 
v^^»\  number  of  men  at.  arms,  which  appertained 
to  that  high  office^  In  the  47th  Edward  III.,  he 
ms  made  steward  of  the  forest  of  Rockingham, 
and  governor  of  the  castle.  He  d.  in  1381,  and  was 
«.  by  his  Mm, 

ALMARIC  DE  ST.  AMAND,  third  banm,  sum- 
moned to  parliament  from  9th  August,  1389,  to 
9d  December,  1401.  This  nobleman,  by  indentore 
in  the  8th  of  Richard  II.,  was  retained  to  serve 
the  king  In  his  wars  ot  Scotland,  and  in  the  1st  of 
HBWBV  rv.,  WM  made  a  Knight  of  the  Bath,  at 
tlie  coronation  of  that  monartih.  He  m.  first,  Ida 
,  and  had  issue, 

AiiAiroRB,  who  m.  Sir  Gerard  de  Bisybroke, 
Knt.,  and  was  mother  of 
Obrabd  db  Bba ybbokb,  who  left  issue, 
Elixabbth,  who  m.  Wili<iam  bb 
Bbaucbamf,     afterwards    sum- 
moned toparliaaaent  as  Lobd  St. 
Amaitd. 
Maud,  m.  to  John  Babington. 
Alianoreb 
His  lordship  espoused,  secondly,  Aliaaore,  heiiess 
of  the  St.  Xten  fismily,  and  left  a  daughter, 

Ida,  m,  to  Sir  Thomas  West,  Knt.,  and  died 
#.  p,  before  the  year  149& 
Lord  St.  Amend  d.  hi  1408,  leaving  his  younger 
daughter,  Ida,  and  his  grandson,  Obbard  db 
Bba  YBBOKB,  (son  of  his  deceased  elder  daughter, 
Aliaaore,)  his  heirs;  between  whom  the  Babowy 
or  St.  Amand  fell  into  abbyawcb,  and  so  con- 
tinued wntU  the  year  1440,  when  it  was  called  out 
in  fkvour  of  Sir  William  de  Beauchamp,  husband 
of  tAe  deceased  lord's  great-gnmddaughter,  Bmsa- 


mnm  db  Bbatbbokb  (refer  to  Bmudkamp,  Ba« 
Boif  8  St.  Amand). 

Abmb.— Or.  tntlUtp  sa.  on  a  chief  of  the  second, 
three  bewmtii 

ST.  JOHN— BARONS  ST.  JOHN,  OP 
STANTON  ST.  JOHN,  IN 
THE  COUNTY  OF  OX- 
FOKD. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  94th  December,  1964, 
40  Henry  IIL 

XiacBftc. 

THOMAS  DB  ST.  JOHN,  of  Stanton  St.  Jotao, 
in  the  county  of  Oxford,  was  father  of 

ROGER  DE  ST.  JOHN,  who.  in  the  99d  Henry 
IL,  was  amerced  one  hundred  and  thirty-three 
pounds,  six  shillings  and  eightpence,  for  trespass- 
ing in  the  king's  ibresU,  in  the  county  of  Oxford. 
This  Roger  was  «.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  DE  ST.  JOHN,  who  was  «.  by  his  son, 

ROGER  DE  ST.  JOHN.  This  feudal  lord 
having  taken  up  arms  with  the  barons  against 
King  Henry  IIL,  was  summoned  to  parliament 
after  the  victory  of  those  lords  at  Lewes,  on  the 
94th  December,  1964,  and  appointed  governor  of 
the  castle  of  Oxford.  He  was  slain,  however,  the 
following  year,  at  Evesham,  where  his  party  sus- 
tained so  signal  a  defeat.    His  lordship  m. . 

sister  of  Richard  de  Lud,  by  whom  he  acquired  a 
moiety  of  the  lordship  of  Wolnestede,  in  the 
county  of  Surrey,  and  had  an  cmly  son, 

John,  who  was  never  summoned  to  psrli»- 
ment,  nor  were  his  descendants. 
The  Babomy  or  St.  John,  or  Stanton,  sxpfBBD 
therefore  with  the  first  lord. 

ABMB^Ar.  on  a  chief  gules,  two  muHete  or, 
and  a  file  of  three  points  of  the  field. 

ST.  JOHN— BARONS  ST.  JOHN,  OP 

BASING. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  90th  December,  1990b 
98  Edward  L 

At  the  time  of  the  Gbnbbai.  Subyby, 

HUGH  DE  PORT  held  five  lordships  of  the 
crown,  hi  Hampshire,  whereof  Basing  was  one, 
and  the  head  of  the  barony.  He  had  also  lands  in 
the  counties  of  Dorset  and  Cambridge.  In  the 
reigB  of  RH/W,  he  took  the  cowl  at  Whichester, 
and  was  succeeded  in  his  worldly  aAdrs  by  his  son, 
HENRY  DE  PORT,  Lord  of  Basing,  who  was 

«.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  DE  PORT,  whOi  in  the  lOfli  Of  Henry  IL, 
contributed  for  his  knights'  flees  (seven  in  number) 
to  the  asseeiment  for  marrying  the  ting's  daughter, 
fifty-seven  marks.    He  was  «.  by  his  son, 

ADAM  DE  PORT,  Lord  of  Basing.  This  feudal 
baron  was  governor  of  the  casUe  of  Southampton,, 
in  the  15th  of  King  John ;  and  in  the  99d  Henry  II., 
he  was  fined  three  hundred  marks,  for  trespass- 
ing in  the  kiniT*  foraiti.  In  the  96th  of  the  same 
3N  4fi7 


dAI 


6AI 


Nign,  he  gSTS  »  thooiand  marki  to  the  king  for 
livery  of  his  wife's  inheriumoe  in  Nonneady ;  aad 
that  he  might  he  restored  to  the  kin^s  &tout, 
end  do  hto  homage.  He  m.  Mabel,  daughter  of 
R^inald  de  AuTevaUe«  and  grandchild  and  heir 
of  Roger  de  St.  John;  and  his  posterity  ever  after- 
wards bore  the  surname  of  St.  Jobn.  By  this 
lady  he  had  two  sons,  William  and  Robert.  The 
elder* 

WILLIAM  DE  ST.  JOHN,  assuming  that  sur- 
name, wrote  himself  WUUetmu*  de  Saneto  Johann« 
fiiiu*  et  fugre$  Adat  dt  Port»  and  in  the  15th  John, 
gave  five  hundred  marks  to  the  king  for  livery  of 
all  the  lands  of  Adamd^  Port,  his  father.  The  two 
following  years  he  executed  the  sheriifs  office  for 
(he  county  of  Southampton :  but  was  subsequently 
in  arms  with  the  other  barons  against  the  crown, 
and  did  not  return  to  his  allegiance  imtil  some 
time  after  the  accession  of  Rknby  III.  He  made 
his  peace,  however,  eflbctually,  for  we  find  him 
in  the  nth  of  that  king,  appointed  governor  of 
the  islands  of  Guernsey  and  Jersey.  He  m.  God- 
child, daughter  of  N.  Paganell,  and  was  «.  by  his 
son, 

RORERT  DE  ST.  JOHN,  who  had  a  military 
summons,  in  the  4Sd  Henry  JII.,  to  oppose  the 
incursions  of  the  Welsh,  and  in  three  years  after- 
wards, obtained  a  licence  to  fix  a  pale  upon  the 
bank  of  his  moat.  atBABiNo;  a^  also  to  continue 
it  so  fortified,  during  the  king's  pleasure.  In  the 
fiOth  of  the  same  reign,  he  was  constituted  governor 
of  PoRCHSSTKR  Cabtlb,  and  dying  soon  after, 
was  «.  by  his  son,  (by  his  wife  Agnes,  daughter  of 
.William  de  Cantilupe,) 

JOHN  DE  ST.  JOHN,  Lord  of  Basing,  who  suc- 
ceeded likewise  to  the  governorship  of  Pordiester 
Castle.  This  baron  acquired  high  military  repu- 
tation in  the  wars  of  Edward  I. }  and  in  his  capa- 
city of  lieutenant  of  Acquitaine,  achieved  some 
important  conquests.  In  1296,  he  took  the  city  of 
Bayonne  by  assault,  and  its  castle  surrendered  after 
a  siege  of  eight  days.  Thence  marching  to  Bkllb- 
OARD,  at  the  time  invested  by  the  Earl  of  Arras, 
he  uras  made  prisoner,  and  conveyed  to  Paris; 
being,  however,  redeemed,  (it  was  said,  by  j^ftttuw. 
King  of  Castile,)  he  was  afsin  in  the  wars  of  Gas- 
oony,  as  well  as  in  those  of  Scotland ;  and  was  after- 
wards deputed  ambassador  to  France,  with  John, 
Earl  of  Warren,  and  other  persons  of  rank.  He 
m.  Alice,  daughter  of  Reginald  Fits-Pi«rs.  and  had 
issue, 

John,  his  successor. 

William,  who  obtained  l^om  his  father  the 
castle  of  Beaumont,  in  Glamorganshire,  and 
is  considered  the  anccator  of  the  St.  Johns 
of  Bletshoe. 
The  elder  son, 

JOHN  DE  ST.  JOHN,  had  been  flmnmooed  to 
parliament  as  a  saiiom,  in  the  life-time  of  his  fkther, 
from  S9th  December,  1S99,  to  18th  November,  1303, 
under  the  designation  of  **  John  de  St.  John,  Ju- 
nior,** but  afterwards  as  *'  SL  John  of  Basing." 
This  noUeman  was  eminent  in  the  wars  of  Seo^- 
land,  temp.  Edward  I.  and  Edward  II.  His  lord- 
ship espoused  Isabel,  daughter  of  Hugh  de  Courte- 
uay.  and  tf.  hi  1989,  was  s.  by  his  son, 
458 


nirOH  DB  ST.  JOHN,  seoond  Banm  St.  John* 
of  Baaing,  who  d,  in  1337.  leaving, 
Edmuhd,  his  successor. 
Margaret,  m.  to  John  de  St.  Philibert,  and  had 

a  son,  John,  who  d.  in  infimcy. 
ISABJii.,  IN.  first,  to  Henry  de  Burghcnh,  who 
died  «.  p.,  and  secondly,  to  Lucas  de  Poy« 
nings,  who  vras  summoned  to  parliament* 
it  is  presumed,  **Juro  uxorU,^*  21th  Fe- 
bruary, 1368. 
His  lordship  was  «.  by  his  elder  son, 

EDMUND  ST.  JOHN,  third  Baron  St.  John,  of 
Basing,  who  dying  in  minority,  21st  Edward  III., 
then  a  ward  of  the  king,  his  sisters,  Maroarkt 
and  Ibabbl,  became  his  heirs.  The  elder  sister, 
Margaret,  did  not  long  survive,  and  her  only  issue, 
John  de  SL  Philibert,  dying  an  infant,  the  whole 
of  the  inheritance  centered  in  the  younger  sister, 
Isabel,  then  married  to  her  seoond  husband,  Lucab 
DB  PoYNTNOs,  who  in  her  right  was  summoned 
to  parliament,  and  the  Barony  of  St  John,  q^ 
Baaing,  was  thus  conveyed  to  the  fkmily  of  Poy- 
nlngs  (see  Poynings,  Barons  St.  John). 


ST.  JOHN— BARONS  ST.  JOHN,  OF 
LAGEHAM. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  21st  September.  1290. 
27  Edward  L 

Xincage* 

In  the  4fith  Hbnrv  III. 

ROGER  DE  ST.  JOHN  obtateed  licence  to 
fortify  his  house  at  Lageham,  In  the  county  of  Sur- 
rey, and  so  to  hold  the  same,  whibt  himself  and 
his  heirs  should  continue  loyal  to  the  king ;  but 
within  two  years  he  joined  the  baronial  standard, 
and,  after  the  bettle  of  Lewes,  was  one  of  the  nine 
barons  chosen  to  form  the  ooundi  of  state.  To  this 
turbulent  feudal  lord  succeeded, 

JOHN  DE  ST.  JOHN,  who  had  summons  to 
parliament  as  Baron  St.  John,  qf  lAgoham,  tram 
21st  September.  1299,  to  6th  October,  131&  This 
nobleman  was  actively  engaged  in  the  Scottish 
wars,  temp.,  Edward  I.  and  Edward  II.  His  lord- 
ship d,  in  1316,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  DE  ST.  JOHN,  second  baron,  jnmunoned 
to  parliament  flrom  1st  August.  1317,  to  18th  Sqptem- 
ber,  13B8.  His  lordship  was  in  the  expedition  made 
into  Scotland.  11th  Edward  IL.  and  dying  in  USt^ 
was  «.  by  his  son. 

JOHN  DE  ST.  JOHN,  third  baron,  summoned 
to  parliament  firom  1st  August,  1387,  to  18th  Fe> 
bruary,  1331.  This  nobleman  m.  Katharine,  daugh- 
ter of  Geffrey  de  Say.  and  d.  in  1348,  waa  a.  by  hia 
con, 

ROGER  DE  ST.  JOHN,  fourth  baron,  who  in 
the  25th  Edward  III.,  released  to  Shr  Nidiolas  d» 
Lovoyane,  Knt,  and  Margaret,  his  wife,  aU  hie 
right  in  the  manor  of  Lagduon,  and  died  shortly 
after,  (in  13S3,)  issueless,  leavtaig  Pbtbr  ob  St. 
John,  hio  MiMman,  his  next  heir:  but  none  ot  the 
family  were  subsequently  summoned  to  parlia.- 
ment. 

A  RU8.— Ermine,  on  •  chief  gules,  two  muQeU  or. 


SAI 


SAI 


AT.  JOHN  —  EARLS   OF    BOLINO. 

BROKE. 

By  Letten  Patent«  dated  S8th  December,  1G94. 

Xinca^c. 

SIR  OLIVER  ST.  JOHN,  of  Pennuurk.  in  the 
eounty  of  Glamorgan,  (of  the  fkmily  of  St.  John, 
of  Stanton  St.  John,)  m.  Margaret,*  daughter  of  Sir 
John  de  Bcauchamp,  and  sister  and  hdr  of  .John, 
Lord  Beaudiamp,  of  Bletshoe,  and  was  fkther  of 

SIR  JOHN  ST.  JOHN,  K.B.,  of  fileUhoe,  whose 
great  grandson, 

OLIVER  ST.  JOHN,  was  etorated  to  the  peer- 
age, in  January,  IfifiO,  as  Bahon  St.  Jobiv,  itf  Blti- 
«Am.    The  grandson  of  this  nobleman, 

OLIVER  ST.  JOHN,  fourth  Lord  St  John,  of 
Bletshoe,  was  advanced,  by  letters  patent,  dated 
88th  December,  1624,  to  the  dignity  of  Eabl  of 
BoLiMOBKOKs.  His  lordship  m.  Elisabeth,  daugh- 
ter and  heir  of  William  Paulet,  grandson  of  St. 
George  Paulet,  a  younger  brother  of  William,  flist 
Marquess  of  Winchester,  and  had  issue, 

OLivsa,  Lord  St.  John,  made  Knight  ot  the 
Bath,  at  the  coronation  of  King  Charles  I. 
This  nobleman  fell,  fighting  undsr  the  royal 
banner,  at  Edgehill,  S3rd  October,   1894 
He  had  *n.  Lady  Arabella  Egerton,  daugh- 
ter of  John,  first  Earl  of  Bridgewater,  and 
left  four  daughters,  yis. 
Frances,  m.  Sir  William  Beechcr,  Knt, 
of  Howberry,  in  the  county  of  Bedford. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  George  Bennett,  Esq.,  of 

Cotsback,  in  Leicestershire. 
Arabella,  m.  to  Sir  Edward  Wyse,  K.B., 

of  Sydenham,  Devon. 
Dorothy,  m.  to  Francis  Carleton,  Esq., 
of  Apley  Castle,  Salop. 
Paulbt  (Sir),  made  Knight  of  the  Bath,  at 
the  coronation  of  King  CHARi.sa  I.:  m. 
Elisabeth,  daughter  and  heir  of  Sir  Row- 
land Vaughan,  of  the  Spital,  near  Shore> 
ditch,  in  the  suburbs  of  London,  and  dying 
before  his  fother,  left, 
Olivbr,  1  successively  Earls  ov  Bo- 

PAUI.ST,  J  LIN OBBOKS. 

Francis,  d,  unmarried. 

Anthony,  m. ,  daughter  ot  Kensham,  Esq., 

ofTameford. 
Dorothy,  *n.  to  John  Carey,  Lord  Rochford, 
ddest  son  of  Henry,  Earl  of  Dover. 
His  lordship  d,  in  1646,  and  was  «.  by  his  grandson, 

OLIVER  ST.  JOHN,  second  Earl  of  BoUng- 
broke,  and  fifth  Lord  St.  John,  of  BleUhoew  His 
lordship  m.  Lady  Frances  Cavendish,  daughter  of 
William,  Duke  of  Newcastle,  but  dying  «.  p*»  18th 
March,  1687-8,  was  «.  by  his  brother, 
PAULET  ST.  JOHN,  third  Earl  of  BoUngbroke, 


•  This  lady  espoused,  secondly,  John  Beaufort, 
Duke  of  Somerset,  K.O.,  by  whom  she  was  mother 
of  Lady  Maboaust  Bsaufoht,  who  m.  Edward 
Tudor,  Earl  of  Richmond,  and  had  a  son,  Henrp, 
Eabl  of  Richmond,  who  ascended  the  throne  as 
H  K  N  B Y  V IL  The  Duchess  of  Somerset  m.  thirdly, 
John,  ViacouNT  Wbllbs>  K.O. 


and  sixth  Loid  St.  JohD,  of  Blfltdioe    This  nobfe- 

man  d,  unmarried,  ITth  October,  1711,  when  the 
Barony  of  SL  John,  of  Bletshoe.  psssed  to  the  heir 
at  law.  Sir  Andrew  St.  John,  of  Woodford,  in  the 
county  ot  Northampton,  and  the  Kabumm  or 
BoLiNOBBOKB,  becamo  bxtiitct. 

ABMa.— Ar.  on  a  diiaf  gules  tiro  muUaCs  piflrced 
or. 

8T.  JOHN— BARON  TREG02E,  OF 
HIOHWORTH. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  21st  May,  18a0w 

SIR  OLIVER  ST.  JOHN,  Baronet  of  Lydiard 
Tregoae,  was  created  Viscount  Grandison,  in  the 
peerage  of  Ireland,  temp.  James  I.,  first  president 
of  Munster,  and  afterwards  constituted  lord  deputy 
of  that  kingdom.  His  lordship  returned,  in  the 
SOth  of  the  same  monarch,  and  by  his  nuO^ty^ 
successor,  was  made  m  peer  of  Ehigland,  Slst  May, 
1698,  in  the  dignity  of  Babon  Tbbooxb,  tf  High* 
worth,  in  tho  eownXy  qf  WtttB.  His  lordship  nu 
Joan,  daughter  and  heir  of  Henry  Roydon.  Esq., 
of  Battersea,  and  widow  of  Sir  William  Holcroft, 
but  had  no  issue.  He  d,  in  1699,  when  the  Ba« 
BONY  ow  Tbboobb  bccame  bxtinct. 

ST.  LIZ EARLS  OF  HUNTINGDON. 

Creation  oi  William  the  Conqueror. 

The  county  which  gave  designation  to  this  earl- 
dom was,  according  to  Doctor  Heylin,  a  thickly 
wooded  forest,  until  the  reign  of  the  second  Henry, 
when  the  timber  was  first  cleared  away  t  the  chief 
town,  firom  the  celebrity  of  the  forest  as  a  chase, 
was  called  Huntinotown,  which  soon  became 
abbreviated  into  Huntington,  or  Huntingdon.  The 
Earldom  of  Huntingdon  was  conferred,  by  William 
the  Conqueror,  upon 

WALTHEOF,  (son  of  Syward,  the  Saxon  Earl 
of  Northumberland,)  who  had  m.  the  daughter  of 
that  monarch's  sister,  by  the  mother's  side,  Judith. 
He  was  also  Earl  of  Northampton,  and  of  Northum- 
berland :  but  conspiring  *  against  the  Normans, 
he  was  bdicaded,  in  107S,  at  Winchester,  leaving 
issue, 

Maud,  m.  first,  to  Simon  de  St.  Lli,  and 
secondly,  to  David,  brother  of  Alexander^ 
King  of  Scotland. 
Judith,  m.  first,  to  Ralph  de  Toney,  and  after- 
wards to  Robert,  fifth  son  of  Richard  de 
Tonbridge,  ancestor  of  the  Lords  Fits- 
Walter. 
After  the  execution  of  Waltheof,  King  William 
oflbred  Judith,  his  niece,  the  deceesed  earl's  widow, 
in  marriage  to  Simon  St.  Lis,  a  noble  Norman, 
but  the  lady  peremptorily  rejected  the  alliance, 
owing,  Dugdide  says,  to  St.  Ll^s  halting  in  one  leg  t 
which  reftisal  so  dbplessed  the  Conqueror,  that  he 
immediately  seised  upon  the  castle  and  honour  of 
Huntingdon,  which  the  countess  held  in  dower, 
exposing  h«rsdf  and  her  daughters  to  a  state  of 
privation  and  obscurity  in  the  Isle  of  Ely,  and 

ABO 


SAl 


SAI 


SiiiMM  St.  Lis  tba  town  ot  Northam rrow,  and  tlM 
wlH^  Inindfed  of  Fauc>i.by,  tlMD  yaluad  at  £40 
per  annum,  to  pro9id*  thoet  f^r  hi*  horaet.  St.  Lis 
Chiia  diianiointed  In  oktaiateg  the  hand  of  the 
CountaM  of  Huntingdon,  made  hia  addreaes,  with 
gieater  auoecaa,  to  bar  elder  danght»>  the  Lady 
Maud,  who  beauna  hia  wife,  when  William  oon- 
Cnrred  upon  the  said 

SIMON  DE  ST.  LIZ,  the  Earldoma  of  Hun- 
tii^pdon  and  Northampton.  This  nobleman  built 
the  caatla  of  Noithampton,  as  alio  the  priory  of  St. 
Andrews  there,  about  the  18th  year  of  the  Coo- 
queror'fl  reign,  and  was  a  liberal  beneftctor  to  the 
church.  Hia  lordship  was  a  witness  to  King  Henry 
I.'s  laws  in  1100,  after  which  he  made  a  yoyage  to 
the  Holy  Land,  and  d.  in  his  return,  at  the  Abbey 
of  Charity,  in  France;    He  left  issue, 

Simon,  who  succeeded  to  the  Earldom  of 
Northampton,  but  was  excluded  from  that 
of  Huntingdon.     He  was,  subsequently, 
however,  restored. 
Waltheof  ,  Abbot  of  Melius,  in  Scotland. 
Maud,  m.  first,  to  Robert,  son  of  Richard  de 
Tonbridge,  and  secondly,  to  William  de 
Albini,  according  to  Dugdale;  but  Hornby, 
in  his  remarks  upon  Dugdale's  errors,  proves 
that  such  alliances,  if  not  impossibte,  were 
▼cry  improbaUe. 
Upon  the  death  of  Simon,  Earl  of  Huntingdon  and 
Northampton,  his  dder  son,  Simon,  should  haye 
succeeded  to  both  dignities,  but  it  appears  he  only 
inherited  the  former.    The  Earldom  of  Hunting- 
don lieing  assumed  by 

DAVID,  son  of  Malcohn  III.,  King  of  Scotland, 
who  had  married  the  deceased  eari's  widow,  the 
Countess  Maud,  under  the  especial  sanction  of 
'King  Henry  I.  This  nobleman  succeeded  to  the 
Scottish  throne,  upon  the  decease  of  Alexander, 
his  elder  brother ;  and  invading  England,  was  met 
upon  the  border  by  King  Stephen,  when  their  dif- 
ferences were  amicably  a^usted ;  and 

HENRY,  son  of  the  said  David,  King  of  Scot- 
land, upon  condition  of  swearing  allegiance  to 
Stephen,  had  the  barldom  and  hokour  op  Hun- 
TiNODON,  with  the  borough  of  Doncaster  and  Car- 
lisle as  an  augmentation  theretow  Nay,  he  was  in 
such  high  estimation  with  King  Stephen,  tliat  upon 
that  monarch's  solemn  celebration  of  the  ftast  of 
Easter,  he  placed  the  Earl  of  Huntingdon  on  his 
right  hand;  which  gaye  such  displeasure  to  the 
nobility  then  present,  that  William  COTbois,  or 
Corbel,  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  Ranulph,  Earl 
of  Chester,  and  several  others,  withdrew  firom 
court  He  espoused  Ada,  sister  of  William,  Earl  of 
Warren  and  Surrey,  and  had  issue, 

WilUam,'  }'^c<='^>'^^^7  Kings  of  Sootlaad. 
David. 

Ada,  m.  to  Floris,  Earl  of  Holland. 
Margaret,  m.  to  Conante  Petit,  Earl  of  Bri- 
tanny.    4^   ff\Mr^   fl/  ,^ 
The  earl  d.  in  1159,  a  little  before  his  father,  and 
upon  his  decease, 

SIMON   DE  ST.  LIZ,  Earl  of  Northampton, 
was  restored  to  the  Earldom  of  Huntingdon.    This 
400 


against  the  Empress  Maud,  and  continued  ever  op- 
poaed  to  any  amicable  adjustment  of  the  contest. 
He  m.  Isabd,  daughter  of  Robert,  Earl  of  Letcaatsr, 
and  had  issue, 

Simon,  who  succeeded  to  the  Fjtfldom  of 
Northampton,  but  not  to  Ouu  of  Hontiag- 
don.  He  was,  however,  restored,  temp. 
Henry  IL 

Amice. 

Hawyse. 
His  lordship*  d.  about  the  year  1154,  and  after  his 
decease,  Kfaig  Henry  II.,  in  the  first  year  of  his 
reign,  conferred  in  exchange  for  the  counties  of 
Northumberland,  Cumberland,  and  Westmorland, 
(which  the  Scots  had  subjugated,)  upon 

MALCOLM.  King  of  Scotland,  son  of  Henry,  Earl 
of  Huntingdon,  the  Earldom  of  Huntingdon.  This 
monarch  died  in  1165,  «.  p.,  and  was  «.  by  his 
brother, 

WILLIAM,  King  of  Scotland,  as  Earl  of  Hun- 
tingdon.  This  monarch  taking  up  arms  in  fsvour 
of  Prince  Henry,  so  exasperated  King  Henry  IL, 
that  he  immediately  sent  an  army  against  him,  and 
promised  that  the  castle  and  earldom  should  be  re- 
stored to  the  family  of  St  Lis,  the  rightful  heirs ; 
whereupon  Simon  SL  Liz,  Earl  of  Northampton, 
son  and  heir  of.  Simon,  last  Earl  of  Huntingdon,  of 
that  £unily,  leyled  troops,  and  appeared  before  the 
castle,  when  William,  of  Scotland,  finding  it  un- 
tenable, made  a  surrender  to  St  Liz  of  that  fortress, 
which  the  king  of  England  ordered  to  be  demolish- 
ed, but,  nevertheless, 

SIMON  DE  ST.  LIZ  was  restored  to  the  Eabi.- 
DOM  OF  HuKTiNODON,  whlch  he  ci^oyed  for  the 
remainder  of  his  life.  He  d.  in  1 184,  without  issue, 
whereupon  King  Henry  II.  restored  the  earldom  to 
Ring  William,  of  Scotland,  and  that  monarch 
transferred  it  to  his  younger  brother,  who  thus  be- 
came 

DAVID,  Earl  of  Huntingdon.  This  prince  ac- 
companied King  Richard  I.  to  the  Holy  Land,  with 
five  hundred  men  in  his  train;  but  upon  his  return, 
his  fieet  being  scattered,  his  lordship  was  made 
prisoner  by  the  Egyptians,  and  cventuidly  redeemed 
by  the  Venetians.  He  espoused  Maud,  daughter 
of  Hugh  Kyyelioc,  Earl  of  Chester,  and  had  sur- 
yiving  Issue, 

John,  sumamed  Le  Soot 

Margaret,  m.  to  Alan,  of  Galloway  (see  BaUol. 
feudal  barons). 

Isabd,  m.  to  Robert  Bruce,  of  Annandal& 

Ada,  m.  to  Henry  de  Hastings,  Lord  Haat- 
inga. 

Maud,  d,  unmarried. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1219,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  LE  SCOT,  as  Earl  of  Huntingdon* 
who,  in  right  of  his  mother,  became  likewise 
Earl  of  Chester  (see  Scot,  Earl  of  Chester).    This 

•  This  earl  had  a  brother  also  called  Simoo  de 
St.  Liz,  whose  descendants  settling  at  Seton,  in  the 
county  of  Rutland,  assumed  the  surname  of  Sbtoit. 
The  heir  female  of  this  family  m..  In  the  reign  o£ 
Henry  VI.,  Sir  William  Fielding,  anoestor  of  the 
Fieldings,  Earls  of  Denbigh. 


SAI 


SAX 


f 


vmhkmm  d,  in  lfl7*  wMuMt  lamM*  what  the 
Earldom  or  HuirTiiroDOM  beouno  >xTiifCT,  but 
bk  peat  poaeHiOM  dvvolTed  upon  his  sbtws  ai  ou- 

Aiura^— Per  pale,  indnted  az.  and  as. 

ST.  MAUR— BARONS  ST.  MAUR. 

By  Writ  ot  Summont,  dated  S9th  July,  1814» 
9  Edward  II. 

Ziiuagc. 

The  first  ot  this  £unlly  upon  record, 

MILO  D£  ST.  MAUR,  was  involved  in  the  ba- 
ronial war  against  King  Johx.    The  next  is, 

GEFFREY  DE  ST.  MAUR,  who  m.  the  daugh- 
ter and  heir  of  Wiliiam  de  Rughdon:  and  after 
him 

LAURENCE  DE  ST.  MAUR,  who,  in  the  11th 
Edward  I.,  obtained  a  grant  for  a  weekly  market 
at  his  manor  of  Rods,  in  the  county  of  Somerset, 
and  dying  in  the  S4th  of  the  same  reign,  was  «.  by 
his  son, 

NICHOLAS  DE  ST.  MAUR.  This  feudal  lord 
having  been  engaged  in  all  the  expeditions  made 
into  Scotland  from  the  87th  to  the  S4th  Edward  I., 
was  sumnumed  to  parliament  as  a  bakons  in  the 
8th  of  the  ensuing  reign.  His  lordship  espoused 
Elena,  eldest  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Alan  Jy 
^2iQIiche(  Lord  Zouche,  of  Ashby,  in  the  county  of 
.  '^  Leicester^jmd  dying  In  1316,  was  «.  by  his  elder 
son,        ^ 

THOMAS  DE  ST.  MAUR,  second  baron,  but 
never  summoned  to 'parliament.  This  nobleman 
died  «.  p.  and  was  *,  by  his  brother, 

SIR  NICHOLAS  DE  ST.  MAUR,  third  baron> 
sumnumed  to  parliament  ftom  lAth  November, 
13S1,  to  flOth  November,  1300.  This  nobleman  was 
in  the  wars  of  France,  temp.  Edward  III.,  first  in 
the  retinue  of  Maurice  de  Berkley,  and  afterwards 
in  that  of  Thomas  de  Holand.  Hit  lordship  m. 
Muriel,  daughter  and  heir  of  James  Lovd,  only 
son  of  Sir  Richard  Lovel,  Lord  Lovel,  of  Kary,  by 
whom  he  acquired  the  estates  of  Winfted-Eagle, 
in  the  county  of  Dorset,  and  of  Castle  Kary,  in 
Somersetshire,  with  the  Barowy  op  Lovsl.  He 
d,  in  1361,  and  was  «.  by  his  elder  son, 

NICHOLAS  DE  ST.  If  AUR,  fourth  baron,  who 
d.  in  the  same  year,  under  age,  and  was  «.  by  hb 
brother, 

RICHARD  DE  ST.  MAUR,  fifth  baron,  sum- 
moned to  parliament  from  S8th  August,  1380,  to 
3d  October,  1400.    This  nobleman  was  in  the  wars 
of  France,  in  the  10th  Richard  II.,  in  the  retinue 
of  Richard,  Earl  of  Arundel,  admiral  of  England. 
His  lordship  m.  Ela,  daughter  and  co-heir  oi  Sir 
John  Sl  Lo,  Knt.,  and  had  issue, 
Richard,  his  successor. 
John  (Sir),  m.  Margaret,  daughter  and  heir  of 
Jolm  Erleigh,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

Jobsm  who  m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  of 
Thomas,  Lord  Cobham,  and  left  a 
son, 

Thomas,  who  d,  in  the  banning 
of  Henry  VII.'s  reign.     He  m. 


Philippe,  daughter  of  Sir  Edward 
Hungerford,  and  had  a  son, 
John,  of  Rode,  in  Somerset- 
shire, who  d.  in  his  tether's 
life-time,  leaving 
Wix<x<iAM,     whose     only 
daughter  and  heiress, 
JoAHB,  m.  Sir   Ro- 
bert   Drury,  and 
dieds.  p. 
Anne,  m,  to  Robert  Sta- 
wd,  Esq.,   ancestor  of 
the  Lord  Stewd.- 
Margaret,  m.  to  William 
Bamfyld,    and    had   a 
son. 

Sir  Edward  Bam- 
PYLD,  who  m.  Eli- 
sabeth,    daughter 
of     Sir     Michael 
Wadham,  and  had 
a  daughter, 
E1.IZABBTH,  who 
iHt  George  Per- 
dval,  Esq.,  an- 
cestor of   the 
Earls  of  Egre- 
mont. 
Nicholas. 
The  baron  d.  in  1401,  and  was  «,  by  his  eldest  son, 

RICHARD  DE  ST.  MAUR,  sixth  baron,  sum- 
moned to  parliament  from  21st  June,  140S,  to  26th 
August.  1406.  This  nobleman  went  into  Irdand 
with  Thoma*,  Duks  of  Svrrry,  in  the  22nd  of 
Richard  U.,  then  lieutenant  of  that  kingdom;  and 
in  the  4th  of  Henry  III.,  he  was  in  the  wars  of 
France.  His  lordship  d.  In  140),  leaving  Mary,  his 
wife,  then  eneUntt,  who  was  afterwards  delivaed  of 
a  daughter. 

Allies    St.    Maur,   bom    in  the  house  of 
Thomas  Cressy,  citiaen  and  mercer  of  Loo- 
d(m,  in  the  parish  of  St.  Lawrence,  Cripple- 
gate,  in  that  dty.    This  lady  espoused 
William  Zoucbb,  fifth  Baroit  Zouchr, 
qf  Hartntgwora,  and  the  Baroity  o# 
St.    Maur  continued  vested  in  the 
Lords  Zouche  until  the  decease  of 
Edward,  eleventh  Boron  Zouths, 
in  16S0,  when  the  Baronies  of 
ZoucHS  qf  Banrngtaorth,  of  St. 
Maur,  and  of  Lotbl  ov  Kary, 
fell  into  ABBYAifCB  between  hia 
lordship's  two  daughters  and  co- 
heirs, viz. 

Elizabbth,  m.  to  Sir  WilUam 
Tate,  of  De  la  Pre,  Norths 
amptonshire,  whose  descend* 
ant  in  the  fourth  generation, 
Cathbrihb    Tatb,    m. 
Charles  Hedges,   Esq., 
and  was  grandmother  of 
Sir  Cxcil  BiaaMOPP, 
Bart. 
Mary,  m.  to  Thomas  Leighton, 
Esq. 
The  Baroby  or  Zoughb  was, 

401 


/AOt 


6AI 

fcowevor*  called  out  In  fiiToor  of 
Sift  CbcilBissbopp,  87th  August, 
1815,  aad  it  now  hrid  by  hit 
daughter,   HAaaiST-AHirB,  Ba- 

BOW BBS  ZOUCHB. 

The  Babomibs  or  St.  Maub,  and  or  Lovbl  of 
Knrp,  fell  Into  abbyanob,  as  sUted  aboye,  upon 
the  deoeaae  of  Edward,  eleventh  Babom  Zouchb, 
itf  Hanmgworth,  in  1025,  between  his  daughters, 
Elibabbtr,  wife  of  Sir  William  Tate,  of  De  U 
Pre,  in  the  oonnty  of  Northampton,  and  Maby, 
wife  of  Thomas  Leighton,  Esq.,  as  they  still  con- 
tinue  amongst  the  descendants  of  those  Uulies. 

Abm8.— As.  two  cbevnms  gu.  in  chief  a  file  of 
three  points  aa.a 

ST.  MAUR-^BARON  ST.  MAUR. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  90th  Norcmber,  1917, 
11  Edward  II. 

Zincasc 

WILLIAM  ST.  MAUR,  supposed  to  have  ben 
of  the  old  baronial  fiunily  of  St.  Maur,  was  sum- 
moned to  parliament  as  a  BABoif  ftom  90th  No- 
Ysmber,  1317,  to  14th  March,  139S,  but  there  is 
nothing  further  known  of  his  lordship  or  his  de- 

ST.  PHILIBERT— BARONS  ST.  PHI- 
LIBERT. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  6th  February,  IS99, 
27  Edward  I. 

ICincagc. 

NICHOLAS  DE  ST.  PHILIBERT,  in  the  15th 
of  John,  was  In  the  expedition  then  made  in  Poic- 
toui  and  in  the  same  reign 

HUGH  DE  ST.  PHILIBERT  was  In  arms  with 
the  other  barons  against  the  crown,  and  did  not 
return  to  his  allegiance  before  the  1st  of  Henry 
III.,  when  he  had  restitution  of  his  lands.  In  the 
10th  of  the  latter  king  he  was  made  goremor  of 
the  island  of  Jersey.    After  this  Hugh,  came 

ROGER  DE  ST.  PHILIBERT,  one  of  the  re- 
beUious  barons  made  prisoner  in  47th  Henry  III., 
Bt  the  battle  of  Northampton.  And  about  the  same 
time, 

WILLIAM  DE  ST.  PHILIBERT  was  also  in 
the  baronial  ranks,  and  as^ted  in  the  defence  of 
DoYcr  Castle.  But  after  the  battle  of  Evesham, 
making  his  peace,  aad  returning  to  his  allegiance, 
he  had  restitution  ot  his  lands  which  had  been 
seised.  In  the  county  of  Northampton.  The  next 
of  the  family  we  find,  is 

HUGH  DE  ST.  PHILIBERT,  who,  having  been 
engaged  in  the  French  and  Scottish  wars,  was  sum- 
moned to  parliament  by  King  Edward  L,  as  a 


•  The  modem  family  of  Sxvkour  does  not 
appear  to  have  any  connectioD  whatever  with  the 
old  Babobb  St.  Maur.  They  even  bear  totally 
^liflhnnt  arms. 

Sir.  JIfatfr.--'*  Ar.  two  dievrons  gu.  in  chief  of 

three  points  as.** 
Sepmour.'^"  Gu.  two  wings  conjoined  in  lure, 

or.** 
408 


SAI 

BAROv,  on  the  6th  Fefaniary,  1S80,  but  never  after- 
wards.    His  lordship  was  «.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  DE  ST.  PHILIBERT,  who,  like  his 
predecessor,  was  in  the  French  and  Scottish  wars: 
aad  in  the  6th  Edward  III.,  was  constituted  Mi0or 
of  Bordeaux.  He  A  in  two  years  afterwards,  and 
was«.  by  hisioo, 

JOHN  DE  ST.  PHILIBERT,  who.  in  the  91st 
Edward  III.,  making  proof  of  his  aga,  aad  doing 
his  homage,  had  livery  ot  his  lands,  and  was  sum- 
moned to  parliament  90th  November,  1348,  and 
1st  January,  and  IQCh  March,  1340.  His  lordship 
was  in  the  wars  of  France,  temp*  Edward  IIL,  and 
d,  in  1300.  He  m.  Margaret,  daughter  of  Hugh  de 
St.  John,  and  one  of  the  co-heirs  of  her  brother, 
Edmund  deSt  John,  by  whom  he  left  a  son, 

JOHN  DE  3T.  PHILIBERT,  whod.  in  Infkncy, 
when  the  Babony  ow  Philibbbt,   became  b'x- 

TIMCT. 

ABMa.-<-Bendy  of  six,  ar.  and  as. 

ST.  QUINTIN  —  BARON  ST.  QUIN- 

TIN. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  8th  June,  1994» 
29  Edward  L 

This  family  is  said  to  have  adopted  its  surname 
from  the  town  oi  St.  Quibtin,  the  capital  of 
Lower  Picardy. 

SIR  HERBERT  DE  ST.  QUINTIN  came  into 
England  with  the  Conqueror,  and  was  grandfather 
of 

SIR  ROBERT  DE  ST.  QUINTIN,  who,  in  the 
time  of  Rt^/iu,  was  one  of  the  twelve  knights, 
who  divided,  with  Robert  Fits-Hamon,  certain 
lands  in  Wales,  which  they  had  won  by  conquest, 
and  there  he  erected  the  Cabtlx  or  St.  QaiBTZw. 
The  brother  of  this  Sir  Robert, 

SIR  HERBERT  ST.  QUINTIN,  was  father  of 

AMATELLUS  ST.  QUINTIN,  who,  in  the  reign 
of  Richard  I.,  was  entitled  Baroh  St.  Qvurrijr, 
and  was*,  by  his  son, 

HERBERT  ST.  QUINTIN,  also  styled  Baion 
St.  Quintin,  who  espoused  Agnes,  sister  and  co-heir 
of  Anselm  de  Stutevill,  and  had  five  sons,  of  whom 
the  three  elder  died  «.  p,  Wili«iam,  the  fourth, 
carried  on  the  Une  of  the  family,  and  Alexander 
is  said  to  be  ancestor  of  the  baroneu  of  the  nam& 
He  had  also  two  daughten,  viz.  Margery,  m.  to  Sir 
WiUiam  Rochfort,  Knt,  and  Agnei,  m.  to  Sir 
Fulke  Constable,  Knt.,  of  Holmton.  The  fourth 
son, 

WILLIAM  ST.  QUINTIN  was  ancestor  of 

HERBERT  ST.  QUINTIN,  who  was  sum- 
moned to  parliament,  as  Barob  St.  Quintin,  by 
King  Edward  I.,  on  the  8th  June,  19M.*    This 

•  Nteolo*  does  not  consider  this  writ  a  r^ular 
summons  to  parliament,  nor  the  person  summoned 
under  it  a  baron  of  the  realm.  Because  «  none  of 
the  higher  temporal  nobility,  nor  any  of  the  spi- 
ritual peers,  were  included  in  it;  nor  was  there  any 
day  fixed  for  the  meeting."  <*  It  is  also  to  be  ob- 
served," continues  the  same  authority,  '*  that  the 


SAN 


BAN 


noblenuux  nk.  Httj;«ry,  daughter  and' co-bdr  of 
Warine  de  Lisle,  and  left  two  davghton,  yls. 

EusABCTH,  wife  of  JolUf   Lord  Orey^  of 

Rotherfieldy  and  died  «.  ji. 
LoRA,  m.  first,  to  Thomas,  son  of  William  de 
Poole,   secondly,    to   John  Clinton,    and 
thirdly,  to  Sir  Robert  Orey,  of  Rotherfldd, 
third  brother  of  Lord  Marmioiv— by  the  lat- 
ter she  had  an  only  daughter  and  heir, 
Elixabkth  Grby,  who  m.  Henry,  Lord 
Fitx-Hugh,  and  her  grandson, 

HSNAY,  Lord  FtiM-Hugh,  (see  Fita- 
C  :  2        Hugh, )  left,  with  other  issue, 

Ejlixabsth  FiTs-HuoHf  who 
m.  Sir  William  Parr,  Knt., 
and  had  (with  an  elder  son, 
William,  created  Lord  Parr,) 
Sib  Thomas  Pabb,  who 
left. 
William  Pabb,  Mar- 
«wes«  0/  Northafm^ 
tofi» 
AifNB  Pabb,  m.  to 
WVtiam     Herbert, 
Eabjc     or     PxM- 
b  ROKX,fh>m  which 
period  th«  titled  of 
St.  Quintik  and 
Mabmiom       have 
been      numbered 
amongst    the  ho- 
nours of  the  house 
of  Pembroke: 
'    Catrbbihb    Pabb, 
wife    of     Henry 
VIIL 
ABMft.— Or.  three  chevrons  gu.  a  chief  harry  of 
two,  verry. 

SANDYS  —  BARONS    SANDYS,   OF 
THE  VINE. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  3)rd  Novemberi  1589, 
81  Henry  VIIL 

Xincagc. 

Although  this  fiunily  did  not  attain  the  rank  at 

• 

writ  in  question  is  the  earliest  on  record,  excepting 
that  of  49th  Henry  HI.  i  that  the  majority  of  the 
persons  summoned  in  the  SSnd  Edward  I.  werenever 
again  summoned,  excepting  in  the  25th  of  the  same 
king ;  that  several  of  the  persons  were  not  consi- 
dered barons  by  tenure ;  and  that  of  those  who  were 
barons  by  tenure,  and  summoned  on  those  occa- 
sions, many  were  never  included  in  any  subsequent 
summons  to  parliament.  The  writ  of  the  2Snd 
Edward  I.  has,  however,  on  one  oocasion*  (in  the 
case  of  the  barony  of  Ros,)  been  admitted  as  a  writ 
of  siunmons  to  parliament  at  the  bar  of  the  House 
of  Lords  {  but  the  last  « General  Report  of  the 
Lord's  Committee,  appointed  to  search  for  Matters 
touching  the  Dignity  of  a  Peer  of  the  Realm,'  ap- 
pears to  confirm  the  oblcctions  here  expreued." 
Yet  under  this,  at  least,  doubtful  writ,  the  ejrtant 
Eabls  op  Pbmbbokb  assume  the  dignity  of  Ba- 
BOMB  OF  St.  QunrTiN  1 


noMllty  until  the  time  of  HbwbV  VIIL,  yu  we 
find  it  amongst  the  leading  gentry  of  Hampshire 
at  a  much  earlier  period.     In  the  6th  year  of 

RiCHABD  II., 

SIR  JQHN  DE  SANDYS,  Knt,  was  sheriff  of 
that  county,  and  governor  of  Winchester  Castle. 
And  in  the  12th  Hbnby  IV.  and  1st  Henry  VI., 

SIR  WALTER  SANDYS  filled  the  same  im- 
portant offices.  But  the  person  who  raised  the 
fismily  to  the  first  grade  in  sodety,  was 

SIR  WILLIAM  SANDYS,  an  eminent  Soldier 
in  the  reigns  of  Hbbbv  VII.  and  Hbnby  VIIL 
In  the  7th  of  the  former  king  he  was  in  the  expo, 
dition  sent  into  Flanders,  under  the  Earls  of  Derby, 
Shrewsbury,  and  other  English  noUemen,  to  aid 
the  JBfi4)«ror  Maximilian  against  the  French  t  and 
in  five  years  afterwards  he  shared  in  the  victory 
over  the  Comishmen  at  Blackheath.    In  the  4th 
Henry  VIIL  he  was  sent,  with  other  gallant  persons 
fhmi  England,  to  assist  Fxbdinand,  efArragoti, 
against  the  French ;  and  he  was  subsequently,  being 
at  the  ame  a  Knight  of  thb  Gabtbb,  one  of  the 
commissioners  deputed  to  make  a  paiaoe  befbre  the 
castle  gate  at  Quienee,  preparatory  to  the  celebrated 
interview  between  Hsmbv  VIIL  and  Fbancis  I. 
Upcm  the  attainder  of  the  Duke  of  Buckingham 
Sir  William  Sandys  obtained  a  grant  of  the  manors 
of  Willesford  and  Stratton,  in  the  county  of  Wilts, 
and  in  the  14th  Henry  VIIL  he  was  treasurer  of 
Calais :  in  which  latter  he  led,  in  ooi^unction  With 
Sir  Richard  Wingfidd,  the  rear  of  the  army  sent 
under  the  command  of  the  EUtrl  of  Surrey  into 
France;  and  for  his  good  services  was  summoned 
to  parliament,  as  Babon  Sandys,  firom  3rd  No- 
vember, 1089,  to  10th  January,  IMS.      (Dugdale 
states  flrom  Stow,  that  six  years  previously  he  had 
be^  advanced  to  the  degree  of  a  baron  of  the  realm 
at  the  king's  royal  palace  of  Bridewell,  but  that  nd 
patent  of  the.creatlon  is  upon  record.)    He  oertidnly 
bore  the  title  of  Lord  Sandys  long  before  the  first  of 
these  summonses,  and  so  designated,  led  the  van  of 
the  army  sent,  under  the  Duke  of  Suflblk,  into 
France,  in  the  15th  Henry  VUL»  and  hi  two  y«an 
afterwards,  as  Lord  Sandys,  had  a  reversionary 
grant  of  the  office  ot  lobd  ghambbbi«a.ih,  after 
the  death  of  Charlee,  Eabi.  of  Wobcbstbb.    His 
lordship  was  in  the  train  of  Wolbby,  when  the 
rardinal  was  deputed  to  cmnplain  to  the  king  of 
France,  of  the  sacking  of  Rome  by  the  Duke  of 
Bourbon.    He  subsequently  subscribed  the  articlcB 
of  impeachment  against  that  celebrated  prelate,  and 
he  signed  the  letter  to  Pope  Cz.bmbnt  regarding 
Henry's  divorce  ftom  ^aen  Kathbbinb. 

The  principal  seat  of  the  Sandys  family,  anciently 
at  the  ViNB,  near  Basingstoke,  in  Hampshire,  had 
been  alienated  by  an  heiress  to  the  fiunily  of  Bbo* 
CAB,  but  was  recovered  by  this  Lord  Sandys,  who 
rebuilt  the  manor-house  there.  His  lordship  m. 
Margery,  only  daughter  and  heir  of  John  Bray, 
Esq.,  by  whom  he  eventually  acquired  a  considera- 
ble property,  and  dying  in  1M2,  was  «.  by  his  only 
son, 

THOMAS  SANDYS,  second  baron,  summoned 
to  parliament  flrom  14th  June,  1543,  to  5th  No- 
vember, 1558.  This  nobleman  m.  Elisabeth,  daugh- 
ter of  George  Mmumts,  Lord  Kos,  and  had  issue, 

463 


:<j 


SAN,    ,  ^ 

HjufRT,  who  m.  EUabeth,  daugliter  of  ?ni* 
Uam  Windior,  wcand  Baron  Windtor.  and 
dylM  in  the  Mto-tima  of  Ma  g^«.  toft 

YfihhiAU,  tucooMor  to  Um  title. 
Thomai. 

Margery,  m.  to  Henry  C^rey,  Eiq.,  of 
Hamworthy«  in  the  county  <k  DoneC 
Walter  (Sir). 
His  lordahip  was  #.  at  hte  decease  by  fais  grandson, 

WILLIAM  SANDYS,  third  baron,  summoned  to 
parliament  from  8th  May,  157S>  to  14th  Norember, 
IttL  This  noMemaa  was  one  of  the  peers  who  sate 
upon  the  trial  oi  the  Duke  of  NottcXk,  and  upon 
that  of  the  unhappy  Mary  of  Scotland,  both  in  the 
reign  of  Elisabeth.  Afterwards  taking  part,  43rd 
EUaabeth,  with  the  Earl  of  Essex,  in  that  noble- 
man's insurrection,  he  suAred  imprisonment.  His 
lordship  m.  first.  Christian,  daughter  of  •— — — 
Anslow,  Est}.,  and  had  a  son,  William,  his  snc> 
osssor.  He  espoused,  secondly,  Catherine,  called 
«« the  Fair  Bridges,"  daughter  oT  Edmund,  Lord 
Chandos,  by  whom  he  had  an  only  daughter, 

Blisabjbth,  who  m.  Sir  Edwin  Sandys,  Knt, 
and  had  issue, 

HsHRv  Sakoyb,  a  cokmei  in  the  royal 
anny  during  the  ciTil  wars— of  whom 
hereafter,  as  suocess<»r  to  the  fourth 


His  lordship  d.  is  IdS8,  and  was  #.  by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  SANDYS,  fourth  baron,  but  nerer 
sumnumed  to  parliament.  His  lordship  m.  Ala- 
thea,  ridest  daughter  and  co-heir  of  John  Panton, 
Esq.,  of  Brinneskfd,  in  the  county  of  Denl^h,  but 
d.  without  issue  in  1<B9,  when  the  barony  derolTed 
upon  his  nephew  of  the  half  blood, 

COLONEL  HENRY  SANDYS,  filth  baron, 
but  owing  to  the  dvil  wars  nerer  summoned  to 
parliament.  This  nobleman,  who  was  a  brave  and 
actire  cavalier  oflloer,  reoriTed  a  mortal  wound  in 
the  fight  at  Bramdene,  near  Alresford,  in  Hants, 
S9th  March.  1644,  and  tL  the  8th  April  ensuing. 
His  lordship  m.  Jane,  daughter  of  Sir  Williara 
Sandys,  Knt,  of  Muserden,  In  the  county  of  Okra- 
eester,  and  had  issue, 

H  bw"t,"'  }  ^^  "^  leventh  baioos. 

Miles,  died  A  p. 

EDwnr,  eighth  baron, 
y-    Hester,  m.  to  Humphrey  Noy,  Esq.,  son  of 
/         WIBhun,  Noy,   Esq.,  attorney-general  to 

>  King  CHARX.X8  I. 

Alathea,    m.   to    Francis  Ooston,   Esq.,    of 

Alderidge.  in  the  county  of  Southampton. 
Mary,  m.  to  Dr.  Henry  Savage*  principal  of 

BaHol  College^  Oxford. 
Jane,  m.  to  John  Harris,  Esq.,  of  Old  Wood- 
stock, In  the  county  of  Oxford. 
Ma^aret.  m.  to  Sir  John  MHI.  Bart,  ancestor 

of  the  present  Sir  Charles  Mill,  Bart 
Margery,  m.  to  Sir  Edmund  Portcscue,  Bart, 
of  FaUowfleld,  in  the  county  of  Devon. 
Lord  Sandys  was  «.  by  his  ddest  son, 

WILLIAM  SANDYS,  sfacth  baron,  summoned 
to  parliament  on  8th  May,  1881.    This  nobleman  m. 
Lady  Mary  Cecil,  daughter  of  WIRtam,  fnd  Earl  of 
464 


SAN 

SalisbHry,  but  dled«.^  In  1608;  During  the  time 
of  thb  lord,  about  the  year  1864»  the  ancient  fiunily 
mansion  of  the  Yihs,  erected  by  the  first  baron,  in 
the  reign  of  HmrnT  YIIL,  was  either  sold,  or  it 
passed  by  focfeitnze  or  eompositian,  to  Chdloner 
Chute,  Esq.,  M.  P.  for  Middlesex,  in  1606.  Lord 
Sandys  was  «.  by  his  brother, 

HENRY  SANDYS,  seventh  baion,  summoned 
to  parliament  Arom  6th  March,  1679,  to  21st  March, 
1680;  at  whose  decease  «.  jp.  the  title  devolved  upon 
hisbrother» 

EDWYN  SANDYS,  eighth  banm,  but  never 
sumoMmed  to  parliament.  This  nobleman  d.  with- 
out issue  about  the  year  ITOOr  when  his  estates  de- 
v<rived  upon  his  sisters,  as  co-heirs,  (refer  to  issue  of 
the  fifth  lord,)  and  the  Babowy  or  SAWDYa,  iifihe 
Fine,  feU  into  abkyawcb  amongst  those  ladies,  as 
it  still  continues  with  their  representatives. 

Anna.-- Ar.  a  cross  zagulya  sa. 

SANDYS  -^  BARONS    SANDYS,    OF 
•  OMBERSLEY. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  Wth  December,  1743. 

Xincage. 

This  fismily  of  Sawdyb,  which  does  not  appear 
any  branch  of  the  Lords  Sandys,  of  the  Vinc. 
was  originally  seated  at  St  Bees,  in  Cumberland. 
"ne  Right  Ravereitd 

EDWIN  SANDYS.  Archbishop  of  York,  d.  in 
1A08,  leaving,  with  other  issue, 

SAMUEL  SANDYS,  Esq.,  hU  grace^s  eldest  son. 
who  inherited  the  manor  of  Ombersley,  in  Worces- 
tershire, and  served  the  office  of  ahaift  for  that 
county,  temp.  James  I.  From  this  gentleman 
lineally  descended 

SAMUEL  SANDYS,  Esq.,  who  was  elevated  to 
the  peerage  by  King  Oborob  II.«  90th  December, 
1743,  as  Baroit  Sawdyb.  op  Ombbb8LBY,  having 
previously  filled  the  office  of  chancrilor  of  the  ex- 
chequer, and  held  other  high  and  important  situ- 
ations. His  lordship,  after  his  elevation  to  the 
peerage,  was  made  speaker  of  theHouse  of  Lords. 
He  «N.  Letitia,  daughter  of  Sir  Thomas  Tipping. 
Bart,  of  Wheatfldd,  tai  the  county  of  Oxford,  (by 
Anne,  his  wilie,  daughter,  and  eventually  heir  of 
Thomas  Cheek,  Esq..  of  Pyrgo^  in  Essex,  by 
Letitia,  daughter  and  heir  of  th4  Hon.  Edward 
Russell,  brother  to  William,  first  DUkeof  Bedford,) 
and  had  issue,  ,  1        ; 

EowiB,  his  tueoanor.  a        ^    ^1 

5;^} both*  young.  ;  . 

Martin,  a  colonel  in  the  army,  m.  Maryr 
daughter  of  William  TrumbuU,  Esq.,  son 
of  Sir  William  Trumbull,  secretary  of  stnte, 
temp.  William  III.,  by  Mary,  one  of  tho 
daughters  and  co-heirs  of  Montagu.  Via- 
count  BlundeO,  in  Ireland.  Colond  Saadya 
had  issue, 
WUliaaB. 
Edward. 

Mary,  who  m.  in  1786,  Arthur  Hill, 
Marquess  of  Downshire,  in  Irdand* 
and  was  created  in  1802,   BARoirBss 


SAU 


SAV 


byth* 


SA»ttT«»  ^Omftorifay.  with 
lo  hit  moandaodjonagt 

Cokmel  Sandyi  d.  in  1760. 
WilHam.  dL  in  1740. 
John,  d.  in  176& 
Hairy,  d.  in  1737* 
Letitia. 

Anask  m.  to  Chilstophtt  Betbd!,  Eiq. 
Cmtherine,  d.  young; 
Hii  loidahip  d.  in  1770V  and  wm  c.  by  his  tldat 


EDWIN  SANDYS,  iecood  httOQ,  who  m.  in 
ITflB,  AnBA^Maria,  diughter  of  Jamei  Colebrooiu, 
Biq.,  and  widow  of  Paine  King,  Esq.,  of  lindiainp- 
■t«i>Abbey,  in  Northamptonshira,  but  died  «.  jk  in 
1797,  whan  hie  eitatei  devolyed  upon  his  stoter, 
Jfory,  MABOHJoxaaa  or  DowwaBiRC,  and  tlie 
Baaony  or  SAifOva,  ^  Omberde^,  became  bx- 
TiircT. 

AaM8.^-Or.  a  fane  danoetta  betw.  thzee  cioiB 
crosilets  fltchte,  gules. 


SAUNDERSON— BARON  SAUNDER- 

SON,  OF  SAXEBY, 
VISCOUNT  CASTLE- 
TON,  EARL  OF  CAS. 
TLETON. 


Barony, 

Viscoantyi 

Barldoni; 


Patent,    J^  jy^ 


Xincaiif. 


NICHOLAS  SAUNDERSON,  ESQ.,  was  Sh». 
riff  of  Linoolnahire,  in  the  34th  Elisabeth,  and  he 
was  afterwards  created  Viscount  Cabtlbtow,  in 
the  peerage  of  Irdaod.    He  m.  Winifred,  daughter 
and  heir  of  John  HuUof,  Esq.,  of  Boetoo,  in  the 
county  of  Lincoln,  and  luki  issua> 
NiCBoi.Aa,  his  suoccsMW. 
William   <Slr),    who  wrote   the   History  of 
Mary,  QuasB  of  Soots*  King  James*  and 
Charles  L 
His  lordship  was  suoeeeded  by  his  secoiid  son, 

NICHOLAS  SAUNDERSON,  Viscount  Castle- 
ton,  in  Ireland.  This  nobleman  m.  Frances, 
daughter  of  Sir  Oeotge  Manners,  of  Haddon*  and  his 
grandson, 

JAMBS  SAUNDERSON,  Viscount  Caatleton, 
in  Ireland,  was  created  a  peer  of  England,  in  1714, 
af  Babob  Saobobbsob,  ^f  BaHg,  in  the  county 
of  Lincoln.  In  1716,  he  was  made  Vucoubt  Cab- 
Tj.jiToif ,  <t^  Sandtedk,  in  the  county  ol  York,  and 
in  1780,  Eabi.  or  Cabtx«btob.  His  lordship  d. 
without  Buda  issue,  in  17S3»  when  ai^i*  bis  bo- 
KODBa  became  bxtibot,  and  his  great  estate  de- 
volved, by  will,  upon  Thoaias  Lumley«  third  Earl 
of  Scarborou^,  (grandtethcr  of  the  present  earl,) 
who  thenupon  assumed,  by  act  of  parliament,  the 
additional  surname  of  *<  Saundanon." 

Abmb.— Paley  of  Six  ar.  and  ai.  over  aU  a  bend 


SAVAGE  —  VISCOUNTS  SAVAGE, 
VISCOUNTS  COLCHES. 
TER,  EARL  RIVERS. 


Viscounty  of 

Savage, 
Viscounty  of 

Colcheiter* 
Earldom, 


by  Letters 
Patent, 


• 


6th  November,  16S6. 


AthJuly,  1621. 
4th  Nov«nbar, 


Of  this  family,  whose  cbiai  teat,  for  many  gtot% 
rations,  had  been  at  t^  Castlb  or  Fboi>8haii, 
in  Cheshire,  and  partly  at  another  house,  more 
recently  erected,  at  Clutob,  on  the  opposite  side 
of  the  xivcr.  caUed  Rock  Savaob,  was 

SIR  JOHN  SAVAGE,  one  of  the  mlhssimli  of 
Henry,  Earl  of  Richmond,  who»  by  the  victory  of 
BoswoRTB,  placed  the  crown  on  that  nobleman's 
head,  as  Hbbby  VII.  Sir  John  Savage  was  after- 
wards  in  the  wars  of  France,  and  Call  at  the  siege  of 
B01.01NB.    He  was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR  JOHN  SAVAGE.  Knt.,  who  fa.  Elisabeth, 
daughter  of  Charles  Somerset,  the  flist  Earl  of 
Worcester,  and  was  «.  by  another 

SIR  JOHN  SAVAGE,  Knt,  who  m.  Lady  Elisa- 
beth  Manners,  daughter  of  Thomas,  first  Earl  of 
Rutland,  and  had  two  sons,  JohA  and  Thomas. 
The  younger, 

SIR  THOMAS  SAVAGE,  Knt,  was  the  nine- 
teenth  advai\ced  to  the  rank  of  baronet,  upon  the 
institution  of  that  order.  He  m.  Elisabeth,  eldest 
daughter,  and  eventually  co-heir  of  TAoaaes,  Loan 
Dabcy,  <(f  CMcAs/  whkh  Lord  Darcy  was  cr«ated, 
on  the  5th  July,  16il,  Viscount  Colchbstbb, 
and  devated,  on  the  4th  November,  1626,  tp  the 
^gnityof  Eabi.  RivBBa,  both  honours  to  revert,^ 
In  default  of  male  issue,  to  his  son-in-law.  Sir 
Thomas  Savage,  and. his  heirs  mal^  who  was  him- 
self created,  in  two  days  afterwards,  Viscoukt 
Savaob,  </  Hoc*  Satagt,  in  the  county  of  Chester^ 
Lord  Savage  had  issue  by  the  Lady  EUsabeU^ 
Darcy,  seven  sons  and  six  dau^ters,  via. : 
JoBB,  his  succwsor. 

Thomas,  m.  Elisabeth,  danghtsr  and  co-heir 
of  William  Whitmore,  Esq.,  of  Lsighton» 
In  Chediire,  and  hadisnie* 

Daivy,  who  succeeded  at  LcAghton*  and 
left  a  daughter, 

Bbidobt  Savaob,  who  nu  Sir  Tho- 
mas Mostyn. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Mazmaduke,  Lord  Lang- 


Francis. 

William. 

James. 

Richard, 

Charles,  left  a  da«|ghter, 

Mary  Savage,  who  m.  Jeremy  Thocesby, 
•f  Leeds,  and  left  two  daughterst 
Elisabeth. 
Mary. 
Jane,  m.  to  John,  Marquem  of  Winchester.  -  < 
Dorothy,  m.  to  Charles,  Viscount  Andover. 
EUsabeth,  m,  to  Sir  John  ThimUeby,  Knt,  of 

Imham,  in  Lincolnshire.  ^ 
30  '46ft 


SAV 


SAV 


Aiiiie>  m.  to  Robert,  kmi  and  hdr  of  Thonutt* 
Lord  BrudeoeU,  aftenrarda  Earl  of  Car- 
digan. 
Catherine,  a  nun  at  Dunkirk. 
Henrietta-Maria,  m.  to  Ralph  Sheldon,  Eiq., 
of  Beoley. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1035,  and  waa  «.  by  hit  eldest  son, 
JOHN  SAVAGE,  second  Viscount  Savage,  who 
•ucoeeded  his  maternal  grandfather  in   1630,  as 
ViacouMT  C0LCHB8TBR,  and  Earl  Rivsrb.    His 
lordship  IN.  first,  Catherine,  daughter  of  William 
Parker,  Lord  Horley  and  Honteagle,  and  had  Issue, 
T  BOM  Aft,  his  successor. 
John,  died  «.  p, 

Ricbaxd,  who  m.  ,  daughter  and  heir  of 

— —  Bridget  Esq.,  of  Traford,  and  left  a 


JoHir,  who  inherited  as  fifth  carl. 
Sriiiabeth,  m.  to  WilUan,  Lord  Petre. 
Jane,  m.  first,  to  George,  Lord  Chandos,  se- 
condly, to  Sir  William  Sidley,  Bart.,  and 
thirdly,  to  George  Pitt,  Esq.,  of  Strathfleld- 
aaye,  in  Hampshire.  By  her  last  husband 
faer  ladyship  left  a  son, 

GxoROB  Pitt,  Esq.,  of  Strathfieldsaye. 
If  .P.  for  the  county  of  Hants,  whoae 
grandson, 

Gborob  Pitt,  Esq.,  was  created,  in 

1770,  Baron  Rivbrs,  of  Strath- 

JleUsttite  (see  Burke^s  Peerage  and 

Baronetage). 

Catherine,  m.  to  Charles  Sidley,  Esq.,  brother 

ofSirWiUlam. 
Mary,  m.  to  Henry  KlUegrew,  Esq.,  groom  of 

the  bed-chamber  to  James,  Duke  of  York. 
Frances,  d.  young. 
The  earl  espoused,  secondly,  Mary,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Ogle,  Esq.,  of  South  Dlssington,  in  Nor- 
thumberland, and  lu|d  one  son, 

Peter. 
His  knrdihip  d,  10th  October,  10M,  and  was  «.  by  his 
eldest  son, 

THOMAS  SAVAGE,  third  Earl  Rivers,  who  be- 
came, in  1888,  in  right  of  his  mother,  heir  of  one 
moiety  of  the  Baronies  of  Morley,  Mounteagle,  and 
MarahaL  His  lordship  m.  first,  Elisabeth,  natural 
daughter  of  Emanuel  Scroope,  East  of  Sunderland, 
(which  lady,  with  her  sisters,  Mary,  MarchUmeM  0/ 
WinOietter,  and  Arabblla,  wife  of  John  Grub- 
ham  Howe,  Esq.,  eventually  succeeded  to  the  an- 
cient inheritance  of  the  Scroopes,)  by  whom  he  had 
latoe, 

Thomab,  Lord  CakhMUr,  who  m.  Lady  Char- 
lotte Stanley,  daughter  of  Charles,  Earl  of 
Derby,  and  dying  before  his  father,  left  an 
only  daughter, 

Chailotte,  who  d,  anmairied* 
RiCBARp,  hM  saooeasor. 
BHsabeth. 

Annabella,  m.  to  Sir  Erasmus  Norwich,  of 
Brampton,  in  the  county  of  Nortbampton, 
and  died  «.  ji. 
The  eart  espoused,  secondly.  Lady  AnAcMa  Lind- 
sey,  daughter  of  Robert  Bertie,  Barl  of  LIndsey, 
but  had  no  iasuA    He  A  in  1604,  and  was  e.  by  his 
only  surviving  son, 
488 


RICHARD  SAVAGE,  fourth  Barl  Riven.  This 
nobleman  espoused  Pendkipe,  daughter  of  John 
Downes,  Esq.,  of  Wardley,  in  Lancashire,  by  whom 
he  had  surviving  issue, 

Besscy,  m.  first,  to  the  Earl  of  Rochford,  and 

secondly,  to  the  Rev.  Mr.  Carter. 
■  m.  to  James,   Earl  of  Barrymore',   in 

Ireland,  and  left  an  only  daughter, 

Penelope,  who  fN.  Mi^or-General  James 
Cholmondeley. 
His  lordship,  who  was  an  eminent  soldier  snd 
statesman  In  the  reigns  of  William  III.  and  Queen 
Anne,  d.  In  1719,  when  his  honours  passed  to  his 
kinsman,  (revert  to  Richard,  third  son  of  John, 
second  Viscount  Savage,) 

JOHN  SAVAGE,  Esq.,  as  fifth  Earl  Rivers,  at 
whoae  decease  unmarried,  the  Vibcounty  of  Sa- 
VAOR,  the  Viscounty  of  Colchrbtbr,  and  the 
Earldom  of  Rivbrb,  became  bxtinct. 

Arms.— Ar.  Six  lions  rampant  (three,  two  and 
one)sa. 

SAVAGE  —  COUNTESS  OF  RIVERS. 
By  Letters  Patent,  dated  81st  April,  1641. 

Xincase. 

LADV  ELIZABETH  SAVAGE,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Darcy,  Lord  Darcy,  of  Chiche,  and  Earl 
R1VBR8,  and  widow  of  Thomas  Savage,  first  Via- 
couNT  Savaob,  qfRoek  Savage,  wascrcaied  on  Slst 
April,  1641,  C0UNTB88  OF  Rivbrb,  fbr  H/Ib,  Her 
ladyship  d,  in  1600,  when  the  title  became  of  coune, 

BXTINCT. 

SAVILE-.BARONS  SAVILE>  EARLS 
OF  SUSSEX. 


Barony, 
Earldom 


./  P 


Letters  r  Slst  July,  168& 
Patent,    1 25th  May,  1644. 

ICittcagt.   ' 

The  family  ot  Satilb  is  of  great  antiquity  hi 
the  north  of  England. 
In  the  reign  of  Edward  III., 

SIR  JOHN  SAVILEr  Knt.,  of  Eland,  in  York- 
shire,  was  constituted  escheativ  for  the  counties  of 
Northumberland,  Cumberland,  and  Westmorland : 
and  in  the  next  reign  was  sheriff  of  Yorkshire,  and 
governor  of  the  castle  of  York. 
In  the  Snd  Hbnrt  V., 

THOMAS  SAVILE,  of  Thonihm,  fai  the  county 
of  York,  being  at  that  time  one  of  the  esquires  to 
Edward,  Duke  of  York,  was,  in  eonsldcntion  of 
his  good  services,  made  forester  of  that  prlncafa 
chase  and  pailc  at  Aryngden,  In  the  same  shlteb 
From  this  Thomas,  descended 

SIR  HENRY  SAVILE,  of  ThomhiU,  K.B., 
temp.  KUt§r  Hbwry  VIII.,  who  by  ,  daughter 

and  co-heir  of  Thomaa  Southell,  Eaq.,  of  Southeil, 
had  a  son  and  heir,  Edward,  an  idloc  He  had 
also,  by  a  concubtaie,  named  Barkaton,  another  aon, 

SIR  ROBERT  SAVILE,  atUu  BARK6TON, 
KnL,  who,  in  the  15th  Bliaabeth,  aerved  tbeoflk* 
ofsherifffnr  the  county  of  Lineoln.    Heia.  » 

sister  of  John,  Lord  Huasey*  and  widow  of  Sir 
Richard  Thlmdby ;  and  was  «.  by  hia  son, 


8AV 


BAV 


SIR  JOHN  SAVILB,  Knt,  of  Howtoy,  in  York 
■hire,  stamiiT  f6r  Lincolnshire,  in  the  3ind  EUsar 
beth«  and  member  of  parliament  for  the  county  of 
York,  temp.  KUtf  Jambs  I.  and  King  Chablbb 
I.  He  waa  Mkewiie  high-ateward  for  the  honour 
of  Pootefract;  and  waa  elevated  to  the  peerage, 
hy  lettera  patent,  dated  21st  July,  16B8,  as  Baron 
Savilb,  <(f  Pont^fract.  His  lordship  was,  subae^ 
quently,  sworn  of  the  privy  council,  and  appointed 
comptroller  of  the  houaehold.  Lord  S«vile  m.  first, 
Catherine,  daughter  of  Lord  Willoughby,  of  Par- 
ham,  but  had  no  issue.  He  espoused,  secondly, 
Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  Edward  Carey,  Knt., 
and  had  issue, 

Henry,  who  m.  Hden,  daughter  and  co-heir 
of  William  Ogelthorpe,  Esq..  and  d.  before 
his  father,  leaving  a  son, 
JoBN,  who  d.  also  before  Lord  Savile. 
Edward,   m.  Anne,   daughter    and   heir  of 
Richard  Tolson,  Esq.,  of  Cumberland,  but 
died«.|». 
Thomas  (Sir),  who  «.  to  the  peanga. 

?J**^'     "Id.  unmarried. 
Edmund,  J 

Catherine,  m.  to  Sir  Thomas  Bland,  of  Kip|wx 

Park,  in  Yorlcshire. 
Anne^  fN.  to  Piers  Leigh,  son  and  heir  of  Sir 

Piers  Leigh,  of  Lime. 
EliaabeCh,  m.  first,  to  Alveray  Cooper,  Esq., 
of  Batley,  in  Yorkshire,  and  secondly,  to 
Richard  Banks,  Esq. 
Frances,  m.  to  the  Rev.  Thomas  Bradley, 
D.D.,  rector  of  Castelford,  in  the  county  of 
York. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1680,  and  was  9.  by  hia  eldest  sur- 
viving son, 

SIR  THOMAS  S  A  VILE.  Knt.,  second  Banm 
Savile.  This  noUoman  was  created  Viscount  Savile, 
of  Castlebar,  in  the  peerage  of  Ireland.  His  lord- 
ship was  comptroller  of  the  household,  and  attend- 
ing King  Charlbs  I.  at  Oxford,  was  advanced, 
by  letters  patent,  dated  85th  Hay,  1644,  to  the  dig- 
nity of  Eari.  or  EssBX.  During  the  whole  of  the 
civil  wars  he  remained  faithfuUy  attached  to  the 
Ibrtunes  of  his  royal  master,  and  his  services 
merited  fully  the  honours  he  received.  His  lord- 
ship m.  first,  Frances,  daughter  of  Sir  Michael 
Sondes,  Knt.,  of  Throwley,  in  Kent,  and  widow 
of  Sir  John  Leveson,  but  had  no  issue.  He  es- 
poused, secondly.  Lady  Anne  VilUers,  daughter  of 
Christopher.  Earl  of  Anglesey,  and  eventually  sole 
hair  of  her  brother,  Charles,  last  Earl  of  Anglesey, 
at  the  famUy  of  VilUers.  By  this  huiy  he  had 
iseue^ 

Jambs,  Lord  Savile,  his  successor. 
Frances,  m.  to  Francis,  Lord  Brudenel,  son 
and  heir  of  Robert,  Earl  of  Cardigan,  by 
whom  she  had  issue, 
Gborob,  third  Earl  of  Cardigan. 
James. 
Mary,  m.  to  Richard,  Visoount  Molineuz, 

ancestor  of  the  Earls  of  Seflon. 
Anne,  m.  first,  to  Sir  Henry  Belasyse,  and 
secondly,  to  Charles  Lenox,  Duke  of 
Richmond. 
Frances,  m,  first,  to  Chades  Levingston, 


second  Earl  of  Newbuigli,  and 
condly,  to  Richard,  Lord  Bellew. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1646,  and  was  s.  by  his  son, 

JAMES  SAVILE.  second  Earl  of  Sussex.  This 
nobleman  m.  Anne,  daughter  of  Robert  Wake,  a 
merchant  at  Antwerp,  but  dying  without  iaaue  in 
1671,  the  Earldom  op  Sussbx,  and  the  minor 
honours,  became  bxtinct,  while  his  lordship's 
estates  devolved  upon  his  only  sister,  Franeet,  Lady 
Brudbmbl. 

Arms.— Ar.  on  a  bend,  sa.  three  owls  of  the  first, 
a  crescent  for  dlfRsreooe. 

SAVILE  —  VISCOUNTS  HALIFAX, 
EARLS  OF  HALIFAX, 
MARQUESSES  OF  HALI- 
FAX. 


Viscounty,  1 .    -  f  I3th  January.  1688L 

Marquisate,)    '^«™'»    (aSnd  August,  1688. 

Xtntagc. 

The  prindpal  legitimatv  branch  of  the  Sayilb 
family  was  lepiniwitol  by 

SIR  GEORGE  SAVILE.  Bart,  of  Thonhill,  in 
the  county  of  York,  who  m.  Lady  Mary  Talbot, 
daughter  of  George,  Earl  of  Shrewsbury,  and  waa 
iktherof 

SIR  GEORGE  SAVILE.  Bart*  who  eapoosed 
Anne,  daughter  of  Thomas,  Lord  Coventry,  and 
was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR  GEORGE  SAVILE,  Bart,  of  Thomhill, 
who,  in  consideration  of  his  own  and  his  father's 
eminent  services  during  the  civil  wars,  was  elevated 
to  the  peerage  by  King  Charles  II.,  on  13th  January, 
1668,  as  Baron  Saville,  of  Efayid,  in  tho  county  qf 
York,  and  Viscoukt  Halifax.  In  1679,  his  lord- 
ship waa  crested  Earl  or  Halifax,  and  MARQUBaa 
OF  Halifax,  in  1688.  He  m.  first.  Lady  Dorothy 
Spencer,  daughter  of  Henry,  Earl  of  Sunderland, 
and  had  issue, 

Hbnry,  who  m.  Esther,  daughter  and  co-heir 

of  Charles  de  la  Tour,  Marquess  of  Gouver- 

net,  in  France,  and  died  «.  p.,  in  the  time  of 

his  father. 

William,  his  successor. 

George,  fell  at  the  siege  of  Buda,  in  1688,  and 

di  unmarried. 
Anne,  m.  to  John,  Lord  Vaughan. 
His  lordship  espoused,  secondly,  Gertrude*  daugb. 
ter  of  Williami  Pierrspoint,  of  Thoresby,  second  son 
of  Robert,  first  Earl  of  Kingston,  by  -whom  he  had 
an  only  daughter, 

Elieabbth,  who  m.  Philip,  eldest  son  of 
Philip  Stanhope,  Earl  of  Chesterfield. 
The  Marquess  of  Halifax  was  lord  privy  seal,  and 
some  time  president  of  the  ooimcil,  temp.  Charles 
II.  He  was  esteemed  a  statesman  of  the  first  grade. 
Burnet  characteriaes  him  "as  a  man  of  great  and 
ready  wit ;  full  of  life,  and  very  pleasant,  bat  much 
turned  to  satire :  his  imagination  w^  too  hard  for 
hia  judgment:  and  a  severe  Jest  took  more  with 
him  than  all  arguments  whatenrer.  He  let  his  wit 
run  much  on  matters  of  religion,  which  got  him  the 
reputation  of  a  confirmed  atheist  &  but  he  denied 

461 


aAY 


«AY 


UkoocIi  1ie«oaldBot,  n  kc  Mi4.  d^ffMT 
fc«i»MMiMftnlc*,«r  mke  tela  his  baU^  tkUtgt  that 
wmmU  bmrtt  Mm.  Friflodthip  ad  nonttty  wci« 
topia  with  him;  and  ptmctiulHy  and  Jnatlee 
rkjMeia  hit  private  daaliiici.  In  rda- 
tkm  to  tba  public,  ha  «cntbacfcwaida  and  fcnvarda, 
matA  f|i^iij»ii  adaa  §o  oltfli»  thatt  fca  tha  pfmrlmiwi, 
■o  ride  would  trart  him.** 

His  kmiihip  4.  in  IflPS^  nd  wat  «w  by  hit  aldert 
wurrirragwoa, 

WILLIAM  SAVILE,  aaoond  Manpiaik  This 
nohlanan  m,  first,  Eliaabath,  dau^ter  of  Sir 
Samuel  Grimston,  Bart.,  of  Goramby,  in  tha  eonnty 
of  Herts,  and  iist«  and  heir  of  Sir  Haibottle  Grim- 
aton,  by  whoai  he  had  to  surriTe^  an  only  daugh- 
tar, 

Axwa,  m.  to  Charlsr,  third  Eabl  or  AiLsa- 

XURY. 

Hia  lordship  espooiad,  aaoondly.  Lady  Mary  Ffawh, 
daoffhter  of  Daniai,  Earl  of  Kottii^ham,  by  Lndy 
Essex  Ridi.  daughter  and  co-heir  of  RIchavd,  Earl 
of  Warwick  and  Holland,  and  had,  with  two  aons, 
who  both  died  young,  three  daughters,  vis. 


Dorothy,  m.  to  Richard,  Earl  of  BnrUvgtoa. 

Mary,  m,  to  SacfcTlle,  Earl  of  ThanaL 
Tha  Marqneai  4.  in  1700,  when  hia  estates  daroired 
■pOD  hto  dangfatan,  as  oo4Mlrs»  and  all  ma  no> 
jroiTBa  beaame  sxtiwct. 

a  bend  sa,  three  owls  of  the  first. 


SAY— BAKONS  SAY. 

By  Writ  ot  Summons,  dated  S6th  July,  1S13» 
7  Edward  H. 

Xfiu89t* 

The  first  member  of  the  ftaaily  «r  Sat 
tloned  by  Sir  WlUtam  Dugdale,  is 

PICOT  DE  SAY,  who,  in  the  time  of  the  Cow- 
gunaoR,  was  one  of  the  principal  penona  in  the 
eounty  of  Salop,  under  Roger  da  Montgomery, 
Earl  of  Shrewsbury.    Thenextis 

INGELRAM  DE  SAY,  one  of  the  staonchest 
adherenu  of  King  Stxfhcw  in  his  eontest  with 
the  Bmpre$9  Maud,  and  made  prisoner  with  that 
monarch  at  the  battle  of  Lincoln.  Alter  this  gallant 
and  faithftil  soldier,  we  come  to 

WILLIAM  DE  SAY,  who  mu  Beatrix,  the  di- 
vorced wife  of  Hogh  Tklbot,  and  daughter  of 
CSeoflbry  de  MaDdeviUa^  Earl  of  Essex,  by  whom 
hehadtasue, 

William,  who  d.  hi  the  life-time  of  his  ftther, 
tearing  two  daughters,  tIx. 

Beatrix,  who  fN.  GeoAey  Fita-Piari,  and 
ftom  whom  descended  the  Fita-Pler^s, 
who  subsequently  suceeeded  to  the 
Earldom  of  Essex. 
Maud,  «u  to  William  deBodand. 

GaOVVBBT. 

The  second  son, 
GEOFFREY  DE  SAY,  was  one  of  the  baraaa 

chosen  to  proceed  with  WUUam  de  Longchamp, 
Bidiop  of  Ely,  Chancallor  of  Enghmd,  with  the 
covenanted  ransom  of  seventy  thousand  marks  of 


of  MdniL 
...  at  length  heir,  of  Walkdiae  Maminoti 
and  dymg  in  U14,  was  «.  by  his  son, 

GEOFFREY  DE  SAY,  who,  in  the  Ifith  John, 
paid  fimr  hundred  marks  to  the  king  Ite  livery  of  the 
lands  of  hb  faiherltMca  both  by  ftther  and  moth*. 
In  the  next  ycv  this  GeoAey  was  in  emu  with  tha 
other  baraaa  a^sinst  tha  king,  and  was  one  of  the 
TwairTT*rnni  appointed  to  enfianoe  theobeervanea 
of  Maova  Chabta.  Hialandsintheooimtimof 
Northampton,  Cembri4ge,  Eescx,  Herts,  Nornlkf 
Suflblk,  and  Lincoln,  were  in  consequence  sciaad* 
and  given  to  Peter  deCioUm;  but  rctnmiBg  to  hit 
allegiance  in  the  next  reign  he  had  fuH  lestiiytioau 
and  on  levying  the  scutago  of  Monpanary,  8th 
Henry  IIL,  answered  for  forty-two  knights'  ftes. 
He  m.  Alice,  daughter  and  co-hair  of  John  de  Chey« 
ney,  and  d.  hi  U30  was  «.  by  hisaon, 

WILLIAM  DE  SAY,  who,  in  the  44th  Henry 
IIL,  was  constituted  goiesnot  of  tha  castle  at 
r,  but  being  afterwards  at  tha  battle  of 
on  the  side  of  the  kiag,  he  fiedfkom  the 
fidd  on  the  defimt  of  the  royalists.  He  A  in  IS72, 
and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  SAY.  This  feudal  lord  had 
summons,  with  other  great  men,  in  the  9Snd  Ed- 
werd  II.,  to  adviae  with  the  kiag  upon  the  most 
important  aflUrs  of  the  realm  t  and  he  had  subse- 
quently  a  military  eunanone  to  match  Into  Gaa> 
cony.    He  A  in  im^  and  wass.  by  his  son, 

GEOFFREY  DE  SAY,  then  only  Ibarteen  years 
of  age,  whoae  wardahip  was  given  to  William  de 
Leybume,  in  order  that  he  mi^  marry  Idonea, 
daughter  of  the  said  William.  In  theMth  Edward 
III.  he  had  Uvery  of  hia  hmds  upon  doii«  Ma 
homage;  and  was  in  tha  expedition  made  at  that 
period  teto  Scotland.  In  the  7th  of  Edward  IL  he 
waa  snnunoned  to  parliament  as  a  aABon,  and 
thenceforward  to  the  14th  of  the  same  reign.  Hia 
lordship  m,  Idonaede  Leybume,  and  d.  in  UH^ 
«.  by  his  son, 

GEOFFREY   DE  SAY,   seoond  baron, 
making  pcoof  of  his  age,  19th  Edward  IL, 
Uvcry  of  his  lands,  and  was  suBononed  to 


Ikom  85th  February,  ia4S,  to  10th  July,  ISBSL 
In  the  (tth  of  Edward  IIL  he  <Atained  the  kl^a 
charter  for  free  warren  te  ail  his  demesne  hmda 
within  his  kmtahips  of  Greenwich,  Deptlbrd,  &c.» 
and  in  two  yean  aftcrwarda  he  was  constituted 
adndrsl  of  the  Ung^s  fleet,  from  the  aaouth  of  the 
Thamea  weatwards,  in  which  aerviceb  bealdm  him- 
eeif  then  a  banneret,  he  had  of  his  retinae,  Ibuv 
knights,  twenty  men  at  anas*  and  three  ardien. 
From  this  period  Lord  Say  was  constantly  employed 
in  the  wars  of  France  and  Flanders,  and  deported 
himself  with  great  gaUantry.  His  tardsiilp  m. 
Maud,  daughter  of  Guy  de  Bean^hamp,  Earl  of 
Warwick,  and  had  issue, 

Wiu.rAa,  hiaancceaeor. 

Idooea,  who  m.  Sir  John  CUnton,  Knt.,  d 
Mantoeh,  in  tha  county  of  Warwick,  third 
Babow    CuaTow,    and    to  this 

•'  RoBanr,  peeaent  LerdCHwlsw,  Is 
heir. 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  Thomas  de  Aldone. 

Joane^  mu  first*  toSIr  WtUiam  Fianai,  and  her 


SCA 


9CA 


gtaanOMu,  JAkBfl  Fntlwt,  wu  nitunoiied 
to  parliament  liy  King  Han  by  VI.,  aa  Ba- 
BOM  Sav  and  Smh^,  a  dignity  still  extant. 
Joane  Say  etpoiuedy  aeeondly*  Stephen  de 
ValoiQflB. 
Lord  Say  4.  in  1809,  and  waa  «.  by  hU  soii> 
.   WILLIAM  DE  SAY,  thixd  baron,  enmniOBed 
to  parliament  Crom  14th  Auguetr  136B,  to  4th  Octo- 
ber, 1973.    This  nobleman  «w  *,  by  fab  fon, 

JOHN  DE  SAY,  fourth  baran,  who  d.  in  mi- 
nority, a  waird  to  the  king,  in  UHB,  leavteg  his 


.  ELIZABETH  DB  SAY,  Us  befar.  This  hMly 
espooaed,  first.  Sir  John  de  Falyesley,  who  was 
euflUDoned  to  parUamoBt  as  ft  sABoit,  (see  Fahres- 
ley,)  and  secondly.  Sir  William  Heron,  also  sum- 
moned to  parliament^  ae  a  baron,  (see  Heron,)  but  d. 
without  Issue  in  1309,  leaying  the  descendants  of 
her  auBte,  InonsA,  Lad^  CHnion,  and  Joahx, 
Lad^  Fienet,  {retm  to  issue  of  aeeond  baron,)  her 
h^rs,  amongst  whose  representatiyes  the  Barony 
or  Say  has  continued  flrom  that  period  to  the  pio- 
sent  in  absyawcb. 
ABM8.— <2uarterly  dr,  and  gu. 

SCALES— BARONS  SCALES. 

By  Wilt  of  Summons,  dated  6th  Pebnury,  1189, 
S7  Edward  I. 

Of  this  name  and  fianity,  /andently  written  1S»- 
atefars  and  Sestev,)  the  first  Aoorded  ie 

HUGH  DE  SCALERS,  who,  in  the  time  of  King 
Stephen,  was  Lord  of  Berkfaeinsted,  in  the  ooonty 
of  Eases.  This  feodal  lord  gave  to  the  monks  of 
Lewes,  tlM  chuiches  of  WitUaD,  Wadoaok  Rutho- 
naUe,  and  Berkhamated,  by  a  deed  sealed  with  the 
luiptession  of  an  armed  man,  standing  on  his  left 
foot,  and  putting  hie  right  on  the  step  of  a  ladder, 
with  his  hands  on  the  aame,  aa  if  he  were  dimbing 
->«round  which  waa  the  inscription-  "  Slgillnm 
Hugonia  de  Scaiefils.'*    This  Hi«h  waa  «.  by  hia 


HENRY  DB  SCALERS,  who,  in  the  ISth  Henry 
IL,  upon  theasesssment  in  aid,  than  lOyied  Itor  the 
marriage  portion  of  the  King's  danghter,  certified 
his  knighto'  fees  to  be  fifteao,  for  which  he  paid 
tfaesumof  jBiaacSri.    Henry  wae  a,  by  his  son, 

HUGH  DB  SCALERS,  who  wae  «r  byhia  son, 
another 

HENRY  DE  SCALERS.  This  feudal  lord, 
making  a  jouney  to  Jemaalem,  died  there,  and 
waa  «>  by  his  brother, 

OEFFERY  DE  SCALERS,  who  d.  in  the  51st 
Henry  III.,  aiid  of  thia  brandi  of  the  ftmily,  no- 
thing ftnther  ia  known  we  theniore  torn  to 
another:  that  founded  by 

STEPHEN  DE  SCALERS,  nephew  of  Hugh, 
first   Lord  of    Berkhamsied.     To  this  Stephen, 


11L,  itpoa  thetioBectkai  of  the  idtatage  of  Mont- 
gomerie,  this  Richard  wae  acquitted  Sat  bia  fifteen 
knights'  fees,  haying  been,  aa  it  seems,  in  that  ser- 
Yice.  He  died  In  seyen  years  afterwards,  leaving 
an  only  daughter  and  heiress, 

Luda,  who  mairiod  Baidwim  Fiayill,  yfiaek 

Baldwin  had  obtained  the  lady  in  ward,  ia 

consideration  of  two  Inmdred  marks  paid  to 

the  crown. 

Thus  terminated  anotiier  branch  of  ttMt  fiBBiily» 

Of  thaeaasohouaeywaa    * 

JOHN  DE  SCALES,  SherifT  of  CambrldgeAix« 
end  Huntii^donahire,  In  1948  and  ISODi  but  we 
proceed  with  the  pikicipai  wimaining  brasich, 

ROBERT  DE  SCALES,  who,  in  the  96th 
Henry  IIL,  paid  a  fine  of  £10  to  the  king,  to  be 
eaempted  from  aerving  in  tiie  ware  of  Gaacony,  at 
that  time.    He  tf.  in  1966,  leaving  twoaona, 

William,  who  became  a  caoanac  BlKkbaigb* 
in  the  eounty  of  Nociolib 
Andhtohdr, 

ROBERT  DE  SCALES.  Tbia  fimdal  Idtd, 
having  dlettaiguished  hhnaelf  in  aims,  troth  hi  9oot» 
land  and  Fiance,  In  the  reign  of  Edward  L  was  sum^ 
moned  to  parUament  aa  Baboh  Scalbb,  by  that 
monarch,  from  6th  February,  1999,  to  99tad  Jenu- 
ary,  13O0!«  and  dying  in  the  latter  y«ar,  wae  «.  by  hie 


ROBERT  DB  SCALES,  aeoond 
moned  to  parljamsnt,  ftou  3rd  November,  1906,  to 
14th  March,  1989.  Thia  nofeAaman,  in  the  34th 
Edward  I.,  being  made  a  Knlgbtof  the  Bath,  with 
Frince  Edward  and  aeveral  others,  attonded  him 
in  the  expedition  made,  at  that  time,  into  Scot- 
land. Hislordship  m.  Bgelina,  dangfatat  of  Hu^ 
deCourlanay,  and  sister  of  Hu^  Eail  of  Devon, 
andd.  in  1389,  wass.  by  his  son, 

ROBERT  DE  SCALES,  third  baroil,  then  ia 
minority,  for  whose  guardianship.  Ids  molber  paid 
a  fine  of  two  hundred  marka  to  the  Idng.  Hlskm]^ 
aidp  attaAned  hie  minority  in  the7th  of  Edward  III., 
and  la  two  years  aflerwaids,  we  find  him  in  the 
expedition  made  into  ScoUaad,  in  tile  letimie  of 
William  de  Ullbid.  He  wm  again  in  Scethuid  the 
enening  year,  and  in  the  19th  of  the  same  reign, 
lie  attended  the  king  into  Fhmdan.  Fiom  this 
period,  until  the  30th  of  Bdwisd,  he  was  atanoet 
unremittiagly  engaged  in  FranoOi  His  tordsliip  Mb 
Catherine^  sister  and  co-heir  of  William  de  Uflbrd* 
Barl  of  Snflbik,  and  had  issno, 
Roonn,  his  succeaeor. 
Margaret,  m.  to  Sir  Robert  Howard,  aad  had 


WILLIAM  DE  SCALERS,  who  d.  hi  the  9th  of 
King  John,  and  wasc.  by  his  son, 
.    RICHARD  DB  SCALERS,    la  the  fth  of  Henry 


Sir  John  Howard,  who  had  a  sob. 

Sir  Jolm  Howard,  who  dying  in  the 
liiB-timo  of  his  father,  left  a  dangh- 
tor, 

EUaateth,  sole    helieas    of  her 
grandistheri  tlds  ladym.  John 
de  Vere,  Earl  of  Oxlbrd. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Sir  Roger  de  Fclbrigg,  and 
had  issue. 

Sir  Simon  de  FeHir^,  who  m.  BUigaret, 
daughter  and  heireaa  of  the  Duke  of 
Silesia,  end  left  an  ealy  daughter  aad 


SCA 


SCH 


Aliiu.  m.  Sir  William  Tyndtl,  of 
Dean*  in  the  county  <k   North- 
ampton {  grandfather  of  Sir  Wil- 
liam Tyndal,  K.B.f  temp.  Henry 
VII. 
Lord  Scalei*  who  had  lummona  to  parliament, 
fkom  Sftth  February.  134S,  to  6th  April,  ias&»  died 
in  the  latter  year,  and  was  «.  by  hli  ton, 

ROGER  DE  SCALES,  fourth  baron,  summoned  to' 
parUament,  fhmi  S8th  December,  ia7A»  to  ard  Sep- 
tember, 138Sw  This  nobleman  was  in  the  expedition 
made  into  Praaoe,  in  the  46th  of  Edward  III. ;  and 
npon  the  lireaking  out  of  the  Insurrection  under 
Jack  Straw,  temp.  Richard  II.,  his  lordship  was 
one  of  those  eminent  persons  whom  the  Insurgents 
eeiaed,  and  compelled  to  march  along  with  them. 
In  the  5th  of  the  same  rrign.  Lord  Scales,  by  an 
inquisition,  was  found  to  be  one  of  the  oo>heirs  to 
WillUm  de  U  flbrd.  Earl  of  Suflblk.  His  lordship 
m,  Joane,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Sir  John  de 
Northwode,  and  dying  in  1386,  was  «.  by  his  son, 

ROBERT  DE  SCALES,  fifth  baron,  summoned 
to  parliament,  tmtu  SOth  Norember,  U06,  to  9nl 
October,  1400.  His  lordship,  at  his  accession  to  the 
dignity,  was  in  his  fimrteenth  year.  In  the  first 
year  of  Henry  lY.,  Lord  Scales  was  one  of  the  lords 
in  parliament,  that  voted  for  the  sate  custody  of 
the  late  King  Ricbaxd  II.,  and  he  embarked  soon 
•fterwards,  in  the  expedition  made  into  Aquitaine. 
His  lordship  m.  Eliabeth,  daughter  of  William, 
I<ord  Bardolf,  by  whom,  (who  m.,  after  his 
Sir  Henry  Perde,  of  Athol,)  he  had  isfue, 

RoBBBT,  Iguccessire  Lords. 
Thomas,  } 
He  d.  in  1409,  and  was  «.  by  his  eider  son« 

ROBERT  DE  SCALES,  6th  baron,  but 
summoned  to  parliament.     This  nobleman  dying 
onmarrled,  m  I4I8,  was  «.  by  his  brother, 

THOMAS  DE  SCALES,  seventh  baron,  sum- 
moned to  parliament,  from  ISth  January,  1445,  to 
9th  October,  1409.  This  nobleman  attained  high 
military  renown,  in  the  reign  of  Henry  V.  and 
Henry  VL  In  1436,  upon  the  death  of  John  Plan- 
tagenet,  Duke  of  Bedford,  the  Normans  rebdling, 
this  Lord  Scales  was  sent  out  with  othev*  against 
them;  when  slaying  many  of  the  rebels,  and  de- 
stroying some  of  the  towns  and  Tillages,  the  coun- 
try was  reduced  to  obedience.  For  this  especial 
•errice,  he  obtained  from  the  crown,  a  grant  of 
£100  per  annum,  for  life.  In  the  81st  of  Henry  VI., 
his  lordship  was  constituted  one  of  the  ambassadors 
then  deputed  to  France,  for  the  purpose  of  nego- 
tiating a  peace.  In  the  88th  of  the  same  reign,  we 
find  Lord  Scales  in  arms  against  Jack  Cade ;  and 
in  the  subsequent  conflicts  between  the  Houses  of 
York  and  Lancaster,  he  remained  erer  fkithful  to 
King  Henry  VI.  His  lordship  m.  Emma,  daughter 
of  John  Whalesborough,  and  had  issue, 

Thomas,  whotf.  in  his  father's  life-time. 
Elisabeth,  m.  flrst,  to  Henry  Bourchier,  second 
son  of  Henry,  Earl  of  Essex,  who  died  «.  p,, 
and  secondly,  to  Anthony,  son  and  heir  of 
Richard  Wldvile,  Earl  of  Rivers,  who  was 
summoned  to  parliament  in  her  right,  as 
Lord  Scales,  but  afterwards  succeeded  to 
the  Earldom  of  Rivers-  and  was  beheaded 
470 


In  14e3-Lady  Scales  died  pnvkwsly,  with. 

out  issue. 
Lord  Scales,  is  said  by  Story,  to  have  been  mur- 
dered, on  the  85th  July,  1400,  but  Dugdale  merrty 
says,  that  he  departed  this  Ufa  After  his  lordship'^ 
decease,  the  second  husband  of  Elisabeth,  his  only 
daughter  and  heiress,  Anthony  Widvile,  was  sum- 
moned to  parliament,  as  Lord  Scales,  and  upon  the 
death  of  the  said  Elisabeth,  without  issue,  the  Ba» 
BONY  OP  ScALxa  fsU  loto  ABBTARCB,  betwesn  the 
desoendanU  of  Margaret,  Lady  Howard,  and  Elisa* 
both.  Lady  Felbrigg,  (refer  to  issue  of  Robert,  third 
baron,)  as  it  stiU  continues  with  thdr  representa- 
tives. 

The  noMe  fkmily  of  Scales  resided  for  many  geno' 
rations,  ia  great  splendour  and  power,  at  the  castle 
of  Middleton,  near  Lyntkt  lA  itm  county  of  Nor- 
folk. 

Abms.— 4}u.  six  escallop  shells  ar,  threes  tuot 


SCHOMBERO  —  DUKES  OF  SCOltf. 

BERG. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  10th  April,  1688. 

Xiiuagc. 

JOHN  MEINHARDT  SCONBERG,  or  SCOM- 
BERG,  of  an  andent  and  noble  family  in  Germany, 
m.  Anne,  daughter  of  JSdward  Sutton,  Lord  Dudley, 
and  was  father  of 

FREDERICK  SCOMBERG,  a  military  ofllcer 
of  high  reputation.  This  eminent  person  com- 
menced his  gallant  career  in  the  service  of  the 
States  General  {  he  was  afterwards  in  Portugal, 
where  he  commanded  the  Portuguese  army  against 
the  Spaniards,  and  in  1668,  achieved  by  arms,  the 
full  recognition  of  the  right  of  the  House  of  Bra- 
ganaa  to  the  crown  of  PortugaL  We  next  find 
him  in  the  service  of  France,  and  raised  to  the  high 
military  rank  of  marshal  in  that  kingdom.  In  16H8, 
he  accompanied  the  Prince  of  Orange  into  Eng- 
land, and  when  His  Highness  obtained  the  soeptre 
as  William  III.,  was  elevated  to  the  peerage,  by  let- 
ters patent,  dated  10th  April,  1689,  as  Baron  TVyer, 
and  Sari  of  Bren^fitrd,  in  the  county  of  Middlesex, 
Marqu4$9  qf  Hartpieh,  and  Dukb  or  Scombbbo, 
all  in  remainder  to  his  second  surviving  son, 
Charles,  and  his  issue  male;  failure  ot  whidi,  to 
his  ddest  surviving  son,  Meinhardt,  and  his  male 
descendants.  His  grace  espoused,  first,  Johanna- 
Elisabetha,  the  daughter  of  his  paternal  unde,  and 

had  issue* 

Frederick,  who  resided  in  Germany. 
Mbinbabot,  who  was  created  in  the  peengia 
of  Ireland,  in   1690-1,  Baron  qf  Tarragh, 
Earl  qf  Bangor,  and  Dukb  op  Lbinstbb. 
Otto,  who  feU  at  the  siege  of  Valendennes. 
Henry,  d.  at  Brussels^ 

Chablbs,  successor  to  the  honoun,  under  the 
patent. 
The  duke  m.  secondly,  Susanna,  daughter  of  Count 
Anmale  de  Harcourt,  in  France,  but  had  no  issue. 
His  grace,  who,  with  his  other  honours,  was  a 
Knight  of  the  Garter,  fell  at  the  Boyhb»  In  IdOO, 


8CB 


SCO 


ngti  M.  ttid  WW  baiied  at  St  Patrick's,  DubUn, 
with  the  following  iiueriptioih— 

*<  Undemeath,  lies  the  body  of  Frederick,  Duke 
oi  Schomberg,  slaiii  at  the  battle  of  the  Boyne,  in 
the  year  leOO.  The  dean  and  cliaptcr  of  thii  church, 
again  and  again  besought  the  heirs  of  the  duke, 
to  cause  some  monument  to  be  here  erected  to  his 
memory.  But  when  after  many  entreaties  by  let- 
ters and  friends,  they  found  they  could  not  obtain 
their  request,  they  themselves  placed  this  stone; 
only  that  the  indignant  reader  may  know  where 
die  ashes  of  Schomberg  are  deposited. 

"  Thus  did  the  fiune  only  of  his  virtue  obtain 
more  for  him  from  strangers,  than  nearness  of  blood 
flrom  his  own  family.** 

His  grace  was  «.  according  to  the  limitation  by 
his  son, 

CHARLES  SCOHBERO,  second  duke,  whodyhig, 
unmarried,  of  a  wound,  received  at  the  battle  of 
Marsaglia,  in  Piedmont,  anno  laKS,  was  «.  by  his 
elder  brother, 

liEINHARDT  SCOMBERO.  Duke  of  Leinster, 
in  Ireland,  as  third  Duke  of  Scomberg.  This  no- 
bleman m.  Charlotte,  daughter  of  Charles-Lewis, 
Elector  Palatine,  and  had  issue, 

Charles,   Marquess   of  Harwich,   Colonel  of 
Horse,  who  d.  in  his  father's  life-timej  anno 
1713, ».  p. 
Mary,  m.  to  Cotut  Dagenfieldt 
Caroline,  d.  unmarried. 

Frederica,  m.  first,  to  Robert  Darcy,  Earl  of 

Holdemcss  i   and  secondly,   to   Benjamin 

Mildmay.  Earl  Fits-Walter,  and  d.  in  I7fil. 

His  grace,  who  like  his  fsther  was  a  military  man 

of  high  reputation,  died  in  1719,  when,  for  want  of 

an  heir  male,  all  mis  honours  became  bxtinct. 

Arms.— Ar.  an  inescutcheon,  s.  surmounted  by 
an  escarbunde  of  eight  rays,  or. 

6CHULENBERO  —  DUCHESS   OF 
KENDAL. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  30th  April,  1719. 

ERANOARD  MELOSINE  SCHULENBERO, 
a  German  lady,  mistress  to  King  George  I.,  was  cre- 
ated, in  1716,  a  peeress  of  Ireland,  as  Baroness  of 
Dundalk,  Countess  and  Marchioness  of  Dungan- 
non,  and  Duchess  of  Munster.  In  1719,  her  lady-- 
ship  was  enrolled  amongst  the  nobility  of  Great 
Britain,  in  the  dignities  of  Baroness  Glastonbury, 
in  the  county  of  Somerset,  Countess  of  Feversham, 
and  DucHsaa  or  Ksitdal,  fktr  li/^.  She  was  after- 
wards advanced  to  the  rank  of  Piinoen  of  Eber- 
atein,  in  the  Germanic  empira 

Her  grace  died  in  1743,  when  all  umn  HovoinM 
became  bxtihct. 

Abmb.— Quarterly  t  first  and  fourth  or.  a  lamb 
passant  in  fiesse  quartered  gu.  and  ar.  easlgned  on 
its  head  with  three  standards  of  the  second ;  second 
and  third,  ar.  three  eagles'  legs  couped  at  the  thigh 
gu.  And  as  a  princess  of  the  empire,  in  a  shield 
surtont  Jupiter,  a  lion  rampant^  lund«  imperially 
crowned  ppr. 


SCHULENBERO  —  COUNTESS     OP 
WAIiSINGHAM. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  7th  April,  1722. 

ICiiuagt. 

MELESINA  DE  SCHULENBERG,  natural 
daughter  of  King  Gkorob  I.,  was  derated  to  the 
peerage  of  England,  by  letters  patent,  dated  7th 
April,  1722,  as  Baroness qf  Aldborough,in  the  county 
of  SH/folk,  and  Count  Bsa  or  Wai.sinoham,  both 
dignities /br  Hfe  only.  Her  ladyship  m.  Philip  Stan- 
hope, the  celebrated  Eari.  or  Chb8txrpzbi.d,  but 
died  in  1776,  without  issue,  when  her  honours  be- 
came bztinct. 

Arms.— In  a  losenge  to  coats  quarterly ;  first  and 
fourth,  or.  a  lamb  passant  in  fesse,  quartered, 
gules  and  ar.  ensigned  on  the  head  with  three  stan- 
dards of  the  second ;  second  and  third  quarter,  arg. 
three  eagles'  l^s  couped  at  the  thigh,  gules. 

SCOT— EARL  OF  CHESTER. 

By  Inheritance,  anno  1231. 

ICincagt. 

T7te  Ijady 

MAUD  DE  MESCHINES,  eldest  daughter  of 
Hugh,  (sumamed  Keveliok,)  third  Earl  of  Chester, 
espoused  David,  Earl  of  Huntingdon,  brother  of 
William  the  Litm,  King  of  Scotland,  and  had  with 
four  daughters,  (see  Meschines,  Earls  of  Chester,) 
an  only  son, 

JOHN  LE  SCOT,  who,  upon  the  demise  of  his 
uncle,  in  1231,  (his  mother  halving  died  previously,) 
Ranulph  de  Meschines,  (sumamed  Blundevil,) 
fourth  Earl  op  CHxarxm,  without  issue,  sue* 
ceeded  to  the  whole  Palatine  of  Chbstxr,  and 
became*  in  consequence,  barl  of  that  county* 
This  nobleman  carried  the  sword,  called  Curtemat 
at  the  marriage  of  King  Henry  III.,  anno  1236 1 
and  Seldon,  in  hia  Titles  of  Honour,  says,  that  hia 
lordship  then  bore  the  express  designation  of 
**  Earl  Palatinb  ;"  observing,  that  until  the  time 
of  the  second  Henry  he  had  never  found  "  paj^« 
tins"  so  applied.  In  the  same  year  his  lordship 
assumed  the  crow,  but  it  is  doubtlUl  whether  he 
ever  set  out  for  the  Holy  Land  or  not.  He  d.  in 
UM4,  by  poiaon,  suspected  to  have  been  adminis* 
tared  by  his  wife,  Helen,  daughter  of  Llewellin, 
Prince  of  North  Wales;  and  leaving  no  issue,  the 
Earlooh  op  CHBaTBR  waa  annexed  to  the  crown 
for  ever  (in  1246)  t  *'  Ne  tarn  frtedara  dominoHc 
inter  coioe  fmnkmarum  dMdi  contingeret  /~— <«  Lest 
so  fair  a  dominion  should  be  divided  amongst  wo- 
men:" the  khag  bestowing  upon  the  deceaaed 
lord's  sisters  other  tands  insteadi 

ARxa.— Or.  three  piles  gu. 

SCOTLAND,  KINGS  OF— EARLS  OP 
HUNTINGDON. 


See  St.  Lis,  Earls  of  Huntingdon. 


471 


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SCROPE  —  BARONS  6CROPE,  OP 
BOLTON,  BARIi  OF  SUN- 
DERLAND. 

Banmy»  by  Writ  of  Summons,  datad  8th  January, 

1371.  44  Edward  III. 
Saildom,  by  Uttan  Patant.  dated  19th  Juaa^  l(tt7. 

Xincagir. 

In  tha  12th  of  Hanry  IL,  upon  tha  aid  laviad  for 
marrying  tha  king's  daughter, 

ROBGRT  DE  SCRUPE  was  one  of  the  feudal 
barops  required  to  make  a  return  of  his  knights' 
fees,  and  he  oertifled  aooordingly  that  he  held  three, 
de  p«tmi  ftqffitmento  in  the  county  of  Glouoester. 
He  was  «.  by  liis  son  and  heir, 

HENRY  DES  SCRUPES,  (as  the  surname  was 
than  written,)  who,  in  the  7th  of  King  John,  paid 
sixty  marks  for  his  relief ;  and  in  the  Snd  of  Henry 
HI.,  upon  the  collection  of  the  scutage  of  that 
king's  reign,  paid  six  marks  for  those  three  knights* 
fees  which  he  had  by  inharitanee.    He  was  «.  by  his 


WILLIAM  LE  SCROPE,  who.  in  the  Mth 
Edward  I.,  obtained  a  royal  charter  for  ftee  warren 
in  all  his  demeene  lands  at  East  Bolton,  Little 
Bolton,  Fenootes,  and  Pamswike,  in  the  county  of 
York.    This  WiUiam  was  «;  by  his  son, 

HENRY  LE  SCROPE,  who  waa  constituted 
ene  of  the  Justices  of  the  Common  Pleas  in  the  ted 
Edward  II.,  and  was  summoned  to  parliament,  e» 
«0lde,  from  the  8th  to  the  19th  of  the  same  reign ; 
between  which  periods  he  was  advanced  to  tha  chief 
Justiceship  of  the  King's  Bench.  In  the  reign  of 
Edward  IIL  he  was  a  second  time  placed  on  the 
bench  of  the  Common  Pleas,  and  he  subsequently 
became  chief  of  that  court.  His  lordship  4.  about 
the  year  1336,  possessed  of  large  estates  in  the  coun- 
ties of  York  and  Hertford,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldaet 


SIR  WILLIAM  LE  SCROPE,  who  was  hi  the 
wars  of  Flandets  and  ScoUand,  temp.  Edward  III., 
and  dying  iseudess  In  1340,  was  s.  by  his  brother, 

SIR  RICHARD  LE  SCROPE.  This  feudal 
lord  was  in  the  wars  of  France  in  the  Sard  and  40th 
Edward  IIL,  and  waa  constituted,  in  five  years 
afterwards,  treasurer  of  tha  exchequer  i  having 
been  summoned  to  parliament  the  year  preceding, 
as  a  BAKOir,  and  from  that  period  to  the  SrA  of 
Henry  IV.  In  the  1st  of  Richard  IL  his  lordship 
was  asade  steward  of  the  housdK>M,  and  the  next 
year  constituted  the  king's  cHAjrcnLLon.  Soon 
after  this  he  had  licence  to  encasteQate  his  manor 
house  at  Bolton.  In  the  Ath  of  the  same  reign  he 
was  a  aeoond  time  appointed  caAVcaixoB,  and 
UkewlaeKnBVBR  ov  ran  orbat  bbai..  In  parlia- 
ment: "haTing,**  according  to  WaUngham,  <'not 
his  fellow  (of  his  degree,)  In  the  whole  realm,  for 
prudence  and  integrity."  His  lordship  was  fire- 
quently  included  in  commissioos  to  treat  of  peace 
with  the  French  and  the  Scotch ;  and  he  deputed 
himself  with  such  integrity  as  chancellor,  that  he 
peremptorily  refused  to  affix  the  great  seal  to  a 
grant  made  by  King  Richard  to  one  of  his 
favourites;  telling  the  person,  that  the  duty  of  his 
479 


oflica  would  not  permit  him  to  aat  tlte  seal* 
mitted  to  his  keeping  by  the  parUamant,  to  all  the 
king's  indiscrete  granu,  until  he  had  acquired  a 
little  more  experience.  In  the  eanaa  monardi'e 
reign  Lord  Scrope  had  a  memorable  dispute  with 
Sir  Robert  Groevenor,  Knt^  ti»^KMng  the  bearing 
of  "  as.  a  bend  or."  fbr  his  arm*— which  ww  tried, 
and  eventually  decided  before  Thomu,  Dqkb  or 
GxAUGBaTBR,  then  constable  of  England,  when 
sentiBiff  was  given  in  favour  of  his  lordship,  and  « 
former  Judgment  in  favour  of  Oroevenor,  tit  bear- 
ing the  same  aims,  with  a  **  bordure  or."  dedarad 
void ;  by  reeaon  that  such  diflbrences  between 
strangon,  and  of  one  realm,  were  not  deeoMd  euf- 
fldent;  but  intended  merely  for  euch  as  are  of 
near  allianoe  by  oonsanguinity.  Hia  lordship  had 
issue, 

RooRR,  his  succaMor. 

Richard,  Archbishop  of  York,  V»»«taAH  for 

conspiriqg  against  Henry  IV. 
Stephen,  Lord  of  Bentley,  who  m.  Milicent, 
daughter  and  hair  of  Robert  Tibetot,  and 
left, 
Stephen. 
Margaret. 
Lord  Scrope,  who  was  a  noUe  benefhctor  to  the 
church,  d.  in  1403»  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

ROGER  LE  SCROPE,  second  Bazon  Scrope,  of 
Bolton,  summoned  to  parliament  20ih  October, 
and  93rd  November,  140X  His  lordship  m.  Mar- 
garet, one  of  the  daughters  and  co-heirs  of  Robert, 
Lord  Tiptoft,  with  whom  he  acquired  the  manor  of 
Langor,  Notts,  and  A  in  1404*  was  «.  by  his  son, 

RICHARD  LE  SCROPE,  third  baron,  but 
never  summoned  to  parliament.  This  nobleman, 
in  the  7th  Hbnbt  V.,  attended  the  king  ia  the 
expedition  then  made  into  Franca,  but  d.  soon  after, 
anno  1490,  never  haying  had  summons  to  parlia- 
ment. His  lordAiip  m.  Lady  Margaret  Nevil, 
daughter  of  Ralph,  Earl  of  Wwtmorland,  and  d.  in 
1490,  was  «.  by  his  sod, 

SIR  HENRY  LE  SCROPE,  fourth  baxon,  sum- 
moned to  parliament  from  3rd  December,  1441,  to 
96th  May,  14U,  as  Lord  Scropb,  <tf  Bolton.  This 
nobleman,  during  his  minority,  accompanied  John, 
Lord  Scrope,  of  Upsal,  in  his  embassy  to  the  great 
master  of  the  Order  of  St.  John  of  Jerusalams  and 
in  the  18th  Henry  VL,  making  proof  of  his  age,  had 
livery  of  his  tends.  His  lordship  m.  Elisabeth, 
daughter  of  John,  Lord  Scrope,  of  Masham  and 
Upsal,  by  whom  he  had  three  sons,  and  was  a.,  at  hia 
decease  in  1409,  by  the  eldest, 

JOHN  LE  SCROPE.  flflh  banm,  summoned  to 
parliament  from  30th  July,  14110,  to  16th  January* 
1497.  This  nobleman  espoused  the  cause  of  York» 
and  during  the  reign  of  Edward  IV.  was  a  person  oT 
great  influence  and  power*  His  lordship  waa  a 
Kalght  of  the  Garter,  and  fought  agalnat  the  Lan- 
castrians,  as  well  as  the  Sooto,  particularly  at  Noa- 
HAM  CABTLa,  when  that  fbrtrces  was  relieved  by 
the  Earl  of  Surrey,  and  the  beeiegers  driven  beyond 
the  Scottish  border.  He  m.'Joane,  daughter  of 
WiUiam,  Lord  Fita-Hogh,  and  was  «.  at  his  deoeaaa 
by  his  son,  I 

SIR  HEIfRY  LE  SCROPB,  sixth  barvm,  but 
never  summoned  to  parliament.    Thisaol^taaaan  ntr 


SCR 


SCR 


am.  Sliai1wt]i»  dMi^htar  of  Hrnrj*  Barf  of  Noi^ 

thumtterland,  by  whom  he  had  iMue, 

HsiTBYy  his  tuocMior.  y.         f 

John,  whoM  daughter,  ^*'  '^'1 

Ifatgaret,  m,  Chriitopher  WyrUl,  Esq. 

)Hia  hmlahip  etpooaed,  Moondly,  Mkm,  only  daugh- 
tar  and  halt  of  Thomaa,  Lord  Scropa,  ot  Upcal, 
and  had  an  only  daughter, 

EUsabeth,  m.  to  Sir  Gilbert  Talbot,  Knt. 
He  d.  in  lfi06,  and  waa  «.  by  his  elder  aon, 

HENRY  LB  8CROPB,  icventh  baron,  aum- 
moned  to  parliament  from  SSd  Norember,  1A14,  to 
9th  Augusts  IMS.  Thla  nobleman  waa  at  the  battle 
of  Flodden-fleU  in  the  5th  of  Henry  VIIL,  and  he 
was  one  of  the  peers,  who.  In  the  same  reign, 
dgned  the  celebrated  letter  to  the  pope  regarding 
the  diTorce  of  Queen  Katherine.  His  lordship  m.  - 
Margaret,  daughter  of  Thomas,  Lord  Dacre,  and 
had  issue, 

JoHw,  his  successor. 

■,  of  Hamildon,  in  the  county  of  Bucks. 
\  Anne,  m.  to  John  Vavasour,  Esq.,  of  Hasle- 

wood,  in  the  county  vi  York,  fkom  whom 
\  descended  the  RsHnct  Banmef  Vayasour, 

of  the  same  place,  now  represented  by  the 
Hon.   Sir  Edward  Mannaduke  Vavasour, 
^  who  was  created  a  baronet  in  1888. 

Joane,  m.  to  John,  Lord  Lumley. 
Elisabeth,  m,  to  Sir  Bryan  Stapleton,  Knt.,  of 

Carleton,  in  the  county  of  York. 
Anne,  m.  to  Thomas  Hither,  Esq.,  of  Hither, 
<V     in  Yorkshire. 
He  dl  about  the  year  1082,  and  was  «.  by  his  elder 
son, 

JOHN  LE  SCROPE,  dghth  baron,  summoned 
to  parliament  ttom  Ath  January,  1533,  to  5th  Jan- 
uary, 156a  His  lordship  had  livery  of  his  lands  in 
the  a5th  of  Henry  VIIL,  but  in  three  yean  after- 
wards was  involved  in  the  conspiracy  occasioned 
by  the  dissolution  of  the  monasteries,  called  the 
PIX.OUMAOS  or  Obacs.  He  m.  Cathnine,  eldest 
daughter  of  Henry,  Earl  of  Cumberland,  and  had 
issue, 

HxNBT,  his  suooetaor. 
Oeorg& 
Edward. 
Thomas. 

Margaret,  m.  to  Sir  John  Constable,  Knt., 
of  Burton  Constable,  in  the   county  of 
York. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Thomas  Pndsey,  Esq.,  of 

Bolton,  in  Craven. 
Alianore,  m.  to  Richard  Tempest,  Esq.,  of 

BraswelL 
Catherine. 
His  lordship d,  about  the  year  1554,  and  waia.  by 
his  eldest  son, 

HENRY  LE  SCROPE,  ninth  baron,  summoned 
to  parliament  from  91st  October,  1555,  to  4th  Feb- 
ruary, 1589.  This  nobleman,  in  the  5th  Elisabeth, 
was  constituted  governor  of  the  castle  of  Carlisle, 
and  warden  of  the  west  marches  towards  Scotland. 
He  was  subsequently  in  arms  against  the  insur- 
gents under  the  Earls  of  Northumberland  and  West* 
morland,  and  was  made  a  Kniout  or  tbc  Gaktbr. 
Hia  k>rdship  m.  first,  Margaret,  daughter  of  Henry 


Howard,  Earl  of  SuAey,  and  sister  of  Tf^noMt 
Duke  of  Iforlblk,  by  whom  he  had  Issue, 

TnoxAa,  his  sucodSnor. 

Henry. 
He  espoused,  secondly,  Alianore,  daughter  of  Ed- 
ward.  Lord  North,  and  had  an  only  daughter, 

Mary,  au  to  l^illiam  Bowes,  Esq.,  of  Street- 
lam  Castle,  in  the  county  of  Durham,  from 


OnoBon  Bovrsa,  of  Streathm  Castle, 

whoae  only  daughter  and  hsiress,     . 

Mary-Elbabob  Bowaa,  eq>oused 

John,  ninth  Bari  ttf  Stntkmore, 

and  was  mother  of 

JoBB,  tenth  Earl   of  Strath* 

more,  and 
Thomas,  present  EarL 
From  this  aUianee  the  Earls  of 
Strathmore  have  assumed  the 
additional  surname  of  Bowna. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1599,  and  was  «.  by  his  dder  son, 

THOMAS  LE  SCROPE,  tenth  beam,  summoned 
to  parliament  Ikom  19th  February,  1588,  to  eth 
October,  1810,  who  m.  Philadelphia,  daughter  of 
Henry  Carey,  Lord  Hunsdon,  and  dying  about  the 
year  1619,  was  «.  by  hia  only  child, 

EMANUEL  LE  SCROPE,  eleventh  beron,  sum- 
moned  to  parliament  from  5th  April,  1614,  to  17lh 
May,  IflSSb  This  nobleman,  in  the  reign  ot  Jambs 
I.,  was  president  of  the  king's  council  in  the  north, 
and  was  created  by  King  Chablbs  L,  19th  June, 
1697,  Earl  or  Suwdbblawd.  His  lordship  m. 
Lady  Elisabeth  Manners,  daughter  of  John,  Earl 
of  Rutland,  but  had  no  issue.*  He  d.  in  1697, 
when  the  Earldom  or  Sundbrlabd  became  bx- 
tinct;  and  "  the  Babony  or  Scropb  or  Boltob 
devolved  <says  Nldiolas)  on  Maby,  only  daughter 
of  Hbkrv,  ninth  Lord,  who  im.  William  Bowes, 
Esq.,  and  it  continued  vested  in  her  descendauta 
until  1815,  when  the  issue  of  all  the  other  co-heirs 
having  fkllad,  the  Baroby  passed  to  Charles  Jones, 
Esq.,  he  being  heir  general  of  the  body  of  Henry, 
the  ninth  banm,  althou^  he  has  never  urged  his 
claim  to  the  dignity."  Mr.  Jones  is  likewise  eldest 
co-heir  of  the  Barony  of  Tiptoft,  created  by  writ 
of  Edward  II.,  dated  lOth  March,  1308}  and  co« 
heir  of  one  moiety  of  the  Barony  of  Badleemere. 
Abmb.— Aa.  a  bend,  or. 


•  Emabvbl,  Earl  ow  Sdndbbland,  and  last 
Lord  Scrope  of  Bolton,  left  three  natural  daugh- 
ters, amongst  whom  the  estates  of  the  Scropes  were 
divided,  via. 

Maby,  m.  first,  to  the  Hon.  Henry  Carey, 
second  son  of  Henry,  Earl  of  Monmouth; 
and  secondly,  to  Charles,  Marquess  of  Win- 
chester; which  nobleman  acquired  the  estata 
at  Bolton,  in  the  county  of  York,  and  waa 
afterwards  created  Duke  of  Bolton. 
Annabella,  m.  to  John  Orubham  Howe,  Esq., 
ancestor  of  the  Earls  and  Viscounts  Howe. 
Mr.  Howe  obtained  the  manor  of  Langar, 
in  Nottinghamshire,  which  came  to   the 
Scropes  with  the  heiress  of  the  Tiptofts. 
EUsabeth,  m.  to  Thomal  Savage,  Earl  Rivera. 
8  P  473 


SCR 


SCB 


SCROPS  ^  BARONS    SCROPB,    OF 
MA8HAM,  AND  UPSAL. 

By  Writ  of  Sammoiis,  dated  29th  Febraary,  1349, 
16  Edwvd  III. 

ICiitcsst. 

Of  the  famil  J  of  ScTope  of  BottoB,  WW 

OSFFREY  LB  fiCROPE,  (broClMr,  it  it  pro- 
turned*  of  the  Chief  Juttioe  Scrape*  temp.  Edward 
III.)  a  gnat  landed  piopiielor  in  the  reign  of  En- 
WAno  II.«  wlio  ohtalned  iSom  that  monarch  licence 
to  make  a  cattle  of  hit  houae  at  Clifton-opon-Yore, 
In  theca%uity  of  York*  and  had,  at  the  tame  time, 
free  warren  in  all  hit  demetne  landt  at  Clifton,  and 
Panewidi,  in  Yorkahire,  and  at  Whalton,  in  Nor- 
thuttbwlaad.  In  the  17th  of  the  tame  monardi 
he  wat  conttituted  Chief  Juttke  of  the  Court  of 
King*!  Bench,  at  he  wat  again  in  the  4th  and  6th 
of  Edward  IIL,  hut  heing  tlie  next  year  tent  abroad 
npon  the  king't  allkbt,  he  reaigned  hit  Judidal 
offlca  He  wat  afterwardt  in  the  wan  of  Fhoidert, 
and  attained  the  rank  of  hannavet.  He  im.  iTotta, 
daughter  of  William  Roaie,  of  Igmantliorpek  and 
hadiatne. 

Haw  ET,  hit  euooeaor. 
?    Johh,  IM.  Bliaabeth,  one  of  the  daoghteie  and 
,  .  *         oo-hehrt  of  David  de  Stiaholgi,  Earl  of 

cry  » ic^i  *  ^^        Athol,  and  widow  of  Sir  Thoraaa  Percy, 

Knt. 
Thit  learned  and  gallant  pcnon  d.  about  the  year 
1340,  and  wat «.  by  hit  elder  ton, 

HENRY  LE  SCROPE,  who,  in  the  0th  Edward 
III.,  wat  in  the  wan  of  Scotland,  and  wat  tum- 
moned  to  parUaanent  the  next  year  at  a  barom, 
and  from  that  period  to  16th  Richard  II.  In  the 
19th  of  Edward  lU.,  fait  loidthip  wat  in  the  wan 
of  .Fmnce,  and  the  next  year  he  fbught  at  the  battle 
of  Durham,  where  Datid,  Kitig-  <^f  Seattand,  aut- 
tained  to  tignal  a  defeat.  He  wat  afterwardt  one  of 
the  commitrimifii  for  arraying  the  county  of  York 
upon  a  nifnaoed  invaaion  by  the  French,  and  during 
the  remainder  of  Edward  Ill.'t  reign,  he  wat  either 
actiydy  engaged  in  the  wan,  <»  at  a  diplomatitt. 
In  the  2d  of  Richard  II.,  being  then  a  banncKt, 
hit  lovdahip  wat  tent  ambaaaador,  with  othen,  to 
treat  with  Charlet,  Kiifo  op  NATARRn,  regarding 
a  league  between  that  prince  and  the  King  of  Eng> 
land.   He  m.  ,  and  had  iamie, 

Stbphsv,  hit  tucceaaor. 
*4¥ii.i.iAjc,  created  Earl  of  Wiltahire. 
Hto  lordthip  d.  in  1991,  and  wat  a.  by  hit  rider  aoo, 

SIR  STEPHEN  LE  SCROPE,  second  barnn, 
tummoned  to  parliament  flrom  S3rd  NoTember, 
130S,  to  lat  January,  1406.  Thit  nobleman  received 
the  honour  of  knighthood  for  his  martial  aervicea 
In  the  lif»>time  of  hia  father,  and  diatinguiahed 
hiroaelf  lioth  by  sea  and  Und.  His  lordship  m. 
Margery,  widow  oi  John,  aon  of  Sir  William  de 
Unntiagfleld,  Knt.,  and  ha^  iaaoe, 

HcNRV,  his  anocesaor. 

John,  of  whom  preaently. 

Stephen,  Archdeacon  of  Richmond. 

William. 
Hed.  in  1406,  poMcned  of  large  eatatea  in  the  coun- 

47i 


tiee  of  Bhr,  IfottSt  StsflRd*  Lteoolii*  fend  YOik* 
and  waa  «.  by  h|a  cUeat  aon, 

SIR  HENRY  LE  SCROPE,  third  tamon,  tum- 
moned to  parliament  fkom  i6th  Augutt,  1466,  to 
flOth  Sepeemher,  1414,  aa  Lord  Scropr,  ^Maakmm, 
Hia  kndaUp,  in  the  7th  Henry  IV.,  waa  empk»yed 
in  the  nmlieaai  to  laabel,  Quean  of  Deanaarfc,  and 
Eric,  King  of  Denmark,  to  treat  conoeming  tibo 
dowry  pt  PfaUfppa,  the  daughter  of  King  Henry, 
then  conaort  of  the  king  of  Dtnmarki  and  fbr  a 
league  batweeu  the  two  crowna.    In  four  yean  after 
he  waa  made  treaaurer  of  the  king'a  exchequer,  and 
the  next  year  the  kii«  cooahlering  hia  great  abillUeB, 
aa  alao  the  neceaaity  of  hia  presence  in  pariiament 
and  council,  asaignied  him,  durtaig  hit  aUy  at  West- 
minatcr,  ov  London,  the  towna  of  Hamatede  and 
Hendon,  in  the  county  of  If  iddleaex,  Ibr  lodghig 
and  entertainment  of  hia  aenranta  and  horaaa.    Itt 
the  reign  of  Henry  V.  Lord  Scrope  waa  appointed 
ambassador  to   treat  of  peace  with  the  French. 
"  But  thia  great  truat,"  aaya  Dugdale,  <*  he  ahame- 
ftilly  abuaedt  tor  being  a  peieon  ia  whom  the  kmg 
had  ao  great  a  confldenre,  that  nothing  of  private 
or  public  concamment  waa  done  without  himi  hia 
gravity  of  countenance*  modeaty  in  hia  deportment, 
and  rdigloua  dlaoouiae,  being  alwaya  audi,  that 
whataoever  he  advised  waa  held  aa  aa  orade;  upon 
thia  hia  aolemn  embaaay  into  Fiance,  (which  none 
waa  thought  so  fit  to  numage  aa  himaelf,)  he  treated 
privily  with  the  king'a  enemlea,  (being  in  hit  heart 
totally  thein,)  and  conapired  the  king'a deatmctioB, 
upon  promise  of  reward  from  the  French :  his  oon- 
federatea  In  thia  deaign  being  mdmrd,  Eari.  of 
Cambrioor,  (brother  of  the  Duke  of  York,) 
Sir  Thomaa  Orey,  a  northen  knight    But 
thia  miachievoua  plot  could  be  effected,  (which  waa 
to  have  killed  the  king  and  all  hia  brethren  ere  he 
went  to  aeai  Ave  ehipa  beiog  reedy  at  Southamp- 
ton to  waft  the  king  over  into  France,)  it  waa  dia- 
oovered.    Whereupon  he  had  a  apeedy  trial  before 
Thonutt,  Duke  of  Clarence,  end  other  peen,  at 
Southampton,  and  being  found  guilty  there  loet 
his  head,  in  August,  1415."    His  lordahip  had  mu 
flnt,  Philippe,  daughter  of  Sir  Guy  de  Brien,  and 
secondly,  Joane,  Ducheu  of  York,  aiater  end  co- 
heir of  Edmund  Hohmd,  Earl  of  Kent,  but  had  no 
issue.    Upon  his  lordship's  attazni>rr.  the  Ba> 
RON Y  op  ScROPR,  ofiHuKam,  beceme  porpbitxd  ; 
and  hia  landa  were  seiaed,  part  of  whi<A,  including 
Maaham,  the  king  conferred  upon   Henry,  Lord 
Fita-Hngh,  for  lifie.    He  waa  a.  by  his  brother, 

SIR  JOHN  LE  SCROPE,  who.  upon  the  death 
Of  hia  brother,  Stephen,  erchdeacon  of  Ridimond, 
%id  Heniy  VI.,  on  doing  his  homage,  had  livery  of 
his  landa;  and  immediatdiy,  thereupon,  by  the 
onnaent  of  the  lorda  in  parliament,  obtained  a  grant 
ftom  the  king,  of  the  farms  and  rents  of  all  thoee 
lordshipa  which  came  to  the  crown  by  the  attainder 
of  Henry,  Lord  Scrope,  his  brother,  to  hold  for 
four  years.  Thia  Sir  John  Scrope  wrote  himaelf  of 
Maaham  and  Upaal,  and  waa  aununoaed  to  par- 
liament aa  Lord  Scropr,  <^  Maaham  attd  Vpmi, 
from  7th  Jaauary,  1496,  to  96th  May,  14fift,  having 
previoualy,  according  to  Nicolaa,  (in  1491',)  ob- 
tained a  reatoration  of  hia  brother'a  honounand. 
inheritance.    Hia  lordahip  wat  afterwardt  in  high 


SCR 


aso 


at  omit,  nd  eooatititted  msAftviiKB  or 
THB  Kiira'a  bzcbbovbb.    He  m.  Bliiatoth,  , 

and  liad  iaroe, 

JoliB,  who  A  in  the  llli».tiBW  of  bia  talthm, 

Thomas*  hiinu 


Eliaabeth,  m.  to  Henry,  Lord  Soope,  of  Bol- 
ton. 
HiikMdriiipii.iBl4S8pMidwas«;byhlf  eldatt  flur< 
Tiviag  Mm, 

THOMAS  LB  SCROPB,  tfth  bwoa,  fammontd 
to  pcritanunt  fttnn  9th  October,  1400^  to  19Ch  Au- 
glut,  1471.*    This  nObknum  m.  ••,  and  had 


THOKAa,  bit  tui 


Hairy,  "^ 

Ralph,   VgupcawiTdy  barona. 
Oeflnry,  ^ 

Alice,  m.  to  James  Strangwayt,  Baq. 
Mary,  m.  to  Sir  Cbriitopher  Danby,  Knt. 
Ellaabetb,  in.  to  Sbr  Ralph  Fita-Randolpb, 
Knt 
Hia  bMdahip  A  fa  1498,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 
THOMAS  LE  SCROPE,  sixth  baron,  summoned 
to  parliament  fMnn  lAth  November,  148S,  to  ISth 
Auguat,  I4M.    His  lordship  m.  Elisabeth,  daughter 
and  co-heir  of  John  NmHl,  MABovsaa  or  Monta' 
cvTB,  by  whom  (who  m.  secondly.  Sir  Henry  Went- 
'    worth)  he  had  an  only  daughter,  Alice,  who  m. 
Hmrw/LoRD  ScROpa,  op  Boltoit,  by  whom  she 
'[   hadaddughtcr,Bliaabeth,«ktoSiraiIbertTalbot, 
Knt.    His  lordship  d.  in  1404,  and  the  baiony  ap- 
pears then  to  haye  devolyed  upon  his  daughter, 
AxicB,  wife  of  Lord  Scrope,  of  Bolton,  but  at  her 
decease,  in  IWl,  it  reverted,*  aecoidtaig  to  Nicolaa, 
to  her  ladyship'B  imdi^ 

SIR  HENRY  LE  SCROPE,  aeventh  baron, 
aunimoned  to  parUementttth  November,  Ull,  and 
dying  iesueless,  was  «.  by  hto  brotner, 

RALPH  LB  SCROPE,  eighth  heron,  bat  never 
summoned  to  parliament.  This  nobleman  died  in 
101A,  «.  p,,  when  the  baiony  devolved  upon  his 
brother, 

GEFPBRY  LE  SCROPE,  nbirth  baron,  but 
never  summoned  to  pariiament.  This  nobleman 
dying  like  his  two  preceding  brothers,  issueless,  (In 
IU7»)  the  Bjuuwy  or  Schofs,  op  Masram  ajtd 
UpaAL,  fell  into  AnnvAitcn  betwesn  his  three 
sisters,  (refer  to  daughters  of  Thomas,  fifth  baron,) 
as  it  still  continues  with  their  represenutives. 

Akmb.— Aa.  a  bend  or.  in  chief,  a  file  of  three 
polntSy  ar. 

SCROP£  —  £ARL  OF  WILTSHIRE. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  asnh  September,  1997. 

son  of 


SIR   WILLIAM   LB  SCROPB, 
Henry,  Beron  Scrope,  of  Mastaam, 
chal  of  Aquitaioe  in  the  0th  Richard  IL,  and  after- 

•  Why  it  should  so  revert,  while  Lady  Scrope,  of 
Bolton's,  dauglfter.  Lady  Talbot,  and 
ante  csistad,  ia  Mt  nplalBad. 


^titulad  goveanoff  of  the  town  and  caatla 
ofShlrbttigh.  In  the  10th  of  the  same  reign  he  waa 
appointed  vice-chamberlain  of  the  household,  and 
he  purrhasnrt  about  that  time  ftom  William  de 
MontacutCb  Eariof  SaUsbury,  the  Isle  of  Man,  with 
the  crown  thereof  i  it  being  then  a  right  belonging 
to  the  lord  of  that  ialand,  to  be  crowned  with  aragal 
crown,  and  to  bear  the  title  of  king.  He  was  sub* 
sequently  constituted  lord  chambariahi  of  tha 
houadraU,  end  was  one  of  the  ambaisadnrs  deputed 
to  France  to  contract  a  marriage  for  King  Riduud* 
with  Isabel,  eklest  daughter  of  Charles  the  Sixth, 
king  of  France.  After  this  having  large  grants  ef 
confiscated  landa  from  the  crown,  he  was  tiealed, 
by  lettere  patent,  dated  S9th  September,  U07,  EAai. 
OP  WiLTaaina  i  and  constituted  Justice  of  Chester, 
North  Wales,  and  Flint,  with  a  grant  of -the  ofltoa 
of  surveyor  of  all  the  foresH  within  the  principality 
of  Chester.  He  was  also  made  a  Kadght  of  the 
Garter.  But  as  hie  rise  to  wealth,  and  advancement 
to  honoun  were  rapid  and  IQ««dvised,  ao  his  Ml 
waa  sudden,  althou^  not  unexpected;  for  on  the 
acceeslon  of  Henry,  of  Lancaster,  to  the  thtone, 
within  little  more  than  a,twel  vamonth,  he  waa  made 
prisoner  in  the  ceatle  of  Bristol,  and  immedietely 
beheaded,  anno  19B0,  when  the  Earldom  ov 
WiLTaninn  became  pompnirnn.    Hia  locdahip  d. 


Aiuta.-»Aai  a  bend,  or. 

SEEZ-EARL  OF  DORSET. 

Creation  of  William,  the  OMmuarpr. 

Xincagf. 

OSMUND  DB  SEBZ,  a  noble  Norman, 
made  Bianop  ov  SAuaBUny,  by  King  William,  the 
Conquetor,  and  afterwards  created  Eakii  of  the 
county  of  DorseL  TMs  eminent  prelate,  whofilled 
the  high  office  of  Loan  Chancbixor  of  England, 
d.  in  1000,  and  was  buried  at  Old  Serum.  In  nearly 
three  centuries  and  a  half  (1407)  subsequently,  he 
was  canoniaed  by  Pope  Calixtns,  for  the  purity  of 
hto  lift*  and  the  great  scrvtoas  he  had  rendered  to 
rdigion. 

SEORAVE— BARONS  SEGRAVE. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  94th  December,  1964, 
48  Henry  IIL 

Xintagc. 

In  the  19th  ycv  of  Henry  IL, 

GILBERT  DB  SEGRAVE,  Lord  of  S^grave,  ta 
the  ooonty  of  Leiceeter  (whence  he  essumed  hto 
surname)  held  the  fourth  part  of  one  knight* s  fee 
of  William  de  Newbuigh,-  Earl  of  Warwick,  and 
in  the  4th  of  Richard  I.,  he  was  Joint  sherior  with 
Reginald  Basset,  Ibr  the  counties  of  Werwick  and 
Leicester,  under  Hugh  de  Novant,  Bishop  of  Co- 
ventry t  in  whidi  office  he  continued  two  whole 
years.  He  subsequently.  10th  Ridutfd  f .,  gave  ftnu 
hundred  marks  to  the  king  .towards  the  support 
ofhtowara.    Thto  Gilbert  was  «.  by  hto  son, 

STEPHEN  DE  SEGRAVE,  who.  In  the  5th  of 
King  John*  wia  Conatahka  of  the  T^cmtt  at  London, 

47* 


SB0 


SEO 


end  femi^inif  Ikithf al  to  that  montreh  in  hit  eon* 
fiict*  with  the  barons,  obtained  a  grant  (17th  John) 
Of  the  lands  of  St^hen  de  Oaat,  lying  In  the  eoun« 
ties  of  Lincoln  and  Leicester;  with  the  manor  of 
Klntone,  in  the  county  of  Warwick.    In  the  4tii 
Henry  II  I.,  he  was  made  goremor  of  Saubey  Castle, 
Ldoestershire,  and  the  next  year  oonstituted  sherlif 
of  the  counties  of  Essex  and  Hertford*  and  after- 
wards of  LeioBstershire.    In  the  8th  of  the  same 
reign»  he  was  goremor  of  the  castle  at  Hertford, 
and  In  two  yeAn  after,  erne  of  the  justices  itinerant 
in  the  counties  of  Nottingham  and  Derby.    About 
this  period  we  And  this  sucoessfni  person,  whom 
Matthew  Paris  says,  in  his  young  days  <'ftom  « 
•lerk  was  made  a  krUght,**  acquiring  laige  landed 
property  by  purchase^    In  the  13th  of  Henry  TIL, 
he  bought  the  manor  of  Cotes,  in  the  county  of 
Derby,  from  the  daughters  and  heirs  of  Stephen 
de  Beauchamp,  and  he  afterwards  purchased  from 
RjBuIph,  Earl  of  Chester  and  Lincoln,  all  the  lands 
which  that  noUeman  possessed  at  Mount  Sordl,  in 
the  county  of  Leicester,  without  the  castle ;  as  also 
two  carucates  and  a  half  lying  at  Segraye,  which 
himself  and  his  ancestors  had  previously  held  at  the 
rant  of  fourteen  shillings  per  annxuu.    In  the  16th 
Henry  IIL,  he  obtained  agrant  of  the  custody  of  the 
castle  and  county  of  Northampton,  as  also  of  the 
counties  of  Bedford,  Buckingham,  Warwick*  and 
Leicester,  for  the  term  of  his  life ;  taking  the  whole 
profit  of  all  those  shires  for  his  support  in  that 
service;  excepting  the  ancient  farms,  which  had 
usually  been  paid  into  the  exchequer.    And,  having 
been  of  the  king's  council  for  several  years,  as  also 
chief  Justice  of  the  Common  Pleas,  he  succeeded 
in  the  10th  of  Henry  TIL,  Hubert  de  Buxgh  in  the 
great  oi&ce  of  JuaTiciABT  of  Swolano,  being  at 
the  same   time  constituted  governor  of  Dover, 
Canterbury,  Rochester,  Jfec,  and  Constabla  of  the 
Tower  of  London.    After  this  we  find  him,  how- 
ever, opposed  by  the  bishops  and  baront,  and  his 
manor-house  at  Sagrave  burnt  to  the  ground  by 
the  populace,  as  well  as  another  mansion  in  the 
county  of  Huntingdon.     The  king  too,   in  this 
perilous  crisis,  deserted  him,  and  dted  him,  along 
with  Peter  de  Rupibut,   Bishop  of  Winchester, 
and  others  who  had  been  in  power,  to  appear  forth- 
with at  court  in  order  to  answer  any  charge  re- 
garding the  wasting  of  the  public  treasure,  which 
might  be  preferred  against  them.    Some  of  those 
persons,  conscious  of  guilt,  fled  to  sanctuary,  and 
Stephen  de  Segrave  sought  an  asylum  in  the  abbey 
of  L^cester,  where  he  openly  declared  that  he  was 
and  ,had  been  a  priest,  and  that  he  resolved  to 
shave  his  crown  again  to  be  a  canon  of  that  house. 
Nevertheless  upon  second  thoughts,  he  braved  the 
storm,  and  appeared  at  court,  under   the  ardi- 
bishop's  protection ;  where  the  king  called  him  a 
wicked  traitor,  and  told  him  that  it  was  under  his 
advice  he  had  displaced  Hubert  de  Burgh  from 
the  <^ce  of  Justiciary,  and  cast  that  eminent  person 
into  prison ;  nay,  that  had  begone  the  fuU  length  of 
his  council,  Hubert  would  have  been  hanged,  and 
divers  of  the  nobility  banished.    In  twelve  months 
subsequently,  however,  Stephen  de  Segrave  made  his 
peace  by  paying  a  thousand  marks  to  the  king,  and  he 
afttrvrards  grew  again  into  such  ftvour,  that  in  the 
479 


9ltt  Of  Henry  III.,  he  was  Um  maani  otrttontXaag 
the  khag  with  some  of  his  roost  hostile  baiims. 
Subsequently  he  was  made  Justice  of  Cheater,  and 
the  king's  chief  ooundUor,  and  <«  being  now,t  says 
Dugdale,  <*  advanced  in  years,  deported  himsdf  by 
experience  of  former  times,  with  much  more  tem- 
per and  modcimflon,  than  heretofore."  This  ami- 
noit  peraon  married  two  wives— fiiat*  Roheae, 
daughter  of  Thomas  le  Despenser,  and  secondly, 
Ida,  sister  of  Henry  de  Hastings,  with  whom  he  had 
in  fnmk-manriage,  the  manor  of  Bmneswaver,  in 
the  county  of  Warwick.  Of  Stephen  de  Scgrvve, 
so  distinguished  in  the  reign  of  Henrf.IIL,  Mat- 
thew Paris,  thus  speaks— '•  This  Stephen,  though 
come  of  no  high  parentage,  was  in  his  youtili,  of  a 
dark  made  a  knight ;  and  in  his  latter  days,  through 
his  prudence  and  valour,  so  exalted,  ths^  he  had 
the  reputation  of  one  <^  the  chief  men  of  the  reafan, 
managing  the  greatest  allUrs  as  he  pleased.  In 
doing  whereof,  he  more  minded  his  own  profit, 
than  the  common  good;  yet  fbr  some  good  deeds, 
and  making  a  discreet  testament,  he  died  with 
much  honour."  He  departed  this  ]ifi»,  in  1941,  and 
was  «.  by  his  son, 

GILBERT  DB  SEGRAVE.  This  feudal  lord 
having  married  Annabil,  daughter  and  co-heir  of 
Robert  de  Chaucumbe,  obtained  a  giant.  In  the 
15th  Henry  IIL,  flnom  Simon  de  Montfort,  Lord  of 
Ldcester,  of  the  whole  town  of  K^worth,  In  the 
county  of  Ldoest^,  and  in  two  years  after,  had  a 
grant  from  the  crown,  of  the  manor  of  Newcastle- 
under-Lime,  in  the  county  of  Staflbrd;  being  the 
same  year  constituted  governor  of  Bolesover  Castle. 
In  the  96th  Henry  IIL,  he  was  made  Justice  of  aU 
the  royal  forests,  south  of  Trent,  and  governor  of 
Kenilworth  Castle;  In  the  38>th  of  the  same  reign* 
he  WW  oonstituted  <me  of  the  Justices  of  Qyer  and 
TsmriMsr,  in  the  city  of  London,  to  hear  and  deter* 
mine  all  such  causes,  as  had  usually  been  tried 
before  the  Justice  Itinerant,  at  the  Tower  of  Lon- 
don. But  in  three  years  aftarwards,  being  deputed, 
with  Roger  Bigod,  Earl  Marshal,  on  an  embassy, 
was  treadierously  seiaed,  (akmg  with  John  de  Plas- 
sets.  Earl  of  Warwidc,  and  divers  othen  of  the 
English  nobility,)  by  the  French,  as  he  was  return- 
ing, and  died  within  a  short  period,  of  the  severe 
treatment  he  had  received  in  prison.  His  decease 
occurred  somewhat  about  the  year  19M»  when  he 
was  •.  by  his  son, 

NICHOLAS  DE  SEGRAVE,  who,  in  tho  43rd 
Henry  IIL,  attended  that  monarch  into  Fmnce, 
but  soon  flufter  espoused  the  cause  of  the  bnrasia, 
and  became  one  of  the  most  active  leaders.  In  the 
ranks  of  those  turbulent  men.  In  the  47th  of 
Henry's  reign,  he  was  amongst  those  who  appeared 
openly  in  arms,  and  fortified  Northampton ;  tor 
which  proceeding,  his  lands  were  selaed  by  the 
crown.  Upon  the  subsequent  fall  of  Northamptan 
to  the  royalists,  Nidiolas  de  Segrave  fled  to  Lon- 
don, where  thedtiaens  having  raised  a  la^aanny 
for  the  barons,  made  him  their  goieral.  At  th» 
head  of  this  force,  he  marched  with  Gilbert  de 
Clare,  and  Henry  de  Hastings,  to  the  selge  of  Ro- 
chester, and  thence  to  Lewes,  at  which  plaoe^  tho 
celefarated  battle,  so  disastrous  to  the  king,  oom- 
menced,  by  a  chaigemade  by  Scgiave,  at  the  head  of 


SSG 


SEQ 


nrino*  Edward*  nhth  flmhad  with  nieoMt*  puniMd 
•liis  AdvMrtMpB  too  fittf  Slid  ttwM  nudDly  coptfilwtwl 
to  tho  dtltet  wbich  the  royal  anna  luttaiiMd. 
The  imie  of  this  battle  U  well  kaowiu  The  king, 
prinoe  Edwaid*  aad  the  diief  of  their  adheronta 
hecanoe  priionert  to  the  rehab,  who  foUowed  up 
th^  triumph,  by  immediately  lummoaing  a  par- 
UameiU  in  the  king's  name;  to  which  Nicholas 
de  Segmye  was  summoned  as  Baroh  SaoRAVs, 
OB  Mth  Deombor,  1964.  But  the  tide  soon 
^Ungf  he  was  amoDgst  the  dsAated  at  Evesham« 
where  he  was  wounded  and  made  prisootf.  He 
was*  however*  edmifted  to  the  beoeflt  of  the 
Dictum  de  Kenilworth*  aad  obtained  a  Aill  pardmi, 
with  restnatlon  of  his  lands,  which  had  been 
aciaecL  In  four  years  afterwards,  he  attended 
Prince  Edward  to  the  Holy  Land ;  aad  when  that 
prince  ascended  the  throne,  he  appears  to  have 
ci^oyed  a  large  share  of  royal  fkvour.  In  the  4th 
year  of  Edward's  reign,  he  was  with  the  king  in  a 
campaign  against  the  Wdsh  I  and  was  subsequently 
employed  in  Scotland  and  Irdand;  having  had  a 
second  summons  to  parliament,  on  the  Mth  June, 
UB&  His  lordship  im.  Maud  de  Lucy,  by  whom  he 
hediasue, 

JoHii,  his  sucoassor* 

Nicholas,  of  Barton,  summoned  to  parliament 
as  "Nicholas  de  Segrave,  jun.,"  flromi4th 
June,  li95,  to  20th  January,  U07»  tnd  as 
*<  Nicholas  de  Segrave,"  firom  thenoe  to  Sftth 
May,  lai.    His  lordship  left  an  only  daugh> 
ter  and  heireBs, 
Maud,  who  «••  Edmund  de  Bohun,  in 
whose  desosndants  aad  repressntatives 
this  Baboky  or  Sbobatb   is  now 
vested   (see  ScgsaTe,  of  Barton  Se- 
grave). 
Oeflbry,  sheriff  of  the  county  of  Leicester^  let 
Edward  IL 


Oilbert,  Bishop  of  London. 
Annabil,  fN.  to  John  de  Pleiseto,  son  of  Sir 
Hugh  de  Plessets,  Knt. 
His  lordship  A  in  1295,  and  ww  «.  by  his  eldest 


JOHN  DE  SEORAVE,  second  beron,  summoned 
to  parliament  from  86th  August,  1896,  to  6th  May, 
lasft.  This  nobleman,  in  the  life-time  of  his  father, 
having  been  taken  prisoner  in  the  wars  of  Scotland, 
(9lh  Edward  I.,)  obtained  ftom  the  king,  in  omsi- 
deration  of  his  services  there,  the  grant  of  one 
hundred  pounds  towards  the  liquidation  of  his  ran- 
som. He  was  subsequently  much  engaged  in  the 
Scottish  wars,  aad  in  the  24th  of  tlie  same  reign  was 
constaMe^of  the  English  srmy  in  that  country. 
The  next  year  lie  was  by  indenture  retained  to 
serve  Roger  le  Bigod,  Earl  of  Norfolk,  with  six 
knights,  himself  accounted,  as  well  in  time  of  peace 
aa  in  war,  t<n  the  term  of  his  whole  life,  in  Eng- 
land, Wales,  and  Scotland;  via.,  in  time  of  peace 
-with  six  hones,  so  long  as  the  earl  should  think  fit, 
taking  Bouche  of  Court  for  himself  aad  his  knighu, 
and  for  his  esquires,  hay  and  onto ;  as  also  livery 
for  six  more  horses,  and  wages  fiir  six^grooms  and 
their  hoi;pes;  likewise  for  himsetftwo  robes  yearly. 


aawdt  In  time  of  peace  as  war,  aa  fiir  a  hamKutt 
aad  finr  his  five  knights,  as  for  his  other  bachelors* 
via.,  two  yearly.  Moreover,  in  time  of  war  he  was 
bound  to  lariiig  with  him  his  five  knights  witili 
twenty  horses;  aad  in  consideration  thereof,  to  rar 
celve  fbr  hims^  and  his  company,  with  all  those 
horses,  focty  shillings  per  day,  but  if  he  should 
bring  no  more  than  six  horses,  then  thirty-two 
shillings:  it  being  likewise  egreed  that  the  horses 
should  be  valued,  to  the  and  that  a  Csir  allowanoe 
might  be  made  for  any  whidi  should  be  lost  in  the 
servlosL  For  the  performaaoe  of  this  covenant  he 
had  a  grant  of  the  manor  of  Loden^  in  the  county 
of  Norfolk. 

In  the  26th  of  Edward  I.  his  lordship  was  again  in 
Scotland^  aad  had  a  principal  command  at  the 
battle  of  Ffukirk.  In  three  years  after  he  obtained 
licence  to  make  a  castle  at  his  manor  house,  of 
Bmtteby,  in  the  county  of  Derby,  and  he  was 
next  constituted  govermr  of  Berwick*upon-Tweed 
as  also  wardon  of  Scotland.  Subsequently  we  find 
him  with  King  Edward  at  the  celebmted  siege  of 
Caerlaverok.  After  the  arcesslon  of  Edward  IL, 
he  was  «gain  made  warden  of  Scotland,  and  within 
a  short  time,  ettending  the  king  into  that  usual 
theatreof  war,  was  amongst  the  worsted  in  the  great 
defbatsustained  by  the  English  armsat  Bannockbum, 
and  was  made  prisoner  by  the  Scots,  who  detained 
him  for  a  year,  until  he  was  exchanged  for  Thomes 
de  Moram,  and  other  prisoners  of  that  realm,  who 
were  incarcerated  in  London.  His  lordship  even- 
tually lost  his  life  in  Gascony,  whither  he  was  sent 
by  the  king,  who  had  conceived  some  displeasure 
against  him,  for  the  escape  of  Roger  Mortimer  out 
of  the  Tower  of  London,  under  pretence  of  defend- 
ing those  parts,  with  Edmund,  Earl  of  Kent,  and 
others;  where,  being  a. great  mortality,  he  d.  anno 
UB&  His  knrdshipm.,  in  the  life-time  of  his  father, 
Christlen,  daughter  of  Sir  Hugh  de  PlesseU,  Knt., 
by  whom  be  had  issue, 

STaPBBX,  the  companion  in  arms  of  his  gal- 
lant father  in  the  Scottish  wars,  but  in  the 
18th  of  Edward  IL  one  of  the  partisans  of 
TlMnnas,  Earl  of  Lancaster ;  yet  submitting 
himadf,  he  obtained  his  pardon,  and,  16th 
Edward  11.,  was  made  constable  of  the  Tower 
of  London.  In  the  18th  of  Edward  he  at- 
tsnded  his  fkther  into  Oasoony,  and  there  d. 
before  him.  He  m.  Alice  de  Arundel,  and 
left  issuer 

John,  successor  to  his  grandfiither, 
Stephen. 
John  m.  Julian,  daughter  and  heir  of  John  de 
Saadwic.  and  d.  83rd  Edward  III.,  left  a 
daughter  and  heiress, 
Mary. 
Eleanor. 
Margaret. 

Alice.  1  .     h),\,^ 

Christian.  *=  -'"^    '' 
The  baron  was  «.  by  his  grandson, 

JOHN  DE  SEGRAVE,  third  baron,  summoned 
to  parliament  ftom  29th  November,  1336,  to  lAth 
November,  1361.  This  nobleman  appears,  like  his 
predecessors,  a  distinguished  personage  in  the  Add, 
during  his  oomperativdy  short  career  t  for  he  did 

477 


8BO 


6SO 


notHrmhtfeiadlM^tgBotaaxpf-^iif^  In  die  wan 
of  Fiance  and  Scotland,  temp.  Edward  III.,  he  took 
an  active  pert»  and  waa  more  than  ooce  retuned  to 
atrwe  the  king  by  indenture.  His  kmlehip  made  an 
illiutriouA  aUiance,  in  marrying  the  Lady  Maroa- 
nnr  PunrrAonvnT,  dau^ter^  and  erentually  lole 
heiivM  of  Thomai  de  Brotherton,  Earl  of  NorHolk, 
ilarvhal  of  England,  younger  son  of  King  Edward 
I. :  by  thii  lady  he  left,  at  his  decesse  in  1963,  an 
only  daughter  and  heiress, 

Bliaabetii,  who  espoused,  John  de  Mowbray, 
fourth-Baron  Mowbray,  and  had  issue, 
JoHw,  fifth    Lord  Mowbray,  who  was 
created   Earl  of  Nottingham,  but  4. 
soon  after  in  the  flower  of  his  youth, 
unmarried. 
Thomab,  dxth  Lord  Mowfari^y,  created 
after  the  decease  of  his  brother.  Earl 
of  Nottingham,  and  Duke  of  Norfolk, 
Earl  Marshal,  and  ILG^    His  grace  m* 
twice>  but  had  issue  by  his  second 
wiCs,    Elisabeth,  daughter  of  John, 
Lord  Strange,  of  Blackmere,  only,  yia. 
Thomab,  who  never  bore  the  title 
of  Duke  of  Norfolk,  but  was  do- 
nominated  simply.  Earl  Marshal} 
beheaded,  Oth  Henry  IV.,  and  4* 
without  issue. 
Thomas,  restored  to  the  Dulsedom 
of  Norfolk,  succeeded  in  1482  by 
his  son, 
John,  third  Duke  of  Norfiolk, 
li.  in  the  1st  Henry  IV.,  and 
was  «.  by  his  son, 

JoHW,   fburth    Duke    of 
Norfolk,  left,  at  his  do- 
cease,  an  only  dau^ter, 
AiTHC,  at  whose  de- 
cease,        without 
issue,  the  Barcmies 
of    Mowbray  and 
Sflgrave    reverted 
to  the  descendants 
of    the  daughters 
of   Thomas,    first 
duke. 
Margaret,  m.  to  Sir  Robert  Howard, 
from  whom  the  Howards,  Dukes 
of  Norfolk,  derive. 
Isabel,  m.  first,  to  Sir  Henry  Fenren, 
Kat.,  by  whom  she  had  an  only 
child,  Elisabeth,  m.  to  Edward 
Orey,  second  son  of  Reginald, 
Lord    Ovcy,  of   Ruthyn.     Her 
ladydiip  m.  secondly,  James,  fiftli 
Lord  Berkeley,  f^rom  whom  the 
extant  Earls  of  Berkdey  derive; 
Upon  the  decease,  issueless,  of  Lady  Anne  Mow- 
bray, only  daughter  and  heiress  of  his  Grace,  John 
Mowbray,  fourth  and  last  Duke  of  Norfolk,  of  that 
fiunily,  the  Barony  of  S«gnve  reverted  to  the  de- 
scendants of  the  two  daughters  of  Thomas  Mow- 
bray, first  Duke  of  Norfolk,  namely.  Lady  Mar- 
garet Howard,  and  Lady  Isabel  Berkeley,  and  fell 
into  ABSTANcn  amongst  thoi^  as  it  still  continues. 
The  repreicntotives  of  Lady  NaigueC  Howard 
478 


are  theprasent  Lonna  Pbtrb  Am  8revB- 
TOH,  the  representation  having  devolved,  at 
the  ileceMB  of  Edward  Howard,  ninth  Duke 
of  Norfolk,  upon  his  nieces,  (the  daughters 
and  co-heiresses  of  Philip  Howard,  Eaq.,  of 
Buckingham,  in  the  county  of  Norfolk,  hi* 
grace's  brother,)  namely, 

Winifred,  wifb  of  WiUiam,  fifteenth  Lord 
Stourton,  grandCather  of  the  present 
Loiu>  Stovrtok. 
Anne,  wifo    of    Robert-Edward,  ninth 
Lord  Petre,  grandfather  of  the  pressnl 
Lonn  Pbteji. 
The  representetive  of  Lady  Isabella  Berkeley 
is  the  preeent  Eau.  BnuKBLST. 
Anxa.*— Sa.  three  garbs,  ar.  tied,  gu. 

SEORA VE  —  BARON  SEORAVE,  OP 
BARTON  SEGRAVE,  IN 
THE  COUNTY  OF  NOR- 
THAMPTON. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  Mth  June,  U9B» 
98  Edward  L 

XIncagc. 

NICHOLAS  DE  SEGRAVE,  second  son  of 
NidudaB,  Lord  Segrave,  being  in  the  king's  service 
in  Gasoony,  was  summoned  to  parliament  as  a  ba- 
BOH  on  the  Mth  June,  U06.  His  lordship  was  soon 
after  in  the  wars  of  Scotland,  and  shared  in  the  vic- 
tory of  Faukirk.  In  the  33rd  Edward  I.  Lord 
Segmve,  whom  Matthew  Paris  calls  "  one  of  the 
most  worthy  knights  In  this  realm,"  being  accused 
of  treason  by  Sir  John  de  Crombwell,  Knight, 
challenged,  in  defence  of  his  innocence,  his  accuser 
to  single  combat,  aoooiding  to  the  custom  of  the 
period ;  but  the  king  not  giving  his  consent  to  the 
duel,  his  lordship  crossed  the  sea,  fimr  the  purpoee 
of  meeting  his  antagonist  without  the  realm. 
Having  done  so,  however,  unlicensed,  he  was  taken 
into  custody  upon  hb  return,  and  Immediately 
brought  to  triaL  The  aAir  punled  the  Judges, 
who  i^ere  at  a  loss  to  come  to  a  dedsian  i  however, 
after  three,  days'  consultation  they  declared  that  his 
lordship  dmerved  death,  and  that  all  his  goods 
should  be  confiscated:  yet  added,  that  in  rsgard 
he  departed  not  fk-om  England  in  any  afiBmnt  to  the 
king,  but  to  avenge  his  own  quarrel,  the  king  would 
do  wdl  to  pardon  him.  Edward  was  much  die- 
pleased  at  the  boldness  of  the  Judges,  who  seemed 
to  set  bounds  to  his  prerogative,  and  gave  them  a 
severe  reprimand.  But  he,  neverthelesi, 
Segrave,  and  restored  him  to  his  possessions  { 
ral  of  the  nobility  having  interceded  for  him,  and 
entered  into  security  for  his  ftiture  good  condnet. 

In  the  1st  Edward  II.  his  hndship  was  oonetltated 
governor  of  the  castle  at  Northampton,  and  nutfshal 
of  Bn^and,  and  in  four  years  after  he  oibtained 
licsnce  to  make  e  castle  of  his  manor  hoaae^  at 
Barton  Segrave. 

Upon  the  grant  of  the  marahaUiip  to  Lord 
Segrave,  much  enimosity  arose  between  him  and 
William  le  MasescfaaU;  which  ww  aUeyed,  how- 
ever, by  the  king's  tntarferencek  His  lordship  d.  In 
13ttr  leeviag  an  only  daughter  i 


BEY 


8IY 


llAVi>  8m«av«»  wte  Mk ntawddtBohwi, 
and  Ib  tterapnMDtctivet  of  thto  macriagt, 
<if  any  csUt.)  the  Baikonv  or  Sb«bats« 
of  B»taa-&tttm,  to  now  ▼«it«d. 
Abmc.— ^  ttarw  garbs,  ar.  ttad.  fib 

SEYMOUR  —  VISCOUNTS  BEAU- 
CHAMP,  OF  HACHE, 
EARLS  OF  HERTFORD, 
DUKES  OF  SOMERSET, 
MARQUESSES  OF  HERT- 
FORD,  BARONS  SEY- 
MOUR,  OF  TROW* 
BRIDGE. 


Viacouoty*    ^ 

Earldom, 

Dukedom, 

Marquiiate, 

Barony, 


l»yL«tttn 
Pataiit, 


r  5tb  June,  1590. 

18th  October,  1537. 

16th  February,  1547. 

3rd  June,  1640. 
^  19th  February*  1641. 


Xiiuagt. 


Of  thia  iuaSkf,  whkfa  dttivadlta  daaocnt  ftmn  Sir 
Roger  Seymour,  of  Eyenswhiden,  in  the  eonaty  of 
WilCa,  Kat.,  who  ta.  Cecilia,  one  of  the  akten  and 
oo-hebt  of  John,  Lord  Beauchamp,  of  Hadie,  waa 

SIR  JOHN  SEYMOUR,  of  Wolf  Hell,  WUti, 
Who.  in  the  9th  Henry  VIIL,  being  thn  one  of  die 
kni^taof  tibe  body  to  the  Ung.  obtalaed  a  grant 
of  the  oonatablewlck  of  Briatol  Caatle.  to  hlmaelf , 
and  Bdwwrd.  his  son,  in  aa  am^lk  manner  aa  Oilea, 
Lord  D*  Aubeney,  held  the  ame.    Sir  John  m.  EU- 
aabeth,  danghter  of  Sir  Hairy  Waatwortfa,  of  Net- 
tlaated.  In  the  county  of  Suflblk,  and  had  laaoe, 
EoWABO,  of  whom  praaently. 
Henry  (Sir),  K.B.,  wiioae  line  ia  extinct. 
TRO1IA0,  ofeated  Beron  Seymour,  of  Sudley. 
JAirji,  who  became  QmiMf  Contort  of  Kimg 
HairnT  ¥IIL,  and  waa  mothn  of  Bowakd 
VL 
BUaibeth.  m,  Snt,  to  Sir  Anthony  Ougfatied, 
Knt..  and  aeoottdly,  to  Qiegoi|,  Lord  Cioni. 
weiL 
Dovothy,  iM.  flrat,  to  Sir  Clement  Smith,  Knt, 
and  aeoondly,  to  Thomaa  LaTenthorpe,  Baq. 
Theeldeitaon. 

SIR  EDWARD  SEYMOUR,  waa  one  of  the 
eiO*w»  of  the  body  to  King  Henry  VIIL,  and 
iriien  hia  slater,  Jane,  (who  had  been  maid  of 
howMir  to  the  unhappy  Qvaaa  Anne  Boleyne,)  be> 
eaaaethe  wilb  of  hia  royal  maater,  hia  adTanoameat 
to  rank  and  Influence  waa  rapid  and  unltatrlcted. 
At  thennptialB,  (ttth  Haary  VIIL,)  he  was  elevated 
to  the  peeaage^  by  the  title  of  Vracooirr  BaAU- 
OMAMV,  qfHmOte,  and  appointed  in  two  days  altar- 
wardi  captain  of  the  Isle  of  Jersey.  Hia  fkther,  Sir 
J<4m  Seymour,  died  the  neat  year,  when  hia  lordship 
had  liycry  of  his  laadst  and  he  was  created,  by 
latteaa  patent,  dated  18th  October,  1537,  EAax.  of 
HaaTPoan,  with  remainder  to  hia  isaue  male  ^utO' 
^flor  to  be  begotten.  He  waa  next  conatltated  lord 
aaaAi*  ckambbblaik  of  BaeLAin>  /br  l</b,  and 
the  same  yeer  he  aooompanied  the  Dnke  of  Nor- 
folk. Ueuteoant.general'af  the  BngHah  army,  con- 
Hating  of  twenty  thoaaaadnMB,  Into  ScoUaad.    Hia 


lOffMdp*  dvriiv  the  raaalnderaf  thaiMga of  Ua 

biother-i»-law.  waa  ooastaatly  at^agad  in  the  wan 
ef  France;  and  upon  the  dsnfeaa  of  that  monarch, 
he  waa  dioaen  uaanimoualy  by  the  coiuidl,  Pao. 
TBCToa  to  the  yoang  king,  hte  nephew.  BnwAas 
VL,  and  withfca  a  month  constltated  I4»an  raaA* 
auaaa  of  Bwolaitd.  Not  pievioaaly  being  a 
baron  of  the  realm.  Mar  dignity,  under  thetitieof 
Barow  SaYMOUR,  waa  confened  upon  Urn  oa  the 
15th  Febmury,  1547,  end  he  waa  creatad  the  next 
day  DoxB  of  SoMaaaar.  both  honoun  In  veaaain- 
der  to  the  helra  male  of  hia  body,  by  Anne,  Ua 
second  wiib;  failing  which  to  *<  Sir  Edward  Sey- 
mour, son  oi  the  Earl  of  Hertftird,  by  Katherine. 
his  first  wife,  and  the  heirs  male  of  Sir  Edward 
Seymoi^  the  son."*  His  grace  was  immediately 
after  constitttted  barl  marbhal  of  Emoi.a«d  /br 
Uf»i  and  in  the  ensuing  March  he  obtained  a 
pateat  for  the  great  ofllce  of  Protbctor,  and  oo- 
▼BRKOR  of  the  king  and  rsahna.  On  the  Sid  No- 
▼ember  fbllowing  his  grace  had  aapedal  grant  that 
he  should  sit  alone,  and  be  placed  at  all  timea  (as 
well  In  the  king^  pnaance  in  padiamcBt,  aa  in  hia 
absence)  apon  the  middle  of  the  bench  or  stool, 
standing  next  on  the  right  hand  of  the  klng^  seat 
loyal.  In  hia  parliament  chamber.  In  the  flrst  year 
of  the  duke^s  administration  he  concluded  a  peace 
with  France^  directing  then  all  hia  attention  to 
brb^lng  about  a  marriage  between  Mary,  only 
dau^ter  and  heir  of  JAikna  V.,  of  Scotfamd,  end 
his  nephew,  the  En^ish  king.  But  thenegotiatioa 
proving  abortive^  he  subsequently  inyaded  Scot- 
land with  a  large  army,  and  Ibught  and  won  the 


e  This  singular  limitatloo  ia  copied  ftmn  the 
atatement  ia  page49,  of  the  Third  General  Report 
of  the  Lords  Committee  to  seaidi  tor  Documents 
rdatlTe  to  the  Dignity  of  a  Peer  of  the  Realm,  to 
whidi  is  added,  the  following  remark  on  the  effect 
of  the  attainder  of  the  said  duke  on  the  desoend- 
ents  of  Sir  Edward  Seymour,  hia  soBf— *'The 
attainder  of  the  Duke  of  Somerset,  his  fbther,  and 
farfeltuxe  of  his  dignities,  by  act  of  pariiament,  of 
the  5th  and  6th  Edward  VL,  did  not  aflbct  the  dig- 
nity of  the  Duke  of  Somerset  granted  to  Sir  Ed- 
ward Seymour,  and  the  hdra^male  of  hia  body.  By 
the  terma  of  the  grant,  that  dignity  had  Tested,  im- 
mediately alter  the  patent  pasaed  the  great  seal,  in 
Sir  Edward^Seymonr,  with  limitation  to  the  heirs 
male  of  Ma*  body,  though  the  actoal  enjoyment  of 
it  by  Sir  Edward,  and  the  heirs  male  of  his  body, 
was  made  to  depend  on  the  fhUure  of  hein  male  of 
the  body  ofhisfbthcr  by  his  second  wifb;  and  it  ia 
confldflDtly  affirmed,  that  on  the  extinction  €it  the 
hdxa  male  of  the  Duke  of  Somerset  by  his  second 
wife,  that  dukedom  would  haTe  devolved  on  the 
heirs  male  of  Sir  Edward  Seymour,  above-men- 
tioned, even  had  not  the  act  of  restotatlon,  in  166D, 
taken  place.  "  because,  so  fir  aa  the  said  limitation 
was  In  question,  it  wanted  no  such  act  for  its  pre- 
servation.'* As  the  Barony  of  Seymour  was  granted 
with  the  same  limitation,  the  preceding  observa- 
tions prove  that  it  would  have  descended  in  a 
shnilar  manner  to  the  Dukedom  of  SomerseL'*— 

NIOOLA8* 


SEY 


S£V 


cefebrmtod  teCtle  of  UvsBWLwnoa,  chiefly  by  Mt 
own  courage  and  conduct.  Thus  having  traced  the 
rise  of  this  eminent  penon,  it  now  temaina  for  ua 
briefly  to  narrate  hia  ML  Exciting  by  hia  extra- 
ordinary proaperity  the  envy  of  hia  contemporariea« 
and  incurring  by  hia  barbaroua  treatment  of  his 
brother*  Lord  Seymour,  of  Sudley,  the  hoatility  of 
the  people,  it  required  no  great  eflbrt  to  hurl  liim 
turn  hia  giddy  pre-eminence;  and  when  he  did  fall 
the  recoUeetiou  of  hia  having  aigned  the  death- 
warrant  of  hia  own  brother,  deprived  him  ot  much 
public  aympathy.  The  moment  he  affixed  his  sig- 
nature to  tliat  deed  of  ftatricide  liis  own  do<Hn  waa 
aigned  t  and  it  was  generally  observed,  that  with 
his  left  hand  he  iiad  cut  off  hia  right.  Persons  of 
his  own  rank  designated  him  a  blood-sucker  and 
murderer,  and  dedaced  aloud,  tliat  it  waa  unfit  that 
the  king  should  remain  under  the  protection  of  so 
rsvenous  a  wolf.  "  Besides,"  (Sir  William  Dug- 
dale  writes,)  ■<  many  well  disposed  minds  con- 
ceived a  very  hard  opinion  of  him,  for  causing  a 
church  near  Strand  bridge,  and  two  bishop's  houses, 
to  be  pulled  down,  to  make  a  rite  for  his  new  build- 
ing, called  SoMxmarr  Housx,  in  digging  the  foun- 
dation whereof  the  Ixmes  of  many,  who  had  been 
there  buried,  were  cast  up,  and  carried  into  the 
fldda.  And  because  the  stones  of  that  church  and 
thoae  houses  were  not  sufficient  for  tluit  work,  the 
steeple,  and  moat  part  of  the  church  of  ST.  John  of 
Hierusalem,  near  Smithfield,  were  mined  and  over- 
thrown with  powder,  and  the  stones  carried  thereto. 
So  likewise  the  chaster  on  the  north  side  of  St. 
Paul's  Cathedralt  and  the  chamel  house  on  the 
south  side  thereofj  with  the  chapd,  the  tombes  and 
monuments  therein  being  all  beaten  down,  the 
bones  of  the  dead  carried  into  Flnsbury  fields,  and 
the  stones  converted  to  this  building:  and  it  was 
confidently  affirmed,  that  for  the  same  purpose  he 
intended  to  have  puUed  down  St,  Margarets  ehurch, 
at  Westminster,  but  thM  the  standing  thereof  was 
preserved  by  his  fall.'*  The  duke^s  great  rival  and 
most  bitter  foe  was  John  Dudley,  Viscount  L'Isle, 
afterwards  Earl  of  Warwick  and  Duke  of  Northum- 
berland. This  nobleman,  obaerving  the  gathering 
storm  around  the  Pbotbctor,  availed  himadf  of 
it,  and  retired  from  court,  accompanied  by  dghteen 
other  influential  members  of  the  privy  coundL  A 
course  of  proceedings  ensued  whidi  compelled 
Somerset  to  remove  the  king  from  Hampton  Court 
to  Windsor,  and  finally  terminated  In  placing  the 
Protcotoh  himself  at  the  mercy  of  his  enemiei. 
His  grace  was  brought  from  Windsor,  a  prisoner, 
to  London,  and  conducted  on  horseback  through 
Hollxnn,  between  the  Earls  of  Southampton  and 
Huntingdon,  followed  by  lords  and  gentlemen  to 
the  number  of  three  hundred,  all  on  horseback,  to 
the  Tower ;  where  he  was  afterwards  waited  upon 
by  certain  lords  of  the  coundl,  who  laid  before  him 
a  list  of  twenty-eight  articles  of  impeachment,  to 
which  they  required  hia  immediate  answer.  To 
these  Somerset  waa  induced  to  subscribe  with  his 
own  hand  an  acknowledgment  of  guilt,  and  to  ofller 
at  the  same  time  to  sue,  upon  his  knees,  to  the  lUng 
for  pardon.  This  humble  bearing  saved  his  life; 
but  he  was  stripped  of  his  great  offices  of  protbc^ 

TOB,  TRXA8UBCB,  BUd  MARSHAL,  lOSt  all  hiS  g00ds» 

48Q 


8&d  neaily  two  thousand  pounds  to  tands.-  Subse- 
quently working  by  the  most  ti^eet  submission 
upon  the  fMiugs  of  the  king,  he  was  releaaed  tnm. 
his  imprisonment,  his  fines  remitted,  and  his  lands, 
save  those  which  had  been  given  away,  restored. 
Within  a  short  interval,  too,  he  was  feasted  by 
the  king,  with  a  great  shew  of  favour,  and  resworn 
of  the  privy  council.  A  recondliation  was  likewise 
eilbcted  between  him  and  Dudley,  who  had  become 
Earl  of  Warwick,  and  his  grace's  daughter  was  mar- 
ried to  the  earl's  son  and  heir,  Lord  L'Isle.  But  this 
alliance  was  found  to  be  no  cement  to  the  new-born 
friendship,  nor  was  it  suffldently  strong'  to  preserve 
even  the  semUanoe  of  good  fMing  between  the 
rival  noblemen.  Somerset  waa  aoon  after  accused 
of  meditating  the  aasaaslnatlon  of  Warwick,  who 
waa  then  Duke  of  Northumberland,  and  being  com- 
mitted, with  his  duchess,  to  tiie  Tower,  waa 
arraigned  at  Westminster  Hall  on  the  1st  December, 
1551,  before  the  Marquess  of  Winchester,  then  lord 
treasurer,  as  high  steward  for  the  occasion,  and 
twenty-seven  other  peers,  on  five  distinct  chargea, 
vis. 

1.  Of  raising  men  in  the  northern  parts  of  the 

realm. 

2,  Of  assembling  men  to  kill  the  Duke  of  Nor- 

thumberland. 
&  Of  resisting  his  attadmient. 
4.  Of  killing  thegvfwd'armM,  and  raising  London. 
&  Of  assaiilring  the  lords,  and  devisiBg  their 
deatha. 
To  which  he  pleaded  not  guilty,  and  was  eventually 
acquitted  of  high  treeeon,  but  convicted  of  felony, 
whereupon  he  had  Judgment  to  be  hanged:  » 
sentence,  whidi  most  of  our  historians  say,  he 
might  have  avoided  by  praying  the  benefit  of  hia 
clergy,  but  upon  a  doser  inquiry  it  will  be  found, 
that  he  waa  thus  condemned  under  a  spedfic  statute 
then  in  force,  which  made  the  conspiring  the  death 
of  a  privy  councillor  felony,  without  the  benefit  of 
clergy.  After  conviction  he  was  detained  nearly  two 
montiis  in  prison,  when  he  was  at  length  brought  to 
the  Bcaflbld  on  Tower  Hill,  82nd  January,  1508,  and 
bdng  attainted  his  honoubs  weresupposed  to  have 
become  forvritsd.  Amongst  his  grace's  other 
dignities  jre  had  neglected  to  state  that  he  was  a 
Khioht  of  thr  Oabtrr«  The  duk^s  diaracter 
difhted  entirely  from  that  of  his  brother,  Thomaa, 
Lord  Seymour,  of  Sudley.  Dugdale  says,  **  that 
Thomas  was  a  person  of  great  courage,  courtly  in 
faahion,  in  personage  stately,  In  voice  magnificent, 
but  wNnewhat  empty  in  matter.  The  duke  greatest 
in  favour  with  the  pec^le;  Sudley  moat  respected 
by  the  nobility ;  both  highly  esteemed  by  the  king ; 
both  fortunate  alike  in  their  advancements;  both 
ruined  alike  l>y  their  own  vanity  and  folly.  Both  so 
well  affected  to  the  king,  that  the  one  might  wdl  be 
termed  his  sword,  the  other  his  target.**  His  grace 
m.  first,  Katherine»  daughter  and  oo-hev  of  Sir 
William  FiUol,  of  Woodlands,  In  the  county  of 
Dorset,  and  had  issue, 

Edward  (Sir),  of  Berry  Pomeroy,  firom  whom 
descended  Francis  Seymour,  created  Lord  . 
Conway,  ancestor  of  the  extant  Marquesses 
of  Hertford;   and  Sir  Edward  Seymour, 
Baru.  who  suooeeded  §»  eighth  Duke  o£ 


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John  (Sir). 
The  duke  espouied.  secondly,  Anne,  daughter  and 
heir  of  Six  Edward  Stanhope*  Knt,  of  SheUbrd,  in 
Che  county  ot  Notts,  (by  EUaabeth,  hie  wife,  great 
grand-daughter  ot  WilUwn  Bourchtar,  Earl  of  Ewe, 
in  Nonnandy,  by  Anne,  his  wife,  daughter*  nd  at 
length  sole  heir,  of  Thomae,  of  Woodstock,  Duke 
of  Gloucester,  youngest  son  of  Edward  IIL)  By 
this  lady  he  had 

EnwABDj    created    Baron    Beanchainp*    of 

Hache»  and  Earl  of  Hertford. 
Anne,  at,  first,  to  John  Dudley,  commonly 
called  Earl  of  Warwick,  eldeet  son  of  John, 
Dokeof  Northumbedand,  and  seoondly,  to 
Sir  Edward  Umpton,  ILB. 

JJ^**"**  J  A  unmarried. 

Mary,  m.  first,  to  Andrew  Rogers,  Esq.,  ddest 
son  of  Sir  Richard  Rogers,  Knt.,  of  Brian- 
ston,  in  the  county  of  Dorset,  and  secondly, 
to  Sir  Henry  Pay  ton,  Knt. 

Katberin^  d.  unmarried. 

Elisabeth,  au  to  Sir  Richard  Knlghtley,  KnL 
The  only  son  of  the  attainted  duke,  by  his  second 

wife, 

SIR  EDWARD  SEYMOUR,  upon  whom  the 
chief  honours  of  his  father  were  eepedaUy  en- 
tailed, was  created,  by  Queen  Elisabeth,  by  letters 
patent,    dated  ISth  January,  Ufi0,  Baron  Beou- 
cAomp,    qf  Hodbe,    and  Eabi«  or    UanTroao. 
This  nobleman  incurred  subsequently  the  displea- 
sure of  the  queen,  by  marrying  without  her  con- 
sent the  Lady  Catherine  Grey,  daughter  of  Henry, 
Duke  of  Suflblk,  for  which  oflfence  he  had  to  pay 
a  fine  of  five  thousand  pounds,   and   to  endure 
nine  years'  incarceration;  while  the  unhappy  lady, 
being  also  committed  to  the  Tower,  wee  only  re- 
leased by  death.     The  validity  of  this  marriage 
was  finally  established   at   common  law,  by  the 
Tcrdict  of  a  Jury,  of  which  J(dm  Digby,  Esq.,  of 
ColeshiU,  was  foreman.    By  this  lady  his  lordship 
had  three  sons  and  one  daughter,  vis. 
h  EnwARD,  Xomt  Beawdk«Mf»,  who*  in  the  6th 
of  James  L,  obtained  letters  patent,  that 
himself  and  the  heirs  male  of  his  body, 
after  the  deoeme  of  his  Csther,  should  be 
herons  of  parliament,  and  have  place  and 
voice  therein.  And  also  letters  patent  for  the 
e^)oymentof  the  Earldom  of  Hertford  after 
hU  said  father's  deceeseu    His  tordship  died 
however  before  that  nobleman.    He  m.  Ho- 
nora*  daughter  ^of  Sir  Richard  Rogan,  of 
Bryanston,  in  the  county  of  Dorset,  and  had 
issue, 

Edward,  who  m.  Anne,  daughter  of  Ro- 
bert, Earl  of  Dorset,  and  d.  before  his 
grsndHsther. 
WiLifiAJt  (Sir),  sncoassor  to  his  grand- 

Csther. 
FmAKcia  (Sir),  created  19th  February, 
1641,  Babok  Sbymoub,  qf  TrowMdge, 
in  the  county  of  WUts.    Hie  lordship 
m.  first*  Frances,  daughter  and  heir 


of  BIr  Gilbert  ftlnne.  Of  AlUagtoo, 
WUti,  and  had  iasue, 
FbahciA,  his  successor. 
Frances,  fn.  to  Sir  William  Ducieu 
Lord  Seymour  of  Tiowbridgeespdused, 
seoondly,  Catharine,  daughter  of  Sir 
JUibert  Lee,  but  had  no  ies)^    He  <(. 
in  1684,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

CBABLsa,  second  Lord  Seymour, 
of  Taowbridge,  who  M.  first, 
Mary,  daughter  and  sole  heir  of 
Thomas  Smith,  Esq.,  of  Foley, 
by    iHiom    he    had    surviving 


Catherine,  d.  unmarried. 

Fianoes,  ek  to  Sir  George  Hun* 
garford,  Bart* 
His  lordship  espoused,  secondly, 
Elisabeth,  daughter  of  William, 
Lord  Allington,  and  had 


He  d.  in  1665,  and  ww  e.  by  his 
elder  son, 
FBAircia,  third  Lord  Trowbridge, 
who  inherited  as  fifth  Dmu  o9 
SojtBdaBT. 
&  Thomas,  m.  to  Isabel,  daughter  ot  Edward 
Onley,  Esq.,  of  Catesby,  in  the  county  of 
Northampton,  and  died  «.  p. 
3.  Edward. 

1.  Catherine,  who  d.  young. 
The  eerl  espoused,  secondly,  Frances,  sister  to 
Charles,  Earl  of  Nottingham,  and  thirdly.  Prances, 
daughter  of  Thomas,  Viscount  Howard  of  Bindcm, 
but  had  issue  by  neither.  He  d.  at  an  advanced 
age  in  16B1,  end  was«.  by  his  grandson, 

SIR  WILLIAM  SEYMOUR,  second  Earl  of 
Hertford,  who  wes  cnated  3d  Junok  1640,  Mab- 
guBae  or  Hbrttobo.  He  had  previously  incurred 
the  displeasure  of  King  Jambb  I.,  by  marrying 
without  his  mi^asty's  consent,  Arabella  Stewart,  for 
which  himself  and  his  wife  were  committed  to  the 
Tower  {  whence  his  lordship  found  meens  to  escspe, 
end  pessed  beyond  sea.  But  the  unhappy  lady 
remained  a  prisoner  until  her  dwieeset  The  mar« 
qness,  during  the  dvil  wars,  continued  faithAilly 
attached  to  the  royal  cause,  and  upon  the  restom- 
tion  ot  the  monarchy  was  made  a  Kwiobt  or  tbb 
Gabtbb,  and  restored  in  1680,  by  special  act  of 
parliament,  to  the  Dukbdom  or  Sombbbbt,  with 
aU  the  privi^ges  ss  fully  and  amply,  as  though 
the  attainder  of  the  Protector  Sombbbbt  had  never 
occurred.  The  duke  m.  seoondly.  Lady  Frances 
Devereux,  daughter  of  Robert,  Earl  of  Essex,  and 
hadlwue, 

WiUlMtt,  "I  ^y^  ,^,j  ^  unmanled. 
Robert,    j 

Henry,  who  m.  Mary,  daughter  of  Arthur, 
Lord  Capen,  and  dying  in  his  father's  lifo- 
time,  left 

William,  successor  to  his  grandfather. 
Elisabeth,  who  had  a  warrant  flrom  King 
Charles  U.,  conferring  upon  her  the 
rank  and  precedency  of  a  dukcTs  daugh- 
ter.   Her  ladyship  ai.  Thomas,  Lord 
3Q  4ai 


8EY 


SEY 


Bnice»  afterwardt  Earl  of  AiUlmry.  to 
whom,  as  hnr  of  her  brothor,  the  Duke 
of  Somenetf  alie  bnmght  •  omsider- 
able  estate. 
JoRif »  who  9.  his  nephew  as  Duke  of  Somerset. 
Arabella*  d.  unmarried. 
Franca,    m.    first,    to    Richard,    Viscount 
Molyneaux;  secondly,  to  Thomas,  Earl  of 
Southampton,  Lord  Treasurer;  and  thirdly, 
to  Conyers  Darcy,  son  and  heir  of  Conyers, 
LmdDarcy. 
Mary,  m.  to  Heneage,  Earl  of  Wincfaelsea. 
Jane,  fM.  to  Charles,  Lord  Clilford,  of  Lanes- 
borough,  son  of  Richard,  Earl  of  Burling- 
ton. 
His  grace  d,  in  1660,  and  was  «.  by  his  grandson, 

WILLIAM  SEYMOUR,  third  Duke  of  Somerset 
This  nobleman  d.  in  minority,  unmarried,  in  1671« 
when  his  estates  devolved  upon  his  sister.  Lady 
Elisabeth  Seymour,  whofn.  Thomas,  second  Earl 
of  Ailsbury,  and  his -honours  reverted  to  his  uncle, 
JOHN  SEYMOUR,  as  fourth  Duke  of  SomerBet. 
His  grace  fii.  Sarah,  daughter  of  Sir  Edward  Alston, 
Knt.,  but  died  «.  p.  in  1675,  when  the  MABguiaATi 
or  HcRTFoan  became  kxtinct,  but  the  other 
honours  devolved  upon  his  cousin  (refer  to  Francis, 
third  son  of  Edward,  Lord  Beaudiamp,  eldest  aon 
of  Sir  Edward  Seymour,  son  and  successor  of  the 
Protxctor). 

FRANCIS  SEYMOUR,  third  Lord  Seymour, 
of  Trowbridge,  aa  fifth  Duke  of  Somerset.  This 
nobleman  did  not,  however,  long  eqjoy  his  eleva- 
tion. In  his  travds  in  Italy  visiting  the  church  of 
the  Augustinians,  at  Lerioe,  with  some  French 
gentlemen,  his  grace  or  one  of  his  party  was  said  to 
have  insulted  in  the  church  tome  ladies  of  the 
fSimily  of  Bottl,  for  which  supposed  aflOront  he 
was  shot  dead  tyy  Horatio  Botti,  husband  to  one 
of  the  ladies,  at  his  inn  door,  (April,  1678,)  when, 
dying  unmarried,  his  honours  devolved  upon  his 
brother, 

CHARLES  SEYMOUR,  sixth  Duke  of  Somerset. 
This  nobleman  was  made  a  Knight  of  the  Garter 
by  King  Charles  II.,  and  was  of  the  privy  council 
to  King  James  XL  He  was  subsequently,  however, 
a  promoter  of  the  revolution,  and  in  the  reign  of 
William,  was  constituted  president  of  the  coundL 
His  grace  was  one  of  the  commissioners  for  the 
union  with  Scotland,  temp.  Queen  Anne,  and  upon 
the  accession  of  King  George  I.,  he  was  sworn  of 
the  privy  council,  and  appointed  master  of  the 
horse^  His  grace  espoused,  first,  Laify  Joc>i.inx 
Pbrcy,  only  daughter  of  Josceline,  eleventh  Earl 
of  Northumberland,  K.G.,  and  the  orxat  hxirxss 
of  the  illustrious  house  of  Fxbcy,  by  whom  he 
had  issue, 

Alobrnom,  his  successor* 

l?f^»     l<f.  unmarried. 
Charles,  j 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  Henry  O'Brien,  Earl  of  Tho- 
mond,  and  died  «.  p. 

Catherine,  m.  to  Sir  William  Wyndham,  and 
hm  eldest  son.  Sir  Charles  Wyndham,  suc- 
ceeded his  uncle,  the  Duke  of  Somerset,  as 
Earl  of  Egremont. 

Frances,  tf.  unmanried. 

4A> 


Anne,  m.  to  Peregrine  Oaboni,  Vatqueaa  of 

Carmarthen,  and  afterwarda  Duke  of  Leeds. 

The  duke  m.  secondly,   Charlotte,   daughter   of 

Daniel,  Earl  of  Winchelsca,  and  had  two  drnagh- 

ters, 

Frances,  m.  to  John  Manitbrs,  the  esleftra#ad 
Marquess  of  Granby,  and  was  mother  of 
Charhs,  fourth  Dnkc  ot  Rutland. 
Charlotte,  m.  to  Heneage  Finch,  Earl  of  Aylea- 
fbrd. 
His  grace  dL  in  1748,  and  was  s.  by  his  eldest  son, 

ALGERNON  SEYMOUR,  seventh  Duke  of 
Somerset,  commonly  called  the  Proud  Duke  of 
Somerset.  This  nobleman  m,  Frapces,  daughter  of 
Henry,  son  of  Thomas  Thynne,  Viscount  Wey- 
mouUi,  by  whom  he  had  a  son,  Gborob,  who  died 
in  the  life>time  of  his  grandlkther  and  llsther,  and  a 
daughter, 

Elicabbth,  who  m.  Sir  Hugh  Smitheon, 
Baronet,  afterwards  Duke  of  Northumber- 
land. 
Upon  the  decease  of  his  mother,  in  1792,  his  grace 
was  summoned  no  parliament,  as  Barow  Psrct  s 
and  he  was  created,  9nd  October,  1749,  Baron  Wark- 
worth,.of  Wark worth  Caatle,  and  Earl  of  North- 
umberland, with  remainder,  fidling  his  own  male 
issue,  to  his  son-in-law.  Sir  Hugh  Smithson,  Ba- 
ronet, and  his  male  heirs,  by  the  Lady  Elisabeth, 
his  wife)  in  deCault  of  which,  the  dignities  of  Ba- 
roness Warkworth  and  Countess  of  Northumber- 
land, to  the  sidd  Lady  Elisabeth  and  her  heirs  male. 
He  was  further  created  the  next  day,  Baron  Cock- 
ermouth,  and  Earl  of  Egremont,  both  in  the 
county  of  Cumberland,  with  remainder,  fidling  his 
issue  male,  to  his  nephew.  Sir  Chvles  Wyndham, 
Banmet,  by  Katharine,  his  sister,  and  his  issue 
male;  failure  of  which,  to  Percy  Wyndham,  (who 
assumed  the  name  of  O'Brjren,  and  was  created 
Earl  of  Thomond,  in  Irdand,)  brother  of  the  said 
Sir  Willism,  Wyndham,  and  his  issue  male.  CAnr/^ 

The  duke  died  in  1790,  when  the  DmcxiMU  Or- 
SonBRSXT  devolved  on  Sir  Edward  Seymour,  Ba- 
ronet, (the  descendant  of  Sir  Edward  Seymour,  of 
Berry  Pomeroy,  elder  son  of  the  Protbctor  So- 
merset, by  his  first  wife,)  as  btohth  duxb,  the 
grsndfSsther  of  Edward-Adolphua,  present  Dtdceof 
SomerBec  The  Earldoms  of  Northumberland  andl 
Egremont  passed  according  to  the  patents,  while 
the  Earldom  of  Hbrbford,  Viac^uirrT  ow 
Bbavcham p,  and  Baroky  op  SBTJtotm,  «if  Tbco- 
bridge,  became  Extikct. 

Arms.— Quarterly,  first  and  fourth  or.  on  a  pile 
gules  between  six  fleur-de-lis,  as.  three  lions  of 
England,  (being  the  coat  of  augmentation,  granted 
by  Henry  VIIL,  on  his  mluriage  with  Jane  Sey- 
mour,) second  and  third  gu.  two  wings  conjoined  in 
lure,  tips  downwards,  or. 

SEYMOUR— BARONS  SEYMOUR,  OF 
TROWBRIDGE. 

By  Letters  Patent,  idated  19th  r^bmary,  1641. 

Refer  to  Sbtmour,  VUeounu  Beemtkampt/Ikuket 


SHE 


SHE 


SEYMOUR^BARON  SEYMOUR,  OF 
SUDLEY. 

By  Letten  Patent,  dated  16th  Fetoiuxy*  1M7. 

SIR  THOMAS  SEYMOUR,  brother  of  the  cele- 
brated PaoTBGTOB  Somenet.  and  of  Jane  Sey- 
mour, Queen  Coneortof  Henry  VHI..  wae  elevated 
to  the  peerage  by  King  Edward  VI..  16th  February. 
1M7.  aa  B^moK  Sbymoub.  ^  SudUv,  in  Me  eountif 
<^  GUmeetter,  His  Ixirdahip  wae  lord  high  admiral 
of  England,  and  a  privy  ooundllor.  He  eepouied 
the  QucBN  Dowagtr,  Katherine  (Parr),  who  d,  in 
child-bed,  in  Snd  of  Edward  VI.  Hte  lordship,  in 
the  reign  of  his  brother-in-law.  had  distinguished 
himself  in  anna,  and  was  esteemed  a  penon  of  lofty 
bearing,  but  turbulent,  fleroe,  and  ambitious. 
Conspiring  egainst  the  power  of  his  brother  the 
paoTCCTOB,  and  paying  court  to  the  Ladtt  Ejuisa- 
BXTH.  daughter  of  King  Hbkby  VIIL.  with  whom 
he  was  upon  the  point  of  contracting  a  private  mar- 
riage, he  was  committed  to  the  Tower  by  parlia- 
ment, and  condemned  without  any  form  of  triaL 
The  parliament  was  soon  after  dissolved,  and  his 
lordship  was  bdieaded  on  the  6th  day  succeeding, 
under  the  warrant  of  his  brother,  the  Duke  of 
Somerset.  Dying  without  issue,  the  Babony  of 
Sbymoub.  <^  8udle^,  would  have  become  bxtiitct. 
had  it  not  lUlen  under  the  attainsbb. 

Abmb.— Same  aa  Seymour^  Viscounts  Beauchamp 
of  Hacheb  Ac. 

SHAUNDE— EARL  OF  BATH. 
By  Letters  Patent,  dated  6th  January,  1485. 

Xintagc. 

PHILIBERT  DE  8HAUNDE.  a  native  of  Brl- 
tanny,  having  promoted  the  cause  of  the  Earl  of 
Richmond,  was  raised  to  the  peerage  of  England, 
by  that  personage,  after  he  had  ascended  the  throne 
aa  Henry  Vll..  In  the  dignity  of  Eabl  of  Bath. 
by  letters  patent,  dated  6th  Jannary.  1486.  but  of 
hk  lordship  or  fiunlly  nothing  ftirther  is  known. 

Anna.— Ar.  on  a  croes  sa.  a  leopard's  head  or. 

SHEFFIELD— BARONS  SHEFFIELD, 
OF  BUTTERWICKE,  IN 
THE  COUNTY  OF  LIN- 
COLN, EARLS  OF  MUL- 
GRAVE,  MARQUESSES 
OF  NORMANBY,  DUKES 
OF  NORMANBY,  DUKES 
OF  BUCKINGHAM. 


Barony. 
Earldom. 
Marquisate, 
Dukedom  of 
Normanby. 
Dukedom  of 
Buckingham.  ^ 


.  by  Letters 
Patent. 


'  16th  February.  1647. 
7th  February,  1698. 
10th  May.  16M. 

9th  March.  1703. 

83rd  March.  1709L 


ICincasc. 

The  family  of  Sheffield  atUined  importance  so 
early  as  the  reign  of  Henry  IIL.  when 


SIR  ROBERT  SHEFFIELD.  Knt.  flourished. 
He  was  «.  by  his  son. 

ROBERT  SHEFFIELD,  who  m.  Anne,  daughter 
and  co-beirees  of  Sir  Simon  Goure,  and  was  s.  by 
hisson. 

SIR  ROBERT  SHEFFIELD,  who  m.  Genette. 
eldest  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Alexander  Lownde. 
of  Butterwike.  in  the  county  of  Lincoln,  and  thus 
became  poesessed  of  that  lordship.  From  this  Sir 
Robert  descended 

SIR  ROBERT  SHEFFIELD,  who.  hi  the  9nd 
of  Henry  VII..  was  one  of  the  commanders  in  the 
royal  army,  against  John.  Earl  of  Lincoln,  and  his 
adherents,  at  the  battle  of  Stokei  Sir  Robert  was 
afterwards  speaker  of  the  House  of  Commons,  and 
recorder  of  London.  He  m.  Helen,  daughter  and 
heiress  .of  Sir  John  Delves.  KnL.  and  was  s.  by  his 
son. 

SIR  ROBERT  SHEFFIELD,  of  Butterwike, 
who  m.  Margaret,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Zouche.  of 
Codnor.  and  left  a  son. 

EDMUND  SHEFFIELD,  who  was  advanced  to 
the  peerage,  on  the  16th  February.  1M7,  (two  days 
before  the  coronation  of  King  Edward  Vlth.)  in  the 
dignity  of  Baron  Shifpibld,  cf  Butterwike,  in 
Me  cotm<|f  <tr  L^neoin.  The  next  year,  his  lordship 
having  accompanied  the  Marquess  of  Northampton, 
to  suppress  the  rebdlion  of  Ket,  in  N<»foIk,  lost 
his  life  in  the  conflict.  He  had  m.  the  lady  Anne 
Vere.  daughter  of  John.  Earl  of  Oxfbrd.  and  left 
issue. 

John,  his  successor. 

Frances,  m.  to Metham,  Esq. 

Eleanor,  m,  to  Densd  Holies.  Esq..    second 
son  of  Sir  William  Holies.  Knt.  of  Hough- 
ton, in  the  county  of  Notts. 
Elisabeth. 
His  lordkhip  was  «.  by  his  son. 

JOHN  SHEFFIELD,  second  Baron  Sheffield 
This  nobleman  m.  Douglas,  daughter  of  William. 
Lord  Howard,  of  Effingham,  by  whom  (who  es- 
poused, secondly.  Dudley.  Earl  of  Leicester)  he 
had  issue, 

Edmukd.  his  successor. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Thomas.  Earl  of  Ormonde. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1560,  and  was  «.  by  his  son. 

EDMUND  SHEFFIELD,  third  baron.  This 
nobleman  distinguished  himself  in  arms,  in  the 
reign  of  Queen  Elisabeth,  particularly  in  the  cde* 
brated  defeat  of  the  formidable  armada.  He  was 
subsequently  made  govonor  of  the  Brill,  and  in 
the  same  reign,  a  Knight  of  the  Garter.  By  King 
James  I.,  his  lordship  was  constituted  president  of 
the  council,  for  the  northern  parts  of  the  realm ; 
and  created  by  the  succeeding  monarch,  on  7th 
February,  1696,  Eari.  op  Muloravb.  He  m.  first. 
UrsuU,  daughter  of  Sir  Robert  Tirwhit.  of  KetUby. 
in  the  county  of  Lincoln,  and  had  no  less  than  flif- 
teen  children,  of  whom.  Charles,  d.  unmarried,  in 
the  life-time  of  his  father. 

JoBN  (Sir),  m.  Griseld,  daughter  of  Sir  Ed- 
mimd  Anderson,  Chief  Justice  of  the  Court 
of  Common  Pleas,  and  dying  in  the  Ufa* 
time  of  his  Csther.  left  a  son. 

EoMVND.  who  «.  his  grandfather. 
Margaret,  m.  to  Walter  Walsh,  Esq.,  of  Cas- 

463 


SHE 


SHE 


tie  Hoel,  la  Irtiaiid,  uid  her  metmd  dragh- 
ter  and  co-hMreis, 

UA8VLA  WAI.IH,  Cipouaed  John  Bryan, 
Esq.p  of  Bawnmore,  in  Um  county  of 
Kilkenny  (hU  second  wife).  The 
only  survlTing  child  and  hrtreii  of  this 
nianiage» 

Elisabbth  Bryan,  marrying  Oli- 
ver Grace,  Esq.,  M.P.  of  Shan- 
gansh,  in  the  Queen's  county,  a 
portion  of  the  Sheflirid  property 
came,  erentually,  into  the  Grace 
fkmily,  and  is  at  presant  cq)oyed 

sir  WilHam  Grace,  BarooeL 

Ellabeth,  IN.  first,  to  Sir  Edward  Swift,  Knt., 
and  secondly,  to  Sir  John  Bourchicr. 

Mary,  m.  to  Sir  Ferdinand  Fairfax. 

Fiances,  m.  to  Sir  Philip  Fairlkx. 

Tripheoa,  m.  to  George  Vemey,  Esq. 
His  lordship  espoused,  secondly,  Mariana,  daughter 
of  Sir  William  Urwyn,  Knt,  by  whom  he  had 
three  other  sons  and  two  daughters.  He  d,  at 
eighty  years  ottge,  in  1646,  and  was  «.  hy  his  grand- 
eon, 

EDMUND  SHEFFIELD,  second  Earl  of  Mul- 
grave,  who  m.  Lady  Elisabeth  Cranfleld,  daughter 
of  Lionel,  Earl  of  Middleaex,  and  dying  in  1568, 
was  9.  by  his  only  son, 

JOHN  SHEFFIELD,  third  Earl  of  Mulgrmve. 
This  nobleman,  who  became  one  of  the  most  eminent 
personages  of  the  period  in  which  he  lived,  first 
attained  distinction  in  arms  t  being  in  the  great  sea 
fight  at  Spld-Bay,  and  afterwards  captain  of  the 
Royal  Catherine.  In  1074,  he  was  installed  a 
Knight  of  the  Garter,  and  soon  after  made  gentle- 
man of  the  bed-chamber  to  King  Charles  II.  He 
was  at  the  same  time  appointed  colonel  of  the  old 
Holland  regiment,  governor  of  Hull,  and  entrusted 
with  the  command  of  the  forces  sent  to  Tangier. 
In  the  1st  James  11.,  his  lordship  was  sworn  of  the 
privy  council,  and  constituted  IiOBD  chambcr- 
LAiN  or  THB  ROUBBHOLD.  After  the  revolution, 
he  was  sworn  of  the  new  privy  council,  and  created 
by  King  William,  lOth  May,  10M,  Mabodbbb  or 
NoRMANBY,"  in  the  county  <^  Uncoin.  His  lord- 
ship was  further  advanced,  2nd  Queen  Anne,  9th 
March,  1703,  to  the  Dukbdom  op  Nobmtanby,  and 
created  in  a  fortnight  afterwards,  Dukb  op  Buck- 
1N«HAM.  The  duke  aspired  to  the  fame  of  a  man 
of  letters,  as  well  as  a  soldier  and  a  statesman ;  and 
his  literary  productions  have  attained  some  popu- 
huritywi-lMt  his  abilities  as  a  writer  have  been,  of 
course,  dlflterently  estimated. 

Dryden  (no  great  authority  to  be  sure,  when  a 
nobleman  is  in  question)  says :  «  His  thoughts  are 
always  just,  his  numbers  harmonious,  his  words 
chosen,  his  expressions  strong  and  aaanly,  his  verse 
flowing,  and  his  turns  as  happy  as  they  are  easy." 
Walpole  on  the  contrary  thus  cfaaracteriaes  the 
noble  scribe. 

"  The  life  of  this  peer  takes  up  fbortesn  pages 
and  a  half,  in  folio,  in  the  General  Dictionary, 
where  it  has  little  pretensions  to  occupy  a  couple. 
But  his  pious  relict  was  always  purduslng  places 
for  him  herself,  and  tbdr  son,  in  every  fubiirb  of 
484 


Hie  temple  of  fkme:  •  tmiM,  afalaet  tiliidi,  above 
all  others,  quo  wananto^s  are  sure  to  take  place. 
The  author  of  the  article  in  the  Dictionary,  cbUs 
the  duke  one  of  the  most  beautiflil  prose  writers, 
and  greatest  poeto  of  this  age;  which  is  also,  he  ssys, 
proved  by  the  finest  writers  his  contemporaries ;  cer- 
tificates that  have  little  weight,  where  the  merit  is 
not  proved  by  the  author's  own  works.  It  Is  oer- 
tain,  that  his  graced  compositions  in  prose  have 
nothing  extraordinary  in  them;  his  poetry  Is  most 
indifferent;  and  the  greatest  part  of  both  is  already 
fUlen  into  total  n^lect.  It  is  said,  that  he  wrote. 
In  hopes  of  being  confounded  with  his  predecessor 
in  the  title ;  but  he  would  moi:e  eesily  have  been 
mistaken  with  the  other  Buckingham,  if  he  had 
never  written  at  alL  He  had  a  great  deal  of  bravery, 
and  understood  a  court.  Queen  Anne,  who  un- 
doubtedly had  no  turn  to  gallantry,  yet  so  fkr  re- 
sembled her  predecessor,  Elisabeth,  as  not  to  dislike 
a  little  homage  to  her  person.  This  duke  was 
immediately  rewarded,  on  her  accession,  fbr  having 
made  love  to  her  before  her  marriage.  Though  at- 
tached to  the  house  of  Stewart  and  their  principles, 
he  maintained  a  dignity  of  honour  in  some  points, 
independent  of  all  connections ;  for  he  ridiculed 
King  James's  religion,  though  he  attended  him  to 
his  chapel ;  and  warmly  took  the  part  of  the  Catn- 
lans  against  the  Tory  ministry,  whom  he  had 
helped  to  introduce  to  the  queen.** 

His  grace  m.  first,  Ursula,  daughter  of  Cokmd 
Stawel,  and  widow  of  the  Earl  of  Conway,  by 
whom  he  had  no  issue.  He  espoused,  secondly, 
Catherine,  daughter  of  Fulke  Grevile,  Lord  Brooke, 
and  widow  of  Baptist,  Earl  of  Gainsborough,  who 
also  died  lasueieBS,  fai  1708-4t  nd  the  duke  m. 
thirdly,  Catherine,  natural  daughter  of  King 
James  IL,  (by  Catherine,  daughter  of  Sir  Charlea 
Sidley,  Baronet,)  and  widow  ef  James,  Earl  of 
Anglesey,  by  whom  he  had  three  sons  and  a  daugh- 
ter, one  of  which,  EnMtmn,  elone  survived  in- 
fluicy. 
His  grace*  died  in  ITSl,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

EDMUND  SHEFFIELD,  second  Duke  of  Buck- 
Ingham.    This  young  nobleman  served  In  1794,  m 


•  His  grace  left  an  ill^timate  son,  by  a  Mrs. 
Lambert,  called, 

Charles  Hxrbbrt,  who,  at  the  decease  of  Ed- 
mund, the  last  duke,  succeeded  to  a  great  part  of 
the  estates,  Induding  Normanby,  in  the  county  of 
Lincoln,  and  assumed  by  the  will  of  his  fkther,  the 
surname  of  Sbsppibld  ;  he  was  created  a  baronet, 
in  1750,  and  the  present  Sir  Robert  Sheflleld  is  his 
grandson  and  successor. 

The  fkmily  of  Phlpps,  existing  Earls  of  Mul- 
grave,  were  connected  with  the  Shefllelds,  by  Wil- 
liam Phipps,  Esq.,  grandfltther  of  the  present  Earl 
Mulgiave,  marrying  Lady  Catherine  Annesley, 
only  daughter  and  heiress  of  James,  ftourth  Earl  of 
Anglesey,  by  Catherine,  natural  daughter  of  King 
James  IL,  which  Catherine  espoused,  seoondly, 
Jomr  Shbppibud,  Duke  of  BucliUi^iem,  end  toy 
him  was  mother  of 

Bdmund,  the  last  Duke  of  Buckingham,  which 
Edmund  was  thus  half  brother  to  the  said  Lady 
Catherine  Anneeley,  wUb  of  Willtem.Phipps. 


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a  voliiirtttBy,  widflr  tlw  ooamnnd  of  hts  uncle,  the 
Duke  of  JBenriok,  in  Gemuuayi  and  was  an  aid-de- 
camp at  the  siege  of  Fort  Kid  and  PhiUpsburgh, 
arhere  that  emliieDt  geieral  loet  his  life.  His  giace 
died,  howerer*  the  following  year  at  Rome»  of  a 
lapid  ooasumption,  not  having  attained  nu^Jority, 
and  with  him,  the  honours  and  male  line  of  the 
»ucAii  house  of  SHBrFiBLD,  sxriaxD. 
AMUM.—AX,  a  chevron  between  three  garbs  gules. 

SHERARD  —  VISCOUNT  SHERARD. 
By  Letters  Patent,  dated  Slst  October,  171& 

XCncasc* 

The  Right  Honourable 

BENNET  SHERARD,  thbd  Baron  Harborottgh, 
in  the  peerage  of  Ireland,  and  first  Lord  Sherard  in 
England,  was  created  by  letters  patent,  dated  Slst 
October,  17M,  Vibcoukt  Shsrard,  f^f  Skvleiflird, 
in  the  eountif  of  Loieeeter,  with  remainder  to  his 
Issue  male,  and  advanced  subsequently  to  the  earl- 
dom ot  Harborough,  with  a  special  limitation. 
His  lordship  m.  Mary,  daughter  of  Sir  Henry  Cal- 
verley,  Knt.,  of  Ayerholme,  in  the  bidkoprick  of 
Durham,  but  dying  without  surviving  issue  in 
1738,  when  the  BngUsh  iMUony,  and  the  earldom, 
and  the  Irish  barony,  devolved,  according  to  the 
patent,  upon  PhiUp  Sherard,  Esq.,  ancestor  of  the 
present  Earl  of  Harborough,  but  the  Viboountv 
or  Shsrars  became  kxtikct. 

Aams.— ^Ar.  a  dievron,  gu.  between  three  tor- 


SIDLEY  —  COUNTESS     OF     DOR- 
CHESTER. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  and  January,  1686. 

CATHERINE  SIDLEY,  (only  daughter  of  Sir 
Charles  Sidley.  Bart.,  of  Southfield,  in  the  county 
of  Kent,)  mistracs  of  Kin^r  JAMxa  II.,  was  created 
by  that  monarch,  fnd  January,  1688,  Dafwtesa  t^f 
DarUngton,  in  the  ooim^y  ^  DwrAom,  and  CouK- 
Tcae  OF  DoacHBBTaa,  for  tift.  By  his  majesty, 
her  ladyship  had  an  only  surviving  daughter, 

Ledtf  CaraaBiKK  Dabblby,  who  fii.  first, 
James  Annesley,  third  Earl  of  Anglesey,  by 
whom  she  had  an  only  dau^ter. 

Lady  CATHaaiNB  Abnx8I.by,  who  m. 
William  Phipps,  Esq.,  son  of  Sir  Con- 
stantino Pbippe,  Knt,  Loan  Chab- 
CXL1.0B  or  IBBLAND,  and  had  a  son, 

COBSTABTIBB     PHTPPS,      who    WSS 

created  Babob  Mulobatb,  in 
the  peerage  of  Ireland :  a  dignity 
inherited  by  tlie  present  Eabi. 

MULORATB. 

Her  ladyship  being  divorced  from  Lord 
An^tesey,  Ibr  cruelty  and  causeless  ill- 
treatment  on  her  husband's  part,  espoused 
secondly,  John  Sheflteld,  Duke  of  Bucking- 
ham, by  whom  she  was  mother  of  Edmund, 
second  dukeu 
The  countess,  alter  the  dissoltttion  oC  her  connec- 


tion wUh  the  king,  married  Sir  David  Colyear, 
subsequently  Eabl  or  Portmobb,  by  whom  she 
left  one  only  surviving  son,  Crarlbs,  second  Barl 
^fPertmore,  (the  grandfather  of  the  present  earl). 
The  conduct  of  this  lady  made  so  strong  an  im-> 
preseion  upon  the  honourable  mind  of  her  Hthet, 
Sir  Charles  Sidley,  that  he  conceived  ever  after  a 
rooted  hatred  to  her  royal  paramour,  and  was  a 
aeakras  promoter  of  the  revolution.  Being  asked 
one  day,  why  he  appeared  so  warm  against  the 
king,  who  had  created  his  daughter  a  countess,  he 
replied,  '<  it  was  fhmi  gratitude :  for  as  his  miO^ty 
had  made  his  daughter  a  oMiMiess,  it  was  but  fit  he 
should  do  all  he  could  to  make  his  daughter  « 
queen/* 

Her  ladyship  tU  in  16P8,  when  lu  bbr  hoboubb 
became  as  a  matter  of  course  xxtibct. 

SMITH-BARONS  CARRINGTON. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  Slst  October,  1643. 

ICintage. 

This  flnnily  deduoed  its  line  f^om 

SIR  MICHAEL  CARINGTON,  Knt,  Standard 
bearer  to  King  Rxcbabp  L  in  the  Holy  Land,  fhMn 
whom  descended 

JOHN  CARINGTON,  who,  in  the  beginning  of 
Hbbby  IV.Is  reign,  having  stoutly  adhered  to  the 
deposed  monardi,  Richabd  II.,  was  obliged  to  ex* 
patriate  himadf ,  and  after  residing  some  time  abroad 
to  assume  tor  security  the  very  general  surname  of 
Smith.    From  this  gentleman  lineally  sprang 

JOHN  SMITH,  Esq.,  who  being  the  lord  trea* 
*  sorer's  remembrancer  in  the  eadiequer,  was  oo»> 
stituted,  in  the  38th  Henry  VI IL,  second  baron  of 
that  court.  This  learned  penon  m.  Anne,  daughter 
and  heir  of  John  Hareweil,  Esq.,  of  Wotton,  in 
the  county  of  Warvrick,  and  flrom  that  union  de- 


SIR  CHARLES  SMITH,  Knt,  who,  for  hii 
fidelity  to  King  Charlbb  L,  was  devated  to  the 
peerage  Slst  October,  1043,  as  Lord  Carribotob, 
Baron  of  fVotton  Waven,  in  the  county  of  Warwick, 
and  was  advanced  on  the  4th  November  following, 
to  the  dignity  of  Viscount  Carrington,  in  the  peerage 
of  Ireland.  His  kmlship  m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  of 
Sir  John  Carrill,  Knt,  of  South  Harting,  In  Sussex, 
and  had  issue, 

Frabcib,  hiasnooeesor. 

CarrilL 

John,  who  fdl  fighting  under  the  royal  banner 
atAilesfordinl644. 

Mary,  m.  to  Sir  George  Wintour,  Knt,  of  Hud- 
dington. 

Lucy.  \^  unmarried. 

Anne,  J 

Margaret,  m.  to  Sir  Francis  Hungate,  Barto  of 
Hnddleston,  in  Yorkshire. 

Mary,  d.  unmarried. 
Lord  Carrington  having  occasion  to  visit  France, 
and  lodging  at  Pontoiee,  was  there  barbarously  mur- 
dered by  one  of  his  own  servants,  on  the  81st  F»> 
bruary,  1064,  tat  the  sake  of  his  money  and  jewels ; 
and  his  remains  lieth  InleRedin  the  church  at  that 

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pfaM30,  midff  •  maitile  tomb  crectad  to  bb 
Hto  lonkhip  WM  «.  by  hU  ddMt  wm. 

FRANCIS  SMITH,  Momd  Banm  Ca..»v.M., 
and  Moond  vMoount.  Tbb  doUoiub  m.  Iliat;, 
Juliana,  dau^tcr  of  Sir  Thonoas  Watanaday,  of 
Piinkanhaigh,  in  I.mrathir^  by  whom  ha  had  an 
only  ion, 

CnABbsa,  who  d.  in  Infimcy. 
Hia  hmbhip  eqMMuad,  ■eoondly.  Lady  Aaam  Har- 
bart,  daughtarof  William,  lfaiq«a»of  Powis,  but 
had  no  ifMia.    Ha  d.  bi  17€ft,  whan  all  nia  HONOuaa 
bacama  bxtiiict. 

Aniia^— Ar.  a  ciom,  ^u.  bctpem  four  paaoocka, 
ar. 

60MERS-BAR0N  80MERS. 

By  Lettan  Patont,  dated  8nd  December,  16P7. 

Xincage. 

JOHN  SOMERS,  the  ion  of  an  eminent  attorney 
in  the  city  of  Worcester,  (John  Smners,  Esq.,  of 
CllftoD-upon-SeTem,  in  Woroetterthire,  by  Cathe- 
rine Seveme,  hia  wife,)  having  been  brought  up  to 
the  hlglier  grade  in  the  l«gal  prolSBnion,  acquired 
•uch  reputation  at  an  advocate,  tbat  he  was  engaged 
in  the  important  case  of  the  seven  bishops,  temp. 
Jamks  II.,  and  his  speech  upon  that  occasion  will 
ever  be  regarded  as  <Ae  of  the  boldest,  most  im- 
pressive^ and  constitutional,  delivered  at  the  bar. 
After  the  revolution,  Mr.  Somers  was  appointed 
•ucoessively  solicitor  and  attorney-general,  and  he 
received  the  usual  honour  of  knighthood.  In  16B7 
be  was  conetituted  lord  cHANCBLiiOn  of  Eko- 
ijilnd,  and  elevated  to  the  peerage  as  Lou>  Somaa, 
Banm  f^fEne^tam,  in  the  county  of  Worcester.  Of 
this  great  and  learned  personage,  Walpole,  in  his 
Catalogue  of  NoUe  Authors,  observes,  «  That  all 
the  traditional  accounts  of  him,  the  historians  of 
the  last  age,  and  its  best  authors,  rq»reicnt  him  as 
the  most  uncorrupt  lawyer,  and  the  honestest 
statesman :  a  master  orator  i  a  genius  of  the  finest 
taste  I  and  as  a  patriot  of  the  noblest  and  most  ex- 
tensive views;  as  a  man  who  dispensed  blessings 
by  his  lift,  and  planned  them  for  posterity:  at 
once  the  model  of  Addiaon,  and  the  touchatone  of 
Swift" 

His  lordship  survived,  however,  his  great  mental 
powers,  and  d.  in  dotage,  unmarried,  anno  1716, 
when  the  Baront  op  SoMBna  became  sxtinct, 
and  his  estates  devolved  upon  his  dsters  as  coheirs, 
of  whom, 

Mary  Somrrb,  fa.  Charles  Cocks,  Esq.,  M.P. 
in  1092  for  the  city  of  Worceater,  and  had, 
with  other  issue, 

Margaret  Cocks,  who  m.  Philip  Yarke, 
afterwards  lord  CRAireBi.i<OR,  and 
Earl  or  Hardwtckb. 
And 
JoHH    CocK9»   Esq.,   (successor  to  his 
father,)  of  Bruckmans,  in  tbe  county 
of  Hertford,  M.P.,  who  waa  «.  by  bis 
son, 
John   CoCKa,  Esq.,  at  whose  de- 
cease, unmarried,  the  estates  re- 
verted to  his  uncle, 
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Jon*  Cocna,  Baq.,  of  Caatle- 
ditcli,  wboaeddtat  aon  < 


Chablbb  CocKa,  Eaq., 
of  CMtleditcli,  M.P., 
waa  created  a  baronet 
in  1778*  and  devated 
to  the  peerage  aa 
Lord  Somaa,  B«- 
ron  qf  Eveihmm,  In 
1784.  HU  lordship  d: 
In  1809,  and  waa  «.  by 
hiaddeatson, 

John       Sombrs 
CocKa,    present 


dancette*  erm* 


SOMERIE— BABON  DUDLEY. 

By  Writ  of  Summona,  dated  10th  Maicb,  1J08, 
I  Edward  II. 

Xuicagc. 

In  the  reign  of  Hrnrv  II., 

JOHN  DE  SOMERIE  acquired  the  barony  of 
DcDLBY,  in  Staflbrdshire,  by  marrying  Hawya*, 
sister  and  heir  of  Gervase  Pagandl,*  Its  former 
feudal  lord,  and  was  «.  by  his  aon, 

RALPH  DE  SOMERIE,  feudal  lord  of  Dvdlbt, 
who  in  the  sixth  of  John,  obtained  from  the  crown, 
in  exchange  for  the  manor  of  WolverhamptBi^ 
(whicb  was  then  granted  to  Hubert,  Arohbidiop  of 
Canterbury,)  the  manor  of  Swinford,  and  two  other 
manors,  whidi  were  thenceforth  to  be  bdd  by  him 
and  his  heLcs  in  fee  {  paying  yearly  to  the  exdiequer 
by  the  hands  of  the  sheriff  of  Stallbcdshire,  the  sum 

•  At  the  time  of  the  Obnbral  Svrtbt, 
Ralph  Paoanbll    possessed  tai  lordahips  in 
Devon,  five  in  Somerset,  fifteen  In  Linoc^,  and 
the  same  number  in  Yorkahire.    He  waa  s.  by  hia 


Folk  Paoanbll,  who  m.  Beatrix,  daughter 
and  beir  of  William  Fiti-Asculph,  and  thereby  ae^ 
quired  the  Castlb  op  Duolby,  and  other  large 
estates  in  the  county  of  Staflbrd.  He  was  «.  by  his 
son  and  heir, 

Ralph  Paoanbll,  Lord  </  DuOeif,  who  was 
«.  by  his  eldest  son, 

Obrvasb  Paoanbll,  who  adhering  to  the  Em- 
press Maud  in  1138,  against  Stephen,  held  the  castle 
of  Dudley  for  that  princess  and  her  son.  In  the 
12th  Henry  II.,  on  the  assessment  in  aid  for  marrying 
the  king's  daughter,  he  certified  his  knights*  fees  to 
be  altogether  fifty-six,  and  one  third.  In  the  1st  of 
Richard  I.,  he  was  one  of  the  barons  who  assisted  at 
the  coronation  of  that  monarch.  He  fa.  Isabdl, 
daughter  of  Robert,  Earl  of  Leiceater,  widow  of 
Simon  St.  Liz,  Earl  of  N<»thampton,  by  whom  he 
hadisaue, 

Robert,  who,  it  is  presumed,  died  young. 
Hawysb,  who  became  eventually  soJe  heiress 
of  the  Paganella,  and  conveyed  Dudlby 
Caatle  and  their  other  estatea  to  her  firat 
husband,  John  db  Sombrib,  as  in  the  text, 
She  espoused,  aecondly,  Roger  de  Bcrkday. 


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of  £aa>  which  mM  the  andAtfann;  and  £5.  more 
of  incrmcnty  by  equal  payments  at  Mlchaelmai 
and  Eaater;  performing  to  the  king  and  hla  heiia 
the  service  of  one  knight's  fee.  He  d.  in  ISIO,  and 
waa  «.  by  his  son* 

WILLIAM  PERCEVAL  DE  SOMERIE,  who 
by  reason  of  his  minority  at  his  fother's  death,  was 
in  ward  for  his  barony*  which  then  consisted  often 
knights'  fees*  and  three  parts.  He  d.  in  18S1,  and 
was  *.  by  his  son, 

NICHOLAS  DE  SOMERIE,  at  whose  deceese  hi 
1SS8  issueless,  the  barony  and  lands  reverted  to  his 
unde, 

ROGER  DE  SOMERIE,  who  perftmning  his 
homage  in  the  same  year  had  livery  thereof,  but  in 
finir  yean  afterwards  those  lands  were  seised  by  the 
crown,  in  consequence  of  their  lord  naglecting  when 
summoned,  to  receive  the  honour  of  knighthood. 
This  Roger  de  Somerie  m.  Nicola,  daughter  of 
William  de  Albini,  second  Earl  of  Amndel,  and 
sister  and  co-heir  of  Hugh,  fourth  earl,  hy  whom 
he  acquired  the  manor  of  Babwb,  in  the  county  of 
Leicester.  In  the  37th  HniritY  III.,  he  attended 
the  king  in  an  expedition  into  Gascony,  and  in  the 
41st  and  4and  of  the  same  reign,  he  had  military 
summonses  to  march  agahut  the  Welsh:  after 
which,  he  began  to  make  a  castle  of  his  manor 
house  at  Dcdlby,  but  was  prohibited  by  the  king 
to  proceed  therein,  without  his  special  hcence; 
subsequently,  however,  adhering  to  the  crown  in  the 
baronial  war,  he  obtained  the  said  licence,  and  he 
was  afterwards  made  prisoner  at  the  battle  of 
LswBS,  fighting  under  the  royal  banner.  By  his 
first  wifck  the  co-heir  of  Albini,  he  had  four  daugh- 
tefSyVla. 

JoANB,  IN.  to  John  le  Strange,       -^  J 
Mabbl,  mi.  to  Walter  de  Sulcy, 
Ma  ud,  m.  to  Henry  de  Erdington, 
Mabobby,   m.    first,   to   Ralph 
Cromwell,  of  Tatshal,  and  se* 
oondly,  to  William  Bifleld. 
Roger  de    Somerie  espoused,   secondly,  Amabel, 
daughter  and  heir  of  Sir  Robert  de  Chaucombe, 
Knt.,  and  widow  of  Gilbert  de  Scgrave,  by  whom 
he  had  issue, 

RooBB,  his  suooessor. 
John. 

Margaret,  m.  to  Ralph  Basset,  of  Drayton. 
He  rf.  in  ISTSt  and  was  «.  by  his  dder  son, 
.   ROGER  DE  SOMERIE,  who  d.  in  U90,  and 
was  «.  by  his  son, 

ROGER  DE  SOMERIE.  This  feudal  lord  died 
s.  p.,  and  was  «.  by  his  brother, 

SIR  JOHN  DE  SOMERIE,  K.B.,  who,  for  his 
services  in  the  Scottish  wars,  temp.  Edward  I.  and 
Edward  II.,  was  summoned  to  parliament  as  a 
BABoir*  from  10th  March,  130Q,  to  14th  March, 

•  Although  this  barony  is  unifbrmly  considered 
to  be  that  of  «<  Dcdlby,"  it  appears  very  question- 
able if  such  is  the  proper  designation.  That  ante- 
cedent to  the  latter  part  of  the  reign  of  Edwabd  I., 
the  tenure  of  the  castle  of  Dudley  constituted  the 
liunily  of  SoMBBiB,  barons  by  tenure,  can  scarcely 
be  doubted  i  but  that  sudi  tenure  did  not  esUbUsh 
a  right  in  the  poeaaieer  of  the  caatle  to  demand  a 


laa.  His  loidriilp  d.  in  the  btter  year,  without 
issue,  wh^  his  babowy  became  bztiiict,  and  hla 
castles  and  lands  devolved  upon  his  slaters,  as  co- 
beiis,  thus, 

Maboabst,  flk  to  John  de  Sutton,  had  the 
Cabtlb  of  Dudlbv,  with  the  manor  of 
Leggesley,  chase  of  Pensnet,  and  manor  of 
New  Synford-Regis,  in  the  county  of  Staf- 
fbrd  (  as  also  the  town  of  Dudley  (see  Sut- 
ton, Barons  Dudley). 
JoAHB,  m,  to  Thomas  Botetourt,  ddest  son  and 
heir  of  John,  Lord  Botetourt,  had  the  manors 
of  Bradfleld,  Soleham,  and  Bastendan,  in 
the  county  of  Berks ;  with  Rowley-Somery, 
and  other  lands  in  Staflbrdshlre  (see  Bote- 
tourt, Barons  Botetourt). 
Abmb.— <Or.  two  lioncels  passant  aa. 

STAFFORD  —  BARONS  STAFFORD, 
EARLS  OF  STAFFORD, 
DUKES  OF  BUCKING- 
HAM, BARONS  STAF. 
FORD. 

Barony,  by  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  6th  Febb,  1S99, 
87  Edward  I. 
Earldom,  ffth  March,  1361. 
Dukedom,  14th  September,  1444. 
Barony,  ,  liS47. 

The  first  that  assumed  this  surname, 

ROBERT  DE  STAFFORD,  possessed,  at  the 
time  of  the  general  survey,  lordships  in  Suflbik, 
Gloucestershire,  Lincolnshire,  Warwickshire,  and 
Staifordshire,  in  all  one  hundred  and  thlrty'<m^~ 
and  Dugdale  surmises,  that  the  assumption  of 
the  surname  of  Staflbrd  aroee  tnm  his  being 
governor  of  Staflbrd  Castle,  which  had  been  erected 
by  the  Conqueror  t  for  his  name  originally  waa  Db 
ToBNBi,  and  he  is  said  to  have  been  a  younger 
son  of  Roger  de  Toenei,  standard  beerer  of  Nor- 
mandy. Of  this  Robert  de  Stafford,  who  lived  till 
Henry  L's  time,  nothing  ftirther  is  known  than 
his  ftmndhig  an  AvouariivB  pbtoby,  at  Stone,  in 
Staflbrdshlre,  upon  the  spot  where  Bnysan  de  Wal- 
tone,  one  of  the  companions  of  the  Conqueror,  had 
kUled  two  nuns  and  a  priesL  He  «•.  Avice  de  Clare, 
and  was  #.  by  his  son, 

NICHOLAS  DE  STAFFORD,  who  was  sheriff 
of  Staflbrdshlre,  temp.  King  Henry  I.  Thislbudal 
lord  was  «.  by  his  son, 

ROBERT  DE  STAFFORD,  who  was  sheriff  of 
Staflbrdshlre  from  the  second  to  the  end  of  the 
sixth  year,  inclusive,  of  King  Henry  II.'s  reign, 
and  in  six  years  afterwards  paid  towards  the  mar- 
riage portion  of  the  king's  daughter  sixty  marka 

writ  of  summons  to  parliament,  may  be  inlbrred 
from  this  Csct,  that  John  de  Smnerie,  who  was  first 
summoned  In  1306  (1st  Edward  II.)  and  who  con- 
tinued  to  be  regularly  summoned  to  1389  (Uth 
Edward  II.)  is  never  once  designated  as  *'  Db  Dud- 
lby,**  but  is  merely  described  as  **Johanni  d4 
SofiMry."— Nicolas. 

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ROBERT  DE  STAFFORD, 
wtthoatliMiai  tha  feadal 
Tolvad  upoB  his  only  tlita 

MILISBNT  DE  STAFFORD,  who  au  in  the 
Mh  Richard  I.  a  StaOlMtiihln  gaatkmaa  of  andcnt 
CmiUy,  nimati  Haayav  Ba«ot.  Tliii  Hcnrey  pay- 
ing a  fina  of  three  hundjadmaikf  to  the  crown,  had 
Uvary  of  Mb  wlfa^  inharitanoew  hat  in  oailer  to  taiae 
that  earn  ha  was  oMifad  to  saO  tha  lonUiip  of 
Dnytan  to  the  oaaons  of  SL  Tliaaaas.  near  Staflbrd. 
Tha  SOB  and  hair  of  this  Harray^and  MUiaant. 
his   ii**"'*'   tnffiMmfh    »«*»»—****  tha 


HERVEV  DE  STAFFORD.  This  flwdal  lord 
with  King  Henry  III.  at  tha  siege  of  Bitham 
Caatla,  in  LfaicoiaaUiat  In  tha  6th  of  that  mooardi's 
Ha  m.  Patronill,  sbtar  of  William  de 
*,  Earl  of  Derhy,  and  rf.  fai  U37>  waa  «.  by 
his  son, 

HERYEY  DE  jSTAFFORD,  who  d,  without 
Issue  in  1S4I,  and  was  «.  1>yhis  brother, 

ROBERT  DE  STAFFORD,  who,  in  tha  SSth 
Henry  III.,  npon  doing  homage,  and  paying  one 
hundred  pounds  for  his  rdief,  had  liToy  of  his 
lands.  This  feudal  lord  was  in  tha  wars  of  Gas- 
oony,  SSth  Henry  IIL,  and  in  four  years  afterwards 
ha  had  a  military  summons  to  march  against  the 
Wdsh.  He  fii.  Alice,  one  of  tha  daughters  and  co- 
heirs of  Thomas  Corbet,  of  Cans,  in  tha  county  of 
Salop,  and  d.  In  1968,  was  «.  by  his  son, 

NICHOLAS  DE  STAFFORD.  This  feudal 
lord,  who  was  actively  engaged  against  tiie  Wdsh, 
in  tha  reign  of  King  Edward  I.,  was  killed  befoca 
Dvosaian  Castle  anno  1887,  and  waa  a.  by  his  son, 

EDMUND  DE  STAFFORD,  who,  having  dla- 
tingulshad  hhnsalf  in  tha  Scottish  wars,  was  aum- 
aaonad  to  parliament,  as  a  BAnoN,  by  King  Ed- 
ward I.,  on  tiie  0th  Fabmary,  1808    asid  ha  had 
ummaoses  ftom  that  period  until  his  de- 
Ha  m.  Mafgaiat,  daughter  of  Ralph,  Lord 
k,  of  Drayton,  and  had  issuer 
Raub,  his  successor. 

Rldiard,  m.    Maud,  daughter  and  har  of 
RIduud  da  CamviUa,  <^  Clifton,  and  was 
called  "  Sir  Richard  Staflbrd,  of  Clifton, 
KnL"  (see  Staftirda,  of  Clifton). 
His  lordship  d,  in  1308,  and  was*,  by  his  elder  son, 

RALPH  DE  STAFFORD,  second  baron.  This 
BoWeman  attaining  mi^arity  in  the  17th  Edward  II., 
and  than  doing  his  homage,  had  livery  of  his  fathei's 
landa}  and  the  next  ensuing  year,  being  made  a 
knight  by  bathing,  and  other  sacred  ceremonies, 
had  robes,  &c,  as  a  banneret,  allowed  him  out  of 
tha  king's  wardrabalbr  tha  solemnity;  after  whkh 
ha  soon  became  a  personage  of  celebrity  In  the  wars 
of  King  Edward  IIL  His  lorddiip  waa  first  engaged 
in  Scotland  fbr  some  years,  and  ha  then  embarked 
for  Britanny,  where  he  was  made  prisoner  at  tha 
siege  of  Nantes.  In  the  19th  Edward  III.  be  was 
sent  intoCascony,  with  Henry  of  Lancaster,  Earl 
of  Darby,  and  while  that  nohlaman  aasanltad  Ban- 
annATB  by  land.  Lord  Staflbrd  commanded  the 
force  which  attacked  it  by  sea.   Tha  next  yaar  ha 


and  hair  of  Phiilp,  kiay  of  Franca,  oomlng  to 
AgnaUon,  where  hia  hirdrikip  than  rw- 
I  Btontly  defended  that  placa  agalnat  tha 
whole  power  of  the  French,  until  King  Edward 
came  to  his  relief,  and  forced  tha  enemy  to  raise 
tha  slaga.  After  this,  jolnfaig  IAb  troops  wiiih  tha 
army  of  King  Edward,  he  had  a  principal  cooft- 
mand  fai  the  van  of  tha  English  at  tha  glorloaa 
battle  of  Canaav.  Upon  the  termination  of  thia 
graateonfllct,  his  hndriilp being  eent  with  Sir  Re- 
gfamld  CoMaun,  and  three  heraUa,  to  view  tha 
slain,  reported  the  number  to  be  eleven  great 
prtnoes,  eighty  bannerets,  twdve  hundred  knights, 
and  more  than  thirty  thousand  common  sulilitna 
Ha  was  afterwards,  when  Calais  surrendered,  one  of 
Umse  appointed  to  take  possession  of  that  place  tot 
the  king ;  and  subsequently,  his  lordship  was  one  of 
tha  ambassadota  deputed  to  tha  Cardinals  of  Naples 
and  Ckrcniont,  to  treat  of  peace  between  King  Ed- 
ward and'PhiUp  da  Valoia,  then  assuming  the  title 
of  King  of  France.  Tha  next  year  he  had  licence 
to  make  caetles  of  his  manor  houses,  at  Staflbrd 
and  Nadelay ;  as  also  a  grant  ftom  tha  Ung  of 
£973,  for  Ids  cjipenses  in  foreign  service.  About 
this  time,  his  lordship  waa  elected  a  Kir ioht  of  the 
Gabtkb,  being  one  of  the  original  members  of  that 
noble  order.  In  the  Mth  Edward  III.,  he  waa  fai 
commissian  with  the  Bialiop  of  Durham,  and  the 
Lorda  Percy  and  Nevill,  to  treat  with  the  noMes 
of  Scotland,  at  York,  for  a  firm  and  final  peace 
between  the  two  realms;  tor  all  which  eminent 
services,  he  waa  created,  on  5th  March,  1361,  Earz. 
ow  STArroRO,  and  constituted  lieutenant  «mI  cap- 
tain-general of  the  Duchy  of  Aquitaine.  His  lord- 
ship m.  Margaret,  only  daughter  and  heiress  of 
Hugh  de  Audiey,  Baron  Audley,  and  in  right  of  his 
wif(^  Earl  op  Gix»UGBaTBap— by  whidi  allianra 
he  acquired  a  conaiderable  inheritance  and  the 
Barohy  or  AVDLBY  b  presumed  to  have  merged 
in  that  of  Stavpobd.    He  had  issue, 

Ralph,  who  m.  Maud,  daughter  of  Henry, 

Earl  of  Derby,  but  died  in  the  life-time  of 

his  father. 
HnoR,  Ills  successor. 
Beatrice,  m.  first,  Maurice,  son  and  heir  of 

Maunoe  Fits-Thomas,  Earl  of  Desmond ; 

secondly,  Thomas,  Lord  Ros,  of  Haa»dake ; 

and  thirdly.  Sir  Ridiard  Burley,  Knt. 
Joene,  m.  to  John,  son  and  heir  Ot  John  Cherl- 

ton.  Lord  Powis. 
EHaabeth,   m.  to  Fouke,   son  of  Roger  le 

Strange,  of  Whitdmrch,  In  the  county  of 

Salop. 
Margaret,  m.  to  Sir  John  Staflbrd,  Knt. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1379,  and  waa  «.  by  his  only  sur- . 
vivingson, 

HUGH  DE  STAFFORD,  third  Baron  and  second 
Earl  of  Staflbrd,  who,  following  the  steps  of  his 
noUe  fethar  in  those  martial  times,  came  vary  early 
into  action,  for  at  the  age  of  seventeen  he  was  in  the 
wars  of  France,  and  again  when  he  attained  majo- 
rity, being  then  in  the  retinue  of  the  Bfaidi  Prince. 
At  the  period  he  aucoeeded  to  the  honours  of  hia 
femHy,  he  was  twenty-eight  years  of  age,  and  ha 
waa  •ahaeqaently,  dtatiagulshed  in  all  tha  waca  of 


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fidtrwd  IIL,  and  in  thoM  at  tlM  hugltmtng  of 
King  Richard  II/«  tim&  In  the  9th  of  the  latter 
monarch,  his  lordahip  having  obtained  licence  to 
travel,  undertook  a  pilgrimage  to  the  Holy  Sepul- 
chre, and  in  his  return*  died  at  Rhodee,  in  1386» 
having  had  issue  by  his  wifc^  the  Lady  PhUippa 
Beauchamp,  daughter  of  Thomas.  Earl  of  War- 
wtck« 

Ralph,  who  was  murdered  by  John  HoUand, 
half-brother  to  King  Richard  IL 

Thomas.  1  ,uco,„o„  alternately,  to  the  ho- 

WILLIAM,  >-no,j„  jrf  ^^  flunily. 

Edmund,  } 

Hugh  (Sir),  «•.  Elisabeth  Bourchier,  only 
daughter  and  heiress  of  Bartholomewj  Lord 
Bourchier,  and  was  summoned  to  parliament 
asBAKOMBouBCiiiBiu  His  lordship  died*,  p. 

Margaret,  m.  to  Ralph,  first  Earl  of  West- 
moriand. 

Kathflrine,  m.  to  Midiael,  son  of  Michael  de 
la  Pole. 

Joane^  m.  to  Thomas  Holland,  Earl  of  Kent. 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  John,  Lord  Ferrers,  of  Chartr 
ley. 
The  earl,  who  was  a  Knight  of  the  Garter,  was  «. 
by  his  eldest  surviving  son, 

THOMAS  DE  STAFFORD,  fourth  banm,  and 
third  Earl  of  Stafford,  who  in  the  14th  Richard  II., 
making  proof  of  his  age,  and  doing  his  homage^ 
had  livery  of  his  lands  t  and  about  the  same  time, 
upon  the  decease  of  Ralph,  the  last  Lord  Bssset, 
of  Drayton,  was  found  to  be  one  of  his  co-heirs.* 
His  lordship  was  in  the  wars  of  France,  in  the  15th 
of  Richard  II.,  under  the  conduct  of  Thomas  of 
Woodstock,  Duke  of  Glouosster,  whose  daughter, 
the  Lady  Anne  Plantagenet,  he  had  married,  but 
died  without  issue,  when  he  waa  #.  by  his  bro- 
ther, 

WILLIAM  DE  STAFFORD,  fifth  Baron,  and 
iburth  Eail  of  Staflbrd.  This  nobleman  was  but 
fourteen  yea(^  of  age  when  he  came  to  the  title, 
and  in  ward  to  the  Duke  of  Gloucester.  He  died 
in  three  years  after,  and  the  honours  devolved  upon 
his  next  brother, 

EDMUND  DE  STAFFORD,  sixth  Baron,  and 
4Uth  Earl  of  Stafford,  who,  in  the  SSd  of  Richard 
II.,  by  virtue  of  the  king's  special  licence,  married 
Anne,  Countess  of  Staflbrd,  widow  of  Thomas, 
third  earl,  his  eldest  brother  (which  marriage  of 
the  said  Thomas  and  Anne  had  never  been  con- 
summated, owing  to  the  tender  years  of  the  earl). 
At  the  coronation  of  King  Henry  lY..  this  Ed- 
mund, Earl  of  Stafford,  was  made  a  Knight  of 
the  Bath,  ss  was  also  Hugh,  his  younger  brother. 
He  was  subsequently  made  a  Knight  of  the  Garter, 
but  he  was  killed  soon  af^,  at  the  battle  of 
Shrewsbury,  fighting  on  the  part  of  the  king,  anno 
1403»    His  lordship  left  Issue, 

HuMPHBKY,  his  successor. 

Philippe,  d.  young. 

•  Thus,  Margaret  Basset,  great  aunt  of  the  abov»- 
mentioned  Ralph,  Lord  Basset,  was  the  wife  of 
Edmund,  first  Lord  Stafford,  the  earl's  great-grand- 
father. For  this  inheritance  he  had  a  contest  with 
theShirleys, 


Anne.'  m.  first,  to  Edmund  Mortimer,  Earl 
of  March,  and  seeondly,  to  John  Holland* 
Earl  of  Huntingdon* 
The  earl  was  s.  by  his  son, 

HUMPHREY  DE  STAFFORD,  seventh  Baron, 
and  sixth  Earl  of  Staflbrd,  who,  in  the  8d  of  Henry 
Yi.,  making  proof  of  his  age.  had  livery  of  his 
lands;  as  also  ot  thoee  which  had  desffnded  to 
him  by  the  death,  without  issue,  of  his  uncle.  Sir 
Hugh  Staflbrd,  Lord  Bourchier*  In  the  6th  of 
the  same  reign,  his  lordship  obtained  licsnoe  fiom 
the  king  to  be  absent  flrom  the  realm  of  Ireland 
for  ten  years,  but  nevertheless  to  receive  tbB 
revenue  of  all  his  castles,  lordships,  and  lands 
there.  From  this  period  he  served  for  several 
years  in  France,  and  was  constituted,  I9th  of  Henry 
YL,  captain  of  the  town  of  Calais,  and  tower  of 
Risbanke;  as  also  of  the  marches  of  Calais:  in 
consequence  of  which  services,  and  his  near  alliance 
in  blood  to  the  royal  fkmily,  he  was  created,  on 
the  I4th  September,  1444,  Dtntn  op  Buckutobam, 
with  preradence  before  all  dukes  whatsoever,  next 
to  those  of  the  blood  royal  t  but  a  gieat  dispute 
regarding  this  matter  immediately  arose  between 
his  grace,  and  Henry  Beanchamp,  Duke  of  Warwicki 
whidi  required  a  special  abt  of  parliament  to  acUust. 
giving  to  the  rival  dukes  precedency  alternately, 
year  aboutn-the  question  was.  however,  finally  set 
at  rest  by  the  death  of  the  Duke  of  Warwick, 
issueless,  in  about  two  years  after.  In  the  SSth  of 
Henry  YI.,  the  Duke  of  Buckingham  was  made 
constable  of  Dover  Castle,  and  warden  of  the  cinque 
ports;  and  in  the  34th  of  the  same  reign,  afkor 
the  fatal  battle  of  St.  Albans,  where  the  Duke  of 
York  being  victorious,  Humphrey,  Earl  of  Staf- 
ford, his  eldest  son.  lost  his  life:  seeing  what  spe- 
cious pretences  were  made  by  the  Yorkists,  to 
obtain  the  favour  of  the  people,  his  graoot  with 
the  Duke  of  Somerset,  made  his  way  privately  to 
Queen  Margaret,  and  apprised  her  of  the  danger 
that  impended.  Continuing  fUthfUlly  attached  to 
the  Lancastrian  interest,  the  duke  fdl  gallantly 
fighting  under  that  banner  at  the  battle  of  Norths 
ampton.  on  the  87th  July,  1400.  His  graoe.  along 
with  his  other  honours,  was  a  Knight  of  the  Garter. 
His  wife  was  the  Lady  Anne  Nevill,  daughter  of 
Ralph,  first  Earl  of  Westmorland,  by  whom  he 
bad,  with  other  lHue» 

Humph asv.  Earl  of  Staflbrd.  slain  in  the 
battle  of  St  Albans  {  leavmg  by  Margaret, 
daughter  and  co-heir  of  Edmund,  Duke  of 
Somerset. 

Hkhrv,  who  s.  his  grandfatha. 
Henry  (Sir),  mu  Margaret.  Countess  of  Rlcb- 

mooid,  mother  of  King  Henry  YIL 
John,  created  Earl  of  Wiltshire  (see  Stafford* 

Earls  of  WUts). 
Anne,  m.  first,  to  Aubrey  de  Yerob  and  se- 
condly, to  Sir  Thomas  Cobham.  son  of 
Reginald,  Lord  Cobham,  of  Sterborough. 
Joane.  m.  first,  to  William,  Yisoount  Beau- 
mont, and  secondly,  to  Sir  William  KneveU 
of  Buckingham,  in  the  county  of  Norfolk. 
Catherine,  m.  to  John  Talbot,  Earl  of  Shrewa* 
bury. 
The  duke  was  s.  by  his  gTandsoD» 

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HENRY    Dfi  STAFTORD,  leooBd  Diike  of 

BucklnghaBi,  who«  bdng  in  ward  to  King  Edward 
IV.,  was  committed  wUh  Humphrey,  hU  brother, 
to  the  tuition  of  Anne,  Ducheta  of  Bxetar,  the 
king's  lister,  with  an  aaslgnatloii  oi  five  hundred 
narlu  per  annum,  tot  their  mafaitananoei  This 
nobleman  was  little  heard  of  during  the  remainder 
of  the  reign  of  Edward  IV.»  but  bsing  a  main 
instnuMnt  in  elevating  Richard  III.  to  the  throne, 
he  was  made  a  Kni^t  of  the  Garter,  and  Coir- 
•TABLB  or  Kmoland  by  that  monarch}  besides 
bitng  promised  the  possession  of  the  great  Inherit- 
ftnoe  of  the  Bohuns,  Earl  of  Hereford,  to  which  he 
pretended  a  right.  But  whether  through-  disap- 
pointment at  this  promise  not  being  afterwards 
AilHUad,  or  tmn  a  conscientious  ftellng,  certain 
It  la  that  h«  soon  afterwards  entered  into  a  con- 
spiracy to  place  the  Earl  of  Richmond  upon  the 
throne,  and  actually  took  up  arms  for  th«  purpose; 
but  the  Courtcnays  and  his  other  associates,  not 
being  able  to  second  his  movements,  he  found 
himself  deserted,  and  was  forced  to  seek  an  asylum 
M  the  house  of  an  old  servant,  Humphrey  Banaster, 
near  Shrewsbury:  by  this  servant  he  was,  how- 
ever, betrayed  and  deUvered  up  to  his  enemies, 
but  the  king  rsAised  to  reward  the  betrayer,  ob- 
aervittg  <«  that  he  who  could  be  untrue  to  so 
good  a  master,  would  be  Iklse  to  all  other.**  The 
duke  was  beheaded  lOon  after,  in  the  market-place 
at  Salisbury,  anno  1483,  without  any  arraignment, 
or  legal  proceeding.  His  grace  had  married  Ca- 
therine^ daughter  of  Richard  Widville,  Earl  of 
Rivers,  and  left  issue, 

EnwAiis,  his  suooessor. 

Henry,  created  Earl  of  Wiltshire. 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  Robert  RatdUb,  Lord  Fits- 
Walter. 

Attne.  m,  first,  to  Sir  Waller  Herbert,  Knt., 
and  secondly,  to  Geoige,  Earl  of  Hunting- 


The  earl  wass^  by  his  elder  son, 

EDWARD  DB  STAFFORD,  who  was  reelor«d, 
by  Kibg  Henry  Vlt.,  to  the  Dukedom  of  Buckfaag- 
Jbam,  Earldom  and  Barony  of  Staflbrd,  and  all  the 
ether  honours  of  his  ftither.  This  nobleman  was 
In  aims  against  the  Coraish-tten,  who  rebelled  in 
fkvour  of  Perkin  Warbeek  %  and  in  the  t4th  Henry 
VII.  he  obtained  several  considerable  grants.  He 
was  likewise  made  a  knight  of  the  Garter,  and 
ftonn  nioR  coif8TABi.a  or  Bwoland*  In  the  2nd 
«f  Henry  VIII.  he  had  Ikenoe  to  Impark  a  thousand 
acres  of  land  at  his  lordship  off  Thombury,  in 
Glouoestetshire,  and  was  then  In  high  Ikrour  with 
tfM  king.  But  in  some  years  afterwards,  exciting 
the  enmity  of  Wolsey,  that  ambitious  prelate 
l^lanned,  and  finally  succeeded,  In  accomplishing 
his  grace's  ruin.  It  is  suted  that  the  olihnce  given 
by  tha  duke  to  the  cardinal  arose  thus  :•— His  grace 
«pon  some  oocaslan  holding  a  bason  to  the  king,  so 
soon  as  his  niiO«*ty  had  washed  Wolsey  dipped  his 
liands  In  the  water,  whkh  appeared  so  derogatory 
to  the  rank  of  Buckingham,  that  he  flung  the  con- 
tentt  of  the  ewer  Into  the  churchman*s  shoes ;  who, 
•being  highly  Inoaised,  menaced  that  he  would  stick 
upon  the  duke's  skirts :  a  threat  which  hU  grace 
met  by  coming  te  court  soon  after  richly  dressed, 
400  .     - 


but  without  any  ikhla  and  the  king 
the  cause  of  so  strange  a  fsshlon*  the  duke  replied, 
that  It  was  Intended  toprsesn«  Me  eordteers  dttign. 
The  duke,  like  his  father,  was  doomed,  however,  to 
lUl  by  domestic  treason,  for  having  discharged  ooo 
Knevet,  a  steward,  for  oppressing  his  tenantry,  that 
individual  beoone  a  fit  instrument  in  the  haiMis  of 
Wolsey  to  effect  theobilect  he  had  so  much  at  heart* 
Knevet  declared  that  the  duke  had  contemplated 
the  assatsinatlon  of  the  king,  in  order  that  he  might 
ascend  the  throne  himself  as  next  heir,  if  his  m»> 
jesty  died  without  issue;  and  upon  this  ftivolous 
information  one  of  the  most  iUustrioua  noblemen 
in  England  was  arraigned  at  Westminster,  before 
Thomas,  Duke  of  Norfolk,  then  sitting  as  Loao 
HtoH  vtnwAKD  OF  Emoland  for  the  occasion. 

The  duke  pleaded  his  own  cause,  and  sustained 
the  character  of  an  able  and  aooomplished  advocate, 
but  to  no  purpose;  he  was  found  guilty,  and  sen- 
tenced to  death.  Upon  which  he  addressed  the 
high  steward  thus:— *<  My  Lord  of  Norfolk,  you 
have  said  as  a  traitor  should  be  said  to ;  but  I  was 
never  any.  I  nothing  malign  you,  for  what  yon 
have  done  to  me;  but  the  eternal  God  forgive  you 
my  death*  I  shall  never  sue  to  the  king  fbr  lifb, 
though  he  be  a  gradous  prlaee;  and  more  grace 
may  oome firom  him  than  I  desire;  and  so  I  desire  you 
and  all  my  fellows  to  pray  for  mt,**  The  duke  was 
executed  by  decapitation  in  pursuance  of  the  Judg- 
ment passed  upon  him,  on  Tower  Hill,  17th  May, 
Uah  When  the  emperor,  Charles  V.,  heard  of  the 
event,  he  is  said  to  have  exdalmed,  "  A  bntchei's 
dog  has  killed  the  finest  buck  in  Bngbmd.'* 

His  grace  had  married  the  Lady  Allanore  Percy, 
daughter  of  Henry,  Eart  of  Northumberland,  and 
left  Issue, 

HaNAY,  of  whom  presently* 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  Thomas  Howard,  Duka  of 

Norfolk. 
Ratherlne,  «.  to  Ralph  Navill,  Earl  of  Weel^ 

morland. 
Mary,  m.  to  George  Nevlll,  LordBargavenny. 
A  bill  of  attainder  IbUowed  the  Judgment  and 
execution  of  the  duke,  and  under  tkmi  all  hla 
honours  became  roarKirnn.  The  fiite  of  thia 
illustrious  bouse  was  marked  by  a  mora  than  oadi- 
nary  degree  of  miafortamek 

Edmund,  Earl  of  Staflbrd, 

and  his  son, 
Humphrey,  Duke  of  Buck- 
ingham, and  his  son, 
Humphrey,  Earl  of  Staf- 
fordt 

both 
and  sacrlficad 
to  the  fenda 
of  party,  and 
to  private  ma- 
lignity. 

With  the  but  duke  sunk  fiar  ever  the  splendour, 
princely  honours,  and  great  wealth,  of  the  andent 
and  renowned  Aunily  of  STArronn.  Upon  passing 
the  bill  of  attainder  against  the  duke,  the  pevlfas- 
ment  enacted  also  a  bill  to  restore  an  blood,  but  not 
In  honours  and  lands,  his  giaoa^s  only  son, 
HENRY  STAFFORD,  to  whom,  hoir«v«r,  thn 


aUlieU  in  the  de- 
solating war 
of  theRosee. 


Henry,    second   Duke  of 
Buckingham»^   and    his 


Rdward,     third 

Duke  of  Buckingham, 


»TA 


8TA 


Mng  mad*  fanmMiate  gmtt  of  mmwiri  in  the 
county  of  Staflbrd  and  dwwhere^  which  had  be- 
longed to  hit  father,  and  he  obtained  tram  the 
crown»  hi  fome  yean  after,  the  casti«b  avd  mawor 
or  Stapfobd,  with  other  of  the  estates  of  the  de- 
ceased duke;  but  altogether  producing  only  the 
annual  income  of  £317*  13».  Id.  In  the  1st  of 
jBdward  VI.,  anno  1547»  an  act  of  parliament  passed,* 
again  restoring  him  in  blood,  and  declaring,  «*  that 
the  Said  Henry,  Lord  Staflbrd,  and  the  heirs  male 
of  his  body  coming,  may  be  taken,  and  reputed  as 
Lord  Staflbrd,  with  a  seat  and  voice  in  parliament 
at  a  baron;  and  farther,  that  the  sidd  Henry  be 
restored  in  blood  as  son  and  heir  of  Edward,  late 
4>uke  of  Buckingham,  Ac."  His  Itndship  m<  Ursula, 
daughter  of  Sir  Richard  Pole,  K.G.,  and  Margaret 
plantagenet.  Countess  of  Salisbury,  daughter  of 
George,  Duke  of  Clarence,  and  niece  of  Kings 
Edward  IV.  and  Richard  III.,  by  whom  he  had 
issue, 

Edward,  his  successor. 

RichaM,  m.  Mary»  dtui^tar  of  John  Corbet, 
and  had  issue. 

Room,  who  claimed  the  barony  upon 
the  decease  of  Henry,  fourth  lord,  in 
10^,  but  was  denied  It  on  account  of 
his  poverty.  He  d,  unmarried  in 
164a 
•lane,  who  m.  a  Joiner,  and  had  a  son  a 
coBBLm,  living  at  Newport,  in  Shrop- 
ihire,  in  1637-- thus  the  great^great- 
grandaon  of  Margaret  Plantagenet, 
daughter  and  heiress  of  George,  Duke 
of  Clarence,  sunk  to  the  grade  of  a 
mender  of  old  shoee. 
Walter. 

Dorothy,  m.  to  Sir  WUUam  Stsflbrd,  of 
Grafton,  and  from  this  lady,  Mr.  Richard 
Staflbrd  Cooke^  who  claimed  the  ancient 
Barony  of  Staflbrd,  derived  descent.  *■  But 
admitting  this  descent,  (says  Nicolas,)  it  is 
difficult  to  And  any  real  claim  which  it 
aflbrds  to  the  Barony  of  Staflbrd.  The  an- 
cient barony  undoubtedly  became  voa- 
FBiTBD  on  the  attainder  ot  Edward,  Duke 
of  Buckingham,  in  1581,  -and  which  at- 
tainder has  never  been  reversed.  Henry 
Staflbrd,  his  son  and  heir,  was  created  Baron 
Staflbrd  de  Novo,  with  an  express  limita- 
tion, to  «  Me  keirt  mate  qfhU  bodg  aming," 
by  act  of  parliament,  let  Edward  VL,  IM7, 
and  which  dignity  became  ejrtUut  on  the 
termination  of  the  male  descendants  of  the 
•aid  Henry,  about  the  year  l(Ma" 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Sir  William  Nevil,  Knt.,  of 
Chefaeey. 

•  Dugdale  states,  that  he  was  restored  in  blood  in 
IflSt  but  on  a  reference  to  the  authorlaed  collection 
of  the  statutes  it  appears,  that,  in  the  14th  and  lAth 
Henry  VIIL,  the  act  in  quesUon  was  passed,  and 
which  merely  enabled  the  sfid  Henry,  and  Ursula, 
his  wife^  and  their  heirs,  to  hold  and  tnjaj  certain 
estates,  granted.them  by  letters  patent,  dated  SOth 
December,  152S.— Nicov>4A 


ThittibbleiHHU  vhowaaaeteMieil  fbr  his  learning 
and  piety,  d.  in  1568,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

EDWARD  STAFFORD,  second  Baron  Staflbrd, 
of  the  new  creation,  summoned  to  parliament  in 
the  SSd  Elizabeth.    His  lordship  m.  Mary,  daugh- 
ter of  Edward,  Earl  of  Derby,  and  had  isaiieb 
Edwabd,  his  successor. 
Uimila,  m.  to  Walter  Erdeswiek,  Esq. 
Dorothy,  m.  to  -~-Gerveis  of  Chadwln. 
Hed.  In  1008,  and  was  #.  by  his  son, 

EDWARD  STAFFORD,  third  baron.  ThU 
nobleman  m.  Isabd,  daughter  of  Thomas  Forster, 
of  Tonge,  in  Shropshire,  whom  Banks  surmises  to 
have  been  a  chambermaid,  fhmi  a  paragraph  in  a 
letter  of  Rowland  White,  to  Sir  Robert  Sydney, 
dated 89d  November,  1506  (Sidney  Papen>:  "My 
Lorde  Stafltard's  soane  is  basely  married  to  his  mo- 
ther's chambamaid.**    His  lordship  had  isane, 

Edward,  ft.  in  1000,  m.  Anne,  daughter  Of 
Jamas  Wllftird,  Esq.,  of  Newnham-HalU 
in  the  county  of  Essex,  and  d.  in  the  lilb> 
time  of  his  f^her,  leaving  issue, 
Hbkbt,  who  «.  his  grandftther. 
Mary,  m.  to  Sir  William  Howard,  K.B., 
younger    son   of    Thomas,    Earl  of 
Arundel   (see  HowAfto,    Baton   and 
Viscount  Staflbrd). 
The  baron  d.  S5th  September,  1185,  and  was  «.  by  hia 
gijsndson, 

EDWARD  STAFFORD,  fourth  baron,  who  d. 
unmarried  in  1037,  when  the  barony  devolved  upon 
his  kinsman  (revert  to  children  of  Henry  Staflbrd, 
the  restored  baron  in  1547). 

RoocB  STArronn,  b.  at  Malpas,  in  Cheshire, 
about  the  year  157S.  '•  This  unfortunate 
man  (says  Banks)  In  lus  youth  went  by  the 
name  of  Fludd,  or  Floy  de ;  tot  what  reesoi^ 
has  not  yet  been  explained :  perhaps  with 
the  indignant  pride,  that  the  very  name  of 
Staflbrd  should  not  be  aisoriated  with  the 
obscurity  of  such  a  lot  I  However,  one 
Floyde,  a  servant  of  Mr.  George  Cothett^ 
of  Cowlesmore,  near  Lee,  in  Shropshtaat 
his  mother's  brother,  is  recorded  in  a  manu- 
script which  was  once  part  of  the  eolleo- 
tions  of  the  Staflbrd  family:  and  it  to 
not  improbably  that  this  was  some  falthAil 
servant,  under  whose  roof  he  might  have 
been  reered,  or  found  a  shelter  from  mla- 
fortuneB,  when  aU  his  great  alliances,  with 
a  cowardly  and  detestable  selflahness  might 
|iave  fiHsakeu  himi  and  that  he  mi(^t  have 
preferred  the  generous,  thouf^  humble 
name  of  Floyde,  to  one  that  had  brought 
him  nothing  but  a  keener  memorial  of  his 
misfortunes."  At  the  age  of  sixty-flve  he 
became,  by  the  early  death  of  Henry,  Wad 
Staflbrd,  (the  great  grandson  of  his  Ihther's 
elder  brother,)  in  1037*  heir  male  of  the  £a* 
milyt  and  petitioned  parliament  aecMd- 
ingly,  but  eventually  submitted  his  daim 
to  the  decision  of  lUng  Charies,  who  de- 
cided "that  tht  mtid  Ragw  atqfford,hmHtHr 
no  part  q^  tha  inh»Uane»  ^  tft«  mid  hard 
Sttifotd,  nor  antf  other  lande  or  moame  wh^- 
eoeper,  should  nake  a  resignstion  of  aH 


8TA 


STA 


tlBinu  and  title  to  the  takl  Bvony  of  Staf- 
fofil*  for  his  waaimtj  to  difpote  of  as  he 
should  see  fit.    In  obedience,  end  perform- 
ance of  whidi  arid  order,  the  said  Roger 
Staflbrd,  who  was  never  married,  did  by 
his  deed  enrolled,  dated  7th  December, 
1030,  grant  and  sanendar  unto  his  mi^ty 
tiM  said  Barony  of  Staflbrd,  and  the  honour, 
.  name,  and  difpiity  of  Lord  Staflbrd.    After 
which  sumnder,  the  king,  by  patent  dated 
ISth  September,  1640,  created  Sir  William 
Howard,  and  Mary  Staflbrd,  his  wife,  Baron 
and  Baroness  Staflbrd,  wltii  remainder  to 
the  heirs  imils  of  their  bodies,  fisilure  of 
which,  to  tlie  heirs  of  their  bodies,  with 
sudi  place  or  precedence,  as  Henry,  Lord 
Staflbrd,  brother  of  the  said  Mary,  ought 
to  ham  had  as  Baron  Staflbrd. 
"^Ith  this  unlbrtunale  Rooan  STArrono,  who  d, 
in  1640,   the  male  line  of  the  Staflbrds  became 
-■xTiifCT,  as  did  theBABomr  or  Stafvord,  created 
in  1M7. 
AaMa^x-Or.  a  dievron  gules. 


STAFFORD  —  BARON    STAFFORD, 
OF  CLIFTON. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  8th  January,  IJI71« 
44  Edward  IIL 

Xincage. 

SIR  RICHARD  DB  STAFFORD,  younger  son 
of  Edmund,  first  Lord  Staflbrd,  (see  Staflbrd,  Ba- 
rons and  Earls  Staflbrd,)  having  m,  Maud,  daughter 
and  heiress  of  Ridiard  de  Camvile,  of  Clifton,  in 
the  county  of  Staflbrd,  acquired  that  lordship,  and 
was  thence  designated.  Sir  Richard  Staflbrd  dis- 
tinguished himsdf  in  the  French  wars  of  King 
Edward  HI.,  and  was  seneschal  of  Gasoony  in  that 
monarch's  reign.    He  was  «.  at  his  decease  by  his 


RICHARD  DB  STAFFORD,  who,  haTing  been 
engaged  in  the  French  wars,  was  summoned  to 
parliament,  by  King  Edward  IIL,  as  Barok  Staf- 
ford, of  Clifton,  on  the  8th  January,  1371,  and  he 
had  regular  summons  from  that  period  to  SOth 
October,  1379 1  hi  d.  In  1381,  leaving  his  son  and 
heir, 

EDMUND  DE  STAFFORD,  In  holy  orders, 
wlio  was  afterwards  Bishop  of  Exeter,  and  Lord 

KSBPIR  OF  THB  ORCAT  ScAIm 

And  another  son, 

SIR  THOMAS  STAFFORD,  who  came  to  pos- 
sess the  estate,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

THOMAS  STAFFORD,  who  d.  issueless,  leaylng 
an  only  sister  and  heiress, 

KATHERINB  STAFFORD,  who  m.  Sir  John 
Arden,  KnL,  and  left  an  only  chlM, 

MAUD  ARDEN.  This  lady  espoused  Sir  Tho- 
mas Stanley,  and  although  none  of  the  Staflbrds 
were  summoned  but  Richard,  the  first  lord,  yet 
the  BARoiVY  still  existed,  and  was  conyeyed  to  the 
family  of  her  husband  by  this  Maud,  and  continues 
Tested  in  the  reprctentatlTes  of  that  lady. 


ARV8.-«ame  as  Slafltafd,  B«lsStaftMd»  a  aft. 
scent  fbr  difltaence. 

STAFFORD  —  BARON  STAFFORD, 
OF  SUTHWYCK,  EARL 
OF  DEVON. 

Barony,  first  by  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  96th  July, 
1461,  and  aitenrards  by  Patent,  dated  84th  Apxi]« 
1464. 

Earldom,  created  7th  May,  14901 

Xiiuagc. 

This  branch  of  the  andent  bouse  of  Staflbrd 
sprang  fkom 

SIR  JOHN  STAFFORD,  son  of  William  Staf- 
fiDTd,  of  Bromshttll,  in  the  county  of  Staflbrd,  and 
deeoended  tram  Henrey  Bagot  and  Milisent  Staflbrd 
(see  Staflbrd,  Lords  Staflbrd,  Dukes  of  Buckings 
ham,  &C.) ;  which  Sir  John  m.  Margaret,  youngest 
daughter  of  Ralph  Staflbrd,  first  Earl  of  Stafford^ 
and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR  HUMPHREY  STAFFORD,  a  distinguished 
soldier  in  the  martial  reign  of  Ring  Edward  III., 
and  one  of  the  retinue  of  the  Bjlack  Princb.    He 

m. ,  daughter  and  heir  of Grelnvll,  and 

was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR  HUMPHREY  STAFFORD,  called  "  Hum- 
phrey with  the  silver  hand,**  who  m.  Elisabeth, 
widow  of  Sir  John  Maltravers,  of  Hooke,  in  the 
county  of  Dorset,  and  daughter  and  helx  of  — ^- 
Dynham,  by  whom  he  had  two  sons, 
Humfrrbt,  Ills  successor. 
John,  Bishop  of  Bath  and  WcDs,  and  after- 
wards Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  d.  about 
the  SOth  Henry  VL 
This  Sir  Humphrey  was  sheriff  of  the  counties  of 
Somerset  and  Dorset,  in  the  reign  of  Henry  IV.» 
and  dying  in  1413,  was  s.  by  his  elder  son, 

SIR  HUMPHREY  STAFFORD,  whom.  ElisR- 
beth,  daughter,  and  eventuaUy  sole  heiress,  of  Sir 
Jdhn  Maltravers,  Knt.,  of  Hooke,  and  had  livery  of 
the  lands  of  her  inheritance  in  the  8th  Henry  IT. 
By  this  lady  he  had  Issue, 

John  (Sir),  m.  Anne,  daughter  of  William* 
Lord  Botreaux,  and  dying  in  the  life-time  of 
his  father,  left  a  son, 

HuMPRRBY,  who  «.  bis  giandfiither. 
William,  m.  to  Katherlne,  daughter  of  SSr 
John  Chidiock,  and  had  a  son, 

HUHPBRBT,  of  whom  hereafter,  as  Lord 
Staflbrd,  and  Earl  of  Devon. 
Alice,  m.  first,  to  Sir  Edmund  Cheney,  of 
Brooke,  in  the  county  of  Wilts,  and  had 
issue, 

Elisabeth  Cheney,  m.  Sir  John  Coleshill, 

Knt,  and  died  s.  p,»  1st  Richard  IH. 
Anne  Cheney,  m.  Sir  J<dm  Wllloughby, 
and  had  issue. 

Sir  Robert  Wllloughby,  summoned 

to  parliament  as  Lord  Wllloughby 

de  BrookCi 

Alice,  Lady  Cheney,  espoused,  secondly, 

Walter  Talboys,  by  whom  she  had  an 

only  daughter. 


STA 


STA 


ElMnor,  who  m.  Thomat  StiaBge- 
wftyt,  Esq.,  of  Mdbury,  in  the 
county  of  Donet. 
Sir  Humphiey  StaAxnl  was  «.  at  hi»  deeeaM  by  his 
giandsoD, 

SIR  HUMPHREY  STAFFORD,  who  was  slain, 
30th  Henry  VI.,  in  rencontre  with  tlie  rsbds  under 
Jack  Cads,  at  Seven  Oaks^  in  the  county  of  Kent, 
and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

HUMPHREY  STAFFORD,  appointed  steward 
of  the  Duchy  of  ComwaU,  In  the  Ist  Henry  lY., 
but  d.  the  same  year  without  issue,  when  the  estates 
derohred  upon  his  cousfai,  (rete  to  issue  of  Wil* 
liam,  son  of  Sir  Humphrey  StaHbrd,  and  EUiabethf 
heiress  of  Maltravers,) 

HUMPHREY  STAFFORD,  of  Suthwyck,  who 
was  summoned  to  parliament  as  a  bason  fhmi 
^th  July,  1461,  to  fiSth  February,  1463.    His  lord, 
ship  was  created,  by  patent,  dated  84th  April,  1464, 
Lord  Stapfo&d,  qf  Suthwyck,  and  advanced  to 
the  Ba BLOOM  or  Dbyob,  7th  May,  1460;  after  the 
execution  and  attainder  of  Thomas  Courtenay, 
Earl  of  Devon,  who  had  been  made  prisoner  at 
Towton  Field.    But  this  hitter  dignity  he  eqjoyed 
only  a  few  months :  for  being  sent  with  eight  hun- 
dred archers  to  assist  the  Earl  of  Pembroke  in  sup- 
prwsing  the  northern  rebellion  under  Sir  J<4m 
Conyers,  he  deserted  the  earl's  banner  owing  to 
some  penonal  slight,  and  caused  the  total  defeat  of 
that  nobleman  and  his  army;  which  conduct  so 
irriuted  King  Edward  IV.  that  he  hnmediately 
despatched  letters  to  the  sheriflk  of  Somerwt  and 
Devon,  commanding  them  to  seixe  Staflbrd  where- 
soever they  should  find  him,  and  to  put  him  to 
Immediate  death.  His  lordship  was,  in  consequence, 
taken  at  a  village  called  Brentmarsh,  and  thence 
conveyed  to  Bbidobwatbb.  where  his  head  was  cut 
off  on  the  17th  August.  1469.    He  had  fN.  Isabel, 
daughter  of  Sir  John  Baire,  KnL,  but  had  no  issue. 
AH  his  honours  fdl,  however,  under  the  attaib- 
DBBs  but  his  estates,  comprising  divers  manors  in 
the  county  of  Dorset,  by  a  fiooAnent  made  to  J<4m 
Staflbrd,  Archbishop  of  Canterbury*  Sir  William 
Bonvill,  and  others,   by  Sir  Humphrey  Staflbrd 
with  the  silver  hand,  (which  feofftrs  passed  them 
to  Katherlne,  late  wife  of  William  Staflbrd,  Esq., 
to  hold  for  UilB,  with  remainder  to  Sir  Humphrey, 
son  of  the  said  William,  and  his  hiwfUl  heirs;  and 
in  defliult  of  such  issue,  to  the  right  heirs  of  Sir 
Humphrey  with  the  silver  hand,)  descended  to 
Elisabeth,  wife  of  Sir  John  Colshill,  hk  the  county 
of  Devon;  Sir  Robert  Willoughby,  son  and  heir 
of  Anne  Cheney,  otherwise  WiUoughby,  and  Elea- 
nor Strangeways,  as  heirt  of  Sir  Humphrey  Staf- 
ford with  the  silver  hand  (revert  to  issue  of  Alice, 
only  daughter  of  Sir  Humphrey  Staflbrd,  and  Eliaa- 
beth,  heiress  of  Sir  John  Maltraven). 

Sir  John  CoIshiU  dying  without  issue,  1st  Richard 
L,  the  estates  were  then  divided  between  the  Wil- 
loughbys  and  Strangeways.  From  the  WUIoughbys, 
their  dividend  passed  to  the  Paulets  and  the 
Blounts,  and  at  length  centred  entirely  in  the 
former,  who  thereby  became  possessors  of  tiie 
manor  of  Hooke,  in  the  county  of  Dorset. 

Abms.— Or.  a  chevron  gu.  within  a  bordnre  en- 
grailed, sa. 


STAFFORD  _  EARLS  OF  WILT- 

SHIRE. 

Crsated  5th  January,  1470L 
Revived  In  15QSL 

Xincagc. 

LORD  JOHN  STAFFORD,  youngeat  eon  of 
Humphrey,  first  Dukeof  Buckinghian,  was  elevated 
to  the  peerage  by  King  Edward  IV.,  aa  Eabl  ov 
WxLTBBZBB,  and  in  three  years  afterwards  was 
Joined  in  commission  with  the  Earl  of  Northumber* 
land*  and  others,  to  treat  with  the  ambassadors  of 
James  III.,  King  of  Scothmd,  Ibr  the  a4|ustment 
of  grievances  complained  of  by  both  realms.  His 
lordship  m.  Constance*  dani^ter  and  heiress  of  Sir 
Henry  Green,  of  Drayton,  in  the  county  of  Nor* 
thamptoa.  The  earl,  who  was  remaricable  Ibr  little 
more  than  his  devotton  to  the  House  of  York,  by 
which  he  acquired  the  peerage  and  the  garter,  d.  in 
1473*  and  was  «.  by  his  only  child, 

EDWARD  STAFFORD,  second  Earl  of  WUt- 
shire.  This  nobleman  m.  Margaret,  one  of  the 
daughters  and  co-heirs  of  John  Grey,  second  Vis- 
count L'Isle,  but  d,  without  iseue  94th  March,  1409, 
when  the  earldom  became  bztibct.  Ib  some  yean 
afterwards  the  deceased  lord's  first  cousin, 

LORD  HENRY  STAFFORD,  younger  son  of 
Henry,  second  Duke  of  Buckinghnn,  was  created 
by  King  Henry  VIIL,  (te  the  first  year  of  his  reign 
1M9,)  Eabi.  OF  WiLTasiBB.  His  lordship  im.  first, 
Margaret,  Countess  of  Wilts,  widow  of  the  deceased 
lord,  and  secondly,  Cecily,  daughter  and  heiress  of 
William  Bonvliek  Lord  Hailngton,  and  widow  of 
Thomas  Grey,  Marquees  of  Dorset,  but  d.  without 
Issue  in  IttS,  when  the  Eabumm  or  Wxi.tshibb 
became  again  bztibct* 

ABMfc    See  those  of  Staflbrd. 

STAFFORD  —  BARON    STAFFORD, 
OR  BOURCHIER. 

See  BourtMw,  Babohs  Boubchxbb  aitd  EABLa 

OF  EaSBB. 

Sir  Hugh  Staflbrd,  Knt,  married  Elisabeth  Bour- 
chier.  Baroness  Bourchier,  and  in  her  right  waa 
summoned  to  parliament  aa  a  babok.  He  d.  how« 
ever  without  Issue. 

STANHOPE—BARONS  STANHOPE, 
OF  HARRINGTON. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  4th  May,  I6(tti 

The  femily  of  Stabbopb  was  of  great  antiquity 
in  the  county  of  Nottingham,  although  It  did  not 
attain  the  digftity  of  the  peerage,  until  compara- 
tively modem  times. 
In  the  48th  Edward  IIL, 

JOHN  STANHOPE,  of  Rampton,  served  the 
oflloe  of  escheator  for  Nottin^iamshlre,  and  tfio 
county  of  Derby,  a  public  situatlan  at  that  time 
UttleJnfeilovtothatofsherlft  From  him  descended 


STA 


STA 


JOHN  STANHOPE,  who  m.  KUsalMth,  dMigh- 
ter  and  hdr  of  Sterol  MauloTeli  (couiin  and  heir 
of  Sir  Jirfin  LoDgrilUen,  grandioii  to  Thomas 
LongvilUen,  Baron  Loogvillian,  Mni|^  Edward 
IHo)  and  wai  #.  by  his  um, 

SIR  RICHARD  STANHOPE,  KnL,  who.  in 
the  Gth  of  Henry  I Y.'.  was  sheriff  of  the  oountiei  of 
Nottfagham  and  Derby.    Fnm  thia  Sir  RSlBhard 


SIR  EDWARD  STANHOPE,  Knt.,  Coostatale 
of  Sandak  Oaatlo.  tamp.  Henry  VII.,  whose  aeoond 


SIR  MICHAEL  STANHOPE.  Knt.,  obtahied 
s  grant,  tamp.  Hanry  VIII.,  of  the  manor  of 
Shelfoffd.  In  the  county  of  Nottingham,  with  its 
membcBB.  perod  of  the  pomassions  of  the  than  dis- 
aolved  monaatary  there,  aa  alao  grants  of  hmds  in 
the  counties  of  Lkrarin  and  Darby.  Sir  Michael 
had  a  numaraus  family,  of  which  the  eidast  son, 
Su  TuoMAa  Stahvopc,  inhorlted  Shellbnl. 
and  was  gxandfluhar  of  Philip*  fltat  Eabi. 

of  CHS8T>Mrni.D. 

And  the  third  aon. 

SIR  JOHN  STANHOPE.  Knt..  of  HanlngteB, 
in  the  county  of  Nottingiiam,  having  enjoyed  high 
fevour  at  the  courts  of  Elisabbth  and  JAMxa  I., 
was  derated  to  the  peerage  by  the  hHtar  monardi, 
to  whom  he  was  Tiee^diamberlain,  as  Baeow  Stajt- 
0OPn,  qf  HarrtHgton,    His  lordsiiip  m.  Mai^aret, 
daughtar  and  oo-holr  of  Henry  M'WilUamB.  Esq.. 
of  Stanbome,  in  Essex,  by  whom  Iw  had  issue. 
CaABAao,  his  sucosssor. 
EUaaheth,  ak  to  Sir  LIOBel  ToHemacfae,  Be* 
nmet.  of  Hdndngham,  ancestor  of  the  pre* 
sant  Countess  of  Dyoart 
Catherine^  «k  to  Robart,  Viscount  Cbofanlay, 
of  Kells,  in  Irdand,  aftorwarda  Earl  of 
Ldnster. 
Lord  Stanhope  d,  in  1680,  and  was  «.  by  his  son. 

CHARLES  STANHOPE,  second  baron.  This 
nobleman  lived  abroad  during  the  civU  wan,  temp. 
Charles  I.  He  fa.  Dorothy  LlvlngBton,  sister  of 
James,  Earl  of  Newbuigh,  but  d.  without  issue,  in 
1077.  when  the  Baromij^of  STANHOPa,  </  Harring- 
ton, became  azTiircr. 
-  AtMa.^-^uarterty,  ewn.  and  gules. 


WILLIAM  DC  STANLBIOH,  from  whom  de- 


STANLEY— BARONS  STANLEY. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  tested  15th  January,  1406, 
34  Hanry  VL 

Xincsst. 

This  fsmily,  according  to  Dugdale,  is  "  a  hranch 
of  that,  whose  chief  seat  hath  been  for  many  ages 
at  HowTON,  in  Cheshire;*  and  it  originally  as- 
sumed its  surname  fkom  the  kicdship  of  Stawd- 
lAioH.  in  Stalbsdshire  t  iriiich  kMrdship  was  ao 
called  Ikom  the  nature  of  the  soli.  M  being  ron^ 
and  stoney,  with  divers  crsggy  rocks  around  it. 
Standldgh  was  formerly  pnsinsnml  by  the  lords 
AUelcyh,  or  Andley,  of  Aldetagh.  and  was  ex- 
changed by  Adaas.  the  son  of  Lldul]A  de  Aldelegh, 
with  his  cousin.  William,  sen  of  Ms  unds,  Adam 
do  Aldekghp  which  WUEm  becmne  hi 
quence. 


SIR  JOHN  STANLEY,  K.O.,  who  m.  Isabel, 
daughter  and  hebess  of  Sir  Thomas  Latbom,  and 
acquired  thereby  the  estates  of  Lathom  and 
Knowerieya.  in  the  county  of  Lancaster.    Sir  John 

subeoquently,  one  of  the  most  powarftd  peiw 
in  the  kingdom.  In  the  r^gnof  Honry 
IV.,  he  obtained,  Jfeing  than  steward  of  the  house- 
hold, liosnce  to  fortify  a  house  near  Liverpool, 
which  he  had  newly  buiU,  with  ambettlad  walla. 
He  was  afterwards  lord  deputy  of  Irehmd.  In 
he  was  lord  justice  and  lord  lieutenant  of  the 
kingdom.  In  the  first  year  of  Henry  V.,  bataig 
then  consUble  of  Windsor  Castlo,  he  wai 
a  Knight  of  the  Oarter.  and  ww  a  second  tii 
stituted  lord  lieutenant  of  Ireland,  Cor  «ls  yeaiai 
In  which  government  he  died,  on  the  6th  Janumya 
1414.    By  the  heiress  of  Lathom  he  Ml  two  Bona, 

JoRir,  his  successor. 

Thomes,  whom.  Maud,  daughter  and  heir  of 
Sir  John  Ardeme,  of  Uford,  In  the  county 
of  Stallbrd,  and  so  long  as  his  male  line  con* 
tinued,  Blfoid  wm  their  chief  ssat. 
The  elder  son, 

JOHN  STANLEY,  Esq.,  was  made  gofvainor  of 
Carnarvon  Castle,  and  marrying  Isabel,  ^stsr  of 
Sir  William  Harrington.  Knt.,  had  a  son, 

SIR  THOMAS  STANLEY,  Knt.,  who,  la  thO 
0th  of  Hanry  VL,  waa  constituted  Uentenant  of 
IreUnd,  as  his  grandlkther  had  been  for  sbi  yeata» 
and  he  wm  subsequently  made  bono  OBAMBan* 
i.Aiir  TO  mn  KXiro.  With  King  Henry,  Sir  Tli»- 
mas  was  In  high  fkvour,  and  having  been  commis- 
akmed  by  that  monardi,  upon  several  oeeaslODa. 
to  negotiate  peace  with  his  enemtos,  he  wm  nmde 
a  Knight  of  the  Ctarter,  and  had  summons  to  perUn* 
mentas  Babok  Stan lbv,  by  special  writ,  teated  I0th 
January,  14M,  hot  never  afterwards.  Hfa  lordship 
fa.  Joan,  daughter  and  heir  of  Mr  Rohait  Oevshlil, 
Knt.,  aad  had  Issoo, 

Tbom  AS,  his  suceOBBor. 

William. 

John. 

Margaret,  m.  to  Sir  William  Troubeck,  Knt. 

EHsaboth,  IN.  to  Sir  Richard  MoUneux,  Knt. 
Hk  kndship  d.  ta  l4t»S,  and  wm  #.  by  Ws  eldeot 


THOMAS  STANLEY,  seaond  baron, 
moned  to  parliament,  from  30th  July,  1469,  to  Mil 
December,  1489L  This  noMeman,  who  waa  steward 
of  the  household  to  King  Bdwmrd  IV.,  stood  Isith- 
Ad  to  the  Intetests  of  his  son,  Edward  V.,  and 
incumed.  In  oonsequenee;  the  jealousy  of  the  Pno- 
TBCTOR  GLovcnantn,  from  the  meinent  theft 
daring  penonage  contemplated  seMag  upon  the 
government.  Lord  Stanley  was  at  the  obunefl. 
when  Lord  Hsetlngs  wm  anested  by  ovdsr  of  the 
PnoracTOB,  and  then  very  nanowly  sarnpait  with 
his  lift,  having  received  a  \^olent  blow  on  the  head 
from  a  halhert.  He  ww  afterwards  eommittad  to 
prison,  when  the  protector  threw  off  the  i 
usurped  the  crown  m  Rkherd  III.,  but 
lest  his  son,  Ononos.  Lsm(  Hfrwuge,  should  atlr  up 
the  people  to  revolt.  To  ensum  his  enpport.  the 
new  monarch  loaded  his  lordship  then  with  Iwowrai 


ATA 


8TA 


amtltiiliiig  hlBi  InrA  itoiiwA  of  tlit  homAcId, 

^NITABLS    09    KKaLAMO   F0»    I(irB>    iDTWttag 

him  with  the  Garter.  Aec.;  but  hii  httviag  manicd 
Iter  hit  Meond  wil^  MA»aAm«T  Tudor,  Coonieu 
of  Richmond,  and  mother  of  Ridutfd*s  rival, 
HBJiav,  mmritftUdtmumd,  made  him  ttill  an  tib^titt 
of  diatruat  to  the  uaurper.  So  loon,  thwetere,  aa 
Richard  waa  appriaed  of  the  Earl  of  Richmond's 
arrival  in  Brltanny,  and  hia  praj)ecta  regarding  the 
Sngliah  loeptrek  Lord  Stanley  waa  commanded  to 
discharge  all  his  servants,  and  strictly  prohibited 
holding  any  communication  with  his  step-son.  Sub- 
sequMtly  he  obtained  permiBslon  to  lettee  in|o  the 
country,  but  was  obliged  to  leave  his  son  and  heir, 
OcoBon,  Lord  Strange*  as  an  hostaga  This  young 
BoUeman,  Riohaab  afleiwaida  threatened  to  put 
to  death,  should  hla  fisther  appear  in  anna  on  the 
part  of  RiCHMOiTD,  but  the  menace  fidled  in  keep 
ing  Lotd  Stanley  ftom  the  field,  who  dIatinguisliBd 
himself  aa  one  of  the  moat  active  eommandepi  at 
BoewoBTH,  and  when  victory  at  length  doclaved 
§9t  Lakcaotsb,  had  the  high  honour  of  crawn- 
ing  ttpon  the  field  of  battle,  his  soo^n-law  and 
OBinr,  and  proclaiming  him  Kiiro  om  SwoiiAiin, 
under  the  title  of  Hxnby  VIL  Hia  kwdship 
waa  soon  afterwards  created  IlABit  ov  Dsbby, 
and  sworn  of  the  privy  oouncU.  He  m.  first.  Lady 
Eliaabeth  Neville,  daughter  of  Richaid,  Karl  of 
Salisbury,  and  had  issu9, 

GaoBttB,  who  m.  Joane,  daughter  and  hair 
of  John,  Loan  Stbahob,  t^f  Xnefcym  and 
In  her  right  was  suaunoned  to  perliament, 
aa  Lord  Strange.    He  died  before  his  fsthw, 


Tbomab,   who  «•  aa  seooDd  Sabi*  or 
Dbbby. 
Edwabs,  afterwards  Lord  Monteagl* 
Jawiae,  Wshop  of  Ely. 
Margaret,  m.  to  Sir  John  Onbaldesfon, 
Hla  loidahip  espoused*  secondly*  aa  ataeady  atated, 
Marguet,  Countess  of  Richmond,  mother  of  the 
new  klQg,  but  had  no  Issuer    He  died  in  UM,  and 
from    tha't    period    the    Baboby  ob    Stablby 
merged  in  the  Earldom  of  Derby,  until  the  decease 
of 

FERIMNANDO  STANLEY,  fifth  Earl  Of 
Derby,  and  sixth  Babob  Stablby,  in  IfiOB,  when 
tt  feu  into  abbyabob,  with  the  Babomt  ob 
Sbbabob,  9f  Kmicwn,  amongst  that  noUeaaon's 
three  dniightars  and  eo-balia,  vi& 

Abb  B»  m.  flxat,  to  On^  Brugea,  Lord  Chaa- 
doe*  and  eeeondly,  to  Mer^n*  Earl  of  Cae- 
tlehavetti 
Fbabobb,  «.  to  Sit  John  Egerton,  afterwatda 

Eailof  BiidgewateB. 
Elisabbtb,  m.  to  Henry,  Earl  of  HuntingdiBk 
Both  stiU  ooBtinue  with  thofar  representatives. 
ABjia.^Ar.  on  •  iMnd  iBi  thiee  Imcka' 


STANLEY--BARONS  MONTEAOLfi. 

By  Writ  of  Sammons,  dated  nrd  November,  in4, 
«  Henry  VIII. 

SIR  EDWABD    STANLEY*.  MCOivl   iOn   of 


TttoMit,  fint  lari  of  Deir^,  httli^r  eommanded, 
in  the  6th  Henry  VIII.,  the  rear  gnaid  of  the  Eng- 
lish army,  at  the  battle  of  FirfiBBBB  Fiblb,  and 
contributed,  by  entnordiaary  vakmr,  at  the  heed 
of  a  body  of  archers,  to  the  total  overthrow  of  the 
Scottiah  army,  waa  the  next  year  proclaimed  Lobo 
MoBTBAOLB,  by  Klttg  Ubbbv,  then  holding  hla 
court  at  Eltham,  hi  consliiwatiuu  of  hlsgaUanteoB- 
doct,  and  In  ooauneaiorBtlon  of  having  won  aa 
elovated  position  ftom  die  Seotsf  hi  which  dignity 
he  was  anaunoned  to  parliament,  ftom  asrd  ]f  o- 
▼ember,  1A14,  to  12th  November,  lAlA.  He  was 
also  made  a  Kaioav  of  the  Oabvbb. 

«'  This  noblemen's  Mrth,"  eeya  Banks,  '*  hie 
actiTe  childhood,  and  martial  spirit,  had  brought 
him  ettly  to  Henry  Vlll.'s  notice  and  o(napeay» 
and  his  aspiring  manhood  to  his  service.  The  camp 
waa  his  school,  and  his  hwming  was  a  pike  and 
sword.  Whoever  hia  m^lesty  met  him,  hia  greet- 
ing was  «  Ho,  my  soldier.'  Twice  did  he  end  Sir 
John  Wallop  land,  with  only  eight  hundred  men« 
in  the  heart  of  Franoei  and  four  times  did  he  and 
Sir  Thomas  Lovel  saTO  Calais ;  the  first  time  by 
inteiligenoe,  tiiesecond  by  strategem,  the  third  by 
valour  and  resohition,  the  fourth  by  hardship, 
patience,  and  industry."  His  lordship  m.  Anne,« 
dau^ter  and  co-heir  ot  Sir  John  Harrington,  KnL, 


Tbomab*  hla  snooeeBOr. 

Eliaabeth,  m.  to  Star  Thomaa  Langton,  Kttt.,of 
Newton,  in  Lanoaahire, 
He  d.  in  IfldD,  and  waa«.  by  his  son, 

XHOMAS-  STANLEY,  seooad  beion,  sum- 
moned to  parliament  from  3rd  November,  189,  to 
nrd  January,  la60i  This  nobleman  waa  made  a 
Kaight  of  the  Bath  at  the  ooroaatioa  of  Abbb 
BoiiBYir.  Hia  lordship  m.  Lady  Mary  Brandon, 
danghter  of  Charles,  Duke  of  Snflblk,  by  whom  he 
had  issue, 

WHiLiAM  (Sir),  his  iucetaiDr. 

Francis,  1 

Charles  f  ^^  ^'^  yo^uig  and  issuelesSi 

EliaBbeth*  m.  to  Richard  Zouche,  of  8ta^ 
tordel,  in  the  county  of  Somerset. 

m.  first,  to  William  Suttoa,  and 
idly,  to  John  Tallard. 
Aane»  m.  to  Sir  John  CliAon,  Knt*,  of  Bar- 
rington,  in  Someraetshira. 
Lord  Monteegla  espoused,  aaoondly,  Helen,  daugh- 
ter of  Thomas  Preston,  Esq.,  of  Levena,  in 
aunland,  bat  had  no  lisuob    Hed.  In  IMO,  and 
9,  by  his  sou, 

SIR  WILLIAM  STANLEY,  third  baron,  sum- 
monad  to  parliament  from  11th  January,  IBn,  to 
0th  January,  lOSl.  Hia  lordship  m.  first,  Anne^ 
dau^tsr  of  Sir  James  Leyboume^  Knt.,  by  whom 
ha  had  an  only  child, 

B&isABBni,  who  Ml.  Edward  Parker,  Loan 
MoaitBT,  and  her  son, 
WUliem  Fartur,  wea  summoned  to  pa»> 
Uament  aa  Loan  Moblbt  and  MoBt<- 


a  Edmondson  says  he  had  a  former  wife,  Elisa- 
beth, daughter  and  hdr  of  Thomas  Vaaghaa,  Esq.* 
bttthad.]M»iaMM^ 

4S^ 


8TA 


8TA 


AAOLB  (Me  Pvkcr,  Barattf  Moriqr 

and  MontMgte). 
He  weddad,  Moondly.  Anne,  dau^ter  of  Sir  John 
Spencer,  of  Altborpe,  in  tha  county  of  Northamp- 
ton, l>y  whom  (who  aipouiad,  aftar  hit  lordahif^t 
daoeaw.  Hairy*  Lord  Compton»  and  aftarwarda, 
Robort,  Lord  Buckhunt,)  ha  had  no  iMua.  His 
lordahip  d.  in  IMl,  when  the  Baboitv  or  Moht> 
flAoi.B  devolvad  upon  hia  only  dau^^ter  and  hairaM, 
Ei«izABSTH  Stamlbt*  who  oonveyad  it  to  the 
family  of  her  husband*  Edward  Parker,   Lono 

MORLST. 

ABM8.— ^r.  on  a  bend  as.  three  bodes'  heads  ca- 
boahador.i  a  crescent  fi»  diflteenoeu 

STANLEY—BARONS  STRANGE^  OF 
KNOKYN. 

Refer  to  Strange  Barons  Strange*  of  Knokyn. 

STAPLETON  —  BARONS  STAPLE- 

TON. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  8th  January,  1313> 
6  Edward  IL. 

Of  this  funny,  which  sssumfd  its  surname  ftom 
the  lordship  of  STAPLaroif ,  upon  the  river  Teys, 
In  the  Bishoprick  of  Durham,  was, 

NICHOLAS  DE  STAPLETON,  who  .in  the  17th 
oi  King  John,  was  constituted  goremor  of  Middle- 
ham  Castle^  in  the  county  of  York*  and  flrom  him 


MILES  DB  STAPLETON,  who,  having  dis- 
tinguished himself,  temp.  Edward  L  and  Edward  IL, 
in  the  wan  of  Gascony  and  Scotland,  was  sum- 
moned to  pariiamcnt  as  a  BAnoir,  by  the  latter 
monarch,  on  the  8th  January,  Und  May,  and  8th 
July,  1313.  His  lordship  m.  Siblll,  daughter  and 
oo-heir  of  John  da  Bell»-Aqua,  or  Beilew,  (by  Lad- 
erina.  Us  wife,  fourth  sister  and  oo-h^  of  Peter,  last 
Lord  Brace,  of  Skalton,)  and  was  «.  at  his  decease, 
in  1314,  by  his  son, 

NICHOLAS  DE  STAPLETON,  second  baron, 
summoned  to  parbamant  SSth  February,  134S. 
.This  nobleman,  in  tiie  time  of  Edward  IL,  was 
inTOtved  in  the  inaurrection  of  Thomas,  Earl  of 
Xancaatcr,  and  lined  two  thousand  marks  for  saving 
his  life ;  but  the  line  was  remitted  in  1st  of  Edward 
lU.     His  kvdship  A  in  1S4S,  and  wm  «.  by  his 


.  MILES  STAPLETON,  third  baron,  summoned 
to  parliament  in  the  aftid  Edward  IIL  This  noUe- 
jnan  was  a  person  of  great  note  at  the  period  in 
in  which  be  lived.  He  participated  in  many  of  the 
French  campaigns  of  Edward  IIL,  and  he  marrhfd 
under  the  iNumer  of  Philip  of  Navarre,  to  within 
nine  leagues  of  Paris,  when  the  Frendi  were  obliged 
.to  enter  into  a  truce.  He  was  subsequently  made 
a  Kn lOBT  of  the  Gabtbb.  His  lordship  m.  Joene, 
daughter  and  heir  of  Oliver  de  Inghzam,  Baron 
Inghram,  and  widow  of  Roger  la  Strange,  of 
Knokyn,  and  was  «.,  at  his  decease,  47th  Edward 
III.,  by  his  son, 
THOMAS  DE  STAPLETON,  fourth  baran, 
408 


bat  never  suiftiawied  to  partiament.  TUs  ttoUe* 
man  died  the  same  jrear  he  inherited,  and  leavii^ 
no  issue,  his  sister, 

Elisabbth  db  STAP1.BT01I,  wifo  of  Thomas 
Mbtham, 
became  his  heir,  and  the  Babobt  op  Stapubtoh 
has  since  been  vested  in  her  descendants. 
Aaiuk— Aa.  a  lion  rampant  sa. 


STAWEL-^ARONS    STAWEL,    OF 
SOMERTON. 

By  Letters  Patsnt,  dated  16th  January,  1883. 

Xineasc. 

This  ftoiUy  is  said  to  have  been  of  antiquity,  but 
it  arrived  at  no  distinction  untU  a  period  of  com- 
parativdy  modem  datOp 

SIR  JOHN  STAWEL.  K.  B.,  m.  BUsabeth. 
daughter  of  Gemge  Touchet,  Lord  Audley,  and  left 
a  son, 

SIR  JOHN  STAWEL,  of  Somerton,  in  the 
county  of  Somerset,  who  distinguished  hims^  by 
his  aeal  in  the  royal  cause  during  the  civil  wars. 
He  was  «.  by  his  son, 

RALPH  STAWEL,  Esq.,  who,  in  coosiden- 
tlon  of  the  suflbrings  of  his  fsther,  and  his  own 
eminent  servicss  in  the  same  cause,  was  elevated  to 
the  peerage  by  King  CHABLBa  IL.  on  the  15th 
January,  1883,  as  Babomt  Stawbl,  tif  Somerton,  in 
the  county  of  Somerset.  His  lordship  in.  first, 
Anne,  daughter  of  John  Ryves,  Esq.,  of  Ranston, 
in  the  county  of  Dorset,  and  had  an  only  son, 
JoHW,  his  successor.  He  m.  secondly,  Abigail, 
daughter  of  William  Pitt,  Esq.,  of  Hartley 
Wespal,  in  the  county  of  Staflbid,  by  whom  he 
had  issue, 

William,  1  who  succeeded  successively  to  tha 

Edwabd,  j     title. 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  William  Bromley,  Esq.,  of 

Bagmton. 
Catherine,  m.    to  the    Rev.  William  Hlg^ 

den,  D.D. 
Lucy. 
Diana. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1888,  and  was  «.  by  his  ddest 


JOHN    STAWEL,    saoond  Baron   SUwti,   of 
Somerton.     This  nobleman   m.   Lady  Margaret 
Cedl,  daughter  of  James,  Earl  of  SaUsbury,  by  ' 
whom  he  left  an  only  daughter,  »  who  m. 

first,  James  Darcy,  grandson  of  Conyers,  Earl  of 
HoiderneMO,  and  secondly,  John  Barber,  Esq.,  at 
Sunning  HiU.  His  lordship  d.  at  the  eerly  age 
oi  twenty-fbur,  in  1888,  and  was  «.  by  his  half 
brother, 

WILLIAM  STAWBL,  third  barai,  who  m, 
Elisabeth,  daughter  of  William  Port,  Esq.,  (by 
Elinbeth,  his  wife,  daughter  of  William  Fontar, 
Esq.,  and  sister  of  Sir  Humphrey  Forster,  Bart.) 
By  this  alliance  his  lordship  acquired  the  mansion 
and  estate  of  Aldermaston,  in  Bericshire,  (which 
had  come  to  the  Fonteis  by  the  heirtts  of  Dda- 
mere,  and  to  the  Delameres  through  the  heifass  of 
Achard,  which  Utter  family  obtained  it  by  grant  of 
HbxbyL)   Lord  SUwel  had  isiue^ 


< 


dfR 

WflUm,  irtw  €,  Mnunl«t  In  tin  IUI»4lnie  of 

his  &tlMr,  In  FMvuary,  ITSMH 
Charlotte,  m.  flnt,  to  RuIm  Ha«il,  Biq.,  and 
Moobdly,  to  Ralph  Congnrro,  Baq..  «f  Al- 
dermastonu 
Hli  lordahip  d.  in  1749,  oad  wai  «.  by  fab  bratlar. 

EDWARD  8TAWBL,  fovrth  barooi  Thlt 
nobleman  m.  Mary,  davghtar  and  co>faeir  of  Sir 
Hogh  Stewliley,  of  Hlnton  Ampner*  in  tiM  anDity 
of  Hante.  by  whom  ho  had  liaue, 

Stoirkley,  who  A  at  WertuiDaltr  ichool  ia  the 

Hte-tfano  of  hia  flMheK. 
MiiBTf  m.  to  Henry  BUson  Legge*  Siq.   Thia 
hMly  having  taharlted  the  eetalee  of  her 
Cnnilyt  as  sole  heiress  of  her  lhther»  was 
kisd,  tn  1700k  BARoivasa  SvAwai»  nf 
i»  with  wmalnder  to  lier  heirs  male 
by  Mr.  Legge  (see  Legge,  Bvoness  Stawel). 
Her  ladyship  esponsed,  secondly,  the  Kari  of 
HiHsboiooglk 
Hislocdshipd.  in  17»,  when  the  Baiiowv  ov  Sta- 
wsLLy  «f9omarton,  l»came  axTiiroT. 

AuraLr-Qosfterly  first  and  ftmrth  golBS»  a  oross 
of  loaenges,  ar.  for  Stawbi.;  seooad  and  third  m, 
f esse*  ehehy  ar.  and  m,  belipesu  thne  beaaiits  ftir 
Pitt. 

STRABOLei-^ARONS  STRABOLOI. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  14th  Match,  UB3» 
U  Edward  IL 


ICIiuagc. 


M 


OftUsiraily/ 


Sk  WlHIaa  Dogdale^ "  the 
ItediMMlmhis 

DAVID  DB  STRABOLOI,  Eatl  of  Athol,  fat 
S€otland,  who,  by  Isabel,  one  of  the  o»*]nIib  of 
Richard  de  Chilham,  of  ChSlhmn  Castle^  ia  Kent, 
and  Roese  do  Dover,  his  wiCs^  had  iseoo^ 

JOHir  DB  9TRAB0L01,  Eail  of  Athol,  who. 
In  the  atad  Bdward  I.,  upon  the  death  of  Joane, 
widow  of  Rkfaaid  de  Dover,  had  Hvery  of  the 
laaine  of  Lnanne,  in  Kent,  which  descended  to 
htak  timn^  Us  mother.  It  is  reported,  (con> 
ttatues  the  same  anthorlty,)  that,  in  1186,  King  Ed- 
WMMo  L,  being  Tlelotlonaia  Sootiaad^  tiddng  much 
to  heait  tho  shMghtcr  of  /eftis  Osailfi,  and  the 
of  BRteri  <le  Brwv,  Ung  of  that  reahn, 
a  shaip  rtvengo  upon  all  whom  he  oould 
discover  to  havo  had  a  hand  thssaln  i  and  that 
theoaupoB  this  A*»  de  Mttlm  (fteae  ho  is  odled,) 
fled  the  country;  but  bolag  driven  bock  from  sea 
by  muttaiy  winds,  was  taken,  eanied  to  Loadoa, 
and  senfteaced  t»  dsath  fas  Wsstadaetae  RalL  In 
laspect,  howavor,  ofhiadoeosat  fhns  royal  Mood, 
ho  was  not  drawn,  as  tsaitorsuoaaUy  an,  batssC 
ea  faeeeebach,  and  hanged  apon  agilibotftfty  Ibet 
high,  hb  head  fixed  on  Loadoa  bridge,  and  his 
body  baiat  to  ashas."  Betaig  thu*  eaacated  for 
trsesoa,  ail  his  lands  in  Scotland  wereeoninniod  lny 
IhaeiDwn  apon  Ralfh  MonthtrmtP,  EABft  o9  Oloo- 
CBSTBB ;  but  those  lands  were  soon  alia 
by  puKhase,  and  die  recovery  raosived  tho 
flimatioa  of  the  king,  by  the  dscsBisfl  nobleman's 
ton  and  heir, 

DAVID   DB  STRABOLOI*  who,  puMulag  a 


9TR 

tothatof  hiaflMher,  aidMklBgan 
active'  part  ia  fhvonr  of  the  BngUrii  inteiests, 
i^alnst  Arwetf ,  had  a  gfaat,  ftom  the  crown,  of  tho 
Bwnor  and  hoooavof  CariiaAii,aBd  was  snmmoaed 
to  parliamcaft,  as  a  babow,  by  King  Edward  IL, 
la  the  same  year,  laas,  aad  from  that  period 
to  3rd  DeeenrtMr#  IMB,  Hie  lorMdp  m.  Joane^ 
eUest  sister  aad  eotelr  of  John  Comyn,  of  Bado* 
aagh,  oonsia,  and  one  of  the  eo^heirs  of  Adoaaae 
de  Vdenoe,  Bart  of  P«nbit)k%  aad  dying  in  ia97» 
was«.  by  Usson, 

DAVID  DE  STRABOLOf,  (Earl  of  Athol.) 
seeend  beraa,  snamMned  to  peiUameal  from  S6th 
Jaauavy,  1390,  to  Mth  Jaly,  13M.  This  aobleman. 
at  tho  deeeaseof  hie  father,  was  but  nineteen  years 
of  age,  when  Henry  do  Beamnont  paid  a  thousand 
marks  for  his  wardship  aad  marriage;  notwith- 
slemilBg  which,  ho  stood  in  such  Mr  esteem  with 
the  king,  that  hi  the  1st  Edwanl  III.,  although  he 
had  not  then  attained  mafority,  he  wm  allowed  to 
do  homaga,  and  had  livery  of  his  leads.  He  sub- 
sequently inherited  estalsa  flami  hie  uncle,  John 
Comyni  and  lands  also  as  one  of  the  co-heiTs  of 
Adoaatt%  Barl  of  Pembroke^  His  lorMiip,  in  the 
Scottish  wars,  was  at  one  time  engaged  against  the 
English  ■Mmnch,  snd  at  another  in  his  favour :  he 
eveatnally,  however,  fell  fif^ting  under  King  Ed- 
wanl'k<liL)  banner.  He  m.  Katherlno  Beaumont, 
and  wao*  in  IJBft  by  his  only  soa, 

DAVID  DB  STRABOLGI,  (Berl  of  Athol,) 
third  beioa,  snmaMmed  to  parliament  from  20th 
January,  1306,  to  6th  April,  1300.  This  noblemen, 
at  the deesase  of  hisfotlier,waa  but  threeyeen  of 
age.  Ho  was  aftetaaids  in  the  wars  of  Fiance 
under  the  Black  Prince.  Hie  lordship  espoused 
ElisMMtb,  doaghter  of  Henry,  Lord  Fecrera,  of 
Oioby,  andhnd  ieeucb 

BLisABaTH,  M.  first,  to  Sir  Thomas  Percy, 
Knt.r  soa  of  Heary,  Lord  Percy,  by  whom 
she  had  issue, 

Hsavy  Perey,  who  left  two-dau^^iters,  his 


BUasbelht,  m.  first,  to  Thomas,  Lord 
Baigh^and  seeondly,  to  Sir  Wil- 
liam Lucy. 

Matgarely  m.  fint,  to  Henry,  Lord 
Gary,  of  Codnor,  and  secondly, 
to  Richard,  Earl  of  Oxfordr 
Her  ladyship  espoused,  seeondly,  Shr  John 


PBn.iVPA,  m.  fin^  to    Sir  Rjdph    Percy, 
brother  of  Sir  Thomas,  and  secondly,  to 
John  HaMuBB,  Esq. 
Hio  kadshlp  d.  tai  1300^  when  tho  Babowt  o» 
STBABotiei  fell  into  abbvaitcb  betwesa  his  daugh- 
ters, as  it  still  ooetknies  with  their  lepressatativek 
ABMa«»Paley  of  riz,  or.  and  ea. 

8TRANGIU3ARONS  STRANGE,  OP 
?J?OKYN, 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  SOth  December,  liOO, 
86  Edward  L 

Xiiuagc. 

It  is  stated,  that  at  Jobts,  held  in  the  Pekc  of 
3  S  497 


STR 


8TR 


DetbythiM,  atCAini  Pavsm^LL,  ithtn,  tmongit 
other  penooft  of  note,  wen  praunt  (ka«ifn»  Pbikcs 
OP  WAX.BB,  and  a  ion  of  the  kfaig  at  Scots,  there 
were  ako  two  kxM  of  the  Duke  of  Bietaigne;  the 
yoanger  of  them  being  Buned  0«|r»  wts  called 

GUY  LE  STRANGE,  and  ftom  him  that  the 
Mveral  fSunUiesof  Stbako  x  cubiaqiiently  descended. 
Taking  that  ■tatamant  tot  granted,  then  we  And 
that  thia  Guy  had  three  sana,  all  of  whom  poaaeMed 
lands   in  Shropshire^  temp.  HsirmT  IL     Those 


And 


1.  Ginr  Lk  STBAiroB,  who  had  a  grant  from 

JlCifv  HnirnT  II.  to  hold  by  the  serrioe  ot 
one  knightfs  fee  of  the  manors  of  Weston 
and  AlTithele,  in  the  covnty  of  Salop,  and 
was  sherllTof  that  shire  from  the  Oth  to  the 
11th  of  the  same  reign,  and  ftom  the  17th  to 
the  85th.  He  d.  before  the  aeoassion  of 
King  John,  leaving 

Ralph  x.k  Stbanos,  his  suooaasor,  who 

d.  isBueleH,  when  his  lands  devolved 

upon  his  sisters  as  co-heirs. 

Margaret  le  Strange,  m.  to  Thomas  Noell. 

Joane  le  Strange,  m.  to  Riduurd  de  Wapcn- 

buri. 

,  m.  to  Oriflln  Fita-Jervord. 

2.  Hamov  lb  STSAivoa,  Lord  of  Wrockwur- 

dine,  of  whom  nothing  more  can  be  said 
than  that  he  gave  his  whole  part  of  the  com- 
mon woods  at  Wombrugge,  Salop,  to  the 
canons  of  that  house*  and  died  s*  p. 


of 


JoHMT  LB  Stbahox,  who,  in   the  11th 
Kinf  John,  possesied  the  lordships  of  Nomo 
and  Chegewardine,  in  the  county  of  Salop, 
which  he  held  by  grant  of  HairaT  II.    In 
the  18th  of  John  be  was  iheriir  of  the  coun- 
ties of  Salop  and  Staflbrd,  and  in  the  3rd 
Henry  III.  he  obtained  the  king's  precept  to 
the  sheriff  of  Shropshire,  for  aid  to  relwild 
part  of  his  castle  at  Khokyn,  and  to  re- 
pair the  rest  of  it.     And,  having  been  a 
liberal  benefactor  to  the  canons  of  Wom- 
brugge,  departed  this  life  shortly  after,  when 
he  was«.  by  his  son, 
JOHN  LB  STRANGE,  a  person  of  great  note  in 
his  time.    In  the  10th  John,  his  fkther  then  living, 
he  was  in  the  wars  of  Poictou ;  and  in  the  15th 
Henry  IlL  he  obtained  a  grant  of  the  inheritance 
of  the  manor  of  Wrockwordinb,  for  the  yearly 
rent  of  £6,  to  be  paid -to  the  king,  and  his  hein  and 
succesaora.    In  the  81st  of  the  same  reign  he  was 
appointed  sheriff  of  the  conntiea  of  Sak^  and  Staf- 
ford; and  conatituted  governor  of  the  castle  of 
Salop  and  Bruges.    He  was  afterwards  one  of  the 
barons  marchers,  and   had  command  as  such  to 
reside  in  the  marches,  in  order  to  resist  the  incur- 
sions of  the  Wdsh.    In  the  contest  between  Hxb  rv 
III.  and  the  barons,  his  lordship  adhered  with  great 
lid^ty  to  the  king,  and  obtained  for  his  loyalty  a 
grant  of  the  lands  of  Walter  de  Muoegros,  which 
had  been  forfeited  in  that  rebdlion.    He  m.  Amice 
,  and  had  issue, 
JoHV,  his  succenor. 
Hamon,  of  EUcamere,  which  manor  he  gave 

to  his  brother,  Roger. 
4D8 


Robbbt,  fipom  whom  deaeanded  the  StMngea, 
of     Blackmere    (see    Strtmgt,     Babows 
Stbajtob,  o/JMsofefasre). 
Roger,   who   obtained    EUesmeie   from  his 

brother,  Hamon. 
Avioe,  m.  to  GrifBn  de  la  Pole. 
He  tf.  in  1809,  and  waa  s.  by  Us  eldest  son, 

JOHN  LE  STRANGE,  Lord  of  Knokyn.  This 
feudal  baron,  in  the  time  of  his  fether,  waa  deputy 
governor  of  Wincheater  Caatle;  and  in  the  4Bth 
Hbnbv  IIL  he  was  constituted  governor  of  the 
castle  of  Montgomery.  He  subsequently  espoused 
the  banmial  cauae,  and  after  the  triumph  Of  tbe 
barons  at  Lewes,  was  rdnatated  in  the  goveniordUp 
oi  Montgomery  Castle.  In  the  ard  Edward  I.  he 
surrendered  to  his  Inother,  Robert,  his  entire  right 
in  the  manor  of  Wrockwurdina  His  lordship  m. 
Joane,  one  of  the  daughtera  and  heirs  of  Roger  de 
Someri,  Banm  of  Dudley,  end  d.  in  1876,  when  all 
his  lands  wen  leiaed  upon  by  the  crown,  but  in 
two  yean  afterwards  they  were  restored  to  his  aon 
and  heir, 

JOHN  LE  STRANGE,  who,  upon  paying  hia 
relief,  had  livery  thereof.  This  fieudal  lord,  in  the 
14th  Edward  I.,  answered  for  three  hundred  marks 
to  the  king  t  whidti  sums  John,  his  grandfather,  had 
borrowed  from  the  Cheshire  men,  to  maintain  the 
wan  of  Wales.  He  was,  subsequently,  engaged  in 
the  wan  of  Gascony  and  Scotland,  and,  for  his  good 
services,  waa  summoned  to  parliament  as  Barob 
Strabob,  <tf  Knokpn,  from  89th  December,  1809* 
to  18th  December,  1309,  and  likewise  made  a  Knight 
of  the  Bath.  His  lordship  m.  Maud,  daughter  and 
heir  of  Roger  D'Eiville,  of  Walttm-D'EyviU,  in  the 
county  of  Warwick,  by  whom  he  acquired  that  and 
other  properties  in  the  oountiea  of  Oxford  and 
Cambridge,  and  had  issue, 
JoHB,  liis  successor. 

Eobolo,  who  m.  Alice  de  LacI,  daughter  and 
aole  heir  of  Henry  de  Laci,  Earl  of  Lincoln, 
and  widow  of  Thomas  Plantagenet,  Earl  of 
Lancaster.    In  right  of  this  lady,  Eubolo  le 
Strange  bore  Uie  tide  of  Earl  op  Linooi.»» 
but  he  died  «.  p.,  and  Alicb,  his  countai^ 
surviving,    espoused,    thirdly,   Hdoo   nm 
Frbbbs,  who  was  also  styled  Earl  of 
coin,  but  he  likewise  died  «.  p.    This 
heiress  d.  in  the  asnd  Edward  III.,  and 
buried  at  Berling  Abbey,  with  her  seoood 
husband,  Eubolo  le  Strange. 
Hamon,  ancestor  of  the  Le  Stxanges  of  Hmt* 
Stanton,  in  the  county  of  Norfolk. 
His  lordship  d,  in  1310,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son« 
JOHN    LE   STRANGE,    second  beron,   sum- 
moned to  parliament,  13th  June,  1311.    Thia  no- 
bleman before  and  after  his  accession  to  the  title, 
was  in  the  Scottish  wan.    Hed.  the  year  after  hia 
fether,  and  was  «.  by  his  elder  8on« 

JOHN  LE  STRANGE,  third  baron,  summoned 
to  parliament  8th  January  and  86th  July,  1313b 
His  lordship  d.  in  1384,  without  isauOt  and  waa  «• 
by  his  brother, 

ROGER  LE  STRANGE,  tou^  baron«  sum^ 
moied  to  parliament  from  85th  February,  1342» 
to  10th  March,  1349.  This  nobleman  waa  made 
a  Knight  of  the  Bath,  in  the  80th  Edward  Il.«  and 


STR 


STR 


in  tb*  naga  of  Mwwd  III.,  wm  In  Uw  wan  of 
Scotland  and  France.  Hto  lordihip  m.  iint. 
Joane,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Oliver  da  Ingham, 
hf  whom  he  had  Roean,  hte  tttoceMor.  He  e>- 
pooMd,  leoondly,  Maud  »  ,  In  whoie  right  he 
held  the  manor  of  Mlddleton,  In  Cambridgeihire. 
HU  lordship  d.  In  1S49,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

ROOER  LE  STRANGE,  fifth  baron,  summonad 
to  parliament  from  90th  September,  13S5,  to  9th 
August,  lass.  This  nobleman  was  constantly  en- 
gaged In  the  wars  of  Oasoony  and  Brltanny,  temp. 
Edward  III.  and  Richard  II.  His  loidshlp  m.  Lady 
AUva  Ptt»>Alan,  daughter  of  Edmund,  Earl  of 
Arundd,  and  dying  in  1988,  was  a.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  LE  STRANGE,  sixth  baron,  summoned 
to  parnamant  tntm  aoth  August,  1983,  to  18th  July, 
U07.  This  nobleman,  in  the  10th  of  Richard  IL, 
mM  in  the  garrison  of  Berwick-upon-Tweed,  and 
the  nest  year  In  the  Soottiah  wars.  He  m.  Maud, 
daughter,  and  erentually  avhcir  of  Sir  John  de 
Mohun,  of  Dunster,  and  dying  about  the  year 
13B8,  was  j^  by  his  son, 

RICHARD  LE  STRANGE,  seventh  baron,  sum- 
moned to  parliament  from  Sftth  August,  1404,  to 
ftid  January,  1440.  This  nobleman  making  proof 
of  his  age  in  the  5th  of  Henry  IV.,  had  livery  of 
all  his  landsi  Maud,  his  mother,  being  then  dead. 
He  was  likewise,  maternally,  nephew  and  heir  of 
Philippa,  Duchess  of  York.  His  lordship  m.  first, 
Constance,  daughter  of  ,  by  whom  he  had 

no  issue,  and  secondly,  Elisabeth,  daughter  of 
Reginald,  Lord  Cobham,  and  dying  in  1440,  wm  *, 
by  his  (mly  son, 

JOHN  LE  STRANGE,  eighth  banm,  summoned 
to  parliament  from  SBtlt  February,  1406,  to  UMh 
August,  147>.  This  nobleman  espoused  Jaquetta, 
daughter  of  Richard  WydeviUe,  Earl  Rivers,  and 
sister-in-law  of  King  Eowakd  IV.,  by  whom  he 
left  at  his  decease,  in  1477,  en  only  daughter  and 
heiress, 
JOHANNA  LE  STRANGE,  who  espoused 
SIR  GEORGE  STANLEY,  K.B.  and  K.Gt, 
eldest  son  of  Sir  Thomaa  Stsmley,  first  Earl  of 
Derby,  and  conveyed  the  Baboity  op  Strakos, 
of  Knokyn,  to  the  Ikmily  oi  her  husband.  Sir 
George  being  summoned  to  parliament  in  that 
dignity,  iure  umtU,  fnm  15th  November,  1489,  to 
18th  January,  1407.  This  nobleman  was  sworn  of 
the  privy  council,  upon  the  accession  of  HsKav 
VI  I.,  and  the  next  year  he  was  one  of  the  principal 
commanders  who  defeated  John,  Earl  of  Lincoln, 
and  his  adherents  at  Stoks.  His  loirdship  d.  in 
14971  his  father,  the  Earl  of  Derby,  then  living, 
leaving  issue, 

Thomas,  his  successor. 
James. 

Jane,  m.  to  Robert  Sheffield,  Esq. 
Elisabeth. 
Lord  Strange  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

THOMAS  STANLEY,  as  tenth  Baron  Strange, 
who  succeeded  his  grandlkther  as  second  Eabl  or 
DaasY,  in  1004 1  and  the  Baeony  or  Stranok, 
or-  KwoKYN,  merged  in  the  superior  dignity, 
until  the  decease  of 

FERDINANDO  STANLEY,  fifth  Earl  of  Derby, 
and  thirteenth  Babom  Stbamoi,  In  U04i    This 


nobleman  ei.  Alice,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Speocer, 
of  Althorpe,  in  the  county  of  Northampton,  and 
left  three  daughters,  vis. 

Anns,  m.  first,  to  Grey  Bruges,  fifth  Lord 
.  Chandos,  and  secondly,  to  Mervin,  Earl  of 

Castldiaven. 
FRAircaa,  m.  to  Sir  John  Egerton,  KnL,  after- 
wards Earl  of  Bridgewater. 
Elizabsth,   m.   to  Henry  Hastings,  after- 
wards Earl  of  Huntingdon. 
Amongst  whom  the  Babony  or  Stbawob,  or 
Knokyn,  with  that  of  Stanlby,  fUl  into  abxy- 
ANCB,  as  both  still  continue  with  their  represen- 
tatives. 

ABM8.— Gu.  two  lions  ar.  within  a  boarder  In- 
grailedor. 

STRANGE  —  BARON  STRANGE,  OP 
ELLESMERE. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  94th  June,  1995, 
83EdwaniL 

ICincagc. 

HAMON  LB  STRANGE,  a  younger  son  of  the 
first  Jcbn  le  Strange,  of  Knokyn,  having  stood 
firmly  by  King  Hbnby  IIL,  in  his  contest  with 
Montfort,  Earl  of  Leicester,  was  rewarded  by  A 
grant  fkom  the  crown  of  the  manors  cf  EUesmere 
and  Stretton.  The  former  oi  which  he  conferred 
upon  his  brother,  (he  died  himsdf  «.  p.) 

SIR  ROGER  LE  STRANGE,  who  thus  became 
of  Ex.i»BeMBBB,  and  served  the  office  of  sherifi'for 
the  county  of  York,  in  the  5ad  Henry  III.,  and 
i^in  in  the  SOth  of  the  same  numardi.  In  the 
4th  of  Edward  1.,  be  obtained  a  confirmation  of 
the  grant  made  to  him  by  his  brother  Hamon,  of 
the  castle  and  hundred  of  EUesmeret  and  in  some 
years  afterwards  he  was  made  Justice  of  all  the 
forests  south  of  Trent  In  the  99d  of  the  same 
reign,  he  had  a  military  summons  to  march  against 
the  French,  and  be  was  summoned  to  parliament 
as  a  BABON  from  94th  June,  1S95,  to  96th  August, 
1298.  His  lordship  m.  Maud,  widow  of  Roger  de 
Mowbray,  and  one  of  the  daughters  and  co-heirs 
of  William  Beauchamp,  of  BedfimL  Dugdale 
states  that  he  was  living  in  1308,  but  «<  that  fttr- 
ther  he  cannot  say  oi  him.**  It  is  presumed  that 
he  dled«.  p.,  when  the  babony  became  bxtihct. 

Abmb.— Same  as  Strange,  of  Knokyn. 

STRANGE— BARONS  STRANGE,  OF 
BLACKMERE. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  18th  January,  130^ 
9  Edward  II. 

XCnea0c. 

This  branch  of  the  Stbanobb  sprang  firom 

ROBERT  LE  STRANGE,  brother  of  John  le 
Strange,  and  uncle  of  JoAn,  Babon  Stbanob,  of 
Knokjfn,  who  obtained  from  his  said  brother,  all 
that  feudal  lord's  right  in  the  manor  of  Wroek- 
wurdlne,  and  marrying  Alianore,  sister  and  co-heir 
of  William  de  Blancminster,  alias  Whitechurch, 

480 


6TR 


«TU 


Mqulrad  the  vamot  c^Whitadraidi,  in  filnopdilfa 
He  d.  in  the  4th  of  Edward  I.,  and  waa  $,  by  hia 
elder  son, 

JOHN  LB  STRANGE,  deaignat^  of  BukCK- 
iinna»  hy  reason  that  hia  manor  home  of  White- 
church  was  situated  close  to  a  Msrv,  ao  called  from 
the  iMxk  otdour  of  its  watacs.  This  John  d,  un- 
married soon  after  attaining  nu^avityy  and  was  9. 
by  his  hrothar, 

FULK  LS  STRANOB,  who,  havhif  been  en- 
ga^  in  the  wars  of  Scotland  and  France,  temp. 
Edward  I.  and  Edward  II.,  waa  aummoned  to  par- 
liament as  Babom  STnAiroB,  ftom  Utth  January, 
laoe,  to  13th  September,  I3M.  In  the  lith  of 
Bdward  II.,  his  kndahip  obtained  pardon  for  ad- 
hering to  Thomas,  Earl  of  Lancaster,  and  in  four 
yean  afterwards  he  waa  constituted  aeneschal  of 
the  Duchy  of  Acquitalne.  He  m.  AUanore,  daugh^ 
ter  and  co-heir  of  John  Oillkrd,  of  Brunsfield,  and 
in  her  right  acquired  one  third  part  of  the  manor 
of  Thomfaagh,  in  Notthighamabim  Hia  hvrdahip 
4,  in  1384,  and  waa  «.  by  hia  son. 

JOHN  LE  STRANGE,  second  baron,  aummoned 
to  parliament  as  Babow  Sr&Airoa,  nf  Wadcmere, 
flrom  6th  September,  1330,  to  90th  April,  1343. 
Thta  nobleman,  in  the  4th  Edward  III.,  was  made 
governor  of  Conway  Castle;  be  waa  afterwards  in 
die  wars  of  Seotland  and  France,  and  attained  the 
Idgh  military  rank  of  nAirirnnnT.  His  lordship  Mk 
Ankaret,  danghtar  of  WllUam  Botelar*  of  Wemme, 
and  siaiar  and  00-hefar  of  Bdwaad  Botaiar,  CUrk, 
and  dying  in  1340,  waa«.  by  hiaelder  aon, 

FULK  LE  STRANGE,  third  banm,  who  dying 
in  minority  iseiielesi,  waa  a.  by  Ua  baotha«> 

JOHN  LE  STRANGB,  fourth  baron,  awBBMiBed 
to  parliament  3d  April,  1300.     Hia  lordship  m. 
Lady  Mary  Fits-Alan,  daughter  of  RIahaid*  Earl 
of  Arundel,  and  had  iasue« 
JoBK,  hia  successor. 
AwKABBT,  m.  to  Sir  Richard  Talbot. 
He  d.  in  1381,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  LE  STRANGE,  fifth  baron.  TUanobl»> 
man  m.  Lady  Isabel  Beauchamp,  daughter  of  Tho* 
mas.  Earl  of  Warwick,  and  dying  4n  mlaority, 
anno  1376,  left  an  only  daughter  and  heiraia, 

Bliiabbth  hM  Stbanob,  who  esponaad 
Thomas  Mowbray,  Barl  of  Nottingham, 
but  d,  isaueleas,  S8d  August,  1388. 
Upon  the  decease  of  her  ladyship,  the  estates  and 
Babovy  or  Stbaxob,  «if  Blaekmtr0,  reverted  to 
her  aunt,  AarsARBT,  Xodv  Talbot,  whose  hnaband. 
Sir  Ridiard  Talbot,  waa  summoned  to  parliament 
as  LoBD  Talbot,  qf  Blaekmen,  and  upon  the 
death  of  his  father,  iMcame  fourth  Baron  Talbot 
(see  Talbot,  Babons  Talbot). 

Absi8<— Same  as  Strange,  of  Knokyn.     . 

STRYVELIN— BARON  8TRYVEL1N. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  25th  February,  134S, 
16  Edward  IlL 

Xi]ua§c. 

Id  the  9th  Edward  III., 

SIR  JOHN  DE  STRYVELIN  was  in  the  garri- 
son of  Edinburgh  Castle,  and  in  the  I6th  of  the 
fame  monarch  be  waa  constituted  one  of  the  oom- 
500 


miiikiMii,  with  the  Bishap  of  Dwrkam,  Ralph* 
Lord  Nevill,  andothara,  to  treat  of  pence  with  the 
Seota.  He  waaaummoned  toparliamcnt  aa  a  BAnoir 
from  S5th  Febniary,  IStt,  to  8th  January.  1371 ; 
and  he  waa  in  the  fiunous  eapedition  made  into 
France  In  the  Wtb  Edward  UI.  Hit  kMrdahip  «• 
Barbara,  aiateF  end  00-hair  of  Adam  de  Swlidnim* 
and  left  an  only  daa^ter  and  heir, 

CHBiariAB  OB  STBYTBLiir,  wlio  M.  Sir  John 
Middleten.  Knt.,  of  Belsay  Castle,  in  the 
county  of  Northumberlandt  and  firom  thie 
uaioB  lineally  deaoflndad* 

RoBBBT  MiDOLaroir,  Eaq.,  of  Belsay 
Caatla,  who  waa  created  a  baronet  m. 
in  1688,  and  waa  great-great-gmnd- 
father,  and  jwwtoeeMer  <a  «*«  iMf  to 
the  present 

SiB    CaABLBa  -  MiLB*  -  1>A«BBB« 

MovK  i9Hm  MUHgtm),  Baronet, 

of  fiebay  Caat]4k 
The  tiaif  of  Lord  StryveUo's  decease  Is  not  exaotty 
ascertained,  but  the  babory  moat  then  have  veated 
in  hia  daaghter,  aa  it  naitiayea  of  coiuae  in  her 


ABMa.^Ar.  oiia  chief  gu.  three  round  buckka  or. 

STUART— DUKE  OF  YORK. 

By  Letters  Fetent,  dated  6th  Jwuary,  lOM. 

Kingr  JAMB8  I.  eapoused  Ahmb,  daughter  «f  Fas- 
naaicK  IL,  lOmg  of  Dbitxabk,  and  had  surrlvlns 


HBJIHY-FBBI>aBIO«,  PHM$1lfWMl99, 

Robert,  who  d.  young. 
Charlea,  of  whom  preeently. 
Bliaabeth,  b.  in  1596,  m.  In  UO^  to  fVvderidir. 
CouMT  Falatzii a  or  thb  Rhirb,  and  ha* 
daughtsr, 

SopKiA  espouaed  EBBaar  Auooarva. 
Elbctob  of  Habotbb.  By  the  act 
of  aattlement  thi*  princess  beeame  heir 
tp  the  crown  of  Bngland*  and  haa 
eldest  son, 

OaoBOB-LBWia,  la  her  right  a^ 
oendad  the  throna  aa  Oaoaaa  L 
The  fcin^a  third  son, 

IVtaes  CHARLES  STUART,  waa  created,  hf 
letten  patent  dated  eth  January,  16M,  Pukb  ov 
YoBK.  Upon  the  decease  of  his  elder  brother. 
HaBBY-FBBoaaics,  Prinet  tfW^im,  in  iei9,  hia 
Royal  Highness  inherited  the  Dukedom  of  Corn- 
wall, and  was  created  Pbihcb  09  Walbs,  Ho 
succeeded  his  father  on  87th  March,  169&,  aa  King 
Cbablbb  I.,  when  the  Ddkbpom  op  Yoaamoged 
in  the  crown. 
ABMa.— Royal  arma  of  England^ 

STUART— DUKE  OF  YORK. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  87tk  January,  1C4S. 

Xineagc 

JAMB6  STUART,  second  ann  of  Kimt  C&iusa 


8TO 


8TU 


all  of  whom  d, 
in  infancy  or 
childhood. 


f .,  wM  dadarad  Dtncs  ov  Vokk  «t  Ma  Mrth,  and 
ao  craated  by  ktteia  patent,  datad  27th  Janiuory, 
1643.  His  royal  hlghneis  espoused,  flzst,  Ladif 
ANNS  Htdb,  eldest  daughter  of  Edward,  Earl  of 
Clanndon,  lo»d  bioh  cKAjrcBi.i.om  of  England, 
and  had  issue, 

Charles,  \  Dukes  of  Cam< 
Jamca*    j     teidga, 
Charles,  Duke  of  Kendal 
Edgar,  Duke  of  Cambridge, 
Makv,  espoused  Wiu.iam-Hbi«by,  Prince  ^ 
Orange,  and  aaeendad  the  British  throne 
with  her  husband,  at  the  leivoltttion.    Her 
m^esty  died  *,p.in  laM. 
AirvB,  m.  Prince  Obobob,  t^  Denmark,  and 
ascended  the  throne  as  ijueen  Annb  ;  d.  in 
1714  without  sunri^ing  isaue. 
The  Duchess  of  York  <L  in  lifJU  and  the  duke 
wedded,    secondly.    In  1673.    Maby    Elbanor 
D'EsTB,   daughter  of  AnoLmiB  III.,    Duke  cf 
■Modena.    She  was  slater  at  Francis,  Duke  of  Bf  o- 
dena,  and  of  Isabdla,  Prfaioess  of  Parma  and  PlB- 
oantea.    Her  mother  was  Laura  Maitinoaxi,  niece 
to  Cardtaud  Haaarin,   bafaig  daughter  of  Count 
Jbbomb  Mabtinosbi,  by  that  celebrated  states- 
man's eldest  slater,  Margaret   Maaarin.     By  this 
illustrious  lady  his  royal  highness  had  issue, 

Charles,   Duke  oi   Cambridge,    who  d.  an 

InftnL 
jAMBa^FnAVCia-EnwARD,  b.  10th  June,  1688; 
Ilia  father  being  then  king,  he  was  declared 
PmiircB  OB  Walbb,  and  was  baptlaed  15th 
October  in  the  same  year.  The  pope^s 
nuado  held  the  prince  at  the  ba|riiamal 
font,  in  HIS  hoi.ibb88*8  name,  who  was 
godflither,  and  the  quean  dowager  god- 
mother. Thia  prinoe,  upon  the  decease  of 
his  fkther  in  170I,  was  proclaimed,  by 
Lovia  XI v.,  at  Paris,  King  of  Obbat  Bbi- 
TAiir,  &C.,  and  he  endaaToured  in  ITU,  to 
establish  his  right  by  aims.  He  was  after- 
wards known  as  the  Chbyalibb  St. 
Obobob.  He  m.  in  1719»  dsmentina  So- 
bleski,  daughterof  iV<MesJAiiB8SoBiB8Ki, 
son  of  the  King  of  Poland ;  by  whom  he 
had  two  suiriYing  sons, 

Charlbb-Edwabd,  Duke  of  Albany,  b. 
£Oth  Deoambcr,  1790.  the  celetanted 
chbyalibb   who  made  so  bold  an 
attempt,  in  1745,  to  regain  the  crown. 
He  m.  LudoTica,  Princess  of  Stolberg, 
but  died  «.  p. 
HamtY-BBMBDicT,  6.  at  Rome  85th  Feb* 
ruary,  17S5.    This  prince  became  a 
churdmum,  and  having  obtained  a 
cardinal's  hat,  bore  the  designation  of 
Cabdikaxi  York.     His  eminence  d, 
in  I807,  and  with  him  expired  the 
male  line  of  the  Royal  Hovaa  or 
Stuabt. 
The  prince  ascended  the  throne,  as  King  J AMm%  II., 
on  the  6th  February,  1685,  when  the  Dukxdom  of 
YoBK  merged  in  the  crown. 
ARMS.— Royal  anna  of  England. 


8TUART— EARL  OF  GAMBRIDGBi 
DUKE  OF  GLOUCESTER. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  ISth  May*  1650, 

Xincagc. 

HieMajettw, 

King  CHARLES  L,  (called the  Martt/r,)  espoused 
Hbmbxbtta-Mabia  db  BotTBBOB,  daughter  of 
Hbkbv  IV.,  of  France^  and  hadaunrlYing  ianie, 
CHARiiBa,  Frtaos  ef  Waiee,  who  ascended  the 

throne  as  Chablbs  II. 
JAKB8,  Duke  ef  Yertt  and  Mbamtf,  who  as- 
cended the  throne  as  Jambb  IL 
HainkY,  of  whom  presently. 
Mary,  m.  to  WUUmu  of  Naaaan«  Prince  of 
Orange,  and  was  mother  of  WiiiLIAM  IIL,  ef 
England.    Her  higfaneiad.  at  London,  of  the 
small  pox.  In  1661. 
EUaBbeth,  d.  In  priaon,  of  grief,  in  1660L 
Anne,  d.  at  three  years  of  age.  In  1617« 
Henrietta-Anna-Maria,  m,  to  Philip,  Dnkeof 
Orleans,  in  1661,  and  d.  In  leSWk 
The  third  son, 

PHNce  HENRY  STUART,  ft.  at  Oatlands  6th 
July,  1640,  and  tihanoe  denominated,  *'  HsafBY  of 
OaOande,'*  wm  created,  by  letters  patent,  dated 
13th  May,  1660,  Eabl  or  CAmninoB  amo  Dukb 
or  OLOucsencB.  He  waa  also  elected  a  KaAght 
of  the  Garter.  His  royal  highness  was  In  exile  with 
his  brother,  Cbablbb,  during  the  uauipatlon,  and 
returned  to  England  when  that  prince  was  restored 
to  the  crown,  but  d.  hi  1660  unmanded,  whan  ama 
Bia  HOBovBa  became  bxtibgt. 
AnMa.p— Royal  anna  of  England. 

STUART-DUKES  OF  CAMBRIDGE. 


By 
Patent, 


rdatedij 


ICintss^* 


dated  in  1661. 
1663. 
1667. 
1677. 


ThefuUowing  dilldren  of  James,  Dukb  op  York, 
afterwards  ICin^  Jambs  IL,  were  created  Duxaa  of 
Cakbrioob,  via. 

Charlbb  Stuabt,    created  in  1661,  d.  the 
same  year,  an  iniEuit,  when  the  nannoM 

BZrZBXD. 

^AMBB  Stuart,  created  in  1663,  4,  in  1667* 
an  infant,  when  the  bitkboom  became  bx- 

TIWCT. 

Edoar  Stuart,  created  in  1667,  d.  in  1671,  an 
infSmt,  when  tiie  dignity  bxpirbd. 

CBARLB8  Stuabt,  cxeated  in  1677*  d.  the 
same  year,  an  Infimt,  when  the  hoxoub 
became  bxtinct. 
Arms.— Royal  arms  of  England. 

STUART— DUKE  OF  KENDAL. 
By  Letters  Patent,  dated  16661 

Xtneagt. 

CHARLES    STUART,    third    son    of  Jamee, 
Dukb  op  York,  (afterwards  Jambs  1 1.,)  was 

601 


STU 


STU 


treated  Dukb  or  Ksndax.  in  lOBSL    He  d.  the 
next  yeer,  an  lnfiuit«  whan  the  dignity  became 

XXTINCV. 

ARM8.— Royal  anus  of  England. 

STUART— EARL    OF     RICHMOND, 
DUKE  OF  RICHMOND. 


Earldom, 
Dukedom, 


\by  Letten  f  6th  October,  161& 
I,  j    Patent,   \  17th  May,  16831 

Xincagc. 

LODOVICK  STUART,  son  of  Esme,  Dnke  of 
Lenox,  in  Scotland,  was  after  hit  Cathar's  death 
brought  firom  France,  by  Kk^  Jamhs  VL,  and 
put  into  pomeHlon  of  the  aatatea  and  honours 
which  had  belonged  to  that  noMemaa.  He  had 
the  lordship  of  Methven  and  Balquhidder.  He  was 
both  high  chamberlain  and  admiral  of  Scotland, 
and  was  sent,  in  1601,  ambassador  to  Franosk  Upon 
King  Jameses  acoesslon  to  the  crown  of  England, 
his  lordship  wm  created,  by  letters  patent,  dated 
6th  October,  1613,  Bonn  Setringtom,  i^  SetringUm, 
in  the  oountif  i^  Yvrk,  and  Eakl  op  Richmond. 
He  was  constituted  master  of  the  household,  and 
first  gentleman  of  the  beddiambert  Invested  with 
the  Garter,  and  ^»pointed  commissioner  to  the  par- 
liament in  1607*  and  advanced  in  1628,  to  the  dig- 
nities of  Emri  </  Veioeattie,  and  Dukb  ow  Rich- 
MOHD.  His  grace  m.  first,  Sophia,  daughter  of 
William,  Earl  of  Cowrie,  in  Scotland,  secondly, 
Jean,  daughter  of  Sir  Matthew  Campbell,  of  Lon- 
don, and  thirdly,  Frances,  daughter  of  Thomas 
Howard,  Yisoount  Bindon,  and  widow  of  Edward, 
Earl  of  Hertfont  but  d.  without  legittanate  issue, 
in  February,  lOM,  when  his  Enolibh  HOKOvitB 
became  axTiircT,  while  those  of  Scotland,  devolved 
upon  his  brother,  Esma  Stiiart,  Lord  D'Aubigny. 

ABji8.-<Quarterly,  first  and  fourth,  France,  on 
a  border  gules,  lemte  de  tormaulx,  or.  \  the  sesond 
and  third,  or.  a  fease  diequy  ar.  and  a  border  tn- 
nrailed  gules,  an  Inescutcheon,  ar.  a  Salter  ingrailed, 
between  four  cinqucfoilst  gu. 

STUART  —  EARLS  OF  MARCH, 
DUKES  OF  RICHMOND, 
£AR£.  OF  LITCHFIELD. 


Earldom  of -^ 

Bfarch, 
Dukedom, 
Earldom  of 

Litchfield,  J 


by  Letters 
Patent, 


7th  June,  1619l 
8th  August,  I6il. 
10th  December,  1645. 


Xineagc. 

LODOVICK  STUART,  Duke  of  Lennox,  in 
Scotland,  and  Duke  of  Richmond,  in  England, 
died  «.  ]».,  in  1484,  when  his  English  honours  ex- 
pired, while  those  of  Scotland  devolved  upon  his 
brother, 

ESME  STUART,  Lord  D'Aubigny,  as  third 
Duke  of  Lenox.  This  nobleman  had  been  created 
by  King  Jambb  L,  on  the  7th  June,  1619,  Boron 
(^ifUm,  of  L0<^ftloyi  BmnmoolA,  in  the  antntjf  i^f 
lAneotn,  and  Eaal  or  March.  His  lordship  m. 
Katharine,  only  daughter  and  heir  of  Sir  Oervase 
608 


CitftoD,  Lord  Clifton,  of  Leighton  BramtfwcM,  by 
writ  of  summons,  dated  9th  July,  1608,  and  had 
surviving  issue. 

Jam HB,  his  successor. 

George,  Lord  D'Aubigny,  who  fdl  in  the 
King's  service,  at  the  batUe  of  Edgehill. 
83id  October,  1648,  leaving  issuet  by  Fran- 
ces, his  wlfe^  daughter  of  Theophilus,  Earl 
of  Suflblk, 

CBAnLaa,  created  Earl  of  Litdifldd,  and 
e.  as  sixth  Duke  of  Lenox,  and  third 
Duke  of  Ridimond. 
Catherine,  who  m.  Henry  O'Brien,  Lord 
Ibrickan,  son  and  heir  apparent  of 
Henry,  seventh  Earl  of  Thomond,  and 
had  an  only  dau^^ter, 

KATRaaiwa  O'BRiair,  who  mi.  Ed- 
ward Hyde,  third  Eari  of  Clarco- 
don,  and  dying  in  the  life-time  of 
her  mother,  left 

Edward,  who  «.  his  grand- 
mother. 
Thboikmia,  who  m.  Thomaa 
Bligh,  Esq.,  afterwards  cre- 
ated Earl  of  Damley.  Her 
ladyship  eventually  inherited 
the  Baront  09  Clittow, 
whidi  had  been  oonftrred, 
by  writ,  upon  her  ancestor^ 
Sir  Oervase  Clifton,  and  that 
dignity  is  now  enjoyed  by 
her  descendants,  the  Bligfaa, 
Earls  of  Damley. 
Lodovick,  canon  of  the  cathedral  of  Notre 

Dame. 
Bernard,  commander  of  the  king's  troop  of 
guards,  in  the  dvil  wars,  killed  at  Chester, 
in  164& 
John,  general  of  horse,  on  the  royal  side,  fell 

"at  the  battle  of  Bramdene,  in  1644. 
EUaabeth,  m.   to  Henry-Frederidc  Howard, 

Earlof  Arundd. 
Anne,  m.  to  Archibald  Douglas,  Lord  Angus, 
son  and  heir  of  WiUiam,  first  Marquess  of 
Douglas. 
Frances,  m.  to  James  Weston,  Earl  of  Port- 
hmd. 
His  grace  d.  in  July.  16M»  and  was  «.  by  his  ddcat 
son, 

JAMES  STUART,  (fburth  Duke  of  Lenox,  la 
Scotland,)  as  second  Earl  of  March.  This  noble- 
man was  advanced,  by  letters  patent,  dated  8th 
August,  1641,  to  the  Ddksdom  or  Ricbmond, 
with  remdnder  in  defimlt  of  hdrs  male  of  his  own 
body,  to  his  brothers  and  thdr  hdis  mde  primogeni- 
tivdy.  His  grace  was  lord  great  diamberlain,  and 
admiral  of  Scotland,  lord  steward  of  the  household, 
warden  of  the  daque  p<»rts,  gentleman  of  the  bed- 
diamber,  and  a  Knight  of  the  Garter.  His  grace 
m.  Lady  Mary  VlDiers,  only  daughter  of  George, 
Duke  of  Buckingham,  and  luul  iasue, 
EaiiR,  his  successor. 

Mary,  m,  to  Richard  Butler,  Earl  of  Arran. 
The  Duke  of  Richmond  and  Lenox  adhered  with 
unshaken  fiddity  to  the  king  during  the  dvil  wars, 
and  when  money  was  nised  upon  loans  to  support 


8TU 


«UB 


tlM  loyal  cauM,  ha  mlMcrlbfld  ^640^000^  «« although 
there  was  not  a  man  In  England,**  lays  Duncan 
Stewart,  "that  offered  more  than  £10^000,  except 
Strallbrd,  Lord  Lieutenant  of  Irdand,  who  offered 
jSaOfOOO;  and  yet  at  the  lame  time  the  duke  had 
not  the  moat  coniiderable  or  profitable  poata  about 
the  Ung,  nor  waa  hia  estate  the  greataat  either; 
and  when  he  was  taken  notice  of  by  Sir  Philip 
Warwick  for  his  ofller,  he  smilingly  replied,  •  I  will 
aerre  the  king  in  hia  penon,  though  I  carry  but 
his  cloak,  as  well  and  as  cheerfully,  as  any  in  the 
greatest  trust :'  reflecting  upon  Hamilton.  He  paid 
his  last  duty  to  his  master,  K1t*g  Cuari^mb,  by 
putting  him  in  his  grave  at  Windsor.**  His  grace 
d,  in  1000,  and  was«.  by  his  son, 

ESME  STUART,  (fifth  Duke  of  Lenox,  in 
Scotland,)  as  third  Earl  of  March,  and  second  Duke 
of  Richmond.  This  nobleman  d.  in  his  minority 
unmarried,  anno  1600,  and  was  «.  by  his  first 
cousin, 

CHARLES  STUART,  (sixth  Duke  of  Lennox, 
in  Scotland,)  as  ftmrth  Earl  of  March,  and  third 
Duke  of  Richmond.  This  nobleman,  in  considera- 
tion of  his  father,  Geerg»,  Lono  D'Aubiont'b,  and 
hii  uncle,  Bernard  Stuart's,  gallant  services  in  the 
royal  cause,  had  been  created,  by  KingCnAKLKB  I., 
by  letters  patent,  dated  10th  December,  1645, 
Baron  Stuart,  of  Newberry,  in  the  county  of  Berks, 
and  Earl  of  LiTCHriBJU>.  His  grace  eq»oused, 
first,  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Richard  Rogers,  Esq., 
of  Bryanaton,  in  the  county  of  Dorset  He  «m. 
secondly,  Margaret,  daughter  of  Lawrence,  son  and 
heir  of  Sir  Robert  Banaater,  BarL,  of  Papenham,  in 
Buckinghamshire;  and  thirdly,  Frances,  daughter 
of  Walter  Stuart,  son  of  Walter,  Lord  Blantyre, 
but  d.  without  issue  at  Elsenure,  where  he  resided 
as  ambassador-extraordinary  from  Kin^  Chari.B8 
II.  to  the  court  of  Denmark.  Upon  hia  lordship's 
decease  the  Babom y  op  Clifton  (that  created  by 
writ,)  devolved  upon  his  only  sister,  Cathxbimx, 
La1^^  Ibtieken,  whose  grand-daughter,  and  eventual 
repreMntative,  Lady  Thbdosxa  Hydb,  espoused 
Thomas  Bligh,  Esq.,  afterwards  Earl  of  Damley, 
and  conveyed  the  barony  to  the  Bligh  family. 
While  AI.1.  HiaoTHBR  RowouRa  became  BXTiircT, 
those  of  England  certainly,  but  it  ^»pears  that  the 
extinction  of  the  Dukedom  of  Lennox*  is  ques-- 
tioned,  and  the  matter  remains  as  yet  undecided. 

Armb.— Same  aa  Lodowick  Stuart»  Duke  of 
Richmond. 


•  In  1880,  John  ^igh.  Earl  of  Darhlby,  pre- 
sented a  petition  to  the  king,  claiming  the  Duke» 
dam  of  Lennox  in  the  peerage  of  Scotland,  as  heir 
of  line  of  Charles,  sixth  Duke  of  Lennox,  and 
fourth  Duke  of  Richmond,  at  whose  death,  in  187S, 
King  Charles  II.  was  served  his  grace^s  heir.  As  his 
mi^esty's  (legitimate)  issue  became  extinct  tai  1807 
with  the  Cardinal  York,  and  as  that  personage  was 
the  last  heir  male  of  the  Stuarts,  the  Earl  of  Danh- 
ley  put  forward  his  claim  as  heir  general,  being 
descended  from  Catherine,  sister  of  the  duke  men- 
tioned above.  The  petition  was  leferred  to  the 
House  of  Lords,  and  their  lordships  have  not 
hitherto  decided  upon  it. 


8UDLBY— BARONS  8UDLEY. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  S9th  December,  1S99, 

28  Edward  I. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  10th  September,  1441. 

3CCnC80C. 

HAROLD,  according  to  Dugdale,  the  son  of 
Ralph,  Earl  of  Hereford,  but.  by  other  authoritiea, 
an  illegitimate  son  of  Kin^^  Harold,  posseMed,  at 
the  time  of  the  general  survey,  numerous  lordships 
in  England,  anurngst  which  was  Sudlby,  in  Olou- 
cestecshire,  the  chief  place  of  his  residence.  He 
had  two  sons, 

JoHir,  hJa  auooessor. 

Robert,   who  obtained  of  his  Other's  lands 

EwYAa,  in  Herefordshire,  and  residing  at 

the  castle  of  Ewyas,  assumed  that  surname. 

The  elder  son  succeeding  to  the  frmily  seat,  adopted 

his  designation  theiefromt  and  became 

JOHN  DE  SUDLBY.  This  feudal  lord  m. 
Grace,  daughter  of  — -  Tracy,  Baron  of  Bam. 
ataple,  and  had  issue, 

Ralph,  his  successor. 

William,  who  adopted  his  mother's  name  of 
Tracy. 
He  was  «.  by  his  elder  son,    • 

RALPH  DE  SUDLEY,  who,  in  the  19th  Henry 
II.,  certified  his  knights'  fees  to  be  in  number,  fi>ur. 
He  m.  Emme,  daughter  of  William  de  Beau^uunp, 
of  Elmley,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

OT  WELL  DE  SUDLEY.  Thisfeudal  baron  died 
«.  jK,  about  theyeer  lUNS,  and  was  «.  by  his  brother, 
RALPH  DE  SUDLEY,  whopin  thelOth  Rlchanl 
L,  gave  three  hundred  marks  to  the  king  for  livery 
of  his  lands }  in  which  sum  sixty  marks  were  in- 
cluded, which  had  been  imposed  upon  his  deceased 
brother,  as  a  fine  for  the  defect  of  a  scridier,  whom 
he.ou^t  to  have  maintained  in  Nonnandy.  This 
Ralph  was  «.  by  his  son,  another 
RALPH  DE  SUDLEY,  who  was  «.  by  his  son, 
BARTHOLOMEW  DE  SUDLEY.  This  feudal 
lord  was  sheriir  of  Herefordshire,  and  governor  of 
the  castle  of  Hereford,  in  the  latter  end  of  the  reign 
of  Hbitr  Y  III.  He  m.  Joane,  daughter  of  William 
de  Beauchamp,  of  Elmley,  and  sister  of  William, 
first  Earl  of  Warwick,  and  dying  in  1874,  was  «.  by 
his  son, 

JOHN  DE  SUDLEY,  an  emhuent  soldier  in  the 
reign  of  Edward  I.,  and  Lord  Chambbrlain  to 
that  king.  He  was  in  the  French  and  Scottish  wars, 
and  had  summons  to  parliament  as  a  Babon,  from. 
89th  December,  1899,  to  16th  May,  laei.  Hem. a 
daughter  of  Lord  Say,  but  died  without  issue  in 
1386,  when  another 

JOHN  DE  SUDLEY  was  found  to  be  bis  next 
heir.  This  John  m.  Eleanor,  daughter  of  Robert, 
Lord  Scales,  and  dying  in  14th  Edward  IIL,  left 
issue, 

John,  who  d.  young. 

Joane,  m,  to  William  Boteier,  of  Wemme,  and 

had  a  son  Tromab,  who  obtained  Sudley 

Cabtlb. 

Margery,  m.  to  Sir  Robert  Massey,  Knt. 

RALPH  BOTELER,  of  Sudley  Castle,  descended 

from  the  above-mehtioned  Thomas  Botblbr,  be- 

M9 


«UT 


gUT 


ft.f    f 


oominK  ft  pmoo  of  wMmw^t  tflBp*  lukfy  vi>« 
ftdvftnced  to  the  dignity  of  Baboit  SudlsYi  on  the 
MKh  September,  1441.  This  noblemaii,  befng  ft 
■tienuo<is  JjancattrkM,  excoKdhimadf  from  coming 
to  pariiftment  ftlter  the  ■fctwlon  of  Edward  IV.,  by 
reftton  of  his  ftdvaaced  ftge,  and  bedao  mudi  fkvouT 
shewn  him,  thftt  he  obtained  letters  patent  of 
'exemption  fkon  the  duty  duiing  HA.  He  was  after- 
warda,  however,  ftttaohed  and  bnraght  prisoner  to 
Loadont  when  it  Is  stfttad,  that  as  he  waa  deputing 
Aom  Ms  seat,  hecastft  Mageilag  look  upon  Sudley 
Castle,  and  exclaimed.  ««  amUeif  CiutU,  «Aew  mrt  the 
trmiftur,mtV  Thk  eaatla  he  is  said  to  hare  buiR 
out  of  the  spoils  lie  had  obtained  in  the  wars  of 
France;  he  sold  it  erentnaOyto  the  king.  Hem. 
Alice,  daughter  and  heir  of  Sir  WilDam  Deincourt, 
but  leartag  no  iarae,  at  Ms  deoeaae  in  1473,  the 
Baboitt  became  bxtinct,  and  his  estates  devolved 
■poB  his  sisten  as  eo-hefrs*  namdy, 

^  Elikabbtii ,  m.  to  Sir  Henry  Norbory. 
^       JoAWB,  m.  te  HamoB  Bdknap,  Esq. 

ABMBir-8vDi.Br,  OT.  two  bcodletB,  glK.  ^ 

BoTBLBR,  gu.  a  fesse  dieque*  wt,  and  as. 
betw.  six  creasiecs  or.  "^i  , 

SUTTON— BARONS  DXn>LBT.  ^i.-'J^ 


;<<^*7«"wvf  ByWiilof 


SBClL  February,  IMS, 
MEdwaKdIII. 


Xiuagc. 

Sfar  WiBlam  Dngdale  coanmancas  his  aeeouot  of 
the  SviTOfli  flunMy  by  Oe  foUowteg  obaervadaas : 
«<  In  the  tlmeof  Qveea  EliaabeHi,  whea  Ambvose 
Dndley,  Eaal  of  Wamicfc,  andjtobirt,  his  bRiAer, 
Barl  of  Laloaatar«  (sens  to  John  DuAeyr  some  time 
VIseouit  Llsle^  Earl  of  Warwick,  and  laaklyr  Duke 
af  yoriMmsbailaiiii,)  powvcfU  man  In  their  days, 
did  Hottiidi*  the  most  Isaiaad  and  expert  genealo- 
gists af  that  age,  spared  not  their  sndeawoon  t» 
magntfa  tMs  fsnilyr  wheBce  tfioae  fteat  man  did, 
by  ft  yottBger  son,  derive  their  deaeant:  some  de- 
dndag  It  firaaa  Smttm,  ef  Jwcfws,  Ib  HoiderBesse; 
aooM  from  tlM  auMane,  ^9tMm.  Maiot,  fas  SiHop. 

nearWaspm*/  wheaoe  the  Sbmmu,  of  Aram,  ( 
at  hand,)  ve  descended.   Of  which  opinioB 
right  learned    and  Judicious  B»h«rt  Glover, 
9mmm'nt  Htaaiklt  and  Bmnr  Fmrtre,  of 
CUatOB^  im  thaeoBBty  of  Warwick,  Esq.,  ( 
likawiaeBBMh  vmaad  In  thoae  studiaa,)  aU  of 
giving  pralMible  laaaona  for  timaa  their  vasiona 

Btttpthat  tkeae  SoTT<wia»  ^Diidfty»  did 
Hi«k  da  SattflB»  meat  of  thsaa  do 


the 


TUa 

HUGH  DE  SUTTON  m. 
and  heir  of  William  iPattkk*  loid  of  the  aaoleCy  of 
tlm  Barony  of  Malpas,  in  the  county  ci  Chestei^  and 
was  «;  by  his  son, 

RICliARD  DC  SUTTON,  who  espauaed  habd, 
only  daughter  and  hair  of  Eotterte^  the  son  of  Grif- 
fin, and  was  «.  by  liis  son, 

SIR  JOHN  DE  SUTTON.  KBt.r  who  m.  Mab- 
«ABBT,  abfetr  and  avheir  of  JMm  ds  SemmHe,  Lobo 
OooLBT.  by  whom  Cbt  Sntton  tenlly  ao^uiiedthe 


CABTKVor  DVBfurr,  and  Other  J 

(refer  to  Somerie,  Baron  Dudley).  TMs  Sir  Joldi 
Sutton  passed  awaiy  by  deed^beniag  dale  at  West- 
mlurter,  I9th  October,  in  the  19th  Edward  II..  all 
his  right  and  title  to  thacaatle  and  manor  of  Dndley. 
with  other  lands,  to  Hugh  la  Dfapwnsar,  son  of 
Hugh.  Barl  of  WIndiester.  But  the  grant  than 
made  being  extorted  inm  him  while  in  priaoa,  and 
in  fear  of  balag  put  to  death.  It  was  caneeilad  npea 
the  arfasskm  of  Bowabd  IlL.  and  the  pmputy 
restored.    Sir  John  was  «.  by  his  son. 

JOHN  DB  SUTTON,  who  wm  summoned  tm 
parliament  aa  Babom  Svttob.  or  Dct]>i.by»  on  the 
iSth  February.  ia4t.  Hiskw^Mp 
tar  of  JoHW  OB  Cbabltdb.  Lard  tf 
dying  in  ISSk.  was  a.  by  his  only  son. 

JOHN  DE  SUTTON,  second  banm,  bat 
summoned  to  parliament.  The  wardahip  of  thia 
I.  he  beta«  in  minority  at  Ms  fbther'ad*- 
r,  was  granted  to  RSdkard,  Eabl  or  Abobbbi.* 
and  aoM  by  him  to  Sir  PUIip  Ir  Despcnser,  Ib  the 
Ath  RIchacd  IL,  fbr  three  hundred  and  fifty  marka. 
His  laniaMp  m.  EUaabeth,  daughter  of  Bdwaid, 
Lord  Stafford,  and  dying  in  1S76,  waa  a.  by  hie 


a.  by 


JOHN  DE  SUTTON,  tUrd  banm.  bnt 
/f  aummonad  to  parliament;  d.in  1406.  and  wa 
Msaon. 

JOHN  DE  SUTTON,  fourth  banm.  TManoUn. 
man  carried  0ie  atandard  at  the  aiAema  ofaaaqnies  of 
the  vftctorioaa  Hbmby  V. ;  and.  bebigalsoft  knlglit 
hi  theSnd  Hbwbv  VI.,  bore  the  title  of  Babob  ov 
DuMbBY.  at  wMch  time  he  waa  in  thagarriaon of 
the  cAftTiiB  or  Ohibbbb.  under  ita  govenor. 
HumpAreTf  DUKB  or  Ou>ucBaTBB,  and  eontlBuad 
there  for  aoaaa  time.  IntheSthof  theaanaaraign 
ha  waa  oonadCutad  Heotanant  of  Ireland  ftr  the 
term  of  two  years;  and  fbr  his  good 
iiiiamaniid  to  the  parliament,  than  held  at ' 
on  the  Iflth  February.  1440 :  tai  wfald&  year  he  wns 
lUtawiaa  appointed  oiw  of  the  oommiBrfonen  to 
negotlBba  a  tmoe  urith  tfia  Duka  of  Burgundy,  or 
Maamkaimderi;  and  In  the  S7th  of  the  same  reign, 
being  than  oneof  the  lerda  of  the  kta^a  enundi, 
he  was  employed  aa  ambaasadnr  to  the  i 
to  treat  with  Mm.  and  osrtalB  i 
the  FlamlngB.  touching  mft  mjmn  ^  trade 
EngtandandtheLowCouBtrtaa.  Hia  toHUdp  being 
astanneh  Lancastrian,  waa  made  priaoner  In  two 
yeaxs  after  at  Gloucester,  by  Richard.  Duka  of 
York,  and  sent  to  the  castle  oi  Ludlow.  He  waa» 
subsequently,  wounded  at  Bx.oxbbatb,  and  ol>. 
tainedfirom  Ua^HaarBV  VL,  to  whom  ha  waa  trea- 
anrer,  varioue  gmnta  of  divers  lorddilpe.  aa  also  of 
the  stewasdahip  of  Montgomery,  CJiiibmy,  te.  tm 
liisb  to  be  eascnted  eidier  pesBimally  or  by  daputp. 
Bat.  notwithstanding  Ma  fidelity  to  his  royal  nm^ 
ter.  ha  BO  fiv  aoquiaaoed  in  the  rule  of  Edwabo  I¥^ 
thathehadadiadaq|efiN»n  that  prince  of  ail  tlM 
debta  he  owed  the  crown,  and  he  aftarwaids 
othsr  immunitks  from  the  same  king, 
the  Iftttar  end  of  Henry  TL's reign,  he  wm  iniieind 
with  die  Oabtbb.  and  he  had  aummena  to  pariin. 
mant  reguhnly  from  18th  of  that  king  to  the  Sind 
Edward  EV.  His  lordahip  m.  EUaabeth,  daughter 
of  Sir  John  Berkeley,  of  Bevortpn^  end  widow  of 


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^r  Cdirard  OmAtoa,  Knt,,  Lord  Powii,  by  whom 
ho  hod  iame, 

'  E9inniD  (Sir),  who  m.  Hat,  Joioe,  tlster  and 
,      co-heir  of  John  Tl|>taift,  Earl  of  Worcctter, 
'     and  had,  with  oChor  iasue^ 
'         John,  who  auccoaded  hia  grandfiuher. 
'         Aliaaore,  nu  to  Charlea  Someraet,  Earl  of 
Woiccatar. 
He  m.  Moondly,  Maud,  daughter  of  Thomai, 
Lord  Cliflbrd,  by  whom  he  had, 

Thomas,  who  m.  ,  daughter 

and  co-heir  of  Lancelot  Threlkdd, 
of  YMworth,  Esq. 
Richard,  in  holy  orden. 
Joice,  m.  to  William  Middleton,  Esq., 
of  Stokride,  in  the  county  of  York. 
'  Margaret,  m.  to  Edward,  Lord  Powts. 

Alice,  m.  to  Sir  Jotin  RatdiA,  of  Ord- 
sale,  Lancashire. 
!  Dorothy,  m.  to  Sir  John  Mufgrave, 

Knt. 
Sir  Edward  Sutton  d.  in  the  Uli»-time  of  his 
fkther. 
I  John,  who  assumed  the  surname  of  Dudlst, 
and  became  ancestor  of  the  Dudleys,  Earls 
of  Warwick.    He  m.  Elisabeth,  one  of  the 
dau^ters  and  co-heirs  of  John  Bramdiot, 
Esq.,  of  Bnmshot,  and  was  father  of 
EnMviro  Ditdlsv,  the  notorious  mlnle- 
ter  of  Henry  VIL  (see  Dudley,  Earls  of 
Warwick). 
WllUnm,  Bishop  of  Dnriuun. 
Margaret,  m.  to  George  Longrllle,  Esq., 
of  Little  Billl&g,  in  the  county  of  Nor- 
thumberland. 
His  lordship  d.  In  148S,  and  was  a.  by  his  gnmdson, 
JOHN  SUTTON,  fifth  baron,  summoned  to 
parliament  ftom  9th  Deoanbar,  1483,  to  1st  Sep- 
tember, 1487,  who  m.  CedUe.  daughter  of  Sir  WU- 
Uam  WiOoughby,  Knt.,  and  dying  in  1487,  was  «.  by 
his  son, 

EDWARD  SUTTON,  sixth  baron,  summoned 
to  parliament  from  ISth  August,  140S,  to  3rd  No- 
vember, IAS9.  This  nobleman  was  elected  a  Khioht 
of  the  Oabtbb  in  the  begbming  of  Himbt  YIII.'s 

reign.    He  im. ,  and  had  issue, 

JoHK,  his  successor. 
Jane,  m.  to  Thomas,  Lord  Dacre.  - 
Elaanor,  m.  to  Charles  Somatset*  Earl  of  Wov- 
cestor,  ancestor  of  the  present  Dukes  of 
Beaufort. 
Catherine,  m.  to  George  Oresley. 
Eliaabeth, «.  to  Sir  Jrim  Huddleston,  Knt. 
Joyces 
His  lordship  d.  in  1530,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  SUTTON,  seventh  boron,  but  never 
summoned  to  parUament.  "  1 1  Is  reported,**  writes 
Dugdale,  "  by  credible  tradition,  of  this  John.  Lord 
Dudley,  that,  bdng  a  weak  man  of  understanding, 
whereby  he  had  exposed  himself  to  some  wants,  and 
so  becnne  entangled  in  the  usurer's  bonds;  John 
Dudley,  then  Yiscount  L'Isle,  and  Earl  of  War- 
wick, (afterwards  Duke  of  Northumberland,) 
thirsting  after  Dudlby  Castlb,  (the  chief  seat  of 
the  fiunUy,)  made  ttiose  money  merchants  his  in- 
struments to  work  him  out  of  it  i^  whlch»  by  some 


mortga^  being  at  length  eibcted,  thia  poor  lord 
became  exposed  to  the  charity  of  his  fHends  fot 
subsistence;  and  spending  the  remainder  of  his  life 
in  visits  amongst  them,  was  commonly  called  LM-d 
QMMKtem."  His  kwdship  espoused  Lady  Ckely 
Grey,  daughter  of  Thomaa,  Marquess  of  Dorset,  /i 
and  had  issue, 

Bdwabd,  his  successor. 

George.  >-%«  < »  <^' 

Dorothy.  '^    / 

Elisabeth. 
He  was  «.  at  his  deeeaae  by  his  eldest  son* 

SIR  EDWARD  SUTTON,  eighth  baron,  sum- 
moned to  parliament  from  18th  November,  1AM,  to 
IMh  October,  IBOS.  This  nobleman,  when  Sir  Ed- 
ward Sutton,  was  in  the  expedition  made  into  Scot* 
kmd  in  the  1st  Edward  YL,  and  was  appointed 
governor  of  Hume  Castle  upon  the  surrender  of 
that  fiMTtress  to  the  English.  His  lordship  after- 
wards enjoyed  so  mudi  flavour  ftom  Qwam  Maby, 
that  her  m^esty  restored  to  him,  by  letters  patent, 
Dudlby  Casixb,  and  other  lands  of  great  value, 
which  had  vested  in  the  crown,  by  the  attainder  of 
John  Dudley,  Duke  of  Northumberland-  She  con- 
stituted him  likewise  lieutenant  of  the  castle  of 
Hampncs,  in  Plcardy,  for  life.  Lord  Dudley  m. 
first,  Catherine,,  daughter  of  John  Brydges,  Lord 
Chandos,  of  Sudley,  by  whom  he  had  an  only 
daughter, 

AJrvB,  nu  to  Thomaa  Wyhner,  Esq.,  barrister 
at  law. 
He  wedded,  secondly.  Lady  Jane  Stanley,  daughter 
of  Edward,  Earl  of  Derby,  by  whom  he  had  two 
sons, 

El>WAB]>.  his  suooassoc 
John,  who  m.  ,  and  left  two  daughters. 

His  lordship  espoused,  thirdly,  Mary,  daughter  of 
William*  Lord  Howard,  of  ESngham,  but  had  no 
issuer    He  d.  in  1M6,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

EDWARD  SUTTON,  ninth  baron,  summoned 
to  parliament  ftom  .19th  February,  1A03,  to  3rd 
November,  1630.  This  nOUeman  m.  Thoodosia, 
daughter  of  Sir  James  Harrington,  Knt.,  and  had 
Issue, 

FAHDixAirDO   (Sir).     This   gentleman   was 
made  a  Knight  of  the  Bath  at  the  creation 
of  Hraty*  Pbibcb   or  Walbs,  In    16ia 
He  m.  Honora,  daughter  of  Edward,  Lord 
Beauchamp,  eldest  son  of  Edwasd,  Earl  of 
Hertlbrd.     Of  this  marriage,   Mr.  Porry 
writes,  hi  a  letter  to  Sir  Ralf^  Winwoo^ 
dated  London,  17th  July,  l«10k  «'  Sir  Fcr* 
«fit*i>A>  Dudley,  heir  to  the  Lord  Dudley. 
was  yesterday  married  to  my  Lord  Beasfr- 
champ^s  only  daughter,  who  hath  £flOOOin 
present  to  her  marriage,  and  shall  have 
£5000.**  ^  Sir  Ferdlnando  died  before  hia 
father,  leaving  an  only  daughter  and  heir, 
FBAHCB8,  irbo  aucceeded    her    grand- 
father. 
Mary,  m.  to  James,  Earl  Hume,  In  Scotland. 
Anne,  m.  to  Memhardt,  Count  Schomberg, 
and  was  mother  of  the  celebrated 

General  Fbbobbick,  Dvke  i^f  Seftombsr^, 
who  fUi  at  the  Boyne  in  IflSa 
3  T  SK» 


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llngarct,  m.  to  Sir  Mlks  Hobut,  K.li. 
Lord  Dudley  luTing  laviilied  much  of  his  property 
upon  a  coDcnUDe,  and  hit  childm  by  her,  and 
thn«  involTed  hinu^aad  the  ettatei  of  the  family 
•o  much  in  debt*  trae  obliged,  according  to  Dug- 
dale,  fai  order  to  extricate  them,  to  bestow  the  hand 
of  hi«  grand-daughter  and  heirev,  FmANcae  Sut- 
ton, upon  HuMBLfe  Ward,  the  only  ton  of  Wil- 
liam Ward,  an  opulent  goldsmith  in  London,  and 
Jeweller  to  the  queen. 

His  lordship  d.  in  1649,  and  was  «.  by  his  grand- 
daughter, 

FRANCES  WARD,  (wife  of  the  abovfr-men- 
tioned  Sir  Humble  Ward,  Knt,  who  waa  created 
by  Ring  Chaklks  I.,  83rd  March,  1644,  Lord  Ward, 
of  Birmingham,)  as  BAnoNsaa  Dudley.  This 
lady  had  issue, 

Edward,  who  succeeded  his  fiither  as  Lord 

Ward,  in  1670. 
William,  who  m.  Anne,  daughter  and  sole 
heir  of  Thomas  Parkes,  Esq.,  of  Willings- 
worth,  in  the  county  of  Staiford,  by  whom 
he  acquired  that  and  other  estates,  and  had 
issue, 

William,  his  successor. 

Fiances,  m.  to  Robert  Plgot.  Esq.,  of 

Chetwynd,  Salop. 
Jane,  m.  to  Danid  Jeron,  Esq. 
Rebecca,  d.  unmarried. 
Mr.  Ward  was  ».  by  his  son, 
William  Ward,  Esq.,  M.P.  for  the 
county  of  Staflbrd,  temp.  QwasM  Amtr 
and  JKInir  Ororor  L    He  m.  Mary, 
daughter  of  the  Hon.  John  Orey,  of 
Bnileld  Hall,  and  had  issue, 

John,  of  Sedgley  Park,  in  the 
county  of  Staflbrd,  who  inherited 
the  Barony  of  Ward  at  the  de- 
cease of  William,  fifth  baion,  in 
1740,  and  was  grandfather  of  the 
present  J4ihn  WUUam  Wmrd,  Earl 

09  DVDLRT. 

Humble,  d.  young. 

Theodosia,  m.  to  Sir  Thomas  Brcretoo,  and 

secondly,  to  Charles  Brereton. 
Honoris,   m.   to    WilUam    Dilke,    Esq.,   of 

Mant'MTK. 
Fiauoes,  m.  to  Sir  William  Nod,  Bart,  of 
KirUey-MaUory,  in  the  county  of  Leicester. 
Her  ladyship  d.  in  16B7,  and  was  s,  by  her  ddest  son, 
EDWARD  WARD,  second    Lord    Ward,  of 
Birmingham,  as  (eleventh  succeasor  to  the  Barony 
of  Dudley,  and)  tenth  Baron  Dudlry.    His  lord- 
ship m.  Frances,  daughter  of  Sir  William  Brereton, 
Bart.,  of  Handford,  in  Cheshire,  and  sister  and  sole 
hrir  of  Sir  Thomas  Branton,  by  whom  he  had 
issue, 

John,  who  d.  yoaag. 

William,  m.  Frances,  dan^ter  of  Thomas 
Dilke,  Esq.,  of  Maxtock   Castle,  in   the 
county  of  Warwick,  and  had  issue, 
Edward,  who  s.  his  grandfather. 
William,  successor  to  his  brother. 
Francrs,  m.  to  William  Lea,  Esq.,  of 
Hales-Oww-Onmge,  in  the  county  of 
Salop,  and  bad  issue^ 


FrRDINANDO  •  DUDLST    Lra,    of 
whom    hereafter,  as    fourteenth 
Baron  Dudlry,  upon  the  de- 
cease of  William,  thirteenth  ba- 
ron, in  174& 
William  Lea*  d.  unmarried. 
Annr,   m.   to  William^    Bt 
Smith,  Esq.,  of  Ridge-  | 
acre.  In  the  county  of 
Salop. 
Frances,  m.  to  Walter 

Woodcock. 
Mary,  m,  to  —  Her- 
Yey,  M.D.,  of  Stour- 
bridge. 
Catherine,  m.  to  Thomas 
Jardin,  of   Birming- 
ham. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  the  Rer. 
Bei^famin  Briscoe. 
Ferdinando,  d.  unmarried. 
Catherine,  in.  to  the  Hon.  John  'Orey,  of  En- 
field Hall,  and  was  mother  of 

Harry  Grey,  third  Earl  of  Stamlbrd. 
Humbletta,  m.  to  Thomas  Porter,  Esq. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1701,  and  was  «.  by  his  grandson, 

EDWARD  WARD,  eleventh  Baron  Dudley,  and 
third  Lord  Ward.  This  nobleman  m.  Diana,  daugh- 
ter of  Thomas  Howard,  Esq.,  of  Ashford,  in  the 
county  of  Surrey,  and  dying  in  1704,  was  s.  by  his 
posthumous  son, 

EDWARD  WARD,  twelfth  Baron  Dudley,  and 
fourth  Lord  Ward  i  at  whose  decease  unmarried  in 
1731,  the  honours  reverted  to  his  unde^ 

WILLIAM  WARD,  thirteenth  Baran  Dudley, 
and  fifth  Lord  Ward.  This  nobleman  died, 
unmarried,  when  the  Barony  or  Ward,  tf 
nUngham,  paswd  to  his  kinsman,  John  Ward, 
Esq.,  of  Sedgdey  Park,  (refer  to  William,  sectaid 
son.  of  Frances  Ward,  Baroness  Dudley,)  and  the 
Barony  or  Dudlry  devolved  upon  his  nephew 
(revert  to  Francrb,  daughter  of  William  Ward, 
eldest  surviving  ion,  of  Edward,  second  Lord  Ward, 
and  tenth  Baron  Dudley), 

FERDINANDO-DUDLEY  LEA,  Esq.,  as  four* 
teenth  Baron  Dudlry  {15th  in  sucoesrion,  one 
of  the  inheritors  being  a  baroness).    This  noble- 
man died  unmarried,   in   1707*  and   his   broitor 
having    prekieceased    him,   also  unmarried,    the 
Barony  or  Dudlry  fell  into  arryancb  aaaongst 
his  lordship's  sisters,  as  it  sUll  continues  with  their 
descendants. 
Aitua.r~Ot  the  Suttonr— Ar.  a  cross  patoaoe 
as.  or.  a  lion  rampant  double  quev^e. 
▼ert. 
Of  the  Wardb— Quarterly ;  first  and 
Iburth  or.  two  lionoels  passant  as.  fsr 
SoMRRiRi  two  and  three  diequy  or. 
and  as.  for  Ward. 

SUTTON-^BARONS  LEXINTON,  OF 

ARAM. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  81st  November,  164S. 

HUncagc. 

I     ROBERT  SUTTON>  Esq.,  of  Aiam,   in   the 


SUT 

tmrnty  of  Nottiaghanif  deioended  from  a  com- 
mon memtm,  with  the  fkmily  of  Sutton*  fiaroni 
Dudley,  wm,  in  conridwation  of  the  eminent  ler- 
▼loet  ha  had  rendered  to  the  royal  cauae*  during 
the  civil  war*  derated  to  the  peerage,  by  letters 
patent,  dated  flit  November,  1640,  as  Baron  Lxx- 
iiTTON,*  </  Armm.  His  lordship  m.  first,  Eliia- 
betli,  daughter  of  Sir  George  Manners,  of  Haddon, 
in  the  county  oi  Derby;  secondly, ^  daugh- 
ter of  Sir  Ouy  Pafanes,  of  Ashwell,  in  the  county 
of  Rutland,  and  widow  of  Sir  Thomas  Browne, 
and  thirdly,  Mary,  daughter  of  Sir  Anthony  St. 
Lcger,  Knt.,  by  the  latter  of  whom  alone  he  had 
issue,  via., 

RonaBT,  his  sncceseor. 

Bridget,  m.  to  John,  eldest  son  of  Conyers 
Darcy,  son  and  helTi^iiparent  of  Conyers, 
Lord  Darcy. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1088;  and  was  a.  by  his  son, 

ROBERT  SUTTON,  second  baron,  who  m. 
Margaret,  dau^ter  and  heir  of  Sir  OHes  Hunger- 
ftucd,  of  Colstan,  in  the  county  of  Wilts,  by  whom 
hehadissu^ 

Wii.LiAM-6noB«n,  who  died  in  his  tether's 
Ulb-time,  anno  17I& 


Bridget,  m.  to  John  Maunen,  third  Duke  of 
Rutland,  and  had  issuer 

John,  MarqtteuqfOnmbif. 

Robert,  who  assumed  the  surname  of 
Sdttov,  upon  inheriting  the  Lbzin- 
TOM  estates.  His  lordship  died  «.  p.,  in 
1778,  when  those  estates  devolved  upon 
his  next  brother, 

Oborob,  who  then  assumed  the  addi- 
tional surname  of  Sutton.  Lord 
George  Manners-Sutton  in.  first,  in 
1740,  Diana,  daughter  of  Thomas 
Chaplin,  Esq.,  and  had  with  other 
issue, 
John,   who  d.    in    18W,     leaving 

tWOSOOSt 

1.  CHARLB8,  Archbishop  of  Can- 
terbury, m.  Mary,  daughter 
of  Thomas  Thoroton,  Esq., 
and  left  at  his  decease,  in 
law,  with  other  issue. 


•  Lbxinton. 

This  name  is  taiun  flrom  Lexington,  now  called 
Laxton,  in  the  county  of  Nottingham,  which  lord- 
ship 

Richard  Lbxinton  held,  in  the  reign  of  King 
John,  and  was  «.  by 

RoBBRT  Lbxinton,  a  learned  }udge,  temp. 
Henry  III.,  and  justice  itinerant  fbr  several norfhem 
counties.    He  was  #.  by  his  brother. 

John  Lb'xinton,  who,  in  the  reign  of  Henry 
III.,  was  chief  justice  of  all  the  forests  north  of 
Trent,  and  dying  a.  p.,  in  the  41st  of  the  same  reign, 
was  «.  by  another  brother, 

Hbnrt  Lbxinton,  Bishop  of  Lincoln,  who  d. 
the  next  year,  leaving  Richard  Markham,  and 
William  db  Sutton,  tnm  whom  the  Lord  Lex- 
inton,  of  Aiam»  derived  his  heivk 


SWY 

Charlib  Mahkbiui-SuTo 
TON,    ^emker    qf  lAe 

2,  Thomas,  Ute  Lord  Chancellor 
of   Ireland,   created  Loan 

M  ANNS  BR. 

Lord  George  espoused,  secondly,  Mary* 
daughter  of  Joshua  Peart.  ^ki.,  and 
had  a  daughter, 

Mary,  m.  to  the  Reverend  Ricbard 
Lockwood,  Prebendary  of  Peterv 
borough. 
Lord  Lexinton,  who  had  been  envoy-extraordinary 
to  the  Court  of  Vienna,  and  was  appointed  ambas- 
sador-extraordinary to  that  of  Spain,  and  for  the 
treaty  of  Ryswick,  d.  in  17S3,  when  the  Babont 
or  Lbxinton,  </  Aram,  became  bxtinct,  and  the 
Sutton  estates  passed  eventually  to  his  nephew* 
lard  Gbobob  Mannsbb. 
ABMa.— At.  a  canton  ea. 


8WILLINGTON  —  BAKON     SWIL- 
lilNOTON. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  3rd  December,  1398. 
80  Edward  IL 

Xhuage. 

Of  this  fkmily,  which  assumed  its  surname  from  a 
lordship  in  the  west  riding  of  Yorkshire,  was 

ADAM  DE  SWILLINGTON.  who,  in  the  Umes 
of  Edward  I.  and  Edward  IL,  was  in  the  Scottish 
wars,  and  In  the  latter  reign  obtained  charter  for 
free  warren,  in  all  his  demesne  lands  at  Sitillino- 
TOM,  Thorpb-Pybon,  and  Thorpb  e'  the  HiO,  in 
the  county  of  York,  and  was  summoned  to  parlia- 
ment ae  a  babon,  3rd  December,  1386*  but  afterwards 
siding  with  the  Earl  of  Lancaster  against  the 
Spencen,  he  wae  fined  a  thousand  marks.  On  the 
accession  of  Edward  I.,  however,  matters  being 
changed,  that  judgment  was  reversed  by  parlia- 
ment, and  his  lordship  marched  again  into  Scot- 
land. Moreover  the  next  year  he  had  another 
charter  for  firee  warren  in  his  demesne  lands,  and 
had  summons  to  parliament,  to  fith  March,  1388, 
but  never  afterwards;  and  nothing  further  is  known 
of  his  lordship  or  his  descendants. 

ABMBir- Ax.  a  chevron  aa. 


SWYNNERTON  —  BARON    SWYN- 
NERTON. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  8Srd  April,  1337* 
11  Edward  IIL 

Xintafif. 

Of  this  tenily>  (one  of  great  antiquity  In  the 
county  of  StaftNrd,)  wliich  derived  its  surname 
from  the  lordship  of  Swynnbbton,  many  were 
knights,  amongst  whom  was 

SIR  ROGER  DB  SWYNNERTON,  who.  In  the 
34th  Edward  J.«  had  a  charter  for  fjnee  warren  in 


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SYD 


All  bisdoBMiM  laadf,  at  his  manor  of  Swynnerton, 
and  fin-  hoMiiig  a  market  them  In  the  4th  Ed- 
ward II.  he  waa  in  the  wan  of  Scotland,  and  in 
Bome  years  afterwards,  he  was  eonstituted  oonsta- 
Ue  of  the  Tower  of  London.  In  the  beginning  of 
Sdward  IIL's  reign,  he  had  tlie  rank  of  banneret, 
iras  again  in  the  wars  of  ScotUtad;  wlicn  he 
summoned  to  parliament  as  a  BAaoir,  on  the 
S3rd  April,  1337,  but  never  afterwards,  nor  had  any 
of  his  descendants  a  similar  honour.  His  lordship 
left  a  son, 

SIR  THOMAS  SWYNNERTON,  Knt.,  who 
M.  Matilda,  daughter  of  Shr  Robert  HoUand»  and 
was«.  by  hisson, 

SIR  ROBERT  SWYNNERTON,  Knt.,  who 
Ml.  Eliaabeth,  daughter  and  heir  of  Sir  Nicholas 
Beke,  Knt.,  by  whom  ho  left  an  only  daughter  and 
hefar, 

MAun  SwrmraiiTON,  who  m.  fint,  WUUam 
Ipetone,  by  whom  she  had  issue, 
William,  who  died  «.  p. 
Christiana,  aged  six,  \  ^  <« 
AUda,  aged  thxee,     } 
She  espoused,    secondly,    Humphrey  Pe* 
shall,  and  thirdly.  Sir  John  Savage>  of  Clif- 


laoo. 


The  last  male  heir  of  this  flunily, 

HUMPHREY  SWINNERTON,  of  SwimiCTtoo, 
left  two  daughters,  his  co-heirs,  vis., 

Margaret,  m.  to  Henry  Vemon,  Esq.,  of  Sud- 
bury, In  Defbyshire. 
EHsabeth,  m.  in  156S,  to  William,  fourth  son  of 
Sir  Anthony  Fits-Herbert,  of  Norbury,  the 
celebrated  Judge  of  the  Court  of  Common 
Pleas,  temp.  Henry  VIII.,  and  oouTeyed 
the  manor  of  Swfamerton  to  her  huilMiid. 
The  descendant  of  this  lady, 

WlX<LIAM  FlTS-HSBBSmT,   of  SwittncT- 

ton,  upon  the  death  of  Sir  John  Fits- 
Herbert,  Knt,  a  distinguished  caTalier 
eommander,  in  M49,  became  chief  of 
the  CMnily.  and  inherited  the  ptfndpal 
seat,  NonBunY,*  tnm  which  time  the 
estates  of  Swinaerton  and  Norbury 
have nerer been  separated.  Fromthis 
WnUam,  we  pass  to  his  lineal  descend- 
■nt, 

Tbomab  FiTS-HxftBBBT,  Beq., 
I  weBty*-feurth  Lord  of  Noibury, 
and  eighth  of  Swlnnerton,  5.  in 
1746,  m.  in  1778,  to  MABV-AirirB, 
youngest  daughter  of  Walter 
Smythe,  Esq.,  of  Bambridge,  in 
the  county  oi  Hants,  and  widow 
of  Edward  Weld,  Esq.,  of  Lul- 
worth  Castle*  in  the  county  of 
Donet.  (This  lady,  the  eele- 
ttrated  Maa.  Fitx-Hbbbbbt,  is 
stiU  living,  1831).  Mr.  Fiti-Her- 
bert  died  «.  p.,  in  1781,  and  was 
«.  by  his  brother, 
Basil  Fiti-Hbubbbt,,  Esq.,  t 


«  NoBBunr  came  to  the  Fiti-HerberU,  by  grant 
of  William,  Prior  of  Tutbury,  In  lUflw 

BM 


ty^Mt  Loid  of  Ndilhnry, 
ninth  Lord  of  Swhweilon, 
m.  EUariMth,  youngest  daughter 
and  coJieir  of  James  Windsor 
Hemsage,  Esq.,  of  Cadeby,  tai 
Am  county  of  Llneoin,  and  0«U 
combe.  Isle  of  Wl^t,  and  dying 
In  1797*   was  «.    by  his 


TfloitAB  Fiti-Hmuibbt,  Esq., 
twenty-rixth  Lovd  of  Nov- 
Imry ,  and  tenth  Load  of  8  win- 
nertont  m.  hi  1808,  Marian, 
daughter  of  John  Palmer 
Chichester,  Esq.,  of  Arlln^ 
ton,  in  the  county  of  Deronj 
and  has  a  son  and  heir, 
Chablbb  Fitb-Hbi^ 
bbbt,  b.  Slat  Jannnry, 

i8ia 

AmicB.**As.  a  croes  florae  sa. 
Noltf.— Of  this  Cunily   wm  Sir  Thoosas  Swln* 
nerton.    Lord    Mayor  of   London,    whose  third 


Thomas  Swuthbaton,    Esq.,  of  Stanway 
Hall,  in  Essex,  left  an  only  dau^ter  and 


Thomabivb  SwiMMBBTOir,  ffi.  William 

Dyer,  Esq.,  who  was  created  a  ba- 

BowBT,  in  1478,  and  was  greatfreat- 

grandflither,  of  the  praeent 

SiB  TnoMAs  RicHABn  Swxirirnn* 

TOH  DvBB,  Baronet. 


SYDNEY  —  BARONS  SYDNEY,  OF 
PENSHURST,  VISCOUNTS 
L*ISL£,  EARLS  LEICES- 
TER. 


Barony, 

Viscounty 

Earldom 


IbyLettanf 
y»j"  Patnt,  1 


13th  May,  1603. 
4th  May,  1805. 
Snd  August,  1618L 


XfaUB|l. 


This  fiunily,  andcntly  seated  at  Crankigh,  in 
Surrey,  and  at  Kyngeshamy  In  Sussex,  deriTed  its 
descent  from 

SIR  WILLIAM  SYDNEY,  chamberlain  to  Kb^ 
HniTBy  II.,  with  uMcfa  monacdi  he  came  Into 
England  firom  Ai^ou.  From  this  Sir  WUUam  lineally 


SIR  WILLIAM  SYDNEY,  whn.  in  the  8MI 
Henry  VIIL,  being  thcnoneof  the  esquires  of  the 
king's  house,  aooompenled  ThooMs,  Lord  Daicy, 
into  Spain,  for  the  aaristanee  of  the  Spaniard  gainst 
the  Moots  t  and  when  other  persona  of  rank  le- 
oelved  the  dignity  of  knighthood  at  tbe  hands  of 
Kktg  FsBniif  AWD,  excused  himself  from  partakfa^ 
thereof.  The  next  year  he  was  captain  of  one  of 
the  ships  of  war  employed  against  the  Franeh*  and 
cameintoactionolf  the  coast  of  Brest.  In  the  Sth 
of  the  samenign  Shr  WiUliam  (then  a  kni^t)  waa 
a  chief  commander  at  the  batde  of  F&oponr 


SYB 


6YB 


^iBLDi  and  tlw  not  omlng  yttg  he  toeom- 
pMkled  til*  Duke  of  Suflblk,  fche  Man|ueM  of  Donet, 
and  other  penone  of  dietlHction,  to  Perls,  there  to 
aake  proof  of  their  dcUl  in  erms,  ngaiast  the 
DAvmnr  of  Frenoe>  end  nine  other  lelect  perMms, 
whom  he  had  choeen  for  his  aadfttante  et  those 
solemn  |ttets»  there  held  in  the  month  at  Norember 
for  ell  comers,  being  gentlemen  of  name  and  arms. 
The  Bnglish  noblemen  and  genUemsn  landed  at 
Calais,  arrayed  in  green  coats  and  hoods,  that  they 
might  not  be  known.  Sir  William  was  subsequently 
one  In  the  second  band  of  the  English  at  the  Justs 
hM  before  the  courts  of  Hsnry  VIII.  and  Fbaitcis 
I.,  on  the  flsM  of  the  Cloth  of  Gold.  He  was  also 
duunberlein  and  steward  to  King  Henry,  end  in  the 
IMh  of  that  monarch,  accompanying  the  Duke  of 
Suflblk  into  Fkanee,  he  diaied  in  the  glory  then 
acquired  by  the  English  arms.  After  this,  on  the 
■ttalndsr  of  Sir  VWkp  Vane,  he  had  a  giant  of  the 
honour  of  Psnshurst,  and  manor  of  Enfldd,  with 
the  park  of  Penshuiet,  and  other  manors  and  lands 
in  Kent  Sir  WilUam  m,  Anne,  daughter  of  Hugh 
Pagenham,  Esq.,  and  had  issue, 

Hnrnv  <Sir),  his  successor. 

Frances,  m.  to  Thomas  Ratdilfe,  Earl  of 
Susses,  whom  she  sdrvived,  and  founded 
STnnsT-Suaasx  Collxob,  at  Cambridge. 

,  M.  to  Sir  William  Fita-Williams, 


Mary,  m.  to  Sir  WilUam  Donner,  Xnt 
iMCf,  m.  to  Sir  James  Harington,  Knt 
Had.  in  tberthof  Edward  VL,  and  was  «.  by  his 


SIR  HBKRV  SYDNEY,  who  had  been 
bassador  to  France  four  yeeis  beforei  and  the  next 
year  was  oonatituted  cup-bearer  to  the  king  fior 
Hfb^  In  the  Ind  and  3Ed  Philip  and  Mary  he  was 
made  Tice-treasurer,  and  general  govenyr  of  all  the 
rersnues  of  the  crown  in  Irdand,  and  he  was  soon 
afterwards  invested  with  the  temporary  government 
of  that  kingdom  as  lord  Justice,  during  the  absence 
of  the  lord  deputy,  the  Eail  of  Sussex.  In  the  Snd 
ElisaiMth  he  wm  appoinledkxd  president  of  Waiss, 
and  in  the  Mh  sent  upon  a  oonfldendal  mission  into 
Franca  in  UM  («tfa  Elisabeth),  he  was  made  a 
Kwioar  of  the  Oaktsb,  snd  in  some  years  after- 
wards was  tiuica  constituted  by  her  mi^eity  Lono 
nmrvTv  or  InnuiNn.  This  emlasnt  psrson 
espoused  Lady  Mary  Dudley,  daughter  of  John, 
Eaii  of  Northumberland,  and  sistsr  of  Robert,  Earl 
of  Leicestsr,  by  whom  he  bed  Issneb 

Phiup  (Sir),  a  gentleman  univenaUy  and 
almoctenthttslaetioally  admired  for  his  great 
worth  and  extraordinary  aooompUshments. 
He  was  a  soldier  and  a  scholar,  lllustrioas  in 
letters  and  In  arras,  but  more  lllustrione 
by  his  deeds  of  benerolence  and  hnmi^ 
nky.  He  was  mortally  wounded  In  Septem- 
ber, U88,  at  the  battle  of  Zutphen,  in 
Guilderkad,  and  d.  on  the  Idth  October 
CsUowing.  Sir  PhUip  Sydney  m.  Frances, 
daughter  of  Sir  Francis  Walsingham,  and 
left  an  only  daughter, 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  Roger,  Earl  of  Rut- 
land. 
RoBBRT  (Sir),  of  whom  presently. 


(Sir). 

Mary,  m.  to  Henry,  Earl  of  Pembroke 
The  second  son, 

SIR  ROBERT  SYDNEY  succeeded  m  next  heir 
male  upon  the  death  of  his  elder  brother.  Sir  Philip. 
This  gallant  person,  like  his  predecessors,  acquired 
renown  in  arms,  first  under  Us  unde,  Robert  Dud- 
ley, Earl  of  Leicester,  in  the  Netherlands,  and 
afterwards  with  Sir  Frances  Vere^  when  he  shared 
in  the  victory  aciiievfed  at  Tumholt,  in  Brabant* 
anno  U07.  For  these,  upon  the  accession  of  King 
Jambs  L,  Sir  Robert  was  devated  to  the  peerage 
as  Babok  Stdnxt,  tf  Pen^urte,  in  the  county  qf 
Kent,  by  letters  patent,  dated  I3th  May,  1608,  and 
upon  the  94th  July,  in  the  same  year,  (it  being  the 
day  of  the  king  and  queen's  coronAtian,)  he  was 
appointed  lord  chambbrlain  to  the  queen.  The 
aau  year  he  was  created  Yuoouitt  L'Iax.n.  Di 
1616  he  was  installed  a  Knight  of  the  Garter,  and 
raised  on  Snd  Angust,  1618,  to  the  Eabuwm  or 
LmcnernR,  the  ceremony  of  creation  being  per- 
formed in  the  hall  of  the  bishop's  palace  at  Salis- 
bury. His  lordship  m.  first,  Barbara,  daughtsi  and 
heir  of  Jdback  Gammsge,  Esq.,  of  Glamoqgandiir^ 
Old  had  issue> 

WiUiam  (Sir),  who  d.  unmarried  befove  hte 

RoBnnT  (Sir),  made  Knight  of  the  Bath  at 
the  creation  of  Henry,  Prince  of  Wak^t 
^fffif^^^  hia  fisthcr. 
Mary,  m.  to  Sir  Robert  Wroth,  Knt. 
Catherine^  m.  to  Sir  Lewis  Mansei,  Knt. 
Philippe,  m.  to  Sir  John  Hobart,  Knt,  eldest 
son  of  Sir  Henry  Hobert,  Knt.,  Loid  Chief 
Justice  of  the  Common  Pleas,  ftrom  whom 
the  Earls  of  Buckinghainshire  descend. 
Berbers,  m.  to  Sir  Thomas  Smith,  afterwards 
made  ^^soount  Strangfogrd,  In  Ireland,  an- 
cestor of  the  present  viscount. 
His    lordship    espoused,  sebondly.  Lady  Smith* 
widow  of  Sir  Thomas  Smith,  Knt. ;  he  d.  in  1696, 
and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  surviving  son, 

SIR  ROBERT  SYDNEY,  K.B.,  second  Earl  of 
Leicester.  This  noUsnum,  who  Uved  to  the  age  of 
ei^tty  years  and  eleven  numths,  was  esteemed  of 
great  leeming,  observation,  snd  veradty.  He  m. 
Lady  Dorothy  Percy,  daughter  of  Henry,  Earl  of 
Northumberland,  and  had  Issue, 

Phiup,  Viscount  L'Isle,  his  successor. 
Ajmbrmoh.  The  cslefarated  petriot,  Aloxr- 
vo»  Sydvbt,  who  suAred  death  by  de- 
capitation on  Tower  Hill,  7th  December, 
1683,  as  a  participator  In  the  Rye  House 
Plot :  but  his  name  will  live  so  kmg  ss  "  the 
CAusx  for  which  Hampden  bled  in  the  field, 
and  Sydney  on  the  scafibid,'*  shall  be 
dierfshed  by  the  f^ee-bom  men  oi  England. 
Of  this  eminent  persim  BunMt  writes,  '<  he 
was  too  rough  and  boisterous  in  his  temper 
to  beer  contradiction  i  he  sesmed  to  be  a 
christian,  but  in  a  particular  form  of  his 
owns  for  Christianity  he  tlsouc^t  wss  to  be 
like  a  divine  philoeophy  of  the  mind,  with- 
out all  pid>Uc  worship,  or  any  sign  of  a 
visibledmrdi.  StilThe  was  in  all  republican 
prindples,  and  such  an  enemy  toevery  thing 

008 


SYD 


SYD 


that  looked  liked  monardiy,  that  heoppoied 
Cromwdl  after  be  wu  made  Protsctoii: 
but  be  bad  studied  tbe  hijitOTy  of  govern- 
ment in  all  its  brancbee;  had  a  knowledge 
of  mankind,  and  oi  their  tempen;  and 
oould  Insinuate  bimielf  into  people  that 
would  hearken  to  his  notians  with  a  wondar- 
^        ful  dexterity.** 

Robert, «.  in  107i> 

HxNRT*  created  Earl  of  Romney. 

Dorothy,  m.  first,  to  Henry,  Earl  of  Sunder- 
land, and  aeoondly,  to  Robert  Smyth, 
Esq. 

Lucy,  m.  to  Sir  John  Pdbam,  Bart. 

Anne,  m.  to  the  Rev.  Joseph  Cart 

Elisabeth,  m.   to  Philip,  Viseount  Strang- 
ford* 
His  lordship  <L  in  1677*  and  was  s.  by  Us  eldest 


PHILIP  SYDNEY,  third  Earl  of  Leiooster. 
■This  nobleman,  in  the  life-time  of  his  fktber,  was 
•a  aealous  republican,  and  during  the  usurpation, 
was  all  along  of  the  protector's  council,  with  a 
aahuy  of  ^1000  a  year.  He  had  been  ftom  his 
youth,  trained  up  a  diplomatist*  attending  on  his 
■AUher  to  the  states  geoaral,  and  the  courts  of  Doi- 
mark  and  Francesi  His  lordship  espoused  Lady 
i;athcilne  Cedl,  daughter  of  William,  Earl  of  Salis- 
Jniry,  and  had  issue, 

RoBSRT,  Viscount  L'Isle,  summoned  to  par- 
liamoit  In  his  father's  life-time,  as  Babon 
SYDirav,  ow  PsNaHuiiST,  anno  1680. 

Dorothy,  m.  to  Thomas  Cheeke,  Esq. 
The  Earl  d,  in  March,  16B7-6,  and  was  «.  by  his 


ROBERT  SYDNEY,  ftmrth  Earl  of  Leicester. 
His  lordAip  espoused  Lady  Elisabeth  Egerton, 
•daughter  of  John,  Earl  of  Bridgewater,  and  bad 
issue, 

Philip,  VUeount  L*Me, 
JOHK,  who  succeeded  as  sixth  earL 
Robert,  who  m.  Mary,  daughter  of  Sir  Robert 
Reeve,  Bart,  and  dying  in  16W-0,  left  two 
daughters  co-heirs,  via. 

Mart,  m.  to  Sir  Brownlow  Sheiard, 

Bart. 
Blisabbtb,  m.  to  William  Perry,  Esq., 
of  Wonnington,  in  the  county  of  Glou- 
cester. This  lady  succeeded  eventually 
as  sole  heiress  to  PxMaHURaT,  and 
the  other  estates  of  the  Sydneys.  She 
claimed,  in  1782,  theBAROiTYOP  Syd- 
Mav,  ow  PairaBURaT,  under  the  pre- 
sumption that  Robert,  Earl  of  Leloes- 
ter,her  grandfather,  having  been  sum- 
moned in  1680,  in  the  Ufi»4ime  of  his 
Ikther,  in  that  nobleman*s  barony,  a 
BABOWY  IN  WKM  had  been  created,  but 
the  claim  was  dismissed  by  the  House 
of  Lords.  Mrs.  Perry  left  an  only 
daughter  and  heiress, 

Ex.isABBTB-JAira-SYDirBY  Pbbry, 
who  became  the  second  wife  of 
Sir  Bysche  Shelley,  Bart.,  of 
Castle  Gcringf  and  luid«  with  Junior 


610 


JoBir  Sbbiabt,  wIm 

the  additioBal  surname  of 
Syditby,  and  having  inb^ 
rited  the  Sydney  estates,  and 
being  created  a  baianet,  la 
the  present 

Sib  John  Shsjllby  Syd* 
■Kmr, 
JocBLiiTB*  who  succeeded  as  seventh  earL 
EUxabeth,  m.  to  Sir  Hanxmrt  Masteia. 
Catherine,  m.  to  William  Parker,  Esq. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1708,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldeat 


PHILIP  SYDNEY,  filth  earl,  who  m.  Anne, 
daughter  and  co-heir  of  Sir  Robert  Reeves,  of 
Thwaltes,  la  Suflblk,  but  dying  without  surviving 
issue,  in  1705,  the  honours  devolved  upon  hia 
biother, 

JOHN  SYDNEY,  sixth  EarL  This  noblsmaii 
was  oaastitttted  in  1717,  warden  of  the  dnqua 
ports,  and  governor  of  Dover  Castle;  and  upon 
the  revival  of  tbe  order  of  the  Bath,  he  waa 
elected  one  of  the  knights.  His  lordship  d.  un- 
married, in  1737*  and  was  «.  by  his  only  surviving 
brother, 

JOCBLYNE  SYDNEY,  seventh  earL  This  no- 
bleman m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  and  heiress  of — 
Thomas,  Esq.,  of  Olamoigsnshire^  with  which  lady 
his  lordship  bad  long  p^ndi^g  disputes  regarding 
misconduct,  but  he  never  obtained  a  divosea  He 
d.  in  1743,  when  the  estates  devolved  upon  (the 
daughter  of  hte  teother,  CoL  Robert  Sydney)  hIa 
niece,  Elisabbth,  who  had  married  Robert  Perry, 
Esq.,  and  aU  the  estates  were  conveyed  by  her 
daughter  and  heiress,  ELXSABBTB-JANB-SYnNcy 
Pbbry  to  the  SHBLz.BYa :  while  all  the  honouia 
of  the  house  of  Sydnby  became  BZTurcft  hIa 
lordship  having  deceased  issudess.* 

ABMa^--Or.  a  pheon  aa. 


«  By  a  trial  at  bar  on  a  writ  of  right,  at  Weiu 
minster,  11th  February,  1789,  for  Penshuxit  Plao^ 
park,  and  premises,  in  the  county  of  Kent,  it  ap- 
peared that  this  Jooelyne,  Earl  of  Leicester,  never 
was  divorced  fkom  his  wifis,  the  said  Eliaabath 
Thomasi  and  that  she  had  a  diild,  a  son,  John 
Sydney,  the  demandant  at  the  trial  aftansaidi 
whidi  John,  therefore,  in  the  «y«  ^f  Me  Isw,  -waa 
to  be  considered  as  a  legitimate  penon,  and  aa 
such,  weU  entitled  to  tbe  inheritance  of  the  honoun 
of  the  family.  But  with  respect  to  the  Inheritp 
ance  of  tha  estates  demanded  by  him,  he  failed  to 
establish  a  better  right  than  the  Isnant  in  poa- 
session.  This  (aooording  to  the  statement  at  tiw 
trial)  aroee  from  his  averment,  that  hia  fbther. 
Earl  Jooelyne^  was  possessed  thereof  to  ybt,  and  not 
as  tentuu  J^  iiflt,  which  was  the  fiict,  as  opened 
by  the  tenant!  and  further  contended,  that  even 
had  he  been  posseased  thereof  in  fee»  then  by  his 
will  the  earl  bad  givoi  them  away  to  a  third  party. 
The  event  of  this  trial  going  to  admit  the  legiti- 
macy of  the  demandant,  embcaces  an  important 
question,  as  to  the  absohita  «Ktinction  of  tha 


TAL 


TAL 


SYDNEY  —  VISCOUNT      SYDNEY, 
EAEL  OF  ROMNEY. 

VUoounty,  1  by  Letten  f  9th  Aprils  1680. 
Earldom,    j    Pfttent,    \  SSth  April,  IflOk 

Xiiuagc. 

HENRY  SYDNEY,  yoongeit  ion  of  Robert, 
•eoond  Earl  of  Leicester,  baving  contributed  seal- 
ouily  to  effect  the  Rbtolutioit,  was  created,  in 
the  1st  of  WiUiam  and  Mary,  by  letten  patent, 
dated  9th  April,  1680,  Boron  3lydfMy,  of  MUton, 
and  Viscount  Sydnby,  tf  Sheppew*  &o<A  in  the 
county  of  Kent,  and  advanced  2ftth  April,  1694,  to 
the  EABI.DOM  OF  RoMifSY.  Hit  lordship  held 
many  lucrative  employments  under  the  crown, 
but  dying  unmarried,  in  1704,  A.vh  htb  bonouba 
became  bztiitct. 

Abms.— Or.  a  pheon  as.  a  crescent  for  difibrence. 

TALBOT—BARONS  TALBOT. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  flth  June,  1331* 
4  Edward  III. 

The  first  mention  of  this  fiunily  oocun  in  the 
Hmt  oi  the  Conoubbob,  when  we  find  Richabd 
Talbot  witnessing  a  grant  made  by  Walter  Gif- 
flud.  Earl  of  Buckingham,  to  certain  monks  in 
Normandy.    The  next  of  the  name,  is 

GEOFFREY  TALBOT,  who,  in  the  reign  of 
Hbmby  I.,  held  twoity  kidghtsf  fees  of  the  king : 
and  was  subsequoitly  an  active  partisan  of  the 
EmpTMi  Maud,  against  King  Stephen.  After  this 
Oeofflrey  comes  his  (presumed)  brother, 

HUGH  TALBOT,  who,  in  the  deeUne  of  life, 
assumed  the  cowl  in  the  monastery  of  Bcauveck, 
in  Normandy,  to  which  he  had  been  a  liberal 
benefactor,  and  was  t,  upon  his  retirement,  by  his 
eldest  son, 

RICHARD  TALBOT*  who,  in  the  beginning 
of  Hbnby  II.'s  reign,  obtained  from  the  crown  a 
grant  of  the  lordship  of  LiMToirB,  in  the  county 
of  Hereford,  which  Richard  L  afterwards  con- 
firmed for  two  hundred  marks*  This  Richard  Tal- 
bot was  9.  by  his  son, 
GILBERT  TALBOT,  who  was  «.  by  his  son, 
RICHARD  TALBOT.  This  feudal  lord  m. 
AMva,  daughter  of  Alan  Basset,  of  Wlckombe,  in 
the  county  of  Buckingham,  sister  of  Philip  Basset, 
Justice  of  England,  and  widow  of  Dm  Montacute. 
He  was  «.  by  his  son, 

GILBERT  TALBOT,  iHio,  in  the  4ftth  Henry 
IIL,  was  constituted  one  of  the  justices  itinerant 
for  the  county  ai  Hereford,  and  in  two  years  after- 
wards, upon  the  disturbance  made  by  the  Welsh, 
was  ordered  by  the  king  to  fortify  Monmoutb 
CABT2.B,  and  other  castles,  of  which  he  was  then 
governor.  He  m.  GuenUan,  daughter,  and  at 
length  hdrees  of  Rhese  ap  Grifllths,  Prince  of 
Wales.  In  consequence  of  wliich  alliance,  the  Ta]> 
BOT8,  instead  of  their  own  arms,  "a  bend^ften  piece*, 
or.  and  gu,/*  adopted  those  of  the  Princes  of  Wales, 
via.  "a  lion  rmmpant  or,  ina  field gu,,  with  a  border 
engraUed  of  the  Jiretr  He  d.  in  1274,  seised  of  the 
mmon  ol  Lonohopb  and  Rbolby«  in  the  county 


of  Glondester,  and  the  manors  of  Kcclxswbll  and 
LiNTOwB,  In  Herefordshire ;  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 
RICHARD  TALBOT.  It  was  this  lieudal  lord 
that  adopted  the  arms  of  the  Princes  of  Wales,  which 
his  descendants  have  since  borne.  In  the  10th  Ed- 
ward L,  he  was  in  the  expedition  made  into  Wales, 
and  in  the  24th  and  15th  of  the  same  reign,  he  was 
in  the  wars  of  Gasoonyi  in  which  latter  year,  he 
was  constituted  governor  of  the  castle  oi  Cardiff. 
He  had  afterwards  a  military  summons  to  pre- 
vent an  invasion  of  the  Scots,  and  he  was  a  member 
of  the  great  council  or  parliament,  held  at  Llncohir 
in  the  89th  Edward  I.,  when  with  the  other  barons, 
he  subscribed  the  lG;tter  to  the  pope,  in  which  was 
asserted  the  King  of  England's  right  to  the  realm 
of  Scotland.  He  m.  the  Lady  Sarah  Beauchamp, 
daughter  of  WiUiam,  Earl  of  Warwick,  and  had 
issue, 

OiLBBBT,  his  successor. 
Richard,  who  nu  Joane,  daughter  and  co- 
hdr  of  Hugh  de  Mortimer,  of  RichabbV 
CA8TI.B,  in  the  county  of  Hertfbrd,  and 
obtaining  that  seat,  this  branch  of  the  Tal- 
bote  was  afterwards  designated  at  '•  Rich« 
ABD'a  Cabtlb."    He  was  «.  by  his  son. 
Sir  John  Talbot,  of  Richard's  Castle^ 
who  was  «.  by  his  son, 

John  Talbot,  of  Richard's  Castle, 

who  d.  in  the  ISth  Richard  IL» 

issueless,  leaving  his   sisters  hie 

heixB,  via. 

Elisabbth,  m.  to  Sir  Warlne  Ardi* 

dekne,  Knt.  <r^' 

Philippa,  m.  to  Sir  Matthew  Gour* 

nay.  Knt. 
EX.BANOB,  unmarried. 

Am<mgst  whom  the  estates  were 
divided. 
Lord  Talbot  d.  in  1306,  and  was  «.  by  his  elder  son, 

GILBERT  TALBOT,  who  was  In  the  expedition 
made  into  Scotland,  in  the  96th  Edward  I.;  and 
having  been  implicated  in  the  murder  of  Piers 
Gaveston,  obtained  a  pardon,  in  the  7th  Ed- 
ward II.  In  the  16th  of  the  same  rdgn,  he  was 
constituted  governor  <rfthe  town  and  castle  of  Gloa» 
cester,  but  being  afterwards  engaged  in  the  insur- 
rection  at  Tholbas,  Earl  of  Lancaster,  against  the 
power  of  the  Spencers,  he  was  compdled,  in  order 
to  save  his  life  and  preserve  his  estates,  to  enter 
into  a  recognisance  to  pay  £200,  and  also  £2000 
more,  with  one  tun  of  wine.  Upon  the  accession 
of  Edwabd  III.,  however,  that  obligation  was 
cancelled.  Moreover,  being  then  a  banneret,  he 
became  so  active  Ibr  the  Ung  in  all  his  mUitary 
aflkirs,  that  there  was  due  to  him,  £116.  So.  8d., 
tot  the  service  of  himself  and  his  men-at-arms. 
In  the  4th  Edward  III,  he  was  constituted  Justice 
of  South  Wales,  and  he  was  summoned  to  parlia- 
as  a  BABOir,  in  the  same  year,  and  from  that  period 
to  the  17th  (1343).  His  lordship  m.  Anne,  daugh- 
ter of  William  Botelere,  of  Wemmet  and  dying  in 
U46,  was  fc  Jby  his  son, 

RICHARD  TALBOT,  second  baron,  summoned 
to  parliament  fkom  5th  June,  1331,  to  22nd  October, 
13U,  as  Lobs  Talbot,  <tf  Qod«ri«h  Cattle,  fai  the 
county  of  Hereford^  the  chief  place  of  his  abode. 

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Thii 

of  Jolm  ComyB,  of  Baitonagh,  hj  Joaa, 
avhefar  of  Ay  mar  do  Vslenco,  Earl  of  Pembrokei  and 
in  bar  rights  riahnlng  (aano  U81)  eartain  landi  in 
Sootlandt  and  adhering  to  Edward  fialiol,  who  then 
fwaiiwiad  pretanaioaa  to  the  cnmn,  would  have 
antaiad  that  Mngdnm  bj  land,  hot  was  ytatantad 
hy  King  BowAmD  IIL,  whom  titibu,  Joane,  had 
haai  manied  to  David  Bruoa,  the  ion  of  Robert, 
King  of  Sootland.    He  iuTaded  it*  iiowover,  by  seat 
at  the  head  of  three  hundiad  annad  men,  and  soon 
after  adilaved  a  great  victory  over  the  Soots  at 
OLaonaaifonK  t   but  ha  was  sabsequently  made 
inisaner*  and  had  to  pay  two  thousand  marks  for 
his  radamption.    In  the  1 1th  Edward  IIL,  his  lord, 
ship  was  appointed  governor  of  Berwlcli-upon- 
Twaad,  as  also  justice  there,  and  of  all  other  the 
king's  lands  in  Scotland.    Tiie  same  year  being  a 
nAWHsnnT,  he  had  an  ■sslgnaHnii  of  £900  of  the 
tenth,  then  glvoi  In  parHament,  out  of  the  dty  of 
Bristol,  for  his  better  support  in  the  governorship 
of  Berwick.    In  four  years  afterwards,  he  was  again 
in  the  wars  of  Scotland,  and  subsequoitly  (90th 
Edward  III.)  in  the  expedition  made  into  France ; 
at  which  Latter  period  he  laid  the  foundation  of  the 
priory  of  Flanesford,  within  his  lordship  of  Gode- 
rich  Castle;  and  at  this  time  too,  he  obtained  from 
the  king  a  grant  for  a  prikoh  at  GoDnaicH  Cab- 
TLs,  for  pnnishing  malefactors.     His  lordship  d. 
In  1386,  and  was  «.  by  his  elder  son, 

GILBERT  TALBOT,  third  baron,  summoned 
to  parliameot,  fh>m  Uth  August,  19G2,  to  8th  Au- 
gust, 138Si  This  nobleman  served  under  the 
Bi^CK  Pniircn,  in  the  wars  of  France  t  and  in  the 
1st  Richard  II.,  he  was  in  the  king's  fleet  at  sea, 
with  Michael  de  la  Pole,  admiral  for  the  north. 
His  lordship  m.  flrst,  Petrooille,  daughter  of  James, 
Earl  of  Ormonde,  by  whom  he  had, 

RicsAmD,  who  having  m.  Ankaret,  dstar  and 

eventually  sole  heir  of  John,  Baron  Strange, 

of  Blackmere,  was  summoned  to  parHament 

in  the  lifMlme  of  his  fiuher,  from  Sid 

March,  1384,  to  I7th  December,  1»7*  as 

Lonn  TAX.BOT,  <t^  AioefeiMreL 

Lord  Talbot  espoused,  secondly,  Joane,  danghter 

of  Ralph,  Earl  of  Staflbrd.    Had.  In  U87*  ami  was 

a>  by  his  son, 

SIR  RICHARD   TALBOT,    Lord  Talbot,    of 

Blackmere^  as  fourth  Baron  Talbot,  summoned  to 

parliament.  In  1387*  (the  same  wilt  In  which  he 

was  also  designated  of  '•  Blackmere,")  as  BAnow 

Talbot,  i^  Godsridk  GsfCir,  and  from  that  period 

^  to  13891    His  lordship  was  in  the  wars  of  Sootland, 

and  attained  the  rank  of  banneret.    In  the  Uth 

Richard  IL,  he  succeeded  to  the  lands  of  theflunily 

of  Haetinge,  Earls  of  Pembroke,  derived  through 

his  great  grandmother,  Joane  de  Valence,  sbter  and 

oo>heir  of  Aymer,  Earl  of  Pembroke,  and  wife  of 

John   Corayn,  of  Badenagh.     By  the  helreas  of 

Bladunere,  he  had  four  sons-* 

OiLsnuT,  his  successor. 

JoHW,  of  whom  hereafter,  as  sueeessor  to  the 

barony. 
Richard,  Archbishop  of  Dublin. 
Thomas,  <tf  Wrockwardln%  in  the  county  of 

Salop. 
Ml 


Hb  kt«hlp  d.  fai  13BS.  and  WIS  A  by  hit  dte  «ni. 

SIR   GILBERT  TALBOT,  flfCh  baron,   sum- 
monad  to  parliament,  from  85th  August,  14M,  to 
October,  U17.    This  notdeman,  as  heir  to  the  Earls 
of  Pfembroke,  claimed  to  cany  the  great  spurs  at 
the  coronation  of  HnHnr  V.;   soon  after  whioha 
he  was  constituted  Justice  of  Cheeter,  and  he  icaa 
subsequently  engaged  in  the  Frendi  wa^    In  the 
4th  of  the  same  rdgn»  his  lordship  was  appointed 
guardian  and  captain-general  of  the  Marches  of  Nor- 
mandy;  and  he  was  likewise  a  Kitioht  of  Che 
Oartxb.    He  m.  first,  Joan,  daughter  of  Thomaa, 
of  Woodstock,  Duke  of  Gloucester,  by  whom  he 
had  no  issue.     His  lordship  espoused,  seoondly. 
Beatrix,  illegitimate  daughter  of  John  I.,  King  of 
Portugal,  and  widow  of  Thomas,  Earl  of  Arundd. 
by  whom  he  had  a  daughter,  ANKAnnr.    He  d.  ,in 
141d,  and  was  «.  in  the  BAnoNiva  ow  Tai3ot,  and 
Strakox,  ow  Black  vnnn,  by  his  daughter, 

ANKARET  TALBOT,  at  whoae  decease.  In  w^ 
nority,  anno  1431,  these  hononxs  rcTerted  to  her 
uncles 

SIR  JOHN  TALBOT,  as  sixth  Banm  Talbot* 
who  having  m.  Maud  de  NeviU,  ddest  daughter  and 
co-heir  of  Thomas,  fifth  Lord  Fumival,  had 
sumuMtoed  to  parliament  as  Lomn  Taiaot,  «^J 
nivat,  from  98th  October,  1408,  to  98th  November, 
1491.  This  is  the  renowned  Sin  Jomr  Talbot, 
one  of  the  most  lUuatxious  chaiacters  in  the  whole 
range  of  English  History.  In  1419,  he  was  ap« 
pointed  chief  Justice  of  Ireland,  and  in  two 
yeers  afterwards,  constituted  Lonn  LuorxirAirT 
of  the  same  kingdom.  He  aubsaquently  (tfstfa»* 
gulshed  himself  in  the  wars  of  HnnnT  V.,  bat  Us 
splendid  reputation  was  acquired  under  the  RagmH, 
(John  Plant^enat,  Duke  of)  Bnopomo, 
HsMRT  VI.,  when  his  name  alone  bacan 
to  the  soldiers  of  France^  owing  to  the 
victories  he  had  achieved.  Hia  lordship 
attacked,  however,  by  the  Maid  or  Oi 
near  Patat,  In  1498,  and  his  army  being  enttanaly 
routed,  he  became  a  prisoner  to  that  enterprleiqg 
and  entfausiastie  heroine.  This  defeat  of  Lord 
Talbot  was  followed  by  the  loss  of  dlvf 
of  importance  to  the  Bngilaik  His  lordship 
detained  in  c^itivity,  for  no  less  than  foor 
but  obtained  at  length  hia  freedons,  by  the  I 
(if  a  large  sum  of  money,  and  the  cnfanvament  of 
AinbfOM  ds  Lon»  an  eminent  captain  of  the : 
Again  taking  the  field,  and  agate  beroming 
nowned  for  Us  triumph^  he  was  uealed,  te  < 
deration  of  those  eminent  services,  on  the  98th  May, 
1449,  Eabl  op  SnnBwasomT.  After  this,  we  find 
him  reconstituted  lobd  LinimirAXT  or  Immjuto, 
and  made  a  peer  of  tHat  kingdom  (anno  1440),  as  Eari 
of  Waterford  and  Wexford  I  having  atthei 
the  dty  of  Watarford,  with  the  caatlas,  honour,  I 
and  Barony  of  Dun^wan  granted  to  him,  and  the 
heirs  male  of  his  body,  ami  that  he  and  they  ahoQld 
thenceforth  be  stewards  of  Ireland,  in  a  fow  wmkM 
afterwards,  his  eon.  Sir  John  Talbot,  was  appotetad 

LOnn  CBAirCBLLOB  OB  TBAT  KIBOBOM.     HlS  loid- 

ship  was  now  for  advanced  in  liH,  bnt  the  EpgUril 
Interesti  declining  in  France,  he  was  once  morn 
Induced  to  place  himself  at  the  head  of  the  anny 
there,  and  hia  oomage  and  coadnct  testoiad  fior 


TAli 


TAh 


KNM  time,  at  IfBUt,  Iti  glory.   H«  wm  appoHitad 

UBOTSnAHT    of     tilM     DOCBT     OF    AOQUITAIltBy 

taAving  under  him,  at  nptafais  of  hii  man  at  armi 
and  archen,  his  Mm,  J<4m  Talbot,  Viscount  L'Ula, 
,  Sir  Jolm  Hungerford,  Lord  MoUnM,  Sir  Roftr 
Camoys,  Sir  John  L'lale,  and  John  Beaufort,  the 
BASTAmn  .OP  SoMBRBBT.  HarcUng  Immediately 
to  the  place  of  hit  government,  he  took  the  dty  of 
BoRDBAUz,  and  placed  a  garrison  in  its  whence 
proceeding  to  the  relief  of  CHABTix^ioif,  an  en- 
gagemoit  with  the  French  army  ensued,  whidi 
terminated  in  the  total  defeat  of  the  English,  and 
the  defcth  of  their  gallant  general,  who  was  killed 
by  a  cannon  baU.  ThuslUl,  sword  in  hand,  the  im- 
Bunrtal  John  Tatbot,  Babl  ow  SHRBwaBUBY,  at  the 
gnat  age  of  «<fMr»  on  Mth  July,  1403,  after  haTing 
fion  no  less  than  forty  pitched  battles,  or  important 
ssneounters.  His  remains  were  conveyed  to  Eng- 
land, and  intemd  at  Whitediurdi,  in  the  county 
of  Salopt  where  a  noble  monument  was  erected 
in  the  south  wall  of  the  dianosl,  with  this  epitaph : 

"  Orate  pro  anima  prmobilis  domini,  dominl 
'f  Johannls   Talbot  quondam  Comitis  Salopis, 

domini 
*'  FumivaU,  domiiii  Verdon,  domini  Strange  de 
"  Blackmere,  et  MareschaDi  Frandc,  qui  obiit  In 
<'  Bello  apud  Burdews,  ri^  JuliJ,  mcccci.iii.'* 

By  the  heirsss  of  Fnnivall,  his  lordship  had 
issue, 

Thomas,  who  d>  in  Fianoe,  In  the  life-time  of 

hisflrther. 
JOBK,  his  successor. 
Christopher  (Sir). 
The  earl  espoused,  secondly,  the  Lady  Margaret 
Beanchamp,  daughter  and  oo>heir  of  Ridiard,  Earl 
of  Warwick,  and  had, 

JoBN,  created  Banm  and  Viscount  L'lsle^  see 

that  dignity. 
Humphrey  (Sir),  Marshal  of  Cahds,  died  ».p» 

in  1409. 
Lewis  (Sir),  of  Penyard,  Herts. 
Joene,  m.  to  James,  flfst  Lord  Berkdcy. 
At  the  period  of  his  lordship's  advancement  to  the 
Earldom  ow  Sbrbwsbury,  the  Barony  of  Tal- 
bot, with  those  of  Strakob,  9f  Btaekmttt,  and 
FoRNiTALL,  merged  in  that  diipity,  and  so  coof- 
tinued  until  the  deceese  of 

GILBERT  TALBOT,  seventh  Eerl  of  Shrews- 
bury, and  twelfth  Barob  Talbot,  in  IdM,  when 
all  three  fdl  into  abbyabcb  amongst  his  daughtars 
and  co-heirs,  via, 

Mary,  m.  to  William,  third  Earl  of  Pembroke, 

and  died  #.  p, 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Henry  Grey,  eighth  Eerl  of 

Kent,  and  died  «.  jd. 
Alathba,  m.  to  Thomas  Howard,  who  had 
been  restored  in  10(B  to  the  Earldoms  of 
Arvndbl  and  Surrbv,  crested  earl  mar- 
shal in  1091. 
Upon  the  decease  of  Mary  and  Elisabeth,  the  two 
tider  co^ieirs,  as  stated  above,  iMiMless,  the  abby- 
ABCB  of  the  Barowibb  of  Talbot,  Strabob, 
and  FuRBivALL,  terminated;  and  those  dignities 
then  vested  in  the  third  co-heir,  Alatbba,  widow 
of  Thoimu  HiHtmnr,   Earl    of    Aritrdbl,  and 


thanoelbrward  they  merged  la  the  Baridon  of  Aran, 
del,  and  Dukedom  of  Norfolk,  until  the  rtfrnssi  of 
EDWARD  HOWARD,  ninth  Duke  of  Norfolk, 
in  1777*  without  issue,  when  the  Barowibb  of 
Talbot,  Strabob,  ^f  Blaekmen,KDd  Furmitall, 
fell  again  into  arbyakcb  between  his  grace's  nieces, 
the  two  daughters  and  co-heirs  of  his  brother, 
Philip  Howard,  Esq.,  namely, 

WiNiFRBDB    Howard,    who    m.     WUUam, 
Lord  Stovrtob,  and  was  grandmother  of 
WUUam,  present  Cord  Stourton. 
Abnb   Howard,    who  m.    Robert-Edward, 
Lord  Petre,  and  was  grandmother  of 
FFWiam-^WMcif,  preeent  Lord  Pbtrb. 
These  babonibs  remafai  stiU  in  abeyance  between 
the  Lords  Stourtob  and  Pbtrb. 

Arms^xOu.  a  lion  rampant,  or.  with  a  border 
ingrailed  of  the  second. 

TALBOT  —  BARON  L'ISLE,  OF 
KINGSTON  L'ISLE,  IN 
THE  COUNTY  OF  BERKS. 
VISCOUNT  L'ISLE. 

Barony,      \  by  Letters  /  SSth  July,  1443. 
Viscounty,/   Patent,    i  aoth  October,  140, 

Xincagc. 

The  Honourable 

JOHN  TALBOT,  eldest  son  of  John  Talbot,  the 
first  and  great  Earl  of  Shrewsbury,  by  his  second 
wife,  the  Lady  Margaret  Beaucharop,  eldesf  daugh- 
ter and  co-heir  of  Richard,  twelfth  Earl  of  War- 
wick,  and  great  grand-daughter  of  Warine^  second 
Banm  L'Isle,  (see  L'Isle>  Barans  L*Isle,)  was  oreated 
Barob  L'Islb.  of  Kingston  L'lsla,  in  the  county  of 
Berks,  by  patent,*  dated  2eth  July,  1443,  limiting 

a  This,  Nicolas,  in  his  Synopsis,  terms  one  of 
the  most  extraordinary  patents  on  record  snd  be 
proceeds.  "The  patent  recites  as  r  tut,  that 
«  Warine  de  L'Isle,  and  his  ancestors,  by  reason  of 
the  lordship  and  manor  of  Kingston  L'Isle,  had, 
Ikom  time  whereof  the  memory  of  man  was  not  to 
the  contrary,  the  name  and  diipiity  of  Baron  and 
Lord  L'Isle,  and  by  that  name  had  seat  in  parlia* 
mcnt,  Ac  as  other  barons  of  the  realm  had;'  an 
assertion  eatisfectorily  proved  by  the  lords'  com* 
mittee  on  the  dignity  of  a  peer  of  the  realm,  in 
their  third  report,  to  have  been  entirely  without 
foundationi  for  not  only  had  the  said  manor  never 
been  held  in  capita  by  the  crown,  but  a  period  of 
above  sixty  years  had  elapeed,  via;  from  Srd-  Ed> 
ward  I.  to  31st  Edward  III.,  after  writs  of  summons 
were  generally  iesued,  before  the  family  of  Lisle, 
tenants  (tf  the  manor  of  L'Isle,  were  ever  summoned 
to  perliamenL  Many  argumento  might  be  adduced 
to  support  the  conclusion  stated  in  the  text  relative 
to  this  dignity,  but  they  are  rendered  usdess,  by  the 
statement  of  the  case  in  the  report  of  the  lords' 
committee  Just  cited,  pege  191,  et  seq.,  and  by  the 
opinions  of  the  great  legal  authorities.  Coke  and 
Blackstone.  It  is  thftefbre  sufllcient  to  remark, 
that  this  singubff  creatian  probably  arose  tram  th« 
powerful  influence  possessed  by  the  Earl  of  Shrews, 
3U  «19 


TAL 


TAL 


the  dijpilty  to  the  iiid  Jolm,  nd  fate  twin,  md 
■Hl^ns  for  erer,  beiiig  taumtf  of  the  manor  of 
KiB0Mon  L'liiek  and  wm  advaneed  to  the  dignity 
of  ViaoouiffT  L'leta  on  the  90th  October,  1452. 
This  noUemaa,  who  lerred  under  his  gaUant  fkther 
in  Ffance^  was  ilain  with  that  heroic  perM»age  at 
Chaatillioa,   anno  1453L     Hte  lordsMp  fa.   Joan, 
daughter  and  co-heir  of  Sir  Tlkomas  Chedder,  of 
Chedder,  in  the  county  of  SomerMt,  and  widow  of 
Ridund  Staflbrd.  Baq.,  and  had  issue, 
TnoMAB,  his  suocessor. 
EUaabeth;  m.  to  Sir  Edward  Grey,  (second  son 
of  Edward,  Lord  Ferren,  of  Groby,)  who 
was  created  Viscount  L*Isle  (see  Grey,  Vis- 
count L'Isle). 
Margaret,  m.  to  Sir  George  Vere,  Knt,  and  d. 
without  issue. 
The  Tiscount  was  t,  by  his  son, 

THOMAS  TALBOT,  second  Baion  and  Vis- 
count L'Isle.  This  nobleman  having  a  great  con- 
test with  William,  Lord  Berkeley,  of  Berkdey 
Castle,  concerning  certain  lands  which  he  claimed 
In  right  of  his  grandmother,  Margaret  Beauchamp, 
Countea  of  Shrewsbury,  lost  his  life  by  an  arrow 
shot  through  the  mouth,  in  a  skirmish  bet 
the  parties,  at  Wotton-under-Edge,  in  GIou 
terdUre,  on  the  20th  March.  liOB.  HU  lordship 
•a.  Lady  Margaret  Herbert,  daughter  of  William, 
Earl  of  Pembroke,  but  leaving  no  issue,  his  sisters 
became  his  co-heirs.  The  ViacomrTT  op  L'laLB 
BzpTRaD  at  his  lordship's  decease.  '*  But,**  (says 
Nicolas,)  "  it  is  a  very  doubtful  point  into  what 
state  the  baroity  then  felL  In  the  third  report  of 
the  knda'  committee  on  the  dignity  of  a  peer  of  the 
Matan,  the  case  Is  most  aUy  sUted,  and  to  it  he 
(Nicolas)  refers  in  support  of  the  following  con- 
clusions: first,  that  the  patent  to  John  Talbot,  in 
1443,  did  not  (though  evidently  intended  so  to  do) 
aflbct  the  barony  created  by  the  writ  to  Gerard 
X'Isleb  in  3tst  Edward  III.,  and  which,  consequently, 
etiU  remained  in  abeyance,  but  created  a  new  ba- 
xony,  descendible  according  to  the  provisions  of  the 
patent ;  and  secondly,  with  respect  to  the  extremely 
diflcult  question,  '  in  whom  is  Obai  barony  now 
reeled  ?'  it  is  to  be  observed  that,  according  to  the 
high  authority  of  Lord  Chief  Justice  Coke  and  of 
Justice  BbMlcstone,  John  Talbot,  and  his  heirs, 
under  the  patent,  had  only  a  base  or  qualified  fee 
In  tiut  dignity,  and  '  that  the  Instant  he  or  his  hrtrs 
quitted  the  seigniory  of  this  manor  the  dignity 
was  at  an  end.'  On  the  death  of  Thomas,  second 
▼isoount,  (continues  Nicolas,)  in  1469,  without 
Issue,  his  two  sisters  became  his  heirs,  vis.  Marga- 
tet,  the  wife  of  Sir  George  Vere,  Knt.,  and  Elisa- 
beth,* Lady  Grey,  when  it  is  presumed  the  Barokt 
OP  I/ISLS  became  suspencted,  for  although  the 
said  Elisabeth  was  possased  of  the  manor,  she  was 
not  mU  heir  of  John  Talbot,  her  fetfaer,  and  con- 
sequently had  not  the  two  constituent  qualifications 
to  entitle  her  to  the  dignity.    On  the 


bury,  in  a  reign,  when  more  anomalies  connected 
with  dignities  are  to  be  found  than  under  any  pre- 
ceding or  subsequent  monarch."— Nicolas*  Sy- 
wopeis. 

•  See  Grey,  Lord  L'Isle. 
614 


death  of  her  lister.  Lady  Vere,  however,  «.  ^»  ska 
appears  tohave  beoonte  legally  seised  of  the  barony* 
as  is  redted  in  the  patent  granted  to  her  hnsbaBd.'* 

AaMS.— Gules,  a  lion  rampant,  within  abordure 
Ingrailed,  or. 

TALBOT— BARONS  FURNIYAJL. 

See  FnmMiTAi. ;  and  Tajlbot,  Barons  Talbot. 

TALBOT-DUKE  OF  SHREWSBURY. 
By  Letters  Patent,  dated  30th  AptU,  lOM. 

ICincagc. 

CHARLES  TALBOT,  Lord  Talbot,  b,  Mth 
July,  laSO,  «.  his  fether  as  twelfth  Earl  of  Shrawa- 
bury,  on  the  16th  March,  1<K7*  In  1681,  his  lord- 
ship was  constituted  Lord  Lieutenant  and  Cuatoa 
Rotttlonim  of  the  county  of  Staflbrd  i  and  be  re- 
nounced the  tenets  of  the  church  of  Rome  at  the 
time  that  prosecutions  were  in  sudi  Tlgorous  pro- 
gress under  the  auspices  of  the  immaeulate  OAna, 
against  the  unh^py  persons  charged  with  the 
fictitious  popish  plot.  At  the  coronation  of  King 
JAXBa  II.,  the  eerl  bore  the  Cwrtance  or  point- 
less sword;  and  the  same  year  he  was  appointed 
colonel  of  the  6th  regiment  of  horse:  but  disgusted 
with  the  proceedings  of  the  court,  he  resigned  soon 
after  his  military  rank,  and  went  over  to  the  Prince 
of  Orange,  to  whom  he  tendered  his  purse  and 
swordt  and  Burnet  states  that  Lord  Shrewsbury 
was  one  of  the  nobles  in  whom  the  prince  placed 
the  most  confidence,  and  by  whose  advice  he  wee 
upon  all  occasions  principally  guided.  Thus  pro- 
moting the  RsvoLUTioir,  when  that  measure  was 
aocompUshed  by  the  devatlon  of  William  and 
Mary  to  the  throne,  his  lordship  was  imociedlatdy 
sworn  of  the  privy  coundl,  and  made  principal 
secretary  of  sute.  In  March,  MM,  he  was  elected 
a  Kbioht  op  tbb  Gabtbr,  and  the  nest  month, 
created  Mmrqueu  ^f  Alton,  and  Dvkb  op  Sbbbwb* 
BURY.  In  1696  and  1697,  his  grace  was  one  of  the 
Lords  Justices  during  the  temporary  absences  of 
theUng:  and  in  16B9,  he  resigned  the  seals  as  secre- 
tary of  state,  but  was  constituted  soon  after,  Lob» 
Chambbblaiit  of  the  household  an  oflloe  which 
he  subsequently  hdd  In  the  reign  of  Qumn  awkb  s 
and  was  afterwards  (anno  1713)  constituted  by  bar 

HtU^jeSty,  LOBO  LlBUTBITANT  OP  iRBLANOb     UpOB 

the  acceseion  of  King  Oborob  L,  the  diike  waa 
made  groom  of  the  stole,  and  privy  pune;  and 
sworn  a  member  of  the  new  privy  oounciL  Ho 
was  subsequently  dedered  Lord  Chamberlain  eC 
his  majesty's  housdiold,  while  his  ducheis  waa 
appointed  one  of  the  ladies  of  the  bedchamber  to 
Caroline,  Princess  of  Wales.  His  grace  m.  Adel- 
hida,  daughter  ai  the  Marquess  of  PaliotU,  la 
Italy,  descended  maternally  from  Sir  Robert  Dud- 
ley, son  of  Robert  Dudley,  Earl  of  Leicester,  the 
celebrated  fevourite  of  Queen  Elisabeth,  but  d: 
without  issue  on  the  1st  of  February,  1717-1^  qm 
atil»,  when  the  honours  he  had  inherited  passed  to 
the  heir  at  law,  and  the  Morquitmio  qf  Altm,  and 
DuKBooM  OP  Srrbwbbury,  became  bztiivct. 

ARMa.— Ou.  a  lion  rampant,  within  s 
ingrailed,  or. 


TAL 


TAL 


TALBOT-^BARL  TALBOT. 

By  LettflM  Ptmu  dated  lOth  March,  1761. 

SIR  OILBSRT  TALBOT,  of  Onfton,  tai  Um 
county  of  Worcotw,  K.G.,  third  too  of  John, 
Mcond  Earl  of  Shrewsbury,  m.  first.  Elisabeth, 
daughter  of  Henry,  Lord  Scrope,  of  Bolton,  and 
had,  with  two  daughters, 

G11.BXRT  (Sir),  who  left  at  hit  decease,  in 
IMS,  three  daughters,  his  coheirs,  viz. 
Margarxt,  m.  to  Sir  Robert  Newport, 

of  Rushock,  in  WorcestecshireL 
Emsabbth,  m.  to  Sir  John  Lytteiton,  of 
Franldey,  ancestor  to  the  Lords  Lyttei- 
ton. 
Maby,  m.  to  Sir  Thomaa  Aafcley,  of 
Pateshtill,  in  Staflbrdshirei. 
Uumphiey  (Sir),  died  «.  p. 
Sir  Oilbert  espoused,  leoondly,  Ethelxeda,  daughter 
of  Sir  Jchn  Colton,.  of  Landwade,  in  the  county 
of  Camtarldge,  and  suoceasively  the  wkkm  of  Tho- 
mas Barton,  Esq.,  and  of  Sir  Richard  Gardiner, 
Lord  Mayor  of  London,  by  whldi  lady  lie  had  an 
only  Mm, 

SIR  JOHN  TALBOT,  of  AlbrightOD,  In  Shrop- 
shire,  who  eroituaUy  inherited  the  estates  at  Graf- 
ten.  This  gmtleman  m,  first,  Margaret,  daughter 
and  heir  of  Adam  Troutbeck,  Esq.,  of  Mobberley, 
hi  Cheihire,  a^ d  heir  of  her  unde.  Sir  William 
Troutlwck,  by  whom  he  had  a  son, 

JoBw  (Sir),  his  successor,  whose  grandson, 

OaoRoa   Talbot,   succeeded  as  seventh 

Earx.  or  SBftawsBUBT. 

Sir  John  Talbot  espoused,  seoandly,   Elisabeth, 

daughter  of  Walter  Wrotesiey,  Esq.,  of  Wrotesley, 

la  Staflbrdshire,  and  was  iiMlier  of 

JOHN  TALBOT,  Esq.,  of  Sahvarp,  in  StafRMtdp 
shire,  who  m.  Oliya,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Sir 
William  Sberiagton,  of  Lcycock,  in  Wilts,  and 
was  «.  by  his  eldeit  son, 

SHERINGTON  TALBOT,  Esq.,  of  Salwarp  and 
Layoock.  This  gentleman  m.  first,  Eliaabeth, 
daughter  and  co-heir  of  Sir  Thomas  Le^ton,  Knt., 
of  Fackenluun,  lu  the  county  of  Worcester  (by 
Mary,  his  wif!^  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Edward, 
Lord  Zottch,  of  Haringworth)  by  whom  he  had 
rtx  sons,  fkom  none  of  which  is  there  now  any 
male  issue.  He  m.  leoondly,  Mary,  daughter  of 
John  Washbom,  Esq.,  of  Wicheoford,  in  Woroea- 
•tershire,  by  whom  he  had  three  sons, 

GmonQM,  of  Rudge,  whose  only  daughter  and 
heir,  Catherine,   m.    Sir  Clement  Clarke^ 
Bart,  of  Lawnde  Abbey,  LeiccsMrshira 
WlBiam. 

Francis,  d.  unmarried. 
The  second  son, 

WILLIAM  TALBOT,  Biq.,  of  Stnrton  Castle, 
in  the  county  of  Stallbrd,  m.  Mary,  daughter  of 
Thomas  D6ughty,  Esq.,  of  Whittingtan,  and  had 
issue, 

William. 

Catherine*  m.  first,  to  Walter  Littleton,  Esq. 
of  Lichfield,  and  eecoadly,  to  the  Right 


Rev.  Lancelot  Blaokbimv 
York. 
Frances,  m.  to  Samuel  Jewkee,  Esq.,  of  Wo^ 
▼erley. 
Mr.  Talbot's  only  son, 

WILLIAM  TALBOT,  having  taken  holy  orders,' 
was  consecrated  Biihop  of  Oxford,  in  1639,  trans- 
lated to  Salisbury,  fai  1715,  and  to  the  Ssa  or. 
Durham,  in  17S2.    His  lordship  d.  in  1730,  leaving, 
by  his  second  wife,  Catherine,  daughter  of  Mr. 
Aldennan  King,  of  the  city  of  London, 
Charlbb,  of  wliom  preuntly.  • 
Edward,  Archdeacon  of  Berkshire. 
Sherington,  m^Jor-general  in  the  army. 
Henry,  a  ocHnndisioner  of  the  revenuei 
Henrietta-Maria,  m.  to  Dr.  Charles  Trinunel; 

BiM^cp  of  Winchester. 
Catherine,  m.  to  Exton  Sayer,  L.L.D. 
The  eldest  son, 

CHARLES  TALBOT,  having  been  brad  to  the 
bar,  attained  the  highest  honoun  of  that  learned 
profiHsion.  In  1717,  he  was  appofatted  lolicitor. 
general  to  George,  Prince  of  Wales,  and  in  1728, 
he  held  the  same  office  to  King  Gnonea  L  In 
1739,  he  vras  constituted  LoAd  Hiob  Cbaitcsllob 
0^  Great  BH«sfn,  sworn  ot  the  privy  council,  and 
elevated  to  the  peerage*  by  letters  patent,  dated 
Ath  December,  in  that  year,  as  Babon  Talbot, 
9fHen»ol,  in  Me  county  qf  Giamorgan.  His  lord* 
ship.  m.  Cedl,  daughter  and  heir  of  Charles  Mat- 
thews, Esq.,  of  Castle  Menicb^  in  Glamorganshire^ 
and  had  surviving  issue, 

William,  his  sucoesior. 
John,  M.P.  m.  first,  Henrietta-Maria,  daugh- 
ter and  co-heir  of  Sir  Matthew  Decker, 
Bart.,  by  whom  he  had  no  issue.    He  es- 
poused, secondly,  Catherine,  eldest  daugh- 
ter of  John,  ViMoantChetwynd,  in  Irdand, 
by  whom  he  had,  with  other  issuer 
JoHH  Cbbtwynd,  who  «.  his  unde  in 
the  Barony  of  Talbot,  and  was  mth* 
of  the  present  Earl  Talbot. 
George,  in  holy  orders,  D.D.  and  Vicar  of 
Gulting,  in  Gkmcestenhire^  m.  Anne,  eldest 
daughter  of  Jacob,  Viscount  Folkstoaa. 
His  lordship  d,  in  1797,  and  was  s.  by  his  eldest  son^ 
WILLIAM  TALBOT,  leoond  Baron  Talbot,  of 
HensoL     TUs  nobleman,  upcni  the  accession  of 
King  Oborob  III.,  w^s  constituted  Lord  Steward 
of  the  hcraseh<dd,  sworn  of  the  privy  council,  and 
created,  by  letters  patent,  dated  10th  March,  1761, 
Eabl  Talbot.     His  lordship  officiated  as  Lord 
Steward  at  the  conmatian  of  his  majesty.    Hem. 
Mary,  only  daughter  and  heir  of  Adam  de  Cav- 
donnel,  Esq.,  of  fiedduunpttm  Park,  in  the  county 
of  Southampton,  secretary  at  war,  temp.  Queen 
Anne,  and  M.P.  for  Southampton,  in  the  same 
reign,  by  whom  he  had  one  only  surviving  chUd, 
JLod^  Cbcil  Talbot,  who  m.  George  Rioa^ 
Esq.,  of  Newton,  M.P.  for  Carmarthen. 
The  eerl  having  thus  no  male  issue,  was  creator 
17th  October,  1780,  Baron  Dynevor,  of  Dynevor, 
in  the  county  of  Carmarthen,  with  remainder  to 
his  daughter  and  the  heirs  male  of  her  body.    His 
lordship  d.  in  1788,  when  the  Barowy  or  Talbot 
passed  tohUBephew^  John  Chatwynd  Talbot,  Esq.  t 


TAL 


TAT 


lift  RAmmrt  or  IHnrKVOB.  dtfOiwJ  mmw^lmg  \  lU 
to  the  limitation,  and  tho  Eabi«dom  or  Tai.bot  j  of 
tocmio  BXTiifor*  *** 

Abms.— Gti.  a  Hon  nmpiaC,  vfthlB  a 
enilad  cc  a  craeiDt  ftar 


Babobtof 


TALBOYS— BARON  TALBOYS. 

By  WtH  of  SoBUBOiw,  dated  fia  1599* 
21  Henry  VIIL 


Kyme^  d.  in 
iadudinf 
dOTohrcd 


GUbot  I  calk 


WILLIAM   DB   KYME,   Banm 
13B8,  wlthoat  taue,  whan  liia 
tbo  lordriilp  of  Kyino»  in 
npoo  hisfistar* 

LUCIE  DE  KVME,  wbo  had 
da  Umftanvill*  Earl  of  Angna,  and  had 

QihBmuT,  Earl  of  Angua»  whom  only  fon* 

RoBBBT,  diad  «.^  In  his  ftthar's  ttDMfane. 
EUaiwth,  who  m.  Oilbat  Bardan,  and  had  a 
daa^ter  and  hair, 
Elisahtb  Bvboow. 
ELIZABETH  BURDON,  inherited  Kyma  and 
the  other  lands  through  her  mother,  and  capouaed, 
HENRY  TALBOYS.  fton  whom  Bneally  de- 


oftheae- 


TATSHALL-BARONS   TATSHAIiL. 

By  Wnt  of  Summons,  dated  Mlh  Jua^  UKto 
ASdwaidL 


mncatc. 


the 


of  the  Cob- 


sir  GEORGE  TALBOYS.  who  m. 
daughter  of  Sir  William  Gasooigne.  and  had  with 
other  iMua. 

OsoBOB.  of  whom  pramntly. 
William,  a  priert. 

EUaabeth.  Nk  to  Sir  Cfarletoplaer  Willougfahy. 
Cecilia,  m.  flrrt,  to  William  Ingleby.  Esq..  of 
Ripley,  la  the  county  of  York,  and  se> 
oondly,  to  Jcrtm  Tomey,  Esq. 
Ann^  m.  lint,  to  Sir  Edward  Dymoke.  Knt.. 
and  secondly,  to  Sir  Robert  Carr. 
Sir  George  was  «.  by  bis  son. 

GILBERT  TALBOYS.  of  Kyme,  who  was  sum- 
moned to  parllameDt  as  Babob  Talbotb,  ^Kym», 
\j  King  Hbnby  VIIL.  hi  U36b  His  lordship  m. 
Elisabeth.*  daughter  of  Sir  John  Blount,  by  whom 
(who  IN.  saoondly.  Edward  Clinton,  first  Earl  of 
Linorfn),  he  had  two  sons.  George  and  Robert, 
who  both  died  in  his  llf»-time,  (snietaM.andaa  only 
daughter, 

Blisabbth  Talbots.  who  m.  first.  Thomas 

WimUsh,    Esq.,   and   secondly.    Ambrose 

Dudley,  Earl  of  Warwick,  but  had  no  iasiie. 

At  the  flanmiB  of  his  lordship,  the  barony  derolyed 

npon  his  daughter, 

ELIZABETH  WIMBISH.  and  her  husbend, 
Mr.  WimUsh,  ctaime4  the  dignity  Airs  ummtU,  when 
it  was  scriemnly  decided,  in  the  presence  of  King 
Hbbby  Vlll.,  «'That  no  man,  husband  of  a  ba- 
roness, should  use  the  title  of  her  dignity,  until  he 
had  a  child  by  her,  whereby  he  should  become 
tenant  by  theoourtesieof  her  barony.**    Her  huty- 


a  This  huly,  after  the  death  of  her  first  husband, 
had  an  lUsgltlmate  child  by  King  Hbnby  VIIL. 
Hbbry  riTSBOY.  cretted  J}v%m  or  Richmobd. 


■.bat  not 


in  requital  of 


queror. 

lem.  swuui  OBOUMBB  m 
allied. 

EUDO  and  PINCO,  npon 
their  gallant  serrioss.  the  royal  Nc 
laige  giants  of  land,  wtaevaof  Tatshall.  with  the 
hamlet  of  Thorpe,  and  town  of  Kirkiby.  in  the 
county  of  Lincoln,  wae  a  part.  Eado  to  hold  his 
proportion  of  the  Uag,  and  Ftnoo^  Ua  of  SL  Coth- 
bert.  of  Durham.    Thefiinner, 

EUDO.  seated  himself  at  Tataftall.  andfrooi  him 
llmnllj  lUamuiliiil, 

ROBERT  DE  TATSHALL.  who.  in  the  IMh 
of  Henry  IIL,  had  custody  of  BolesoYer  Cestle.  and 
the  next  year,  wasgoYemor  of  thatjof  liinrohi  la 
Ibur  years  afterwards,  he  had  licsnse  to  build  a  caa- 
da,  at  his  manor  of  TatshalL  This  fiMMlal  h«d 
mnried  first.  Amabill,  daughter  and  co-heir  of 
WilUam  da  Albini.  Earl  of  Arundel  and  Sussex, 
with  whom  he  aoqulied  the  castle  and  manor  of 
Bucfccnham.  in  die  county  of  NorfMk.  He  at. 
secondly,  »  daughter  of  John  de  Grey,  and 

had  with  her  the  manor  of  Sconddbury.  in  the 
county  of  Berks,  held  of  the  king  by  serjeiinty.  Yis : 
thescrrloe  of  lUoonry.  Hed.  in  IStfi,  and  wase. 
by  his  son. 

ROBERT  DE  TATSHALL.  who.  In  the  98A 
Henry  IIL.  upon  lerying  the  aid  fbr  "*f^*«^  the 
kln^s  eldest  son  knight,  paid  £aO  for  the  twenty- 
fiYe  knightsT  fees,  which  he  held,  and  in  tiie4atod 
of  the  same  reign.  receiYad  mmmand  to  attend  the 
Uag  at  Chester,  well  fitted  with  horse  and  arm^ 
to  oppose  the  incuxsions  of  the  Welsh.  In  tiw 
course  which  this  Robert  adopted,  betwem  the  ba- 
rons and  Kiag  Henry,  he  appears  to  haYO  beoi 
particularly  ii^udicious— Cor  we  find  him  at  the 
battle  of  Lewes,  defeated,  under  the  royal  bauuM>— 
and  the  subsequent  battle  of  Evesham,  in  a  ainular 
situation,  under  the  baronialt  the  Just  reeompense 
of  deserting  his  colours.  In  the  leign  of  Edward  L. 
he  became.  howeYcr.  eminently  ^'■**'^girtthrl  in 
the  Weldi,  Scotch,  and  French  Wan,  and  wassnm- 
moned  to  parliament  as  Babom  Tatbhali..  from 
Mth  June.  ISB6»  to  90th  August.  128&  Hie  hMd- 
ship  IN.  Joan,  daughter  and  oo-Jieir  of  Ralph  Flta- 
Ralph,  fsudal  Lord  of  MIddlduun.  in  the  county 
of  York,   by  whom  he  acquired  < 

of  property,  and  had  isiuib 
RoBBBT.  his  succoHor. 


THQ 


THW 


BmiiM>  m.  to  Sir  Otbert  Gayly*  and  bad  Imiw, 
Sir  ThonuM  Cayly,  Baron  of  Biickeoham* 
in  right  of  his  mother.     ■ 
Joan,  m.  to  SirRobflrt  Driby,  and  left  a  dangle 
ter  and  fajeiren» 
Alice,  m.  to  Sir  William  Bemake.  whose 
daughter,  and  the  ercntnal  heiress  of 
her  brother, 

Maud  Bemake,  m.  Sir  Ralph  de 
CromwdL 
Isebel.  m.  to  Sir  John  Onreby. 
Thebaxon  d.  in  1S61,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

ROBERT  DE  TATSHALL,  second  baron,  sum- 
mooed  to  parliament,  from  6th  February,  1290,  to 
13th  September,  1308.  This  nobleman  senred  in 
the  Scotdi  and  Frendi  wan,  and  dying  in  1303*  was 
SI.  by  his  son, 

ROBERT  DE  TATSHALL,  third  baron,  at 
•whoae  deceese,  in  minority,  the  oiABOifY  fsU  into 
▲BSYAirca,  between 

Sir  Thomas  Cayly,  eon  of  Emme  Tatahall,  by 

Sir  Osbert  Cayly. 
Joan  de  TatshaU,  wife  of  Sir  Robert  Driby. 
Isabel  de  Tatshall,  wife  of  Sir  John  Onreby. 
As  it  stiU  continues  with  their  descendants,  wliile 
the  estates  passed  thus : 

To  Sir  Thomas  Cayly,  the  castle  of  Bucken- 
iiam,  with  a  fourth  part  of  that  manor, 
and  half  the  parks  thereunto  belonging,  and 
other  lands  in  the  county  of  Norfolk  t  ftom 
this  Sir  Thomas  Cayly,  descends  the  exist- 
ing Baronets  Cayly,  of  Brompton,  in  the 
county  of  York. 
To  Lady  Driby,  thecaetle  and  manor  of  Tats- 
haU, and  other  estates  in  the  county  of 
Lincoln. 
To  Lady  Oneby,  the  manor  of  Tybenham, 
and  a  part  of  the  manor  of  Buckenham, 
with  other  lands  in  the  county  of  Norfolk. 
Abms.— Cheoqute  or  and  gu.  a  chief  ermiiM. 

THOMPSON-BARON  HAVERSHAM. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  4th  May,  1096. 

Xiiuage. 

SIR  JOHN  THOMPSON,  Bart,  a  leading  mem- 
ber  of  the  House  of  Commons,  and  a  aealous  pro- 
•moter  of  the  revolution,  was  elevated  to  the  peer- 
age, on  the  4th  May,  1666,  as  Babon  HATxnaHAx, 
tf  HoMTitem,  in  the  county  of  Bucks.  His  Idrd- 
ship  m,  fbrst,  Lady  Frances  Wyndham,  widow  of 
JPrands  Wyndham,  Esq.,  and  daughter  of  Arthur 
Annedey,  flrit  Earl  of  Anglesey,  by  whom  he  had 
issu^ 

MAunicn,  his  sucoesior. 

George,  whod.  issueless. 

Helen,  m.  to  the  Reverend  Mr.  Gregory,  Rector 
of  Tuddlngton,  in  the  county  of  Bedfiord. 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  Joseph  Grange,  Esq. 

Mary,  m.  to  Arthur  Annealey,  fifth  Earl  of 
Anglesey. 

Frances  m.  to  Thomas  Armstrong,  Esq. 

Martha,  m.  to  Sir  John  Every,  Bart. 

Catherine,  m.  to  -^  White,  General  Attorney 
at  J<aw. 


Dorothy,  m.  to  Captain  Btekfotd,  of  theEaat 
India  service^ 

Alchamla,  m.  to  Mr.  Priauz,  of  BristoL 
Lord  Havenham    espoused,    secondly,    Mertha, 
widow  of  Mr.  Grahme,  but  had  no  other  issue.    He 
d,  in  1708,  and  was*,  by  his  elder  ion, 

MAURICE  THOMPSON,  second  banin.  This 
nobleman,  in  the  lifo-time  of  his  fiither,  served  in 
the  French  war,  and  obtained  distinction  at  the 
siege  of  Namur,  wheio  he'was  dangatoosly  wounded. 
He  vras  subsequently  a  colond  in  the  guards,  and 
before  his  acoesiion  to  the  title,  a  member  of  the 
House  of  Commons.  His  lordship  m.  first,  Elixa. 
beth,  daughter  of  John  Smith,  E^.,  of  Hertford- 
shire, by  whom  he  had  two  daughters, 

EuxABSTB,  IN.  to  Johu  Carter,  Esq. 

Anne^  m.  to Reynolds,  Esq.,  son  of  Rich. 

ard.  Bishop  of  London. 
He  n.   secondly,  Elisabeth,  widow  of  William 
Green,  Esq.,  and  sister  of  Ridiard,  Earl  of  Angle, 
sey.    His  k>rdship  d,  in  1745,  when  the  Baboky  of 
HATBBaHABt  bocame  bxtixtct. 

ABiu.~Or.ona  fone dancette as.  three  stats  ar. 
onacanton  of  the  second,  the.eun  in  glory  ppr. 

THORPE— BARON  THORPE. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  Igth  July,  1381, 
6  Richard  IL 

WILLIAM  DE  THORPE  was  summoned  to 
parliament  as  a  babom,  ftrom  16th  July,  1381,  to 
ISth  September,  139a  Nothing  farther,  with  any 
degree  of  accuracy,  is  known  of  this  nobleman  or 
his  descendants.  He  is  not  mentltmed  at  all  by 
Dugdale. 

THWENG— BARONS  THWENO. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  SSnd  February,  1307, 
35  Edward  L 

Xincage. 

Of  this  fiunlly,  andcntly  Lords  of  Kittoh 
Castlb,  in  Yorkshire,  was 

SIR  ROBERT  DE  THWENO,  who,  in  the 
SSd  of  HBifBY  III.,  was  deputed  by  the  other  baxone 
to  repair  to  Rome,  and  to  lay  at  the  foot  of  the 
pontifical  throne,  a  complaint  of  the  nobles  ot 
En^and,  regarding  some  encroachment  upon  their 
ecclesiastical  rights,  by  the  holy  see.  He  was  «. 
by  his  son, 

MARMADUKE  DE  THWENG.  This  foudal 
lord  had  a  military  summons  to  march  into  Scot< 
land,  4and  Henry  III.,  when  the  Scots  had  risen 
in  rebellion  against  their  king,  the  son-in-law  of 
the  English  monarch.  He  m.  one  of  the  sisters 
and  oo-hetrs  of  Duncan  Dardl,  and  left  a  son, 

ROBERT  DE  THWENO,  who  was  a.  by  hie 
son, 

MARMADUKE  DE  THWENO,  who  m.  Luci% 
one  of  the  sisters  and  co-hetrs  of  Peter  de  Bnu» 
ot  Skelton  (see  Brice  of  Anandale),  and  acquired 
thereby  oooeidenadscetstes  in  the  ocnmty  of  York. 

517 


THW 


THW 


In  tlw  fltad  of  Epwau>  L.  this  MmBaduto  had 
lummoot  amongst  the  other  great  meD  of  that 
tfine»  to  lepalr  with  all  epead  to  the  Ung,  and  to 
allbnl  him  hii  advice  touching  the  moat  import- 
ant alBdxf  of  the  realm.  He  had  tubiequflntly  a 
military  eammoDf  Co  march  against  the  FreDch. 
He  was  «.  at  his  decease,  by  his  elder  sod, 

ROBERT  DB  THWISNG.  This  fmdal  lord 
left  an  only  daughter, 

■Lucv,  who  «•.  lltst,  WII.X.IAM  Da  Lattmsk, 
Junr.,  but  being  divorced  Ikom  him  by  sen- 
tence Arom  the  court  of  Romeb  pronounead 
in  the  eodeslaatical  consiatary  at  York,  she 
m.  seoondly,  Nicholab  db  MaiNii.i.; 
thirdly,  Babtholombw  db  Favcobt,  «id 

fourthly,  ROBBBY  DB  EVBBXlfOBAlS. 

He  was  «.  at  his  decease,  by  his  brother,  aa  next 
heir  male, 

MARHADUKE  DE  THWENO.  one  of  the 
■Met  emiacBt  soidien  of  the  period  la  which  he 
lived*  and  being  highly  distinguished  in  the  wars 
of  Scotland,  was  sunmoned  to  parliament  as  a 
BABOH  Atom  S9nd  February,  1907*  to  18th  Septem- 
ber, latt.  His  lordship  m.  Isabel,  daughter  of 
William  de  Ros,  of  Igmanlhorpe,  In  the  county 
of  York,  and  had  issue, 

Wix«LiAii,  his  tuocanor. 

5?»**»  Ibothpriesta. 
ThonuM,  j 

Luda,  m.  to  Sir  Robert  de  Lumlay,  and  her 


TiirBMa  ftn  Into  abbyabcb 
as  it  still  conttaues  with  their 


Sib  Mabmabukb  ob  Lumjubt,  assumed 
the  arms  of  Thwenc.    His  son. 
Sib  Rai.pA  db  Lcmlby,  was  sum- 
moned to  parliament  as  Babon 
LUMLBY,  by  RiCBABD   II.,  but 
Joining  in    the    insurrection  of 
Thomas  Holand,   Earl  of  Kent, 
temp.  Henry  IV.,  he  fdl  in  action : 
and  being  attainted,  his  honours 
expired.   The  attainder  was,  how- 
ever, repealed  in  the  reign  of  Ed- 
ward lY.  (seeLumley). 
Margaret,  ak  to  Sir  Robert  de  Hilton,  KnL 
Katharine,  m.  to  Sir  Ralph  D'Aubenie. 
Hii  kxdship  d.  hi  1818,  and  was  #.  by  his  ddest 


WILLIAM  DB  THWENO,  second  baron,  sum- 
monad  to  parliament  on  the  SOth  December,  laM, 
but  never  afterwarda.  He  m.  Katharine,  daughter 
of  Thomas,  Lord  Fumival,  of  HaUamshlre^  but 
dying  without  Issue  in  1341,  wasa.  by  his  brother, 

ROBERT  DE  THWENG,  who,  doing  homage 
In  the  same  year,  had  Uveiy  of  his  lands.  Tliis 
baton  was  In  holy  orders,  and  d.  oC  course,  issue- 
lass  (anno  1344),  when  he  was  «.  by  his  brother, 

THOMAS  DB  THWENO,  also  a  dergyman. 
This  baron  lieing  rector  of  the  cfaurdi  at  Lythum, 
founded  a  chantry  of  twelve  priests  and  four  clerks, 
in  the  parochial  church  there,  to  pray  for  the  good 
estate  of  himself,  and  Henry,  Lord  Perd,  and  for 
the  souls  of  their  ancestors.  Likewise  for  the  souls 
ci  Robert  de  Thweng,  and  Maud,  his  wife;  Mar- 
maduke  de  Thwang,  and  Lucy,  his  wUb,  &c  ice, 
Hii  lordship  0,  In  1374,  when  hto  estates  devolved 
upon  his  Rlilan  as  o^-hakn,  and  the  Bab«kv  or 
ffM 


ABMa.— Or,  a  Aseegulsa. 

TIfi£TOT— BARONS  TIBETOT. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  10th  March,  1308; 
1  Edward  IL 

In  the  1st  year  of  Hbbbt  IIL, 

HENRY  DE  TIBETOT,  beiag  in  arms  for  fhfe 
king,  had  a  grant  In*  conjunction  with  Thotnaa 
Botterd,  of  the  possessions  lying  in  the  oountiaa  of 
York  and  Lincoln,  of  Adam  Paind,  who  foyglit 
on  the  other  dde;  and  dying  in  the  34th  of  tl»e 
same  rdgn,  was  «.  by  his  son, 

ROBERT  DE  TIBETOT,  who,  hi  the  fiOth 
of  Hbhby  IIL,  was  made  gotemor  of  the  eaatia 
of  PordMster,  and  having  attended  Prinee  Si^ 
WABB  to  the  Holy  Land,  was  high  in  Ihvour, 
after  he  had  ascended  the  throne,  as  Eowabd  I., 
being  then  constituted  governor  of  Notdn^um 
Castle,  justice  of  South  Wales,  and  governor 
of  the  castles  of  Carmarthen  and  Cardigan.  Sa 
the  I3th  of  the  same  rdgn,  he  had  a  grant  finom 
J<4m,  the  son  of  Gerard  de  Rodes,  to  hlmsri^ 
his  Wilis,  and  his  son,  In  Ae,  of  the  manon  of 
Langar  and  Bemeston,  in  Nottinghamshire.  In 
the  aoth,  bdng  then  the  king's  lieutenant  for  Walea, 
he  fought  and  defeated  RgM  ap  MtndtOk,  In  b 
great  battle,  wherdn  four  thousand  Wddunen  were 
slain,  and  Reca  himself  having  been  made  prisoner, 
was  conveyed  to  York,  and  there  executed.  Ro- 
bert de  Tibeiot  was  subsequently  in  the  wars  of 
Oaacony  and  Scotland.  He  m.  Eve,  daughter  of 
Pain  de  Chaworth,  and  had  Issue, 
Paiw,  his  sucoeesor. 

Hawyse,  m.  to  John,   eon  of  Robert  Pita- 
Roger. 
Eve,  iM.  to  Robert,  SOB  of  R^rtMTt  de  TatdialL 
Had.  In  the 90th  Edward  I.,  and  was*,  by  hie  son, 

PAIN  DE  TIBETOT,  who,  serving  in  the  Scot- 
tish wars,  during  the  latter  part  of  the  rdgn  of 
EnwABD  I.,  was, summoned  to  parliament  as  a 
BARow,  upon  theaooesdoB  of  Edwabo  IL  He  was 
subsequently  justice  of  the  forests  beyond  Trent, 
end  governor  of  the  castle  of  Northampton.  HIa 
lordship,  who  had  made  several  rampalgns  into 
Scotland,  fell  eventually  at  the  battle  of  Stbit». 
LIB,  anno  1314.  He  m.  Agnes,  daughter  of  William 
de  Roe,  of  Hamlake,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR  JOHN  H^  TIBETOT,  second  baron, 
summoned  to  parliament  from  1st  A|iril,  IS3B, 
to  SOth  January,  1308.  This  nobleman  was  in  the 
wars  of  France  and  Scotland,  and  was  oonatltuted 
governor  of  Berwick-upon-Tweed,  in  the  90th  of 
Edward  III.  His  lordship  m.  ^Margaret,  daaghter 
of  Bartholomew,  Lord  Badlesmere,  and  co-heir  of 
her  brother,  Giles,  Lord  Badlesmere,  by  whom  he 
eoquired  a  great  accesdon  of  landed  piupeity^  and 

had  issue,  ^  2,i''^j  U 

ROBBBT,  his  sucoeesor.      -«**'  V  "^       ♦^ 
Payi  (Sir),  ftrom  whom  the  Eabu  ovlfoB- 
cBaTBB  of  this  family  descended. 

He  d.  in  ]387»  and  was  «.  by  his  dder  son. 


TIB 


TIB 


•  ROBBRT  DB  TIBKTOT,  third  Iwmb.  nan- 
moned  to  i»rliamant  from  S4iih  Pebniary,  laOB,  to 
8th  January,  1S71.  Hb  tordddp  m.  Margant, 
daughter  of  William  Dalaoourt,  Lord  Deinooort, 
and  had  iaiue, 

Maboarst,  m.  to  Roger,  leeond  Lord  Scropoy 

OfBoltOQ. 

MiLicBNT,  m.  to  Stephen  le  Scropei  brother 

of  the  abore  Roger. 
EiisABCTH,  m.  to  Philip  le  DcBpettMft  the 
younger. 
HU  lordtbip  d.  in  1S72»  wlien  liii  lands  derolved 
upon  hit  daughtan  aa  oo-heirs,  and  in  the  divisioD 
thereof  Lakoab  fell  to  the  eldest,  and  was  con- 
veyed by  her  to  the  Scnopsa,  whence  It  passed 
through    an    illegitimate    daughter  of    Emanuel 
Scrope,  Earl  of  Sunderland,  to  the  family  of  Hown. 
The  Raroity  op  Tibbtot,  or  Tiptott.  fell  into 
ABBYABCB  amongst  those  ladies,  as  it  still  oontlnues 
with  their  repreMntatives.* 
Abmb.— Ar.  B  saltier  ingrailed,  gules. 

TIBETOT,  OR  TIPTOFT— BARONS 
TIBETOT,  OR  TIPTOFT, 
EARLS  OF  WORCESTER. 

Barony,  by  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  7th  Jan.,  1480^ 

4  Henry  VI. 
Earldom,  by  Letters  Patent,  16th  July^  1449i 


WnaB..-^^**^" 


SIR  PAIN  DE  TIBETOf,  younger  son  of  John, 
leoond  Lord  Tibetotz-in.  Agnes,  sister  of  Sir  John 
Wrothe,  Knt.,  and  wm  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR  JOHN  DE  TIPTOFT,  who.  In  the  lat 
Henry  IV.,  being  retafaaed  in  the  service  of  that 
king,  during  his  life,  had,  in  consideratfon  thereof, 
a  grant  of  one  hundred  marks  per  annum,  peynble 
out  of  the  issues  of  the  county  of  Cambridge!  and 
in  six  years  altsrwards,  upon  the  attainder  of 
Thomas  Mowbray,  Earl  Marshal  and  Nottingham, 
had,  in  ooqjunction  with  Ralph  de  Rodifort,  a 
grant  from  the  king,  of  aU  the  apparel  pettalning 
to  the  body  of  that  earl,  and  ail  his  hamem,  tor 
paaoe  and  war,  as  well  fbr  great  horses  called 
coursers,  as  saddles  for  tilts  and  toomamenta.  In 
the  8th  of  the  same  reign,  upon  the  rebellion  and 
ftirfelture  of  Owen  Olsndower,  he  obtained  all  the 
lands  of  Rhase  ap  Oriftth,  (an  adherent  to  Owen,) 
lying  within  the  principality  of  South  Wales,  and 
the  ssme  year  he  was  constituted  chief  butler  of 
England.  He  was,  subsequently,  made  treasurer  of 
the  housdiold,  and  in  the  reign  of  Henry  V.  he  was 
Seneschal  of  Aoquitalne,  president  ai  the  king's 
eatchequer  in  Normandy,  and  treasurer  of  that 
duchy.  In  the  3rd  Henry  VL  he  was  aj^iointed 
diief  steward  of  the  kln^s  castles  and  lordships 
throughout  Wales  and  the  Maidies,  and  the  next 
year  he  had  summons  to  parliament  as  a  babob. 
His  lordship  m.  Joyce,  second  daughter  and  oo- 


e  Margaret,  Lady  Scrope,  ii  now  lepiesented  by 
Cbablbb  Jonbb,  Esq.,  the  heir-general  of  her 
ladyahipt  and  her  husband,  Roger,  Lord  Scropei 


heir  oi  Bdwwd-  caMrlton,  Lord  Pmrys*  <D«gdale 
saye  he  bore  the  titieof  Lord Tiptnft and  Powys, 
but  he  was  never  summoned  by  any  other  designB. 
tlon  than  that  of  «<  Johsnni  Tiptoft,  ChPr.")  By 
this  lady  he  acquired  a  consMeraUe  inheritance^ 
and  had  issue, 

JoBw,  his  suoooseor. 

Philippa,  m.  to  Tbomaa,  Lord  Roe. 

Joene,  m.  to  Sir  Edmund  Inglethorp& 

Joyce,  IN.  to  Edmund,  son  and  heir  of  John, 
Lord  Dudley. 
Lord  Tiptoft  d,  in  1443,  and  was  a.  by  his  eon, 

JOHN  DE  TIPTOFT,  second  banm,  who  was 
created  Jiut  as  he  had  attained  mBjority,  lOth  July, 
1448,  Babl  op  Wobcbstbb.  In  1407  his  lordship 
was  lord  deputy  of  Irdand,  and  in  the  1st  Edward 
IV.  he  was  constituted  Justice  of  North  Wales  fbr 
llfe^  He  was  soon  after  made  constable  of  the 
Tower  of  Limdoo,  and  the  next  year,  being  then 
treasurer  of  the  exchequer,  he  assisted  the  king  at 
the  siege  of  Bamburg^  Castle^  held  st  the  time  by 
the  Duke  of  Someiset»  and  other  Lencastrians. 
His  next  great  appointment  was  that  of  crakcbz- 
iiOB  OP  Ibblabd,  and  in  the  7th  of  the  same  reign 
being  deputy  of  that  kingdom  to  George,  Duke  of 
Clarence,  he  resided  there  for  the  protMtlon  of  the 
realm.  In  threeyears  afterwards  he  was  constituted 
lieutenant  of  Ireland  t  as  also  constable  of  En^and, 
and  again  treasurer  of  the  exchequer.  At  this  time 
coming  to  Southampton,  the  king  caused  him  to 
sit  in  Judgment  upon  sereral  of  the  Lancastrian 
party,  who  had  then  been  mode  prisoners  at  sea, 
and  the  execution  of  twenty  of  those  penons  fbl- 
lowed.  Besides  all  *CUs,lt  is  fttrther  memorable  of 
this  nobleman,  that  having  been  bred  a  student  at 
Baliol  College,  Oxford,  and  attained  to  an  eminent 
degree  In  learning,  he  went  to  Jerusalem,  and 
Mdoumed  there  for  some  time,  whence  he  travelled 
into  other  countries,  and  returning  through  Italy, 
proceeded  to  Rome,  for  the  expreis  purpose  of 
visiting  the  library  at  the  Vatican.  Here  he  made, 
it  is  said,  lo  eloquent  an  oration  to  Popb  PIim  II., 
that  it  drew  tears  ttam  the  eyei  of  his  Holiness. 
His  lordship  trsnshited  into  English  PmMIim  Ck»rtMw 
Hm»,  and  OsiiM  Vhuidniu»;  and  wrote  several  learned 
Tracts,  of  which  Bale  makes  mention.  In  Wat- 
pole's  Royal  and  Noble  Authon  he  Is  also  noticed 
with  high  commendation.  Being  a  staunch  Yorkist, 
the  earl,  upon  the  temporary  restoration  of  Henry 
VL,  was  placed  in.  Jeopardy,  and  forced  to  conceal 
himself  from  his  enemies,  but  being  at  length 
found  in  the  upper  brandies  of  a  high  tree,  he  was 
conveyed  to  London,  and  being  adjudged  to  suflbr 
death,  was  beheaded  on  Tower  Hill,  anno  147Q, 
when  ALL  BIB  Bonovna  became  fiorfUted.  HIa 
lordship  m.  first,  Cecily,  daughter  of  Ridiard, 
Earl  of  Salisbury,  and  widow  of  Henry  Beanchamp, 
Duke  of  Warwidt,  but  had  no  taeue^  He  espoused, 
secondly,  Elisabeth,  dBughter  of  Robert  Oreyn- 
dour,  by  whom  he  had  a  eon,  John,  whotf.  in  In- 
fancy. He  wedded  thirdly,  Ettaabeth,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Hopton,  Eiq.,  and  widow-  of  Sir  Roger 
Corbet,  Knt.,  of  Morton  Corbet,  in  the  county  of 
Salop,  by  whom  he  had  fn  only  eon, 

EDWARD  DE  TIPTOFT,  who  was  restoied 
In  blood  and  hoaoms  by  King  Ebwabo  IV.  when 

619 


TON 


TOW 


he  Kgained  Um  cvoinif  but  djiag  immiRlad  In 
14W,  the  Earldom  of  WoBcxeraB  became  az- 
TiiTCT,  while  the  Barowv  or  TirtOFT  Ml  into 
ABaTAFCs  Bmongst  hie  auate,  (lee  childran  of  the 
flnt  lord,)  ae  it  etill  coottnaee  with  their  lepre- 
lentativei. 
Abm8.^A<.  a  Mltier4ogiai]ecl,  gu. 

TONI-BARON  TONI. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  10th  April,  1S90, 
S7  Edward  I. 

ICiiicagc. 

The  fint  of  this  CiuiiUy  that  came  into  England, 
was 

RALPH  DB  TONI,  ton  of  Roger,  itendard 
beerer  of  Normandy,  by  Alice*  daughter  of  William 
Fits-Otborne.  Thii  Ralph  wa«  at  the  battle  of 
Haitingi,  and  he  obtained  from  hit  micoenfiil  diief , 
William  the  Conqueror,  large  grants  of  lands  in 
difltarent  shires,  of  which  Flamstead,  in  the  county 
of  Hertford,  was  the  head  of  his  barony.  He  in- 
herited, at  the  flsneaiB  of  his  father,  the  office  of 
standard  bearer,  which  was  hereditary  in  the  fiunily. 
He  m.  Isabel,  daughter  of  Simon  de  Montfort,  and 
had  issue, 

Ralph,  his  sucoeisor. 

Godechild,  m.  first,  to  Robert,  Earl  of  MsUcnt, 
and  secondly,  to  Baldwin,  son  of  Eustace, 
Earl  of  Bolein. 
Ralph  de  Toni  d,  in  I14S,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

RALPH  DE  TONI,  who  m.  Judith,  daughter  of 
Waltheof,  Earl  of  Huntingdon  and  Northumber- 
land, and  from  this  feudal  lord,  we  peas  to  his 
descendant, 

ROBERT  DE  TONI,  who  distinguished  himself, 
temp.  Edward  I.,  in  the  were  of  Scotland  and  Gas- 
cony,  and  had  summons  to  parliament  as  Babok 
Toni,  ftom  lOth  April,  1»0,  to  16th  June,  1311.  His 
lordship  died  Issudess,  about  the  latter  year,  when 
the  Babont  became  bxtiitct.  His  estates  de- 
volved upon  his  sister,  Alice  de  Toni,  who  m.  first, 
Thomas  Leybourae;  secondly,  Ouy  de  Beauchamp, 
Earl  of  Warwick,  and  thirdly,  William  Le  Zoucfae, 
of  Ashby,  in  the  county  of  Leicester. 

ABMS^-Ar.  a  maunch  gu. 

TOUCHET— BARONS   AUDLEY,  OF 
HELEIOH. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  8th  January,  1313, 
U  Edward  IL 

XincBgc. 

The  Baboity  or  Avdlbt,  was  conferred,  8th 
January,  1S18,  by  writ,  upon 

NICHOLAS  DE  ALDITHELBY  or  AUDLEY, 
and,  at  the  Jecfase  of  that  nobleman's  grandson, 

NICHOLAS  AUDLEY,  the  third  baron,  without 
issue*  in  1308,  it  passed  into  theflunily  of  Touchbt  ; 
the  last  lord's  elder  sbter  and  co-heir, 

Joamb  Audlbt,  having  married  Sib  Jobk 

ToucrbT)  Hiit.»  and  her  graadfon, 
590 


JOHN  TOUCHET,  havlog.  in ' 
summoned  to  parliament.  In  the  Baboxt,  on  the 
81st  December,  140Bw  So  flv  regarding  this  dignity, 
but  although  twice  POBvaiTBD,  in  13B7,  end  in 
1631,  as  it  was  fuUy  restored  by  act  of  parliament* 
in  1678,  and  is  at  present  enjoyed,  it  belongB  to  the 
BZTAirr,  more  than  the  bxtiitct 


TOUCHET— BARON  TOUCHET. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  80th  December,  1290^ 
88  Edward  L 

XCncagif. 

WILLIAM  TOUCHET,  supposed  to  have  been 
a  kinsman  of  the  Lords  Audley,  was  summoned  to 
parliament  as  a  baron,  from  89th  December,  1898, 
to  3rd  November,  1306,  but  of  his  lordship,  nothing 
father  is  recorded. 


TOWNSHEND  —  BARONESS         OF 
GREENWICH. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  88th  August,  1767. 

ICincagc. 

JOHN  CAMPBELL,  second  Dnkeof  ArgyO,  & 
10th  October,  1680,  having,  as  i«obd  hioh  com- 
MiaaroirBB,  given  the  royal  assent,  in  the  parlia- 
ment of  Scotland,  to  the  introduction  of  the  act  of 
Union  with  England,  on  the  81st  September,  1706, 
was  created  by  Qwam  Anira,  on  the  a6th  Novem- 
ber, following.   Boron   Chatham,   and   Earz.   op 
Gkbxwwich,  in  the  peerage  of  Eni^and.    In  the 
next  year,  his  grace  made  the  campaign  under  the 
Duke  of  Mariborough,  and  distinguished  himesif 
at  IU.MBLx.ixa,  at  the  siege  of  Ostend,   and  in 
the  attack  of  Menint  but  his  highest  military  repu- 
tation was  acquired  in  1706,  at  the  battle  of  Ov- 
DBXABO,  where  he  commanded  a  division  of  the 
army,  comprising  twenty  batellions,   which   was 
the  first  brought  into  action,  and  whidi  maintained 
its  ground,  against  a  great  disparity  of  nnmbeiSt 
Upon  his  return  to  England,  he  was  swora  of  tiie 
privy  council,  and  he  subeequcntly  commanded-in* 
chief,  as  lieutenant-general,  the  En^ish  forces, 
under  General  Schuylembeiv,  at  the  attack  of  the 
dty  and  citadel  of  Toumay.     In  1710,  the  duke 
was  installed  a  Kmioht  of  the  Gabtbx.    In  1718, 
he  was  constituted  commander-in-chief  of  all  the 
land  forces  in  Scotland,  and  captain  of  the  compeny 
of  foot,  in  Edinburgh  Castle.    Upon  the  death  of 
Queen  Amitb,  his  grace  was  one  of  the  seven  lords 
Justices,  in  whom  the  govcmment  was  vested,  under 
the  act  of  parliament,  until  the  arrival  of  Ktag 
GaoBOB  I.,  tnm  Hanover.    After  which  he  was 
again  appointed  general  and  commander-in-chief 
of  the  forces  in  Scotland,  and  in  that  capacity, 
suppressed  the  rebellion  of  1715,  by  his  victory  of 
DuMBLAiif,  and  his  subsequent  procedings.    For 
all  thcM  eminent  services,  he  was  advanced  to  a 
British  dukedom,  on  the  30th  April,  1718,  as  Dcfkb 
or  Gbbbwwich,  and  declared  lord  stewan|  of  the 


TOW 


TBE 


hoiudwU.    H«  WM  MibMquaady*  mattir-gaMnl 
of  the  ordnance,  field  manbel*  Aic  Ac. 

His  grace  eapouMd,  fint,  Mary,  daughter  of  John 
JBfown,  Esq.,  and  nleoe  of  Sir  John  Dunoomb, 
Knt.,  (Lord  Mayor  of  iKsndon,  in  1706,)  but  had 
no  iuue  He  m.  aeoondiy,  Jane,  daughter  of  Thomaa 
Warburton,  Esq.,  of  WinningUm,  in  Gheihire,  and 
had  five  daughters,  via. 

Caroliwb,  m.  first,  to  Frands,  Earl  of  Dal- 
keith, eldest  son  of  Frands,  Duke  of  Buc- 
cleugh,  and  secondly,  to  the  Right  Honoura- 
ble Charles  Townshend. 
Anne,  m.   to  William  Woitworth,   Earl  of 

Slaflbrd,  but  died  «.  jk 
Jane,  d.  young. 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  the  Right  Honourable  James 
Stewart  Mackensle,  brother  of  John,  Earl 
of  ButOi 
Mary,  m.  to  Eiward,  Viacomrr  Cokx,  heir 
apparent  of  Thomas,  Earl  of  Leicester,  but 
d.  without  issue. 
This  illustrious  nobleman,  commonly  called  '*  Trs 
OBBAT  DuKJB  ow  Arovll,"  who  was  M  conspi- 
cuous for  patriotism  and  eloquence  in  t»arliament, 
as  he  had  been  for  valour  and  conduct  in  the 
field,  d.  4th  October,  1743,*  when  his  Scottish  ho- 
nours devolved  upon  his  brother,  and  thosk  or 
ENOLAif D  became  bxtiitct. 
His  eldest  daughter, 

LADY  CAROLINE,  (Countess  of  Dalkeith,) 
then  the  wife  of  the  Ri^  Honourable  John 
TowNSRBifD,  first  Lord  of  the  Treasury,  and 
Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer,  was  created,  on  the 
S8th  August,  1767,  a  British  peeress,  as  Babonbss 
Grbbnwich,  with  the  de^ee  of  baron,  in  re- 
mainder to  the  heirs  male  of  her  body,  by  the  said 
John  Townshend.  Her  ladyship  by  her  first  hus- 
band. Lord  Dalkeith,  had  no  issue,  but  by  the 
second  had  two  sons  and  a  daughter,  vis. 

Thomas-Charles,  \  both  predeceased  thdr  mo- 
'William-John,      j  ther,  issueless. 
Anne,  m.  in  1779.  to  Richard  Wilson,  Esq.,  of 
Tyrone,  in  Irdand,  and  left  a  son. 
The  Countess  of  Dalkeith  d.  in  1794,  when  the 
Baron V  or  Grbbnwich  became  bztinct. 

Arms.— Quarterly,  first  and  fourth,  girony  of 
dght  pieces,  or.  and  sa.  for  CAitrBBLLt  second  and 
third,  ar.  a  galley  with  her  sails  ftiried  close,  flag 
and  pendants  flying,  and  oars  in  action,  all  sa. 


*  To  John,  DuKB  OP  Argyll  and  Grbbnwich, 
there  is  a  fine  monument  in  Westminster  Abbey, 
by  Roulnliac,  on  which  is  chisdled,  the  personi- 
fication of  History,  employed  in  writing  the  fol- 
lowing  lines  t 
Britons,  behold  I  if  patriot  worth  be  dear, 
A  shrine  that  claims  thy  tributary  tear. 
Silent  that  tongue— «dmiring  senates  heard  | 
Nerveless  that  arm— opposing  legions  fear'd. 
Nor  less,  O  Campbell,  thine  the  power  to  please. 
And  give  to  grandeur  all  the  grace  of  ease. 
Long  from  thy  life,  let  kindred  heroes  trace 
Arts,  which  ennoble  still  the  noldest  race. 
Others  may  owe  thdr  ftiture  fame  to  me, 
I  borrow  immortality  from  thee. 


TRCOOZ—BARON  TREOOZ. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  6th  February,  ISOO* 
97  Edward  I, 

ICineagc 

In  the  5th  year  otKing  Stbprbn, 

WILLIAM  DB  TREGOZ  'had  theUnds  of  Wil- 
liam Peverel,  of  London,  in  farm ;  and  was  «.  by 

GEOFFREY  DE  TREGOZ,  who  m.  Annabil, 
daughter  of  Robert  Gresley,  by  whom  he  had  four 
daughters,  and  one  son,  his  successor, 

WILLIAM  DE  TREGOZ,  Who  wedded 

daughter  of  Robert  de  Lud,  (his  guardian,)  and 
dying  in  1206,  was  «.  by  his  son, 

ROBERT  DE  TREGOZ.  This  feudal  lord  waa 
sheriff  of  Wiltshire,  in  the  3rd  of  Richard  I.,  and  in 
three  years  afterwards,  he  was  in  an  expedition  then 
made  into  Normandy.  He  m.  Sibd,  daughter  of 
Robert  de  Ewyas,  and  in  the  7th  of  John,  upon 
collecting  the  scutage  of  that  king's  rdgn,  answered 
thirty-eight  marks  for  nineteen  knights'  fees,  be- 
longhig  to  the  honour  of  the  said  Robert  de  Ewyaa* 
He  was  «.  by  his  sou, 

ROBERT  DE  TREGOZ,  who  had  a  military 
summons  to  march  against  the  Welsh,  in  the  48nd 
Hknry  III.,  but  joining  the  baronial  banner  in  the 
same  reign,  he  fell  at  the  battle  (tf  Evesham,  leaving 
a  son, 

JOHN  TREGOZ,  who  doing  his  homage  in  the 
52nd  HxNRY  III.,  had  livery  of  his  lands;  and  bad 
such  favour  from  the  king,  notwithstanding  his 
father's  treason,  that  he  was  acquitted  of  fifty 
marks  of  the  hundred  pounds  then  due  for  his  re* 
lief.    After  which,  10th  Edward  I.,  he  attended  the 
king  in  an  expedition  then  made  into  Wales,  and 
in  the  22nd  of  the  same  reign,  bdng  in  the  cam* 
paign  of  Gascony,  he  had  permission  for  his  wife 
and  flunily  to  reside  in  the  castle  of  Devises,  and  to 
have  fuel  for  thdr  fires  there.  He  was  subsequently 
in  the  Scottish  wars,  and  was  summoned  tp  parlia- 
ment as  a  BAROif  on  the  6th  February  and  10th 
April,  1299.    His  lordship  m.  —  and  had  issue, 
Claricb,  m,  to  Roger  de  la  Wane,  and  )e|t  • 
son, 
John  db  la  Warrb, 
Sybil,  m.  to  Sir  William  de  Orandison,  KnL 
He  died  in  1300,  seised  of  the  castle  of  Ewyao- 
Harolo,  with  its  members  In   the  marches  of 
Wales,  which  he  held  by  barony :  the  manor  of 
Eton-Tr^pM,  in  the  county  of  Hereford,  and  estatea 
in  the  counties  of  Wilts,  Salop,  and  Northampton, 
Upon  his  lordship's  decease  the  Barony  ow  Trb- 
eoz  fell  into   abxyanob,  between  his  grandson 
John  de  la  Warre,  and  his  second  daughter,  Sybil 
de  Grandison,  as  it  still  continues  with  thdr  repre- 
sentatives. 

Arms.— Gules,  two  bars  gemels,  and  in  a  chief, 
a  liou  jMSsant,  guardant,  or., 

TREGOZ— BARON  TREOOZ. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  89nd  January,  1905, 
38  Edward  I. 

ICiiuagc* 

HENRY  TREOOZ,  a  disUngnlshed  soldier  la 
3X  581 


TJtE 


TnM 


tlM  Scottish  wm,  tonp.  Bdwirl  I.  and  Bdwvrd  IL, 
WM  lummoned  to  parlUuncnt  m  a  Babow,  from 
SSnd  January,  \X»,  to  14th  March,  1388,  but  of  thia 
nobleman  nothing  more  Is  known* 

TREGOZ— BARON  TREGOZ. 

By  Writ  of  Snmmona,  datad  4th  Januvy,  WM, 
11  Bdwirl  IL 

Xineagc. 

THOMAS  DE  TREGOZ  ww  mmnKmad  to  paiw 
liamant  as  a  Bakok.  4th  January,  1319>  and  from 
90th  Odoiwr,  1338,  to  9th  Apri^  UMk  but  naOtiag 
further  is  known  of  him. 

TREVOR — (HAMPDEN)  BARONS 
TREVOR,  VISCOUNTS 
HAMPDEN. 

Barony,      1  by  Letters  fSIst  December,  I7II. 
Viscounty,  /   Patent,    \  14th  June,  177B. 

Xincage. 

RICHARD  TREVOR,  the  reyiesentattTe  of  an 
andent  Wdsh  flunily,  fa.  Matilda,  daughter  and 
hdr  of  David  ap  Gruff,  of  Allington,  by  whom  ha 
had, 

JOHN  TRBVOH,  of  AflingtoB,  who  was  «.  by 
hiseldertsoa, 

JOHN  TREVOR,  of  Allington,  who  m.  Anne, 
daughter  of  Randal  Broughton,  Esq.,  of  Broughton, 
In  the  county  of  Lananter,  and  had  four  sons, 
John,  Randal,  Darld,  and  Edward.     The  eldest 


■»  ta  the  county  af 
and  dying  the  year  before  hia  father* 


JOHN  TREVOR,  was  seated  at  TrevaUin,  in 
Denbighshire,  and  marrying  Mary,  daughter  of  Sir 
Otorge  Bruges,  Knt.,  of  London,  had  issue, 

RicaABD  (Sir),  of  Allington,  m.  Catherine, 
daughter  of  Roger  Puleston,  Esq.,  of  Em- 
rail,  and  left  four  daughters,  his  co-heirs, 
▼la. 

Magdalen,  m.  first,  to  Arthur  Bagnall, 

bq.,  of  Stallbrdshire,  and  secondly,  to 

*— -  Tyrlngham,  Esq.,  ot  Tyrlngham, 

In  the  county  of  Bucks. 

Mary,  m.  to  Jever  Lloyd,  Esq.,  of  Yale. 

Dorothy,  m.  to  Sir  John  Hanmer,  Bart., 

of  Hanmer,  in  the  county  of  Flint 
Margaret,  fa.  to  John  Orifflth,  Esq.,  of 
Lynn,  in  Camarronshira. 
John  (Sir) ,  of  whom  presently. 
Randulph,  d.  unmarried. 
SadiTlUe  (Sir),  a  naval  ofllcer  of  high  reputa- 
tion, temp.  James  I. 
ThoDUM  (Sir),  chief  baron  of  the  exchequer, 

temp.  Charlbb  L 
Winifred,  m.  to  Edmund  Puleston,  Esq.,  of 
ADIngtODk 
The  second  son, 

SIR  JOHN  TREVOR,  Knt,  of  TrevalUn,  m. 
in  19J3,  Margaret,  daughter  of  Hugh  Trerannion, 
Esq.*  of  Cornwall,  and  had  issue, 

JOHW  (Sir),  one  of  the  principal  secretaries 
of  state,  and  a  >aember  of  tlie  privy  council, 
in  the  reign  of  Chcrles  II.,  m.  Ruth,  daugh- 
ter  of  John   Hampden,   Esq.,  of  Great 

saa 


Johh,  who  «.  his  grandfather  at  Tx«> 
Tallin,  m.  Elijabeth,  daughter  ot  — 
Clarke,  Esq.,  and  widow  of  John  Moiw 
ley,  Eaq.,  of  Glynd,  in  the  cooaty  at 
Sussex,  by  whom  he  had  issue, 

John  Merley,  of  GlyBd-5tanertan« 

who  d.  19th  April,  171A. 
Thomas,  d,  unmarried. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  David  Polhill,  Esq., 

o^Oxford,  Kent 
Arabella,  m,  first,  to  Robert  Heath, 
Esq.,  of  Lewes,  and  secondly,  to 
Brigadier-General   Edward  Mon- 
tagu,   only   brother  of  George^ 
Earl  of  Halifax. 
TiroMAa,  of  whom  presently. 
Richard. 
Edward. 
WilUam. 
Richard,  M.D, 

Anne,  m.  to  Robert  Wddon,  Esq.,  of  hauAoa. 

Jane,  m.  to  the  Hon.  Sir  Francis  Compton. 

fifth  son  of  Spencer,  Earl  of  Northampton. 

EUaabeth,  m.  to  WiBlam  Masham,  Esq.,  eldast 

son  of  Sir  WiUiam  Masham,  Bart 

Sir  John  Trevor  d.  in  1073,  and  his  eldest  grandaon, 

John  Trevor,  Esq.,  inherited  TrevaUin,  while  the 

next 

THOMAS  TREVOR,  was  brought  up  to  the 
profession  of  the  law,  and  having  attained  reput»> 
tion  at  the  bar,  was  made  solicitor-general  in  UBB, 
when  he  recrived  the  honour  of  knighthood.  la 
10W,  he  became  attorney-general,  and  on  the  ac- 
cession of  Queen  Anne,  was  constituted  Lord 
Justice  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas,  when  he^ 
elevated  to  the  pesrage,  31st  December,  1711,  am 
Baron  Tnsvoa,  ^  Brwmham,  in  the  county  of 
Bedford.  In  1796,  he  was  ^tpointed  lord  privy 
seal,  and  the  next  year  he  was  dedared  one  of  the 
lords  Justices.  On  the  aecssslon  of  QKOttou  IL, 
he  was  again  sworn  lord  privy  seal,  and  in  tharee 
years  afterwards  constituted  president  of  the  ooun- 
dL  His  k>rdBhip  m.  first,  Elisabeth,  danghtav  and 
co-heir  of  John  Searle,  Esq,,  of  Finchley,  la  the 
county  of  Mlddlssex,  by  whom  he  had  issuer 

TuoMxa,  \iuoceadvely  Lotds  Trevor. 

JoBir,       j 

Anne. 

LsBtltIa,  m.  to  Peter  Gock«  Esq.,  of 

welL 
Eliiabeth. 
Lord  Trevor  espoused,  secondly,  Aanei 
of  Robert  Weldon,  Esq.,  and  widow  of  Sir  Robert 
Bernard,  Bart,  of  Brampton,  in  the  ooooty  ot 
Huntingdon,  and  had, 

RoBSRT,  who  succeeded  as  fourth  lord. 
Richard,  in  holy  orders,  caoseenOed  BWMip 
of  St  David's  in  1744,  trsnstated  to  theaee 
of  Durham  la  17d9«  aad  d.  uaaoanisd.  Mi 
Junst,  1771. 
Edward  d.  young. 
His  tordshipd.  IMh  June^  1790^  aad  waa  a.  byliia 
ddest  son. 


TRU 


TRU 


THOMAS  TREVOR,  mboM  boon.  Thh  bo- 
ttauan  m.  BUnbedi,  dmigliter  of  Timothy  Bund, 
Bh|.,  of  Cudifleld,  in  the  oovoty  of  Sumox,  bn^ 
riiter  at  l«w  {  by  whom  he  had  an  only  daughter, 
Elieaxbtb,  m.  to  Cbazlee,  eeeond  Duke  of 
Maiiborough. 
Hed.  29d  March,  17fiS»  and  was  «.  by  hia  brotlier, 

JOHN  TREVOR,  third  baran,  who  had  pre- 
▼iondy  terved  In  parUamcnt  Ibr  Woodetodc,  wae 
a  king's  counnri,  and  one  of  the  Welsh  Judges. 
His  lordship  m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  the  etle- 
hrmttd  Sin  Richabd  Stubl,  and  left  an  only 
daughter,  Diana,  b.  10th  June,  1744.  He  d.  In 
1764,  and  was  «.  by  his  half  brother, 

ROBERT  TREVOR,  fourth  baron.  This  no- 
bleman, in  compliance  with  the  testamentary  in 
junction  of  John  Hampden,  Esq.,  of  Oreat  Hamp- 
den, assumed  the  surname  and  arms  of  HAMpnnir. 
His  lordship  was  several  years  envoy'«xtraordinary 
to  the  States-general,  and  was  constituted  in  1740, 
one  of  the  commissioners  of  the  revenue  In  Irdand. 
In  178t^  lie  was  made  Joint  poet-mastcr-general 
with  the  Earl  ot  Bcsborough,  which  ofllee  he  held 
until  the  year  1769,  and  was  created,  on  the  14th 
June,  1776,  Viscount  HAXpnnif.  His  lordship  m. 
in  1743,  Constantla,  daughter  of  Peter  Anthony  de 
Huybert,  Lord  of  Van  Kruningen,  of  Holland,  and 
had  issue, 

Thomas,  his  successor. 
John,  who  was  appointed,  8th  April,  1780, 
minister-plenipotentiary  to  the  diet  at  Rales- 
ston,  and,  Sad  February,  1783,  to  the  court 
of  Sardinia.    He  succeeded  to  the  honours, 
as  third  viscount. 
Maria  Constantla,  m.  BSthMay,  1764,  to  Henry 
Howard,  twdfth  Earl  of  Suflblk,  and  fifth 
Earl  of  Berkshire,  by  whom  die  had  no 
tunriving  issua    Her  hulyship  d.  In  1707> 
Anne,  d.  unmarried  in  1760. 
His  lordship  d.  In  1783,  and  was  «.  by  his  dder  son, 
THOMAS  TREVOR-HAMPDEN,  eeeond  Vis- 
eount     This  nobleman   m. '  in  1788,    Catherine, 
daughter  of  Ocnerd  David  OTSBme,"but  d.  without 
issue*  In  1884,  when  the  honours  de<irblv«d  upon  his 
brother, 

JOHN  TREVOR-HAMPDEN,  as  third  vle- 
eeunt,  ft.  94th  February,  1748A  His  loidship  m. 
in  1773,  Harriett,  only  dau^ter  of  the  Rev.  >—— 
Burton,  D.D,  canon  of  Chrlst-diurdi,  but  had  no 
Hsue.  He  d.  in  thesame  year  that  he  had  Inherited 
die  honours,  when  all  moan  ROMOuna  became 

aXTINCT. 

Arms.— Quarttely,  flnt  and  fourth  ar.  a  aaltier, 
gules,  between  four  eagles  disphiyed,  as.  for  Hamp- 
nBW  t  second  and  third,  party  p.  boid,  sinister,  ermine 
and  erminois,  a  Hon  rampant,  or.  for  Tbbtob. 

TRUSSEL— BARON  TRUSSEL. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  29th  February,  1342, 
16  Edward  III. 

ICiitcagf. 

Of  this  very  andent  Warwickshire  family,  was 
RICHARD  TRUSSEL,  who  fdl  at  the  battle  of 

Evesham,  4th  Hnif  by  III. 

As  also 
WILLIAM  TRUSSEL,  of  Cubleidon,  in  the 


eoimty  of  Stsflbrd  (which  naaor  the  Tmisds  ao* 
quired  by  Roese*  daughter  and  hdr  of  William 
Pandolf,  who  had  married  Into  the  fismily).  This 
Wittiam  was  Usther  of  another 

WILLIAM  TRUSSEL,  who  m.  Maud,  dmghter 
and  heir  of  Warine  Mainwaitag,  and  fhnn  Um 


SIR  WILLIAM  TRUSSEL,  who  m.  Bridget, 
daughter  of  William  Kene  (by  EUasbeOi,  daughter 
of  Wimam  Chlode,  and  niece  of  Henry  Chicde, 
ArdiMdiop  of  C^ledmry,  temp.  Henry  VL)  and 
was  fotherof 

SIR  EDWARD  TRUSSEL,  whose  daughter  and 
hair, 

Elisabbth  TBuaaBL,  espoused,  in  the  time 
of  Henry  Vlf  L,  John  Vere,  Earl  of  Oxford. 
But  the  prindpal  branch  of  the  fomily  remaining, 
according  to  Dugdale,  was  that  sometime  resident 
at  Cublcsdon;  of  which  was 

WILLIAM  TRUSSEL,  who,  In  the  ttd  of  Ed. 
ward  I.,  recdved  command  to  repair  to  the  Idng, 
to  consult  upon  the  important  aflUrs  of  the  realm ; 
and  had  subsequently  a  military  summons  to  march 
faito  Oascony.  He  was  «.  by  (his  supposed  nephew) 
another 

WILLIAM  TRUSSEL,  who.  In  the  15th  of  Ed- 
ward n.,  being  one  of  die  adherents  of  Thomas, 
Earl  of  Lancaster,  was  exiled  In  consequence;  but 
returned  in  five  yean  afterwards  with  Queen  Isabd 
<nd  Prince  Edward,  at  the  head  of  a  condderable 
force,  against  the  power  of  the  Spencers  1  one  of 
whom  bdng  brought  afterwards  to  trial,  had  Judg- 
ment passed  upon  him  by  this  WUUam,  who  vras  at 
that  time  in  such  catimation  with  the  commons  in 
convention  assembled,  as  to  be  chosen  their  organ  to 
pronounce  tlie  deposition  of  the  unfortunate  Ex>- 
WABn  IL,  which  duty  he  executed  in  the  following 


"  Ego  Win.  Trusdl,  vice  omnium  de  Terri 
Anglic  et  totius  parUamenti  procurator, 
dbi  Edwardo  reddo  homagium  priut  tlbi 
factum  et  extunc  diffldo  te,  et  privo  omne 
potestate  regie  et  dignitate,  nequaquam 
dbl  decsBtero  tanquam  r^  periturus.* 
Upon  the  accession  of  Edward  IIL,  he  was  eonsti- 
tnted  escheatoi -geueid  on  the  south  of  Trent  t 
but  soon  after,  being  opposed  as  strongly  to  the  in- 
fluence of  Mortimer  as  he  had  previoudy  been  to 
that  of  the  Spencers,  lie  was  again  obliged  to  fly 
the  kingdom,  and  to  remain  fat  exile  until  the 
fovonrite^B  foil  {  when,  returning,  he  was  refaivested 
with  the  escheatOTShip.    In  the  19th  of  Edward  III., 
he  was  admiral  of  the  royal  navy,  flrom  the  mouth 
of  the  Thames  westward ;   and  in  two  years  after- 
wards, bdng  then  a  knight,  he  was  in  theexpedi- 
thm  made  into  Flanders,  and  the  same  year  in  die 
Scottish  campaign.    In  tbe  Iflth,  being  in  thegreat 
expedition  made  into  France,  he  was  summoned  to 
parliament  as  a  babob,  and  constituted  admiral 
of  all  tlM  fleet,  from  the  month  of  the  Thames 
to  Berwick-upon-Tweed,  his  lordship's  residence 
being  then  at  CuUesdon.    For  the  two  following 
3rears  he  continued  employed  in  the  French  cam- 
paigns, and  two  years  afterwards  he  sate  in  Judg- 
ment wMi  Sir  WllUam  Thorpe,  diief  Justice  ot 
theCourtof  King's  Bench,  at  the  Tower  of  Lou- 


TUD 


TUD 


don,  upon  th«  Earla  of  Fife  and  Mootelth,  when 
the  latter  nobleman  was  hanged,  drawn,  and  quar- 
tered, but  the  former  ipared.    His  lordship  appears 
to  have  had  but  one  summons  to  parliament,  and 
the  BAKONY  at  his  decease,  became  extinct. 
Arms. — Ar.  ft-ettte  gules  on  the  Joints  baiimtM 
N<o<«.— Besides  the  above,  there  was  another 
WILLIAM  TRUSSEL,  who,  in  the  37th  Ed- 
ward III.,  was  at  the  battle  of  PoicTiaaa,  in  the 
immediate  retinue  of  the  Black  Paiwca,  and  for 
his  services,  obtained  from  that  gallant  personage, 
a  grant  of  forty  pounds  per  annum  for  life,  to  be 
paid  out  of  the  exchequer  at  Chester.    This  Wil- 
liam m.  Idonea,  sister  of  Edward  de  Boteler,  and 
left  an  only  daughter, 

MAnoABXT  TauBssL,  who  IN.  Fulk  de  Pem- 
bnige,  and  died  «.  p. 

TUDOR— EARLS  OF  RICHMOND. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  23rd  November,  14A9. 

ICineasc. 

SIR  OWEN  TUDOR  descended  from  the 
PaiKcxaa  or  Walks,  espoused  Kathsrins,  widow 
of  King  HsMRY  v.,  and  daughter  of  Charlbs  VI., 
of  France,  by  whom  he  had  issue, 

Edmund,  sumamed  of  Hadham,  having  beoi 
bom  at  that  place,  in  the  county  of  Bedford. 

Jabpbr,  created  Earl  of  Pembroke. 

Tadna,  m.  to  Sir  R^inald  Grey,  Lord  Grey 
of  Wilton. 
The  eldest  son, 

EDMUND  TUDOR  (of  Hadham),  was  created 
by  his  half  brother.  King  Hxnry  VL,  on  the  83rd 
November,  14fiS,  Earl  op  Richmond,  with  pre- 
cedency of  all  other  earls;  and  the  same  year  he 
had  a  grant  tram  the  king,  in  fee,  of  the  mansion- 
house  of  Baynardrt  CaHie,  in  the  dty  of  London. 
He  m.  the  Lady  Margaret  Beaufort,*  daughter  and 
heiress  of  John,  Duke  of  Somerset,  and  great-grand- 
daughter of  John,  of  Gaunt,f  by  his  last  wife, 
Catherine  Swineford,  and  had  an  only  child, 

•  This  illustrious  lady  outliving  the  Earl  of  Rich- 
mond, m,  secondly,  Henry,  a  younger  son  of  Hum- 
phrey Stafford,  Duke  of  Buckingham,  and  thirdly, 
Thomas,  Lord  Stanley,  afterwards  Earl  of  Derby : 
but  had  issue  by  neither.  Her  ladyship  provided 
in  her  last  will,  dated  6th  January,  1506,  for  two 
perpetual  readerships  in  divinity,  one  at  each  of 
the  universities!  and  she  founded  the  school  at 
Cambridge,  called  Christ's  Collxob  :  she  also 
left  provision  for  "  a  perpetual  preacher  of  the 
word  of  God,**  in  the  same  university.  She  lived 
to  witness  the  coronation  of  her  grandson.  King 
Hbnry  VI I  L,  and  died  on  the  S9th  June,  in  the 
first  year  of  that  monarch's  reign. 

t  It  has  recently  been  discovered,  that  in  the 
original  patent  of  Intimacy  to  the  Beai^/brU,  the 
diildren  of  this  prince,  bom  before  wedlock,  of  his 
last  wife,  Catherine  Swineford,  (which,  as  it  was 
zatifled  by  parliament,  parliament  alone  could  alter,) 
the  exception  of  inheritance  to  the  crown  does  not 
occurs  the  words  *'  excepta  dignitate  regali,"  being 
inserted  only  by  the  caution  of  Henry  IV.,  in  his 
cooflrmation  ten  years  after.  **  Eseerpta  HktwieaJ' 


Hbnry,  his  iuooeisor. 
Hed.  in  1466,  and  his  remains  were  interred  in  the' 
cathedral  of  St.  David's,  in  Wales,  with  the  follow- 
ing epitaph : 

*«  Under  this  marble  stone  here  inclosed,  resteth 
the  bones  of  the  noble  Lord,  Edmund,  Earl  of 
Richmond,  father  and  brother  to  kings;  the  whidi 
departed  out  of  this  world  in  the  year  of  our  Lord, 
1406,  the  3d  of  the  month  of  November:  on  whose 
soul,  almighty  Jesus  have  mercy.  Amen.** 

The  earl  was  «.  by  his  son, 

HENRY  TUDOR,  second  Earl  of  Richmond, 
then  but  fifteen  wedcs  old.  This  noble  infiant  bfr> 
ing  removed  by  his  unde,  Jatper,  Earl  op  Pxm- 
BROKB,  into  Britanny,  remained  there  during  the 
whole  of  Edward  IV.'s  reign,  under  the  protec- 
tion of  Franeit,  Dukb  or  Provbncb,  notwith- 
standing various  eflbrts  made  by  the  English  mO' 
narch  to  obtain  possession  of  his  person.  At  one 
time,  Polydore  Virgil  relates,  the  duke  confiding 
in  the  pledge  of  Edward,  to  marry  the  young  earl 
to  his  daughter,  Elisabeth,  and  th\u  unite  forever 
the  red  and  white  roses,  had  actually  driivered 
him  up  to  the  English  ambassadors,  and  that  they 
had  conveyed  him  to  St  Malo's,  on  his  way  to 
England,  but  were  detained  by  the  earl's  ftlUng 
ill  of  a  dangerous  fever.  In  the  interim,  one  Joftis 
CKmtett  who  had  great  influence  in  the  ducal  court, 
flew  to  the  presence  of  the  duke,  and  feelingly  d»> 
picted  the  perils  in  which  he  had  placed  this  last 
sdcm  of  Lancaster.  To  which  his  highness  replied, 
**  Hold  thy  peace,  John,  there  is  no  such  danger 
at  all:  for  King  Edward  resolves  to  make  him 
his  son-in-law."  But  to  this  Choilet  instantly 
returned :  '<  Bdieve  me,  most  illustrious  duke, 
he  is  already  very  near  death ;  and  if  you  permit 
him  to  be  carried  one  step  out  of  your  domi- 
nions, no  mortal  man  can  preserve  him  from  it** 
At  which  the  duke,  being  not  a  little  trouble, 
immediately  despatdied  Peter  Landoae,  his  thted 
treasxirer,  to  St.  Malo's,  with  orders  to  bring  tiie 
earl  back.  Peter,  on  hastening  thither,  is  said  to 
have  detained  the  ambassadoiB  with  a  long  speedi, 
while  his  servants  conveyed  the  object  of  his  care  to 
a  sanctuary  in  the  dty,  whence  he  was  soon  after 
conducted  in  safety  to  his  former  residence.  The 
subsequent  contest  between  the  EIarl  op  Rich- 
mond, and  Crooked  Backed  Richard,  our  histo- 
rians and  our  poets  have  so  minutely  detailed  that 
it  were  idle  to  pursue  the  subject  here:  further 
than  the  simple  fact,  that  the  former  having  on  the 
plains  of  Bobworth  wrested  the  diadem  from  th* 
brow  of  York,  placed  it  on  his  own,  and  thus  ter- 
minated the  carnage  of  the  Rosbs.  Upon  the  earl 
ascending  the  throne  as  Hbnry  YII.,  the  Earldok 
OP  Richmond  merged  in  the  crown. 

Arms. — Quarterly,  France  and  England,   in  a 
border,  as.  eight  martlets,  or. 

TUDOR  —  EARL  OF  PEMBROKE, 
DUKE  OF  BEDFORD. 

Earldom,  anno  1458. 
Dukedom,  27th  October.  148S. 

ICincagc. 

JASPER  TUDORi  sumamed  of  HatJMd,  the 


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TVB 


place  of  hit  birth,  ion  of  Sir  Owen  TucUw,  by 
Kathxsihb,  Queen  Dowager,  of  King  Hsnry  V., 
WM  advanced  by  hU  half-brother,  Hknhy  VI.,  in 
the  parliament  held  at  Reading,  anno  1452,  to  the 
EARLnoai  OF  Pkhbrokk,  at  the  lame  time  that 
hif  brother,  Edmund,  t^f  Hadham,  was  made  Earl 
of  Richmond.  Thi>  nobleman  being  afterwards 
one  of  the  main  pillars  ot  the  cause  of  Lancaster, 
was  attainted,  and  forced  to  fly  when  EowAno  IV. 
obtauJto  the  crown,  and  the  Earldom  of  Pembroke 
was  then  conferred  upon  William  Herbert,  Lord 
Herbert,  of  Chepstow.  Joining,  subsequently, 
with  the  Earl  of  Warwick,  he  had  a  principal  part 
in  the  temporary  restoration  of  Hanry  VL,  and 
at -that  period  he  had  the  good  fortune  to  find  his 
nephew,  Urnry,  Earl  of  RfcAmond,  in  the  custody 
of  William  Herbert's  (Earl  of  Pembroke)  widow,, 
and  presenting  the  boy  to  King  Hrnry,  that  mo- 
narch is  said  prophetically  to  have  exclaimed— 
**  This  is  he  who  shall  quietly  possess,  what  we  and 
our  adversaries  do  now  contend  for."  The  total 
overthrow  of  the  Lancastrians  at  Bamet  Field,  and 
the  re-establishment  of  Edward  upon  the  throne 
again,  however,  broke  down  the  fortunes  of  Jasper 
Tudor,  and  forced  him,  after  some  hair-breadth 
escapes,  to  seek  an  asylum  for  himself  and  his 
nephew,  at  the  court  of  Britanny.  Here,  during  the 
remainder  of  the  reign  of  Edward  IV.,  protection 
was  afforded  them,  and  here,  in  the  reign  of 
Richard  IIL,  they  again  unfurled  the  red  banner, 
which  soon  afterwards  waved  in  triumph  on  the 
field  of  BoawoR'^H.  Upon  the  accession  of  his 
nephew,  as  Hjcnry  VII.,  Jasper  Tudor  was  created 
nvrz  or  Bbdpord  at  the  Tower  of  London,  on 
i.ne  27th  October,  I48S.  He  was  nekt  sworn  amongst 
the  chief  of  the  privy  council,  and  constituted  one 
of  the  commissioners  to  execute  the  duties  of  hiou 
BTRWARD  or  ENGLAND  at  the  king's  coronation. 
His  grace  was  afterwards  appointed  Justice  of  South 
Wales,  and  i^ord  lirutrnant  of  Irrland  for 
ti^  years :  he  likewise  obtained  considerable  grants 
from  the  crown  :  and  was  invested  with  the  Garter. 
Upon  the  insurrection  of  the  Earl  of  Lincoln  in 
bcAialf  of  the  Pretender  Simnrli.,  the  Duke  of  Bed- 
ford was  nominated  joint  commander  with  the 
Earl  of  Oxford,  of  the  forces  sent  to  oppose  the 
Simnellites,  and  he  ever  en}oyed  the  entire  confi- 
dence of  the  king.  He  m.  Catherine,  sixth  and 
youngest  daughter  of  Richard  WydeviUe,  Earl 
Rivers,  and  widow  of  Henry,  Duke  of  Buckingham, 
by  whom  (who  m.  after  his  decease  Sir  Richard 
Wingfield,  K.G.)  he  had  no  issue.*  Hetf.  in  1405, 
when  the  Dukrdom  of  Brdford  became  rxtinct. 
Armb. — Quarterly,  France  and  England  in  a  bor- 
der, as.  eight  martlets,  or. 

TUDOR— DUKE  OF  YORK. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  1st  November,  1481. 

Xincagc. 

HEXRY  TUDOR,  second  son  of  ir<n«'  Hrnrt  VIL 

•  He  left  an  illegitimate  daughter, 

Helen,  who  m.  William  Gardiner,  dtixen  of 
London,  and  was  mother  of  the 

StrphrnGardinrr,  Bishop  qfWinehee' 
ter,  so  notorious  in  the  reign  of  Mary. 


was  created  on  the  1st  November,  1491^  Duk4 
OP  York,  but  upon  the  death  of  his  elder  brother, 
Arthur,  he  succeeded  to  the  Dukedom  of  Cornwall, 
and  was  created  Prince  of  Wales.  His  royal  high- 
ness, subsequently,  ascended  the  throne  as  Hknry 
VIIL,  when  all  his  honours  mrrord  inthe  crown. 

TUDOR— DUKE  OF  SOMERSET. 

By  Letters  Patent,  anno  1406. 
XinCB^C. 

EDMUND  TUDOR,  third  son  of  King  Hrnry 
VII.,  was  created,  ha  1496,  Dukr  op  Somrrbrt. 
He  d.,  however,  under  five  years  of  age,  in  1489» 
when  the  dukrdom  became  sktinct. 


TYES— BARON  TYES. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  6th  February  1899/ 
27  Edward  I. 

ICincagc. 

In  the  time  ot  King  Hrnry  IIL, 

HENRY  DE  TYES  held  Shirebume,  in  Ox- 
fordshire, by  the  grant  of  Richard,  Earl  of  Com- 
waU,  and  was  summoned  to  parliament  as  a  raron 
from  6th  February,  1299,  to  26th  August,  1307, 
In  the  28th  Edward  I.,  his  lordship  had  fnt  warren 
in  all  his  demesne  lands  at  Shirebume  and  Allerton* 
both  in  the  county  of  Oxford.  He  d.  in  1300,  and 
was  «.  by  his  son, 

HENRY  DE  TYES,  second  baron,  summoned 
to  parliament  f^om  8th  January,  1313,  to  15th  May, 
1321.  This  noblenum  was  in  the  wars  of  Scotland, 
and  for  several  years  adhered  faithfully  to  King 
Edward  II.,  but  aftet:wards  Joining  in  the  insur- 
rection of  Thonuw,  Earl  of  Lancaster,  he  was  taken 
prisoner  at  Boroughbridge,  and  being  conveyed  to 
London,  was  there  beheaded  for  high  treason,  in 
1321.  His  lordship  d.  without  issue,  leaving  his 
sister, 

Aitica  DR  Tyrb,  who  m.  Warine  de  L'Isle, 
his  heir,  in  whose  descendants  the  Barony 
of  Tyrb  is  now  vested. 

Armb. — Ar.  a  chevron,  gu. 

TYES -BARON  TYES. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  6th  February,  U99, 
27  Edward  I. 

In  the  25th  Edward  I., 

WALTER  DE  TYES,  in  coi\Junction  with 
Isabel,  his  wife,  obtained  numerous  grants  from 
the  crown,  lands  in  the  counties  of  Bedford,  York* 
Essex,  and  Bucks,  and  having  served  in  the  Scottish 
wars,  had  summons  to  parliament  as  a  baron  f^om 
6th  February,  1299,  to  26th  August,  1307.  In  the 
11th  Edward  II.  hb  lordship  was  Joint  governor  of 
the  city  of  York,  with  Robert  de  Hasting.  He  nu 
Isabel  de  Steingrene,  daughter  of  John  de  Stein- 


UFF 


UFF 


i\>i 


ipraw,  but  died«.p.,  inlSM*  letTlaf  Makoarst 
DC  Tvcfl,  d&ughter  of  his  brother,  Roger,  hU  heir, 
when  the  Baroxy  or  Tvxs  became  xxtinct. 
Armb.— Ar.  a  chevron,  gu. 

UFFORD— BARONS  UFFORD,  EARLS 
OF  SUFFOLK. 

Barony,  by  Writ  of  Summon*,  dated  13th  January, 

1306, 2  Edward  II. 
Earldom,  by  Creation  in  Parliament,  16th  March, 
'     -^       ,^  .  1337. 

Of  this  fkmlly,  iay«  Sir  William  Dugdale,  which 
afterwards  arrived  to  great  honour,  I  have  not  seen 
any  thing  memorable,  until  the  53rd  Henry  III., 
when  Robert,  a  younger  son  of  John  de  Peyton,  of 
Peyton,  in  the  county  at  Suflblk,  assuming  his 
surname  from  the  lordship  of  Ufford,  in  that  shire, 
became 

ROBERT  DE  UFFORD.  This  Robert  was 
Jdbticb  or  Irsland  in  the  reign  of  Henry  III., 
and  again  in  the  reign  of  Edward  I.  He  m.  Mary, 
widow  of  William  de  Say,  and  dying  in  the  96th  of 
the  latter  king,  was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR  ROBERT  DE  UFFORD,  Knt,  who  was 
iummoned  to  parliament  as  a  baroi?  from  the  13th 
January,  1306,  to  19th  December,  1311.  His  lord- 
ship was  in  the  expedition  made  into  Scotland,  in 
the  34th  Edward  I.  He  m.  Cecily,  one  of  the 
daughters  and  co-heirs  of  Sir  Robert  de  Valoines, 
Knt.,  Lord  of  Walsham,  and  had  issue, 
RoBBRT,  his  successor. 

Ralph,  Justice  at  Ireland  in  the  reign  of  Ed- 
ward III.  (see  Uflfbrd,  Barons  Uflbrd). 
Edmund  (Sir),  who,  assuming  the  surname  of 
Walsham,  from  his  mother's  lordship,  be- 
came Sir  Edmund  WalbhaH,  and  f^om 
him  lineally  descended 

John^amrs-Garbbtt  Walsham,  Esq., 
of  Knlll  Court,  In  the  county  6f  Here- 
ford, who  was  created  a  baronet  on  the 
15th  September,  1831  (tee  Burke'e  Dte- 
Honary  <^the  IVerogv  and  Baronetage). 
He  d.  In  1316,  and  was  e.  by  his  eldest  son, 

ROBERT  DE  UFFORD,  second  baron,  sum- 
moned  to  parliament  fhim  STth  January,  1332,  to 
14th  January,  1337.  This  nobleman  was  in  the 
wars  of  Gascony  in  the  reign  of  Edward  II.,  and  he 
obtBined,  in  the  beginning  of  Edward  IIL's reign,  in 
raquital  of  his  eminent  services,  a  grant  for  life  of 
the  town  and  casUe  of  Orford,  in  the  county  of 
Sttffolli,  and  soon  after,  further  considerable  terri- 
torial possessions,  also  by  grant  ftom  the  crown,  in 
oonuderation  of  the  personal  danger  he  had  incurred 
In  arresting,  by  the  king's  command,  Mortimbr, 
and  some  of  his  adherents,  in  the  castle  of  Not- 
tingham. In  the  11th  year  of  the  same  reign  his 
lordship  was  solemnly  advanced  in  the  parliament 
then  held,  to  the  dignity  of  Earl  ow  SurroLK. 
Whereupon  he. was  associated  with  William  de 
Bohun,  Earl  of  Northampton,  and  John  Darcy, 
Steward  of  the  King's  Household,  to  treat  with 
David  Brus,  of  Scotland,  touching  a  league  of  peace 
and  amity.  And  the  same  year  going  beyond  sea 
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on  the  klng^  lerrioe.  had  in  aalgiHitloii  of  £9» 
out  of  the  exchequer,  towards  his  expenses  In  that 
employment,  which  was  in  the  wars  of  Franoe: 
tat  it  appears  that  he  then  accompanied  the  Eail 
of  Derby,  being  with  him  at  the  battle  of  CagRiit. 
After  which  time  he  was  seldom  out  of  some  dia- 
tlnguished  action.  In  the  12th  Edward  III.,  being 
In  the  expedition  made  Into  Flanders,  he  was  the 
next  year  one  of  the  marshals  when  King  Edward 
besieged  Cambray :  and  his  lordship,  within  a  ftm 
years,  subsequently,  was  actively  engaged  in  the 
wars  of  Britanny.  In  the  17th  of  this  reign  the 
Earl  of  Suflblk  was  deputed  to  the  court  of  Rome, 
there  to  treat  in  the  presence  of  his  RoUness, 
touching  an  amicable  peace  and  accord  between  the 
English  monarch  and  Philip  de  Valols,  and  he 
marched  the  same  year  with  Henry  of  Lancaster, 
Earl  of  Derby,  to  the  relief  of  Loughmaban  Castle, 
then  besi^ed  by  the  Scots.  Soon  after  this  he  wbb 
made  admiral  of  the  king's  whole  fleet  northward. 
For  several  years,  subsequently,  his  lordship  waa 
with  King  Edward  In  France,  and  he  was  one  of  the 
persons  presented  by  that  monarch  with  hamesa 
and  other  accoutrements  fbr  the  tournament  at 
Canterbury,  in  the  twenty-second  year  of  his  reign. 
In  seven  years  afterwards  we  find  the  earl  again  In 
France,  with  the  Black  Princb  :  and  at  the  ode- 
brated  battlb  or  PorcriRRs,  fought  and  so  gIo> 
riously  won  in  the  following  year,  his  Icmlshlp 
achieved  the  highest  military  renown  by  his  skill  as 
a  leader,  and  his  personal  courage  at  the  head  of  hia 
troops.  He  was,  subsequently,  elected  a  Knioht 
of  the  Gartbr.  His  lordship  m.  Margaret,  daugh> 
ter  of  Sir  John  Norwich,  and  had  issue, 

Robrrt,  summoned  to  parliament  29th  Feb- 
ruary, 1342,  d,  in  the  life-time  of  his  fkther, 

William,  his  successor. 

Cecilie,  m.  to  William,  Lord  WUloughby  de 
Eresby. 

Catherine,  m.  to  Robert,  Lord  Scales. 

Margaret,  m.  to  William,  Lord  Fenen,  of 
Groby. 
The  earl's  last  testament  bears  date  in  136B,  and  he 
d.  in  the  following  year.  Amongst  other  bequests, 
he  leaves  to  his  son,  William,  "  the  sword,  where- 
with the  king  girt  him,  when  he  created  him  earl ; 
as  also  his  bed,  with  the  eagle  entire;  and  his  sum- 
mer vestment,  powdered  with  leopards.**  His  lord- 
ship was  «.  by  his  only  surviving  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  UFFORD,  second  Earl  of  Suf- 
fblk,  who  had  been  summoned  to  parliament  as  r 
baron,  in  the  life-time  of  his  fkther,  on  the  4th  De- 
cember, 1364,  and  20th  January,  1366.  This  noble- 
man was  in  the  French  wars  at  the  close  of  Edward 
IIL's  reign,  and  in  the  beginning  of  that  -of  Richard 
II.  In  the  fiOth  of  Edward  he  was  constituted 
admiral  of  the  king's  whole  fleet  northward.  At 
the  breaking  out  of  Jack  Straw's  insurrection,  4tli 
Richard  II.,  his  lordship  understanding  that  the 
common  people  contemplated  fbrcing  hfan  into 
their  ranks,  and  thus  to  represent  him  as  one  of 
their  leaders,  hastily  arose  ttam  supper,  and 
pursuing  an  unfirequented  route,  reached  the  kin^ 
at  St  Alban's,  with  a  wallet  over  his  shoulder,  under 
the  assumed  character  of  servant  to  Sir  Roger  dm 
Bois;  but  alter  wards,  bdng  choeen  by  the  Com- 


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moM  In  ptfliMMOt  aiMmblid,  to  upwiBnt  to  tte 
lofito  certain  vaattBn  of  importaBoe  to  th«  public 
w«lfjure,  the  earl,  while  ascending  the  eteps  to  their 
tedifalpiP  houae,  fuddenly  fUl  down  dead,  to  the 
Mnaiament  and  mmtow  of  all  peiaoas,  rich  and 
poor,  on  the  Iftth  February,  1383.    Hi*  lordship  m. 
iitt,  Joane,  daughter  of  Edward  da  Montacuta, 
and  grand-daughter,  maternally,  of  Thomaa,  of 
Bxotharton,  Earl  of  Norfolk,  and  secondly,  Isabel, 
daughter  of  Tbomaa  de  Beauchamp,  Earl  of  War- 
wick, and  widow  of  John  le  Strange,  of  Blackmere, 
but  having  no  issue,  the  Earlook  of  Suffolk 
became  kktimct,  whUB  the  original  Babony  of 
UFFonn  Ml  into  AsaTANCX,  between  his  sisters 
and  heiia,  (refer  to  children  of  Robert,  first  earl,) 
aa  it  stOI  eontlnuea  amongst  their  lepresentHtivcs. 
Ailus.'^-Sm.  a  cross  ingrailed  or. 

UFPORD— BARON  UFFORD. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  3rd  April,  1300, 
34  Edward  IIL 

Xinuigc. 

RALPH  DE  UFFORD,  brother  d  Robert,  flnt 
Earl  of  Suffolk,  having  served  in  the  wars  of  France 
and  Flanders,  in  Uie  martial  reign  of  Edward  III., 
obtained  large  grants  of  land  Oom  that  monarch, 
in  the  counties  of  Berks  and  Dorset  Subsequently, 
(90th  Edward  III.,)  being  justice  of  Ireland,  we  are 
told,  *'  he  landed  in  that  realm,  with  a  great  num- 
ber of  mcn-at«rms  and  archers.**  This  distin- 
guished person  m.  first,  Maud,  widow  of  William, 
Earl  of  Ulster,  and  sister  of  Henry  Plantagenet, 
Earl  of  Lancaster,  by  whom  he  had  an  only  daugh- 
ter, 

Maud,  who  m.  Thomas  de  Yere,  son  of  John 
de  Vere,  Earl  of  Oxford. 
He  m.  secondly.  Eve,  daughter  and  heiress  of  John 
de  Clavertng,  and  widow  of  Thomas  de  Audeley, 
by  whom  he  had  tasue, 

JoHH,  of  whom  presently. 
Edmund  (Sir),  who  inherited  the  estates  of 
the  family,  upon  the  decease  of  his  brother. 
Sir   Edmund  m.  Sybil,   daughter  of   Sir 
Robert  Pierpont,  and  had  issue. 

Robert  (Sir),  who  m.  Eleanor,  daughter 
of  Sir  Thomas  Pdton,  Knt.,  and  left 
issue,  three  daughters,  his  oo-hehs, 
▼li. 

Ella,  m.  to  Richard  Bowes,  Esq. 
Sybil,  a  nun  at  Barking. 
Joan,  m.  to  William  Bowes,  Esq., 
brother  of  Richard,  and  left  one 
daughter  and  heiress, 

Ehaabeth,  m.  to  Sir  Thomas, 
son  (^  Wimam,  Lord  Dacres. 
Ralph  de  Uflbrd  d,  in  1948,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest 
ton, 

JOHN  DE  UFFORD,  who  was  summoned  to 
parliament  as  Bakon  Uffoho,  on  the  3rd  April, 
1380,  but  dying  the  following  year,  issueicas,  the 
Agnity  became  nxTiircT,  while  his  estates  passed 
to  his  brother.  Sir  Edmund  Uilbrd,  Knt. 
AftKB.— Sa.  a  cross  ingrailed  or. 


UOHTRED— BARON  UGHTRBD. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  30th  April,  1349a 
17  Edward  III. 

Of  this  fiunily,  which  waa  of  gre|t  antiquity  in 
the  county  of  York,  was 

ROBERT  UGHTRED.  who,  in  the  Wth.  Edward 
I.,  obtained  a  charter  for  free  warren,  in  all  his 
demeane  landa  in  that  shire.  He  died  in  the  3rd  of 
Edward  IL,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

THOMAS  UOHTRED,  who  became  a  person 
of  great  note  in  his  thna,  and  waa  celebrated  In  the 
Sootdah  wars,  temp.  Edward  II.  and  Edward  IIL 
In  the  10th  of  the  latter  reign,  he  was  made  admiral 
of  the  king's  whole  fleet  to  the  northward,  and  for 
some  years  afterwards,  he  was  again  in  the  Scottish 
wars,  when  he  attained  the  rank  of  banneret,  and 
waa  conatituted  ootsmvor  of  Pbrtb.  He  waa 
subsequently  in  the  wars  of  Flanders,  and  had  sum* 
mona  to  parliament  aa  a  EAnoir,  from  flOth  April, 
1343.  to  4th  December,  1384.  Hia  k»rdihlp  d,  in 
1986,  leaving  a  son  and  heir, 

SIR  THOMAS  UGHTRED,  who  was  never 
summoned  to  parliament  aa  a  baron,  nor  were  any 
of  hia  descendants.  Sir  Thomas,  Kke  his  Ikthar, 
was  a  military  man,  and  became  eminent  likewise 
hi  the  wars  of  Scotlasid.  In  the  Wth  Edward  III., 
he  was  made  constable  and  chamberlain  of  Louor- 
MARAV  Cabtlb,  and  he  was  afterwards  engaged  in 
the  wan  of  France^  HptL  in  3rd  of  Hxitry  IV., 
and  was  «.  by  his  grandson, 

THOMAS  UGHTRED,  who  had  married  Mar- 
garet, daughter  of  Sir  John  Godard*  Knt.,  Imt 
nothtag  ftnrther  appears  known  of  the  family. 

Arms.— Ou.  on  a  eraas  pantonceb  or.  five  mnUeti 
of  the  field: 

UMFRAVILL  — •  BARONS     UMFRA- 
yiI4i,  EARLS  OF  ANGUS. 

Barony,  by  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  94th  June,  199A. 

Earldom,  by  Writ  of  Sdlmmona,  dated  98th  January, 

1997, 93  and  96  Edward  L 

Xiiuagc. 

In  the  10th  year  of  his  reign,  William  the  Con- 
queror  granted  the  forest,  valley,  and  lordship 
of  RiddoMlale,  In  the  county  of  Northumberland, 
to  his  kinsman, 

SIR  ROBERT  DE  UMFRAVILL,  Knt.,  other- 
wise, Robert  toMi  the  Beard,  Lord  of  Tours  and 
Vian,  to  hold,  by  the  service  oi  defending  that  part 
of  the  country  for  ever,  from  enemies  and  wolves, 
with  the  sword  which  King  WiUlam  had  by  his  side 
when  he  entered  Northumberland.  By  this  grant 
he  had  Ukewiee,  andiority  for  holding,  governing, 
exercising,  hearing,  and  judging,  te  all  the  pleaa 
of  the  crown,  as  well  as  others  occurring  within  the 
precincts  of  Rlddesdalei  The  next  of  this  ISunlly 
mentioned  Is, 

GILBERT  DE  UMFRAVILL,  and  after  him, 

ROBERT  DE  UMFRAVILL,  who  Hved  In 
the  time  of  King  Stephen.  Next  to  him,  but  hi 
I  what  degree  of  xalationsUp  Is  unknown,  came 

m 


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UMF 


ODONELL  DE  UMFRAVILI.»  of  Whom  a  monk 
of  Tynemouth,  in  the  reign  of  Henry  III.,  grievoiuly 
complained  for  his  exactions  upon  his  neighbours, 
towards  repairing  the  roof  of  his  castle  at  Prudhoe, 
of  which  he  was  feudal  lord.  This  Odonell  d.  in 
1182,  and  was  9.  by  his  son  and  heir, 

ROBERT  Q^  UMFRAVILL,  who  was  «.  by  his 
son, 

RICHARD  DB  UMFRAVILL.  This  feudal 
lord  appears,  in  the  7th  of  Richard  II.,  to  haye 
pledged  his  lands-of  Tumey,  to  Aaron,  a  Jew,  for 
the  sum  of  £92.  df.,  which  he  then  owed  the  Israel- 
ite. In  the  6th  of  King  John,  his  lordship  obtained 
the  right  of  preventing  all  persons  from  grasing, 
hunting,  or  cutting  down  timber,  in  the  forest  of 
Riddesdale;  and  in  nine  yean  afterwards,  the  times 
bdng  then  turbulent,  he  delivered  up  his  four  sons 
in  hostage,  with  his  castle  of  Prudhoe,  as  guarantee 
for  his  loyalty,  upon  the  condition,  that  if  he  trans- 
gressed, the  said  castle  became  forfeited,  and  that 
he  should  himself  be  dealt  with  as  a  traitor ;  not- 
withstanding which,  no  sooner  did  the  barons  take 
up  arms,  than  he  appeared  amongst  them,  when  his . 
lands  were  seized  and  granted  to  Hugh  de  BalioL 
In  the  reign  of  King  Henry  III.,  however,  he  made 
his  peace,  and  had  restitution  of  the  castle  of  Prud- 
hoe, Ac,  but  he  was  nevertheless  fSsr  from  enjoy- 
ing the  confidence  of  that  monarch,  as  we  find  the 
king  soon  after  issuing  a  precept  to  the  sheriiT  of 
Northumberland,  directing  a  Jury  of  twelve  knights 
to  be  empanneled,  to  inspect  certain  buildings  at 
the  casUe  of  Herbdtil,  which  this  Richard  de  Um- 
flravill  was  then  erecting,  and  to  demolish  all  that 
bore  the  appearance  of  fortifications.  He  d,  in  the 
fi9th  year  of  Henry  III.,  according  to  Matthew 
Paris,  '*  a  famous  banm,  guardian  and  chief  flower 
of  the  north,  leaving  his  heir  of  tender  years," 
which  heir, 

GILBERT  DE  UMFRAVILL,  was  committed 
•to  the  guardianship  of  Simon  de  Montfort,  Earl  of 
Leicester,  in  consideration  of  ten  thousand  marks, 
paid  by  that  nobleman  to  the  king.  This  Gilbert 
attained  majority,  in  the  43rd  Henry  III.,  and  in 
six  years  subsequently,  we  find  him  in  arms  with 
the  baron^,  but  he  mode  his  peace  prior  to  the  bat- 
tle of  Evesham,  and  obtained  then  some  immuni- 
ties from  the  crown.  In  the  20th  of  Edward  I.,  he 
was  governor  of  the  castle  of  Forfar,  and  the  whole 
territory  of  Angus,  in  Scotland,  and  appears  to 
have  borne  the  title  of  Earl  of  Angus,  according  to 
Camden,  in  right  of  his  wifeu  He  was  summoned 
to  parliament,  however,  in  throe  years  afterwards, 
as  Baron  Umvravill  only,  but  in  the  2ftth  of  the 
aame  reign,  and  from  that  period  to  the  1st  Edward 
J  I.,  he  had  summons,  as  "Gilberto  de  UmfraviU, 
Comiti  de  Anggos.**  But  this  dignity  the  English 
lawyers  refused  to  acknowledge,  (Angus  not  being 
within  the  kingdom  of  England,)  until  he  had 
openly  produced  the  king's  writ  in  public  court, 
by  which  he. was  called  to  parliament,  under  the 
title  of  Earl  or  Angus.  In  the  S7th  Edward  I., 
his  lordship  was  constituted  one  of  the  king's  com- 
miisioners  for  manning  and  fortifying  the  castles 
-within  the  realm  of  Scotland,  and  to  appoint  war- 
dens of  the  Marches.  The  next  year  he  founded 
a  chantry  for  two  priests,  to  celebnte  divine  aervioe 


daily,  in  the  chapd  of  our  lady,  within  the'  castle 
of  Prudhoe.  The  earl  d,  in  1306,  and  was  #.  by  his 
eldest  surviving  son, 

ROBERT  DE  UMFRAVILL,  summoned  to 
parliament,  aa  secopd  Earl  of  Angus,  from  4th 
March,  1300,  to  30th  December,  1324.  This  noiiie- 
man  distinguished  himself  in  the  life-time  of  his 
fatherf  in  the  Scottish  wa»{  and  aoon  after  hia 
accession  to  the  title,  he  was  Joined  in  oommisakm 
with  William,  Lord  Ros,  of  Haiplake,  and  Henry* 
Lord  Beaumont,  in  the  lieutenancy  of  Scotland. 
In  the  11th  Edward  II.,  his  lordship  was  appointed 
one  of  the  commissioners,  to  treat  with  Robert  de 
Brus  and  his  partisans,  tor  a  truce  between  both 
realms.  The  earl  m.  first,  Lucie,  daughter  of  Philip* 
and  eventually  heiress  of  her  brother,  William  de 
Kyme,  by  whom  he  had  issue, 
GiLBKHT,  his  sucoessOT. 
Elisabeth,  m.  Gilbert  Burdon,  and  had  an 
only  daughter  and  heiress, 

Alianork,   heiress  to  her  uncle,  £arl 

Gilbert,  m.  to  Henry  Tolboys,  from 

which  marriage  the  Lord  Talboys  de- 

s^nded. 

His  lordship's  second  wife  was  named  AUanore, 

but  of  what  family  is  not  mentioned;  by  this  lady 

he  had  iasue, 

Robert  (Sir),  who  d.  issueless. 
Thomas,  m.  Joane  Rodam,  and  had» 
Thomas,  who  was  father  of 

Gilbert,  died  «.  p,,  9th  Henry  V. 
Elisabeth. 

Joane,  m.  to  Sir  Thomas  Lambert. 
Margaret,  m.  to  William  Lodingtoo. 
Agnes,  m.  to  Thomas  Hagerston,  from 
which  marriage  the  existing  BaroneCs  - 
Hagerston,  derive. 
Robert,  K.O.,  temp.  Henry  IV!»  died  «.  j>. 
I5th  Henry  VI. 
Annore,  m.  to  Stephen  Waleys,  son  and  hdr 
of  Sir  Richard  Waleys. 
The  earl  d.  in  1325,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son* 

GILBERT  DE  UMFRAVILL,  summoned  to  par- 
liament as  third  Earl  of  Angus,  from  87th  January, 
1332,  to  26th  August,  138U.  This  nobleman  oc- 
qtdred  great  reputation  in  the  Scottish  wars,  and 
was  a  chief  commander  at  the  battle  of  Durham, 
20th  Edward  III.,  where  David  Brus,  the  Scottish 
monarch  was  totally  defeated  and  made  prisoner  by 
the  English.  In  the  2&th  Edward  IIL,  his  lordship 
had  permission,  upon  petition  to  the  king  and  par- 
liament, to  transfer  the  prisoners,  made  within  the 
liberty  of  Redesdale,  whom  he  had  the  privilege 
of  detaining,  from  his  prison  of  Herbotil  Castle, 
(then  in  a  state  of  dilapidation,)  to  Prudhoe  Cas- 
tle, for  the  ensuing  ten  years.  His  lordship  m. 
Maudi  sister  of  Anthony  de  Lucy,  and  next  heir 
of  Joane,  daughter  and  heir  of  the  said  Anthony, 
by  whom  he  had  an  only  son, 

RoBBRT  (Sir),  who  m,  Margaret,  daughter  fit 
Henry,  Lord  Percy,  and  died  in  the  llfis 
time  of  his  father, «.  p. 
The  Earl  d.  in  1381,  leaving  Alianore,  his  nieoek 
wife  of  Henry  Talboys,  his  heir  of  the  whole  blood* 
and  Thomas  Umfrmvill,  his  brother  of  the  half 
blood,  his  next  mate  hdr,  but  none  of  the  fiunily 


VAL 


VAL 


were  erer  fubeiqiieBtly  trnnmoned  to  perlicment 
The  Barowy  of  UMntAviLX.*  created  by  the  writ 
of  SSrd  Edward  I.,  it»  however,  vested  in  the  de- 
Boendanta  and  repreaentatives  of  the  aaid  Thomas 
de  Umflravill,  of  which  the  present  Sir  Cameby 
Haggerston,  Baronet,  Is  one— (see  children  of  Ro- 
bert, second  Earl  of  Angus,  by  his  second  wife). 

ABJCfl.>-Gtt.  a  cinque-foil  within  an  orle  of  cross 
crosslets,  or. 

UVEDALE— BARON  UVEDALE. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  87ih  January,  13S^ 
6  Edward  III. 

Xincagc. 

PETER  DE  UVEDALE  was  summoned  to  par- 
liament as  a  BAROK,  from  87th  January,  1532,  to 
SSnd  January,  1396;  but  Diigdale  gives  uo  account 
whatever  of  such  a  nobleman.  He  appears  to  have 
died  issueless,  when  the  Baroht  or  Uvbdalx 
became  bxtinct. 

VALENCE— EARLS  OF  PEMBROKE, 

Created,  anno  1247. 

ICincagc. 

WILLIAM-  DE  VALENCE,  son  of  Hugh  de 
Brun,  Earl  of  March,  (on  the  confines  of  France 
and  Poictou,)  by  Isabel,  his  wife,  widow  of  King 
John,  derived  his  surname  from  the  place  of  his 
birth,  as  the  rest  of  his  brothers  did  firom  theirs, 
an4  being  so  nearly  allied  to  King  Hkjtry  III., 
(half  brother,  by  the  mother,)  was  brought  into 
England,  in  1847,  with  Guy  de  Laiinian,  his  elder 
brother,  and  Alice,  his  sister,  in  consequence  of 
being  oppressed  by  the  liing  of  France.  Not  many 
months  after  his  arrival,  he  was  made  governor  of 
Godcrich  Castle,  and  through  the  influence  of  the 
king,  obtained  the  hand  of  Joanc,  daughter  and 
eventually  heir  of  Warine  de  Moncbensy,  by  Joane, 
his  wife,  second  sister,  and  co-heir  of  Anselme 
Marshal,  Earl  of  Pembroke.  "  Moreover,"  says 
Sir  William  Dugdale,  <«  shortly  after  this,  the 
king  solemnising  the  festival  of  St.  Edwards  trans- 
lation, in  the  church  of  Westminster,  with  great 
state,  sitting  on  the  royal  throne,  in  a  rich  robe  of 
Baudekyn,  and  the  crown  on  his  head,  caused  this 
Wiiyam  (with  divers  other  young  noblemen,)  to  be 
brought  before  him,  and  girt  him  with  the  sword  of 
knighthood,  and  whilst  he  thus  sate  in  his  royal 
seat,  casting  his  eye  upon  him,  who  penned  down 
all  particulars  of  the  great  solemnity,  he  called 
him  nearer,  and  commanded  him  to  sit  upon  the 
middle  step,  betwixt  his  chair  and  the  floor,  and 
said  to  him ;  '  Hast  thou  taken  notice  of  all  these 
things,  and  perfectly  committed  them  to  memory  ?' 
*  He  answered,  *  Sir,  I  have  so,  deeming  this  fiupous 
ceremonial  worthy  to  be  recorded.'  Whereupon  the 
king  replied  i  <  I  am  ftilly  satisfled  that  God  Al- 
mighty, as  a  pledge  of  his  further  fevours  and 
benefits,  hath  vouchsafed  to  work  one  glorious 
miracle  this  morning,  for  wh)ch  I  give  him  thanks. 
I  therefore  intreat  thee,  and  intreating  require, 
that  thou  record  these  things  exactly  and  fully, 
and  write  them  M>  t  book,  lest  that  the  memory  of 
them  should  in  time  be  lost,'   And  having  «p  said 


invited  him  With  whom  he  bad  this  diaeouiee,  to 
dinner  tliat  day,  with  three  of  his  feUowst  com* 
mending  likewise,  that  all  other  monks,  who  then 
came  thither,  with  the  whole  convent  of  West- 
minster, should  at  this  diarge,  be  that  day  feasted 
at  the  public  refectory  there." 

William  de  Valence  had,  subsequently,  a  grant 
firom  the  crown,  of  the  castle  and  honour  of  Hert*> 
ford,  as  also  another  grant  to  himself  and  his  lady, 
and  to  their  issue,  of  all  those  debts  which  William 
de  Lancaster  did  then  owe  to  the  Jews  throughout 
the  whole  realm.  "  About  this  time,"  (writes  Dug- 
dale,) '•  this  William  de  Valence,  residing  at  Hert- 
ford Castle,  rode  to  the  Park  at  HaeOifiU  belonging 
to  the  Bishop  of  Ely,  and  there  hunting  without 
any  leave,  went  to  the  Ushop's  manor  house,  and 
readily  finding  nothing  to  drink  but  ordinary  beei^ 
broke  open  the  buttery  doors,  and  swearing  and 
cursing  the  drink,  and  those  who  made  it  \  .after 
all  his  company  had  dnmk  their  fills,  pulled  the . 
spigots  out  of  the  vessds,  and  let  out  the  rest  on 
the  floor  t  and  that  a  servant  of  the  house  hearing 
the  noise,  and  coming  to  see  what  the  matter  was, 
they  laughed  him  to  scorn,  and  so  departed.** 

In  the  34th  HsNav  IIL,  William  de  Valence  was 
in  the  Holy  Land,  and  in  the  42tad  had  a  military 
summons  to  march  against  the  Wdsh  t  but  he  was 
soon  afterwards  obliged  to  fiy  the  kingdom,  when 
the  barons  took  up  arms  against  the  infiuence  of 
himself  and  other  foreigners;  he  came  back,  how- 
ever,  after  an  exile  of  only  two  years,  under  the 
protection  of  the  king,  but  was  not  sufltared  to  land 
by  the  barons,  until  he  had  sworn  to  observe  the 
ordinances  of  Oxfbrd.  Nevertheless,  the  contest 
again  breaking  out,  he  had  a  chief  command  in 
the  royal  army,  and  with  the  prince,  assaulted  suc« 
cessftilly  the  town  ot  Northampton,  when  the 
whole  baronial  force  was  put  to  the  rout,  but  soon 
rallying,  owing  to  the  junction  of  the  Londoners, 
the  battle  of  lawe*  ensued,  and  victory  deserted 
the  regal  banner.  In  this  action,  the  king  and  his 
son  became  prisoners;  but  Valence,  who  then  bore 
the  title  of  Eabx.  of  Psmbrokx,  with  the  Earl  of 
Warren,  and  others,  escaped  by  fiight,  first,  to 
Pevensey,  and  thenoe  into  France  His  lands  were, 
however,  seised  by  the  triimiphant  barons,  and 
his  lady,  who  was  residing  at  Windsor  Castle, 
ordered  to  retire  immediately  into  some  religious 
housew  The  battle  of  Evxsham  again,  however, 
changing  the  fortune  of  war,  and  the  power  of  the 
KiMO  bring  re-estoblished,  the  Earl  of  Pembroke, 
with  the  other  staunch  adherents  of  royalty,  were 
restored  to  their  possessions }  and  his  lordship  had, 
subsequently,  Isige  grants  from  the  crown.  In  the 
18th  Edward  I.,  the  earl,  with  Joane,  his  wife, 
presented  a  petition  to  parliament,  setting  forth, 
"that,  whereas,  upon  the  4Mth  of  WUliam  de 
Monchensi,  (brother  to  her,  the  said  Joane,)  they 
had  obtained  a  bull  from  the  pope  directed  to 
the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  touching  the  in- 
herltanee  of  the  lands  of  the  said  William  de 
Monchensi,  thereby  deriring,  that  the  king  would 
please  to  commit  the  tuition  of  Dionysia,  the 
daughter  of  the  said  William,  unto  some  person 
who  might  appear  before  the  said  archbishop, 
9nd  such  other  Judges  as  w«r»  named  in  the  bulU" 
8  Y 


VAL 


VAU 


But  It  wm  MMvarad,  that  the  Umimkm  of  that 
bull  would  toid  to  the  diminution  of  the  king's 
authority  and  power*  by  reaaon  that  fudi  caaei  of 
hereditary  sucwarioa  ought  not  to  be  determined 
but  in  his  own  eouxti.  Wherefore*  in  as  much,  as  it 
did  appear,  that  the  ofe^ect  of  the  earl  was  to  invali- 
date the  iitence  of  the  Bidiop  of  Worcester,  which 
had  dedared  the  said  Dlonyaia  to  be  legitimate,  and 
hia  design  to  make  her  a  bastard,  in  order  that  he 
might  ei^Joy  her  estate,  his  lordship  and  his  lady 
were  prohibited  to  prosecute  their  appeal  any  farther. 
His  lordship  was  afterwards  engagod  in  the  wars  of 
rrance,  and  waa  sfaUn  there  in  1396,  when  his  re- 
mains were  conveyed  to  England,  and  interred  In 
Westminater  Abb^,  under  a  splendid  monument 
The  earl  had  issue  by  the  heiress  of  Mhicheasi, 
three  sons  and  three  daughters,  vis. 
Jirim,  who  d.  young. 
William,  killed  by  the  Welsh  in  his  fttther's 

lilb-time. 
AvLMSR,  his  successor. 
Anne,  «■.  llrst,  to  Biaurice  Fits-Gerald,  se> 
oondly,  to  Hugh  de  Baliol,  and  thirdly,  to 
John  de  Avenues,  but  had  no  issue. 
Isabel,  m.  to  John  de  Hastings. 
Joane,  m.  to  John  Comjrn,  foudal  Lord  of 
Badenagh,  (son  of  John  Comyn,  and  Mary, 
hia  wHt,  daughter  of  John  Baliol,)  and  had 
issue, 

J<rim  Comyn,  slain  at  Strivding  in  1S14« 

William  Comyn,  made  prisoner  In  the 
same  action,  dUed  «.  p. 

Joane  Comyn,  m.  to  David  de  Strabolgi, 
Earlof  AthoL 

Elisabeth  Comyn,  m.  to  Richard,  Lord 
Talbot. 
His  lordship  was  «.  by  his  only  surviving  son, 

AYLMER  DE  VALENCE,  second  Earl  of  Pem- 
broke.  This  nobleman  was  in  the  wars  of  Scotland, 
temp.  Edward  L,  and  obtained  considerable  grants 
firom  the  crown,  in  that  kingdom.  His  lordship 
being  with  Kiitf  Epwaro  at  Burgh  upon  the  Sand^ 
immediately  before  the  monarch's  death,  was  one  of 
those  to  whom  the  king  reoommandod  hlsson,  and  cn- 
joyned  him  not  to  su  Ar  Piers  de  Gaveston  to  come 
into  England  again.  For  which  he  was  ever  after  much 
hated  by  Piers, '« being  called  by  him  Joteph  tktJmv, 
In  regard  he  was  tall  and  pale  of  countenance." 
His  lordship  subsequently  Joined  the  coalition 
against  the  power  of  Gaveston,  and  assisted  at  the 
riege  of  Scarborough  Castle,  In  which,  upon  its 
surrender,  the  pavouhits  was  made  prisoner,  and 
waa  soon  afterwards  bdieaded,  by  orders  ot  the 
Earl  of  Warwick,  at  Blackton  Hill,  near  Warwick* 
In  the  8th  of  Edward  II.,  his  lordship  was  consti- 
tuted general  of  all  the  king's  forces,  fkom  the 
liver  Trent,  northwards,  to  Roxborough,  and  he 
obtained  license  to  make  a  castle  of  hia  house  at 
Bampton,  in  Oxfordshire.  In  two  years  afterwards 
he  waa  again  in  the  Scottish  wars  i  but  before  the 
end  of  this  year,  being  made  prisoner  in  his  jour- 
ney towards  the  court  of  Rome,  by  John  Moilley, 
a  Buigundian,  and  sent  to  the  emperor,  he  was 
constrained  to  give  twenty  thousand  pounds  of 
silver,  for  his  ransom  i  by  rsa«»  MoiUey  alleged, 
A30 


that  heUmeilf  havtaig  isived  the 
had  not  been  paid  his  wi«es.  After  obtaining  hii 
liberty  his  lordship  returned  to  the  wars  of  SooU 
land,  and  for  several  subsequent  yaais  waa  en- 
gaged in  that  kingdom.  In  the  I6th  of  Edward  IL» 
he  was  one  of  the  lords  who  sate  in  judgment  upon 
Thomas  Plantagenet,  Earl  of  Lancaster,  and 
demned  that  prince  to  death{  "but  this 
nary  and  timeserving  act  of  infamy,'!  it  is 
was  speedily  atoned  for  by  his  own  death,  which 
occurred  In  two  years  after  in  France,  where,  at- 
tending Quean  Issbd,  he  waa  murdered  27th  Jun^ 
13S3L  His  lordship  ei.  first,  Beatrix,  daughter  oi 
Ralph  de  Nele,   Constable  of  France;  secondly* 

,  daughter  of  the  Earl  of  Barre ;  and  thirdly, 

Mary,*  daughter  of  Guy  de  CheatiUkm,  Earl  of 
St.  Paul,  but  had  no  issue.  His  remains  wc 
wyed  into  England,  and  buried  in  W< 
Abbey.  Upon  his  lordship's  decease,  his  eatatea 
passed  to  his  sisters  as  co-hairs,  and  the  Esni.Pftte 
or  PsMBROKB  became  bxtiwct. 

Ahms.— Barry  ar.  and  as.  an  orle  of  mart  lets 
gules. 


VAITGHAN— BARONS  VAUOHAN. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  Sftth  October.  1S«& 

lUncagc. 

SIR  JOHN  VAUGHAN,  KnL,  son  of  Walter 
Vau^ian,  Esq.,  of  Golden  Grove,  in  Carmartheo- 
shire,  was  created  a  peer  of  Irdand,  in  the  18th  of 
Jambs  L,  and  the  next  reign  advanced  to  the  digw 
nity  of  Earl  of  Carberry,  also  in  Irebmd.    His  lord- 
ship «n.  first,  Margaret,  daughter  of  Sir  Gilly  Mey- 
rick,  Knt.,  by  whom  he  had  one  surviving  son. 
RicBABD,  his  successor,  and  a  daughter,  Mary,  ■■. 
to  Sir  Francis  Lloyd.    He  espoused,  secondly,  Jane, 
danghter  of  Sir  Thomas  Palmer,  Knt.,  but  had  no 
issue.    His  lordship  was  «.  at  his  decease  by  hia  son, 
RICHARD  VAUGHAN,  second  Earl  ot  Cte- 
berry,  who  was  made  a  Knight  of  the  Bath,  at  the 
coronation  of  King  Chablbs  I.,  and  was  after- 
wards distinguished  in  the  civil  wars  as  a  cavalier 
leader,  being  Ucutenant-generml  for  the  counties  of 
Carmarthen,  Pembroke,  and  Cardigan  t  in  which 
command,  acting  with  great  aaal  and  gallantry,  he 
was  rewarded  with  a  peerage  of  England,  on  the 
asth  October,  1643,  asBABON  Vauoham,  q/'An^, 
In  the  county  of  Carmarthen  i  and  he  was  consti- 
tuted, after  the  restoration,  lord  president  of  the 
principality  of  Waks^  His  lordship  m.  first,  Bridget, 
daughter  and  heir  of  Thomas  Lloyd,   Esq.,  of 
Llanleer,  In  the  county  ot  Cardigan,  by  whom  he 
had  no  surviving  issuer    He  espoused,  secondly, 
Frances,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Sir  John  Althara, 
Knt.,  of  Oxby,  In  Hertfordshire,  by  whom  he  had 
issue, 

Francis,  who  m.  Lady  Rachel  Wrlothedey, 
daufhter  of  Thomas,  Earl  of  Southampton, 
and  died  «.  p.  In  the  life-time  of  his  father. 


•  This  hidy,  who  wes  greaUgranddaughter, 
teraally,  of  King  Hbhby  III.,  founded,  by  grant 
fkom  her  cousin,  Edward  IIL,  the  college  of  Mary 
de  Valence,  In  Cambridge,  now  called  Pbkbboks 
Halim 


VAU 


VAU 


Joun, 

Ahham 


Althomte. 
He  wadded,  thirdly.  Lady  Alice  Egerton,  daughter 
of  J(rtni,  Earl  of  Brldgevatar,  but  had  no  issue 
His  lortbhip  d,  in  1687>  and  was  «.  by  hia  elder  sur- 
viving son* 

JOHN  VAUOHAN,  (third  Earl  of  Carhenry,) 
fiooBd  £ord  Yaugliao.  This  noUeDian  was  for 
•aine  time  gorecnor  of  Jamaica.  His  lordship  m. 
fliat,  Mary,  daughter  of  George  Brown,  Esq.,  of 
Oraan  CaaUe»  in  the  ooonty  of  Carmarthen,  but  had 
BO  Inna.  He  espoused,  secondly.  Lady  Anne  Mon- 
t4g«,  daughter  of  George^  Marquess  of  Halilkx,  and 
had  an  only  daughter  and  heir, 

Ledy  Amns  Vavghan,  whom.  Charles  Paulet, 

Marquess  of  Winchester,  afterwards  Duke 

of  Bolton. 

The  earl  dL  In  17]3>  when  (with  his  Irish  honours) 

the  Baaowy   or   VAU«BAjr,  </  JSnddm,  became 

umrtct, 

ABM8«--0qN  a  UoB  Rampant,  go, 

VAUX  —  BARONS  VAUX  OF  HAR- 
ROWDEN. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  S7t]i  April,  1588. 

Xittfagc. 

The  finnlly  of  Vavx  derived  its  sunanfe  fhnn 
a  district  in  Normandy,  where  it  was  originally 
seated.  So  early  as  the  year  794  of  the  Christian 
era*  a  branch  of  the  Vauxes  is  foimd  in  Provence, 
and  then  allied,  by  marriage,  to  most  of  the 
sovereign  princes  of  Europe.  They  are  mentioned 
in  the  records  of  that  and  subsequent  periods,  ifj 
the  patronimic  of  Beaux,  Baux,  or  Vaux,  (B  and  V 
being  used  indiscriminately  in  the  south  of  France) 
and  the  andent  possessions  of  the  Princes  of  Baux 
in  that  country,  are  still  called,  "  Lcs  Terres  Baus- 
senques,'*  comprising  Aix,  MarseiUes,  &c 

In  the  year  1140,  the  Vauxes  disputed  the  sove- 
leignty  of  Provence  with  the  house  of  Barce- 
lona; and  in  1173,  they  acquired  the  principality 
of  Orange,  by  marriage  with  Tiburge,  heiress 
of  Orsngeu  In  1S14,  WiUiam,  Pbincs  of  Baux 
AND  OsLAirox,  assumed  the  title  of  King  of  Aries 
and  Vienne,  whidi  dignity  waa  acknowledged,  and 
conflrmed  to  him  by  Frcosrick  II. 

In  1393,  Raynnrnd,  King  of  Aries,  Prince  of  Baux 
and  Orange,  left,  by  his  first  wife,  Joane,  Countess 
ot  Geneva,  an  only  daughter,  who  married  Johk 
ns  Chaloks,  great  chamberlain  of  Franoeb  and 
conveyed  the  titles  and  possessions  of  the  house 
of  Baux  into  that  family,  from  which,  by  marriage 
with  the  heiress  of  Chalons,  they  came  to  the 
house  of  Nassau  in  IBaOi  and  fhnn  this  alliance 
the  members  of  that  houae  have  since  borne  the 
title  of  PaiircBa  of  Oranox. 
*  Bertram,  second  son  of  William,  third  Prince  of 
Baux  and  Orange  went  with  Philip  of  Ai^ou, 
into  Italy,  when  that  prince  ascended  the  throne 
of  Naples.  The  son  of  this  Bertram,  another  Ber- 
tram de  Vaux,  was  Count  o£  MoatMcaaioei,  die. 


and  uanied  Beatrbi,  daughter  of  Charles  II.,  King 
of  Naples  and  Sicily.  His  son,  Francis  de  Vaux, 
espoused  Margaret  of  Aqjou,  widow  of  Edward 
Ballol,  King  of  Scotland,  and  grand-daughter  of 
Philip  of  Anjou,  Emperor  of  Constantinople,  &c, 
in  right  of  his  wif^,  the  daughter  of  Baldwin,  Earl 
of  Flanders,  and  Emperor  of  Constantinople.  Upon 
thb  marriage,  Francis  de  Vaux  waa  created  Duke 
of  Andrea,  in  the  kingdom  of  Naples,  Sec,  and 
his  descendants  eqjoyed  the  highest  offices  in  the 
state,  as  the  following  inscription,  translated  Arom 
a  monument  erected  in  the  year  1615,  in  the  church 
of  St  Clair,  at  Naples,  fuUy  attests. 

'*  This  monument  is  dedicated  to  the  most  illus- 
trious family  of  Vaux,  a  potent  race,  decorated 
with  the  royal  insignia,  in  the  kingdom  of  Vienne 
and  Aries,  Princes  of  Orange,  Coimta  of  Geneva, 
and  great  rulers  within  the  iovereignty  of  Provence, 
whidi  they  firequently  subjugated  to  th^  domi- 
nion by  force  of  arms.  They  were  Emperors  of 
Greece,  Despots  of  Romania,  Princes  of  Achaia, 
Premier  Dukes  of  the  kingdom  of  Naples,  Princea 
of  Tarento  and  Altamaro,  Dukes  of  Andea,  Ursino 
and  Naro,  Counts  of  MonteBcaaiosi,  Avellino,  S»- 
leto,  Castro-Ugsnto,  Nola,  Alexana,  and  Acerraro, 
Great  Constables,  Justiciaries,  High  Chamberlains, 
and  Stewards  of  that  realm>  imder  the  kings  of 
the  house  of  Ai^ou,  and  Generals  of  the  Papal 
armies.  Hieronymus  de  Vaux  has  here  deposited 
the  bones  of  as  many  of  his  name  and  lineage  as 
he  has  been  able  to  collect,  and  out  of  piety  to 
them  t>^  erected  this  monument  to  their  memory. 
Viddicet  to  the  memories  of 

Antonia  de  Vaux,  Queen  of  Sicily. 

Isabella  de  Vaux,  Queen  of  Naples. 

Cecilia  de  Vaux,  Countess  of  Savoy. 

Sibella  de  Vaux,  Princess  of  Piedmont. 

Maria  de  Vaux,  Dauphiness  of  Vienna. 

Isabella  de  Vaux,  Despotisses  of  Servia." 
The  Prince  of  Joinville  derived  ftom  SCefdien 
de  Vaux,  who  married  the  heiress  of  the  Count 
de  Jcdgny,  in  Champa^n^,  and  assumed  the  name 
of  J(^ville,  or  Joignyville.  His  successors  bore 
for  arms,  **  or.  a  bend  gttlet**  (nearly  the  same  coat 
as  the  English  Vauxes  of  Tryermayne,  vie.  ar.  §r 
bend  chequy,  or.  and  gu.)  Of  the  house  of  Vaux, 
of  Champaigne,  was  that  cdebrated  Prince  of  Join- 
ville, seneschal,  or  high  steward  of  Champaigne* 
the  companion  and  friend  of  Louis  IX.  of  France, 
and  author  of  a  curious  hlsUMry  of  that  monarch, 
translated  by  Colonel  Johns :  he  tf.  in  131& 

The  earliest  account  we  have  of  the  founders  of  the 
English  branches  of  the  Vauxes,  is,  that  BaRTitAM]> 
OS  Vaux  attended  a  tournament  in  the  year  9S9, 
and  was  a  favourite  of  Robsrt  I.,  Duke  of  Nor- 
mandy, grandfather  of  WiLi.iAJi  <Jk«  Conqueror, 
The  names  of  the  descendants  of  this  Bertram 
are  traced  through  the  Holies  Normand,  written 
Baux,  Vaux.  Vaulx,  and  de  Vallibua.  At  the  time 
of  the  Norman  conquest, 

HAROLD  DE  VAUX,  Lord  of  Vaux,  in  Nor- 
mandy, having  for  religious  purposes,  conferred  his 
seignory  upon  the  abbey  of  the  Holy  Trinity,  at 
Caen,  (founded  by  Matilda,  wife  of  William  Me 
Omffierer,)  came  into  England,  accompanied  by  his 
three  Bons^  via* 

531 


VAU 


VAU 


1.  HuBBRT,  who  acquired  the  Barony  of  Oil- 
I.S8LAHD,  by  granU  of  Ranulph  de  Mea- 
chlnes,  upon  whom  the  TiCTOBioua  Nob- 
man  had  conferred  the  whole  county  of 
Cumberland.  This  Hubert  wai  «.  by  hit 
aoUf 

RoBSBT  Ds  VauX(  ot  Vallibcb,  who 
was  founder  of  the  prior  of  Pentney* 
In  Normandy,  and  of  the  abbey  of 
Lancrcoat,  in  Cumberland.  He  waa 
iheriff  of  that  shire,  in  tha  81«t  of 
HsHRT  II.,  during  whidi  year  the 
county,  owing  to  the  war,  yielded  no 
bancfit  to  the  king.  He  m.  Ada, 
daughter  and  heir  of  William  Engaine, 
and  widow  of  Simon  de  M orville,  and 
had  two  fooa, 

ROBBltT  DB  Vauz,  wlio  died  «.  p., 

and  was  «.  by  his  brother, 
Rawulpr  dm  Vavz,  who  was  «.  by 
his  son, 

RoBBRT  DB  Vauz,  OoTemor 
of  the  castle  of  Carlisle,  and 
of  the  county  of  Cumber- 
land, temp.  John,  and  after- 
wards one  ot  the  barons  in 
arms  against  that  monarch. 
He  was  «.  at  his  decease,  by 
his  son, 

Hdbbbt  DB  Vaux,  who 
left  an  only  dBughter 
and  heiress, 
Maud     db    Yaux, 
who  M.  Thomas  de 
Multon,  and  con- 
▼eyed  the  berony 
of    OiDesbuid    to 
that  family.    (See 
Multon.) 
t.  Ranulph,  Lord  TryenoByne,  whoee  line  ter- 
minated in  an  hdress, 

Mabbl  db  Vaux,  who  m.  William  Yaux, 
of  Catterlen,  a  member  of  the  branch 
founded  by  the  youngest  son. 
3.  Robert* 
The  youngest  son, 

ROBERT  DE  YAUX,  seated  himself  in  Nor- 
mandy,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  YAUX,  who  had  three  sons, 
RoBBRT,  Adam,  and  Oliver,  Prior  «/  Pettihity, 
He  was  «.  by  the  eldest, 

ROBERT  DE  YAUX,  who  had  sereial  sons,  of 
whom, 

RoBxBT,  (the  eldest,)  died  «.  p. 
John  (Sir),  the  second,  was  of  Catterlen.    Sir 
John  Vaux's  great-grandson  and  lineal  de- 
scendant, 

William  Yaux,   or  Cattbblbn,   m. 

Mabbl  Yaux,  heiress  ot  Tryermayne, 

and  thus  united  two  branches  of  the 

Dunlly.  From  this  marriage  descended, 

/oRN  Yaux,  only  son  of  John  Yaux, 

of  Catterlen    and    Tryermayne, 

whose  daughter  and  heir, 

Janb    Yaux,    m.     in    liMO, 
THOMAi  Bbovoham,  Loftf 
632 


,  the  Uaaal 
of  the  piMiBil 
HsNRT  Bbovokak,  Lertf 
Brougham     amd     F«ttf,e 

LOBD  HlOH  CHAXrCBLLOB 
OF  OBBAT  BBITAIir. 

Philip,  third  eon. 

Oliver,  fourth  son. 
The  ftmrth  son, 

OLIYER  DE  YAUX,  was  one  of  the  bBranalB 
arms  against  King  John.  In  the  ISth  of  Chat 
monarch's  reign,  he  paid  five  hundred  marka,  and 
five  palfteys,  for  Ucense  to  marry  Petronill,  widow 
of  William  de  Longchamp,  and  daughter  and  heir 
of  Guy  de  Crottn,t  ftodal  lord  of  Croon,  by 
he  had  issue, 

wmSi,  }''***>  *»*^  **^  ••  *• 
John,  who  succeeded  to  the  estates,  waa 
ard  of  Aoqultaine,  In  U83,  and  had  an 
allowance  of  £800  per  annum,  for  his 
support  in  that  office.  He  d.  in  1988*  Ibbt- 
ing  his  two  daughters,  his  heirs,  via. 

PatroniUa,  f*.  to  William  de  Ncrfoid, 
who,  in  the  dlvidon  of  the  eatataSf 
had  Thcrston  and  Shotestram,  in  the 
county  of  Norfolk;  Wysete,  in  SuHblk, 
the  moiety  of  a  messuage  In  London, 
called   Blaundi  -  Apleton,  and  other 
lands,  amounting  in  all  to  twenty-fiTe 
knights'  fees. 
Maud,  m.  to  William  de  Roe,  who  bad 
the  manor  of  AifoM,  and  other  lands 
in  Linoolnshirek   with  the  moiety  of 
the  messuage  In  London,  amountlii^  to 
nineteen  knight* s  fees. 
Roger. 
The  youngest  son, 
ROGER  DE  YAUX,  was  grand&therof 
ROBERT  YAUX,  of  Bodenham,  in  Cambridge- 
shire, whose  son, 

•  Besides  this,  there  is  another  and  later  allianoe, 
between  the  Yaux  and  the  Bbouorak  fSuniUea. 
Pbtkb  Brougham,  about  the  beginning  of 
the  rtghteenth  century,  married  Elisabeth, 
daughter  and  heixeas  of  Christopher  Rich- 
mond, Esq.,  of  HIghhead  Castle,  in  the 
county  of  Cumberland;  which  Chiflstopfaer 
was  grandson  and  heir  of  John  Yaux,  of  < 
Catterlen,   through  his    mother,    Mabbl 
Yaux. 
t  Guy  db  Cbbon,  or  Cbouk,  came  in  with  tihe 
Conquerwrt  and  hdld  sixty-one  lordshipe,  all,   or 
most  of  them  in  the  county  of  Lincoln ;  PBiaron* 
in  the  district  of  HoUand,  being  the  head  of  hia 
barony.    He  was  «.  by 
Alan  db  Cboun,  who  was  Ikther  of 
Maubicb  db  CiiouN,  living  in  1181,  and  ane- 
ceeded  at  his  decease  by  his  son, 

Guy  db  Cboun,  who  accompanied  Richabd  L 
to  the  Holy  Land.  This  feudal  lord  Mt  at  hiade- 
cease  an  only  deughter  and  heiress, 

Patbonilla  db  Cboun,  who  m.  first,  Wil- 
liam Longchamp,  and  aeoondly,  (as  in  the 
teit,)  Oliver  de  Yaux. 


VAU 


VAU 


BLIAS  VAUX.  m.  EUntoth.  drnghUr  of  RolMrt 
de  Hastinfi,  and  itm  «w  by  hU  too, 
WILLIAM  VAUX,  whOM  ton, 
'  WILLIAM  VAUX,ofH«nredoB,(MrHanowdeii» 
in  the  couaty  of  Northampton*  m.  Alianon*  daugh- 
ter of  Sir  Thomas  Draketon,  KnL,  of  Wdby,  and 
waa  «.  by  hit  wm, 

SIR  WILLIAM  VAUX,  of  Hammdan,  who  fN. 
MatUda,  daughter  of  Sir  Walter  Lucy,  Knt.,  and 
was  «.  toy  his  son» 

WILLIAM  VAUX,  of  Hariowden,  who.  In  the 
conflicts  between  York  and  Lancaster,  fell  under 
the  banner  of  Hnwnv  YI.  at  Tewkesbury,  and  his 
estates  were  alienated  until  the  accession  of  Ki$tg 
Uurnv  Yll,  when  they  were  restored  to  his  son 
and  heir, 

NICHOLAS  YAUX.  who,  Ibr  his  subMquent 
gallantry  at  the  battle  of  Aoks,  reoelTed  the  honour 
of  knighthood.  It  U  recorded  of  this  Sfar  Nicholas 
Yaux,  that  at  the  marriage  of  Prinea  Arthub, 
17th  Henry  YIL,  he  wore  a  gown  of  purple  velTet, 
adomed  with  pieces  of  gold,  so  thick  and  massiTe, 
that  besides  the  silk  and  furs,  it  Was  valued  at 
£1000;  as  alsoaooUar  of  SS.  weighing  eight  hun- 
dred pounds  in  nobles.  Upon  the  accession  of 
HswiiY  YIII.  Sir  Nicholas  was  made  lieutenant  of 
the  castle  at  Ouianes,  in  Picardy,  and  in  the  5th  of 
the  same  reign  he  was  at  the  siege  of  THnaovxNn. 
He  was,  sulaequently,  one  of  the  smbMsadors  to 
ratify  die  articles  of  peace  with  France,  and  growing 
so  mndi  in  Ikyour  at  court,  he  was  advanced  to  the 
dignity  of  Babon  Yaux,  t^f  Harrowden,  on  the 
97th  April,  UB3k  the  solemnity  of  his  creation 
taking  place  at  the  royal  palace  of  Bridewdl,  in 
the  suburbs  of  London.  His  lordship  m.  first, 
Elisabeth,  daughter  and  h^r  of  Henry,  Lord  Fits- 
Hugh,  and  widow  of  Sir  William  Parr,  Knt.,  by 
whom  he  had  three  daughters, 

Catherine,  m,  to  Sir  John  Throckmorton, 
Knt.,  of  Coughton,  in  the  county  of  War- 
wick. 

Anne,  m.  to  Sir  Thomas  Strange,  of  Hunston, 
in  Norfolk. 

Alice,  m.  to  Edward  Sapcoate,  of  Elton. 
Lord  Yaux  espoused,  secondly,  Anne,  daughter  of 
Thorns  Green,  Esq.,  of  Green's  Norton,   in  the 
county  of  Northampton,  and  had  issue, 

Thomas,  his  successor. 

William. 

Margaret,  m.  to  Francis  Pulteney,  Esq.,  of 
Misterton,  Lelcestershira 

Maud,  m.  to  Sir  Jolm  Fermor,  of  Eston,  in 
the  county  of  Northampton. 

Bridget,  m.  to  Maurice  Welsh,  Esq.,  of  Sud- 
bury, in  Gloucestershire. 
His  lordship  d.  in  15S3,  and  was  «.  by  his  dder 
son, 

THOMAS  YAUX,  second  baron.  This  noble, 
man  was  one  of  those  who  attended  Cardinal  Wol- 
sey  in  his  splendid  embassy  to  make  peace  between 
Hbitby  YIIL,  Fbabcis  I.,  and  the  Empbbobi 
and  he  was  made  a  Knight  of  the  Bath  at  the  coro- 
nation  of  Anne  Boleyne.  He  m.  Elisabeth,  daugh- 
ter and  heir  of  Sir  Thomas  Cheney,  of  IrtUngburgh, 
in  Northamptonshire,  and  had  ismie, 

William,  his  sucoeesor. 


Nichoias. 

Anne,  m.  to  Reginald  Bray,  of  Stene,  nephew 
of  Edmund,  Lord  Bray. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1502,  and  was  «.  by  his  elder  son, 
WILLIAM  VaUX,  third  baron.  This  nobleman 
m.  first,  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  John  Beaumont, 
Esq.,  of  Grace  Dieu,  in  the  county  of  Leicester, 
and  had  issue, 

Henry,  who  d.  in  the  life-time  of  his  father. 
Aleanor,  m.  to  Edward  Brokesby,  Esq.,   of 

Sholdby,  in  the  county  of  Leicester. 

Elisabeth,  a  nun,  at  Caen,  in  Normandy. 

Anne. 

His  lordship  espoused,  secondly,  Mary,  daughter  of 

John  Tresham,  Esq.,  of  Rushton,  in  the  county  of 

Northampton,  and  had  issue, 

Gbobok,  who  m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Sir 
John  Roper,  Knt,  of  Welle  Place,  in  Kent, 
afterwards  created   Lord    Teynham,  and 
dying  in  his  father's  Uf»-time,  left 
Edwabd,  successor  to  his  grandfiuher. 
William. 
Henry. 

Katherine,  m.  to  Sir  Henry  Nerill,  Knt, 
afterwards  Lord  Abergavenny,  and  had 
issue, 
John,     1  successively     barons     of 
George,  j  Abeigavenny. 
Catherine,  m.  first,  to  Sir  Robert 
Howard,  Knt,  son  of  Theophilus, 
Earl  of  Sullblk,  snd  secondly,  to 
Robert  Berry,  Esq.,  of  Ludlow,  in 
the  county  of  Salop. 
Frances,  d,  unmarried. 
Elisabeth,  m.   to  Thomas  Stonor, 
Esq.,  of  Oxfordshira 
Mary,  im.  to  Sir  George  Simeon,  Knt 
Joice. 
Edward. 
Ambroie  (Sir). 

Muriel,  m.  to  Geoige  Foulshurst 
Catherine. 
Lord  Yaux,  d.  In  1505,  and  was  «.  by  his  grandson, 

EDWARD  YAUX,  fourth  baron.  This  noble- 
man m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Thomas  Howard, 
Earl  ef  Suflblk,  and  widow  of  William,  Earl  of 
Banbury,  by  whom  he  had  no  legitimate  issue.  But 
two  sons,  bom  in  the  life-time  of  the  lady's  first 
husband,  named  Edward  and  Nicolas,  were  pre- 
sumed to  have  been  the  issue  of  his  lordship,  and  to 
those  he  devised  his  estates.  Edward,  the  elder, 
died  in  minority,  snd  through  Nicholas  and  his 
descendants  arose  the  cdetrnted  contest  for  the 
Banbury  peerage  (see  KnoUys,  Barons  KnoUys,  and 
Earls  of  Banbury).  Charles,  the  son  of  Nidiolas, 
sold  in  1694,  the  seat  of  Harrowden,  which  had  been 
so  numy  centuries  in  the  Yaux  fkmily,  to  the 
Honourable  Thomas  Wentworth.  Lord  Yaux  dying 
thus  without  issue  in  1061,  the  Babont  of  Yaux, 
or  Habbowdkn,  was  supposed  to  have  expired ; 
but  Banks,  in  his  Stemmata  AngUcana,  dtes  the 
fi^owing  monumental  inscription,  in  the  Church  ot 
Eye,  Sullblk,  to  prove,  that  on  the  death  of  Edward, 
Baron  Yaux,  in  1081,  the  title  devolved  upon  his 
brother,  Henry,  who,  he  coi^ectures  to  have  been 
poor,  and  theiefoie,  that  he  did  not  claim  the 

533 


J 


VAV 

dignity  s* "  Kxit  uldmiu  Barona*  im  Sttrovdcn, 
licnziciu  VanXi  8€ptml».  SO  Aano  DnL  kdcuctii. 
ABus.^~Cbequ«,  or.  nd  gu.  on  a  dievroo,  ai. 


TKA 


VAVASOUIU-BAKON  VAVASOUR. 

By  Writ  of  Stunmons,  dated  8th  Februaiy,  U99* 
S7  Bdward  L 

Xiitcsgt. 

of  thia  Ikmily,  which  dariTOd  Iti  ■unamaftom 
the  high  office  of  "King's  Valvaaour,"  (a  dignity 
little  inteior  to  the  barania],)  and  floiuiahed  foi 
naoy  ages  in  Yorluhtre,  was, 

ROBERT  LE  VAVASOUR,  who,  hi  the  9th 
of  King  JoBir,  paid  a  Una  of  a  thousand  and  two 
hundred  marlu,  and  two  palfireys,  that  Maud,  his 
daughter,  widow  of  Theobald  Walter,  might  be 
married  to  Fulfce  Fita-Warine,  an  eminent  baron, 
in  those  days.  In  the  31st  of  Henry  III.  he  was 
sheriff  of  the  counties  of  Nottingham  and  Derby, 
and  so  continued  untif  the  3Dth  of  the  same  reign, 
haTing  in  the  interim  had  the  custody  of  the 
honour  of  Pererell  committed  to  his  cfaargai  He 
fa.  Juliana,  daughter  of  Gilbert  de  Ros»  of  Steeton, 
in  Yarkshbe,  and  was  a,  by  his  son, 

SIR  JOHN  LE  VAVASOUR,  who  was  «.  by  his 


WILLIAU  LE  VAVA^UR,  who,  in  the  18th 
iBdward  I.,  obtidned  license  to  make  a  eastle  of  his 
manor  house  at  Haslewood,  in  the  county  of  York, 
and  in  three  yean  afterwards  was  in  an  expedition 
made  into  Oascony.  He  was  subsequently  in  the 
wars  of  Scotland,  and  had  summons  to  parliament 
as  a  BARON,  from  6th  February,  1S99,  to  7th 
January,  1313.  His  lordship  left  three  sons,  Ro- 
BxaT,  Henry,  and  WlUiam,  but  none  of  these  had 
cummons  to  parUamenL    The  youngest, 

Hnway  lb  Vatasour,  was  the  direct  ances- 
tor of  Thomas  Vayasour,  Esq.,  of  Hasle- 
wood, who  was  created  a  baboitbt  in  1688, 
which  dignity  aaviRBn  with  Sir  Thomas 
Vavasour  in  18i8.  The  esUtes  of  the  ba- 
ronets devolved  by  will  upon 

The  HOHOUBABIfB 

EnwABO  Mabxadukb  Stocbtow, 
who,  changing  his  name  to  Vava^ 
aovB,  and  lielng  created  a  babonbt, 
is  the  present 

Sib  Edward  Mabmadukb  Va- 
TABODB,  ot  Haslewood,   in   the 
county  of  York. 
ABK8.— Or  on  a  fesse  dancettte,  sa. 
Notei— Of  this  fismily  it  was  remarked,  that  in 
twenty-one  descents  from  Sir  Mauger  le  Vavasour, 
temp.  William  ths  Conqueror,  not  one  of  them 
had  ever  maniad  an  heir,  or  ever  buried  his  wifle.^— 
Bajtkb. 

VAVASOUIU-BARON  VAVASOUR. 

By  Writ  of  Sommons,  dated  88th  July,  1SI& 
7Kdwaid  IL 

Xintagc. 

WALTER   L£    VAVASOUR*  «  dfart^iisiwd 


hi  &•  BeottisB  wan,  taaipb  Bdwird  1^,  vna 
Bumaoned  to  parlianMot,  by  King  Mwwaud  IL, 
on  96th  July,  1313^  but  not  afterward^ 
any  of  his  telly.  His  tadsk^ls  only 
and  heir, 

EI.ISABVTB  X.B    VATAaOttB,  RK.  Sir 

StreUy,  of  Nottlnghamshira. 
Upon  the  iliium  of  Lmd  Vavasour,  H  iai 
that  the  Babohy  ow  VAVAaooB 
his  daughter,  and  that  it  still  esials  la  her  d»* 
eesndantsu  «<  If,  howwer,*  saya  NIooIm,  "Walter 
le  Vavasonr  was  not  iBBsnedatdy  8escanded  ham 
Wflfiam  le  Vavaaoor,  the  flnt  baran  of  that  tanlly, 
and  summoned  in  conaaqoenoa  of  deecent, 
statement  is  probably  ineomct,  aa  it  has  hmm 
that  a  stagte  writ  of  summons,  unaccompanied  by  • 
dtttawtn  parlianMnt,  does  not  ooostitata  a  Imtomj 
im  tm." 


VERDON— BARONS  VERDON. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  84th  June,  1998, 
93  Edward  L 

At  the  Oantral  Survey, 

BERTRAM  DE  VERDON  (of 
tkm}  possseied  Fencham,  in 
since  called  Fameham-Royal,  holdiag  thasame by 
giaud  RM^Ieanty  t  vIl  by  the  service  of  providing  n 
glove  npon  the  day  of  the  king's  ooaonatlon  far  hia 
right  hand  t  and  of  supporting  the  monarch's  ri^tt 
asm  during  the  saaae  cereasony,  so  leng  aa  he  ban 
the  royal  seeptro.    To  this  Cradal  lord  i 

NORMAN  DE   VERDON,  who  «•. 
daughter  of  Geoflkey  de  Clinton,  lord  cbamberlahi 
and  treasurer  to  King  Henry  L,  and  waa  «.  by  kin 


BERTRAM  DE  VERDON.  This  Urndal  lord 
sheriff  of  Ldcestershire,  flrom  the  16th  to  the 
30th  of  King  Henry  II.'s  reign,  inclusive.  Ha  sub- 
sequently  attended  the  Uon-hmritd  Richabo  to 
the  Holy  Land,  and  waa  at  die  stege  of  Acont 
which  place  upon  its  surrender  was  committed  ttr 
his  custody.  Thia  Bertram  founded  the  abbey  ot 
Crozden,  in  the  connCy  of  Staibrd,  anno  1178,  and. 
was  otherwise  a  liberal,  benefcclor  to  the  dinrch. 
He  m.  first,  Maud,  daughter  of  Robert  de 
Eerl  of  Derby,  by  whom  he  had  no 
secondly,  Rohese,  but  of  what  IhmUy  is  unknown. 
He  dL  at  Joppa,  in  1198,  and  waa  e.  by  his  son, 

THOMAS  DE  VERDON,  who  in.  Bnstacia, 
daughter  of  GUbert  BaMt,  and  died  hi  Irehmd, 
anno  1199»  without  iasue,  whan  he  waa  a.  by  hia 
brother, 

NICHOLAS  DE  VeRDON,  who  in  the  6th  oT 
John,  paid  to  the  king  one  hundind  pomida,  as 
atao  a  courser  and  palftny,  for  livery  of  those  laada 
in  Ireland,  whereof  his  ftuher  died  possessed.  Bnt 
in  twelve  years  afterwards,  taking  part  with  the  m> 
beUlous  berons,  all  his  lands  were  sdaed  by.  qtedal . 
precepts  fhmi  the  crown,  to  the  shetiflb  of  War- 
wick, Leicester,  Staflbrd,  Llnoohi,  Bocks,  and  Osi* 
ford,  and  pkced  In  thacnatody  of  WUIIam  de  ( 
tUupe,  during  the  ki«^a 


fUf^U- 


-1 


Pi.tTTLt-^        i 


^ 

M.A. 


7 


VER 


however,,  ta  Rfaiff  Haory  m**  thoM 
rettored  to  him  in  the  flnt  yenr  of  that  taauaech, 
and  he  eppeera  ■Herwaids  to  have  flojojred  the 
favour  of  the  king.  He  died  in  U31,  leaving  an 
only  daughter  and  helieM, 

ROHESE  DE.  VERDON,  who  maniad  Theo- 
bald de  Butler,  (a  branch  of  the  noble  fSunily  of 
Butler*  of  Irelmd,)  but  being  to  great  an  hdreH* 
retained  her  nudden  name  after  maniage»  which 
her  huaband  adopted.  At  the  time  of  her  fhther^ 
decieaer,  she  appean  to  have  been  a  widow.  This 
lady,  who  founded  the  abbey  of  Oiace  Dieu,  fbr 
Ciatertian  Monks,  atBeldon,  in  Leloettaniiice^  died 
In  1947*  leaving  imie. 
Job  IT,  her  heir. 
NldM^aa,  who  had  the  manor  Of  Clumor*,  In 

Ireland,  died  «.  p. 
Maud,  m.  to  John  Fits-Alan,  Earl  of  Arundri. 
She  was  nioceeded  by  her  dder  ton, 

JOHN  DE  VBRDON  (aUaa  Butler).  This 
great  feudal  lord,  being  one  of  the  barans  marchen, 
had  onton,  in  the  44th  Henry  III.,  upon  the  incur- 
siooB  of  the  Welsh,  to  keep  his  residence  upon  the 
borders.  After  which  he  was  one  of  the  barons 
who  adhered  to  the  king,  in  the  conflict  between 
thecMwn  and  the  nobles;  and  upon  the  triumph 
of  the  royal  cause  at  Evesham,  he  was  commis- 
sioned to  raise  forces  in  Worcestershire,  fbr  the 
purpose  of  attacking  the  only  remaining  hold  of 
the  barons,  at  Kenilworth.  But  these  troubles 
being  at  length  ended,  John  de  Terdon  was  signed 
with  the  cross,*  and  accompanied  Prince  Edward 
to  the  Holy  Land. 

John  de  Verdon  m.  first,  Margaret,  daughter  of 
Gilbert  de  LdMrie,  and  heir  to  her  graadftther,  Wal- 
^  ter  de  Lade,  by  which  alliance,  the  eastle  of  W^b- 
beley.  In  tbe  county  of  Herefbrd,  came  into  the 
Verdon  flunily.  He  espoused,  secondly,  Alianore, 
whose  surname  is  imknown,  and  dying  in  1274,  was 
«.  by  his  son, 

THEOBALD  DE  VERDON,  who,  in  the  8rd 
Edward  I.,  upon  doing  homage,  had  livery  of  his 
lands,  paying  £100  Ibr  his  relief.  At  this  period, 
he  held  the  office  of  GoiraTABLx  of  Irblano. 
For  some  years  subsequently,  this  eminent  person 
seems  to  have  enjoyed  the  fkvour  ot  the  crown,  and 
to  have  received  several  immunities}  but  in  the 
-  19th  of  Edward's  reign,  we  find  him  arraigned  fbr 
treason,  and  divers  other  misdemeanours,  before 
the  king  and  council,  at  Bergavennny,  and  con- 
demned to  imprisonment  and  confiscation;  the 
king,  however,  taking  into  consideration  the  good 
services  of  his  ancestors,  and  his  own  submission, 
fteed  him  for  a  fine  of  five  hundred  marks;  and 
he  waa  soon  after  summoned  to  parliament  as 
Bahoit  Vkrdow.  In  the  90th  of  the  same  rsAgn, 
(Edward  I.,)  his  lordship  waa  one  of  the  barons  in 
the  perliament  of  Lincoln,  who,  by  a  public  instru- 
'  ment,  under  their  seals,  sent  to  Pope  Bonlfkce 
VIII.,  asserted  the  right  of  King  Edward,  as  supe* 


xlor  lord  of  tiie  whole  fealm  oT  Smtlan*.  Lord 
Verdon  having  had  summons  to  parliament,  to  3rd 
November,  1306,  d.  in  1309,  and  was  «.  by  his  only 
surviving  son, 

SIR  THEOBALD  DE  VBRDON,  second  barony 
who,  in  the  lifMime  of  his  &ther,  had  summons 
to  perliament,  aa  **  Theobald  de  Verdon,  Junior," 
flrom  99th  December,  1999,  to  9ind  February,  1307» 
and  afterwards,  without  the  word  <«  Junior,"  fh»i 
4th  March,  1309,  to  94th  October,  1314.  This  no* 
bleman,  in  the  0th  Edward  II.,  was  constituted 
Jvaricn  of  InaLAiro,  having  likewise  the  lieu- 
tenancy of  that  realm,  and  the  fise  of  £500  per 
annum,  then  granted  to  him.  His  lordship  m.  first, 
Maud*  daughter  of  Edward  Mortimer,  Lord  of 
Wigmore,  by  whom  he  had  issue, 

Joane,  m.  to  Thomas  de  Fumlval,  second  Lord 

Fumival,  and  d.  in  1334. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Bartholomew  de  Burghersh. 
Margery,  m.  first,  William  le  Bhint,  secondly, 
Marcus  Husse,  and  thirdly,  John  CrophuU, 
by  whom  die  had  a  son, 

Thomaa  CropfanU,  whose  dani^ter  and 
hdrem. 


•  Signed  with  the  cross.  Those  persons  who 
eontemplated  a  voyage  to  the  Holy  Land,  painted 
a  croes  upon  their  shoulders,  as  indicative  of  their 


:frU 


Id 


{-t"  '     Agnes,  m.  to  Sir  Walter  Devereux«,J7 


Knt.       >f'  licM/^^  Yi^c'. 


He  espoused,  secondly,  EUnbet^  widow  of  John 
de  Burgh,  and  daughter  and  eventually  oo-heir  of 
Gilbert  de  Clare,  Earl  of  Gloucester,  by  Jane  Plan* 
tagenet,  daughter  of  King  Edward  I,,  by  whom  he 
had  an  only  daughter, 

liabd,  m.  to  Henry  Ferrers,  Lord  Ferrers,  of 
Groby,  which  Henry  d.  17th  Edward  III.« 
leaving  by  the  seid  Isabel, 
William,  Lord  Ferrers. 
PhiUppa,  m.  to  Guy  de  Beandiamp. 

Elisabeth,  m.  to de  Assells. 

Theobald,  Lord  Verdon,  d.  in  1316,  when  the  Ba« 
noKY  OF  VxRnov  fell  into  ABSYAircn  amongst 
his  daughters,  and  so  continues  with  their  npn* 
sentatives.  / 

AnMa.--Or.  a  fist  gules,     y  ^    ^  '<j  '] 

VERDON— BARON  VERDON. 


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By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  97th  January,  1S39« 
6  Edward  II L 

ICincagc. 

JOHN  DB  VERDON  was  summoned  to  parlia- 
ment aa  a  Baeoit,  flrom  97th  January,  1339,  to  flOnd 
January,  1336,  and  again  on  the  9&th  February* 
1349»  but  never  afterwards,  and  of  his  lordship 
nothing  further  is  recorded. 

VERB— EARLS  OF  OXFORD,  MAR- 
QUESS  OF  DUBLIN,  DUKB 
OF  IRELAND. 

Earldom,  Creation  of  the  Empress  Maud,  \  anno 
and  confirmed  by  Henry  IL        j  113S. 
Marquisate,  1  Creations  of  f  1386. 
Dukedom,    j  Richard  IL  \  U87* 

XilUBgC. 

The  fliitmcntioiiof  thlsnoUe  and  andcnt  fkmily* 

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(whiMe  pcdigBM  Ldaod  deductt  from  Noah ! !)  !• 
in  the  ftnaral  aiirrey  of  England,  made  by  WillUm 
the  Conqueror,  wherein, 

ALBERIC  DE  VER,  U  stoted  to  have  potMned 
Dumerous  lordshipa  In  the  different  shiret,  of  which 
Chenititon,  (now  Kenitngton,)  in  the  county  ot 
Middieeez,  wm  one,  and  Hedingham,  in  the  county 
of  Eiaex,  where  hit  castle  wai  situated,  and  wherehe 
chiefly  resided,  another.  This  Alberic,  m.  Beatrix, 
daughter  of  Henry  Castellan  of  Bourbourg,  and 
niece  maternally,  (through  SibiUa,  his  daughter  and 
heiress,)  of  Manasses,  Count  of  Ohisnes,  by  whom 
he  had  five  sons,  Alberic,  GeofRrey,  Roger,  Robert, 
and  William,  and  a  daughter,  Rohesla,  m.  first,  to 
Pagan  Beaudiamp,  and  secondly,  to  Oeoflbry  de 
Mandeville,  Earl  of  Essex.  Alberic  de  Ver,  in  the 
latter  end  ot  his  days  assumed  the  cowl,  and  died  a 
monk  s  he  was  buried  in  the  church  oi  Colne 
Priory,  which  he  founded,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

ALBERIC  DE  VERE,  who  being  in  high  favour 
with  King  Henry  I.,  was  constituted  by  that  mon- 
arch Lomo  HIGH  cBAMBsmLAiN  of  England,  to 
hold  the  same  in  fee,  to  himself  and  his  heirs,  with 
all  dignities  and  liberties  thereunto  appertaining, 
as  fully  and  honourably  as  Robert  Malet,  Lord  of 
the  honour  of  Eye,  in  Suflblk,  who  had  then  been 
banished  and  disinherited,  had  holden  the  said 
'office.  His  lordship  m.  Adelisa,  daughter  of  Gil- 
bert de  Clare,  and  had  issue, 

Aberic  or  Aubrey,  his  successor. 

,  Canon  of  St.  Osyth's,  in  Essex. 

Robert,  Lord  of  Twlwell,  in  the  county  of 
Northampton. 

Adelisa,  m.  to  Henry  de  Essex. 

Juliana,  m.  to  Hugh  Bigod,  Earl  of  Norfolk. 
In  theftth  year  of  King  Stephen,  when  Joint  sheriff 
(with  Richard  Basset,  then  Justice  of  England,)  of 
Surrey,  Cambridge,  Essex,  and  several  other  coun- 
ties, his  lordship  was  slain  in  a  popular  tumult 
at  London,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

AUBREY  DE  VERE,  who,  for  his  fideUty  to 
the  Empress  Maud,  was  confirmed  by  that  prin- 
cess in  the  i.oiu>  cRAMBnRLAiwsHip,  and  all  his 
father's  great  territorial  possessions.  He  had  like- 
wise, other  important  grants  with  the  Earldom  of 
Cambridge,  provided  that  dignity  were  not  vested 
In  the  King  of  Scots,  but  if  it  were,  then  his  lord- 
ship was  to  have  his  choice  of  the  Earldoms  of 
Oxford,  Berkshire,  Wiltshire,  or  Dorsetshire ;  all 
which  grants  being  ratifled  by  King  Henry  II.,  his 
lordship  was  created  Earl  op  Oxrono,  with  thk 
usual  grant  to  earls,  of  the  third  penny  of  the  pleas 
of  the  county.  In  the  12th  King  Henry  II.,  upon 
levying  the  aid  for  portioning  the  king's  daughter, 
the  Earl  of  Oxford  certified  his  knights'  fees  to  be 
in  number  twenty-eight,  for  ifhich  he  paid  £20  s 
and  in  the  9nd  year  of  King  Richard  I.,  he  paid  a 
fine  of  five  hundred  marks  to  the  king,  **for  the 
suter  of  Walter  de  Bolebec  to  make  a  wife  for  his 
son."  In  four  years  afterwards,  his  lordship  con- 
tributed £30. 2v.  fid.,  for  the  knights'  fees  he  then 
held,  towards  the  sum,  at  that  time  levied,  for  the 
ransom  of  the  king.  The  earl  m.  first,  Eufamia, 
daughter  of  Sir  William  de  Cantilupe,  by  whom  he 
had  no  issue,  and  secondly,  Lucia,  daughter  and 
heiress  of  William  de  Abrinds,  by  whom  he  had. 


Robbbt'  f"«coessively  Earls  of  Oxford- 
William,  Bishop  of  Horefordt  anno  1186*  d.  In 

1190. 
Henry. 
Adeliaa. 
Sarah. 
His  lordship  <L  in  1194,  and  was  #.  by  hisdder  son, 

AUBREY  DE  VERB,  second  Earl  of  Oxfoord, 
and  Lord  Great  Chamberlain.  This  nobteman  vas 
sheriff  of  Essex  and  Herefordshire,  from  the  lOlfa 
to  the  16th  o£  King  John,  inclusive—and  was  ie> 
puted  one  of  the  evil  councillors  ot  that  monarrK 
His  lordship  d.  in  1S14,  and  having  no  issue,  waa  a. 
by  his  brother, 

ROBERT  DE  VERB,  third  Earl  of  Oxford,  and 
Lord  Great  Chamberlain.  This  nobleman  puxsu- 
ing  a  diflhrent  course  ttam  that  of  his  deceased 
biother,  was  one  of  the  celebrated  twenty-flve  ba- 
rons appointed  to  enforce  the  observance  of  Maoxa 
Cbabta.  In  the  beginning  of  the  reign  of  Henxy 
III.,  having  made  his  peac^  his  lordship  appcaxs, 
ftom  a  fine  levied  before  him  and  others,  to  have 
been  one  of  the  Judges  in  the  Court  of  Rfaa^s 
Bench.  He  m.  Isabel,  daughter  of  Hugh,  and  aie- 
ter  and  heir  of  Walter  de  Bolebec,  by  whom  ha  had 
issue, 

Hugh,  his  successor. 

Henry  (Sir),  of  Great  Addington,  in  the  county 
of  Northampton,  whose  grandson, 

Ridurd  Vere,  m.  Isabel,  daughter  of 
John  Green,  Esq.,  of  Drayton,  and 
hdress  of  her  brother,  whereby  the 
manor  of  Drayton,  in  the  county  of 
Northampton,  came  Into  this  bnndi 
of  the  Vere  family,  the  male  line  of 
-which  terminated  with 

Sir  Henry  Vere,  of  Great  Adding- 
ton, Drayton,  &c.,  who  left  by 
his  wife,  Isabel,  daughter  of  Sir 
Thomas  Tresham,  four  dangh> 
ten,  his  co-heirs,  via. 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  John,  Lord 

Mordaunt. 
Anne,   m.   to  Sir    Humphrey 
Brown,  Chief  Justice  of  the 
Common  Pleas,  34th  Henry 
VIIL 
Constance,  m,  to  John  Parr, 

Esq. 
Etheldred,  m.  to  John  Brown* 
Esq. 
Isabel,  m.  to  Sir  John  Courtenay. 
The  earl  d.  in  18S1,  and  was  «.  by  his  dder  son, 

HUGH  DE  VERE,  fourth  Earl  of  Oxford,  and 
fifth  Lord  Great  Chamberlain.  In  the  17th  Hcsuy 
IIL,  this  nobleman  waa  s<ribBmnly  knighted  at  Gkm- 
cester,  the  king  at  that  time  solemnising  the  Ceast 
of  Pentecost  there.  In  1245  his  lordship's  mothar 
died,  and  he  then,  upon  giving  security  for  piqr- 
ment  of  his  reUef,  namely,  the  sum  of  £100,  and 
doing  homage,  had  livery  of  the  lands  of  her  inhe- 
ritsaoe.  In  the  30th  Henry  III.  he  was  one  of 
the  subscribing  barons  to  the  letter  transmitted  to 
the  Pope,  complaining  of  the  exactions  of  his  holi- 
ness upon  this  realm;  and  he  sate  in  the  pariia. 


VER 


VER 


jiMBt*  and  Hairy  III.*  wbania  Hm  king  wm  up- 
braided with  his  prodigal  expenditttre,  and  lo- 
fonned,  that  naitlMr  Ms  treasurer  nor  dianceUor, 
bad  the  ooofidsnoe  of  their  lordships.  The  earl  m. 
Hawise,  daughter  of  Layer  de  Quincy*  Earl  of 
Wiucliester,  and  had  aa  only  son«  his  succossor,  at 
his  <L  in  is63, 

ROBERT  DE  VERE»  fifth  Earl  of  Oxfiord.  and 
sixth  Lord  Great  Chamberlain.  This  nobleman 
having  arrayed  himself  under  the  banner  of  Mont- 
lbrt>  Earl  of  Leicester,  was  amongst  those  who 
were  surprised  with  young  Hugh  de  Montfort*  at 
Kenilworth*  a  few  days  before  the  battle  of  £▼»- 
sham,  and  taken  prisoner;  but  he  made  his  peace 
■oon  after,  under  the  **  Dictum  qf  KenUwar^,"  and 
we  find  him  employed  by  King  Edward  I.,  against 
the  Welsh,  in  cbs  Uth  of  that  monarch's  reign.  His 
tordship  iM.  Alice,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Gilbert, 
Lord  Saundford,*  Chamberlain  in  Fee,  to  Eleanor, 
Queen  of  Henry  IIL,  and  had,  with  other  issue, 

RoBXRT,  his  successor. 

Alphonsus,  m.  Jane,  daughter  of  Sir  Richard 
Foliot,  Knt.,  and  had  a  son, 
John,  who  «.  as  serenth  Earl  of  Oxford. 

Hugh,  m.  Dionysia  de  Monchcnsi,  by  wh<Mn  he 
had  no  issue. 

Joane,  m.  to  William  de  Warren, 

Lora,  m.  to  Reginald  de  Argentein. 
The  earl  d,  in  1996,  and  was  s.  by  his  eldest  son, 

ROBERT  DE  VERE,  sixth  Earl  of  Oxford,  and 
peycnth  Lord  Great  Chamberlain.  This  noUeman 
took  part  in  the  wars  of  Scotland,  in  the  Mth  and 
S7th  of  Edward  L  His  lordship  m.  Margaret, 
daughter  of  Roger  Mortimer,  Earl  of  March,  but 
dying  in  1331,  without  issue,  his  honours  devolved 
upon  his  nephew, 

JOHN  DE  VERE,  as  seventh  Earl  of  Oxford, 
and  eighth  Lord  Great  Chamberlain.  This  noblo- 
man  who  was  a  military  personage  of  great  renown, 
shared  In  aH  the  glories  of  Edward  lIL's  martial 
reign.  When  he  succeeded  to  tiie  earldom,  he  had 
but  Just  attained  his  eighteenth  year  and  very 
■oon  afterwards,  we  find  him  with  the  army  in  Soot- 
land,  where  he  H»pears  to  have  been  engaged  for 
some  years.  In  the  14th  Edward  IIL,  he  attended 
the  idag  into  Flanders.  The  next  year  he  assisted 
"at  the  great  feast  and  Justing  in  London^  which 
King  Edward  HI.  caused  to  be  made,  as  it  was  said, 
for  the  love  of  the  Countess  of  Salisbury.  In  the 
16th  year,'  he  was  again  In  the  wars  ot  France;  to 
which  service  he  brought  forty  men-at  enns,  (him- 

•  This  Gilbert  inherited  the  manor  of  Hormede 
Magna,  in  the  county  of  Herts,  and  hdd  it  by  ser- 
Jeanty  of  service,  in  the  queen's  chamber  ^  which 
manor  was  conveyed  by  his  heiress,  Alice,  to  her 
husband,  the  Earl  of  Oxford— and  sold  by  his  suc- 
cessor, Edward  Earl  of  Oxford,  temp<  Elisabeth, 
to  Anthony  Cage,  dtiscn  of  London,  whose  repre- 
sentative, Daniel  Cage,  at  the  coronation  of  King 
James  I.,  claimed  the  office  of  chamberlain  to  the 
queen;  but  the  court  for  determining  claims,  came 
to  no  decision  upon  the  case,  because  the  Earl  of 
Oxford  held  three  manors  by  this  office,  and  there 
was  no  proof  that  Oiuges,  was  yet  aevend  fkom  the 
aarldom. 


lalf  iacinded,)ano  banneret,  nine  knlghu,  twenty* 
nine  esquires,  and  thirty  archers  on  horseback, 
.and  had  an  allowanoe  of  lUty-eix  sacks  of  wool,  for 
the  wages  of  himself  and  his  retinue.  The  next  year 
he  aocoropanled  Henry  de  Lancaster,  Earl  of 
Derby,  end  divers  othor  great  petsonagas,  into 
Scotland,  for  raising  the  siege  of  Loughmaban  Cas- 
tle. And  in  the  18th,  he  was  In  Oaaeony,  at  the 
surrender  of  Bergerath ;  after  which,  proceeding  to 
assault  the  castle  of  Peili^grue,  he  was  taken  pri- 
soner in  his  tent,  but  soon  after  exchanged  for  the 
Viscount  de  Bonqucntyne— when  he  mardied 
with  the  Earl  of  Derby,  to  Attveroche,  then  be- 
sieged by  the  French,  and  relieved  it.  «*  But  about 
the  flMst  of  the  Blesaed  Virgin,"  (writes  Dugdale.) 
'*  returning  out  of  Britanny,  he  was  by  tempest 
cast  upon  the  coast  of  Connaught,  In  Irdand, 
where  he  and  all  his  company  suflbred  much  mi- 
sery from  those  barbarous  people  there,  who  pil- 
leged  them  of  all  they  had." 

His  lordship  returned  to  France^  soon  after  this 
event,  and  continued  with  little  interruption,  du- 
ring the  remainder  of  his  life,  actively  and  gallantly 
engaged  in  the  wars  in  that  country.  He  was  one 
ot  the  heroes  of  CRsasv.  and  he  had  a  com- 
mand upon  the  glorious  field  of  PoicriBna.  He 
eventually  lost  his  life  from  fatigue,  in  the  English 
army,  encamped  before  the  walls  of  Rheims,  on  the 
14th  January,  UOfi.  The  earl  m.  Maud,  sister  and 
heiress  of  Giles,  Lord  Badlssmere,  and  widow  of 
Robert  Pita-Payn,  by  whom  he  had  issue, 

TBOKaa,  his  successor. 

AUBBXY,  who,  upon  the  reversal  of  the  at- 
tainder of  his  nephew,  Robert,  Duke  of 
Ireland,  succeeded  as  tenth  Eari  of  Oxford 
(of  this  nobleman  presently). 

John,  died  9,  pw 

Margaret,  m.  first,  to  Henry,  Lord  Beaumont, 
and  secondly,  to  Sir  John  Devereux,  Knt. 

Isabel,  m.  first,  to  Sir  John  CourtiMy,  Knt., 
and  secondly,  to  Sir  Oliver  Denham. 
His  lordship,  who  left  immense  landed  posscaiiosi 
in  the  counties  of  Hereford,  Bedford,  Leicester, 
Essex,  Buckingham,  Hertford,  Dorset,  Wilts,  Su^ 
folk,  and  Cambridge,  was  s.  by  his  eldest  son, 

SIR  THOMAS  DE  VERE,  Knt,  eighth  Earl  of 
Oxford,  and  ninth  Lord  Chamberlain.  Of  this 
nobleman  little  more  is  mentioned,  than  his  being 
engaged  in  foreign  warfare  like  his  fkther,  but  imt 
with  the  same  renown.  His  lordship  m.  in  the  Ufe- 
ti'me  of  the  late  earl,  Maud,  daughter  of  Sir  Ralph 
de  Uflbrd,  and  was  «.  at  his  decease,  in  l3Th  by  his 
only  SOD, 

ROBERT  DE  VERE,  ninth  Eari  of  Oxford, 
and  tenth  Lord  Chamberlain.  This  nobleman 
doing  homage,  and  making  proof  of  his  age,  in 
the  6th  of  Richard  IL,  had  livery  of  his  lands. 
His  lordship  beceming  subsequently,  the  favourite 
of  that  weak  and  unfortunate  prince,  obtained 
large  territorial  grants  flrom  the  crown,  amongst 
which  was  the  castle  of  Okcham,  in  Rutland,  and 
was  advanced  to  a  new  dignity  in  the  peer^e,  by 
the  title  of  MABOuxaa  ov  Dualiw,  in  which  he 
had  summons  to  parliament  on  the  8th  Auguet, 
UB6.  Upon  his  deration  to  the  marquisate,  hi* 
lordship  obtained  a  grant  of  the  land  and  doml- 

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•nkm  of  iTdnd,  with  all  imiAtt,  NYoiuei,  and 
legalities,  as  amply  at  the  king  himielf  ought  to 
ei^oy  the  Bame*  to  bold  by  homage  and  aUcgiaaoe. 
And  in  the  next  year»  within  a  few  montha,  he 
was  created  Duks  of  lasLAirD.    Tbote  high  bo- 
noun  and  inununitiaB  exciting  the  Jealousy  of  the 
nobles,  and  the  IkTOurite  bearing  his  fortune  im- 
periously, several  of  the  great  lords  assembled  at 
Harlnghay  House,  near  Highgate,  in  the  county 
of  Middlesez,  and  evinced  (^pen  hostility  to  the 
royal  minion.    From  thenoe,  at  the  derire  of  the 
king,  who  became  alarmed,  they  transferred  their 
deliberatians  to  Westminster,  and  in  reply  to  an 
interrogatory  put  to  them  by  the  Bishop  of  Ely, 
then  Lord  Chaacdlor,  they  demanded  that  the 
king  should  dismiss  the  traiton  that  surrounded 
him,  amongst  whom  they  particularised  *«  Robtrt 
Vere,  Dukk  of  iBaLAKo.**    For  the  moment,  how- 
ever, Richard  allayed  this  tumult  by  Adr  promises, 
but  De  Vere  not  considering  himself  safe,  soon 
after  effected  his  escape,  in  disguise,  to  the  con- 
tinent, accompanied  by  Michad  de  la  Pole,  Earl 
of  Suffolk.    He  subsequently  returned  tq  England, 
at  the  head  of  four  or  Ave  thousand  men,  and 
marching  into  Oxfordshire^  was  met  at  Radcote 
Bridge,  on  the  river  Isis,  by  the  Earl  of  Derby 
and  Duke  of  Gloucester,  where  his  troops  bdng 
•unrounded,  he  ouuld  secure  persooal  safety  only 
by  abandoning  his  sword,  gauntlets,  and  armour, 
and  thus  swimming  down  the  stream.    In  the  pur^ 
suit,  his  graoe^s  chariot  having  fallen  into  the  hands 
of  his  foes,  it  is  said  that  they  discovered  there 
letters  firom  the  king,  calling  upon  him  to  hasten 
to  London,  and  that  the  monarch  would  be  ready 
to  live  or  die  for  him.    In  a  parliament  soon  after 
convened,  through  the  influence  of  the  nobles, 
the  duke  not  appearing  to  a  citation,  was  senten- 
ced to  banishment,  and  at  the  same  time  outlawed 
and  attainted.     He  effected,   however,    again  his 
escape  tP  the  continent,  where,  being  wounded  l)y 
a  wild  boar,  while  hunting,  he  died  of  the  hurt, 
at  Lovaine,  anno  1908,  In  great  distress  and  po- 
verty; his  Englidi  property  behig  all  confiscated, 
jdmI  hishonooxexxTiNoviaHaD,  by  the  attauvdbii. 

His  grace  m.  first.  Lady  Phllippa  De  Courcy, 
daughter  and  co-heiress  of  Ingeiram,  Earl  of  Bed- 
Hord,  by  his  wife,  the  Princess  Isabel,  daughter 
of  King  Edward  III.,  which  noUe  lady,  in  the 
aenith  of  his  prosperity,  he  repudiated,  and  m.  se- 
condly,  one  Lanoerona,  a  Joiner's  daughter,  who 
came  out  of  Bohemia,  with  Anne,  Queen  consort 
of  King  Richard.  He  had  issue,  however,  by  nei- 
ther; and  upon  his  decease,  the  representation  of 
the  funily  reverted  to  his  uncle, 

AUBREY  DE  VERE,  who,  in  the  16th  Richard 
II.,  was,  by  consent  of  parlisonent,  restored  to  all 
those  lands  which  had  been,  by  fine,  entailed  pre- 
vkrasiy  to  the  attainder  of  the  deceased  duke; 
having  the  Earldom  of  Oxford  likewise  restored  to 
himself,  and  the  heirs  male  of  his  body.  His  lord- 
ship in  consequence,  took  his  seat  in  the  house  of 
Peees*  as  tenth  earl :  but  the  office  of  Lord  High 
Chamberlain,  so  long  in  the  Vere  femily,  was  be- 
atowed  by  the  king,  owing  to  the  restored  lord 
being  inibm,  upon  John  Holland,  Earl  of  Hun- 
tendon,  for  life.    The  intrmitice  of  Ms  lordehlp 


continuing,  he  had  cspedal  ttcense  to  Aeent  hlm^ 
self  fkom  the  parliament  hdd  at  Shrewsbury,  taa 
the  21st  of  Richard  II.;  in  whidi  the  Judgment 
passed  ten  years  previously  against  his  nephew, 
the  Duke  of  Ireland,  was  revoked  and  annulled. 
The  earl  m.  Alice,  daughter  of  John,  Lord  Fitn- 
Walter,  and  had  issue, 

Richard,  his  successor. 
John,  d.  unmarried. 
AUce,  m.  to  Sir  John  Fita-Lewes,  Knt 
His  lordship  rf.  in  1400,  and  was  «.  by  his  dder 
son, 

RICHARD  DE  VERE,  eleventh  Earl  of  Oxford. 
This  nobleman  was  fourteen  years  of  age,  at  the 
decease  of  his  fether,  and  had  a  grant  of  one  hun- 
dred pounds  a  year  out  of  his  own  lands  for  hSa 
maintenance  during  his  minority.  His  lordship 
inherited  very  extensive  estates  in  the  counties  of 
Essex,  Kent,  Cambridge,  &c.,  and  in  the  8th  of 
Henry  IV.,  being  then  of  full  age,  having  assented, 
that  Philippe,  Duchess  of  Irdand,  relict  of  the 
attidnted  duke,  should  ei^oy  her  dower  out  of  the 
entailed  lands,  $he  king,  in  oompUanoe  with  an 
act  of  parliament,  granted  to  his  lordship  and  his 
heirs,  all  those  lands  and  tenements,  which,  by 
the  forfeiture  of  Duke  Robert,  came  to  the  crown ; 
excepting  such  as  had  been  disposed  of  by  himsdf. 
or  King  Richard  IL 

"  About  this  time,**  says  Dugdale,  "or  not  long 
before,  Maude,  Countess  of  Oxford,  widow  of  l^ol 
Thomas,  and  mother  of  Robert,  Duke  of  Ireland* 
sail  surviving,  caused  it  to  be  divulged,  that  King 
Richard  IL  was  alive ;  anil  that  he  would  forth- 
with lay  claim  to  his  ancient  honour ;  and  procured 
HarU  to  be  made  of  silver  and  gilt,  (which  wen 
badges  that  king  gave  to  his  friends,  souldien» 
and  servants)  to  be  in  the  king's  name  distributed 
In  the  oountrey,  whereby  the  people  might  be  the 
sooner  aHured  to  rise  on  his  bdialft  giving  it  fhr> 
ttaer  out,  that  he  was  privately  kept  in  Scotland, 
till  he  could  have  a  fit  opportunity  to  come  fan 
with  an  army  of  French  and  Scots.  Whereupon 
she  was  committed  to  prison,  and  her  goods  con- 
fiacated."  This  lady  A  in  14SS,  leaving  her  cousin, 
Robert  de  Willoughby,  her  next  heir.  Th^Eail 
of  Oxford  m.  Alice,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Sctfeant, 
Knt,  of  Cornwall,  and  had  lssue> 
JoHK,  his  successor. 

Robert,  m.  Joane,  daughter  of  Sir  Hugh  Coiir- 
tenay,  and  had  issue, 
JoRK  Ds  Vans,  who  m.  Alice,  dan^ 
ter  of  Walter  Kelrington,  and  left  a 
eon,  JoHH,  who  #.  as  fifteenth  Earl  of 
Oxford. 
His  lordship,  who  had  been  in  the  French 
and  was  honoured  with  the  garter,  d.  in  14I7« ' 
was  «.  by  his  elder  son, 

JOHN  DE  VERE,  twdfth  Earl  of  Oxford,  dien 
in  his  ninth  year.  In  the  4th  of  Henry  VL.  Us 
lordship  had  the  honour  of  knighthood  ccnfhired 
upon  him  by  that  monarch,  at  Leicestsr,  when 
the  king  himsdf  received  a  similar  honour  at  tte 
hands  of  his  unde,  the  Duke  of  Bedford.  In  the 
7th  of  the  same  reign,  being  still  in  ward,  the 
earl  had  to  pay  a  fine  of  £9000  fev  mairytag  KIS- 
daughter  of  Sir  John  Howard,  Knt,  the 


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ycMiBftr,  without  lioaoM :  tni  befon  th«  dote  of 
that  yeur*  having  attained  ia«iocity»  and  dona  ho- 
mage, he  had  livery  of  his  huide.  In  the  13th, 
his  lordship  obtained  lioeue  to  travel  towards  the 
Holy  Land,  with  twelve  perscmsof  his  company} 
and  to  take  with  him  an  hundred  pounds  in  money, 
and  to  receive  five  hundred  marks  more  by  way 
of  exchange,  in  the  next  year  he  went  into  Pi- 
cardy  for  the  relief  of  CalaL,  and  the  same  year 
perlbrming  his  homage,  had  livery  of  all  those  lands, 
which,  by  the  death  of  Margaret,  the  wife  of  Sir 
John  Howard,  Knt,  descended  to  her  daughter, 
EUaabeth,  Countess  of  Oxford,  his  lordship's  con- 
sort. Aftor  this  we  find  the  earl  Joined  in  com- 
mission with  John,  Duke  of  Norfolk,  and  others, 
to  treat  with  Charles  de  Valoys,  or  his  smTwusap 
don,  touching  a  peace  with  France:  and  during 
the  whole  reign  of  Henry  VI.,  being  a  staunch  Lan- 
castrian, always  enjoying  the  confidence  of  the 
crowu;  but  upon  the  accession  of  Edward  IV., 
sharing  the  late  of  his  party,  he  was  attainted  in 
the  first  parliament  of  that  monarch,  with  his 
eldest  son,  Auhrey,  and  beheaded  on  Tower  Hill, 
anno  1461. 

His  lordship  m.  as  already  stated,  Elisabeth,  only 
daughter  and  heiress  of  Sir  John  Howard  (unde 
by  the  half  blood  of  John  Howard,  first  Duke  of 
Norfolk)  and  heiress  through  her  grandmother, 
Margaret,  daughter  of  Sir  John  de  Plata,  to  the 
Barony  of  Plata,  by  whom  he  had  issu^ 

Aubrey,  beheaded  with  his  father,  1st' of  Ed- 
ward IV. 
JoHir,  restored  as  thirteenth  earL 
George  (Sir),    tn.    Margaret,   daughter  and 
heiress  of  William  Staflbrd,  Esq.,  of  Frome, 
and  had  issue, 

George,  who  d.  In  his  Ikther's  life-time. 
John,  who  inherited  aa  fourteenth  Kta\ 

ctf  Oxford. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Sir  Anthony  WIngfleld. 
Margaret. 
Dorothy,  m.  to  John  Nevill,  Lord  Lati- 


Ursula,  m.  first,  to  George  Windsor*  Esq., 
and  secondly,  to  Sir  Edmund  Knightly. 
^Richard  (Sir). 

Thomas  (Sir),  died  «.  j>.  in  1480. 
Mary,  a  nun  at  Barking. 
Joane,  m.  to  Sir  William  Norrfs,  Knt.,  of 

Yatenden. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  WUliam  Bourdiier,  son  and 
heir  of  Henry,  Earl  of  Essex. 
Upon  the  attainder  and  execution  of  John,  twdfth 
Elarl  of  Oxford,  all  the  honours  of  the  fiunily 
fKpired,  but  hia  lordship's  second*  and  dldest  sur- 
viving son, 

JOHN  DE  VERB,  was  restored  aa  thirteenth 
Earl  <tf  Oxford,  during  the  temporary  triumph 
of  the  House  of  Lancaster,  in  the  10th  of  Edward 
l^f»P  when  he  sate  as  Lord  High  Steward  at  the 
trial  of  John  Tiptoft,  Earl  of  Worcester,  who  was 
condemned  and  beheaded  on  Tower  HilL  But  }^ 
lordship,  with  Richard  Nevill,  the  stout  Earl  of 
Warwick,  being  soon  after  toully  rooted  by  the 
Yorkists,  at  Bamet,  and  King  Edward  re-csta- 
hUshodnpoo  tbtthnin^  himailf  and. hit  twotao- 


thiit.  Sir  GeorfB,  and  Sir  Thomas  Verew 
attainted,  but  pardoned  aa  to  their  lives.  Sub- 
sequently escaping  lh»i  prison,  and  ardently  em- 
barking in  the  cause  of  Henry,  Earl  of  Bidunond, 
he  «x>mmanded  the  archers  of  the  vanguard,  at 
Bosworth  field,  and  there  mainly  contributed,  by 
his  valour  and  skill,  to  the  victory  which  taimi* 
nated  the  bloody  and  procrastinated  contest  b^ 
tween  the  Houses  of  York  and  Lancaster.  Upon 
the  accession  of  this  chief  to  the  crown  of  England 
aa  Henry  VII.,  hb  lordship  was  immediately  re- 
stored to  all  hia  possessions,  and  sworn  of  the  privj 
coundl:  and  at  the  coronation  of  the  king,  he 
was  constituted  one  of  the  commissioners  for  ene* 
cuting  the  office  of  Loan  Hion  SrswAnn  of  Sn^* 
land.-  The  carl  had  besides  large  grants  of  confie- 
cated  property,  and  was  made  CoK8TABX.n  of  the 
Tower  of  London,  and  Lord  Hioh  Admihai.  of 
England,  Irdand,  and  the  Duchy  of  Aquitain^ 
At  the  coronation  of  the  Queen  Consort,  3d  Henry 
VII.,  his  lordship  was  ag^n  one  of  the  commis- 
sioners for  executing  the  office  of  Lord  Hi^  Ste- 
ward, and  he  had  subsequently  a  chief  command 
in  suppressing  the  rebellion  of  Lambert  Simnell, 
and  his  partisans :  aa  he  had  a  few  years  afterwards 
in  opposing  Lord  Audley,  and  the  Cornish  men, 
at  BhKkheath.  Upon  the  accession  of  King  Henry 
VIIL,  the  Earl  of  Oxlbrd  was  restored  to  the  ofllce 
of  Lonn  Obbat  CHAMBBni«AiM  of  England,  ori- 
ginally granted  to  his  ancsstcnr,  Auteey  de  Vere, 
by  King  Henry  I.,  in  which  year  he  had  the  Con- 
sUbleship  of  the  castle  of  Clare,  in  the  county  of 
Suflblk,  confirmed  to  him  for  lifet  as  also  a  grant 
and  confirmation  of  the  castle  of  Colchester,  which 
Maud,  the  Emprees,  conferred  upon  hb  family. 
Of  thb  distinguished  penonage,  who  was  celebrated 
for  hb  splendid  hospitality,  and  was  esteemed  a 
gallant,  learned,  and  religious  man,  and  King  Henry 
VIII.,  the  following  story  b  told. 

The  monarch  visiting  the  earl's  rastlyf  Hed- 
ingham,  was  there  sumptuously  entertained  by  the 
princely  noble}  and  at  hb  departure  hblordshipPs 
livery  servants,  ranged  on  both  sides,  made  an 
avenue  for  the  king :  which  attracting  hb  Ugh- 
ness's  attention,  he  called  out  to  the  eari,  and  said, 
'*  My  lord,  I  have  heard  mudi  of  your  hospitality : 
but  I  aee  It  b  greater  than  the  speech.  These 
handsome  gentlemen  and  yeomen,  which  I  see  on 
both  sides  of  me,  are  suidy  your  menial  servants  ?** 
The  earl  smiled,  and  said,  *'  It  may  please  your 
grace,  they  were  not  ftnr  mine  ease:  thiey  are  moat 
of  them  my  retainers,  that  are  come  to  do  me 
service  at  such  a  time  aa  thb}  and  diiefly  to  see 
your  grace"  The  king  started  a  little,  and  re- 
joined, "  By  my  faith,  my  k>rd,  I  thank  you  for 
my  good  «dieer,  but  I  may  not  endure  to  have  my 
laws  broken  in  my  sight }  my  attorney  must  speak 
with  you."  It  b  added,  that  thb  affldr  coat  hb 
kndahip  eventually,  no  less  than  fifteen  thousand 
marks,  in  the  shape  of  compromise. 

The  earl  m.  first,  Ledy  Margaret  Nevill,  daugh- 
ter of  RiduBd,  Earl  of  Salbbury,  by  whom  he  liad 
a  son,  John,  who  dUed  young  in  the  Tower  of  Lon- 
don, during  hb  fluher's  exiles  Hb  lordship  es- 
poused secondly,  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  Rkfaerd 
Scroope,  Knt.>  and  widow  of  William,  Vbcount 


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B«iamoDt»  but  had  no  i«u».  The  earit  who,  with 
hie  other  honoun,  was  a  Knight  of  fha  Oartar,  d. 
in  1613,  and  was  «.  by  (tha  aldait  iurTiThig  ion 
of  hif  deowtad  brother.  Sir  Gaorga  Vara)  hit  »•• 
phew, 

JOHN  DE  VERB»  aa  fbarteenth  Earl  of  Oxford, 
coBunonly  callad*  <*  Little  John  of  Caaapaa,"  froaa 
hia  dimiaitive  etature,  and  realdenoa  at  Caatla 
Campes,  hi  Cambridgeshire.  Hia  loidship  m.  Lady 
Anna  Howard,  daughter  of  Thomai,  Duke  of  Not- 
foUi,  but  had  no  laadab  He  d.  in  IMS,  when  hia 
aiatert  (refar  to  children  of  Sir  Goorge  Vore>  eon  of 
John,  twelfth  earl)  baoame  hrin  to  the  ancient  Iw- 
loniea*  of  the  family,  and  thoee  Ml  into  abbtawci 
between  them,  aa  they  itill  continue  with  their  de- 
■cendanlii  while  the  Earldom  of  Oxford  panad  to 
hie  coutin  and  heir-at-law  (refer  to  deieendante  of 
the  Hon.  Robert  Vere,  leoond  eon  of  Richard, 
deventh  earl), 

JOHN  DE  VERE,  aa  fifteenth  Earl  of  Oxford, 
and  lord  great  chamberlain.  Thia  nobleman  waa 
a  privy  councillor  in  the  reign  of  Henry  VIII.,  and 
aupported  the  meaaures  of  the  court.  Hia  lordahip 
•igned  the  articles  exhibited  by  the  king  against 
Cardinal  Wobey,  and  hia  name  waa  to  the  letter 
addressed  to  the  Pope  (Clem«it  VII.)  by  several  of 
the  noUUty  and  divers  diurchmen,  declaring  that 
unless  his  Htriinesa  sanctioned  the  king's  divorce 
ttom  Queen  Katharine,  the  supremacy  of  the  holy 
see  within  this  realm  would  tennfawtek 

The  earl  m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  and  heiress  of 
Sir  Edward  Trussel,  Knt,  of  Cubleadon,  in  the 
county  of  Stallbrd,  by  whom  he  had  issue* 
John,  his  successor, 

Aubrey,  m.  Margaret,  daui^terof  John  Sprtag, 
Eeq.,  of  Lanham,  in  the  county  of  Suflblk, 
and  had,  with  other  Iseue, 

Hugh,  m.  Eleanor,  daughter  of  -^-— — 
Walsh,  Esq.,  and  left  a  son, 
_        RoBBBT,  who  a.  as  nineteenth  Earl 
of  Oxford. 
Oelftry,  who  m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Sir 
John  Hardkyn,  of  Cokhester,  and  had,  with 
other  Lseue, 
Francis  (Sir),  some  time  Oovemor  of 

Briil,  in  the  Netherlands. 
HoBATio,  the  celebrated  Lord  Veie,  of 

Tilbury  (see  that  dignity). 
Frances,  m.  to  Sir  Robert  Harconrt,  Knt», 
anoeetor  of  the  extinct  Earls  of  Har- 
conrt. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Thomas,   Lord  Darcy,  of 

Chiche. 
Anne,  m.  to  Edmund  Sheffield,  Lord  Shef- 
field. 
Frances,  m.  to  Henry,  Earl  oi  Surrey. 
His  lordship,  who  waa  a  Knight  of  the  Garter,  d.  in 
IfiaO,  and  was  *.  by  his  ddest  son, 

JOHN  DE  VERB,  sixteenth  Earl  of  Oxford, 
and  lord  great  chamberlain,  who,  in  the  aSnd  Henry 
VIIL,  had  livery  bf  those  lands  which  descended  to 
him  from  Elisabeth,  hia  mother,  skter  and  heir  of 
John  Trussel,  Esq.  i  and  in  the  aoth  of  the  same 
monarch  was  in  the  expedition  Into  France,  when 


*  Bolebc^  BadlemMM!,  and  Plaiia. 


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BulloigBewaebemgad  and  taken.  Hia  knrdshtp  m. 
fliat.  Lady  Dorothy  NevlU,  daughter  of  Ralph, 
Earl  of  Weetmorland,  by  whom  he  had  an  OMif 
daughter, 

Katharine,  m.  to  Edward,  Lord  Wlndaor. 
The  earl  espooaad,  aeeondly,  Margaret,  daughter 
of  John  Golding,  Eeq«,  by  whom  he  had  Issue, 
Edward,  his  surceseor. 
Mary,  m.  to  Peregrine   Bertie,  tenth   Lord 
WUloughby  de  Eresby,  by  whom  she  had, 
I  ROBBRT,  eleventh  Lord  WlUougfaby  de 

Eresby,  who  claimed  the  Earldom  d 
Oxford,  and  great  cfaamberlainahip,  in 
right  of  his  mother  I  but  sueoeeded  In 
tte  latter  only.     He    was,   howcw, 
created  Eabi.  or  LtwDaAT.     In  this 
earldom,  and  the  sobeaqnent  Dokedom 
of  Ancaster,  the  Barony  of  WiDougb- 
by,  and  the  dttmberlalnsfaip  oositlnned 
until  their  extinction,  in  1809,  ot  thoee 
dignities,   when  the  chamberlainaMp 
devolved  Jointly  upon  the  fast  Duke  of 
Ancaater's  ststers  and  heirs, 
Prisdlla,  Lady  Gwydyr. 
Georglana,   Marchkniesa  Chotanon- 
deieyt   and  it  la  now  vested  in 
this  lady,  and  her  nephew.  Peter, 
present     Lord    Wiiloughby     de 
Eresby. 
The  earl  d,  in  1562,  and  was  «.  by  hia  dder  son, 

EDWARD  DE  VERE,  seventsenth  Earl  of  Ox- 
ford, and  lord  great  chamberlam.  This  noUemaa 
was  one  of  the  peers  appointed,  99th  Elixabedi,  to 
ait  in  Judgment  upon  the  unlMq>py  Mary,  Qneeo  of 
Scotland,  and  hia  lordship  had  a  commuid  in  the 
fleet  equipped  to  oppose  the  Armada,  in  1588.  Hia 
lordsMp  was  one  of  the  wits  of  the  period  in  whidi 
he  fived,  and  distinguished  alike  by  his  patrlotiani 
and  chivalrous  spiriL  In  the  tournaments  of  Elian- 
betfaHs  reign  the  Earl  of  Oxford  was  preeminently 
conspicuous,  and  upon  two  oceaakms  he  waa  ho- 
nonied  with  a  priae  firom  her  mejesty's  own  hand, 
being  conducted,  armed  by  two  ladies,  into  the 
presence  chamber  for  the  purpoaeof  reeeiring  the 
high  reward.  Walpole  says,  that  he  attained  repa> 
tatlon  as  a  poet,  and  was  esteemed  the  first  writer 
of  comedy  in  hia  time.  Hb  lordship  m.  first,  Anaew 
daughter  of  William  Cecil,  the  celehiated  Lord 
(Treaeurer)  Burghley,  and  had  iasae, 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  WilUam,  Earl  of  Derby. 
Bridget,  m.  to  Pranda,  Lord  Ncnris,  of  Ry^ 

cote. 
Susan,  m.  to  Philip  Hethert,  Sail  of  Mont- 
gomery. 
The  earl  m.  seeendly,  KHariieth,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Trentham,  Esq.,  of  Roucestcr,   in  the 
county  of  Stafford,  by  whom  he  had  an  only  ddH, 

Henry,  his  successor. 
This  Lord  Oxfbid  was  the  flnt  person  wholntio- 
duced  perfumes  and  embroidered  gloves  into  Bag- 
lend,  and  presenting  a  pair  of  the  latter  to  Quei 
Elisabeth,  her  vaa^eUf  waa  so  pleased  wRh  them, 
that  she  had  her  picture  painted  with  those  gloves 
on.  His  hMPdrtilp  lived  to  an  advaaead  ag^,  and 
dying  in  1004,  was*,  by  hie  son, 
HENRY   DE  VERB,  etghteMlh  BttI  of  Ox- 


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fiird,  and  lord  grwt  dumtwririn,  who  «.  Udy 
DianA  C«eU,  Mcond  daughter  of  William,  Barl  of 
EMtar,  one  of  the  givatait  fortuMa,  and  most  cdo- 
tantad  beantiat  of  the  period,  but  had  no  i»ae» 
His  lordship  d.  et  the  liiBeof  Breda,  in  the  Nether- 
lands, where  he  hed  the  eominand  of  a  legtanent,  hi 
ieS0»  wfam  his  hoaovn  devolved  upon  hia  cousin 
(refer  to  descendants  of  Aulirey»  second  son  of  John, 
llftesnthearl), 

ROBBRT  DE  VERS,  as  ninelenth  Earl  of  Ox- 
ford.   In  the  9nd  Chaxles  L  there  was  great  oon- 
troveny  between  this  Robert*  and  Robert  Bertie, 
then  Lord  WiUoughby  de  Bresby,  in  consequence 
of  the  latter  claiming  in  ri^t  of  his  mothec,  Ifary, 
daughter  of  John,  sixteenth  Eaxl  of  Oxford,  and 
lister  and  heiress  of  Edward,  seventeenth  earl,  the 
Earldom  of  Oxford,  with  the  baionieB  In  fee  be- 
longing to  the  fomUy,  and  the  great  chamberlain- 
ship  of  England.    The  judges  gave  their  opinion, 
however.  In  parliament,  ••  that  the  earldom  was 
well  descended  upon  the  heir  male{  but  that  the 
baronies  having  devolved  upon  heirs  fomale,  the 
three  sisters  of  John,  fourteenth  earl,  (refer  to 
children  of  Sir  George  Vera,  third  son  of  the  twelfth 
earl,)  were  then  in  abxyancx.    As  to  the  office  of 
great  chamberlain,  it  was  also  referred  to  the  Judges, 
then  attending  in  parliament,  to  report,  whether 
<*  that  Robert,  Earl  of  Oxford,  who  made  the  entail 
thereof,  temp.  Richard  II.,  on  the  heir  male,  was 
at  that  time  seised  thereof  or  not,  and  admittfaig 
that  he  was,  then  whetlier  such  an  offlee  might  be 
conveyed  by  way  of  limiting  of  uses."  Upon  this  re- 
ference three*  of  the  Judges  decided  for  the  heir 
general,  and  twof  for  the  heir  male;  Ave  of  their 
lordships  only  attendhng.     Whereupon  the  Lord 
Willoughby  was  admitted  on  the  ISth  April,  lath 
Charles  I.,  Into  the  house,  with  his  staff  of  office; 
and  took  his  place  above  all  the  barons,  according 
to  the  statute  of  81st  Henry  VIII.,  and  the  next 
day,  Robert  de  Vera  took  Ms  seat  as  Barl  of  Ox- 
ford,  next  to  the  Bail  of  ArundeL    Hb  loidship  m. 
a  Dutch  lady,  Beatrix  Van  Hcmmena,  by  whom  he 
left  at  his  decease,  hi  16»,  (falling  at  the  siege  of 
Maestiicht,  where  he  commanded  a  regiment,)  an 
only  surviving  child,  his  suoeassor, 

AUBREY  DE  VERB,  twentieth  Bad  ot  Ox- 
ford. This  nobleman,  at  the  deeeais  of  his  father, 
was  but  six  years  of  age,  and  in  ward  to  King 
Charles  I.  In  1618  he  had  command  of  a  regiment 
of  Engttsb  infantry  in  the  service  of  the  states  gene- 
laL  During  the  dvU  wars  he  espoused  the  royal 
cause,  and  suflkred  mndi  in  consequence,  but  after 
the  restoration,  he  was  sworn  of  the  privy  council, 
made  a  Knight  of  the  Garter,  and  appointed  lord 
lieutenant  of  the  county  of  Eesen. 

His  lordship  m.  ftnt,  Anne,  daughter  and  oo-heir 
of  Paul,  Viscount  Bayning,  by  whom  he  had  no 
imue.  He  espoused,  secondly,  Diana,  daughter  of 
George  Klrke,  Esq.,  one  of  the  grooms  of  the  bed- 
chamber to  King  Charles  L,  by  whom  he  had, 
'  ■  ■         I  I  ■  ■  I.  ■■        ■  J 

•  Mr.  Justice  Doderidgeb 
Mr.  Justice  Ydlverton. 
Mr.  Baron  Trevor. 

t  The  Lord  Chief  Justice  Crew. 
The  Lord  Chief  Bkob,  Sir  John  Walter* 


SJ"l!!i    )  both  d.  young. 
Charlotu,  /  '       »- 

Dlana,m.to  Charles  Beaucierk,(tIlegittaBatesoB 

of  King  Charles  IL,)  Duui  op  St.  AiAAiva. 

This  lady  became,  eventually,  sole  heiress 

of  her  father,  and  rapreMntative  of  the 

noble  fomlly  of  De  Vera,  Earls  of  Oxford. 

^■^'         I  both  d.  unmarried. 
Henrietta,  j 

The  earl  d.  in  1708>  (having  acquiesced  In  the  «»> 

pulsion  of  the  royal  house,  which  he  had  previoudy 

so  seahjuily  uphdd,)  and  leaving  no  male  iesuew 

the  very  ancient  EAnx.noif  or  Oxvonnr  vhich 

had  passed  through  twenty  genertlons,  became 

■ZTXirOT. 

AmM8<-rQ«Brtcrly,  gnlee  nd  or.   In  the  flzst  • 
mu]leCt,ar. 

VERB— BARON  VEEB. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  Slst  September,  1280» 
87  Edward  I. 

HUGH  DE  VERB,  one  of  the  younger  eons  of 
Robert,  fifth  Earl  of  Oxford,  a  military  personage 
of  high  reputation,  was  eummoned  to  parliament 
as  a  BAMMT  ftom  fi7th  September,  1898,  to  ard 
March,  Uia  In  the  SBth  Edward  L  he  ws 
In  an  embassy  to  Francewith  the  Bishop  of  Glouc 
ter,  for  nqpotlating  peace  between  the  two  crowns : 
and  the  next  year  he  was  deputed  to  the  court  of 
Rome  upon  a  mission  of  great  importance.  He 
was,  subsequently,  employed  upon  other  ^lomatlc 
oeeasions,  and  was  actively  en^iged  in  the  Scottish 
wars.  Hb  lordship  m.  Dyonisia,  daughter  ssid 
heiress  of  William,  son  of  Wartne  de  Monchensy, 
which  lady  d.  without  issue,  in  1313,  when  Adomare 
de  Valence,  son  of  the  Lady  Joane  de  Valence,  wae 
found  to  be  her  next  heir.  Lord  Ver%  doee  not 
appear  to  have  married  a  second  time,  and  the 
sanoirr  became,  therefore,  at  hb  decease  xxtinct. 

VERB  —  BARON  VERB,  OF  TIL- 
BURY, IN  THE  COUNTY 
OF  ESSEX. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  86th  July,  l<l8Sb 

ICillta^C. 

GEOPFRBV  DE  VERB,  third  son  of  John, 
fifteenth  Earl  of  Oxford,  and  brother  of  John, 
sixteenth  earl,  m.  EUsabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  John 
Hardkyn,  Knt.,  of  Ccddiester,  and  had  issue, 

John,  of  Kisby  Hall,  in  the  county  of  Essex, 
m.  Thomaslne,  daughter  of  ■  Porter,. 
Esq.,  and  had  two  sons, 

^^'^  1  who  both  died  #.  p. 
Robert,  ) 

Francis  (Sir).  Of  the  exploiu  of  this  gaUant 
person,  an  account  appeared  in  1087,  under 
the  title  of  "  The  Commentaries  d  Sir 
Frauds  Vere,  being  divers  pieces  of  service, 
wherein  he  had  command,  written  by  him- 
self," published  by  William  DeBlngham, 
D.D.    Sir  FhmcbmrBUttbeth  Dent,  daugb- 

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tor  and  co-btir  of  a  dtlaaa  oC  London,  by 
whom  ho  bad  Mveral  children*  all  of  whom, 
r  howevor*   pradeoaaaed  bimielf  nnmatriad. 

Hetf.  in  1008>  and  was  intcrtad  at  Wattmin- 
stcr  under  a  aplandid  monumant. 
GaoflVoy*  d.  unmarriad. 
HoBATio*  of  whom  praaantly. 
Frances,  m.  to  Sir  Robert  Hareourt,  aacaitor 
of  tba  JCarla  of  Haroourt. 
The  youngeit  eon. 

SIR  HORATIO  VERB,  Knt,,  becoming  one  of 
the  nxMt  eminent  penona  of  tba  period  in  which  be 
Uved,  waa  aleTated  to  the  peerage  for  bis  distin- 
guishad  anryicas,  by  Kbag  Charles  I.,  In  tba  dignity 
of  Babon  \M^m»  if  TUbvtv.  The  exploits  of  this 
gallant  pcnooaga  form  a  brilliant  page  in  British 
History,  and  It  would  be  in  vain  to  attempt  eren  to 
epitODiiae  them  here.  He  was  so  great  a  military 
officer  tliat  the  first  generals  were  proud  of  having 
served  under  himt  and  Clarendon,  in  mentioning 
Bklward,  Lord  Conway,  sa3rs,  '*  be  was  brad  up  a 
soldier,  in  several  commands  under  the  particular 
care  of  Lord  Vera"  He  also  observes,  that  "  Monk, 
Duke  of  Aibemarle,  had  the  reputation  of  a  good 
Coot  officer,  when  be  was  in  the  Lord  Yore's  r^i* 
mint,  in  Holland."  Fuller  in  his  **  Worthies"  thus 
charactariaes  his  lordship :  «*  Horace,  Lord  Vere, 
bad  more  meekness  and  as  much  valour  as  bis 
brother  {  of  an  excellent  temper :  It  being  true  of 
him  wlut  is  said  of  the  Caspian  Sea,  that  it  doth 
never  ebb,  nor  flow,  observing  a  constant  tenor, 
neither  eleted  or  depressed  with  success.  Both 
lived  .in  war  much  honoured,  end  died  in  peace 
much  lamented." 

Lord  Vera  m.  Mary,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Tracy, 
KnL,  of  Tuddiogton,  In  the  county  of  Gloucester, 
and  had  five  daughters,  his  oo-heln,  via. 

JBliaabeth,  m.  to  John  Holies,  seomd  Earl  of 
Clare,  and  bad  Issue, 

GiLBBEz,  third  Earl  of  Clare,   whose 

son, 

JoHW,  fourth  Earl  of  Clare,   was 

created   Dukb  or  Nswcabtlb, 

K.G  ,  and  d.  In  1711,  leaving  an 

only  daughter  and  heiress. 

Lady  Henriatu  Cavendisb 
Holies,  who  m.  Edward  Har- 
ley,  second  Earl  of  Oxford, 
whose  only  daughter  and 
heiress. 

Lady  Margaret  Cavendish, 
m.  William,  second 
Duke  of  Portland. 
Upon  the  demise  of 
John  Holies.  Duke  of 
Newcastle,  the  honours 
of  the  Holies  family  ex- 
pired, but  they  were 
revived  in  bis  grace's 
nephew,  Thomas,  Lord 
Pelbam,  Crom  whom  the 
utant  Dukes  of  New- 
castle derive. 
Mary,  m«  to  Sir  Roger  Townshend,  Bart,  of 
Raynbam,  in  the  county  of  Norfolk,  Arom 
which    marriage    the   4Ktani    Marqu 


the 


Her  kdyaldp  wu 
ot  Sir  Roger,  MUdBoay 
Earl  of  Westmorland,  and  bad  faaaew 
Vbbb,  who  «.  bis  half-brother,  ChaniaB^ 
as  ftmrtb  Earl  of  Westmorland. 
Catberino,  m.  first,  Oliver,  son  and  heir  oT  Sir 
John  St.  John,  of  Lydiard  Trcgoae^  and 
aecondly,  John,  Lord  Paulet. 
Anne,    m.   to  the   odefarated  pariianieotarir 
general.  Sir  Thomas  Fairlbx,  Lord  Fairlbx, 
by  whom  she  bad  an  only  daugbter   and 


Mary,  m.  to  Ctoorge  Viliien,  aeoond  Dabn 
of  BttdUngham. 
Dorothy,    m.  to  John   Wolstenbolm,   Eaq.* 
.ddest  son  of  Sir  John  Wolatenbobn,  Bmrt^ 
of  Noaid,  in  the  county  of  York,  by  vlMm 
ebe  bad  no  issue.    Mr.  Wolstenbolm  piv- 
deoeased  bis  father. 
His  lordship  d.  Sud  May,  1635,  when  the  BABOirr 
or  Vbbb,  if  TUbmw,  became  BmircT.    Homiiok 
Lord  Vere,  was  interred   near  his   brotber.    Sir 
Frands,  in  Westminster  Abbey. 
Abm  a.— See  those  of  Vere,  farls  of  Oxibrd. 

VESCI— BARONS  VESCI.  * 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  S9tb  December,  1364. 

Amongst  the  most  valiant  of  the  Notman  nobi- 
lity in  the  train  of  the  Conqubbob,  were 

ROBERT  DE  VESCI,  who  poasessed  at  the 
General  Survey,  the  kn-dsbip  of  Baobbbock,  in 
Northamptonahire,  with  divers  other  estates  in  the 
counties  of  Warwick,  Lincoln,  and  Leicester. 
And 

YVO  DE  VESCI,  upon  whom  Kit»g  Wiu.ia« 
bestowed  In  marriage,  Ada,  only  daughter  and. 
heiress  of  William  Tyson,  Lord  of  Ai.KincK,  in 
Northumberland,  and  Maltob,  in  Yoriuhiviw 
(which  William's  Ikther.  Gilbert  Tyson,  feU  nt 
Hastings,  fighting  under  the  Anglo-Saxon  banaar.) 
By  this  great  belrees,  Yvo  bad  an  oaly  daocbter 
and  heir, 

BbATBICB  OB  VbBOI,  who  Ok  EoaTACB  FfTB« 

JoAH,*  Lord  of  Knaresborougb»  in  York* 
shire,  and  had  two  \ 


•  EuaTACB  FiTS-JoBM,  nephew  and'heir  of  Serl(» 
de  Burgh,  (of  the  great  funily  of  Bubab,)  Uib 
founder  of  Knaresborougb  Castle^  in  Yorkabirab 
and  son  of  John,  called  Jfoasenlii*,  from  having 
but  one  eye,  is  said  by  an  historian  of  the  period  In 
which  he  lived,  to  have  been  '*  one  of  the  iliiiifiiat 
peers  of  Engbmd,"  and  of  intimate  familiarity  with 
Ki$tg  Hbbbv  I.,  as  also  a  person  of  great  wiadom 
and  singular  Judgment  in  oonndls.  He  bad 
mense  granu  firom  the  cirown,  and  wa 
governor  of  tba  caatle  of  Bambuigb,  in  Nortbuaa. 
berland,  tenip»  Henry  L,  of  which  govemoiBbip 
however,  be  was  deprived  by  King  STnraBir ;  but 
be  subsequently  ei^oyecl  the  favour  of  that  moaaicli. 
He  f(dl  the  ensuing  reign,  anno  11A7,  in  • 
ment  with  the  Welsh,  •«  a  gmt  and  aged : 
of  the  diiefsst  English  peers,  most  eanlnent  fbr  hia 
wealth  and  wisdom."    By  bis  flnt  wifi^,  the  beima 


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William*  of  whom  pretently. 
OcoAoy* 
The  elder  mo  of  Beotrioeb  boTlng  Inherited  the 
gmt  poMBirioM  of  hto  mothM's  finnily,  aMamed 
it!  •uniame,  and  beoune 

WILLIAM  DB  VBSCL    Thli  Itadel  loid  was 
iberiir  of  Northumberland*  from  the  ftd  to  the 
15th  of  Hbnbv  II.  induaWe,  and  he  was  sutae- 
quently  sharilf  of  Lancaahire.    In  the  ISth  of  the 
lame  reigBi  upon  lerylng  the  aid  for  manylng  the 
Uns'a  daughter,  he  oartUled  hia  knights'  feas  IM 
Veteri  F&^mento,  to  be  in  number  twenty,  for 
whidi  he  paid  seventeen  poonda  thirteen,  and  for 
hit  knlghu'  fees,  D«  novo  FsQ^hiMnCv,  one  pound 
ei^t  and  sixpence^    In  1174,  he  Joined  Ranuiph  de 
ObmTil,  Bernard  Ballol,  and  Robert  de  Stnteril,  In 
rapdling  an  invadon  of  the  Soots,  and  fought  and 
won  the  great  battle  of  Alhwtck,  wherdn  the 
KiMo  or  ScoTLAifo  himself  was  made  prlaooer, 
after  Ida  whole  army  had  been  routed.    This  Wil- 
liam de  Veed  espoused,  Burga,  slater  of  Robert  de 
Stuteril,  Lord  of  Knaresborough,  by  whom  he  ao- 
quixed  the  town  of  Langton,  and  had  two  soni» 
BoaTAce,  his  successor. 
Warlne,  Xord  of  Knapton*  whose  only  daugh- 
ter and  heiress, 

Mabobbib  db  Vboci,  espoused  Gilbert 
de  Aton,  and  his  great  grandson, 
OiLBBBT  DB  Aton,  Inherited  eren- 
tually,  all  the  lands  of  the  Veeds 
(see  Aton,  Barons  Aton). 
He  was  «;  at  hla  decease  in  1184,  by  the  elder. 

EUSTACE  DE  VBSCI,  who  attaining  minority 
In  the  9nd  Ricrabd  I.,  gave  two  thousand  three 
hundred  marks  liar  livery  of  his  lands,  with  liberty 
to  marry  whom  he  pleased.  In  the  I4th  King  Johw, 
when  the  first  eommotlon  arose  amongA  the  barons, 
the  Kxire  haatening  to  London,  summoned  aU  the 
suspected  lords  thither,  and  forced  each  to  give 
hostages  for  his  peaceable  demeenour.  But  this 
Eustace,  one  of  the  most  suspected,  refused  to 
attend  the  summons,  and  fled  into  Scotland,  when 
all  his  possessions  in  England  were  leised  upon  by 
the  crown,  and  a  spedal  command  issued  to  de> 
molish  hisxastle  at  Alnwick.  But  a  reconciliation 
between  the  king  and  his  turbulent  nobles  soon 
afterwards  taking  place  throu^  the  Influence  of 
the  Legnte  Pamoulpr,  Eustace  had  restitution 
of  his  estates.  But  this  was  a  deceitful  cabu— the 
winds  were  only  stilled,  to  rage  with  greater  vlo- 

of  Vesd,  he  had  two  sons,  as  In  the  text,  and  by 
Agnes,  Us  second  wifis,  daughter  of  William  Fits- 
Nigel,  Baron  of  Helton,  and  constable  of  Chester, 
he  left  another  son,  called 

Richard  PiTs-EnsTACB,  Baron  of  Helton,  and 
constable  of  Chester,  who  m.  Albreda  Llaours, 
half  sister  of  Robert  de  Lacy,  and  had  issue, 
JoRN ,  who  becoming  heir  to  hb  unde  the 
said  Robert  de  Lacy,  assumed  the  sur- 
name of  Lacy,  and  was  ancestor  of  the 
Eablb  or  Lincoln,  of  that  fiunily  (see 
Lacy,  Earls  of  Lincoln). 
RooBB,  sumamed  Fits-Riduvd,  progenitor 
of  the   great  funilies  of  Ctovering  (see 
Ctovering). 


teBce  <he  baronial  conflict  ere  long  Tmrst  forfh 
more  Airiously,  and  was  only  allayed  by  those 
coneesdons  on  the  part  of  the  crown,  which  have 
immortaUaed  the  plains  of  RunyroedOi    The  cause 
of  this  cdebrated  quarrd,  in  wMdi,  by  the  way    ii 
the  people  had  little  or  no  <fiMiMdlaes  Interest,  was, 
doubtless,  of  long  standing,   and  was  based  in 
the  encroachment  of  the  despot  king  upon  the 
privileges  of   the   despot  noblet   but  the  spark 
that  ignited  the  flame,  as   is  genenlly  the  case 
when  oppresdon  reaches  Its  boundary,  was  per- 
sonal iRjuryt   an  alRront  inflicted  by  the  tyrant 
John  upon  this  Eustace  de  Vesd.    '<  Hearing,'* 
writes  Sir  WIlHam  Dugdale,  ««  that  Eustace  de 
Vesd  bad  a  very  beautiful  wifb,  but  flur  distant 
twm  court,  and  studying  how  to  accomplish  his 
licentious  desiies  towards  her,  dtting  at  table  with 
her  hudiend,  and  sedng  a  ring  on  his  finger,  he 
laid  hold  on  It,  and  told  hhn,  that  he  had  such 
another  stone,  whldi  he  resolved  to  set  In  gold,  in 
that  very  ftnm.    And  having  thus  got  the  ring, 
presently  sent  it  to  her.  In  her  husband's  namei 
by  that  token  ooi^uilng  her.  If  ever  she  expected 
to  see  him  'aUve,  to  come  speedily  to  him.     She, 
therelbre,  upon  right  of  the  ring,  gave  credit  to 
the  messenger,  and  came  with  all  expedition.    But 
so  It  happened,  that  her  htisbend  casuaOy  riding 
out,  met  her  on  the  road,  and  marveAng  much 
to  see  her  there,  asked  what  the  matter  was!  and 
when  he  understood  how  they  were  both  deluded, 
resolved  to  flnd  a  common  woman,  and  put  her 
In  appard  to  personate  his  lady."    The  king  after- 
wards boasting  of  the  favours  he  had  recdved  to 
the  liOured  husbend  himself,   Eustace  had  the 
pleasure  of  undecdving  him,  "  whereat  the  king 
grew  so  enraged,  that  he  threatened  to  kin  him  t 
Eustace,  therefore,  apprdiending  danger,  hastened 
Into  the  north,  and  in  his  passagOi  wasted  some 
of  the  king's  houses ;  divers  of  the  nobles,  whose 
wives  the  king  had  vitiated,  accompanying  him. 
And  being  grown  strong  by  the  confluence  of  their 
friends,  and  others,  sdsed  his  csstles,  the  Lon- 
doners adhering  to  them."    When  the  tyrant  was, 
subsequently,  brought  to  submisdon,  Eustacb  db 
Vbsci  was  one  of  the  twenty-flve  cdebrated  barons 
appointed  to  enlbrce  the  observance  of  Magna 
Charta,  but  he  was  slain  soon  after,  about  1210, 
by  an  arrow  from  the  ramparts  of  Barnard  Cas- 
TLB.  (belonging  to  Hugh  de  BaUol,)  which  he  had 
commenced,  or  was  about,  bedeging.    He  had  m. 
the  Scottidi  Princess,  Margaret,  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam, and  sister  of  Alxxandbb,  kings  of  Scot- 
land, and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  VESCI,  who,  bdng  in  minority, 
was  pkoed  under  the  guardianship  of  William  de 
Lon^Bspe,  Eart  of  Salisbury.  In  the  10th  Henry 
III.  he  obtafaied  livery  of  dl  his  bmds,  as  weU  as 
of  the  castle  of  Alnwick  (but  the  castle  of  Knares- 
borough had  been  dienated  previoudy  to  the  Stute- 
vlfs,  Dugdale  surmises,  in  the  time  of  John). 
After  this  we  flnd  no  more  of  him  until  the  flSth  of 
the  same  rdgn,  when  he  had  a  grant  of  five  bucks 
and  ten  does,  to  be  taken  out  of  the  king's  forests 
at  Northumberlend,  to  stock  his  park  at  Alnwick, 
and  he  then  pdd  to  the  king,  upon  coUectioB  of  the 
dd  for  marrylRg  his  daughter,  £IS,  tot  hb  twdve 


vn 


to  tiM 


te  Ft 
Dorbr,  by  whom  he  h^  two  lom** . 
Urn*  oMl  4yiBf  m  UBS,  wM  A  by  th« 

JOHN  DB  VESCl,  ttea  ia 
nlttad  is  wwi,  with  Atewick  Caitl*  Co  Fmm  4e 
S«vor.  Thfe  iBuial  kvd  wmobaoT  Xiiv  Hb»t 
IlL'i  drtcf  cnwrwHlwm  ia  th>  mm  at  Omnmj,  hut 
aAswantejoiMW  with  Moalftnt.  Eul  oT  LoicMtv, 
and  tht  ochar  baraoit  who  had  takes  mp  araa  to 
eoaapal  tha  Ung  to  obaarva  the  nwMoMrai  of  Ox- 
fold*  ha  was  aimi«iona»l  lo  iiailiiMwt  as  a  baboit 
bj  thope  lordi,  when  their  poe 
after  the  battle  of  Le««i»  bnt  he 
BMde  piiioner  at  Eymham»  and  ftatead  to  avail 
himiaif  rf  the  protection  of  the  DmAm  de  JKentf- 
Hie  lorMiip.  rabMnmenay,  aMuned  the 
apUgiimace  into  the  Holy 
Upon  hie  letara.  fai  the  ftid  Bdwanl  L«  he  wa 
stltuted  fovanor  of  Scavboroogh  Castlew  and  in  the 
10th of  the  MOM  leisB  was  ia  the  wanof  Walab 
This  wai  the  Sir  Joim  Veid,  who  itiinriag  finaa 
tlie  loBC  oi  Anafon,  biou^t  over  a  gieat  nombar 
of  GaiooigBie  to  KUtg  Epwabo  to  eerre  fafan  in  his 
Watab  wan.  His  kadship  ak  Mary,  sister  of  Hngh 
de  Leatnfen,  Earl  of  Maich  aad  Enfolenes  aad 
•aooadly.  Isabel  de  Beamaont,  sister  of  Heary  de 
Heanmnnt,  and  kiaswooian  of  Q[ 
d.  ia  UW,  without  issue,  whea  the  gieat 
of  tha  Csaiily  derolved  upon  his  brother  (then  forty 
yeanofeigs), 

WILLIAM  DE  VESCI,  who  was  a  peraon  ia 
gnat  estesm  with  Edwakd  L,  aad  oonatitutod  by 
that  monardi,  in  the  13th  year  of  his  raign«  Jostioe 
of  the  royal  fotests  beyond  Trent,  aad  the  neat 
year  one  of  thejustioeB  itinerant  touchii^  theplees 
of  the  forests.  After  sucoaediiig  his  brother  he  was 
nuMie  governor  of  Scarborough  Castie»  and  the  year 
ensuing,  doiag  his  homage^  liad  livery  of  all  thoae 
lands  ia  Ireland,  which  were  of  the  inheritanoa  of 
Agnes,  his  mother,  end  he  was  awde  at  the  saaae 
time  Justice  of  that  kingdom.  But  during  his 
ta^oam  there,  he  was  accused  ia  open  court,  in  the 
dty  of  DubUn,  in  the  praisnca  of  GUbert  de  Clare, 
Earl  of  Glouoester,  and  others,  of  felony,  aad  chal^ 
linged  to  the  combat  by  John  Fits-Thomas  s  for 
which  he,  subsequently,  instituted  a  suit  before  the 
chief  justice  at  DubUn  against  the  said  Fitx-Thomes 
on  acluurge  of  defamation,  in  saying,  that  he  the 
•eid  William  de  Vesd,  bad  solicited  him  to  a  con- 
federacy against  the  king:  wliich  charge  being 
denied  by  Fiti-ThoBua,  and  a  schedule  by  him 
deliverod  Into  court,  containiag  the  words  which 
be  acknowledged*  he  was,  theraupon,  challenged 

•  KiMBaa,  la  hie  peerage  of  InJand*  says,  that 
William  had  two  other  sons. 

Thom Aa,  ancsetor  of  the  Lords  Knapton.  (now 

VIecounUde  Vesd,)  in  Ireland. 
Rkhaid,  from  whom  the  VsKys,  or  Veseys.  of 
Cblmley,  ia  Oxfordshire,  descend. 
But  how  caaw  tlis  Aroaa  to  inherit  the  estates  of 
the  Vasds  as  hein  geoenl.  if  theie  two  male 
buaches  of  th«  ftnUy  w«e  ip  wlstfpce  r 
Hi 


the 
to  appeal  bafoee  hfan  at  Wi 
place  William  de  Vesd 

npoa  his  gtaat  horse  covered,  ea  j 
.  with  lence,  degger,  coat  of  i 


thei^i 


to 
altbmgh  called.  aip> 


allty.  It  waa  flaaily  aabasittad  to  the  award  of  the 
ktag.  bat  dm  nlteriar  prooeediags  are  ao 
la  the  gatod  Edward  L  William  de  Vesd 
in  the  waas  of  Oaaeony,  and  he  was  anBunaned  to 
parMaMaBf  as  a  babob  ob  theMth  Jn^a,  let  October. 
aadftidNovembsr.  UMb  Hie  hwdAtp  was  one  of 
the  competitors  for  thecrowa  cf  Scotland,  tlnoagh 
his  graadasother,  tim  Scottish  IVtocssr,  Maboa- 
r.*  Meek  leahel,daBgh*sr  of  Adam  dePsiiton. 
d  widow  of  Robert  deWelte,  bywhaaa  ha  had 
only  eon. 
JoBir.  who  waajnatica  of  theforasia  aoitth  of 
Trent,  and  was  in  the  wanof  Oaaoosiy.  He 
a.  ClemsatlMW  akinswonumof  ^^leaa  Elea- 
r,  but  d.  fai  the  lifo-time  of  hie  father, 

of  hie  son.  his  kadship  cnfooflbd 
,  BuaoF  or  DimaAM,  in  the  Cabtlb 
or  AI.VW1CK,  end  divers  other  lands,  in  trust  I6r 
William,  Us  bmtard  son,  who  inherited  ell  his 
other  estates.  This  trust  die  prelate  ia  aaid  t/t 
have  baedy  betiayad.  and  to  have  aHenatod  the 
laheritaacsb  by  disposliv  of  it  for  ready  BMamy  to 
William  Percy;  siace  whidi  time  the  Cabtlb  ov 
A1.WWIGK.  end  dmse  lands,  have  been  held  by  the 
Percys  and  their  representatives.  His  kvddiip  d, 
in  1187*  when  aU  his  great  inhecitwoe  ptoeed  to  his 
bastard  son,  William,  ds  KUian,  save  tha  estates 
abovomeotknMd,  ia  Northumbsriaad ;  and  tim  Ba- 
BovT  or  Vaaci.  became  Bxrurcr. 
r.  a  cross,  ar. 


Upon  the 


VESCI— BARON  VESCI. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  Sth  Jeauary,  13U. 
6  Edward  IL 

WILLIAM  DE  VESCI,  of  KiUara,  natural 
of  WUUmm,  LoBO  Vaaci.  who  d.  in  U97.  havii^ 
inherited  all  the  Veid  esUtas,  except  the  Cmtla  of 
Alnwick,  end  the  bmds  in  Northumberleud.  of 
which  he  is  said  to  have  been  defrauded  by  the 
celdirated  Prslete,  AirrHONV  Baxa,  wmsummoaad 
to  parliament  as  a  babow  from  the  8th  January* 
1313,  to  98th  July.  1314.  His  lordship  died  a.  js.  in 
the  foUowiag  yeer.  when  his  estatm  reverted  to  the 

«  The  legitimacy  of  this  lady  and  hsc  siatoia. 
daughters  of  William,  tht  Lfoa.  flrooi  whom  other 
deimeaU  aroae,  has  been  doubled  by  historians, 
Ikom  the  fact  of  their  daim  beiog  at  once  dismissed. 
Whereas  had  there  been  no  flaw  of  this  deacription, 
their  pretiosiOBe  were  prior  to  those  of  eitiicr  Baliol 
or  Bruce,  who  had  sprung  from  David,  Earl  of 
Huntingdon,  brother  of  King  WUtiaai. 


VIL 


vHi 


hflfngnflfal  of  hb  fiither,  fte  Mid  Wtntm,  Lord 
Vflwi,  the  twnXkf  of  Avon  (Mt  Aton,  Bfoona  de 
AtOD)  md  the  Baroitt  or  V«80i  beome  sxtinct. 
Arms.— Gil. «  crm  ar.  with  the  mark  of  Illegiti- 
macy. 

VILLIERS  —  BARONS  WHADDON, 
VISCOUNTS  VILLIERS, 
EARLS  OF  BVCKING. 
HAM,  MARQUESSES  OF 
BUCKINGHAM,  DUKES 
OP  BUCKINGHAM. 

Viscounty,  'i  /'August,  1616. 

Earldom,  f  by  LettersJ  5th  Jasuary,  1617. 
Marquisate,  t  Patent,  j  1st  January,  1618. 
Dukedom,  J  Vl^th  May,  1623. 

Xintagt. 

This  fismlly,  which  is  still  CKtant,  In  the  noble 
houtas  of  Jersey  and  Clarendon,  deduced  its  descent 
tnm  the  Vlllien*s  Seignlonts  of  LUe  Adam,  in 
Normandy ;  and  the  flrst  of  its  members  who  came 
into  England  was  amongst  the  companions  in  arms 
of  the  Conqueror. 

SIR  OBOROE  VILLIERS,  Knt,  of  Biokesby, 
In  the  county  of  Leicester,  a  person  of  eminent  note, 
m.  first,  Auitaey,  daughter  of  William  Sanden,  Esq., 
of  Harrington,  In  the  county  of  Northampton,  and 
had  issue, 

William,  created  a  banmet  in  1619,  a  dignity 
which  aspired  with  his  grandson.  Sir  Wil- 
liam Villlars  in  1711. 
Edward,  fkom  whom  the  present  Earls  of  Jer- 
sey and  Clarendon  descend. 
Bllaabethy  m.  to  John,  Lord  Bntler,  of  Bnun- 


Amie,  IN.  to  Sir  William  Washington,  Kot, 
of  PaUngton,  in  the  county  of  Lincoln. 

Prancee^ 
Sir  Gemge  ViHien  m.  secondly,  Mary,  daughter  of 
Anthony  Beaumont,  Esq.,  of  Glsnflaid,  in  the 
county  of  Leicester,  which  lady  survived  her  hue- 
band,  and  was  created  Coontees  of  Buckingham  for 
lUb :  by  her  he  had  issue, 

JoHw  (Sir),  created  ViacooirT  Pvbbsck  (see 
YiDieis,  Viscounts  Purbeck). 

OnoBOB,  of  whom  presently. 

CBRieroPBcn,  created  Earl  of  Anglesey  (see 
ViUiers,  Earls  of  Anglesey). 

Susan,  ai.  to  William  Fielding,  Earl  of  DenU^ 
Sir  George,  who  was  sheriff  of  the  county  of  Lei- 
cseter,  in  UBl,  d.  on  the  4th  of  Jannary,  1609.  His 
second  son  by  his  last  wife, 

GEORGE  VILLIERS,  ».  at  Brokesby,  98th  of 
August,  1089,  recslved  the  flrst  rudiments  of  his 
education  at  BiUcsden  school,  in  Leicestershire, 
whence  being  removed  at  the  age  of  thirteen,  by 
his  mother,  he  was  sent  into  France,  and  there 
socm  Bttained  perfection  in  all  polite  accompUah- 
meuta.  Upon  his  return  home,  he  came  first  to 
London  as  e  suitor  to  the  daughter  of  Sir  Roger 
Ashtoo,  one  of  the  gentlemen  of  the  bedchamber, 
and  master  of  the  robes  to  King  James  1.,  but  was 
dissuaded  from  the  connection  by  another  courtier. 
Sir  John  Graham,  one  of  the  gcntkmen  of  the  privy 
chamber,  who  encouraged  him  to  <'»om  ffrtww  in 


Soon  after  tMs  heattiaotedtheitteB- 
tlon  of  King  James,  and  suooeaded  the  Dirourlte 
Carr,  Earl  of  Somerset,  as  cup-bearer  to  his  ma- 
jesty (being,  says  Dugdale,  of  stature  tall  and 
comely,  his  comportment  graoeftil,  and  of  a  most 
sweet  disposition).  From  this  period  he  roee  rapidly 
in  royal  estimation,  and  the  queen,  through  the 
influence  of  Abbot,  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  an 
enemy  of  Somerset's,  being  induced  also  to  protect 
him,  his  fivtune  was  at  once  established.  The  first 
honour  he  received  was  that  of  knighthood,  whidi 
was  conftried  in  her  mi^ty's  bedchamber  with 
the  prlnceTs  rapier :  he  was  then  sworn  a  gentleman 
of  the  bedrhamber  (8Sd  April,  1615)  with  an  annual 
pension  of  ^000  payable  out  of  the  Court  of  Wards. 
The  ensuing  January  he  turaeeded  the  Earl  of  Wor- 
cester, as  master  of  the  horse,  and  In  a  few  months 
after  waa  installed  a  Knioht  or  trb  Gabtbb. 
Before  the  dose  of  the  year  (S7th  August,  1616)  he 
was  advanced  to  the  peerage,  by  the  title  of  Baroit 
WnADoow ,  In  the  county  of  Bucks,  the  ceremony 
of  creation  being  performed  at  Woodstock,  the 
Lords  Compton  and  Norris  introdudug  the  new 
peer,  and  Lord  Carew  carrying  his  robes  and  he 
was  very  soon  after  created  Visoodivt  Villibbs. 
On  the  ffth  of  January,  1617,  his  lordship  was  created 
Eabl  or  BnoKiwoBAM,  with  a  special  ramainder, 
default  of  male  issue,  to  his  brothers,  John  and 
Christopher,  and  their  male  issue,  and  on  the  1st  of 
the  same  month,  in  the  ensuing  year,  MABgvBaa 
ow  BucBiBOHAic  This  last  dignity  was  succeeded 
by  his  appointment  to  the  great  oflice  of  Lobd 
HiOB  Admibal,  and  his  being  sworn  of  the  privy 
council  t  and  about  this  time  his  lordship  was  con- 
stituted Chief  Justice  in  Eyre ;  master  of  the  King's 
Bendi  oflice}  High  Steward  of  Westminster;  Con- 
stable of  Windsor  Castlei  and  Clumcellor  of  the 
University  of  Cambridge, 

In  16B3,  the  marquess  was  sent  into  Spain  with 
Prince  Charles,  to  accelerate  the  marriage  then  in 
contemplation  between  his  royal  highness  and  a 
Spanish  princess.  The  Journey,  a  very  singular  one* 
commenced  on  the  I8th  Febrtury,  when  the  prince 
and  marquess  putting  on  fSdse  beards  assumed  the 
names  of  Thomas  and  John  Smith,  their  sole  attend- 
ant bdng  Sir  Riduurd  Graham,  master  of  the  hone. 
Riding  post  to  Canterbury,  where  they  took  ftesh 
horses,  they  were  stopped  by  the  mayor,  as  suspi- 
cious persons,  whereupon  the  marquess  was  con- 
strained to  take  off  his  beard,  and  to  satisfy  Mr. 
Mayor,  by  stating  that  he  was  going  in  that 
private  mannar  to  survey  the  fleet,  as  Lord  High 
AdmiraL  At  Dover  they  found  the  prince's  pri- 
vate secretary.  Sir  Frauds  <!ottington,  and  Mr. 
Endymion  Porter,  who  had  provided  a  vend  for 
their  nset  on  which  they  embarked,  and  land- 
ing at  Boulogne,  proceeded  to  Paris,  and  thence 
travelled  through  France  to  Madrid.  During  their 
sojourn  in  Paris,  the  marquess  is  said  to  have  fdJen 
in  love  with  the  Queen  of  France  (Anne,  of  Austriar 
consort  of  Lonb  ZIII.)  Certain  It  is,  that  upon 
his  return,  Ricbblibv  refkued  him  permiasion 
to  land  in  a  French  port.  At  Madrid,  Buckingham 
was  involved  in  a  dispute  with  the  Comte  dfOti  vares, 
and  rsodved  some  aflVonts  for  his  haughty  bear-' 
ing,  FSrendk  gnHf,  and  great  familiarity  with  the 
4  A  Mfi 


VIL 


VJL 


priBOt.  Elto  roytl  maiter  cmttBulBg,  htrnttm,  lo 
Uvish  fiivoun  upon  him.  Mnt  out  letten  patent, 
dated  the  18th  of  May,  USas,  creating  him  Drca 
or  BucKiiioHAii.  The  prinoe  and  duke,  failing  in 
the  ob^eet  of  their  Journey,  departed  from  Mikdrid 
on  the  12th  September,  and  arrived  at  Portsmouth 
in  October,  when  his  grace  was  made  lord  wardetf 
of  the  Cinque  Ports,  and  steward  of  the  manor  of 
Hampton  Court.  The  death  of  King  James  fol- 
lowed in  about  a  year  and  half,  but  the  influence  of 
Buckingham  experienced  nodiminution.  His  grace 
officiated  as  lord  high  steward  at  the  coronation  of 
the  new  king ;  and  was  soon  after  sent  upon  an 
embassy  into  Holland,  where  he  purchased  a  rare 
collection  of  Arabic  manuscripto,  procured  in  remote 
countries  by  the  industry  and  diligence  of  Erpinius, 
a  famous  linguist.  Those  valuable  pqpers  were 
presented  to  the  University  of  Cambridge,  for 
which  he  intended  them,  after  the  dukeTs  death. 
His  grace  continued  to  bask  in  the  same  sunshine 
of  royal  Ikvour,  under  King  Charles,  that  he  had  so 
benefidally  enjoyed  in  the  last  reign,  but  with  the 
pecq;»le  he  had  become  an  oltJect  of  great  detestation. 
His  influence  was  paramount,  and  to  that  influence 
was  attributed  all  the  grievances  of  the  nation. 
The  fSulure,  too,  of  an  expedition  to  the  Isle  of 
Rhee,  for  the  relief  of  the  Rochdlers,  completed 
his  unpopuboity.  To  recover  the  ground  he  had 
lost  by  this  untoward  enterprise  his  grace  projected 
another  expedition,  and  had  repaired  to  Ports- 
mouth in  order  to  forward  its  sailing.  Hera,  while 
passing  through  a  lobby,  after  breakfasting  with 
Sir  Thomas  Fryer,  and  other  persons  of  distinction, 
he  was  stebbed  to  the  heart  with  a  pen-knife  by 
one  John  Fdton,  a  heutenant  In  Sir  John  Ramsey's 
regiment,  and  died  instantaneously.  The  assassina- 
tion of  the  duke*  took  place  on  the  83rd  August, 
168n,  when  he  had  Just  completed  his  thirty-sixth 
year.  His  duchess  was  in  the  house,  in  an  upper 
room,  hardly  out  of  bed,  and  the  king  and  court  at 
Sir  Daniel  Norton's,  at  Southwick,  not  much  mora 
than  six  miles  ofll 

His  grace  had  m.  the  Lady  Katherine  Mannen, 
only  daughter  and  helreas  of  Francis,  sixth  Earl  of 
Rutland,  and  Baron  De  Ros,  (which  latter  dignity 
she  inherited  at  the  decease  d  her  father  in  1638,) 
and  had  issue,  ' 

OnonojB,  his  su< 


•  It  is  sead,  on  the  rdation  of  Bishop  Bumct, 
that  the  apparition  of  Sir  Geoige  Villiers,  his 
Ikther,  appeared  to  a  man  who  had  been  formerly 
an  old  servant  of  the  fimily,  entreating  him  to  go 
to  the  duke,  and  warn  him,  that  some  sad  IktaUty 
would  certainly  happen  to  him,  unkas  he  did  some- 
thing to  please  the  people,  and  remove  their 
grievances.  The  old  man,  surprised  at  such  a 
vision,  was  terrifled  i  but  on  the  same  appearing  a 
second,  and  a  third  time,  he  at  last  resolved  to  see 
the  duke;  and  havtaig  obtained  an  interview, 
acquainted  him  with  what  had  passed,  and  by  a 
communication  of  certain  events,  touching  a  pecu- 
liar circumstance  in  the  duke^s  life,  convinced  his 
grace  so  perfectly  of  what  he  had  seen,  that  the 
duke  exclaimed.  «« It  nmtt  Cw  true,**  tot,  exccptlBg 
to  himself  and  one  peaon  mora,  (who  waa  not 
546 


(poitlwnnowa),  kUed  im  a 
with  the  parUamcBtariana  in  1649, 


llary,  who,  by  letters  patent,  dated  31«t  Am- 
gust,  1(98,  had  the  title  of  DudMea  af 
Budungham  limited  to  her  in  caee  of  the 
failura  oi  the  male  issue  of  her 
flrst.  In  1634,  Sir  Charles  Hi 
Lorii  Herbert,  son  of  Philip,  fourth  KmA  ol 
Pembroke,  who  4.  in  afow  weeks  afterwasds 
ci  the  small  pox,  without  oo-hahitinc  wiA 
his  bride.  Her  ladyship  < 
Esme  Stuart,  Duke  of 
nox,  and  had  an  only 
Duke  of  Ridunond  and  Lenox,  wIk>  died 
«.  p.  Her  grace  m.  thirdly,  Thomas  Howard^ 
brother  of  Charles,  Earl  of  Carlisle^  ImC  had 
no  issue.  She  d.  in  168fi. 
The  duke  was  s.  by  his  ddest  son, 

GEORGE  VILLIERS,  seooad  Duke  of  ] 
ham,  and  in  right  of  his  mother,  Beioa  de 
This  nobleman  was  very  young  at  the  time  a 
fistheir's  murder,  and  spent  soi 
that  event,  traveling.  He  returned  to 
during  the  civil  war,  and  had  a  command  in  the 
royal  army  at  the  battle  of  Worcester,  did  i 
ber,  1661— 4nm  which  unfortunate  Add,  i 
escape  with  difficulty,  he  readied  London,  and  was 
thence  enabled  to  make  good  his  retreat  to  HoUasid. 
At  the  restoration  of  the  monarchy  his  graces 
Oeaeral  Monk,  rode  uncovered  befora  the 
upon  his  public  entry  into  London,  and  he 
after  made  a  Knight  of  the  Garter.  The  Dlikeof 
Buckingham  formed  one  of  the  unpopular  admini- 
stration of  King  Charles  IL,  whidi  was  deal^natfd 
tbe  Cabal,  from  the  initial  letters  of  the  miniBteKS' 
names.  «« But  towards  the  latter  end  of  that 
nardi's  reign,**  says  Banks,  '<  by  his  strange 
duct  and  unsteady  temper,  he  sunk  very  low  in  the 
opinion  of  most  people.  He  flrst  seduced  tha  mitt 
ci  Francis  Talbot,  Earl  of  Shrewsbury,  and  tfasa 
killed  the  earl  in  a  dud." 

Walpole,  in  his  Catalogue  of  NoUe  Authoia,  ob- 
serves, ••  when  this  extraordfasary  man,  with  tha 
flgure  and  genius  of  Aldbiades,  could  equally  chasm 
the  Presbiterian  Fatffn,  and  the  dissolute  Charles  t 
when  he  alike  ridiculed  the  witty  king,  and  hie 
solemn  diancdior ;  whan  he  platted  the  ruin  ot  Ua 


Hkdy  to  disclose  it,). the  same  was  not  known  to  any 
one  living.  It  is  also  rdated,  that,  the  day  after  the 
dukefs  death,  John  Budcridge,  Bishop  of  Ely,  wm 
pitdied  upon  m  the  properest  person  to  make 
known  to  the  Countess  of  Denbigh  the  mdaacholy 
tidings  of  her  brother's  death,  whom  she  tcnderty 
loved ;  that  hearing,  when  he  came  to  wait  opov 
her,  she  was  at  rest,  he  attended  till  shoshouU 
awake  of  herself,  whidi  she  did  with  the  aftfght- 
ment  of  a  dream;  her  brother  wwiiilug  to  pom 
through  a  Add  with  her  in  her  coach,  where  heer- 
ing  a  sudden  shoot  of  the  people,  and  asktaig  the 
reason  of  it,  was  answered,  "thatit  wasfor  joy  tha 
Duke  of  Buddngham  wm  dead.**  This  dream  she 
had  scarce  told  her  gentlewoman  when  the  bishop 
entered  the  room  to  acquaint  her  with  the  monmAil 
new8.->BA]rKB. 


VIL 


VIL 


comtry  wltli  •  calMi  of  bad  mlntetan,  or  equally 
UBprindptod,  raiiportod  Its  cauw  with  bod  patriott  i 
one  lamoiti  that  lach  parti  •bonld  ba  dtvoid  of 
•vary  Tlrtua.  But  whan  AldMadat  tania  chambt, 
whan  ha  it  a  raai  bubUa,  and  a  TWonary  miser, 
whan  ambition  to  but  a  ftoUc,  whan  the  worst  do* 
signs  are  for  the  foolishast  ands,  oontampt  extin- 
guishes all  reflections  on  his  character." 
>  Thll  nobleman,  profligate  as  he  was,  hdd  an 
elevated  plaea  amongst  the  great  minds  of  hte  day, 
and  as  a  wit  was  hardly  equalled  by  any  of  his  oon- 
tempoiaries.  Of  satirical  quickness,  hte  calebiated 
play  upon  Drydsn's  bombast  to  an  estnordlnary 
instance.  Being  at  the  first  representation  of  one 
of  the  poet's  tragedies,  wherein  a  lover  is  made  to 
say  to  hte  mistrcaa, 

'<  My  wound  is  great,  because  it  to  so  email,** 
Buckingham  cried  out, 

•«  Then  'twould  be  greater  were  It  none  at  aU." 
The  piece  was  instantly  '*—*«*^ 

Hte  grace  was  author  of  the  «<  Rehearsal,"  a  cele- 
brated oomedy,  and  of  other  plays,  and  of  many 
distinguished  works. 

"  He  began  life  (says  Banks),  with  all  the  advan- 
tages of  fortune  and  person  which  a  nobleman 
could  covet ;  and  afterwards,  by  favour  of  the  king, 
had  great  opportunities  of  making  himself  as  oonsl- 
darable  as  hte  fkther  had  been.  But  be  miserably 
wasted  hte  estete,  forfeited  hte  honour,  damned  hte 
reputation,  and,  at  the  time  of  his  death,  te  said  to 
have  wanted  even  the  neoeeearies  of  Ufo,  and  not  to 
have  had  one  firiend  in  the  world." 

Pope*  describes  him  as  more  famous  for  hte  vices 
than  hte  misfortunes  {  that  having  bean  possessed 
of  about  £W,000  a  year,  and  passed  through  many 
of  the  highest  posts  in  the  kingdom,  he  d.  in  1(07, 
at  a  remote  inn  in  Yorkshire,  reduced  to  the  utmoet 
misery. 

Hte  grace  m.  Mary,  only  daughter  and  heiress  of 
Thomas,  Lord  Fairfkx,  the  parliamentary  general, 
and  grand-daughter  maternally  of  Horatio,  Lord 
Vere,  of  Tilbury,  bat  had  no  teeue.  He  tf.  on  the 
16th  April,  1(07,  and  hte  sister  Mabt,  to  whom  the 
dukedom  of  Buckingham  was  in  remainder,  pro> 
vided  she  had  outlived  the  male  descendants  of  her 
father,  having  predeceaeed  him,  all  the  honourst 

e (•  Behold  what  blesshigs,  wealth  to  life  can  lend  I 
And  see  what  comfort  it  aflbrds  our  end- 
In  the  worst  inn's  worst  room,  with  mat  half  hung. 
The  floor  of  plaater,  and  the  waUs  of  dungt 
On  once  a  flock-bed,  but  repeired  with  straw  i 
With  tape-tyed  curtains  never  meant  to  draw ; 
The  George  and  Garter  dangling  Arom  that  bed. 
When  tawdry  yeUow  etrove  with  dirty  red. 
Great  Villiers  lies  I  'alas,  how  changed  fktmi  Mm, 
That  Hfa  of  pleasura  and  that  soul  of  whkn ! 
Gallant  and  gay,  in  CMvedon's  proud  alcove. 
The  bow*r  of  wanton  Shrewsbury  and  love  t 
Or  Just  as  gay  at  council.  In  a  ring 
Of  mimick'd  statesmen,  and  their  merry  king. 
No  wit  to  flatter,  left  of  aU  hte  stores 
No  fool  to  laugh  at,  which  he  valued  mor^- 
Thera  victor  of  hte  health,  of  fortune,  firiends, 
Andfiune;  thte  lord  of  usdeas  thousands  ends." 
t  The  Earldom  of  Buckingham  waa  subsequently. 


which  he  had  Inherited  ftrom  hte  flither  became 
■ZTiircT,  while  the  Bahom t  or  Roa,  derived  tnm 
hte  mother,  ^  into  AnnvAirca  between  the  heirs 
general  of  the  eleters  and  heiis  of  Geoife  Menners, 
seventh  Earl  of  Rutland. 

Anna*— As.  on  a  croee  gules,  flve  eschallope  or.  a 
teartlet  for  diflhrence. 

VIIilJERS  —  COUNTESS  OF  BUCK* 
INGHAM. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  1st  July,  1618. 

Xincasc. 

MARY  YILLIERS,  daughter  of  Anthony  Beau- 
mont, Esq.,  of  Glenfldd,  in  the  county  of  Leicester, 
widow  of  Sir  Geoige  Yilliers,  of  Brokesby,  and 
mother  of  Sir  George  Yilliers,  Duke  of  Bucking- 
ham, was  created  Couirraaa  or  Bockinoham,  for 
Hfi,  by  letters  patent,  dated  1st  July,  16ia  Her 
ladyship  d.  in  1638,  when  the  dignity  bxpibso,  as 
a  matter  of  oourM. 

VILUERS- BARON  VILLIERS,  OF 
STOKE,  IN  THE  COUNTY 
OF  BUCKS,  VISCOUNT 
PURBECK. 

By  Letten  Patent,  dated  UHh  June,  1CL9. 

Xlntagc. 

SIR  JOHN  YILLIERS,  Knt.,  elder  brother  of 
King  James's  celebrated  Ikvourite,  George,  Duke 
of  Buckingham,  (see  Yilliers,  Dukes  of  Bucking- 
ham,) was  elevated  to  the  peerage,  on  19th  June, 
1619,  as  Bmvn  VUUeM»  of  Stoke,  in  the  county  of 
Bucks,  and  Yiacomrr  Purbbcx,  in  the  county  of 
Dorset  Hte  lordship  m,  first,  Franoee,  daughter 
of  the  emhient  Chief  Justice  (Sir  Edward)  Coke^ 
a  lady  who  eloped  flrom  him,  in  16il,  wkh  Sir 
Robert  Howard,  and  was  subsequently  sentenced, 
by  the  High  Commission  Court,  to  do  penance  in 
a  white  sheet,  at  the  Savoy  Church,  in  the  Strand. 
After  her  misconduct.  Lady  Purbcck  assumed  the 
name  of  Wright,  and  gave  birth,  privatdy,  to  a  son, 
who  also  bora  that  surname.  She  died  In  the  king's 
garrison,  at  Oxford,  in  1645,  and  was  buried  in  St. 
Mary's  Church.e  Hte  lordship  espcmsed,  secondly, 
Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  William  Slingsby,  of 
Kippaoc,  in  the  county  of  York,  but  had  no  issuer 
The  visoount  d.  in  1607,  when  the  Boywny  i^f  Fil- 
/<er«,  nf  SMt;  and  the  YiacouMTY  or  Pubbbck, 
became  BXTnt  ct. 

ABMaw— -Aig.  on  St.  George^s  croee  flve  eschallope, 
or.  a  mullet  for  diflbrcncek 

^•lei— The  son  of  Lord  Purbeck's  fUthless  wife, 

ROBERT  WRIGHT,  having  married  Elisabeth, 
daughter  and  heiress  of  Sir  John  Danvers,  one  of 
the  rsglcide  judges  i  Obtained  a  patent  fhna  Crom- 
well,  to  assume  the  surname  of  hte  wife,  in  prefer- 
ance  to  that  of  YiUiers,  the  latter  name  and  fsmily 
being  so  dtetlngutehed  by  hostility  to  the  oommon- 

but  fruitlessly  claimed,  by  the  alleged  descendant 
of  hte  grace's  uncle,  Sir  John  Yilliers— (see  ViUieis, 
Yisoount  Purbeck). 

•  Lyson's  Magna  Britannia. 

547 


Vlli 


WAH 


fFwkbi  In  laaoit  he  levtod  a  Am  of  hit  honoiiit* 
and  he  !•  Mid  to  have  deetxoyed  the  eoioUoaflnt  of 
the  patent  of  paarage^  diaovmiag  each  an  arltto- 
CMtioal  appendage,  m  looorapatlhle  with  p** 
triotism.  He  eventually  fled  to  Fraaoe  from  hie 
orediton,  end  d.  there*  In  1915,  toaving  ieeue, 

RoBSBT,  of  whom  praiently* 

Edwardf  a  captain  in  the  army.  m.  Joan,  daugh- 
ter of  — —  Heming,  and  d.  in  169l#  leaving 
a  ton. 

The  RXVIBBND  GXOBOB   VlLLIKBB,  of 

Chi^grove,  in  the  county  of  Oxford, 
who  claimed  the  Karldom  of  Busing- 
ham,  but  no  proceedings  were  adopted. 
He  had  issuer 

Oborox,  who  died.  e.  p.  S9th  June, 
1774,  when  the  male  line  of  the 
fiunily  ceased. 
/yVfTt .  ,^.<,     <  Keth,  m.  to  John  Lewis,  Dean  of 

Ossory,  and  had  issue, 

V1L1.IBBB  William  Lbwib, 
who  assumed  the  name  of 
ViLLiBBs,  in  1790»  and  m. 
Matilda*  daughter  of  Lord 
St  John,  of  Bletsha 
The  elder  son, 

ROBERT  VILLIERS,  daimed,  fai  1678,  the  dig- 
nities of  Boron  PUNars,  VUemnU  Purboek,  and 
Earl  of  Buckingham,  as  heir  male  of  Sir  John 
VilUers,  Viscount  Purbeck,  and  through  him,  heir 
to  the  Earldom  of  Buckingham,  conferred  upon 
Sir  George  ViUien,  in  1617,  which,  upon  the  fsiluxe 
of  that  nobleman's  male  line,  with  his  son,  George^ 
Duke  of  Buckingham,  devolved,  by  special  limi- 
tation, upon  the  male  represantative  of  his  brother, 
the  said  John,  Viscount  Purbeckt  but  the  Houae 
of  Lords  decided  against  him,  upon  the  ground  of 
his  tether's  illegitimacy.  Upon  this  occasion  it  was, 
that  the  house  came  to  the  ceMnafeed  resolution* 
**  that  no  fine  now  levied,  nor  at  any  time  hereaf- 
ter to  be  levied  to  the  king,  can  bar  soch  title  of 
honour,  or  the  right  of  any  penon  flaiming  such 
title  under  bim  that  levied,  or  shall  levy  such  flnei" 
thus  confirming  a  similar  decision  in  the  case  of  the 
daim  to  the  Barony  of  Grey  de  Ruthyn,  1st  Fe» 
bmary,  1646.  This  Robert  continued,  however, 
to  style  himself  Earl  of  Burlctnghank  He  m.  Mar- 
*  garet,  daughter  of  Ulick  de  Buigh,  Earl  of  St. 
Albans,  and  widow  of  Lord  Muskerry,  (who  es- 
poused, after  his  decease,  Mr.  Fielding  commonly 
called  Beau  Fielding,)  and  lefl  a  son, 

JOHN  VILLIERS,  who  Ukewise  assumed  the 
dignities  of  Visoonnt  Purbeck,  and  Eari  of  Buck- 
ingham. This  person  became  die  associate  of 
gamesters— and  he  cohabited,  early  in  life,  with  the 

widow  of Heneage,  Esq.,  whom  he  efterwaxds 

married,  and  by  whom  he  had  two  daughters.  In 
1790.  he  petitioned  the  king  to  be  confirmed  in  the 
honours  of  his  family,  but  died  in  three  years  after- 
wards. His  unhappy  daughters  puisoing  tlie  course 
of  their  mother,  sunk  to  tiie  lowest  stafte  of  dis- 
honour. Upon  the  decease  of  this  John  Vtllien, 
the  representation  of  the  family  devolved  upon 

TiM  RBTBEsirn  GaoaoB  Villibbb,  of  Char- 
grove,  In  the  county  of  Oxibrdv  <revert  to 
Issue  of  Robert  Wright*  aliaa  Denvers,) 
MS 


who  datoMd  th«  BnUNft  of 
but  adopted  no  proonaiMngi  in 
thereof   and  with  his  eon  andai.>n.iwM., 
OnoBOB  ViLLtBBB,  irtio  d.  In  1774* 

out  ieaua,  the  male  lino  of  tibis 

bmndi  of  fha  ence  great 


VILLIERS-..EARLS  OF  ANOI«£SEY. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  18th  April,  1601 

CHRISTOPHER  VILLIERS, 
of  George,  flrrt  Duke  of  Buckingham,  (1 
Dukes  of  Buckingham,)  was  derated  to  Urn 
age,  on    18th  April,  1623,  as 
Davenirp,  In  the  county  of  N« 
Earl  op  Aivolbsby.    His  lordship  m. 
daughter  of  Thomas  SheMon,  IStq.,  of  Hovby,  fa 
the  county  of  Leicester,  and  had 
CHABLse,  his  suooessor. 
Aane,  m.  first,  to  Thomas, 
afterwards  Earl  of  Sussex,  and  ha^« 

jAMBe,  second  Earl  of  Suasex,  who  died 
«.  p..  In  1761,  vrtian  hie 
pired. 
Fianoea,  m.  Prancis,  Lofd 

and  heir  of  Robert,  Earl  of  Cardigan. 
Her  ladyship  espoused,  seeosidly,  — —  Daidis 
Esq.,  of  Weston. 
The  eerl,  who  was  gentleman  of  the  horea  to  King 
James  I.,  d,  in  1624,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

CHARLES  VILLIERS,  second  Karl  of  Ang^eaey, 
who  IN.  Mary,  daoi^ter  of  Paul,  Vlsooont  Hannlng, 
and  widow  of  WilHem,  Viscount  Grendiean,  but 
dying  without  issue,  in  1689,  all  hb  honours 
BXTixrcTt  while  his  slater,  Anne,  Couiiteaa  ot  \ 
sex,  succeeded  to  the  estates  of  the  fkmily. 
terminated  another  branch  of  the  great  hooe  of 
vnuen. 

ABMB.—On  a  cross  gules  five  wediaBepe  or.  a  mm^ 
let  fbr  dIArcnoa 

VILLIERS  —  DUCHESS  OF  CLBVE- 

LAND. 

See  Fits-Roy,  Duke  of  Cleveland,  and  Southaaap-^ 
ton. 

WAHULL-JBAROKS  DE  WAHULL. 

By  Writ  of  SuBsmena,  dMed  90th  Jawnj,  U87« 
98Edw«dL 

WALTER  DE  FLANDERS  mme  info  ITi^linJ 
with  the  CowfiOBnoA,  and  held*  as  a  Ibndal  kw^  at 
the  time  of  the  general  survey*  <  wisldseabia  estttas 
in  the  counties  of  Bedlbsd  and  NoxthanqpteB*  of 
which  Wabull,  (bow  WodhuUor  Odinill,)  htthe 
former  shire,  was  the  head  of  hia  barnny.  To  this 
Walter  succeeded 
WALTER  DE  WAHULL,  whose  ao^ 
SIMON  DE  WAHULU  in  the  tiaae  of  ESmg 
Hbnbv  L,  or  SvBrBBN,  with  SIbylU  Ue  wli^  gave 
thechurch  of  Ut^fiord  to  thelMghla 
He  was  s.  by 


WAH 


WAH 


WALTER  DE  WAHULL«  who*  ia  Ow  IMh 
Hmay  IL,  upoa  tli>  Bwawmait  of  tha  aid  for  many- 
Sng  the  kiuff't  daught«,  castifled  Ida  kalghto*  feet, 
da  veteri/hqglfammt;  to  be  twanty-aarcn,  and  those 
da  noaa*  three.  He  was  mtaiequantly  oonceraed  in 
the  insunactkm  of  Robert,  Earl  of  JLeioaateri  and 
wea  made  prlaoner  in  e  battle  naac  St.  Edmunde- 
bury.  He  m.  flrat.  Albreda,  widow  of  Guy  de  St. 
Walery»  bMt  had  no  iaauai  By  Ro>ia»  hia  leoond 
wife*  he  had,  however,  two  daughters  and  two  sons, 
Simon  and  John,  and  was  s.  by  the  elder, 

SIMON  DE  WAHULL,  who  was  fined,  fai  the 
SSnd  Hanry  IL,  ten  nmika  for  trespassing  in  the 
king's  forests ;  and  in  the  find  of  Richard  I.,  upon 
levying  the  scutage  of  Wales,  paid  £13.  10s.  for  his 
knigtits'  fees:  in  theiith  of  the  same  reign  he  paid 
j£S7  towards  the  aum  levied  for  the  Ung's  redemp- 
tion. This  Simon  gave  to  the  nuns  et  Oodston, 
into  which  convent  his  daughters,  Mary  and  Cicely, 
had  entered,  a  moiety  of  the  church  of  Pateshill,  in 
Northamptonshirep  He  d.  in  two  years  afterwaida, 
when  Hbhbt,  AmcHBisHOP  or  Cantbrbuky  paid 
£333.  6i.  8d.  for  the  wardship  of  his  heir,  and  bene- 
fit of  his  marriagab  which  heir  waa 

JOHN  DB  WAHULL.  This  feudal  lord  d.  fai 
1216,  leaving  his  sisters  his  heirs,  but  the  honouh  or 
W ARUX.X.  devolved  upon  the  heir  male  of  the  fkmily, 

SAIHER  DE  WAHULL,  who  d.  in  1200,  and  was 
«.  by  his  son, 

WALTER  DE  WAHULL,  who,  upon  doiqg  his 
homage,  and  giving  security  to  pay  £100  for  his 
relief,  had  livery  of  the  honour  ci  Wahull,  and  the 
other  lands  of  his  inheritancew  He  m.  Helewyse, 
daitghter  of  Hugh  de  Ylvon,  and  dying  in  1209,  waa 
«.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  DE  WAHULL,  who,  attaining  m^ority 
in  the  next  year,  and  doing  his  homage,  had  livery 
of  his  lands.  In  the  22nd  Edward  L  he  bed  a  miH< 
tary  summona  to  march  into  Oasoony,  and  had  snb- 
sequently  a  similar  summona  to  proceed  against  the 
Welsh,  but  d.  In  two  years  afterwaida,  seised  of 
the  manor  ci  Wahull,  or  WodhoU,  which  he  hdd 
hy  the  service  of  two  knif^ktir  fees.  He  was  «.  by 
his  son, 

THOMAS  DE  WAHULL.  This  feudal  lord  was 
summoned  to  parliament,  as  n  bakow,*  on  tlieS6th 

e  Nioouka  doubts  H  this  wmiT  constituted  n 
parliamsBtary  babout,  becanae  it  was  only  directed 
to  the  -temposaKty.  "  The  writ,**  he  observes, 
M  commands  the  persons  to  whom  it  is  addreaaad  to 
attend  et  Salisbury,  on  Sunday  the  feast  of  St. 
Matthew  the  Apostle  next  ensuing,  via.,  81st  Sep- 
tember, '  noblacum  anper  dictis  negotiis  coUoquimn 
et  tractatmn  qpedalitar  haUtuzi,  vestrumqoe  con- 
silium impenaurti  et  hoc,  sicat  nos  et  hcnciem 
Boatrum  ac  salvationem  ragni*  noetri  ac  inoohsum 
diligitis,  nuUatenus  omittntia;'  and  it  was  directed 
to  six  earia  and  eeventy-flve  baions,  and  to  the 
judges ;  bnt  not  opie  of  the  bishops  or  abbots 
included.'*  He  admits,  however,  that  two  anl 
quent  writs  in  the  same  yser  sapplled  this  omission, 
and  he  afeates,  that  the  validity  of  the  writ  had  never 
bcfeie  been  questioned,  and  that,  in  a  special  case 
bronf^  before  perliament,  (that  of  FteKheville,) 
the  slightest  olfectioa  waaiwt 


He 


January,  liB7>8Bth  Edward  L  He  d.  in  1304,  aeiaed 
of  the  Barony  of  WahuU,  aa  alioof.the  m^iorof 
Wahull,  in  the  county  of  Bedfiord,  and  Pateshill, 
in  Northampcmahire,  leaving  by  his  wife^  H*» 
wise,  daughter  of  Henry  Praars,  an  iaflmt  eon  and 
heir, 

JOHN  DE  WAHULL,  who,  alClio«g|i 
ing  the  honour  of  WahuU,  had  no  sisBilai  i 
to  parliament,  nor  had  any  of  hIa  deaeeDdanI 
d.  in  the  10th  Edward  III.,  leaving  two  sons, 
Joaw  (Sir>t  whoae  line  terminated  In ! 

Eliaabeth.  > 

Eleanor,    )  who  both  died  a.  p. 

NicoLAa. 
The  second  son,  (or  his  son,)  upon  the  termination 
of  the  liiM  of  the  elder  Sir  John  de  Wefaull,  suc- 
ceeded to  the  estetes,  and  became 

NICHOLAS  DE  WAHULL,  of  WehuU.  He 
flk  Margaret,  dan^ter  and  hair  of  John  fteoot^ 
Eaq.f  and  had  iasu^ 

Thom  Aa,  hia  i 

Richard. 

Edith,  m.  to- 

Margaret,  in.  to  Stanon  Brown. 
He  d.  in  the  12th  HxNaT  IV.,  and  was  «.  by  hia 
elder  son, 

THOMAS  DE  WAHULL,  who  «k  EHaabeth, 
slater  and  hair  of  Sir  Thomaa  Chatwodeb  Knt.,  and 
had  two  eona,  Tboanaa  and  WilUam.  He  d.  in  the 
9th  of  Henry  v.,  and  waa  a.  hy  the  sMer, 

THOMAS  DB  WAHULL,  who  ek  Isabel,  eUast 
daughter  of  Sir  WilUant  Tinsad,  of  Elmesthorp, 
andhadisBuab 

Jonir. 

Thomaa. 

Isabel,  ek  to  — Bowdso. 
He  waa  «.  by  his  eldaat  eon, 

JOHN  DE  WAHULL,  or  WOODHULL.  Thb 
gentleman  m.  Jean,  daugliter  ef  Hanry  BtweQ,  of 
Itondon,  and  had  0oor  eons,  Fui.k,  Thomas,  WiU 
liam,  and  Jolmt  and  three  danghftsis.  Eliaabeth, 
Anne,  end  Mary.    Hewaaa.  by  his  eldaat  son^ 

FULK  WOODHULL,  who  espoused  Aaae, 
daughter  and  heir  of  William  Newman,  of  Shen- 
ford,  (by  Margaret,  Uawife,  one  of  the  daughtara 
and  oo-hairB  of  Thomaa  Lamport,)  said  had  lasn^ 

NicnoLAa,  hia  i 


Lawreooe,  of  MoUngton,  in  the  county  of 


Mary,  mu  to  Bdwaad  Cope,  Eaq.,  of  Tossaa,  In 

the  county  of  Lincoln. 
Jane,  m.  to  William  BelUngham,  Eaq. 
Anne,  m,  to  Richard  Tresham,  Esq.,  of  New- 
ton, in  NorthamptoDshirei 
Mr.Woodhttad.intheMth  Henry  TIL,  end  waa  a. 
by  his  dldaat  een, 

SIR  NICHOLAS  WOODHULL,  Knt.  Thie 
gentleman  wedded,  first,  Mary,  danghtv  of  Rkkaid 
RaMgb,  Esq.,  of  Famboiough,  In  the  county  of 
Warwl^,  and  had  iamm,  AurrmomY  and  Jolosk  He 
flk  secondly,  BUaabeth,  daughter  and  oo-heir  of  Sir 
William  Parr,  Lead  Parr,  of  Hortan,  and  had, 

Fulk,  who  m.  Alice,  daughter  of  WUUam  Colea, 
of  Leigh,  end  was  anoastor  «f  the  Wedhulls, 


M» 


WAH 


WAK 


'  Aunt.  m.  to  David  S«MB«r,  Baq. 
Mary,  m.  to  Ridutfd  Bwmabf,  Eiq.,  of  Wat- 
ford, NorthamptonahiM. 
Sir  NIdiolas  d.  in  the  «rd  Hihey  VIIL,  and  vaa  «. 
by  iiis  ddeat  mm, 

ANTHONY  WODEHULL,  who,  coming  of  ago 
In  tha  Slit  of  Haaiy  VIIL,  had  IWary  of  his  bmd*  i 
but  dying  in  two  years  after,  left  by  Anne,  his  wife, 
daughter  of  Six  John  Smith,  an  oaly  daughter  and 
heireis, 

.  AONES    WODEHULL,   who    aqpouaed,  flxst, 
Richard  Chetwode,  Esq.,  and  had  a  ion  and  heir, 

RicBAaD  Chbtwodb,  of  whom  presently. 
She  m.  secondly.  Sir  George  Calverley,  Knt.,  and 
had  two  sons,  who  both  predeceased  her.     Lady 
Calverley  was  «.  at  her  decease,  18th  Elisabeth,  by 
her  only  son, 

SIR  RICHARD  CHETWODE.  This  gentle- 
man, in  the  time  of  Jamss  I.,  piefeiied  a  dalm  to 
the  Barony  or  Wabull,  or  Woohvx.l,  as  poa- 
sessot  of  the  manor  and  castle  of  Odell  (Wahull,) 
and  his  petition  being  referred  to  the  Duke  of 
Lenox,  the  Lord  Howard,  and  the  Earl  of  Notting- 
ham, these  noUemen  returned  the  following  certl- 

««  According  to  your  miO^ty's  direction,  we  have 
met  and  considered  the  petition  of  Sir  Richard 
Chetwode,  and  find  that  the  petition  is  true :  and 
that  before  any  usual  calling  of  barons  by  writs, 
his  ancestors  were  barons  in  their  own  right,  and 
were  summoned  to  serve  the  kings  in  their  wars, 
with  other  barons  {  and  were  also  summoned  to 
parliament.  And  we  conceive  the  discontinuance 
to  have  arisen  from  the  lords  of  the  honour  dying 
at  one  year  of  age,  and  the  troubles  of  the  time 
ensuing :  but  still  the  title  of  baron  was  allowed  in 
all  the  reigns  by  conveyances  of  their  estates,  and 
by  pardon  of  alienation  firom  the  crown  by  the 
king's  own  oflleers,  and  £9  per  annum,  being  the 
ancient  fee  for  the  castle  guard  of  Rockingham,  was 
constantly  paid,  and  is  paid  to  this  day :  so  that, 
though  there  has  been  a  disuse,  yet  the  right  so 
Itelly  appeering,  whldi  cannot  die,  we  have  not  seen 
or  heard  of  any  one  so  mudi  to  be  regarded  in 
grace,  and  in  consideration  of  so  many  knights^ 
fees,  hdd  flrom  the  very  time  of  the  Conquest,  and 
by  him  hdd  at  this  day  i  and  a  pedigree  both  on 
the  father  and  mother's  side,  proved  by  authentic 
records  from  the  time  of  the  Conqueror,  (which 
in  such  cases  are  very  rare,)  we  hold  him  worthy 
the  honour  of  a  baron,  if  your  m^lesty  thinks 


leaving  isMie  by  h(s  wUb  Amm^ 
and  helMBs  of  Sir  Valentine  Kni^htley, 
Valbhtinb  Cbbtwood,  who  M. 

danghter  of  Pnnds  Shute,   Eeq 

Upton,  In 


"Signed. 

Howard* 
Notttngham.** 
It  appears,  however,  that  notwithstanding  so 
fkvourable  a  report,  the  king  did  not  think  lit  to 
summon  the  petltianer  in  the  ancient  barony,  but 
he  oAbred  to  make  him  Babob  op  Wodboll,  by 
patent.  This  Six  Richard  thought  derogatory, 
and  deriined.  Sir  Richard  Chetwode  married 
twie^  but  had  Issue  only  by  his  first  wife,  Jane, 
daughter  and  co4ieir  of  Sir  William  Drury,  Knt., 
vis. 

William,  who  4.  in  the  life-ttane  of  his  Ikther. 
RicBABo,  d.  also  in  the  Ufe-tioM  of  his  flrther, 
«0 


JoBB  Cbbtwood,  in  holy 
and  D.D.,  whose  son, 

Kbiobtlbt  Cbbtwood,  mt. 
Hester,  daughter  and  heir  of 
Richard  BfooUng,  Esq.,  of 
Totness,  In  the  comity  of 
Devon,  and  wasfitUier  6( 
Valbntibb  Kbiobtlbt 
Cbbtwood,    who     «. 


tar    of    Sir 

Copes,  of  Oxftjtdshive, 

and  left  the  present 

JOBATBAB         CSBT- 

wooD,  Eeq.,  <rf 
WoodbnM»k,ln  lie- 
land,  who  M.  Mar- 
garet, daughter  and 
co-heir  of  Laurence 
Clutterbuck,  Eeq., 
of  Derryluskon,  in 
the  county  of  Tip- 


Aem a.— Or.  three  crescents  guks. 

WAKE-3ARONS  WAKE. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  1st  October,  liSfi^ 
83  Edward  L 

In  the  time  of  Henry  I., 

HUGH  WAC  m.  Emma,  daughter  and  event- 
ually heiress  of  Baldwin  Fita-Oilbert,  by  AdheUdls, 
daughter  of  Ridhard  de  Rullos,  which  Baldwin  waa 
unde  of  Gilbert  de  Gent,  first  Earl  of  Llncotai  of. 
that  family.  This  Hugh  Wac  gave  the  kndshlp' 
of  Wilesftml,  in  the  county  of  Lincoln,  to  the 
monks  of  Bee,  In  Normandy,  when  it  became  a  odl 
to  that  great  abbey.    He  was  «.  by  his  son, 

BALDWIN  WAKE,  who,  in  the  IMi  of  Henry 
II.,  upon  the  asMesment  in  aid  of  marrying  the 
king's  danghter,  certified  his  knights'  Ibei  to  be 
in  number  ten  {  and  that  they  were  bestowed  upon 
his  ancestor  by  King  Henry  I.  This  Baldwin  waa 
one  of  the  barons  who  assisted  at  the  coronation 
of  King  Richard  I.,  upon  the  accession  of  that 
monarch.    He  d.  in  1901,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

BALDWIN  WAKE,  who  m.  Agnes,  daughter  of 
William  de  Humet,  Constable  of  Nomandy,  by 
whom  he  acquired  the  manor  of  Wichendon.  He 
d.  in  1908,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

BALDWIN  WAKE.  This  Ibudal  k»d  «k  Isabel, 
daughter  of  William  de  Biiwere,  and  dying  about 
the  year  IS13,  was  «.  by  his  son, 

HUGH  WAKE,  who  «k  Joane.  daughter  and 
heiress  of  Nicholas  de  Stutevil,  and  upon  the  deaili 
of  his  unde,  William  de  Briwere,  without  ieeoo. 
In  17th  of  Henry  III.,  succeeded  to  his  pni^ertsr. 
This  Hugh  d.  in  1S41,  and  was  «.  by  his  son. 


WAK 


WAL 


BALDWIN  WAKE.  •  Thto  hndtl  lord,  who  took 
up  anna  with  the  twrona  In  the  reign  of  Henry  III.« 
waa  made  priaoner  at  the  stonning  of  the  caatle  of 
Northamptoni  in  the  48th  of  that  monardi's  reign : 
hut  afterwards  participated  in  the  snccoM  of  hia 
party  at  Lewes.  He  wai  again,  however,  takao  pri< 
■oner  with  young  Simon  de  Montfort,  at  Kenil- 
worth,  but  by  some  means  or  other  eflbcted  his 
escape,  and  made  head  once  more  after  the  defeat 
of  Evesham,  with  Robert.  Ferrers,  Earl  of  Derby, 
under  whom  he  fought  at  the  battle  of  Chester- 
field, but  had  the  good  fortune  to  escape  with  his 
life.  He  subsequently  submitted  to  the  king,  and 
received  a  pardcm,  with  restitution  of  his  lands. 
He  m.  Hawise,  daughter  and  co-heir  ci  Robert  de 
Quind,  and  dying  In  U82,  was  «.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  WAKE,  who  was  summoned  to  parlia* 
ment  as  a  bakom,  on  the  1st  October,  1S&5,  and 
fh>m  that  period  to  the  99th  December,  1290.  This 
noUeman  was  engaged  in  the  French  and  Scottish 
wars  of  King  Edward  I.,  and  in  the  27th  of  that 
monarch,  his  lordship  was  one  of  the  commissioners 
assigned  (with  the  Archbbhopof  York  and  others) 
to  see  to  the  fortification  of  the  castles  of  Scotland, 
and  guarding  the  mardies.  He  d.  in  130O,  and  was 
«.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  WAKE,  second  baron,  but  never  sum- 
moned to  parliamsot.  This  nobleman  survived  his 
father  but  a  short  period,  when  dying  issudlesB, 
he  was  «.  by  his  brother, 

THOMAS  WAKE,  third  baron,  summoned  to 
parliament  tnan  SOth  November,  1317,  to  SOth  No* 
vember,  1348.  This  nobleman  taking  part  with 
Queen  Isabel  against  the  unfortunate  Edward  II., 
was  appointed  by  that  princess,  acting  in  the  name 
of  the  king.  Justice  of  all  the  forests  south  of  Trent, 
and  Constable  of  the  Tower  of  London.  Upon  the 
accession  of  Edward  III.,  his  lordship  was  consti- 
tuted governor  of  the  Castle  of  Hertford,  and  he 
obtained  license  to  make  a  castle  of  his  manor- 
house  of  Cotingham,  in  the  county  of  York.  He 
was  subsequmtly  a  leading  personage  for  seventeen 
years  of  the  reign  of  King  Edward;  during  which 
period  he  was  constantly  in  the  wan  ci  Scotland, 
and  once  in  those  of  France.  He  was  also  governor 
of  Jersey  and  Guernsey,  and  constable  of  the  Tower 
of  London.  His  lordship  m.  Blanch,  daughter  of 
Henry  Plantagenet,  Earl  of  Lancaster,'  but  d.  in 
1349,  without  issue,  leaving  his  sister,  Margaret, 
Countess  of  Kent,  widow  of  Edmund  of  Woodstock, 
Earl  of  Kent,  his  heir,  who  carried  the  Basont 
ov  Wak>  into  the  ftmily  of  Plantagenet,  whence 
it  was  conveyed  by 

JoAM B  PLANTAoairsT,  the  Fair  Maid  of  Kent, 

the  Countess's  eventual  heiress,  into  the 

family  of  her  first  husband.  Sir  Thomas 

Holland,  Lord  Holland,  K.O. 
(See  Plantagenet,  Barons  of  Woodstock,  and 

Earls  of  Kent. 
See  likewise,  Holland,  Barons  Holland,  Earls 

of  Kent,  and  Duke  of  Surrey.) 
A]kM8.-~Or.  two  ban,  gules ;  in  chief  thi^ee  tor- 
teauxes. 

Note, — From  this  old  baronial  flonily,  the  Wakes, 
Baronets  of  Clevedon*  in  the  county  of  Somerset, 
claim  descent. 


WALCHER— EARL  OF  NORTHUM- 
BERLAND, BISHOP  OF 
DURHAM. 

Upon  the  execution  and  attatndn  of  Walthbop, 
Eabl  op  Northvmbsrland,  in  1075,  (he  was  be- 
headed at  Winchester,  and  the  flnt  so  put  to  death 
after  the  Norman  Conquest) 

WALCHER  DE  LORRAINE,  Bishop  of  Dur- 
ham,  was  entrusted  with  the  government  or  earl- 
dom of  the  county  of  Northumberland.  This  pro. 
late,  by  birth  a  LcnVainer,  was  a  person  of  excdlent 
endowments,  greatly  esteemed  for  his  piety,  inte- 
grity, and  benevolence,  but  unhappily  of  so  gentle 
a  disposition,  that  he  was  unable  to  repress  the 
arbitrary  proceedings  of  his  servanU  and  soldien : 
whereupon  loud  murmun  arose  amongst  the  peo- 
ple, and  a  day  was  at  length  appointed  for  an 
amiable  adjustment,  when  oppresson  and  oppressed 
assembled  at  a  place  called  Gateshead,  near  New- 
castle-upon-Tyne; But  instead  of  acting  peaceably, 
a  violent  turmoil  commenced,  in  which  t^e  dkurch, 
where  the  bishop  sought  safety,  was  set  on  flre, 
and  the  venerable  prelate  himself  barbarously  mur- 
dered, anno  1080. 

ARM8.— As.  a  cross  between  fbur  lions  rampant  or. 

Which  still  continue  the  arms  of  the  Bidiops  of 
Durham. 


WALEYS— BARON  WALEYS. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  15th  May,  1321, 
14  Edward  IL 

RICHARD  WALEYS  had  summons  to  peril*, 
ment  as  a  baron  on  the  I5th  May,  1321,  but  never 
afterwards.  Of  this  noUeman,  Dugdale  givas  no 
account,  nor  are  there  any  particulan  recorded  of 
him.  On  his  death  it  is  presumed  that  the  Barory 
OP  WAI.XV0  became  bxtinct. 


WALMODEN— COUNTESS  OF  YAR- 

MOUTH. 

By  Letten  Patent,  dated  4th  April,  174a 

Xincagt. 

AMELIA  SOPHIA  DE  WALMODEN,  the  pre- 
sumed  mlitiess  of  King  George  II.,  was  elevated  to 
the  peerage  by  that  monarch,  by  letten  patent, 
dated  4th  April,  1740,  and  conferring  the  dignity 
fbr  life,  under  the  titles  of  BAROirxsa  akd  Count- 
B88  OP  Yarmouth. 

The  field-marshal  Count  Walmoden  (of  Hanover) 
was  generally  deemed  her  ladyship's  representa- 
tive. 

The  countess  d.  in  1766,  when  her  honoun  bx- 

PIRBD. 

Arms. — Or.  three  morions  per  pale,  ar.  and  as. 

551 


WAL 


WAL 


WALPOLE— EARLS  OF  ORFORD. 

By  Letters  Patent.  d*ted  6tfa  Fdmiary,  1742. 

This  famUy  to  Mid  to  ha^e  been  eet^bliehed  in 
EngUmd  before  the  Nonoan  Conquert,  and  to 
have  derived  their  euniame  fram  Walpols,  in 
Norfolk*  where  they  wen  cnliioflbd  of  lands  be- 
longing  to  the  see  of  Ely.  The  learned  Camden 
states*  <'that  the  owner  of  Walpole  gave  both 
that,  and  Wtobish  in  the  Isle  of  Ely,  to  the  mo- 
nastery of  Ely,  at  the  same  time  that  he  made  his 
younger  son,  Alum,  a  monk  there." 
The  first  of  the  Walpoles  upon  record,  to 

RICHARD   DE   WALPOL,    ftom  whom    de- 


HENRY  DE  WALPOL,  who.  In  the  beronial 
war,  in  the  time  of  John,  taking  part  againatthe 
crown,  was  made  prisoner,  and  forced  to  pay  an 
hundred  pounds  for  hto  delivereucek  In  the  last 
year  of  Henry  III.'s  rdgn,  that  monarch  com- 
mands the  sherfir  of  Linotdn  to  restore  to  him 
aU  those  lands  in  the  county,  whereof  he  had  been 
possessed  when  he  fell  fkom  hto  allegiance  to  Khtf 
JoHH.  This  letter  was  dated  at  Ozibrd,  the  »th 
of  June,  U17>  and  sealed  with  the  seal  of  William, 
Earl  Marshal,  styled  the  king's  Justice,  because 
(as  the  record  says)  the  king  had  yet  no  seaL  He 
was  «.  by 

SIR  JOHN  DE  WALPOL,  who  had  been  also 
involved  in  the  baronial  contest,  and  likewise 
returned  to  his  allegiance  in  the  reign  of  Hbnry 
III.  He  had  by  Isabd,  hto  wifo,  several  sons,  of 
whom 

HBirnv,  was  hto  successor. 
Ralfb  was  in  holy  orders,  and  became  Bishop 
of  Norwich,  and  subsequently  of  Ely ;  he 
obtained  the  archdeaconry  of  the  latter  place 
in  1271,  and  was  elected  Btohop  of  Norwich, 
11th  November,  1288 :  on  hto  confirmation, 
John  Peckham,  Archbishop  of  Canterbury, 
addressed  him  in  these  memorable  words :~ 
*<  My  lord  dect,  there  has  an  evil  custom 
prevailed  in  the  diocese  of  Norwich,  of  re- 
ceiving the  first  fhiits  of  tlie  livings  in  your 
diocese,  which  proceeds  from  a  spirit  of 
eovetousness,  and  to  displeasing  both  to  God 
and  man.  Let  me  therslbre  persuade  you, 
if  you  have  any  concern  for  your  soul's 
health,  to  lay  aside  thto  evil  custom,  which 
wlU  thus  tend  to  the  public  advantage :"  to 
whldi  he  made  reply,  •*  I  shall  freely  consent 
to  what  you  have  desired  of  me,  and  pro- 
mise to  do  an,  tliat  to  in  my  power,  to  pre- 
vent it"  This  took  place  at  South-Malling, 
In  Kent,  alter  hto  return  to  England  from 
waiting  upon  the  king  on  the  frontiers  of 
Arrsgon,  where  he  obtained  the  royal  assent ; 
and  by  patent,  dated  7th  February,  the  icing 
recites,  that  the  church  t^  Nortvich,  having 
0l0et9d  HtU  Mtentt  man,  Mr.  Ralph  de  Wal- 
pol,  ArchdtaooH  qf  IBif,  to  the  Biehoprle  <^ 
Norwich,  he  confirms  the  said  election,  and 
commands  John  Peckham,  ArchUshop  of 


CaBterlmry,  wniiam  de  Redham,  and  l^elet 
de  Leyceeter,  to  ddlver  to  him  the  tempo- 
ralities, iec    Whereupon  he  was  conaecmted 
in  the  church  of  Canterbury  on  the  SOch 
March  ensuing.    He  sale  In  thto  see  about 
ten  years,  and  then  upon  the  death  of  Wil- 
liam de  Luda,  Bishop  of  Ely,  wa 
by  the  pope  to  that  btohoprtelE.    The 
vent  of  Ely  had  obtained  the  king's 
to  proceed  to  an  dection,  but  eould 
agree  emongst  themsdvesi  one  part  (tlw 
minority)  made  dioice  of  Jobm  8ju.afoir, 
their  prior  t  tlte  other  selected  JoBir    ob 
Laboton,  (then  king's  chanedlor,) 
wards  Bishop  of  Chidiester  t  and,  the 
tion  being  thus  in  dispute,  the  merits 
submitted  to  Robert  Windielsea,  Aichtaiahop 
of  Canterbury,  who,  keeping  the  cause  do- 
pending,  an  appeal  was  made  to  tlie  pope^ 
and  both  parties  repaired  to  Rome,  when  hie 
H<dineBs  unwilling  to  set  eslde  Salmeo,  eeat 
the  monks   to  a  new  riecUon;   but  that 
proving  equally  unsatisfactory,  the  Pope^ 
then  to  terminate  the  contest,  tnnslatod 
Walpol  to  Ely,  by  a  bull,  bearing  date  15th 
July,  1299,  and  made   Salmon  Bishop  of 
Norwich.     Hto    kndship   d.  9Mh  March, 
ladl-SL 
Sir  John  Walpol  was  «.  by  hto  eldest  son, 

SIR  HENRY  DE  WALPOL,  In  the  manora  of 
Walpole  and  Houghton,  who,  in  the  5th  Eowabo 
I.,  to  mentioned  in  a  certain  deed  made  by  the  prior 
end  chapter  of  Ely,  as  having  a  mansion  house  in 
Ely.  In  the  same  reign  he  had  military  summooees 
to  march  into  Flanders,  and  into  Scotland.  He  «. 
Isabel,  daughter  of  Sir  Peter  Fits-Osbert,  and  hdr 
to  her  brother.  Sir  Roger  Fits-Osbert  (whldi  lady, 
after  hto  decease,  eqMWsed  Sir  Walter  Jemegan,  of 
Stonetam  Jemcgan,  ancestor  of  the  Jendn^iana, 
Lords  Stallbrd,  and  brought  the  lordship  of  Sonoer- 
ley-Town,  and  other  lands.  Into  that  ftmily).  Sir 
Henry  Walpol  was  «.  by  hto  son,  another 

SIR  HENRY  DE  WALPOL,  who,  with  Robert 
Baynard,  was  chosen  knight  of  the  shire  for  the 
county  of  Norfolk,  in  the  parliament  that  met  at 
Lincoln,  in  9th  Edward  IL,  wherein  it  was  ordered, 
that  none  should  depert  without  the  kii^s  especial 
licence.  In  the  17th  of  the  same  rsign  he  was  re- 
turned into  diancery  amongst  the  knights,  who 
(with  other  persons  criT  note)  were  certified  to  hear 
mneient  arme/rom  <ft«<r  tmcoetore,  Thto  Sir  Henry 
Walpol  purchased  divers  hmds  In  Walpole  and 
Houghton,  and  dying  soon  after  the  9th  Edward 
III.,  was  e,  by  hto  son, 

HENRY  DE  WALPOL,  who  was  returned  one 
of  the  knights  of  the  shire  for  the  county  ot  Nor- 
folk, to  the  parliament  summoned  to  meet  at  York, 
in  the  7th  Edward  III.,  and  was«.at  htodeceaseby 
hto  son, 

HBNRY  WALPOL,  Esq.,  a  person  of  great  note 
in  the  county  of  Norfolk,  temp.  Hbbby  VI.  He 
IN.  Margaret,  daughter  of  Sir  Oliver  le  Orosse,  KnL, 
of  Costwick,  in  the  county  of  Norfolk,  and  was  «. 
by  hto  eldest  son, 

HENRY  WALPOLE,  Esq.,  of  Walpole  and 
Houghton,  who  m.  Margery,  daughter  of  Sir  John 


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Handck,  of  SotttbAcn*  in  NokMk,  and  was  «.  Iiy 
hUsoD, 

JOHN  WALPOLE,  Eiq.,  of  Houghton.  This 
gentlanum  m.  Blinbeth,  daughter  of  Robert  Shawe, 
Eiq.,  of  Darby,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

THOMAS  WALPOLE,  Esq.,  who  had  a  grant 
from  William  Fawkes,  and  others,  of  lands  in 
Houghton,  in  the  1st  Hanry  YII.,  and  ha  had  sub- 
sequently furthar  grants  ot  lands  in  the  same  ntign. 
He  m.  first,  Joane,  daughter  of  William  Cobb,  Esq., 
of  Sandixngham,  and  secondly,  Alice  ,  but 

had  issue  by  his  first  wife  only,  via. 

John,  who  t^redeceased  his  fiither,  leavhig  a 

widow,  Anne  Walpole,  but  no  cUld, 
Edward,  successor  to  his  father. 
Henry,  who  m.  Margaret,  daughter  and  co-heir 
of — X- Hoitoft^  of  Whaplode,  in  Lincoin- 
shirer  Gent.,  and  had  Issue, 
TeoMAa,  of  Whaplode,  ancestor  of  the 

Walpoles,  of  Lincolnshire.  ' 
JoBH,  an  eminent  lawyer,  temp.  Edward 
VI.,  M.P.  for  Lynn,  in  lASS;  and  called 
to  the  degree  of  seijeant  at  law,  with 
seven  others,  in  the  following  yeart 
the  feast  upon  which  occasion  was 
kept  with  the  greatest  splendour,  in 
the  Inner  Temple  Hall,  10th  October, 
UM,  several  ofllcers  being  appolntad 
tot  the  management  thereof;  and  eadi 
seijeant  presented  to  the  king  and  queen 
rings  of  the  finest  gold,  of  the  value,  be> 
sides  the  fiuhion,  of  £&  fit.  ftf.  Seijeant 
Walpole  m.  Katherin^  daughter  (^  Ed- 
mund Knivet,  Esq.,  of  Ashwelworth, 
(by  his  wife,  Jane,  daughter,  and 
eventually  sole  heir  of  Sir  John  Bour- 
chier.  Lord  Bemets,)  by  whom  he  left, 
at  hte  decease,  in  15B7, 
Wii«LiAM,  who  d.  issuelees. 
Mary.         ^ 

Jane,  f  co-heirs  to  their  bro- 

Katherine,  Tther. 
Anne,         J 
Francis. 

Christopher,  of  Docking,  iQ  the  county 
of  Norfolk. 
Agnes,  m.  to  William  Russd. 
Mr.  Walpole  d,  14th  January,  151S-14,  and  was  «.  by 
his  eldest  surviving  son, 

EDWARD  WALPOLE,  Esq.,  who  m.  Lucy, 
daughter  of  Sir  Terry  Robeart,  and  heirees  of  her 
grandfather,  the  cdetarated  Sir  John  Robeart,  K.B. 
and  K.G.,  (in  consequence  of  the  decease  of  her 
brother.  Sir  John  Robeart,  and  his  daughter,  Amie 
Robsart,  wife  of  Sir  Robert  Dudley,  afterwards 
Earl  of  Leicester,  without  issue,)  byVhom  he  had 
issue, 

JoBir,  his  successor. 

Ridiard,  of  Brakenash,  In  the  county  of  Nor- 
folk, who,  by  his  wife,  dated  aoth  March, 
1568,  left  his  Whole  estate  to  his  younger 
brother, 
Terry,  who  d.  in  1582,  leaving  issue  by  two 

wives. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Martin  Cobb,  Esq.,  of  Snetis- 
ham,  in  Norfolk. 


Mr.  Walpole  d.  in  2MM,  and  was  #.  "by  hk  eldest 
son, 

JOHN  WALPOLE,  Esq.,  who  inherited  the 
manor  of  Sidestem,  in  the  county  of  Norfolk,  and 
other  lands,  as  heir  of  Amie  Dudley  (Robsart)  the 
first  wife  of  Robert  Dudley,  Earl  of  Leicester.  Mr. 
Walpole  fa.  Catherine,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Wil- 
liam Calybut,  Esq.,  of  Coxibrth,  in  the  county  of 
Norlblk,  and  had  issue* 

'    Edward,  who  d.  upon  his  travels  in  1560. 
CALiBur,  successor  to  his  fltther. 
Thomas. 
Catherine,  m,  to  Philip  Russel,  Esq.,  of  Burur 

hapthorp,  in  the  county  of  Norfolk. 
Bona,  m.  to  John  Amyas,  Esq.,  of  Delpham, 

tn  the  same  county. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Richard  Bunting,  Esq.,  of 

Soulbcreak,  also  in  Norfolk. 
Bridget,  nu  to  Henry  Payndl,  Esq.,  of  Bel- 
laugh,  in  the  same  shire. 
Mr.  Walpole  d,  in  1588,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

CALIBUT  WALPOLE,  Esq.    This  gentleman 
m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Edmund  Bacon,  Esq.,  of 
Hesset,  in  Suffolk,  and  had  issue, 
RoBBRT,  his  successor. 

John,  of  Southcreeke,  m.  Abigail,  daughter 
and  sole  heir  of  Froxhner  Crocket,  Esq.,  of 
Bromesthorpe,  in  Norfolk,  and  acquired 
thereby  that  estate.  He  left  three  daughters, 
his  co-hrirs,  vis. 

Elisabeth,  pu  to  Edward  Pepys,  Esq., 
barristeNrtrlaw,  and  conveyed  to  him 
a  pwtion  of  Bromesthorp. 
Bridget,  m.  to  Francis  Thoresby,  Esq.,  of 

Gaywood,  Norfolk. 
Susan,  m.  to  John  Hare,  Esq.,  of  Snitter- 
'    ton,  and  conveyed  to  him  a  portion  of 
Bromesthorp. 

CaUbut,  1  ,„th  4  unmarried. 
Bacon,    / 
~  Elisabeth,  m.in  1612,  to  Thomas  Clifton,  Esq., 
of  Toftrees,  in  Norfolk. 
Ann^  m.  first,  in  1614,  to  Thomas  Pettus, 
Esq.,  son  and  heir  of  Sir  Augustus  Pettus, 
Knt,  and  brother  of  Sir  Thomas  Pettus, 
Bart.,  of  Rackheath,  and  secondly,  in  1619, 
to  Sir  Henry  Himgate,  Knt,  of  Bradenharo, 
hi  Norfolk. 
Mr.  Walpole  d.  4th  May,  1646,  and  was  «.  by  his 
eldest  son, 

ROBERT  WALPOLE,    Esq.,   who  m.   Susan, 
daughter  of  Sir  Edward  Barkham,   Knt,   Lord 
Mayor  of  London,  19th  James  I.,  and  had  issue* 
Edward,  his  successor. 
Elisabeth. 
He  d.  In  1663,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR  EDWARD  WALPOLE,  K.B.,  an  ek>quent 
and  leading  member  of  the  parliament,  which  voted 
the  restoration  of  KSftg  CHARi.a8  II.,  and  also  of  tiie 
long  parliament,  in  both  representing  the  borough  of 
King's-Lymu  Sir  Edward  m.  in  1649,  Susan,  second 
daughter  and  co-heir  of  Sir  Robert  Crane,  Bart,  of 
Chilton,  in  the  county  of  Suflblk,  and  had  surviving 
issue, 

RoBBRT,  his  successor. 

Horatio,  who  m.  JLadp  Aw nr  Obboritb,  daugh- 

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tor  of  Thomwy  Duke  of  Leeds,  end  widow 
of  Robert  Coke,  Esq.,  of  HoIUuun,  in  Nor- 
folk, but  died  «.  ]».  in  1717. 
Edward,  Fellow  of  Trinity  CoUege,  CemMdge, 

died  in  1688,  unmarried. 
Anne,  m.  to  Montfort  Spelman,  Esq.,  of  Nar- 

borough,  Norfolk,  and  died  «.  j».  in  1091, 
Dorothy,  d.  unnuutried  in  169i. 
Mary,  m,  to  John  Wilaon,  Eaq.,  of  Leicester- 

■hire,  and  died  e.  p, 
EUxabeth,  m.  in  108S,  to  Jamei  Froet,  Eiq.,  of 
Sandringham,  Norfolk. 
He  d.  in  1087,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

ROBERT  WALPOLE,  Esq.,  M.P.  for  CasUe 
Rising,  in  the  county  of  York,  from  the  1st  William 
and  Mary  until  his  deceases  deputy-lieutenant  of 
the  county  of  Norfolk,  and  colonel  of  its  militia. 
He  m.  Mary,  only  daughter  and  heir  of  Sir  Jeflfery 
BuTwell,  KnL,  of  Rougham,  in  the  county  of  Suf- 
folk, and  had  surviving  issue> 
RoBSRT,  his  successor. 

Houatio,  b.  in  1678L  This  gentleman,  who 
was  a  diplomatist  of  the  first  grade,  during 
the  administration  of  his  brother,  was  ele> 
vated  to  the  peerage  on  the  4th  June,  1756, 
as  Baron  WAXiPOLS,  t^f  Waltertont  in  the 
county  of  Norfolk.  His  lordship  m.  in  17S0, 
Mary-Magdalen}  daughter  and  co-heir  of 
Peter  Lombard,  Esq.,  and  dying  in  17^7,  was 
«.  by  his  eldest  son, 

HoBATio,  second  Baron  Walpole,  of  Wal- 
terton,  who  succeeded  his  cousin,  the 
celebrated    Horace     WalpoiCt     fourth 
Earl  or  OnroRD,  in  the  Barony  of 
Walpole;  of  Walpole,  and  was  grand- 
father of  the  present  Earl  or  ORroRD. 
Oalfridus,  a  naval  officer,  and  member  of  par- 
liament, temp.  GsoROR  I.    This  gentleman 
was  treasurer  of  Greenwich  Hospital,  and 
*        afterwards  (1711)  Joint  post-master  generaL 
He  m.  Cornelia,  daughter  Of  Mr.  Hays,  of 
London,  but  died  *,  p.  in  17S6.    His  widow 

m. Kyrwood,  Esq.,  of  Herefordshire. 

Mary,  m.  to  Sir  Charles  Turner,  of  Wareham, 

Norfolk. 
Dorothy,  m.  to  Charles,  Viscount  Townshend 

(his  lordship's  lecond  wife). 
Susan,  m.  to  Anthony  Hammond,  Esq.,   of 
Wotton,  in  Norfolk. 
Colonel  Walpole  d.  in  1700,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest 
son, 

ROBERT  WALPOLE,  b.  26th  August,  1674. 
This  gentleman,  who  attained  so  much  celebrity  u 
MINI8TRR,  temp.  King  Gkorob  L  and  King  George 
IL,  was  first  returned  to  parliament  by  the  borough 
of  King's-Lynn,  in  1700,  and  so  long  as  he  remained 
m  commoner  he  sate  for  the  same  place,  excepting 
one  session :  that  In  which  he  was  a  prisooer  in  the 
Tower,  ttom  4th  January,  1711-lJS,  to  the  prorogation 
of  the  parliament  on  the  21st  June  fbllowing. 

-In  June,  1705*  Mr.  Walpole  was  commissioned  as 
Mie  of  the  council  kn  the  aflkirs  of  the  admiralty  to 
the  irORo  HtoH  ADMIRAL,  PHiMtf  GsoROc  or  DCN- 
MARK }  and  he  was  appointed  secretary  of  war  in 
two  years  afterwards.  In  January,  1708-10,  he  was 
■made  treasurer  of  the  navy^  but  upon  the  change  of 
M4 


theminlsb7tooii  after  he  waa  lemoived  flrom  aD  bit 
employments.  Upon  theacceidonof  Kln«rGBonoB 
I.  his  eminent  abilitleB  were  again  enlisted  on  the 
side  of  the  government.    In  1714,  five  days  after  the 
new  king's  landing,  he  was  made  paymaater  of  the 
guards  and  garrisons  at  home,  and  of  the  fbroes 
abroed  t  and  in  the  same  year  he  was  sworn  of  the 
privy  ooundL     In  1715  he  was  constituted  rmsr 
LORD  coMM leaiONBR  of  the  treasury,  amdchancwUnr 
of  the  exchequer;  and  the  same  year  waa  dboscn 
chairman  of  the  committee  of  secrecy,  appointed 
by  the  House  of  Commons,  to  inquire  into  the 
conduct  of  those  evil  ministers  '*  that  brought  a 
reproach  on  the  nation,  by  the  unsuitable  condusian 
of  a  war,  whidi  was  carried  on  at  so  vaat  sat  ex- 
pense, and  was  attended  with  su«A  unperalleled 
successes."    The  result  of  this  impeachment  of  the 
Tory  ministers  of  Anne,  was  the  flight  of  Ormand 
and  Bolingbroke,  and  the  condemnation  of  H«rlsr» 
Earl  or  Oxtord,  Prior,  and  some  others,  but  the 
whole  in  the  end  escaped  with  impunity.    In  1717 
Mr.  Walpole  again  withdrew  with  his  friends  fgom 
office,  but  in  1780  he  returned,  and  was  appointed 
paymaster-generaL    The  next  year  he  was  placed 
in  hia  former  situation  of  first  lord  of  the  treasury, 
and  chancellor  of  the  exchequer :  he  was  conali- 
tuted  one  of  the  lords  Justices  in  1723,  and  swocn 
sole  secretary  of  state  during  the  king's  absence  in 
Hanover,  attended  by  the  Lords  Townshend  and 
Carteret.    In  1725  his  majesty  conferred  upon  bftna 
the  honour  of  the  Knighthood  of  the  Bath,  and  he 
was  in  the  same  year  again  constituted  one  of  the 
lords  Justices  during  another  visit  of  the  king  to 
Hanover.    In  1726  he  was  made  a  Kniort  of  the 
Gartbr,  and  upon  the  acceision  of  King  Gborab 
II.,  he  was  resworn  of  the  privy  council,  and  con- 
tinued in  his  official  employments  of  first  lord  of 
the  treasury,  and  chancdlor  of  the  exdwquer.    At 
the  coronation  of  the  new   monarch  Sir  Robert 
assisted  as  a  privy  counsellor,  and  as  a  Knight  of 
the  Garter,  in  the  full  habit  and  collar  of  the  order. 
In  1740  he  was  again  one  of  the  lords  Justices,  and 
the  next  year  upon  retiring  from  office  he  waa 
elevated  to  the  peerage  by  letters  patent,  dated  «th 
February,  1748.  as  Baron  t^f  Houghton,  VUvoumt 
Walpole,  in  Norfolk,  and  Earl  or  OnroRO,  in  the 
county  of  Suflblk.     Thus  have  we  simply  enu* 
merated  the  high  offices  and  the  high  honours  of 
this  celebrated  statesman.    He  ruled  in  what  may 
be  truly  termed  the  ^cTsn  age  of  govemnMnts— 
when  the  meshes  of  corruption   had  supeneded 
the  bonds  of  despotism ;  and  Walpole's  (kvourite 
maxim,  that  "  every  man  had  his  price.**  was  sel- 
dom found,  we  apprehend,  d^usive.    Hto  kMcdahip 
rebuilt  the  ancient  family  seat  at  Houghton, 
adorned  it  with  a  noble  collection  of  pictures 
statues.    He  m,  first,  Catherine,  daughter  of  John 
Shorter,  Esq.,  of  Bybrook,  in  Kent,  and  had  issue, 
RoBBRT,  his  successor,  who  was  created  on 
the  10th  June,  1723,  Lord  Walpolb,  ^f 
Walpole,  in  the  county  of  Norfolk,   with 
remainder    to    Edward   and   Horatio,    his 
brothers,  and  in  default  of  their  heirs  male, 
to   his  father.  Sir  Robert   Walpole,   and 
after  him  to  the  hrirs  male  of  Robert  Wal- 
pole, Esq.,  Sir  Robert's  father. 


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Edirard  (Sir)«  tniUUed  a  Kalghl  of  tike  Bath 
In  1753*  M.P.  for  LotwithM.  and  altarwards 
for  Great  Yamioath.  On  the  appointment 
of  the  Duke  of  Devonshire  to  the  lord  Ueu- 
tenantqr  o£  Irdand,  Sir  Edward  Walpole 
was  made  chief  lecretaryi  and  twom  of  the 
privy  eouncil  of  that  kingdom.  He  was 
afterwards  Joint  secretary  of  the  treasury, 
and  derk  of  the  pells.  He  4,  namarried.* 
Horatio*  who  inherited  as  fourth  Earl  of 

Orford, 
Katherine»  d^munanried. 
Mary,  m.  to  George,  Earl  of  Chotanonddey. 
His  lordship  espoused,  secondly,  Maria,  daughter 
tad  sole  heir  of  Thomas  Skenet,  Esq.,  but  by  her 
had  no  issuer    He  d.  in  1749,  and  was  s;  by  his  eldest 
Ion, 

ROBERT  WALPOLE,  Lord  Walpole,  second 
Earl  of  Oifotd.  This  nobleman  m.  in  17^4,  Mar- 
garet, daughtsr  and  sole  heir  of  Samuel  RoUe,  Esq., 
of  Hayntoo,  in  the  county  of  Devon,  (which  lady 
m,  secondly,  the  Hon.  SewaUis  Shirley,  and  sue* 
oaeded  to  the  Barony  of  CDnton,)  and  dying  in  1761  • 
was  s;  by  his  only  son,    . 

GEORGE  WALPOLE,  third  Earl  of  Orfurd. 
This  nobleman  disposed  of  the  splendid  collection 
of  pictures  made  by  his  graodfitther.  Sir  Robert 
Walpole,  to  the  Empress  of  Russia.  His  lordship 
d>  unmarried  in  1791,  when  the  honours  reverted  to 
his  unde,  the  cdebrated 

HORACE  WALPOLE,  as  fourth  Earl  of  Orford, 
^  in  1717*  Fop  this  his  youngest  child,  the  Minister 
Walpole  procured  the  places  of  usher  of  the  re- 
ceipt of  the  exchequer,  comptroller  of  the  great 
roll,  and  keeper  of  the  foreign  receipts.  His  lord- 
ship had  for  several  yean  a  seat  in  the  House  of 
Commons,  but  he  was  distinguished  more  in  the 
literary  than  the  political  arena.  Soon  after  re- 
turning ftom  his  travels,  he  purdiased  a  villa  at 
Twickenham,  which  he  changed  into  a  Gothic  man- 
sion, and  there  (the  celebrated  «« Strawberry  Hill,") 
he  continued  ever  afterwards  prindpally  to  rcsida 
At  that  fiiyourite  retirement  he  established  a  private 
press,  where  he  not  only  printed  his  own  works,  but 
many  other  curious  compositions.    From  this  press 


•  Sir  Edward  Walpole  left  three  illegitimate 
daughten,  vis.  ^ 

Laura,  in.  to  the  Hon.  and  Right  Rev.  Frede- 
rick Keppel,  son  of  WiUiam-Anne,  second 
Earl  of  Albemarle. 
Maria,  m,  first,  James,  second   Earl  WaMO' 
grave,  by  whom  she  had  issue, 

EUiabeth-Laura,  m.  to  her  cousin,  George* 

fourth  Earl  of  Waldegrave. 
Charlotte-Maria. 
Anna- Horatio. 
The  countess  espoused,  secondly,  H.  R.  H. 
WiLLiAM-HsNBY,   Duke  qf  OfoKcartsr, 
and  was  mother  of  their  royal  highnesses, 
WIZ.I.IAM-FRBDSRICK,  prsssnt  Duke 

of  Gloucester. 
Prineett  Sophia-Matilda,  of  Glou- 
cester. 
.  Chark>tte»  m.  to  Liond,  fourth  Earl  of  Dysart. 


first  Issued,  '*  The  Catalogue  of  Royal  and  Nobto 
AuVuns,"  1768,  9  vols,  ISmo  |  '•  Aneedotes  of 
Painting,"  17es  I  '«  Historic  DoubU,**  1768 1  "Mys- 
terious Mother,"  1788;  *«  Miscellaneous  Antiqui- 
ties," 1772,  4to.  His  kirdship  d.  unmarried  9nd 
March,  1797,  whan  the  Baboht  or  Wakpolc.  ^ 
Waipol9,  passed,  according  to  the  limitation,  to  his 
cousin,  MMtKfo,  second  Bahoh  Walpoi.s,  qf  Wai- 
l0rt»n,  (refer  to  second  son  of  Robert  Wdpole,  Esq., 
fsther  of  the  first  earl,)  and  the  Earldom  op 
Orforo,  with  the  minor  dignities,   became  bx- 

TIXCT. 

Armb  —Or.  on  a  fesse  between  two  dievroos,  sa. 
three  cross  croBslets  of  the  flnt. 

WARD— BARONS  DUDLEY. 

Refer  to  Sutton,  Barons  Duolby. 

SIR  HUMBLE  WARD  espoused  FRAwcRa 
Sutton,  Baroness  Dudley,  and  the  Wards  thus 
acquired  that  barony* 

wArde-barons  de  la  warde. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  99th  December,  199i^ 
98  Edward  L 

Xincagc. 

In  the  Slst  year  of  King  Edward  f . 

ROBERT  DE  LA  WARDE  was  in  the  wars  of 
Scotland,  and  again  in  the  34th,  at  which  time  he 
was  steward  of  the  king's  household.  He  had  been 
previously  summoned  to  parliament  as  a  baron. 
His  lordship  was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIMON  DE  LA  WARDE,  second  baron,  sum- 
moned to  parliament  ttom  30th  December,  1324,  to 
94th  July,  1334.  This  nobleman,  who  was  governor 
of  York,  upon  the  insurrection  of  Thomas,  Earl  of 
Lancaster,  in  the  16th  of  Edward  II.,  brought  con- 
siderable forces  to  Boroughbridge  in  aid  of  the 
royal  cause,  where  the  earl  received  so  signal  a  defeat, 
and  being  taken  prisoner,  was  conveyed  to  Ponte- 
fract,  and  there  beheaded.  Lord  De  la  Warde  was 
subsequently  constituted  governor  of  Pontefract 
Castle,  but  of  his  lordship,  or  his  posterity,  nothing 
further  is  known. 

Arms.— Vairte  ar.  and  sa. 

WARREN— EARLS  OF  SURREY. 
Creation  of  William  Rt^ftu. 

Xineagt. 

WILLIAM  DE  WARREN,  Earl  of  Warren,  in 
Normandy,  a  near  relation  of  the  CoNQirRROR'a» 
came  into  England  with  that  prince,  and  having 
distinguished  himself  at  the  battie  of  Hastings,  ob- 
tained an  ;iwwi«iwo  portion  of  the  public  spoliation. 
He  had  large  grants  of  lands  in  several  counties* 
amongst  which  were  the  Barony  of  Lewes,  in 
Sussex,  and  the  manors  of  Carletune  and  Bening* 
tun,  in  Lincolnshire^  So  extensive  indeed  were 
those  grants,  that  his  possessions  resemUed  more 
the  dominiODB  of  a  sovereign  prinoej  than  the 

666 


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WAB 


citatfliofafubjcct.  He bd^^A too,  la  tbmhigbmt 
degree,  the  confidence  of  the  Ung»  and  was  ap- 
pointed jolnt-juetice^r^nenl,.  with  Richard  de 
Benefactit*  for  adminitterlng  Justice  throughout 
the  whole  i«abn.  Whan  citiog  Mmie  great  dia- 
tvrben  of  the  public  peace  to  m»pear  before  Um 
and  his  ooUeague.  and  thoee  ref^tsing  to  attend,  he 
took  up  amu.  and  deteting  thexebda  in  abattle  at 
FAOAj»mf  a,  he  is  said,  for  the  purpose  of  striking 
terror,  to  hare  cut  off  the  right  foot  of  eadi  of  his 
prisoners.  Of  those  rebds*  Ralph  Waher  or  Onadar, 
Earl  of  Norfolk,  and  Roger,  Earl  of  Hercfiird, 
were  the  rlaglaadeis.  His  lordahlp  was  Ukewiae 
highly  esteemed  by  JiCifv  Wi]*i.iak  lUtftu,  and 
was  created  by  that  numarch,  Eam.  or  Subut. 
He  m,  Oundredf  dawghtifr  of  the  CoHQUsnon.  and 
had  Issue,  * 

William,  his  suocessor. 

Raynald*  one  of  the  adherents  of  Roanr 
Curtho$e, 

Edith,  m,  first,  to  Girard  de  Gomay,  and 
secondly,  to  Drew  de  Monoeuz. 

— — •  m.  to  Emise  de  Colungis. 
This  potent  noble  built  the  castle  of  Holt;  and 
founded  the  priory  of  Lewes,  in  Sussex.    Here- 
aided  principally  at  the  castle  of  Lewes,  and  had 
besides  Castle-Acre»  In  Norfolk,  and  noble  castles 
at  Coningsburg  and  SandaL    He  died  in  July,  1009 : 
and  Dugdale  gives  the  following  curious  account  of 
his  parting  hour.    "  It  is  reported  that  this  Earl 
William  did  violently  detain  certain  lands  from  the 
monks  of  Ely ;  for  which,  being  often  admonished 
by  the  abbot,  and  not  making  restitution,  he  died 
miserably.    And,  though  his  death  happened  very 
far  off  the  isle  of  Ely,  the  tame  night  he  died,  the 
abbot  lying  quietly  in  his  bed,  and  meditating  on 
heavenly  things,  heard  the  soul  of  this  earl,  in  its 
carriage  away  by  the  devil,  cry  out  loudly,  and 
with  a  known  and  distinct  voice.  Lord  hav«  mtr<^ 
en  nu:  JLord  have  mercy  on  me.    And  moreover, 
that  the  next  day  after,  the  abbot  acquainted  all 
the  monks  in  chapter  therewith.    And  likewise, 
that  about  four  days  after,  there  came  a  messenger 
to  them  from  the  wife  of  this  earl,  with  one  hun- 
dred shillings  for  the  good  of  his  soul,  who  told 
them,  that  he  died  the  very  hour  that  the  abbot 
had  heard  the  outcry.    But  that  neither  the  abbot, 
nor  any  of  the  monks  would  receive  it  t  not  think- 
ing it  safe  for  them  to  take  the  money  of  a  damned 
person."    '*  If  this  part  of  the  story,  adds  Dugdale, 
as  to  the  abbot's  hearing  the  n<rfse,  be  no  truer  than 
the  last,  vis.— that  his  lady  sent  them  one  hundred 
shillings,  I  shall  deem  it  to  be  a  mere  fiction,  in  re- 
gard the  lady  was  certainly  dead  about  three  years 
before."    The  earl  was  «.  by  his  elder  son, 
■  WILLIAM  DE  .WARREN,  (Earl  of  Warren,) 
second   Earl  of  Surrey.     This  nobleman  Joined 
Robert  de  fielesme.  Earl  of  Arundd  and  Shrews- 
bury, in  favour  of    Robbrt  Curtho$«,  against 
Hxif BY  L,  and  in  consequence  forfMted  his  English 
earldom  and  estates ;  but  those  were  subsequently 
restored  to  him,  and  he  was  ever  afterwards  a  good 
and  fUthAiI  subiJect  to  King  H  airR v.    His  lordship 
m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Huou  the  Great,  Earl 
of  Vermandois,  and  widow  of  Robert,  Earl  of  Mel- 
lant,  by  whom  he  had  issue. 


WiU.iaM»faiBBn( 

Reginald*  who  marrying  Alice,  daughter 
heir  of  William  da  Whrmgay. 
of  Wirmgay,  in  NodBoUu  He  founded  the 
pritty  of  Wlnn^iy*  and  left  two  danghtrrs, 
via. 

L  Bbatbix  db  WABmnr*  wlw  as.  flnt. 
Dodo  Baidolf,  Banm  of  Shattord*  and 
left  a  son, 

William  Babimlf  (see  Bardolf). 
She   espoused,  secondly,  Hubert   da 
Burgh,  Earl  of  Kent. 
&  ItabeL 
Ralph. 
Gundrad,  m.  to  Rogsr  da  Nevboxglif  EaxI  <ir 

Warwick. 
Adeline,  m.  to  Henry#  aon  of  David«  Kingnf 
Scots* 
The  eari  A  hi  USB,  and  vaa  «.  by  his  eMeat  SOB, 

WILLIAM  DE  WARREN,  (Ead  of  Wanen,) 
third  Earl  of  Surrey,  who  aeakmsly  espouaed  the 
cause  of  King  Stephen,  and  had  a  cliief  cnmmand 
in  the  army  of  that  monatdw  hi  the  battle  fbuglit 
at  Lincoln,  between  him,  and  the  adbercnia  of 
the  Empreee  Madd.  His  lordship  jn.  Ala»  deng^ter 
of  William  Talvace,  son  of  Robert  de  nnlfmii. 
Eari  of  Shrewsbury,  and  had  an  only  daughter 
and  heir, 

IBABBL,  who  m.  flxat,    WfLLIAX  BB  BlX»iar 

natural  sen  of  King  SnraMm,  and  seoosMUy* 
Hamblixb  Plaitcaobxxt,  natural  aosi  of 
Oeoff^,  Earl  of  Ai^ou,  father  of  King 

HBlfRY  II. 

In  the  year  1I47>  the  Earl  of  Warvan  and  Survey 
assumed  the  cross,  and  afooampanied  Lnvna,  Kbig 
ef  inranee,  in  an  espeditian  against  the  SaBaoena: 
'*  an  expedition,"  says  Banks,  *'  whenin  the  < 
secreted  banner  of  the  Christians  fellinto  the 
of  inflddity,  and  orthodox  blood  xaAxA  in 
sanctity  on  the  Saraoen'a  sword."  From  this  vn- 
fortunate  enterprise  the  earl  never  recnmed,  bnt 
whether  he  Ml  in  battle,  or  diad  in  captivity*  haa 
not  been  ascertained.  His  only  dauc^ter»  as  atatad 
above, 
ISABEL  DE  WARREN,  eapOBsed^tot, 
WILLIAM  DE  BLOIS,  Earl  of  Moretoa,  to 
Normandy,  natural  son  of  Kiikg  Stsprbit.  and 
this  nobleman  became,  in  conaequence,  Eabi.  or 
SuBBBY*  having,  by  the  giant  of -Henry,  Duke 
of  Normandy,  upon  Uie  accord  made  between  him 
and  King  Stephen,  all  those  lands  which  Stephen 
held  before  he  was  king  of  England,  as  wril  in  Nor- 
mandy as  in  England,  or  elsewhersr  Amongst  these 
were  the  castle  and  town  of  Norwich,  with  tha 
whole  county  of  Norfolk,  excepting  what  bdosiged 
to  the  churdies,  rel%ious  houses,  and  other  earls, 
and,  especially,  excepting  the  Tfrfltim  DeneHwai* 
by  reason  whereof  Hugh  Bigot  was  Barl  of  Norfblk. 
He  had  also  all  the  honour  of  nsvenaey.  Thia 
nobleman,  who  was  of  an  unaaUtiaaa  disposition, 
and  eqjoyed  the  fkvour  of  Hbwbt  II.,  accompanied 
that  monardi  to  the  siege  of  Thonlouse,  and  died 
there  without  issue  in  1168.  His  widow,  laABBL, 
heiress  of  the  Wanens,  married,  subsequently, 

HAM  ELI  NE  PLANTAGENBT.  natural  brother 
to  King  Hbmbt  II.,  who  llkawiaeobtaiiwdf  jnrv 


WAR 


WAR 


wnri»,  the  Earldom  op  Sdbb«y«  a&4  aamned 
tlie  nuname  and  anna  of  Warbbn.  This  noble- 
man bore  one  of  the  three  aworcto  at  the  second 
coronation  of  Ricoaiu)  I^  and  in  the  9th  of  the 
same  reign  be  eras  with  that  king  in.  hia  army  In 
Normandy.  Hed.  in  May*  1908»  four  years  after 
the  countess*  and  was  0*  by  his  son* 

WILLIAM  WARR£N»  (Plantiignt«tJ  Earl  of 
Warren  and  Surrey.  In  the  contest  between  King 
JoBir  and  the  baroBl*  this  nobleman,  sided  at  the 
oommenoement*  and  for  a  long  time  afterwards* 
with  his  royal  kinsman*  but  eventually  joined  the 
banner  of  Lewis  of  Franca  On  the  death  ci  King 
JoBir,  however*  he  returned  to  his  allegiance*  and 
swore  fealty  to  King  HnKBY  III.;  at  the  solemn 
tiuptiala  of  which  monarch  he  had  the  honoiir  of 
serving  the  king,  at  the  benquet*  with  hia  royal 
cup  in  the  Eail  of  Arundel's  stead*  who*  being  in 
minority*  could  not  peifutm  that  office*  as  he  had 
not  been  girt  with  the  sword  of  kni^thood.  Hia 
lordship  m.  first*  Lady  Maud  de  AlUni*  daughter 
of  the  Earl  of  Arundel*  but  by  her  ladydiip  had  no 
issue.  He  espoused*  secondly*  Maud*  daughter  oi 
William  Menhal,.Earl  of  Pembroke*  and  widow  of 
Hugh  Bigot,  Earl  of  Norfolk*  by  whom  he  had 

JoHM^,  his  successor. 

Isabel*  m.  to  Hugh  de  AlUni*  Earl  of  Arundd 
He  d.  in  1304*  and  was  «.  by  his  son* 
■  JOHN,  WARREN*  (Plantagmet,)  Earl  of  Warren 
and  Surrey.  This  nobleman  waa  but  five  years  of  age 
at  the  time  of  hia  ISsther's  decease*  and  was  placed 
in  ward  with  Peter  de  Savoy*  the  queen's  brother. 
When  he  attained  .minority  he  attached  himself 
leaknisly  to  Hbxht  III.  in  his  confiicts  with  the 
barons*  and  maintained  the  cause  of  the  king  with 
his  sword  at  the  battle  of  Lswaa.  His  lordship  was 
a  person  of  violent  and  imperious  temper*  and  was 
often  betrayed  into  acta  of  great  intemperance ;  as 
in  the'inatance  of  assaulting  Sir  Alan  Zouch*  and 
Roger*  his  aon*  in  Westminster  Hall*  when  he 
almost  killed  the  one  and  wounded  the  other.  And 
again*  when  Edwabo  I.  issued  the  first 'writs  of 
Quo  Warranto*  hia  lordship  being  questioned  as  to 
the  title  of  his  possessions,  exhilnted  to  the  justices 
an  old  sword»  and  juisheathlng  it*  said*  «*  Behold, 
my  lords*  here  is  my  warranty*  my  ancestors  com- 
ing into  this  land  with  Wiixiam  the  BcMlnrd,  did 
obtain  their  lands  by  the  sword ;  and  I  am  resolved 
with  the  sword  to  defend  them,  against  whomaoever 
shall  endeavour  to  dispossess  me.  For  that  king  did 
not  himself  conquer  the  land*  and  subdue  it*  but 
our  progenitors  were  sharers  and  assistants  therein." 
The  earl  waa  oonstituted*  by  King  En  ward,  general 
of  all  his  forces  on  the  north  of  Trent*  for  the  better 
restraining  the  insolence  of  the  Scots;  whereupon 
he  marched  into  Scotland,  andeo  terrified  the  inha- 
bitants that  they  immediatdy  sued  for  peace*  and 
gave  hostages  for  their  future  good  conduct.  But 
the' wax  soon  after  breaking  out  afresh*  his  lordship 
sustained  a  signal  defeat  at  STBirxXfin*  when  his 
troops  fled  first  to  Berwick*  and  thence  into  Eng- 
land. The  earl  m.  Alice*  daughter  of  Hugh  le 
Brun*  Earl  of  March*  and  half  sister  by  the  mother 
of  King  Hbnby  IIL*  and  had  inue, 

William,  who  m,  Joane,  daughter  of  Robert 
de  Yere*  Earl  of  Osiftird*  and  Ailing  in  a 


tournament  «t  Creydon*  bk  Ua  fkChet's  life* 

time*  left  issue* 

JoHir*  who  «.  hia  grandfather. 
Alicb*  m.  to  Edmund  FUai-Alan*  Earl  of 
ArundeL    This  lady*  upon  the  decease 
of  her  lm>thcr  a.  pi*  inherited  the  great 

.    .      estates  of  the  Wabbbmb*  and  conveyed 

them  to  the  Pita-Alans*  and  her  mh* 

Ricaann*  Earl  of  Arundel*  succeeded 

.■  to  their  honours. 

AUanore*  m.  fine*  to  Henry*  Lord  Percy,  and 

secondly,  to  the  son  of  a  Scottish  earL 
Isabd*  m.  to  John  de  Baliol*.  afterwards  king 

of  Scotland. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1304*  and  was  a.  by  his  grand* 
son* 

JOHN  WARREN*  (PlantagenetJ  Eacl  of  Warren 
and  Surrey.  Thia  noblenum  had  the  honour  of 
knighihood  conferred  upon  him*  with  two  hundred 
other  persons  of  distinction*  in  the  34th  Edward  I., 
when  Prince  Edwabo  waa  also  knighted  with  great 
solemnity.  In  the  last  year  of  King  Eowaro  hia 
lordship  was  in  the  expedition  made  into  Scotland* 
wherein  that  victorious  prince  died.  In  the  4th  of 
the  next  reign  he  was  again  in  Scotland*  and  so 
much  in  favour  with  the  king,  that  he  obtained  a 
firee  grant  of  the  castle  and  honour  of  Pbkb,  in 
Derbyshire,  with  the  whole  forest  of  High  Pbkb* 
to  hold  during  his  life,  in  as  fuU  and  ample  manner 
as  WiUiam  Peterel  anciently  enjoyed  the  same* 
before  it  came  to  the  kings  of  England  by  escheat. 
In  the  ensuing  year  we  find  his  lordship*  along  with 
the  Earl  of  Pembroke,  besieging  the  minion,  Pien 
Gaveston,  in  Scarborou^  CastW  and  forcing  him 
to  surrender.  He  was»  some  years  afterwards,  one 
of  those  who  invested  the  castle  of  Pontefiract*  at 
that  tim«  held  by  Thomas*  Earl  of  Lanaater,  and 
his  adherents;  and  he  subsequeBtly  sate  in  judg- 
ment upon,  and  condemned  to  death*  that  eminent 
Plantagenet.  In  the  rdgn  of  Edward  III.  tlie  earl 
appears  constantly  engaged  in  the  wars  of  Scotland. 
His  lordship  m.  first*  Joane*  daughter  oi  the  Earl  of 
Baire;*  by  whom  he  had  no  issue.  In  the  life-time 
of  thU  lady  he  cohabited  publicly  with  Mauo  ob 
Nbrbvobd,*  a  person  of  good  fiunily  in  Norf<rik* 
but  was  at  length,  obliged*  by  the  Archbishop  of 
Canterbury*  to  break  off  the  connection.  He  ob- 
tained a  divorce*  however,  from  his  countess,  on 
the  ground  of  a  precontract  with  this  Maud,  yet  he 
does  not  appear  subsequently  to  have  married  her. 
His  second  wife  wa^  laabd  de  Houland.  He  died  in 
1347*  when*  leaving  no  legitimate  ftwue,  his  sister, 
Alicb*  wifeof  EoMUND  Fitb-Alam,  cdghth  Earl 
tfArtfhdei,  became  his  heir*  and  conveyed  the  great 
estates  of  the  Wabbbhs*  (Plantagenets,)  into  the 
Fita-Alan  family.  Her  bRtyship's  son,  Richard 
Fits-Alan*  ninth  Earl  of  Arundel*  is  considered  to 
have  succeeded  to  the  Eablook  of  Subrby*  and 


*  By  Maud  de  Nereford  he  had  two  sons* 

John  ob  Warrbn. 

William  db  Warrbn. 
Upon    whom  he  settled  large  estates.     From 
John,  the  Warrens*  of  PoynUm,  in  Cheshire,  are 
said  to  have  descended. 

afi7. 


WAT 


WAT 


•o  styled  liimadf,  fral  It  U  doubtftil  If  ha 
formally  invetted  with  the  dignity.  He  died  In 
1375»  and  we*  «.  by  his  scm  and  heir,  Richard 
Fis-AiiAH,  Earl  of  Arundel  and  Surrey,  who  was 
beheaded  in  1397*  when  all  his  honours  became  vor- 
VBiTso  (see  Fits-Alan,  Earls  of  Arundel). 
Abjcs. — Of  the  Warretu, — Cheque,  or  an  ax. 

Of  Blai»,-^vu  three  pallets  varry,  on  a 

chief,  or.  an  eagle  displayed 

gules,  membered,  a& 

Of  PlttnUigtnet^-'Smnie  of  France,  «nd  a 

border  of  England.  This 

coat  was  abandoned  for 

thatofWanen. 


WATSON— BARONS  ROCKINGHAM, 
EARLS  OF  ROCKINGHAM, 
BARONS  OF  MALTON, 
EARLS  OF  MALTON, 
MARQUESSES  OF  ROCK- 
INGHAM. 

Barony,    1  by  Letters  f  89th  January,  164& 
Earldom,  J    Patent,    \  19th  October,  1714. 
Barony  of  Malton,  S8th  May,  1788. 
Earldom  of  Malton,  19th  November,  1734. 
Marquisate,  19th  April,  1748. 

ICincagc. 

of  the  ancient  family  of  Watsoit,  which  flou- 
rished for  sereral  ages  in  the  counties  of  Rutland, 
Northampton,  and  Cambridge,  was 

EDWARD  WATSON,  of  Lydington,  In  Rut- 
landshire, who  lived  in  146D,  and  had  fifteen  chil- 
dren.   The  eldest  of  whom,  his  son  and  heir, 

EDWARD  WATSON,  d.  in  1590,  leaving  by  hb 
wife,  Emma,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Anthony 
JSmith,  Esq.,  an  only  son, 

EDWARD  WATSON,  Esq.,  of  Rockingham 
Castle,  in  the  county  of  Northampton,  who  m. 
Dorothy,  eldest  daughter  of  Sir  Edward  Montague, 
Knt.,  Lord  Chief  Justice  of  the  King's  Bench,  and 
was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR  EDWARD  WATSON,  who  served  the 
office  of  sheriflT  for  Northamptonshire,  in  the  34th 
Elisabeth,  and  was  knighted  at  the  Charter  House, 
in  London,  in  May,  1603.  He  m.  Anne,  daughter  of 
Kenelm  Digby,  Esq.,  of  Stoke,  in  the  county  of 
Rutland,  by  whom  he  had  issue* 
Lkwis,  his  successor. 
Edward,  d.  in  1658. 

Anne,  m.  to  Sir  Charles  Norwich,  of  Bramp- 
ton, in  the  county  of  Northampton. 
Emma,  m.  to  John  Grant,  Esq. 
Mary,  m.  to  Sir  Anthony  Mayney,  Knt.,  of 

Linton,  in  Kent. 
Elisabeth,  m.  first,  to  Sir  John  Needham,  of 
Litchborough,  in   Northamptonshire,  and 
secondly,  to  Sir  Edward  Tyrell,  Bart,  of 
Tho—ton,  in  Buckinghamshire. 
Sir  JBdfward  d.  in  1616,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldir  son, 

SIR  LEWIS  WATSON,  KnL,  who  was  created 
m  BAaoNST  on  83rd  June,  1681.  He  was  sheriff  ot 
Northamptonshire  in  the  9th  Charles  h,  md  in  con- 


slderatlon  of  bis  kiyalty  to  that  piinesi.  Car  whoin  he 
garrisoned  the  castle  of  Rockingham,  was  adTanoad 
on  89th  January,  1646,  to  the  dignity  of  Babov 
RocKiwoBAM,  qf  SUfdfingham,  in  tfc«  eesfMly  qf 
Norffiimmpton.  His  locdship  m.  first,  CacbcaiBe^ 
daughter  of  Peregrine  Bertie,  Lord  Willou^ hlqr*  of 
Eresby,  but  by  that  lady  had  no  surviving  iaoM. 
He  espoused,  secondly,  Eleanor,  daughter  of  Sir 
George  Manners,  of  Haddon,  in  the  ootuty  of 
Derby,  Knt.,  and  sister  ot  Jolm,  Earl  of  Rutlaad, 
by  wlMm  he  had  one  eon  and  three  daughteiay 
via. 

Edwabd,  his  successor. 

Grace,  m.  to  Sir  Edward  Barkham,  Bart.,  of 

Southouse,  in  Norfblk. 
Frances,  m.  to  Edward  Dingileyt   Eaq.,  ot 

Charlton,  in  Worossterslure. 
Eleanor,  m.  to  Sir  Charles  Dyxnoke^  Knt.,  oT 
Scrivelby,  in  Lincolnshire^  hereditary  cluui»- 
pion  of  England. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1658,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

EDWARD  WATSON,  second  Baron  Rocking- 
ham,  who  espoused  Lad^  Annb   Wbittwobtb, 
daughter  of  the  eOebraied  Earl  or  STBArroan* 
by  whom  he  had  surviving  issue* 
Lbwis,  his  successor. 

Thomas,  who  succeeded*  upon  the  death  of 
his  unde,   William  Wentworth,   Earl  of 
Straflbrd,  in  1606,  to  the  great  balk  of  that 
nobleman's  estates,  and  assumed  the  addi- 
tional surname  of  Wbittwortbu    He  was 
member  of  parliament  for  Higham  Fencn, 
and  afterwards  for  Bialton,  in  the  reign  of 
Queen  Ann&    He  m.  Alice,  only  daughter 
of  Sir  Thomas  Proby,  Bart.,  of  Elton,  in 
the  county  of  Huntingdon,  and,  dying  ia 
1783,  left  an  only  child, 
TBOMA8  Watson  -  WBNTWOB.TB.  who 
was  created  88th  May,  1788,  Babost 
or  Malton,  and  advanced  19th  No> 
vember,  1734,  to  the  dignities  of  Baron 
qf  Waffk  and  Harrowden,  Fitamnt  H^ 
ham,  t^fHiifliam  Ftamn,  and  Ea&l  or 
Malton.     His  lordship  inherited  the 
Barony  of  Rockingham  at  the  di^rease 
of  his  cousin,  in  1746. 
Eleanor,  m.  to  Thomas,  Lord  Leig^,  of  Stone. 

Ieigh,andd.inl706. 
Arabrtla,  m.  to  Sir  James  Oxcnden,  Bart.,  of 
Dene,  in  KenL 

Anne,        \  both  d.  unmarried. 
Margaret,  ) 

His  tordship  d.  in  1691,  and  was  «.  by  Us  ridvC 


LEWIS  WATSON,  third  baian.  This  i 
in  his  father's  life-time,  sate  for  Higham  Fenctsw 
in  the  convention  parliament,  and  was  lord  UettCa- 
nant  and  custos  rot.  for  the  county  of  Kcsit,  taasfk 
Queen  Anne  and  George  I.  His  lordship  m.  Cathe- 
rine^ younger  da\ighter  and  ccvhelr  of  Sir  George 
Sondes,  of  Lees  Court,  in  the  county  of  Kcsit,  K.B.. 
(afterwards  created  Earl  or  FBVBBSHAJf,) 'and 
eventually  heiress  to  her  elder  sister,  Mary,  wifb  of 
Lewis,  Lord  Duras.  In  consequence  of  this  aBiance 
Lord  Rockingham,  upon  being  advanced  In  the 
peerage  by  letters  pa«eBt»  dated  19th  October,  1714« 


WAT 


WAY 


asfumed  tw&  of  the  tltlei  bome  tyjr  hf»  fltceneJ 

ftther-fai-law,  namely.  Baron  Thnwleg,  and  Fto. 

count  9ondo§t  tf  Ltoo  Court,  both  in  the  county  of 

Kent.     He  was  alio  created  by  the  tame  patent, 

Eam.  or  RocKiNOHAM.    Hit  lordship  had  issue, 

Edwaud/ VUeount  Sondoo,    M.P.    for  New 

Romney,  m.  in  1700,  Lady  Catherine  Tuf- 

ton,  eldest  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Thomas, 

Earl  of  Thanet,  and  dying  91st  March, 

17S1-S,  left  issue, 

Lawia,  who  succeeded  his  grandflither  as 

Earl  of  Rockingham. 
Tbomab,  who  inherited  the  honoun  on 

the  decease  ofhis  brother  «.  j». 
Edward,  cC  unmarried. 
Catherine,  m.  to  Edward  Southwell,  Esq., 
of  King's  Weston,  tn  the  county  of 
•  Ohnioester,  and  had  a  son,   - 

Edward   South wbli..  who   suc- 
ceeded, in  1776,  to  the  Barony  of 
Da  CLirroBD. 
George,  d.  in  173S. 
Mary,  m.  -  to    Wray  Saunderson,   Esq.,   of 

Olentworth,  in  the  county  of  Lincoln. 
Anne,  d.  young. 

Arabdla,  m,  to  Henry  Fumese,  Esq.,  son  and 
heir  of  Sir  Robert  Fumese,  Bart.,  of  Wal< 
dershare,  in  KenL 
Margaret,  m,  to  Sir  John  Monson,  Bart,  of 
Burton,  in  the  county  of  Lincoln,  who  was 
created,  in  17S8,  Baroit  Monsom,  and  had, 
John,  who  «.  to  the  Barony  or  Mon- 
son* and  was  grandlkther  of 

Froderi^  John,  present  Lord  Mon- 

BON. 

Lbwis,  who  assumed  the  surname  of 
Watson,  and  was  created,  in  1760, 
Baron  Sondbs,  qf  Loom  Court,     His 
lordship  was  grandftither  of  the  present 
Lord  Sokdbs. 
George,  a  brigadier  general,  died  in  1777* 
o.p. 
The  earl  d,  in  1784,   and  was  «.  by  his  grand- 
son, 

LEWIS  WATSON,  second  Earl  of  Rockingham. 
This  nobleman  espoused,  Anne,  daughter  of  Sir 
Henry  Fumeie,  Bart.,  of  Waldershare,  but  dying 
issuekss  in  1745,  the  honours  devolved  upon  his 
only  surviving  brother, 

THOMAS  WATSON,  third  Earl  of  Rockingham, 
who  d.  in  a  few  months  afterwards,  anno  1740,  un- 
married, and  devised  his  estates  to  his  couidn,  the 
Hon.  Lewis  Monson,  (refer  to  children  ot  his  aunt, 
Margaret,)  upon  condition,  tharhe  assume  the  sur- 
nanoe  and  arms  of  Watson.  At  the  decease,  thus, 
of  this  nobleman,  ai.l  his  honours  became  bx- 
rnrcT,  except  the  Barony  ov  Rockinoham, 
which  passed  to  his  kinsman,  and  next  heir  male 
(refer  to  Thomas,  second  son  of  Edward,  second 
Baron  Rockingham), 

THOMAS  WATSON-WENTWORTH,  Xarit^f 
Malton,  X.&,  as  fifth  Baron  Rockingham.  His 
lordship  was  created  on  the  19th  April,  1746,  Mar- 
guBsa  or  Rocbtnoham.  He  m.  Lady  Mary  Finch, 
fourth  daui^ter  of  Daniri,  Earl  of  Winchdaea  and 
Nottingham,  and  had  surviving  issue. 


CRARI.B8,  who  was  Created,  vltA  patA,  17tK 
.  September,  1750,  Earl  or  Malton,  in  the 
Peerage  of  Ireland. 

Anne,  m.  in  1744,  to  WilUam,  Earl  Ftts-Wil- 
liam,  and  was  mother  of 

Wittiam,  present  Earl  FiTx-WiLLiAir. 

Mary,  m.  in  1764,  to  John  Mllbanke,  Esq.,  son 
of  Sir  Ralph  MUbanke,  Bart.,  of  Halnaby 
Hall,  and  grand-uncle  of  the  present  Sir 
John  Penlston  MUbanke,  Bart. 

Henrietta-Alicia,  m.  to  Mr.  Sturgeon. 
This  nobleman  rebuilt  the  ancient  family  seat, 
Wbntwortr  Housb,  in  a  very  splendid  manner* 
and  dying  In  1750,  was  «.  by  his  son. 

CHARLES  WATSON-WENTWORTH,  Earl 
of  Malton,  as  second  Marquess  of  Rockingham. 
This  nobleman,  at  the  coronation  of  King  Gborob 
III.,  as  deputy  to  the  Duke  of  Norfolk,  in  his 
grace's  capacity  of  lord  of  the  manor  of  Worksop^ 
presented  to  his  miO^sty  a  right  hand  glove,  before 
receiving  the  sceptre  with  the  cross  ttoax  the  Arch* 
bishop  of  Canterbury,  and  after  the  king  was 
enthroned,  and  whilst  he  recdved  the  homage  of 
the  peers  spiritual  and  temporal,  his  lordship  held 
the  said  sceptre,  with  the  cross.  He  was  deeted. 
Knioht  of  the  Oabtbr  in  February,  1760,  and 
installed  in  the  May  following.  In  1765  he  waa 
appointed  first  lord  of  the  treasury  in  the  room  of 
the  Hon.  George  GrenviUe,  and  sworn  of  the  privy 
council;  but  he  held  the  reins  of  government  then 
only  a  single  year,  and  from  that  period  was  leader 
of  a  strong  party  opposed  to  the  measures  of  ad- 
ministration, until  restored  in  1762,  amidst  almost 
the  acclamations  of  the  people.  The  marquess  came 
again  into  oflSce  in  his  former  post  of  riRST  lord 
or  THB  TREASURY,  and  chief  of  a  government* 
which  has  since  borne  In  history  the  title  of 
**  the  Rockingham  Administration,"  and  ot  which 
Cbarlrs  Jambs  Fox  and  Edmund  Burkb  formed 
a  part.  Under  his  lordship's  auspices  a  pacific  nego- 
tiation with  the  revolted  states  of  America  com- 
menced, but  he  lived  not  to  complete  his  patriotic 
projects.  He  was  snatched  from  the  hopes  of  a  con- 
fiding people  in  the  same  year  that  he  had  returned 
to  power,  at  the  moment  that  he  had  reached  the 
very  summit  of  popularity.  The  marquess  was 
esteemed  for  his  purity,  his  principle,  and  his 
patriotism,  but  he  was  considered  a  man  of  no  more 
than  ordinary  abilities,  nor  were  his  intdlectual 
powers  formed  for  any  thing  beyond  the  range  of 
common  conceptions.  He  m.  Mary,  daughter  and 
heir  of  Thomas  Bright,  Esq.,  of  Badsworth,  in  the 
county  of  York,  but  having  no  issue  all  his 
HONOURS  at  his  decease  became  bxtinct.  His 
remains  were  interred  in  the  Earl  of  Strafford's 
vault,  in  York  Mtaister,  about  the  SOth  July,  1782, 
and  the  principal  part  of  the  Wbntwobth  bstatbs, 
including  Wentworth  House  and  Malton,  in  the 
county  of  York,  devolved  upon  his  lordship's 
nephew,  William,  present  Earl  Pits-WUliam;  who 
assumed  the  additional  surname  of  **  Wentworth.** 
Abms. — Quarterly,  first  and  fourth,  ar.  on  a  chev- 
ron ingrailed,  as.  between  three  martlets,  sa.  as 
many  crescents,  or.  for  Watson.  On  a  wreath,  a 
Griffin  passant,  ar.  beak,  ducal  ooUar,  and  fore  legs, 
gules,  for  Wbmtwortb, 

609 


WBB 


WEL 


WAYER,   OR  OUADER— BARIi   OF 
NORFOLK  AND  SUFFOLK. 

CrMtion  of  William  Out  Qmqueror, 

XCncagc. 

RALPH  DE  WAYER,  wat  conatititted  by  Wil- 
liam the  Conqueror,  Earl  or  Norfolk  amd  Sor- 
FOLK.  Some  of  otir  historiaiu  sfflim,  that  this 
nobleman  was  aa  Englishman  by  Urth,  bom  at 
Norfolk;  but  others,  that  he  was  a  native  of 
Britanny,  which  is  the  more  probable,  as  he  was 
owner  of  the  castle  of  Guaobr,  in  that  province. 
Of  this  earl  there  is  nothing  memorable  beyond  his 
treachery  to  his  royal  master,  whom  he  sought  to 
destroy  or  expel;  and  to  that  end  drew  into  his 
plans,  RooxR  or  Bhitolio,  Eari  of  Her^fitrd, 
WALTHKor,  the  great  Earl  o/Northwmbertand,  and 
other  persons  of  distinction.  He  espoused  Emma, 
sister  of  the  Earl  of  Hereford,  and  he  took  the 
opportimity  of  his  wedding  day  to  disclose  to  the 
conspirators,  when  they  were  elated  with  wine,  the 
whole  of  his  projects.  As  soon,  however,  as  they 
had  recovered  the  elftct  of  inebriation,  the  greater 
number  refused  to  participate,  and  the  Earl  of 
Hereford  alone  JoAned  him  in  openly  resorting  to 
arms.  The  rebellion  was  quickly,  however,  sup- 
pressed by  those  stout  and  warlike  prelates,  Odo, 
BUhop  of  Bayewft  and  Orppsry,  BUhop  qf  Wor- 
cester. The  Earl  of  Norfolk  privately  deserted  his 
followers  and  fled  into  Britanny,  leaving  them  to 
their  fate  in  their  encanlpment  at  Cambridge :  of 
those,  many  were  put  to  the  sword,  and  more  taken 
prisoners.  The  castle  of  Norwich  was  subsequently 
besieged,  and  his  countess  obliged  to  surrender,  but 
she  was  suffered  to  go  beyond  sea.  In  the  end,  this 
turbulent  person  assumed  the  cross,  and  Joined  an 
expedition  under  Robkrt  Curthoee,  to  Jerusalem* 
against  the  Turks  t  where  he  afterwards  became  a 
pilgrim,  and  died  a  great  penitent. 
He  left  issue,  two  sons  and  a  daughter,  via. 
Ralph. 
Alan. 

Amicia,  m.  to  Robert,  Earl  of  Leicester,  son 
of  Robert,  Earl  of  Mellant,  and  brought  to 
him  most  part  of  the  lauds,  which  William 
Fitz-Osbome,  her  grandfather,  held  in  Nor- 
mandy. 
By  the  treason  of  Ralph  de  Wayer  his  xarlimm 
became  forfbitbd. 
Arms.— Per  pale,  or.  and  sa.  a  bend  varry. 

WEDDERBURN  —  RARON  LOUOH- 
BOROUGH,  OF  LOUGH. 
BOROUGH,  IN  THE 
COUNTY  OF  LETGES- 
TER. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  14th  June,  1780. 

ALEXANDER  WEDDERBURN,  eldest  son  of 
Peter  Wedderbura,  of  Chertarhall,  North  Britain, 
(a  k>rd  of  session,  under  th^  titulary  designation  of 


Lord  ChrMrrIiall,*)  hattag  bien  Inoimlit  up 
to  the  English  bar,  and  attaming  high  rBpotatinR 
as  a  lawyer,  was  appointed  weXuAtan^neiimni  in  1771, 
attomey-genecal  in  1778,  and  conatitatRd  lord  dirf 
Justice  of  the  oourt  of  Comaon  Pleas  In  17BD,  v^m 
he  was  dtovated  to  the  peerage  as  Barow  LionoB- 
BOROUOR,  Iff  Loughberought  to  the  eeuntif  qf  L^- 
eeeter.     In  1783  his  loordahip  was  appointed  flnt 
commissioner  for  keeping  the  great  seal;  and  he 
was  constituted,  27th  January,  1793»  lori>  bioh 
CBANORLLOR  OW  GrBAT  B  RITA  IV.     in  1796   Loid 
Loughborough,  having  no  iatuie  of  his  own,  ob* 
tabled  a  new  patent,  creating  him  Banm  Lough- 
borough, of  Loughborough,  in  tfasooonty  of  Surrey, 
with  remainder  to.<his  sister  J\nkte*r  sons,  fay  her 
husband,  Sir  James  Ersklne,  Bart.,)  his  nephews. 
Sir  James  St.  Chiir  Erskine,  Bart,  and  John  Ers- 
kine,  Esq.;  and  he  ^ras  advanced,  in  1801,  to  the 
Earldom  of  Rosslyn  with  a  similar  ranalndcnhfp. 
His  lordship  m.  Urst,  Betty-Anne,  daughter  and  heir 
of  John  Dawson,  Esq.,  of  Morby,  in  Yorkshire, 
and  secondly,  Charlotte,  daughter  of  William,  ¥is- 
oount  Courtenay,  but  had  no  iasue.    The  earl  d. 
3rd  January,  18U5,  when  the  honours,  ereatod  by  the 
patents  of  1796  and  1801,  devolved,  ateording-  to  the 
limitation,  upon  his  nephew.  Sir  Jamm  St.  Clair 
Erskine,  Bart.,    and  the  Barony  or  Loicobro- 
RODOH,  in  the  eotmtif  of  Leieeater,  became  rx- 
Tiwcr. 

ARxa.'-^Ar.  on  a  cherron  betwem  three  roses 
gules,  barbed  and  seeded  ppr.  a  flear-d&4ifl^  ar. 

WELLES— BARONS  WELLE& 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  6th  February,  1SB0, 
87  Edward  L 

The  first  of  this  family  mentioned  by  Sir  William 
Dugdale  is 

ADAM  DE  WELLES,  who,  in  the  0th  of 
Ricliard  I.,t  paid  ten  marks  for  adhering  to  John, 
Earl  of  Moteton,  who  at  that  time  asvomed  mane 
authority,  during  his  brotlier's  captivity,  than  he 
was  afterwards  able  to  justify.  After  this 
came 


*  In  Scotland  the  judorb  assume,  upoa  being 
raised  to  the  bench,  the  designation  of  nobility,  but 
they  are  merely  Mmter  lords.  In  England  a  pme- 
tice  somewhat  slmitanr  anciently  prevailed,  the 
jcTDoaa  being  usually  summoned  to  parUaBaent 
amongst  the  barons,  to  give  their  Bdeiee,'  but  they 
were  not  regarded  as  peers  of  the  realm,  nor  did 
the  writ  of  summons  ooDstitote  an  hereditary  peer- 
age in  the  flunily  of  the  parson  summoned  A 
recurrence  to  this  old  custom  at  a  period  when 
the  peerage  has  become  so  overstocked  with  law 
lords,  might  be  Arand  now  a  salutary  tM^i^nrt  to 
reform. 

t  In  Camden,  Richard  na  Wrllrr  Is  stated  to 
have  held  the  manor  of  WeUes  ever  since  tiie  Cost- 
quest,  by  the  lerrlce  of  being  baker  to  the  ki^g. 


WEL 


WBL 


WILLIAM  DE  WELLES,  who,  in  tlM  9Ch  of 
Mhnt  gave  fifty  morlu  for  0110  knlf  hf  s  foe  in 
GiemMby,  in  the  county  of  Lincoln,  end  wee  «.  by 
another 

WILLIAM  DE  WELLES,  who,  In  the  11th 
Edward  I.,  obtained  Uoenie  for  a  weekly  market 
and  a  yearly  foir  at  hie  manor  of  Alfourd,  in  Lin- 
oolneUre.  He  m.  babel  de  Veici,  and  wee  «.  by 
his  Mm, 

ADAM  DE  WELLES,  who,  in  the  ttnd  En- 
WAKD  I.,  wee  in  the  wan  of  Gaicony,  and  wae 
•onunoned  to  parliament,  as  a  babom,  on  the  6th 
February,  UB9,  in  which  year  he  wae  made  con- 
etable  of  Rockingham  Caetle,  and  warden  of  the 
forest.  The  next  year  he  was  in  the  wars  of  Sco^ 
land,  and  again  in  1301  andiaOS;  and  had regutar 
summonses  to  perliement  to  the  year  of  his  deoiase, 
1311,  when  he  was  «.  by  his  son, 

ROBERT  DE  WELLES,  second  baron,  but 
never  summoned  to  parliament.  This  nobleman  d, 
in  two  years  after  he  luul  attained  nuOority,  anno 
1380,  and  leering  no  issue,  was  «.  by  his  broUier, 

ADAM  DE  WELLES,  third  baroo,  summoned 
to  parliament  ftom  flOth  July,  1339,  to  JOth  April, 
1343L  This  nobleman,  at  the  period  of  his  brother's 
death,  was  only  sixteen  years  of  age  s  he  attained 
his  miOority  in  the  flOth  Edward  II.,  and  doing  his 
homage  had  livery  of  his  lands.  In  the  7th  Ed- 
WAnn  III.  his  lordship  was  in  the  wars  of  Scotland* 
and  again  in  two  years  afterwards,  at  which  latter 
period  he  was  a  ki^i^t.  In  the  16th  of  the  same 
reign  he  was  diarged  with  ten  men  at  arms,  and  tsn 
archers  for  the  king's  service  in  France,  and  the  like 
number  in  the  next  year.  His  lordship  d.  in  1345, 
and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  DE  WELLES,  fourth  baron,  summoned 
to  parliament  on  the  lAth  December,  1357,  and 
90th  November,  1360i  The  wardship  of  this  no- 
bleman, who  was  a  minor  at  his  father's  deoeese, 
was  granted  to  Margaret,  widow  of  William,  Lord 
Ros,  of  Hamlake.  In  the  SSnd  of  Edward  III., 
although  still  in  minority,  be  caused  his  tether's 
executors  to  purchase  a  rent  of  ten  pounds  per 
annum,  frgm  the  monks  of  Bardney,  for  the  be> 
hoof  of  the  abbess  and  nuns  of  GreneOdd,  which 
monastery  was  founded  by  his  ancestors ;  in  con- 
sideration whereof  they  obliged  themselves,  and 
their  successors,  to  find  two  fitting  priests,  to  oel»< 
brate  mas§m,  mattetu,  plaeabo,  dirge,  and  eommend- 
ation,  every  day  in  the  chapel  of  our  lady,  within 
that  their  monastery  of  Orenefield,  for  tlie  health 
of  the  souls  of  his  lordship's  predenssors.  His 
lordship  had  livery  of  his  lands  in  the  89th  of 
Edward  IIL,  and  in  four  years  afterwards  he  was 
in  the  wars  of  Oascony.  He  d.  in  1361,  and  was  «. 
by  his  son, 

JOHN  DE  WELLES,  fifth  baron,  summoned 
to  parliament  ttmn  flOth  January,  1376,  to  86th 
February,  1491.  This  nobleman  served  in  tlie  ex- 
pedition made  into  Flanders,  in  tlie  retinue  of 
John,  Duke  of  Lancaster,  in  the  97th  of  Edward 
HI.,  and  in  the  1st  of  Richard  II.,  was  in  the 
wars  of  France^  The  next  year  he  was  in  the  gar- 
rison of  Berwick,  under  Henry  Percy,  Earl  of 
Northumberland,  its  governor.  His  lordship  sub- 
sequently obtained  license  to  travel  beyond  sea. 


and  retuning  In  the  8th  of  RicBAmn  11.^  had 
leave  to  go  abroad  again  tot  the  vindication  of  his 
honour,  having  received  some  afftont  from  a 
knight  in  France.  He  seems  to  have  come  home 
solely  to  procure  letters  testimonial  vouching  for 
his  credit  and  reputation.  After  this  we  find  him 
in  the  Scottish  wan;  and  hi  the  liRh  of  the  same 
reign,  he  was  ambassador  to  Scotland,  where  during 
his  sojourn,  being  at  a  banquet,  where  deeds  of 
arms  becoming  the  subject  of  conversation,  his  lord- 
ship exdaimed,  «'  Let  tocrda  have  no  ptaee;  if  ye 
know  not  the  ^ioalr^  €uid  vaHunt  doede  tif  Engiish- 
men  /  appoint  nte  a  dot  «nd  place  when  ye  Uet,  and 
pe  ehdii  have  eitperienee.**  Thle  challenge  was  im- 
mediatdy  accepted  by  David,  Earl  of  Crawford, 
and  London  Bridge  appointed  as  the  place  of  com* 
bat.  The  battle  was  fought  on  St.  George's  day, 
and  the  Scottish  earl  was  declared  victor.  Indeed 
he  displayed  such  an  extraordinary  degree  of  prow- 
ess, that  notwithstanding  the  spear  was  broken 
upon  his  helmet  and  visage,  he  remained  so  ita* 
movably  fixed  in  his  saddle,  that  the  spectaton 
cried  out  that  in  defiance  of  the  laws  of  arms,  he 
was  bound  thereto.  Whereupon  he  dismounted,- 
and  got  up  again,  and  ran  a  second  course;  but 
in  the  third.  Lord  Welles  was  unhorsed  and  flung 
to  the  ground;  on  which  Crawford  dismounting, 
embraced  him,  that  the  people  might  imdentand 
that  be  had  no  animosity,  and  the  earl  subse- 
quently visited  his  lordship  with  great  courtesy 
until  his  recovery.  Of  this  Lord  WeUes  nothing 
fkirther  Is  known,  than  the  period  of  his  decease, 
anno  1491;  although  for  dght  yean  afterwards, 
summonses  appear  to  have  been  regularly  issued 
to  his  lordship.  But  there  are  other  Instances  upon 
record,  of  summonses  having  been  directed  to  ba- 
rons after  their  deaths,  probably  fh>m  ignorance 
that  the  decease  occurred.  The  cese  of  Maurice, 
the  fourth  Lord  Berkeley,  is  a  remarkable  instance ; 
he  d.  in  1388,  and  summonses  were  addressed  to 
him  until  1380.  Lord  WeUes  was  «.  by  (the  son  of 
his  decsased  ddest  son,  Eudo,  by  his  wife,  Maude, 
daughter  oi  Ralph,   Lord  Oreystock)  his  grand- 


SIR  LEO  DE  WELLES,  as  sixth  baron,  sum- 
moned to  parliament  from  95th  February,  1439,  to 
30th  July,  1400.  This  nobleman  reorived  the  ho> 
nour  of  knighthood,  in  the  4th  of  Henry  VI.,  firom 
the  Duke  of  Bedford  at  Leicester,  with  the  young 
king  himsdf,  and  diven  other  persons  of  rank* 
His  lordship  for  several  yean  after  served  with 
great  honour  in  France,  and  was  made  Lisvtb- 
JKAMT  OP  IsBLANo  for  scveu  yean,  in  the  16th 
of  the  same  reign.  When  the  fatal  finid  between 
the  Houses  of  York  and  Lancaster  broke  out. 
Lord  WeUes  arrayed  himself  under  the  banner  of 
the  latter,  and  adhering  to  his  coloun  with  un- 
bendfaig  fidelity,  foil  at  the  battle  of  Towtow 
FiBLD,  on  Palm  Sunday,  1461.  His  lordship  m. 
flnt,  Joane,  daughter  and  heir  of  Sir  Robert  Water* 
ton,  Rnt.,  and  had  issue, 

RiCHABD  (Sir),  who  m.  Joane,  daughter  and 
heir  of  Robert,  Lord  Wllloughby  de  Eresby, 
and  was  summoned  to  pariiament  in  her 
ri^t,  as  LoBD- Wix«LOUORBT,  from  96th 
May»  145^»  to  98th  February,  1460. 
4  C  561 


WEL 


WEL 


Ahanoftwu  toThoiiiM»  Locd  HooMdHM^ 

tags  (a0e  that  dignity). 
Margaret,  m.  to  Sir  Thomat  DyiDoke,  Kiit. 
€«dl7.  fik  to  Sir  Robert  Wilkmghbr,  mh  of 

Sir  ThonuM  WiUoughby,  of  Pariiain. 
Catharine*  ak  to  Sir  ThomM  da  Laimde,  Knt., 
and  had  imie,  tiro  daughtara,  Uaeo4ieixB, 
▼li. 

JoAMS,  m.  to  William  Denton,  Baq.,  and 
liadaeon, 

JoRir  DcMTOir.    - 
Maigvet,  tm.  to  Thomaa  Bcricriay*  Eaq., 
Mid  had  two 
WiUiam. 


Loid  WdUea  capouaed,  laoondly,  Mifgaret,  lifter 
and  heir  of  Sir  Jcrtm  Beauchamp,  of  Bktdioe,  and 
widow  of  John  Beanlhrt,  Earl  of  Sometwt  (by 
whom  aha  was  mother  of  Margaret.  Counteia  of 
Rldimond,  mother  of  King  Henry  VII.)»  and  had 


J0HX4  rraatad  ViacouNT  Waxxaa  (lee  that 
dignity). 
Ab  attainder  fbDowed  his  lotdahip^  rieccaee,  under 
which  the  Bakoiit  ov  WxLura  beaune  fforMted : 
hut  his  100, 

SIR  RICHARD  WKLLES,  Lord  WiDoughby, 
bad  a  grant  in  the  4th  of  Edward  IV.,  through 
the  king's  especial  fitYOur,  of  all  thegoods,  chat- 
tels, and  moveables,  whereof  his  flither  died  pas- 
seswd  t  and  the  next  wisuing  year  had  restitution 
of  the  manors  of  Welles,  and  other  estates  in  the 
county  of  Lincoln,  with  lands  in  Northnmber- 
land.  In  three  years  afterwards  (1468)  his  lordship 
obtained  a  full  restitutian  in  blood  and  hooouFi. 
But  this  good  fortune  had  a  brief  endurance, 
for  the  next  year,  Richard  Nevlll,  the  stout  Eam, 
or  Wakwick,  taking  up  arms  for  the  restoration 
of  Hbmky  VI.,  made  Sir  Robert  WeBcs,  son  and 
heir  of  Lord  WiUoughby  and  Walks,  a  brave  and 
able  commander,  general  of  the  Lancastrian  forces. 
Whereupon  Sir  Robert  drove  Sir  ThomaB  Burgh, 
a  knight  of  the  king's  houa^  out  of  Lincolnshire, 
pulled  down  his  dwelling,  leised  upon  all  hb  goods 
and  chattels,  and  at  the  head  of  thirty  thousnd 
of  the  people,  raised  the  standard  of  Lancaster, 
and  cried  Kittg  Hbitkt.  Of  this  insurrection 
■o  soon  as  King^  EnwABO  had  intdligcnce,  he  sum- 
moned the  Lord  WiUoughby  and  Welles  to  his 
prsBsnoe,  but  that  nobleman  on  arriving  In  Lon- 
don, with  his  brother-in-law.  Sir  John  Dymoke, 
and  leaming  that  the  king  was  highly  incensed,  fled 
to  sanctuary  at  Weetminster,  and  there  deter- 
mined to  remain  untU  his  wrath  was  assuaged. 
The  king  hoping,  however,  to  terminate  the  dis. 
turbanoe  in  Linoofaishire,  without  being  obliged  to 
take  the  ileld,  sent  for  his  lordship,  and  induced 
him  to  leave  his  asylum,  upon  a  loleaBB  promise  of 
sefety.  He  then  required  of  Lord  Welles,  to  com- 
mand  his  son  to  lay  down  his  arms,  and  in  the 
interim  marched  at  the  bead  of  what  forces  he 
could  ooUectinto  Lincolnshire,  taking  Lord  Welles, 
and  Sir  John  Dymoke,  with  him.  But  when  be 
arrived  within  two  days*  jonmay  of  Stamford,  where 
Us  advenaries  were  auttonad,  he  leaned  that  Sir 
Robert  Welles  had  refused  to  obey  the  fa^unctioos 
(Ml 


of  Ua  Ihtfeer,  whidi  had  been  cobvcjfMI  to  ImIib  by 
letter,  and  hemming  enraged  at  the  xefttsal  he 
cansed,  in  violation  of  his  royal  proaoise,  the  heads 
of  Lord  Welles  and  Sir  John  Dymoke,  to  be  foctb- 
with  cut  oA  In  revo^  of  this  act  of  treachery. 
Sir  Robert  Welles,  without  awaiting  the  oowiing 
up  of  WarwidL,  attacked  the  royal  army,  although 
superior  in  number  to  that  which  he  commanded* 
but  after  a  most  gallant  and  obstinate  struggle*  his 
men  at  length  desertfaig  him,  sustahmd  a  defeat, 
and  being  made  prisoner,  was  iiniwediafrty  be- 
headed. The  death  of  the  fsthcr  and  his  heroic 
son,  took  place  almost  at  the  same  time  In  1409,  and 
they  were  both  ATTAixTBD  after  the  reatontion  oC 
Edward  IV.,  in  1474.  Lord  WiUoughby  and  WeUea 
had  iasue,  by  the  heiress  of  Willoegliliy, 

RoBBRT  (Sir),  the  gallant  soldier  whoee  fate 
we  have  just  ramrdad.  He  died  without 
iasue,  leaving  a  widow,  Elisabeth,  dau^ler 
of  John  Bourchier,  Lord  Bemara.  Her  lady- 
ahip  survived  her  husband  but  one  year, 
when  she  bequeathed  her  body  to  be  intened 
with  his,  in  the  diurcfa  of  the  ftlars,  at 


JoANB,  ak  to  Ridiard  Hastings,  Esq.,  iMttthar 

of  WUUam,  Lord  HMtings,  chsBaberlnlB  t» 

Kingr  Edwau>  IV. 

To  Sir  Robert  WeUes,  succeeded  his  only  sister,  the 

above  mentioned 

JOANB  HASTINGS,  wlmse  husband, 

SIR  RICHARD   HASTINGS,  had   so  moch 

favour  from  King  Eovabd,  that  he  ohtuaed  a 

apecfad  Uvary  of  all  the  caatka,  manors,  lordahipa» 

and  hmds,  whereof  Richard,  Lord  Wcilea  and  WU- 

loughby,  and  his  aon.  Sir  Robert  Wdles,  died  poa- 

sessed,*  and  was  summoned  to  peTtianwnt,  as 

"  RichandoBmttimgmde  ITsUs*.  aU'r,'*oo  the  15Cfa 

Novenaber,  1488,  and  9th  December,  1403.     His 

lonbhip  had  an  only  son,  Amtrovt,  who  peede- 

oaaaed  Um.    He  died  himself  in  U08,  when,  if  hia 

summons  to  parliament  be  deemed  a  cootinvation 

or  ran  old  BAaomr  of  WBi.x.Ba,  (bnt  it  most  be 

recollected  that  the  attainder  was  never  reveiaad,) 

that  barqay  faU  into  abbyahcb,   aaymgat   the 

deacwidanta  of  the  daughters  of  Lbo,  the  sixth  Lord 

WeUest  but  if  the  sunmaons  be 

creetian,the  barony  at  his  kirdahip'ai 

then  BKTiKCT. 

AiuBe.-^r.  a  lion  rampant,  doable  quevee,  aa. 

WELLES— VISCOUNT  WELLES. 

By  Letters  Patent,  temp.  Hxkry  VIL 

ICIncage. 

JOHN  WELLES,  only  child  of  Mm,  eixth  Lobd 
WBI.I.BB,  by  hia  aecond  wife,  Margaret,  Cunnteas 
Dowager  of  Somereet,  having  taken  up  arms  in 

•  In  the  act  of  attainder,  epedal  proviaion  ia- 
made,  that  Richard  HaaCinga,  ahouldc^foy  oertaha 
manova  that  bdonged  to  the  aald  basons,  in  oonsl- 
deration  of  his  heving  married  Joan%  siatar  and 
heir  of  Robert  de  Weiiee,  and  also  of  hb  loyalty 


WEN 


WEN 


behalf  of  Mt  kSmmtti,  Hbhvt*  (/JUdhmoMtf,*  was 
made  ooostable  of  tlie  caitla  of  Rocfclagbam*  and 
steward  of  Rodtingtaam  Foreat,  after  the  acccarion 
of  that  peiaoMage  to  die  throne  aa  Hbitbt  VIL 
He  waa  ako  elevated  to  the  peerage  by  letten 
patent,  (but  the  date  ia  not  known,)  aa  ViaooDKT 
WBI.LB8,  and  was  summoned  to  parliament  hi  that 
dignity,  on  the  Ist  Septembeti  1487.  He  waa«fter- 
wards  made  a  Knight  of  the  Garter.  His  lordship 
m.  the  Lady  Cicily  Plantagenet,  daughter  of  King^ 
BovrABD  IV.,  and  sister-in-law  to  Kimg  Hxnby 
VIL,  by  whom  he  had  two  daughters, 

="'^«"' Uho  both  ffled  #.  j». 
Ahkb,  J 

He  died  in  1489,  whan  the  Viacowrv  ov  Wbllbb 

became  XXTINCT.    His  lordship's  widow  espoused 

Sir  John  Kyme,  of  Lincolnshire. 

Arms. — Or.  a  lion  rampant,  double  querte,  sa. 

armed  and  langued,  gu. 

WENLOCK— BARON  WENLOCK. 

Created  in  1461. 

Xincagc. 

In  the  17th  Hbnby  VI. 

JOHN  WENLOK,  or  WENLOCK,  was  consti- 
tuted escheator  for  theoountias  of  Buckingham  and 
Bedford}  shortly  after  whidi,  coming  to  court,  he 
was  made  uaher  of  the  chamber  to  Qmmh  Mar- 
OARBT,  when  he  had  the  title  of  esquirst  He  was 
next  knighted,  and  appointed  governor  of  Bam- 
burgh  Castle,  in  Northumberland.  In  the  88th  of 
the  same  reign  he  was  constituted  chambbblaih 
to  the  queen,  and  he  fought  on  the  side  of  Lan- 
caster at  th«  first  battle  of  St.  Albans,  when  he  was 
severely  wounded.  After  this  we  find  him  ad- 
vancing a  sum  of  money,  as  a  loan,  to  King 
HxNRY  VL,  and  subsequenUy  chosen  a  Knioht 
OF  THB  Gabtbb.  Notwithstanding  these  high 
honours.  Sir  John  Wenlock  Joined,  soon  after,  the 
standard  of  York,  and  fought  under  that  baxmer 
at  the  battle  of  Towton-fldd,  for  which  deMrtion 
be  waa  rewarded,  by  King  Edwabd  IV.,  with  a 
grant  of  the  oflices  of  chief  butler  of  England,  and 
steward  of  Um  castle  and  lardaUp  of  Berkhampsted, 
in  Hertfordshixek  He  waa  also  raised  to  the  degree 
of  a  baron,  as  Lord  Wbjtlock,  ef  JKenioek,  in  the 
county  of  Salop,  and  sworn  of  the  privy  counciL 
In  the  first  pfviod  ot  King  Edward's  reign  his 
lordship  was  employed  upon  confidential  embassies 
to  the  courts  of  Burgundy  and  France,  and  he  was 
constituted  Ueutenant-^vemor  of  Calais,  and  the 
marches  adiaoent.  But  afterwards  joining  the  Earl 
of  Warwick,  in  the  attempt  to  restore  Hbwrt  VL, 
he  had  a  command  at  the  battle  of  Tewkesbury, 
where  he  is  said  to  have  been  slain  by  the  Duke  of 
Sometaet,  who  furiously  deft  his  head  with  his 
iMttie-axe*  for  neglecting  to  come  up  in  time, 
whoveby  the  battle  was  lost,  and  the  fate  oi  the 
unhappy  Hbitbt  YL  decided  for  ever.    His  lord- 


•  He  was  uncle  by  the  half  blood  to  Henry,  Earl 
of  Richmond,  afUrwards  Hjiiiby  VIL 


ship  m.  BUaabeth,  dangfater  and  co-heir  of  Sir  John 
Drayton,  but  had  no  iasua    HeA  in  1471,  when  the 
Babqiiy  of  Wbitlock  became  bxtiitct. 
AAMBe— Ar.  a  chevron  between  time  Uackamoonf 


JVM8.--<The  Banmy  of  Wenlock  haa  Juat  now 
been  conferred  upon  Sir  Robbbt  Lawlby,  Bart.* 
whose  ancestor,  Thomas  Lawley,  inherited  as  next 
heir  the  estates  of  Lord  Wodock,  at  Ida  lordship's 
In  1471. 


WENTWORTH  —  BARONS  WENT- 
WORTH,  OF  WENTWORTH- 
WOODHOUSE,  VISCOUNT 
WENTWORTH,  BARONS 
RABY,  EARLS  OF  STRAF. 
FORD. 


Barony, 
Viscounty, 
Earldom,  and 

Barony    of 

Raby, 
Earldom, 


by  Letters 
Patent, 


SOthJuIy,  14B8. 
10th  Dec.,  1098; 

I2th  January,  1640L 

4th  September,  171L 


ICintagc. 


The  surname  of  Wbntworth  ia  said  by  genealo* 
gists  to  have  been  derived  in  Saxon  times,  from 
the  lordship  of  Wcntworth,  in  the  wapentake  of 
Stbapvord,  in  Yorkshire,  wliere,  at  the  time  of 
the  Conquest,  lived 

REGINALD  DE  WINTERWADE,  (as  the  name 
was  written  in  Domesday  Book«)  whoae  lineal  de> 
scendant, 

WILLIAM  DE  WYNTWORD,  of  Wyntword» 
ei.  in  the  time  of  Hxhby  IlL,  Emma,  daughter 
and  heir  of  William  Wodjrtious,  of  Wodehons,  by 
wluMn  he  acquired  that  estate,  and  taking  up  his 
abode  there,  the  Aunily  have  since  been  designated 
the  "  Wentworths  of  Wcntworth-Woodhouse." 
He  was  #.  by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  WENTWORTH,  of  Wentworth- 
Woodhoose,  who  m.  Beatrix,  dau^ter  of  Gilbert 
Thakd,  and  had  two  sons, 
Wii*LiAM,  his  successor. 
Richard,  Bishop  of  London,  and  CbakcbXi* 
iiOB  or  EireZiAHD,  in  1338. 
The  elder  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  WENTWORTH,  m.  DyonisU, 
daughter  of  Peter  de  Rotherfldd,  and  had  two  sons, 
William,  his  successor. 
John, «.  -^,  daughter  and  heir  of  — —  Elm- 
sail,  of  ElmsaU,  in  Yorkshire^  by  whom  he 
acquired  that  estate,  and  dying  «« p*  left  it 
to  his  nephew,  Jobk. 
The  elder  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  WENTWORTH,  succeeded  bis 
father  in  1996,  and  m,  Isabel,  daughter  and  co-heir 
of  William  Pollington,  of  PoUlngton,  In  the  county 
of  York,  and  had  issuer 

William  (Sir),  his  heir. 

John,  who  inhCTited  Em%^ll,  from  his  uncle» 

and  marrying  Joan,  daughtsr  of  Richard  de 

Toys,  of  Buigh^Walleys,  in  Yorkshire,  waa 

patoiarch  of  the  Banna  and  Viaoounts  Went- 

«3 


WEN 


WBK 


worth  t  tbe  Kali^tlT  Ikmlly,  taittd  «t  Bnt- 
too,  with  diTen  other  bnmdMi. 
William  de  Wontworth  was  «.  hy  hit  elder  eon, 
•   SIR  WILLIAM  WENTWORTH,  who  m.  Iiabel 
(or  Lucf),  daughter  and  heir  of  Robert  Hooten* 
of  HooCen-Roberta,  te  Yorkahin»  and  was  «.  by  his 


SIR  WILLIAM  WENTWORTH,  who  esponsed 
I^ucy*  daughter  and  oo>hetr  of  Walter,  son  end  beiT 
of  Henry  de  Tynneslow.  of  TymMdow,  aleo  in 
Yorkshire,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 
.  THOMAS  WENTWORTH,  who  wedded  Isabd, 
.daughter  of  Sir  William  Ftamiag,  Knt.,  of  Waith. 
His  grandson, 

SIR  THOMAS  WENTWORTH,  fought  va- 
liantly on  the  side  of  King  HsNav  VI.,  at  thebat- 
Uebf  HcxHAM,  Sd  April,  1483,  when  he  was  made 
prisoner  with  tlie  Duke  of  Somerset  and  others. 
He  m.  Joen,  daughter  of  Sir  Rldwrd  Redman, 
Knt.,  of  Harwood  Tower,  and  was  «.  by  his  elder 
son,' 

WILLIAM  WENTWORTH,  Esq.,  who  m.  in 
the  30th  of  Hbnby  VI.,  isabella,  daughter  of  Sir 
Richard  Fits-Williams,  of  Aldwark,  in  Yorkshire^ 
and  sister  of  William,  Earl  of  Southampton,  by 
whom  he  had  four  sons,  Tbomab,  his  successor, 
Ralph,  George,  end  William,  and  a  daughter,  Eli- 
Mibeth,  who  m.  first,  Thomas  Lea,  Esq.,  oi  Mid- 
dleton,  and  secondly,  Henry  Arthington,  Esq.  Mr. 
Wentworth  d,  in  1477»  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest 
son, 

SIR  THOMAS  WENTWORTH,  who  reoelred 
the  honour  of  knighthood  for  his  bravery  in  the 
•battle  of  Spurs.  This  gentleman,  being  a  person  of 
great  opulence,  went  by  the  name  of  OoUen  Thomas. 
Ke  paid  a  fine  to  be  excused  ttma.  being  created  a 
Knight  of  the  Bath;  and  in  1008,  he  obtained  a 
license  ftom  Hnxnv  VIII.,  to  wear  his  bonnet, 
and  be  covered  in  the  roysi  presence,  because  he 
was  infirm.  He  m,  Beatrix,  daughter  of  Sir  Ridi- 
ard  Woodnnre,  of  Walley,  Knt.,  and  widow  of 
John  Drax,  Esq.,  of  Woodhall,  and  had  issue, 
William,  his  suooessor. 


Michad,  of  Mendham,  in  Suilblk,  comptroller 
to  the  quean,  m,  Isabel,  daughter  and  heir 
of  Perdval  Whitley,  Esq.,  of  Whitley,  in 
the  county  of  York,  and  wis  progenitor  of 
the  Wcntworths  of  Wooley. 

Thomas,  of  Scorby,  m.  Grace,  daughter  of 
John  Oaecoigne,  Esq.,  of  Ladngcrofk. 

Bryan. 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  Ralph  Durham,  Esq. 

Isabd,  m.  to  Nicholas  Wombwell*  Esq.,  of 
Thwmerdiflb,  Yorkshire. 

Beatrice,  m.  to  James  Wonrall,  Esq.,  of  Lower- 
slate,  also  in  Yorkshirsk 
Sir  Thomas  d.  in  1048,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest 


WILLIAM  WENTWORTH,  Esq.,  who  m. 
Catherine,  daughter  of  Ralph  Beeston,  Esq.,  oi 
Beaston,  and  dying  in  1540,  was  «.  by  his  eldest 
son, 

THOMAS  WENTWORTH,  Esq.,  High  Sheriff 
•of  the  county  of  York,  In  the  SSth  Elisabeth;  m. 
•Margaret,  daughter  and  heir  of  Sir  WlWam  Gas- 
M4 


ooignlbf*  Knt.,  of  Gawthorpe,  by  which  alBaBce  bo 
acquired  the  manor  and  seat  of  Gawthorpe,  C«»- 
worthr  ^Ec,  and  his  dasoendants  became  co-hetei 
to  the  Baronies  of  Ferrers  of  Wemme,  and  Boteler 
of  Wemme,  then  (and  still)  in  absyahcb.  He 
had  issue, 

William  (Sir),  his  successor. 

Elisabeth,  wu   to  Tbomes  Denby,  Esq.*  of 

Femley. 
BerbarBf  d.  unmartied» 

Margaret,  m.  first,  to  Mlchad,  son  and  heir 
of  John,   Lord  Darcy,   and  secondly,   to 
Jasper  Blythman,  Esq.,  of  New  Luthes. 
Catherine,  m.  to  Thomas  Gargravet  Esq.*  of 
Nestd-Priory,  in  Yorkshire. 
Mr.  Wentworth  d.  14th  February,  1006-7*  possessed 
of  lands  in  the  county  of  York,  to  the  amount  of 
i£6000  a-year,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR   WILLIAM  WENTWORTH,    of  Went- 
worth Woodhouse,  Gawthorpe,  Stc    This  gentle- 
man was  High  Sheriir  of  Yorkshire,  in  the  iMt 
year  of  Queen  Elisabeth,  and  was  created  a  ba- 
BOMBT  on  the  S9th  of  June,  1611.    He  m.  Ame, 
daughter  and  heir  of  Sir  Robert  Atkins,  Knt.*  of 
Stowell,  in  the  county  of  Gloucester,  by  whom  he 
had  three  sunrlTing  sons,  and  three  daughters,  via. 
1.  TBOMA8,  his  successor. 
8.  William  (Sir),  of  Ashby-Poeroram,  in  Ldn- 
oolndilre.     This  gentleman  was  knighted 
by  King  Charles  L,  and  fsD  at  MABBxtat- 
MooB,   fighting  under  the  royal  baoner. 
Sir  William  Wentworth  m.  EHnbeth,  daugh- 
ter and  co-heir  of  Thomas  Savile,  of  Ilassul 
don  Hall,  in  the  county  of  York,  and  had 
with  a  daughter  Anne,  who  ak   Edward 
Skinner,  Esq.,  of  Thornton  College,  Lin- 
colnshire, one  snrriTii^  son, 

William  (Sir),  High  Sheriff  of  Yotfc> 
shire^ in  the  94th  of  Cbablbb  II.;  m. 
Isabella,  daughter  of  Sir  Allan  Appaley. 
KnL,  treasurer  of  the  hmisehold  to 
James,  Duke  of  York,  and  had  iaaoOb 
L  William,  a  military  oAoer,  <!.  ub- 
married,  in  1669,  while  eerviag  es 
captain  of  hone  in  Flanders. 
II.  Thomab,     who    sucoeeded    Us 
cousin,  the  Earl  of  Stxaflbid*  in 
the  Babowv  or  Rabt. 
IIL  Peter,  of  Henbury,  in   Donet- 
shire,  m.  JuHana*  only  daughter  of 
Thomas  Hordi^  Esq.,  of  Cotes,  in 


*  Mabt  FBBBBBa,  younger  danghtsr  and 
heir   of    Sir  Robert  Feners,    Lord  Ferrers,  of 
Wemme,  espoused 

Ralph  Nbtil,  a  younger  son  of  RaJ^,  Eail 
of  Westmorland,  and  had  a  sob, 

John  Nxttl,  who  m.  EliaabeCh,  dangjb- 

ter  and  heir  of  Robert  Nowmaicb,  and 

left  en  only  daughter  and  hiJiesi, 

JoAHB  Nbtil,  who  m.  Sib  Wiif 

LTAM  Gasooiowb,  and  her  daagh- 

ter  end  heiress, 

Maroabxt  OAaeoioiiB,  es- 
poused Thomas  Wcntwarth, 
asbithetazc 


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the  oounty  of  Oxford*  uul  had 

•orriTing  Iwac^ 
William*  lite  raooeiiorf  who 
m.  Siuamuif  daughter  of  — — 
Slaughtor,  Biq.>  ot  Upper 
Shiui^ter  Hall,  in  the  county 
of  Gloueester,  and  had  two 
lODs  and  three  danghten, 

FaBDBaiCK-THOMABvWho 

succeeded  to  the  Eakl- 
DOK  or  STBArroRD,  at 
the  death  of  his  cousin, 
Thomas,  second  Earl  of 
the  second  creation. 


CaroUna. 
Augusta. 

Annei  m.  to  Jidin  Hatfleld 

Kaye,  Esq.,  of  Hatfield 

Hall,  Yorkshires 

Harriet,  m.  to  Thomas,  son  and 

heir   of    Francis    Arundel, 

Esq.,  of  StolM-Bruers  Park, 

Northamptonshire 

IV.  Paul,  fUl  at  the  siege  of  Namur, 

in  16B0,  unmarried. 
V.  Allan,    hilled    hi    storming  the 
citadel  at  Liege,  in  1708,  and  d. 
unmarried. 

VI.  Frances-Arabella,  m.  to  Walter, 

Lord  BeDew,  of  Ireland. 

VII.  Anne,  m.  to  James  Donolan,  Esq., 

of  Irdand. 
VIII.  Isabella,  m.  to  Francis  Arundel, 
Esq.,  of  StiAe-Bruen  Park. 
UL  Elisabeth,    m.    to    John,    Lord 
Arundel,  of  Trerise. 
3.  George  <Sir),  of  Wooley,  M.P.  for  Pon- 
tefract,    in  1640,  but   disabled   Arom   sit- 
ting  on   account  of   his  loyalty  to  Kinir 
Charlbs  I.,  received  the  honour  of  knight- 
hood, made  general  of  the  fdrces  in  Irdand, 
and  sworn  of  the  privy  council  of  that  king- 
dom.   Sir  George  m.  — — »  daughter  of  Sir 
Francis  Ruishe,  Knt,  of  Sam,  In  the  Isle 
of  Thanet,  and Icfta son, 

RuiBBs  WniTTWOBTH,  of  Sarre,  who  m, 
Susanna,  sister  of  James  Adye,  Esq., 
ci  Barham,  in   Kent,  and  dying  in 
1686,  left  an  only  child  and  heir, 
Maby,  m.  to  Thomas,  Lord  How- 
ard, of  EflBngham, 

1.  Mary,  m.  to  Sir  Richard  HooCnn,  Knt.,  of 
Goldesburgh,  in  Yorkshires 

2.  Anne,  m.  to  Sir  Crerrase  Sarile,  Bart.,  of 
ThornhiU,  also  in  the  oounty  oi  York. 

S.  Blisaheth,  m.  to  James  Dillon,  Earl  of  Roe- 
oommon,  the  celebrated  poet. 
Sir  William  Wentworth  d.  in  1614,  and  was  s.  by 
his  eldest  son, 

SIR  THOMAS  WENTWORTH,  second  baronet 
{b,  13th  April,  inS),  who  became  afterwards  so 
conspicuous  in  the  troubled  times  of  Uia  virbt 
CHABLBa.  In  the  reign  of  Jambs  I.,  Sic  Tho- 
mas was  member  of  parliament  for  the^  county  of 
York»  and  also  in  the  btyinning  of  that  of  his  sue- 


oassori  but  the  latter  monardi,  soon  after  Ms 
alon,  eierated  Mm  to  the  peerage,  by  letters  patent, 
dated  SM  July,  16B8,  as  Babom  WamniroBTB,  of 
Wentworth- Woodhouse,  and  he  was  advanced  on 
the  10th  of  the  ensuing  December,  to  the  degree  of 
ViacovMT  Wbbtwobtb.    The  nest  year  his  kwd- 
ship  was  sworn  of  the  privy  council,  made  Lord 
Lieutenant  of  the  oounty  of  York,  and  president 
of  the  north.    In  February,  1638-3,  he  was  nomi- 
nated Lord  Deputy  of  Irdand ;  £rom  which  govern- 
ment he  was  recsUed  to  command  as  lieutenant- 
general  in  the  army  then  raised  against  the  Scots. 
In  1640,  he  was  created  Babon  Rabv,  ^  Ra6r 
Qutle,  in  the  bishopric  of  Durham,  (with  remainder, 
ddhult  his  own  male  issue,  to  his  younger  brothers, 
and  their  issue  male*)  and  Eabl  or  STBAProBO. 
Soon  after  which  he  was  madeaKiriOBT  or  tbb 
Gabtbb,  and  constituted  Lord  Libutbhant  or 
IbblJlnd.    About  this  period  the  republican  and 
puritanical  parties  prevdiling  in  parliament,  Stiaf- 
ford  became  an  object  of  their  greatest  distrust, 
and  the  destruction  of  his  lordship  was  deemed 
IndiiqpensaMe    to   the  acoomplidunent    of    their 
ulterior  prGjects.    An  impeachment  against  him 
was  therefore  immediatdy  voted  by  the  commons, 
and  Pym  deputed  to  carry  it  up  to  the  House  of 
Lords.     The  earl  was  Just  entering  to  take  his 
seat,  when  he  was  apprised  of  the  prosecution, 
and  ordered  into  custody.     He  was  subsequently 
brought  to  trial  on  the  S2d    March,  1640-1,  but 
his  prosecutors  were  unable  to   ertablish   their 
diarges  according  to  the  laws  of  the  land,  and 
were  therefore,  after  an  investigation  which  lasted 
eighteen  days,  in  which  StralRird  deported  himself 
with  a  degree  of  firmness,  moderation,  and  wisdom, 
that  extorted  admiration  fkom  his  bitterest  foes, 
obliged  to  resort  to  the  very  unusual  and  uncon- 
stittttiooal  mode  of  proceeding  by  bill  of  attainder. 
So  determined,  however,  were  the  ,  commons  to 
condemn  him,  that  the  bill  was  brought  in  and 
passed  on  the  same  day.      It  was  read  twice  In 
the  morning,  and  the  third  time  In  the  afternoon ; 
and  carried  by  804  voices,  against  68.    But  in  the 
lords,  its  progress  was  not  so  triumphant  t   and 
when  it  finally  passed,  forty-five  peers  only  were 
present,  of  whom  tweuty-eiz  voted  in  the  aflBrma- 
tiveb    In  the  end,  the  unhappy  nobleman  was  sacri- 
ficed to  the  damour  of  the  mob,  and  his  own 
magnanimous  consideration  for  the  precarious  posi- 
tion of  his  royal  master.    The  populace  goaded  to 
ftensy,  flocked  around  Whitehall,  where  the  king 
resided,  calling  aloud  for  Justice,  and  accompsny- 
ing  thdr  savage  vodfiwations  with  open  and  fiuious 
menaces.  The  queen  and  conndl  were  appalled:  they 
advised  Cbabi*bb  to  sign  the  doom  of  the  most  fidth- 
folof  his  servants.  Juson,  Bishop  of  London,  alone 
had  the  fmtitude  to  counsd  the  king  not  to  act 
contrary  to  his  consdenca.    But  the  earl  hearing  of 
his  maiesty's  irresolution  and  anxiety,  immediatdy 
addressed  him,  and  with  a  devotion  almost  onpand- 
Ided,  besought  him  for  the  seke  of  puUlc  peao^ 
to  put  an  end  to  his  unfortunate  however  blame- 
less, lifo,  and  to  quiet  the  tumultuous  populace,  by 
conceding  the  request  for  which  they  were  so  im- 
portunate  (see    note  at  /hot).      The  king  gave 
at  last  a  most  rdtictaot  assent;  and    Thomtug 

805 


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yiOp  of   tlM 


teUMd.     He  iuflhMd 


Xaai.  of  0rBArvo»D»  tlM 
moMRlij.  «ai  tinw,  in 
hta  ttgt,  cnwigmwl  to  the 
death  with  his  cfaandHtotte 
HiU,oathelSthMsy.lMI.  Hto  lonMrip  It  aBoMd 
to  hsTe  poMMMd  mfliiy  i 
hem  fudowed  with  gvMt  netunl 
had  •  cttltlTated  iiaderftandiQg,< 
noble bearlBf;  bat hs is eeeoaed of  pridOi— .«,«»«, 
and  ambition  and  the  epitaph.  wMch  Plntaich 
sayithat  Sjlla  wrote  for  hhnMif,  ieqiiotcd 
appropriate  to  hit  tomb,  '«That  no  nm  did 
exceed  him  In  doinf  good  to  his  friends,  or  in  doing 
mischief  to  his  enenriest  for  his  acts  of  bothidnds 
wew  most  notorious."  As  rakr  of  Ireland,  he  to  desig- 
nated, we  imr  too  justly,  by  the  title  of  a  crmI,  rape- 
cious  and  Tindlctive  tyrant  Amongst  Ms  Utterest 
foes  was  Sir  Harry  Vtee^  sod  he  to  said  to  have 
incurred  the  enmity  of  that  osMarated  person,  by 
taking  the  title  of  Raby.  from  Raby  Castle,  then  hi 
possession  of  the  knight.  The  eari  m.  first.  Cady 
Margaret  CUAitd,  danghter  of  Prancto,  Earl  of 
Cumberkmd,  which  lady  died  «.  p.  He  espoused, 
secondly.  Lady  Arabelto  HoUes,  danghter  of  John, 
Earl  of  Claro.  by  whom  he  hadissne, 
William,  hto  succesiur. 
Anne.  m.  to  Edward  Watson,  Earl  of  Rock- 
Ingham,  and  had  isBttOk 
Lnwia  WATaow,  third  Eari  of  Rocking- 

hauL 
Thomas  Watsok,  who  aasumed  the  name 
of  WmmronrH  npon  inheriting  the 
estates  of  hto  maternal  uncle. 
Arabella,  m.  to  John  McCarthy,  son  of  the  Earl 
of  Glancarty,  In  Ireland. 
The  earl  wedded.  tUrdly,  EUaabeth,  daughter  of 
Sir  OodArey  Rhodes,  Hnt.,  of  Great  Honghton,  fai 
Yorkshire,  by  whom  he  had  a  son,  Thomas,  and  a 
daughter,  Mary,  both  of  whom  d,  unmarried.    Hto 
aider  son, 

WILLIAM  WENTWORTH.  wee  lestored  by 
patent,  after  the  re-estabiiahment  of  the  monarchy, 
to  all  hto  foCher^  honours,  and  was  ti****!!^'*  a 
Knight  of  the  Garter.  Hto  hirdsfalp  wu  llrat.  Lady 
Henrietta^Maria  Stanley,  danghter  of  James,  Eari 
of  Derby,  and  eeeondly,  Henrietta,  danghter  of 
Frederick  Charles  de  Roy  de  U  Rochefoucauld, 
generalissimo  of  the  foicee  of  the  king  of  Den- 
mark,  but  d.  without  iesne  fat  UBff,  when  the 
greater  pert  of  hto  estates  derolred  upon  hto 
nephew*  the  Hononiable  Thomas  Watson,  son  of 
Edward,  Earl  of  Rockingham,  and  all  aia  no- 
Kouna  beeaoae  nzTiwcT,  aave  the  Babovy  or 
Rabt,  which  peeeed,  eoeordii^  to  the  special  limi- 
tation in  the  patent,  to  hto  kinenuBi  (revert  to  tosne 
of  Sir  William  Wentworth,  of  Aahby  Pneronim, 
eecnnd  son  of  the  fost  beronet), 

THOMAS  WENTWORTH,  Eeq.,  w  third  Ba- 
Bon  Rabt.  Thto  nobleman  had  in  early  lifo 
adopted  the  pmfessloii  of  arms,  end  serred  under 
William  IIL  in  Flandemi  whero  he  eequirod 
high  reputation,  partieularly  at  the  bottles  of  Stein- 
kirk  and  Landen.  In  the  Mign  of  Queen  Anne  he 
shared  in  eereral  of  the  glorious  <«Mwp««gi>«  of 
Marlborough,  and  was  repeatedly  ambimador  lo  the 
courts  of  BerUn,  Vienna*  and  the  Slatm  General. 


Hto  locfoMf  «w  adranced  hi  eoBsidantSaa  of  Ms 
eminent  eerrleas,  tay  letMn  paiantp  dated  dth 
tnsiber,  1711.  to  thedigmttoaof  FUevmtU  I 

^  ITentiMH*  nVadtonss,  and  V  AMnAw.'^vi.. 
Eaml  of  Stbawomp.  with  special  remainder  to  Ids 
hncher  Peter.    Hto  leidehip  «.  Anne,  daugfateraond 
hair  of  Sir  Henry  Johnson,  Knt..^  Bradenham  in  /I 
theconntyof  Bncks^bywhomhthadiasuew     MurlX^' 

William,  hto  surnasmt.  4  ^  ^^^  c  ^,  - 

Anne,  m.  to  the  Right  Honourable  Willinm^H. 
OonoUy,  eneof  hto  waa^mtft  priry  oouadi  ^ 
inlrsland.  * 

Lucy,  m.  to  Oolonei  Sir  Geome  Howard. 

Henrietta,  m.  to  Henry  Temen.  Eeq. 
Hto  lordship,  who  was  a  Knight  of  the  most  nofate 
order  of  the  Gartsr.  d.  hi  179^  and  was  «.  by  his 


WILLIAM  WENTWORTH.  seceeid  fieri  of 
Strallbtd.  of  the  new  creation.  Thto  nobicm^ 
espoused  Lady  Anna  Campbell,  daughter  of  John. 
Dukeof  ArgyU,  but  dyhig  «.  ji.  in  X7»l.  the  honours 
passed,  noodeding  to  the  Umitation,  to  hto  oousin 
(rerert  to  tosueof  Sir  William  Wentworth.  eecood 
son  of  Sir  William,  the  Brat  beronet), 

FREDERICK  -  THOMAS  WENTWORTH. 
Esq.,  as  third  Earl  of  StraAnd.  Thto  wrtdemnn 
d.  at  hto  seat,  Henbury,  in  Doiseldiire,  without 
issue,  in  1^,  when  the  BAnoBT  op  Raby,  the 
Viscounty  or  WsNTwonTn,  and  Eabldom  of 
SnAFFOBo,  became  azTiircr. 

ABM8^«-8a.  a  dkerron  between  three  leoparde* 
heads,  or. 

Not9.^LaMt  letter  from  Thomas,  Earl  of  Straf- 
ford, to  King  Charles  I. 

**  May  it  plaaee  your  Sacred  M^^tye, 

"It  hath  bin  my  greatest  griefs  in  aU  these 
troubles,  to  be  taken  as  a  person  which  should 
endeevour  to  repreeent  and  sat  things  amiesc  be> 
twesn  your  uM^leBty  and  your  peoplet  end  to  give 
counseUstandlng  to  the  disquiet  of  the  three 


Meet  true  it  is,  that  thto  mine  owne  priYate 


since  through  your  gnrious  foYOur  I 
provided,  as  not  to  e^MCt  In  eny  kind  ro  mend  my 
fortune,  or  pieeie  my  mind.  inor%  then  by  restii^ 
whero  your  bounteous  hands  had  plaoed  me. 

"  Nay,  It  to  most  mightily  mietekcn,  for  unto 
your  nujeety  it  to  well  knowne^  my  pooro  end 
humble  advlsSB  onnrlndeil  still  in  thto,  that  your 
miOoBty  and  your  people  could  never  bee  happy, 
till  thero  wero  a  right  uadeist ending  betwixt  yon 
and  them :  no  other  meanas  to  eihct  and  eattle  tide 
happinene,  but  by  the  oouaoeil.  and  eaMnt  of  par- 
Uamenti  or  to  prevent  the  gnmingevib  upon  thto 
state,  but  by  entirely  puttlof  your  eelfoin  the  toat 
resort,  upon  the  loyalty  and  good  ailbrtfame  of  your 
Engltoh  suttJecth 

*«  Yet,  such  to  my  misfortune,  thto  troth  fonloth 
little  crsdit,  the  contrary  sesmeth  generally  to  be 
bdieved,  and  myeeifo  reputed,  aa  aometliing  of 

you  and  your  peoplet  nndera 
which  I 
gentle 

«« Now,  I  nndewtand  the  minds  of 


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balkdwiandl*  ttet  in  yow  vrlaotly  opiaten;.!  am 
not  guilty  of  traaion,  nor  an  yon  Mtiifyed  in  your 
oooacionce  to  pane  the  MIL 

"  This  bringeth  ma  into  a  very  groat  straight, 
thara  i«  bcfoia  ma  the  mine  of  my  children  and 
family,  hitherto  nntondiad,  in  all  the  hrandiet  of  it 
with  any  ftmle  Crimea.  Hera  is  before  ma  the  many 
ills,  which  may  b^Ul  your  sacred  parson,  and  the 
whole  kingdome,  should  yourselfa  and  parliament 
part  less  satisfied  one  with  the  other,  then  is  necea- 
cary  for  the  preMrradon  both  af  king  and  peopla 
Hera  are  before  ma  the  things  most  valuad,  most 
feared,  by  mortal  man,  li/b  or  death, 

«« To  say.  Sir,  that  there  hath  not  bane  a  strife 
in  ma,  ware  to  make  ma  laisa  man,  than  Ood 
knowath  my  infirmities  give  me^  And  to  call  a  de- 
struction upon  mysdfe  and  young  children,  (where 
the  intentions  of  my  heart,  at  least  have  beene 
innocent  of  this  great  oflteoe,)  may  be  beliered, 
will  find  no  easie  consent  fkom  flesh  and  bloud. 

**  But  with  mudi  sadnene,  I  am  come  to  a  reso- 
lution, of  that  which  I  take  to  be  most  becoming  in 
me,  to  looke  upon  that  which  is  most  prindpall  in 
itself;  which  doubtlem  is  the  proeperity  of  your 
sacred  person  and  the  common-wealth,  inflnitdy 
before  any  private  man's  interest. 

*'  And  theiellwe,  in  few  words,  as  I  put  myselfe 
wholly  upon  the  honour  and  Justice  of  my  peers, 
BO  clsarly,  as  to  beieedi  your  nu^mtf  might  have 
spared  that  dedaratlon  of  yours  on  Saturday  last, 
and  entirely  to  have  left  ma  to  their  lordships :  so 
now,  to  set  your  nu^estiaB  conscience  at  liberty,  I 
doe  most  humbly  beseech  your  majesty,  in  preven- 
tion of  mistakes  which  may  happen  by  your  refu- 
sal!, to  passe  this  bUlt  and  by  this  meanes  remove, 
(praysed  be  God,)  I  cannot  say,  this  accursed,  (but 
I  cwnftisse,)  this  unfortunate  thing  forth  of  the  way, 
towards  that  Messed  agreoment,  which  Ood*  1  trust, 
shall  ever  establish  betwaena  you  and  your  sub* 
Jacta^ 

*'  Sir,  my  consent  shall  more  acquit  you  herein 
to  God,  than  all  the  world  can  doe  besides.  To  a 
willing  man  there  is  no  injury  daaa.  And  as  by 
God's  grace  I  forgive  all  the  world  with  a  calmnessa 
and  meeknesse  of  infinite  contentment  to  my  dis- 
lodging soule,  so.  Sir,  to  you  can  I  give  the  life  of 
this  worU,  with  all  the  cheerfulnesse  imaginable ; 
in  the  Just  acknowledgment  of  your  exceeding 
Ikvoun.  And  only  begge  that  In  your  goodnessa,  you 
would  vouchsafo  to  cost  your  gradous  regard  upon 
my  pooiw  Sonne,  and  his  tluee  sbters,  laise  or  more, 
and  no  otherwise,  then  as  their  (In  present)  vmfor- 
tunata  fotber,  may  hereafter  appear  more  or  lesse 
guilty  of  thto  death. 

«*  God  long  preserve  your  M^iestye, 
"  Your  Majesties  most  faithf^  and 
«  humble  Subject  and  Servant, 
"  STRAFPonn." 

"  Tower,  4th  Ma^,  Ifitt.** 

WENTWORTH  —  MARQUESSES  OF 
ROCKINGHAM. 

Refer  to  Watsoii,  Barwu  Ro€kimghamf  4F' 
The  Bonmtratle 
THOMAS    WATSON,  Mcond  son  of  Sdwfd 


Wmuem,  aecond  Ler4  I1ockin0ham,  by  Ladp  An  irn  r>^  ^ 


,   Inherltad  the  Wentworth  estates 


^    i 


upon  the  demise  of  his  uncle,  William,  Earl  of 
Straiford,  In  1696,  and  assumed  the  additional  tur-^^  w 
name  of  Wnn rvonra  i  tnai  this  gentleman  da-      rjf 
scendad  the  Marquesses  of  Rockingham.  "^^^S. 

WENTWORTH  —  BARONS   WENT-  Jt 

WORTH,        EARL        OF  ,^   • 
CLEVELAND,  VISCOUNT  M^ 
WENTM'ORTH,  OF  WEL. 
LESBOROUOH. 

Barony,  by  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  2nd  Dec,  IfiS9,  ^ '  "^ 
21  Henry  VI 11.  *A*^ 

Sarldom,    \  by  Letters  J  Ath  February,  1096.     ^^^  ^ 
Viscounty,  >    Patent.   \  4th  May,  1762.  y^   -C^ 

THs  fhmily,  although  of  grsat  antiqnity  fai  the  ^  ^ 
county  of  York,  did  not  attain  the  honour  of  thw 
peerage  until  the  time  of  HnwRT  VIIL,  when 

THOMAS  WENTWORTH,  Esq.,  son^Sir 
Ridiard  Wentworth,  Knt,  of  NettlesCed,<^  the 
county  of  SuflbDc,  was  summoned  to  porllnment,  -?•  /^  ff^^ 
by  writ,  aa  Barov  WnnrwonTn.  His  lordship  m. 
Margaret,  daughter  of  Sir  iodxow  Forteeene.  Knt., 
by  Anne,  dani^tter  and  heir  of  .Sir  William  Stonor, 
Knt,  (by  Anne,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  John  Nevil, 
Marquess  of  Montacnte,)  and  had  issue, 

TnoicAa,  his  siiccsesor. 

Henry  (Sir),  m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Sir 
Christopher  Olenham. 

Richard,  m.  to  Margsrat  Roydon. 

Anna,  m.  to  Sir  John  Foley,  of  Bradley,  in  the 
county  of  SuA>lk,  Knt. 

Cidly,  M.  to  Sir  Robert  Wingfleld,  Knt. 

Mary,  m.  to  William  Cavendish. 

Margaret,  wu  first,  to  John,  Lord  Williams, 

secondly,  to  Sir  WUUam  Parcy,  and  thirdly,    djf'u  /  </ 
toSirJohnCrofls.  ^  ..       l        •  ^n   / 

Joan,  m,  to  Henry,  Lord  Cheney.     /  Jni)^  ^  *  i-  ^oM  .X 

Ddfothy,  m.  to  Paul  Wethypoole,  Esq. 
His  lordaUp,  who  was  lord  dunnberiain  of  the 
household,  d.  in  IBSl,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest 
son, 

THOMAS  WENTWORTH,  second  baron,  sum- 
monad  to  parttament  fhnn  23fed  January,  1U8,  to 
4th  Februjuy,  IfiSO.  This  nobleman,  upon  the  de- 
mise of  EnvAnn  VL,  wes  one  of  Uie  first  who 
appeared  for  Qoena  Mary,  and  upon  her  mi^esty's 
Bcressinn  his  lordship  was  sworn  of  the  privy  coun- 
cil, and  ranstituted  deputy  of  Cabals,  and  the 
mardies  theteolL  In  which  high  trust  he  continued 
until  thasotrendar  of  that  place,  in  the  Sth  of  Mary, 
to  the  overwhelming  foeee  of  the  Duke  cf  Guise, 
after  being  held  by  the  BugUsb  for  upwards  of 
two  centurieSk  Lord  Wentworth  was  subsequently 
tried  by.  his  peers  on  suspicion  of  cowardice  or 
traadMry,  bnt  honourably  acquitted*  In  the  reign 
of  EUsabeth  his  lordship  was  one  of  the  noblemen 
who  sate  in  Judgment  upon  the  Duke  of  Norfolk,  and 
upon  Msry,  Qcann  op  Scotland.  He  m.  Anne, 
daughter  of  Sir  John  Wentworth,  Knt,  of  GosOeld, 
in  the  county  of  Essex*  aad  had  iasaob 


WEN 


WEN 


'  Thonust  who  m.  EUnteCh,  dauffMcr  of  Wil- 
liam, Lord  Buffhley,  but  d»  without  imw  in 
the  liliB-time  of  hi*  ftthar. 
HswaT*  hk  •ucccmot. 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  William  Hynde,  Esq.,  MB  and 
heir  of  Sir  Franda  Hynde,  KnL 
Hia  lordahip  d.  in  UOO,  and  was  «.  by  hi*  ton, 

HENRY  WENTWORTH,  third  baron,  aun- 
moned  to  parliament  I9th  February,  U03L  His 
lordship  m.  Anne,  daughter  of  Sir  Owen  Hopton, 
Knt.,  and  widow  of  Sir  William  Pope,  Knt,  by 
whom  he  had  issue, 

Thomas,  his  suoesMor. 

Henry,  nu^or-general  in  the  scnrioe  of  Kin^r 

Chablbs  I.,  d.  in  1644 
Jane,  m.  to  Sir  John  Finet,  Knt.,  of  West 
Keele,  in  the  county  of  Linootai. 
His  Umbhip  d.  in  lAM,  and  was  «.  by  his  elder 


THOMAS  WENTWORTH,  fourth  baron,  who 
was  created,  Ath  February,  1686,  Beron  Wemhtmtk, 
V  NeitUtted,  and  Eabl  or  Clbtblavo.  This 
Boblsman  was  one  of  the  most  sealous  supporters 
of  the  royal  cause  during  the  unhappy  times  of 
Charles  I.,  and  sullteed  much,  induding  imprison- 
ment in  the  Towsr  of  London.  He  had  the  satis- 
faction, however,  of  witnessing  the  restoration  of 
the  monarchy,  and  headed  a  body  of  three  hundred 
noblsmen  and  gentlemen  in  the  triumphal  proces- 
sion of  CBABi.B8  IL  into  London.  His  lordship 
m,  first,  Anne,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Crofts,  of 
Saxham,  in  the  county  of  Sullblk,  Knt,  and  had 
sunriving  issue, 

Thomas,  who  was  summoned  to  parliament 
as  Lord  Wentworth,  of  Nettlested.     His 
kirdship  m.  Philaddphia,  dau^ter  of  Sir 
Ferdinando  Carey,  Knt.,  and  dying  in  his 
fitther's  Ufe-time  Wt  an  only  daughter, 
Hbmbxbtta    Wbntwobth,    who    suc- 
ceeded her  grandlkthsr  in  the  Barony 
of  Wentworth. 
Annb,  m.  to  John,  Lord  Lorelaoe,  and  suc- 
ceeded her  niece  in  the  Barony  of  Went- 
worth. 
The  earl  espoused,  secondly,  Catherine*  daughter  of 
Sir  John  Wentworth,  Knt.,  of  Gosfleld  Hall,  in  the 
county  of  Essex,  and  had  an  only  child, 

Catherine^  who  m.  William  Spencer,  Esq.,  of 
Cople,  in  the  county  of  Bedford,  and  d. 


His  lordship  d.  in  1607*  when  the  Eabldom  or 
Clbtsland  became  bxtibct,  and  the  old  Barony 
of  Wentworth  deroWed  upon  his  grand-daughter, 

HENRIETTA  WENTWORTH,  as  Baroness 
Wentworth.  This  huly  resided  at  Toddington,  in 
the  county  of  Bedford,  with  the  unfortunate  Duke 
of  Monmouth,  whose  attachment  to  her  ladyship 
continued  until  his  decessft  Lady  Wentworth  sur- 
vived his  grace^s  execution  but  a  few  months,  and 
her  xcDudns  were  interred  under  a  costly  monument 
at  Toddington.  Her  ladyship  d.  in  1686,  when  the 
barony  reverted  to  her  aunt  (rate  to  Issue  of  the 
Earl  of  Cleveland), 

Ladr  ANNE  WENTWORTH,  as  BaioneM 
Wentworth.  This  lady  (as  stated  above,)  m.  John, 
Lord  Lovelace,  and  had  Issue, 


JoKH,  who siK«eedeil  to  the  Baboht  of  htrra* 
liACB  on  the  death  of  his  fhther,  and  dying 
in  the  lili»>time  of  his  mother,  left,  by  his 
wife  Maifery,  dau^tcr  and  co-heir  of  Sir 
Edmund  Pye,  Bart.,  of  Bradenhsm,  in  the 
county  oi  Bucks,  an  only  surviving  child* 
Mabtha  LoTBiiACB,  who  succeeded  her 
grandmother  in  the  teony  of  Went- 
worth.   s.     S^y  ^   Irt^v^^;.    — 
Anne,  A  unmarried. 

Margaret,  m.  to  Sir  WUIiam  Noel,  Bart ,  of 
KIrby-Malory,  in  the  county  of  Leicneter, 
and  had  issue, 

SiB  Thomas  Nosl,  BaK.,  who  «f.  in 
1688,  «.jk,  and  was  «.  by  his  brother,  * 
Sib  Johh  Nobl,  BaK.,  who  m.  Mtty, 
daughter  and  co-heir  of  Sir  John  Ch>- 
berry,  of  Wincherter,  Knt.,  and  had 
two  sons  and  a  daughter,  via. 

1.  Sib  C&obbbbt  Nobi.,  Bort.,  who 
M.  Eliabeth,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Rowney,  Esq.,  of  Ox- 
ford,  and  had  a  son. 

Sib   EnwABn  Nobx,,    who 
inherited  the  BABoirr  or 
Wbntwobth  on  the  de- 
oeese  of  JferChe  Lsestece, 
Ladt  WBirrwOBTH.    in 
174S. 
8.  WilUem  Nod,  one  of  the  Judges 
of  thecourt  of  Common  Pleae« 
m.  Susanna,   daughter  of  Sir 
Thomas   TroUope,    BBrt.,    of 
Casewick,    in   the  county  of 
Lincoln,  agd  had  four  daugh- 
ters, his  co-heirs,  vis. 

Susenna-Maria,  m,  to  Thoooaa 
HiU,  Esq.,  and  was  mother 
of 

NoBL  Hill,  created.  In 
1764,  Babon  Hill. 
Anne,  d.  unmarried. 
Frances,  m.  to  Bennet,  third 

Earl  of  Harboroogh. 
Elisabeth. 
S.  Anne  Nod,  who  wedded  Fnncia 
Mundy,  Esq.,  of  Marfceaton,  in 
the  county  of  Derby,  M.P.  Itar 
Leicestershire,  and  had,  witfi 
younger  children, 

WBioBTaoN  MmiDT,  Eat^» 
ot  Markeaton,  M.P.  for 
Lekeitershire  s  m.  Mist 
Anne  Burdett.  and  was  «k 
by  his  SOB, 
FBAHcia  Nobl  Clabkb 
MuwDT,  Esq.,  of  Marfc- 
eaton HalL  TMa  gentle- 
man  was  the  author  of  ifae 
Deicriptive  Poeuis,  Nod- 
wood  Forest,  and  the  ran 
of  Nudwood.  At  his  do. 
cease,  hi  1816,  his  bust, 
by  Chantry,  was  placed  in 
the  county  hall  of  Derby, 
by  the  magistnttes  of  that 


.WBN 


WES 


thire.    He  wu  «.  by  hit 


THB  PSBSBNT 

Fjunrcis   Mviidy>  Esq.,  of 
If  arkeaton  HaU,  M.P.  for 
the  county  of  Derby,  who 
m.  in  1800,  Sarah,  daugh- 
ter of  Jolm  L.   Newton, 
Esq.,  Mickleover,  in  Der- 
bydiize,  and  has  iMue, 
Williim,  k  in  1801. 
Marian. 
Ixmiaa. 
Emely. 
Constance. 
Anne,  Lady  Wentworth,  d,  in  1607,  uid  was  s,  by 
her  grand-daughter,  (the  barony  bring  a4)udged  to 
her  in  parliament  by  desocnt,  and  amfixmed  in 
17W,> 

MARTHA  LOVELACE,  M  Baroness  Went- 
worth. Tliis  buly  assisted  at  the  coronation  of 
Queen  Anne,  and  walked  in  the  procession,  in  her 
place,  as  a  peeress.  She  m.  Sir  Henry  Jolmson, 
Knt,  but  d.  without  issue  in  1745,  when  the  Ba- 
■OHY  OP  Wxif TWOBTB  became  vested  in  the  family 
of  Nod,  and  her  ladyship's  cousin,  (refer  to  issue 
of  Margaret,  daughter  of  Lady  Anne  Wentworth» 
Baroness  Wentworth,) 

SIR  EDWARD  NOEL,  BarL,  of  Kirby  Malory, 
became  Babok  Wbmtwobth.  His  lordship  m. 
Judeth,  daughter  and  heir  of  William  Lamb,  Esq., 
of  Famdish,  in  the  county  of  Northampton,  and 
had  issue, 

Tbomab,  his  successor. 

Judeth,   m.  to  Sir  Ralph  Milbanke,   Bart. 
This  lady  and  her  husband  assumed  the 
additional  surname  of  «*Nobl"  upon  the 
decease  of  her  brother,  Thomas,  Viscount 
Wentworth.     She  d,  in  1822,  leaving  an 
only  daughter  and  heiress,  (Sir  Ralph  d.  in 
18M,) 
AnirA-lBABBLi.A,  ft.  17th  May,  ITM,  m. 
Snd  Janiury,  1815,  to  the  cdebrated 
poet,  Oeorg9,  Lord  Bybom,  and  has 
an  only  child, 
Ada  Bybob. 
EHnbeth,  m.  in  1777*  to  James-Bland  Bur- 
gess, Esq.,   (afterwards  Sir  James  Lamb, 
Bart.,)  but  died  «.  p,  in  1779- 
Sophia-Susanna,  m.  in  1777,  to  Nathaniel,  Lord 
Scarsdale,  and  dying  1782,  left  issue, 
Natranibl  Cubzoh,  heir  apparent  to 

the  Barony  of  Scarsdale. 
William  Cunon,  Idlled  at  Waterloo. 
Sophia-Caroline  Cunon,  m.  in  1800,  to 
Robert,  Viscount  Tamworth,  whod.  in 
1884,  issueless. 
His  lordship  was  advanced,  by  letters  patent,  dated 
4th  May,  1782,  to  the  dignity  oi  Viscount  Wbnt- 
woBTB,  tffWOieaborough,  in  Me  county  <ifLeiee*t«r, 
ant!  dying  in  1774,  was  «.  by  his  son, 

THOMAS  NOEL,  second  Viscount  Wentworth, 
and  ninth  successor  to  the  Barony  of  Wentworth. 
His  lordship  died  «.  p.  in  1815,  when  the  Visoountt 
became  bztinct,  but  the  Baboby  op  Wbxt- 
woBTH  Ml  into  ABBYANCB  between  bis  lordship's 


sister,  Jvdbtb,  Lad^  Milbanke,  and  his  nephew, 
the  H<moumbl«  Natbamibl  Cubbon,  as  it  still 
continueslwtwecn  Lady  Milbanke^sonly  child, 

ANNA-I8ABBLI.A,  Dowager  Lady  Bybon, 
and 

Mr.  Cunon. 
Abmb  of  the  Wentwcvths.    Sa.  a  chevron  between 
three  leopards'  heads  or.  a  orescent  for  diflbrence. 

WESTON— BARONS  WESTON,  OF 
NEYLAND,  EARLS  OF 
PORTLAND. 

Barony,    1  by  Letters  f  13th  April,  1688. 
Earldom,  j    Patent,   \  17th  February,  1633. 

ICineagc. 

RICHARD  WESTON,  one  of  the  Judges  of  the 
court  of  Common  Pleas,  temp.  Eliiabbtb,  was 
fktherof 

SIR  HIEROME  WESTON,  Knt,  of  BoxweO, 
in  Essex,  whose  son, 

SIR  RICHARD  WESTON,  Knt.,  was  employed 
in  the  reign  of  Jambs  I.  as  ambassador  to  Bohemia 
and  subsequently  to  Brussels,  to  treat  with  the 
ambassadors  of  the  emperor  and  king  of  Spain, 
regarding  the  restitution  of  the  palatine.  Soon 
after  which  he  was  constituted  chancellor  of  the 
exchequer,  and  elevated  to  the  peerage,  on  13th 
April,  1088,  as  Babon  Wbston,  cfNe^land,  in  th« 
wuntp  af  Essar.  His  lordship  was  subsequently 
made  lobd  tbbabubbb  op  England,  invested 
with  the  Oabtbb,  and  created,  17th  February, 
1633,  Eabl  op  POBTI.AND.  He  m.  first,  Elisabeth, 
daughter  tA  William  Pincheon,  Esq.,  of  WTittle,  in 
the  county  of  Essex,  by  whom  he  had  issue, 

Richard,  who  d.  unmarried  in  the  earl's  life- 
time. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Sir  John  NetterviUe,  Knt, 

son  and  heir  of  Viscount  NetterviUe. 

Mary,  m.  to  Sir  Walter  Aston,  Knt,  son  and 

heir  of  Lord  Aston. 

The  earl  espoused,  secondly,  Frances,  daughter  and 

co-heir  of  Nicholas  Walgrave,  Esq.,   of  Boreley, 

in  Essex,  and  had  four  sons  and  four  daughters, 

▼is., 

Jbbomb,  his  successor. 

Tbomas,  who  succeeded  his  nephew  as  Earl  of 

Portland. 
Nicholas,  died  «.  p. 

Benjamin,   who  m.   Elixabeth,    daughter  of 

Thomas  Shddon,  Esq.,  of  Hawley,  in  Lei- 

oestershire,  and  widow  of  Charles  Villiers, 

Earl  of  Anglesey. 

Anne,  m.  to  Basil  Fielding,  son  and  heir  ot 

WilUam,  Earl  of  Denbigh. 
Mary-Frances,  m.  to  Philip  Drayoote,  Esq.,  of 

Paynsty,  in  the  county  of  Stafford. 
Catherine,  m.  to  Richard  White,  Esq.,  of  Hair 
ton,  in  Essex. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1634,  and  was  «.  by  his  ddest 
son, 

JEROME  WESTON,  second  Earl  of  Porthmd, 
who  fN.  Lady  Frances  Stuart,  daughter  of  Esme, 
Duke  of  Lennox,  and  had  Chablbb,  with  three 
4D  609 


WHA 


WHA 


duigfaten,  HcnrletU,  Mary,  «m1  FianoH.  Hte 
lordship  d,  16th  May.  1069,  and  wai «.  by  his  mb, 

CHARLES  WESTON,  thlfd  Earl  of  Portlaiid. 
Thii  nobleman,  falling  in  tho  great  nayal  angage- 
ment  with  tho  Dutch,  ard  June,  165A,  and  dying 
«.  p.,  waa  «.  by  his  uncle, 

THOMAS  WESTON,  ftnirth  Earl  of  Portland, 
who  m.  Anne,  daughter  of  John,  Lord  Butler,  of 
Bnunlield,  and  widow  of  Mounjoy  Biodnt,  Earl 
of  Newport,  but  dying  without  issue  about  the 
year  1688,  his  estates  passed  to  his  nieces,  (the 
children  of  the  second  ear!,)  as  co-heirs,  while  the 
BOKocaa  Iwcame  bxtikct. 

Ann  a.— Or.  an  eagle  regardant  and  displayed,  sa. 

WHARTON-BARONS    WHARTON, 

EARLS  WHARTON, 
MARQUESSES  OF 

MALMESBURY,  AND 
OF  WHARTON,  DUKE 
OF  WHARTON. 


Barony,  by  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  30th  4an.,  1545, 
86  Henry  VI IL 
Earldom,     '\  ^  Letten  (  ^^  December,  1706. 
Marquisate,  r  p-mt    i  ^*^  January,  1715« 
Dukedom,   J  '    (iOth  January,  1718. 


Xincssc. 

Of  this  fiunily,  which  derlTed  its  nimame  fhnn 
*'  a  fair  lordship"  situated  upon  the  river  Eoair, 
and  was  of  great  antiquity  in  the  county  of  West- 
morland, was 

SIR  THOMAS  WHARTON,  Knt,  governor  of 
the  town  and  castle  of  Carlisle,  who,  in  the  34th  of 
Hbnry  VIIL,  assisted  by  Sir  William  Musgrave, 
at  the  head  of  only  three  hundred  men,  gallantly 
resisted  an  incursion  of  the  Scots,  put  them  to  the 
rout,  and  made  prisoners  of  the  Earls  of  Cassilis 
and  Glencaim,  with  several  other  personages  of 
note.  In  two  years  after  he  marched  into  Scotland 
with  the  Lord  Dacre,  and  was  at  the  taking  of 
DumfHes ;  for  which,  and  other  eminent  services, 
he  was  summoned  to  parliament  as  Babon  Whak- 
TON,  on  the  30th  January,  1545.  In  the  Ist  of 
Philip  and  Mary,  his  lordship  was  constituted 
warden  of  the  middle  marches,  and  the  next  year 
he  was  made  general  warden  of  all  the  marches 
towards  Scotland,  and  governor  of  Berwick.  His 
lordship  m.  first,  EleanOT,  daughter  of  Bryan  Staple- 
ton,  Esq.,  of  WighiU,  in  the  county  of  York,  and 
had  issue, 

Thom Aa,  his  successor. 

Henry. 

Joane,   m.    to  William  Penington,   Esq.,  of 
Moncaster,  in  the  county  of  Cumberland. 

Anne,  m.  to  Sir  Riduurd  Musgrave,  Knt.,  of 
Harcla  Castle,  in  Westmorland. 
He  wedded,  secondly.  Lady  Anne  Talbot,  daughter 
of  George,  Eai\  of  Shrewsbury,  but  had  no  other 
children.  He  <L  in  1568,  and  was  «.  by  his  elder 
son, 

THOMAS  WHARTON,  second  baron,  sum- 
moned to  parliament  ftom  9d  April,  1571,  to  8th 

570 


May.intbaiMKtyasr.   His  lordship 

Anne  Devereux,  daughter  of  Robert,  Earl  of : 

and  had  issue, 

Phixjp,  his  wat 

Mary,  nu  to Oower,  Esq.,  of  Stittflohaaa, 

in  Yorkshirtti 
Anne,   m.    to  William  Woohidi,    Eaq.,   of 
Sussex. 
His  lordship  d.  in  157S,  and  was  «;  by  his  son*  then 
seventeen  years  of  affe^ 

PHILIP  WHARTON,  third  baron,  summoafod 
to  parliament,  from  6th  January,  1561,  to  I7th 
May,  1685.  This  nobleman  m.  Lady  Frances  Clif- 
ford, daughter  of  Uxirav,  Earl  of  Cumberiaad. 
and  had  issue, 

George  (Sir),  who  m.  Lady  Anne  Manneva, 
daughter  of  John,  Earl  of  Rutland.    Sir 
George  Wharton  fcU  in  a  duel  with  hia 
ftiend.   Sir  James  Stuart,   son   of    Lord 
Blantyr.    In  this  unfortunate  conflict  bolh 
combatants  were  slain,  and  both  intamd 
in  one  grave  at  Islington,  by  the  kia^a 
command,  10th  November,  I6OA1    SirGeorB^ 
d.  witlKmt  iasua 
Thomas  (Sir),  m.  Lady  Philadalpfaia  Carey. 
daughter  of  Robert,  Earl  of  MonraouUi, 
and  dying  before  his  ftther,  left  two  soen, 
Philip,  succeieor  to  his  grandfirthar. 
Thomas. 
Margaret,  m.  to  Edward  Wotton,  Bazon  Woi- 

ton,  of  Maherlcy,  in  Kent. 
Eleanor,  m.  to  William  Thwaytee,  Eaq.,  oC 

Long  Marston,  in  the  county  of  Yoifc. 
Frances,  m.  to  Sir  Richard  Musgrave,  K.B., 
and  Baronet,  of  Edenhall,  in  Cumbetlami, 
ancestor  of  the  present  Sir  Christopher 
Musgrave,  Bart. 
His  lordship  d,  in  1625.  and  wast. by  his  grandson, 

PHILIP  WHARTON,  fourth  baron,  summooed 
to  parliament  from  3d  November,  1638,  to  19th 
May,  1685.  This  nobleman,  who  attained  m^}oilty 
in  1634,  m.  first,  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  Row- 
land Wandesford,  Knt.,  of  Pickhay,  in  the  county 
of  York,  and  had  an  only  daughter, 

Elisabeth,  who  m.  Robert  Bertie^  then  Lord 

Willoughby  de  Eresby,  afterwards    third 

Earl  of  Lindsay,  and  is  now  lepteaentad  by 

Peter-Robert  Drummond-Burrell,  Lo&d 

WiLix>uoHBY  DB  ERxaBY,  eou  and 

heir  of 

Lady  Priscilla    Bertie,  Lady  Wil- 
loughby de  Eresby,  daugfatar  of 
Peregrine,  third  Duke  of  Ancaster. 
Georgiana  -  Cliarlotte,  widow  of  George 
James,  first  Marquess  of  ClKdmondeley, 
and  second  daughter  of  Peregrin^  third 
Duke  of  Ancaster. 
His  lordship  espoused,  secondly,  Jane,  daughter  of 
Arthur  Goodwin,  Esq.,  of  Upper  Wlnchcndon,  in 
the  county  of  Bucks,  and  had  two  soas  and  four 
daughters,  vis. 

1.  Thomas,  his  successor. 
9.  Goodwin. 

1.  Anne,  m.  to  William,  only  son  of  wmiam 
Carr,  Groom  of  the  Bed-chaaber  to  Uag 
James  I. 


WHA 


WHA 


S.  Vti^mt,  m.  to  lli0or  DuBch,  of  Puwy,  in 

Berkshire, 
a.  Mary,  m.  Unt,  to  WUlim,  son  and  heir  of 
Edmnnd  Thooua,  Esq.,  of  Wcraioe,  In  the 
county  of  Olaraoigant  and  aecondly,  to  Sir 
Charles  Kafloeya,  BarL,  of  Kerinmably,  in 
the  same  fhire^  M.P.  for  the  county.    Her 
ladyship*!  ckkat  dau^Mer  by  her  second 
husband, 
jAifB  KaMSTa*  espoused  Sir  John  Tynte, 
Bart.,   M.P.  ftv  Bridgwater,  and  was 
mother  of 

S»  HAI.8KWBX.I.B  Tymts,  third 

barooet,  who  d.  in  1730,  «.  p* 
SaJobw  Ttwtb,  ftwrth  baronet, 
in  holy  orders,  d.  umnairied  in 
174a 
Sfa  CHABMa  Kbmsts  -  Trwrn, 
ftwrth  baronet,  who,  on  the  de- 
cease of  his  unde.  Sir  Charles 
Kemeys,  Bart.,  «.  p.,  became  re- 
piesentatiTe  of  that  ancient  flunily , 
and  inherited  its  great  estates.  Sir 
Charles    Tynte    i«|weseiileil  the 
county  of  Somerset  in  parliament. 
He  d.  without  issue,  when  the 
baronetcy  expired,  and  his  estates 
devolved  upon  his  only  sister's 
daughter,  as  under, 
Janb  Tyntb,  m.  to  If^or  Hassel, 
and  left  a  daughter, 
Janb  Hassbi^  who  inherited 
the  estotes  of  the  Kemeys 
and  Tynte  families  upon  the 
death    of    her    unde.    Sir 
Charles  Kemeys  Tynta    She 
tn.  Colonel  Johnstone,  of  the 
Foot  Guards,  Groom  of  the 
Bed-chamber     fo      George, 
PanvcB    of    Wales,    after- 
wards   Obohob    IV.,    who 
assumed,   by  sign   manual, 
the  surnames  of  Kbmbtb- 
Trims.    Colonel  Tynte  d. 
in  I8O7*  md  was  «.  by  his 
only  son,  die  prsMnf 

Cbarlbb  Kbmbtb  Kb- 
MBT8  Tyhtb,  Esq., 
lf.P.  for  Bridgwater, 
colonel  of  the  Somerset 
Cavalry,  who  m.  Anne, 
rdict  of  Thomas  Lewis, 
Esq.,  of  St.  Plene, 
in  the  county  of 
Monmoath,  and  had 
issue, 

1.  Chablbb  -  John, 

A.  in  1800,  m.  Elisa- 
beth, third  daugh- 
ter of  Tliomas 
Swinnerton,  Esq., 
and  has  issue. 

2.  Anne,  m.  to  William 

Henry  Cooper, 
Esq.,  only  son  of 
the  Rev.  Sir  Wtt- 


Ham  Orey  Cooper, 
Bart. 

3L  Jane. 

4.  Louisa. 

B,  Henrietta. 

6,  Amiei 
4.  Philadelphia,  «.  first,  to  Sir  Geosge  Lock- 
hart,  Knt..  of  Camwath,  and  secondly,  to 
Captain  John  Ramsay. 
Lord  Wharton  wedded,  thirdly,  Philadelphia,  dangfa- 
ter  of  William  Carr,  already  mentioned  as  groom  of 
the  bed-chamber  to  King  Jambs  I.,  and  widow  of 
Edward   Popbam,  Esq.,  by  whom  he  had  a  son, 
William,  who  dL  unmanied.    His  lordship,  who  was 
a  violent  puritan,  and  an  active  parliamentary 
partisan,  temp.  Charias  L,  A  in  ms,  and  was  9,  by 
faisddestson, 

THOMAS  WHARTON,  llllh  baion.  This 
nobleman,  who  was  esteemed  a  profsund  and  do- 
qucnt  statesman,  having  devoted  himself  aealously 
to  accomplish  the  revolution,  was  cieated  by  Quam 
Ahmb,  by  letters  patent,  dated  Mth  December, 
17O6,  VUeount  Wbtdkemden,  in  the  county  of  Bucks, 
and  EARt.  Wharton,  in  Westmorlaad.  His  knd- 
ship  was  advanced,  in  1715,  to  the  dignities  of 
MARQUBsa  or  MALMRasuRT,  in  Wiltshire,  and 
MARQDBaa  or  Wharton  {  and  he  was  at  the  same 
time  made  a  peer  of  Ireland,  as  Baron  Trim,  Earl 
of  Rathflurnhnn,  and  Marquess  of  Catherlo^  Hie 
lordsliip  m.  first,  Anne,  one  of  the  two  daughters 
and  co-heirs  of  Sir  Henry  Lee,  of  Ditchley,  in  the 
county  of  Oxford,  but  by  that  lady  had  no  issucL 
H«  espoused,  secondly,  Lucy,  daughter  of  Adam 
Loftus,  Lord  Lisbum,  in  Ireland,  and  had, 
Philip,  his  successor. 

J"*^  lbothdied«.^ 
Lucy,  J  '^ 

The  marquess  d,  in  VflS,  and  was  «.  by  his  only 


PHILIP  WHARTON,  sixth  baron,  and  second 
marquess,  who  was  created  Dukb  or  Wharton 
on  the  SOth  January,  171&  Of  this,  the  eccentric, 
witty,  and  gifted  Lord  Wharton,  Walpole  thus 
spe^!  "With  attachment  to  no  party,  though 
with  talents  to  govern  any,  this  Uvdy  man  changed 
the  free  air  of  Westminster  for  the  gloom  of  the 
escurlal ;  the  prospect  €f  King  Oeotge^s  garter  for 
the  Pretender's;  and  with  indiflfcrence  to  all  rdi- 
gion,  the  frolic  lord,  who  had  written  the  ballad  on 
the  Ardibishop  of  Canterbury,  died  In  the  habit  of 
a  capuchin."  After  he  had  reodved  a  dukedom 
ftom  Gborob  I.  he  became  a  strenuous  opponent 
of  the  king's  government,  eventually  espoused  the 
tenets  of  the  ancient  church,  and  adopted  tiie  cause 
of  the  banished  dynasty.  In  parliament  his  grace 
attained  the  reputation  of  an  able  and  doquent 
speaker;  and  his  speeches  against  the  ministers 
were  delivered  with  mudi  eflbct :  in  the  instance  of 
the  South  Sea  afiUr  Lord  Stanhope  wassoexdted  by 
one  of  those  tirades,  that,  in  replying  with  extreme 
warmth,  he  burst  a  blood-vessd  axid  died.  Upon  the 
bill  of  Pains  and  Penalties  against  Bishop  Atter- 
bury,  his  grace  is  accused  of  having  deddved  the 
minister  by  pretending  to  take  part  i^iainst  the 
bishop,  and  having  thus  extorted  from  him,  imme- 
diatdy  prior  to  the  third  reading  of  the  biU,  the 

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whole  of  Ms  afgument,  aanb  down  to  tht  Hoow  of 
Lcnrda  the  next  day,  after  a  night  of  dehauch 
without  going  to  bed,  and  made  one  of  the  most 
masterly  speeches  in  fisTour  of  the  prdate,  antici- 
pating and  answering  all  the  argnmenta  which 
could  be  adduced  against  him.  His  grace  subse- 
quently retired  into  Spain,  openly  adopted  the 
colours  of  the  chevalier,  was  a  Tolunteer  in  the 
Spanish  army  before  Oitaraltar  in  1787*  end  was 
attainted  by  parliament  in  the  fiHlowing  year.  The 
duke  m.  first.  Miss  Hofancs,  daughter  of  Major 
Qetural  Holmss,  and  secondly,  Mias  O'Bieni,  maid 
of  honour  to  the  Queen  of  Spain,  and  dau^ter 
of  Colonel  O'Biem,  an  Irish  <^Bieer,  in  the  Spanish 
senrice,  but  had  no  issua  He  letired  at  last 
into  a  Spanish  monastery,  and  died  there  in  1731, 
when  ALZi  HIS  HOKODita,  save  the  Babomt  or 
-  WHARToir,  ifadependenUy  of  the  attainder,  became 
■ZTiNCT  {  but  were  that  act  repealed  the  barohy 
would  then  be  vested  in  the  present  Marchioness 
■Dowager  Cholmondeiey,  Lord  Willoughby  de 
Bresby,  and  Charles  Kemeys-Tynte,  Esq.,  M.P., 
of  Halsewdl  House,  in  Somersetshire  (refer  to  issue 
of  the  fourth  baron). 

Arm B.— 5a.  a  manch  ar.  within  a  border,  or.  an 
orle  of  lions  gambs  erased  in  salUer,  gu.  The 
border,  dec.,  being  an  augmentation  granted  by 
Edward  VI. 

WIDDRINGTON  —  BARONS    WID- 
DRINGTON. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  10th  November,  1643. 

SIR  WILLIAM  WIDDRINGTON,  Bart,  de- 
scended from  a  very  ancient  Northumbrian  fkmily, 
having  raised  a  considerable  force  for  the  royal 
cause,  and  participated  in  the  victories  of  the  Duke 
of  Newcastle,  under  whom  he  fought,  was  ele- 
vated to  the  peerage  by  King  Cbarlbb  I.,  Iiy  let- 
ters patent,  dated  10th  November,  1643,  as  Barok 
WiDDBiNOTON,  o/BlafOtMif,  in  thawunt^cfUn' 
coin.  His  lordship  eventually  fell,  in  the  fight  at 
Wigan  Lane,  when  the  Earl  of  Derby  was  defeated 
by  Colonel  Libume,  in  August,  166L  Of  this  no- 
bleman. Lord  Clarendon  observes,  that  **he  was 
one  of  the  most  goodly  persons  of  that  age,  being 
near  the  head  higher  than  most  tall  men,  of  a 
very  fair  fortune  i  and  one  of  the  four  of  which 
King  Charles  made  choice  to  be  about  the  person 
of  the  prhice,  his  son,  as  gentleman  of  the  privy 
chamber.  He  was  a  man  of  great  courage,  but  of 
some  passion;  by  which  he  incurred  the  ill-will  of 
many,  who  imputed  it  to  an  insolence  o€  nature, 
which  no  one  was  farther  from  in  reaUty."  Hte 
lordship  IN.  Mary,  daughter  and  sole  heir  of  An- 
thony Thorold,  R^t.,  of  Blankney,  in  tiie  county 
of  Lincoln,  and  had  surviving  issue, 

William,  his  successor. 

Edward,  Captain  of  Dragoons,  who  fiall  at  the 

battle  of  the  Boyne.    He  m.  Mass  Horsley, 

diughter  and  co-heir  of  Sir  John  Horsley, 

Knt.,  and  had  issue, 

Edward-Horsley    (Sir),    of  Horsley,   in 

Northumberland. 

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m.   to  Sir  WOBam 
BarL,andwi 

<rf  the  present  Sib  Tbbtob  Whmbi.i 
Ralph  was  engaged  in  the  Dntdi 

and  loat  his  eyes  tliereiB. 
Anthony,  d,  unmanled. 
Roger,  feU  at  the  sj^ge  of  Maeali  h  liL 
Mary,  m.  to  Fiands  Cran^   B*^>  ^ 

Woodrising,  in  Norfolk. 
Jane,  am.  to  Sir  Charles  Stanley,  K.B., 
grandaon  (thron^i  one  of  hia 
sons)  of  William,  Earl  of  Dcrivy. 
Hte  lordship  was  «.  by  hte  eldest  san» 

WILLIAM  WIDDRINGTON, 
Thte  noUeinan  ib.  EUaabeth,  daughter  of  Sir 
grine  Bertie,  Knt.,  of  Evedon,  in  the  oooaty  of 
Lincoln,  and  grand-daughter  of  Robert,  Ksol  of 
Lindsey,  by  whom  he  had  ftmr  aosis,  Wuxiam. 
hte  successor,  Henry,  Roger,  and  Edwards  and^ 
daoghters,  via. 
Mary.        ) 

Elisabeth,  Vtheee  ladies  wen  aU  Numb. 
DoQ»thy,  } 

Anne,  m.  in  1659,  to  John  Claveriag,  Esq.,  of 
Callaly,  in  the  county  of  NorthiudberlaBd* 
(a  descendant  of  the  Barons  Clavcita^f,  see 
Clatbbino,)  and  of  thte  marrii^  die  |v«- 
•ent  Edward  Clsvedng,  Esq.,  of  Callaly, 
is  the  representative; 
Catherine,  m.  to  -^  Southoote^  Esq. 
Hte  lordship  d.  in  1676,  and  was  «.  by  hte  eideat  i 

WILLIAM  WIDDRINGTON,  third 
espoused  Alathea,  daughter  and  heir  of  Charles, 
Viscount  Fairfax,  and  had  issue,  William,  hte 
successor,  Charles,  and  Peregrine,  with  two  d«ag^ 
ten,  vis. 
Mary. 

Elisabeth,  m.  Mannaduke,  fourth  Lord  haa^ 
dale. 
Hte  lordahip  d.  in  16B6,  and  was  «.  by  hte  eldeet  i 

WILLIAM  WIDDRINGTON,  fourth 
Thte  nobleman,  with  hte  brothers,  engaging  In  the 
rebellion  of  1715,  for  the  restomtion  of  the  Stuana. 
they  were  all  three  made  prisoners  at  Preston ;  and 
subsequently  tried  and  convicted  of  high  treasoa, 
7th  July,  1716.  But  in  the  next  year,  hte  losdshipk 
with  the  Messrs.  Widdrington,  and  several  man, 
received  a  royal  pardon,  while  hte  hoboubs  became 
forfeited  under  the  attaindbb.  He  m.  first,  Jane, 
daughter  of  Sir  Thomas  Tempest,  of  StsAla,  Ib 
the  bishopric  of  Durham,  and  secondly,  Mrs.  Gra- 
ham. He  d.  in  1743,  leaving  a  son,  Henry  Wid- 
drington, Esq.,  and  two  daughters,  Alathea  and 
AnncL 
ABMa«--Quarterty,  ar.  and  gu.  a  bend.  sa. 

WIDVILE  OR  WYDEVILE-BARONS 
RIVERS,  EARLS  RIVERS. 

Barony,    1  by  Letters  r»th  May,  144BL 
Earldom,/   Intent,    i S4th May,  14a& 

In  the  37th  of  Edward  IIL, 

RICHARD   DE   WYDVILL    was    oonatitutvd 
sbcriiTof  Northamptonshire,  and  govaiior  of  the 


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eaatle  there;  and  egeln  in  two  yeezt  alter.  In  the 
43d  of  the  Mme  fdgn,  he  was  made  CMheator  for 
the  countiei  of  Northampton  and  Rutland  t  and 
the  year  enauiog  he  was  once  more  sheriff  of  North- 
amptonshire* and  governor  of  Northampton  Castlew 
To  this  Richard,  succeeded 

JOHN  DE  WYDSVILE,  who,  in  the  time  cf 
RicHAJM>  II.,  flUed  the  same  offices  in  the  oountfes 
of  Northampton  and  Ruthmd.    He  was  «.  by 

RICHARD  DB  WYDEVILE,  who,  in  the  7th 
of  Hbhry  IV.,  was  likewise  sheriff  of  Northamp- 
tonsliire,  and  goTcnKnr  of  its  castle.  In  the  8th 
of  Hsury  v.,  being  then  one  of  the  esquires  of 
the  body  to  that  heroic  prince,  he  was  eonstitated 
seneschal  of  the  Duchy  of  Normandy,  and  of  the 
other  parts  of  France  under  the  dominion  of  the 
BngUsh  monarch.  In  the  ad  of  Henry  VI.,  he  was 
goremor  of  the  Tower  of  London,  and  tlie  next 
year  he  reoelTed  the  honour  of  knighthood  ftom 
the  king  at  Leicester.  Soon  after  this,  we  find  him 
lieutenant  of  Calais,  under  the  Duke  of  Bedford, 
and  residing  thereu  From  that  period  for  sereral 
succeeding  years.  Sir  Richard  Wyderile  was  con- 
stantly engaged  in  the  wars  of  France.  In  the  in- 
terval he  married,  without  licence,  Jacqueline  of 
Luxembuxgh,  dau^ter  of  Peter,  Earl  of  St.  Paul, 
and  widow  of  his  late  commander,  the  king's  uncle, 
John,  Duke  of  Bedford}  for  which  transgression, 
and  for  the  livery  of  the  castles,  manors,  and  lands, 
constituting  her  grace^s  dower,  he  paid  a  fine  of 
a  thousand  pounds.  He  served  afterwards  under 
Richard,  Duke  of  York,  and  was  elevated  to  the 
penage,  by  letters  patent,  dated  99th  May,  1448, 
as  BAROir  Rivaaa.  His  lordship  was  Airther  re- 
warded by  grants  ftom  the  crown,  amongst  which 
was  the  manor  of  Westhall,  in  the  county  of  Essex. 
He  was  made  likewise  a  Knight  of  the  Garter, 
and  appointed  leneschal  of  Acqultaine.  In  the  con- 
test between  the  Houses  of  York  and  Lancaster, 
Lord  Rivers  was  a  staunch  supporter  of  the  latter, 
until  his  daughter  became  Quxxn  Conbort  of 
Edward  IV.,  and  then  of  course  he  veered  to  the 
new  order  of  ailUrs.  His  Lancastrian  predilections 
were  forgotten  by  his  royal  son-in-law,  and  he  was 
raised  to  high  honours,  and  entrusted  with  high 
offices.  His  lordship  was  first  made  treasurer  of 
the  exdiequer,  and  afterwards  Cohstablr  of 
Emolavd,  for  life,  with  remainder  to  his  son, 
Anthony,  Lord  Scales,  also  for  lifSL  He  was  like- 
wise advanced  In  the  peerage  to  the  dignity  of 
Earl  Rivnaa,  by  letters  patent,  dated  94th  May, 
14861  but  the  neat  year  he  was  taken  out  of  his 
manor-house  of  Grafton,  by  RoUn  of  Ridsdale, 
at  the  head  of  the  revolted  Lancastrians,  and  car- 
ried to  Northampton,  where  his  head  was  cut  off. 
Stow  gives  a  different  vosion  of  the  manner 
of  his  lordship's  death.  He  states  that  being 
defeated  in  a  battle  by  Robin  of  Ridsdale,  near 
Banbury,  the  eari  flying  ftom  the  field,  was  made 
prisoner  in  the  forest  of  Dene,  and  conveyed 
to  Northampton,  where  he  was  beheaded  by  order 
of  the  Duke  of  Clarence,  and  the  Earl  of  Warwick, 
then  in  hostility  to  King  Edward.  By  the  Duchess 
Dowager  of  Bedford,  hb  lordship  had  issue, 

Amthokv,  his  successor,  who  m.  Ex.izabxtb, 
widow  of  Henry  Bourchier,  and  only  daugh- 


ter and  heiress  of  Thomas,  Lord  Scales,  tai 
whose  right  he  was  summoned  to  parlia- 
ment as  Barok  Scalbb,  from  99d  Deoem- 
ber,  1468,  to  the  93d  of  the  ensuing  Feb- 
ruary. 
John,  put  to  death  with  his  lather. 
Lionel,  Bishop  of  Salisbury. 
Edward. 
Richard,  who  succeeded  his  eldest  bfother 

in  the  honours  of  the  flunily. 
Elisabrth,  m.  first.   Sir  John  Grey,  Lord 
Grey,  of  Groby,  by  whom  she  bad  issue. 
Sir  Thomab  Grby,  created  MARguBaa 

or  DoRaBT. 
Sir  Richard  Grey,  beheaded  in  the  1st 
year  of  Richard  IIL 
Lord  Grey  f eU  in  the  second  batUe  of  St  AV- 
bans,  fighting  under  the  Lancastrian  banner, 
and  her  ladyship  espoused,  secondly,  Kimg 
Edward  IV.,  by  whom  she  was  mother  of 

The  unhappy  chil- 


Edward,  Prince 

of  Wales. 
Richard,  Duke 

of  York. 


dren,    supposed    to 
have  been  murdered 
'  in  the  Tower,  by  the 
command  of  Richard 
IIL 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Kng  Hbbrv  VII. 
Cedly,  m.  first,  to  John,  Viscount  Wellas, 

and  secondly,  to  Sir  John  Kyme. 
Anne,  m.  to  Thomas  Howard,  Duke  of 

Norfolk. 
Katharine,   m.   to   William  Courtenay, 
Earl  of  Devon. 
Margaret,  m.  to  Thomas   Fita-Alan,  Earl  of 

Arundd. 

Anne,  ai.  first,  to  William,  Lord  Bonrdder, 

el<test  son  of  Henry,  Earl  of  Essex,  secondly, 

to  George  Grey,  Earl  of  Kent,  and  thirdly, 

to  Sir  Anthony  Wingfield,  Knt. 

Jacquet,  m.  to  John,  Lord  Strange,  of  Knok3rn. 

Mary,  m.  to  William  Herbert,  Eari  of  Hun- 

tingdon.      •  •     V 
Katharine,  m.  flxst,  to  Henry  Staflbrd,  Duke 
of  Buckingham ;  secondly,  to  Jasper  Tudor, 
Duke  of  Bedford}    and    thirdly,   to  Sir 
Richard  Wingfield,  K.G. 
■■  ,  m.  to  Sir  John  Bromley,  Knt,  son 

of  the  renowned  Sir  John  Bromley,  who 
recovered  the  standard  of  Ghiyen,  in  the 
memorable  battle  of  Corby,  agidnst  the 
French. 
The  melancholy  death  of  Lord  Rivers  occurred  in 
1488,  and  he  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

ANTHONY  WIDVILE,  Lord  Scales,  as  second 
Earl  Risers.  This  nobleman,  when  Lord  Scales,  in 
the  beginning  of  the  reign  of  Edward  IV.,  mardied 
with  the  king  into  the  north  against  the  Iisncaa 
trians,  and  was  one  of  the  principal  commanden  at 
the  siege  of  Alnwick  Castle.  He  was  soon  aftsr- 
wards  made  a  Kni^t  of  the  Garter,  and  he  obtained 
a  grant  in  tail  of  the  Isle  of  Wight;  his  lordship 
about  this  period  acquired  great  £sme  in  a  tourn- 
ament at  L<mdon,  wherein  he  contested  suooessftilly 
with  Anthomv,  the  Battard  tff  Burg%u¥^f,  brother 
of  Charles,  Duke  of  Burgundy.  Dugdale  thus  d^ 
tails  the  combat:  "  Upon  Thursday  next  after 

873 


WID 


WIL 


they 

togethm  wiA^kmpwpmni  and  parted  with  equal 
honour.    LikewiM*  the  next  dej  ea  taotMbecki  at 
vMch  tlnw  this  Lotd  ScataefB  bona  haTi^ alonf 
sharp  pikeof  tted  on  hia  diafttm,  upon  their  coping 
tofether,  it  lao  tote  the  noea  of  the  baatar  Ja  horM. 
Whidi  making  hiB  to  aMiunt,  he  fW  euhteaide. 
with  Ua  rider.    Whereupon  the  Lord  Scalaa  rode 
about  hiaa,  wtth  Ua  Bwoid  dmwB,  till  the  king  com- 
manded the  maiahal  to  hdp  hiB  up:  BO  more  being 
dene  that  daj .    But  the  next  day  oooaiqg  into  the 
bau  on  fbot,  with  pole  aiea»  tiwy  fou^  valiantly, 
till  the  point  of  thblenra  weapon  cnlared  the  aight 
of  the  beatard'a  halm.    Which  being  diaenmed  by 
tlM  king,  he  caat  down  hia  warder,  to  the  end  the 
maiahal  should  aever  thaaa.    Hateupon  thebeatard 
luquiriag,  that  he  might  go  on,  to  the  peafermance 
or  Ida  enterpiiae,  and  oonanltation  being  had  with 
the  Duke  of  Claraace,  tbea  eonatable,  and  the  Duke 
of  Noifblk,  maniial,  whether  it  might  be  aUowed 
or  not,  they  aatarmined  that  if  so,  then  by  the  law 
of  aama,  the  bastard  ouglit  to  be  delivered  to  hia 
adTersary,  to  the  same  condition  aa  he  atood,  when 
the  king  cauaed  them  to  be  aevared,  which,  when 
thebeatard  undaratood,  he reitoquiahed  hia  fUither 
challenge.**    During  die  temporary  reatoration  of 
HaMRV  VL  Lord  Scalea  fled  with  hia  brother-to-law, 
Kimg  Edwabd,  toto  Holland,  and  returned  with 
him  before  the  doae  of  the  year,  bearing  the  title 
of  Babi.  RiTsna,  Ua  ihther  and  brother  haTing 
been  put  to  death  to  the  interraL    After  the  re- 
eatabUdnnent  of  the  power  of  Edward,  hia  lordahip 
waa  conatituted  goremor  of  the  town  and  castle  of 
Cahrfa,  of  die  tower  of  Ryaebaaks  aa  alao  of  the 
caatle  of  Guyanea,  and  the  marrhea  adjacent  fiir 
aeren  yeaiik     He  waa  nkewiae  appotated  captato 
general  of  tiie  king's  army ,  and  of  aU  Ida  foccea,  both 
by  aaa  and  land.    In  the  13th  Edward  IV.,  upon 
the  creation  of  IVtoes  Edwakd  to  be  Prince  of 
Welea,  end  Earl  of  Cheater,  Lord  RiTers,  being 
made  goveraor  to  him,  obtained  the  offlce  of  chief 
butler  €ti  England.    The  fate  of  this  aooompliahed 
and  gallant  ndUeman,  after  the  deoeeae  of  EnwAaD 
IV.,  marka  the  cOBunenoement  of  an  era  to  our  hia- 
tary.  He  wea  one  of  the  flrat  Tictima  to  the  ambi- 
tion of  the  Crook-Bme/ud  Ricbabo;  an  ambition 
widch  not  long  after  doaed  the  dyneaty  of  the 
PLANTAeBBBTe.    HJa  lordahip,  with  hia  aephew. 
Sir  Richard  Orey,  waa  treacherously  aelaed  by  the 
Duke  of  Olouoeater  and  hia  partisans,  at  Northamp- 
ton, and  some  time  afterwards  beheaded  to  front  of 
Pontef  ract  Caatieb  wh«e  he  had  been  conflned,  by 
order  of  the  goreraor.  Sir  Richard  Ratcliflb,  witli- 
out  any  inm  of  trial,  or  being  allowed  to  qieak  one 
word  to  hia  own  Tindication.    Walpole  aaaigna  Lord 
Rivera  a  place  to  Ida  nobia  anthora,  and  observes 
"  that  though  Caacton  Imew  '  imim  lite  «p  (k«  Brie 
^  PTaraasafr,'  and  thought  that  all  learning  to  the 
noblttty  periahed  with  Tiptoft,  yet  there  flouriahed 
about  the  aame  period,  a  aoble  person,  (Anthony, 
Earl  Rivers,)  by  no  meaaa  inisrior  to  him  in  learn- 
ing end  pottteneaa;  to  birth  hia  equal,  by  alUanoe 
hia  aupertor,  greater  to  ftata  of  arma,  and  to  pil- 
grimageaaaeieebundant.''    After  the  deoeaae  of  hia 
flbat  wife,  the  nainnea  or  ScALae,  his  lordahip 
eapouaod,  Mary,  daughter  and  heir  of  Henry  Fits- 
*74 


Inanhk 


IiMrta,bnttednoligiliaMtetamn.«    Rte 

to  140;  whan  he  waa  «. 
but  theBaraayof  Srrtw,byhfa 
vfving  brother, 

RICHARD  WIDVILK,  third  Bari 
nobiemaa  d.  **'""*"**'*  to  14M*    By  liia 
bearfav  data^  SOth  Febanaay,  14W,  hia 
directed  iriia  body  to  be  bniled  to  ttM 
Jemes*a,  to  Northampton.    He 
paeiah  church  of  Orafton  all 
had  at  Ofaffeon,  via.  two  oacan,  Ave  kina, 
buDodu,  to  tlie  intent  that  they  ahouhl 
^a  oon  sor  me  aoni,  eno  ne  apposBcea  nsa 
XhoiBaa,  MarqoaM  of  Donet,  hia  hair,  to 
daviaedaDhiahBBdawhataoevart  deaiiil« 
might  be  aa  mndk  underwood  aold,  to  the 
Grafton,  aa  would  purcfaaae  a  bell,  to  be  a 
the  bcHi  akeady  there,  «Dr  a  TCBeaabmno 
taatof  Ueblead.   Upon  the  itotiaaea  of  Me 
the  Babobt  Airo  BaaMHWi  or  Rimna 

BBTIBCT. 

ABiia.F<-Ar.  a  flMae^  and  canton  guka. 

WILINTON'BABONS  WIMNTON. 

By  Writ  of  Sonmona.  dated  14th  June,  139, 
8  Edward  IIL 

In  the  8th  of  Hbbt  IIL 

RALPH  DE  WILINTON 
Briatol  Caatle^  and  had  a  grant  of  the 
the  foreat,  with  that  of  the  chase  at 
the  17th  of  the  aeme  ralgn  he 
Deviaes  Caatle,  to  Wiltahira^  and  to  the  38th  he  wae 
aherliTof  Devonahisek  and  governor  of  the 
Exeter.    After  thia  we  find  him  to  the 
rabrilious  beitau.    He  waa  sw  by  hia  aon, 

JOHN  DE  WILINTON,  who,  in  the  vei^a  of 
EnwABD  I.,  had  aeveral  giants  ftom  the  cmwn, 
but  to  that  of  Edward  IL,  being  tovolved  to  the 
Eariof  Lanoaatei'a  inaurractlon,  eU  hia  landb  were 
seiaed  by  the  crown.  They  were  reatorad,  however, 
by  Kimg  Edwabd  III.,  and  by  that  monarch  ha 
waa  aumatoned  to  parliament  aa  a  babon,  firom 
14th  June.  1388,  to  13th  November,  13M.  Hiahwd- 
ahip  waa  «.  by  hia  eon, 

SIR  RALPH  DE  WILINTON,  aeoond  beran. 
aummoned  to  parliament  on  the  99th  February. 
1348,  but  never  afterwaida.  Thia  Boblemaa  wm  to 
the  wars  of  Scotland  and  France,  end  attained  the 
high  military  rank  of  benncret.  He  4,  without 
iaaue  to  1348,  when  hia  uncH  RnniRAi.D  nn 
Wyumtoit,  became  hia  heiri  but  of  the  taailf 
nothing  further  la  known. 

Abmb.— Gulea  a  aaltire  vBri4e  ar.  and  aa. 

WILLIAMS  —  BARON  WILLIAMS, 
OF  THAME. 

By  Writ  of  Summona,  dated  and  April,  1884, 
1  PhiUp  end  Mary. 

ICIncage. 

Thia  nobleman  dtecanded  Ikmn  a 


of 

In 


•  Theeerl  had  an  illegitimate  da^^ltcr,  Marga- 
ret, ak  to  Sir  Robert  Poynes,  ILnt. 


WIL 


WIL 


gtniUMT  frith  Uk»  Sir  Robert  WOUaaa.  Kat,  who 
aasumed  the  name  of  Cbomwsu«  and  wm  aaoMtor 
of  the  Protbctor. 
The  flnt  peraon  ot  thla  branch  of  th»  funily. 
JOHN  WILLIAMS.  MOODd  ■(»  of  Sir  John 
WiUUmfl,  of  Burfield,  in  BerkahiM,  (by  hk  wife, 
Elisabeth,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Ridiard  More, 
Esq.,  of  Buiflelii,)  was  a  servant  to  King  Hbkrt 
VIIL,  and  had  in  the  18th  of  that  nwnaich  £10 per 
annum,  granted  to  him,  by  patent,  for  the  keeping 
of  a  greyhound.  In  some  yean  afterwards  he  was 
clerk  of  the  king's  Jewd  oAoe:  and  had  taitenst 
enough  to  procure  a  patent  tot  the  oflBce  of  mas- 
ter or  treasurer  of  the  lame  office^  This,  however, 
he  was  obliged  to  surrender,  and  to  accept  of  a 
9«w  patent  Jointly  with  Thomas  CromweU,  then 
■ecretary  of  statew  Having  by  theie  luciative  em- 
ployments amnifd  considerable  wealth,  he  pur- 
chased, in  the  aoth  Hbmbt  VIIL,  from  Gil« 
Heron,  Eat^,  of  ShakeweU,  in  the  county  of  Mid- 
dlewz,  the  manors  of  Great  and  Little  Rioott, 
in .  Oxfovdshira  In  the  nut  year,  being  then  a 
knight,  he  had  a  grant  ftom  the  crown  of  the 
chief  stewardship  of  the  manors  of  Grafton  and 
HertweU,  in  the  county  of  Northampton,  with  the 
keepenhip  of  the  parks  there:  as  also  of  the  manors 
of  Wytham,  Weston  on  the  Green,  and  Botley. 
And  he  was  soon  after  constituted  chief  supervisor 
of  aU  the  ewans  within  the  river  Thames,  and  all 
other  waten  in  Engbmd,  excepting  those  of  the 
Dudiy  of  Lancaster.  Moreover,  about  this  time  he 
had  a  spedal  patent  for  retaining  ten  persons,  gentle- 
men and  yeomen,  in  his  housdiold,  snd  to  give 
livery  badges  to  them}  snd  he  had  another  grant  of 
the  oOce  of  treasurer  of  the  court  of  augmentation. 
Upon  the  demise  of  Eowaro  VI.,  Sir  John  Wil- 
liams was  one  of  the  flxst  who  appeared  in  behalf  of 
QuMm  Mary,  and  upon  the  accession  of  her  majeity 
to  the  crown,  was  solemnly  created  Loan  Wil* 
LiAMS,  «f  T^ame,  at  the  palace  of  St.  James's.  He 
was  summoned  the  next  year  in  that  dignity  to 
parliament,  but  no  patent  of  creation  was  ever  en- 
rolled. After  which,  upcm  surrendering  his  office  of 
treasurer  of  the  court  of  augmentations,  he  had  in 
lieu  thereof  a  grant  of  £3S0  per  annum  from  the 
crown :  and  was  constituted,  on  the  marriage  of  the 
queen,  lord  chamberlain  of  the  household  to  King 
Philip.  Nor  did  his  lordship  enjoy  less  favour 
from  Qu99n  Euxabbth,  being,  in  the  first  year  of 
her  nuOesty's  reign,  appointed  lord  president  of 
Wales.  He  subsequentljTresided  as  lord  president 
in  the  CBStls  of  Ludlow.  His  lordship  m.  first,  Eli- 
sabeth, widow  of  Andrew  Edmonds,  of  Gressing 
Temple,  in  Essex,  and  daughter  and  co-heir  of 
Thomas  Bledlow.  Esq.  (son  and  heir  of  Thomas 
Bledlow,  sheriff  of  the  dty  of  London,  in  1479,)  by 
whom  he  had  issue, 

Henry,  who  ta.  Anne,  daughter  of  Henry, 
Lord  Staffbrdf  and  died  issuelass  before 
his  fiuher. 

Francis,  also  predeceased  his  father. «.  p, 

Isabd,  m.  to  Sir  Richard  Wenman.  Rnt. 

Margery,  m.  to  Sir  Henry  Norris,  Knt.  to 
whom  she  conveyed  the  manor  of  Ricott,  or 
Rycote.  in  Oxfordshire,  and  Sir  Henry  was 
summoned  to  paxliamant  from  8th  May. 


U09,  to  Mth  October,  IW7*  at  Baioh  Nor- 
RiB,  ^  Aj^eocs :  their  grandaon. 
Fraxcis  NoRRia.  Lord  Norris,  of  Ry- 
cote. was  created,  in  leao^  Vlscoaurt 
Thami^  and  Earl  of  Berkshire^ 
He  Ml.  secondly,  Margery,  daughter  of  Tfeomas, 
Lord  Wentworth.  but  had  no  issue.    His  lordship 
died  in  lAfie.  when  his  esUtes  devolved  upon  his 
daughters,  as  co-heiis,  and  the  Barowy  ojr  Wu.- 
LiAMs,  €f  Thame,  fell  into  abbyawcr.  between  the 
same  ladies,  as  it  stiU  continues  with  their  repre- 
sentatives.   Of  Margery,  the  younger  eialei,  the 
Earl  of  Abhigdon  is  now  heir  generaL 

Arms.— Aa.  an  organ  pipe  in  bend  sinister  Saltier* 
wise,  surmounted  of  another  dexter,  between  two 
palter  ar. 


WILLOUGHBY  —  BARONS   WIL, 
LOUGHBY,  OF  PARHAM. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  10th  February,  1M7. 

The  family  of  WiUoughby.  by  a  pedigree  drawn 
up  in  the  time  of  Elisabrth.  appears  to  be  do- 
soended  from  Sir  John  or  Willooohry,  a  Nor- 
man knight,  who  had  the  lordahip  of  WiUoughby. 
in  Lincolnshire,  by  gift  of  the  Conqorror.  From 
thissuccessAil  ipldier  we  pass  to 

SIR  WILLIAM  OE  WILLOUGHBY.  who,  in 

the  Mth  of  Hrnry  III.,  waa  signed  with  the  cross. 

and  accompanied  Prince  Edward  into  the  Holy 

Land.    He  m.  Alice,  daughter  of  John.  Lord  Beke. 

of  Ereaby,  and  eldest  co-heir  of  her  brother  Walter, 

Lord  of  Eresby,  and  bad  issue. 

RoBRRT  (Sir),  his  sucoeesoc. 

Thomas,  m.  Margaret,  sister  and  co-heir  ot 

Alun  de  Munby.  and  had  a  son.  who. 

assuming    the    surname  of   his   mother. 


WUliam  Munby.     He  died  e,  p.,  and 
his  estates  were  divided  amongst  his 
sisters. 
Margaret,  m.  to  Walter,  son  of  Sir  Walter 
Hamby.  Knt. 
Sir  William  was  «.  by  his  dder  son. 

SIR  ROBERT  DB  WILLOUGHBY.  who  in- 
herited,  in  the  4th  Edward  IL.  as  next  heir,  the 
estates  of  Anthony  Bee,  Bishop  of  Durham,  and 
was  summoned  to  parliament  in  three  years  after- 
wards as  BAROif  WiLi«ovoHBY  RR  Errbby.  From 
this  nobleman  we  pass  to  his  great-great.grBRdson 
and  lineal  descendant. 

WILLIAM  WILLOUGHBY.  fifth  Baton  WU- 
loughby  de  Eresby,  who  m.  first.  Lucy,  daughter  of 
Roger.  Lord  Strange,  of  Knokyn.  and  had  issue. 
RoBRRT.  his  successor,  and  sixth  Baron  Wu- 

LOUOHRY  RR  ERRBBY. 

Thomas  (Sir),  of  whose  descendanta  we  are 
about  to  treat 
His  lordship  m.  secondly,  JoanOb  widow  of  Edward 
Plantagenet.  Duke  of  York,  and  daughter  of 
Thomas  Holland,  second  Earl  of  Kent.  He  4.  in 
1400.  and  was  succeeded  in  his  title  by  his  tider 
mm,  RoBRRT  I  but  we  proceed  with  the  younger. 


WIL 


WIL 


SIR  THOMAS  WILLOUOHBY.  ofParluan*  in 
the  ouunty  of  Suffolk ;  a  gallant  •oldler,  and  one  of 
the  heroei  of  Aoimcourt.  He  m.  Joane,  daughter 
and  heir  of  Sir  Richard  Fiti-Alan,  Knt.,  (son  of 
John  Fita«Alan,  Lord  Maltraren,  aecond  son  of  Sir 
Ridiard  Flti-Alan,  third  Earl  of  Arundel»)  and  wai 
e.  by  his  son, 

SIR  ROBERT  WILLOUOHBY,  who  m.  Cedlla, 
daughter  of  Leo,  Lord  Wdles,  and  had  issue, 

Christopher.  I  »»*^>«*«^»^ 
Margaret,  m.  to  Thomas  SUpwith,  Esq.,  of 
Linoohishirei 
Sir  Robert  d.  aoth  May,  1405,  and  was  «.  by  his  elder 


SIR  ROBERT  WILLOUOHBY,  who  died  in 
minority,  and  was  «.  by  his  brother, 

SIR  CHRISTOPHER  WILLOUOHBY,  who 
was  made  a  Knight  of  the  Bath,  6th  July,  1483,  at 
the  coronation  of  Ricbako  IIL  tt  the  next  reign 
he  raised  forces  to  assist  the  king  against  the  E^arl 
of  Lincoln,  Lambert  Simnel,  and  their  adherents, 
aad  was  afterwards  at  the  battle  of  Stokb.  He  m. 
Margaret,  daughter  of  Sir  William  Jenney,  of  Knot- 
•hali,  in  SuSblk,  and  had  issue, 

William,   who  inherited  the  Baboity  or 
WiLLoooBBT  de  EtmI^  at  the  decease  of 
JoABB  Wbllbb  in  1506,  after  the  dignity 
had  be«i  out  of  the  Willoughby  family  for 
half  a  century.    His  lordship  became  pos- 
sessed also  cf  the  manors  of  Oflmsby  and 
Grimesthorp,  with  the  greater  part  of  the 
estates  of  the  Lords  Welles. 
Cbribtopbbb,  of  whom  presently. 
George. 
Thomas,ftom  whom  the  ecMml  Willouohbyb, 

Larda  IfMtUMon,  deriveL 
John, 
Dorothy. 
Catherine,  m.  to  Sir  John  Heydon,  Knt.,  of 

BaooDsthorp,  in  the  county  of  Norfolk. 
Elisabeth,  tn.  to  William,  Lord  Eure. 
The  second  son, 

SIR  CHRISTOPHER  WILLOUGHBY,  re< 
eelyed  the  honour  of  knighthood  for  his  Taliant 
conduct  at  the  siege  of  Toumay,  temp.  Henry  YIII. 
He  m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  George  Talboys, 
and  sister  of  Gilbert,  Lord  Talboys,  of  Kyme,  by 
whom  he  had  issue, 

William,  his  successor. 

Dorothy,  m.  to  Ralph  Hopton,  Esq.,  of  Wy- 

tham.  In  the  county  of  Somerset. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Sir  John  Breuse,  of  Wenham, 

in  Suffolk. 
Anne,  m.  to  Robert  Hall,  Esq.,  of  Gretford,  in 
Lincoln. 
Sir  Christopher  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

SIR  WILLIAM  WILLOUGHBY,  Knt,  who 
WM  elevated  to  the  peerage,  by  letters  patent,  dated 
16th  February,  1547«  in  the  dignity  of  Lord  Wil- 
LOVOBBY,  tf  Parham,  His  lorddiip  having  dis- 
tinguished himself  in  the  wars  of  Hbnby  YIIL,  was 
made  lieutenant  of  Calato,  and  thea4)aoeBt  marches, 
in  the  4ih  of  Edward  VI.,  and  he  resided  there 
during  the  remainder  of  that  king's  reign.  He  m. 
flnt,  EUaabeth,  daughter  and  belt  of  Sir  Thomas 
576 


Heneage,  Knt.,  by  whom  he  aequlied  cowideiaMe 
estates,  and  had  issue, 

Cbablbb,  his  successor. 
Mary,  m.  to  William  Metham,  Esq.,  of  Boling- 
ton,  in  the  county  of  Ltncotai. 
He  wedded,  secondly,  Margaret,  daxighter  at  Robert 
Garnish,  Esq..  of  Kentoo,  In  Suflblk,  and  widow  of 
Walter,  first  Viscount  Hereford.  His  lordahip  d.  m 
1A74,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

CHARLES     WILLOUGHBY,     seeond    Bana 
Willoughby,  of  Parham,  who  espoused  Lady  Mar- 
garet Clinton,  daughter  of  Edward,  lint  Eari  of 
Lincoln,  and  had  issue, 
1.  William,  who  nu  EBsabeth,  daughter  and 
heir  of  Sir  Christopher  HilUard,  KnC,  of 
Wynstead,  in  Yorkshire,  and,  dying  bcfoc 
his  fisther,  left,  with  other  issue, 

William,  successor  to  his  grandfistiier. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Sir  William  Hickman,  of 

Gainsborough,  in  Linoohishlreb 
Catherine,  m.  to  Joseph  Godlkey,  Esq.,  of 

Thorock,  in  the  same  shire: 
Mary,  tn.  to  Sir  WUliam  Booth,  of  KH- 
lingholm,  also  in  Lincolnshire, 
S.  Ambrose  (Sir),  of  Matson,  in  the  oaaatf  of 
Gloucester,  m.  Susan,  daughter  of  ■ 
Brooke,  and  left  an  only  son, 

Edwarb,  who  IN.  Rebecca,  daughter  of 
Henry  Dnqper,  Esq.,  and  had  sarvivtng 
issue, 

Hbbry,  who  emigrated  to  Yirginiav 
and  died  there  in  16B5,  leaving 
Hbnry,    who    m.    Kliaabeth, 
daughter  of  William  Pidgeon, 
Esq.,    of   Stepney,   in 
county  of    Mlddkees, 
had,  with  other  imae,      /  Ctt 
Hbbry,  who  a.  as  r^ 

lord. 
William,  who  m. 
daughter  of—- 
ton,  and  left  a  u«, 
WUliam,    who    dted 

FoRTDBB,  who  m.  Han- 
nah, daughter  of  Tho- 
mas Barrow,  and  widow 
of  Cook  PoUet*  Esq.,  of 
^  Swansoomb,  in  Kent, 
and  left  a  son, 

Oborob,   who  a.  aa 
/^hftttecnth  babob. 
Richard,  whoee  line  ceased  with  his 

sons, 
Sandi,  tn.  to  -~—  Birt 
Rebecca,  m.  to  Ridiard  HulL 
&  Edward,  m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Francis 
Manby,  Esq.,  of  BUuun,  and  widow  of  John 
Presoot,  and  had  a  son, 
Edward,  who  d.  young. 
4.  Charles,  died  «.  p. 

A.  Thomas  (Sir),  m.  Mary,  dau^ter  of      ^ 
Thomey,  Esq.,  and  had  issue, 

TaoMAB,  who  succeeded  as  xlbvbxtb 
lord,  under  the  suppoeltlon  that  the 
line  of  Sir  Ambrose  was  extinct. 


WIL 


Wlh 


WiUUun.  in  holy  onloi  in  the  choidi  of 

Rome. 
Mary,  m.  flrat.  to  Augiutine  Wingfleld, 

and  McoDdly,  to SauL 

6b  Catharine,  m.  to  Sir  John  Savile,  of  Howley, 

in  the  county  of  Yorlc 
7*  Maigaiet,  m.  to  ^—  Erie,  Eaq.,  of  Corpsey. 
9,  Anne*  m,  to'  Sir  William  Pelham,   Knt,  of 
Brokebby,  in  Lincolmhira 
Charles,  Moond  Lord  Willoughby,  d.  in  1003,  and 
wai «.  by  hia  grandion, 

WILLIAM  WILLOUGHBY,   third  Lord   Wll- 
loughby,  of  Parham.     Thia  nobleman  m.  Lady 
Franoet  Manneri,  daughter  of  John,  fourth  Earl  of 
Rutiand,  and  had  iaaue, 
Hbitry,     "^ 

Frakgib,  VsucceadTely  Lords  Willoughby. 
William,  ) 
Frances,  m.  to  Sir  Bulstrode  Whitlock,  KnL, 

of  Chilton,  in  the  county  of  Wilts. 
Elisabeth,  <L  unmarried. 
His  lordship  dU  in  1617*  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest 
son, 

HENRY  WILLOUGHBY,  fourth  lord,  at  whose 
decease,  in  inCsncy,  the  title  deroWed  upon  his 
brother, 

FRANCIS  WILLOUGHBY,  fifth  lord,  who  m. 
Elisabeth,  second  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Edward 
Cecil,  Viscount  Wimfiledon,  and  had  surviving 
issue, 

Diana,  m.  to  Heneage,  second  Earl  of  Winchel- 


Flancei,  m.  to  William,  Lord  Brereton,  of  the 

kingdom  of  Ireland. 
EUaabeth,  m.  to  Roger  Jones,  Viscount  Rane- 
lagh. 
This  nobleman  was  drowned  at  Barbadoes,  in  16G0, 
and  was  «.  by  his  brother, 

WILLIAM  WILLOUGHBY,  sixth  Baton  Wil- 
hmghby,  of  Parham.  His  lordship  was  governor  of 
the  Caribbee  Islands,  and  d.  at  Barbadoes  10th  April, 
1673.  He  m.  Anne,  daughter  of  Sir  Philip  Carey, 
KnL,  of  Stanwell,  in  the  county  of  Middlesex,  and 
had,  with  other  issue, 

Gsoaox,  his  successor. 

JoHir,         1  who  became  successively  Lords 
CHARLsa,  j  Willoughby. 
Frances,  m.  first,  to  Sir  John  Harpur,  Knt,  of 
Swarkeston,  in  the  county  of  Derby ;  se- 
condly, to  Charles  Henry  Kirkhoven,  Baron 
Wotton,  in  England,  and  E^arl  of  Bellamont, 
in  Ireland ;  and  thirdly,  to  Henry  Heven- 
ingham,   Esq.,  of  Heveningham,  in  Suf- 
folk. 
Anne,  m.  to  Sir  John  Harpur,  Bart,  of  Calke, 

in  the  county  of  Derby. 
Catherine,  m.  to  Charles  Cockaln,  third  Vis- 
count Cullen,  in  Ireland. 
Lord  Willoughby  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son, 

GEORGE  WILLOUGHBY,  seventh  baron,  who 
m.  Elisabeth,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Henry  Fiencs, 
otherwise  Clinton,  Esq.,  by  whom  he  had  iasue, 
John,  his  successor. 
Anne,  d,  young. 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  the  Hon.  James  Bertie,  second 
son  of  James,  first  Earl  of  AMngdon,  and 


was  mother  of  Willoughby,  third  Earl  of 
Abingdon. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1674,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  WILLOUGHBY,  eighth  baron,  who  d.  in 
1678  unmarried,  when  the  barony  reverted  to  his 
uncle, 

JOHN  WILLOUGHBY,  ninth  baron.  This 
nobleman  died  «.  ^  In  1678,  and  was  «.  by  his 
brother, 

CHARLES  WILLOUGHBY,  tenth  baron,  who 
m.  Mary,  daughter  of  Sir  Beaumont  Dixie,  Bart., 
of  Bosworth,  in  the  county  of  Leicester,  but  died 
without  issue  in  1679,  devising  his  estate  to  his 
niece,  Elisabeth,  wife  of  the  Hon.  James  Bertiet 
Upcm  the  decease  of  hb  lordship,  the  bakont,  ty 
r^f,  should  have  devolved  upon  the  descendant  of 
Sir  Ambrose  Willoughby,  second  son  of  Charles, 
the  second  lord;  but  that  gentleman's  grandson, 
Henry  WiUoughby,  having  emigrated  to  America, 
the  second  branch  remained,  in  ignorance  of  the 
fUlure  of  the  dder,  and  putting  in  no  daim  to  the 
title,  it  was  presumed  to  have  become  likewise  ex- 
tinct :  the  Baromt  or  Willoughby,  of  Parham, 
under  these  circumstances,  was  adjudged  errofMouci!if 
to  the  son  and  heir  of  Sir  Thomas  Willoughby, 
youngest  son  of  the  second  lord,  (refer  to  issue  of 
Charles,  second  baron,)  and  he  was  summoned  to 
parliament  accordingly,  Idth  May,  1685,  as 

SIR  THOMAS  WILLOUGHBY,  eleventh  Baron 
Willoughby,  of  Parham.    Hb  lordship  m.  Eleanor, 
daughter  of  Hugh  Whittle,  Esq.,  of  Horwath,  in 
Lancashire,  and  had,  with  other  issue, 
HvoH,  his  successor. 

Francis,  m.  to  Eleanor,  daughter  of  — —  Roth- 
well,  of  Hay,  in  the  county  of  Lancaster, 
and  had  iasue, 

Thomas,  d.  unmarried. 

Edward,  who  «.  Ills  uncle  as  Lord  Wit 

loughby. 
Crarlbs,  who  «.  his  brother. 
His  lordship  d.  in  16W,  and  was  «.  by  his  eldest  son. 

HUGH  WILLOUGHBY,  twelfth  baron.  This 
nobleman  m.  first,  Anne,  daughter  of  Lawrence 
HalliweUf  Esq.,  of  Tockholes,  in  Lancashire,  and 
had  a  son, 

Thomaa,  who  d.  young. 
His  lordship  espoused,  secondly,  in  1602,  Honora, 
widow  of  Sir  William  Egerton,  and  daughter  of  Sir 
Thomas  Leigh,  son  and  heir  of  Thomas,  first  Lord 
Leigh,  but  died  «.  p,,  in  August,  171S,  when  he  waa 
«.  by  his  nephew, 

EDWARD  WILLOUGHBY,  thirteenth  baron, 
who,  when  the  honour  devolved  upon  him,  was 
abroad  as  a  private  aoldier  in  the  confederate  army, 
under  John,  Duke  of  Marlborough.  His  lordahip 
did  not,  however,  ei\}oy  the  peerage  long,  for  he  d, 
in  the  next  year,  and  was  «.  by  his  brother, 

CHARLES  WILLOUGHBY,  fourteenth  baron. 
This  nobleman  m.  Hester,  daughter  of  Henry 
Davenport,  Esq.,  of  Darcy  Lever,  in  Lincolnshire, 
by  whom  he  had,  Huob,  his  successor,  and  EUen. 
He  d.  12th  July,  17U,  and  was  #.  by  hb  son, 

HUGH  WILLOUGHBY.  fifteenth  baron.    This 
nobleman  waa  dected  vice-president  of  the  Royal 
Sodety  in  1702,  and  president  of  the  Sodety  of  Anti- 
quaries in  two  years  afterwards.    Hie  lordship  was 
4  E  677 


WIL 


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«tmaedaiiiaaorabiHttoi.1mt  aceoidi«g  to  CoVt 
MS&  In  the  BritUh  Mnaeum.  he  wu  a  prediyterlan 
of  the  mcwt  rigid  daiL  "  I  hare  heard,'*  (isyi  Cole) 
«*  Mr.  Covcntrj,  of  Magdalen  College,  Cambridge, 
dedaie  that  his  oonsdcDoe  was  M  nice,  that  he  could 
not  bcfaig  hiandf  to  recetTe  the  sacrament  in  the 
ciiurdi  at  Kngland  on  his  knees,  without  scrapie, 
and  thought  it  idolatry.  HehadaTerysmallestatek 
and  when  he  came  to  it,  with  the  title,  was  in  a  very 
hnmUe  capadty  in  the  army."  He  d.  unmarried  in 
17K,  when  tiie  BABomr  was  rtaimfri  by 

HENRY  WILLOUGHBY,  TepicsentatiTeofthe 
eider  bmch,  (refler  to  Sir  Ambrose  Willoughby, 
second  son  of  the  second  lord,)  and  the  house  of 
Lords  aiUudged,  in  1787,  '*  That  he  had  a  right  to 
the  title,  dignity,  and  peerage  of  WUloughby.  of 
Parham ;  which  was  enjoyed,  from  the  year  1680  to 
17S5,  by  the  male  Hne  (now  extinct.)  of  Si;  Thomas 
Willoughby.  youngest  son  of  Charles,  Lord  Wil- 
loughby, of  Parham,  who  were  suoccasively  sum- 
moned to  parliament  by  descent,  in  Tirtue  of  letters 
patent,  bearing  date  10th  Felmiary,  in  the  1st  year 
of  Edward  VI.,  and  sat  as  heirs  male  of  the  body 
of  Sir  WiUiam,  created  Lord  Willonghby,  of  Par- 
ham. by  the  said  letters  patent,  contrary  to  the 
right  and  truth  of  the  case  {  it  now  appearing,  that 
Sir  Ambrose  Willoughby,  the  second  son  of  the  said 
Charles,  (and  elder  brother  of  the  said  Thomas,) 
who  was  aTerred  to  have  died  without  issue,  left  a 
son;  and  that  Henry  Willoughby.  Esq..  the  claim- 
ant, is  great-grandson  and  heir  male  of  the  body  of 
such  son,  and  consequently  heir  male  of  the  said  Sir 
WiUiam,  who  was  created  Lord  Willoughby,  of 
Parham,  the  male  line  of  the  elder  son,  Charles, 
Lord  Willoughby.  of  Parham,  having  failed  In  or 
before  the  year  1680.**  Mr.  Willoughby  became, 
therefore,  sixTBSirrH  Baeon  Wii.louohbt,  <^f 
ParftofN,  and  took  his  seat  in  the  House  of  Peers 
SSth  April,  1787*  His  lordship  m.  Susannah,  daugh- 
ter c»f  Robert  Gtesswell,  Esq.,  of  the  county  of 
Middlesex,  by  whom  he  had  onesunrivtng  daughter, 
Elisabeth,  who  m.  first,  Jcrfm  Halsey,  Esq.,  of 
Tower  Hill,  and  secondly,  Edward  Ar^^,  Esq. 
He  d,  a9th  January,  177^,  and  was  «,  by  his 
nephew, 

GEORGE  WILLOUGHBY,  seventeenth  baron, 
who  d,  issttdess  in  1779*  when  the  Baroitt  or  Wii<- 
LouoBBV,  or  Parham,  became  bxtinct. 

ARMa.— First  and  fourth  or,  frette  as.  second  and 
third,  sa.  a  cross  engrailed  or. 

WILMOT  —  BARONS        WILMOT, 
EARLS  OF  ROCHESTER. 


Barony 
Earldom 


n,/   P 


.  Letten  f  S9th  June,  1643.  • 
Patent,   \  13th  December*  1601. 

ICiiuagc. 


Tht  Ktmourable 

HENRY  WILMOT,  only  son  of  Charles,  Vis- 
connt  Wilmot,  of  Athlone,  in  the  peerage  of  Ire- 
land, was  created  a  baron  of  England,  by  letters 
patent,  of  King  Cb  ARLna  I.,  dated  89th  June,  1643, 
as  Loan  Wilmot,  <^ AddeHmry,  in  the  county^ 
OJ^^rd,  He  was  at  that  time  lieutenant  of  the 
578 


hone,  hi  bis  tt^otylB 

and  Wales,  and  attained  high  reputatian. 

lariy  at  the  battle  of  Roviidwat  Docsrn.    Hk 

lordship  afterwards  remained  fidthAiBy  artnrhed  fis 

King  Chablbb  II.,  during  his  exile,  and 

instrumental  in  enabttng  his  m^lesty  to 

esospe  after  the  fistal  battle  of  Worcester.    In 

deration  of  these  eminent  sendees  he 

by  letters  patent,  dated  at  Paris,  13tli 

1658,  to  the  Earldom  or  RocbbbtbA.    Hie  i 

ship  m.  Anne,  daughter  of  Sir  John  St.  John, 

of  Lyddiard  Tr^goa,  in  the  county  of  WUta.  and 

dying  at  Dunkirk,  in  1639,  was  «.  by  his  only  sar<- 

▼iring  child, 

JOHN  WILMOT.  second  Earl  of  Rodhmec 
This  is  the  nobleman  who  became  so  odctanted  in 
the  reign  of  Charles  II.,  as  the  gifted,  witty,  bat 
licentious  companion  of  that  merry  monarch.  His 
lordship,  Walpole  diaracteriaes  as  a  poet, 
the  muses  inspired,  but  were  ashamed  to 


who  practised,  without  the  least 


the 


which  can  make  verses  more  read  for  tfietr  defccCt 
than  for  their  merits.    Lord  Rodiester^  poems  are 
truly  described  by  the  ssme  author,  as  baring  raoie 
Obscenity  than  wit,  more  wit  than  poetry,  and  more 
poetry  than  pbliteneu.    His  lordship  m.  g«— 'frffc^ 
daughter  and  hdr  c»f  John  Mallet.  Esq.,  at  bonoreb 
in  the  county  of  Somerset,  and  had  iasoe, 
Charlbb,  his  sacceisolt 
Anne,  m.  first,  to  Henry  Benton,  Esq.,  and 
secondly,  to  Francis,  son  of  Fulk  GicHBek 
Ixnd  BrokSL 
Elixabeth,  m.  to  Edward  Montagu*  Sari  eC 

SandwidL 
Mallet,  tn.  to  John  Vaughan,  first  YlaoouBt 
Lisbume,  in  Ireland,  ancestor  of  the  Earis 
of  Lisbume. 
The  earl  d.  In  1080,  and  was  «.  by  his  son. 

CHARLES  WILMOT,  third  Eari  of  Roc^cater. 
who  died  unmarried,  and  in  minority,  the  year 
after  his  father,  when  all  his  Hoirovna 

BXTIBCT. 

ARMa.->Arg.  or  a  fesse,  gu.  betwea 
heads  erased,  sa.  as  many  eschallops,  or. 


WINDSORS— BARON  WINDSORJB. 

By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  89nd  August^  lan, 
5  Richard  IL 

mintage. 

At  the  time  of  the  general  surrey 

WALTER  FITZ-OTHER  possessed  three  knd- 
ships  in  Surrey,  two  in  Hampshire,  three  In  Bucks, 
and  four  in  Middlesex;  of  which  Stahwbll,  In 
the  latter  county,  was  the  chief  place  of  abode  of 
himself  and  his  descendants  fbr  sereral  succeeding 
ages.  Those  lordships,  manors,  and  lands,  more- 
over, were  held  by  his  father.  Sir  Other,  In  the 
reign  of  Edward  M«QM^/feMor.  Walter  Fits-Other 
was  warden  of  all  the  forests  In  Berkshire,  aad 
cAaTBLLAN  ov  WiifDsoRB  In  the  time  (tf  William 
f Ae  Conqueror,   The  name  and  fkmily  of  his  wllte 


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axe  in  doubt*  m  likewise  the  eaiioriCy  of  hie  three 
sons.* 

William,  hit  lucccnor. 
Robert,    Lord  of  Efton,    afterwanb  called 
Estaina,  in  Eaaez,  in  which  he  waa  «.  by  an 
only  son, 

William,  who  left  a  daughter,  his  heir, 
Delida*  m.  to  Robert  de  Hastinga. 
Gerald^    who   bore  the    surname  of  Fite- 
Waltbk,  and  being  siwoessfully  employed 
by  King  Hbnry  II.,  against  the  Webh,  waa 
constituted  governor  of  Pembroke  Castle, 
and  afterwards  made  president  of  the  county 
ci  Pembroke.    He  m.  Nesta*  daughter  of 
Rhese,  Prince  of  Wales,    and  from  their 
union  sprang  the  Fita-Geralds,  Dukbb  of 
LsiNSTBR,  and  other  eminent  families. 
The  ddest  son, 

WILLIAM,  bore  the  surname  of  WiiiDSoas, 
and  succeeded  his  father  in  his  offices  of  wardoi  of 
the  forests  of  B«kshire,  and  castsllam  of  Wind- 
BORB.  The  Empreu  Maud  confirmed  to  him,  at 
Oxford,  all  the  grants  made  to  his  ancestors  of  the 
custody  of  Windsore  Castle,  and  of  all  lands,  tn 
as  full  a  manner  as  they  had  enjoyed  them  in  the 
time  of  her  father,  Hbnrv  L  He  aasumed  the 
designation  of  Windsore  from  hJa  office,  and  left 
two  sons, 

William,  hia  successor. 
Hugh  de  Windsore,   lord  of  the  manor  of 
West  Horsley,  in  the.  county  of  Surrey, 
which,  by  heirs  female,  devolved  upcm  the 
Barons  de  Bemers. 
The  elder  son  and  heir,  ^ 

SIR  WILLIAM  DE  WINDSORE,  was  also  a 
powerftil  baron  in  the  reign  of  Hsnrt  IL,  and  in 
116S,  upon  the  assessment  tot  a  marriage  portion  for 
that  monarch's  daughter,  he  certified  that  he  held 
sixteen  knights*  fees  and  a  half  de  veterifaqgnmetUo, 
and  three  and  a  half  dt  novo,  for  which  he  after- 
wards paid  £ia  as.  6d.     In  1194  he  attended  the 


*  Orrald,  who,  in  the  Duke  of  Leinster's  pedi- 
gree, is  called  the  eUett,  being  placed  tfoungett  on 
the  pedigree  of  the  Earb  of  Kerry,  and  that  dispo* 
sition  is  supported  by  Segar,  Dugdale,  and  Anstes, 
aU  eminent  members  of  the  Herald's  College.  These 
heralds  maintain,  that  the  appellation  of  FUn-WoUer 
was  given  to  Gerald  because  he  was  the  youngest 
aon.  LoDOR,  however,  protests  against  such  a  con- 
duaion,  and  sayr,  **  It  deserves  an  inquiry,  how  the 
conaequeuces  of  his  being  a  younger  son  can  be 
drawn  from  his  having  the  appdlatiun  of  Fita- 
Walter  ?  The  custom  of  that  age,"  he  continues, 
«<  warranta  the  affirmation  of  the  contrary ;  and  that 
the  ddeat  son,  especially,  aasumed  for  his  surname 
the  christian  name  ct  his  father,  with  the  addition 
of  fit%,  &C.  And  this  continued  in  use  until  sur- 
names came  to  be  fixed  about  the  time  of  Edward  I., 
and  among  many  families  until  long  aft^  that 
time,  younger  sons  bring  not  so  frequently  known, 
or  called  by  their  fisthers'  christian  name,  aa  by  that 
of  his  office  or  employment.  For  which  reason  the 
two  brothers  of  Gerald  are  not  called  Fita-Walter, 
but  Windaora." 


king  in  his  expedition  into  Nkmnaady,  when  he 
raised  the  sicige  of  Verauel,  and  beat  the  French  in 
several  skirmishes^  Sir  William  de  Windsore,  it  ia 
supposed,  eventually  fUl  in  that  campaign.  He  left 
two  sons,  Waltrr  and  William,  and  wm  «.  By  the 
elder, 

WALTER  DE  WINDSORE.  who  had  accom- 
panied his  father  in  the  expedition  into  JF'rance 
This  baron  having  no  male  issue,  divided,  by  virtue 
of  a  fine  levied  in  the  9th  Richard  I.,  the  whole 
barony  of  hia  Cather,  with  his  brother,  William  de 
Windsore.  He  d,  about  the  year  ISOff,  leavhig  two 
daughters,  his  co-heirs,  via. 

Christian,  m.  to  Duncan  Lascellea. 
Gunnora,  m.  to  Ralph  de  Hodaeng. 
In  the  division  ot  the  estates,  as  mentioned  above, 
the  deceased  tofd's  brother,  and  the  nuOe  represen- 
UUveoftheAunily, 

WILLIAM  DE  WINDSORE,  had  the  lordships 
QfStanweUandHakebum,  with  other  lands,  &c, 
of  considerable  value :  and  in  1212  he  paid  into  the 
exchequer  one  hundred  pounda  for  livery  <^  some 
part  of  the  estates  which  was  possessed  by  his  nieces. 
He  waa  «.  by  his  son  and  heir, 

WILLIAM  DE  WINDSORE,  who  died  about 
the  year  1275,  and  was  «.  by  his  elder  son, 

WILLIAM  DE  WINDSORE,  of  Stanwdl,  who 
m.  Margaret,  daughter  of  John  Drokenaford,  and 
slater  of  Sir  John  Drokensford,  Knt.,  and  had  issue, 
Richard,  his  successor,  Walter,  and  a  daughter, 
Margaret,  who  took  the  veil,  and  was  a  nun  at 
Ankerwyke  Monastery,  near  Staines.  He  was  «. 
by  his  elder  son, 

SIR  RICHARD  DE  WINDSORE*  who,  attain- 
ing  miOority  in  the  13th  Edward  I.,  had  Uvery  of 
the  manor  of  Stanwell,  hi  Middlesex,  and  of  Weat 
Hakebume,  in  Berkshire.  In  the  23rd  and  20th  of 
the  same  reign  he  waa  returned  one  of  the  knighta 
for  the  county  of  Berks.  In  1297  he  had  a  military 
summons  to  march  under  Edmund,  Earl  of  Lan- 
caster, into  Gascony,  and  he  subsequently  sate  in 
parliament  as  one  of  the  knights  for  the  county  of 
Middlesex.  In  the  17th  Edward  II.,  upon  an  Inqui- 
sition  in  every  county,  returned  into  chancery,  of 
such  aa  inherited  arma  from  their  ancestors.  Sir 
Richard  de  Windsore  waa  named  amongst  those  of 
the  counties  of  Middlesex  and  Berks.  He  died  in 
two  years  afterwards,  seised  of  the  manors  of  Stan- 
well,  m  Middlesex,  and  West  Hakebum,  in  Berk- 
shire; aa  also  the  ward  of  the  castle  of  Windsore. 
He  left  issue  by  his  wife,  Julian,  daughter  of  Sir 
Nicholaa  Stapleton,  of  Hachilsay,  in  the  county  of 
York,  William,  rector  of  the  church  of  Stanwett. 
and  an  dder  son,  his  successor, 

RICHARD  DE  WINDSORE,  who  served  in 
parliament,  temp.  Edward  III.,  tat  the  counties  «f 

Middlesex  and  Berka.    He  m.  first,  Joane ,  by 

whom  he  had  a  daughter  of  the  same  name.  He 
espoused,  secondly,  Julian,  daughter  and  co-heir  of 
James  Mulynes,  of  the  county  of  Southampton,  and 
had  two  sons. 

Jambs  (Sir),  his  successor,  ancestor  of  the 

Lords  Mon^oy,  Earls  of  Plymouth,  &c 
William  (Sir),  of  whom  presently. 
Richard   de  Windsore  wedded,    thirdly,  Clarida, 
daughter  of  John  Drokenaford,  and  widow  of  John 


WIF 


WIN 


Voilu    Me4iedi»ia87,awlwai  «.tehit 
hb  elder  too,  but  we  pa«  to  the  yottnco', 

SIR  WILLIAM  DE  WINDSORE/a 
wsrrior  and  sutcman,  in  thereigntof  Bdwabd  111. 
and  Richard  II. :  by  the  former  moDarcb  he  was 
constituted  juisirrsirAirr  or  laBJUAND,  and  by  the 
latter  summoned  to  parliament  as  ■  babon,  ftom 
SSndAugost,  1301,  to  3rd  March,  UB4.  Hwlonlslrip 
m,  about  the  year  1378,  the  fiunous  and  besntiful 
Alicb  Pbbbbbb,*  but  appean  to  have  died  without 
issoeinlSM,  ashy  the poat-mortcm  inquisitioB  taken 
before  Niciiolas  Brembre,  mayor  of  LonAon,  after 
enumerating  his  estates,  it  is  staled,  •*  that  he  died 
September  Iflth,  8th  Richard  IL,  leaTing  his  three 
ristexs  his  heirs,  Ti& 

«'  Isabel,  thirty-eight  years  of  age,  nnmarrled. 
*«  Christian,  thirty-four  years  of  age,  m.  to  Sir 

William  Morteanx,  Knt. 
"Margery*    aged    thiity-tw<^    m.    to   John 
Dufcet." 
Upon  his  lordship's  decease  the  Babokt  or  Wivd- 
aoBB  became  bxtinct.    Sir  William  Dugdale  says, 
that  Lord  Windsore  left  daughters,  but  Cirilins  con- 
siders those  the  iasue  of  his  wife,  Alice,  by  another 
husband,  and  he  quotes,  in  corroboration,  a  paasage 
from  her  will;   wherein  styling  herself  widow  of 
Sir  William  Windsore,  she  bequeaths  to  John,  her 
younger  son,  her  manor  of  Gaynes ;  and  the  residue 
of  her  goods,  cbattds,  Ac.,  to  John  and  Joane,  her 
children.    This  Joane  married  Robert  Skeme,  of 
-  Kingston-upon-Thames. 

Abm8.~Gu.  a  saltier  ar.  between  twelve  crosslets 
or.  with  proper  difference. 


«  Of  this  celebrated  woman,  Babbbb,  in  his  his- 
tory of  the  reign  of  King  Edwabd  III.,  states, 
**  That  being  a  person  of  extraordinary  beauty,  she 
was  (48th  Edward  III.,)  made  Lady  of  the  Sun,  and 
rode  from  the  Tower  of  London  tlm>ugh  Cheapside, 
accompanied  with  many  lords,  knights,  and  ladies ; 
every  lady  leading  a  lord  or  knight,  by  his  horse^s 
bridle,  till  they  came  into  West  Smithfield;  where 
presently  began  solemn  Justs,  which  hdd  for  seven 
days  together.  That  she  had  been  conatantly  mis- 
represented by  moet  of  our  writers,  <oae  taking  it 
from  another,)  as  being  King  EowABO'a  ccflicublBe> 
but  that  it  was  improbable,  from  the  reputation  she 
had  of  being  tidien  in  marriage  by  so  considomble  a 
person  as  the  Lord  William  Whidsore;  and  that 
King  Edwabd,  who  never  dse  is  said  to  have  gone 
astray,  even  in  the  flower  of  his  age,  should,  within 
five  years  of  the  queen's  death,  when  he  was  very 
infirm,  bum  in  fiames.  That  the  records  wherein 
she  is  mentioned  are  not  severe  ob  her  reputation, 
as  appears  from  the  charge  against  her,  brought 
into  parliament  in  the  1st  Richard  IL,  in  these 
words: — 

*'  Dame  Alice  Ferrers  was  introduced  before  the 
lords,  and  by  Sir  Richard  le  Scrope,  Knt.,  steward 
of  the  icing's  housdiold,  charged  for  pursuing  of 
matters,  contrary  to  orders  taken  two  years  before; 
namely,  that  no  woman  should,  for  any  advantage, 
preMnt  any  cause  in  the  King's  Court,  on  pain  of 
losing  all  they  had,  and  being  banished  the  realm 
tox  ever.  That,  particularly,  she  had  procured 
980 


WINDSOR—BARONS  MONTJOY. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  Ist  January*  17U- 

Xincasc  ' 

WALTER   BLOUNT,  flxxt 
Thurveeton,  in  the  county  at  Derby, 
TBBAaoBXB  OT  Emouuid,  had,  with  other 
JoBK  Bi<ovBT,  his  eldest 
him,  leaving 

Edwabd  Bitomrr,  aecood  Lovd 
which  dignity  beeaoM  Bxrurcr, 
the  Eabuwm  ob  Dmvoirsnaai, 
the  deceaee*  without  JegirtmBte 
of  Charles  Blount,  eighth  Bmob 
Joy,  and  flnt  Eail  of 
ieO(L 
Elixaheth,  «.  to  Aicdbbws  W 
of  theoid  baroniai  ivmily  of  Wi 
who  was  summoned  to 
Babob  WiNDeoB,  in  UBI. 
From  the  above  Eliaabeth  Blount,  and  her 
Andrews,  Lord  Windsor,  lineaUy  dtaiidej 
THOMAS    WINDSOR,    sixth    Baron 
sor,  K.B.,  who  died  without  teoue  in  1M8» 
the  Babobt  or   Wihdoob  ftll  into 
between  his  two  sisters,  vis. 

Elisabeth,  sen.,  m.  to  Dixie  Hldanam,  I 
and  had  issue, 

Thomab   HicKMAir,  ^rbo  inhefited 
unde^s  estates. 
Elinbeth,  jun.,  m.  first,  Androw  Wln^ar, 
secondly.  Sir  James  Wara 


.fa 


his 


Sir  Nicholas  Dagworth  to  be  called  from 
whether  he  was  sent;  and  that  she  also  peoouBed* 
firom  the  king,  restitution  of  lands  aiMl  gooda^  to 
Richard  Lyon,  merdumt  of  London,  wiieraa 
same  lands,  having  been  forfeited  by  him,  fand 
given  to  the  king's  own  sons.  To  aU  whidi  the 
Dame  Alice  replied,  that  she  had  not  pursued 
such  thing  for  any  advantage  of  her 
upon  divers  oflicers,  counsdloia*  and 
King  Edwabd  III.,  being  examined,  proved 
she  made  such  pursuit:  and  that,  in  their 
for  her  own  private  gain.  Then  judgment 
given  by  the  lords  agaiiut  the  said  daoM, 
according  to  the  order  aforesaid,  she  should 
banished,  and  forfeit  all  her  goods  and  lands 


Sir  Robert  Cotton,  in  his  Abiidgmcat  of 
cords,  makes  this  remark  on  the  above 
"  To  say  truth  of  the  devil  is  counted 
aUe,  and  therefore  surely  the  record 
said  lady,  being  very  long,  proves  no  sudi 
matter  against  her;  only  it  sheweth,  that  the 
dame  was  in  such  credit  with  Edwabd  liL,  as 
sat  at  his  bed's  head,  whan  all  of  thecounciU 
the  privy  cbamber,  stood  waiting  without 
and  that  she  moved  those  suite  that  they  dared 
and  these  two  suite,  whereof  she  wai 
seemed  very  honest;  her  noishap  waa»  that  she 
friendly  to  many,  but  all  were  not  eo  to  ber." 

The  eflbct  of  this  conviction  wa«»  however* 
sequently  removed. 


iiih- 


WOT 


WOT 


And  it  to  TonAiaed  tmtil  odled  out  by  tha  erown, 
16th  June,  1600,  in  faTonf  of  the  abore  named 

THOMAS  HICKMAN,  aa  aeventh  Banm  Wind- 
sor, whothereupcm  anumed  the  additional  •umame 
of  WiNDBOB,  and  was  created,  0th  December,  1689, 
Sari  of  Plymouth.  His  lordship  m.  flitt,  Anne, 
daughter  of  Sir  William  Sarile,  Bart,  of  Thom- 
hiU,  in  the  county  of  York,  by  whom  he  had  a  son, 
OTaan*  who  predeceased  the  earl,  leaving  a  son, 
Othbb,  who  inherited  the  honocurs.  The  earl 
espooaed,  secondly,  Ursula,  daughter  and  co-heir  of 
Sir  Thomas  Widdrington,  of  Shirbotn  Grange,  in 
the  county  of  Northumberland,  and  had  fbur  sons 
•nd  flve  dimeters,  the  elder  of  whom* 

THOMAS  WINDSOR,  having  distinguished 
himself  in  the  wars  of  Ftamden,  was  created,  by 
King  Wix.uAif  III.,  a  peer  of  Ireland,  in  the 
diffdty  of  Viseoant  Windsor,  and  made  a  baron  of 
the  realm  by  Quern  Aitrb,  on  the  1st  January, 
17llf  as  LoBD  MoHTjOY,  ^tke  Isle  ^  Wight.  His 
lordship  m.  Charlotte^  widow  of  John  JeflHes, 
second  Baron  JefMes,  of  Wem,  and  only  dau^ter 
and  heir  of  PhiUp  Herbert,  Earl  of  Pembroke  by 
whom  he  had  surviving  issue,   ( 

Hbbbbbt,  his  successor. 

Ursula,  m.  to  John  Wsdman,  Esq.,  of  Imbs, 
in  the  county  of  Wilts. 

Charlotte,  m.  to  John  Kent,  Esq.,  of  8ali»> 
bury. 

Catherine. 

Elisabeth. 
He  d.  in  1738,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

HERBERT  WINDSOR,  second  Baron  MontJoy, 
(and  second  Viscount  Windsor).  This  nobleman  m. 
Alice,  sister  and  co-heir  of  Sir  James  Clavering, 
Bart.,  and  left  two  daughters,  his  coJiciTS,  via. 

Chark>tt»Jane,  m.  to  John,  llrst  Marquess  of 
Bute,  and  was  grandmother  of  the  piesent 
marqueis.    Her  ladyship  d,  in  ISOOi 

Aiice-Eliaabeth. 
His  lordship  d:  in  1706*  when  all  his  honodbs,  in 
default  of  male  issuer  became  bxtibct. 

Ab^h  Gu.  a  saldre,  ar.  between  twelve  cross 
crasslets  or.*  a  crescent  tot  difhrcnceu 


W0TTON-BARON8  WOTTON. 
By  Letters  Patent,  dated  13th  May,  16091 

Xincsge. 

ROBERT  WOTTON,  of  Bocton  Valheilie,  m. 

Anne,  daughter  and  oO'heir  of  Henry  Belknap,  and 

had  two  sons,  via. 
Edwabb  (Sir). 

Nicholas,  doctor  of  laws,  who  was  of  the  privy 
council,  and  one  of  fht  executors  to  the 
wiU  of  King  HBifBT  VIII.,  and  wm  fre> 
quently  accredited  on  diplomatic  missions 
to  theoourts  of  France,  Spain,  and  Germany. 
In  the  reign  of  Edwabd  VI.  he  was  one  of 
the  prlndpai  secretaries  of  state,  aa  he  was 
afterwards  in  the  reigns  of  Mary  and  EUaa- 
betlu  He  was  a  perMm  of'  great  learning, 
being  verMd  in  the  Latin,  French,  Italian, 
and  German  languagei.  He  d.  8Gth  January, 


1566,  and  was  buried  in  theathadcal  chnrdi 
at  CsBterbury,  where  a  splendid  monument 
was  erected  to  his  memory  by  his  nephew, 
Thomas  Wotton,  Esq. 
The  dder  son, 

SIR  EDWARD  WOTTON,  was  a  member  of 
the  privy  council  temp.  Hbwby  VIII.,  and  tre». 
surer  of  the  town  and  marrhes  of  Calais.  He  was 
likewise  one  of  the  exeentors  to  Kimg  Hbb by,  and 
named  by  that  prince  of  the  council  to  his  eon, 
Frine§  Edwabo:  "being,*  says  Dugdale,  ''or 
such  great  abilities,  that  he  might  have  been  lord 
chancellor  of  Engbud,  but  that  he  modestly  de- 
clined it."    Sir  Edward  was  a.  by  his  son, 

THOMAS  WOTTON,  Esq.,  who  m.  first,  Elia». 
both,  daughter  of  John  Rndstone,  Esq.,  of  Bocton 
Monchensy,  and  had  issue, 
EowABD,  his  snocessor. 
James,  who  received  the  honour  of  knighthood 
for  his  gallantry  in  the  expedition  to  Cadis, 
temp.  Elisabeth. 
John. 
He  espoused,  secondly,  ,  daughter  of  Sir 

WHUam  Finch,  of  Eaitwdl,  in  Kent,  and  widow  of 
— -  Morton,  and  had  another  son, 

■  Henry,  who  was  knighted  by  King  Jamxb  L, 
and  sent  thrice  ambassador  to  Vbhicb  ;  once 
to  the  States  General,  twice  to  the  court  of 
Savoy,  and  upon  several  other  equaOy  im- 
portant diplomatic  missions.  Sir  Henry  waa 
subsequently  app<dBted  pxovost  of  Eton 
CoUega 
The  eldest  son, 

SIR  EDWARD  WOTTON.  Knt,  having  been 
accredited  as  ambassador  to  the  court  of  Portugal, 
was  elevated  to  the  peerage  by  Kin^  Jambb  L«  hy 
letters  patent,  dated  13th  May,  1608,  as  Babom 
WoTTOif ,  qf  JiB*«rl|f,  or  Mmrinf,  In  Me  «otm<y  qf 
Kent,  His  lordship,  like  the  other  members  of  hia 
fiunily,  was  distinguished  by  great  mental  powcia 
and  superior  attalnmmta.  He  m.  Hesther,  daughter 
end  oo-hehrof  Sir  William  Puckaring,  Knt.,  of  Os- 
wald Kirk,  in  the  county  of  York,  and  waa  4w  at  hie 
decease  by  his  son, 

THOMAS  WOTTON,  second  beion.  This  noble- 
man m.  Mary,  dattghtar  ind  coJieir  of  Sir  Arthur 
Throckmorton,  of  Panlesa  Perry,  in  Northampton- 
shire, and  had  issue, 

Katherineb  who  m.  first,  Henry,  Lord  Stan- 
hope^  by  whom,  who  predeceased  Us  ftthar, 
she  was  mother  of 

Philip,  Earl  of  Chesterfield. 

Mary,  d.  unmarried. 

Katharine,  m.  to  uniBam,  Lord  AlBng- 


Her  ladyship  erponaed,  secondly,  Jorx 
PoLiAKBBB  KiBUiOTJuf,  Locd  of  Hsm- 
fieet,  in  HoUend,  and  had  a  son, 
Chablbb-Hbii BY  KiBXROTBif,  iHio  was 
created  Babob  Wottoii  ,  ef  Wemtu 
She  wedded,  thirdly.  Colonel  Deniel  O'Nelle^ 
one  of  the  grooms  of  the  bed-rhamber  to 
Charles  II.  Her  ladyship  waa  governess  to 
the  Princess  of  Orange^  daughter  of  King 
CnABifSa  L,  and  attending  her  Ugfanese  Into 
Holland^  sent  otw  wmmf,  arms,  andanmra- 


ITRI 


WRI 


attlon,  to  lite  nu^^Mty^ald,  Ibr  uliidi  wrviM 
she  WM  crwtBd,  by  Chahlbs  IL,  Couktku 
or  CBBSTBRriSLO  for  life. 
Hathcr,  m,  to  Baptist,  Vteoouut  rarndfii. 
Margaret,  m.  to  Sir  John  Tufton,  Kat. 
Aimei  m.  to  Sir  Bdward  Halat,  Knt,  of  Tun- 
tut.  Kent. 
His  kmtehip  d,  in  1890,  when  the  Baroky  or  Wor« 
VON,  In  dtfkult  of  male  iMue,  became  sztinct. 
Akms.— Ar.  a  laltler,  sa. 

WOTTON  —  COUNTESS  OF  CHES- 
TERFIELD. 

By  Letten  Patent,  dated  flKh  May,  IGBOi 

mncasc. 

KATHERINB  WOTTON,  ddeit  daughter  and 
co-brir  of  Thomas  Wotton,  second  Lord  Wotton, 
of  Marley,  was  creeled,  by  King  CHAax.Ba  II., 
CovnrmaM  or  CHasTKariaLD  for  life.  Her  lady- 
ahip  cl.  in  1667*  when  the  title  became  extinct  (see 
Wotton,  Barooa  Wottoo). 


WRIOTHB8LEY  —  BARONS  WRIO- 
THESLEY,  EARLS  OF 
SOUTHAMPTON,  EARLS 
OF  CHICHESTER. 

Barony,      ^1  Tlst  January,  1544. 

Earldom^      I  by  LettenJ  16th  February,  1647. 


Earldom  of  f  Patent,    j 
Chidiestar,^  C 


3rd  June,  1644. 


Of  this  fkmily  the  flrst  mentioned, 

JOHpf  WRYOTHSLEY,  (commonly  called 
JTryMe,)  was  fttueon  heraU  in  the  reign  of  Ed- 
VTAED IV.,  and  had  letters  patent  for  the  olBce  of 
Garter  King  at  Arms,  in  the  1st  of  Richard  III. 
ile  had  two  sons, 

TaoMAB,  who  was  first  a  herald  by  the  title 

of  fFtMngfordf  and  in  the  90th  Hbnby  VII. 

was  constituted  Garter  King  at  Arms. 
William,  was  also  in  the  College  of  Arms  u 

York  Herald. 
The  younger  son, 

WILLIAM  WRIOTHESLEY,  York  Herald, 
left  a  son, 

THOMAS  WRIOTHESLEY,  who,  in  the  87th 
HsKny  VIII.,  was  made  coroner  and  attorney  in 
the  court  of  Common  Pleas  t'  and  in  three  years 
afterwards,  being  then  one  of  the  principal  secre- 
tatles  of  state,  was  sent  ambassador  to  treat  of  a 
marriage  between  his  royal  master  and  Cliristiana, 
second  daughter  of  the  King  of  Denmark.  In  the 
99nd  of  the  same  reign,  subsequently  to  hte  having 
had  the  honour  of  knighthood,  he  was  made  con- 
stable of  the  castle  of  Southampton.  He  was  soon 
afterwards  accredited  one  oi  the  commissioners  to 
treat  with  the  JBiNpsror,  CRAitLaa  V.,  and  he  wm 
iterated  to  the  peerage^  by  letten  patent,  dated 


1st  January,    1544,    in  the    dignity 
WaioTHsaLBT,  of  Titdifield,  in  the 
Hants ;  which  TUe^fitld  being  one  of  the 
teries  then  dissolved,  he  obt^ned  by  grant  frosn  Ae 
crown.    Soon  after  this,  upon  the  dfceae^  of  Lord 
Audley,  his  lordship  was  constituted  loud  cbas* 
CBLLOB  or  Enolamd,  and  the  saaae  jeax  be  was 
made  a  Kkiobt  or  thb  Gabtbb.    He  waa  sub> 
sequently  appointed,  by  Khtg  Hbbbt,  one  of  hia 
executors,  and  named  of  the  oooncil  to  bis  cod 
Edward  VI.    Three  days  before  whose  coronatieB 
he  was  created,  by  letten  patent,  dated  16ih  Feb- 
ruary, 1547,  Earju  or  SouTBAMrrox.    His  lord- 
ship did  not  long,  however,  maintain  his  inflneace 
in  this  reign.    Prior  to  the  accession  of  the  kii^  he 
was  opposed  to  the  Duke  of  Somenet,  and  he  had 
little  chance,  under  the  new  order  of  aflhin,  of  na- 
tainlng  himself  against  so  powerful  a  ri%'aL    The 
earl,  in  order  that  he  mJ|^t  have  the  greater  leisum 
to  attend  to  public  business,  had,  of  his  own  autho- 
rity, put  the  great  seal  into  ccwnmiaaion,  and  had 
empowered    ftwr    lawyers,    two  of  whom    upcre 
canonists,  to  execute,  in  his  absence,  the  duties  of 
his  high  office.     Complaints  were  made  of  this 
irregiUarity  to  the  council,  which,  inlinennul  by  the 
Protbctob,  readily  seised  the  opportunity  to  d»- 
prees  his  lordship.    Tliejudgei  wereconsulted  upon 
the  occasion,  and  gave  it  as  their  opinion,  that  the 
commission  was  iltegal,  and  that  the  clianceikv,  by 
his  presumption  in  granting  it,  liad  Justly  forfeited 
the  great  seal,  and  had  even  subjected  himself  to 
punishment.    His  lordship  was  immediately  dted 
before  the  council,  and.  notwithstanding  a  most 
able  defence,  it  was  declared  that  he  had  forfeited 
the  chanceUonhip,  that  a  fine  sliould  be  imposed 
upon  him,   and  that  he  be  oonfined  to  his  own 
house  during  the  king's  pleasure.     This  eminent 
person  was  esteemed  a  man  of  learning,  a  good 
lawyer,  and  a  most  excellent  chancellor.    He  was 
accustomed  to  observe,   that   '*  Force  awtd,   Imt 
Justice  governed  the  world/*  and  that  "  he  loved  a 
bisliop  to  satisfy  his  conscience,  a  lawyer  to  guide 
his  judgment,  a  good  fiunily  to  keep  up  his  intenat* 
and  an  university  to  preserve  his  name^** 

He  m.  Jane,  daughter  and  heir  of  William  Che- 
ney, Esq.,  and  had  iasu^ 

Hbnrt,  his  successor. 

Mary,  m.  flnt  to  William  Shelly,  Esq.,  of 

Michelgrove,  Sussex,  and  secondly,  to 

Lyster,  son  and  heir  of  Sir  Michael  Lyatcr, 
Knt 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  Thomas  RatcUflb.  Earl  oC 
Sussex. 

Katherine,  m.  to  Thomas  CanwaUis,  Esq. 

Mabel,  tn.  to  Sir  Walter  Sands,  Knt 

Anne,  m.  to  Sir  Oliver  Lawrence,  Knt. 
His  lordship  d.  in  lUO,  and  was  «.  by  Us  son, 

HENRY  WRIOTHESLEY,  second  Earl  of 
Southampton.  This  nobleman  was  a  friend  of 
.  Thomas,  Duke  of  Ncvfolk,  and  involved  himself  In 
trouble  by  promoting  the  contemplated  marriage  of 
that  nobleman  with  Mary,  Queen  of  Scots,  «« to 
whom  and  her  religion  (says  Dugdale),  he  stood  not 
a  little  affected."  He  m.  Mary,  daughter  of  Anthony 
Brown,  Viscount  Montagu,  and  had  issue, 

Hbkrt,  Lord  Wriothesley. 


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Mary.  m.  to  Thomas,  Lord  Anuktet,  Of  War^ 
dour. 
His  lordship  tf.  in  1581,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

HENRY  WRIOTHESLEY,  third  Ear!  of 
Southampton.  This  nobleman  was  the  companion 
In  arms  of  the  Earl  of  Essex,  and  a  participator  in 
the  treason  by  which  that  unhappy  nobleman  for- 
feited his  Bfe  in  the  reign  .  of  Elisabeth.  Lord 
Southampton  was  also  tried,  condemned,  and  at- 
tainted, but  his  life  was  spared ;  and  upon  the  ac- 
cession of  King  JAMsa  1.,  he  was  released  from 
prison,  restored  in  blood  by  act  of  parliament,  and 
created  by  a  new  patent,  date  21  July,  1603,  Earl  of 
Southampton,  with  the  same  rights,  precedency 
and  privih^es  that  he  had  formerly  ei^oyed.  He 
was  also  made  a  Knight  of  the  Garter,  and  consti- 
tuted captidn  of  the  Isle  of  Wight,  and  castle  of 
Caresbroke.  His  lordship  m.  Elisabeth,  daughter 
of  John  Vernon,  Esq.,  of  Hodnet,  in  the  county  of 
Derby,  and  dying  in  1GS4,  left  issue, 
Thomas,  Lord  Wriothesley. 
Penelope,  m.  to  William,  Lord  Spencer,  of 

Wormleighton. 
Anne,  m.  to  Robert  Wallop,  Esq.,  of  Furley, 

in  the  county  of  Southampton. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  Sir  Thomas  Estcourt,  Knt, 
one  of  the  Masters  in  Chancery. 
The  earl  was  «.  by  his  son, 

THOMAS  WRIOTHESLEY,  fourth  Earl  of 
Southampton.  This  nobleman  who  was  a  staunch 
supporter  of  King  Char  lbs  L,  was  Installed  a 
Knight  of  the  Garter  at  the  restoration,  and  consti- 
tuted Lord  Trsasurbr  or  England.  His  lord- 
ship m.  first,  Rachel,  daughter  of  Daniel  de  Massey, 
Baron  de  Rouvigny,  in  France,  by  whom  he  had 
two  sons,  who  both  died  young,  and  three  daugh- 
ters, vis. 

Elisabeth,  m.  to  Edward  Noel,  eldest  son  of 

Baptist,  Viscount  Campden. 
Rachael,  m.  first,  to  Frauds,  son  and  heir  of 
Richard,  Earl  of  Carberry,  in  Ireland,  and 
secondly,  to  the  celebrated  patriot,  WUliam$ 
Lord  Russblzi,  so  ui\}ustly  beheaded  in 
1683,  son  of  William,  fifth  Earl  of  Bedford. 
Magdalen,  who  tL  young. 
He  wedded,  secondly,  Frances,  daughter  of  Francis 
Leigh,    Baron   Dunsmore,   which  nobleman  was 
created  3rd  June,  1644,  Eaaz.  of  CRicHxaTBR, 
with  remainder,  failing  his  own  male  issue,  to  his 
son-in-law,  the  Earl  of  Southampttm  and  the  heirs 
male  of  his  body  by  his  lordshlp*s  daughter,  the 
said   Frances  Leigh.    He  died  in   1663,  and  the 
honours  of  Lord  Southampton,  were  then  aug- 
mented by  the  Earldom  of  Chichester.    By  this 
lady,  his  lordship  had  four  daughters, 
Audrey,  whodL  unmarried. 
Penelope,  d.  young. 

Elisabeth,  m.  first,  Joceline,  BUul  of  Northum- 
berland, and  secondly,  to  Ralph,  Lord  Mon- 
tagu, of  Boughton. 
Penelope,  d.  in  inXimcy. 
The  earl  espoused,  thirdly,  Frances,  daughter  of 
William,  Duke  of  Somerset,  and  widow  of  Richard, 
Viscount  Molineux,  but  had  no  iasucL     He  died 
at  Southampton  House,  *'  near  Holbume,  In  the 
suburbs  of  JL.ond<»,'*  16tb  May,  1667*  when  all  Hia 


HONomts,  including  the  Earldom  of  Chichester, 
became  bxtinct. 

Arms.— As.  a  cross  or.  betw.  four  falcons  closed, 
ar. 

YELVERTON  —  VISCOUNTS  LON- 
GUEVILLB,  EARLS  OF 

SUSSEX. 

Viscounty,  1  by  Letters/  Slst  April,  1090. 
Earldom,    j    Patent,    \  96th  September,  1717- 

ICCntagc. 

of  this  family,  one  of  great  antiquity  ia  the  county 
of  Norfolk,  was 

ANDREW  YELVERTON,  Hving  in  the  reign 
of  Edward  II.,  who  was  father  of 

ROBERT    YELVERTON,    who  was  seated, 

temp.  Edward  III.,  at  Rackheath,  in  the  vicinity 

of  Norwich,  and  marrying  Cyoaly,  daughter  of  Sir 

Thomas  Bardolfe,  left  a  son  and  heir, 

JOHN  YELVERTON,  of  Rackheath,  who  had, 

by  his  first  wife, ,  a  son  and  sucoeisor, 

RoBXRT,  who  died  about  the  year  1420,  leaT* 
ing  a  son, 

Thomas,  of  Rackheath,  who  died  a.  p» 
John  Ydverton  m.  secondly,  Elisabeth,  daughter  of 
John  Read,  of  Rougham,  in  the  county  of  Norfolk, 
and  bad  a  son, 

SIR  WILLIAM  YELVERTON,  a  bwyer  of 
great  eminence,  who  was  constituted  one  of  the 
Judges  of  the  court  of  King's  Bench  in  the  28nd 
Hbnry  VI.  This  learned  person  appears  to  hsTe 
stood  equally  well  with  the  monarchs  of  both  the 
RoseSf^Bs  we  find  him  not  only  continued  in  bis 
Judicial  office  by  King  Edward  IV.,  but  made  a 
Knight  of  the  Bath,  In  order  to  grace  that  prince's 
coronation;  and  upon  the  temporary  restoration  of 
King  Hbnry,  appointed  by  patent,  dated  9th  Octo- 
ber, 1470,  one  of  the  Judges  of  the  court  of  C6mmon 
Pleas.  He  m.  Agnes,  daughter  of  Sir  Oliver  le 
Gross,  of  Crostwick,  in  the  county  of  Norfolk,  Knt., 
and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

JOHN  YELVERTON,  Esq.,  of  Rackheath,  who 
m.  Maigery,  daughter  of  William  Morley,  Esq.,  and 
hadiflsue, 

William  (Sir),  his  succeasor. 
Anne,  m.  to  Thomas  Parmey,  Esq.,  of  Hel« 
mingham. 
He  was  «.  by  his  son, 

SIR  WILLIAM  YELVERTON,  Knt.,  who  was 
retained  by  indenture,  anno  1474,  to  serve  the  king 
(Edward  IV.)  in  person  in  his  wars  in  France,  with 
two  men  at  arms,  and  four  archers.  He  m.  first, 
Anne,  daughter  of  John  Paston,  Esq.,  of  Paston 
Hall,  in  the  county  of  Norfolk,  by  whom  he  had 
issue, 

William,  who  died,  in  his  fkther's  lili»-time* 

«.  p. 
Anne,  m.  to  Thomas  Jermy,  Esq.,  son  of  Sir 

John  Jermy,  Knt 
Margaret^  m.   to  John  Palgrave,    Esq.,    of 
NOTwood  Barmingham,  in  the  county  of 
Norfolk. 

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r»  IN*  to  John  Conywf »  KtQo  fon  md 
hdr  of  Sir  Robert  Conyert. 
Sir  William  wpoiiMd,  iecoodiy,  ElenMr,  daughter 
of  Sir  ThonuM  Breww,  Knt.»  and  had  a  toa,  hia 
MioecNor, 

WILLIAM  YBLVBRTON.  Esq.,  of  Rougham 
and  RadUieath.  Thii  gentlMnaa  m.  Catherine, 
daughter  of  John  Rarea,  Baq..  of  the  eoitnty  oi 
Bnex,  and  had  five  ions,  Tis.,  William,  hisiuc^ 
oaMor,  John,  Nicholas,  Edward,  and  Adam,  and  a 
daughter,  Anne,  m.  to  Matthew  Canne,  Esq.,  of 
Wessenham,  In  Norfolk.  He  was  «.  at  his  decease 
hy  his  eldest  son, 

WILLIAM  YELVBRTON,  Esq.,  of  Rougham, 
who  m.  Margaret,  daughter  of  — — —  Gamond,  of 
London,  geDtleman,  and  had  two  sons,  William 
and  John,  and  three  daughters,  tIs. 

Mary,  m.  first,  to  William  Baker,  Esq.,  and 

secondly,  to  Henry  Wayte,  Esq. 
Snsan,  m,  first,  to  Edward  Bstoo,  Esq.,  of 
Reinham,  In   Norfolk,   and  secondly,   to 
Edward  Hanrey,  Esq. 
Eleanor,  m.  to  Ridiard  Draper,  Esq.,  of  Mar- 
ham,  in  the  same  county. 
William  Yelverton  tf .  in  the  year  1541,  and  was  a. 
by  his  elder  sod, 

WILLIAM  YELVERTON,  Esq.,  of  Rougham. 
This  gentleman  espoused,  first,  Anne,  daughter  and 
heir  of  Sir  Henry  Fermor,  Knt,  of  East  Barsham, 
la  Norfolk,  by  whom  he  acquired  a  great  increase  to 
his  landed  possessions,  and  had  issue, 

Hbnrt,  who  inherited  Rooobam,  and  the 
other  estates  of  his  fhther,  as  son  and  heir. 
He  Nk  Bridget,  daughter  of  Sir  William 
Drury,  of  Hawited,  in  Suifolk,  Knt,  and 
had  issue, 
William,  his  successor,  created  a  baronet 
In  1680.    He  m.  Dionesse,  daughter  of 
Richard  Stubbs,  Esq.,  of  Sedgeford,  In 
Norfolk,  and  left 
William  (Sir),  second  baronet,  who 
m.  Ursula,  daughter  of  Sir  Thomas 
Richardson,  Knt.,  Speaker  of  the 
House  of  Commons,  and  after- 
wards Lord  Chief  Justice  of  the 
Kingfs  Bench,  by  whom  he  had, 
William,   and   two   daughters, 
Elisabeth    and    UrsuUu     He   d. 
In    1648,    and    was    «.    by    his 


William  (Sir),  third  baronet, 
who  died  «.  ;».  in  1640,  when 
the  baronetcy  expired. 
Henry  (Sir),  m.  Alice,  daughter  and 
co-heir  of  the  Right  Rev.  William 
Barlow,  Bishop  of  Lincoln. 
Maigaret,  m.   to  Thomas  Tyrrell, 
Esq.,  of  Oippiiige«  in  tha  county 
ofSuflblk. 
William. 

CBniaTOPMBB,  of  whom  presently. 
Humphrey* 
LaunceloL 
Winifred,  m.   to   Owen    Duckett,   Esq.,    of 

Worthing.  In  Norfolk. 
Anne,  am.  first,  to  Thomas  Reade,  Esq.,  of 


of 
ta 


',     im     11*1  iwwiy »    to 

kins,  Esq.,  of 
Martha,  «.  first,  to 
of  Pyndiam,  in  the  county  of  Noritalk.  mat 
secondly,  to  John  HIgham,  Esq.,  of^flbs^ 
In  Sussex. 
Mr.   Yelverton  m.  seoondly,  Jane,  doaghtsr  of 
Edward  Cocket,  Esq.,  of  Ampton.  in  SidMk,  by 
whom  he  had 
Edward. 
Charles. 
William,  m.  to  Grace,  daughter  of 

port,  Esq.,  of  Buddngham. 
Jane,  m.  first,  to  Edmund  Lommcr, 
Manington,   In  Norfolk,  and 
John  Dodge,  Esq.,  of  Wrotham,  in  Koat. 
Chrysold,  m.  first,  to  Thomas  le  Strange, 
and  heir  of  Sir  Nicholas  le  Strange,  and 
secondly,  to  Sir  Philip  Woodhonaa. 
The  third  son  of  William  Ydverton,  by  his  first 
wife,  Anne  Fermor, 

CHRISTOPHER  YELVERTON,  being bKd  to 
the  bar,  and  called  to  the  degree  of  secjennt  nt  law, 
was  constituted  queen's  se^eant  In  the  31st  of  Eliaa. 
beth.  In  some  years  afterwards  ha  waa  chosen 
speaker  of  the  House  of  Commons,  and  in  the 
44th  of  the  same  reign  he  was  constituted  ooe  o£ 
the  Judges  of  the  court  of  King's  Bench.  On  the 
accession  of  King  Jambs  his  patent,  as  a  Judge, 
was  renewed,  and  he  was  then  made  a  knight.  Sir 
Christopher  m.  Mary,  daughter  of  Thomas  Cateaby, 
Esq.,  of  Whiston,  in  the  county  of  Northampton, 
and  had  issue, 

Hbbby,  his  successor. 

Christopher  (Sir). 

Isabel,  m.  to  Sir  Edward  Cope,  of  CaunoB** 

Asby,  in  the  county  of  Northampton. 
Anne,  m.  first,  to  Thomas  Sherland,  Esq.,  of 
the  county  of  Suffblk,  and  seoondly.  to  Sir 
Edward  Cocket.  Knt,  of  Ampton,  In  the 
sameshifb 
Mary,  m.  to  Sir  William  Gardiner,  of  Lagbam. 

in  Surrey. 
Judith,  m.  to  Edmund  Abdy,  Esq.,  of  Lin- 
coin's  Inn. 
His  lordship  d.  in  1607,  at  Easton-Maaduit.  b  seat 
which  he  had  purchased  In  Northamptoodiixe,  and 
was  «.  by  his  elder  son, 

HENRY  YELVERTON,  Esq.,  of  Eaaton-Man- 
duit  This  gentleman  having,  like  his  father, 
adopted  the  profession  of  the  law,  waa  appointed 
aoLiciTOB-OBNBBAL  1b  1613,  Bud  knighted  about 
the  same  period.  In  1617  Sir  Henry  Ydverton  waa 
made  attobnbt-obnbbal  ;  previously,  however, 
he  is  said  to  have  displeased  the' king  by  refkislBg  to 
appear  against  the  Earl  of  S<mienMt,  at  his  trial  for 
the  murder  of  Sir  Thomas  Ovcrbury,  and  in  the 
October  of  the  year  in  which  he  was  advanced  to  the 
attorney-generalship  we  find  him  writing  a  letter  to 
his  royal  master,  complaining  "  of  his  unhapptneea 
to  fall  under  his  mi^esty's  displeasure,  who  had 
made  him  almost  the  wonder  of  his  fisvour }  thnthe 
conceived  it  to  arise  ftom  some  accident*  belcl  In 
the  late  business  of  the  marriage  of  Sir  John  Vil- 
lien  I  a*  also  twm  a  report,  as  if  he  had  uttered 
to  the  dishonour  of  the  Baxi  of 


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y«i- 


He  pMM  Ui  CUM  wormBnemmfuXtf, 
howerer.  that  he  ▼•ry  lOon  veooreited  any  ground 
whkh  bB  might  hmf  lost  In  Jamss'b  optnlon,  ImtL 
he  was  not  lo  fortunate  with  the  Duke  of  Bucldng- 
haaif  who  ■eMni»  for  a  loog  time  afterwards,  to 
have  regarded  him  with  an  evil  eye.  In  1680»  prin- 
cipally tluovgh  the  marhtnatione  of  that  faTOUied 
nohUwianj  he  was  involved*  with  the  kxrd  mayor  of 
Loodoo,  and  Others,  in  a  star-chamber  prosecution, 
fegarding  the  pssring  of  certain  clsuwe  in  a  char- 
ter to  the  dty  of  Londoo,  not  authorised  by  the 
king's  warrant ;  for  this  oAnce^  although  he  made 
every  submission,  and  that  the  diartsr  was  given 
up,  he  was  a4)udged  to  pay  a  fine  of  £4000,  to  be 
deprived  of  the  office  of  attorney-general,  and  to  be 
committed  to  the  tower.  He  was  subsequently  pro- 
secuted before  parliament  upon  another  account, 
and  the  House  of  Ix>rds,  16th  May,  1681,  proceeded 
to  sentence,  and  declare^  '*  that  the  said  Sir  Henry 
Yelverton  for  his  speeches,  uttered  here  in  court, 
which  do  touch  the  king's  m^esty's  honour,  shall 
be  fined  to  the  king  in  ten  thousand  marks,  be  Im- 
priioned  during  pleasure,  and  make  submission  to 
the  king:  and  for  those  which  touched  the  Mar- 
quen  of  Buckingham,  he  should  be  fined  five 
thousand  marks,  &c«"  Upon  which  Buckingham 
stood  up,  and  did  freely  remit  his  portion  of  the 
fine}  and  the  prince  and  the  House  agreed  to  move 
his  majesty  to  mitigate  the  other  part  of  the  Judg- 
ment. What  proportion  of  the  fine  was  ultimatdy 
forgiven  is  no  where  mentioned,  but  his  misfortunes 
very  soon  afterwards  terminated.  The  Duke  of 
Buckingham  visited  him  ifwognUo  in  the  Tower, 
and  Sir  Henry  making  a  suffldsnt  apology  to  his 
grace,  he  was  presently  set  at  liberty,  and  became 
i^gain  a  practising  barrister,  untU  April,  1625,  when 
a  gentleman  Itom  the  duke  brought  him  i  warrant 
trom  the  king,  appointing  him  one  of  the  Judges  of 
the  court  of  Common  Pleas.  In  this  situation  he 
remained  untU  his  decease,  on  the  84th  January, 
16S^^  when  his  remains  were  interred  in  the 
parish  church  of  Baston-Maudult.  Of  this  eminent 
person  the  following  character  is  given  by  one  of  his 
own  profession: 

*<  Memorandum,  That  upon  Sunday  morning, 
being  the  Mth  of  January,  1699^90,  died  Sir  Henry 
Yelverton,  puisne  Judge  of  the  Common  Pleas,  who 
before  had  been  attorney-general  to  King  James, 
and  afterwards  incurring  his  displeasure,  was  dis- 
pleased and  censured  in  the  star-diamber.  He  th«i 
became  a  practiser  again  at  the  bar,  fkom  which  he 
was  advanced,  by  King  Chabjuss,  to  be  a  Judga 
He  was  a  man  of  profound  knowledge  in  the  com- 
mon laws,  and  ingenious  and  eloquent  in  expres- 
sion I  and  for  his  life,  of  great  integrity  and  piety, 
and  his  death  univenally  bewttted.**  His  lordship 
M.  Margaret,  daughter  of  Robert  Beale,  Esq.,  derk 
of  the  council  to  Queen  Elisabeth,  and  was  «.  by  hii 
eldest  son, 

SIR  CHRISTOPHER  YELVERTON,  Knt,  of 
EastOD-Mauduit,  who  was  created  a  baronet  on  the 
aoth  June,  1641.  He  m.  in  1630,  Anne,  youngest 
daughter  of  Sir  William  Twisden,  Bart.,  of  Roydon 
Hall,  Kent,  by  whom  he  had  Issue, 

HsNHY,  his  aneeesior. 

Anne,  m.   fliat,  to  Robert,   Earl  of  Man* 


lo  Chaitas.  Bvl  of 
Hallfiuu 

Sir  Christopher  d.  4th  December,  16M,  andwwsw 
by  his  son, 

SIR  HENRY  YELVERTON,  second  baronet, 
member  for  Northamptonshire,  in  the  parliament 
that  voted  the  restoration  of  King  Chabi.sb  IL 
Hem.  Susan, BanoNBae  Gbby  db  Ruthyv,  daugh* 
ter  and  heirees  of  Charles  Longuevilk^  Lord  Grey 
de  Ruthyn^  and  great  grand-daughter  of  Charles 
Grey,  Earl  of  Kent  (see  Grey,  Earl  of  Kent),  by 
wl)om  he  had  issue, 

CBABX.BB,  his  successor. 

Henry,  heir  to  his  brother. 

Christopher. 

Frances,  m.  to  Francis,  Viscount  Hatton. 
Sir  Henry  d.  88th  January,  1676,  and  was  «.  by  his 
eldest  son, 

SIR  CHARLES  YELVERTON,  second  ba- 
ronet, who,  upon  the  decease  of  his  mother,  98th 
January,  1676^  became  Babok  Gbby  db  Rvtrtn. 
His  lordship  d.  unmarried,  of  the  small^pov,  17th 
May,  1679,  and  was  «.  by  his  brother, 

SIR  HENRY  YELVERTON,  as  third  baronet, 
end  as  Lord  Grey  de  Ruthyn.  This  nobleman 
claimed,  by  inheritance  Arom  the  Hastings,  Earls  of 
Pembroke,  the  right  of  carrying  the  golden  spurs  at 
the  coronation  of  King  Jabcbb  II.»  and  his  claim 
being  admitted,  he  bore  them  accordingly.  Hb 
lordship  m.  Barbara,  daughter  of  John  Talbot,  Esq., 
of  Layoock,  In  the  county  of  Wilto,  and  had,  with 
other  Issue, 

Talbot,  his  successor. 

Henry,  m.  ,  daughter  of  M^Jor  Carle, 

and  had  an  only  daughter,  Barbara,  who  d; 
young. 

Barbara,  m.  to  Reynolds  CaHhorpe,  Esq.,  of 
Elvesham,  in  the  county  of  Northampton. 
His  lordship  was  advanced  to  the  dignity  of  Via- 
couMT  L0NOYTBVIL1.B  on  81st  April,  160Oi   He  d.  in 
1704,  end  was  s.  by  his  elder  son, 

TALBOT  YELVERTON,  second  Viscount 
LoaguevUle,  who  was  created,  86th  September,  1717, 
Eabl  of  Suaasx,  with  remainder,  in  defiault  of 
his  own  nude  issue,  to  his  brother,  the  Hon.  Henry 
Ydverton,  and  the  hdrs  male  of  his  body.  His 
lordship  was  appointed  deputy  earl-marshal  of  Eng- 
land  in  1785,  and  he  ofiiciated  as  such  at  the  corona- 
tion of  King  Obobob  II.  He  was  made  a  Knight  of 
the  Bath  upon  the  revival  of  that  order,  and  subse- 
quently sworn  of  the  privy  coundL  His  lordship 
m.  Lucy,  daughter  of  Henry  Pelham,  Esq.,  of 
Lewes,  in  Sussex,  clerk  of  the  pells,  and  unde  of 
Thomas,  Duke  of  Newcastle,  by  whom  he  had  two 
sons, 

GBOBOB-AuoUBTva,  \  successlvely  inheriUm 

Hbnby,  j     of  the  honours. 

The  earl,  who  carried  the  golden  spurs  at  the  ooro« 
nationof  Obobob  L,  died  87th  October,  173D«  and 
was  «.  by  his  elder  son, 

GEORGE-AUGUSTUS  YELVERTON,  second 
Earl  of  Sussex.  T)^  nobleman  was  one  of  the 
lords  of  the  bed-chamber  to  Frederick,  Pbincb  of 
Walbs,  and  afterwards  to  his  Majeatjft  King 
Gbobgb  III.  He  d.  unmarried  8th  January,  17M, 
and  was  «.  by  his  brother^ 

4r  689 


YOll 

mmRY  YSLVERTON,  thM  Cvl  tff 
This  DoUeman  m.  lint,  HcMcr,  dcu^ter  of  Jolin 
HbH,  Kmio  ot  MmAdd  WoodfaouMk  Notti»  od 
had  an  only  ranrlTteg  daughter, 

Imdp  Babbaba  YBLTBBToir,  whoM.  Edward 
ThoroCoB  GookU  Eiq.,  of  WoodhaiB-Maaa^ 
Add,  iB  tha  tiouBty  of  Notts,  and  dying  in 
thellfiMimaof  harftth«,  9th  April,  1781, 
laft  iMaa, 

Hbbbt-Bdwabd  CtoVLD,  whOb  upon 
ttaadairth  of  hia  giandfathar,  the  Eari 
of  SiMMX,  becuna  Lobo  Gbbt  »b 
RoTBvir,  aBdeMomad  the  nuBaaM  of 
YBLTBBToir.  Ha  at.  ht  IMS,  Abbb- 
llaria,  daughter  of  WUUam  KeUam, 
Esq.,  and  dytag  the  Best  year,  left  an 
oiily  daughter  BBd  helfCM, 

Babbaba  Ybltbbtoit,  BBTMav 
Orer  *  JtuMyn,  who  m.  18lh 
Augost,  lan,  OBOBaB, 


BathaiB  Oottld,  A  uBBUvried. 
Mary  Ckmld,  «k  to  the  HoD.  aad  Rev. 
Frederic  Powye,  toD  of  Lord  LU- 
fioid* 
Tha  ear!  ctpoosed,  eeeondly,  Mary,  daughter  of 
ieltm  Vanghaa,  Beq!,  of  Drletol,  but  had  no  leene. 
He  died  in   17D9,   when  tha  Darany  of  Orey  de 
Ruthyn  derolved   upon  his  grandson,  Hbbbt- 
Bdwabb  Oould,  Esq.,  who  assumed  the  surname 
of  Ybltbbtob,   as  stated  abore,  and  the  Via- 
oouNTY  or  LoirovBTfx.i.B,  with  the  Eabldoii  op 
SuasBz,  became  bxtibct. 

Abhb^— Ar.  thxee  Uott  lampiBt,  and  a  chief 
gBles. 

NMe.— The  fiunily  of  Ybltbbtob,    Fiteounta 
Amnmore,  in  Irdand,  is  a  bnoich  of  this  family. 


YORKE-BARON  DOVER. 
By  Letfeem  Patent,  dated  llth  September,  ITIB. 

Ximage. 

PHILIP  YORKB,  theffist  and  eminent  Earl  of 
Hardwicke,  lobd  bioh  cbancblm>r  or  Gbbat 
Bbitain,  m.  Margaret,  daughter  of  Cluffles  Cocks, 
Esq.,  of  the  city  of  Woroeiter,  aad  had  five  sons 
and  two  daughten  (refer  to  BmrMt  TM/etkmmrp  ^f 
M«  Pwrag9  «nd  Baronektgt),  of  whom  the  third 
won, 

SIR  JOSEPH  YORKE,  K.B.,  having  serred  as 
aid-de-camp  to  the  Duke  of  Cumberland  at  the 
battle  of  Fontenoy,  and  subsequently  attained  the 
rank  of  a  general  officer,  was  elevated  to  the  peerage 
on  llth  September,  1700,  as  Baboh  Dovbb,  of 
Dover,  in  the  county  of  Kent.  His  lordship  m.  the 
dowager  Baronen  do  Boctsolier,  a  lady  of  Holland, 
but  had  no  ivua  Lord  Dover  was  for  many  years 
ambassador  at  the  Hague.  ^  He  d.  in  1792,  when  the 
barony  becsma  bbtiitct. 

ABua.— Ar.  on  a  saltier  aa.  a  besant  *.  with  the 
necesHury  diflbrenoeaa  a  junior  brSBch  of  the  house 
of  Yorke.  » 

968 


zov 

ZOUCHS  —  BARON  ZOmTHB.  OF 
ASHBY,  IN  THE  OCHJNTY 
OF  LEICESTER. 

By  Writ  of  SumnioBs,  dated  9Mh  Jtabati 
99  Edward  L 

XiiuasK- 

That  the  ZoveRBs  btaachad  turn  tlw 
Britsnay  Is  admitted  byaO 
do  not  ooiBdda  tai  the  exBct  Hbo  of  1 
WILLIAM  LE  ZUSCHE,  Ib 
of  Swavesey,  Ib 

by  his  aaeastois  to  tha  abbey  St.  Sc«lna 
Badraa,  IB  Ab)ov,  (to  wliidi  the  priory  of  I 
was  a  odi.)  calls  Roger  la  Znedie,  lila 
Alaa  la  Zusdie,  Eari  of  Britaany,  his 
This  WUBamd.  tai  tha  let  of  JoBV,  and  waa  «.  by 
his  brother, 

ROGER  LE  ZUSCHE,  wtes  tar  bie  flMiCyen 
KhtgJoKH,  had  a  giBBt,  Ihmt  that  i 
maaors  of  Petersfleld  aad  Haplft  Darhaoi,  in 
oouBty  of  SoothamptoB,  part  of  tha! 
ft«y  de  Maadevllie,  one  of  the 
then  In  aiBM.    la  tha  aext  reiga  he  * 
Devonshire,  aad  had  ftarthar  gnats  fhHB  tha  < 
Haat.Margttet  » aad  had  Issaeb 

Ai.Air,  his  sneoeBBor. 
William,  who  left  aa  only  daaghtv. 
^oioe,  whoMi.  Robot  Mofthnar,  of] 
Castle,  and  had  Issueb 
Hugh  Mobtimbb, 
llament    as    Lord    Moittancr,    of 
Richard's  Castia 
William  Mobtimbb,  who 
the  surname  of  Zoucbb, 
Bummaned  to  parttameat  as  Lokb 
ZoocRB,  nfMtrHmer, 
Ha  waas.  by  his  elder  son, 

SIR  ALAN  LE  ZOUCHB,  who,  fa  tha  fltth  of 
Hbbbt  III.,  had  a  military  summoas  to  attend  the 
king  into  France,  and  fa  ten  yean  aftarwar 
the  whole  county  of  Chester,  and  all  North 
placed  under  his  government*  In  tha  4Bth  of  the 
same  reign  he  obttined  a  charter  fbr  a  waekly 
market  at  Ashby  la  Zouche,  fa  LeieestanhliB,  and 
for  two  ikirs  in  the  year,  at  Swavesey^  About  the 
same  time  he  was  ennstituied  wardea  of  aU  tbm 
king's  forests  south  of  Trent,  as  also  sheriff  of 
Northamptonshirsb  In  the  46th  he  was  aaade 
Justice  itfaerant  for  the  oountleB  of  Southampton. 
Buckingham,  and  NorUiamptoa  t  aad  upoa  tha 
arbitration  made  by  Lewis,  Klngof  Ftance,  Ufmi 
HaiTBY  III.  aad  the  barons,  he  was  ooa  of  the 
sureties  on  bdudf  of  the  king.  In  three  years  after- 
wards he  was  ooostituted  constaMe  of  the  Towar  of 
London,  aad  governor  of  the  castle  at  Northamp- 
ton. Sir  Alan  Zouche  was  violoitly  astanhed  iv 
Wertminster  Hall,  in  UGB,  by  John.  Eari  of  Wt 
and  Surrey,  upon  occasion  of  a  dispute 
them  regarding  some  landed  property,  aad  with  Ids 
son,  Roger,  who  happened  to  be  with  him,  aeiesei| 
wounded.  He  m.  Blene,  daughter  and  heir  cif 
Roger  de  Qufad,  Earl  of  Wfaton,  and  had 
RoOBB,  his  succeisor. 


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zou 


Kydo,  from  whom  the  Zonchet,  Barom  Zoudi* 
or  Harynworth  (kxtaott)  dariTO. 
Alan  la  Zouoba  4,  in  UV.  and  was  «.  by  his  eldar 
■on, 

ROGER  LE  ZOUCHE,  who  m.  Ela.  dau^ter 
and  oo-halr  of  Staphcn  da  LongaqMe,  aeaond  ion  of 
William,  Earl  of  Sallibury,  and  dying  in  1986,  wai 
«.  by  hit  ■on,        /i  > 

ALAN  LE  ZOUCHB.  Thia  ISsudal  lord  having 
distingttiahad  himaelf  in  tha  wata  of  Oaicony  and 
Scotland,  tamp.  Editabo  L,  waa  aummoned  to 
parliaoMBt  by  diat  monarch,  as  •  baboh ,  on  fldth 
January,  U97,  and  he  had  rqfular  ■nmwonaai  fkom 
that  pariod,  untU  7th  Edward  IL,  98th  Noramber, 
laia;  in  tha  Ml  Edward  ILhiakmlahip  waa  ooMti- 
tutadgoramor  of  Rockingham  Caatla^  in  Northamp- 
toDthlxe,  and  steward  of  Rockingham  Ibrait.  Had. 
b  1814.  landing  thraa  daughtefs,  hiaeo-Mrs,  tIb. 
Sianaw  m.  flxrt,  to  NidMdas  St.  Maur,  and 

secondly,  to  Alan  de  Charlton. 
Maud,  IN.  to  Robert  de  Holland. 
Xllaabetfi,  a  nun,  at  Brawode,  in  Staft>nl- 
ahira^ 
Amongst  thoaa  Udies  a  partition  waa  made,  in  the 
aihof  Edwaad  III,  of  thair  tether's  tends,  excepting 
the  wannr  of  Abhbt  bb  i^  Zouobb,  wfal^  the 
daeaaaed  le«A  gave  to  iris  kinsman,  Wii.x.iam  bb 
Mobtimbb,  whouthaseapen  ssibmiiI  Che  anmame  of 
ZoucBB.    Upon  the  riapamo  of  Lord  Zoudie  the 
OB  Zouobb,  tf  AOibif,  Ml  into  abbt- 
Ua  daughtan,  as  U  stiU 
with  their  rupimenisl  I  wsi. 
ABaiai»4litfas  tan  baaanta,  or. 


ZOUCHE  —  BARON    ZOUCHE,    OF 
MORTIMEH. 

By  Writ  of  Bummons,  dated  flSth  December,  1383» 
17  Edward  IL 

Xincogc. 

WILUAtf  DE  MORTIMER,  younger  son  of 


ZOU 

Robert  Mortimer,  of  Richard's  Castle,  by  Jolce, 
daughter  and  heir  d  William  Zouche,  having  ob- 
tained the  lordship  of  Ashby  de  la  Zouch,  ftom  his 
kinsman  Alan,  Lord  Zouche,  of  Ashby,  assumed  the 
surname  of  Zouchb  i  and  was  summoned  to  parlla* 
mant  as  Babon  Zouchb,  <^f  MorHmor,Srom  96th 
December,  1883,  to  14th  January.  1337.  In  the 
reign  of  .Edward  IIL,  his  lordship  was  made  justice 
of  all  the  forests,  louth  of  Trent,  and  ooostable  of 
the  Tower  of  London.  He  in.  first,  Alice  de  Tony, 
widow  of  Guy  de  Peaufhamp,  Earl  of  Warwick,  and 
had  a  son,  Alab,  his  sucoenor.  He  wedded, 
secondly,  Alianore^  daughter  and  heir  of  Gilbert  de 
Clare,  Earl  of  Gloucester,  by  whom  he  had  a  ion, 
Hugh.    His  lordship  d.  and  was «.  by  hisson, 

ALAN  LE  ZOUCH,  one  of  the  eminent  warrioft 
of  the  reign  of  Edward  IIL>  but  nerer  summoned 
to  parliament.  He  was  constantly  engaged  in  the 
French  and  Soottish  war*,  and  was  in  the  celrtinited 
battle  of  CBBaav,  shortly  after  which  he  died,  and 
was  «.  by  his  son, 
HUGH  LE  ZOUCHE,  who  left  issne, 
Hugh,  who  died  t.  p, 

JoicB,  who,  upon  thedepeese  of  her  brother. 
Inherited  the  eatatm.     She  in.   Sir  John 
Botetourt,  of  Weoly-Castto,  and  had  a  son, 
JoRjr  BovBVOOBT,  who  left  a  daughter 
and  heir, 

JOIOB     BOTBTOUBT,     wbO     ■•.    SIT 

Hugh  Burnet,  Knt.,  who  died 
asised  of  the  manor  of  Ashby  de 
te  Zoudi,  without  isaua  The 
Bumor  came  allerwarda  Into  the 
the  poBMirioB  of  the  Earia  of 
Ormonde,  and  upon  the  attainder 
of  John  Butler,  fifth  Earl  of 
Ormonde,  end  Earl  of  Wiltshlve, 
Ml  to  the  crown.  It  was  subse- 
quently granted  to  WiUiam  de 
Heathy,  ancestor  of  the  lamily 
of  Hastings,   Earls  of  Hunting- 


Abms^-^Gh.  ten  hwaiHi,  or. 


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PEERAGES 


OMITTED^  IN  THEIR  PROPER  PLACES. 


BACON  —  BARON  VERULAM,  VIS. 
COUNT  ST.  ALBANS. 


Barooy, 
Viiooiuity 


.} 


by  Letteri  f  Ilth  July,  161& 
PatflBt,   X  27U1  January,  len. 

Mintage 


FRANCIS  BACON,  leoond  Mm  of  Sir  Nicholas 
DaooD*  Lord  Keeper  in  therdgn  of  EliiabeUi,  having 
been  brought  up  to  the  bar,  was  appointed  queen's 
counsel  in  lfiS8;  and  soon  after  the  accession  of 
King  James  L,  honoured  with  knighthood.  In  I613» 
he  was  made  attorney-general,  and  subsequently 
sworn  of  the  privy  oounciL  In  1617>  Sir  Francis 
was  constituted  Ijonn  Kbcpkb  or  tbb  Obbat 
Sbal,  and  the  next  year  he  was  entitled  Loan 
HioB  Chabcbllor  of  England.  Within  a  few 
months  afterwards,  he  was  derated  to  the  peerage, 
^  1th  of  July,  1618,  in  the  dignity  of  Babon  Vbbu- 
JUAM,  and  created  27th  January,  UBl,  ViaoouNr 
St.  Albam'8.  His  lordship  was  subsequently  oon- 
Ticted  of  corruption  In  the  exerdse  of  his  Judicial 
fimctions,  upon  his  own  confrsilcwi,  and  sentenced 
to  pay  a  flue  of  £40,000,  to  be  imprisoned  during 
the  king's  pleasure,  and  to  be  ever  afterwards  in- 
capacitated from  holding  ofBce  under  the  crown. 
Having  in  pursuance  of  this  Judgment,  suiliBned  a 
brief  inoarceratioB,  and  the  fine  being  eventually 
remitted,  his  lordship  withdrew  into  retirement, 
and  devoted  the  remainder  of  his  life  to  the  most 
qplendld  literary  labours.  He  m.  Alice,  daughter 
and  co-heir  of  Benedict  Bamham,  Esq.,  an  alder- 
man of  London,  but  died  without  issue,  9th  April, 
1QS6,  when  his  honours  became  bxtinot.  The 
learned  Bayle  calls  Lord  St.  Alban's  one  of  the 
greatest  geniuses  of  his  age :  Voltaire  styles  him  the 
father  of  experimental  philosophy,  and  Walpole 
terms  him  the  prophet  of  arts,  which  Newton  was 
sent  afterwards  to  reveaL  The  latter  author  adds : 
*«  It  would  be  impertinent  to  the  reader  to  enter 
into  any  account  of  this  anuudng  genius  or  his 
works ;  both  will  be  universally  admired  as  long  as 
science  exists.  As  long  as  ingratitude  and  adula- 
tion are  despicable,  so  long  shall  we  lament  the 
depravity  of  this  great  man's  heart  I  alas  I  that  he, 
who  could  command  immortal  fame^  should  have 
stooped  to  the  little  ambition  of  power." 

Aaacs.— Gu.  on  a  chief  ar.  two  mullets  sa.  a  cre- 
scent for  dil&renoe. 
M9 


BRAOSE  —  BARON    BRAOSfi,    OF 
QOWER. 


By  Writ  of  Summons,  dated  99th 
S8  Edward  L 


XinCBSC. 

WILLIAM  DE  BRAOSE   came  into 
with  the  CoHQUBBOB,  and  held  at  the 
vey  considerable  estates  Ib  the  roiiBtke  oi 
Wilts,  Suney,  Dorset,  and  Sbmbs.    Ha  was*  by 
his  SOB, 

FHILIP  DE  BRAOSE,  who  m.  Berta,  ^aa§^tm 
of  Milo  de  Ohnmster.  Earl  of  HeseAnd,  aaid  co- 
heir of  her  brother,  William,  Earl  of  Hereiord,  by 
whom  he  acquired  Brecknock,  with  other  ealeuslfe 
territorial  possessjona.  He  had  two  eons,  WiUiMa 
and  Philip,  and  was  t.  by  the  dder, 

WILLIAM  DE  BRAOSE,  who  likewise  iaheritad 
the  huge  estates  of  his  mother.  This  itedal  ted 
was  a  personage  of  great  power  and  iBflnsneB 
during  the  relgne  of  Hbbbt  II.  and  Rickabb  L, 
from  the  former  of  whom  he  obtained  a  grant  of 
the  "whole  kingdom  of  Limerl^  in  Irdaad,"  fbr 
the  service  of  sixty  knighta'  feest  to  be  held  of  the 
king  and  his  younger  son,  Jomm.  AAer  tha  aaeee* 
sion  of  the  latter  prince  to  the  thraoeb  as  JCbv 
JoBB,  upon  levying  the  snuageeisessed  sabai 
to  his  coronation,  De  Braoeeaooounted  thirty  1 
for  the  scutage  of  John  de  Monmonth, 
five  nuurks  and  a  half  Ibr  that  of  Adam  de  Poet^ 
In  the  next  year  he  had  a  spedal  charter  Iktim  the 
king,  dated  at  Faleise,  granting  to  him  and  his 
heirs  the  privilege  that  no  sheriff  or  other  oOcer 
of  the  crown,  should  for  the  execution  of  their 
offices,  lodge  within  the  lands  of  his  Honour  of 
Braose,  in  Noimandyi  but  that  his  own  oAe«t 
should  give  summons  fbr  aU  the  pleas  thcreb  be- 
longing to  the  king:  as  also  that  the  king^  Justices 
itinerant,  whensoever  they  were  to  oome  into  the 
bailiwick  of  Falelae,  should  sit  at  Braose,  and  thsre 
hold  plea  of  aU  matters  helnnging  to  the  ktag,  ra* 
ceiving  entertainment  for  one  day  at  the  fbudal 
lord's  chargOi  His  tenentry  were  also  relievad  by 
this  charter  from  aU  **  carriages  and  aid  to  the 
sheriff,  or  constables  of  Faleise}*  and  firom  ail 
custom  of  victual  whatsoever,  which  should  be 
brought  to  or  sold  at  that  plaoa.  For  seveml  yaare 
after  this  period  he  eppeaa  to  have  eqfoyed  (ha 


FEERAOES  OMITTED. 


favour  of  Sffi^  JoBir,  and  Us  power  tnd  i\mmm\mn 
w«re  BUgmenttd  by  diven  gnuutt  ftom  the  crown. 
But  in  the  lOCh  ot  the  king's  reign,  when  the  king- 
dom leboured  under  an  interdiction,  and  JoBir 
deemed  it  expedient  to  demand  hoitsfes  ftom  his 
barons  to  insure  their  aUeglenoe,  ihoiUd  the  pope 
proceed  to  the  length  of  absolving  them  tnm  obe- 
dience to  the  crown,  his  oflosfs  mho  came  upon 
the  mission  to  the  Baron  de  Brsoee,  were  met  by 
Maod,  his  wife^  and  peremptoiUy  Informed  that 
she  would  not  intrust  any  of  her  children  to  the 
king,  who  had  so  basdy  murdered  his  own  nephew, 
IVinee  Anra  vn»    De  Braoee  rebuked  her,  howerer, 
for  speaking  thus,  and  said  that  if  he  had  in  sny 
thing  oflbnded  the  king,  he  was  ready  tomake  satis- 
tictlon,  according  to  the  Judgment  of  the  court,  and 
the  barons  his  peers,  upon  an  appointed  day,  and 
at  any  fbced  place,  without  however  giving  hoeugcs. 
This  answer  being  communicated  to  the  king,  an 
order  was  immedlatdy  transmitted  to  seiae  upon 
ttie  bann's  person,  but  his  kwdshlp  having  notice 
thereof  fled  with  hie  fiunily  into  Irekand.    This 
quarrel  between  De  Braose  and  King  Joum,  Is,  how- 
ever, dlflkrently  related  by  other  authorities.   The 
aaonk  of  Lanthony  states,  that  King  Jonit  dUn- 
herited  and  banished  him  Ibr  his  cruelty  to  the 
Welsh,  hi  hie  war  wlthOic»eMA«NMt0yi»,  and  that  his 
wllb  Maud,  and  WHIiam,  his  son  and  heir,  died 
prisoners  in  Corfo  Castle.    While  another  writer 
relates,  *«  that  this  WlUiamde  Braose,  son  of  Philip 
de  Branse^  Lord  of  Buelt,  held  the  lands  of  Bredt- 
nock  and  Went,  for  the  whole  time  of  King  Hbitrt 
XI.,  Richaud  I.,  and  KingJoun,  without  any  dis- 
turbance, until  he  took  to  wift  the  Lady  Maud  de 
St.  Waleric;  who»  In  revenge  of  Henry  de  Here- 
ford, caused  divers  Welshmen  to  be  murthered  in 
the  castle  d  Bergavenny,  as  they  sate  at  meat : 
and  that  for  this,  and  for  some  other  pickt  quarrd. 
King  John  banished  him  and  all  his  out  of  Eng- 
hmd.    Likewise,  that  in  his  exile,  JfaiMl,  his  wtfo, 
with  William,  called  Gem,  his  son,  were  taken  and 
put  in  prisoni  where  she  died,  the  tenth  year  after 
her  husband  fought  with  Wenhunwyn,  and  slew 
three  thoussnd  Wdsh.**    From  these  various  re- 
lations, says  Dugdale,  it  is  no  easy  matter  to  dla- 
cover  what  h^^  demerits  weret  but  what  usage  he 
had  at  last,  take  here  flrom  the  credit  of  these  two 
historians,  who  lived  near  that  timsb    "  This  year, 
vis.  anno  1340,"  quoth  Matthew  of  WnaTMiNBTsa, 
"  the  noUe  lady  Mamd,  wife  oi  WUltam  d»  Btaate, 
with  FFUNam,  their  son  and  heir,  were  miserably 
fiwn1t»*f^  at  Windsors,  by  the  command  of  King 
JoHM  1  and  William,  her  husband,  escH>hig  ftom 
Seorham,  put  himself  Into  the  haUt  of  a  beggar, 
and  privately  getting  beyond  sea,  died  soon  after 
at  Paris,  where  he  had  burial  hi  the  Ab^  of  St. 
Victor."     And  Matthew  Paris,  putting  his  death 
in  enno  1S18,  (which  dillbrs  a  little  in  time,)  says, 
"  That  he  fled  from  Irdand  to  France,  end  dying 
at  Ebula,  his  body  was  carried  to  Parle,  and  there 
honourably  burled  in  the  Abbey  of  St.  Victor." 
«*  But  after  these  great  troubles  in  his  later  days," 
continues  Dugdale,  "  I  shall  now  say  something  of 
his  pious  works.    Being  by  inheritance  ftom  his  mo- 
ther, Lord  of  Bergavenny,  he  gave  to  the  monks  ot 
that  priory,  aU  the  tithci  of  his  castle  there,  vii.  of 


bread,  wfaie^  bear,  elder  i  all  nunuMr  of  flesh,  flih, 
salt,  honey,  wax,  tallow  i  and  in  general,  of  what- 
soever should  be  brought  thither,  and  spent  there : 
and  moreover  two  marks  of  silver  out  of  his  lord- 
ship ot  Eqpinesi  and  two  marks  of  silver  yearly 
out  of  hie  Imde  in  England,  as  soon  as  God  should 
enlarge  them  to  forty  pounds  per  annnm :  as  also 
the  toll  on  the  market  day,  withfai  the  gates  of  that 
hlseastle.  Which  gift  he  so  made  to  those  monks 
of  Bergarenny,  conditionally,  that  the  abbot  and 
oooTent  of  Sf.  Uttemti,  in  Maxxa,  (to  which  this 
priory  of  Bergavenny  was  a  cdl)  should  daily  pray 
for  the  aoul  of  him,  the  said  William^  and  the  eoiit 
of  Maud,  his  wife." 

This  ^eat,  but  unfortunate  personage^  had  Isiut 
by  his  wifo,  Maud  de  St.  Waleric* 

WUUam,  who  perished  by  starvation  with  his 
mother,  at  Windsor.    He  m.  — —  daughter 
of  the  Barl  of  Clare,  with  whom  he  had  the 
town  of  Buckingham*  la  firank  marrlagat 
and  left  a  son, 
Joaa,  sumamed  Tadedg,  of  whom  here- 
after. 
Giles,  bishop  of  Hereford. 
Reginald,  who  succeeded  his  brother,  the 
Ushop,  In  the  representation  of  the  fomily. 
John  (Sir),  who  had  ftom  his  father  the  manor 
of  Knylle  or  KnUl,  in  the  mardies  of  Wale^ 
and  thence  adopted  the  surname  of  Knill. 
The  lineal  descendant  of  this  Sir  John  de 
Knlll,  in  the  sixth  degree. 
Sia   Joaa  na   Kmill,  of  KnlO,  was 

grandfather  of 
Wix«LiAif  KwuXr,  XSiq.,  of  KniH,  who 

was  «.  by  his  son, 
JawKia  KxiLx.,  Esq.,  of  KnUl,  who  m, 
Anne,  daughter  and  oo-helresB  of  Sir 
Richard  Derereuz,  second  son  of  Wil- 
liam, Lord  Ferrers,  K.O.,  and  dying  in 
1508,  was  a.  by  his  eldest  son, 
JoBN  Kwiix,  Esq.,  of  Knill,  sheriiTof 
the  county  of  Radnor,  in  1561.    He  nu 
Margery,  dauf^ter  of  Sir  John  Whit- 
tington,  Knt.  (who  served  the  ofllce 
of  sherilf  for  Gloucestershire,  temp. 
HawRY  VIL)  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 
FaANCiB  Knix.1i,  Esq.,  of  Knill,  a  Jus* 
tice  of  the  Peace  for  Herefordshire^ 
temp.  Elisabeth,  m,  Joane,  daughter 
of  Thomas  Lewis,  Esq.,  of  Harpton 
Court,  in  Radnordilre,  and  dying  in 
1590,  was  «.  by  his  only  son, 
Joan    KaiLL,   Esq.,  of  Knill,  who  d. 
unmarried.  In  1009,  when  his  estates 
devolved  upon  his  sister  and  heiress, 
Bahbara  Knill,  who  conveyed  them  to 
her  husbend,  John  Walsham,  Esq.,  of 
Piestalgyne,  by  whoeeUneel  deseendentt 
Sia  JoBN  WAL88AM,  Bart,  they 
are  still  possessed. 
Joane,  m.  to  Richard,  Lord  Percy. 
Loretta,  m.  to  Robert  Fita-Paxndl,  Earl  of 

Ldcester. 
Margaret,  m.  to  Welter  de  Lacy. 
Maud,  IN.  to  Orifllth,  Prince  ot  South  Wales. 
Rcgardhig  his  lands*  it  appears  that  in  the  nth  of 

MB 


P£BltA<IE8  OmrtED. 


iOMti,  tiMdNriff  of  Devon  iflcoiMtad  Ibr  thOM  la 
that  Mi9,  MidChaitoGkorcattteuponwMMoU^. 
was  Mid  for  ttao  kiaCt  iMot  for  in  tba  ntst  y«r, 
William  da  NaviU  aooooatcd  for  alfhty^lBur  pounda 
aod  Ato  iliiUtags,  for  tima  hvadtod  aod  thiitf- 
lavoB  Irtnaii  which  oama  fton  thoia  land!*  oach 
oowthepntadatlTaihUliafk  Whao  tha  ooatait 
hatvoai  John  and  tba  bareaa  biokaouC.Gii.aaDB 
BaAOoa,  BUktp  tf  fiir^^brtf.  anayiag  hbaarif 
aadar  tha  hanailal  haaaar*  waa  put  ia  iinaiwiion  bjr 
thapaoplakof  BaiSRT«uiy«  aod  tha  other  caatlaiof 
tha  UumU  had  t  and  ovaatiiaUy,  JCbir  Joaa, 
la  thabMtfaar  of  hliiilfn,  hlamathhaiag  than 
ainiaged,  giantad  part  of  thota  laada  to  tha  Idihop^a 


REGINALD  DE  BRAOSE,  which  grant  WM 
coollnaad  toy  KUtg  Hairar  III.*  aadha  had  Uvery  of 
tha  OBitlaaBd  honour  of  Totaaia.  with  the  honour 
of  BawHtapia,  hoTlaf  had  prevkau  ponanfoa  of 
other  artatak  He  nkGntde,  daughtarof  Williaai 
de  Bruara,  and  dying  in  U21«  vaa  «.  by  hii  ion, 

WILLIAM  DE  BRAOfiE.  This  foudal  lord 
fdl  a  Tictim  to  the  jaalouay  of  Lawaftixa,  IVtoe* 
^  Wal0t,  who*  tuipactlng  aa  latfaaacy  betweea 
Um  aad  the  piiaMi,  hU  wife«  King  HaaaT'a  sis- 
tir,  InTitadhIm  to  aa  Saater  feaat.  and  treadier^ 
ouily  eait  him  iato  pilaon  at  Ibaeoncluaiflnor  the 
heaqoet  He  waa  aoon  allarwarda  pat  to  death 
with  the  aatetuaata  piineaii.  He  had  married 
BTOb  dai^tar  of  Waiter  MaieMhaL  and  sitter  of 
Richard,  Earl  of  P«Bhroke«  by  whom  he  had  four 
daaghim*  Ida  cc^haiM*  via. : 

laAaaL,  m.  flrrt,  to  Oavid»  aoa  of  Lewdiae, 
Frtnoa  of  Walai*  aad  aeoandly*  to  Peter 
Fiti-Herbert 

Uav»,  m,  to  Roger*  Lord  MortiaMr*  of  Wig- 


Era,  m.  CO  William  de  Cantilapab 
Eleaaor,  nu  to  Hvmpiuey  de  B^ud. 
The  Una  of  thte  hiaach  that  tarmiaating  in  hdr- 
iBHa.  we  piooaed  with  that  fouaded  bythe  Biatep 
of  BerefonTft  aephew, 
JOHN  DE  BRAOSE,  aoraamed  TMM^,  who 
privately  anned  hy  a  Wdch  woman,  at 
Thia  Joha  had  gnata  of  laada  Atom  King 
HaaaT  IU.,aad  was  also powaaad  of  the  Barony 
of  Biembyei  ia  Suases,  wfaare  he  died  in  U31,  by 
a  follftom  Ida  horaib  hia  foot  aticUag  In  the  ttir- 
liip.    He  M.  Maigarat*  daughtir  of   Lewdine, 
Priaoe  of  Wales,  by  whom  (who  afterwards  es- 
poused Waller  de  Clillbrd)  he  had  a  aoo,  hia  suo- 


WILLIAM  DE  BRAOSE,  who  in  the  41at 
Uavav  UL,  whea  Leweliae  ap  Griffin  menaced 
the  Man^tasW  Wales  with  a  great  army,  was  com- 
manded  by  the  Uag  to  defend  hia  own  Marches 
about  Goieer,  aad  the  aext  year  he  had  a  military 
■wmmoae  to  attend  the  kii^  et  Cheater.  Ia  two 
years  aftenoida,  he  was  agaia  in  arms,  under 
Roger  de  Mortiaeer,  agaiaat  the  Welch  i  and  he 
was  subsequently  one  of  the  barona  who  became 
pledged  for  £jtav  tUaar,  itUdlag  the  award  of 
Lewis,  King  of  France.  He  d.  in  IttO,  and  waa  «. 
by  Ills  son, 

WILLUM  DE  BRAOSE,  who,  in  the  ttnd  of 
JBdward  Ls  hML  aiiauB9Ba  to  ettand  the  kiag  with 
900 


■,  toadTlaei 
^ffti^n  og  |||0  lealm. 

the  anaidng  Seplsmber,  was  one  of 

embarked  at  .Portmaontfi,  with  hotaoj 

the  Mag's  esrriob  for  Qaspony.    ia 

aeth  of  tfaemnw  reign,  he  was  ia  tiw  ware  of 

land,  aad  In  the  tetter  year  he  hed,  avauaons  ts 

parliaaisnt  as  a  a^ao v.    Ia  the  < 

la  the  Sfffttith  wenb  end  tten 

fowur,  that  the  kiag  net  only 

aad  his  hates,  the  graatof  Qower  laad,  aania  hy 

Kiag  John  to  his  ancestor,  hut  fiaaead  tbat  he 

end  they  dMNild  thaneaforth  en)oy  aD  regal  Jurist 

diction,  liberties,  ead  prtvUi«m  ther^  In  as  amph 

a  mannar  aa  Gilbert  de  Clare,  sob  of  Richaad  di 

Clares  aomethne  Ead  of  Gloi^ascar,  had  in  aU 

lends  of  Qkunoigan.    For  several  yean  i 

Us  lordship  appeals  to  have  bee 

0iged  upon  the  aaaae  thaatae  of  wv,  and  ali 

emiiMinfly  diatlaguiihed.   lathe  Mth  Edward  IL* 

beiag,  eewadiag  to  Thoeusb  of  WaWnghnss*  ^'a 

parson  who  had  a  laigr  pairtmeay*  hot  a 

uathrtft,"  hb  hNdahftp  put  up  fiar  aato  Ue 

leriiuay  of  Ooiraa  LAaa,  and  ahsolaialy  i 

under  the  kiag's  Ucsmc,  to  the  Emlof 

hut  its  contiguity,  to  tlM  famds  of  tha 

Sraaoaa,  <who  waa  than  high  ia  loyid  foi 

the  khmTt  chambarkda,)  attractiag  the 

of  thet  ailaion,  he  forcibly  pnanaoiri 

tha  estate,  end  thua  gave  rise  to  the 

headed  by  Thonaa  Plaati^pMt,  Eerl  of 

Lord  Broaea  eiponied  ABv^  daaght»  of 

de  Moulton*  end  had  iasaeb 

Aliva,  m,  to  John  de  Mouhiay. 

JoAira,  ei.  to  John  de  Bohua*  ef  Mldhwat. 
Hisleedahlp,  who  had  ncalar  emnmonf  to 
nent.  to  16th  September,  Utt.  died  la  thnt  year, 
when  the  Raaoav  of  BaAoaa*  of  Gowma,  foB 
iaio  ABaTAiroB  bataaen  hie  i 
ead  It  eo  continues  with  1 
Aaem^Aa.  eensde  of 

alaaguadga. 


BRAOS£— BARONS  BRA06£. 

By  Writ  of  Sununons,  dated  Sftth  FobruarF»  13ttj 
16  Edward  UL 

XiQC«0C. 

SIR  THOMAS  DE  BRAOSE,  Knt,  taather  of 
WilUem,  Lord  Bmose,  of  Gower.  havhw 
guished  hiaaealf  in  the  French  aad  Scottish  Wi 
King  EowAao  IIL,  waa  aiimmnned  to 
by  that  aionarch  aa  a  aAaoa,  ikom  9tth 
IMS,  to  lith  July,  Ufa  His  kmliUp  nu  Baatitx, 
daughter,  of  Rogait  de  Mortimer,  ead 
Edward,  eon  of  Thoama,  of  Brathertoa, 
Norfolk,  aod  Eail  Menhal  of  Ei^leBd,  hy 
hehadieaue, 

Joaur,hiei 

Thomes(8ir). 

Joane. 
He  d.  hi  1S81,  end  was  «.  by  his  %...  .u., 
JOHN   DE  BRAOSE.   second  bnnn. 
Ellaahath,daa^hlar  of  Edward  de 
dying  without  iasue,  was  c  by  his  brother. 


FfiERAOES  OHITTEn. 


SIR  THOMAS  DS  fiRAOSE,  tUlid  bvoa, 
died  tti  hifl  mliMNlty,  uiiiniRtod»  wIub  Um 
devolved  upon  hit  riitery 

JOANE  DE  BRAOSE,  who  died  kiQileM,  when 
the  BABomr  or  BnAoni  becune  rnxmur,  and 
the  cetstei  piMed  to  her  emtUB,  Elteheth,  irllb  of 
Sir  WUUem  Heron,  KDt»  the  nleo«,  threogh  hit 
iltter,  Beetrtx,  of  the  ftitt  bwon. 

ArmSip-^Ai.  Minte  of  croM  eronleti,  ga.  •  lion 
nuiipeaty  or  armed  and  lengued  gu. 

DEVEREUX— EARLS  OF  ESSEX. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  4th  Hay,  1573L 

ICincagt. 


WALTER  DEVEREUX,  aeeond  Vl«3onnt » 
fterd.  waa  ciaated  on  the  4th  May*  1078*  Eam.  ov 
Eeasst  In  conalderation  of  hit  daicent  ftom  the 
flnnlly  of  Boubchur,  iriikb  had  prertonaly  hdd 
that  earldom  His  lordship  being  a  military  man 
of  Ugh  repntatlon,  was  appointed*  In  the  Uth 
EUaahethv  llehl  maiahal  of  the  forees  sent  to  snp- 

therebeUtanof  the  Earisof  Nortfavmberlaad 
reatmorsiand  t  and  he  waa  afterwarda  cm- 
plofyed  In  the  wan  of  Ireland*  with  the  title  of 
Earl  Marshal  of  that  kingdom  i  he  was  also  • 
Knight  of  the  Garter.  His  kwdahlp  nu  Lettloe^ 
danghtar  of  Sir  Franda  KMiUas,  K.O.*  and  had 
lasue» 

RoBBRT,  Ida  sBccasaor. 

Walter,  killed  before  Roan. 

Penelope,  in.  first,  to  R<>bert»  Lord  Rich,  and 
aecondly,  to  Charles  Blount.  Earl  of  Deron. 

Dorothy,  m.  first,  to  Sir  Thomea  Pecrot,  KnL, 
and  seeondly,  to  Henry,  E«rl  ef  Northum- 
bsriand. 
The  earl  A  at  DnbBn,  on  the  99nd  September, 
1076,  but  not  without  saspidon  of  having  bean 
poisoned,  through  the  instigation  of  thelnflunous 
Robert  Dudley,  Earl  oit  Leiceater,  who  soon  after 
repudiated  his  wife.  Lady  Douglas  Howard,  and 
espoused  the  widow  of  his  lovdahip.  Lord  Essaea 
was  «.  by  his  dder  son, 

ROBERT  DEVEREUX,  second  Earl  of  Essex, 
the  celebrated  but  unlbrtnnate  Csvourite  of  Qmem 
ELiaABBTH.  His  kmUhip  was  Srst  brought  to 
court,  in  1565,  by  his  step-lirther,  the  Earl  of  Lei- 
cester, and  he  eubsequcntly  attained  the  hightest 
honours  fate  aovcreign  could  bestow.  He  waa  a 
privy  councillor,  a  Knight  ot  the  Garter,  maater  of 
the  hoiae,  eari  manhal  of  En^and,  and  lord  deputy 
of  Ireland  t  he  was  likewise  chancellor  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Cambridge  Hto  ultimate  fkte  is  so  con- 
spicuous an  event  in  history,  that  it  would  be 
impertinent  to  dwell  at  any  length  upon  it  here. 
His  lordship  having  conspired  against  his  royal 
mistress,  and  made  a  fhiltkss  eHbrt  at  insurrecUon, 
was  taken  prisoner,  committed  to  the  Tower,  and 
thence,  after  being  convicted  by  his  peers  of  high 
treason,  led  to  the  scaflUd,  on  the  Sfith  February, 
1600.  The  earl  left  issue  by  his  wife,  Frances, 
daughter  and  heir  of  Sir  Francis  Walsingham,  and 
widow  of  Sir  Philip  Sidney,  one  son  and  two  daugh- 
ters, vis.: 


Roamv. 

Fianeea,  m.  to  William  Seymottr,  Duke  of 


Dorothy,  m.  first,  to  Sir  Henry  Shirley,  BarL* 

of  Stanton-Haroid,  aadaaeondly,  to  William 

Staflbrd,   Esq.,   of  BUrfherwick,  in  tbt 

County  of  Notthamptca]. 

HtelortaMpfs  honours  expired  under  the  attaindaiv 

but  hte  dhUdra  being  reafeored  in  blood,  in  IfiUb 

his  son, 

ROBERT  DBTBREUZ,  sueoeeded  to  the  Eavl<. 
dom  of  Essex,  and  hte  kite  fkthei's  other  dignities; 
ThtenObicman,whowaainatalled  a  iLnightof  the 
Oartar,  in  1698,  attadied  htanaalf  to  the  loytf 
caaseuntil  1649,  when  he  accepted  a  conmiBaion  la 
the  parliament  army,  and  afterwards  distinguiahed. 
himself  aa  a  parliamentary  generaL  He  d.  on  tho 
14fth  September,  UM6,  and  waa  Interred  with  nn> 
tlonal  obsecfuies  in  Westminster  Abbey,  the  two 
housM  of  parliament  attending  the  fnneraL  Hte 
kNrdship  eapoused  first.  Lady  Fraacm  Howard^ 
dao^tar  of  Thomas,  Eail  of  SuAdk,  firam 
he  waa  divorced,  and  that  Infiunoua  woman  ai. 
wards.  Sir  Robert  Carr,  K.O.,  Bari  of  Scmerset. 
Theearl  wedded  secondly,  EUaabeth,  danghtar  of 
Sir  WUllam  Paulet,  of  Eddlogton,  is  the  county  of 
Wilta,  one  of  the  natural  sons  of  William,  third 
Marqueas  of  Winchester,  and  had  a  son,  Robert, 
who  died  in  Inteney.  Hte  lordship  leaving  no  lasne^ 
the  EARi.noM  or  Eaaax,  at  hte 
■zniroT,  while  hte  other  honours 
itig  to  their  rsapective  Umltetiona.  (See  VIeoount 
Hercinrd,  BwMt  Peuroff  amd  BanmttagB,) 
Arm8«— A  teste  gtttes,  in  dtlef  three  tortesmzas. 


DUDLEY— BARON  DENBIGH,  EARL 
OF  LEICESTER. 


Barony 
Earldom 


,    "I  by  Letters/  88th  September,  1  iggg^ 
m,  /  Patent,   \  SMh  September,  j 

Xiiuagt. 

SIR  ROBERT  DUDLEY,  a  younger  aon  of 
John,  Duke  of  Northumberland,  and  brother  of 
Lord  Guilftnd  Dudley,  the  unhappy  husband  of 
Lady  Jane  Grey,  wm  appointed  according  to  hte  bio- 
graphtet.  Sir  John  Hayward,  in  the  5th  of  En* 
WARD  VI.,  one  of  the  six  gentlemen  In  ordinary 
of  the  privy-chamber  to  that  klhgt  and  Hayward 
adds,  <*  that  he  was  the  true  hetar,  -both  of  hte 
tether^  hate  against  penona  of  nobility,  and  cun- 
ning to  dissemble  the  same  t  and  afterwarda  Air 
lust  and  cruelty,  a  monster  of  the  couft.  And,  aa 
apt  to  hate,  so  a  true  executioner  of  his  hatei 
yet  rather  by  practice  than  by  open  dealing,  aa 
wanting  rather  courage  than  wit :  and,  that,  after 
hte  entertafaiment  into  a  pteoe  of  m  near  service 
the  king  enjoyed  hte  heelth  not  long.**  Upon  the 
accession  of  Makv,  Dudley  was  sent  to  the  Tower 
with  hte  fsther,  and  attatetedt  tut,  escaping  the 
fkte  of  that  ambitious  nobleman,  he  waa  soon  af> 
terwards  restored,  and  made  maater  of  the  ord- 
nances By  Qvnair  ELitABsra  he  wa*  at  once 
taken  into  favour,  raised  to  high  rank,  and  In- 
vested with  wealth  and  power.  In  the  first  year 
of  her  mi^esty's  reign,  he  was  made  master  of 

C91 


PEERAOEfi  OMITTED. 


Um  hont.  with  •  A*  of  OM  hoBdnd 
iMim*  and  dacMd  ft  KirioBT  of  tiM 
ortteOASTBiu  Hewn  too 
CoMtebto  of  WladMr  CMOe  ftw  liftb  atA  tiM  qaan 
•ubfequantly  propoMi  tiMl  ho  ihould  boeomo  Um 
Iraataad  of  tho  iMntifal  l»at  unftntOBSlo  Mabt 
Stuabt,  promlftaig,  in  tbo  wnat  of  tho  princoM'i 
•liBnt,  tliot  liie  ivould*  hf  •ntliotitjr  of  piiliMB«it, 
tfadaov  hor  ImIt  to  tho  crown  of  Bngiondt  in  com 
dio  diod  hencif  wltlMMit  iorao.  Tlio  oUianoo  wu 
nmtod,  howOvttv  through  tho  iiilimoMw  of  Fiance, 
although  tho  FATooaira  had  boai  adTaneed  tlio 
■amo  yoar*  tiiat  Iko  might  bo  deemed  the  mon 
wovtii70fhiero9alhrido*to  thedignitioiof  BarMt 
DtnMgh  and  Eabl  or  Latcaaraa.  But  tills  pro- 
ceeding of  Elxzabbtb  hae  been  coneideied  at  a 
mero  eKporiment  to  enalilo  hencif  to  oqioaee 
Dadley  with  leee  dishonour*  If  he  liad  iMsn  ac- 
cepted by  tlie  Queen  of  Scota.  In  107S  his  lordship 
was  one  of  tlie  peen  who  sate  npoo  the  trial  oi  tb» 
Duke  of  Norfolk,  and  lie  was  appointed  some  yeers 
afterwards  captain-general  of  an  expedition  sent  into 
the  Low  Countries  for  the  sarvioe  of  the  United  Pro* 
▼Inces  against  tho  Spaniards;  but  in  this  entepriso. 
Incurring,  by  his  insolence,  incapacity,  and  caprice, 
the  displeaaore  of  the  Dutch,  ho  was  racaUod,  and 
constrained  upon  his  retain  to  humble  hlawelf  to 
tbe  queen,  and  with  tears  to  beg  of  her  nu^esty, 
'«  that,  haTing  sent  him  thither  with  hoaottr, 
she  would  not  receive  him  back  with  disgrace; 
and  that  whom  she  had  raised  fhan  the  dust, 
she  would  not  bury  alive  I**  He  intended  after- 
wards to  retire  to  his  Castle  of  Kenilworth,  and 
.commenced  his  Journey  Uiither,  but  died  on  the 
way  at  Cornbury  Park,  in  Oxfordshire,  on  the  4th 
September,  IMB.  His  lordship  was  a  Knight  of  the 
Garter,  and  A  Knight  of  St.  Miduid,  a  privy- 
counsdlor,  master  of  the  hone,  steward  of  the 
queenra  household,  constable  of  Windsor  Castle, 
chancellor  of  the  Univenity  of  Oxibrd,  justice  in 
Eyre  of  all  the  forests  south  of  Trent,  and  lieute- 
nant and  captain-general  of  the  English  forces 
in  the  Netherlands.  «  His  death,"  says  Rapin, 
**  drew  tean  fh>m  the  qneent  who,  nevertheless, 
ordered  his  goods  to  be  sold  at  public  sale  for 
payment  of  the  sums  she  had  lent  him.  This  in- 
Ibmous  nobleman  m.  flnt  the  beautlfUl  Amy  Rob- 
OAar,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Robsart*  Knt. ;  and 
that  unhappy  lady  he  is  accused  but  too  Justly  of 
having  murdered  In  the  house  of  Fonter,  one  of 
his  tenants,  at  Cwiaiior,  near  Oxford.  To  this  lone 
habitation  she  was  removed,  and  there,  after  poison 
had  proved  Inelllcadous,  she  was  strangled,  and  her 
corpse  flung  fkom  a  high  staircase,  that  her  death 
might  appear  to  have  been  occasioned  by  the  fkll. 
He  espoused,  secondly*  Douglas,  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam, Lord  Howard,  of  Efllngham,  and  widow  of 
John,  Lord  SheflBeld,  by  whom  he  had  a  son* 

RoaaaT  (Sir). 
Fearing  that  this  latter  alliance  would  cause  a  dimi- 
nution of  his  Influence  with  the  queen,  he  tried  by 
every  means  to  repudiate  hor  lad^diip,  and  he  sub- 
sequently attempted  her  lilb  by  poison,  but  unsue- 
cessfUlly.  His  child  by  her.  Sir  Robert  Dudley,  he 
terms,  In  his  will,  his  base  son,  but  leavce  him 
the  principal  part  of  his  fortune.    His  third  wife 


of  Sir 
Bariof  Essex;  but  by 
no  surrivlag  Issue.  lU  the  year  18^,  Qmmm  Eii* 
sAaaTH paid  the  emrla  vMt  at  KenHwurth,  andasi 
there  magnifleaatly  entertained  by  hie  lotdalil|i  for  17 
days,  at  the  enormous  expense  of  i58Q,000L  Abeeft 
this  period  apiieared,  apomphlet,  writfesn  vlth  muA 
fbrca,  entitled  a  Dialogue  betweeu  a  SHsnlw,  a 
Gentleman,  and  a  Lawyer,  wherctai  the  whole  of 
Leicester's  conduct  was  rawvaas^il  with 
The  quean  hemelf  eauaed  letten  to  bo  writ 
tbe  privy-coundl,  denying  the  chaigea. 
eating  the  character  of  the  FATOcmxra  t  bat  the 
book  waa  not  the  less  read  nor  eraditod. 

Upon  tbm  decease  of  the  eari,  his  BOiroima  b^ 
came  bxtikct.  His  seo«  Sir  Robert  Dudley, 
lag  to  estabUah  his  legitimacy,  retired  to  Italy  in 
gust,  and  lived  there  the  remainder  of  his  ttfh. 
Dudley,  Duchess  Of  Dudley.)  Of  Dudley,  Walpakw 
In  his  Royal  and  Noble  Authon,  thus  speaks: 
«<  Robert  Dudley*  called  the  natural  son,  piobaUi 
the  legitimate  son  of  the  great  Earl  of 
having  bean  deprived  of  his  birthright*  and : 
admowledged  as  a  peer  of  England,  could 
propiiety  be  rlemwl  among  that  order:  y« 
too  great  an  honour  to  his  country  to  be 
and  it  is  the  duty  of  the  meeneet  histnrlau,  aail 
f<diclty  to  have  It  in  his  power,  to  do  Juatieaae 
memory  of  the  deserving,  wfaidi  IhOs 
the  compess  of  psrtkulars  to  procoie  to  the  IMngb 
The  author  of  those  curious  Lives  of  the  Dadlapa 
in  the  Blographla  has  already  tealefved  i 
this  extraordhuvy  person  tnia  Oblivlan  i 
fore  I  shaU  toudi  vary  few  particulan  of  his  i 
He  was  educated  under  Sir  Thomee-  CI 
acoompliehed  governor  of  IVtoce  Hawar* 
tiagttlshed  his  youth  by  martial  acfaiavemeBts*  aaid 
by  uaelVil  discoveries  In  the  West  Indies:  bat  it 
the  houseof  Medid,  those  patnau  of 
talent,  who  foststed  this  enterprUm 
and  who  were  amply  rewarded  for  their  aauaift* 
canoe  by  his  prodecting  the  fkee  port  of 
He  flourished  in  their  court*  and  In  that  of  the< 
peror,  who  declared  him  Duke  of  Northnml 
land*  a  dukedom  remarkably  conflnned  to 
widow*  whom  Charlbs  I.  created  Duchasa  of 
Dudley.  Anthony  Wood  aays*  *  the  duke  waa  a 
complete  gentleman  In  all  suitable  employeaena^ 
an  exact  seaman*  an  excellent  ardiltect* 
tidan,  physidan*  chymlst*  and  what  not.  He 
a  handsome  personable  man*  tall  of  atatuie^ 
haired,  end  of  admirable  comport,  and,  above 
noted  for  riding  the  great  horae,  for  tiltiav, 
for  his  bebig  the  flnt  of  aU  that  taught  a 
to  sit  in  order  to  catch  partridges.'  * 

Aaxa,— Or.  a  lion  rampant*  doable  qoevde 


FITZ-ROY  —  EARL  OF  NORTH  CJM- 
BERLAND,  DURE  OF 
NORTHUMBERLAND. 

Earldom,  /  by  Letters  1  Ut  October.  1G74» 
Dukedom*!   Patent.    JdthApril«1fl89L 

Xincagc. 

GEORGE  •  FITZ-ROY,  natural  eon  of  .Kiwa 


PEERAGES  OMITTED. 


CBAtLLn  IL  by  Birbtiif  DvicImm  of  Ctovcind, 
WM  crtKted  on  th«  lit  October,  1674,  Banm  ^  J^n- 
UMei,  r<«eoiM#FalnMNKft,aiid  JSmrl  i^Vwrm^vAer. 
tvtdj  and iM was Advanoed,  OB  UM0di April,  1683, 

to  ttafS  DUKXBOM  OP  NQETHPM»JHLAMP.     HO  WBM 

abo  invested  with  the  Garter.  His  grace  m.  Km- 
tlieiine,  daughter  of  Thomas  WheaUey,  Esq.,  of 
Brecknock,  in  the  county  of  Berks,  and  widow  of 
Thomas  Lucy  Esq.,  of  Chaxleoote;  but  died  «.#. 
in  1710,  when  all  ld%  honoun  became  sxtivct. 
AnMa.^£Dg]andf  with  a  border  compon^,  erm. 


FORTIBU8  -^  EARLS     OF     ALBE- 
MARLE. 

Creation  of  the  CongusBom 

ODO,  Earl  of  Champaigne,  baring  married 
ADBI.IEA,  sister  of  the  Conguxaon,  obtained  from 
that  monarch  the  Isle  (at  he  calls  it)  of  Holdemesa, 
and  he  had  fkom  the  ArdiUshop  of  Roan,  the  dty 
of  Albemarle,  upon  the  condition,  that  in  all  expe- 
di  tions  where  that  prelate  went  in  person,  h^  should 
be  bis  standard-bearer  with  twdve  knights.  Hol- 
dsmess,  at  this  period  being  a  banen  country,  pro* 
dudng  nooght  but  oat^  so  soon  as  his  wife  brought 
him  a  son,  Ono  entreated  the  king  to  give  him  some 
land  which  would  bear  wheat»  «'  whereby  he  might 
better  noorish  his  nephew,**  the  king  granted  him 
therefore  the  lordship  of  Bytlym,  in  Linoolnshire. 
Others  mentioniiig  this  gift  to  Ono,  call  it  CenHto- 
turn  UoldmrnetB,  the  county  or  Earldom  of  Holder- 
ness,  which  Induded  a  large  portion  of  Yorkslxire, 
upon  the  nortli  liiaslwn  sidoi  Of  this  JBer<  Ono 
nothing  ftirther  is  known,  than  his  joining  Robert 
da  Mowbray,  Earl  of  Nmthamberland,  and  others, 
anno  1€66,  in  a  conspiracy  to  depoee  William 
JtM/W,  and  to  place  SmraaK  (afterwards  king) 
upon  the  throne ;  for  which  conduct  he  suAred 
imprisonment.  He  d.  in  1006,  leavlBg  a  daughter, 
Judith,  m.  to  Waltheof,  Earl  of  Northumberland 
and  Huntingdon,  and ason,  his  suoosssor, 

STEPHEN,  Earl  of  Albemarle,  who,  in  the  con- 
test between  William  At^^,  end  his  brother, 
RosanT  Cvftlbess,  remained  faithful  to  the  former  1 
but  that  diflerence  being  adjusted,  he  embarked 
with  OMrMoM  for  the  Holy  Land,  and  in  the  great 
victory  adiieved  orer  the  inildd  near  Antioch,  had 
a  principal  command  in  the  Christian  army.  He 
subsequently  joined  Hugh  de  Oomay  in  an  unsuo* 
Bsssftil  attsmpt  to  depoee  HnirnT  h  in  favour  of 
RoBBBT  CurChoM,  and  he  made  a  similar  effort 
aflai  wards  ibr  OurAose't  son,  Frfoce  William. 
In  the  last  attempt  some  lost  their  lives,  others 
were  disinherited  or  imprisoned,  but  of  the  fiite  of 
the  Earl  of  Albemarle  nothing  certain  Is  known. 
He  m.  Hawise,  daagbter  of  Ralph  de  Mortimer,  end 
had  three  sons  and  four  daughters,  via., 

William,  sumamed  Le  Qroitt,  his  successor. 

Stephen. 

Ingeirws. 


M.  to  the  VIdam  of 


the  VIdam  of 


to'Bertran  de 


Brikebet. 
■'        ,  •■•  first, 


All  French 
end  Nor- 


to  William  de  Romare, 


and  secondly,  to  Peter  de  Bros. 


His 

WILUAM,  Le  Ot«sie,  third  Earl  of  Albeaaarlei 
was  a  peiBon  of  great  note  at  the  period  in  which  ho 
lived.  In  lias  he  was  chief  of  these  great  noblee 
that  gave  bottle  to,  end  deftated,  the  Soots  at 
NonvB  ALLnsTOK,  when  Davu>,  KUtgt^faeotkmd, 
had  invaded  the  north  with  a  mighty  army,  claim<. 
lag  Northumberland  for  his  son  Hmurtf,  in  right  of 
Maudt^daughter  and  heir  of  Earl  Waltheo£  Upon 
this  menMvrable  oocaaion  Thurston,  ArchMshop 
of  York,  caused  a  Dsmoos  standard  to  be  erected 
in  the  English  camp,  displaying  the  banners  of 
SL  Peter,  St.  John,  of  Beverley,  and  St.  Wilfrid. 
of  Rippin,  with  the  sacred  boat.  From  which 
circumstance  the  ground  whereon  the  battle  was 
fought  has  ever  since  been  termed  Stanoabo  Hill. 
The  Earl  of  Albemarle  wes  rewarded  for  his  gal- 
lantry with  the  Earldom  of  Yorluhire,  and  Robert 
de  Ferrers  with  that  of  the  county  of  Derby.  Hie 
lordship,  under  the  title  of  Earl  of  York,  was  sub* 
sequently  with  King  Stbpbbn  at  the  battle  of 
Lincoln,  where  that  monarch  sustained  so  signal  a 
defeat  He  m.  Cidly,  daughter  of  WiUiam  Fits. 
Duncan,  (nephew  of  Malcolm,  king  of  Sootland,) 
by  Alice,  daughter  of  Robert  de  Romely,  Lord  of 
the  Honour  of  Sklpton,  in  Craven,  &c,  by  which 
marriage  be  enjoyed,  as  her  inheritance,  all  that 
part  of  Yorkshire  called  Craven.  By  this  hidy  ho 
had  two  daui^ters, 

HAwvan,  who  m,  first*  William  de  Mandeville, 
Earl  of  Essex,  and  secondly,  William  de 
Fortibus. 
Amida,  m.  to  — — —  Eston,  by  whom  she  had 
aiOB, 
RAinTLPH,  whose  son, 
JoHH,  was  father  of 
JoBK  on  Eeron,  or  AaTow,  who, 
as  light  heir  after  Avbliitb  db 
FoBTiBVB,  claimed,  in  tiie  6th  of 
EnwABB  L,  Hie  Babloom  ob 
Albbmablb,    and   had  certain 
lands  in  Thornton  to  the  value  of 
jSlOO  per  annum,  asaigned  to  him 
to  reieeee  his  right  therein. 
William,  Le  Oroase,  died  in  1199,  and  waa  sue* 
ceeded  in  the  Earldom  of  Albemarle  by  his  son-in-law, 
WILLIAM  DE  MANDEVILLE,  Earl  of  Essex, 
who  died  «.p.  in  1190;  and  HAWvan,  his  widow* 
marrying 

WILLIAM  DE  FORTIBUS,  he  became,  in  her 
right,  Eabl  op  Albbmablb,  and  Lord  t^OMtr^ 
iMM.  This  William  was  constituted,  by  Riobabo  I., 
one  of  the  admirab  of  the  fleet,  in  which  that  mo- 
narch soon  afterwards  sailed  towards  Jerusalem, 
His  lordship  died  in  IIM,  leaving  a  son  and  heir, 
William  db  Fobtibcb,  but  in  ragard  that  Ha- 
wvaa,  tile  deceased  Irad's  widow,  was  heir  to  the 
Earldom,  and  that  she  manrled 
40 


PEERAGES  OMITTEP. 


BALDWINIB  DB  BERTUNE,  Earl  of  the  Itleof 
Wight,  that  William  was  postponed  to  Baldwine 
in  the  enjoyment  of  the  Earldom  of  Albemarle,  but 
Baldwine  dyfaig  «.  p.  in  U12,  the  dignity  then 
devolved  upon  the  laid 

WILLIAM  DE  FORTIBUS»  to  whom  King 
JoBir,  in  the  sixteenth  year  of  hii  rdgn*  confirmed 
all  the  land*  whidi  accrued  to  him  by  inheritance 
tiom  hie  mother.  The  next  year  the  earl,  arraying 
hlmeelf  on  the  tide  of  the  baroos,  was  one  of  the 
ealebmted  twsittt-fitb  chosen  to  enforce  the 
observance  of  Maoka  Cbaeta  {  but  he  subse- 
quently deserted  his  party,  and  was. with  Ki»tg 
John  in  his  expedition  into  the  north,  so  marked 
by  spoil  and  rapine.  He  was  then  constituted 
governor  of  the  castles  of  Rockingham,  in  Nor- 
thamptonshire, Saubey,  In  Leicestershire,  and 
Bithson,  in  the  county  of  Lincoln,  with  strict  com-> 
mend  to  destroy  all  the  houses,  parks,  and  posses- 
sions of  those  barons  who  were  in  arms  against  the 
king.  In  the  reign  of  HnKav  III.  his  lordship 
fought  at  the  battle  of  Linccdn  under  the  royal 
banner,  and  shared  la^gdy  in  the  spoils  of  victory. 
He  was  subsequently  for  and  against  the  king  by 
turns,  and  eventually  died  at  sea,  in  his  progress  to 
the  Holy  Land.  He  m.  Avdine,  daughter  and  co- 
heir of  Richard  de  Munflchet,  a  gnat  baron  in 
Essex,  and  was  «.  by  his  son, 

WILLIAM  DB  FORTIBUS,  Bail  of  Albemarle. 
This  nobleman  eqjoyed  the  sheriflUty  of  Cumber- 
land flrom  the  4lst  of  Hbhry  III.  until  the  time 
of  his  decesse.  His  lordship  m.  first.  Christian, 
daughter  and  co-heir  of  Alan,  of  Galoway,  but  that 
lady  died  without  issue.  He  espoused,  seomdly, 
Ibabbi.,  daughter  of  Baldmne,  Earl  op  Dbvom, 
by  whom  he  had  three  sons,  John,  Thomas,  and 
William,  and  one  surviving  daughter,  Avblikb. 
The  earl,  Journeying  into  France,  died  at  Amiens 
in  1259,  when  the  tuition  of  his  two  surviving  sons, 
Thomas  and  WiUiam,  was  committed  to  their 
mother,  Isabel,  but  these  children  appear  to  have 
lived  only  a  short  time,  when  the  whole  inheritance 
passed  to  the  earl's  daughter, 

AVBI.INB  DE  FoBTiBug,  whose  Wardship  was 
granted  by  the  king  to  Richard  de  Clare, 
Eari  of  Gloucester,  for  the  whole  term  of 
fifteen  yean  of  hw  minority.  This  grant 
was,  however,  shortly  after  surrendered, 
and  the  king  conferred  the  guardianship  of 
the  heiress  to  his  eldest  son.  Prince  Ei>- 
WARD,  who  assigned  the  Castle  and  Barony 
of  Skipton,  in  Craven,  to  Alexander,  King 
of  Scotland,  during  her  minority,  in  con- 
sideration of  the  sum  of  £1600.  This  lady, 
independently  of  the  great  inheritance  of 
the  FoRTiBDs  family,  became  also  heiress  to 
her  mother,  Isabel,  (who,  upon  the  death  of 
her  brother  Baldwine,  ilfth  Earl  oi  Devon, 
styled  herself  Countess  of  Albemarle  and 
Devon)  and  thus  with  both  inheritances,  she 
Was  heir  to  the  Eablooms  op  Ai.dbicabi«b 

AUD  DbTOB,  to  TRB  BARONT  OP  SkXPTON 
and   THB  SOTBRBIOITTV   OP  THB   ISLB   0» 

WiOBT.    Her  ladyship  espoused  Eomuwd 
Plabtaoxhbt,  sumamedOi»Mcfttedfc,alter- 
wards  Duke  of  Lancattcr;  the  king  and 
SOi 


queen  and  ataudtt  all  the  nolblfity  of  Em- 
land  attending  at  the  wedding.  She  disd, 
however,  within  a  short  time  without  issa^ 
and  bar  honoun  paiied  into  other  fiunifiak 
ARMs.*-Ar.  a  chief,  gulet. 

ORENVILLE  —  BARON  OLASTON. 

BURY. 

By  Letteta  Patnt,  dated  «Mh  October,  1717. 

JAMES  GRENVILLE,  Esq.  (son  of  the  Ri^ 
Honourable  James  GrenviUe,  undo  to  George,  int 
Marquess  of  Buckingham,  by  Mary,  danghfrr  sal 
heiresB  of  James  Smyth,  Esq.,  of  Harden,  in  the 
county  ot  Herts),  having  been  sworn  of  his  majmtft 
most  honourable  privy  council,  and  conallmted 
one  of  the  Lords  of  the  treasury,  in  ITBS,  vnas  da* 
vated  to  the  peerage  on  the  90th  of  October,  ITW, 
as  Baron  Glastonbury,  of  Butley,  in  the  couiCy  ef 
Somerset,  with  remainder  to  his  brother, 
OrenTitte,  who  predeceased  him  in  IfliS, 
His  lordship  d.  without  issue,  in  1890^ 
Barony  of  Glastonbury  became  BzmrcT. 

Arm 8.-^Vert,  on  a  cross  arg.  five  torteaoxBa. 

IPRE— EARL  OF  KENT. 

Creation  of  King  Stephca,  anno  1141. 

WILLIAM  DE  IPRE,  said  to  be  an  iDegitfanata 
son  of  Philip,  Eari  of  Ipce,  in  Flandegra,  haviaig 
distinguished  himself  previously  in  arms,  joiDed  la 
1U7,  the  banner  of  King  Stqphen,  than  reared  i3a 
Normandy  against  the  Empress  Maud,  and 
tinning  actively  engaged  in  that  prince^  cauae, 
created  by  him  in  1141,  Eari.  op  Kairr :  fan  whidi 
year  he  commanded  one  of  the  divisions  of  Kfe^ 
Stephen's  army  at  tfie  battle  of  Lincoln*  where  tba 
king's  forces  experienced  a  slpud  defeat,  and  the 
monarch  himsdf  became  a  priaoDsr.  Tha  earl, 
however,  allbcted  his  retreat,  and  recruiting  Ua 
army,  encountered,  subsequently,  the  empi 
Windiester,  where  he  retrieved  the 
his  royal  master,  and  restored  him  to 
and  a  crown.  In  the  heat  of  these  feuds  hia  lovd- 
shlp  is  accused  of  burning  the  Abbey  of  Wher* 
well,  in  the  county  of  Southampton,  beraMaa  the 
nuns  had  harboured  some  of  the  perHsana  of  tte 
empress,  but  after  peace  was  restored,  he  made 
restitution  by  founding  the  Cistertian  Abbey,  aft 
Borley,  in  Kent,  anno  114^  Upon  the  death  ot 
King  Stephen,  the  Eerl  of  Kent,  then  a  widow«r> 
departed  firom  England,  and  asaumiog  the  oowl  im 
the  Abbey  of  Leon,  in  Flanders*  died  there  about 
the  year  lies.    The  eari  m. —^  and  had  a  i 


> 


who  is  said  to  have  been  cruelly  murdered  by  the 
ministers  of  Theodoric,  Eari  of  Flanders :  in  cnai 
sequence  of  whidi,  upon  the  decease  of  his  tordahip 
his  Earldom  op  Kbnt  became  BxriitcT;  while 
his  estates  pessed  to  his  only  sister,  MatUdn,* 


•  Hasted's  lltotory  of  Kent 


P£ERAO£S  OMITTED. 


oT  Noraian  Flts-Deriag,  aiicMtor  of  the  Barantto 
leering,  of  Sunenden  Dering,  in  Um  oonnty  of 
KtnU 

ARMg.— Oirony  of  ten  or.  and  ai.  an  etcutdnaon 
gttka.  a  Baton  Slniatcr  humettee  ar. 

LANE-FOX— BARON  BINOLEY. 
By  Utttn  Pat«kt,  dalad  Uth  May.  1708. 

GEORGE  FOX,  Eaq.,  who  aMumed  the  addi- 
tional niraame  of  I^j^ifB,  M.P.  for  thf  city  ot 
York*  having  m.  Harriot,  only  daughter  and  brtrew 
of  Rohert  Benson,  Lord  Bingley  (lee  that  title,) 
was  advanced  to  the  peerage,  in  the  dignity  of  liit 
deocaaed  CMfaer-in-law,  on  the  13th  May,  ITflB,  wbm 
be  was  created  R&boh  Binolby,  ^Blngl«^,  in  the 
eoonty  of  York.  By  thia  lady,  with  whom  he 
aequlxed  £100,000,  and  £7>000  a  year,  he  had  an 
only  ton,  Robbbt,  who  m.  in  1761,  Bridget, 
dwighriir  of  the  Earl  of  Northington,  but  died  in 
bis  lordship's  life>time  without  issue.  Lord  Blngley 
4,  In  1769»  whan  the  barony  became  Ba-TiiiCT. 

AiuiB.»—FirBt  and  fourth  ar.  a  lion  rampant  gu. 
within  a  border  sa. :  on  a  canton  of  the  flrst,  a  luvp 
and  otDwn,  or.  for  Lanb,  second  and  Uiird,  a 
chevron  between  three  foxes'  heads  erased  gules, 
for  Fox. 


NORRIS— VISCOUNT  THAME,  EARL 
OF  BERKSHIRE. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  98th  January,  16901 

ICineagt. 

This  fomily  waa  one  of  oonsldeiatlon  In  KiHg 
EowABO  IIL's  time,  and  then  of  knightly  degree. 
In  the  reign  of  Hnirav  VL, 

JOHN  NORRIS  was  flrst,  usher  of  the  cfaember, 
next,  esquire  of  the  body,  and  afterwerds  master  of 
the  wardrobe  to  that  monarch.  He  was  subse- 
quently sheriff  of  the  counties  of  Devon  and  Berks, 
and  in  the  next  reign  (Edward  lY.)  he  waa  con- 
tinued in  the  post  of  esquire  of  the  body  to  the 
king.  He  resided  at  Patcnden,  in  Beriishire,  and 
dying  in  the  6th  of  Edwabd  IY.,  was  interred  at 
Bbay,  in  an  aisle  of  that  church,  built  at  his  own 
expense.    He  was  «.  by  his  son  and  hdr, 

SIR  WILLIAM  NORRIS,  of  Patendcn,  one  of 
the  knights  of  the  body  to  King  Edward  IY.  In 
the  9d  of  Hbvbt  YIL,  this  gentleman  had  a  com- 
mand in  the  royal  army  at  the  battle  of  Stokb  ; 
and  in  the  UMh  of  the  same  reign  he  obtained  a 
grant  flrom  the  king  ot  the  custody  of  the  manor  of 
Langley,  which  manor  was  tiien  in  the  crown  by 
reason  of  the  minority  of  Edwabd,  son  and  heir  <k 
Isabel,  late  wifb  of  George,  Duke  of  Clarence;  and 
he  had  the  stewardship  of  several  other  manors  in 
the  county  of  Oxford,  part  of  the  property  of  the 
said  Edwaju),  and  situated  similarly  during  his 
minority.    Sir  William  m,  flrst,  Isabel,  daughter 


and  heir  of  Edmund  IngaUesthorp,  and  widow  of 
John  Nevii,  Marquess  of  Montague,  by  whom  he 
bed  three  sous,  who  all  died  young,  and  three 
daughters,  via. 

—^  m.  to  Sir  John  Langford,  of  Bradfldd. 
Joane,  m.  to  John  Cheney,  Esq.,  of  Wodhey, 

in  the  county  ot  Berks. 
Elisabeth,  m.  to  William  Parmer,  Esq.,  of 
Somerton,  in  the  county  of  Oxford. 
He  wedded  secondly,    the  Lady  Jane  de  Yere, 
daughter  of  John,   Earl  of  Oxford,  and  had  a 
son, 

SIR  EDWARD  NORRIS,  Knt,  who  m.  Pridis* 
wide,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Francis,  Viscount 
Lovel,  by  whom  he  had  two  sons, 

John,  one  of  the  esquires  of  the  body  to  King 
Hbkby  YIIL,  in.  Elisabeth,  sister  of  Ed- 
mund, Lord  Bray,  but  d.  without  legiti- 
mate issue,  in  the  6th  of  Eliaabeth. 
Henry. 
The  younger  son, 

HENRY  NORRIS,  who  succeeded  eventually  to 
the  estates  and  representation  of  the  fomily.  was 
made  usher  of  the  black  rod,  upon  the  resignation 
of  Sir  William  Compton,  Knt.,  in  the  18th  of 
Hbwby  VIII.  He  was  also  esquire  of  the  body  to 
the  king,  and  one  of  the  gentlemen  of  his  privy 
chamber :  but  being  afterwards  involved  in  the  fUl 
of  Ankb  Bolbyh,  he  was  committed  to  the  Tower 
as  one  of  her  paramoun.  It  is  said,  however,  that 
the  brutal  Hsitnv  felt  some  compunction  in  put- 
ting him  to  death,  and  oAred  him  a  pardon  condi- 
tionally, that  he  would  confess  his  guilt;  but  Norris 
resolutdy  replied,  «•  That  in  his  conscience,  he 
thought  the  queen  guiltless  of  the  objected  crime ; 
but  whether  she  were  or  not,  he  coVild  not  accuse 
her  ot  any  thing;  and  that  he  had  rather  undergo 
a  thousand  deaths,  than  betray  the  innocent." 
Upon  the  report  of  which  declaration,  the  king 
cried  ont,  **'  Hang  him  up,  hang  him  up."  He  suf- 
fered deeth  accordingly,  and  was  attainted  in  par- 
liament the  same  year.  He  had  m.  Mary,  daughter 
of  Thomas,  Lord  Dacre  of  the  south,  end  left  a 
daughter,  Mary,  m.  first  to  Sir  George  Carew,  Knt., 
and  secondly,  to  Sir  Arthur  Champcmon,  Knt., 
and  a  son, 

HENRY  NORRIS,  Esq.,  who  resided  at  Wy- 
them,  in  Berks,  and  received,  in  I50S,  the  honour 
<ff  knighthood.  In  the  14th  of  Elisabeth,  Sir 
Henry  was  sent  ambassador  Into  Prance,  and  In 
consideration  of  his  good  services  upon  that  occa- 
sion, as  well  as  the  suflhrings  of  his  fether,  he  waa 
summoned  to  parliament,  on  the  8th  May,  1079, 
as  Baron  Norbib,  qf  Ajwote.  His  lordship  es- 
poused Margery,  younger  daughter  and  co-heir  of 
John,  Baron  WiI'LIANB,  of  Thtumet  (and  one  ot 
the  co-heirs  of  the  said  Barony  of  Williams,)  by 
whom  he  acquired  the  lordship  of  Rycote,  and  had 
issue, 

Wix«LiAM,  Marshal  of  Berwick,  who  m.  Eli- 
aabeth, daughter  of  Sir  Richard  Morrison, 
Knt.,  and  dying  In  the  Iifi»-time  of  his 
father,  left  an  only  son, 

Francis,  who  «.  his  grandlkther. 
John  (Sir),  a  very  eminent  and  gallant  soldier, 
temp.  Eliaabeth,  distinguished  in  the  wars 

095 


PfiERA0SS  OMITTfiDL 


of  dMLowCouBtrtfl,  ndiB  thoieoTIw. 

knd*  la  which  Uuiw  kingdom  ha  flllM  |ba 

oAn  of  prMldant  of  ChtCouDcU  of  Mua^ 

•tar,  and  diad  thara,  immanrlad. 

Edward,  Ooyanor  of  Oitand,  dlad  a.  ]k 

Hanfy,  diad  of  a  woood  raotlTad  in 

Thomas,  Piaildeiit  of  Munttar,  and  soma  tlma 

Juiticaoflialaiid. 
M axlmiUaa,  slain  In  Biltanay* 
His  lordship  4,  In  1600/  and  was  a^  bjr  his 


OF 


Hk 


FRANCIS  NORRIS,  saoond  Baron  Norria  of 
Rycota,  summonad  to  parliamant,  fkon  17th  Oo- 
toimr,  1601,  to  Ath  April,  1614.  His  lordahip.  at  tha 
creation  of  King  JAflna'a  son,  fViiMa  CnABLna, 
Duka  of  York,  was  mada  a  Knight  of  tha  Bath, 
and  soma  yasis  altarwards,  SSth  Jannarf ,  ISM), 
adyanoad  to  tha  dignities  of  FiaeMifK  Tteaw,  and 
Eabx.  or  BsnKBHinn.  Hb  lordship  mu  Lady 
Bridget  da  Vara,  daughter  of  Edwaid*  Karl  of  Ox- 
ford, and  had  an  only  daughter  and  hairsss, 

ELtBABara,  who  m.  Sir  William  Wrmy,  of 

Glentworth,  in  the  covnty  of  Linooln,  one 

of  the  Oiooms  of  tha  Bedchamber  to  King 

Charles  I.,  and  left  an  only  daughter, 

Bbidobt  Wbay,  who  m.  Edward,  son  of 

Edward,. Earl  of  Doraat,  and  hacama, 

after  his  decease,  second  wife  of  Jfan- 

tagu  B&rtU,  EAMi  OF  Liifnaav,  Lord 

Great  Chamberlain  of  England:  by 

tha  latter  she  had  a  son, 

Jawm  BaBTin,  who  in  her  ri|^t, 
inherited  tha  Babowt  of  Non- 
ma,  of  Ryoote.     Ha  was  aftar- 
waids  created  Eabl  or  Aanro- 
DON  •— honours   ei^oyad  by  his 
dcBcaudent,-  Montagu,     present 
Eabl  or  Abihodoiv. 
His  lordship,  who  was  a  parKm  of  impetuous  tem- 
perament, was  at  one  time  oonunHtad  to  tha  Fleet 
Prison,  for  a  rude  aasault  upon  tha  Lord  Scroop, 
in  the  House  of  Lords,  while  the  peers  were  actu- 
ally ritting,  and  the  prince  present. '   He  diad  in 
16B0,  iVom  tha  eflbcts  of  a  wound  which  he  had 
Inflicted  upon   himself,  with  a   croes-bow.     The 
Babont  or  NoBBia,  i^f  R^eote,  passed  erentually, 
with  his  giand-danghtar.  Into  tha  Ihmlly  of  Bbb- 
TiB,  and  has  sinoa  merged  in  the  Earldom  of  Abing- 
don, while  the  ViaoomrTv  or  Thamx  and  Eabju- 
BOK  or  Bbbksbxbb,  became  bxtibct. 

ABica.— Quarterly— ar  and  gu.  a  fosse  ax.,  in  tha 
second  and  third  quartss,  afoat  or. 


SCOTT  (FITZ.ROY)-DUKEOF  MON- 
MOUTH. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  14th  Peteuary,  16631 

JAMES  FITZ-ROY,  natural  son  of  King 
CHABLBa  II.,  by  Mrs.  Lucy  Walters,  daughter  of 
Richard  Walters,  Esq.,  of  Haverford  West,  in 
the  county  of  Pembroke,  was  derated  to  tha  peer- 
age, on  tha  14th  February,  1663,  in  tha  dignities  of 


r,  *n  ATi 

DOKB 

andafterwardatevastad  with  thai 

was  bom  at  Rotterdam,  and  bora  die 

Orn/1»,    vntU  his  mmilaga  with  tbit 

heiress,  La4g  Anvb  Scott,  daughter  and  eols  hsir 

of  Franeit,  second  Eabl  of  Boocabvcb,  when  he 

asBumad  that  of  SOOTT.   By  thto  lady  ha  left  two 

the 


,  Bart  Of  Dalkailh, 
prseent  Duka  of  Bncdswch, 


Henry,  created  Earl  of  Ddocaina,  a  tilletiaft 
became  extinct  in  1867. 
Tha  fota  of  tha  Duka  of  Monmoath,  Is  an  Usteri- 
eel  event,  so  waU  known,  that  it  would  be  idk  l» 
enlarge  upon  it  hera--enfflee  it  to  aleta,  that  hii 
grace,  soon  after  tha  aeeessloii  of  KMmg  Jamu 
IL,  took  up  arma  to  depoee  that  monarch,  m< 
to  establish  his  own  right  to  tha  thronak  as  tks 
legitimata  son  of  King  Chablbb  IL,  (undsr  the 
allegation,  that  tha  king  had  marrlad  his  mothei)- 

that  he  came  to  a  pitched  battle  widi  the  Toyd 
army,  at  Ssoobmobb,  on  the  0th  July,  MM*  a^ 
sustained  a  deddve  orerthzow— that  he  wai  kmb 
afterwards  made  prisoner,  and  brought  to  tke 
block,  on  the  15th  of  the  sama  month,  whrn  tte 
Dvkboom  or  MoHMOUTB,  and  the  minor  hoooan 
became  bxtihct,  under  the  attainder.  Bviaet 
chanctariaes  his  grace,  <*  as  poasessed  of  atfay 
good  qualities,  and  of  some  that  ware  bad;  thst  be 
was  soft  and  gentle,  even  to  exceeaj  and  too  atf 
to  those  who  had  credit  with  him;  sincere  and  good- 
natured,  and  understood  war  wdl  i  but  too  mwh 
given  to  pleasure  and  to  fovouritas."  The  duke 
had  separated  trom  bis  duchess,  and  lived  with 
Henrietta,  Lady  Wentworth.  Immediately  pri««o 
his  execution,  Rapln  states,  that  Dr.  Jennison  wi 
Dr.  Hooper,  the  divines  in  attendance  upon  hfa^ 
"  tried,  but  in  vain,  to  obtain  satisfbctlon,  rqgBdiV 
his  connection  withthto  lady,  though  hahad  adachw 
of  Us  own,  and  his  pretending  to  be  lawfUiy  lUf* 
ried  to  her  before  God  t  alleging  that  his  fostnv* 
riage  was  null,  as  being  too  young  when  hs  gare 
his  coiMent  AU  the  pains  taken  by  the  two  <•» 
ton  to  convince  him  of  tha  fidsehood  oftUsaptalaa 
were  firuitless,  nay,  he  dMiee  rather  to  deprive 
self  of  the  oommunion,  than  own  Ids 
with  that  hidy  to  be  unlawAiL" 

ABBca.— Tha  royal  arms  of  JTIng-  Cbablcs  ILt 
vis :  quarterly,  first  and  fourth,  Fnmet  mt 
lamdt  quarterly  t  second,  Asotiand     third 
bruised,  with  a  baton  sinister,  ar. 

SONDES— EARL  OF  FEVERSHAH. 

By  Letters  Patent,  dated  8th  April,  167& 

Xincafit. 

SIR  OBOROE  SONDES,  Bart,  ofLeslOeart. 
in  the  county  of  Kent,  was  elevated  to  the  pecr^ 
in  consideration  of  the  services  he  had  rendcnd  is 
Kino  Chablbb  I.,  by  letters  patant,  deted  M* 
AprU  1676j  in  tha  digniUas  of  AarM  Thnwkr,  ^ 


J 


PEERAGES  OMITTED. 


«Mmt  Butiit,  tfL$t»  Cmtrt,  tad  Bakl  or  Pbtb»- 
BMAU,  with  TCnalnder,  fJiiUng  bif  own  mala  imam, 
to  Lewk>  Lord  IHuas.  ths  haslMiul  ot  his  elder 
dnightar.  Hit  lordihlp  m.  lint.  Jaw,  dauglitar  and 
hdz  of  Sir  Ralph  FReman,  Knt*  tojr  wImmb  ha  bad 
thnaions. 

FneoMBf  who  died  young. 

Gaoige,  Inhumanly  murdared  in  Ua  had  hy 

hif  younger  broUicr. 
Ftrntaan,  who  sufilBred  death  Ihr  tha  atrodotta 
deedoffhktridde. 
The  earl  eqpouiedy  leooodly,  Mary,  dani^ter  of  Sir 
William  Villien,  of  Biokesby,  in  the  county  of 
Leicester,  Bart.,  and  had  twodau^teKSf 

Mary,  ai.  to  Lewie,  Lord  Durae,  (lae  that  dig- 
■  nity,)  and  died  «.^ 

Catherine  la.  to  Lewie  Wataon,  Lord  Rocking- 
ham. IWa  lady  succeeded,  on  the  deoeaee  of 
.    her  lister  iisudeM,  to  the  entire  fortune  of 
her  fiither. 
His  kudahip  d.  in  1637*  when  his  honours  derolred, 
according  to  the  limitation,  upon  his  soo-in-law. 
Lord  Durae. 

Amjis.— Ar.    three  blaclanooi's   heeda   cooped 
ppr.  between  two  chenonds,  ea. 

WHITWORTH— VISCOUNT   WHIT. 

WORTH,  EARL  WHIT- 
WORTH. 

Viscounty,  \  By  Letters  f  14th  June,  1813. 
I,    J     Patent,    \  flSth  Nov.,  ISlfi. 


Earldom, 


XIncBge. 


Tha  WHiTWOBTKa,  an .  andent  Staflbrdshire 
funily,  produced  a  nobleman  of  tha  kingdom  of 
Irdand  in  tha  beginning  of  the  last  century,  Whit- 
woutb,  BeroA  WhUw&rtk,  t^f  Gahoatf,  between 
whom  and  the  eminent  person  of  whom  we  are 
about  to  treat  there  are  many  points  of  singular 
almilarity.  Like  his  noble  kinsman,  (our  English 
lord,)  he  was  celebrated  for  the  number  and  im- 
portance of  his  embassies,  like  him  created  Baron 
Whitwohtb,  of  Oalway,  and  as  if  to  complete  the 
resemblance,  died  in  the  year  17S5,  (the  httt  lord  it 
win  be  seen  died  in  1825,)  leaving  no  heir  to  his 
tiUfr  Tha  brother  of  this  Lord  Whitwosth,  of 
Oalway, 

WHITWORTH,  Esq.,  who  was  M.P.  for 

Minebsad,  surveyor-general  of  woods  and  forests, 
and  secretary  of  B«rbadoes,  settled  at  Leyboume,  in 
Kent    His  son, 

SIR  CHARLES  WHITWORTH,  Knt,  M.P. 
for  Minehead,  m.  in  1740,  Miss  Shelley,  ddest 
daughter  of  Richard  Shdley,  Esq.,  commissioner  of 
the  Stamp  Office,  and  had  three  sons  and  four 
daughters,  the  ddest  of  whom, 

CHARLES  WHITWORTH,  Esq.,  was  k  in 
17M,  and  educated  at  Tunbrid^  sdMol  under  the 
poet  Cswthome.  Soon  after  he  had  completed  his 
studies,  Mr.  Whitworth  obtained  a  commission  in 


In  1978  ha  remoTed  with  his  Cither  to 
Stahmobb,  havtof  Joined  that  gentleman  in  ob- 
tainlBg  an  act  of  parliameBt  to  authorise  the  sale  of 
Leyboume  to  James  Hawley,  Esq.,  BLD.  and  F.R.S., 
which  seat  ia  now  the  residence  of  Dr.  Hawley^ 
great  grandson.  Sir  Joseph-Henry  Hawlay,  Bart. 

Mr.  Whitwocth's  first  diplomatic  employment 
was  at  the  court  of  Poland  in  17B&  Warsaw  wae 
than  the  centre  of  intdgnesk  A  new  partition  of 
Poland  happened  to  be  in  contemphrtion,  and  the 
generous  eflbrt  for  national  independence,  sealed 
then,  as  recently,  the  doom  of  this  valiant  and 
noble  peoples  Mr.  Whitworth  was  recalled  ftom 
Poland  in  1788,  and  acoedited  envoy  extraordinary 
and  plenipotentiary  to  th^  court  of  Russia.  In 
17BS,  when  the  Bng^h  cabinet  haderaberked  in  the 
confoderacy  against  France,  it  was  deemed  prcqper 
to  invest  the  ambassador  at  St.  Petersburgh  with  the 
Order  of  the  Bath,  to  add  to  the  dignity  of  his  mis- 
sion; and  Sir  Charles  Whitworth  from  that  moment 
assumed  a  conqiicuous  podtion  in  the  Add  of 
European  pdBtics.  Upon  his  return  fkom  this  em- 
bassy he  was  created,  81st  Mardi,  180O,  a  peer  of 
Irekmd,  by  the  title  of  Baron  Whitworth,  of  New- 
port  Pratt,  in  the  county  of  Gdway  i  and  his  lord- 
ship repaired  soon  after  as  plenipotentiary  extraor- 
dinary, to  Copenhagen.  His  next  mission,  having 
been  previously  sworn  of  the  privy  coundl,  was  in 
1808,  to  the  consular  court  of  France,  where  his 
sqjoum  was  but  of  brief  duration.  After  numerous 
prdiminary  conferences  with  Talleyrand  on  the 
sttl^oct  of  the  retention  of  Malta  by  the  British 
government.  Napoleon  sent  at  length  for  the  Ei»> 
glidi  ambassador,  and  a  long  and  important  inter- 
view ensued,  unsatisfoctory  to  both  parties.  A 
subsequent  conference  took  place,  when  the  fibst 
OOB8VL  instead  of  healing,  ^ipears  to  have  widened 
the  breach,  and  his  lorddiip's  j^nnnpt  and  dignified 
repression  of  Napoleon's  intemperate  address  be- 
fore a  fon  court,  and  all  the  foreign  ambaesadon, 
has  bean  cdebrated  throughout  Europe.  He  soon 
afterwards  left  Paris,  and  for  the  succeeding  ten  years 
remained  in  retirement.  On  the  9d  Mardi,  1813, 
Lord  Whitworth  was  made  a  lord  of  tiie  bed- 
diamber,  and  created  on  the  14th  June  following, 
a  peer  of  the  united  kingdom,  as  ViacouirT  Wbit- 
woBTH,  ufAibtuttm:  within  two  months  after,  he 
succeeded  the  Duke  of  Ridmiond,  as  Viczbot  or 
iBBiJkHO,  and  he  was  advanced  on  the  Sftth  No- 
vember, 1816,  to  the  dignities  of  BABowADBAeroif, 
and  Eabl  Whitwobtb.  He  continued  in  tiie 
government  ai  Irdand  untU  1817>  His  lordship  m. 
7th  Apri^  1801,  .UmbdlapDiana,  ddest  daughter  and 
co-heir  ai  Sir  Charles  Cope,  Bart.,  of  Brewem,  in 
Oxfordshire,  and  widow  of  John-Frederick,  third 
Duke  of  Dorset,  but  had  no  issue.  He  dL  ISth 
May,  1885,  when  all  his  honours  became  bxtinct, 
andhiseetatesdevolvedupan  his  widow,  the  Duchess 
of  Dorset,  at  whoee  rinniasn  in  the  August  ftdlow- 
ing,  they  passed  to  her  two  daughters  and  oo>hebrs, 
Mabt,  Countess  of  Plymouth,  and 
Elisabbtb,  Counteea  of  Ddawara. 


187 


PEERAGES, 


EXTINCT,   DORMANT,  AND  IN  ABEYANCE, 


ALPHABETICALLY.  ACCORDING  TO  THE  TITLE  OF  EACH  DIGNITY. 


D.  Dukedom.    M.  Marqubate.    E.  Earldom.    Y.  Yiicounty.   .B.  Baroqy. 


TUlM. 

in  the  Tamils  <^ 

Period  €fPot96»riont 
AnttoDomini, 

Eventual  Destination, 

..  Fortibus 

•  •from  ma  to 

ExUnct 

Albemarle,  D. 

Plantagenet 

13B7     13BB 

Forfeited 

Albemarle,  E. 

•  •  Plantagenet 

1411     1421 

Extinct 

Albemarle,  D. 

Monk 

1660     1666 

Extinct 

Aldeburgh,  B. 

•  •  Aldebuzgh 

1371     

Abeyance 

Allington,  B.    -  • 

Allington 

1682     1691 

Extinct 

Ancaater  and  Kesteven,  D.     Bertie   •  • 

1715     1802 

Extinct 

Anglesey,  E. 

•  •  Villiers    •  • 

1623     1668 

Extinct    • 

Angleiey,  E.    •  • 

Annesley 

1661     1761 

Extinct 

Anion,  B. 

•  •  Anson      •  • 

1747     1762 

Extinct 

Ap-Adam,  B. 

Ap-Adam 

1280     

Extinct 

Archddine,  B. 

•  •  Archdflime 

1321     

Abeyance 

Archer,  B. 

Archer 

1747     1778 

Extinct 

Argentine,  B. 

•  •  Argentine 

1207     

Extinct    - 

Arundel,  E. 

Albini  •  • 

USD     1243 

f  Passed  with  Arundel  Cast!* 
X     to  the  Pits-Alans 

Arundel,  E. 

..  Fits-Alan 

1243     1670 

/  Conveyed  by  an  heiress  to 
X     the  Howards 

Arundel,  B 

Arundel   •• 

1664     I76B 

ExUnct 

Aahburton,  B. 

..  Dunning 

1782     1883 

Extinct 

Astley,  B 

Astley 

1205     1A54 

Forfeited 

Aatley,  of  Reading,  B. 

Astley   •• 

1644     16RR 

Extinct 

Aton,  B* 

•  •  Aton 

1384     

Audley,  B 

Aldithley  or  Audley 

1313     1302 

f  Conveyed  by  an  heiress  to 
X     the  fsmiiy  of  Touchet 

Audley,  B. 

•  •  Touchet 

1406     1631 

Forfeited 

Audley,  B. 

Audley     •  • 

1321     1521 

ForMted 

Audley,  of  Walden,  B. 

Audley 

1538     1544 

Extinct  - 

Aylesbury,  E. 

•  Bruce 

1664     1747 
B. 

130O     1338 

Extinct 

Badlesmere,  B. 

Badlesmere 

•                       '  * 

Abeyance 

Baliol,  B. 

•  •  Baliol 

1300     

Extinct 

Baliol,B.   (Feudal)    •• 

Baliol    •  • 

•  • 

. 

Banbury,  E.   •  • 

•  •  Knollys    •  • 

16W     1632 

Dormant 

Bardolf,  B. 

Bardolf 

1290     1404 

Forfeited 

Basset,  of  Drayton,  B. 

Basset 

1264    .1380 

Abeyance 

Basset,  of  Sapcoate,  B. 

Basset  •• 

1264     1378 

Abeyance 

Basset,  of  Welden,  B. 

Basset 

1298     

Extinct- 

Bath,  E. 

Bourchier 

.  1536     1604 

Extinct 

Bath,  E. 

•  •  GranTiUe     •• 

1661     1711 

Extinct 

Bath.  E. 

Pulteney     •  • 

1742     1764 

Extinct 

Bath,  Bss. 

•  -  Pulteney 

1782     1606 

Extinct 

Bath,  Css.      •  • 

Pulteney 

1803     1806 

Extinct 

Bavent,  B. 

•  •  Bavent 

1313     1370 

Abeyance 

Bayning,  V. 

Bayning 

1627     1638 

Bxtinet 

580 


PEERAGES,  Ac 


TUlM. 

tmthsFkmll^^r 

PtrM^fl 

u      E^inmer  Oiirtwnrti 

BAynliif •  Via. 

>  Bayning 

./VomM74leien 

Exdnet 

Beauchamp 

USO 

1300 

Extinct 

Beanchamp,  of  Bletsho*  B. 

U89 

Beauchamp,  of  Haccbeb  B. 

Beanrhamp 

UB9 

— 

Abeyance 

Beauchampf  V 

1536 

1558 

ForMtMt 

Baauduunp*  of  Hadie,  B. 

SeynKNif 

15SQ 

1750 

Extinct 

Beauchamp,   of   Kyder- 1 
minster,  B.    ••             J 

Beauchamp    •  • 

U87 

1480 

Extinct 

Beauchamp,  of  Powyk,  B. 

Beauchamp    •  • 

1417 

1486 

Extinct 

Beaumont,  B.     •  • 

Beaumont    •• 

1300 

1507 

Abeyance 

Beaumont,  V.    •  > 

Beaumont 

1440 

1507 

Extinct 

BeauUeu,  B. 

Huaaey  Montagu  ••    • 

im 

1808    . 

Extinct 

Beaultett,  E.     •  • 

Huaaey  Montagu     •  • 

1784 

1808 

Extinct 

Beilemont    *• 

II30 

Extinct 

Bedlbid,  B. 

Courcy   •  •              •  • 

1MB 

1387 

Extinct 

BedfonI*  D«  •  • 

Plantaganet 

1414 

143S 

Extinct 

Bedford,  D.      • ' 

Nerill 

14fl» 

1477 

f  G.NeviU,D«keor 
i    degraded  by  pari 

« 

Bedford,  D* 

Tudor 

148S 

1409 

Extinct 

Beke,  of  Eieaby,  B. 

Bdie 

U85 

Abeyance 

BelaajTM,  B.     •  • 

Belatyw 

1644 

1€B8 

Extinct 

BelaajTM,  of  Oifodby,  Baa. 

Belaayae 

1674 

1713 

Extinct 

Benhale,  B. 

Benhale 

lam 

Extinct 

Berkeley.  V. 

Berkeley 

1481 

1408 

Extinct 

Berkeley,  M. 

Berkley 

1488 

1408 

Extinct 

Berkeley,  of  Stntton.  B. 

Berkeley  •• 

168S 

1773 

Extinct 

Berkahlze, 

Norria 

1680 

1680 

Extinct 

Bemer,  B. 

Bourchier    •• 

14M 

1748 

Abeyance 

Bertram 

1864 

-^ 

Abeyance 

Berwick,  D. 

Flts-Jamet     •  • 

1687 

1098 

ForMted 

Blndon.  V. 

Howard  (Blndon)     •  • 

15B» 

1681 

Extinct 

BIndon,  E.       •  • 

Howard 

1706 

1788 

Extinct 

Binf ley,  B. 

Benion 

1713 

1930 

Extinct 

Blnflcy,  B. 

Lane-Fox 

1788 

1773 

Extinct 

Blounti  B. 

Blount 

13i6 

Extinict 

Blount,  B.       •  • 

Blount 

1330 

1337 

Extinct 

Bohun,  of  Midhuctt,  B. 

Bohun 

136S 

Extinct 

BoUngbroke,  E. 

St  John 

1684 

1711 

Extinct 

Bolton,  D 

Paulet 

1688 

1794 

Extinct 

Bonyile,  B. 

Bonvile 

1448 

1594 

Forfeited 

Botelar.  of  Ovanly  and  \ 
Wemme                   ••   J 

Botdef 

1886 

Abeyance 

Boteler.ofWeiington      .. 

Botder 

1896 

..i.. 

Extinct 

BotetourtfB.    •• 

Botetourt    •  • 

1308 

1406 

Abeyance 

BourchiMr,  B« 

Bourchier     •• 

1948 

1646 

Abeyanee 

Brackley,  V 

1616 

180 

Extinct 

Bnwkley,  M 

1780 

1803 

Extinct 

Biadmton.  B. 

Bradeiton 

1348 

Extinct 

Bradibrd,  E.      •  • 

1684 

1788 

Extinct 

BraoaOfB. 

Braoae     •• 

1888 

1388 

Abeyance 

Braoae,  B. 

Braoae 

1S4S 

^— 

Extfaict 

Bray,  B* 

Bray 

1M7 

15B7 

Abeyance 

Brecknock,  B.    •  • 

Butler 

1000 

1715 

Forfeited 

Brentford,  E. 

Ruthven,  or  Ruthyn  • 

1644 

1691 

Extinct 

Brldport,  B. 

1796 

1814 

Extinct 

Brldport.  V. 

Hood 

1801 

1814 

Extinct 

Br1i%ewater.  E. 

D'Aubeney 

1538 

1548 

Extinct 

Bridgewater,  E.    •  • 

Egerton 

1780 

1803 

Extinct 

Brtdgewmtcr,  D. 

Egerton 

1617 

180 

Extinct 

BrUtol,  E. 

Digby 

1688 

1688 

Extinct 

Bruce,  of  Annandale,  B. 

Bruce 

1896 

1304 

Extinct 

Bmoe.  of  Whortton,  B. 

Bruce 

1640 

1747 

Extinct 

Bryan.  B. 

Bryan 

13S0 

1456 

Extinct 

Buckingham.  B« 

Giinrd 

1066 

1166 

Extinct 

Buckingham,  B 

0» 

Plantaganet    •• 

i3n 

1400 

Extinct 

PRERAOES,  &c 


nam. 

InDkelRMillir^ 

Evetttwa  Dutinatkn* 

BttcUngluun,  E. 

Staflbrd 

from  1400  le  lai 

Forfeited 

BucUngluuii,  D. 

1441 

U01 

Forfeited 

Buckingham,  M. 

YUliere     . . 

1018 

1087 

Eztfaict 

Buckingham,  D.     •  • 

•  •  Villien 

1683 

1087 

Extinct 

Buckingham,  Cii. 

▼iUiere 

ins 

1039 

Extinct 

Buckingham,  D.     •  > 

•  •  She^Beid 

1703 

1738 

Extinct 

Bulkaley,  B. 

Bulkdey  •  • 

1784 

1899 

Extfaict 

Bulmor,  B.     •  • 

..  Buhner 

1848 

Extinct 

Burgh,  or  Borough,  B. 

Buxgh 

1487 

— — 

Abeyance 
f  Conveyed  by  an  heirees  to 

Buighcnh,  B« 

Burghhereh    •• 

1308 

1309 

2     the  famUy  of  Le  Deepen- 

\ 
Burlington,  E. 

>•  Boyle 

1084 

17S8 

^     cer* 
Bxtmct 

BumeU,  B. 

BumeU 

1311 

1318 

Extfaact 

BumeU,  B. 

*•  BumeU 

1350 

1480 

Abeyance 

Burton,  B* 

Paget 

1711 

1709 

Extinct 

Butler,  of  Bmnfleld,  B. 

•  •  Butler 

low 

1047 

Extfaict 

Butkr,  of  Lanthony,  B. 

Butler 

lOBO 

1715 

Forfeited 

Butler,  of  Lanthony,  B. 

..  Butler 

1801 

1890 

Extinct 

Butler,  of  More  Park,  B. 

Butler 

1078 

17lff 

Forfeited 

Butler,  of  Weeton,  B. 

•  •  Butler 

1073 

1085 

Extinct 

Butler,  of  Weeton,  B.    • 

Butler 

1099 
C. 

1716 

1750 

ExUnct. 

CTadogan,  of  Reading,  B. 

..  Cadogan    •• 

1790 

Extinct 

Cadogan,  E 

Cadogan 

1718 

1790 

Extfaict 

Callli,  & 

..  CaiUi     •* 

1300 

1311 

Extfaict 

Cambridge,  E 

Aveenee 

1340 

—^ 

Extfaict 

Cambridge,  E. 

..  Plantagcnet 

130 

1401 

Merged  in  the  crown 

Cambridge,  E. 

Hamilton     •• 

1019 

1651 

Extfaict 

Cambridge,  E. 

•  •  Stuart 

10SO 

1080 

Extfaict 

Cambridge,  D.  •  • 

Stuart 

ion 

1061 

Extinct 

Cambridge,  D. 

•  •  Stuart 

1063 

1063 

Extfaict 

Cambridge,  D.  •  • 

Stuart 

1007 

1071 

Extinct 

CambridgCi  D. 

•  •  Stuart 

1077 

1077 

Extinct 

Cambridge,  D. 

Oudph 

1700 

1797 

Merged  in  the  crown 

CamelfindtB. 

..  Pitt 

1784 

1804 

Extfaict 

CamoJa,  B. 

Camoie 

1904 

1335 

Extinct 

Camoie,  B. 

■  •  Camoie 

1383 

Abeyance 

Campden,  V 

Noel 

low 

1796 

Extinct 

CamTille,  B. 

..  CamTille     •• 

1996 

^^^^         • 

Abeyance 

Cantihipe,  B. 

Cantilupe 

1990 

>— 

Extinct 

Cftpel,  Ba 

..  Cepel 

10B9 

lOBO 

ExUnct 

Carew,  B. 

Carew 

IO05 

low 

Extinct 

Carey,  B. 

•  •  Carey     •• 

low 

1081 

Extinct 

Carleton,  B.  •  • 

Boyle 

1714 

1795 

Extinct 

Carliale,  E. 

•  •  Harda   •• 

13S8 

13W 

Forfeited 

Carlton,  B. 

Carlton 

low 

1031 

Extfaict 

Camanron,  E. 

•  •  Dormer 

low 

1709 

ExUnct 

Camanron,  E.   •  • 

Brydgee 

1714 

1789 

Extinct 

Carnarvon,  M. 

••  Brydgee 

1719 

1789 

Extinct 

Cnrrington,  B.  •  • 

Smith         •  • 

1043 

1705 

Extinct 

Carteret,  B. 

•  •  Carteret   •• 

1081 

1778 

Extfaict 

Carteret,  V. 

Carteret 

1714 

1776 

Extfaict 

CaeUeton,  V. 

•  •  Saundereon     •• 

1710 

1793 

Extinct 

Caatleton,  E 

iSanndereon 

1790 

1783 

Extfaict 

CATerebam,  V.      •  • 

••  Cadogan 

1718 

1796 

Extfaict 

Cedl,  of  Putney,  B.    •  • 

Cedl 

loss 

lOW 

Extfau^t 

Cbandoe,  B. 

•  •  Chandoe 

1337 

Extfaict 

Chandoe,  B 

Brydgee    • • 

IfiM 

1789 

Dormant 

Chandoe,  D. 

••  Brydgee 

1799 

1789 

Extfaict 

Chaworth,  B.    •  • 

Chaworth 

1999 

.->^ 

ExUnct 

Chedworth,  a 

•  •  Howe 

1741 

1804 

Extinct 

Cheney,  B. 

Cheney     •• 

1487 

1490 

ExUnct 

Cheney,  of  Todington,  B 

Chmey 

1379 

1587 

ExUnct 

4  H 


801 


PEERAGES^  &c 


TM§§. 
Ch«rletoBp  of  Powyi,  B. 
ChMtcr*  £• 

ClMster,  E. 


ChMtcr,  E. 
ClMBteri  E. 

drntCFf  E< 

Chnter*  E. 
Chetterfield,  Cm.     • 
Chichester,  E. 
Chichester.  E. 
Cholmonddey,  B. 
Clare.  B. 
Clere.  E* 
Clare,  E. 

Clare,  of B. 

Clarence.  D.  •  • 
Clarence.  D. 
Clarence.  D.  •  • 
Clarence,  D. 
Clarendon,  E. 
Clavering,  B. 
Cleveland.  E. 
Clereland.  Dii. 

Clifford,  B 

CUflbrd,      of    Laneebo- 

rough.  B. 
Cliltcm,  B. 
Clinton,  B.   •  • 
Cobham,  of  Kent,  B.  •  • 

Cobham,  B 

Coke,  V. 
Colepeper,  B. 
Colchester,  V     •  • 
Collingwood.  B. 

Columbers.  B 

ColviU,  B 

Conyers.  B. 
Couyugsby.  B.         •  • 
Conyngsby.  E. 
Conyngsby.  Bn. 
Conway.  B.     •  • 
Conway,  V.    •  • 

Conway.  E 

Corbet.  B* 
Corbet,  Vsa.   •  • 
Cornwall,  E. 
Cornwall,  E.  •  • 

Cornwall.  E 

Cornwall.  E 

Cornwall.  E.      •  • 

Cornwall,  D 

Comwallls,  M.  •  • 
Cottington,  B. 
Coventry,  E« 
Coventry.  B. 
Cranfleld.  B. 
Craven.  B. 
Craven.  V« 
Craven.  E* 


CherletoB 
Geoffbodufl 

• '  Abrincit 

•  .  Meschines 


Le  Scot    •  •       •  • 
Plantagenet 

De  Moatfoid 

Wotton 

WriotlMilcy 

Fits-Roy     •  • 

Cholmonddey    ' 

Clare 

Hollee 

Holies  (Pelham)   •• 

Clare 

Plantagenet 

Plantagenet 

Plantagenet 

Onelph  (see  Plantfegenet) 

Hyde 

Clavering 

Wentworth 

Villlert  (Piti-Roy) 

Clifford 


Period^ 

yV«mlS13lel4» 

lOOS     

1070  1119 

1119     

1831  1846 

1863     


JEvettftial  Beifli 


tlw  iamHj  ef 


{ 


1S64 
1000 
1044 

1074 
1045 
1008 
10B4 
1714 
1300 
1309 
1411 
1401 
1780 
1061 
1895 
1096 
1070 
1990 


1805 
10B7 
1067 
1774 
1009 
1313 
1711 
1708 

1368 
1491 

1477 
1830 
1753 
1339 
1007 
1774 
1461 


} 


Boyle 

Clifton 

Clinton 

Cobham 

Brooke     •• 

Coke 

Colepeper 

Savage 

Collingwood 

Columben  • 

ColevUl 

D'Arcy 

Conyngsby 

Conyngsby 

Conyngsby  • ' 

Conway    •  • 

Conway 

Conway    •  • 

Corbet 

Corbet 

Moretoo 

Dunstanvill 

Plantagenet 

Gaveston 

Plantagenet 

Plantagenet 

Comwallis 

Cottington 

ViUien 

Coventry 

Cranlleid 

Craven 

Craven 

Craven 


1^  1735 

1376  

1330  1354 
1313  

1045 
1744 
1644 
lOil 
1005 
1314 
1864 
1500 
1715 
1719 
1710 
1624 
1096 
1079 
1995 
107» 
1008 
1140 
1996 
1300 
1388 
1337 
1709 
1631 
1693 
1688 
1091 
lOBG 
1083 
1083 


1051 
1789 
1785 
1790 
1010 
1349 

1778 
1761 
1761 
1761 
1683 
1088 
1883 

1883 

1175 
1300 
1314 
1336 

1883 
1853 
1087 
1719 
1074 
1007 
1097 
1087 


Abeyanoe 
/passed  to 
i     Abrinda 

Passed  to  thn  fiunOj 
rhinfe 
/  Conveyed  bf  an 
i     thelkmilyofLeSent 

Annexed  to  the  crawB 

/  Suppoeed  to  luiv«b«an 

J     ferredtothe 

I     brothcTr  Edvaerd. 

1^    wards  Edward  I. 

Forfeited 

Extinct 

Extinct 

Extinct 

Extinct 

Extinct 

Extinct 

Extinct 

Extinct 

Extinct 

Extinct 

ForfWted 

Merged  in  tlM  crowB 

Extinct 

Extinct 

Extinct 

Extinct 

Forfeited 

Extinct 

Abeyance 

Extinct 

Extinct 

Extinct 

Extinct 

Extinct 

Extinct 

ExUnct 

Extinct 

Abeyance 

Extinct 
Extinct 
Extinct 
Extinct 
Extinct 
Extinct 
Extinct 
Extinct 
Forfeited 

Extinct 
Extinct 
Extinct 

Extinct 
Extinct 
Extinct 
Extinct 
Extinct 
Extinct 
Extinct 
Extinct 


to 


PEERAGES,  &e. 


TtOm. 

Cnir«i,  ofRytoHf  B. 
Cttxtogt  B« 
CraWf  0« 
Crofts,  B. 
Cromwell,  B.     •  • 
Cromwdl,  of  WimUsdon 
Cioinwll,  B« 
Cumbtrland,  E. 
Cumbtrland,  D.   •  • 
Cumberland,  D. 
Cumberland,  D.    •• 
Cumberland,  D.        ».. 


Inth9 

CrsTen     • 
Credng 
Crew    •• 
Crofti 
CromweU 
«B.  CromweU 
Cromwell 
Cliflbrd   . 
Ruport 
Denmark, 
Guelpb 
Ouelph     • 


0/ 


Period  of 


Bomhtal  Dtttlnmtiom, 


•  •  . 


Dacre,  of  GlUaaland,  B. 

Dagworth,  B*  •  • 

D'Amorie 

Danby,  E. 

DanTen,  B. 

Daicy,  B« 

Dercy,  B. 

Dercy,  B«,  of  Dercy 

DeMy,  of  Aaton,  B«  •  • 

Darqr,  of  Cbidie,  B.    •  • 

Darcy,  B. 

DerU^gton,  B«. 

DarlSngfton,  Caa.     •  • 

Daubcney 

Daubency 

Dauney,  B.    •  • 

De  Orey,  M. 

Delncourt,  B 

Deincourt,  of  Suttoo,  B. 

D'Errill,  B. 

De  la  Pole,  B.    •  • 

De  la  Mere 

Delaval,  B.    •  • 

Denbigh,  B. 

Denney,  B*    •  • 

Derby,  B« 

Derby,  E> 
Derwentwater,  B> 
Deapanoar,  B« 

Devereux,  B< 

Deron,  E«   •  • 
•Devon,  E. 
Deron,  £• 
Deron,  E* 
Digby,  B. 
Dinan,  B. 
Doneatter,  V.    •  • 
Dorchester,  B. 
Dordieiter,  M.    •  • 
Dorchester,  Css.     •  • 
Dorchester,  M. 
Dorchester,  E. 
Dorset,  E. 
Dorset,  E. 
Dorset,  M« 
Dorset,  M. 


of 


D. 


Dacre    <• 

DagwQVth 

D'Amoiie 

DanTsn    •  • 

Danvan 

D'Arqr 

D'Arcy 

Darcy 

D'Arcy 

Darcy 

Darcy 

Sidley 

KUmanrqgg 

Daubtnay 

Daubency 

Dauney 

Grey  •• 

DefaioDurt 

Leke 

DewiU 

Pole  (de  la) 

Booth 

Delaval 

Dudley 

Denney 

Ferren 

PlantaganeC 
RadcHft     . 


•  •        •  • 

• « 


• «  •  • 


Derereux     •• 

Courtcnay 

Courtenay 

Steflbrd 

Blount 

Dlgby 

Dinan 

Hay 

Carlton 

Pierrqiont 

Sidley 

Pieicepont 

Damer 

Beaufbrt 

Beanlbrt 

Beaultart    •  • 

Grey 


•  •         •  I 


>  •        •  • 


from  I9ta  to  1999 

Extinct    . 

1339 

—^ 

Extinct 

leSL 

1791 

Extinct 

165B 

1677 

Extinct 

1306 

1471 

Abeyance 

load 

1540 

Forfeited 

1S40 

Extinct 

USft 

1643 

Extinct 

1644 

1689 

Extinct 

1699 

1708 

Extinct 

1706 

1765 

Extinct 

170S 

1790. 

Extinct 

e 

Ufa 

1509 

Abeyance 

1347 

Extinct 

1317 

1404 

Forfeited 

1696 

1648 

Extinct 

1603 

1643 

Extinct 

1989 

Abeyance 

1339 

1418 

Abeyance 

1M8 

1538 

Forfeited 

1048 

1635 

Extinct 

1551 

1638 

Extinct 

1641 

1778 

Extinct 

1686 

1717 

Extinct 

1799 

1230 

Extinct 

1989 

1486 

1548 

Abeyance 

1397 

Extinct 

1740 

1770 

Extinct 

1998 

1487 

Forfeited 

1694 

1786 

Extinct 

1964 

..... 

Extinct 

1366 

1450 

Forfeited 

1661 

1770 

Extinct 

1786 

1808 

Extinct 

1563 

1588 

Extinct 

1604 

1660 

•     Extinct 
f  Robert    de  Ferrers,   eight 

1137 

U65 

•i     Earl,  dispossessed  ot  the 
(,     Earldom 

1387 

1388 

Merged  in  the  crown 

1688 

1716 

Attainted 

1964 

1440 

Attainted 

1384 

1307 

f  United  with  the  Barony  of 
i     Fit».Walter 

1335 

1461 

Forfeited 

1485 

Dormant 

1460 

1468 

Extinct 

1608 

1606 

Extinct 

1618 

1688 

Extinct 

1985 

1500 

Extinct 

1618 

1680 

Extinct 

1698 

1631 

Extinct 

1644 

1680 

Extinct 

1686 

1609 

Extinct 

1706 

1773 

Extinct 

1789 

1806 

Extinct 

1411 

1496 

Exttaict 

1441 

1471 

Forfeited 

1449 

1471 

Forfeited 

1475 

1554 

Forfeited 

•  The  Earldom  of  Devon  has  lecentiy  been  reatorsd  to  the  ftinily  of  Ceujrtenny. 


603 


PEERAGES,  &C. 


TUlm, 

Doiif]M,B. 
Dover,  E. 
Dover  D. 
DoTer«  B> 
DubUn,  M. 
Dudley,  B. 

Dudley,  B. 

Dudley,  B. 
Dudley,  Dm. 
Dununore,  B. 
Dunt»B. 


Erhlngham,  B. 
EAngluBn,  B* 
SgVBBBont,  B« 
EI]eniMre,B. 
Bngaine,  B. 
Edrington,  B. 


liiMeMM4J^</ 


Enez,  E. 

Enez,  E. 
EtMs,  E.     •• 
EtMS,  E. 

ElMK,  E.       •• 

ETeringhem,  B. 
Eure,  B. 
Exeter,  D. 
Ex0ter,  D« 
Exeter,  D. 
Exeter,  M. 


Felmouth,  E 

Falmouth,  V. 
Falvenley,  B.     •  • 
Faabope,  B. 

Feuoonberg,  B* 

FaucoDberg,  B.\ 
Fsuconberg,  of  Yanun,  B. 
Fauoonberg,  V.  •  • 
Fauoonberg,  E. 
Felton,  B. 

Ferren,  ofChartley,  B. 

Fccren,  of  Cbaitley,  B. 

Ferrers,  of  Oroby,  B« 

Ferren,  of  Wenune,  B« 
FevershaiD,  E. 
Feveriham,  Cts. 
FeTerduun,  B.    •  • 
Fife,  B* 

Finch,  B^         •  • 
Fita-Alan,B. 
Fita-Herbert,  B.    •  • 

Fita-Hugh,  B 

Fita-John,  B.        •  • 
Fita-Payne,  B. 
Flu-Reginald,  B. 

Fitc-Walter,  B 

OM 


Carey 
Dooglae 
Yorke 
Vera 


Sutton 

Ward 
Leigh 
Leigh 
Duias 


Efhlngham 

Howard 

Percy 


Engaine 

Edrington 

MaadeviUe 

Fita-Pien 

BohuB 

Bottrchiar    • 

Bromwell 

Parr 

Derereux 

ETeringham 

Euie 

Holland    •• 

Bteufort 

Holland    .. 

Courtenay 


Berkeley  •• 
Fita-Roy 
Falvenky 
Cornwall 

Fauoonberg 

Nerill 
Bdaeyie  •• 
Belaeyae 
Bdaiyie  •• 
Fdton 

Ferren 

Devereux 

Ferren 

Ferren 

Sondes 

Schulembuxgh 

Dunoombe 

Duflr 

Finch 

Fita-Alan 

Pits-Herbert 

Fita-Hugh 

Fitx^ohn 

Fits-Payne   •• 

Fits-Rcglnald 

Fita-Walt^     • 


AMnl7B6MinO 
UBS  1677 
1706  1776 
1788     1788 


1306  K 

1848  .1607 

1687  17«0 

1644  1780 

16»  16S3 

1673  1708 


1311  — 

1781  1816 

1448  1460 

1608  18» 

1898  1367 

1398     

temp.  SepL 

1199  18S7 


18S7 
1461 
1638 
1543 

1578 
1308 
1M4 

1387 
1416 
140 


1379 
1338 
IMO 
16B8 

1646 
1371 


1400 
1486 
1461 


F. 


1664 
1674 
1383 
1438 

1896 

1488 
1627 
1643 
1688 
1313 

1898 

1461 

1897 

1376 
1676 
1718 
1747 
1790 
1640 
189S 
1894 
1321 
1864 
1898 
12M 
188S 


1666 

1716 


1443 

1376 

1408 
1816 
1816 
1700 

1448 
1600 


1410 
1709 
1743 
1763 
1808 
1660 


IMS 
1896 
1364 

1438 


ExtiBCt 
ForMted 


f  Cazriedby 
\     Warte 

Extinct 
Extinct 
ExtincL 


Mihi 


Extinct 


Extinct 


Extinct 

Extinct 
f  Conveyed  bfy 
\     theBolniaa 

Extinct 

Extinct 

1-.,.  futa  ,  1 

ForMted 


Abeyi 

Extinct 
ForfUted 
Extinct 
ForMted 


Extinct 

Extinct 

Extinct 

Extinct 
f  Conveyed  by  an 
\     the  Neville 

Abeyance 

Extinct 

Extinct 

Extinct 

Extinct 
f  Conveyed  by  an 
\     theflunUy  of 

Forfeited 
f  Passed  by  marriage 
Greys 

Abeyance 

Extinct 

Extinct 

Extinct 

Extinct 

Extinct 

Abeyance 

Extinct 

Abeyance 

Extinct 

Abeyance 

Extmct 

Extinct 


le 


to 


{ 


U»  tba 


P££BAOE8>  &c 


TUht, 

InlhtWumU^^ 

Fit»>Waltcr,  &    • . 

Fitx-Walt«r.  V 

RatcUilb 

Fiti- Walter,  B.      •  * 

.  Mildmay 

Fit».WaU«r,  B. 

Mildmay 

Flto-WariiM,  B,     • . 

•  Flta-Warlne 

Flts-Warine,  B. 

Bourchler 

FolloC.  B.        •  • 

•  Foliot 

FrcKfaTille,  B. 

FreKhTllle 

FreyiDe,  B. 

•  Frevilto   .. 

FumlTal,  B. 

FuxnlTal 

FomiTal,  B. 

.  Nerlll     .. 

Fumival,  B. 

Talbot 

Fumival,  B. 

•  Howard     •• 

Qtigfit  B« 

0»g9 

Gainiborough,  E.     •  • 

.  Noel     •• 

Gant,  B.      •  • 

Gant 

Generill,  B.        •  • 

.  OeDerUl    •• 

Ganvd,  B« 

Gerard 

C3eraidf  of  Bnndonf  B« 

>  Genn^  •• 

Ghimfli,  B 

Ghlinei 

Giflhid,  B. 

.  GiAcd 

GHastonbury,  B. 

GranTiUe     •• 

Glouoettar,  E.     •  • 

•  Clara 

GloucMtcr,  B. 

Audley        •• 

Olouoeitar,  D.     >  • 

•  Plantagenat 

Okraoeatcr,  B. 

Deepaaoer    •• 

Glouoeitcr,  D.      •  • 

>  Plantageuet 

Glouoeater,  D. 

Plantagenat 

Godolphin,  B.    •  • 

•  Godolphin 

Godolphin,  E.     •  • 

Godolphtn 

Godolphin,  B.       •  • 

•  Godolphin 

Goodrich*  V. 

Grey 

OorgWf  B« 

•  Gorgea    •• 

Goring,  B. 

Goring 

Gnuiaiflon*  B«     * 

•  Grandiaon 

Grandiaon,  B. 

Giandiiao    •• 

.  Namu 

OrauTiUe.  B.     •  • 

GranTllle     •• 

Granyille*  B. 

•  Cartcrat 

Greenwich,  B. 

Campbell 

Greenwich,  D.      •  • 

•  Campbell    •• 

Greenwich,  Bai. 

Towmhend  •• 

Grendon,  B.       •  • 

•  Grendon    •• 

Greeley,  B* 

Greeley 

Grey,  of  Wilton,  B. 

•  Grey 

Grey,  of  Wiltoa,  B.    •  • 

Grey 

Grey,  of  Rotherlleld,  B.    • 

•  Grey    •• 

Grey,  Of  Codnor,  B. 

Grey 

Grey,  ofGroby,  B. 

•  Grey      • 

Grey,  of  Powya,  B. 

Grey 

Grey,  ofWerke,  B. 

•  Grey 

Grey,  of  RoUeston 

North 

Greyttock,  B.     •  • 

•  Greyetock  •  • 

Grifiln 

Guildford.  Cm.     •  • 

•  Boyle 

Guildford,  B.     •  • 

Maltland 

Hacche,  B.         •  • 

.  Haoche  •• 

Halifax,  y 

Savila 

G. 


H 


JPeiwfMflf  Dmttntttlon. 

/VomltfSto 

U8B 

1041 

Bztlnct 

low 

1753 

Abeyance 

1730 

1753 

Bxtlnct 

1348 

Bxtinct 

IflSB 

1036 

Abeyance 

IS96 

Bxtinct 

10B4 

1089 

Extinct 

1327 

.i..^ 

Extinct 

UQ9 

1383 

/  Conireyed  by  an  hdraM  to 
i     theNerOb 

1388 

i  Conveyed  by  an  hdraM  to 
i     theTalbota 

1400 

1666 

Abeyance 

^■^ 

1777 

Abeyance. 

• 

1780 

1781 

Extinct 

1689 

1786 

Extinct 

U96 

1987 

Extinct 

U» 

— 

Abeyance 

1008 

1711 

Extinct 

1645 

1708 

Bxtinct 

U95 

.mm^ 

Extinct 

U96 

IStt 

Abeyance 

1787 

1886 

Extinct 

1313 

1337 

1347 

Extinct 

UBS 

1338 

Bxtinct 

1387 

1400 

Attainder 

1404 

1440 

Extinct 

1461 

1483 

Merged  in  the  crown 

1084 

1706 

Bxtinct 

1706 

1706 

Extinct 

173S 

1785 

Bxtinct 

1706 

1741 

Extinct 

1308 

— . 

Bxtinct 

1044 

1079 

Extinct 

1288 

— . 

ExttaKt 

1288 

— — . 

10B6 

1754 

Extinct 

1708 

1707 

Exttaict 

1714 

1706 

Extinct 

1705 

1743 

Extinct 

1718 

1743 

Extinct 

1767 

1784 

Extinct 

1888 

—.I. 

Extinct 

1307 

1347 

Extinct 

1885 

1004 

Attainted 

1784 

1814 

Bxtinct 

1887 

1487 

Attainted 

1888 

1486 

Abeyance 

1390 

1554 

ForfMted 

1488 

1558 

r  Suppoaed  to  havefUlen  into 
\     Abeyance 

1694 

1706 

Bxtinct 

1673 

1734 

Extinct 

1985 

1M8 

Abeyance 

1688 

1749 

Bxtinct 

1600 

1673 

Bxtinct 

1674 

r 

1689 

Extinct. 

1988 

1300 

Dormant 

1068 

1700 

ExttaKt 

605 


PSERAOES,  Ajc 


nito. 

IntkeF^mU^tf 

PtfHotfctrF 

tmmhm. 

JBMRlvar  DeKtei 

Halite,  B 

Savile 

/rom  1079  <•  1700 

Extinct 

Halifax,]! 

SavUe 

16tt 

1700 

Extinct 

HaUfu,B. 

Montagu    •  ■ 

1700 

1771 

Extinct 

Halifu,  E.     •  • 

Montagu 

.       1714 

1715 

Extinct 

HaliCuL.  E. 

Montagu  ••• 

1710 

1771 

Extinct 

Hampden,  B. 

Treror  (Hampden) 

1770 

1884 

Extiaot 

Handlo,  B. 

Handlo 

IMS 

1310 

Extinct 

Harcla.  B 

Harcla    *  • 

IMl 

1383 

Forfeited 

Haroourt,  B. 

Haroourt 

1711 

1830 

Extinct 

Haroourt*  V. 

Haroourt    •  • 

17«l 

1830 

Extinct 

Harcourt,  E. 

Haroourt 

l7to 

1890 

Extinct 

Harawood,  B« 

tilBTtfltft 

17B0 

1795 

Extinct 

HaringtOD,  B. 

Harington    •• 

'  13M 

1554 

Forfeited 

HariDgtmi  of  Enton,  B. 

lOOS 

1014 

Extinct 

Haiold,  E. 

Orey 

1700 

1741 

Extinct 

Hastanf ,  B 

Haitang 

1311 

1348 

AbeyanoB 

Hastingt,  B. 

Hastings 

iao4 

Dormant 

Hiatiiigi,  of B.  •• 

Hastings    •  • 

U9B 

Extinct 

Haitlnga,     of    Oreitiiig  \ 
Hall,  B.                          f 

Hastings 

1342 

Extinct 

Haatingi,    of    Looghbo- 1 
rough,  B«    •  •                J 

Hastings    •  ■ 

15B» 

1588 

Extinct 

Haadngt,    of   Lougfabo- \ 
rough,  B.                      J 

Hastings 

1043 

1096 

Extinct 

Hatton  •  • 

•MMfl 

1788 

Extinct 

Hatton 

10U 

1788 

Extinct 

Hauatad,  B.   •  • 

Hausted    ■  • 

13S2 

Extinct 

HaTenham,  B. 

Thompson 

1090 

1745 

Extinct 

Hay,  ofSalvlay,  B.   •• 

Hay 

10U 

1089 

Extinct 

Heathflald,  B. 

EUiot 

1707 

1813 

Extinct 

Henley,  B« 

Henley 

1700 

1706 

Extinct 

Herbeft,  of  Chepetoif,  B. 

Herbert 

H61 

— - 

Extinct 

Herbert,  of  Chirbury,  B. 

Herbert  •  • 

1089 

1091 

Extinct 

Herbert,  of  Chirbury,  B. 

Herbert 

lOM 

1738 

Extinct 

Herbert,  of  Chirbury,  B. 

Herbert 

1743 

1801 

Extinct 

Hereford,  E* 

Bohun 

IttO 

1378 

Extinct 

Heron,  B< 

Heroo 

1371 

Extinct 

Heroo,  B> 

Heron           • 

1300 

1404 

Extinct 

Hertford,  E»  •  • 

Clare 

temp.  Sept.,  1313 

Extinct 

Hertibrd,  E* 

Seymour 

1537 

1558 

Forfeited 

Hertford,  E. 

Seymour 

15fi0 

1750 

Extinct 

Heryey,  B. 

Hervey 

1098 

1048 

Extinct 

Hilton,  B. 

Hilton      . . 

1805 

Abeyanoe 

Hilton,  of B 

Hilton 

1338 

...^ 

Extinct 

Hoeie,  B* 

Hoese  •• 

1895 

Extinct 
C  Conveyed  by  n 

Holland,  B 

Holland 

1314 

1373 

J     the  tenUy  o^ 
(    Ticfamersh 

Holland,  B 

Holland  •• 

1363 

1407 

Abeyance 

Holland,  B. 

Rich 

1084 

1750 

Extinct 

Holdemene,  E. 

Ramsay    •  • 

1881 

1885 

Extinct 

Holdemene,  E« 

Darcy 

1088 

1778 

Extinct 

Ho]let,ofIfleld,B.     •• 

Holies 

1081 

1894 

Extinct 

Hoo,  B« 

Hoo 

.   '        1447 

1453 

Extinct 

Hopton,  B 

Hopton    •  • 

1043 

1658 

Extinct 

Houghton,  B. 

Holies 

1010 

1711 

Extinct 

Houston,  B«    •  • 

Walpole 

1748 

1797 

Extinct 

Howard.  B« 

Howard 

1470- 

1777 

Abeyanoe 

Howard,  of  Bindon,  Y.  •  • 

Howard 

1550 

1019 

Extinct 

Howard,  of  Eicrldi,  B. 

Howard 

1088 

1714 

Extinct 

Howard,  of  Castle  Riling,  1 
B>                               ■  ■    J 

Howard 

1099 

1777 

Extinct 

Howe,  V. 

Howe 

1788 

1790 

Extinct 

Howe,  E< 

Howe 

1788 

1790 

Extinct 

Hume,  B. 

Hume 

1004 

1011 

Extinct 

006 

P£ERAOES»  ftc 


TWet,                       In  tht  FmM^  ^ 

Teriod^fFQ 

•iMilOfk 

JEvenhfoJ  DarttoelifR. 

Hume,  B.                      ••      Hume  (CimplMll)    •• 

/VoM  1778  (9 1781 

Extinct 

H  unijef fotil,  B*                 •  •  Hungvftxd 

1486 

.... 

Extinct 

Hungeifoid,    of  Heytas- 1  ^^^^^ 
bury,  B.                     •  •    j 

lft96 

1641 

Extinct 

Hunidon,  B.                      •  •  Carey 

1M9 

\m 

Extinct 

Hunteroombe,  B.        •  •         Huntcrcambe 

1295 

.1319 

Extinct 

Huntingdon,  E.                 "St.  Lis 

loes- 

1837 

Extinct 

Huntingdon,  E.         •  •           Ointon 

.    1337 

1364 

Extinct 

Huntingdon,  E.     •  •          •  •  Holland 

ia«7 

1309 

Forfeited 

Huntingdon,  E.        •  •           Holland 

1417 

J474 

Extinct 

Huntingdon,  E.     •  •         •  •  Herbert 

1479 

._ 

Extinct 

Huntingfleld,  B.                    Huntingfleld 

lor 

1577 

f  Preaumed   to    hAve  fallen 
\     into  Abeyance 

Huntingfield,  B Huntingfleld    •• 

13SS 

Extinct 

Hufliey,  B.      •  •                     Hu«ey    •  • 

1534 

1537 

Extinct 

Hyde,  of  Hindoo,  B.         •  •  Hyde 

1060 

1783 

Extinct 

Hyde,  of  Wotton  BaueC,  B.  Hyde 

1681 

1753 

Extinct 

Hyde,  V.    ^ Hyde 

1681 
I 

1753 

Extinct. 

Inghem,  B.                            Twgiiai|w 

1. 

ias8 

1344 

Abeyance 

Irdand,  D Vere 

1387 

1388 

forfeited 

JeffiBryi,  B«                            JefRnya 

1683 

1703 

Extinct 

Jermyn,  B.                         •  •  Jeiuiyji 

1643 

1703 

Extinct 

Jermyn.  of  Dover,  B.    •  •      Jerm3ni     •  • 

1686 

1708 

Extinct 

Jervia,  B.    •  ■                    •  •  Jervia 

1797 
K. 

18D1 

1880 

Extinct. 

Keitb,  B*                           •  •  Keitb 

1883 

Extinct 

Keith,  V.     •  •                        Keith 

1814 

1883 

Extinct 

Kendal,  D.                        •  •  StuArt    •  • 

1666 

1607 

Extinct 

Kendal,  Das.                         Schulemberg    •  • 

1719 

1709 

Extinct 

Kent,  E>                           •  •  Odo 

1067 

1086 

Extinct 

Kant,  E.                             •  •  Ipie 

1141 

lExtinct 

Kent,  £•                                Burgh 

U96 

1843 

Extinct 

Kent,  B.                            •  •  Plantaganet  •  • 

1381 

1330 

Forfeited 

Kent,  E Holland 

1407 

Extinct 

Kent,  E.    •  •                      •  •  Nerill 

146B 

1468 

^tinct 

Kent,  E*                                Orey 

1465 

1741 

Extinct 

Kent,  M.                           •  •  Grey 

1706 

1741 

Extinct 

Kent,  D.                                Orey 

1710 

1741 

Extinct 

Kent,  D.                           •  •  Oucdph   •  • 

1798 

1890 

Extinct 

Kenaington,  B.         •  •            Rich 

1688 

1769 

Ei^t|nct 

Keppel,  Y.                        •  •  Keppel  •  • 

1788 

1786 

Extinct 

Ker,  E.                                  Ker 

1788 

1804 

Extinct 

Kerdeaton Kerdeaton 

1339 

Abeyance 

Kingaton,  E.                          Pierrqpont   •  • 

1688 

1680 

Extinct 

Kingston,  D.                     •  •  Pierrqpont 

1715 

1773 

Extinct 

Kirlieton,  B.                          Kirketon      •• 

1368 

1367 

Extinct 

1603 

16» 

Pormaat 

Knovill,  B.                             Knovill    •  • 

1995 

Extinct     . 

1607 

1688 

Extinct 

Kyme,  B.                               Kyme 

1895 
L. 

1899 

Abeyance. 

La  Mare,  B.                      •  •  Mare 

1313 

Extinct 

Lancaster,  B Lancaater 

1999 

1334 

Extinct 

Lancaater,  E.                     •  •  Plantagenet      •  • 

1967 

1381 

Forfeited 

Lancaster,  D.     •  •                  Plantagenet 

1361 

1309 

Mei'ged  in  the  crown 

1668 

1777 

Extinct 

Lansdowne,  B.           •  •           Granirille 

1711 

1734 

Extinct 

Laiceb,  B.                         •  •  Lascela 

1895 

1297 

Abeyance 

Latimer,  B.    •  •                      Latimer 

1899 

Abeyance 

Latimer,  of  Brayteooke,  B.  Latimer 

1999 

Extinct 

Latimer,  B.                       •  •  Nerill 

1438 

1577 

Abeyance 

607 

PEERAGES,  &€. 


TUUi. 

IntheFkmll^^ 

PtrMoTB 

meidm. 

gginftwf  Dediaeffew. 

X^dnMra*  B« 

Lecfamara 

../^omVmtolTV 

Extinct 

L«icMtcr,  E. 

•  •  Beeumoot 

1103 

19D4 

Extinct 

Leioettar*  E      •  • 

M  ontlbrt 

1S06 

1964 

Focfdted 

LdiOMtcr,  E. 

•  '  Plantaganet 

1964 

1321 

Forfieited 

Leloettflr,  E. 

Dudley 

lfl63 

1888 

Extinct 

LeloMter,  E. 

•  <  Sydney    •  •           *  • 

1618 

1743 

Extinct 

LcioMtcr,  E. 

Coke 

1744 

1759 

Extinct 

Leighf  B. 

•  •  Leigh 

1«4S 

1786 

Extinct 

Stttttm 

1646 

1793 

Extinct 

Ley*  B* 

•  •  Ley          •• 

1685 

1678 

Extinct 

Leybfum,  B 

Leybum 

1889 

1388 

Extinct 

Leybum,  B. 

. .  Leybum 

1S37 

1348 

Extinct 

Li^oniflTf  B* 

Ligonier 

1769 

1770 

Extinet 

Ligonier,  E. 

..  Ligonier 

170S 

1770 

Extinct 
f  Conveyed  by  an  hdxcB  to 
\     the  ftmily  of  Gam 

Lincoln*  E. 

1148 

?  Gilbert  de  Gant,  aeoood  Eari 

Lincoln,  E.     •  • 

Gent 

>.    temp.  Hen.  IL»  1916 

•J     of  Linodn,  was  divested 

(^    ofhiihonottia 

Lincoln,  E. 

•  •  Meichtnei 

1916 

1931 

Extinct 

Linc(dn«  E. 

Lacy 

1838 

1348 

Extinct 

Lincofait  E.    •  • 

•  •  Plantaganet 

1348 

1389 

Merged  in  the  aro>wn 

Lincoln,  E« 

Pole 

1467 

1487 

Extinct 

Lincoln,  S. 

•  •  Brandon 

IdSS 

Extinct 

Lindaey,  M.    •  • 

Bertie 

1706 

1809 

Extinct 

L'lile,  B. 

•  •  L'lile 

1347 

Abeyance 

L'lile,  B.      . . 

Talbot 

1443 

L*Iale»  V. 

..  Talbot 

1458 

1469 

Extinct 

L'lile.  B 

Grey 

1475 

L'Irie,  V. 

•  ■  Orey 

1483 

1819 

Extinct 

L'lale,  y 

Brandon 

1513 

Surrendered 

L'lale,  V. 

. .  plantagenet 

1533 

1541 

Extinct 

L'lile,  B. 

Dudley 

1541 

1553 

ForMted 

L'Isle,  V. 

..  Dudley 

1548 

1563 

Forfdted 

L'lile,  a 

Dudley 

1561 

1589 

Extinct 

L'lile,  V. 

••  Sydney 

i6r» 

1743 

Extinct 

L'lile,  of  Rugemont,  B. 

L'lile 

1311 

1380 

Preramed  to  be  ExtiDct 

Litchfield,  E. 

•  •  Stuart 

1645 

1679 

Extinct 

Litchfield,  E 

Lee 

1674 

1778 

Extinct 

Longuerille,  V 

•  •  Ydverton 

1600 

1799 

Extinct 

LongviUien,  B. 

LongviUien 

1348 

1374 

Extinct 

Lonidele,  V. 

••  Lowther 

16B6 

1761 

Lonidale,  E.    •  • 

Lowther 

1784 

1809 

Extinct 

L'Orti,  B. 

.•  L'OrU 

1888 

Abeyance 

Lovel,  of  Kiry,  B*         • 

Lovd 

1348 

1351 

Abeyance 

Lord,  of  Tichmenh,  B. 

•  •  Lovri 

1890 

1487 

Forfdted 

Lorei,  V. 

LoTel 

1483 

1487 

Forfdted 

LoTel,  of  Miniter  Lord, 

B.  Loyel 

1798 

1758 

Extinct 

LsTdaoe,  B 

Lordace    •  • 

1687 

1736 

Extinct 

Lowlher,  B* 

•  •  Lowther 

1696 

1751 

Extinct 

Lowther,  B*     •  • 

Lowther 

1784 

1809 

Extinct 

Lowthcr,  V. 

•  •  Lowther 

17B4 

1809 

Extinct 

LucM,  B* 

Lucai 

1644 

1705 

Extinct 

Lucy,  of  Egiemont,  B. 

•  •  Lucy 

1380 

Extinct 

Lumley,  B. 

Lumley 

1384 

>— 

Extinct 

Lumlcy,  B. 

•  •  Lumley 

1547 

1909 

Extinct 

Luterel,  B.     •  • 

Luterd 

1985 

Extinct 

Lyttleton,  B 

•  •  Lyttleton 

1640 

1645 

Extinct 

L yttletoO)  B« 

Lyttleton 

1757 
M. 

1786 

1779 

Extinct 

If ecwrtney,  B« 

•  •  Macartney 

1806 

Extinct 

M  eodedleld,  E. 

Gerard 

1679 

1799 

Extinct 

Malum,  a 

•  •  Wataon  ( Wentworth) 

1798 

1789 

Extinct 

Malton.  E.  «    •• 

Wataon  (Wentworth) 

1734 

1789 

Extinct 

me 

PEERAGES,  Sec 


TUlet. 

In  th€  PiamUg  qf 

Period  ^f^tteuhfu 

AwnAMi/ DaifiiMfton. 

■ 

r  Annexed  by  act  of  perlia- 

MaltraTcn.  B.       •  • 

'  Maltiaveit 

'  fnm  1390  to  — 

1 

i    Arundel 

Maltrftverii  B.    •  • 

Fitialan 

Manny,  B. 

•  Manny 

1347 

1300 

Extinct 

Mansfield,  V.     •• 

Cevendiah 

1680 

1601 

Extinct 

HUMu,  B« 

•  Manaell 

.    *     1711 

1750 

Extinct 

March,  Ea 

Mortimer 

13» 

1494 

Extinct 

March,  E. 

.  Plantagenet    •• 

1479 

1483 

March,  E. 

Stuart 

1619 

1679 

Extinct 

Marlborough,  1&    •  • 

.  Ley 

lev 

1879 

Extinct 

Mannlon,  B> 

Marmion 

temp*  Wm«  !• 

Marmion,  B. 

1964 

... 

Extinct 

Marmion,  of  Withlngton,  B 

,  Marmion 

1313 

..— 

Abeyance 

Mamey,  B« 

Mamey 

lfi93 

1695 

Extinct 

Marshal,  B. 

>  Manhal 

1309 

Abeyance 

Maaham,  B« 

Maaham 

1711 

1776 

Extinct 

Mftudolt,  B.       •  • 

.  Mauduit 

1349 

Extfaict 

Mauley,  B. 

Mauley 

1286 

1410 

Abeyance 

Melnill,  B.         . . 

■  MeiniU 

1995 

1909 

Extinct 

MeiniU.  B. 

Melnill 

1313 

1389 

Extinct 

Memlll,B. 

.  MeiniU 

1338 

1779 

Extinct 

Mdoombe,  B. 

Dodington 

1761 

1769 

Extinct 

MiddkBOD,  E. 

.  CranfleU 

16B9 

1674 

fixtinct 

MUteoke,  B.    •  • 

1449 

1443 

Extinct 

MllUm,  B. 

•  Damer 

1768 

1808 

Extinct 

Milton,  V« 

Damer 

1799 

1808 

Extinct 

Moeb,  B. 

•  Mods 

1999 

1337 

Abeyance 

MohuB,  B* 

Mohun 

1909 

Extinct 

Mohun,  of  OkehamptOD,  B 

.  Mohun 

1688 

1719 

Extinct 

Molina,  B.         •  • 

.  Molinet 

1347 

Extinct 

Monmouth,  E. 

Carey 

1696 

1600 

Extinct 

Monmouth,  D, 

.  Scot  (Fits  Roy) 

leoo 

1685 

Forfeited 

Monmouth,  E. 

MordAunt 

1660 

1814 

Extinct 

Montacute,  B. 

.  Montacute 

1300 

/  Conreyed  by  nuffriage  to 
i     theNevilto 

Montacute,  B. 

Nerill 

...i-. 

..i.. 

Extinct 

Montacute,  B. 

.  Pole 

1«3 

1538 

ForfUted 

Montagu,  B« 

NeviU 

1461 

1471 

Forfeited 

Montagu,  M. 

.  NevitI 

1470 

1471 

Forfeited 

Montagu,  V. 

Brown 

1M4 

1797 

Bxthict 

Montagu,  of ——,  B. 

•  Montagu 

1349 

1361 

Extinct 

Montagu,  of ,  B, 

Montagu 

1307 

... 

Extinct 

Montagu,  of  Boughton,  B. 

Montagu 

1611 

1749 

Extinct 

Montagu,  E. 

•  Montagu 

1609 

1749 

Extinct 

Montagu,  M. 

Montagu 

1705 

1749 

Extinct 

Montagu,  of  Boughton,  B. 

Montagu 

1789 

1779 

Extinct 

Montagu,  D.       •  • 

>  Montagu 

vm 

1790 

Extfaict 

Montalt,  B 

Montalt 

1996 

1389 

Extinct 

Montea^a,  B.       •  • 

•  Stanley 

1514 



f  Passed  by  marriage  to  the 
i     ParkezB 

Monteagle,  B.     •  • 

Parker 

1605 

1686 

Abeyance 

Montfort,  B> 

•  Montfort 

1996 

1367 

Abeyance 

Montgomery,  B«  •  • 

Montgomery 

1349 

— 

Extinct 

Monthermer,  B* 

•  Monthermer    • 

130O 

1471 

ForMted 

Monthermer,  B* 

Monthermer 

^aBt| 

Extinct 

Monljoy,  B« 

•  Blount 

1466 

1606 

Extinct 

Mont)oy,  B« 

Blount 

1697 

1681 

Extinct 

Montjoy,  of  the    Ide  txf 

t  Wlndior 

1711 

1708 

Extinct 

Wight,  Ji. 

Monbnmt,  V.        •  • 

Mordaunt 

1600 

1814 

Extinct 

Morley,  B*        •  • 

>  Morley 

1999 

1449 

Conveyed  by  an  heireas  to 
theLovels 

Morler.  B 

Lorel 

1400 

1489 

Conveyed  by  an  heiress  to 

4  I 


I.     the  Parkers; 

609 


PEERAGES,  && 


IWet, 

JntheFmmU^qf 

MoAejt  B* 

•  •  Parker 

llortiBier,a 

Mortimer     •• 

Mortimer,  B.  of  Rldittd'i 

Cattle 

1  Mortimer 

Mortimer,  B.,  of  Chirke 

MortiiMr       • 

Mulgrave,  E. 

••  Shefllekt 

Mulgnve,  E. 

Phippe 

Multon,  of  Oillerittid,  B, 

Multon 

Multon,  of  Ei^cnumt,  B. 

Multon 

Munchensi,  B. 

•  •  Munchenel 

Matgrave,  B. 

Mufgnve 

1S89  — 

1307  

1680  im 

1790  179S 

1307  1313 

U97  1334 

1964  

1300  — ^ 


Abeyance 
Merged  in  the 

Abeyance 

Abeyance 

Extinct 

Extinct 
f  Conveyed  by 
\     theDaoca 


Extinct 
PiCBvmedtobe 


N. 


Nanaladron,  B. 
N ereford,  B« 
NeyiU.  of  Raby,  B.      • 
Nevill,  of  E»ex,  B. 

NeTill,of ^,B. 

Newark,  V. 
Newcastle,  E. 
Newcastle,  E. 
Newcastle,  M. 
Newcastle,  D. 
Newcastle,  D. 
Newmardi,  B. 
Newport,  E* 
Newport,  B> 
Newport,  V«     i 
Noel,  of  Ridlington,  B. 
NoeI,ofTltclifleld>B. 
Norfolk,  E. 
Norftdk,  E. 
Norfolk,  E. 
Norfolk,  Dss. 
Norfolk,  D. 
Norfolk,  D. 
Nonnanby,  M. 
Normanby,  D. 
North,  B* 
Northampton,  E. 
Northampton,  E. 
Northampton,  M. 
Northampton,  E» 
Northington,  E. 
Northumberland,  E. 
Northumberland,  E. 
Northumberland,  E. 
Northumberland,  E. 
Northumberland,  E.    • 
Northumberland,  D. 
Northumberland,  E. 
Northumberland,  E. 
Northumberland,  D. 
Northwode,  B. 
Norwich,  B. 
Norwich,  E« 
Norwich,  E.     •  • 
Norwich,  E. 
Nottingham,  E. 
Nottingham,  E.    •  • 
Nottingham,  E. 
Nottingham,  E. 
610 


Nansladnm 

Neref ord 

Nevill 

NenU 

NeviU 

PierreponC 

Stuart 

Cavendish 

Cavendish 

Cavendish 

Holies  (Pelham) 

Newmarch 

Blount 

Newport 

Newport 

Noel 

Nod 

Wayher 

Bigod 

Plantagenet 

PLmtagenet 

Mowbray 

Howard 

Sheffield 

Sheffield 

North 

St.  Lis 

Bohun 

Part 

Howai4 

Henly 

Comyn 

Copsi 

Cospatrlck 

Percy       •• 

NeviU 

Dudley 

Percy 

Fita-Roy 

Pita-Roy 

Northwode 

Norwich 

Denny 

Goring 

Howard 

Mowbray 

Berkdey 

Fits-Roy 

Howard 


1999 

Extinct 

1997 

Extinct 

1294 

1570 

Forfeited 

1335 

13S8 

Extinct 

1342 

Extinct 

1027 

1773 

Extinct 

16B3 

1624 

Extinct 

1628 

1691 

Extinct 

1643 

1691 

Extinct  ' 

1664 

1091 

ExtiniEt 

1715 

1768 

Extfaict 

1964 

Extinct 

1628 

lOBl 

Extinct 

1649 

1769 

Extinct 

1676 

1769 

Extinct 

1617 

1706 

Extinct 

1681 

1798 

ExUnct 

1066 

ForfUted 

1140 

1307 

Extinct 

1319 

13» 

Extract 

1307 

1399 

Extinct 

1306 

1475 

Extinct 

1483 

1572 

Attainted 

16M 

1715 

Extinct 

1703 

1735 

Exthict 

1654 

1809 

Abeyance 

1066 

1184 

ExUnct 

1337 

1379 

Extinct 

1557 

1571 

Extinct 

1004 

1614 

Extinct 

1764 

1786 

Extinct 

1068 

1069 

Extinct 

1068 

Extinct 

106B 

1070 

ExtUkct 

1377 

1461 

Extinct 

1464 

1470 

Resigned 

1551 

1558 

ForMted 

1557 

im^ 

Exthict 

1674 

1716 

Extuict 

1683 

1710 

Extinct 

13M 

1410 

Abeyance 

1349 

1374 

Extinct 

1696 

1630 

Extinct 

1645 

1079 

Extinct 

1679 

1777 

Extinct 

1383 

1475 

Extinct 

1483 

1481 

Extinct 

1585 

1536 

Extinct 

1597 

1681 

Extinct 

PEERAGES,  &e. 


TMet, 


Ogle,  B. 
Ogle,  B. 
OldcMtle,  B. 
Orford,  E. 
Orford,  E. 
Ormonde,  D. 
Orreby,  B. 
Oxford,  E. 
Oxford,  B. 
Oxford,  E. 


Parr,  of  Kendel,  B. 

Parr,  of  Horton,  B. 

Pateshull,  B. 

Paynell,  B. 

Peche,  of  Brunne,  B. 

Peche,of  Wcnnnleighton,  B 

Pembroke,  E* 

Pembroke,  Em    •  • 
Pembroke,  B« 
Pembroke,  E,     •  • 
Pembroke,  £• 
Pembroke,  E.     •  • 
Pembroke,  E* 
Pembroke,  Mai.     •  • 
PerqTf  B. 
Percy,  B> 
Perth,  B. 
Peterborough,  B. 
Pierrepont,  B> 

Plnkney,  B 

Plpard,  B. 
PUyB,  B. 
Plessets,  B. 
Plugenet,  B.    •  • 
Plymouth,  E. 
Points,  B. 
Portland,  £• 
Portsmouth,  Dm. 
Powys,  B. 
Powys,  E.       •  • 
Powis,  M.  . 
Powif,  E« 
Poynings,  B. 
Poynings,  B.      •  • 
Poynixigs,  B. 
Purbeck,  V 


Raby,  B.     •  • 
Raby,  B. 
Radnor,  E. 
Ravensworth,  B. 
Raymond,  B. 
Rich,  B. 

Richmond,  E. 

Richmond,  E.     • 
Richmond,  E. 
Richmond,  D.     • 
RichmoDd,  E. 


In  th»  Vmmiiif  ^f 


Ogle 

Cavendiih 

Oldcasfle 

RuMeU 

Walpole 

Butler 

Orreby 

Vere 

Vere 

Vere 


Period  ^I^mtmiom.       Eventual  DeetinMHoh, 


O. 


Parr 

Parr 

PateshuU 

Paynell 

Peche 

Peche 

Clare 

Marshal 

Valence 

Hastings 

Pole 

Tudor 

Herbert 

Boleyn 

Percy 

Percy 

Drummond 

Mordaimt 

Pierrepont 

Pinlmey 

Pipard 

Plays 

PleasetB 

Plugenet 

Fits-Charles 

Points 

Weston 

Queroualle 

Herbert 

Herbert 

Herbert 

Herbert    •  • 

Percy 

Poynings 

Poynings    •• 

VilUers 


Wentworth 

Wcntworth 

Robartes 

LiddeU 

Raymond    *  • 

Rich 

Alan  or  Fergaunt 

DeDreoz 
Tudor 
Fits-Roy 
Stuart 


P. 


R. 


/h>ml461tolA»7 

Abeyance 

leao     IflOl 

Abeyance 

1400     

Extinct 

1897     1787 

Extinct 

1742      1797 

Extinct 

1681      1710 

Forfeited 

130O     1317 

Extinct 

1155     1338 

Forftited 

tan     1461 

Fbrfeited 

1464     1708 

Extinct. 

» 

1538      15S8 

Forfeited 

1543      1549 

Extinct 

1348      1349 

Extinct 

1899     

Extinct 

1899      1383 

Extinct 

1321      

Abeyance 

1138  .  

f  Conveyed  by  an  hetreis  to 
\     tiie  Marshals 

1189     m5 

Extinct 

1847      1383 

Extinct 

1339      1389 

Extinct 

1446      1450 

Forfeited 

1459     1461 

Forfeited 

1468     

Extinct 

1538     

Extinct 

1899      1537 

Extinct 

1643     1658 

Extinct 

1797      1800 

Extinct 

1688      1814 

Extinct 

1687     1773 

Extinct 

1299     

Extinct 

1899      1309 

Extinct 

1897     

Abeyance 

1899     

Extinct 

1895      1387 

Extinct 

1673    ia» 

Extmct 

1896     

Abeyance 

163^     1688 

Extinct 

1673      1734 

Extinct 

1689      1748 

Extinct 

1674     1748 

Extinct 

1687      1748 

Extinct 

1743     1801 

Extinct 

1337      1670 

Extinct 

1337      1070 

Extinct 

1545      1547 

Extina 

1619      1657 

Extinct 

• 

.       1640     1641 

Forfeited 

loss      1799 

Extinct 

1679     1764 

Extinct 

1747      1748 

Extinct 

1731     1753 

Extipiet 

.    1547  . .  1750 

Extinct 

temjk  Wnu  L 

r  Passed  to  the  £unily  of  De 
V    Dreux 

, 1300 

Forfeited 

1458     1485 

Merged  in  the  crown 

1585     1536 

Extinct 

1613    mi 

Extinct  . 

611 

PEERAGES,  &c 


Ricbmond,  D. 
Richmoniij  D. 
Ilipariii,  B. 
RJtcti,  B. 
Riv6nf  £• 
RiTCiVf  E« 
Robutet,  B. 
Rochester,  V. 
Rochester,  E.    •  • 
Rochester,  E. 
Rochfort,  V. 
Rocfaf art,  V. 
Rockingham,  B. 
Rockingham,  V.     • 
Rockingham,  M. 
RoUe,  B. 
Ronmey,  B. 
Roe,  of  Hamlake,  B. 
Ros,  of  Wecke,  B. 
Ros,  B* 
Rythre,  B* 


Stuart 

•   StUATt 

Repaiilsor  Rivers 
-  Widvile 
Wldvile 

•  Savage 
Robartet 

•  Carr 
Wilmot 

>  Hyde 
Boleyn 

■  Carey 
Watson 

•  Watson 
Watson 

•  Rolle 
Sydney 

>  Rob 
Roe 

r  Rob 
Rythre 


/H>m16B3«olSM 

1641  im 

U9»     

1448  1491 

146S  1491 

1QS6  1788 

16B6  1764 

1611  1645 

1688  1681 

168S  17fi3 

IfiBS  ..^ 

1681  1677 

1646  I7B8 

1714  1788 

1746  1788 

1748  17fiO 

1694  1704 

1864  1006 

1898  

1338  1398 

1890     


JBsmAiof 

Extinct 

Extinct 

Extinct 

Extinct 

Extinct 

Extinct 

Extinct 

Extinct 

Extinct 

Extinct 

Extinct 

Extinct 

Extinct 

Extinct 

Extinct 

Extinct 

Extinct 

Abeyaaoe 

ForfUted 

Extinct 


8L  Albans,  V. 
St.  Albans,  E.     •  • 
St.  Albans,  E. 
8L  Amand,  B,    •  • 
St.  Amand,  B. 
St.  John,  B. 
St.  John,  B. 

SL  Maur,  B 

StMaur,  ofB. 
St.  PhUbert>  & 
St.  Vincent,  E. 

Salisbury,  E.      •  • 

Salisbury,  B. 
Salisbury,  E 

Salisbury,  E. 

Salisbury,  E. 
Salisbury,  B. 
Salisbury,  Css.  •  • 
Sandys,  B. 

Sandys,  of  the  Vine,  B. 
Saunderson,  B. 
Savage,  Viscount 
SavUe,  B. 
Say,  B*         ••  • 

Scales,  B. 

Scales,  B.         •  • 
Scarsdale,  E. 
Schomberg,  D. 
Scrope,  of  Bolton,  B. 
Scrope,  of  Masham,  B.  • 
Scrope,  of  Masham,  B. 

Seafoilh,  B 

Sflgrave,  B. 
Seymour,  B. 
Seymour,  tji  Sudley,  B. 
Seymour,  of  Troubridge, 
Sheffield,  B. 

Sherard,  V 

Shingay,  B. 
618 


•  •  Baoon 

Burgh 

•  •  Jermyn 

St.  Amand 

•  •  Beauchamp 

St  John 
■  •  St.  John 
St  Maur 

•  •  St  Maur 

StPhilibert 

•  •  Jervis 

D'Evereux 

•  Longespee 
Montacute 

•  •  Montacute 

Nevfl 

•  •  Plantagcnet 

Plantagenet 
..  Sandys 
•  •    Sandys 
..  Saunderson 

Savage 
••  Savile 

Say 

•  •  ScaleB  • 

Widvile 
• •  Seke        • • 
Schomberg 

•  •  Scrope 

Scrope        •  • 

•  •  Scrope 

Mackenaie 

•  •  S^grave 

Seymour 
••  Seymour 
B.  Seymour      •• 
••  Sheffield 

Sherard 
••  Russell     •• 


temp.  Step. 

temp.  Rich.  I. 
1337     1400 


1681  1686  ExthKt 

16n  1659  Extinct 

1660  168S  Extinct 

1899  1318  Extinct 

1313  1508  Abeyance 

1899  —  Presumed  to  be 

1864  1965  Extinct 

1314  —  Abeyance 

1317     Extinct 

1890  1350  Extinct 

1797  1883  Extinct 

f  Conveyed  by  an 
\     theHsmilyof 

ForMted 

ixna  _  f  Conveyed  by  an 

t     the  Nevilk 

1448  1471  Forfeited 

1479  1477  FoxMtad 

1513  1541  Forfeited 

1743  1797  Extinct 

1589  1700  Abeyance 

1714  1783  Extinct 

1686  1788  Extinct 

1688  1671  Extinct 
1313     Abeyance 

logo  ^^  f  Conveyed  by  an 

i     the  Widvllea 

1468  1483  Abeyance 

1645  1736  Extinct 

1689  1719  Extinct 
1371  — —  Dormant 
1348  1415  Foiftited 
1481  1517  Abeyance 
1797  1814  Extinct 
1864  ^—  Abeyuoe 
1547  1558  Forfeited 
1547  1548  Forfeited 
1641  1750  Extinct 
1547  1775  Extinct 
1718  1738  Extfaict 
1697  1787  Extinct 


liciicei  to 


to 


PEERAGES^  &€. 


miM. 


jHUt^FamOlUff 


Son6VBf  B« 
Soncnctf  ES* 
SoinQiS0tf  D« 

SomCTMtt  D.  •  •  •  • 

Somcnct*  D* 
Soin6Kwt«  D*  • ' 

SomCTwtf  E« 
Southampton,  E. 
Southampton,  B.     •• 
Southampton,  Cm. 
Southampton 
Staflbrd,  B. 
Staflbrd,  £■ 
Staflbrd  B.      •  • 
Staflbrd,  V* 

Staflbrd,  Cm*  • 

Staflbrd,  E. 
Staflbrd,  of  Clifton,  B. 
Staflbrd,  of  Southwyck,  B. 
Stanhope,  of  Harrington,  B. 
Stanlsj,  B. 
Staplaton,  B* 
Suwell,  B. 

Stawell,  B 

Strabolgi,  B. 
StraAnd,  E* 
Straflbrd,  £■ 
Straflbrd,  B* 

Strange,  of  Knokyn,  B. 

Strange,  of  Knokyn,  B. 
Strange  of  Elknnerab  B. 
Strange,  of  Blackman,  B« 
StiiTelyn,  B> 
Sndley,  B* 
Suflblk,  E. 
Suflblk,  E. 
Suflblk,]!. 
Suflblk,  D. 
Suflblk,  D. 
Suflblk,  D. 
Sunderland,  E.      •  • 

Surrey,  E.  •  • 

Surrey,  E. 

Surrey,  E.         •  • 
Surrey,  D         •• 
SuMez,  B. 
SuMez,  B. 
SuMez,  E.  •  t 

SUMCZ,  E. 

Swilllxigton,  B. 
S  w  y  unerton,  B.      •  • 
Sydney,  of  Penahunt,  B. 
Sydney,  of  ShenMy,  V.    > 


Tadcaater,  D. 
Talbot,  B. 
Talbot,  E. 
Talboys,  B. 
TankerviUe,  E. 
TaUhall,  B. 


Beaufort    •  • 

Beanfort 

Beaufort   •• 

Tudor 

Fiti-Roy 

Seymour 

Carr 

Fiti-WUUam 

WrlotheilBy 

VilUera 

Fita-Roy 

Staflbrd 

StaiRnd 

StaAurd  • 

Howard 

Howard 

Howard 

Staflbrd 

StaiRnrd       • 

Stanhope 

Stanley 

Stapleton 

StaweD 

Lcgge 

Strobolgl 

Wentworth 

Wentworth 

Wentworth 

Strange 

Stanley 

Strange 

Strange 

Strlvelyn 

Sudley 

U  fluid 

Pole        •• 

Pole 

Pole 

BrandOQ 

Orey       .• 

Scrope 

Wanen 

Plantagenet 

Fiti-Aian    •• 

Holland 

RatcUflb 

Savlla 

Lennard 

YelTerton    • 

SwilUngton 

Swynnorton 

Sydney 

Sydney 


(yBryen 

Talbot 

Talbot 

Talboya 

Grey 

TatdudI 


T. 


/hMi  1607  le  1716 

Extinct  . 

13B7 

1471 

Forftlted 

1443 

1444 

Extinct 

1448 

1471 

Forlleited 

1496 

1400 

Extinct 

IttS 

1536 

Extinct 

1M7 

1558 

Forfeited 

1613 

1645 

Extinct 

1537 

1543 

Exttau:t 

1M7 

1607 

Extinct 

•     1670 

1774 

Extinct 

1674 

1774 

Extinct 

1899 

1581 

Forftited 

isn 

1581 

ForfUted 

1«47 

1640 

ExUnct 

1640 

1678 

FoElUted 

16n 

1603 

ExthKt 

16B8 

1768 

Extinct 

1371 

— . 

1461 

1460 

Extinct 

1605 

1675 

Extinct 

1486 

1504 

Abeyance 

1313 

•—. 

16B3 

1755 

1760 

1880 

Extinct 

1398 

1375 

Abeyance 

1640 

1641 

FoifUted 

168S 

1095 

Extinct 

1711 

1790 

Extinct 

UOO 

1477 

f  Conveyed  by  ai  hetatH  to 
I     theStanleya 

1488 

1504 

Abeyance 

1805 

«i— 

Bxtfaict 

1308 

^-m 

Extinct 

1371 

m^^ 

Dormant 

1990 

1473 

Extinct 

1387 

1388 

Extinct 

1385 

1513 

Forftited 

1444 

1513 

ForMted 

1448 

1513 

Forfeited 

1514 

1561 

Extinct 

1551 

1554 

Forfeited 

1697 

1640 

Extinct 

temp.W.IL^-« 

Conveyed  by  an  heircM  to 
the  riantagoiets 

116S 

1347 

Conveyed  by  an  beiiew  to 
the  Fit»-A]ana 

^•^^iF 

1347 

1307 

ForlWted 

1307 

1400 

EiFtinct 

1599 

1641 

Extinct 

1644 

1671 

Extinct 

1674 

1715 

Extinct 

1717 

1790 

Extinct 

1396 

•—. 

Extinct 

1337 

— .. 

'  Extinct 

1609 

1743 

Extinct 

1680 

1704 

Extivct. 

» 

1714 

1741 

Extinct 

1331 

1777 

Abeyance 

1761 

1788 

Extinct 

1580 

•— . 

Extinct 

1005 

1701 

Extinct 

1805 

mmmm 

Abeyance 

613 


PSERAOES,  &c 


IWm. 

InatffmtUti^ 

Pmiod^fF 

leaaieiM 

^BP^^^ew^  ^Bew  •^^s^pw^^B 

Thame«  V.             ... 

•  Nofiif          •• 

../VomIflB0^16B0 

Extinct 

ThooMmd,  B 

O'Bryett 

1801 

■1888 

BxtiBcC  • 

Thorpe,  B.        *  • 

«  Thorpe 

..  •     un 

— . 

Eztiwrt 

Xhwing,  B«                   •  • 

Tweng 

4307 

1374 

Abeyanoe 

TllMtot,a 

.  TibetoC 

1308 

1378 

AbeyanoB 

Titetotf  B« 

Tibetot    •• 

1488- 

1488 

Abeyanoe 

Tool,  B.         •  • 

*  Tool 

law 

1311 

Extinct 

Tofiliigtoii,  B* 

Herbert    •  • 

10B8 

1716 

Extinct 

Tofiliigtoii,  B*     •  • 

...       I7i« 

1719 

Extinct 

TodMM,  E. 

Carew 

1898 

1690 

Extinct 

Tiflfoif  B. 

•  Tregoa 

1880 

1300 

Abeyance 

Tiigoi»  B« 

Tregoa 

1308 

•—— 

Extinct 

Tngoi,  B. 

.  Trcigoa 

1318 

Extinct 

TreroVf  B. 

Trevor  (Hampden) 

1711 

1894 

Extinct 

Trmwl,  B* 

•  Tnuiel 

1348 

»^-« 

Extinct 

TuBbridg^  y.    •  • 

Burgh 

1824 

1650 

Extinct 

Tyw»  B. 

•  Tyea                   •^» 

1290 

1381 

Donnant 

Tyet,  B.or 

Tyea 

1890 
U. 

1308 

1394 

Extinct 

Uflted*  B. 

.    UwDTQ     *  * 

^_^ 

Extinct 

Uflbrdf  B. 

Uflbrd 

13801 

1361 

Extinct 

Upitxed#  B* 

•  Ughtred    •  • 

1343 

Dormant 

UmftaTilte,  B.    •  • 

UmfhiTUto 

1896 

.— 

Dormant  . 

Upper  Ofiory,  B.    •  • 

.  Fiti-P«trick 

1794 

1818 

Uvedale,  B. 

Uvedale 

1338 

Extinct. 

Uzliridge>  B. 

•  Paget 

1714 

v.- 

1800 

1700 

Extinct. 

Valence,  B.     •  • 

Valence 

1383 

Extinct 

Vaughan,  B. 

.  Vaughan 

1643 

1713 

Extinct 

Vauz,  of  Harrowden,  B. 

Vauz 

1583 

1661 

Extinct 

Vavaiour,  B. 

•  Vavaaour 

1313 

Extinct 

Verdcm 

1338 

—^ 

Extinct 

Vere,  B.         •  • 

•  Vere 

1899 

9 

Extinct 

Vere,  of  Tilbury,  B.    •  • 

Vere 

1888 

1635 

Extinct 

VenUam,  B. 

•  Bacon 

1618 

1696 

Extinct 

VeKi,  B. 

Veid 

1864 

1897 

Extinct 

Vead,  B.         •  • 

<  Veid 

1313 

1315 

Extinct 

VUUen,  y. 

ViUiera 

1616 
W. 

1907 

1687 

Extinct. 

Wahun,  B.        •  • 

•  Wahull 

1    ■ 

Donnant 

Wake,  B. 

Wake 

189S 

1407 

Abeyance 

Wateyi,  B« 

•  Waleya 

1391 

Extinct 

Wallingford.  V. 

KnoUys 

1616 

1639 

Donnant 

Walpole,  of  Houghton,  B. 

Walpole    •  • 

1749 

1797 

Extinct    . 

Walafngham,  Cai.    •  • 

•  Sch  ulemberg    •  • 

1728 

1778 

Extindt 

Waznn,  E. 

Mowbray    •  • 

1401 

1475 

Extfaict 

Waznn,  E. 

•  Plantagenet    •• 

1477 

1483 

Extinct 

Booth    >  • 

1600 

1758 

Extinct 

Warwick,  E. 

•  Newbuigh 

1008 

1948 

/  Conveyed  by  an 
i     thePteMeta 

Warwick,  E 

PleiMta 

1946 

.... 

Paaaed  to  the  Bei 

Warwick,  E. 

•  Beaudiamp 

1868 

1445 

Extinct 

Warwick,  D. 

Beauchamp 

1444 

1445 

Extinct 

Warwick,  Cm. 

.  Beauchamp 

1445 

1449 

Extinct 

Warwick,  E. 

Nevin 

1448 

1471 

Forfeited 

Warwick,  E. 

•  Plantagenet    •• 

1478 

1477 

Forfdted 

Warwick.  D. 

Dudley 

1347 

1580 

Extiuct 

Warwick,  E. 

•  Rich 

1618 

1750 

Extinct  ■ 

Wellea,  B. 

Wellea 

1290 

1461 

Forfdted 

Wellet,  B. 

.  Welles 

1468 

1508 

PreaumedtDbec 

WeUei,  of  B. 

Wellei 

1487 

1408 

Extinct 

Wenlock,  B. 

1461 

1471 

Extinct 

Wentworth,  B.  ••  . 

Wentworth 

1589 

«_ 

Abeyance  • 

ei4. 

to 


PEERAGES,  &C. 


J^tlet.  lnthe¥amXtyiff 

^^^"1  Wmtworth 


Period  ^  PMfMtfofi.       RoentwU  DetHnathn, 


Wentworth,    of    Went 

worth  Woodhousei 
Wentworth,  V. 
WestODf  B> 
Westmoreland*  E.    •  • 
Wharton.  B. 
Wharton,  E. 
Wharton,  M.      •  • 
Wharton,  D. 
Whitworth,  V. 
Whitworth,  E. 
Widdrington*  B.    •  •     • 
Willington,  B. 
WUliami,  of  Thame,  B. 


wmoughby,ofParham,  B.  Willoughby 


Wihnington,  B. 
Wihnington,  E. 
WUmot,  B. 
Wiltshire,  E. 
Wiltshire,  E. 
Wiltshire,  E.     • 
WUtshiie,  E. 
WUtshire,  E.    • 
Wimbledon,  V. 
Winchester,  E. 
Winchester,  E. 
Windsore,  E. 
Woodstock,  B. 
Worcester,  E. 
Worcester,  E. 
Worcester,  E. 
Wotton,B. 


Yarmouth,  V. 
Yarmouth,  E. 
Yarmouth,  Css. 
York,  D. 
York,  D. 
York,  D- 
York,  D. 
York,  D. 
York,  D. 
York,  D. 


Wentworth 

Weston 

NeriU 

Wharton     •• 

Wharton 

Wharton 

Wharton 

Whitworth    < 

Whltworth 

Widdrington 

WUlington 

WiUiama    •• 


Compton 

Compton 

WUmot 

Scrape 

Butler 

StaHbrd 

StalRnrd 

Boleyn 

Cecil 

Quincy 

Despenoer 

Windsore 

Plantagenet 

Percy 

Beauchamp 

Tiptoft 

Wotton  (Kirkhoven) 


Paston 

Paston    •  • 

Walmoden 

Plantagenet 

Tudor 

Stuart    •• 

Stuart 

Guelph 

Guelph 

Guelph 


Y. 


Zouche,  B.       •  •  Zouche 

Zouche,  of  Mortimer,  B.       Zouche 


ytt»mld88<Dlfl8ft 

Extinct 

1088 

17B0 

Extinct 

1088 

1888 

Extinct 

1397 

1570 

Forfeited 

1M5 

1788 

ForiUted 

1708 

17S8 

Forfeited 

17W 

1798 

Foilieited 

1718 

1798 

Foilieited 

1813 

1885 

Extinct 

1815 

1885 

Extinct 

1843 

1710 

Forfeited 

1399 

1348 

Extinct 

155i 

150 

Ah^fwact 

1547 

1779 

Extinct 

17» 

1743 

Extinct 

1790 

1743 

Extinct 

1843 

1881 

Extinct 

1397 

1399 

Forfeited 

1449 

1401 

Extinct 

1470 

1400 

Extinct 

1508 

1583 

Extinct 

1589 

»_ 

Extinct 

1898 

1038 

Extinct 

1810 

1904 

Extinct 

1399 

1396 

Extinct 

1381 

1381 

Extinct 

1390 

1397 

1408 

Extinct 

1480 

1431 

ExUnct 

1449 

1470 

Forfeited 

1850 

1009 

ExtiDcU 

a 

1873 

1738 

Extinct 

1099 

1738 

Extinct 

1740 

1075 

Extinct 

1385 

1401 

Merged  in  the  crown 

1481 

1509 

Merged  In  the  crown 

1004 

1085 

Merged  in  the  crown 

1843 

1085 

Merged  in  the  crown 

1718 

1798 

Extinct 

1700 

1707 

Extinct 

1784 

1896 

Extinct. 

r 

1990 

1314 

Abeyance 

1393 

— 

Abeyance. 

015 


CHARTERS   OF   FREEDOM, 


EXTORTED  BY  THE  BARONS  FROM  KINO  JOHN. 


SiOMED  AT  RuKTMEDE)  15Ui  June,  1215. 


r 


There  are  two  eopict  of  this  celebrated  charter  in  the  Cotton  Library,  aa  old  as  the  time  of  Jobh. 
One  has  still  the  broad  seal*  although  some  of  the  wax  was  melted  by  the  flames  which,  consumed, 
on  the  89d  October,  1731,  part  of  that  valuable  collection,  and  rendered  a  few  letters  of  the  charter 
illegible.  Both  charters  appear  to  have  been  written  by  the  same  hand.  That  which  is  without  a  seal 
has  two  slits  at  the  bottom,  ftom  which,  doubtless,  two  seals  were  suspended. 

RvNifBMBDx,  or  RuNTMBDBi  that  is,  the  Head  of  Council,  (so  called  from  being  the  place 
where  treaties  concerning  the  peace  of  the  kingdom  had  from  early  times  been  negodated,)  is  situated 
between  Staines  and  Windsor.  There  both  parties  met  on  the  Ath  of  June,  and  pitdied  their  tents 
asunder  in  the  meadow.  On  the  King's  side  appeared  the  Abchbiahopb  of  Canterbury  and  DubUn, 
with  the  B18BOP8  of  London,  Winchester,  Lincoln,  Bath,  Worcester,  Coventry,  and  Rochester ;  Psn- 
dulph,  the  Pope's  Legate,  and  Mmarie,  Master  of  the  Knights  Templars  in  Eni^d ;  William  Mares- 
chall.  Earl  of  Pembroke,  the  Earb  of  Salisbury,  Warren,  and  Arundell ;  with  the  Barons  Alan  de 
Galoway,  William  Fita-Gerald,  Peter  and  Matthew  Fits-Herbert,  Thomas  and  Alan  Basset,  Hugh  de 
Nevil,  Hubert  de  Burgh,  Seneschal  of  Poictou,  Robert  de  Roppeley,  John  Marescall,  and  Philip  de 
AlbinL  Upon  the  Baronial  side  there  wete  so  many  as  scarcdy  to  be  numbered.  The  diief  was 
Robert  Fits- Walter,  their  GeneraL 

*««  The  paragraphs  inserted  between  marks,  thiw  [   ],  are  such  clauses  as  were  omitted  in  the  Magna 

Charta  of  Henry  IIL,  and  all  the  Charters  that  followed. 


3o]ftfi>  bs  tit  <Stftrt  of  tiot,  King  of  %igl«ill>  Tttnt  of  Itc lamli^ 
9ufu  of  ICormanl^ii  m\>  ftquitftine^  snll  laatl  of  Anfoit :  To  the  Arch- 

biahops.  Bishops^  Abbots,  Earls,  Barons,  Justiciaries,  Foresters,  Sheriffs, 
Governors,  Officers,  and  to  all  Bailiffs  and  others,  his  faithful  subjects, 
greeting.  Know  ye  that  we,  in  the  presence  of  God,  and  for  the  health  of  our 
soul,  and  the  souls  of  our  ancestors  and  heirs,  to  the  honour  of  God,  and  the 
exaltation  of  holy  church,  and  amendment  of  our  kingdom,  by  the  advice  of  our 
venerable  fathers,  Stephen,  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  Primate  of  all  England, 
and  Cardinal  of  the  holy  Roman  Chunrh ;  Henry,  Archbishop  of  Dublin :  Wil- 
liam, Bishop  of  London ;  Peter  of  Winchester,  Jocelin  of  Bath  and  Glastonbury, 
Hugh  of  Lincoln,  Walter  of  Worcester,  William  of  Coventry,  Benedict  of  Ro- 
chester, Bishops ;  and  Master  Pandulph,  the  Pope's  Sub-Deacon  and  Servant, 
Brother  Alymeric,  Master  of  the  Temple ;  and  the  noble  persons,  William  Ma- 
rescall, Earl  of  Pembroke ;  William,  Earl  of  Salisbiuy ;  William,  Earl  of  War- 

4K  617 


MAGNA  CHAHTA. 

ren;  William,  Earl  of  Arundel;  Alan  de  Galoway,  Constable  of  Scotland; 
William  Fitz-Gerald,  Peter  Fitz-Herbert,  and  Hubert  de  Burgh,  Seneschal  of 
Poictou,  Hugo  de  Neville,  Matthew  Fitz-Herbert,  Thomas  Basset,  Alan  Basset, 
Philip  de  Albiney,  Robert  de  Roppele,  John  Marescall,  John  Fitz-Hugh,  and 
others,  our  liegemen,  have,  in  the  first  place,  granted  to  Gk>d,  and  by  tliis  oar 
present  charter  confirmed  for  us  and  our  heirs  for  ever : 

I.  That  the  Church  of  England  shall  be  free,*  and  enjoy  her  whole  li^kts  and 
liberties  inviolable.  [And  we  will  have  them  so  to  be  observed,  which  appean 
from  hence,  that  the  freedom  of  elections,  which  is  reckoned  most  necessary  Ibr 
the  Church  of  England,  of  our  own  free  will  and  pleasure  we  have  granted  and 
confirmed  by  our  charter,  and  obtained  the  confirmation  thereof  from  Pope 
Innocent  the  Third  before  the  discord  between  us  and  our  barons,  which  charter 
we  shall  observe,  and  do  will  it  to  be  faithiiilly  observed  by  our  heirs  for  ever.J 

II.  We  have  also  granted  to  all  the  freemen  of  our  kingdom,  for  us  and  our 
heirs  for  ever,  all  the  underwritten  liberties,  to  have  and  to  hold,  them  and 
their  heirs,  of  us  and  our  heirs : 

III.  If  any  of  our  earls  or  barons,  or  others  who  hold  of  us,  in  chief  by  military 
service,  shall  die,  and  at  the  same  time  of  his  death  his  heir  is  of  full  age«  and 
owes  a  relief,  he  shall  have  his  inheritance  by  the  ancient  relief,  that  is  to 
say,  the  heir  or  heirs  of  an  earl,  for  a  whole  earl's  barony,  by  a  hundred 
pounds ;  the  heir  or  heirs  of  a  baron,  for  a  whole  barony,  by  an  hundred  marks ; 
the  heir  or  heirs  of  a  knight,  for  a  whole  knight's  fee,  by  an  hundred  shillings 
at  the  most ;  and  he  that  oweth  less  shall  give  less,  according  to  the  ancient 
customs  of  fees. 

IV.  But  if  the  heir  of  any  such  be  under  age,  and  shall  be  in  ward  when  he 
comes  of  age,  he  shall  have  his  inheritance  wi&out  relief,  or  without  fine. 

V.  The  warden  of  the  land  of  such  heir  who  shall  be  under  age,  shall  take  of 
the  land  of  such  heir,  on  reasonable  issues,  reasonable  customs  and  reasonable  ser- 
vices,t  and  that  without  destruction  and  waste  of  the  men  or  things ;  and  if  we 
commit  the  guardianship  of  those  lands  to  the  sheriff  or  any  other  who  is 
answerable  to  us  for  the  issues  of  the  land,  and  he  make  destruction  and  waste 
upon  the  ward-lands,  we  will  compel  him  to  give  satisfaction,  and  the  land 
shall  be  committed  to  two  lawful  and  discreet  tenants  of  that  fee,  who  shall  be 
answerable  for  the  issues  to  us,  or  him  to  whom  we  shall  assign.  And  if  we 
give  or  sell  the  wardship  of  any  such  lands  to  any  one,  and  he  make  destruction 
or  waste  upon  them,  he  shall  lose  the  wal^dship,  which  shall  be  committed  to 
two  lawful  and  discreet  tenants  of  that  fee,  who  shall,  in  like  manner,  be  an- 
swerable  to  us,  as  hath  been  said. 

VI.  But  the  warden,  so  long  as  he  hath  the  wardship  of  the  land,  shall  keep 
up  and  maintain  the  houses,  parks,  warrens,  ponds  and  mills,  and  other  ^ings 
pertaining  to  the  land,  out  of  the  issues  of  die  same  land,  and  shall  restore  to 
the  heir,  when  he  comes  of  full  age,  his  whole  land  stocked  with  plough  and 
carriages,  according  as  the  time  of  wainagej  shall  require,  and  the  issues  of  the 
land  can  reasonably  bear. 

VII.  Heirs  shall  be  married   without  disparagement^  (so  as  that,  befiwe 

■  ■  ■  11  ■  ■         ■        ■  ■  I  ■■  I         ■  I  !■        ■  ■ 

*  JPVM-^FrMd  ttom  all  unjuH  exactioBtuul  cqppraiiiMit. 
t  iMiMr-RflDts  iDd  pnfltaifiutaif  out  of  tbt  luids  or  taunentt  of  the  ward. 
Oolpmf— Thinga  due  by  custom  or  preicriptk»,  and  appendant  to  the  landi  or  tenenMiita  in  maid  s 
aa  advowaooa,  commoos*  atray,  ftc :  aa  alao  ilnaa  of  tenants  by  copy  of  court  roU. 
ail  utow— The  drudgery  and  labour  due  ttom  copyholders  to  their  lords. 
t  Waimag9   Irapiamenta  of  husbandry. 
f  ZM^iMragmiwnf— According  to  thdr  rank. 
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marriage  is  contracted^  tlioie  who  are  nearest  to  the  heir  in  blood  be  made 
acqiutinted  with  it). 

VIII.  A  widow,  after  the  death  of  her  husband,  shall  forthwith,  and  without 
any  difficulty,  have  her  marriage*  and  inheritance ;  nor  shidl  she  give  any  thing  for 
her  marriage,  or  her  dower,  or  her  inheritance,  which  her  husband  and  she  held 
at  the  day  of  his  death ;  and  she  may  remain  in  the  capital  messuage  or  mansion- 
house  of  her  husband  forty  days  after  his  death,  within  which  term  her  dower 
shall  be  assigned. 

IX.  No  widow  shall  be  distrainedf  to  marry  herself,  so  long  as  she  has  a 
mind  to  live  without  a  husband ;  but  yet  she  shall  give  security  that  she  will 
not  marry  without  our  assent,  if  she  holds  of  us ;  or  without  the  consent  of  the 
lord  of  whom  she  holds,  if  she  holds  of  another. 

X.  Neither  we  nor  our  bailiffs]:  shall  seize  any  land$  or  rent  for  any  debt,  so 
long  as  there  are  chattels  or  debtors  upon  the  premises  sufficient  to  pay  the  debt« 
Nor  shall  the  sureties  of  the  debtor  be  distrained^  so  long  as  the  principal  debtor 
is  sufficient  for  the  payment  of  the  debt. 

XI.  And  if  the  principal  debtor  fail  in  the  payment  of  the  debt,  having  where- 
withal to  discharge  it,  then  the  sureties  shall  answer  the  dpbt ;  and  if  they  will, 
they  shall  have  me  lands  and  rents  of  the  debtor  until  they  be  satisfied  for  the 
debts  which  they  have  paid  for  him,  unless  the  principal  debtor  can  shew  himself, 
acquitted  thereof  against  the  said  sureties. 

XII.  [If  any  one  have  borrowed  any  thin^  of  the  Jews,  more  or  less,  and  dies 
before  the  debt  be  satisfied,  there  shall  be  no  mterest  paid  for  that  debt,  so  long  as 
the  heir  be  underage,  of  whomsoever  he  may  hold ;  and  if  the  debt  falls  into  our 
hands,  we  shall  take  only  the  chattel  mentioned  in  the  charter  or  uistruments.] 

XIII.  [And  if  any  one  die  indebted  to  the  Jews,  his  wife  shall  have  her  dower, 
and  pay  nothing  of  that  debt ;  and  if  the  deceased  left  children  under  age,  they 
shall  have  necessaries  provided  for  them  according  to  the  tenement  (or  real 
estate)  of  the  deceased,  and  of  the  residue  the  debt  shall  be  paid,  saving,  however, 
the  service  of  the  lords.    In  like  numner  let  it  be  to  other  persons  than  Jews.] 

XIV.  No  scutage  or  aid  shall  be  imposed  in  our  kingdom,  unless  by  the  com- 
mon council  of  our  kingdom,  except  to  redeem  our  person,  and  to  make  our  eldest 
son  a  knight,  and  once  to  marry  our  eldest  daughter ;  and  for  thb  there  shall  only 
be  paid  a  reasonable  aid. 

XV.  [In  like  manner  it  shall  be,  concerning  the  aids  of  the  city  of  London ; 
and]  the  city  of  London  shall  have  all  her  ancient  liberties  and  free  customs ; 
as  well  by  land  as  by  water. 

XVI.  Furthermore,  we  will  and  grant,  that  all  other  cities,  and  boroushs, 
and  towns,  and  ports,  ahall  have  all  their  liberties  and  free  customs ;  and  shall 
have  the  common  council  of  the  kingdom  concerning  the  assessment  of  their 
aids,  II  except  in  the  three  cases  aforesaid. 

XVII.  [And  for  the  assessing  of  scutages,  we  shall  cause  to  be  summoned, 
the  archbishops,  bishops,  abbots,  earls,  and  great  barons  of  the  realm,  singly, 
by  our  letters.] 

XVIII.  [And  furUiermore,  we  will  cause  to  be  summoned,  in  general,  by  our 


*  .Misrrlagtf— Liberty  to  many  where  she  wilL 

t  X)<«fraJn«i--CompeUed  by  lelsiiig  her  goods. 

i  Oitff^k— In  this  place  the  sheriff  and  his  under  btiliA  are  meant. 

i  By  the  common  hnr,  the  king  for  his  debt,  had  execution  of  the  body,  lands  and  goods  of  the  debtor; 
10  that  this  is  an  act  of  grace,  restraining  the  power  tlie  crown  liad  poescssed  btfbre 

I  This  is  aooording  to  Dr.  Brady's  explanatiOD,  fftsy  *fuM  ttnd  tMr  rtprtteHtcMna  or  eommittimterw 
to  th€  common  eouneitn/the  kif^pdom, 

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sheriiEi  and  bailil&B,  all  others  who  hold  of  us  in  chief,  at  a  certain  day,  tJwt  b 
to  say,  forty  days  before  their  meeting,  at  least  to  a  certain  place,  and  in  ail 
letters  of  such  summons,  we  will  declare  the  cause  of  the  summons.] 

XIX.  [And  summons  being  thus  made,  the  business  shall  proceed  on  the 
day  appointed,  according  to  the  advice  of  such  as  are  present,  althou^  adl  thai 
were  summoned  come  not.] 

XX.  We  will  not  for  the  future  grant  to  any  one,  that  he  may  take  the  mid  of 
his  own  free  -tenants,  unless  to  redeem  his  body,  and  to  make  his  only  son  a 
knight,  and  once  to  marry  his  eldest  daughter,  and  for  this  there  shall  be  only 
paid  a  reasonable  aid. 

XXI.  No  man  shall  be  distrained  to  perform  more  sendee  for  a  knight's  fee 
or  other  free  tenements,  than  is  due  from  thence. 

XXII.  Common  pleas*  shall  not  follow  our  court,  but  be  holden  in  some 
certain  place.  Triab  upon  the  writs  of  Novel  DesMum,  and  of  Mori  dPAneoHtr, 
and  of  jDarmne  Pre9enimtiiU,\  shall  be  taken  in  their  proper  counties  and  after 
this  manner.  We,  (or  if  we  are  out  of  the  realm,)  our  chief  justiciary  shall 
send  two  justiciaries  through  erery  county,  four  times  a  year :  who  with  the 
four  knights  chosen  out  of  every  shire,  by  the  people,  shall  hold  the  aaid 
assizes  in  the  county,  on  the  day,  and  at  the  place  appointed. 

XXIII.  And  if  any  matters  cannot  be  determined,  on  the  day  appointed  to 
hold  the  assizes  in  each  county,  so  many  of  the  knights  and  freeholders,  aa  haire 
been  at  the  assizes  aloresaid,  shall  be  appointed  to  decide  them  as  is  necessary, 
according  as  there  is  more  or  less  business. 

XXIV.  A  ireemanl  shall  not  be  amerced  for  a  small  fault,  but  according  to 
the  degree  of  the  fault ;  and  for  a  great  crime,  in  proportion  to  the  heinooaneaa 
of  it :  saving  to  him  his  contenement  ;§  and  after  the  same  manner,  a  merchant, 
saving  him  his  merchandise. 

XXV.  And  a  villain  shall  be  amerced  after  the  same  manner,  saving  to  him 
his  wainage,||  if  he  falls  under  our  mercy;  and  none  of  the  aforesaid  amercia- 
ments^ shall  be  assessed,  but  by  the  oath  of  honest  men  of  the  neighbourhood. 

XXVI.  Earls  and  barons  shall  not  be  amerced  but  by  their  peers,**  and 
according  to  the  quality  of  their  offence. 

•  The  king's  court  or  palace  was  anciently  the  great  or  principal  seat  of  judicature  t  hut  towaxdi  tbe 
close  of  King  John's  reign^  the  Jurisdiction  of  that  court  came  to  be  divided,  and  conunon  plees  leftticd 
to  another  court  then  erected.  This  new  seat  of  Justice  was  called  the  Ban*,  from  heiagjCMd  at  Weac- 
minster,  where  the  justiciars  were  to  sit,  and  not  to  follow  the  king's  court. 

f  A  writ  of  iteriM  qf  Novel  Dim0i*in  lies,  wherea  tenant  for  ever,  or  for  life,  is  put  out  or  diaeiaed  of 
his  lands  or  tenements,  rents,  common  of  pasture,  common  way,  or  of  an  office,  tail,  dec,  tbak  he  noMy 
recover  his  right.  A  writ  of  Mort  iTAncettor,  is  that  which  lies,  where  any  of  a  man's  near  relations  die 
sdsed  of  lands,  rents,  or  tenements,  and  after  their  deaths,  a  stranger  seises  upon  them.  A  writ  of 
Darreine  Pre^entmeni,  lies,  where  a  man  and  his  ancestors  have  presented  to  a  diurch,  and  after  It  ia 
become  void,  a  stranger  presenta  thereto,  whereby  the  person  having  right  ts  disturbed.  Thb  article 
tended  greatly  to  the  ease  of  the  jurors,  and  to  the  saving  of  chaiges  to  the  parties  conceined ;  fbr* 
before  this  statute,  the  writs  of  A$Hze  qf  Nova  DUeeitin,  drc,  were  returnable  either  befbre  the  king, 
or  in  the  Court  of  Common  Plees,  and  to  be  ^ken  there^ 

t  By  Freemen  here,  and  in  most  places,  must  be  underttood>WeftoMer«,  that  is,  those  that  hdd  tbelr 
lands  of  the  king,  or  some  other  lord,  by  a  stipulated  relief. 

f  Contenemenium  is  to  be  understood  ci  tlie  means  of  a  man's  livelihood,  as  the  srma  of  a  eoldlcr, 
the  ploughs  and  carts  of  a  husbandman,  dec 

I  fPMfMV»— Carts,  implements  of  husbandry,  itc 

f  Amerciament  is  derived  from  the  French  word  merei,  and  signifies  the  pecuniary  punishment  of 
an  oflteder  against  the  king,  or  other  lord,  in  his  court,  who  is  found  to  have  oAnded,  and  to  be  at 
the  mercy  of  the  king  or  his  lord. 

••  Pasrj— Thereare  two  ordenof  sultfects,  Peereond  Commonere.    The noblai hsrt for  tbrir 
all  the  peers  of  tbe  realm  I  and  tbe  commoiMn  art  aU  dMOBcd  peoDi  of  csch  othir. 
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MAGNA  CHARTA. 

XXVII.  No  ecclesiastical  person  shall  be  amerced  for  his  lay  tenement,  bnt 
according  to  the  proportion  aforesaid,  and  not  according  to  me  value  of  his 
ecclesiastical  benefice. 

XXVIII.  Neither  a  town  nor  any  person,  shall  be  distrained  to  make  bridges 
over  rivers,  unless  that  anciently  and  of  right  they  are  bound  to  do  it. 

XXIX.  No  sheriff,  constable,*  coroners,  or  others,  our  bailifilB,  shall  hold 
{Heas  of  the  crown. 

XXX.  [All  counties  and  heralds,  wapentakes  and  trethings,  shall  stand  at  the 
old  ferm,  without  any  increase,  except  in  our  demesne  lands.] 

XXXI .  If  any  one  that  holds  of  us  a  lay  fee,  dies,  and  the  sheriff  or  our 
bailiff  shew  our  letters  patent  of  summons  concerning  the  debt,  due  to  us  from 
the  deceased;  it  shall  be  lawful  for  the  sheriff  or  our  bailiff,  to  attach  and 
register  the  chattels  of  the  deceased,  found  upon  his  lay  fee,  to  the  value  of 
the  debt,  by  the  view  of  lawful  men,  so  as  nothing  be  removed  until  our  whole 
debt  be  paid,  and  the  rest  shidl  be  left  to  .the  executors,  to  fulfil  the  will  of  the 
deceased ;  and  if  there  be  nothing  due  from  him  to  us,  all  the  chattels  shall 
remain  to  the  deceased,  saving  to  \\a  wife  and  children  their  reasonable  share. 

XXXII.  [If  any  freeman  die  intestate,  his  chattels  shall  be  distributed  by  the 
hands  of  his  nearest  relations  and  friends,  by  view  of  the  church,  saving  to 
every  one  his  debts  which  the  deceased  owed.] 

XXXIII.  No  constable  or  bailiff  of  ours,  shall  take  com  or  other  chattels  of 
any  man,  unless  he  presently  give  him  money  for  it,  or  hath  respite  of  payment 
from  the  seller. 

XXXIV.  No  constable  shall  distrain  any  knight  to  give  money  for  castle- 
guard,  if  he  himself  will  do  it  in  his  own  person,  or  by  any  other  able  man, 
in  case  he  is  hindered  by  any  reasonable  cause. 

XXXV.  And  if  we  lead  him  or  send  him  into  the  army,  he  shall  be  free  firom 
castle-guard,  for  the  time  he  shall  be  in  the  army — ^by  our  command. 

XXXVI.  No  sheriff  or  bailiff  of  ours  or  any  other,  shall  take  horses  or  carts 
of  any,  for  carriage. 

XXXVII.  Neither  we  nor  our  officers  or  others,  shall  take  any  man's  timber, 
for  our  castles  or  other  uses  unless  by  the  consent  of  the  owner  of  the  timber. 

XXXVIII.  We  will  retain  the  lands  of  those  convicted  of  felony,  but  one 
year  and  a  day,  and  then  they  shall  be  delivered  to  the  lords  of  the  fee. 

XXXI^.  All  wears  for  the  time  to  come,  shall  -be  destroyed  in  the  rivers  of 
Thames  and  Medway,  and  throughout  all  England,  except  upon  the  sea  coast. 

XL.  The  writ  which  is  called  Prtfct|)e,t  for  the  future  shall  not  be  granted 
to  any  one  of  any  tenement,  whereby  a  freeman  may  lose  his  cause. 

XLI.  There  shall  be  one,  measure  of  wine,  and  one  of  ale,  through  our  whole 
realm,  and  one  measure  of  corn ;  that  is  to  say,  the  Ldmdon  quarter,  and  one 
breadth  of  dyed  cloth,  and  runeit,  and  habetjects  ;l  that  is  to  say,  two  ells  within 
the  list ;  and  the  weights  shall  be  as  measures. 


•  CorutaMa  it  here  taken  for  oonstoble  of  a  castle.  They  were  men  in  aiident  timee  of  influence 
and  authority}  and  for  plea*  of  the  crown*  had  the  same  power  within  their  precincts,  as  the  sherilT 
had  within  his  bailiwick,  before  this  act;  and  they  commonly  sealed  with  their  portraiture  on  hoTM- 
back.  The  territories  of  a  castle  regularly  comprised  a  manor,  so  that  erery  oonstable  of  a  castle  was 
constable  of  a  manor. 

t  The  writ  called  Praeipe  quod  reddat,  from  the  first  words  in  it,  had  sereral  uses.  It  signified  in 
general,  an  order  fttnn  the  king,  or  some  court  of  justice,  to  put  into  possession  one  that  complains 
of  haying  been  unjustly  ousted.    Apparently  there  wen  seveial  abuses  of  this  instnimcnt. 

t  Ru$$tt$  and  HMsy^ecCe— Spedes  of  coane  doth. 

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XLTL  From  henceforward,  noduBg  shall  be  given  or  taken  for  a  wit  of 
inquisition,*  from  him  that  desires  an  inquisition  of  life  or  limbs — bat  shall  be 
granted  gratis  and  not  denied. 

XLIII.  If  any  one  hold  of  us,  by  fee-fam,  or  socage,  or  borgageyi*  aad  holds 
lands  by  another,  of  military  service,  we  wiU  not  have  the  wardship  of  the  heir 
or  land,  which  belongs  to  another  man's  fee,  by  reason  of  what  he  holds  of  us, 
by  fee-farm,  socage,  or  burgage,  unless  the  fee-farm  is  bound  to  perform  mili- 
tary service. 

XLIV.  We  will  not  have  the  wardship  of  an  heir,  nor  of  any  land  which  he 
holds  of  another,  by  military  service — ^by  reason  of  any  petit  serjeantcy  he  holds 
of  us,  as  by  the  service  of  giving  us  daggers,  arrows,  or  the  like. 

XLV.  No  bailiif,  fbr  the  future,  shall  put  any  man  to  his  law,{  upon  his 
single  accusation,  without  credible  witnesses  produced  to  prove  it. 

XLVI.  No  freeman  shall  be  taken,  or  imprisoned,  or  disseised,  or  outlawed,  or 
banished,  or  any  ways  destroyed ;  nor  will  we  pass  upon  him,  or  commit  him 
to  prison,  unless  by  me  legal  judgment  of  his  peers,  or  by  the  law  of  the  land. 

XL VII.  We  will  sell  to  no  man,  we  will  deny  no  man,  or  defer  right  nor  jnstioe. 

XLVIII.  All  merchants}  shall  have  secure  conduct,  to  go  out  of  and  to  come 
into  England,  and  to  stay  there,  and  to  pass  as  well  by  land  as  by  water,  to 
buy  and  sell  by  the  ancient  and  allowed  customs,  without  any  evil  toils,  except 
in  time  of  war,  or  when  they  are  of  any  nation  in  war  with  us. 

XLIX.  And  if  there  be  found  any  such  in  our  land  in  the  beginning  of  the 
war,  they  shall  be  attached,  without  damage  to  their  bodies  or  goods,  until  it 
may  be  known  unto  us,  or  our  chief  justiciary,  how  our  merchants  be  treated  in 
the  nation  at  war  widi  us ;  and  if  ours  be  safe  there,  they  shall  be  safe  in  our 
dominions. 

L.  [It  shall  be  lawful,  for  the  time  to  come,  for  any  one  to  go  out  of  the  king, 
dom,  and  return  safely  and  securely  by  land  or  by  water,  saving  his  all^ianoe 
to  us,  unless  in  time  of  war,  by  some  short  space,  for  the  common  benefit  of  the 
kingdom,  except  prisoners  and  outlaws,  (according  to  the  law  of  the  land,)  and 
people  in  war  with  us,  and  merchants  who  shall  be  in  such  condition  as  is  above 
mentioned.] 

LI.  If  any  man  holds  of  any  escheat^  as  the  honour  of  Wallingford,  Notting- 
ham, Boulogne,  Lancaster,  or  of  other  escheats  which  are  in  our  hands,  and  are 
baronies,  and  dies^  his  heir  shall  not  give  any  other  relief,  or  perform  any  other 
service  to  us,  than  he  would  to  the  baron,  if  the  barony  were  in  possesion  of  the 
baron :  we  will  hold  it  after  the  same  manner  the  baron  held  it. 

LII.  [Those  men  who  dwell  without  the  forest,  from  henceforth  shall  not 
come  before  our  justiciaries  of  the  forest,  upon  common  summons,  but  such  as 
are  impleaded  or  the  pledges  of  any,  for  any  that  were  attached  for  something 
concerning  the  forests.] 

LIII.  We  will  not  make  any  justiciaries,  constables,  sheriffs,  or  bailiffs,  but 
what  are  knowing  in  the  law  of  tiie  realm,  and  are  disposed  duly  to  observe  it. 


•  IfifiiMtioM— This  wM  •  writ  directed  to  the  theriff,  to  inquire  whether  a  man  amt  to  pxieon 
on  tueplclon  of  murder  wee  io  oommlttMl  upon  n  reeeonaUc  grcmnd  of  eusplcion,  or  tfaroagh  nnllon 
end  tU-wilL 

f  FW  Farm,  Saeag;  and  Byrgag<»^To  hold  in  F9e  Farm,  ii  when  there  ie  lome  rent  nemtd by 
the  lord  upon  the  creation  of  the  tenancy.  In  Soeajv,  upon  condition  of  ploughing  the  lordt  lands,  and 
doing  other  inHnior  oflices  of  huabendry :  and  in  Burgugv,  when  the  inhabitants  of  a  Betoogh  held 
their  tenementstvf  the  king  at  a  certain  rent 

t  TbhU  Law,  meeaa  to  hie  oath. 

i  By  Mnne  old  lawi,  ftwelgn  mercfaante  were  prohibited  the  kingdom,  except  in  ftir  time,  and  their 
sojourn  wm  then  limited  to  forty  daye. 
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MAGNA  CHARTA. 

LIV.  All  barons  who  are  founders  of  abbies,  and  bave  charted  of  the  kings 
of  England  for  the  advowson,  or  are  entitled  to  it  by  ancient  tenure,  may  have 
the  custody  of  them  when  void>  as  they  ought  to  have. 

LV.  All  woods  that  have  been  taken  into  the  forests  in  our  own  time,  shall 
forthwith  be  laid  out  again ;  and  the  like  shall  be  done  with  the  rivers  that  have 
been  taken  or  fenced  in  by  us  during  our  reign, 

LVI.  All  evil  customs  concerning  forests,  warrens,  and  forresters,  warreners, 
sheriffs,  and  their  officers,  rivers  and  their  keepers,  shall  forthwith  be  inquired 
into,  in  each  county,  by  twelve  knights  of  the  same  shire,  chosen  by  the  most 
creditable  persons  in  uie  same  county,  and  upon  oath ;  and  vnthin  forty  days 
after  the  said  inquest,  be  utterly  abolished,  so  as  never  to  be  restored. 

LVI  I.  We  will  immediately  give  up  all  hostages  and  engagements  delivered 
unto  us  by  our  English  subjects  as  securities  for  their  keeping  the  peace  and 
yielding  us  faithful  service. 

LVI  II.  We  will  entirely  remove  from  our  bailiwicks  the  relations  of  Gerard 
de  Athyes,  so  as  that  for  the  future  they  shall  have  no  bailiwick  in  England. 
We  will  also  remove  Engelard  de  Cygony,  Andrew,  Peter,  and  Gyon  de  Can- 
celes,  Gyon  de  Cygony,  Geoffry  de  Martyn,  and  his  brothers,  Phillip  Mark, 
and  his  brothers,  and  his  nephew,  Geoffirey,  and  their  whole  retinue. 

LIX.  And  as  soon  as  peace  is  restored,  we  will  send  out  of  the  kingdom  all 
foreign  soldiers,  cross-bow-men,  and  stipendiaries,  who  are  come  with  horses 
and  arms,  to  the  injury  of  our  people. 

LX.  If  any  one  hath  been  dispossessed  or  deprived  by  us,  without  the  legal 
judgment  of  his  peers«  of  his  lands,  castles,  liberties,  or  rights,  we  will  forthwith 
restore  them  to  him ;  and  if  any  dispute  arises  upon  this  head,  let  the  matter  be 
decided  by  the  five-and-twenty  barons  hereafter  mentioned,  for  the  preservation 
of  the  peace. 

LXI.  As  for  all  those  things  of  which  any  person  has,  without  the  legal  judg- 
ment  of  his  peers,  been  dispossessed  or  deprived,  either  by  King  Henry, 
our  father,  or  our  brother  King  Richard,  and  which  we  have  in  our  hands,  or 
are  possessed  by  others,  and  we  are  bound  to  warrant  and  make  good,  we 
shall  have  a  respite  till  the  term  usually  allowed  the  Croises,  excepting  those 
things  about  which  there  is  a  suit  depending,  or  whereof  an  inquest  hath 
been  made  by  our  order  before  we  undertook  the  crusade  ;  but  when  we 
return  from  our  pilgrimage,  or  if  we  do  not  perform  it,  we  will  immediately 
cause  full  justice  to  be  adminbtered  therein. 

LXII.  The  same  respite  we  shall  have  for  disafforesting  the  forests  which 
Henry,  our  father,  or  our  brother,  Richard,  have  afforested,  and  for  the 
wardship  of  the  lands  which  are  in  another's  fee,  in  the  same  manner  as  we 
have  hitherto  enjoyed  those  wardships  by  reason  of  a  fee  held  of  us  by  knights' 
service ;  and  for  the  abbies  founded  in  any  other  fee  than  our  own,  in  which 
the  lord  of  the  fee  claims  a  right ;  and  when  we  return  from  our  pilgrimage,  or 
if  we  should  not  perform  it,  we  will  immediately  do  full  justice  to  all  the  com- 
plainants in  his  behalf. 

LXIII.  No  man  shall  be  taken  or  imprisoned  upon  the  appeal  of  a  woman 
for  the  death  of  any  other  man  than  her  husband. 

LXIV.  All  unjust  and  illegal  fines,  and  all  amerciaments  imposed  unjustly 
and  contrary  to  the  law  of  the  land,  shall  be  entirely  forgiven,  or  else  be  left 
to  the  decision  of  the  five-and-twenty  barons,  hereafter  mentioned,  for  the 
preservation  of  the  peace,  or  of  the  major  part  of  them,  together  with  the  afore- 
said Stephen,  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  if  he  can  be  present,  and  others  whom 
he  shall  think  fit  to  take  along  with  him  ;  and  if  he  cannot  be  present,  the  business 

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MAGNA  CHARTA* 

ahalUnotwitbateuding^goonwitiunithtm:  buttothat  if  one  or  more  of  the  albn- 
said  five-and-twenty  barons  be  plaintiffs  in  the  same  canse,  tfaey  shall  be  set  asadr 
as  to  what  concerns  this  particular  affair^  and  others  be  chosen  in  their  room  oat 
of  the  said  five-and-twenty,  and  sworn  by  the  rest  to  decide  that  matter. 

LXV.  If  we  have  disseised  or  dispossessed  the  Welsh  of  any  lands,  libeitias. 
or  other  things,  without  the  legal  judgment  of  their  peers,  they  shall  inune- 
diatelv  be  restored  to  them.  And  if  any  dispute  arise  upon  this  head,  the  naatter 
shall  be  determined  in  the  Marches  by  the  judgment  of  their  peers*— for  tene- 
ments in  England,  according  to  the  law  of  England ;  for  tenements  in  Wales,  ac 
cording  to  the  law  of  Wales :  the  same  shall  the  Welsh  do  to  us  and  our  aabjecka. 

LXVI.  As  for  all  those  things  of  which  any  Welshman  hath  without  the  legal 
judgment  of  his  peers  been  disseised  or  deprived  by  King  Henry,  our  father,  or 
our  brother.  King  Richard,  and  which  we  either  have  in  our  bands,  or  others 
are  possessed  of,  and  we  are  obliged  to  warrant,  we  shall  have  a  respite  till  the 
time  generally  idlowed  the  Croises,  excepting  those  things  about  which  a  suit  is 
depending,  or  whereof  an  inquest  hath  been  made  by  our  order  before  we  under- 
took the  crusade :  but  when  we  return,  or  if  we  stay  at  home,  and  do  not  per- 
form our  pilgrimage,  we  will  immediately  do  them  full  justice  according  to  the 
law  of  the  Welsh,  and  of  the  parts  afore-mentioned. 

LXVII.  We  will,  without  delay,  dismiss  the  son  of  Lewelin,  and  all  the 
Welsh  hostages,  and  release  them  from  the  engagements  they  entered  into  with 
us  for  the  preservation  of  the  peace. 

LXVIII.  We  shall  treat  with  Alexander,  King  of  Scots,  concerning  the  re- 
storation of  his  sister  and  hostages,  and  his  rights  and  liberties,  in  the  same 
form  and  maimer  as  we  shall  do  the  rest  of  our  barons  of  England,  unless,  by 
the  engagements  which  his  father,  William,  late  King  of  Scots,  hath  entered 
into  with  us,  it  ought  to  be  otherwise,  and  this  shall  be  left  to  the  determination 
of  hb  peers  in  our  court.     . 

LXIX.  All  the  aforesaid  customs  and  liberties  which  we  have  granted  to  be 
holden  in  our  kingdom,  as  much  as  it  belongs  to  us  towards  our  people,  all  our 
subjects,  as  well  clergy  as  laity,  shall  observe,  as  far  as  they- are  concerned, 
towards  their  dependants. 

LXX.  And  whereas,  for  the  honour  of  God  and  the  amendment  of  our  king- 
dom, and  for  quieting  the  discord  that  has  arisen  between  us  and  our  barons,  we 
have  granted  all  the  things  aforesaid.  Willing  to  render  them  firm  and  lasting, 
we  do  give  and  grant  our  subjects  the  following  security ;  namely,  that  the 
barons  may  chuse  five-and-twenty  barons  of  the  kingdom,  whom  they  think 
convenient,  who  shall  take  care  with  all  their  might  to  hold  and  observe,  and 
cause  to  be  observed,  the  peace  and  liberties  we  have  granted  them,  and  by 
this  our  present  charter  confirmed ;  so  that,  if  our  justiciary,  our  bailiffs,  or 
any  of  our  officers,  shall  in  any  case  fail  in  the  performance  of  them  towards 
any  person,  or  shall  break  through  any  of  these  articles  of  peace  and  security, 
and  the  offence  is  notified  to  four  barons,  chosen  out  of  the  five-and-twenty 
aforementioned,  the  said  four  barons  shall  repair  to  us,  or  our  justiciary,  if  we 
are  out  of  the  realm,  and,  laying  open  the  grievance,  shall  petition  to  have  it 
redressed  without  delay.  And  if  it  is  not  redressed  by  us,  if  we  should  chance 
to  be  out  of  the  realm,  if  it  is  not  redressed  by  our  justiciary,  within  forty 
days,  reckoning  from  the  time  it  hath  been  notified  to  us,  or  to  our  justiciary, 
if  we  should  be  out  of  the  realm,  the  four  barons  aforesaid  shall  lay  the  cause 
before  the  rest  and  the  five-and-twenty  barons ;  and  the  said  five-and-twenty 
barons,  together  with  the  community  of  the  whole  kingdom,  shall  distrain  and 
distress  us  all  the  wavs  possible,  namely,  by  seizing  our  castles,  lands,  and 
possessions  in  any  other  manner  they  can,  till  the  grievance  is  redressed 
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MAGNA  CUARTA. 

according  to  their  pleaanre^  saving  harmless  our  own  person^  and  the  periona 
of  our  queen  and  diildren ;  and  when  it  is  redressed*  they  shall  obey  us  as  before. 

LXXI.  Any  person  whatsoever  in  the  kingdom  may  swear  that  he  will  obey 
the  orders  of  the  five-and- twenty  barons,  aforesaid,  in  the  execution  of  the  pre- 
mises, and  that  he  will  distress  us  jointly  with  them  to  the  utmost  of  his  power; 
and  we  give  public  and  free  liberty  to  any  one  that  will  swear  to  them,  and 
never  shaJ^  hinder  any  person  from  taking  the  same  oath. 

LXXTI.  As  for  all  those  of  our  subjects  who  will  not  of  their  own  accord 
swear  to  join  the  five-and-twenty  barons  in  distraining  and  distressing  us, 
we  will  issue  our  order  to  make  them  take  the  same  oath,  as  aforesaid. 

LXXIII.  And  if  any  one  of  the  five-and-twenty  barons  dies,  or  goes  out 
of  the  kingdom,  or  is  hindered  any  other  way  from  putting  the  things  afore- 
said in  execution,  the  rest  of  the  said  five-and-twenty  barons  may  chuse  another 
in  his  room,  at  their  discretion,  who  shall  be  sworn  in  like  manner  as  the  rest. 

LXXIV.  In  all  things  that  are  conmiitted  to  the  charge  of  these  five-and- 
twenty  barons,  if,  when  they  are  all  assembled  together,  they  should  happen  to 
disagree  about  any  matter,  or  some  of  them,  when  summoned,  will  not  or  can- 
not come,  whatever  is  agreed  upon  or  enjoined  by  the  major  part  of  those  who 
are  present,  shall  be  reputed  as  firm  and  solid  as  if  tdl  the  five-and-twenty 
had  given  their  consent;  and  the  foresaid  five-and-twenty  shall  swear  that  all  the 
premises  they  shall  faithfully  observe  and  cause  with  all  their  power  to  be 
observed. 

LXXV.  And  we  will  not,  by  ourselves  or  others,  procure  any  thing  whereby . 
any  of  their  concessions  and  liberties  be  revoked  or  lessened ;  and  if  any  such 
thing  be  obtained,  let  it  be  null  and  void ;  neither  shall  we  ever  make  use  of  it, 
either  by  ourselves  or  any  other. 

LXXVI.  And  all  the  ill-will,  anger,  and  malice  that  hath  arisen  between  us 
and  our  subjects,  of  the  clerflry  and  laity,  fVom  the  first  breaking  out  of  the  dis- 
sension between  us,  we  do  rall^  remit  and  forgive.  Moreover,  all  trespasses 
occasioned  by  the  said  dissension,  from  Easter,  in  the  sixteenth  year  of  our 
reign,  till  the  restoration  of  peace  and  tranquillity^  we  hereby  entirely  remit  to 
all,  clergy  as  well  as  laity,  and,  as  fiir  as  in  us,  do  fUly  forgive* 

LXXVn.  We  have,  moreover,  granted  them  our  letters  patent  testimonial  of 
Stephen*  Lord  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  Henry,  Lord  Archbishop  of  Dublin, 
and  the  bishops  aforesaid,  as  also  Master  Pandulph  for  the  Pope's  security  and 
concessions  aforesaid. 

LXXVIII.  Wherefore,  we  will,  and  firmly  enjoin,  that  the  Church  of  Eng- 
land be  free,  and  that  all  men  in  our  kingdom  have  and  hold  all  the  aforesaid 
liberties,  rights,  and  concessions,  truly  and  peaceably,  freely  and  quietly,  fully 
and  wholly,  to  themselves  and  their  heirs,  of  us  and  our  heirs,  in  all  things  and 
places,  for  ever,  as  is  aforesaid. 

LXXIX.  It  is  also  sworn,  as  well  on  our  part  as  on  the  part  of  the  barons, 
that  all  things  aforesaid  shall  faithfolly  and  sincerely  be  observed. 

Given  under  our  hand,  in  the  presence  of  the  witnesses  above-named,  and 
many  others,  in  the  meadow  called  Runymede,  between  Winosor 
and  Stanes,  in  the  15th  day  of  June,  in  the  17th  year  of  our  reign. 

o  -  -  -  So  as  we  are  first  acquainted  therewith,  or  our  justiciary  if  we  should 
not  be  in  England. 

-  -  -  o  And  in  the  same  manner  about  administering  justice,  deforesting  the 
forests,  or  letting  them  continue. 

-T-  Either  in  England  or  Wales. 

.  • .  For  ever. 

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^ffuvttt  of  dPote0t]E(4 


The  FoBasTB  belonged  orlgliudly  to  the  crown*  and  the  Uagt  had  at  different  periods  granted  p«tti 
and  pared!  of  them  to  private  indiyiduali ,  who  had  grubbed  them  up,  and  made  them  araUe  aad 
patturet  but  yet  all  thoae  parts  retained  the  name  of  foreet.  Theaeforeata  beiongfaig  to  tfaeki^g-  «• 
his  own  demeoMi*  or  aa  the  aoveieign  lord,  were  •  eonUnual  aouioe  of  Terariowa  avAta.  aa  w^ 
againat  those  who  held  them  of  the  king,  as  against  the  neighbouring  &raeaMn«  uad«  pnUmom  of 
the  rights  of  the  crown. 

Every  article  of  this  charter  clearly  demonstrates  how  much  the  saldcct  had  been  nnnmisod  under 
pretsnce  of  jnwaenilug  the  Boyal  Forests. 


3o]^n,  is  tit  <Stftet  of  (Soil,  King  of  lEnglanll,  tcu :    Know  ye,  that 

for  the  honour  of  Qod  and  the  health  of  our  soul,  and  the  souls  of  our  ancefltors 
and  successors,  and  for  the  exaltation  of  Holy  Church,  and  for  the  reformation 
of  our  kingdom,  we  have,  of  our  free  and  good  will,  given  and  granted,  for  in 
and  our  heirs,  these  liberties  hereafter  specified,  to  be  and  observed  in  oar 
kingdom  of  England  for  ever* 

I.  Jmprtmtt.  All  the  forests  made  by  our  grandfather.  King  Henry,  abaU  be 
viewed  by  honest  and  Uw^l  men ;  and  if  he  turned  any  other  than  his  own 
proper  woods  into  forests,  to  ike  damage  of  him  whose  wood  it  was,  it  shall 
forUiwith  be  laid  out  again  and  disaforested.  And  if  he  tumcKCl  his  own  woods 
into  forests,  they  shall  remain  so,  saving  the  common  of  pasture  to  such  «a 
were  formerly  wont  to  have. 

n.  1$  the  LIJ.  and  LV.  qf  the  great  charter  put  into  one  chapter. 

III.  The  archbishops,  bishops,  abbots,  earls,  barons,  knights,  and  free 
tenants,  who  have  woods  in  any  forests,  shall  have  their  woods  as  they  had 
them  at  the  time  of  the  first  coronation  of  our  grand&ther.  King  Henry,  so  as 
they  shall  be  discharged  for  ever  of  all  purprestures,*  wastes*  and  aasarts,^- 
made  in  those  woods,  after  that  time,  to  the  beginning  of  the  second  year  oif 
our  coronation ;  and  those  who  for  the  time  to  come  shall  make  waste,  pur* 
presture,  or  assart  in  those  woods»  without  our  licence,  shall  answer  for 
them. 

IV.  Our  inspectors  or  viewers  shall  go  through  the  forests  to  make  a  view, 
as  it  was  wont  to  be  at  the  time  of  the  first  coronation  of  our  said  grandfather. 
King  Henry,  and  not  otherwise. 

*  pMfpr«0t«r«»— Encroachment  upon  the  king's  lands. 

t  H^Mfst  oiMl  iiMori^— Grubbing  up  wood,  and  making  it  arable*  without  licvweL 
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CHARTER  OF  POREflTS* 

V.  The  inquisitioQ^  Or  view  for  lawing*  of  dogs,  which  are  kept  within  the 
forest,  for  the  future  shall  be  when  the  view  is  miule^  tiiat  is,  every  three  years, 
and  then  shall  be  done  by  the  view  and  testimony  of  lawful  men,  and  not 
otherwbe ;  and  he  whose  dogs,  at  such  time,  shall  be  found  unlawed*  shall  be 
fined  three  shillings ;  and  for  the  future  no  ox  shall  be  taken  for  lawing,  and 
KUch  lawing  shall  be  according  to  the  common  assize,  namely,  the  three  claws 
of  the  dog's  fore-foot  shall  be  cut  off,  or  the  baU  of  the  foot  taken  out.  And, 
from  henceforward,  dogs  shall  not  be  lawed,  unless  in  such  places  where  they 
were  wont  to  be  lawed  in  the  time  of  King  Henry,  our  grandfaUier. 

VI.  No  forester  or  bedel,f  for  the  future,  shall  make  any  aleshots^  or 
collect  sheaves  of  com  or  oats,  or  other  grain,  or  lambs  or  pigs,  nor  shall  inake 
any  gathering  whatsoever,  but  by  the  view  and  oath  of  twelve  inspectors }  and 
when  they  make  their  view,  so  many  foresters  shall  be  appointed  to  keep  the 
forest  as  they  shall  reasonably  keep  sufficient. 

VII.  No  swainmote,  for  the  time  to  come,  shall  be  holden  in  our  kingdom 
oftener  than  thrice  a  year ;  that  ia  to  say,  in  the  beginning  of  fifteen  days  be- 
fore Michaelmas,  when  the  agisters  come  to  agist  the  demesne  woods ;  and  about 
the  feast  of  St.  Martin,  when  our  agisters  are  to  receive  their  pannage  ;§  and 
in  these  two  swainmotes,  the  foresters,  verderers»  and  agisters  shall  meet^  and 
no  other,  by  compulsion  or  distress ;  and  the  third  swainmote  shall  be  holden 
fifteen  days  before  the  feast  of  St.  John  the  Baptist,  concerning  the  fawning 
of  our  does ;  and  at  this  swainmote  shall  meet  the  foresters  and  verderers,  and 
no  other  shall  be  compelled  to  be  there. 

VIII.  And  furthermore,  every  forty  days  throughout  the  year,  the  verderers 
and  foresters  shall  meet  to  view  the  attachments  of  the  foresto,  as  well  of  vert 
as  venison^  ||  by  presentment  of  the  foresters  themselves ;  and  they  who  com- 
mitted  the  offences  shall  be  forced  to  appear  before  them :  but  the  aforesaid 
swainmotes  shall  be  holden  but  in  such  counties  as  they  were  wont  to  be 
holden. 

IX.  Every  fireeman  shall  agistf  his  wood  in  the  forest  at  his  pleasure,  and 
shall  receive  his  pannage. 

X.  We  grant,  also,  that  every  freeman  may  drive  his  hogs  through  our  demesne 
roads  freely  and  wiUiout  impediment,  and  may  agist  them  in  his  own  woods  or 
elsewhere,  as  he  will ;  and  if  the  hogs  of  any  freeman  shall  remain  one  night  in 
our  forest,  he  shall  not  be  troubled,  so  as  to  lose  any  thing  for  it. 

XI.  No  man,  for  the  time  to  come,  shall  lose  life  or  limb  for  taking  our 
venison ;  but  if  any  one  be  seized  and  convicted  of  taking  venison,  he  shall  be 
jprievously  fined,  if  he  hath  wherewithal  to  pay ;  and  if  he  hath  not,  he  shall  lie 
m  our  prison  a  year  and  a  day ;  and  if  after  that  time  he  can  find  securities,  he 
shall  be  released ;  if  not,  he  shall  abjure  our  realm  of  England. 

XII.  It  shall  be  lav?ful  for  every  archbishop,  bishop,  earl  or  baron,  coming  to 
us  by  our  command,  and  passing  through  our  forest,  to  take  one  or  two  deer  by 
view  of  the  forester,  if  present :  if  not,  he  shall  cause  a  horn  to  be  sounded,  lest 
he  should  seem  to  steal  them.  Also,  on  their  return  it  shall  be  lawful  for  them 
to  do  the  same  thing. 

XIII.  Every  freeman,  for  the  future,  may  erect  a  mill  in  his  own  wood,  or 

*  Lowing  nf  DogW'-^iJitting  off  their  clAws,  ftc. 

t  B0d«»— Bailiff  of  tbeforett 

i  ShtM  maka  anw  AI9  shou -That  ii,  taking  al»«lioti  to  wcecute  the  ofltodcr. 

i  FsniMg^— Money  f<xr  feeding  hogt»  with  nuuu  in  the  king's  foreste. 

I  Fert  tu  Fenimfw-'ThMt  ia«  the  oSoket*  which  were  committed  in  cutting  wood  or  killing  deer. 

^  AgUP-TaXe  in  his  neighbou/s  cattle  to  feed. 

627 


CHARTER  OF  FORESTS. 

upon  his  own  land^  which  he  hath  in  the  forest,  or  make  a  warren,  or  pond,  a 
marl-pit,  or  ditch,  or  torn  it  into  arable,  without  the  covert  in  arable  land,  ao 
as  it  be  not  to  the  detriment  of  his  neighbour. 

XIV.  Every  freeman  may  have  in  his  woods,  the  avyries  of  hawks,  of  spar- 
hawks,  falcons,  eagles,  and  herons;  and  they  shall  likewise  have  the  honey 
found  in  their  woods, 

XV.  No  forester,  for  the  future,  who  is  not  a  forester  in  fee,  paying  us  rent  for 
his  office,  shall  take  cheminage  ;*  that  is  to  say,  for  every  cart  two- pence,  for  half 
a  year,  and  for  the  other  half  year,  two-pence ;  and  for  a  horse  that  carries  bur- 
den, for  half  a  year,  a  half-penny,  and  for  the  other  half  year,  a  half-penny ;  and 
then  only,  of  those  who  come  as  buyer,  out  of  their  buliwick,  to  buy  under- 
wood, timber,  bark,  or  chaurcoal,  to  carry  it  to  sell  in  other  places,  where  they 
will  s  and  for  the  time  to  come,  Uiere  shall  be  no  cheminage  taken,  for  anf 
other  cart  or  carriage  horse,  imless  in  those  places  where  anciently  it  was 
wont,  and  ought  to  be  taken ;  but  they  who  carry  wood,  bark,  or  coal,  upoo 
their  backs  to  sell,  though  they  get  tneir  livelihood  by  it,  shall  for  the  future 
pay  no  cheminage  for  passage  thnnigh  the  woods  of  other  men.  No  cheminage 
shall  be  given  to  our  foresters,  but  only  in  our  woods. 

XVI.  All  persons  outlawed  for  offences  committed  in  our  forests,  from  the 
time  of  Henry,  our  father,  until  our  first  coronation,  may  reverse  their  out- 
lawries without  impediment,  but  shall  find  pledges,  that  for  the  future  they  will 
not  forfeit  to  us,  in  our  forests. 

XVII.  No  coitellan  or  other  person,  shall  hold  pleas  of  the  forest,  whether 
concerning  vert  or  venison ;  but  every  forester  in  fee  shall  attach  pleas  of  the 
forest,t  as  well  concerning  vert  as  venison,  and  shall  present  the  pleas  or 
offences  to  the  verderers  of  the  several  counties;  and  when  they  shall  be 
enrolled  and  sealed  under  the  seals  of  the  verderers,  they  shall  be  presented  to 
the  chief  forester,  when  he  comes  into  those  parts,  to  hold  pleas  of  the  forest, 
and  shall  be  determined  before  him. 

XVIII.  And  all  the  customs  and  liberties  aforesaid,  which  we  haTe  granted 
to  be  holden  in  the  kingdom ;  as  much  as  belongs  to  us  towards  our  vasseU,  all 
of  our  kingdom,  as  well  laicks  as  clerks,  shall  observe  as  mudi  as  bdtmgs  to 
them,  towards  tiieir  vassals. 

Note. — ^There  is  no  original  of  this  charter  extant^  nor  any  copy  older  than 
the  1st  of  Henry  III. 

*  ChmmUuigia—Tem  for  patiing  through  the  forest. 

t  May  Mixe  the  body  or  goods  of  the  oflboders  to  make  them  appetr. 


628 


THE 


ROLL  OF  BATTEL  ABBEY,* 


FROM  HOLINOSHED. 


THfl  Table  containing  tbt  ibDowing  vamm,  ww  f anncrly  fufpcndad  in  tba  Abbey  of  Battel,  in  Sue- 
•czf  with  this  ineoiption ; 

Didtur  a  beUo,  bdlnm  locue  hie*  quia  beOo 

Angligen*  rlcd,  sunt  hie  in  morte  relicti : 

Hartyria  in  Chxiati  fcsto  oeddera  Calizti: 

Sezagenus  erat  eextui  miUeHimui  annua 

Cum  pereunt  Angli,  itella  monetiante  oometA. 
The  authority  of  this  oektoated  document  cannot,  however,  be  much  relied  upon.  "  These  are,"  i«3fi 
Sir  William  Dugdale,  "great  erron,  or  rather  faleiflcatione,  in  moet  of  the  copies  of  it  t  by  attributing 
the  deriyation  of  many  firom  the  Frendk,  who  were  not  all  of  tuch  eztractiott,  but  merely  BineiUh,  For 
inch  hath  been  the  lubtOty  of  some  monka  of  old,  that,  finding  it  acceptable  unto  moet  to  bereputed 
deMendants  to  thoee  who  were  companions  with  Duke  William  in  his  «ipeditlon»  thenlbn  to  gratify 
thcm»  they  inserted  their  names  into  that  andent  catalpgue.** 


Aumarle 

Aincourt 

Auddey 

AngtUlam 

Argentoune 

Arundel 

Aueoant 

AbeU 


Aunwers 

Angers 

Angenoun 

Ardiera 

Anuay 

Asperuile 

Abbevile 


Anderile 

Bondovlla 

Breton* 

Amouerduile 

Brabason 

Bluat  and  Baioua 

Arcy  and  Akcuy 

Baskenrile 

Browne 

Albeny 

Bures 

Beke 

Aybeuart 

Bownilaina 

Bikard 

Amay 

Bois 

Banastre 

Aspermound 

Botelere 

Baloun 

Amenoges. 

Bourdier 

Beanrhampe 

Brabaion 

Bray  and  Bandy 

Bertrsm 

Bemen 

Bracy 

Butteoourt 

Braibttf 

Boundes 

Brebtts  and  Bysey 

Brand  and  Brouoe 

Bascoun 

Baidolfe 

Bur^ 

Brolkm 

Basset  and  Bigot 

Bushy 

Broleny 

Bohun 

Banet 

BumeO 

Baillf 

Blondell 

Bdlet 

•  Battsl  Abbjit.  WuitiAM  ordered  the  fiiundations  of  a  monastery  to  be  laid  on  the  spot 
where  he  gained  the  Tictory  orer  Harold ;  firom  whidi  drcnmstanoe  it  was  called  Battbx.  Abbjby.  As 
it  was  there  he  won  the  crown,  hewisbed  the  new  establishmant  to  et^oy  ail  the  privileges  of  the  royal 
chapel,  and  having  obtained  the  consent  of  the  metropolitan,  and  of  the  bishop  of  the  diocese,  declared  it 
in  a  fUU  assembly  of  prelates  and  barons,  aiffBpt  "ficom  all  episcopal  nilo  and  aiactions."  It 
in  the  luiguagt  of  later  times  fivmM  cNecfi<»» 


■3 


ROLL  OF  BATTEL  ABBEY. 


Baudawin 

Chaworth 

Dalawaid 

Flti-Hariii 

Baaumont 

Claremaiif 

Dal^planch 

Fita-Pwaa 

BurdoD 

ClaraU 

Damnot 

Fidiat 

Bartauilay 

Chopia 

Danway 

Ffta-Rawe 

Bam 

Cbaunduit 

IMiaufe 

FIta-Fita 

BuaMuUla 

Chantfllow 

DauUa 

Fita^ohn 

Blunt 

Cbambfliay 

Dlnrd 

Flaadannp 

Baupwa 

Ciaiiy 

DoiTilla 

BerUl 

Curtanay 

Durand 

Omnay 

Baidoador 

ConaiUbla 

Diury 

Greaay 

Bietta 

Cholmalay 

DaMtoCt 

GcMinaoa 

Barratt 

Cbampnay 

Dunstarrila 

Giaqr 

Boniatt 

Chawnot 

DunduuBp 

Gaocgaa 

Balnaid 

CoiniTila 

DtBibaltOHi 

Gowar 

BainlTala 

Ckampaina 

G««nr 

Booett    ^ 

CanuUa 

EMni^t 

GotaBd 

Bary 

CarbonaUa 

EfttttavUla 

Gray 

Bryan 

Charlai 

Bngaina 

Gaunaon 

Bodin 

Chnabacga 

Efltzieis 

Golofta 

Bateruila 

Chawnat 

Batumay. 

GoUcm 

Bartln 

Chaumoot 

Grenay 

BaraneuUa 

Caperoun 

Panawfs 

Graunt 

Ballaw 

Chalna 

FolTila 

Gieila 

Bauary 

Cunon 

Fita-Watar 

Omat 

BittbaU 

Couilla 

Fita-llannaduke. 

Gurry 

Baranulla 

Chalten 

Fleuaa 

Gurky 

Cheinei 

FUberd 

Briauan 

Cataimy 

Fltt-Rogar 

Oeraoun 

Bttfiml 

Characourt 

Fauaoourt 

Bonudar 

Cammlla 

Fflciaia 

Gurdon 

Boterlla 

Clercnay 

FIta-PhlUp 

Guinaa 

BaUire 

Curly 

FoUot 

Grind 

Baftard 

Cully 

Funiauans 

Greneuila 

Braaard 

CUadB 

Flta4>tia 

GlateuUe 

BaaUMiflM 

CUmnL 

FUs-Winiam 

Olfind 

Bialna  ' 

Fita-Roaad 

GoMTfaa 

Bf«nt 

DanavUla 

Fita-Pain 

Gamagea. 

Bnnioid& 

Dany 

FHa-Augar 

Palanv 

DlTa 

Flta-Alayn 

Hantany 

BlundaU 

Dlqpanoara 

Fita-Ranf 

Hannaatd 

Burdatt 

Daubflnay 

Fits-Browna 

Haatin«B 

Bagott 

Danlal 

Fouka 

Hanlay 

Baauuita 

DaulM  and  DiHtU 

Frarila 

HaureD 

Balamit 

Devaua 

Front  da  Botf 

Hoaea 

Baiain 

Daren 

Facunbuifa 

Harcy 

Banum 

Dodingtds 

Fori 

Hcrioun 

Boab 

DaraU 

FriaaU 

Hania 

Balaftoun 

Dalabar 

Flta-SimoB 

Haraoourt 

Bruts 

DaUPoIa 

Fita-Fouk 

HoMNue 

Baichampa. 

Ddalinda 

FoUoU 

HouaO 

Dalahill 

Flta-Thomaa 

HamaUn 

Dalawara 

Flta-Morica 

HarewaU 

CamvUa 

Dalaoacha 

Flts.Hugh 

HardaU 

Cbawant 

Dakany 

Fits-Hauia 

Hakat 

Dauntra 

Flta-Waian 

HaDMNind 

Conderay 

Dany 

Flta-RataMld 

Haroord. 

ColvUa 

Dabamoona 

Flamrila 

Ctaamtarlaina 

Damry 

Fonnay 

Jaiden 

Cbambamoan 

Dauarot 

Pita-Euatach 

Jay 

Comin 

Dauooga 

Fita-Lawmoe 

Janida 

Coluabv 

DnObf 

Fomlband 

Jaroomiai 

Cribatt 

Dabmcra 

FriMond 

jamdla 

Crauqiiica 

IMahold 

Ftaicra 

JaaparaBa 

Corbina 

Dutanga 

Flta-RalMrt 

Gorbatt 

Dalw 

FunHvall 

Kannt 

Cbaundot 

Dalaund 

FiU-OdBay 

Kana 

ROLL  OF  BATTEL  ABBEY. 


Kanowe 

Moochencfy 

OUbef 

Rait 

Keine 

Mallooy 

Olifknt 

Rip«e 

KimaroBBt 

Maniy 

Oloiel 

Rlgny 

Kiridl 

Moantagu 

OiseU 

Rlchmonad 

Kaaoey 

Mountford 

OliCttd 

Rochford 

Kenelie. 

Msule 

Ounall 

Raimond. 

Monthermon 

OrioU. 

Loneney 

Moaett 

Sonch 

Lacy 

MeneyUe 

Pigot 

Sheuile 

Linnetey 

Manteoaumt 

Pery 

Seucheua 

Latomer. 

Manae 

Perepound 

Sendere 

Loredsy 

Manpinooy 

Penhale 

SentQuintfn 

LoveU 

Maine 

Power 

SentOmere 

Lenunre 

Mainaxd 

PaineU 

SentAmond 

Leuetot 

MareU 

Peche  and  Pauey 

SentLcgere 

Lucy 

MaineU 

PevreU 

Somerrile 

Luny 

Maleluie 

Perot 

Slewaid 

LogeuUe 

Memoroua 

Picard 

Sauneouerre 

Ijongmpet 

Morreia 

Pinkenie 

Sanford 

Loueraoe 

Morlelan  Maine 

Pomeray 

Sanctei 

Malerere 

Pounce 

Sauay 

I.iiailw 

Mandut 

Pareiey 

Saulay 

Louan 

Mountmarten 

Paifreie 

Sulea 

Laded 

Mantolet 

Plukanet 

SoieU 

Luae 

Mlnev 

Phuara 

Somerey 

LoteraU 

Mauderke 

Puncliaidottn 

Sent  John 

Lonige 

MauncIieneU 

Pinchaid 

Sent  George 

Longucuale 

Moaett 

Placy 

Sent  Lea 

Loy 

Meintenore 

Pugoy 

Seflb 

Lonncourt 

Meletak 

Pateflne 

Saluln 

Loioua 

Manuile 

Plum 

Say 

Limen 

Maugiiefe 

PampUiTun 

Solera 

Longepay 

MaunuMin 

Peroelay 

SentAlbin 

TfW*ma^i' 

Mountlouel 

PerereandPekcny 

SentMarUn 

Lane 

Maurewarde 

PotereU 

Sourdemale 

Loretot. 

Monluut 

Peukeny 

S^guin 

MeUer 

Peoceil 

SentBarbe 

Mohant 

Mountgomcrie 

Pinell 

Sent  Vile 

Mowne 

Manlay 

PutriU 

Suremounte 

Maundeirlle 

Maularde 

PetiuoU 

Sor«g]lae 

Marmikm 

Menere 

Preaua 

SandTile 

Moribray 

Martlnaste 

Pantolf 

Saunoey 

Morrile 

Mainwaring 

Peito 

Sirewaat 

Miriel 

MateUy 

Penecord 

Sent  Cbereioll 

Maulay 

Malemia 

Preudirkgaat 

Sent  More 

Malebrauch 

Maleheixe 

PerdTale. 

Sent  ScudemorA 

Malemaina 

Moren 

Mortimere 

Melun 

Quinci 

Toget 

Mortimaine 

Marceaua 

QuintinL 

Tercy 

Mum 

MaleU 

Tudiet 

Marteine 

Morton* 

Roa 

Tracy 

Mountbother 

Ridell 

Trouabut 

Mountfoler 

Noexa 

Riren 

Traindl 

MaleuUe 

Nerile 

RiueO 

Taket 

Malet 

Newmarch 

Rooa 

Tnueell 

Mourteney 

Norbet 

RuaheU 

Triaon 

Monflchet 

Norice 

Raband 

Talbot 

Malehcrbe 

Newborough 

Ronde 

Toony 

Mare 

Neiicmet 

Rie 

Traiea 

Muicgrot 

Ndle 

RokeU 

Tollemach 

Muiarde 

Normavile 

RiaeiB  ^ 

Toloua 

Molne 

Neoftnardie 

Randiule 

Tanny 

Montraucn 

Nermita 

RoMlin 

Touke 

Merke 

Nembruta. 

Rastoke 

Tibtote 

Murrea 

RinuiU 

Turberile 

Morttvtie 

OtereU 

Roiigere 

Turrile 

«31 


ROLL  OF  BATTEL  ABBEY. 


Tony  and  TtYonct 

Van 

TnndieTite 

Vamoun 

TranchilioD 

Vaiay 

Tankflrrito 

Vardouna 

TIren 

Vataooa 

TrlTCt 

VanUn 

ToleC 

VaTaaonr 

Tmwn 

Vandora 

TavdiiTlte 

Varlay 

TiiMTlle 

Vataofar 

ToraU 

Vanabtaa 

Vanoun 

Tnvttdl 

VUan 

Tan  wis 

Varland 

Toteltaf 

Vatan 

Ydxiiy 


VauiiruUa 
Vaniala 
Varrara 
Vachara 

Vaaay 

Viaa 

Vamoys 

Vnian 

Vnkat 

VraafVil 

VaMlaroU 

VabaroD 

Valingford 


VaUua 


Tliillla 


Ward 

Wafra 

Wafca 


Wate 
WatdiB 
WatorU 
Wahr 


WiTCiL 


THE  END. 


LONDON: 
RCWRT  BATLTS,  JORKSOK's-COURT,   FLEET.fTREET. 


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